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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 21, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait sounds Quartet thrash Sam Smith Ivory Coast alarm over out Ukraine triumphs finally win regional summit as Merkel with four African security3 meets Obama7 Grammy38 wins Nations20 Cup Pirates make botched bid Min 13º Max 31º to seize Kuwaiti oil tanker High Tide 03:08 & 15:38 Vessel crew foil attack in Gulf of Aden Low Tide 09:31 & 22:09 40 PAGES NO: 16429 150 FILS KUWAIT: Crew and security personnel of a Kuwaiti oil Sisi reassures Gulf tanker sailing through the Gulf of Aden have succeeded Amir meets Prince Charles in foiling a bid by pirates to take over the gigantic ves- leaders after sel. alleged audio leaks Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, told CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called KUNA the botched attack was launched on the tanker at the leaders of Gulf Arab states to reassure them of 20:50 on Sunday, while it was en route from the Kuwaiti strong Egyptian-Gulf ties after a leaked audio recording Al-Ahmadi port to Horizon Terminal port in Djibouti. that purports to show him and senior aides being deri- The crew members and personnel skillfully confronted sive of their rich Gulf donors. the pirates and foiled their attack, according to standard Mekameleen, a pro-Islamist TV channel that aired the security procedures. tape at the weekend, ran subtitles to identify the A squad specialized to deal with such situations was detailed conversations heard as being between Sisi and aboard the vessel and took part in combating the two of his senior staff on how to get Gulf states to fun- pirates who approached it on four boats. An Indian nel them more money. The last conversation suggested naval force at the sea also took part in resisting the it had occurred before Sisi became president in 2014. attackers. Reuters listened to the audiotape but its authenticity The tanker, Burgan, which was loaded with 40,303 could not be confirmed, and it was not able to reach tons of aviation fuel, is owned by the KOTC. It is fully government officials for comment yesterday. The presi- equipped to deal with such situations. It proceeded dency has made no official comment on the alleged with the journey safely and no one was hurt. recording or its veracity. Piracy is a common problem in the strategic Gulf of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal have given Egypt over $12 billion in aid, deposits for the and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important energy central bank and petroleum products since the army corridor, particularly because Gulf oil is shipped to the toppled Islamist President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 West via the Suez Canal. after mass protests against his rule. Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean Last week the Egyptian news website Al-Youm Al- have dropped from a peak of 237 in 2011 to only a Sabea said the three countries would deposit $10 bil- handful in 2014, according to the International lion in the central bank before Cairo hosts a high-profile Maritime Bureau. However two Iranian oil tankers were investment conference that it hopes will generate ven- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets visiting Prince Charles reportedly approached by pirates in early February tures worth billions of dollars. of Wales at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 2) though the attack was thwarted by Iranian navy ships in Continued on Page 13 the vicinity at the time. Bahrain closes Saudi prince’s TV channel

DUBAI: Bahrain yesterday announced the dards “aimed at stemming the tide of closure of a new pan-Arab news channel, extremism and terrorism,” according to the HSBC SwissLeaks owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed official Bahrain News Agency. bin Talal, which had vowed to practice Alarab officials declined to comment. claims spark “objective” journalism. The network’s website was blank except for The government said it suspended the a logo yesterday. One of Alarab’s first channel within hours of its first broadcast broadcast interviews was with government political row because it failed to obtain a proper license critic Khalil Al-Marzooq, a top official in the LONDON: Allegations that London-based banking and did not meet anti-terrorist standards. largest Shiite opposition bloc in the Sunni- giant HSBC helped rich clients dodge tax triggered The Alarab network disappeared from TV ruled kingdom. a political firefight in Britain yesterday, with the screens early on Feb 2, a day after its Al-Marzooq and other Shiite lawmakers main parties blaming each other for not taking launch. Bahrain initially declined to explain withdrew from Bahrain’s parliament in action. Prime Minister David Cameron’s why. 2011 following protests seeking democrat- Conservatives appointed former HSBC chief execu- The government’s Information Affairs ic reforms. He was acquitted last year of Authority said yesterday that the station “inciting terrorism,” a charge that human CAIRO: An Egyptian man wearing a mask of the anonymous movement gestures tive Stephen Green to the House of Lords in 2010, does not possess a valid Bahraini operating rights groups called politically motivated. near a burning car outside a sports stadium in a Cairo’s northeast district, on where he served as a trade minister. license. It said Alarab failed to meet stan- Continued on Page 13 Sunday during clashes between supporters of Zamalek football club and securi- But the main opposition Labor party, hoping to ty forces. — AFP take power after May’s general election, also faced allegations that it had not clamped down on tax dodging when it was in power until 2010. Labor’s tenure covered the period when HSBC’s Unrest fears in Egypt Swiss private bank is accused of helping clients evade taxes on accounts containing $119 billion after stadium deaths (104 billion euros). The row highlights the complex task both parties face in defining their relationship with big business ahead of the May 7 general elec- Stampede, clashes leave 19 dead tion, in which opinion polls suggest they are virtual- ly neck-and-neck. CAIRO: Egyptian football fans blamed crowd. Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives are tradi- police yesterday for a stampede and Health officials and police said all the tionally seen as more in tune with Britain’s largest clashes at a Cairo stadium that left 19 victims, mostly youngsters, were companies. Labor labelled it “the party of Mayfair people dead, raising fears of further crushed in a stampede. “Nineteen peo- hedge funds and Monaco tax avoiders” last week unrest. Egyptian authorities suspended ple died,” interior ministry spokesman over a tax loophole for hedge funds. Meanwhile, all major football games indefinitely Hani Abdel Latif said, revising an earlier centre-left Labor’s policies-which include raising after Sunday’s violence, which broke out death toll of 22 given by prosecutors. the top rate of income tax and a new “mansion tax” when police fired tear gas and birdshot He said that 22 policemen were also for expensive homes-have drawn criticism from sev- at disruptive fans. injured in the clashes and 18 people eral business leaders who say they could damage Egypt’s hard-core football fans have were arrested. “The deaths were caused the economy. been repeatedly involved in the coun- due to a stampede. There are no signs of Continued on Page 13 MANAMA: A file picture taken on December 15, 2014 shows Alarab News Channel try’s explosive political mix and gunshot or birdshot,” senior health offi- staff on duty at the editorial office in the Bahraini capital Manama. — AFP Sunday’s violence showed once again cial Khaled Al-Khatib said. the willingness of police to use force. “The victims had lots of bruises, while The radical fans of one of the clubs some had broken necks... People were Gunshots fired at police in Marseille involved in Sunday’s match, Cairo- trampling each other.” At least 25 others based Zamalek SC, accused the authori- were injured, the health ministry said. MARSEILLE: Police said yesterday they came his visit, Valls said the shots, which left no one those who fired the Kalashnikovs, and riot police ties of carrying out a “planned mas- President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi under fire as they rushed into a housing estate hurt, were “unacceptable” and said the push to will deploy in the estate over the next few days, sacre”. The Ultras White Knights, who ordered an investigation “to uncover the in the French city of Marseille after residents reduce crime was a “long-term struggle.” Bourniquel said. have been at the forefront of previous root causes” of the violence, his office alerted them that hooded people had shot According to a source close to the case, resi- anti-government protests, said on their said. Television footage showed crowds “Kalashnikovs” in the air. The outbreak of vio- dents in the housing estate-where a 25-year-old Easy availability of Kalashnikovs Facebook page that most of the victims of fans squeezed inside the narrow met- lence in La Castellane, an estate known as a was shot dead last month in a settling of scores- Police say much of the violence in Marseille is had been trapped inside a metal enclo- al enclosure, jostling to get inside the drug trafficking hotspot, came just hours before alerted police earlier yesterday that “five to ten” linked to turf wars between multiple rival gangs sure that was only set up at the stadium to watch Zamalek play another Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the southern hooded people had fired “Kalashnikovs” in the battling for control of the drugs trade in the grounds the day before the match. Cairo-based club, Enppi SC. port city to hail the progress made in fighting air. Police rushed to the scene to deal with the city’s poorest neighborhoods. The violence, they The violence-reminiscent of clashes “One fan set off a flare as he waited in crime. situation, and on their arrival, they were shot at say, is made worse by the easy availability of that killed more than 70 people after a the queue, which caused the police to It was not clear what sparked the violence at while still in their cars, said local public security high-caliber weapons, with Kalashnikov auto- football match in Port Said in 2012 — fire tear gas at the crowd that was a time of high jitters following the Paris attacks director Pierre-Marie Bourniquel. matic rifles being the murder instrument of erupted as thousands of fans tried to squeezed in a narrow pathway leading last month, but Marseille is known for rampant Children at a creche in the 7,000-strong choice. In 2013, Valls, who was then interior min- force their way into a Cairo stadium to to the gate,” said a witness who gave his gang-related gun crime that has even prompted estate, where football star Zinedine Zidane ister, had warned that entire neighborhoods watch a game, triggering panic as name as Ibrahim. calls for the army to be sent in to police tough famously grew up, were moved to a neighbor- were “lost to the dealers.” police fired tear gas and birdshot at the Continued on Page 13 neighborhoods. In a speech to security forces on ing school. Security forces were still hunting for Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah greets Prince Charles is greeted by His Highess the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Prince Charles upon his arrival to Kuwait. Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah receives Prince Charles of Wales at Bayan His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with Kuwaiti children welcome the visiting Prince Charles of Wales Palace. — KUNA photos Prince Charles of Wales Prince Charles meets Amir, top officials UK Prince in Kuwait on two-day visit

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met visiting Prince Charles of Wales and his accompanying delega- tion at Bayan Palace yesterday. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah was present at the meeting. HH the Amir and Prince Charles had a friendly discussion that reflected the depth of historical firm relations between Kuwait and the UK, and stressed continuing efforts to promote bilateral cooperation between both friendly countries in all fields. The meeting was attended by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and several other senior state officials. Later, HH the Amir held a luncheon banquet for Prince Charles and his accompanying delegation. Prince Charles receives Minister of the Amiri Diwan Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Prince Charles with Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh Official visit Sabah at Bayan Palace Prince Charles of Wales arrived to Kuwait Al-Mubarak, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Deputy and Chairman of the Mission of Honor Sheikh Faisal Al-Saud Al-Sabah, Acting Dean of the Honor accompanying the UK Prince is led by HH yesterday on a two-day official visit. Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Dr Salem Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Foreign Diplomatic Corps and Somali Ambassador in the Prime Minister’s Diwan Advisor Sheikh Dr Accompanied by a delegation of senior officials, Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and Minister Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah also Kuwait Abdulqadir Amin Abu Baker, several oth- Salem Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Prince Charles Prince Charles was welcomed at the airport by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of welcomed Prince Charles. er senior army, police, National Guard and State also paid a visit last night to Shuwaikh Port, HH the Crown Prince, National Assembly Commerce and Industry Abdulmohsen Al- Also welcoming the UK Prince were HH the officials, the Kuwaiti ambassador in London and where he attended a reception ceremony on Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, HH Sheikh Jaber Mudej. HH the Prime Minister’s Diwan Advisor Crown Prince’s Diwan Chief Sheikh Mubarak Al- the UK Ambassador in Kuwait. The Mission of board of a British warship. — KUNA Amir receives Prince Charles visits Zain call from Sisi Innovation Campus in Jordan Kuwait-Egypt ‘deep-rooted’ ‘Learning from Experience’ delivered by British Embassy, King Abdullah II Fund

relations highlighted AMMAN/KUWAIT: Zain Group announces the visit of His Royal Highness Prince Charles, The Prince of KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Al-Sisi paid an official visit to Kuwait Wales to the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- last January 5, his first after assuming Sabah received a phone call yester- the presidency last June and held Jordan on Sunday, 8 February to attend “Learning day from Egyptian President talks with His Highness the Amir from Experience”, an event based on the theme of Abdelfatah Al-Sisi, discussing the dis- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- ‘Giving the Next Generation A Hand into Work’. This tinguished and deep-rooted rela- Sabah, where they discussed ways of one-off event brought together 70 talented tions between both countries. strengthening bilateral relations and Jordanian youth from across UK-funded programs, The two leaders tackled the latest regional and international issues of which offer world class training opportunities that political developments on the common interest. help get them into productive employment. The regional and international arenas. And after less than a month from event was hosted by Zain Jordan and jointly deliv- Sisi wished HH the Amir everlasting Sisi’s visit to Kuwait, Egyptian Prime ered by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development health and wellness, and further Minister Ibrahim Mahlab also paid a and the British Embassy in Amman. progress and prosperity to Kuwait similar official three-day visit on The occasion was an example of the £220 mil- and its people, under the wise lead- February 1 during which he met with lion of wider support the UK has provided over the ership of HH the Amir. HH the Amir, HH the Crown Prince last three years to sustain prosperity, security and HH the Amir expressed to the Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- stability in Jordan. The UK’s commitment continues Egyptian President his appreciation Sabah, National Assembly Speaker to support HM King Abdullah II’s vision of a stable for “this brotherly communication Marzouq Al-Ghanem and HH the and prosperous Jordan by harnessing the capabili- which reflects the historic relations Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak ty of the Jordanian youth and supporting them between the two countries.” HH the Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. into employment. Amir emphasized on the Kuwaiti “Learning from Experience” is all about those British Ambassador to Jordan, Peter Millett, said: cumulative work is focusing on three main pillars of continuous support for Egypt’s secu- Ban thanks Amir already successful in Business, providing a hand up “The youth represent the future and I am very innovation, employability and active citizenship as rity and stability, expressing his sin- Separately, UN Secretary General to those who are just getting started. Participants pleased that UKaid and HRH’s Charities are support- well as covering areas of intersection between these cere condolences and sorrow over Ban Ki-moon Sunday thanked HH the were able to meet with CEOs, practice interviews ing employability and entrepreneurship in pillars such as entrepreneurship, capacity building, the victims of Defense Stadium vio- Amir for Kuwait’s hosting of the 3rd with Human Resource managers, test their leader- Jordan.”Imad Fakhoury, Chairperson of the Board of civic engagement, social entrepreneurship and vol- lent clashes, wishing quick healing international donors’ conference to ship and entrepreneurship skills and get experi- Trustees for King Abdullah II Fund for Development unteerism.” For more information about The Prince of for the wounded. He also wished Sisi help the Syrian people. Ban appreci- ence with the latest technology which is shaping said, “There comes no better time than this to scale Wales and his multi-cause charitable enterprises in everlasting health and wellness, and ated HH the Amir’s approval to host the way business is done and the skills that appli- up the design and implementation of youth empow- Jordan and across the globe, please visit:www.prince- further progress and prosperity to the conference, which Kuwait would cants need. erment tools for a better future in Jordan. KAFD’s ofwales.gov.uk and www.gov.uk/world/jordan Egypt and its people. be hosting for the third time, a move Zain Jordan along with The Prince’s Trust that boost Kuwait’s leading humani- International, Mosaic, Business Development ‘Historic relations’ tarian efforts. Centre, OASIS 500, LOYAC, Injaz, and Gaming Lab Meanwhile, Deputy National Ban, who commended HH the are providing the youth with customized training Assembly Speaker and Chairman of Amir’s humanitarian endeavors, to better prepare them to enter the job market. the Parliamentary Kuwaiti-Egyptian briefed His Highness Sheikh Sabah Committee Mubarak Al-Khurainej Al-Ahmad over the “tragic” living Bridging the gab asserted the depth and durability of conditions of the Syrian refugees. As host of the prestigious event, Zain Jordan the Kuwaiti-Egyptian relations, HH the Amir thanked Ban for his CEO, Ahmad Hanandeh noted his sincere apprecia- describing them as “historic and phone call and said Kuwait was hap- tion to HRH The Prince of Wales for his patronage deep-rooted”, whether on the gov- py to host the 3rd conference, due and concerted support of Jordanian youth and ernmental, parliamentary and popu- on March 31. HH the Amir wished said, “Supporting entrepreneurship and develop- lar levels. success for the conference in order ing leadership skills among youth is core to Zain’s Khurainej said in a press state- to alleviate suffering of internally-dis- strategy in Jordan and across the region. Holding ment that the Kuwaiti-Egyptian rela- placed people and refugees. Kuwait such a significant event helps bridge the gap tions “will not be affected by any sort hosted the first and second donors’ between the youth and the labour market, where of gossip and all attempts to destabi- conferences in 2013 and 2014, con- Zain sets the opportunity for attendees to benefit lize the trust between the two coun- tributing $800 million for the Syrian from the expertise and knowledge of experts, tries are doomed to fail”. people. Donors pledged some $3.9 helping start-ups to better understand on how to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah billion. — KUNA implement innovative ideas on local, regional and international levels.” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 LOCAL In Brief Israeli citizen sues Hala February National Guard officers urged Kuwait Airways extended to Feb 21 to hand in unlicensed firearms NEW YORK: An Israeli citizen living in the United KUWAIT: Hala February Shopping Festival of 2015 is KUWAIT: Major General Hashem Abdulrazzaq Al- States is suing Kuwait Airways for barring her from extended until February 21st, the higher organizing com- Refai, Undersecretary of the National Guard, called boarding a flight from New York City to London. Iris mittee announced yesterday. The extension was made on National Guard personnel yesterday to hand in Eliazarov, 26, and her husband David Nektalov had upon request and desire of participating commercial com- unlicensed firearms and ammunition in their posses- purchased tickets from a travel agent, but was plexes and stores in light of the high popular turnout that sion to the unlicensed firearms and ammunition col- denied access to the Kuwait Airways’ plane when has been seen during the festivity recently, said Walid Al- lection centers. Refai asked the NG service members she showed her Israeli passport, the New York Daily Saqubi, head of the higher organizing committee. The festi- to be role models in the abidance of the recently News reported. The law in Kuwait prohibits Israeli val has accomplished desired goals and became a major passed weapon collection law. The law stipulates citizens from flying on Kuwait Airways. Federal and success that surpassed all expectations, Saqubi said, adding that anyone possessing unlicensed firearms and state officials may look into Eliazarov’s discrimina- that daily attendance by citizens and residents confirms ammunition could be jailed for five years and be tion lawsuit, the report further indicates. success of the festivity and its free prize draws. —KUNA fined by up to KD 10,000. —KUNA Kuwait sounds alarm about regional security challenges Conflicts stand as ‘stumbling block’ to stability, peace process

KUWAIT: Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Khaled Al- Jarallah warned yesterday that the region is embroiled in major security challenges and perils. “Our regional security is facing major challenges and looming political, economic, security, environmental and cultural risks,” Jarallah addressed a Kuwait University con- ference held yesterday under sponsorship of First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah. “Undoubtedly, regional conflicts and disputes, together with consequent security challenges, will stand as a stum- bling block to our stability and to the Middle East peace process due to Israeli recalcitrance, thus posing a challenge to our security. Therefore, efforts need to be exerted to encourage the UN Security Council to shoulder responsibil- ity by obliging Israel to accept peace,” he said. Co-organized by the Kuwait University College of Social Sciences and the UK Durham University, the two-day con- ference was entitled: “Kuwait and Regional Security”. Jarallah stressed the significance of promoting relations among the region’s countries, and exerting efforts to achieve regional integration in all cooperative fields. KUWAIT: Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Ambassadors seen among the audience. —Photos by Joseph Shagra Khaled Al-Jarallah speaks at the conference yesterday. Humanitarian crisis “I have repeatedly warned, on different occasions, a step that reflects His Highness the Amir’s interest in the University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, said the conference On Syria, Jarallah emphasized that the devastating against the serious escalation of such conditions, and have Syrian humanitarian crisis, Jarallah pointed out. aimed to promote and consolidate joint cooperation humanitarian crisis in Syria, terrorism, its risks to world called for finding peaceful solutions to such conflicts and In this regard, the Kuwaiti official urged academicians between the Kuwait University and the UK Durham security and stability and instability in Iraq require an all- setting aside military solutions that only lead to destruc- and experts to carefully consider the dimensions and University. out confrontation involving homes, schools, mosques, tion and devastation,” he reminded. reflections of such critical circumstances and difficult situa- It was also intended to ponder over local, regional and mass media and social communication networks. Instructed by His Highness the Amir, Kuwait has moved tions and to come up with recommendations that could be international issues through an academic perspective On Kuwait’s response to such perils, the senior Kuwaiti immediately to help the Syrian people and to alleviate the used as references for future policies in view of response to before producing practical recommendations and sugges- official said: “Under such circumstances and developments, sufferings of Syrians refugees by hosting two international such changes. tions and finding solutions, he said. Kuwait’s foreign policy has played a key role under the donors’ conferences for Syria, he boasted. The conferences focused on the discussion of regional statesmanship of its leadership in maintaining our national HH the Amir has also complied with the UN’s request to Academic perspective security risks and perils through an international approach, security.” host a third donors conference by the end of next March in For his part, Dr Abdulreda Aseri, Dean of Kuwait Aseri pointed out. — KUNA MPs tackle heap of files at marathon session

KUWAIT: MPs are scheduled to look into a pile of files and issues during a forecast marathon session today, including no less than 40 reports with queries about purported flaws, irregu- larities and delay in executing some key development projects. Agenda of today’s session includes 10 reports containing investigation requests; five prepared by the Audit Bureau, as well as 25 others from par- liamentary committees regarding decrees, ventures and relevant bills. The legislators will debate queries concerning Sheikh Jaber’s stadium and Sheikh Jaber bridge’s ventures, issues related to State ownership of public rest locations, procedural flaws regarding ‘the Russian loan’ and pro- curement of strategic transport air- craft. KUWAIT: A parliament session in progress in this file photo. — KUNA Diesel trafficking Zain continues partnership They will continue debating com- ation with Lithuania, licensing a human rights laws, bills on forming mittees’ report on diesel trafficking, national share-holding livestock com- authorities for coping with catastro- with Qout Market through Feb Shell’s contract, Kuwait Airways’ plan pany, a decree proposing postpone- phes, veterinary medicine in GCC to buy five aircraft, purported law ment of forming the municipal coun- states, protection of animals and the breaches by the Capital Market cil, another regarding the National ozone, firemen’s health care, trade KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- to have an outlet to success and ulti- event being held in an atmosphere of Authority, Al-Zour power plant’s con- Assembly’s by-law and a legislation agencies and prospected formation of munications company in Kuwait, mately contribute to the development patriotism and family-oriented fun in tract, a report by the Audit Bureau on proposing activation of the Audit an “apparatus for auditors.” announced the continuation of its of national economy. the presence of large numbers of visi- delay of completing construction of Bureau. Moreover, the lawmakers will The MPs are also set to tackle a community partnership with Qout Qout Market is distinguished from tors. Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem University, sta- have on the table other files, such as report by the parliamentary budgets’ Market taking place in February, other youth gatherings in the high Zain remains dedicated to support- tus of the Public Investment Authority bills stipulating issuance of the five- committee on procedures concerning which also coincides with the coun- standards of the products and servic- ing events that showcase the talents (PIA), suspicious remittances, relation- year development plan (2015-2016- state budgets, results of interpella- try’s National Day celebrations. The es offered by participants, as it is the of young people in Kuwait, and ship between Kuwait Investment 2019-2020) a separate one on 2015- tions addressed to the ex-minister of market is considered Kuwait’s largest first and only community-based farm- encouraging outstanding projects Company with Advantage company, a 2016 plan, in addition to reports on finance Badr Al-Humaidhi, and former artisanal farmers gathering, and looks ers’ market to support local farmers and ideas. This is one of the main rea- bill on establishing the family court previous schemes dating back to 2012. minister of Awqaf Dr Abdullah Al- to support local food producers and and artisans in Kuwait. Visitors can sons why the company recently and GCC trade labels. Maatouq, a previous grilling of the craftsmen in showcasing their prod- find locally produced food products launched the third edition of the Zain The schedule includes bills on Human rights Public Works Minister, MPs’ request to ucts to the public. and handicrafts with the view to Great Idea program, which aims at treaties for encouraging and protect- Furthermore, the forecast lengthy specialize two hours to discuss recom- Zain’s partnership with this unique encouraging people to adopt a investing in the creative abilities of ing investments between Kuwait with and busy session will witness exami- mendations by member states of the initiative is in line with its Corporate healthier lifestyle. young Kuwaiti entrepreneurs, prepar- Cuba and Greece, averting double tax- nation of abidance by international UN Human Rights Council. — KUNA Social Responsibility and Zain’s participation in Qout Market ing them to engage in the business Sustainability outlook, which is included the arrangement of many world through the nurturing of inno- focused on encouraging local talent national-themed activities, with the vation within their businesses. Panel urges compliance with NBK sponsors International Audit Bureau recommendations Relations Club in AUK KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s State Budget and Financial KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait programs including NBK Academy, ing ethnic and diverse environment Statement Committee warned that it (NBK) sponsors the International Shabab program and the Summer that fosters intellectual enquiry, in line is considering not approving the Relations Club in the American Internship Program. with AUK’s core values. Their vision is to University of Kuwait (AUK). The International Relations Club at aspire to prepare AUK students to par- budget of any governmental entity that fails to comply with and execute NBK is sponsoring the International AUK is a non-profit club that seeks to ticipate actively and successfully in DUBAI: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- Relations Club activities for the whole serve and help the students at the uni- global politics and international affairs Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah speaks during the summit. — KUNA the Audit Bureau’s notes and recom- year including seminars and Job Fair versity. The club’s mission is to improve by cultivating their knowledge and mendations. Committee Chairman weeks. “NBK’s sponsorship and support and enrich its members’ understanding engagement with a complex and Sheikh Mohammad underlines Adnan Abdulsamad criticized some to the International Relations Club of international affairs by supplement- diverse world. Government Summit’s importance entities’ repeated non compliance comes in line with the bank’s commit- with the Audit Bureau’s recommen- ment to Corporate Social Responsibility DUBAI: Minister of State for Cabinet said the government has an ambitious dations and warned that the com- as well as the vital role it plays in sup- Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah development plan primarily based on mittee could take action against porting all students, youths and educa- Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah stressed yester- developing human manpower, them. tional initiatives,” said Abdul Mohsen Al day the significance of the third increasing its productivity, boosting its The remarks were made by Rushaid, NBK Public Relations Manager. Government Summit held in Dubai. efficiency and directing distinguished Abdulsamad in a press statement Rushaid added “NBK is committed Speaking to KUNA on the sidelines staff to the private sector which is the following the parliamentary commit- to supporting youths and empowering of the summit and his participation in actual partner to the government. The tee meeting with a number of Audit them to realize their potentials. NBK a roundtable session, the Kuwaiti min- third Government Summit kick-started Bureau officials to discuss mecha- provides career and training opportuni- ister said senior Gulf, Arab and world here earlier on Monday under the ties to encourage youths to assume nism of making use of the Audit officials and experts are partaking in patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Bureau reports about the financial roles and obtain the required tools to the summit held under the theme Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and aspects of the government agencies create an environment ripe for their “Shaping Future Governments”. He said Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of leadership.” such gatherings are mainly meant to Dubai. It hosts more than 100 guest performance. The committee mem- NBK Annually promotes a range of discuss different issues of mutual inter- speakers from outside the UAE. Klaus bers reviewed with representatives educational initiatives as part of its cor- est and to share views and experience Schwab, Founder and Executive of the Audit Bureau the frequent porate social responsibility. In addition on how to address relevant challenges. Chairman of the World Economic irregularities in government sectors, to sponsoring student’s clubs at the On Kuwait’s government approach Forum, is one of the main speakers he said. —KUNA university, NBK offers many training to tackle employment challenges, he during the event. — KUNA LOCAL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

KUWAIT: Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Hamoud Al-Sabah receives a Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Hamoud Al-Sabah tours the A pavilion decorated with Kuwaiti flags. memorial at the Foreign Ministry’s pavilion. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat exhibition. Independence 54 exhibition opened Part of national celebrations

By Faten Omar sadors, diplomats, businessmen and media, in largest national exhibitions taking place in State institutions Crescent Society, the Association of Kuwaiti addition to delegates of institutions and govern- Kuwait, which is part of the national Kuwait cel- Qinai revealed that the exhibition attracted writers, the Social Reform Society, the Ministry KUWAIT: Kuwait International Fair Company ment agencies sponsoring the exhibition. ebrations,” said Marwa Al-Qinai, manager of government institutions including the of Interior, the Religious Media Management opened the Independence 54 exhibition, under Independence 54 exhibition. The exhibition, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, the Central at the Ministry of Awqaf, Kuwait Society for the the patronage and presence of Sheikh Faisal Al- National activities Qinai said, is full of recreational activities for vis- Agency for Information Technology, General Parents of the Disabled and the society for Hamoud Al-Sabah, Governor of Al-Farwaniya, While touring the exhibition, the governor itors. “The Ministry of Interior extended its help- Secretariat of Awqaf, the Ministry of Awqaf National Awareness for the Prevention of yesterday at Kuwait International Fairgrounds. expressed his happiness for sponsoring the ing hand by involving 10 of its departments at and Islamic Affairs, the Ministry of Electricity Drugs (Gheras). The ceremony started with the recitation of opening of a new session of Independence the opening. The police greeted attendees at and Water, Environment Public Authority, the The exhibition receives the visitors in two the Kuwait national anthem by the band of the Exhibition ceremony. Kuwait International Fair the entrances to the main hall Number 6, and Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the Anti- shifts; in the morning from 9:30 am to 1:00 Interior Ministry. The Governor of Farwaniya then Company is keen to embrace national activities there was a show of police dogs thanks to the Corruption Authority, Kuwait University, the pm, and in the evening from 5:00 pm to 9:30 opened the exhibition in the presence of a num- every year at the International Fairgrounds, a supervision of Major Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Al- Association for monitoring oral health, the pm (5:00 pm to 10:00 pm only on Fridays). It is ber of dignitaries, leaders, senior officers, ambas- spokesperson said. “This exhibition is one of the Hashemi,” she said. Kuwait Society for Fine Arts, the Kuwait Red open from 9th to 13th of February. VIVA sponsors Kuwait Green Oasis Campaign Crime Report KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and The awareness day featured several lectures most developed telecom operator, announced on environmental issues presented by Dr Khaled its sponsorship of Kuwait Green Oasis campaign, Al Enzi, APE’s Public Relations Director and Fake domestic help launched under the theme of “All of us for Professor Maytha Al Ajamy. A workshop was also Kuwait”. held on recycling, and planting trees, and to network busted The volunteer campaign camp held an instill in children a love for farming, the environ- awareness day for the girl guides of the ment, and volunteer work. VIVA’s sponsorship of Farawaniya educational district entitled this initiative stems from its belief in the impor- By Hanan Al-Saadoun “Environmental Day” on Thursday, 5 February tance of protecting the environment in general, 2015. The event was attended by several repre- and Kuwait environment in particular. It also KUWAIT: The Iqama Affairs detectives foiled a business sentatives of VIVA, the Environment Public comes as part of its continued commitment to network that trades in domestic workers’ business in Jleeb Authority and the Kuwait Fire Service the society it serves, and its social responsibility Al-Shuyoukh. The detectives arrested a driver and 12 Directorate (KFSD). program and strategy to raise more awareness maids including an Ethiopian who leads the network. More than 200 female primary students were among the public, and help protect natural Detectives acting undercover arranged to bring a domes- greeted with roses as VIVA distributed goodie resources and environmental assets. tic helper in exchange of money, trapping a driver and two bags to the girl guides as a token of apprecia- VIVA will continue to raise awareness and maids. The criminals confessed to the interrogators about tion for their participation in this event aimed at adhere to its core principles by supporting and the rest of the network’s members. The Ethiopian who greening Kuwait and protecting its environ- developing educational programs while increas- leads the network used to give customers fake receipts, to ment. KFSD also gave away bags with educa- ing its social involvement to serve various make them believe that the domestic help office which tional brochures and pamphlets to students and groups of society. To learn more about VIVA’s they operated was legal. The Ethiopian and the rest of the provided awareness tips on how to make Kuwait corporate social responsibility initiatives, please maids have the criminal background of absconding a green oasis and create a pollution-free envi- visit the company’s CSR focused portal before, sources said. ronment. Fatima Al-Enzi, Green Oasis General society institutions and help raise environmen- paign message and mission and extended her https://www.viva.com.kw/csr. It offers a descrip- Coordinator, reaffirmed the campaign officials’ tal awareness. She also thanked all participants gratitude to the APE, KFSD and VIVA for making tion of each CSR initiative that VIVA has support- commitment to continue to reach out to civil for their collaboration in spreading the cam- this event a success. ed, or adopted since its inception. KIB visits Saad Al-Awsi School

KUWAIT: As part of its efforts to encourage students dur- ing the Back-to-School season, Kuwait International Bank visited Saad Al-Awsi Middle School for Boys, where bank representatives gave an entertaining lesson on money management before distributing gifts. The maids arrested in the operation. Representing the bank were Nawaf Najia, Head of Corporate Communication, Fahad Al-Sarhan, Senior PR ‘Bomb’ near bank Officer, and ‘Habboub’, KIB’s children’s account mascot, who A bank in Adan was under close surveillance and scruti- were greeted by Imad Al-Quraini, School Principle, Hassan ny after a report of a foreign object placed next to the Dashti, Assistant Principle, along with a group of enthusias- bank building. The criminal evidence and the explosives tic students and teachers. department men rushed to the scene and examined “We at KIB continuously support Kuwait’s youth out of the suspicious object which was a bag only to find no our recognition of the vital role they play in shaping the signs of explosives in it. nation’s future. From this standpoint, we would like to wish all students an excellent new term and a successful aca- demic career,” explained Najia. Filipina falls to death Commenting on KIB’s visit, Quraini praised the bank’s A Filipina fell to death under suspicious circumstances. The distinguished contributions towards all segments of socie- 25-year-old victim who was residing in a flat for domestic ty, adding that the recent visit succeeded in drawing smiles helpers was with her colleague, security source said. It is on the children’s faces. suspected that the colleague may have pushed the hapless In addition to an entertaining presentation on saving victim from a high place to her death. money and the distribution of gifts, KIB’s ‘Habboub’ mascot delighted the students with his charisma. The visit is part of Liquor conked out KIB’s social responsibility program pivoted around support- A Sri Lankan national was arrested with local liquor bot- ing the nation - especially its youth - in a way that con- tles in Fintas. Police found 24 small bottles of locally tributes towards its long-term prosperity. made liquor in his car. The suspect is being transferred to the concerned authorities.

Drug possession Drugs Control General Department arrested an Asian man with two kilograms of heroin. The arrest was made in his house where the drugs and a sensitive scale were found. He was sent to the concerned authorities.

‘Abnormal’ attacks police A non-commissioned officer at the Andalus police sta- tion accused a Kuwaiti of beating him while on duty. He said an elderly lady asked Interior Ministry operations to send a patrol and control her son who comes often to the house in an abnormal condition. The officer who went to investigate was attacked by the suspect while ‘Dear Kuwait’ to the latter was being handcuffed. launch on Feb 13

KUWAIT: The 4th Dear Kuwait (Habeebaty Al-Kuwait) Festival will be launched on February 13 at the Discovery Mall garden with the participation of students from My Small World Bilingual Nursery (MSWBN). Speaking about the event, Anwar Bahbahani, MSWBN director, stressed that this year’s festival, the fourth, will focus on highlighting the Kuwaiti identity along with implanting the national identity with a sense of belonging in the children. “We are keen on making this year’s national anniversaries celebrations a special one,” Bahbahani said, adding that this year’s festivity would address the whole community of kids and parents. Further, Bahbahani explained that the festival would include an open day activity combining both traditional and modern values through a variety of recreational programs. “The festivity, due to be on from 10 am -10 pm, will include a vintage cars exhibition and another one for old official vehi- cles like those of KFSD, the traffic department and ambu- lances,” he explained. A heritage village with a big traditional tent, restaurant and a display of traditional items and belongings are also on the card, he said. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 LOCAL Kuwaiti youth urged to engage in free business SMEs need more govt support: Forum

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti businessmen called on the Kuwaiti youth to engage in free business, especially in small and medium enterprises away from their routine job, assur- ing them that free business has a positive impact on their working lives. KUWAIT: Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Their remarks came during the (center) receives a memorial plaque from EQUATE’s delegation. second forum for small and medi- um enterprises, organized by the Kuwaiti Swiss Group for small and medium-sized enterprises on EQUATE visits Sunday at Al-Babtain Library. Addressing the forum, Yaqoub Bahbahni, Chairman of the Kuwaiti Ahmadi Governor Swiss Group, assured that the KUWAIT: (Left) Yaqoub Bahbahni, Chairman of the Kuwaiti Swiss Group, addresses the forum. (Center) Abdul Kuwaiti youth have the ability and Hussain Al-Sultan, Chairman of Oula, speaks. (Right) Fares Enizy, Director of the Small Business KUWAIT: EQUATE Petrochemical Mohammad Husain expressed apprecia- skills to enter the business world. Administration in Restructuring the Workforce program, speaking at the event. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Company, Kuwait’s first international tion and gratitude to His Excellency the However, he underlined the need petrochemical joint-venture, conducted a Governor for his support to various efforts of governmental support that tages of self-employment away ment, said: “There are many suc- private sector. visit to the Governor of Ahmadi Sheikh to develop the Governorate of Ahmadi, plays a crucial role in the develop- from government jobs,” he said, cessful stories of Kuwaiti youth in Fares Enizy, Director of the Fawaz Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at which hosts EQUATE’s plants in Shuaiba ment of small and medium enter- explaining that various economic the field of small and medium Small Business Administration in prises and providing them with the Governorate Headquarters. Industrial Area, as well as Kuwait as a sectors must work on hiring young enterprises. And the awareness Restructuring the Workforce pro- necessary funds. people in various sectors. He said among the youth is growing.” gram, said: “Kuwait must support During the visit, the Governor noted whole through a solid foundation of fruit- He explained that the govern- the youngsters must inculcate the “There are many commercial the Kuwaiti youth wishing to enter the importance of the industrial sector ful cooperation to truly embody “Partners ment can also give away lands for manufacturing and work culture and economic sectors that can the field of small projects through and its critical role in supporting other in Success.” small and medium enterprises and that was prevalent among the first absorb the Kuwaiti youth, espe- monthly salaries. This will motivate segments, which in turn would benefit EQUATE’s delegation included facilitate marketing of their prod- generation of people who excelled cially in the field of energy consid- and encourage the young people,” Kuwait’s Development Plan. Al-Sabah Mohammad Husain, Senior Executive for ucts in exchange of a nominal fee. in their fields of trade and crossed ering the country’s dependence he said. lauded EQUATE’s role as a pioneering Business development Tareq Al-Kandari, He explained that the most impor- the seas to do so. on oil,” he added. He stressed the The Small Business Forum tant step to facilitate the business national corporation and its achievements Corporate Communications Leader need to support young Kuwaiti includes a number of specialized is to remove bureaucratic hurdles Successful stories entrepreneurs by training them sessions in which experts from in all fields to realize various principles of Kholoud Al-Feeli, as well as Engineering in opening businesses. Abdul Hussain Al-Sultan, and funding their projects Britain will present workshops and sustainability. and Construction Leader Sulaiman Al- “It is important to educate Chairman of Oula, the first compa- through proper cooperation seminars on entrepreneurship and On his part, EQUATE President and CEO Bader. young people about the advan- ny to commercialize fuel manage- between the government and the small business. Ahmadi set for National Day celebrations

KUWAIT: Ahmadi Governorate has completed Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah presided the Governorate PR and media manager, said that preparations for the upcoming National and committee’s meetings during preparations this year’s festivities would include all Ahmadi Liberation Days anniversary due to be led in and that various community development areas with various activities. the period of February 15 - 21. The prepara- centers in Ahmadi and youth small projects Mohammed Al-Qeelani, the organizing tion which is evident in all over the gover- would take part in the celebrations. “Boys and committee member, said that many cere- norate is supported with considerable partici- girls living in Ahmadi will wear traditional cos- monies would be held in collaboration with pation from GCC states and Egypt. tumes all day on February 25th and distribute KOC, public and private establishments and Ibrahim Al-Foudery, the celebrations flags and gifts to all visitors coming through NGOs in addition to many local and Arab supervisor and manager of the governorate’s Nuwaiseeb border,” he stressed. He also point- music bands. technical office, said the organizing commit- ed out that special buses would be available Ma’souma Nasser, KOC representative and tee worked jointly with the supreme ceremo- to transport visitors to Ahmadi and back to organizing committee member, stressed that nials committee headed by Minister of collective parking areas once the ceremony Ahmadi and KOC have historically been asso- Information and Minister of Youth Affairs was over. ciated together and for that reason, KOC KUWAIT: (From left) Ma’souma Nasser, Mohammed Al-Qeelani, Ibrahim Al- Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Foudery Khaled Al-Mulla, Ahmadi Festivities annually decorates and illuminates Ahmadi Foudery and Khaled Al-Mulla seen during the press conference. added that Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Committee enthusiast and Ahmadi city in celebration on this occasion. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 From the Arabic press Crime Joint crackdown Report New grilling uncover runaways KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower, the Ministries of Interior and Commerce and Kuwait Teacher tapes Municipality carried out a campaign on tracking visa viola- student’s mouth against Mudej tors. The joint committee conducted the chase on Sunday KUWAIT: A teacher at a private elementary school evening at a cooperative society, resulting in the arrest of decided that the only way to keep a child silent is to 23 violators of iqama and labor law, and who were discov- tape his mouth. A security source said that a Palestinian ered to be runaways from their sponsors. KUWAIT: MP Abdulhameed Dashti is An official source at the Social Affairs Ministry said the expat took his son to Nugra police station reporting currently planning to re-submit a that an Egyptian teacher had placed a tape on his son’s arrested illegal workers were working at the cooperative in grilling motion against Abdulmohsen violation of laws. He condemned the violation and blamed mouth to keep him from talking, and it was the school Al-Mudej, Minister of Commerce and the co-op for employing illegal workers in its outlets. He principal who removed the tape. The teacher is being Industry, well-informed parliamen- said that it had given shelter to several escaped workers summoned for questioning. tary sources said. The sources added from their sponsors in addition to employing workers that Dashti had been preparing the whose iqamas are sponsored by others, and some who had grilling motion, and postponed it expired iqamas. Daesh driven away when his colleague Abdullah Al- The arrested will be sent to the deportation center, said Turaiji filed his own grilling against the sources. —Al-Qabas State security began questioning a network of 10 the minister. Kuwaitis and bedoons on charges of collecting Dashti explained that his grilling donations in Kuwait, then delivering them to IS would focus on financial and adminis- Co-op chairman fires (Daesh). The team’s attempt to enter Turkey illegally trative violations as well as the meas- MP Abdulhameed Dashti Minister of Commerce and was also foiled, sources said. ures taken against Al-Watan newspa- Industry Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej employee on Security sources said that the suspicious move- per. He added that he was sure that trust vote against the minister. Dashti promised to back his motion, sources ments of the persons in Kuwait had been under the evidence he had would help a no- was hopeful that ten MPs had already added. —Al-Watan privatization allegation close watch for some time. When the suspects KUWAIT: Ali Hassan, the Chairman of Kuwait Union of Consumer returned from a foreign trip it was found that they Cooperative Societies (KUCCS) denied statements published yester- were in Turkey. When they were further questioned day in local dailies about his opinion it was discovered that their passports did not bear in privatization of cooperatives and entry stamps to Turkey nor they had exit stamps. stressed that the statements had Close examination revealed that they had handed been made by an expat employee money over to members of IS (Daesh). It was found who immediately sent them to the out that the suspects collect money illegally and press without getting his approval. deliver it to Daesh via Turkey. Hassan added that the state- ments were totally untrue and that he never made them. “The employ- Girl found dead ee wrote the statements and sent them to local dailies without refer- The body of a girl was recovered by a medical examiner as ring to me”, he stressed noting that she was found dead in her room. A security source said the the concerned employee’s contract girl’s brother called the medical team reporting his uncon- was terminated. Notably, the state- KUCCS Chairman scious sister in their house. Police and paramedics rushed ments had quoted Hassan saying Ali Hassan to the house only to find out the girl was dead. that privatization of co-ops would end corruption in various cooperatives and that it would only experi- Investigators were called in and it was declared by the coro- mentally start in one co-op. —Al-Jarida ner the girl was dead for some time ago. Investigations are underway to determine the cause of death. Health Insurance company File mishap constituent assembly delayed An employee at Ibn Sina Hospital medical records KUWAIT: A company that will build hospitals to provide healthcare was injured when large pile of files fell on him. Dr to expatriates under insurance failed to hold its constituent assem- Mohammad Owaidah, the Hospital Director, said the bly last Sunday due to lack of quorum. The meeting is instead employee is being treated and is in good condition. Model of the Jaber Hospital expected to be held early March after establishment procedures conclude. Representative of the Kuwait Investment Authority missed the Kidnapper shoots Jaber Hospital 75% complete assembly because some procedures pertaining with the company’s A Jordanian accused a bedoon of kidnapping him from establishments were incomplete, according to sources familiar with his flat in Nugra and shooting him in his feet later while the issue. The constituent committee had received lists from the KUWAIT: Awatif Al-Ghunaim, Ministry stoppage or delay in the ministry’s Ghunaim said that the ministry’s Public Institution for Social Security containing names of Kuwaiti cit- in a camp. The Jordanian handed Nugra police a medical of Public Works’ Undersecretary said projects due to the crises of diesel development plan was sent to the izens, who will receive shares distributed through initial public offer- report, adding that he had differences with the bedoon, all projects of the development plan price hike. “The ministry did not planning ministry, which sent the ing, and make up 50 percent of the company’s shares. The company and therefore was not answering his calls. The bedoon, that are prepared by the ministry will receive any complaint from compa- same to the council of ministers was established October 2014 as a public shareholding company sources said, surprised the victim by appearing at the be implemented on time, adding that nies in the regard,” she said, adding and National Assembly, adding that with a KD 230 million capital. Twenty four percent of the shares are latter’s house, kidnapped him by force and used an air there will not be any drop in the min- that Jaber Hospital will be opened in the plan will be periodically owned by the government represented by the Kuwait Investment weapon to shoot the victim before fleeing. Hawally istry’s budget. December 2015, and that 75 percent checked by the two sides for the Authority (KIA), while 26 percent belong to Arabi Group which won detectives are looking for the suspect. —Al-Rai Ghunaim denied that there is any of it is complete. first time. —Al-Qabas the strategic investor’s stake last year. —Al-Anbaa

Al-Anbaa Corruption Al-Jarida control Deluxe dictators Little ISs within Arab souls By Thaar Al-Rasheedi By Hassan Al-Essa ecent political developments showed that those calling for and advocating patriotism ne can easily assess how radical some of us are through Rare mere bidders who mouth patriotic slo- the comments made on various social media networks gans and promote them while they in fact are the Oafter the recent crime IS committed by burning the least of their concerns. What is even worse is that Jordanian pilot alive. Most of those comments included luke- those sounding liberty demands are the least warm condemnation of the crime, but made many remarks believers in freedom. They demand it and defend reminding readers of Arab regimes’ crimes in Syria, Egypt or else- who they believe is a prisoner of opinion while where. This, in fact, regenerates ‘justificatory reasoning’ disguised they themselves sue whoever criticizes, not as ‘rational thinking’, which argues that the IS crime can be insults, them and unleash their tongues to speak acceptable as a normal result of Arab regimes’ brutality. For those advocating this argument, what is burning a human being alive about intentions and honors while rejecting any compared to hundreds and thousands ‘burnt’ by those regimes?! attempt to hold them accountable for it. According to them, this would make IS crimes and others com- They get very furious if someone criticizes mitted by jihadist resistance legitimate vengeance that ought to them, and all of a sudden, they turn from ‘free- be implicitly accepted. dom fighters’ to some kind of ‘deluxe dictators’ The disaster here does not lie in the presence of IS, Al-Nusra or who start suing others and provoking the govern- others who have adapted ‘legitimate resistance’ as a means to ment that they always criticize, against those who manifest the worst forms of criminal sadism within the souls of criticize them! so-called freedom-fighters. The real disaster lies in the neurotic Such contradictions are the real cause of most Al-Jarida culture dominating large segments of our Arab societies. of our political problems. I know that some of Whenever IS criminals behead a victim and broadcast videos them do believe in responsible liberties and do about it online as if it was a ‘heavenly punishment’ done by the practice them, even if they get prosecuted for it. hands of ‘true religion’ representatives, justificatory people imme- On the other hand, some of those movements’ diately remind of what a number of Arab regimes do against members demand patriotism, and sometimes Al-Qabas opposition. advocate sectarianism as long as it matches and When two ‘religion fighters’ kill Charlie Hebdo reporters with helps their interests. They demand abstract free- the excuse of defending the Prophet (PBUH) and take hostage dom, but whenever someone practices his own Fighting terrorism customers at a Jewish supermarket, those justificatory people liberty against them, they start whipping him by immediately criticize French laws and European concepts of free- dom of expression, and remind Israel’s crimes in Gaza. They even powers of the law that they demand to be By Abdellatif Al-Duaij rush to show images of Moroccans beheaded during the French exempted from being subjected to in similar cases. colonization. And so, a long, endless series of justifications and he revengeful execution carried out by the The announcement of the Hashemite Kingdom It was this paradox that plagued part of the excuses for the worst 21st century crimes are made, blaming opposition, killing it because some people have Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan against con- of Jordan about its insistence on continuing its Arab regimes and colonial legacy for them all. Hence, crimes are been using double standards - the very same Tvicted criminals Sajida Al-Rishawi and Ziyad efforts in facing terrorism, and emerge victorious for explained by more crimes and brutality is justified by brutality by accusations they make against the government. Al-Karboli is not right, and certainly, it is not a civi- the Syrian and Iraqi people, who suffer from it, is terrorist powers. However, by time, people grew more aware of lized answer to the crimes of Daesh. The execution well placed. It is the natural and suitable answer for There is no argument that both Arab regimes and the West such double standards and therefore slightly in itself is a barbaric crime regardless of the nature the barbaric and criminal behavior of Daesh. This is are historically responsible for creating terrorist radical groups in stopped supporting the opposition. and danger of the crime, bearing in mind that Sajida an effort that will contribute, without a doubt, to aftermaths of the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the Soviet occu- In fact, in order to succeed and go back on the failed in carrying out her crime, meaning she is exe- rescuing many lives and easing the lives of people pation of Afghanistan. There is also no doubt that when Arab right political track away from personalizing cuted for her intention. But this is not the important who face the terrorism of Daesh, or those who this regimes struck ‘moderate Islamists’, they opened the Pandora Box issues, the opposition needs to start reform from thing, because we are not aware of the circum- criminal organization is seeking to practice its bar- allowing radical, terrorist groups’ evils out. They were responsible within before demanding reforms in the whole stances, and we are not concerned with the fate of barism on. for these groups’ breeding when they used religion to win politi- country. They have to diagnose their political ail- the convicted. Yet, we are concerned with fighting Barbarism is part of the general human history. It cal legitimacy. They were responsible for ignorantly promoting ments and cure them. There is nothing wrong in terrorism and with the civil and human aspect of it was practiced and is being practiced by all people religious state projects when they failed to develop their educa- tional systems and curriculums and increased religious education this. It very normal that the opposition cultures that must be considered by those who fight terror- and countries. But the woes of the world wars and at the expense of other subjects, when they mixed secular with itself and reconsiders its practices over the past 18 ism and terrorists. the civilized and social advancements made many months - the period during which it lost many of religious and competed with religious propagandists in terms of Executing Rishawi and Karboli, as an answer to people to calm down and be sophisticated, where piety and godliness, while at the same time, fought the spread of its supporters, in my opinion, because of mistakes the burning of Jordan’s martyr pilot Muath Al- forgiveness towards others became more effective free thinking, philosophy, arts, literature and humanities. that should have been avoided, especially with the Kassasbeh is a reaction, and the reaction is always and stronger than motives of revenge. There is no argument about all that when we condemn and presence of veteran politicians amongst them. equal to the action itself, physically or politically. For It is by spreading forgiveness and respecting the blame those regimes for the wretchedness of the Arab world. I believe that the first steps towards achieving a civil state like the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - humanity of others and caring for the rights and liv- However, this does not exclude us nor does it justify jihadist ter- any reform are disconnecting with any political with its civil and political establishments not being ing of others that we fight terrorism. These are the rorism crimes. After all, those regimes are the natural result of faction before seriously considering running in different from the method and practice of Daesh in most effective and real weapons that eradicate cur- how Arab societies are. So, let us look deep within our souls the coming parliamentary elections. All opposi- dealing with opponents - is a promotion and rent or hidden terrorism in us, especially us Arabs, because we will find more than one little Zarqawi, Abu Bakr Al- tion parties should open hearts and minds to encouragement of terrorism and an unintended the product of many years of suffering, oppression Baghdadi and Bin Laden freely moving and developing within each other! adoption of it. and civilized backwardness. the Arab subconscious and souls! Australian premier Abbott survives bid to unseat him

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Quartet thrash out Ukraine summit Putin in Egypt in bid to expand Russian influence Bahrain ready to back Jordan fight against IS AMMAN: Bahrain’s ruler has told his The United Arab Emirates on Sunday Jordanian counterpart that he is ready deployed a squadron of F-16s in Jordan to assist the kingdom in its fight to support Amman’s campaign against against the Islamic State group, the the extremists, who seized large parts royal palace in Amman said yesterday. of Iraq and Syria last year. —AFP King Hamad of Bahrain, quoted in a palace statement, told King Abdullah II that he was “proud to provide all the help Jordan needs to combat terrorism and protect Islam from Daesh (IS)”. Talks between the two monarchs in Amman yesterday focused on reinforcing mili- tary cooperation between their coun- tries, notably their air forces, the state- ment said. Jordan has vowed to inten- sify its air strikes against IS as part of a WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White US-led coalition after the jihadists AMMAN: Jordan's King Abdullah II House in Washington, DC, yesterday. Obama said yesterday no decision had been made on whether to send weapons to Ukraine to help Kiev burned alive one of its pilots captured battle pro-Russian separatists, as he warned the West would not allow Russia to redraw Europe’s borders by force. — AFP (right) and Bahrain's King Hamad bin in December when his F-16 fighter jet Isa Al Khalifa meet at the Royal Palace, KIEV: German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday Talks ahead of talks when Cairo-Washington ties remain frayed. Putin’s went down over Syria. Amman, Jordan, yesterday. —AP briefed US President Barack Obama on the latest Wrangling at the meeting in Berlin later yester- first visit to Egypt in a decade comes after a 2011 peace plan for Ukraine ahead of a four-way summit day afternoon is expected to be intense as deputy popular uprising that ousted ex-strongman Hosni aimed at ending 10 months of bloodshed. foreign ministers lay the ground for the leaders’ Mubarak, whom he leader met on his previous trip Foreign ministry officials from Ukraine, Russia, summit. in 2005. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed Germany and France were due to hold a preparatory “Our principal objective is to prepare the ele- Putin on arrival at Cairo’s international airport where meeting in Berlin after leaders agreed to push for ments for a document that is acceptable to Ukraine,” the two leaders held talks for half an hour, officials the key meeting on a new peace deal tomorrow in Olexiy Makeyev, a senior Ukrainian foreign ministry said. From the airport they proceeded to Cairo Minsk, the capital of Belarus. official heading to the meeting, told AFP. Opera House in the capital’s central district of Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, One major sticking point is thought to be Zamalek for a cultural evening. Putin is a key non- warned that a “number of points” still needed to be whether rebels are handed control over territory Arab backer of Sisi, who faces harsh US criticism for hammered out before the meeting could take place. they have seized in recent weeks, with Kiev adamant his deadly crackdown on dissent since Islamist Meanwhile, Merkel flew to Washington to discuss that a demarcation line agreed in September should leader Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the then a European-brokered peace initiative with President not be shifted. army chief in July 2013. Barack Obama in the latest leg of a frantic diplomat- Hollande has told French television the proposal Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been killed ic push to stop the conflict escalating as the White includes the creation of a 50- to 70-kilometre (31- to and thousands imprisoned in a subsequent crack- House mulls supplying weapons to Kiev. 43-mile) demilitarised zone around the current line. down. Experts say Putin’s visit is also aimed at show- The latest peace bid is being billed as a last-ditch Monitors from the Organization for Security and ing that he is not isolated internationally, despite the effort to halt the spiralling bloodshed in east Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), representatives from crisis in Ukraine. “The leaders will pay special atten- Ukraine that has already cost at least 5,400 lives. Kiev and Moscow and the rebels are also set to hold tion to ramping up trade and economic ties Fresh fighting over the past 24 hours between a meeting Tuesday, Ukraine says. between the two countries,” the Kremlin said ahead government forces and pro-Russian rebels left at of the visit. least seven civilians and nine Ukrainian troops dead, Merkel in Washington Kiev said. In Washington, Merkel touched down Sunday for Egypt-Russia accords Separatists told AFP that a munitions factory was talks with Obama as the worsening violence con- They will hold formal talks today and sign several hit as heavy shelling echoed around the rebel fronts them with a choice between pursuing the agreements after which Putin and Sisi will hold a stronghold of Donetsk. risky peace talks or throwing more weapons into the joint news conference, Sisi’s office said. They are also In a four-way telephone talk on Sunday Putin, war. expected to discuss Iraq, Syria and Libya, as well as Merkel, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and At home the White House is facing increasing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. French leader Francois Hollande floated the summit calls to supply the outmatched Ukrainian army with Russia had hosted Sisi’s predecessor Morsi during as a the next step to finding a “comprehensive set- more weapons to shore up its faltering defences. his one-year presidency, despite banning the tlement” to end the conflict, Berlin said. But Merkel and many European nations believe Islamist’s Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist group” Merkel and Hollande have ramped up their push weapons could not overturn the military mismatch in 2003. But Russia was also one of the first countries for peace in recent days, jetting to Kiev first for talks between Ukraine and the might of the Russian army, to endorse Sisi’s presidential bid last year. with Poroshenko and then to Moscow to meet with and would simply escalate the conflict. Posters of Putin were put up on Cairo’s main Putin, who the West accuses of masterminding the “I think that the progress Ukraine needs won’t be roads greeting the Russian leader in Russian, Arabic violence. achieved with even more weapons,” Merkel told a and English. Sisi himself visited Russia when he was The Ukrainian government said after the phone security conference in Munich on Saturday. defence minister soon after ousting Morsi amid call that the four leaders expected their efforts to US Secretary of State John Kerry has dismissed deteriorating relations with Washington, and fol- lead to “an immediate and unconditional bilateral talk of a rift with Europe on the issue. “Let me assure lowed it up with another trip in August 2014 as pres- ceasefire”. everybody, there is no division, there is no split,” ident. At their meeting last summer at Putin’s sum- A previous peace deal agreed in Minsk in Kerry said in Munich. mer residence in Sochi, the two discussed Russia September has been largely ignored, with fighting Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin arrived yes- supplying weapons to Egypt, which is fighting an escalating in recent weeks as the rebels push further terday in Egypt as Russia seeks to expand its reach in insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula that has killed into government-held territory. the Arab world’s most populous country at a time scores of policemen and soldiers. — Agencies 29 migrants die of cold on Italian coast guard boats

ROME: At least 29 migrants died of hypothermia aboard Italian coast guard vessels after being picked up from an inflatable boat adrift near Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said yesterday. Two patrol boats picked up 105 migrants late on Sunday from the boat drifting in extreme sea conditions, with waves as high as 8 metres (26 feet) and temperatures just a few degrees above zero, the coast guard said in a statement. The migrants spent around 18 hours on the decks of one of the boats taking them to Lampedusa, buffeted by high winds and spray. At least 29 died en route of hypothermia, Lampedusa’s mayor, Giusi Nicolini, told Reuters. The number of dead may still rise, she said. One migrant had been taken by helicopter to the island of Sicily in criti- cal condition, and the second patrol boat has yet to reach port. Nicolini blamed the closure of Italy’s search-and-rescue mission, known as Mare Nostrum, last year for the tragedy. Since then no navy ships capable of keeping large num- bers of migrants below deck have patrolled the waters near the Libyan coast. “Mare Nostrum was an emergency solution to a human- itarian crisis, so closing it was a huge and intolerable step backward,” Nicolini said in a telephone interview. Human rights groups repeatedly warned that ending the mission would endanger lives. “The small patrol boats were completely swallowed by the waves during the trip back. If Mare Nostrum were still going, the migrants would have been given shelter inside a large ship within an hour.” The patrol boats sent from Lampedusa are small vessels that ride low to the water so crew members can pull peo- ple in. But they cannot accommodate many below deck. Mare Nostrum was abandoned by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government partly due to public concern over the 114 million euro ($129 million) cost of the mission in its first year. — Reuters p8_Layout 1 2/9/15 10:13 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Gaza youngsters flock to Hamas training camps GAZA CITY: Hatem is only 14 but has nearly 2,200 Palestinians and 73 on the ployment standing at 41 percent, it was using light and heavy weaponry and local human rights groups are accusing already lived through three wars with Israeli side, and left swathes of the not difficult to convince youngsters to were taught how to ambush, so they Hamas of exploiting children for political Israel. Now the young Gazan says he is impoverished enclave in ruins. join the camps. can lead the next battle for liberation,” purposes. making sure he’ll be ready to fight in the It was their third conflict in less than Hamas insists that teaching children the Brigades said on its website. “We are not disputing the right of an next one. five years, following an eight-day bom- how to fight is a legitimate part of “resis- Hamas has rushed to defend the mili- occupied people to resist, but it must be “The Israelis killed my niece last sum- bardment in 2012 and a 22-day war in tance” activities against Israel. tary training. “The Western media accuse done by adults, not children,” one mer. Now I want to kill them,” he told late 2008 and early 2009. But the camp, which accepts boys Hamas of militarising society with their human rights activist told AFP, speaking AFP after completing a week-long youth Children were on the frontline of the and men aged 14 to 21, has incensed training camps, but what has the West on condition of anonymity. training camp with militants from the latest conflict, with UN figures showing human rights activists who accuse done to stop the enemy from carrying “The camps are making young peo- Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed about 500 were killed. Hamas of exploiting children trauma- out its crimes?” senior Hamas official ple aggressive instead of educating wing of the Islamist Hamas movement. And just five months after the war tised by war. Bassem Naim said. “What have we them and teaching them to abide by the “I will become a resistance fighter,” ended, thousands of those who survived gained from 20 years of futile negotia- law,” the activist said. the boy said proudly during a gradua- signed up to join the Hamas training ‘Trained intensively’ tions?” Issam Yunis, head of Gaza-based tion ceremony in Gaza. camps. “I want to join the Qassam Hamas has been running summer The latest round of US-led peace talks human rights group Al-Mezan, said the Hatem is one of 17,000 youngsters Brigades because they are the strongest camps for youngsters for years, but this between Israel and the Palestinians camps were a dangerous development who graduated late last month from two in Gaza,” said 15-year-old Mohammed week-long session was a much more broke down in April 2014 and the war in in a territory where more than half of military training camps where Hamas- Abu Harbid, who also took part in the serious affair. Gaza has further distanced any hope of the population is under 15. “Gazan chil- the de facto power in Gaza-said it was training. With the humanitarian situa- Run for the first time by militants a return to negotiations to end the dren are traumatised by the violence, so preparing the next generation to fight tion in post-war Gaza growing steadily from the Qassam Brigades, there were decades-long conflict. some are attracted by the military train- against Israel. worse, a fresh flare-up with Israel seems no “fun” sessions-and no mid-week visits “We are an occupied people and ing,” he said. “But the priority today Last summer, Israel and Hamas mili- likely. And with many schools being to Gaza’s zoo. international law guarantees us the right should be to take care of their social and tants fought a 50-day war that killed used to shelter the displaced and unem- “They were trained intensively in to resist,” Naim wrote on Facebook. But physical well-being.” -—AFP Egypt says lack of evidence led to Jazeera retrial

CAIRO: An Egyptian court said it ordered a The three journalists were among 20 retrial of Al-Jazeera journalists due to a lack defendants initially tried by the lower of evidence showing their alleged links to court. Of the rest, 12 were Egyptians who the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, state were found guilty of belonging to a “terror- media reported yesterday. ist organisation”. Two defendants were The Court of Cassation had on January 1 acquitted, while the remaining three-also ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera journal- foreigners were convicted in absentia for ists, overturning a lower court’s verdict spreading “false news”. which found them guilty of aiding the Yesterday the Court of Cassation gave its Islamist movement. reasoning for overturning the lower court’s The lower court had sentenced ruling. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian “The criminal court’s verdict lacked evi- Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer dence to support its ruling,” the appeals Baher Mohamed to up to 10 years in jail for court said, according to state news agency spreading “false news” during their cover- MENA. age of protests after the ouster of president “The criminal court was hasty in pro- Mohamed Morsi in 2013. nouncing its verdict. “The court did not The three were arrested in December wait for medical and legal reports which it 2013 just days after the authorities desig- had requested after several defendants nated the Brotherhood as a “terrorist spoke of being under physical and moral group”. pressure” to make confessions, the appeals Greste was deported on February 1 court said. under a presidential decree after the retrial The initial trial came against the back- was ordered. drop of strained relations between Egypt In a bid to secure his own deportation, and Qatar, which supported the Islamist Fahmy has renounced his Egyptian nation- movement of Morsi, whom then army chief ality and is awaiting a return to Canada, and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi where he also has citizenship. However, the deposed on July 3, 2013. Since Morsi’s third journalist, producer Mohamed, ouster, a government crackdown against remains in jail as he only has Egyptian his supporters has left hundreds dead and nationality. seen thousands jailed. — AFP Israeli parties hunt ‘caviar vote’ before March election DOUMA: An injured Syrian man waits for treatment at a clinic in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following reported ASHKELON: In this seaside city once ruled “They are looking for a party of strength, air strikes by regime forces yesterday. The opposition bastion came under a massive government aerial assault on February 5, 2015, after rebels by the Greeks and Phoenicians but now standing strong on our values, our Jewish fired more than 120 rockets and mortar rounds into the capital. — AFP largely populated by Russians, the talk in values, and also on security.” the caviar-stocked delis and jewellery stores is of upcoming elections and Israel’s Moscow on the med powerful Russian vote. At Marina Polliack’s jewellery stand, Syria says it doesn’t After the collapse of the Soviet Union in Bennett was making in-roads. The Belarus- the 1990s, more than one million Russian born businesswoman, 45, moved to Israel speakers moved to Israel, many of them in 1997 and has warmed to his policies, settling on the Mediterranean coast in which include opposition to the establish- need Jordan in IS fight cities like Ashkelon and Netanya, where ment of a Palestinian state. Russian remains in daily use and Cyrillic “The Jews have only one state. The script is as common on menus as vodka Arabs have many and history is repeating and smoked meats. itself around the world, with anti-Semitism Syria regime air strikes kill 15 near Damascus Given that Soviet migrants make up 20 rising,” she said, pledging her support to percent of Israel’s Jewish population, their Bennett. Nearby at Gastronom Khoroso, a BEIRUT: Syria’s foreign minister yesterday Islamic State group militants on the ground Ghouta. At a field clinic in the area, an AFP conservative, working-class vote has Russian deli where the shelves are piled criticized neighboring Jordan, which recently but have lost about a third of the country to photographer saw a girl in a purple head- become significant in politics, a fact that high with caviar and Christmas chocolates, stepped up airstrikes against Islamic State the extremist group. Government troops are scarf and another child in a woolly hat crying remains the case ahead of closely fought owner Genadi Sirotnikov, 59, leans towards also battling opposition fighters from an as doctors treated the wounded, among parliamentary elections on March 17. Netanyahu. group targets in Syria, and said his country In the past, much of the “Russian vote” - “There aren’t many alternatives,” said the does not need outside help in battling mili- array of rebel groups fighting to oust Syrian them a young boy. which includes those of Ukrainian, former Russian soldier, who moved to Israel tants. President Bashar Assad. His eyes stared wide in apparent shock Moldovan, Georgian and Belarussian her- in 1990. “Netanyahu is relatively strong, Walid al-Moallem also told reporters that Al-Moallem said Syria offered to coordi- from a face streaked with blood and white itage, among others - has gone to Yisrael even if he doesn’t always give people what Damascus will not accept Jordanian or other nate with the Jordanian government in fight- dust. His arm was bandaged and attached to Beitenu, a right-wing party led by they want.” Sirotnikov says younger foreign ground troops crossing into Syria to ing terrorism, but received no response. a rudimentary drip. In the streets outside, Moldovan-born Foreign Minister Avigdor Russians do not share the older genera- fight. He accused Jordan of allowing “terrorists” locals picked through rubble, carrying the Lieberman. tion’s political values, however. There has been no mention of any inter- - a government term for all opposition fight- wounded to the clinic, while a civil defence But officials in Lieberman’s party are “We have a common basis of fear,” he national troops offering to go into Syria to ers seeking to topple Assad - to cross into worker trained a hose on a fire set by the under investigation over allegations of cor- said of his generation, which was fixated on fight the Islamic State group. Jordan has, Syria after training them in camps in Jordan strikes. The opposition bastion, east of ruption and opinion polls show its support escaping communism. “The generation however, vowed to retaliate harshly for the overseen by the United States. The CIA has Damascus, was still reeling from a massive falling - from a peak of 15 seats in the 120- that grew up here doesn’t have that. They slaying of one of its pilots, who was burned said it is running a rebel training program in government aerial assault on Thursday that seat Israeli parliament a few years ago, they are more free-thinking.” alive by the Islamic State group militants last Jordan. came after rebels fired more than 120 rock- now have 13 and are expected to win just week. Al-Moallem claimed that Jordan, “which ets and mortar rounds into the capital. The six in next month’s vote. rebel barrage killed 10 people in Damascus, As a result, the hunt is on to secure Changing allegiance? “We will not allow anyone to violate our fights the Islamic State group along with the defectors, with not only Prime Minister Marik Stern moved to Israel from national sovereignty and we do not need any international coalition, doesn’t fight” against including a child, while the government air Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in the Moscow when he was just two. His late ground troops to fight Daesh,” al-Moallem Syria’s main al-Qaida branch, called the strikes and surface-to-surface missiles fired chase, but that of ultra-nationalist Economy father ran in Lieberman’s party in the said, using the Arabic acronym for the Nusra Front, along its borders. at Eastern Ghouta killed at least 82 people, Minister Naftali Bennett too, not to men- 1990s, but the 36-year-old son supports extremist group. “The Syrian Arab govern- The Nusra Front is fighting with Syrian among them 18 children. tion the centre-left opposition. the Labour party, which has formed the ment is fully capable of fighting Daesh rebel groups in southern Syria, near the bor- Eastern Ghouta has been under govern- “We’re seeing considerable movement Zionist Union with the centrist Hatnua par- valiantly and we don’t need any other der with Jordan. Meanwhile, at least 15 peo- ment siege for nearly two years as the army from Lieberman’s party to my party,” ty. “A lot of us have developed a political troops.” ple were killed and dozens wounded yester- tries to break the rebel hold over the area. Bennett, whose religious-nationalist Jewish identity different to our parents,” said Stern. Jordan is a member of a US-led coalition day in government air strikes on an area out- The siege has created medical and food Home party is expected to win up to 15 “They came here with a great antagonism fighting the Islamic State group in Syria. The side the capital Damascus, the Syrian shortages, exacerbating dire humanitarian seats in the Knesset, told Reuters as he to socialism and anything that has even a Syrian government describes the airstrike Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. needs created by regular government bom- campaigned in Ashkelon. whiff of Soviet to it.—Reures campaign as illegitimate because it has not There were no immediate details on the bardment of the area. been coordinated with the Syrian govern- breakdown of those killed in the strikes, More than 210,000 people have been ment. which are the latest to hit the town of killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian government forces are fighting Douma in the rebel stronghold of Eastern country’s conflict in March 2011. — Agencies Somali lawmakers approve new cabinet as Shebab kills MP

MOGADISHU: Somali lawmakers approved a ment,” fellow MP Abdukarim Hajji said. apparent bid to discredit claims by the authori- new cabinet yesterday, hours after Shebab insur- Barre is the first lawmaker to be assassinated ties and African Union troops that they are win- gents assassinated a colleague as he made his this year. At least five MPs were killed in 2014. ning the war against the group. way to parliament. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels are Somalia’s parliament is also riven by political The killing in the capital Mogadishu is the lat- fighting to overthrow the country’s internation- infighting. International donors have repeatedly est in a string of assassinations of politicians in ally-backed government. warned that the power struggles are stalling the war-torn east African country. The extremists say they are targeting MPs for progress towards stability. Speaker of parliament Mohamed Osman allowing the deployment of foreign troops in However, lawmakers finally approved the Jawari said that 191 out of 220 legislators pres- Somalia. new prime minister’s last list of candidates. ent had endorsed the new cabinet, consisting of “Shebab commandoes shot and killed Barre, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, who was 26 ministers, plus 40 deputy ministers. and all the so-called MPs are a legitimate target named prime minister in December, had been Security was beefed up in the volatile city subject to be killed or captured, to face the jus- forced to revise his choices after MPs opposed ahead of the session, but gunmen managed to tice of Allah,” Shebab spokesman Sheikh Abdul his first proposed cabinet line-up. SILWAD: An Israeli soldier confronts a Palestinian during a march by landowners and shoot dead an MP as he left to go cast his vote. Aziz Abu Musab told AFP. “This the fate of all non Somalia is due to vote on a new constitution activists attempting to plant olive tree saplings near the Israeli settlement Ofra, outside “Abdulahi Qayad Barre was shot dead, men believers.” Shebab attacks in Somalia have tar- next year ahead of elections in 2016, but Shebab the Palestinian town of Silwad, near the west bank city of Ramallah, yesterday. — AP killed him as he left his house to go to parlia- geted key government and security sites in an remains a major threat. —AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Missing US pilot, plane frustrate searchers in Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Last year, an American disap- American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over Washington. a man who asked for money to reveal the crash site, peared while traveling alone in a small plane in the Pacific in 1937, and the hunt is still on for Bill Fitzpatrick learned to fly when he was 17, but did not send a photo to prove his information West Africa, heading to a new job as an anti-poach- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean and once took primatologist Jane Goodall for a spin was correct. ing pilot in a national park. after it went missing with 239 people aboard in over San Francisco Bay, his brother said. Bill Investigators think he hit a mountain but the 2014. Fitzpatrick previously worked as a ranger and pilot Cash withdrawal location of his Cessna 172 remains a mystery after a This weekend, media quoted Chilean moun- at North Cascades National Park in Washington The American’s takeoff from Nigeria was delayed search stymied by limited resources, patchy help taineers as saying they found the wreckage of a state, Arctic National Park in Alaska and elsewhere. because he had to make cash withdrawals to pay from local authorities and forested, mountainous plane in the Andes that went missing 54 years ago. There was no mayday signal on the night of his for fuel, according to a witness. Despite the terrain. It had crashed, killing 24 people, including eight disappearance, suggesting he crashed into a moun- increased risk of flying at night in an unfamiliar Bill Fitzpatrick’s last contact with aviation author- members of a professional soccer team. tain without time to react, and that weather or a area, he apparently decided to leave around 6 p.m. ities was on the night of June 22 when he calmly Fitzpatrick, 59, was flying from Kano, Nigeria to fuel shortage was not the cause. No signal was because his Nigerian flying permit was expiring that gave his position and altitude to a control tower Douala, Cameroon and his final destination was to detected from the plane’s emergency transmitter, day, African Parks said. during a nighttime approach to coastal Cameroon. be Odzala-Kokoua National Park in Congo, which is which can be activated on impact or by the pilot. The US State Department says it is monitoring Then, nothing. Both man and plane vanished. managed by African Parks, a nonprofit group based African Parks has discounted the possibility that the case and providing consular assistance to “Jungle will swallow up a small airplane,” said Ray in Johannesburg. The Central African park, which the aircraft may have been shot down by any mili- Fitzpatrick’s family, which wants Washington to Kapteyn, aviation program manager in Cameroon consists mostly of rainforest, hosts gorilla tary forces in the area. Cameroonian troops can- deploy surveillance equipment and other resources for SIL, an organization based in Dallas, Texas that researchers and tourists who join expeditions track- celed a ground search, citing a lack of fuel, said to search for the plane. translates the Bible and took part in aerial searches ing the great apes. David Zeller, manager of Odzala park at the time. Fitzpatrick’s brother said he informed the FBI of for Fitzpatrick’s plane. SIL also searched for a Cessna Zeller said Cameroonian authorities let him lis- purchases of items including a laptop and a camera 182 originating in Germany that disappeared in Elephant carcasses ten to recordings of the radio transmission between made on Bill Fitzpatrick’s PayPal account after his roughly the same area in August, possibly after The job of the former Peace Corps volunteer Fitzpatrick and air traffic controllers, but he was not disappearance. Zeller said those transactions could crashing at night into the Gulf of Guinea. would have been to scan the park’s many clearings allowed to record or transcribe them. He believes indicate the pilot was either scammed on his jour- Kapteyn noted that radar coverage in the area is for elephant carcasses from his cockpit and alert the plane crashed in an area of the Bakossi moun- ney through West Africa, or somebody found the poor, but he said: “It is a little bit unusual that there rangers who could intercept poachers escaping tain range with heavy cloud cover. plane wreckage in Cameroon and stole financial were two of them in such a short time.” The fate of with ivory tusks. On behalf of African Parks, anti-poaching con- details from his laptop. vanished aircraft, rare in an increasingly mapped “Everything is in limbo,” Fitzpatrick’s brother, Ken, sultant Gauthier Selva also visited Cameroon. Fitzpatrick built an aircraft hangar in Odzala and technologically connected world, is the stuff of said in a telephone interview from his home in Some villagers tried to cash in, offering to rent before going to pick up the Cessna. Torsten Bohm, a intrigue, fueling theories about the cause and spec- Ridgefield, Connecticut. The missing pilot’s wife, him a truck with a driver for two or three days for German who was researching hyenas in the park, ulation about the last moments of those aboard. Paula, and their three children live in Chelan, $1,000, Selva said. He also talked by telephone with smoked cigars and chatted with Fitzpatrick. — AP New England, NY ready for another big storm Schools and municipal offices to be closed BOSTON: Snow is falling yet again on New England and portions of New York state, threatening to bring up to 1 to 2 feet to some areas and making the first commutes of the workweek potentially hazardous. The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for central New York, the western Catskills and much of New England through early today. Government officials Sunday announced that schools and municipal offices in many communities would be closed and that parking bans would be in ACAPULCO: Forensic personnel work in the identification of one of the 60 bodies effect. As accidents began to accumulate, drivers found in a crematorium, in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico on Sunday. Mexican were warned to stay off the slick roads. police launched a manhunt for the owner of an abandoned crematorium after 60 “This storm marks our third major snow storm we bodies, including children, were found rotting in the Acapulco facility that closed a have experienced in nearly two weeks,” as parts of year ago. — AFP Massachusetts have already seen over 60 inches of snowfall, said Gov. Charlie Baker. He said it would cause “many challenges” for the state. The Boston area was expected to receive 1 to 2 Man who killed 4, fought feet of snow through Tuesday while Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, could with ex-wife over taxes each get up to a foot. In New York, accumulations of 6 to 8 inches were predicted in northern New York, 5 to 10 inches in the DOUGLASVILLE: A man had been arguing A third child of Andrews and Prather, a 13- NEW YORK: Snow is removed from a street, yesterday, in Marlborough, Mass. New England and with his ex-wife over taxes and child support year-old boy, was not home at the time. Southern Tier and Finger Lakes, and 4 to 8 inches in portions of New York state awoke yesterday to a fresh blanket of snow as a storm threatening before he showed up at her house and killed Prather and Andrews were married for about western New York. Buffalo was expected to get 2 to 6 to bring up to 1 to 2 feet to some areas churned across the Northeast, making for a slippery, her and three other people before fatally 11 years and had been divorced about five inches. tedious commute to start the workweek. — AP shooting himself, an investigator said yester- years, Ferguson said. “I’m frustrated. The last thing I want to be talking up over 70 percent of New Hampshire’s Department equipment has stalled trains, delaying and angering day. The shooting happened just after 3 p.m. There had been no prior reports of about is another 24 inches of snow. I want to move of Transportation winter maintenance budget. And commuters. Saturday as neighbors were outside enjoying domestic violence and there was nothing in on to something else,” Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh the next round of snow was already promising trou- Over the weekend, the Massachusetts Bay unusually warm weather. Cedric G. Prather Jr., Prather’s record that jumped out as a red flag, said at City Hall on Sunday. “It’s unprecedented. ... ble Sunday. Transportation Authority said crews were doing 33, parked about a quarter mile from the Ferguson said. Neighbors heard gunshots Maybe up in Alaska or Buffalo, they have this amount New Hampshire State Police closed parts of everything they could, including deploying massive home and walked inside the suburban within a few minutes of Prather’s arrival and of snow and they’re used to it.” northbound Interstate 93 in Manchester for hours jet-powered snow blowers, to clear tracks before Atlanta home, fatally shooting his ex-wife, 33- called 911, Ferguson said. A witness told Adding insult to injury, the Massachusetts as tow trucks removed a school bus that lost control the storm. Baker said Boston’s subway lines will year-old Latoya A. Andrews, and her police one of Prather’s children was heard Emergency Management Agency warned that poten- on slushy roads and rolled down an embankment. operate on an abbreviated schedule Monday. The boyfriend, 33-year-old Joseph Terry Brown, outside pleading with him not to shoot. tially record cold temperatures and wind chills are The driver was the only person on board. The MBTA said it will try to keep commuter trains on a police said. After the rampage, Prather killed himself expected to move into the region later in the week. small college town of Henniker, which lost its fleet normal weekday schedule, but delays are likely. Prather also fatally shot two of his chil- in the street. Friends of Prather told police Walsh said the city would close schools Tuesday as of plows in a fire Jan. 30, was using plows on loan Boston’s Logan International Airport will be dren, including one of whom a neighbor said that he had been upset and angry lately. One well. Court closings Monday meant another weather- from the state. DOT spokesman Bill Boynton said allowing only a limited amount of flights to arrive begged him not to pull the trigger. Prather friend had called Prather to check up on him related delay in jury selection in the Boston Marathon the three back-up trucks would probably remain and depart late yesterday so travelers should check left no note explaining his motive, Douglas and was on the phone with him as the shoot- bombing trial and in the murder trial in Fall River of with the town throughout the winter. with their airlines, the governor said. County sheriff’s Capt. Bruce Ferguson said. ing happened. former NFL star Aaron Hernandez. While the snow is welcome at New England ski In many New England communities, the obvious “I can’t tell you why he did it,” Ferguson Prather used a .45-caliber handgun to The snow is likely to cause problems for workweek resorts, it’s a headache for some businesses. “I nor- problem is where to put the new snowfall. David said. “All I can do is to say he snapped or he shoot all the victims and himself. The Douglas commuters, though it wasn’t expected to accumulate mally have 15 to 20 dogs for day care but that’s Lombari, public works director for West Warwick, had enough is what we’ve concluded in our County Sheriff’s Office is working with the as rapidly as in earlier snowstorms, including a record- down to half a dozen; people can’t get here,” said Rhode Island, said his town was already clogged investigation.” federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms busting late January blizzard. It also posed little risk of Bruce Billings, owner of Canine College and Bow with piles of snow several feet high and school bus- The shooting happened in a subdivision and Explosives to trace the gun and deter- the coastal flooding that last month’s winter blasts Wow Resort, a dog training, day care and boarding es were parked in the usual snow storage lot. in Douglasville, about 20 miles west of mine whether he had it legally. brought. center in Holbrook, Massachusetts, 10 miles south “I don’t know what we’re going to do yet,” Atlanta. Prather killed his 7-year-old daugh- Teresa Carter, 59, said she heard the of Boston. Lombari said. “It’s tough trying to find a place that ter, London, and 9-year-old son, Jerimiah. He gunfire from inside her home but didn’t see Maintenance budget Billings said he’s trying to clear outdoor play meets all the proper (environmental) criteria.” State shot and wounded two other children, who what happened. Carter said she often saw Baker said state offices would be closed for non- areas with a snow blower because only the biggest snow disposal guidelines require that communities are in critical condition: Andrews’ 15-year-old the children playing in the driveway and emergency personnel yesterday and encouraged dogs can frolic through snow that’s 2 to 3 feet deep. use locations that won’t harm environmental businesses to allow employees to work from home or daughter, Demesha Owens, and Brown’s 7- around the neighborhood. They enjoyed Boston’s transit system, the nation’s oldest, has resources and have barriers that prevent contami- stay home so they wouldn’t be on the roads. year-old daughter, Jada Brown. petting her dog. — AP been particularly hard hit this winter. The buildup of nants from seeping into groundwater when the The steady run of winter blasts has already sucked snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging snow melts. -— AP p10 2_Layout 1 2/9/15 9:30 PM Page 1

TUES DAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL UN alarmed at rising attacks against schoolgirls

BERLIN: Girls in at least 70 countries “Attacks against girls accessing education by the Somali extremist group al-Shabab cation due to fears for their security and against schoolgirls can’t be prevented have faced threats, violent attacks and persist and, alarmingly, appear in some in 2010. “According to UN sources, more concerns about their subsequent mar- without addressing broader patterns of other abuse for trying to go to school countries to be occurring with increasing than 3,600 separate attacks against edu- riageability may result in additional violence and discrimination against over the past five years, the UN human regularity,” the authors found. cational institutions, teachers and stu- human rights violations such as child and women and girls. They recommended rights office said yesterday. The report cites as examples the kid- dents were recorded in 2012 alone,” it forced marriage, domestic violence, early devoting more money to helping that A report by the Geneva-based body napping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in said. The authors warned that the attacks pregnancy, exposure to other harmful ensure girls can go to school without the noted that, despite some progress, girls Nigeria last year, the shooting of educa- have a “ripple effect” that sends a signal practices, trafficking and sexual and labor threat of violence and promoting the still face difficulty getting an education in tion activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and to parents of other girls that schools are exploitation,” the report said. benefits that universal access to educa- many countries around the world. the forced removal of girls from schools not safe. “The removal of girls from edu- The authors concluded that attacks tion has for society as a whole. —AP

Strauss-Kahn takes the stage in French pimping trial

LILLE: Disgraced ex-IMF boss Dominique Just six months later his name cropped Strauss-Kahn, whose presidential hopes up in an investigation into an alleged vice were torpedoed by a sex scandal, takes the ring in which the managers and publicist of stand at a French pimping trial yesterday in the luxury Carlton hotel in Lille organised a bid to convince judges he was not at the lunchtime sex parties with prostitutes for core of a prostitution ring. their friends. The spotlight swings onto the 65-year- The first section of the trial, involving old in the second week of the trial in the interlocking groups of people, focused on northern city of Lille which involves 13 oth- the so-called “Carlton Affair.” er accused, including police, a lawyer, a Tears, amusement, and sordid details prostitute and a brothel owner known as have marked the testimony of key mem- “Dodo the Pimp”. bers of the alleged Carlton vice ring-hotel Strauss-Kahn will have three days to publicist Rene Kojfer and brothel owner fend off accusations that he organised for Dominique Alderweireld who is known as prostitutes to attend sex parties in Paris, “Dodo the Pimp”-and the prostitutes who Brussels and Washington. He will come worked for them. face-to-face with some of the sex workers Bernard Lemaire, the chief of the four during his testimony. judges overseeing the three-week, jury-less The former finance minister, known as trial said last week that “the court is not the DSK in France, will argue he is merely a lib- guardian of morals but of the law and its ertine who engaged in orgies with con- proper application.” While Strauss-Kahn senting adults and did not know the says he never set foot in the Carlton, and women lavishing their attention on him denies knowing the two men, it is they who were prostitutes. allegedly provided prostitutes-including Strauss-Kahn attended the first day of “Jade”-to his entourage who threw the sex trial-luring some 300 journalists to an oth- parties for him. erwise run-of-the-mill court case-but his name has not directly come up since, as King of the party? French court rules forbid defendants from Did Strauss-Kahn ask his friends to bring In this screen grab image taken yesterday from a video made available by Islamist group Boko Haram, leader Abubakar Shekau makes a state- mentioning anyone not in the room. prostitutes to the parties? Did he know ment at an undisclosed location. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed in a new video released that the group would defeat a regional But there were hints of what is to come they were paid? force fighting the militants in Nigeria’s far northeast, Niger and Cameroon. — AFP as former prostitute and key prosecution Investigating judges believe so, giving witness “Jade” tearfully told the court how rise to the charge of “aggravated pimping she regretted being introduced to a “public in an organised group” against Strauss- figure.” Kahn and these friends, two businessmen Boko Haram extremists She is one of the two prostitutes who and an ex-police commissioner. will testify that they attended the orgies Prostitution is legal in France but with Strauss-Kahn and that he would be procuring-the legal term for pimping which “naive” to have not realised they were pro- includes encouraging, benefiting from or attack Cameroon, Niger fessionals. organising prostitution-is a crime. Judicial sources say Strauss-Kahn was Court ‘not guardian of morals’ “the king of the party” and that the orgies The trial is the latest in a series of cases were organised around his schedule and Three Cameroonian towns attacked, 30 abducted offering a peek behind the bedroom door that his mere presence gave rise to prosti- of a man once tipped as a potential chal- tution. YAOUNDE: Nigeria’s Islamic extremists Boko Early yesterday, another Cameroonian town, Haram, officials from neighboring countries and lenger to former French president Nicolas “In these circumstances one isn’t always Haram pushed their conflict further into neigh- Kolofata, was attacked by extremists who looted the African Union met in Cameroon’s capital, Sarkozy. clothed, and I challenge you to tell the dif- boring countries with attacks on Cameroon and food and livestock. The town had recently been Yaounde, on Saturday and pledged to create a France was stunned when it saw ference between a prostitute naked and Niger, abducting more than 30 people including retaken by Chadian troops who have been help- force of as many as 8,750 troops with soldiers Strauss-Kahn paraded handcuffed in front any other woman naked,” Strauss-Kahn’s those aboard a packed bus, said residents yes- ing Cameroon fight Boko Haram. from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin. of the world’s cameras after a New York lawyer Henri Leclerc, 84, said in 2011. terday. In Niger, Diffa was attacked overnight, the Chad is to command the force from its capital, hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in The economist finds himself facing 10 Three Cameroonian towns were attacked and third attack since Friday on the town which has N’Djamena. Officials said the force could be May 2011 — a case that was eventually set- years in prison and a fine of up to 1.5 mil- in Niger, the town of Diffa was attacked for the tens of thousands of refugees who have fled deployed as early as next month, though fund- tled in a civil suit. lion euros ($1.7 million). — AFP third time in recent days. Boko Haram’s attacks elsewhere. Calm had ing issues could delay its launch. To battle Boko Haram, nearby countries have returned by Monday morning, but residents are Boko Haram scoffed at the regional effort. pledged to send troops to help Nigeria squash rattled. “You are sending 7,000 of your soldiers. Why the militant group that killed more than 10,000 “Gunfire and heavy explosions were heard don’t you send 7 million? The 7,000 is little and people last year. Nearly a year ago Boko Haram throughout the night until the early hours of the we can kill them step by step ... your soldiers are Ukraine’s Komunar abducted more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls morning,” said Adam Boukar, who runs a radio infidels and God’s soldiers are victorious,” said who remain missing. station in Diffa. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video ‘forgotten’ by world In northern Cameroon, the fighters seized a Diffa first came under assault Friday, as Boko posted on YouTube. bus with 20 people aboard in Koza late Sunday Haram militants also besieged the town of Shekau also told the people of Chad and and then drove it back toward the Nigerian bor- Bosso. Then Saturday night, the fighters Cameroon to renounce democracy to be true KOMUNAR: The inhabitants of Komunar, less but the big aid organisations work in der, some 11 miles (18 kilometers) away, resident renewed their assault on Diffa with fighting that Muslims. He ridiculed the force planned by “you than 50 kilometres (35 miles) from Ukrainian Donetsk, which used to have a population of Bouba Kaina told The Associated Press by tele- lasted until 5 a.m. tyrants of Africa” and tells Chad’s President Idriss separatist stronghold Donetsk, feel forgotten a million, and most won’t go to rural areas or phone. To mobilize a regional response to Boko Deby that he will “burn in hellfire.”— AP by the world as they struggle to meet their those close to the fighting. most basic needs. “The Red Cross came once, the (local oli- This village northeast of the rebel-con- garch Rinat) Akhmetov Foundation as well. trolled city hit the headlines late last year They said they could only help those over 65. when separatists claimed to have found hun- And they don’t even bring that,” says Survivors ask: Will justice be dreds of mutilated bodies in a mass grave Alexandra, 26, who gave birth a month before here. International monitors never confirmed the war started. the massacre, but residents insist that 80 peo- A van goes to Donetsk once a month to done for Concordia shipwreck? ple were killed by Ukrainian troops. “That’s collect aid parcels. what made us famous,” sighs Valentina, a “What are you supposed to do if you’re GROSSETO: Whatever verdict is delivered in the born helmsman botched a last-minute maneuver include the helmsman and the company’s land- woman in her 50s who declined to give her under 65?” she asks. Inhabitants chip in to trial of the Italian sea captain for the shipwreck of ordered by Schettino because he apparently didn’t based crisis coordinator, who, prosecutors said, last name. buy grain, jam, nappies; “What we need to the Costa Concordia cruise liner and for the deaths understand the command, as testimony revealed downplayed the severity of the emergency. Today, Komunar has sunk back into survive,” Alexandra adds. of 32 people, survivors and victims’ families already during the 19-month-long trial. Bulgheroni and Prosecutors have asked the court to convict anonymity. The front has shifted north and The village hall hands out basic warm are wondering if justice will be done. other lawyers for civil plaintiffs have banded Schettino and sentence him to more than 26 years the village hasn’t seen any artillery attacks meals of soup and buckwheat. “Without that, The trial, expected to bring a verdict this week, together in a network called “Justice for the in prison. “Whether it is 26, 20, 10, to us it doesn’t since September. But life here is far from back I couldn’t survive,” says Vladimir Tseganko, has a sole defendant. Francesco Schettino is Concordia.” They contend that Costa Crociere’s matter,” another lawyer for plaintiffs, Massimiliano to normal. “Forty percent of the houses have who spent 31 of his 60 years in the mines. accused of causing the shipwreck on the night of board of directors should be equally responsible. Gabrielli, argued in court. He added: “For this trial been destroyed, 30 percent of inhabitants “Thank God the winter isn’t too harsh,” Jan. 13, 2012, when he steered too close to a tiny “We didn’t have those people in the dock. There to have really served a purpose ...Costa Crociere have gone, there’s around 2,400 left, includ- chimes in the man sitting next to him, Tuscan island, smashing into a granite reef that was only Schettino,” Bulgheroni said. He said peo- must be made to pay.” ing 1,700 elderly and 300 children,” says Alexander Tarasov, 75, leaning on his walking sliced open the hull, sending seawater rushing in. ple didn’t die because the ship hit the rocks, they Costa Crociere’s lawyer at the trial, Marco De Enrique Menendez of aid group “Responsible stick with odd gloves. Schettino is also charged with multiple manslaugh- perished “because they weren’t helped in the Luca, scoffed at the demand for punitive damages. Citizens”. “And we don’t have too many health prob- ter and injury, and of abandoning the luxury liner emergency.” He told reporters outside the courtroom that it’s Komunar encapsulates many of the lems.” Vladimir swallows a spoonful of soup. when many of the 4,200 passengers and crew were “not in the least bit possible ... that Costa Crociere region’s problems, he adds. “The young and “In any case, we left our health at the bottom still aboard and desperately trying to save them- Lenient sentences in some measure could have been able to prevent mobile have left, only the poor and elderly of the mine,” he says bitterly. selves - some by leaping into the sea - as the In 2013, a judge in Tuscany fined the company 1 a disaster of this kind.” remain. Previously, a bus took people directly Concordia was capsizing. million euros (then $1.3 million). Costa had asked With the help of insurance, Costa Crociere paid to Khanzhonkove (on the outskirts of No doctor, no chemist Survivors, shivering as they staggered ashore on for a plea bargain deal to respond to administra- for the complex engineering operation that raised Donetsk), but today you have to take four Some, like Galina Babidorich, can’t travel Giglio Island, were startled to see the captain, tion sanctions, which, under Italian law, are given the wrecked Concordia upright so it could be buses. There used to be coal deliveries, now anywhere. Wrapped in a colourful dressing already safe on land, “without even getting his feet for companies whose employees commit crimes. towed to the mainland for scrapping. The cruise everyone has to find their own solution.” gown, her hands shake constantly because of wet,” noted Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi in clos- Five Costa Crociere employees were allowed to company, a division of Miami-based Carnival Corp., Valentina says there’s no work to be had “neurological problems” and her 35 degrees ing arguments. enter plea bargains in exchange for lenient sen- is a major customer for Fincantieri, an Italian state- either. “Here, there’s nothing but the mines Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) body temper- The cruise company, Costa Crociere SpA, has tences. None of them is serving prison time. They run shipbuilder. — AP and most of them have been destroyed.” ature verges on hypothermia. put the blame squarely on Schettino. Yesyerday, There’s no doctor in the village, the phar- the defense wraps up its final arguments, and Monthly parcels macy has closed and she relies on villagers’ Schettino may speak one last time to the court. He Komunar hopes for humanitarian help, generosity for medicine.—AFP has already denied abandoning ship, saying he was thrown in the water as the ship rolled on its side. Schettino has also said he ruled against early evac- uation because he wanted to steer the Concordia closer to shore. The trial will finish late today morn- ing, with deliberations to follow. The trial, held in a theater for more space, in the Tuscan town of Grosseto, also put the spotlight on errors by other crew, and equipment malfunctions in the chaotic hours surrounding the collision. In closing appeals to the court, lawyers for survivors and for victims’ families insisted that senior executives of Costa Crociere be made to pay hefty damages for so much death and suffering. “Something is missing in this trial of Schettino,” said Cesare Bulgheroni, a lawyer who represents a Greek couple who survived and the estate of a German woman who didn’t. “It is incomplete because, in our view, other responsibilities, beyond his, emerged.” In a phone interview, Bulgheroni highlighted some of what went wrong. An emergency diesel PARIS: French President Francois Hollande (3rd L) looks on as Morocco’s King generator didn’t work; elevators didn’t shut down GROSSETO: Costa Concordia’s captain Francesco Schettino is pictured during a break at is trial Mohamed VI (R) leaves following their meeting at the Elysee palace yesterday in for safety reasons during the disaster; some crew yesterday in Grosseto. An Italian court is expected to announce a verdict this week in the case Paris. Hollande was receiving yesterday Moroccan King Mohamed VI to seal the rec- didn’t speak Italian, the ship’s working language, against Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized in onciliation between Paris and Rabat after a diplomatic row that lasted a year. — AFP and others barely spoke English. The Indonesian- 2012, killing 32 people. — AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Japanese tourist drugged, raped by guide in India 8 arrested for rape, murder of Nepali woman NEW DELHI: A Japanese woman has accused an Indian tourist guide of drugging and then raping her in the historic city of Jaipur, police said yesterday, the latest in a series of sex attacks on foreigners. The 20-year-old said the guide offered to show her around Jaipur, famous for its grand palaces and forts, on Sunday before assault- ing her on the outskirts of the “Pink City” in DHAKA: Supporters of National Transport Workers League, a wing of the ruling the evening. The woman said she was given Awami League party shout slogans in front of the office of opposition Bangladesh food laced with drugs before being attacked Nationalist Party (BNP) during a demonstration against the ongoing nationwide by the man thought to be aged about 25, blockade and strike called by the opposition in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. — AP Dharam Chand Jain, police inspector-general for Jaipur district, told AFP. “The 20-year-old tourist had arrived in Bangladesh military Jaipur yesterday (Sunday) and met the accused man near the hotel who introduced himself as a tour guide,” Jain said. denies takeover “They went to a couple of places on his motorbike during the day,” Jain said. “The accused offered to drop her at the hotel in the plans to end crisis evening but took her to a desolate area... and allegedly raped her.” DHAKA: Bangladesh’s powerful military has backed caretaker government, which ruled the The man fled after the woman’s screams denied speculation it plans to intervene to end country for two years before holding free and were overheard by villagers who rushed to deepening political unrest, warning the media fair polls. help, according to local media reports. “The against reporting on any “imaginary” army role Opposition leader Khaleda Zia called for the tourist alleged that she was offered some in the crisis. current blockade of roads, railways and water- food which might have been laced with NEW DELHI: Indian youth hold candles during a protest against sexual violence in New Delhi, The military said it respected the constitu- ways after police confined the former two-time drugs,” Jain said, adding that blood tests have India, yesterday. Police were searching yesterday for a man who raped a Japanese student tion and laws of Bangladesh which has wit- premier to her office on January 3. sightseeing in northern India, while elsewhere they announced the arrest of eight men sus- nessed at least 19 military-backed coups and Zia denies her Bangladesh Nationalist Party been conducted to determine the type of drugs used. pected of brutally raping and killing a Nepalese woman, as India authorities continue to strug- has been ruled by two military dictators since is behind the violence, but has vowed to contin- gle to address chronic sexual violence. — AP independence in 1971. ue the blockade until Hasina agrees to new The case is the latest in a string of high- “The armed forces is a patriotic organisation polls. profile sex attacks that have highlighted high Last month six men from the eastern city of casualty,” Gour Kanjilal, executive director of that is totally respectful to the country’s consti- Zia leads a 20-party opposition alliance levels of violence against women in the Kolkata were charged with kidnapping and the Indian Association of Tour Operators, told tution and laws,” the military said in a statement which boycotted a general election last year on world’s second most populous country. gang-raping a 22-year-old Japanese tourist. AFP. late Sunday. the grounds it would be rigged. Police arrested eight men yesterday over The woman was allegedly held hostage for “We have been issuing instructions to It said it was forced to speak out against Authorities have deployed thousands of the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Nepali a month after travelling to the Buddhist tourists not to accept help or food from “speculative and imaginary” media reports troops and police to guard vehicles and more woman earlier this month in Rohtak city shrine of Bodh Gaya in Bihar state. strangers,” he said. Jaipur and the rest of about the military stepping in, because they than 10,000 protesters have been arrested, but northwest of Delhi, an attack that sparked In the latest case, the woman has under- Rajasthan state draws thousands of tourists “could create confusion among the people”. the unrest shows no sign of abating. candlelit vigils and other protests. The gone a medical examination and was helping every year to its palaces and forts built by the Bangladesh has been paralysed since early Late on Sunday, suspected anti-government woman’s body was discovered dumped in a police try to identify her attacker, Jain said. former Maharaja rulers, some in dusty-pink January by the opposition-led nationwide protesters firebombed a passenger train travel- field and an official has said an autopsy The Japanese embassy said it was gather- sandstone. transport blockade aimed at toppling Prime ling from the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, but showed stones, blades and sticks had been ing information about the attack and could Sex attacks against women from Western Minister Sheikh Hasina. Spiralling violence has no one was injured. inserted inside her. offer no further comment. countries have received major media cover- left at least 80 people dead, hundreds of others “They threw three petrol bombs targeting “Eight accused have been arrested and one age in India while similar attacks on local injured and cost the impoverished economy the train ... but all of them hit the engines,” Tourism takes a hit women have drawn only a fraction of the nearly $10 billion, according to business leaders. Bangladesh Railway spokesman Zahurul Islam is absconding” and those held have “con- While mainstream media have kept com- told AFP. fessed to the crime”, Yash Pal Singal, Haryana The incident risks dealing another blow to attention. ments on possible military intervention to a More than 1,000 buses, trucks and vans have state director-general of police, told AFP. the country’s tourism industry. In January 2014 a 51-year-old Danish minimum, speculation has been rife on social been firebombed in attacks blamed on opposi- India has faced intense scrutiny over its Britain and France revised their travel advi- tourist was robbed and gang-raped at knife- media and on internet news portals. In 2007, tion activists as part of the blockade. On efforts to curb violence against women fol- sories for India last January, warning visitors point in Delhi. In 2013 a Swiss cyclist holiday- the military stepped in after months of political Sunday, national police chief Shahidul Haq lowing the fatal gang rape of an Indian med- about the risk of sexual attacks, after two cas- ing in the central state of Madhya Pradesh unrest raised fears about the credibility of urged bus operators to stay off the roads after ical student in New Delhi in December 2012, es of foreigners being raped. was robbed and raped by five men, all of upcoming elections. It installed a military- 9pm. — AFP which sparked a global outcry. “After such incidents tourism is the first whom were later jailed for life. -— AFP

Commander linked to Islamic State killed in Afghanistan KANDAHAR: A NATO drone strike in Afghanistan yester- statement. A Taleban source in the area also confirmed day killed a former Taliban commander and Guantanamo the attack to AFP. Locals say Khadim’s men, numbering detainee who was suspected of links to the Islamic State around 300, were often in conflict with Taleban officials group, officials said. in Helmand. The missile attack killed Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim “He had deep differences with the Taleban (leader- along with his son-in-law and three others in their car as ship), which had recently sent a delegation to bury the they drove through Kajaki district in the volatile south- hatchet, but he was killed before this was settled,” a ern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said. Taleban commander told AFP. Local sources in Helmand said Khadim, who returned There have been fears of IS making inroads in to Afghanistan after being released from Guantanamo Afghanistan since US-led NATO forces ended their com- Bay in 2007, recently switched his fighters’ allegiance to bat mission in late December, after 13 years of fighting IS. But a senior Taleban commander told AFP that insurgents. Khadim had “not formally joined IS and IS had not recog- Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned last nised him”. week of the dangers of IS jihadists expanding operations A Pakistani militant commander told AFP Khadim had to Afghanistan, even though there was little evidence of been a key liaison between various factions which have a presence there now. broken away from the Afghan and Pakistani Taleban Meanwhile, at least three Taleban rebels were killed movements in recent months. and few others wounded in a United States led drone in A statement from Resolute Support, the new name southern Helmand province of Afghanistan yesterday, for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, said “coalition said officials. forces conducted a precision strike in Helmand province Deputy Governor of Helmand, Mohammad Jan today on February 9, resulting in the death of eight indi- Rasool Yar told media that the unmanned aircraft fired a viduals threatening the force”. It was not immediately missile at a vehicle in the Azan locality of Kajaki district. clear why there was a discrepancy between the death He confirmed that at least three Taleban insurgents, toll given by NATO and Afghan officials. including a leading commander Abdul Rauf Khadim, Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, the deputy governor of were killed and some others wounded in the attack. The Helmand, told AFP the strike hit the militants’ vehicle at drone strike came at a time when Afghan local forces around 10 am. have taken over the security control of the country fol- The National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intel- lowing the withdrawal of NATO/ISAF forces from ligence agency, confirmed the death of Khadim in a Afghanistan. — Agencies Kashmir protest marking separatist’s hanging SRINAGAR: Anti-India demonstrators clashed with government forces in the disputed region of Kashmir yesterday, leaving one civilian dead and another critically wounded as the separatists protested the secret execution two years ago of a former Kashmiri rebel, police said. One of several protests staged across the Himalayan region turned vio- lent, with government forces firing on the stone-throwing crowd, a police officer said on customary condition of anonymi- ty. One of the protesters died at the scene in Palhalam village, north of the main city of Srinagar, while another was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Hundreds of police and paramilitary soldiers were patrolling the region during a strike called by anti-India separatists to SRINAGAR: Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard during a curfew in mark the anniversary of the execution. Srinagar yesterday. Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir imposed a Srinagar’s streets were nearly deserted as curfew in most parts of the disputed territory to prevent protests on the shops and offices closed. second anniversary of the execution of Kashmiri separatist Mohammad Authorities imposed a curfew in parts Afzal Guru. — AFP of Srinagar and detained at least 100 anti- India activists to prevent violent protests. an armed uprising that started in 1989 in entirety. Separatists have called for anoth- Kashmiris were incensed when the Himalayan region. An estimated er strike on Wednesday to mark the 1984 Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in 68,000 people were killed in the uprising hanging of pro-independence leader secret in a New Delhi jail. Many in and ensuing Indian crackdown. Mohammed Maqbool Butt, who was exe- Kashmir believe Guru was not given a fair Anti-India separatists have long cuted for killing an intelligence officer. trial on charges of involvement in a 2001 demanded either independence or a The separatists have demanded that both attack on Parliament that killed 14 peo- merger with neighboring Pakistan. India Guru’s and Butt’s remains be returned to ple, including five gunmen. and Pakistan each administer a portion of the region for burial. They are both buried Guru had fought earlier with rebels in Kashmir. Both claim the region in its at New Delhi’s main jail. — AP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Scepticism, confusion over Australia submarine tender pledge

SYDNEY: Officials in Australia and Japan attempt to shore up support ahead of a about the subs being built in Australia he Abbott’s pledge was unclear and left but we can’t really be seen to be going yesterday expressed scepticism and con- challenge to his leadership from within could have, should have, announced that room for the submarines to be built over- out and actively pursuing a deal,” the fusion over a pledge by Prime Minister the ruling Liberal Party. He survived the there would be a competitive process cul- seas, potentially in Japan. source told Reuters, echoing comments Tony Abbott to give an Australian state- revolt during a vote earlier yesterday. minating with a build right here in “Nothing short of adhering to the Japanese sources have previously made owned shipbuilder the option to tender Abbott had pledged ahead of his elec- Australia,” he told the Australian promise that was made to South about taking part in an open tender. for a major submarine contract, heighten- tion in 2013 that up to 12 submarines Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Australians prior to the federal election ... Abbott on Monday denied there were ing the uncertainty around the project. would be built at ASC in South Australia Swedish defence firm Saab, France’s will do,” he told the ABC. any “secret deals” for Japan to build the Sources have said Australia is strongly state, before beginning to back-pedal last state-controlled naval contractor DCNS hull or major parts of the submarines, but considering buying a version of the year, signalling that cost and timely deliv- and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Tokyo puzzled that a “competitive evaluation process” 4,000-tonne Soryu-class submarine built ery were paramount. Systems have expressed interest in the A Japanese government source would likely include foreign partners. by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries His government ruled out an open project. For Japan, such a deal would involved in the submarine talks said “We want the best possible sub- and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to replace tender in December, appearing to put mark its re-entry into the global arms Japan “doesn’t know what Abbott meant” marines at the best possible price,” he its ageing Collins-class fleet. Japan in the box seat. Independent South market after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by his weekend promise. If Australia said. “We are talking, not just to the But Abbott on Sunday promised ship- Australian Senator Nick Xenophon ques- ended a ban on weapons exports last issued a formal tender, it was highly Japanese, although we certainly are builder ASC Ltd the option to bid for the tioned the sincerity of Abbott’s weekend year. unlikely Japan would take part because talking to them, we are talking to the next-generation submarines, worth as pledge. South Australian state Defence of political sensitivities. French, we are talking to the much as A$40 billion ($31 billion), in an “If the prime minister was genuine Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith said “If we are asked that’s not a problem, Germans.” — Reuters Australian premier Abbott survives bid to unseat him PM calls party to end ‘disunity and uncertainty’

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday survived a confidence vote on his leadership after just 17 months in power and urged an end to the disunity that has seen the government’s popularity plummet. Abbott has been fighting for his job after poor poll ratings and a series of policy backflips spurred some MPs from his conservative Liberal Party to openly attack him, calling for a leader- ship “spill” last week. The motion aimed to declare vacant the posi- tions of party leader and deputy leader, occu- pied by Abbott and Deputy Prime Minister Julie DILI: Former East Timorese guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao salutes at the media as he Bishop. leaves after a meeting with President Taur Matan Ruak in Dili, East Timor, yesterday. If it had succeeded, the party room, or Liberal The president yesterday accepted the resignation of the country’s independence hero Party members of both houses of parliament, as prime minister ahead of an expected restructuring of the government. —AP could vote for new candidates. But the 101 Liberal parliamentarians-one was absent-reject- ed the proposal by 61 to 39 in a secret ballot. E Timor president accepts One vote was deemed “informal” and discarded for either being incorrectly completed or not resistance hero’s resignation filled in at all. “The Liberal Party has met, we have had a DILI: East Timor’s president accepted the jungle during Indonesian occupation, had ballot, it was properly conducted. The result is CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference after resignation of independence hero Xanana signalled over the past year that he would very clear. No 61. Yes 39,” said chief whip Philip retaining the leadership of the Liberal party at Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. Gusmao as prime minister yesterday, be stepping down but delayed the move Ruddock. “That seems to me to resolve the mat- Abbott yesterday vowed to change after surviving a confidence vote on his leadership, while paving the way for a major government repeatedly as he sought to ensure every- ter.” In a brief televised statement, Abbott called urging an end to the disunity that has seen the government’s popularity plummet. — AFP overhaul and a new chapter in the nation’s thing was in place for a smooth transition. for the party to end “disunity and uncertainty” short history. Analysts say that the cabinet reshuffle is and move forward. Government in paralysis dards and jobs of all Australians-but they’re only Gusmao, who has served as either presi- likely aimed at getting rid of several minis- “The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill The 57-year-old survived despite waking to a interested in their own jobs.” dent or premier since East Timor became ters from Gusmao’s coalition who have motion and now this matter is behind us,” he dire Newspoll in The Australian broadsheet, and Since being elected in September 2013, the independent in 2002 following a long been accused of corruption. said. “We are absolutely determined to work for the vote outcome is unlikely to end speculation government has sealed free trade deals with struggle against Indonesian occupation, The opposition Fretilin party is also like- you, the people who elected us. We want to end about his future. The poll showed the ruling China, South Korea and Japan. It also killed off submitted his resignation last week. ly to be brought into government, a move the disunity and the uncertainty which Liberal-National coalition trails the Labor oppo- controversial carbon and mining taxes and The departure of the former guerrilla aimed at easing the half-island nation’s destroyed two Labor governments and give you sition on a two-party basis 43 percent to 57 per- sharply reduced the number of asylum-seeker fighter deprives Asia’s youngest nation of a often fraught politics. the good government that you deserve.” cent, while 68 percent of the 1,178 people inter- boats arriving in Australia. The government unifying figure who has helped resolve Gusmao led the military wing of the Labor switched leaders twice during its time viewed were dissatisfied with Abbott’s perform- announced savings across the board to rein in a numerous crises, but analysts say it is time Revolutionary Front for an Independent in power from 2007 to 2013, with Abbott highly ance. His popularity lags far behind growing budget deficit, but critics have slammed for Gusmao to step aside to enable a transi- East Timor, which fought against critical at the time. Abbott said on Monday that Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and measures to cut health and education spending tion to a new generation of leaders. Indonesian occupation. Before Indonesia “when you elect a government, when you elect Bishop, both touted as potential leadership con- while tightening welfare as too harsh. At a Cabinet meeting, President Taur invaded in 1975, Portugal had ruled East a prime minister, you deserve to keep that gov- tenders, but who had not formally put their hand Abbott has also been criticised for changing Matan Ruak announced “that he accepted Timor for centuries. ernment and that prime minister until you have up as an alternative prime minister. Opposition positions on several issues and for awarding the request for resignation,” said the gov- After the Timorese voted overwhelm- a chance to change your mind”. Labor leader Bill Shorten said the government Britain’s Prince Philip a knighthood last month. ernment in a statement. It said that the ingly for independence in a UN-backed ref- “So the focus now is once more on jobs, fami- was “in paralysis”. One of the backbenchers who initiated the president will now start the process of erendum in 1999, Gusmao returned to his lies, a stronger economy and a secure nation. We “Tony Abbott promised he would run a stable confidence vote, Luke Simpkins, said ahead of the forming a new government, and “it is homeland a hero from Indonesia, where he do face many challenges,” he said. “I love this and united government. This is his biggest bro- vote that Abbott had created the situation. “No expected that the constitution of the new had been imprisoned, and was elected the country. I will do my best to help our country to ken promise yet,” he said. “The prime minister and one started this apart from, unfortunately, the government will be concluded at the end country’s first president in 2002. succeed.” ministers should be protecting the living stan- prime minister himself,” he told reporters. —AFP of this week”. A successor for Gusmao has He has been prime minister since 2007. not yet been chosen but the frontrunner is He remains hugely popular but has strug- seen as former health minister Rui Araujo. gled to fulfil his pledges of improving liveli- Gusmao may remain in government, but in hoods in the deeply poor country, and a lesser role, observers predict. diversifying the economy away from abun- Gusmao, who spent years living in the dant oil and gas reserves. —AFP

Philippines, Indonesia sign anti-drug trafficking accord MANILA: Indonesia and the Philippines closely on maritime issues. yesterday signed an agreement on combat- “We are both encouraged to further ting drug crime, despite ongoing efforts by improve our approach to maritime bound- Manila to prevent the execution of a ary cooperation, border cooperation and Filipina on Indonesian death row for heroin cooperation in combatting illegal and smuggling. unreported fishing,” he said. Indonesian President Joko Widodo and However the two leaders made no men- Philippine President Benigno Aquino tion of the growing tensions in the region announced after talks that they had over- due to conflicting territorial claims over the seen the signing of a memorandum to South China Sea. China claims almost all of exchange intelligence on drug trafficking, these waters which include vital shipping but made no mention of the woman’s case. lanes and fishing grounds. This conflicts Despite his image as a reformer, with the territorial claims of the Philippines Widodo’s government recently executed six as well as Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and convicted drug smugglers and is preparing Taiwan. to execute 11 more-among them other for- China regards Indonesia as having a eigners. “The Philippines and Indonesia potentially pivotal role in calming rising hold similar positions on a variety of tensions between Manila and Beijing over regional and international issues,” Aquino territorial disputes in the South China Sea, said after talks with his Indonesian counter- according to analysts. part. The two leaders also agreed to boost In August, then-president-elect Widodo cooperation in protecting migrant workers told Japan’s Asahi newspaper that and improving trade and investment. Indonesia, which has better bilateral ties Aquino said the two countries, which both with China than the Philippines, stood have long coastlines, had agreed to work ready to act as an intermediary. —AFP

JAKARTA: Commuters push their motorcycles on a road submerged by floodwaters outside the presidential palace in Jakarta yesterday. Heavy monsoon rains have flooded many sections of the Indonesian capital causing heavy traffic and leaving some commuters stranded. — AFP Shark kills man at Australian beach

SYDNEY: A man was killed yesterday after a not released the man’s name, but Wright said he bitten by what he described as a 2-to-3-meter shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off had been living in the area and worked at a local (7-to-10-foot) shark. Australia’s east coast, not far from the area where surf shop and as a cleaner at a hotel. “I should’ve stayed in bed,” he said of his deci- another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earli- Shelly Beach, the site of the attack, was sion to go surfing. Reitman was later transferred er, officials said. The 41-year-old Japanese closed, along with a larger stretch of coastline as from Byron Bay to Gold Coast University national was sitting on his board waiting for a officials searched for the shark. Ballina is just 20 Hospital, which reported his condition as stable. wave when the shark came up behind him and kilometers (12 miles) south of Seven Mile Beach, Wright, the Ballina mayor, said he suspected grabbed the back of the board and the man’s where 35-year-old surfer Jabez Reitman was both attacks were linked, given their similarity legs in its mouth, said David Wright, mayor of attacked on Sunday. and proximity. But he said locals, though the New South Wales town of Ballina, where the “I just freaked out,” Reitman told reporters as somber, were taking the attack in stride. attack occurred. The man’s friends, who had he was taken from an ambulance at a hospital “It’s just an accident,” Wright said. In MANILA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, chats with Philippine President been surfing alongside him, rushed him to on Sunday. “I thought it was a dolphin at first September, a 50-year-old swimmer was killed by Benigno Aquino III during the former’s courtesy call at Malacanang Palace in Manila, shore, where they tried to stop the bleeding until I started feeling and realized it was pretty a shark at Byron Bay. Sharks are common off Philippines yesterday. Widodo is on his first state visit to the Philippines and is with tourniquets and performed CPR. significant lacerations.” Australia’s beaches, but fatal attacks are rare; the expected to discuss with Aquino various regional issues including territorial conflicts “But because both legs were gone, he bled to Reitman was surfing off Seven Mile Beach, country has averaged fewer than two deadly in the South China Sea. — AP death very quickly,” Wright said. Officials have near the tourist town of Byron Bay, when he was attacks per year in recent decades. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Iraq ground offensive looms as Baghdad bomb kills 14

BAGHDAD: A top US envoy said Iraqi troops would launch a carried out by Sunni extremists in Iraq, including IS. major ground offensive against the Islamic State group in Jordanian air force chief Major General Mansour Al-Jobour the coming weeks, as a suicide bomber killed 14 people in said Sunday the kingdom had launched 56 strikes against Baghdad yesterday. the jihadists since Thursday as part of the US-led air cam- IS spearheaded an offensive that swept through large paign. areas north and west of Baghdad last June, and Iraqi forces Jordan had vowed an “earth-shattering” response after IS are battling to regain ground with support from US-led air captured one of its pilots and released gruesome video of strikes. Jordan announced it has carried out dozens of strikes him apparently being burned alive. “On the first day of the against the jihadists since Thursday, as it seeks to avenge an campaign to avenge our airman Maaz Al-Kassasbeh, 19 tar- airman burned alive by the group. John Allen, the US coordi- gets were destroyed, including training camps and equip- nator for the anti-IS coalition of Western and Arab countries, ment,” Jobour told reporters. Strikes since Thursday had said Sunday Iraqi troops would begin a major offensive “in destroyed dozens of targets. the weeks ahead”. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the air campaign, “When the Iraqi forces begin the ground campaign to launched in Iraq in August and expanded to Syria the follow- take back Iraq, the coalition will provide major firepower ing month, was helping ground forces win back territory associated with that,” he told Jordan’s official Petra news and depriving the jihadists of key funds. There have been agency. Iraqi forces have already carried out operations near 2,000 air strikes on IS so far, Kerry told a security conference Baghdad and in Diyala and Salaheddin provinces north of in Munich. These had helped ground forces retake some 700 the capital. IS-led militants were stopped short of Baghdad square kilometers (270 square miles) of territory from the in June and have since been pushed back, but can still carry jihadists, or “one-fifth of the area they had in their control”, out deadly attacks. he said. Kerry did not specify whether the recaptured territo- Yesterday, a suicide bomber attacked Baghdad’s Shiite- ry was in Iraq or Syria. MARSEILLE: Elite police officers block the access to the Castellane housing project of Marseille, southern majority Kadhimiyah district, killing at least 14 people and France, yesterday. Police say gunmen have fired automatic weapons at the edge of a housing project the wounding at least 43, officials said. The bomber struck near Coalition strikes same day as the prime minister planned to visit the city. — AP pavement vendors in crowded Aden Square in the second But he added the coalition had “deprived the militants of suicide bombing to hit the city in three days. the use of 200 oil and gas facilities... disrupted their com- On Saturday, an attack inside a restaurant in the Baghdad mand structure... squeezed its finance and dispersed its per- Gunshots fired at police in Marseille Jadida area killed at least 23 people. sonnel”. The US-led coalition helping Iraq push back Islamic State Continued from Page 1 offences was three times higher there than in any other Gruesome video group militants is not doing enough to match the scale of French city and there have been regular outbursts of gang There was no immediate claim of responsibility for yes- the threat, a senior Iraqi official said yesterday as he called Ironically, he visited the city yesterday to pay tribute to violence ever since. terday’s attack, but suicide bombings are almost exclusively for increased firepower to defeat the extremists. — Agencies the “excellent” results of measures taken over more than Drugs-related crime is also not new, with the city’s cen- two years to fight crime. In an interview with regional daily tral role in the international heroin trade famously por- La Provence, Valls said crime in the city had tumbled, trayed in the 1971 film “The French Connection”. That trade HSBC SwissLeaks claims spark political row pointing to a 30-percent drop in armed robberies over two was controlled by powerful international syndicates and years and a 20-percent fall in physical violence against the heroin passing through Marseille was largely destined Continued from Page 1 and unwilling to take real action on tax avoidance,” people. Marseille has been a Mediterranean trading hub for other markets. In contrast, the current violence is seen shadow finance spokeswoman Cathy Jamieson said. since antiquity and has long had a reputation as a hotbed as the product of a free-for-all in the supply of marijuana They contrast leader Ed Miliband’s rhetoric with the The government hit back at Labour, saying the party of crime. In the 19th century, the level of registered and related soft drugs to the local market. — AFP business-friendly Labor administration under Tony Blair had failed to act on its watch. “There was a lack of grip from 1997. At the centre of the row is Green, HSBC’s in this area and a lack of progress in dealing with tax chief executive from 2003 before becoming chairman cheats,” David Gauke, the junior finance minister, told Sisi reassures Gulf leaders after alleged... in 2006, who declined to comment on the claims when BBC television. questioned by the BBC yesterday. Asked if Cameron He also denied that there was “any suggestion or any Continued from Page 1 cratic rule that fell to a popular uprising in 2011. He denies this knew of the allegations when he appointed Green, the evidence” that Green was directly involved in the activi- and says Egypt faces a tough, prolonged campaign against premier’s official spokesman said there was “no record ties of HSBC’s Swiss private bank. The claims against In the alleged recordings, the man identified as Sisi tells militancy. The phone calls that Sisi made to the Saudi and of any concerns” being flagged to him. Labor insisted, HSBC arise from files obtained by the International another official: “We need 10 billion to be put in the army’s Bahraini kings, the Abu Dhabi crown prince, and His Highness account... and we want 10 like them from the Emirates, and the Amir of Kuwait suggest the significance the Egyptian however, that Finance Minister George Osborne explain Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — a net- from Kuwait another 10, in addition to a couple of pennies to leader places on his relationship with them, as it is crucial to in detail how Green was appointed. work of investigative reporters-via French newspaper Le be put in the central bank and that will complete the 2014 rebuilding an Egyptian economy laid low by years of political “Once again the Tories have been exposed as unable Monde. — AFP budget.” The man identified as Abbas Kamel, Sisi’s office man- turmoil and Islamist militancy. ager at the time of the recording, is heard laughing and then His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah saying “and then he will faint,” without identifying who he expressed to the Egyptian President his appreciation for “this Bahrain closes Saudi prince’s TV channel means. “Man, they have money like rice,” said the man who brotherly communication which reflects the historic relations was identified as Sisi. between the two countries,” according to state news agency Continued from Page 1 “technical and administrative reasons, and we’ll be back In a separate conversation, a man who was identified as KUNA. soon, God willing”. Mahmoud Higazy, who is now the army chief of staff, said: “The president affirmed .... the special relationship that the Bahrain, an island nation that hosts the US Navy’s 5th But at about 1204 GMT the promotional material “Their leaders have budgets that are bigger than (our) coun- UAE has with the Egyptian people,” the state news agency Fleet, has faced four years of instability following anti-gov- stopped and the screen displayed only Alarab’s green and try’s budget ... and every prince has hundreds of billions.” MENA reported, adding that Sisi also emphasized the “the ernment protests in February 2011 driven by its Shiite white logo. Alarab was the latest player in the Arabic-lan- Asked by the private Egyptian television channel Al Hayat strength of relations between the two countries”. majority. Alarab is headquartered in the landmark World guage television market, after Qatar-subsidized Al-Jazeera about the leaks, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb denounced Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al- Trade Center in the capital, Manama. The network is became the first regional news broadcaster 19 years ago. It the several pro-Islamist channels that aired the recordings Nahayan seemed to allude to the recordings, saying, accord- bankrolled by Saudi royal family member Prince Alwaleed also aimed to be a rival for Dubai-based Al-Arabiya, estab- and said: “No one in Egypt believes this talk ... These are lies.” ing to the WAM state news agency, “that any malevolent bin Talal, whose Kingdom Holding Co investment firm has lished in 2003 and owned by Sheikh Waleed Al-Ibrahim, a attempt will not affect the strong and growing fraternal rela- stakes in many companies including Citigroup Inc, Apple brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia’s late King Fahd. Strong relationships tions”. Saudi King Salman was reported by the state news Inc, News Corp and Twitter. Critics have accused the established broadcasters of Egypt has banned Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and the agency SPA as telling a cabinet session about his phone call Bahrain is a close ally of neighboring Sunni-dominated reflecting their owners’ political views, especially during the security services have killed or jailed thousands of Islamists with Sisi in which he affirmed that “Saudi’s position towards Saudi Arabia, where a minority community of Shiites in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings against authoritarian regimes in and other foes in a crackdown on public dissent and militant Egypt and its stability and security is firm and will not change, country’s east, across from the island nation of Bahrain, the Middle East and North Africa. Both long-running chan- violence. and their special and established relationship is bigger than have complained of marginalization. The head of media at nels deny any slant in their coverage. Alwaleed also Critics accuse Sisi of aiming to restore army-backed auto- any attempt to muddy it”. — Reuters Bahrain’s information ministry, Yusuf Mohammed, said last belongs to the Saudi royal family and is a nephew of King week that “cooperation with Alarab’s administration is Abdullah, who died on January 23. ongoing, in order to resume its broadcasts and complete In a highly conservative Islamic kingdom, Alwaleed, who Unrest fears in Egypt after stadium deaths necessary measures as soon as possible”. holds no government rank, is unusual for his high profile Jamal Khashoggi, Alarab’s general manager, could not and periodic comments about economic issues. Another of Continued from Page 1 tors allowed into the stadium on Sunday. be immediately reached for comment yesterday. He is a his projects is Kingdom Tower, which is under construction Thousands of fans without tickets scaled the stadium veteran Saudi journalist who was forced to step down in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, and will rise more than one “The tear gas caused suffocation and led to the stam- walls before police dispersed them, officials said. from the helm of Saudi Arabia’s Al-Watan daily in 2010 kilometer (almost 3,300 feet) to be the world’s tallest build- pede.” Fans were further outraged as the match continued Experts predicted tense days ahead. “Tension could rise after it ran an opinion column that angered religious con- ing. Alwaleed first announced plans for the news channel despite the unrest. The clashes prompted the government further if the government decides... to re-impose a ban on servatives. Prior to the launch of Alarab, he told AFP the in 2011. Before the launch of Alarab, Khashoggi had said to suspend the Egyptian Premier League indefinitely. spectators attending soccer matches,” said James Dorsey, channel was “not going to take sides”. Khashoggi said “a the network could not be based in Saudi Arabia because What happened on Sunday was a “disaster for Egyptian an expert on Middle East soccer at the Singapore-based S news channel should not have a political agenda... We the kingdom does not allow “independent” channels. He sport”, said Khaled Al-Mortagy, a former board member of Rajaratnam School of International Studies. the Al-Ahly club. “Matches are being played behind closed The incident also dashed hopes that Sisi’s government should just be a news channel that provides accurate, said it took time to iron out the legal arrangement with doors. This is leading fans to be against the police. It’s “may adopt a less brutal approach to its civil society oppo- objective information.” Bahrain because “our channel in Bahrain is the first inde- becoming a culture. If you can’t secure a match, how can nents,” he said. More than 1,400 people have died in a gov- pendent channel” on the island which is connected by a you secure the country?” The 2012 Port Said riots erupted ernment crackdown targeting supporters of president ‘Back soon’ causeway to Saudi Arabia. after a match between the Al-Ahly and Al-Masry clubs. Mohamed Morsi since he was ousted by then army chief Although its news programs stopped within hours of Khashoggi declined to reveal Alarab’s budget but said Sunday’s match had been open to the public, unlike Sisi in July 2013. the launch, Alarab continued to show promotional materi- the channel would have about 280 staff, including corre- most other games between Egyptian clubs since the Port Sunday’s deaths could inflame football fans, who have al. Until just after 1200 GMT yesterday, it was broadcasting spondents in 30 countries. Riyadh would be the largest Said riots, the country’s worst-ever sport disaster. The inte- repeatedly clashed with police in recent years and can a message that programming had been interrupted for bureau with around 20 employees. — Agencies rior ministry had restricted to 10,000 the number of specta- bring thousands to the streets. — AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 ANALYSIS

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emocrats are already trying to stop prospective White House contender Jeb Bush from defining Dhimself as a reformer who aims to close the gap between the rich and poor, drawing unflattering com- parisons between the former Florida governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Although many months remain until the first votes are cast in the 2016 presidential race, potential candidates have long since been jockeying for position and gearing up for the drawn-out, state-by-state primary nomination process. On the Republican side, there is no overwhelming favorite for the nomination. But Romney’s recent deci- Obama’s Ukraine policy at crossroads sion to not run in 2016 could be a boost for Bush and New Jersey Gov Chris Christie, who were competing for the support of the Republican Party’s establishment- By Warren Strobel, Matt Spetalnick will refuse to be swayed by calls for swift Obama’s “cautious instincts have served cons of supplying Ukraine with lethal arms, minded voters and donors. The eventual Republican and Lesley Wroughton action and rely on a small inner circle of him and our country reasonably well in the such as anti-tank weapons, small arms and nominee will likely face Hillary Rodham Clinton, the clear advisors in reaching his decisions. In sum- Middle East ... but he’s applied that same ammunition. Some of Obama’s top advisors, leading contender for the Democratic nomination, ussian-backed rebels’ violent offen- mer 2012, for example, Secretary of State approach to Ukraine, where it doesn’t make including Ashton Carter, his choice for new should she decide to enter the race. sive in eastern Ukraine leaves Hillary Clinton, Central Intelligence Agency sense.” defense secretary, increasingly favor such Romney’s exit comes after several of his former major President Barack Obama with per- chief David Petraeus and Defense Secretary The difference is, Herbst said, that while an approach. But Obama’s national security donors and a veteran staffer defected to support Bush, R plexing and urgent choices, but aides say Leon Panetta all backed a plan for arming Washington has struggled to identify reli- adviser, Susan Rice, signaled caution. the brother and son of former presidents. Democrats are he will exercise his typical caution in decid- Syria’s rebels. Obama rejected it. able allies in post-revolution Libya or in trying to paint Bush as this campaign’s Romney, who ing his next move. ‘Russian aggression’ struggled in 2012 against criticism related to his work in Should Obama provide lethal weaponry “It’s something that’s under considera- private equity and his portrayal by President Barack Obama’s allies as a cold-hearted plutocrat. to the Western-backed Kiev government to tion,” she said on Friday about arming the Romney opposed the government’s 2008 rescue of staunch Europe’s worst conflict in two Ukraine government. Rice added, though, US automakers as did Bush. Both worked in finance and decades? Many US lawmakers and some of that such a step would only be taken “in backed the Wall Street bailout. Both are advocates of tax Obama’s own advisors are calling for that close consultation and in coordination with cuts that Democrats contend only benefit the wealthy step, but it risks igniting a proxy war with our partners, whose unity on this issue with and big business. Russia and driving a wedge between us thus far has been a core element of our “We don’t need to try to show that Jeb is like Washington and western Europe. Should strength in responding to Russia’s aggres- Romney. He pretty much is Romney,” said Eddie Vale, he impose tougher sanctions on Russia? sion.” vice president of American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal While sanctions have hurt the Russian When she meets Obama, Merkel, who group set up to conduct opposition research on economy, they have failed to deter has led the European Union response to Republicans. “When it comes to any ideas or policies, President Vladimir Putin and it is unclear if the Ukraine crisis, is expected to voice he’s the same as Romney.” they will do so in the future. European worries that arming Ukraine’s Or should he throw his full weight military will only escalate the bloodshed. Policy speech behind a revised German-French peace ini- “I understand the debate but I believe This past week in his first major policy speech as a tiative, even though US officials accuse that more weapons will not lead to the potential presidential candidate, Bush emphasized to Putin of shredding a prior cease-fire agree- progress Ukraine needs. I really doubt that,” the Detroit Economic Club an upbeat economic mes- ment signed in September? Merkel told the Munich conference on sage and touched on overhauling the nation’s immigra- US officials, speaking on condition of Saturday. tion system and trying to improve the lives of children anonymity, say the president will weigh his Opponents of arming Kiev say Putin will underserved by public schools. options carefully and will not be rushed be able to more than match any escalation; Democrats countered by circulating the transcript of into a decision. Obama’s administration has advocates say the Russian leader risks a 2012 interview in which Bush cited his opposition to faced criticism that it struggles to act deci- increased casualties and discontent at the auto bailout. In the interview, Bush said the auto res- sively and project USvision at the height of home if he does so. Merkel will bring with cue was “driven by politics” and he noted the Obama foreign crises. her a new peace initiative that US officials administration’s role in shuttering car dealerships and “The timetable is fluid. This is too impor- say includes a roadmap for implementing providing the United Auto Workers union with an equity tant to make a snap decision,” one official the previous cease-fire deal, agreed in stake in Chrysler. said. Obama meets on Monday at the Obama’s team successfully used that bailout as a Minsk, Belarus, in September. While not all wedge against Romney in the industry-heavy states of White House with German Chancellor the details of the new initiative are publicly Michigan and Ohio, repeatedly referring to a 2008 Angela Merkel, who discussed the peace known, the officials said it would widen a Romney op-ed with the headline, “Let Detroit Go initiative with Putin on Friday and has proposed buffer zone between the Bankrupt.” Although Romney did not write the headline made clear she opposes providing lethal Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian and advocated a managed bankruptcy for the industry, arms to the Ukraine government. forces. it created the impression that he was willing to forgo Merkel, Putin and the leaders of France Putin, US officials said, has made further thousands of US auto jobs. and Ukraine are due to meet on demands, including moving the cease-fire Wednesday for further peace talks. With WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela lines to reflect the rebels’ recent gains. Bush’s early approach to his potential campaign sig- Merkel leaving their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White nals a desire to avoid such pitfalls, as well as Romney’s diplomacy in play, Obama seems unlikely Ukraine, the Europeans and Washington House in Washington in this file photo. —AP most notable gaffe - his behind-closed-door dismissal to decide whether to authorize weapons reject that and other Russian terms. of the “47 percent” of Americans who, he said, don’t pay for Ukraine right away. The US and German “The truth is I don’t think we know yet ... income taxes. During a question-and-answer session leaders may find some common ground, No red line Syria, it has an “acceptable partner” in the how successful this effort will be,” a senior after the Detroit speech, Bush said losing his first bid for however, on imposing further sanctions on Obama set a ‘red line’ against the Syrian pro-Western Kiev government. State Department official said of the Florida governor in 1994 taught him that winning cam- Russia, which have been Obama’s main tool government’s use of chemical weapons, Herbst, now at the Atlantic Council think renewed diplomacy. “There is a sense that paigns requires building an emotional attachment with in the nearly year-old crisis. and drew fire for not following through tank, contributed to a report this month by there’s still some big issues left to be voters. When he won the job four years later, he said, he Yet tough rhetoric from some Obama with an implied military response after evi- former top US officials which recommend- resolved.” campaigned in places - from black churches to public advisors has raised expectations of a dence of their use emerged. ed providing weapons to the Kiev govern- Stephen Pifer, a former US ambassador schools in poor communities - where few expected a stronger US response. “The Ukrainian peo- Obama has avoided laying down such ment and $1 billion annually over the next to Ukraine now at the Brookings Republican to go for votes. ple have a right to defend themselves,” ‘red lines’ in Ukraine, but the pressure is three years to upgrade its defense capabili- Institution, said Obama also could choose That, Bush said, allowed him to “to connect on a Vice-President Joe Biden told a security clearly building up for more decisive ties. “a middle option” and significantly boost human level with people, and offer ideas that are conference in Munich on Saturday. action. John Herbst, the US ambassador to US officials say Obama has recommen- military assistance for Kiev, but stop short important to people, so that when they think of me If history is a guide, however, Obama Ukraine from 2003 to 2006, said that dations on his desk outlining the pros and of supplying lethal weapons. —Reuters they think I’m on their side and that I care about them.” Democrats say that’s a hollow argument and they point to Bush’s record as governor, which included the even- tual elimination of the state’s tax on financial assets. Australia trapped in crisis management Democrats argue that primarily helped the wealthy. They also are eager to note how Bush, after leaving office, served on an advisory board for Lehman By Madeleine Coorey than other countries in cycling through the “If you’re a backbencher who is relatively Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition attracting Brothers, a financial firm that collapsed in 2008 during leaders,” said Wayne Errington, a lecturer in young and you think you’ve got an entire only 43 percent of the vote compared to the recession. They compare Bush’s work in private ustralia’s frenetic leadership chal- politics at the University of Adelaide, who cit- career in politics ahead of you and suddenly Labor’s 57 percent, a Newspoll showed yes- equity to Romney’s role at Bain Capital, which was lenges, fuelled by poor opinion polls ed the rise of the professional politician as you are looking down the barrel of a govern- terday. “Everyone in politics is ambitious and criticized during the 2012 campaign for its leveraged Aand internal party unease, could leave one factor. ment which is 10 points behind in the polls... will stab you in the back at the drop of a hat, buyouts of companies that in some cases led to job it trapped in a cycle of political crisis man- “We’ve gone from never replacing a you will just take that very pragmatic deci- so unless you can get that relationship with losses. —AP agement, analysts say. leader in a first term in the two-party system sion and chop them off,” he said. the public, reflected in the polls, it doesn’t Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in the job for for about 100 years to suddenly doing that “Once you start doing this it creates a look like you are ever going to be safe any- less than 18 months, survived a backbencher twice in a row, so there’s certainly a change.” cycle that you can’t stop....and once you have more,” Errington said. revolt against him yesterday. Had he lost, the University of Western Sydney political his- this uncertainty and the parties get in the Burchell said the recurring instability in country would have had its fifth prime minis- torian David Burchell said fear had robbed habit of making these changes relatively eas- Australia could be the country playing catch- All articles appearing on these ter in as many years. the government and the opposition of the ily, it can all happen very quickly.” up with Europe, where politics has also pages are the personal opinion of Politics has been roiled in recent years by ability adequately to explain often difficult become more volatile. “Australians have leadership changes initiated not only reforms to voters. Stab in the back always prided ourselves on being steady as the writers. Kuwait Times takes no through the ballot box but from within the With national elections held every three Such was the case with Gillard’s removal she goes and having a quiet, orderly parlia- responsibility for views expressed ruling political party amid bitter infighting. years and politicians facing constant media of Rudd in 2010 — seemingly overnight a mentary system. And it doesn’t look like that therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Labor leader Kevin Rudd was elected prime scrutiny, both parties were struggling to get new prime minister was in charge, leaving right now. It’s completely chaotic,” he said. ers to voice their opinions. Please minister in a landslide in 2007 only for his their message across, he said. the public stunned that the man they over- “We’re just catching up with the incredi- deputy Julia Gillard to snatch power in a par- “They have become paralyzed by the fear whelmingly voted for had been ousted. In ble political instability and sense of loss of send submissions via email to: opin- ty room coup in 2010. of fickle electorates, and trapped in a cycle of Abbott’s case, he has alienated members of national economic control that is now [email protected] or via snail After narrowly winning the 2010 election, endless political crisis-management,” Burchell his backbench by delivering a budget last bedevilling western electorates everywhere.” mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Gillard herself was then ousted by Rudd in said. Errington said there was no single factor year widely seen as unfair and making policy Political expert at Melbourne’s Monash 2013 in another party room vote. But he behind the increasingly common leadership backflips and so-called “captain’s calls”- University, Nick Economou, agreed that The editor reserves the right to edit failed to turn around Labor’s poor polling fig- challenges, but more and more back- including creating Britain’s Prince Philip a Australian voters were “a conservative lot”. any submission as necessary. ures and lost the election that year to Abbott. benchers were entering parliament viewing knight. But he warned against underestimating “Australia seems to be going a lot further politics as a long-term career. His polling has also been dire with Abbott. “He’s a great survivor,” he said. —AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 SPORTS

Ricciardo hits Top Gear Bid to curb fan violence ‘The Party of Discord.’ LONDON: Australian Daniel Ricciardo has already stripped Formula One SAO PAULO: A Brazilian football club has employed fans’ mothers MADRID: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo drew criticism in the changing room world champion Lewis Hamilton of one lap record before the season has to act as stewards in the hope it will discourage supporters from by partying for his 30th birthday hours after a 4-0 defeat by rivals Atletico, media even started. The Red Bull driver demolished Hamilton’s two-year-old fighting. Sport Club do Recife trained around 30 mothers for reported yesterday. fastest lap as the ‘star in a reasonably-priced car’ in an episode of the popu- Sunday’s derby against Nautico and put them to work patrolling the Leading sports daily Marca called the Portuguese striker’s birthday bash after lar Top Gear television show broadcast on Sunday. pitch perimeter dressed in high visibility vests bearing the words Real’s Madrid derby defeat in the league on Saturday “The Party of Discord.” The 25-year-old, driving a Suzuki Liana, lapped seven tenths of a second “Seguranca Mae,” or “Security Moms” in Portuguese. “Pictures of the celebration did not go down well with Real Madrid’s captains” faster than his Mercedes rival with a time of one minute 42.2 seconds. Their presence was highlighted on big screens before and during Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos, Marca wrote yesterday. “Tonight it’s all beer and skittles for the Honey Badger. He can kick back the game in a bid to make fans aware of their presence. The club Ronaldo hosted teammates including second-choice goalkeeper Keylor Navas, with a pizza and a deep sense of achievement,” declared his team in a said the mothers got the same training as all security officials and defender Pepe, Fabio Coentrao, Luka Modric, Sami Khedira and James Rodriguez, tongue-in-cheek appreciation of his achievement on their website. volunteers working at the game, one of the biggest derbies in who recently had foot surgery, newspapers reported. “Life will never be the same again for our young Recife. “The idea was to make the most fanatical supporters aware Participants including Colombian singer Kevin Roldan, who was invited to entertain guests at the party, posted photographs on social networks of Ronaldo Australian. The team now needs to get him focused and and help in some way to bring peace to stadiums,” Aricio Fortes, and various grinning teammates. back to the day job of driving the world’s vice-president of Ogilvy, the PR company that dreamt up the idea, “The online social networks were on fire with fierce criticism from fans,” fastest, most powerful single-seaters. It’s going told Sport’s website. “At the end of the day, no one wants to fight in front of a mother, especially his own.” reported Madrid sports newspaper AS. Disgruntled Twitter users even to be a long haul but Daniel’s a dedicated competi- generated a special hashtag, #lafiestadeladeshonra, or “party of dis- tor.” Ricciardo, who won three races last season and Sport won the match 1-0 and the club said there were no arrests. grace”. “It was a trending topic all day from 12:00 pm,” AS said. Cristiano’s was the only non-Mercedes driver to stand on top of Recife is one of Brazil’s footballing hotbeds and fan violence there agent Jorge Mendes told Cadena SER radio station on Sunday he the podium, had said last month that it would be nice has been endemic in recent years. himself was “very annoyed” by the photographs. to take at least one title off Hamilton. The harder task This is not the first time Sport and Ogilvy have collaborated. In “When there is an event that is totally private and then you will be taking the Briton’s other title in the season that 2013, Ogilvy ran an award-winning campaign to encourage Sport see someone is leaking pictures of it, clearly you get starts in Australia on March 15. — Reuters fans to sign up for organ-donor cards. — Reuters annoyed,” Mendes said. —AFP Australia’s Day wins Torrey Pines playoff

LA JOLLA: Australian Jason Day won the of the lead but went long with his second Farmers Insurance Open in a four-man sud- shot into thick rough, then watched his chip den-death playoff, outlasting Americans J.B. run off the green and just a foot from a Holmes, Harris English and defending water hazard. He managed to get up and champion Scott Stallings at Torrey Pines on down for par to join Stallings with the club- Sunday. house lead and then stood by as Holmes After English and Stallings bowed out and English joined them. when they could not make birdie at the English had a chance to win from a opening playoff hole, Day claimed his third greenside bunker and Holmes had a 19-foot U.S. PGA Tour victory with a tap-in par putt birdie opportunity but both were unable to at the second extra hole, the par three 16th, convert. Day had made the turn just one off when Holmes made bogey. the lead but a three-putt bogey on the 10th The 27-year-old, who had made a critical hole left him falling backwards. 50-foot birdie at the 16th in regulation, will Back-to-back birdies at 15 and 16 cata- now move to world number four. He is the pulted him into contention. Holmes sat first Australian to win at Torrey Pines and 10-under through 13 holes but a bogey on just the third international player to win the 14 pulled him back into the logjam. tournament. English looked out of sorts on the front “It sounds good to be the champion,” side, collecting two bogeys, but a chip-in Day said. “It is an amazing feeling. I just kept birdie on the 10th turned his tournament visualising myself holding the trophy. I’m around. Two more birdies in his next three really proud of myself.” holes followed but bogeys at 14 and 15 Day, who tied for ninth in 2013 and was meant he needed to birdie 18 to reach the equal second in 2014 at Torrey Pines, shot a playoff. Stallings bogeyed his opening two-under-par 70 to finish nine-under for hole and seemingly was a non-entity but the tournament. birdied the sixth and ninth holes to Holmes and English were even-par 72 for remain on the periphery. A great eagle on the final round with Stallings shooting a 69. the 13th catapulted the American into Day came to the par five 18th with a share contention. — Reuters Bank’s downhill pain, Hirscher’s gain

BEAVER CREEK: A crash in a downhill is Defending combined champion Ted never a good thing but Ondrej Bank’s Ligety of the United States, who had the pain was a stroke of good fortune for 29th best time in the downhill before fin- Austria’s Marcel Hirscher who won the ishing third, also acknowledged that a gold medal in the super combined at the medal would have been impossible with- alpine ski world championships on out his second start number behind BOSTON: Carey Price No. 31 of the Montreal Canadiens dives to try and save a goal scored by David Pastrnak No. 88 of the Boston Bruins during Sunday. Hirscher in the slalom. the third period at TD Garden. — AFP Bank’s spectacular crash in the morn- “If I was half-a-second faster in the ing downhill and his eventual disqualifi- downhill, I wouldn’t have been able to Islanders hang on for victory cation for missing a gate gave Hirscher get a medal at all,” said Ligety. “It was a the number one bib and a perfect piste brilliant strategy to be that slow. for the afternoon slalom. “If Bank hadn’t straddled and went Instead of leaving the Austrian out- out, that would have made a really big BUFFALO: Mikhail Grabovski’s snap shot from second-period goals for Dallas. Spezza shots to help the Predators win for the fourth side the top 30 and forced to deal with a difference. It was unfortunate for him but the slot midway through the second period opened the scoring on a 5-on-3 power-play time in five games. rutted and mushy course, Hirscher took my slalom run was really good. stood up as the winner for the New York for the Stars at 2:53 of the second period with full advantage and turned in the day’s “It costs you three seconds between Islanders, who hung on for a 3-2 victory over his 10th goal of the season. Tyler Seguin and LIGHTNING 5, DUCKS 3 best run to clinch a surprise gold medal starting 30th or first. The course got real- the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday night. Rookie John Klingberg assisted. Carl Hagelin scored Brian Boyle scored the first of his two goals ahead of Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud. ly rutty, the snow was soft and it was Anders Lee and Colin McDonald also scored for New York at 15:27 of the second. during Tampa Bay’s three-goal first period as “Today I wouldn’t have won with bib hot.” With the win and the pressure off, for the Islanders, who nearly squandered a 3-0 the Lightning beat Anaheim. Valtteri Filppula, number 31, no,” admitted world slalom three-time World Cup overall champion lead. Travis Hamonic had two assists in help- FLYERS 3 CAPITALS 1 Nikita Kucherov and Ryan Callahan also champion Hirscher, who had the 30th Hirscher will now set his sights on adding ing New York (34-18-1) earn its second win in Wayne Simmonds scored the go-ahead scored for the Atlantic Division-leading best downhill time and would have start- to his world championship haul, which six games and vault into first place in the goal early in the third period as the Flyers Lightning, who had a franchise-record 10- ed 31st without Bank’s disqualification. could reach four gold medals. Metropolitan Division. beat the Capitals despite losing starting game home winning streak end Saturday. “But you always need luck to be in the The Austrian will be favoured to retain Marcus Foligno had a goal and assist in his goalie Steve Mason to an injury. Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf, who returned first position.” Even with the number one his slalom world title and he will battle first game after missing 19 with a hand injury. Jakub Voracek added an empty-netter for after missing two games due to a lower-body start position, Hirscher needed to pro- Ligety in the giant slalom. Hirscher will Drew Stafford also scored for Buffalo (16-35-3) his 18th of the season, and Mark Streit also injury, scored his 200th NHL goal and added duce something special in the slalom to also compete in the team event. “It is in a game the Sabres managed just eight scored for the Flyers, who have won five of an assist. Anaheim fell a point behind erase Jansrud’s 3.16 second advantage unbelievable. In Austria, skiing is really shots through two periods, and were outshot six. Mason, who stopped all eight shots he Nashville, a 3-2 shootout winner over Florida, after the downhill. big and sometimes there is a lot of pres- 31-10 overall. faced, left the ice at 11:18 of the second peri- for the NHL’s best record. Anaheim goalie Having thrown down the gauntlet, sure on my shoulders,” said Hirscher. od and had to be helped to the locker room. Frederik Andersen left midway through the Hirscher waited in the finish area for “Nearly everyone is expecting that I am CANADIENS 3, BRUINS 1 The team later announced he had a lower- third period when the net was dislodged almost an hour as skier after skier failed going to win, for sure, one medal and, in Carey Price made 34 saves to lift the body injury. Alex Ovechkin pulled into a tie from behind and landed on his back. to better his time and he finally celebrat- the best case, a gold medal. I have done Canadiens to a victory and a season sweep for the league lead with his 33rd goal for the ed when Jansrud crossed the line 0.19 that today so I am super happy and I am over the Bruins. Dale Weise and Max Capitals. BLACKHAWKS 4, BLUES 2 seconds behind to take the silver. feeling free.”— Reuters Pacioretty each had a goal and an assist for Marian Hossa’s power-play goal broke a the Canadiens, who completed their first reg- PREDATORS 3, PANTHERS 2 third-period tie and he clinched it with an ular-season sweep of Boston since taking all Filip Forsberg tied it on a power play with empty-netter for the Blackhawks in a victory eight meetings in 2007-08. 4:43 left in regulation and scored the over the Blues. Bryan Bickell had a goal and Price has won seven of eight and allowed shootout winner in the Predators’ victory over assisted on the go-ahead tally for Chicago, 11 goals in that span. He extended his shutout the Panthers. Forsberg poked the puck past which also got a goal from Marcus Kruger. streak against Boston to 159:25 until David Roberto Luongo in the fifth round of the Vladimir Tarasenko and David Backes had a Pastrnak scored with 4:31 remaining. Tuukka shootout. Matt Cullen and Craig Smith also goal apiece for St. Louis, which never led Rask made 31 saves, but dropped to 3-13-3 scored shootout goals for Nashville. and has lost two straight since a franchise- against Montreal for his career. Brad Boyes and Nick Bjugstad connected record 13-game point streak. They’re 20-5-2 for the Panthers. Carter Hutton stopped 34 at home.—AP LIGHTNING 5, DUCKS 3 Brian Boyle scored the first of his two goals during Tampa Bay’s three-goal first period as the Lightning beat Anaheim. Valtteri Filppula, NHL results/standings Nikita Kucherov and Ryan Callahan also scored for the Atlantic Division-leading Chicago 4, St. Louis 2; Nashville 3, Florida 2 (So); Philadelphia 3, Washington 1; NY Islanders 3, Lightning, who had a franchise-record 10- Buffalo 2; Tampa Bay 5, Anaheim 3; Dallas 3, NY Rangers 2 (OT); Winnipeg 5, Colorado 3; Montreal game home winning streak end Saturday. 3, Boston 1. Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf, who returned after missing two games due to a lower-body Western Conference Eastern Conference injury, scored his 200th NHL goal and added Pacific Division Atlantic Division an assist. Anaheim fell a point behind WL OTLGFGAPTS Tampa Bay 34 16 5 179 145 73 Anaheim 34 13 7 162 148 75 Montreal 34 15 3 141 117 71 Nashville, a 3-2 shootout winner over Florida, Detroit 31 12 9 155 130 71 for the NHL’s best record. San Jose 28 19 7 153 149 63 Boston 28 18 7 139 131 63 Anaheim goalie Frederik Andersen left Vancouver 29 19 3 140 131 61 Florida 23 17 11 127 145 57 midway through the third period when the Calgary 29 21 3 152 136 61 Toronto 23 27 4 153 165 50 Los Angeles 22 18 12 140 141 56 Ottawa 20 22 9 139 144 49 net was dislodged from behind and landed on Buffalo 16 35 3 102 189 35 his back. Arizona 19 27 7 122 176 45 Metropolitan Division Edmonton 14 30 9 121 177 37 NY Islanders 34 18 1 167 149 69 STARS 3, RANGERS 2 Central Division Pittsburgh 30 15 8 151 134 68 Nashville 35 12 6 161 127 76 Washington 28 16 10 157 135 66 Ales Hemsky scored 1:02 into overtime as NY Rangers 30 16 5 152 123 65 the Dallas Stars overcame a late tying goal by St. Louis 34 15 4 168 132 72 Philadelphia 23 22 8 145 155 54 Chris Kreider to snap a three-game skid with a Chicago 33 18 2 161 121 68 New Jersey 21 23 9 121 146 51 win over the New York Rangers. Kreider tied it Winnipeg 27 18 10 152 145 64 Columbus 23 25 3 132 157 49 with his 12th of the season, on the power play Minnesota 25 20 6 139 140 56 Carolina 19 26 7 116 139 45 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point BEAVER CREEK: Austria’s Marcel Hirscher races down the course during the downhill at 18:40 of the third. Dallas 24 21 8 167 172 56 portion of the men’s Alpine combined competition at the Alpine skiing world cham- in the standings and are not included in the loss Jason Spezza and Erik Cole each scored Colorado 22 21 11 137 152 55 pionships. —AP column (L). TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 SPORTS Czech blank Canada Thunder roll past Clippers

OKLAHOMA CITY: Kevin Durant scored 29 to advance in Fed Cup points to lead the Thunder to a 131-108 win Sunday over the Los Angeles Clippers, who QUEBEC CITY: Defending champions the were without All-Star Blake Griffin. Czech Republic advanced to the Fed Cup semi-finals on Sunday, defeating hosts The Clippers announced before the game Canada 4-0 without dropping a set. that Griffin will be out indefinitely because of Karolina Pliskova defeated Gabriela a staph infection in his right elbow. Without Dabrowski 6-4, 6-2 to give the visitors an him, the Clippers fell to their most lopsided insurmountable 3-0 lead. loss of the season. The Czechs booked a spot against Russell Westbrook had 19 points, 11 France in April’s semi-finals, while rebounds and five assists, and rookie Mitch Germany, last year’s runners-up, will face McGary had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Russia. The Czechs were without fourth- the Thunder, who shot 52 percent and moved ranked Petra Kvitova and 15th-ranked back above the .500 mark. Jamal Crawford Lucie Safarova while the Canadians were scored 21 points and Chris Paul had 18 points without seventh-ranked Eugenie and 13 assists for the Clippers. Bouchard. “We are a great team without them and we did a great job here this GRIZZLIES 94, HAWKS 88 weekend,” Pliskova said. Pliskova needed Mike Conley had 21 points and six assists, only 72 minutes to capture the clincher, and Marc Gasol finished with 16 points and 10 smacking 28 winners against 27 unforced rebounds as Memphis beat Atlanta. errors. She fired four aces and won five of The game was tied at 86 after Mike Scott’s her eight break-point chances. 3-pointer with 3:24 left before Memphis The second reverse singles, by now a scored the next eight points to put away the dead rubber, went unplayed, while in the concluding doubles, the Czech duo of game. Zach Randolph had 11 points and 15 Denisa Allertova and Lucie Hradecka rebounds, while Kosta Koufos finished with 10 downed Francoise Abanda and Dabrowski points and seven rebounds as Memphis out- 6-1, 7-6 (7/2). In Saturday’s opening match- rebounded the Hawks 55-37. es, 22nd-ranked Pliskova made her Fed One of those rebounds provided the Cup debut with a 6-2, 6-4 triumph over tiebreaking basket, with Tony Allen tipping in Canadian teenager Francoise Abanda QUEBEC CITY: Tereza Smitkova, of the Randolph’s miss to make it 88-86 with 2:28 while Dabrowski, ranked 185th, fell to Czech Republic, returns the ball to remaining. Jeff Teague led the Hawks with 22 Tereza Smitkova 6-1, 6-2. The Czechs Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski, Sunday, points, shooting 9 of 13, while Kent Bazemore Feb. 8, 2015, at the Fed Cup tennis OKLAHOMA CITY: Los Angeles Clippers guard Jamal Crawford (11) drives around Oklahoma improved to 6-0 in all-time Fed Cup ties added 14 points. Dennis Schroder and Scott City Thunder guard Dion Waiters (23) in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game. — AP against Canada, but this was their first tournament. — AP finished with 11 apiece off the Atlanta bench meeting since 2002. The two 21-year-olds had only played and DeMarre Carroll scored 10. Meanwhile, Kristina Mladenovic and together once before, in a Fed Cup clash NBA results/standings Caroline Garcia stunned the world’s top with Kazakhstan two years ago, but CAVALIERS 120, LAKERS 105 doubles pairing to give France a shock Fed inspired their country to a dramatic come- Kevin Love scored a season-high 32 points Oklahoma City 131, LA Clippers 108; Cleveland 120, LA Lakers 105; Memphis 94, Atlanta 88; Cup win over Italy in Genoa on Sunday. back victory. and LeBron James flirted with a triple-double The French pair, ranked 20 and 30 France had started the day 2-0 down in Indiana 103, Charlotte 102; Minnesota 112, Detroit 101; Chicago 98, Orlando 97; Portland 109, as Cleveland quickly got back to winning. Houston 98; Toronto 87, San Antonio 82; Sacramento 85, Phoenix 83. respectively in doubles, defeated reigning the tie having never before recovered from The Cavs had their 12-game winning streak Wimbledon and Australian Open champi- such a deficit. And in front of them were snapped Friday, a run that started when they Eastern Conference Western Conference ons Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-2 Atlantic Division Northwest Division the 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013 Fed Cup beat the Lakers on Jan. 15. This time, Love to book a semi-final spot. W L PCT GB Portland 35 17 .673 - champions who had not lost on home soil made five 3-pointers in the second quarter “Beating the number one doubles pair since 2008. Toronto 35 17 .673 - Oklahoma City 26 25 .510 8.5 and two more in the third as Cleveland in the world 6-1, 6-2, I never thought that Mladenovic defeated Errani 6-4, 6-3 Brooklyn 21 29 .420 13 Denver 19 32 .373 15.5 one day we’d do that in the Fed Cup, not before Garcia beat Camila Giorgi 4-6, 6-0, opened a 26-point lead. James scored 22 with Boston 19 31 .380 15 Utah 18 33 .353 16.5 even in a dream,” said Garcia. 6-2 to set up a deciding rubber in the 10 rebounds and eight assists in three quar- Philadelphia 12 40 .231 23 Minnesota 11 40 .216 23.5 Mladenovic added: “It’s amazing, that’s quarter-final tie. But the coup de grace ters. All-Star guard Kyrie Irving added 28 NY Knicks 10 41 .196 24.5 Pacific Division the magic of the Fed Cup. France had nev- came in the doubles when five-time points and 10 assists. Rookie Jordan Clarkson Central Division Golden State 40 9 .816 - Chicago 32 20 .615 - er clawed back a 2-0 deficit. “We live for Grand Slam winners Errani and Vinci, who scored a career-high 20 for the Lakers, who LA Clippers 33 19 .635 8.5 Cleveland 32 21 .604 0.5 this, to play for your country, soaking the have won all four Grand Slams, were put matched a franchise worst with their 10th Phoenix 29 24 .547 13 shirt (with sweat) and going to your limits.” to the sword. — AFP straight road loss. Los Angeles hasn’t won Milwaukee 28 23 .549 3.5 Detroit 20 32 .385 12 Sacramento 18 32 .360 22.5 away from Staples Center since Dec. 30 at LA Lakers 13 38 .255 28 Denver. The Lakers also lost 10 in a row on the Indiana 20 32 .385 12 Southeast Division Southwest Division road in 1957-58 and 1963-64. New Lotus F1 car a new Atlanta 42 10 .808 - Memphis 38 13 .745 - Washington 32 20 .615 10 Houston 35 16 .686 3 RAPTORS 87, SPURS 82 Charlotte 22 29 .431 19.5 Dallas 35 18 .660 4 ball game for Grosjean James Johnson scored a season-high 20 Miami 21 29 .420 20 San Antonio 32 19 .627 6 points in his return to the starting lineup and Orlando 16 38 .296 27 New Orleans 27 24 .529 11 LONDON: Comparing this year’s Mercedes- right direction. DeMar DeRozan had 18 as Toronto denied powered Lotus Formula One car to the “It felt pretty good to be fair,” he said of Spurs coach Gregg Popovich his 1,000th Derrick Rose’s missed layup with 9.4 seconds onds left lifted Indiana to a come-from- team’s troublesome 2014 one is child’s play his first experience at the wheel of the new career victory. left as Chicago rallied to beat Orlando. Jimmy behind victory over Charlotte. CJ Watson had for Romain Grosjean. E23 car in testing in southern Spain last Amir Johnson added 15 points, Kyle Lowry Butler led the Bulls with 27 points, and Gasol 22 points and David West, Luis Scola and “I was playing with my son and he has week. Lotus completed 190 laps over the 12 and Jonas Valanciunas had a season-high finished with 25 points and 15 rebounds. Rodney Stuckey each had 15 as the Pacers got a rugby ball and a basketball,” the four days in Jerez, compared to a total of 16 rebounds as Toronto improved to 8-2 at French driver told Reuters in a telephone 111 in 2014 pre-season testing. Joakim Noah added 18 points and nine battled back from a 21-point, third-quarter home against Western Conference oppo- rebounds. deficit for their third straight win. Al Jefferson interview yesterday when explaining the nents. The Raptors snapped a seven-game different characteristics. BEST UNIT Chicago led by as many as 16 points, had 30 points and 13 rebounds, and Brian losing streak against the Spurs and won for before finding itself in a six-point hole with Roberts added 19 points in the loss. “I was trying to bounce the rugby ball “We know Mercedes is the best power the first time in five home meetings. and it was going all over the place and the unit on the grid... our start with them has just over 2 minutes to play. The Magic had After Marvin Williams knocked down a 3- Tim Duncan and Marco Belinelli each basketball was going straight.” There were been very smooth. Everything is working as two opportunities to win the game in the pointer with 14 seconds left to put the no prizes for guessing which car was the we would like so at least that is a question scored 12 points, Kawhi Leonard had 11 and closing seconds. But Nik Vucevic’s hook rolled Hornets up by one, Hill drove the right side of basketball. “This year at least when you get mark removed from the equation. “Last Tony Parker 10 as the Spurs shot 31 for 93 off the rim, and Tobias Harris overshot a the line. He got underneath the basket and into the corners the car feels stable, you year at this stage was difficult for us. We (.333), their worst performance of the season. potential game-winning tip-in as time turned around to find himself alone near the don’t have any bad surprises, it’s pre- missed Jerez and then went to Bahrain and San Antonio’s previous low was .344 at expired. Victor Oladipo led six Orlando players low block. He converted the easy layup for the dictable and you can push harder,” said didn’t do a lap so it’s been a big difference.” Houston on Nov. 6 in a 98-81 defeat. in double figures with 18 points. Harris added go-ahead basket. Grosjean. “I had a big smile on my face as Maldonado, a winner with Williams in 15, and Vucevic 14. the car was nice to drive.” Lotus finished 2012, said recently that Lotus-champions in TRAIL BLAZERS 109, ROCKETS 98 TIMBERWOLVES 112, PISTONS 101 fourth overall in 2013, winning in Australia their former guise of Benetton and Renault- LaMarcus Aldridge scored 24 points and KINGS 85, SUNS 83 Nikola Pekovic scored 29 points and Kevin with Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen before he had all the tools to be competitive and win Damian Lillard added 23 to help Portland DeMarcus Cousins made a jumper as time Martin added 24 to lift Minnesota to its third departed to Ferrari, but slumped to eighth again but Grosjean refused to be drawn fight off a late charge from Houston. expired and finished with 28 points and 12 straight victory. Minnesota had not even won with 10 points in 2014 when a new V6 tur- into too much optimism. James Harden tied a season high with 45 rebounds, giving Sacramento a victory over back-to-back games this season until this bo hybrid power unit replaced the old V8s. “I think it’s too early to say,” said the 28- points for the Rockets, who are playing with- Phoenix. Cousins rescued the Kings from a modest streak. The team also had financial problems, year-old, who is still waiting for his break- out star center Dwight Howard, out indefi- fourth straight loss. Sacramento squandered a The Timberwolves led throughout against with some key staff leaving along with through first win in Formula One after five nitely with knee swelling. 14-point lead in the final quarter when it was the Pistons despite the absence of guard sponsors, but are confident they are back third places and a second in 2013. The Trail Blazers led by 17 in the second on the right track after switching from “Realistically, we want to be very often outscored 24-12. Ricky Rubio, who is still recovering from a left half, but a big third quarter helped Houston But Cousins launched a 19-footer from the ankle injury. Andrew Wiggins scored 18 Renault power to Mercedes. in the top 10 and would like to be top five. to a slim lead early in the fourth quarter. Whether that can put Grosjean and Why not be back on the podium? I still key that hit the rim several times before set- points for Minnesota, and Thaddeus Young Portland scored seven straight points to break tling into the basket, setting of a huge cele- added 16. Venezuelan team mate Pastor Maldonado think there are teams which are a bit a tie and take a 92-85 lead midway through back on the podium remains to be seen, stronger than we are... but of course we are bration at midcourt by the struggling Kings. Andre Drummond had 17 points and 14 the period, with five points from Meyers with the Mercedes works team again going to do everything we can. Isaiah Thomas had 14 of his 26 points in rebounds for the Pistons, going 8 of 8 from expected to set the pace after a dominant “We do have stability from 2014 to 2015 Leonard in that stretch. Houston cut the lead the fourth quarter for the Suns, who have the field. Detroit trailed 74-55 in the third 2014 but the Frenchman was hopeful. that we didn’t have the previous year so to four points twice in the last 2 1/2 minutes, dropped four of five games. Goran Dragic quarter before fighting back to make a game Speaking after the announcement of an that’s a very good way to start the season. but Portland answered both times. added 13 points. of it. It was 83-79 early in the fourth, but a 3- extended partnership between Lotus F1 Everyone knows his job and everyone is pointer by Wiggins started an 18-6 run for and Denmark-based sponsor Saxo Bank, doing it properly and that’s going to cer- BULLS 98, MAGIC 97 PACERS 103, HORNETS 102 Minnesota. The Timberwolves have won 10 Grosjean said the team was moving in the tainly help us.” —Reuters Pau Gasol dunked in the rebound of George Hill’s baseline layup with 4.9 sec- straight over the Pistons. — AP

QATAR: Norwegian Katusha rider Alexander The victory for Kristoff, who won two Kristoff won the second stage of the Tour of stages on last year’s Tour de France, gave QATAR : The pack rides during the Qatar yesterday, and also took the gold jer- him a one second lead over Belgian veteran second stage of the 2015 Tour of Kristoff takes sey as race leader, after a 187.5km ride from Tom Boonen (Quick Step), in the overall Qatar, from Al Wakra to Al Khor Al Wakra to Al Khor Corniche. The 27-year- standings, while Van Avermaet is three sec- Corniche (187,5 km). Slovakian old from Oslo won a bunch sprint, after a onds adrift. Today will feature a 10.9km indi- Peter Sagan won the pearl white jer- stage in Qatar high-tempo stage, as he held off Italian vidual time-trial around the Lusail Circuit as sey of best young rider as Norway Andrea Guardini of Astana and BMC rider the race follows a six stage route which fin- Alexander Kristoff won the stage Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium. ishes in Doha on Friday. — AFP and got the gold jersey. — AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 SPORTS Wallabies distractions test for champion Waratahs

MELBOURNE: World Cup ambitions will hang he said in the off-season. “When I’m at Waratahs, machine last season and a backline boasting Israel outside of the Waratahs last season as they man- heavy over all sides in Super Rugby this year but physically here, I’m not doing anything to do with Folau and Kurtley Beale, and steered by flyhalf aged a club record nine wins after years of prop- arguably none more so than champions New South the Wallabies. And when I’m away from here I’m Bernard Foley, has enough firepower to trouble the ping up the table. While the Perth team also have a Wales, whose coach Michael Cheika must steer the able to do things with the Wallabies. “I will have a best sides in the competition. chance to make the playoffs Australia’s two other Waratahs title defence while planning for the physical divide, because if you cross those things The Canberra-based ACT Brumbies, who were sides, the Queensland Reds and Melbourne Rebels, Wallabies. over you’ll only get muddled.” beaten in the semi-finals last year by the Waratahs are likely to struggle. After guiding the Waratahs to their maiden title, Cheika’s coaching was instrumental in turning after a trip to the final in the previous season, will The Reds have picked up an exciting talent in Cheika was hastily appointed Australia coach last the Sydney-based team from a laughing stock into also be confident of nabbing one of the six spots in errant former Wallaby back James O’Connor and October after Ewen McKenzie quit with the national champions within two seasons, and their title the playoffs. The twice champions will have their Karmichael Hunt, a former rugby league interna- team in turmoil. Cheika now finds himself in the defence may rest on his ability to juggle the two fingers crossed that David Pocock, one of the tional who also made a successful conversion to unique position of managing his own Wallaby- roles successfully. Though New Zealand’s Chiefs are world’s best openside flankers before two consecu- Australian Rules football. Hunt may provide a badly- laden team through a gruelling season while keep- the bookies favourites to win the provincial champi- tive knee reconstructions, can stay on his feet after needed spark at fullback but the 2011 champions ing tabs on the other World Cup hopefuls in onship, the Waratahs should be able to win the managing only five games in two seasons. have suffered a huge blow with flyhalf Quade Australia’s four other provincial teams. Australian conference again to book a spot in the Although they missed out on a playoff berth, Cooper expected to miss half the season after “I’ve got to make sure I’m extremely disciplined,” playoffs. Cheika turned the team into a try-scoring Western Force were Australia’s biggest success story breaking his collarbone in training. — Reuters Sharks pack big bite

CAPE TOWN: For the second year running through injury, while fullback Jaco Taute the Sharks will start the Super Rugby sea- sits out six weeks with a knee complaint. son with a new coach and the mantle of They have more worries at lock with South Africa’s most likely championship Eben Etzebeth and Manuel Carizza also car- contenders. rying injuries, and Gerbrandt Grobler serv- Jake White led the side to top of the ing a two-year drug ban. South African conference in 2014 but not The loss of Gio Aplon, Deon Fourie, beyond the semi-finals as they slipped to Peter Grant and Tiaan Libenberg will fur- defeat against Crusaders in Canterbury. ther weaken a squad that looks to be full of White resigned late last year and has promise but lacking experience. been replaced in Durban by former Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has Springbok assistant coach Gary Gold, who already said this will be his sixth and final has looked overseas for additions to the season with the side before departing for squad. In have come two South African- Japan. born former England internationals, prop Pretoria-based Bulls have loose-forward Matt Stevens and lock Mouritz Botha, as Pierre Spies back as their captain after he well as New Zealand-born wing Jack missed last season in its entirety with a torn Wilson, all from English club Saracens. bicep and the most of the year before too. Scrumhalf Conrad Hoffmann and centre They have also recruited experienced Lionel CronjÈ arrive after spending last sea- Springboks hooker Adriaan Strauss from son with Australia’s ACT Brumbies. The side the Cheetahs and have live-wire flyhalf is packed with Springboks and look the Handre Pollard to fill the number 10 jersey. best balanced of the South African con- With a draw that sees them play four of tenders. their first five matches at home at Loftus The Cape Town-based Stormers are Versfeld, early momentum will be key. already sweating over injuries with for- The Cheetahs struggled all last season wards Ruan Botha, Frans Malherbe, Nizaam and there is nothing to suggest much will Carr and Siya Kolisi, as well as utility back change in Bloemfontein, while the Damian de Allende all playing no part in Johannesburg-based Lions will do well to pre-season. Experienced centre Jean de repeat the seven wins they managed in last Villiers will miss the entire campaign year’s competition. — Reuters

AUSTRALIA: Pakistan batsman Sohaib Maqsood (right) plays a shot as Bangladesh wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim looks on during a one-day international warm-up cricket match. — AFP Irfan and Maqsood star in narrow Pakistan win

SYDNEY: Sohaib Maqsood spared Pakistan’s who hit nine fours and two sixes. Bangladesh scored a brisk 31 before Mohammad Irfan (5-52) blushes by hitting an unbeaten 93 to secure the posted a competitive 246 after opting to bat first ripped through the middle and lower order. team’s three-wicket victory over Bangladesh in but were all out with one delivery to go in their Towering Irfan’s five-wicket haul was a rare their first World Cup warm-up match yesterday. innings. positive in Pakistan’s otherwise wayward bowl- Maqsood’s 90-ball knock took Pakistan home They lost two quick wickets but Tamim Iqbal ing effort, underlined by the 17 wides they con- with 11 balls to spare but their top order looked (81) and Mahmudullah (83) added 168 runs to ceded. far from convincing as they chased 247 runs for consolidate the innings. Iqbal’s 109-ball knock Pakistan’s top order did little to convince their victory. will please captain Mashrafe Mortaza the most fans and the 1992 champions were 52 for three Having beaten the former champions in the as the left-handed opener was returning to in the 16th over before Maqsood and Harris 1999 World Cup, Bangladesh rekindled hopes of action after undergoing knee surgery in Sohail (39) steadied the innings with a 51-run another upset by reducing Pakistan to 199 for six December. stand. Umar Akmal fell after contributing 39 but in the 43rd over but were thwarted by Maqsood Down the order, all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan Maqsood guided them home.—Reuters South Africa edge Sri Lanka

CHRISTCHURCH: South Africa beat Sri Lanka by bowlers, taking 3-37 while all-rounder Wayne they lost de Kock and Amla in the first over after five wickets with just three balls to spare in a Parnell bagged two wickets. When the rain play resumed, then three more wickets before thrilling rain-interrupted World Cup warm-up stopped and the South Africans started their the end of the 23rd over. yesterday. reply, they were initially set 230 to win off 30 Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath snatched Sri Lanka smashed 279 for seven in their overs under the Duckworth-Lewis method. three wickets for Sri Lanka, leaving South Africa innings, which was reduced to 44.4 overs after Despite being without their captain AB de requiring 21 off the last 14 balls, but Rilee rain stopped play at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. Villiers, who was rested as a precaution because Rossouw (16 not out) and Vernon Philander (13 Opener Tillakaratne Dilshan laid the founda- of tightness in his hip, the Proteas made a flying not out) safely guided the Proteas to victory. tions for a big Sri Lankan total when he belted start. South Africa will play their final warm-up exactly 100 off just 83 deliveries, which included Quinton de Kock (66) and Hashim Amla (46) against New Zealand in Christchurch on 15 boundaries and two sixes. put on 115 for the opening wicket in 15 overs Wednesday, while Sri Lanka will face Zimbabwe He was well supported by the Sri Lankan cap- before the rain returned, forcing another delay. the same day. tain Angelo Mathews, who made a quickfire 58 South Africa’s target was reduced to 188 off The World Cup starts on Saturday when co- off 49 balls, and Dimuth Karunaratne, who 25 overs, leaving them needing 72 of 10 overs hosts New Zealand meet Sri Lanka in chipped in with 46 off 61 deliveries. with 10 wickets in hand. What seemed like an Christchurch and Australia play England in Kyle Abbott was the pick of the South Africa easy chase suddenly began to look tricky when Melbourne. — Reuters

SYDNEY: England’s batsman Ian Bell plays a shot during their Cricket World Cup warm-up match against the West Indies. — AP England crush West Indies

SYDNEY: Chris Woakes took five for 19 as though, the writing was on the wall and England claimed a comfortable nine- two overs later Woakes claimed his fifth wicket victory in their first official World wicket when Andre Russell holed out for Cup warm-up match after dismissing a seven to end the innings. hapless West Indies for 122 in 29.3 overs Jason Holder thought he had made an yesterday. early breakthrough when he had Ali Openers Moeen Ali (46) and Ian Bell caught at backward point on seven but (35 not out) took England more than the batsman was called back when TV halfway to their target before their open- replays showed the new West Indies cap- ing partnership was broken and James tain had bowled a no-ball. Taylor (25 not out) joined Bell to finish Reprieved, Ali assumed the heavier the job inside 23 overs. West Indies had workload in the opening partnership and won the toss and chosen to bat on a was four runs shy of his half century muggy, overcast day at the Sydney when he was caught at extra cover off Cricket Ground but a calamitous start Kemar Roach after hitting nine fours in saw them lose Chris Gayle and Darren his 43-ball knock. Bell and Taylor put Bravo for ducks inside the first over. together a 50 partnership in 62 balls to All rounder Woakes removed them take England to the brink of victory and both caught behind and things did not the latter delivered the coup de grace get much better for the islanders with with a four behind square. wickets falling at regular intervals England rested James Anderson and through the remainder of their 131- Stuart Broad for their penultimate run- minute innings. out before they begin their quest for a Lendl Simmons provided the only first World Cup title against co-hosts innings of any substance and a reminder Australia at the Melbourne Cricket of the firepower West Indies can usually Ground (MCG) on Saturday. rely upon with a lusty six into the second West Indies, who won the first two tier of the historic members’ stand. World Cups in 1975 and 1979, open their Once he departed caught at cover by campaign against Ireland in Nelson, New CHRISTCHURCH: Jean-Paul Duminy (left) of South Africa is stumped by Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal during the Cricket World James Tredwell at midwicket for 46, Zealand next Monday. — Reuters Cup one-day warm up match. — AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 SPORTS Qatar ‘will not stop’ after World Cup

DOHA: Qatar “will not stop” bidding for major inter- have facilities,” he said. “I mean... we are now being Outside Qatar, it has confirmed its global sport- potentially holding matches outside the UK. national sporting events after the 2022 World Cup approached by the international federations asking ing presence by buying French football side Paris and a potential Olympics, the head of the country’s us to organise their world championships. “Because Saint-Germain, and sponsoring events such as the ‘DAY BY DAY’ most powerful sports organisation told AFP in an now they have seen that Qatar keeps it’s promises, Goodwood horse racing festival in Britain. Despite the number of events it has already interview. Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, once we say we will organise this event at this level, The country’s rulers have put sport at the heart of secured, Qatar is still dogged by accusations over its Secretary General and CEO of the Qatar Olympic we do it.” its “National Vision 2030” for Qatar which aims to human rights record. Just last week, Human Rights Committee, said the ambitious and super-rich Gulf He added that meant Qatar has gained “the trust” ensure a “vibrant and prosperous economy that pro- Watch (HRW) said “stronger action” was needed by state was “open to any potential sport”. of international sporting bodies. The country recent- vides economic and social justice”. the country’s government to improve conditions for This could theoretically mean bidding for a sec- ly hosted the World Handball Championships and Asked if Qatar was open to boosting that pres- thousands of migrant labourers working to construct ond football World Cup, hosting matches from for- this year will host a huge number of events includ- ence by staging league games from foreign football facilities for football’s showpiece event in seven years’ eign football leagues, as well as a large number of ing the World Amateur Boxing Championships and leagues, such as Spain’s La Liga and England’s time. HRW highlighted continuing issues such as other sporting events. the paralympics World Athletics Championships. It Premier League, Sheik Saoud said that was ultimate- workers not being paid and the confiscation of work- Shrugging off corruption allegations and contro- has also been awarded the World Athletics ly up to the country’s sporting bodies. ers’ passports. But Sheikh Saoud said Qatar “already versies over Qatar’s record on human rights, Sheikh Championships in 2019 and this week said it was However, he added Qatar would be interested in has taken a lot of steps on this” and was improving its Saoud said the country is even being directly close to finalising contracts on holding its first ever such events. “In Qatar we are open to any potential record with each sporting event. approached by different international sporting fed- Formula One race. sport even because we see the benefit and added “That’s one of the main objectives behind organis- erations asking it to host “world championships”. Qatar also said earlier this year that it was value for countries and for Qatar we already have ing big events because when you are dealing with “After the World Cup and after the potential “inevitable” it would make another bid to host a the infrastructure for it.” Last December, Qatar host- the highest authority for any kind of sport, you always Olympics we will not stop, we are continuing Summer Olympics, having already unsuccessfully ed the Italian Supercoppa between Juventus and will learn from their experience.” “I think in Qatar we because we already have the infrastructure and we bid for the 2016 and 2020 Games. Napoli. The Premier League has also looked at are advancing day-by-day,” he added. — AFP Liverpool confident they can cope with Kane

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel is only conceded one goal from open play relying on the Reds’ defensive improve- that’s great and I’m happy about ment to help them nullify the attacking that.”Skrtel described Tottenham’s visit to threat of Tottenham Hotspur when the Anfield as a “big game”, with Liverpool two rivals for a top four place meet at facing little margin for error as they con- Anfield today. tinue to recover from a poor start to the Tottenham head to Merseyside on the season which saw them win just four of back of a 2-1 North London derby win their first 12 league games. over Arsenal which lifted them to fifth He added: “Tottenham are a few place in the Premier League table. points in front of us. It’s going to be a big In-form striker Harry Kane scored game.“I believe and hope we can beat twice to take his season’s total to 22 them and get three points. But every sin- goals as Spurs extended their advantage gle game is important for us. “We’ll go over Liverpool, who are seventh, to four game by game, try to get as many points points in the race for a Champions as we can and try to finish in the top League place. four.” Liverpool were held to a goalless draw in their own derby last weekend as they SPURS ON TOP took only a point from a visit to Everton. Liverpool will be without midfielder But Brendan Rodgers’ side, who’ve lost Lucas Leiva after he suffered the recur- just one of their last 14 games, kept a rence of an abductor muscle strain in fourth successive clean sheet in the Saturday’s game at Everton, where 19- league to underline their recent form at year-old winger Jordon Ibe impressed on the back. only his second league start. And central defender Skrtel is looking Ibe hopes to have done enough to for more of the same as Liverpool look to stay in the side to face Tottenham and repeat their victory at Tottenham last help Liverpool finish in the top four after August to enhance their prospects of returning from a loan spell at Champions League qualification. Championship side Derby County. “We have changed the system to a Meanwhile, Kane is enjoying an unfor- back three and it is working for us,” said gettable season and his performance the Slovakian international. “We are against Arsenal prompted more calls for defending much better. It suits us. I hope the forward to be fast-tracked into Roy LONDON: Arsenal’s German midfielder Mesut Ozil (center)reacts with team-mates in this file photo. — AFP we can carry on this way in the future. Hodgson’s England squad. “I’m happy for the team because we The 21-year-old’s form has strength- have improved our defending. There was ened Tottenham’s belief they can force a lot of criticism. Since New Year, we have their way into the top four, although Gunners eager to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris said credit for Spurs’ recent progress should be shared throughout Mauricio Pochettino’s side. Matches on TV “We’ve worked hard since the begin- (Local Timings) ning of the season and we feel that we hunt down Foxes are improving individually and collec- English Premier League tively, which is very important,” said the France international after the victory LONDON: Arsenal will try to recover from their On paper, Tuesday’s match should be a rou- and they took advantage of that,” Welbeck said. north London derby defeat by Tottenham tine victory for Wenger’s side who cruised to a 5- “It was really disappointing and on a personal Hull City v Aston Villa 22:45 over Arsenal. Hotspur when they face bottom-of-the-table 0 victory over Aston Villa on their last home out- level it was difficult for me to get back in the beIN SPORTS 9 HD “We must remember we are only talk- Leicester City at the Emirates today. ing. But events at Leicester have added an ele- swing of things after being out for a few weeks,” Arsenal v Leicester 22:45 ing about one game. There are a lot of The Gunners have become synonymous with ment of uncertainty and Wenger was keen to the former Manchester United forward added. beIN SPORTS 10 HD games until the end of the season so we managerial stability during French boss Arsene see a positive response from his players. “We’ve got a couple of days turnover and beIN SPORTS 12 HD need to be focused and calm. Wenger’s more than 18 years in charge of the then we’ve got another game in the Premier Sunderland v QPR 22:45 “It was a great feeling after the club. Leicester, by contrast, were compelled to FOCUS League, so we’ve got to prepare well for that beIN SPORTS 6 HD (Arsenal) game to share the joy with all issue a statement late Sunday insisting Nigel “It’s not the first time we have lost a game but game.”Results this season have made Pearson’s Liverpool v Tottenham 23:00 our fans and I think we can be proud of Pearson was still their manager. A whirlwind 24 how we bounce back is to take the information position increasingly vulnerable and a touchline beIN SPORTS 1 HD our performance.“Now we have to think hours followed City’s home defeat by Crystal from what we got and respond very quickly spat with James McArthur after the Palace mid- beIN SPORTS 11 HD about the next game at Liverpool, which Palace on Saturday that left them rooted at the against Leicester. We must be ready to respond. fielder had collided with the Leicester manager is coming really quickly.” — AFP foot of the Premier League table, with earlier “Overall, there’s a long way to go this season. I did not help matters. But the Englishman has suggestions that their manager of three-and-a- believe that we must just keep going and recov- remained in charge for the Arsenal game. half years had been sacked proving incorrect. er, show quickly a strong response and then we “It’s very easy to be downbeat and negative Both sides will have a point to prove, with see where we stand after that. about results like the Crystal Palace one but we Arsenal anxious to revive their bid for a top four “We just must focus on us as there are lots of can’t do anything about it now,” Pearson said finish, having fallen to sixth after Saturday’s 2-1 teams battling to get in there (for the top four).” after Saturday’s match-before Sunday’s stream loss to Spurs. Wenger was unsure as to whether Sanchez of speculation about his future. “If people want The Gunners will be strengthened by the would be in the starting line-up or on the substi- to write us off, then fine, we’ll dust ourselves return of Alexis Sanchez to the squad after the tutes’ bench. down and get on with it on Tuesday against Chile forward was forced to sit out the trip to But his return in any first-team capacity will Arsenal. “In a game against Palace, who are a White Hart Lane with a hamstring problem. be welcomed after Arsenal and England striker side that have had some good results recently And they will draw some comfort from the Danny Welbeck admitted the Gunners fell short but were relatively close to us before Saturday, fact Manchester United failed to beat West Ham up front against Spurs. we needed to keep them as close, or bring them on Sunday, with the 1-1 draw ensuring Louis Van Welbeck returned at Tottenham after a even closer. Gaal’s fourth-placed side remain within touching month out and conceded there was plenty of “We’ve failed to do that because we’ve not distance, with just a two-point gap separating room for improvement. “As a team, going for- really been able to take the chances that we cre- Arsenal from the Dutchman’s team. ward we didn’t do as well as we could have done ated, and that’s disappointing for us.” — AFP Cruz Azul defeat Monterrey

MEXICO CITY: Cruz Azul took sole command of the Mexican championship with a 1-0 win over Monterrey, while Guadalajara’s 1-0 defeat at Santos Laguna kept them in relegation danger. Midfielder Christian Gimenez scored in Saturday’s home win with a fine volley in the 23rd minute as Cruz Azul went a record five matches without conceding a goal since the start of the championship a month ago. The Blue Machine have 11 points, one more than Atlas and Tijuana in the Clausura, the second of two championships in the season. “It’s hard to create chances against us and we have a great goalkeeper,” said Cruz Azul coach Luis Fernando Tena referring to Mexico keeper Jesus Corona. “That means we have a solid defence and that teams are built from the back forwards.”(But) we had to take some risks in search of those goals we are in need of,” added Tena, whose side have scored only three in their five matches. Title holders America are three points off the pace after a 2-2 draw at Morelia on Saturday. Leon, who won both championships last season, picked up their first win on Sunday, beating UNAM Pumas 3-1 away to climb off the bottom of the standings. Guadalajara are in mid-table with seven points but two places from the bottom of the relegation standings based on teams’ average points over three seasons. The team finishing LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s English midfielder Raheem Sterling runs with the ball in this bottom of the relegation table will go down at MEXICO: Marco Antonio Bueno (right) of Toluca vies for the ball with Miguel Angel Herrera file photo. — AFP the end of the Clausura in May. — Reuters (left) of Pachuca, during their Mexican Clausura tournament football match. — AFP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 SPORTS City cannot afford any more slip-ups

LONDON: Manchester City’s chances of winning the Premier League title for the third time in four seasons will almost certainly end if they lose at Stoke City and Chelsea beat Everton tomorrow. The gap between the leaders and the cham- pions widened to seven points on Saturday when Chelsea won 2-1 at Aston Villa and City drew at home with Hull City, needing a stop- page-time free kick from James Milner to grab a point from a 1-1 draw. With 14 matches to play, Chelsea have 56 points and City 49, followed by Southampton on 45, Manchester United on 44 and Tottenham Hotspur on 43. Spurs are at Liverpool on Tuesday while Southampton host West Ham United and SPAIN: Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring during Manchester United face Burnley at Old Trafford the Spanish League football match against Bilbao. — AFP tomorrow. Southampton and Spurs maintained their challenges for Champions League football by Barcelona winning on Saturday, with Saints needing a stoppage-time goal from Sadio Mane to beat Queens Park Rangers 1-0. Two goals from Harry Kane gave Spurs a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in a thump Bilbao thrilling north London derby. United also scored in stoppage time, Dutchman Daley Blind emulating Milner by sal- BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi point-blank range by Iraizoz. “I am very vaging a late point for his team in a 1-1 draw. was at the heart of another devastating self-critical and I get angry with myself “We can’t really afford too many more slip-ups if attacking show as they thumped Athletic but I knew that the goal was going to any. Chelsea have a big lead now, but we know, Bilbao 5-2 in La Liga on Sunday to move come,” said Suarez. more than anyone, you have to keep going to within a point of leaders Real Madrid. “The save that Gorka made against the death and anything can happen,” Milner told The Catalan side took full advantage me was amazing. I wasn’t nervous but I reporters. of Real’s 4-0 derby defeat by champions do get worried when I feel I am not help- “But I think we have got to be pretty much Atletico Madrid on Saturday with a daz- ing the team.” faultless between now and he end of the season zling display that moved them onto 53 to get close.” Stoke stunned City when they won points, three ahead of Atletico. CLINICAL FINISH 1-0 at the Etihad in August and although the last Earlier Valencia’s Pablo Piatti set them Mikel Rico pulled a goal back for the four league matches between the two at the on the way to a 2-1 victory at Espanyol as hosts in the 59th minute but their cele- Britannia have been drawn, City must win and they moved up to fourth by leapfrogging brations had barely died down when hope Chelsea slip up to stay in the title hunt. Sevilla who slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Oscar De Marcos put the ball into his Arsenal will be hoping to bounce back from their loss at Spurs with a win over bottom- Getafe. own net after Messi knocked a cross placed Leicester City who will have Nigel goalwards. Messi had a hand in all five goals and Pearson in charge despite widespread specula- has been in inspired form in a nine- Messi was at the heart of most of tion he had been sacked as manager on Sunday. match winning streak in all competitions Barca’s play and set up Neymar for a clini- Leicester have not won at Arsenal for nearly for Barca since a defeat by Real Sociedad cal finish after 65 minutes. Athletic kept 42 years and been beaten there on their last sev- which led to a reported bust-up between attacking with Aritz Aduriz scoring but en league visits. Managerless QPR, one place coach Luis Enrique and the Argentina then they had Xabier Etxeita dismissed and two points above Leicester, will be seeking forward. for a high tackle on Suarez. to avoid a 12th successive away league defeat at “It is a privilege to play alongside two Substitute Pedro Rodriguez scored Sunderland, while Alan Pardew, who left phenomenons (in Messi and Neymar) Barca’s fifth from close range with Messi Newcastle United six weeks ago, will be looking and I need to enjoy it,” Barcelona striker again playing a part in the build up. to continue Crystal Palace’s revival when his old LONDON: Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero controls the ball during the English Premier League Luis Suarez told reporters. “We knew that Barcelona coach Luis Enrique rotated his team visit Selhurst Park tomorrow. — Reuters soccer match in this file photo. — AP it was going to be a difficult game but squad by bringing Ivan Rakitic and Xavi we got early goals that helped, although into midfield while Jeremy Mathieu they (Athletic) did keep fighting to the played instead of Javier Mascherano at end.” Barca took the lead from a Messi centre half. With Athletic going out to Lyon stay top after PSG draw free-kick that deflected off the wall and attack it meant an open game where wrong-footed keeper Gorka Iraizoz after the quality of Barca’s forward moves PARIS: Olympique Lyonnais stayed top of Ligue 1 Clinton Nije had put Lyon ahead in the 31st minute. failed to clear the ball but Ibrahimovich held his 15 minutes. The Argentine then played in shone through. They played with the with a fine defensive performance to seal a 1-1 Lyon moved two points ahead of Olympique de nerve after his first effort was saved to lash his sec- Suarez who fired home from 20 metres rhythm and intensity to their passing home draw with Paris St Germain on Sunday. Marseille who are on 48 points, level with champi- ond spot-kick high into the corner of the net. The to lift the pressure off the Uruguay for- game that had been missing since their Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovich’s twice-taken ons PSG in third place after 24 games of the season. penalty was ordered to be re-taken after Lyon play- ward who had not scored in six games golden spell under former coach Pep 69th-minute penalty earned PSG a point after Nije put Lyon ahead with a firm finish after PSG had ers encroached in the area. — Reuters and earlier had a header saved from Guardiola. — Reuters Spanish, Portuguese leagues take third-party ban to EU

MADRID: The Spanish and Portuguese ate revenue for anonymous individuals professional football leagues announced who just want to get their hands on yesterday their intention to challenge some of the money in football”. FIFA’s ban on third-party ownership of Third-party ownership has already players to the European Union’s competi- been banned in the English Premier tion commission. “The prohibition of League, but it remains a common prac- third-party ownership constitutes an tice in South America as well as in Spain economic agreement that restricts the and Portugal, where the majority of economic liberty of clubs, players and South Americans take their first step into third parties without any justification or European football. proportionality,” the leagues said in a However, advocates of the system joint statement. believe it provides a crucial lifeline for “This ban damages the clubs, princi- financially poorer clubs to be able to pally those with less economic resources, compete. The Spanish and Portuguese preventing them from sharing with third leagues argue that an outright ban parties the economic rights of the pro- would infringe the competition regula- fessional players in their squads and to tions enshrined in article 101 of the manage their financial obligations in the Treaty of the Functioning of the most prudent form.” European Union. Moreover, they claim The leagues claim that the complaint that the training of young players will be could lead to a multi-million euro fine for affected by the loss of income and that FIFA, as well as compensation for the third-party ownership is currently carried clubs, players and third parties affected. out legally in the majority of professional The practice allows investors to buy all leagues across the world. or a percentage share of a player’s rights Under FIFA’s proposals, existing agree- and then receive their share of an often ments with third parties will be allowed lucrative transfer fee when they move to continue until the end of their con- between clubs. tractual obligation and any new agree- FIFA announced in December that ments before the new law comes into third-party ownership would be out- force will be subject to a one-year time LYON: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian defender David Luiz (right) vies with Lyon’s French midfielder Jordan Ferri (left) during the French L1 foot- lawed from May this year, hoping to limit. ball match. — AFP bring an end to a system critics have The Portuguese super agent Jorge labelled corrupt. Mendes, who counts on Cristiano UEFA president Michel Platini has Ronaldo, James Rodriguez and Jose dubbed the practice a danger to the Mourinho amongst his clients, has Confident Barca target game, saying many players were no labelled FIFA’s move to ban the practice longer in control of their own sporting as “catastrophic” and insisted it will be careers and often transferred to “gener- thrown out by the courts. — AFP King’s Cup final berth

MADRID: Barcelona are playing with a swag- in recent months, including a tax evasion rest of the season,” the former Barca and Spain US defeat Panama ger that suggests they may be peaking at just probe into the signing of Neymar, but the midfielder told a news conference. the right time and will look to transfer that Brazil forward and his team mates do not “It would be wrong to start beating our LOS ANGELES: Michael Bradley and Clint play. Panama showed well, despite the form into a berth in the King’s Cup final starting appear to have lost their focus. chests now,” he added. “What we need to do Dempsey scored first-half goals as the loss, and put early pressure on the tomorrow. Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been in now is be prepared so we can improve our per- United States defeated Panama 2-0 in United States. The record winners with 26 domestic Cup spectacular form, scoring one goal and having formances, which will be key for the remainder Los Angeles on Sunday. Things got testy in the second half triumphs, Barca go into their semi-final, first leg a hand in the other four at the San Mames, of the campaign.” Villarreal, who lost 3-2 at The victory in the Americans opening where Panama’s Harold Cummings got at home to Villarreal on the back of Sunday’s 5- despite reports of a bust-up with Luis Enrique, Barca in La Liga this month, have already home match of 2015 ended a five-game into a pushing match with American 2 La Liga romp at Athletic Bilbao which lifted who is in his first term in charge at the Nou achieved their best Cup result by reaching the winless streak, three of them losses. They Chris Wondolowski with both receiving them to within a point of leaders Real Madrid. Camp. semi-finals. had not won since a 1-0 decision against yellow cards. With a Champions League last 16 clash at Luis Enrique warned after the Bilbao success They are sixth in La Liga and play Austria’s the Czech Republic last September in The U.S. debuted defenders Matt Manchester City looming at the end of the that Barca were bound to suffer more blips Salzburg in the last 32 of the Europa League Prague. Bradley’s goal came in the 27th Hedges and Perry Kitchen, continuing a month, Luis Enrique’s side have a confidence between now and the end of the season as this month. The winners of the Cup semi-final minute, and Dempsey followed in the trend of featuring new players. The about them that has largely been missing since they seek to return to winning ways after fail- will play Athletic Bilbao, who claimed their 37th with his 40th international goal. He Americans have now played 10 first-timers a golden era under Pep Guardiola between ure to win major silverware in 2013-14. 23rd and most recent success in 1984, or and Landon Donovan are the only U.S. since the World Cup. They next face 2008 and 2012. “It was a very good night for us but there 2006 winners Espanyol in the final at the end The club have been beset by off-field woes will be surprises for all the teams across the of May. — Reuters players to reach 40 goals in international Denmark in Arhus on March 25. — Reuters Thunder roll Irfan and Maqsood past Clippers star in narrow 16 Pakistan17 win TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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BATA: Ivory Coast soccer players celebrate with the trophy after winning their African Cup of Nations final soccer match against Ghana in Bata, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. — AP Ivory Coast win African Nations Cup

BATA: Ivory Coast finally won the African Barry, who was only playing because of chance of the second half with Atsu speeding Nations Cup after a decade of close calls as injury to Sylvain Gbohouo, saved from Ghana away before passing inside to Asamoah Gyan, they edged neighbours Ghana 9-8 on penal- goalkeeper Razak Brimah and then, after who was off target with his effort. ties after a goalless draw following extra time requiring treatment for an injury, got up to Gyan had been doubtful for the final with a in Sunday’s final at Estadio de Bata. slot home the decisive spot kick. Victory for pelvic injury but passed a late fitness test. Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry converted the the Ivorians also handed Frenchman Herve Mubarak Wakaso blasted over the top with a decisive spot kick to deliver the trophy for a Renard the distinction of becoming the first strong effort from well outside the penalty country who had been heavily fancied for the coach to win the Nations Cup with different area midway through the second half as the previous five tournaments but flopped in all of countries after success with Zambia in 2012, midfield stranglehold kept chances to a mini- them. when they edged the Ivorians in a shootout. mum. It was a second title for Ivory Coast whose “We had a team with the right fighting However, Atsu’s strong running down the only previous success came when they also spirit and we rode our luck a little,” said right tested the Ivorian defence again when beat Ghana in a similar post-match marathon Renard. An exhausted Yaya Toure looked more he provided Gyan without another chance shootout 11-10 in Dakar in 1992. relieved than elated, saying: “I just want to go after 72 minutes but it was blocked. Their triumph came on a night when 22 home and celebrate with my family and As the game approached 90 minutes a people died outside an Egyptian soccer match friends. It’s taken a long time for us to get scramble in the Ghana penalty area, after after security forces barred fans from entering here.” Brimah could only parry the ball, gave Ivorian the stadium, the public prosecutor’s office substitute Seydou Doumbia a half-chance but said. FEW CHANCES he too was thwarted by a quick defensive Most of the dead were suffocated when the Two hours of action delivered few chances recovery. Doumbia missed another half- crowd stampeded after police used teargas to as the tired-looking teams fought out an chance at the start of the second half of extra clear the supporters trying to force their way error-strewn midfield battle, although Ghana’s time when striker Gervinho found a second into a league match between two Cairo clubs, Christian Atsu came close to scoring with a wind and the game had to go to penalties to Zamalek and Enppi, doctors and witnesses snapshot that hit the post after 26 minutes. separate the teams. said. Yaya Toure had the game’s first effort on goal Ghana’s agonising shootout defeat means The trouble highlighted the problems fac- after 10 minutes but his free kick went they are still waiting for their first Nations Cup ing African football and overshadowed the straight into Brimah’s arms. Gervinho fed Max success since 1982. “But I think we can be very thrilling climax to the Nations Cup tournament Gradel with a clear chance on the right of the proud of what we did at this tournament with ABIDJAN: Supporters of Ivorian football national team force a police barrier to in Equatorial Guinea, who stepped in as hosts attack soon after but he blasted a hurried shot you guys giving us no chance,” Ghana coach enter the Houphouet Boigny stadium to welcome their team a day after its vic- after Morocco was stripped of the hosting wide. Avram Grant told reporters. “We have a team tory over Ghana in the 2015 African Cup of Nations final. — AFP rights. Ghana’s first effort was inches away from a for the future here.” A total of 22 kicks were needed to settle the goal as Andre Ayew weaved across the penal- Morocco were stripped of the tournament 2015 title with the Ivorians missing their first ty box before feeding Atsu, whose first time having asked for a postponement amid con- two attempts. It came down to the keepers to shot hit the upright before bouncing back cerns over the spread of the Ebola virus and victorious Elephants settle matters after all the outfield players had into play. have been banned from the next two African taken a penalty each with the score at 8-8. An Ivorian mistake gave Ghana the first Nations Cups. — Reuters welcomed home

ABIDJAN: Hundreds of thousands of travelled in his motorcade through the supporters at the airport and on the celebrating crowds Sunday night, Wiggins looks forward to life after the road streets of Ivory Coast’s commercial capi- declared Monday a national holiday and tal Abidjan welcomed home the national called upon Ivorians to come to the QATAR: Former Tour de France winner and London in 2012. “It’s not going to stop me from sleeping football team yesterday after its victory lagoon-side national stadium to show world time-trial champion Bradley Wiggins is The one title missing is the prestigious tonight and I’m feeling pretty good,” he at the African Nations Cup in Equatorial their appreciation for the team. enjoying his final days as a road racer, as the Paris-Roubaix classic which will serve as his added after the second stage from Al Wakra Guinea. “It’s wonderful. We had an fantastic ongoing Tour of Qatar, serves as a warmup final race with Sky on April 12. to Al Khor Corniche. The West African state won its first team and a coach without equal ... The for a final crack at the Paris-Roubaix. The “That’s my last race and I was good there “My priority is really not to get injured Nations Cup title in nearly a quarter of a Ivorian people are proud,” Ouattara said cycling icon, who became the first British rid- last year (finished ninth) and the one I prefer. and to race hard when I have the opportuni- century on Sunday, edging neighbours following the victory. er to win the Tour de France in 2012, the I would love to do something special there ties and to come out in good form for the Ghana 9-8 in a dramatic penalty Cheering crowds decked out in Ivory same year he won time-trial gold at the but everyone wants to win and everyone is next races,” Following his final race, Wiggins shootout after extra time ended in a Coast’s national colors orange, white and London Olympics, showed no signs of nos- dreaming of it,” Wiggins, who was born in says he’s looking forward to returning to his goalless draw. green - swamped the airport and packed talgia as he winds down his road career with Belgium, told AFP. love of track cycling. Supporters, who had watched their the 15-km (9 miles) route that brought the Sky Team. The decision to compete at the tough “I love the track and I started to ride on Elephants team lose in two finals during the team from the airport to the city cen- “It seems to me that it’s the good time to Tour of Qatar and deal with its brutal condi- tracks when I was 12-years-old. I spent my a decade that saw their country descend tre. Yesterday morning, hours before the move on to other things. I’ve done every- tions were part of his preparation plans but a first fifteen years riding track and road racing into political turmoil and two civil wars, players were due to arrive there, the thing and I’ve known a lot of success with lowly finish in yesterday’s second stage saw a is not as pleasant as it seems.” poured into the streets following the win 45,000-seat stadium was full and police this team (Sky),” said the 34-year-old, who virtual sand storm relegate Wiggins to 94th The Brit also has the 2016 Rio Olympics in in a party that lasted much of the night. officials broadcast messages ordering will switch back to track cycling later this on the day and over nine minutes behind his sights as he looks to add to his six medals “This cup must bring us peace. The fans to stay at home for security reasons. year. Norwegian stage winner Alexander Kristoff. and four golds, as well as a crack at the one politicians must be like the players. They “I haven’t slept since yesterday. I’m Wiggins has won 25 of his 37 victories at “It’s one of those horrible races and no hour world record. First up however is a must be united and create peace for us, tired but I’ve been there at the stadium the heart of the British team while his finest one really likes it but for the classic races, it’s tasty 10.9km individual time-trial in today’s their people!” said supporter Bakary since 6 a.m. (0600 GMT) to wait and to hours remain the Tour de France triumph the best preparation because it’s really so dif- third stage where Wiggins will set off as one Diomande. see the players,” Fatou Kouyate said as and Olympic title on his home streets of ficult. of the hot favorites. — AFP President Alassane Ouattara, who she waited. — Reuters Russian vehicle sales down 25-35% in 2015 Page 25

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GENEVA: In this file picture taken on June 14, 2013 clouds gather over a sign of HSBC private bank (Suisse) in the center of Geneva. — AFP HSBC ‘helped clients dodge tax’ Bank insists Swiss business has made ‘radical transformation’

GENEVA: Banking giant HSBC faced dealers who channelled mortar bombs has since undergone a “radical transfor- HSBC workers were aware of clients’ damaging claims yesterday that its to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for mation”. “HSBC’s Swiss Private Bank intentions to keep money hidden from Swiss division helped wealthy cus- Third World dictators, traffickers in began a radical transformation in 2008 national authorities. Of one Danish tomers dodge millions of dollars in tax- blood diamonds and other internation- to prevent its services from being used account holder collecting cash bundles Markets mixed es after a “SwissLeaks” cache of secret al outlaws,” ICIJ reported. to evade taxes or launder money,” of kroner, an employee wrote: “All con- files emerged online. The documents A range of current and former politi- Franco Morra, the head of HSBC’s Swiss tacts through one of her 3 daughters published at the weekend claim the cians from Russia, India and a range of unit, told AFP in an email. He said the living in London. Account holder living as oil steadies bank helped clients in more than 200 African countries, as well as Saudi, bank had closed the accounts of clients in Denmark, ie critical as it is a criminal countries evade taxes on accounts con- Bahraini, Jordanian and Moroccan roy- “who did not meet our high standards” act having an account abroad non taining $119 billion. The huge cache of alty, and the late Australian press mag- and had “strong compliance controls in declared.” The files provide details on MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS files, which were stolen by an IT worker nate Kerry Packer were named in the place,” adding that the disclosures were over 100,000 HSBC clients, including in 2007 and passed to French authori- files. Following the bombshell disclo- “a reminder that the old business mod- people targeted by US sanctions, such DUBAI: Gulf stock markets were mixed yesterday as the oil price paused ties, has sparked criminal probes in sev- sure, there were calls for a Swiss probe el of Swiss private banking is no longer as Turkish businessman Selim Alguadis in its rally and some news was negative for local companies. Dubai out- eral countries and attempts to claw against the bank, which is already fac- acceptable.” and Gennady Timchenko, an associate performed the region as its index neared major technical resistance. back the cash. ing prosecution in France and Belgium. The Swiss Banking Association said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Brent crude held around $58 per barrel as falling US oil rig counts and The International Consortium of “I am angry,” former Swiss foreign min- the country’s banks had worked hard in Inclusion on the list does not signs of strong US economic growth were balanced by a slump in Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) obtained ister Micheline Calmy-Rey told public recent years to clean up shop and automatically imply wrongdoing. Chinese imports, pointing to lower fuel demand in the world’s biggest the files via French newspaper Le broadcaster RTS, claiming the scandal ensure conformity with tax laws. If they Alguadis told the ICIJ it was prudent energy consumer. Saudi Arabia’s stock index rose 0.5 percent to 9,390 Monde, and shared them with more had seriously damaged Switzerland’s don’t follow the law “they have to take to keep savings offshore, while a points, closing above its 100-day average, now at 9,325 points, for the than 45 other media organisations reputation. HSBC shares sank 1.97 per- the consequences,” the association said spokesman for Timchenko said he second session in a row, a positive technical sign. worldwide. The documents showed cent to 608.60 pence in early afternoon in a statement to AFP. French Finance was fully compliant with tax matters. Saudi Kayan Petrochemical climbed a further 1.1 percent, having that HSBC provided XXX accounts to trading in London. So far Switzerland Minister Michel Sapin demanded Other individuals named on the list surged its daily 10 percent limit on Sunday after the oil ministry allocat- international criminals, businessmen, has only launched an investigation Monday that no mercy be shown to the include Rami Makhlouf, cousin of ed more natural gas to the company, allowing it to expand ethylene politicians and celebrities, according to against HSBC employee-turned- bank or its tax-cheating clients. “We Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, production at its petrochemical complex in Jubail. Saudi Kayan’s larger the ICIJ. whistleblower Herve Falciani, who stole must be uncompromising with these designer Diane von Furstenberg, who affiliate Saudi Basic Industries was up 0.9 percent. Saudi Electricity Co the files at the heart of the scandal. The fraudsters of the past, we must be told the ICIJ the accounts were inher- jumped 2.2 percent after Saudi Arabia’s central bank governor called for Calls for Crackdown files were used by the French govern- uncompromising with those who ited from her parents, and model Elle reforms to the country’s lavish system of energy and water subsidies, The revelations are likely to stoke ment to track down tax evaders and helped them with their fraud and even Macpherson, whose lawyers told the although his speech, published on the central bank’s website late on calls for a crackdown on sophisticated shared with other states in 2010, lead- sometimes organised it for them,” Sapin ICIJ she was fully in compliance with Sunday, gave no indication that the government actually planned con- tax avoidance by the wealthy and by ing to a series of prosecutions. British told AFP on the sidelines of a G20 UK tax law. Motorcycle racer crete action. Higher electricity tariffs could benefit the company’s bot- multinational companies, a key political tax authorities said Monday they had finance minister meeting in Istanbul. Valentino Rossi, listed as having tom line. issue across Europe. Tax avoidance is brought in more than £135 million $23.9 million in two accounts, said he Meanwhile, Dubai’s index rose 1.2 percent as blue-chip developer legal, but tax evasion is not. “HSBC prof- ($206 million) on the basis of the files. Stars, Businessmen, Politicians had regularised his tax situation with Emaar Properties added 1.1 percent and its subsidiary Emaar Malls ited from doing business with arms HSBC’s Swiss banking arm insisted it Notes in the leaked files indicate Italian authorities. —AFP surged 4.6 percent. The Dubai index ended at 3,941 points, nearing chart resistance at 3,960-4,008 points, the late December and January highs. Any break of this area would trigger a bullish right triangle formed by the highs and lows since mid-December, and pointing up in subsequent months to the 4,700-point area. Healthcare and education KNPC starts Ahmadi overhaul firm Amanat surged 5.3 percent ahead of its board meeting on Wednesday to review 2014 results. But property developer DAMAC plunged its daily 10 percent limit to 2.79 dirhams. The company on Monday proposed a 10 percent bonus Production falls 20% at Wafra joint field share issue equivalent to 500 million dirhams ($136.1 million) but no cash payout for 2014; analysts had forecast a dividend of 0.14 dirham, and the stock had shot up 73 percent this month ahead of the KUWAIT: Kuwait has started a month- go maintenance, Asousi said. and renewing work permits in October, with direct knowledge of the matter announcement. Abu Dhabi’s benchmark edged up 0.6 percent. Sharjah long overhaul of its largest refinery, the Separately, state run Kuwait Petroleum they said. said Oct. 28. The development coincid- Cement surged 5.5 percent after the company reported a 27 percent 442,000 barrels per day Mina Al- Corp (KPC) offered a rare gasoil cargo Chevron doesn’t comment on ed with a shutdown of the Khafji off- rise in 2014 net profit. Ahmadi, a spokesman of state-run oil of 1.5 percent sulphur in the spot mar- industry rumor or speculation, shore fields in the shared border zone refiner Kuwait National Petroleum ket, which is expected to be finalised spokesman Kent Robertson said in an on Oct 16. Qatar, Kuwait Company (KNPC) said yesterday. The later yesterday, traders said. e-mailed response to a Bloomberg Qatar’s bourse added 0.3 percent as Qatar International Islamic Bank refinery has started the revamp to its Meanwhile, crude production request for comment. Saudi Arabia and Injecting Steam jumped 3.2 percent. The lender reported a 10 percent increase in 2014 processing facilities “nonetheless the dropped 20 percent since October at a other OPEC members are under The Wafra project, in which Chevron net profit and proposed a cash dividend of 4.00 riyals per share on refinery total crude processing capaci- venture that a Chevron Corp unit oper- increasing pressure to scale back oil had planned to invest as much as $40 Monday, up from 3.75 riyals it paid for 2013. Medicare Group surged 4.6 ties will not be affected by the outage ates in the Wafra fields, which Kuwait is output as a supply glut from the US billion, is one of the world’s largest percent after announcing that its 2014 profit had doubled and propos- of the downstream units”, spokesman developing with Saudi Arabia, accord- and other countries and slower attempts to free heavy oil by injecting ing a dividend of 5.00 riyals per share, up from 3.00 riyals a year earlier. Khalid Al-Asousi told Reuters. He said ing to two people with direct knowl- demand growth have pushed down steam underground. Saudi Arabia, the Kuwait’s index slipped 0.1 percent and National Industries Group fell the units would come back online in edge of the matter. Daily output the price for Brent crude, a global largest producer in the Organization of 1.0 percent after a technical committee in the public works ministry rec- March. A shortage in gasoline products dropped to 180,000 barrels from about benchmark, by about 45 percent in the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and ommended that all bids to build a new terminal at the country’s interna- was forecast due to the refinery work, 200,000 barrels last month and 225,000 last six months. Brent dropped 0.5 per- Kuwait, the group’s third-biggest mem- tional airport be rejected. In November, the tender committee for the he said but “cargos would be sched- barrels in October, said the people, cent today to $57.53 a barrel. ber, will join other OPEC states to project said a consortium of Kuwait’s Kharafi National and Turkey’s uled to bridge any shortfall in produc- who asked not to be identified Kuwait stopped issuing work per- assess market conditions and produc- Limak Holding had submitted the lowest bid for the contract, worth KD tion during this period, however mid- because the matter isn’t public. Two mits for Saudi Chevron employees at tion levels at a June 5 meeting in 1.386 billion ($4.78 billion). But the technical committee ruled that this dle distillate sales will be moderately rigs are halted and more may be idled Wafra oil fields, located in a shared Vienna. OPEC, which supplies 40 per- bid was too high, state news agency KUNA reported. Meanwhile, Kuwait affected during this period”. The fluid in the next few months because Saudi neutral zone along Saudi Arabia’s bor- cent of the world’s oil, raised produc- Finance House (KFH), the state’s largest sharia-compliant bank by assets, catalytic cracking units (FCC), the CCR- Arabian Chevron Inc faces problems der with Kuwait, because Kuwait’s min- tion by 483,000 barrels a day to 30.9 added 1.3 percent after posting a jump in fourth-quarter net profit yes- I/II units for gasoline production and operating wells due to a lack of per- istry of labor and social affairs halted million barrels in January, according to terday. —Reuters the desulphurisation units will under- sonnel after Kuwait stopped issuing services to the company, three people data compiled by Bloomberg. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 BUSINESS Egypt rice exporters S-Oil sells $1bn diesel, naphtha to Aramco say tariff is too high SEOUL: South Korean refiner S-Oil Corp holder Aramco,” S-Oil said in a separate has sold 1.2 trillion won ($1.09 billion) of statement. oil products to a trading arm of its top South Korea’s third-biggest refiner, a shareholder, Saudi Aramco, as the Middle major Asian diesel exporter, in December Contraband trade still thriving East oil giant boosts its trading clout in scrapped tenders offering 2015 term Asia. The deal, the largest ever between contracts in a move taking traders by sur- DUBAI: Four months after Egypt approved bought a licence to export 500 tonnes but has Dubai,” Welely said. Welely has licences to the two firms, comes after state-run prise. The premium for the naphtha deal plans for allowing the sale abroad of its medi- failed to do so since then. “Effectively, what export around 5,000 tonnes under the new Saudi Aramco increased its holding in S- with Armaco was unclear. S-Oil used to um-grain rice, exporters complain government you are doing is paying the government system and has so far exported around 1,000 Oil last month to 63.41 percent from sell most of its naphtha to Japan. S-Oil regulations, namely export tariffs, are prevent- around $480 a tonne to export while the value tonnes, mainly to Syria. 34.99. S-Oil said in a statement to the said that it will receive 120,000 tonnes of ing their return to the market. “The conditions of the rice is around $400 which makes you Egypt first imposed a ban on exports in stock exchange that it will supply up to paraxylene and 2 million barrels of heavy are too tough, a lot of people got the export end up with a cost and freight price of around 2008 saying it needed to save the rice for local 14 million barrels of diesel, including naphtha from Saudi Aramco Products licences but are now stuck with them as they $880 a tonne,” another rice exporter, Adham El- consumption and wanted to discourage rice ultra-low-sulphur diesel and low-sulphur Trading with output of both expected to can’t sell abroad,” exporter Salah Abdel El-Aziz, Welely, executive director of El Welely group, farmers from growing the crop to save water. diesel, and up to 14 million barrels of drop due to maintenance shutdowns this chairman of the board of El Alamia 2000 Rice said. However, rice exporters have complained that light naphtha to Saudi Aramco Products year. Mills, said on the sidelines of the Gulfood trade Egypt, which produced around 4.3 million the ban on free exports has led to illicit trad- Trading Co under the contract valid A Singapore-based trader said the exhibition in Dubai. tonnes of rice in the 2014 season, only con- ing. “When smugglers sell the rice at $750 a between Feb 1 and Dec 31 of 2015. deal showed how Aramco was expand- In October Egypt said it would allow the sumes around 3.3 million tonnes. Egyptian tonne they make an almost 100 percent profit A S-Oil official said the deal, equiva- ing its trading presence in Asia, while export of rice on condition that traders sell the medium grain rice mainly competes with US, on it and there are a million ways they find to lent to 3.9 percent of the refiner’s total another industry source said the firm government one tonne of rice at 2,000 Russian and Italian rice on the international do that,” Karim Otabachi, import and export sales volumes in 2013, is the largest may set up a trading office in the island Egyptian pounds ($262) for every tonne of rice market with some rice from those countries manager of Egyptian grains trader Wakalex between the firms since Saudi Aramco state. Aramco, which used to sell most they export. Exporters also have to pay a tariff selling for around $750 a tonne. “We used to said. One way is to buy cheaper Indian rice for Products Trading was set up in 2012. S- of its own naphtha from the Middle of $280 on every tonne exported. The value of export around 120,000 tonnes a year before re-export and then substitute those exports Oil buys almost all of its crude from Eastern refineries on a free on board one tonne of rice is around 3,500 pounds a the ban was imposed, mainly to Middle East with Egyptian rice, leaving the Indian rice to be Aramco. “This contract is seen to hike S- (FOB) basis, has become a key spot sell- tonne, exporters said. Abel El-Aziz said he markets such as Syria, Turkey, Kuwait and sold on the local market instead. —Reuters Oil’s domestic and overseas competitive- er of naphtha and is now exporting ness as it will secure stable overseas sales diesel from its new joint venture refiner- markets and receive required raw materi- ies in Saudi Arabia as well as more active als via a subsidiary of the major share- in derivatives trading. —Reuters

Top Saudi banker urges energy subsidy reform

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s central bank gover- ments of the community, taking into nor called for reforms to the country’s lav- account the social impacts of any ish system of energy and water subsidies, change.” which drain billions of dollars from the Mubarak did not elaborate on how state budget and encourage waste by reform would work. But soon after he took keeping down prices for consumers. In a power, King Salman created a platform to speech published on the central bank’s push controversial economic changes in website late on Sunday, Fahad al-Mubarak the future if he wishes. He abolished 12 gave no indication that the government committees and councils, creating a new actually planned concrete action. Any Council of Economic and Development subsidy reform would be politically sensi- Affairs to substitute for some of them. The tive, so authorities have largely held back new council is chaired by his son Prince from it for years. Mohammed bin Salman, who is only 34 In May 2013, Economy and Planning but became one of the kingdom’s most Minister Muhammad Al-Jasser called for powerful men in the space of a few days. sharp cuts in subsidies, saying they dis- In his speech, Mubarak also called for torted the economy. No such action fol- further labour reforms to push more Saudi lowed. Nevertheless Mubarak’s speech, citizens into private sector jobs. Reforms delivered at an economic workshop over the past few years have made it more organised by the Saudi government and expensive for companies to hire foreign the International Monetary Fund, may workers instead of Saudis. “Recruitment of indicate King Salman, who came to power foreign labor should be rationalised; and last month upon the death of his brother, general, technical and vocational educa- plans to take a fresh look at the issue. tion programs should be further devel- “One of the existing challenges is oped,” Mubarak said. enhancing the efficiency of the local con- The government has projected a record sumption of energy and water, which $38.7 billion budget deficit for 2015 resulted in distortion and a large waste of because of the plunge in oil prices. those important resources in addition to Mubarak said authorities were considering increasing the financial burdens on the whether to cover the deficit by using the government,” Mubarak said. “This requires state’s huge fiscal reserves, borrowing from a review of price subsidies, which should the domestic financial market “which is be changed in a gradual and elaborated characterised by a liquidity abundance PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian vendor pushes her cart containing river shellfish past a graffiti artwork on a wall of the Boeung Kok manner, to ensure that subsidies continue and a low lending cost”, or a combination community yesterday. —AFP to target low- and medium-income seg- of both options. —Reuters

ADNOC to decide on revised BP, Shell bids

DUBAI: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is expected to Emirates’ biggest oilfields. Shell and BP are also expected to get 10 per- percent of the concession as political leaders in Abu Dhabi weighed up respond this week to revised bids from BP and Royal Dutch Shell for cent stakes, if they agree to ADNOC’s terms, while Asian newcomers may whether to bring in Asian firms, industry and diplomatic sources said. stakes in a 40-year onshore oilfield concession, industry sources familiar take the remaining shares, a second source said. “Shell has been present Shell, Total and BP have made new bids, while Exxon has decided with the matter said yesterday. BP and Shell were asked to raise their in Abu Dhabi for over seven decades, and our aspiration is to continue to against bidding. Other bidders include US firm Occidental Petroleum signing bonus, which is paid in advance in cash, one source told Reuters, be a partner in the Emirate’s energy future,” a Shell spokesman said. BP Corp, Italy’s ENI, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Norway’s Statoil, in line with that offered by France’s Total, which has already renewed its could not immediately be reached for comment. Korea National Oil Corp and Japan’s Inpex. Each company submitted a concession. “BP and Shell have made their (revised) offers, their bids are A total of nine firms bid for stakes in the Abu Dhabi Company for proposal for a 5 percent stake and another for a 10 percent stake. The received well,” a second source told Reuters. ADNOC could make its Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) concession which became available fields produce 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) and are expected to announcement “soon”, the source said. after a 40-year deal with Western oil companies expired in Jan 2014. reach 1.8 million bpd from 2017. In the new concession, the companies ADNOC signed an agreement on Jan 29 with Total giving the firm a ExxonMobil, Shell, Total and BP each held 9.5 percent equity stakes in are expected to receive a per-barrel fee of around $2.85 versus $1 under 10 percent stake in the new concession to help operate the United Arab that ADCO concession. After the deal expired last year, ADNOC took 100 the previous concession, the first source said. —Reuters

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.565 Sierra Leone 0.000065 0.000071 Nepalese Rupees 3.995 Singapore Dollar 0.215387 0.221387 South African Rand 0.019666 0.028166 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 84.275 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001883 0.002463 Japanese Yen 2.527 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.805 Taiwan 0.009255 0.009435 Indian Rupees 4.798 Australian Dollar 223.53 220.53 Thai Bhat 10.055 Thai Baht 0.008746 0.009296 Pakistani Rupees 2.918 Canadian Dollar 241.86 242.86 Turkish Lira 119.925 Srilankan Rupees 2.217 Swiss Franc 323.96 321.96 Nepali Rupees 3.002 Euro 342.08 343.08 Arab Singapore Dollar 219.200 US Dollar 295.80 298.80 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.779216 0.787216 Hongkong Dollar 38.133 Sterling Pound 451.08 454.08 Egyptian Pound 0.035917 0.039017 Japanese Yen 2.55 2.57 Iranian Riyal 0.000082 0.000083 Bangladesh Taka 3.793 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.706 Bangladesh Taka 3.795 4.065 Iraqi Dinar 0.000197 0.000257 Thai Baht 9.101 Indian Rupee 4.785 5.085 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.413724 0.421224 Irani Riyal transfer 61.555 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.216 2.651 Belgian Franc 0.007718 0.008718 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal cash 121.740 Nepali Rupee 2.992 3.527 British Pound 0.444903 0.453903 Lebanese Pound 0.000146 0.000246 Pakistani Rupee 2.920 2.790 Czech Korune 0.004092 0.016092 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021966 0.045966 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 80.38 80.85 Danish Krone 0.041000 0.046000 Nigerian Naira 0.001208 0.001843 Saudi Riyal 78.811 Bahraini Dinar 785.09 787.16 Euro 0.329979 0.337979 Omani Riyal 0.763332 0.769012 Qatari Riyal 81.270 Egyptian Pound 38.70 39.30 Norwegian Krone 0.034869 0.040069 Qatar Riyal 0.080648 0.081861 Omani Riyal 768.650 Jordanian Dinar 420.29 425.94 Romanian Leu 0.075777 0.075777 Saudi Riyal 0.078350 0.079050 Bahraini Dinar 785.700 Omani Riyal 767.11 774.41 Slovakia 0.008719 0.018719 Syrian Pound 0.001757 0.001977 UAE Dirham 80.561 Qatari Riyal 81.45 82.00 Swedish Krona 0.031206 0.036206 Tunisian Dinar 0.150937 0.158937 Saudi Riyal 78.79 79.19 Swiss Franc 0.313494 0.323694 Turkish Lira 0.120625 0.127625 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.120625 0.127625 UAE Dirhams 0.079663 0.080812 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.065 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001338 0.001418 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.822 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.381 Australian Dollar 0.221574 0.233074 Tunisian Dinar 153.610 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.211902 0.221402 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 417.130 US Dollar 296.150 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.985 Canadian Dollar 237.125 Canadian Dollar 0.231192 0.239692 Syrian Lira 2.108 Sterling Pound 452.595 US Dollars 0.292100 0.296800 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 31.291 Euro 340.090 US Dollars Mint 0.292600 0.296800 US Dollar 295.600 Swiss Frank 274.685 Euro 337.650 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 787.760 Asia Pound Sterlng 452.350 US Dollar Transfer 295.700 UAE Dirhams 81.005 Bangladesh Taka 0.003504 0.004104 Canadian Dollar 238.550 Euro 336.800 Qatari Riyals 82.170 Chinese Yuan 0.046085 0.049585 Indian Rupee 4.762 Sterling Pound 445.692 Saudi Riyals 79.165 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036113 0.038863 Egyptian Pound 38.710 Canadian dollar 234.870 Jordanian Dinar 418.010 Indian Rupee 0.004458 0.004859 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.219 Turkish lira 121.540 Egyptian Pound 38.737 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Swiss Franc 321.410 Bangladesh Taka 3.796 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.223 Japanese Yen 0.002406 0.002586 Philippines Peso 6.685 Australian Dollar 231.090 Kenyan Shilling 0.003237 0.003237 Indian Rupees 4.772 Pakistan Rupee 2.925 US Dollar Buying 294.500 Korean Won 0.000259 0.000274 Pakistani Rupees 2.926 Bahraini Dinar 787.100 Bangladesh Taka 3.805 Malaysian Ringgit 0.079711 0.085711 GOLD UAE Dirham 80.450 Philippines Pesso 6.686 Nepalese Rupee 0.003028 0.003198 20 gram 238.100 Saudi Riyal 79.000 Cyprus pound 726.925 Pakistan Rupee 0.002695 0.002975 10 gram 121.740 Philippine Peso 0.006582 0.006862 *Rates are subject to change 5 gram 61.560 Japanese Yen 3.490 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 BUSINESS US companies not fleeing due to high tax rate

WASHINGTON: When a series of big US the midst of completing inversion-type rate being high,” said Steve Rosenthal, a approximately 20-21 percent in the first full ure because their tax returns are, of course, companies last year moved to reincorpo- deals, despite a Treasury Department crack- senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax year, and to the high teens thereafter.” A confidential. Financial report data can fur- rate abroad in inversion deals, some down in September that slowed inversion Policy Center, a centrist think tank. To be spokeswoman for Mylan declined to com- nish estimates of effective rates, but there is Republican lawmakers and tax policy critics deal-making. Inversions have been around sure, some other tax experts and activists ment and referred questions to past state- no standard way to do this. Even when blamed the high US corporate tax rate. for three decades, but they became more say the statutory rate is the key, not only to ments. measuring marginal effective tax rates, seen Lowering it, they said, would keep compa- common in recent years. Guided by tax inversions, but to broad US business com- In another deal, Steris Corp, based near by tax experts as the best test of business nies from fleeing the country. But a Reuters lawyers and accountants, companies have petitiveness around the world. “You fix the Cleveland, is buying out the UK’s Synergy investment decisions, it’s hard to know the analysis of the taxes being paid by the six done more than 50 such deals since the rates, you fix it all,” said Grover Norquist, a Health Plc, with the combined company to true US tax burdens of large corporations. largest companies known to be doing 1980s; about half of them just since 2008. Republican activist and president of be managed from Ohio, but incorporated in Most lawmakers agree inversions are a inversions in late 2014 and early 2015 The deals typically involve a US company Americans for Tax Reform, which advocates Britain where the statutory corporate tax problem because they erode the US corpo- showed that, even before the deals, all were buying a smaller foreign rival, then taking for lower taxes and smaller government. rate is 21 percent. Reuters found a 2011- rate tax base. Corporations today only pro- paying below the statutory US federal cor- on its nationality for tax purposes, while 2013 US-specific average tax rate for Steris vide about 10 percent of US government porate rate of 35 percent. Most were well many core operations remain in the United No Direct Connection of 17.2 percent; ITEP’s calculation came to revenues, down from 30 percent in the below it. The average effective tax rate for States. A close look at of some of the six deals 16.6 percent. The company has disclosed 1950s. In his 2016 budget last week, the six companies was 20.3 percent for The six companies studied have them- suggests no direct connection with the 35- global effective tax rates averaging 32.1 Democratic President Barack Obama pro- 2011-2013, Reuters found, using an estima- selves disclosed 2011-2013 effective tax percent US statutory rate. For instance, percent for the same period. A Steris posed steps to curb inversions and what his tion method reviewed by tax experts that rates averaging 27.8 percent, or 7.5 percent- Pittsburgh-based pharmaceuticals compa- spokesman said the company expects its administration sees as the incentives for was based on public data for US profits and age points higher than the Reuters calcula- ny Mylan is buying the non-US generic drug effective tax rate beginning in 2016 to be doing them. The Republican-controlled US taxes. tion. The discrepancy with the Reuters fig- business of Chicago’s Abbott Laboratories about 25 percent. “This transaction is not Congress, however, is unlikely to agree with The Reuters analysis suggests that the ure is likely because the companies’ figures to create a combined company incorporat- being driven by tax rates,” he said. his proposed reforms, which may be dead- surge in inversion transactions may not include not just US federal taxes, but all tax- ed in the Netherlands and managed from on-arrival. have had much to do with the statutory es, including state, local and foreign. In a Pennsylvania. The Netherlands’ statutory Highest Rate One of Obama’s goals is tightening a rule corporate income tax. Moreover, it shows project for Reuters, the Institute on Taxation rate is 25 percent. However, Mylan’s global The US statutory rate is high. Tack on an that makes business interest tax-deductible Washington’s current debate over business and Economic Policy (ITEP), a tax policy effective tax rates, as disclosed in the com- average of state and local corporate rates and helps companies shift profits out of the tax reform may be too focused on the statu- think tank in Washington, looked at the six pany’s annual reports to investors, were and it’s 39.1 percent. No major country has United States via interest payments on loans tory rate, neglecting effective rates and the companies’ data somewhat differently, 16.2 percent in 2013, 20.0 percent in 2012 a higher combined rate. The next highest from foreign affiliates. This is known as earn- incentives that companies have to shift stripping out certain accounting adjust- and 17.7 percent in 2011. are Japan at 37 percent and France at 34.4 ings stripping. Another is ending the “defer- profits abroad. The six companies analyzed ments, and found an average effective tax ITEP pegged Mylan’s US-specific effec- percent. But the US tax code is uniquely ral” rule that says companies don’t have to were Medtronic Inc, Applied Materials Inc, rate of 22.2 percent over the period. tive tax rate at 20.5 percent on average for complex. Big companies use elaborate pay income tax on active overseas profits, as Steris Corp, Mylan Inc, C&J Energy Services Tax inversion deals are mainly driven by those same years, and the Reuters analysis strategies to exploit loopholes to cut their long as those profits don’t enter the United Inc and Burger King, which has been efforts to shift profits out of the US and to found it to be 19.7 percent. When Mylan tax costs, which they say shareholders States. Companies have about $2.1 trillion in renamed Restaurant Brands International access overseas earnings at little or no cost announced the Abbott deal in July 2014, it expect them to do. profits abroad. Some came from foreign Inc. in US tax, tax specialists said. “The issue is said it expected it to bring many advan- The gap between the statutory rate and ventures; some from earnings stripping, tax All six have recently completed or are in much broader than the US corporate tax tages and “to lower Mylan’s tax rate to what companies really pay is hard to meas- experts said.—Reuters Rush to negotiate after Greece sticks to guns

ATHENS: Greece was locked yesterday in “we cannot simply say, we’ll finance, we’ll intense talks with its EU partners after the finance” Athens without “respect for country’s prime minister stuck to his anti- European rules” in exchange, he added. austerity guns with the deadline for a deal needed to avoid the risk of default and a ‘Castle of Cards’ euro exit just days away. In a rousing policy Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis speech to parliament, Prime Minister Alexis Varoufakis earlier warned of the damage a Tsipras on Sunday swore he would be Greek exit could inflict on the zone, telling “unshakeable” in implementing his elec- Italian state television that Athens’s depar- toral promises and refused to apply for an ture would spark a domino effect which extension to the much-loathed Ä240-bil- would lead to the collapse of the bloc. lion ($270 billion) bailout. “Greece’s exit from the euro is not some- The European Commission’s representa- thing that is part of our plans, simply tive for the EU-IMF-ECB troika and head of because we believe it is like building a the Euro Working Group were in Athens for house of cards. If you take out the Greek talks with the finance ministry in a bid to card, the others will collapse,” Varoufakis thrash out a last-minute deal ahead of the said in an interview with Italian public emergency meeting of eurozone finance broadcaster RAI that was aired on Sunday. ministers tomorrow. Athens is expected to Varoufakis also warned Europe that Italy push for a new debt deal with its interna- - a potential ally in the battle against aus- tional creditors, so far something which its terity - was not safe from financial trouble EU partners have resisted, and its determi- despite its promises to toe the line on nation to rip up the 2010 reforms-for-loans reforms dictated by Brussels - and that the program has sparked fears the country country also had an unsustainable debt. could default and exit the eurozone. That sparked an immediate response on “With very little time to spare, Tsipras let Twitter from Italy’s Economy Minister Pier an opportunity pass to reassure Greeks, the Carlo Padoan who said the country’s debt ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (right) and Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-opera- European partners and markets that his was “manageable”. Tsipras was continuing tion and Development (OECD) show an economic report during the meetings of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 government will do what it takes to keep the diplomatic blitz of European capitals wealthy and developing nations yestereday. —AP Greece in the euro,” Berenberg’s Christian which took him to Rome and Paris last Schultz said. The Greek stock exchange week, meeting Austrian Chancellor Werner plunged over 5.0 percent on Monday Faymann in Vienna on Monday. He will reflecting investor unease after Tsipras’s hold his first face-to-face talks with German G20 plan for investment speech, which pledged to implement a Chancellor Angela Merkel at an EU summit series of social and economic reforms out- on Thursday. lawed under the bailout deal. Stocks were So far Greece’s demands for more time down across Europe as alarm bells rang to renegotiate the country’s massive Ä240- targets faces opposition across the financial sector, with Berenberg billion EU-IMF rescue deal have hit a wall, tweeting “# Greece on collision course with European paymaster Berlin vehement- ahead of EU meetings. 35% Grexit chance.” ly opposed. The European portion of the ING Credit Strategy said that it was “diffi- bailout is due to expire at the end of the OECD and Carney warn of reform fatigue cult to see how Europe can avoid fallout month, putting Athens under pressure to from the weekend speech by Alexis Tsipras,” do a quick deal. The government has ISTANBUL: Group of 20 finance officials look ments, especially infrastructure investments,” diverging monetary policies a cause of global adding, however, that while “the clock is appealed for temporary funding from its likely to reject a proposal to set countries specif- Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan told turbulence. The U.S. Federal Reserve looks set to indeed ticking for some interim solution... EU partners to tide it over while continuing ic investment targets to spur a global economy a financial gathering in Istanbul ahead of the raise interest rates this year, a stark contrast to whether Eurogroup will cave this week is the negotiations. A meeting of eurozone which looks increasingly reliant on the United G20 meeting. Leaders of the world’s top 20 huge money printing programmes by the questionable”. French Finance Minister finance ministers next Monday is seen as States for growth. The meeting of finance minis- economies agreed measures last year to raise European Central Bank and Bank of Japan and Michel Sapin summed up the dilemma for the last chance for Greece to back down ters and central bankers in Istanbul comes as their collective gross domestic product growth impromptu rate cuts from India to Australia, his EU colleagues on his arrival at a G20 and request an extension to the current Greece casts a new shadow over Europe, cheap by an additional 2 percentage points over the Canada to Denmark. China’s giant economy is meeting in Istanbul, saying that there bailout or reach a deal interim financing if oil plays havoc with inflation and growth fore- next five years above the level projected in 2013. also slowing. A by-product of that is the dollar needed to be a way to ensure Greece the new arrangement is to be in place casts and a strengthening dollar threatens The pledge, called the Brisbane Action Plan, being driven higher while other major curren- would not be “at the mercy of any sort of when the current bailout expires at the end emerging economies. entails about 1,000 commitments, which are cies tumble. panic situation on the markets.” However, of the month. — AFP Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said now likely to be slimmed down to a more man- Lew said he saw no signs of active currency Turkey - G20 chair for 2015 - preferred to set ageable number for each country to deliver on. manipulation and officials from other G20 coun- binding national investment targets but it “Keep your word, or explain,” was how Babacan tries do not expect Washington to complain appeared to be struggling to win support. explained the strategy. Coming good on those while its economy is growing robustly. Italy’s “Would all international countries be commit- pledges could add more than $2 trillion to the Padoan said lower oil prices and the anticipated ted? ... We don’t know yet,” Babacan said in a global economy and create millions of new jobs impact of an ECB plan to buy around a trillion speech yesterday. One G20 source told Reuters over the next four years, International Monetary euros of government bonds had helped improve the idea had already been taken off the table. US Fund chief Christine Lagarde said in a blog post. the economic picture and would push the euro Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said last week the to a more “consistent” level. United States could not be “the sole engine of Greek Shadow growth” and a senior US official said The new Greek government’s refusal to Reform Fatigue Washington’s message would again be that extend an EU/IMF bailout and instead seek a new The Organisation for Economic Cooperation Europe is not doing enough. deal that ends austerity and restructures its debt and Development said structural reforms had Germany, with its hefty current account sur- will cast a long shadow at the Istanbul meeting. slowed over the past two years. G20 nations plus and a balanced budget, has come under Many of the main euro zone protagonists are must focus on higher labour productivity and pressure at successive G20 meetings to spend here and the world is watching. “There has to be become more competitive and innovative if they more. Berlin has rejected that suggestion in the compromise. It’s clear that Greece has got to be want to boost growth, the OECD said in a report past and is likely to argue that its rising domestic prepared to make some changes, and I think a prepared for the meeting. Bank of England demand and plans to increase investment, large- wholesale repudiation of their debt is not on the Governor Mark Carney urged the G20 to mount a ly through the private sector, shows it is doing cards,” Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver told “big push” to implement global regulatory what it can, according to European sources Reuters in an interview. “But other countries, reforms, fearing that governments may be tiring familiar with the G20 agenda. Its euro zone creditors will have to work with Greece to arrive of non-stop rule-making since the financial crisis peers France and Italy have urged more invest- at a compromise. “I don’t think anybody wants six years ago. Carney was speaking as head of the ment in the struggling single currency bloc. Greece to leave the currency union.” Financial Stability Board which, since Lehman “We need to be bolder in Europe in terms of The G20 put together a stimulus package Brothers crashed in Sept 2008, has coordinated a ATHENS: A woman pays for vegetables as her child sits on a bicycle at a market in risk taking ... I hope that policy action will that pulled the world back from the brink in raft of new banking and markets rules to make central Athens yesterday. — AP indeed facilitate stronger private sector invest- 2009 but today’s challenge is more delicate, with the financial system more resilient. —Reuters Obama woos angry labor unions

WASHINGTON: On a cold overcast morning had never been close and at times had been than weaken, unions and give American consequences for former Secretary of State in January, President Barack Obama briefly downright chilly. Obama was stepping up his workers a voice,” Obama said. For labor it was Hillary Rodham Clinton if she decides to run delayed his departure for an Iowa day-trip to call for new trade deals with Asia and Europe a welcome sentiment from a president whom for president. Obama wants to keep the huddle in the Oval Office with AFL-CIO presi- and his fight with some labor unions prom- many union leaders faulted for not pushing union anger to a quiet simmer by otherwise dent Richard Trumka and United Auto ised to be as bitter as President Bill Clinton’s for greater bargaining rights early in his presi- advancing an agenda that dovetails with Workers President Dennis Williams. The topic during debate over the North American Free dency when he had Democratic majorities in labor’s. The result is a complicated alliance was Obama’s upcoming State of the Union Trade Agreement. But Obama was also seek- the House and the Senate. that has never had a strong bond. address. A week earlier, Obama had invited ing to court unions with an economic pitch The fight over trade, however, is already “He has addressed our raising-wages Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service straight out of the labor policy book. steeling labor-allied Democrats in the House agenda. He has been talking about middle- Employees International Union, and Leo By the time he addressed a joint session of against giving Obama the kind of fast-track class economics, about jobs. He talked in his WASHINGTON: In this Dec 3, 2014 photo, US President Gerard of the United Steelworkers, to fly with Congress days later, he had tucked in a shout- authority he wants to push trade deals State of the Union about making unions Barack Obama listens to a question during a meeting him to Michigan aboard Air Force One. out to unions the likes of which labor had sel- through Congress. If Obama were to succeed, stronger, not weaker,” said Bill Samuel, the with leading CEOs to discuss ways to promote the econ- It was VIP treatment for leaders of a labor dom heard in a State of the Union speech: trade deals won with Republican support director of government affairs at the AFL- omy and create jobs at the Business Roundtable movement whose relationship with Obama “We still need laws that strengthen, rather could depress union votes, with potential CIO.—AP Headquarters. — AP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 BUSINESS Grexit, China fears weigh on Europe

LONDON: European stocks dipped and low-rated bond His speech came after Standard & Poor’s cut its funding for Greek banks on Wednesday, the coun- top-rated German Bund yields dipping 5 bps to formance slumped in January meanwhile high- yields rose yesterday as dismal Chinese trade data, Greece’s sovereign debt rating on Friday and Moody’s try’s banking index was down over 10 percent. Greek 0.33 pct. RBS analysts said yesterday there is a 40 lighted deepening weakness in the world’s sec- escalating violence in Ukraine and fears Greece is on a put its rating on review for a downgrade. “The immedi- 10-year bond yields shot up 84 basis points to 11.30 percent chance that 10-year German bond yields ond-largest economy. Chinese exports fell 3.3 collision course with its European partners inflamed ate headline reaction was that this speech would make percent, while three-year yields surged above 21 per- could turn negative this year, citing events in percent from a year ago while imports tumbled market tensions. Wall Street was set to open around 0.5 it much more difficult for Greece to come to an agree- cent. Broader European shares tracked earlier losses in Greece and the European Central Bank’s plan to 19.9 percent, far more than expected. “The trade percent lower while investors sought refuge in low-risk ment with its European partners and thus the risk of Asia. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell buy 60 million euros a month of bonds from data is ugly, which points to a weaker economy assets such as top-rated German bonds and the Greece leaving the euro zone was now higher than 1percent, with Germany’s DAX down 1.5 percent, March. ahead,” Guoyuan Securities strategist Wang Japanese yen. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled ever,” said Gary Jenkins, chief credit strategist at LNG France’s CAC down 1.1 percent and Britain’s FTSE down “Turbulence from Greece helps Bunds to per- Mingli said. Frayed investor nerves helped the out on Sunday extending the country’s bailout and said Capital. Jenkins said there was now a 50 percent 0.7 percent. form and accelerates the fall in yields towards yen gain around half a percent to trade at 118.55 he would reverse some of the reforms imposed by its chance of a ‘Grexit’. Fallout from Greece for other low-rated bonds was zero,” said Marco Brancolini, a rates strategist at yen per dollar and 0.3 percent to 134.20 yen per lenders, jeopardising the country’s finances and its Athens’ stock market slipped around 5.8 percent. relatively contained, with Portuguese, Italian and RBS. Traders said the spiralling situation in euro. Strong Japanese consumer sentiment data place in the euro zone. With the European Central Bank set to pull the plug on Spanish 10-year yields up between 4-9 basis points and Ukraine - where Russian-backed rebels have been and comments from a Bank of Japan policymak- pitted against the pro-European government in a er, who said the country would not slip back into bloody, year-long battle - was also prompting deflation, also gave the currency a boost. investors buy to German bonds, driving down Oil prices steadied as falling US oil rig counts their yields. European Union foreign ministers and signs of healthy US growth offset concerns approved new sanctions on Russia on Monday, over the strength of the Chinese economy. Brent while Russian president Vladimir Putin warned he oil futures rose 1.1 percent to $58.43 per barrel, would not be spoken to in the language of ulti- heading back to a six-week high of $59.06 matums. touched on Friday. Gold rebounded slightly from a three-week low of $1,228.50 per ounce touched Ugly Data on Friday as share prices eased, trading at Data on Sunday showing China’s trade per- $1,243.20. —Reuters Oil steadies near $58

LONDON: Brent crude prices steadied near of the Chinese data on oil prices, which $58 a barrel yesterday as falling US oil rig have dropped more than 50 percent since counts and signs of healthy US growth off- June. set concerns over the strength of the Stronger-than-expected growth in US jobs Chinese economy. China’s trade perform- in January also helped support oil, as non- ance slumped in January, pointing to lower farm payrolls increased 257,000, outstripping fuel demand in the world’s biggest energy Wall Street forecasts. Global benchmark Brent consumer. Exports fell 3.3 percent from a crude oil for March was up 10 cents at $57.90 year earlier while imports tumbled 19.9 per- a barrel by 1118 GMT after rising as high as cent, highlighting a deepening slowdown. $59.06 earlier in the session. US crude was up But the falling number of US oil rigs, at its 56 cents at $52.25 a barrel, having hit a ses- lowest since Dec 2011, reduced the impact sion high of $53.40. —Reuters TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 BUSINESS India’s economy forecast to grow 7.4%

NEW DELHI: India forecast its economy much-needed foreign investment. But Arun Jaitley is set to unveil the national will accelerate 7.4 percent this financial the new formula - which changes the budget on Feb 28. year, data showed yesterday, under a way gross domestic product (GDP) is A faster growing economy also risks revised formula for calculating gross calculated and that officials say is closer stoking inflation, which the govern- domestic product that has baffled ana- to international standards - shows the ment and India’s central bank have lysts since its release last month. The economy has in fact been expanding been desperately wrestling to bring economy will grow 7.4 percent in the fast. under control. Yesterday’s data also year through to March, the statistics The main shift is that India now showed manufacturing output rising ministry announced, after earlier revis- measures its economic growth at mar- 4.2 percent in the latest quarter, while ing the forecast expansion to 6.9 per- ket prices to incorporate ‘gross value the farm sector contracted 0.4 percent. cent from 4.7 percent by using the new addition’ in goods and services as well The sectors contributing to the predict- formula. as indirect taxes. The base year to calcu- ed 7.4 percent growth up to March are Asia’s third-largest economy also late India’s GDP has also been advanced mostly service-based. The financial sec- grew at an annualised 7.5 percent in to 2011-12 from 2004-05. But analysts tor, real estate, trade, hotels and trans- the three months to December, statis- say that the new data does not corre- ports are all growing at over seven per- tics official Ashish Kumar said at a press late with some other economic indica- cent. conference, racing past China’s 7.3 per- tors, including last year’s industrial pro- Arvind Subramanian, the finance cent growth in the same period. India duction figures and corporate profits. ministry’s top economic adviser, said was thought to be struggling through “These numbers are much better this month he was “puzzled” by the ear- its worst economic slowdown since the than initially expected. They definitely lier revised GDP numbers. “I am puzzled 1980s with growth below five percent - come as a surprise and we are in the by the GDP growth numbers and, con- far too low to generate enough jobs for process of trying to understand them,” sequently, all the constituent elements millions of young people. said D K Joshi, chief economist at local that went into constructing it,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi ratings agency CRISIL. “The figures Subramanian said in an interview with stormed to power in general elections make India neck and neck with China,” the Business Standard newspaper. “We MUMBAI: An economically backward family eats lunch as they sit next to burn- last May on pledges to reform and he told AFP. Uncertainty surrounding have to be very careful in using these ing garbage in the premises of a public toilet yesterday. —AP revive the ailing economy and attract the new data comes as Finance Minister numbers for policy-making.” —AFP

China demand not as weak as import slump suggests

SINGAPORE: A surprising plunge in China’s track broader structural trends from one imports shows that Asia’s largest economy month to the next. “For oil, it is very much is still losing momentum despite a raft of about stocks. The huge imports have been stimulus measures, though global price related to SPR (strategic petroleum moves and the impact of holidays may have reserves) fills; demand growth is slowing overstated the extent of the downturn. and consumption is becoming more effi- January imports tumbled 20 percent from a cient,” Meidan added. year earlier, the steepest slide since May As China’s SPRs fill up, its oil import 2009 when factories slashed inventories in demand could be dropping back to levels reaction to the global financial crisis. more accurately reflecting demand. Markets Exports were down an annual 3.3 percent. did not appear to be too alarmed by the The sharp fall in import volumes, led by sharp drop in Chinese imports. Benchmark commodities, suggested China is slowing at Brent crude oil futures were up 20 cents to an even faster pace than many thought, $58 a barrel at 0125 GMT. In the coal sector, even after an interest rate cut in November falling Chinese imports are not just down to and measures to increase liquidity and declining demand but also to policy efforts encourage banks to lend. Preliminary data to protect domestic miners suffering from showed coal orders down nearly 40 percent slowing growth and anti-pollution policies. to 16.78 million tonnes from December’s Overall, the January data did still show 27.22 million tonnes. China also appeared weakening domestic demand and slug- to cut back on its strategic stocking of crude gishness in the industrial sector, HSBC oil imports, which slid by 7.9 percent from economists said, and markets expect December to 27.98 million tonnes. Oil Beijing policymakers will resort to further imports were nearly flat versus the January easing measures in response. Deutsche 2014 total. Bank chief economist Zhiwei Zhang said an “Monthly data is problematic to look at annual 9.5 percent fall in automobile for broader structural trends because stocks imports was evidence of weak consumer tend to distort the data,” said Michal demand and carried downside risks for Meidan, director of consultancy China economic growth. “We continue to expect Matters. Factors such as the shifting time of two interest rate cuts in March and the sec- the Chinese New Year holidays, falling glob- ond quarter, and one reserve requirement al commodity prices and weaker currencies ratio cut (for banks) in the second quarter,” in key exporters also make it difficult to he said. — Reuters MOSCOW: In this Dec 17, 2014 photo, a customer examines a car on display at an automobile dealership.—AP Nissan raises profit forecast to $3.5bn Russian vehicle sales TOKYO: Nissan said yesterday it had raised its helped the bottom line. Retail sales volumes full-year net profit forecast to $3.5 billion, in the US rose 10.9 percent to 1.03 million down 25-35% in 2015 thanks to cost cutting efforts and a cheaper units, improving the company’s market share yen, while booming US and European sales to 8.1 percent from 7.8 percent in the same offset a plunge in Japan caused by last April’s period a year earlier. For the third quarter, the sales tax hike. The Japanese automaker said it growth in the US market and a cheaper yen Imported cars expected to suffer biggest falls expected to make a profit of 420 billion yen “outweighed the negative effects of slowing ($3.5 billion) in the year to March 31, up from demand in some markets, notably China and MOSCOW: Russian car sales could fall by 25-35 light commercial vehicles fell 24.4 percent in latest foreign firm to show concern about the sit- an earlier forecast of 405 billion yen. Nissan’s Japan as well as the continuing political and percent this year and sales of imported cars may January, year-on-year, after rising 2.4 percent in uation. PwC said the geopolitical situation, the announcement came as it said net profit for economic situations in Russia,” corporate vice slump by 55 percent, accounting firm December. oil price, the rouble rate, lending conditions and the nine months to December rose 23.6 per- president Joji Tagawa told a press briefing at PricewaterhouseCoopers said yesterday, under- “If December was a big party for many mar- state support would be the main factors influ- cent year on year to 338.8 billion yen. Nissan global headquarters in Yokohama. lining the impact of an economic crisis and a ket participants, then January is the equivalent encing sales this year, which could reach 1.52 Operating profit for the term jumped 39.0 per- Nissan also reported a 13.4 percent rise in rouble devaluation. After the boom years for for- to a bad hangover,” said Joerg Schreiber, chair- million to 1.75 million units, compared to 2.34 cent to 417.9 billion yen on sales of 8.09 trillion European unit sales, while the figure in China eign car sales following the car market in Russia man of the AEB Automobile Manufacturers million in 2014. yen, up 11.1 percent from the previous year. rose 5.2 percent. has shrunk as the economy weakened under the Committee, saying that 2014 model year stocks Russian cars would suffer the least, falling 10 For the year to March, the company is But unit sales dropped 10.5 percent in weight of lower oil prices and Western sanctions were mostly sold. “At the same time, responding percent, followed by foreign cars assembled in expecting to earn an operating profit of 570 Japan, where the market was hit by a con- imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. to currency movements, prices for the new mod- Russia, which would see a 33 percent fall. billion yen on sales of 11.15 trillion yen, also sumption tax hike in April and weak consumer Consumers have mostly put off large pur- el year have increased, much more than usual. Imported cars would fall 55 percent next year, marking increases from earlier projections for confidence, Nissan said. Japanese automakers chases, although in December hundreds of The price transformation of the market is some- PwC added, suggesting the rouble decline 535 billion yen and 10.80 trillion yen respec- have struggled to deal with prolonged effects Russians rushed to buy cars and other durable thing still in process, so the headache will rather would encourage more firms to localise their tively. Solid US sales, cost-cutting programs of the tax hike from five to eight percent, that goods to spend their rapidly devaluing roubles get worse before going away eventually,” he said production in Russia. Earlier this year, the AEB, a and favorable currency movements con- pushed many motorists to rush to buy vehi- before prices rose. The rouble fell more than 40 in a statement. lobby group, said that passenger car sales could tributed to the robust earnings, said Nissan cles before April, causing a sudden and pro- percent last year. The Association of European Sweden’s Volvo said on Friday it was halting drop more than 24 percent, with some automak- president and chief executive officer Carlos longed drop of auto sales in their home mar- Businesses, a lobby group, said sales of cars and production at its plant in the city of Kaluga - the ers seeing that forecast as optimistic. —Reuters Ghosn. ket. For the year to March, Nissan revised “Nissan delivered solid financial results in down its unit sales forecast to 5.30 million the first nine months of the fiscal year, reflect- from an earlier projection for 5.45 million, ing rising US sales of our latest models and a reflecting softness seen in Japan, China and normalising yen-dollar exchange rate,” he said Europe. Japan posts record-low in a statement. “We anticipate good full-year Still, the revised unit sales expectation results as our product offensive and positive marks an increase of 2.2 percent from the unit momentum in North America and Western sales achieved last fiscal year. Nissan’s per- Europe offsets volatility in other markets. formance came after its domestic rival and the current account surplus Given these trends, along with the continuing world’s biggest automaker Toyota also raised impact of currency movements and cost con- its full-year net profit forecast to a record TOKYO: Japan’s current account surplus shrank reversing a deficit of 679.9 billion yen a year ear- end of the year, which should provide an addi- trols, we are today revising upward our full- $18.1 billion, also citing a weak yen, cost cuts nearly a fifth to a record low $22 billion in 2014, lier. Capital Economics said Japan’s current tional boost to the income balance,” it said. year financial forecast.” and strong demand in the key North the fourth straight annual fall, as its trade deficit account surplus should continue to improve in “What’s more, the plunge in the price of crude American market. But other main rival Honda swelled amid a weak yen, official data showed coming months as the trade balance may return oil since last summer has yet to feed through Key US Market cut its full-year net profit forecast to $4.6 bil- yesterday. The surplus on its current account fell to surplus as the oil price falls. to import prices in full,” it added. “Once this For the nine-month period, Nissan said the lion, as it grapples with soaring recall costs, from 3.23 trillion yen in 2013 to 2.63 trillion yen “Looking ahead, we expect the yen to happens, the trade balance may briefly return popularity of key models such as the Altima including from an exploding airbag crisis last year, the smallest since 1985, when compa- weaken towards 140 against the dollar by the to surplus.” —AFP and Rogue in the all-important US market had involving parts produced by Takata. —AFP rable data became available, according to the finance ministry. The current account is the broadest measure of the country’s trade with the rest of the world, including not only trade in goods but also services, tourism and returns on the country’s foreign investment. Japan’s trade deficit last year grew by 18.1 percent to 1.04 trillion yen from the previous year, as the cost of imports of oil and gas - which is priced in dollars - overwhelmed export growth. Japan has been saddled with a trade imbalance stoked by its heavy dependence on importing fossil fuels to generate electricity, with nuclear reactors shut down in response to the 2011 tsunami-sparked atomic disaster. But overall income is improving with higher gains from equity and other direct investment, as well as from investment in financial items. The rise has been inflated by a weaker yen, the consequence of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-spending policy and the Bank of Japan’s massive monetary easing. In December alone TOKYO: Customers browse Japanese auto giant Nissan Motor vehicles at the compa- Japan posted a current account surplus of 187.2 TOKYO: A freighter berths at a container pier yesterday. — AFP ny’s showroom in Yokohama yesterday. —AFP billion yen, the sixth straight monthly surplus, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 BUSINESS Record real estate sales of KD 4.3bn in 2014

NBK ECONOMIC UPDATE

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s real estate mar- during the month. More specifically, 6 percent to 5803.This was perhaps accounted for 46 percent of all Hawally governorate. Nine transac- base and seasonal effect. Disbursed ket closed 2014 on a positive note 40 percent of all transactions repre- an indication of the current short- transactions. Whole buildings fol- tions in total were recorded in loans totalled KD 21.6 million, an despite a drop of 11 percent year- sented sales of plots in Sabah Al- age of supply in the market. Not lowed, with44 percent of all transac- December. increase of 35 percent y/y. The KCB on-year (y/y) in sales in December Ahmed Sea City. surprisingly, Sabah Al-Ahmed Sea tions. The Ahmadi governorate The sale of plots for commercial approved over 5000 loans in 2014 to KD 355 million. This was largely The average transaction size in City constituted 40 percent of all once again witnessed the bulk of use in Sabah Al-Ahmed Sea City with a total value of KD 304 million. attributed to underperformance in December was KD 357,000, up 13 residential transactions in 2014, activity, with 47 percent of all trans- during 2014 helped commercial The value of approved loans the investment sector since both percent month-on-month (m/m), placing Ahmadi governorate first actions. The Hawally governorate sector sales top KD 557 million dropped 23 percent compared to the residential and commercial sec- which could possibly signal a slow- among governorates in transaction accounted for 28 percent. over the year and record two con- 2013 when the KCB approved an tors performed strongly on a y/y down in the sale of lower-priced activity. Compared to 2013, total invest- secutive years of growth in the val- extraordinary KD 395 million. basis. Nevertheless the year still saw units from Sabah Al-Ahmed Sea In December, sales of KD 134 ment sector sales during 2014 ue of transactions: 57 percent in In 2013, the disparity between record sales of KD 4.3 billion. City. Meanwhile, the Mubarak Al- million were recorded in the invest- were up by 30 percent to KD 1.8 2013 and 40 percent in 2014.The loans approved and disbursed was December sales in the residen- Kabeer and the Capital gover- ment sector, a decrease of 35 per- billion. Total transactions, on the two biggest commercial transac- clear. However, in 2014, backed by tial sector totalled KD 181 million. norates accounted for 20 percent cent y/y. The drop is most likely a other hand, contracted slightly, by tions of the year both took place in the decision of the Public Authority This was an increase of 16.5 percent and 17 percent of all transactions, result of a base effect as sales in 1 percent y/y to 1718. December’s Sabah Al-Ahmed Sea City, with a for Housing Welfare (PAHW) to dis- y/y. 509 residential transactions respectively. December 2013 were relatively sales of commercial properties combined value of KD 133 million. burse 12,000 units, the KCB disbursed were recorded during the month. Comparing the sector’s full year high. In terms of the number of showed an increase of 9 percent The Kuwait Credit Bank (KCB) more loans than it approved (ie acted Residential activity was once again performance in 2014 with the previ- transactions, 115were recorded dur- y/y to reach KD 38.5 million. The approved 357 housing loans of on approvals from prior years). The heaviest in the Ahmadi gover- ous year, total residential sales were ing the month, a decline of 42 per- commercial sector witnessed two approximately KD 21.8 million in total value of disbursed loans in 2014 norate, which accounted for 36 per- up by 5 percent to KD 1.9 billion cent y/y. The average transaction large transactions of over KD 7 mil- December, a drop of28.5 percent reached KD 205 million, up 43 per- cent of all residential transactions while total transactions dropped by size was KD 1.1 million. Apartments lion apiece, and both in the y/y. Again, this was largely due to a cent y/y.

Equities expected to have highest total return in 2015

KUWAIT: The global association of invest- we look forward to welcoming His Excellency ment professionals, and CFA Society Kuwait, Anas Al-Saleh along with our prestigious the local society of CFA Institute, have speakers and extensive group of attendees. launched the results of its fifth annual The results of the survey show that almost Middle East Market Sentiment Survey, which half of respondents (47 percent) think that provides insights fromCFA charterholders greater economic diversification is critical to and CFA Institute members from across the Middle East region. ensuring long-term sustainable growth in Nearly half (47 per- Kuwait.For Middle East investments, many cent) of investors respondents (39 percent) believe that infra- expect equities in the structure and government investment pro- global market to grammes are the most attractive attribute, have the highest while 28 percent of respondents attribute total return in 2015 access to natural resources as the primary (compared to other appeal.” asset classes such as Five key findings from the survey include: bonds, cash, com- 1. Real estate, hospitality, and construction modities, precious sectors willbe the main drivers of foreign Nitin Mehta metals and real estate). Nearly one- direct investment (FDI) over the next two third (31 percent) of years, according to nearly half (47 percent) of investors expect respondents.Following these sectors, 18 per- equities in local cent of respondents expect energy and only Middle East markets 9 percent expect transportation to be the to have the highest main driver of FDI. total return this year 2. Fragmented views on the most insight- while one-quarter ful metric for tracking near-term economic (26 percent) of corrections. One-third (34 percent) of respon- respondents expect real estate to have dents indicated that commodities pricing the highest total provides the most insight into potential near- Rafik Hafez return. term economic corrections while another The survey results were unveiled at a one-third (33 percent) of respondents believe Surprise premiere press conference today ahead of the that equity markets provide the most insight. CFAInstitute Middle East Investment At the same time, another one-quarter (27 Conference (MEIC), which is being held for percent) use real estate as the best indicator the first time in Kuwait on 10th February of near-term economic corrections. 2015 under the patronage of Anas Al-Saleh, 3. Political differences are a significant of the new Audi Q7 Minister of Finance. obstacle to one consolidated regional stock Nitin Mehta, CFA, Managing Director of exchange.The vast majority of respondents CFA Institute in Europe, the Middle East, and (75 percent) cite political differences among Africa, stated: “For the fifth consecutive year, DOHA: As one of the key motoring events in the classic. The sill contour forms a strong line and Thanks to a smart multi-material mix with alu- countries as the most important hurdle for the Middle East Market Sentiment Survey Middle East, the Qatar Motor Show is attracting the wide wheel arches form their own geometric minium and steel, we achieved a weight reduc- creating one stock exchange, which repre- provides useful insights into the expectations car lovers and trade professionals alike and body. The 286 hp 2.0 TFSI engine, which powers tion of up to 260 kg. This is best-in-class and sents all GCC markets. serves as a stage for Audi’s latest innovations. the new TTS comes with the new Audi drive takes the new Audi Q7 to another superlative. of some of the most senior finance and 4. Increased corporate financial disclosures Over the past few years Audi has seen a steady select system, while a sound actuator provides It is an extremely agile and sporty SUV with investment professionals working in the needed in Kuwait.In Kuwait, the Capital Market momentum of growth in the Middle East and an even sportier sound. It takes 4.6 seconds to quattro drive and tiptronic transmission as stan- region. Interestingly, opinions related to pub- Authority has issued guidelines for proper dis- especially in Qatar. Representative of an entire accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h, while the top dard. This car is a dynamic on-roader with great lic disclosures are a major theme in this year’s closures by public companies.However, 88 new TT model lineup, Audi revealed the Audi speed, which is electronically limited to 250 off-road qualities. And it is a shining example of survey results. Given its importance in TTS and surprised with the Middle East premiere km/h, is just a formality. how we harmonize performance, driving pleas- percent of members surveyed still believe that analysing listed companies, the majority of of the brand new Audi Q7. This year’s Motor The Audi virtual cockpit is a new electronic ure and efficiency. companies need to disclose more information investment professionals (88 percent) in the Show is taking place from February 6-10 at the innovation, which replaces the analog instru- From lightweight construction to innovative in order for investors to make informed deci- region believe that both governments and Qatar National Convention Centre. ments and the MMI monitor in the new TT lighting: The Audi Q7 offers the latest light tech- sions. corporations should increase efforts to create The Audi sport stand theme featured the range. It comprises a fully digital instrument nology with LED and matrix-LED lighting for 5. Financial educational opportunities in extensive systems for collecting data and dis- Audi S3, Audi S6 and Audi S7 as well as customer cluster with versatile graphics and a highly increased safety and comfort. And finally, the Kuwait are not sufficient.61 percent of CFA favourite, Audi Q5. “Audi has only recently detailed display. A Middle East launch date is Audi Q7 is the SUV with a very innovative interi- closing information in order to help investors Institute members based in Kuwait believe announced another historic record year in terms expected for March 2015 and August 2015 or. Based on the second generation of our mod- make informed investment decisions.” that educational opportunities for invest- of sales and intends to maintain the momentum respectively. The new Audi TT will be available ular infotainment kit, the driver and passengers Rafik Hafez, CFA, President of CFA Society ment professionals in Kuwait are limited in with further model introductions in the region in with a starting price of US$40,555. will experience a new dimension of driving assis- Kuwait, commented: “We are delighted to be quantity, while 30 percent believe these 2015, explains Trevor Hill, Managing Director of The second regional premiere and only tance and Audi connect features. Examples hosting the Middle East Investment Audi Middle East. “In 2014, we established our shown for the second time worldwide after the include natural voice recognition, haptic MMI, opportunities are adequate in quantity but Conference in Kuwait for the first time, and 9th straight record year here in the Middle East - International reveal at Detroit Motor Show is the Audi tablet with Android operating system, not content. with sales of 11,132 cars and here in Qatar, Q- much anticipated and eagerly awaited new Audi smartphone integration and stunning 3D sur- Auto showed the biggest growth of all of our Q7. The biggest selling model for Audi in the round sound. dealers with a 25 percent increase in sales over Middle East was revealed today by Mohamed All in all, the new Audi Q7 represents every- Tantawy named Country last year. “ Saadon Al-Kuwari, Audi Brand Ambassador for thing a true premium automobile stands for. With the reveal of the Audi TTS Audi intro- Q-Auto. Premium performance, premium efficiency, pre- duced a modern classic and design icon of the The SUV is a major part of Audi’s success sto- mium connectivity and premium assistance sys- Manager for DHL Kuwait brand. The exterior is streamlined and muscular, ry. Nearly every third Audi is a Q model. The new tems. German customers will be able to order athletic and poised ready to jump forward - a Audi Q7 is a benchmark for the SUV segment - in the Q7 from the spring of 2015 and it will be KUWAIT: DHL Express, the world’s leading Express Kuwait is aiming to increase cover- car that is mesmerizing at the first glance. The terms of diversified drivetrain technologies, arriving at the dealerships with a wealth of stan- logistics company announced the appoint- age across Kuwait geographical locations designers of the compact sports car have rein- lightweight construction technology, path-find- dard equipment features in the summer of 2015. ment of its new Kuwait Country Manager, in 2015. terpreted the typical lines of the original TT from ing efficiency, intuitive connectivity and com- In Germany the Q7 will be available starting at Amr Tantawy. As previous Country “As part of our five year plan, we will be 1998 and enriched it by adding an array of prehensive electronics features. around 61,000 Euros. The planned market arrival Manager for DHL Express Egypt, Amr investing in DHL infrastructure to maximize dynamic elements. It is the most flexible and most spacious SUV for the Middle East is in the fourth quarter of brings a wealth of experience to the role our services. At DHL Express we have a cus- Many details in the profile of the new CoupÈ of the premium segment for up to seven passen- 2015. Prices and specs for the Middle East have and a proven track record in sales, design- tomer centric culture whereby customers are reminiscent of the first-generation design gers. And, it is the lightest SUV of its segment. not been set yet. ing and managing integrated logistics, always come first, our goals is to aid our warehouse distribution and management, customer in growing their business’s with in addition to Freight and Express solu- new tools, solutions and excellent express tions. delivery,” continued Amr Tantawy. “DHL Express Kuwait is one of the most Since DHL Express Kuwait began opera- important and growing markets for DHL in tions in 1979, it has been the logistic leader the MENA region. With my background and in the country and is the only courier com- knowledge of the pany to have a dedicated network flight, company and the which runs seven days a week between regional logistics Kuwait and DHL’s regional hub in Bahrain. industry, my priority This daily flight connects directly to the is to increase the global DHL network ensuring best transit DHL market share times and enables DHL to provide its cus- [JM1]and revenue tomers with more cost competitive and locally and regionally enhanced routings and quicker delivery even further. Our times. Gulf Air, Batelco extend partnership agreement growth plans for Tantawy joined DHL Express in 1991 2015 will further where he held various positions across the MANAMA: Gulf Air, the Kingdom of A/Chief Commercial Officer Ahmed Club and Gulf Air’s Frequent Flyer pro- Customer Relationship programme for Amr Tantawy deliver our commit- MENA region and South East Europe. In Bahrain’s national carrier and Batelco, the Janahi and Batelco A/General Manager gramme. “The addition of extra miles for residential customers who meet a num- ment to both our July 2000, he was appointed as the Yield Kingdom’s leading communications solu- Consumer Division Ebrahim Al Sayed. money paid on Batelco bills will be a ber of set requirements based on long customers and employees and enhance Support Manager for South East Europe tions provider have extended their part- Following the signing Janahi said that great benefit for members of Al Dana term loyalty to Batelco’s products and our connectivity across the globe,” said and North Africa, he then served as Project nership agreement to enhance benefits Gulf Air is delighted to extend and modify Club. We look forward to further services. The exclusive Club has been in Tantawy. Manager, Business Development and for Batelco’s Al Dana customers. Members its partnership with Batelco, to offer Al strengthening our partnership with Gulf operation for a number of years and In line with the Kuwait Development Freight and Logistics Manager across the of Batelco Al Dana Club, who hold Gulf Air Dana customers a generous Gulf Air Air and the airline’s continued support,” Batelco regularly adds new special bene- Plan (KDP) for 2015-2020 which is aimed at MENA. Frequent flyer cards as part of their Al Falconflyer Miles accrual plan. “Our part- Hashemi said. fits for its members. increasing the private sector role in the DHL has been a pioneer in the Middle Dana Club benefits, will now have the nership will provide greater opportunities Gulf Air FalconFlyer Miles can be Among the privileges enjoyed by development of the country, DHL Express East logistics industry for more than 35 opportunity to accrue additional Gulf Air for Batelco’s Al Dana customers to experi- redeemed for a range of benefits includ- each Al Dana customer is access to a ded- Kuwait is expanding its operation facility years and currently has 220 service centres Falconflyer Miles based on their Batelco ence Gulf Air’s array of new destinations, ing complimentary flights and upgrades icated account manager to provide and infrastructure capabilities to accom- and service points across 19 countries in bill payments. flexible schedule and award-winning to premium class, as well as for extra bag- round the clock assistance with any tele- modate the expected growth in the indus- the region and employs over 4,400 employ- The agreement, which sees the accru- products and services,” added Janahi. gage allowance and lounge access. com request. 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Japan-inspired ‘water-house’ slashes energy needs

KECSKEMET, Hungary : As UN climate allows the user to set the desired indoor than the traditional way, it is cheaper than negotiators gather in Geneva this week, one temperature, with the heat stored in the standard energy-efficient structures. The Japan-inspired Hungarian inventor believes water transferred around as needed. idea is already attracting interest from archi- he has found a revolutionary and inexpen- tects and builders, Gutai said. Surprisingly for sive way to construct buildings that could Rotenburo Eureka a native of Hungary, a country famous for its slash humanity’s energy needs. And the Excess heat in the water during hot peri- thermal spas and which gave the world the magic ingredient for Matyas Gutai’s inven- ods is stored in a tank in the foundations to Rubik’s Cube - Gutai did not have his ‘eureka’ tion is simple: water. It was launched after a be sent back into the walls later when it gets moment in the baths of Budapest. Instead, it long process of testing and patenting and a colder. The system reduces the need for came in the “rotenburo” (open-air hot decade of research and development at a external energy sources for heating, Gutai springs) of Japan in 2003 when he was Japanese university. “Imagine a building said, meaning that the building can be more studying sustainable architecture at the without insulation, yet with a perfect indoor independent from the local grid - so not University of Tokyo. thermal balance, thanks to the properties of responsible for any carbon emissions. “In no water,” the 34-year-old told AFP. other structure are you completely sur- Aikido He showed off a small prototype in the rounded by connected volumes of water “First I was very cold on the way to the backyard of a warehouse in his hometown of which, using its natural properties, and via a pool, particularly on my feet. As I got into the Kecskemet south of Budapest, developed process called ‘convective heat transfer’, is pool I felt perfectly comfortable, no matter with some Ä50,000 ($57,000) in EU funding able to move energy around to where it’s how cold the air was outside,” he remembers. and money from the Hungarian govern- needed,” Gutai told AFP. “It absorbs, stores, It dawned on him how much more impor- KECSKEMET, Hungary: A picture taken on Nov 25, 2014 shows Hungarian engi- ment. The walls of Gutai’s house are made of heats, cools, and balances indoor tempera- tant surface temperature and heated mass neer Matyas Gutai posing in front of a Japan-inspired ‘water-house’. — AFP glass panels - with a gap in between like tures.” are than air temperature. “Air temperature double glazing - filled with water. This water, The walls can be made either entirely or like a cold breeze in summer, or the hot air of 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. And the strength rather than blocking it,” Gutai said. only a few cubic metres, is warmed by the partially of glass and are strong enough to a fire in winter, is important but mass like in a final jigsaw piece was another Japanese tra- “So I looked more and more at water, which sun - it can be piping hot during heat waves. support the building structurally, he said, pool is a completely different quality,” he dition - the martial art of Aikido and its con- doesn’t resist but instead responds, in a It absorbs heat like a battery during hot and also provide perfect insulation despite explained. cept of victory through non-resistance. “You smart way. “Our goal should be to use less spells and distributes it during cold snaps, being much thinner than those on a normal It was a time when many Japanese archi- use the strength of your opponent’s attack energy and materials, and take cities off-grid making all cosy in winter or cool in summer, building. He conceded that building a house tects were beginning to explore ideas of low- to your own advantage, you make your as much as possible. The water-house is one as needed. An inbuilt monitoring system in this way is moderately more expensive energy consumption, particularly after the opponent fall down by flowing away from way to do that,” he said. — AFP Automakers fail to fully protect against hacking Most new cars collect large amounts of data WASHINGTON: Automakers are cramming cars with wireless technology, but they have failed to adequately protect those features against the real possibility that hackers could take control of vehicles or steal personal data, according to an analysis of information that manufacturers pro- vided to a senator. Sen Edward Markey asked automakers a series of questions about the tech- nologies and any safeguards against hackers built into their vehicles. He also asked about how the information that vehicle computers gather and often transmit wirelessly is protected. Markey posed his questions after researchers KOUROU: The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is showed how hackers can get into the controls of transported for its launch atop a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French some popular cars and SUVs, causing them sud- Guiana on Jan 30, 2015. — AFP denly to accelerate, turn, sound the horn, turn headlights off or on and modify speedometer and gas-gauge readings. The responses from 16 Europe set to launch manufacturers “reveal there is a clear lack of appropriate security measures to protect drivers against hackers who may be able to take control wingless ‘space plane’ of a vehicle or against those who may wish to collect and use personal driver information,” a PARIS: Europe will launch an experimental steering flaps will stabilise and angle the report by Markey’s staff concludes. “space plane” tomorrow, a car-sized, wingless craft, while ceramic thermal protection pan- Today’s cars and light trucks typically contain vessel whose 100-minute unmanned mission els will shield it from temperatures up to more than 50 electronic control units - effective- WASHINGTON: In this June 18, 2012 file photo, Sen Edward Markey speaks on Capitol Hill. — AP will inform the design of reusable spacecraft 1,700 degrees Celsius on reentry - hot ly small computers - that are part of a network in of the future. Reentry is a major challenge for enough to melt metal. the car. At the same time, nearly all new cars on Only one manufacturer appeared able to in the US agreed on a set of principles to protect the aerospace industry - as illustrated when The two-tonne, five metre-long plane is the market today include at least some wireless detect a hacking attempt while it was happen- motorists’ privacy. The voluntary agreement was Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in scheduled to be blasted into space on a Vega entry points to these computers, such as tire ing and only two described credible means of aimed in part at heading off possible legislation. Earth’s atmosphere in Feb 2003, killing all sev- rocket from ESA’s space pad in Kourou, French pressure monitoring systems, Bluetooth, responding to such intrusions in real time. Markey has said voluntary efforts don’t go far en crew. Friction with the Earth’s atmosphere Guiana, at 1300 GMT tomorrow. It will sepa- Internet access, keyless entry, remote start, navi- Information from most automakers indicated enough. The auto industry is also in the early slows the returning craft, but also heats the rate from the launcher about 18 minutes later, gation systems, Wi-Fi, anti-theft systems and cel- they wouldn’t know about a hacking attempt stages of establishing a voluntary information outside to scorching temperatures. some 320 km above Earth, and then climb to lular-telematics, the report said. Only three unless data from the vehicle’s computers was sharing and analysis center or other comparable If the reentry angle is too steep the craft a height of about 450 km before starting its automakers said they still have some models downloaded by a dealer or at a service center. program about existing or potential cyber-relat- will burn up, too shallow and it may bounce descent at several times the speed of sound, without wireless entry, but those models are a Most new cars are also capable of collecting ed threats. “But even as we explore ways to off the atmosphere or pierce through but recording valuable data along the way. A small and declining share of their fleets. “Drivers large amounts of data on a vehicle’s driving his- advance this type of industrywide effort, our completely miss its landing target. These are parachute will deploy to slow the descent, have come to rely on these new technologies, tory through an array of pre-installed technolo- members already are each taking on their own the types of conditions that the European and balloons will keep the craft afloat after but unfortunately the automakers haven’t done gies, including navigation systems, telematics, aggressive efforts to ensure that we are advanc- Space Agency’s Intermediate eXperimental splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, where it will their part to protect us from cyberattacks or pri- infotainment, emergency assistance systems ing safety,” the Alliance of Automobile Vehicle (IXV) are meant to test. “We are able be recovered by a ship for analysis. vacy invasions,” Markey said in a statement. and remote disabling devices that allow car Manufacturers said in a statement. to go (to space), we are able to stay in orbit, “The IXV mission will test cutting-edge dealers to track and disable vehicles whose driv- The Society of Automotive Engineers also has what we want to learn today is to close the system and technology aspects to provide Among the report’s findings: ers don’t keep up with their payments or that are established a security committee that is evaluat- loop, to return from orbit, and this is one of Europe with an independent reentry capabili- Most manufacturers said they were unaware reported stolen, the report said. ing the vulnerability of cars to hacking and is the most complex disciplines in space activi- ty, and a building block for reusable space of or unable to report on past hacking incidents. drafting “standards and best practices to help ty,” IXV programme manager Giorgio Tumino transportation systems,” said an ESA state- Three automakers declined to answer the ques- Privacy ensure electronic control system safety,” the told AFP. ment. “ESA has developed the capabilities to tion. One automaker described an app designed Half the manufacturers said they wirelessly alliance said. The Association of Global The craft is equipped with more than 300 deliver spacecraft into orbit, dock automati- by an outside company and released for Android transfer information on driving history from vehi- Automakers, another trade association, said the sensors, including infrared cameras, and its cally with cooperative or non-cooperative tar- devices that could access a vehicle’s computer cles to another location, often using third-party responses provided to Markey are many months maiden trip will seek to “really capture all the gets, and even land on celestial objects far network through the Bluetooth connection. A companies, and most don’t describe “an effective old and don’t reflect extensive discussions key phenomena that are unknown, are not away in our Solar System. “Mastering security analysis didn’t indicate any ability to means to secure the data,” the report said. between the industry and federal technology predictable on the ground. You really need in- autonomous return from orbit and soft land- introduce malicious code or steal data, but the Manufacturers are also using personal vehicle experts aimed at improving the industry’s flight experience for this,” Tumino said. The ing will open a new chapter.” automaker had the app removed from the data in various and often vague ways to “improve understanding of cyber threats. IXV sports an innovative body shape its Google Play store as a precautionary measure. the customer experience,” the report said. Policies The manufacturers who replied to Markey designers hope will balance reliability with ‘This is Fundamental’ Each manufacturer is handling the introduc- on how long they store drivers’ information vary are BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, manoeuvrability. Most reentry craft carrying Since NASA retired its Space Shuttle, tion of new technology in very different ways, considerably. Customers often are not made Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes- astronauts have been flat-bottomed capsules Russia’s Soyuz is the only spacecraft that can and for the most part these actions are insuffi- aware explicitly of the data collection and, when Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Subaru, landing with parachutes - a simpler design ferry astronauts to and from the orbiting cient to ensure security. Hackers can get around they are, they frequently cannot opt out without Toyota, Volkswagen-Audi and Volvo. Three other that offers little control for landing on target. International Space Station. Private company most security protections cited by manufactur- disabling valuable features like navigation. automakers - Aston Martin, Lamborghini and NASA’s winged Space Shuttle, on the oth- Space X’s Dragon is the only reentry cargo ers, according to the security experts Markey Last November, 19 automakers accounting for Tesla - didn’t reply to his request for informa- er hand, could land accurately on an airstrip craft. Boeing and SpaceX are developing consulted. most of the passenger cars and light trucks sold tion. — AP but was heavy, complex and expensive - and reusable astronaut carriers for NASA, which is damage to heat-resistant panels on a wing is also working on the Orion craft it hopes will what caused the Columbia disaster. The take humans to Mars. All are based on the shuttle has since been retired. The IXV has a capsule design. “Today we have our astro- MicroStrategy founder design somewhere between the two - an nauts flying in Russian capsules, if one day we aerodynamic shape that creates the lift want them with the capability to fly back needed to fly, but without wings - called a with European technology, this is fundamen- “lifting body”. Four thrusters and two hind tal,” Tumino said of the IXV mission. — AFP to speak at CIO Summit

DUBAI: International Data Corporation (IDC) formal- benefits their businesses are striving to achieve. ly announced the latest installment of its ground- Against this backdrop the Middle East CIO Summit breaking Middle East CIO Summit, confirming that 2015 will explore the need for IT plans to encompass the event will once again be hosted under the strong business metrics alongside the existing IT- esteemed patronage of Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak related metrics that typically examine application Al-Nahayan, the UAE’s Minister of Culture, Youth, delivery in isolation. and Community Development. The global advisory IDC is also pleased to announce the introduction services firm is also delighted to be welcoming of six unique, informative workshops based around Michael Saylor, Chairman of the Board and CEO of its IT Executive Programs. Designed to help today’s MicroStrategy, to speak at the event, which will take time-constrained IT executives make more effective place on Feb 25-26 at Dubai’s iconic Atlantis, The technology decisions, these sessions will serve up Palm. timely discussions on mitigating technology risks, “Michael is a widely-respected global thought maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments, leader in the areas of enterprise analytics, mobility, Jyoti Lalchandani identifying and capitalizing on new IT opportunities, and security, and it is a privilege that he has chosen reflecting opinion across the region’s continuously and implementing cutting-edge tech solutions that to join us as part of MicroStrategy’s Platinum spon- evolving ICT sector.” are tightly aligned with overall business objectives. sorship of the Middle East CIO Summit 2015,” says This year’s edition will run under the theme ‘IT The summit will retain its popular vertical- Jyoti Lalchandani, vice president and regional man- Meets Business’ and will drive home the importance focused tracks, with the spotlight this year shining aging director at IDC Middle East, Turkey, and Africa of closely aligning IT and business functions at a on the region’s government, banking and finance, (META). “The summit continues to grow from time when organizations across the region are faced and energy sectors. And with the event represent- strength to strength and we are deeply honored to with the challenge of implementing emerging prod- ing the largest social gathering of CIOs in the Middle TOKYO: An employee of Japan’s electronics giant Hitachi displays a new wearable have the backing of HE Sheikh Nahayan for the sec- ucts and services while simultaneously trying to East, numerous local ICT vendors will join a host of sensor which measures human activity of a group or organization and analyze “hap- ond year running. His continued support for the improve operational efficiency. IDC recognizes that major global giants to present their unique insights piness” tendency of the group to boost productivity, at the company’s headquarters event, together with Dubai Internet City’s decision the ability to rapidly correlate IT project spending into the latest trends shaping tech adoption across yesterday. The device is equipped with various sensors of six-axis acceleration, tem- to sign up as Strategic Innovation Partner, is evi- with critical business priorities is essential, with CIOs the region, while a variety of senior line-of-business perature, humidity, infrared and photometer on its card-shaped body weighing 38 dence of the important role that IDC’s annual increasingly required to demonstrate the business executives will also be on hand to offer that all- gm. Hitachi is expecting to provide the device and analysis service from April. — AFP Middle East CIO Summit plays in both shaping and value of their projects and embrace the strategic important non-IT perspective. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Australia’s Barrier Reef ‘risks becoming dumping ground’: WWF

SYDNEY: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef marine park but inside the slightly larger Advisors said there was no need for coal from the United Nations Educational, the Queensland government includes could be “severely damaged” if the gov- World Heritage Area. port expansions along Queensland Scientific and Cultural Organization over the banning of dredging for new or ernment does not completely ban the Conservationists say dumping waste state’s coast — where the reef is located- the reef’s health. expanded major developments outside dumping of dredge waste in the World in reef waters damages it by smothering as the capacity at existing terminals was UNESCO threatened to put the reef priority port areas for a decade. Heritage-listed waters, a report commis- corals and sea grasses and exposing unused one-third of the time. on its World Heritage in danger list, but “We know the reef is facing chal- sioned by conservation group WWF said them to poisons and high levels of nutri- “These coal port expansions could delayed taking action until the start of lenges but we are making significant yesterday. ents. increase the total coal port capacity of this month to allow Australia to submit a progress. There is strong evidence that The Australian government in The report said port expansions with- the region from 267 to 637 million report on how it will protect the bio- our efforts are working,” Hunt said in a January ordered a ban on dumping in reef waters, which it noted could see tonnes per year”, the report added. diverse site. statement last week. dredge spoil in the marine park as part some 51 million cubic metres (1.8 billion “This would make the total capacity Environment Minister Greg Hunt said “The report demonstrates that we of a push to stop the United Nations cubic feet) of the ocean floor dug up, of the Great Barrier Reef’s coal ports just his government’s report to UNESCO have heard the concerns of the (World declaring the site in danger. would have “devastating impacts” on the less than the overall capacity of the cur- “clearly demonstrates that the Great Heritage) committee and we have com- But the ban does not include most natural wonder. rent largest port in the world: Shanghai, Barrier Reef does not warrant being list- prehensively addressed every one of islands and ports as well as lakes and The report prepared by the consul- China.” ed as in danger”. them. We have also listened to the con- other waterways that fall outside the tancy Dalberg Global Development Australia has come under scrutiny One of the measures implemented by cerns of the community.” —AFP

Supplements industry derides NY attorney general’s DNA tests

NEW YORK: But can it tell if a pill touted as an methods and procedures to test the products energy-booster contains ginseng or is just a and will independently report their findings, mix of rice powder and pine? which will be made public,” said Loren Israelsen, Some scientists say yes, while industry the group’s president. “We feel the most appro- groups and some independent experts say priate response to bad science is good science.” DNA testing alone is inadequate for analyzing The American Botanical Council, a nonprofit botanical products that have gone through a research and education organization based in lot of processing from leaf to tablet. Austin, Texas, was particularly critical of the About 65,000 dietary supplements are on Guelph study. “We raised the question if any of the market, consumed by more than 150 mil- these products are extracts, and if so, what oth- lion Americans, according to a 2013 Canadian er analytical technologies were used to help government study. The American Botanical ensure the validity of the results obtained by Council estimates US sales of herbal supple- DNA testing,” said Mark Blumenthal, the coun- ments came to $6 billion that year. cil’s founder and director. “DNA testing seldom The US Food and Drug Administration is able to properly identify chemically complex requires companies to verify their products are herbal extracts, because often DNA doesn’t get safe and properly labeled, but supplements are through the extraction process,” Blumenthal exempt from the FDA’s strict approval process said. BETHESDA: Dr Nancy Sullivan, chief, Biodefense Research Section, BETHESDA: Biologist Olivier Mbaya works with serum samples from for prescription drugs. New York Attorney He said at least some of the products cited National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks in her healthy volunteer participants in a European study of an experimen- General Eric Schneiderman says lax oversight of by Schneiderman are likely made from extracts, office at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of tal Ebola vaccine, at the Vaccine Research Center at the National supplements can have serious public health which can be validated by other common lab Health in Bethesda, Md. It took 16 years of twists and turns. — AP Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. — AP consequences, noting a 2013 hepatitis out- tests. Tod Cooperman, president of the con- break traced to a tainted diet supplement and sumer-funded ConsumerLab.com, also dis- the death of a baby at a Connecticut hospital missed the Guelph and attorney general’s DNA Twists, turns, eventually lead after doctors gave the child a probiotic supple- studies as inappropriate for validating herbal ment later found to be contaminated with supplements. yeast. Last week, Schneiderman ordered Wal- “There are definitely problems with herbal Mart, Walgreen’s, Target and GNC to stop sell- supplements but this is not the right method to promising Ebola vaccine ing store-brand herbal supplements that DNA to test those products,” Cooperman said. His lab tests found questionable. performs a range of tests on vitamins, herbal Schneiderman’s action followed a Clarkson products and other dietary supplements to ‘A case of resuscitation more than once’ University study he commissioned and he also determine quality and purity, and provides the referenced a 2013 study published by results to consumers who subscribe to his serv- WASHINGTON: It took 16 years of twists and system antibodies that block a virus from enter- Cells to target University of Guelph researchers. The Clarkson ice. turns. Over and over, Dr. Nancy Sullivan thought ing cells, but Sullivan didn’t think that would be Along the way came multiple monkey studies study tested hundreds of bottles of store-brand she was close to an Ebola vaccine, only to see enough for Ebola, a large virus that infects in an to learn exactly what kind of T cells to target. herbal supplements sold as treatments for Exposure of bad products the next experiment fail. unusual way. “Lots of shoes have dropped,” is how she everything from memory loss to prostate trou- Blumenthal also is working to expose bad “A case of resuscitation more than once,” is Gene-based vaccines can induce additional describes all the frustration. Sullivan had a few ble, and found 4 out of 5 contained none of the products. He launched the Botanical how the National Institutes of Health researcher virus fighters called T cells, so that’s what years’ head start but after the 2001 anthrax herbs listed on the labels. Adulterants Program four years ago to ferret describes the journey. But it is those failures that Sullivan created with pieces of Ebola genetic attack other laboratories scrambled to study out suppliers who sell adulterated or misla- Sullivan credits for finally leading her to a vac- material. In July 1999, colleagues emailed that Ebola and other possible bioterrorist agents. Fingerprinting beled ingredients to manufacturers of herbal cine promising enough to test in parts of West they’d given her vaccine to monkeys and meas- Soon after, the Public Health Agency of Canada At the University of Guelph, researchers supplements. One goal of the program is to Africa ravaged by Ebola. Last week, volunteers in ured a big immune reaction. Sullivan recently reported creating its own Ebola vaccine using a used DNA fingerprinting to find that a third of identify what laboratory tests are most effec- Liberia’s capital began rolling up their sleeves for showed President Barack Obama the lab note- livestock virus to carry the genetic material - the 44 supplements tested contained no trace of tive. Pieter Cohen, a Harvard Medical School the first large-scale testing of two potential book where she’d scribbled her reaction: second vaccine currently being tested in that the plant on the label. researcher whose area of expertise is tracking Ebola vaccines, the one Sullivan developed at “Yahoo!” In November 2000, Sullivan and Nabel large study in Liberia. But the dietary supplement industry takes down dangerous supplements, said the new NIH and a similar one created by Canada’s gov- reported in the journal Nature that four vaccinat- “Thank God we had some of these” under- issue with DNA testing and some consumer versions of methamphetamine he has found in ernment. ed monkeys survived an otherwise lethal dose of way, said Ebola expert Thomas Geisbert of the advocacy groups say the method by itself is diet and sports supplements would never be Sullivan just hopes it was in time to prove Ebola. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, inadequate because it cannot detect the most spotted by DNA testing. whether the shots really work. Ebola has claimed “For the first time, a vaccine protected mon- an early collaborator on the Canadian vaccine serious problems with supplements - contami- “There is so much wrong with the quality of nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa over the past keys against the lethal Ebola virus, raising doc- who helped with some of Sullivan’s initial work nation with heavy metals or chemical adulter- supplements today that it’s a shame the New year, although new infections have dropped dra- tors’ hopes of developing a means of inoculating and now researches treatments. “You can’t do ants. York attorney general is not using sound sci- matically in recent months. It’s too soon to people against the terrifying disease,” The that research in six months.” “There’s no problem with DNA barcoding as ence to focus on the most important problems,” declare victory: Last week, new cases inched up Associated Press reported at the time. As the Liberian vaccine study gets under way, a science; however, it should be used appropri- Cohen said. “The FDA has done hundreds of for the first time this year, and health officials But her vaccine required multiple shots over work hasn’t paused back in Sullivan’s lab. Her ately. It has limitations,” said Nandakumara spot inspections of supplement companies, fear a resurgence if they don’t completely stamp several months, not useful during an outbreak. research in monkeys suggests long-lasting pro- Sarma, director of dietary supplements for US and they have found that 7 in 10 are not com- out the disease before the upcoming rainy sea- Sullivan scaled back, using a human cold virus, tection will require a special booster shot, some- Pharmacopeia, which sets quality standards pliant with basic manufacturing practices.” son. Waning cases make it more difficult to tell if called an adenovirus, to carry the Ebola genetic thing yet to begin Phase 1 safety testing in peo- and testing protocols for drugs, vitamins and Schneiderman’s office stands by the validity a vaccine is protective, but the shots will be test- material in one shot. Then she learned it ple. She goes to Congo, where Ebola first was supplements. of its DNA testing. “Rather than attacking test- ed in multiple places and ways “hoping that one wouldn’t work in people who’ve had that partic- discovered, about twice a year for research. The United Natural Products Alliance, a ing methods that have been validated by more of those will give us real data,” said Dr. Bruce ular cold virus. Using rare human adenoviruses “It isn’t the case where you discover some- trade group, says it is sending people out than 70 published papers, the time has come Aylward of the World Health Organization. didn’t work at all; finally a chimpanzee cold virus thing and instantly move it to humans,” Sullivan around the country to buy large quantities of for the herbal supplements industry to put Getting to that step is a story of nitty-gritty did the trick. wants the public to understand. “There are lots the supplements cited by Schneiderman and concerns about what is and is not included in laboratory science, the kind that seldom makes of pitfalls.” —AP submit the bottles, unopened, to five or six cer- its products to rest,” Matt Mittenthal, headlines. tified botanical testing labs for analysis. spokesman for the attorney general, said in an “You don’t know what’s going to be impor- “They will perform universally accepted email.—AP tant 15 years from now,” noted Sullivan, a cell biologist who kept hitting roadblocks as she German drugmaker Stada to tried to unravel enough mysteries of the immune system to create an Ebola vaccine. launch rapid test for Ebola “You need a failure to know what immune responses aren’t helpful, as difficult as they were FRANKFURT: German drugmaker Stada will across the region. In all, 8,981 people have died at the time,” she said. It all started in the late launch a test next month that can diagnose of Ebola out of 22,495 known cases in nine 1990s, when Sullivan, who had just earned her Ebola virus infections within minutes, it said yes- countries since the outbreak began in Ph.D. at Harvard, landed a new job at the terday, a move it hopes will help to slow the December 2013, according to the WHO. Using University of Michigan. She wanted to study spread of the disease. Stada’s test on living patients will typically how Ebola infects cells, but her boss, Dr. Gary The test, which is being marketed by Stada, require pre-treating blood samples with bat- Nabel, gave her a bigger assignment: develop a was developed and produced by unlisted tery-powered centrifuges, which are available at vaccine capable of protecting monkeys. German diagnostics firm Senova. It yields results most emergency relief centres in the affected based on pre-treated patient blood samples regions, a company spokesman said. Stada, a Virus too aggressive within about 10 minutes. supplier of generic drugs, non-prescription Back then, the average person probably knew Stada said its main use would likely be to treatments and diagnostic kits, said it would dis- of Ebola only from Richard Preston’s best-seller diagnose the deceased because their body flu- tribute the test from next month to aid organi- “The Hot Zone” or the movie “Outbreak.” ids do not need to be pre-treated before testing. sations for 3.20 euros ($3.66) apiece, which cov- Discovered in 1976, the virus cropped up every Contact by mourners with their dead relatives is ers its costs. The test has been shown to work in few years in remote parts of Africa, killed dozens a common way for the disease to be transmit- a trial with several hundred participants in to a few hundred people with horrifying swift- ted. “The viral load in people who have died of Guinea, according to the company. While Stada ness and retreated back into the jungle again. Ebola is so high that a mere throat swab suffices said the test was the first of its kind, there have Early vaccine attempts had failed. to perform the rapid test,” Senova owner Hans been previous efforts to speed Ebola diagnosis. “The thinking was, this virus was too aggres- Hermann Soeffing said. Health charity The Wellcome Trust said in sive, it’s not possible to mount an immune The number of new cases of Ebola rose in all November a new 15-minute Ebola test it helped NEW YORK: A woman walks past a GNC store, Feb. 3, 2015 in New York. Numerous response in sufficient time,” recalled Sullivan, three of West Africa’s worst-hit countries last fund was being tried out in Guinea, targeting six store brand supplements aren’t what their labels claim to be, an ongoing investiga- who followed Nabel to NIH and now heads week, the World Health Organization (WHO) times faster testing than diagnostic kits current- tion of popular herbal supplements subjected to DNA testing has found, New York biodefense vaccine research there. said, ending previously encouraging declines ly in use. — Reuters Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. — AP Most vaccines spur production of immune SpaceX calls off launch of space weather satellite

CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX called off Sunday’s part of the company’s plan to eventually reuse take action to save the future of human civiliza- planned launch of a deep-space observatory - rockets. tion.” “The constant ability to see the Earth whole, and a revolutionary rocket-landing attempt - after The Deep Space Climate Observatory is refash- fully sunlit, every single day ... can add to our way a critical radar-tracking system failed. ioned from the Earth-observing satellite con- of thinking about our relationship to the Earth,” Former Vice President Al Gore, who first envi- ceived in the late 1990s by Gore when he was vice said Gore. He was accompanied by Sen. Bill sioned the observatory two decades ago, was on president. It was canceled before ever flying and Nelson of Florida, who flew on the space shuttle hand for the attempt. The SpaceX company halted packed away until several years ago, when NASA, as a congressman in 1986. the countdown at the 21/2-minute mark follow- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric The $340 million mission is meant to provide a ing the loss of the Air Force radar system for track- Administration and Air Force decided to resurrect heads-up on intense solar activity that can disrupt ing the rocket in flight. Chief executive officer it as a space weather sentinel. communications, power and air travel. That’s why Elon Musk said via Twitter that the company the spacecraft is to be stationed 1 million miles would try again Monday and that the delay prob- Sunset liftoff from Earth and 92 million miles from the sun, the ably was for the best. Gore arrived at Cape Canaveral well in advance so-called Lagrange point where the gravity fields “Will give us time to replace 1st stage video of the sunset liftoff, eager to see his brainchild are neutralized. transmitter,” the company’s billionaire founder finally soar. He told reporters an hour before the NOAA’s director of the Space Weather wrote, adding that it was not needed for launch, planned launch time that he was grateful to the Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, Tom “but nice to have.” Besides launching its first deep scientists and others who kept his dream alive. Berger, likened it to a “tsunami buoy.” The obser- space mission - an observatory that will shoot to a The measurements will help measure global vatory originally was called Triana, after the sailor CAPE CANAVERAL: A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket stands ready for a sunset launch from spot 1 million miles from Earth to monitor solar warming, he noted, and the steady stream of pic- who first spotted land on Christopher Columbus’ complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday. outbursts - SpaceX will attempt its second landing tures of Earth may help mobilize the public to put historic voyage. Now it’s dubbed DSCOVR, short On board is the Deep Space Climate Observatory, which will head to a destination 1 of a leftover booster on an ocean platform. It’s pressure on the world’s government leaders “to for Deep Space Climate Observatory.—AP million miles away. — AP TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Farmers file over 360 corn lawsuits against Syngenta

DES MOINES: Farmers and farm businesses A federal court panel that manages law- in 20 states have now filed more than 360 suits involving large numbers of plaintiffs lawsuits against agricultural chemicals- has assigned Senior Judge John Lungstrum maker Syngenta, and hundreds more may in Kansas City to oversee all of the cases be coming as a federal judge organizes the filed from around the country in a consoli- complex case so they can move forward. dated action. The dispute centers around Syngenta’s Cargill, which said it supports develop- sale of a corn seed called Agrisure Viptera, ment of new GMO products, claimed which was genetically altered to contain a Syngenta selling Viptera before obtaining protein that kills corn-eating bugs such as import approval from major markets was earworms and cutworms. The US “inconsistent with industry standards and Department of Agriculture approved it in the conduct of other biotechnology com- 2010, and Syngenta first sold it to farmers panies.” Syngenta has said it plans to ask in 2011. the court to dismiss the farmer lawsuits China, a growing importer of US corn because “plaintiffs do not and cannot point that refuses to buy genetically modified to any authority barring the introduction of crops it hasn’t tested, had not approved a US-approved product in the US simply Viptera when Syngenta began selling it. In because the product was not yet approved November 2013, China discovered the for sale in a foreign country like China.” Viptera corn trait in several US shipments. “Syngenta has done what a good com- It began rejecting US corn imports in pany should do. We developed a superior February 2014. The lawsuits say it rejected product that helps farmers; we applied for more than 131 million bushels. and received government approvals from Loss of revenue to the US corn industry the U.S. and major export markets at the has been estimated by the National Grain time; and we submitted an import applica- and Feed Association, a trade group, at tion to the Chinese government that was between $1 billion and $3 billion. Farmers timely, accurate and complete,” spokesman who did not plant the Syngenta seed, grain Paul Minehart said in a statement. handlers and exporters claim they lost Minehart said the issues in the case money because of the Chinese boycott of “affect every American farmer’s right to US corn and corn byproducts. benefit from new technologies that help “Knowing that contamination of Viptera grow better crops,” and that when corn with the rest of the US corn supply approved products like Viptera are kept out was inevitable, Syngenta nevertheless of the market “for political and economic gambled US farmers’ livelihood on reasons, farmers - and consumers - lose.” approval of Viptera by the major corn- Switzerland-based Syngenta is the RICHMOND: Sen. Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, center, and Albemarle Sheriff Chip Harding, left, listen as Gil Harrington, right, mother of slain VA importing countries,” according to a lawsuit world’s largest crop chemicals company Tech student Morgan Harrington, addresses the Senate Courts of Justice committee, at the General Assembly Building in Richmond, Va., Jan. filed Jan. 13 in federal court in Iowa by with annual revenue of about $15 billion. It 28, 2015. Virginia is considering expanding the number of misdemeanor convictions that would require the offender to submit a DNA sample to Thomas Land and Livestock Corp., a busi- has an agricultural seed division based in a state databank. —AP ness in east-central Iowa. Minnetonka, Minnesota. Lawsuits making similar claims have China approved Viptera for import in been filed in corn-growing states including December, but Kansas City lawyer Richard Virginia state to consider Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska with Paul said that doesn’t change the assertion hundreds more being prepared, plaintiffs’ that farmers lost money. Paul, who repre- attorneys say. Some suits are from farmers sents clients suing Syngenta and serves on represented by individual attorneys, others an executive committee of lawyers coordi- taking more DNA samples are class-action lawsuits. Agribusiness con- nating all the plaintiffs’ cases, said China’s glomerates such as Cargill and ADM, which approval may establish a definite period of RICHMOND: After Morgan Harrington’s body Next Girl organization after her daughter’s traffic offenses punishable only by fines, in 2012 export grain, also have sued, claiming their time in which damages can be assessed, turned up in an Albemarle County hayfield in killing. “We have the technology, and it should and is being joined by Wisconsin this year. businesses suffered losses. Cargill’s esti- but the extent of financial harm may not be 2009, authorities were able to obtain crime- be utilized,” Harrington said. “There have been Collection of DNA upon arrest, rather than mate is more than $90 million. over. — AP scene DNA evidence. What they didn’t have yet so many high-profile crimes. The time to get this conviction, in felony cases also is becoming was a forensic match to a suspect in Virginia’s done is now.” more common. The Urban Institute reports that groundbreaking databank of felons’ DNA. 28 states now authorize collection of DNA from As it turns out, there were some missed DNA databank expansion people arrested in at least some felony cases - a opportunities to obtain that match - commonly DNA databank expansion has its critics, how- practice that was upheld last year in a 5-4 ruling referred to as a “hit” - years earlier. Jesse ever. Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, executive direc- by the US Supreme Court in a Maryland case. Matthew Jr., who has been forensically linked tor of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia is among the states that take DNA upon but not charged in the Harrington case, had Virginia, said expanding it raises privacy and arrest for some serious felonies, and that aspect been accused of sexually assaulting two women constitutional search-and-seizure concerns and of the law would not be affected by the pend- at separate Virginia universities in 2002 and could exacerbate existing racial disparities in ing legislation to expand the list of misde- 2003. Had he been charged, police would have the criminal justice system. meanor convictions. collected Matthew’s DNA. But the cases were “Moreover, there is further reason to ques- dropped after the women declined to press tion the basic fairness of imposing this blanket Proposals charges. testing on all who are convicted of minor The three bills under consideration vary in Matthew was convicted of trespassing in crimes,” Gastanaga said, adding that many peo- exactly which misdemeanors would be added. 2010, but that offense was not on the list of mis- ple facing misdemeanor charges plead guilty Among the possibilities are trespassing, stalk- demeanors that would require him to submit a and probably would not fully understand the ing, violating a protective order and indecent DNA sample - a limitation that could be erased ramifications of giving up genetic information exposure. Virginia already has about 384,000 in future cases if legislation pending in the that is far more revealing than a simple finger- samples in its DNA databank, which produced General Assembly is approved. Authorities final- print. 513 hits in 2014, according to the state ly obtained Matthew’s DNA from a cheek swab “Who knows how DNA in a data bank could Department of Forensic Science. after he was charged in last September’s disap- be used in the future? Gathering up everyone Harding said the proposals to add more mis- pearance of University of Virginia student with a certain marker? Predicting dangerous- demeanors are a good start, but he would like Hannah Graham, whose body was found a few ness, mental illness, disease?” Gastanaga said. an even broader expansion, citing New York as miles from where Harrington’s had been discov- Such concerns have done little to slow the the model. According to the New York Division ered five years earlier. That evidence linked expansion of DNA databanks nationwide as of Criminal Justice Services, DNA samples col- Matthew to a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax police and lawmakers seek broader powers to lected in the misdemeanor cases that were County and to the death of Harrington. prevent new crimes and solve old ones. added to the state’s program in 2012 have pro- Graham’s slaying illustrates why expansion of Since Virginia became the first state to estab- vided links to 35 homicides. Virginia’s DNA collection effort is a good idea, lish a DNA databank for violent felons in 1989, Expansion comes at a cost, however, and that proponents say. others have followed. Now 48 states collect likely will be a factor in Virginia lawmakers’ “In Hannah’s case, if Jesse Matthew is in fact DNA for all convicted felons while Minnesota deliberations. Sen. Mark Obenshain’s bill was guilty, she would be alive today if we could have and Missouri collect it for a limited number of endorsed by the Courts of Justice Committee legally taken his DNA in that previous convic- violent or sex-related felonies, according to the but referred to the Finance Committee, which tion,” Albemarle County Sheriff Chip Harding National Conference of State Legislatures. will consider its estimated cost of $232,500 per BASEL: File photo is the headquarters and logo of the Swiss chemical maker told The Associated Press before testifying in Virginia is also among the 42 states that take year for analyzing up to 10,000 additional sam- Syngenta in Basel, Switzerland. More than 360 lawsuits have been filed by farmers favor of the legislation at the General Assembly. DNA samples for at least some misdemeanor ples per year. State budget officials say that esti- and farm businesses in US 20 states in a legal dispute centering around Syngenta’s Supporters include Hannah Graham’s father, convictions. mate is for supplies only, and it could be higher sale of a corn seed called Agrisure Viptera, which was genetically altered to contain a John Graham, and Harrington’s mother, Gil New York became the first state to collect if more analysts have to be hired to process protein that kills corn-eating bugs such as earworms and cutworms. —AP Harrington, who formed the nonprofit Save the DNA in all felonies and misdemeanors, except DNA samples. —AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa celebrates National Holidays with special offer

n celebration of the National and Liberation For extra pampering time, guests looking to days, the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & be spoiled in the most relaxing and rejuvenat- ISpa is offering a special room rate for fami- ing treatments and massages, a 15 percent dis- lies to make the most of their stay during this count at the most-sought after Talise Spa is memorable time in Kuwait’s history. also included. Guests booking before 20 February 2015 Situated along the shores of the Arabian will have the chance to experience all the facili- Gulf, Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa ties of the beachside resort for just KD 69 inclu- offers a complete destination for families, sive of the 15 percent service charge for the bringing an exciting set of new and exciting Deluxe Room. They will be treated to a compli- experiences. These include luxurious accom- mentary sumptuous breakfast at the all-day modations, fun-filled activities for the entire dining restaurant Garden CafÈ and WI-FI access family, and impressive dining options that will throughout the hotel. surely make the holidays truly memorable.

arwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Sabah patronized the youth voluntary forum, which was organized recently at Kuwait University. Sheikh Faisal highlighted during the event the impor- tance of voluntary work as a symbol of the nation’s advancement, adding that it is important to participate in voluntary work activities to show Kuwait’s supportive stance for this work domestically, Fregionally and internationally.

Sebamed participated in an open health day that was organized recently at Jawharat Al-Saleh School.

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Kuwait’s 4th Concours D’elegance gets underway at Marina Crescent Wednesday Four classes cover 100+ historic, classic cars

uwait’s Historical, Vintage and Classic between 1900 and 1975. Cars will be Camaro COPO base No. 001 and 002. Car Museum hosts the fourth entered in four age classes and there are 2015 Kuwait Concours d’Elegance - timetable of events KConcours D’Elegance 2015 from separate judging sections for the likes of Panel of judges February 11-18. Hollywood movie cars, American sports and The Concourse has attracted the services February 11 winners’ announcement The historic car bonanza will be held at muscle cars and Gas Money Garage cars. of numerous enthusiasts from all over the 13.00- 18.00 Governmental classic 15.00-18.00 Ferrari festival Marina Crescent under the patronage and “We acknowledge the support of our world and an illustrious panel of judges led cars event 20.00-22.00 Ceremony and awards attendance of His Highness Sheikh Nasser sponsoring partner Trafalgar Company - by Leonardo Fioravanti, and including the 19.00 Official opening of Kuwait presentation Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. Chopard Kuwait, and everyone else who has likes of Chris Bangle, Dr. Andrea Zagato, Concours d’Elegance 2015 This year’s event is dedicated to stylish, made the Kuwait Concours D’Elegance 2015 Stephan Winkelmann, Alfieri Maserati and February 15 rare and precious cars manufactured possible,” said Eng Zakaria Dashti, consultant Marella Rivolta-Zagato. February 12 09.00- 15.00 Classic cars and winning to the Kuwait Historical, Vintage and Classic Fioravanti hails from Italy and worked for 10.00- 13.00 American Sports Classic cars on display Car Museum, which opened its doors in the Italian car design company Pininfarina Cars judging 11.00-19.00 Chevrolet Knights event 2010 and is the permanent home to over 35 for 24 years as a design director. Several of 12.00-15.00 Gas Monkey Garage Team historic and classic motor vehicles. Fioiravanti’s personal projects include the welcome February 16 Ferrari 365 GTB 4 ‘Daytona’, the 308 GTB and 11.00-19.00 Kuwait Motorcycle Festival Pre-1900 to 1975 GTS and the rare and very collectable 1980s 09.00- 21.00 Classic cars and winning cars on display Class A at the Concours is open to vehi- and 1990s legends, the 288 GTO and the February 13 11.00-19.00 4x4 event cles built pre-1900 to 1930 and includes F40. 10.00- 16.00 Participating Classic Cars priceless pieces such as the 1924 Bamford & Bangle is an American automotive judging Martin Side-Valve team car and a 1930 designer, best known for his work with the 11.00-19.00 Super Cars event February 17 Plymouth. Class B is for cars built between BMW Group where his designs have been 09.00- 15.00 Classic cars and winning 1930 and 1945 and covers entries such as incorporated into the entire 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 February 14 cars on display the 1933 Invicta S-Type 4.5 and a 1935 series of BMW cars and the X3, X5, X6 and 09.00- 13.00 Classic and Sports Festival 11.00-19.00 Japanese cars event Bugatti Type 57 Aerolithe Electron. the latest concept design, Gina. Dr. Andrea 11.00-12.0 Grand Tour, parade of Cars built between 1946 and 1960 are Zagato is a member of the third generation classic cars from the Marina February 18 entered in Class C and include the likes of a of the family to head Coachwork Zagato. He Crescent to Kuwait Towers 09.00- 21.00 Classic cars and winning 1958 Austin Healey 100-Six and a 1953 is a world renowned expert in exclusive and return cars on display Bentley R-Type saloon. Class D covers cars bodywork design. 13.00-14.00 Parade of Classic cars and 11.00-19.00 MOPAR cars event manufactured between 1961 and 1975, with Winkelmann hails from Berlin and the likes of the 1971 Lamborghini Miura switched his attentions to the automotive P4000S and a Bizzarrini Spyder Targa likely world in the 1990s, initially with Mercedes- Alifieri Maserati is the son of Ernesto art director of the Zagato design studio and to feature. Benz and then with the Fiat Group. He was Maserati, a designer of Maserati models the wife of Andrea Zagato. Middle East Dodge Challenge Hill cars appointed CEO of Fiat Auto Austria and between 1932 and 1947. In 2000, Alifieri Doors open on Wednesday afternoon and will also be on display with chassis numbers Switzerland and then Fiat Auto Germany. In launched the Fratelli Maserati permanent the timetable gets underway with a 002 and 003. They are considered to be the 2005, he joined Lamborghini as President exhibit in a museum in Bologna and organ- Governmental classic car event. The most powerful ever manufactured by and CEO and has received numerous notable ised the 60th anniversary commemoration of Concours D’Elegance runs through to Dodge. Owners will also display the first accolades for automotive achievements. the OSCA Foundation. Rivolta-Zagato is the February 18th.

AUK inaugurates Liberation Village Exhibition 2015 he International Relations Club of American University of Kuwait (AUK) opened on Sunday the Liberation Village Exhibition to coincide with Kuwait’s celebrations of national days. On the sidelines of the exhibition, a series of lectures and seminars Twill be held to discuss international relations between Kuwait and other countries in the economic, historical and social aspects, said deputy head of international relations club of AUK Sara Hadad in a press statement. She stated that the three-day event, held at AUK headquarters in Salmiya, aims to raise awareness about international relations. She noted that the exhibition also hosts a large number of booths for small entrepreneurs to display their products. She invited the public to participate in the exhibition. —KUNA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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(Tamil) 6:00 PM Goa, holder of Indian A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 9:45 PM THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE 1:00 AM BLACKHAT 9:30 PM Passport No. J6280192, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 12:15 AM BLACKHAT 12:30 AM MARINA-2 would like to state that I SHARQIA-2 JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 11:30 AM AL-KOUT.1 have changed my name JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 11:45 AM JUPITER ASCENDING 2:00 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 11:45 AM from Cecelia Mendonsa E JUPITER ASCENDING 2:15 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 4:30 PM JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 2:15 PM Camelo to Cecilia THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA 4:45 PM JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 7:00 PM THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA 4:45 PM JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 7:30 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 9:30 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 7:30 PM Mendonca E Camelo. JUPITER ASCENDING 10:00 PM JUPITER ASCENDING 12:05 AM JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 10:00 PM (C 4923) JUPITER ASCENDING 12:30 AM JUPITER ASCENDING 12:30 AM MARINA-3 SHARQIA-3 THE GAMBLER 12:15 PM AL-KOUT.2 I, Martinha Trindade THE GAMBLER 11:30 AM AMERICAN SNIPER 2:45 PM SON OF A GUN 12:15 PM Ferrao, R/O H. 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No. THE GAMBLER 12:30 AM AVENUES-2 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 12:00 PM AL-KOUT.4 244/A, near Rebello’s MUHALAB-2 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 2:30 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 11:30 AM Hospital, Madel Pequeno SON OF A GUN 11:30 AM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 5:00 PM THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE 2:00 PM Margao, Salcette - Goa SON OF A GUN 1:30 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 7:30 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 3:45 PM TAKEN 3 3:30 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 10:00 PM THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE 6:15 PM would like to state that I SON OF A GUN 5:45 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 12:30 AM BLACKHAT 8:00 PM have changed my name AMERICAN SNIPER 7:45 PM A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 10:30 PM from Francisco Mendonsa TAKEN 3 10:15 PM AVENUES-3 THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE 1:00 AM SON OF A GUN 12:45 AM AMERICAN SNIPER 1:15 PM to Luis Francisco De Fatima AMERICAN SNIPER 3:45 PM BAIRAQ-1 De Menino Jesus MUHALAB-3 AMERICAN SNIPER 6:15 PM JUPITER ASCENDING (3D) 12:15 PM Mendonca. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

What a day to make a deal favorable for any business, financial or legal ven- This should be one of those easygoing days when nothing is a really big deal. It tures! Your mind is alert, your objectives are clear and your buoyant optimism will help you might be a good time to seek a solution to any technical or emotional problem that hangs win your way. Athletic energy also is high. Lunchtime may be a good time to jog with a co- over your head. You have an open mind and are able to see all aspects of a situation. Do not worker or shoot some baskets. This afternoon you could complete or at least make great compromise away anything that is important to you, though it may seem easy to do. Your headway on those ongoing projects and clean off your desk. Stick to routine tasks this good feeling may tempt you to overindulge-put off any shopping till another day. You may evening and avoid starting any new personal projects or heading out in new directions. A enjoy getting together with friends for a while after work. It is always good to have the oppor- liberal and tolerant attitude is a very good thing to have on those winter days when you may tunity to build on friendships. This may not be a time-consuming gathering, perhaps just a feel stuck indoors. You may be thinking of a move or adding on to the present home site. A meeting of a special club or a common hobby interest. You teach others to feel valuable and roomier, more stretched out feeling is desired. needed without realizing it.

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

You will probably pull away from associates who have slowed your progress. You may find that this is a time when job and family keep you quite busy. You This may even mean a new job. Updating equipment or skills seems to be the focus of your may find that friends and many personal interests fall by the wayside. New solutions or inven- growth for now. New, futuristic ideas are part of this, but it’s much more than that: putting tions are discovered. The tried and true does not cut it anymore: it’s the new, the unique and them into practice is essential because this is much more than empty idealism. There is a the original that catches and holds your interest. Idealism, rationality and critical thinking break from the past and a willingness to flaunt convention. The accent this evening is on become more and more a part of your mental patterns and the way you communicate. You sociability, entertaining, love and affection. Any problems with personal relationships should are inventive, original and high tech. Do not overdo and try to go too far too fast. Let things melt away. Visiting with old friends this afternoon will prove beneficial in that someone may take their natural course, which should be an easy one now. You may be able to enjoy and offer you a chance to make some money. Charisma is high and first impressions are exciting. value your own life situation this evening. A visitor in your home may compliment you on A new love interest appears tonight. your tastes.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You have found clever ways to improve efficiency on the job. There may be There is a tendency to be too strict with yourself today. You probably insist some new software or some other technical expertise that you can introduce to that whatever does not contribute to security and other long-term goals is trivial. Take your others. You are learning new techniques to problem solving and may fascinate those around ACROSS from aba cloth. breaks-there is a need for the accuracy that you are so well known for, so estimate the time it you. You are able to use your sense of humor around those that seem determined to have you 1. Cleaning implement consisting of 5. Any of several tropical and subtropical will take you to complete a job in an accurate fashion. In other words, give yourself plenty of worry! It may be comfortable for you to be reminded that, for one reason or another, you are absorbent material fastened to a handle. treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a time. Your ambition is intensified. You feel a love of order and law-an appreciation for always where you need to be. Getting your message across to others is at a high just now. 4. Perfect or complete or pure. terminal crown of large entire leaves and responsibilities and duty. Business is growing and your skills are in demand. Do not settle for Your timing should be perfect and those around you should find you most natural. Support is 12. A man who serves as a sailor. usually bearing hanging clusters of elon- a second-class job when you and your skills are first-class. Demand proper pay for your work. available if you need it. Open communication with a loved one this evening brings about a You may be shopping this afternoon-looking for that perfect suit for your perfect job. Have new understanding. 15. A constellation in the southern hemi- gated fruits. faith in you. sphere near Telescopium and Norma. 6. A white trivalent metallic element. 16. Formed like a bacillus. 7. The cardinal number that is the sum of 17. Any of various primates with short tails seven and one. or no tail at all. 8. A German art song of the 19th century Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. Of or relating to Fabianism. for voice and piano. 20. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fish- 9. In or of the month preceding the present Emphasis today is on your work, profession or public image, not your private Your capable mind is working well all day. You are able to quickly divide the es. one. life. You may wish to reflect on long-range plans and just how well things are falling into nonessential from the essential in no time at all. A period of intellectual creativity has dawned in place. This may be a good time to announce your plans or take a stand on some issue. 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There could even be an instance where others will change the wording of al. Universal energy is available and it brings with it many new opportunities for positive changes in dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 24. A Mid-Atlantic state. their sentences to a more positive content because of your presence. This is a lucky day and salary and work standards. You are able to teach or help others that are in your business or even in cubic centimeters. 25. Any of the large anthropoid apes of the along with your ability to make things run smoothly, your efforts should produce some excel- your company and you may find that you do well as you teach an orientation class or just seek 40. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of family Pongidae. lent results. If you are consulting others, today would be a good day to take some extra time to opportunities to solve problems. Soon you will find yourself moving up the corporate ladder, or rubberized fabric. 27. 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If it seems that things are moving too fast, slow ing, you will be successful. This may be a time of experimenting with new concepts and put- forelimbs modified to form membranous a fleshy wall or pericarp. down-otherwise, you could accomplish work of little value. If you think about where you were ting aside the old tried and true. Again, clear communication is imperative. Ambition and wings and anatomical adaptations for 34. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar this time last year regarding finances, you will find huge improvements have begun to hap- achievement can be tough taskmasters at this time. You win reward, recognition and authori- echolocation by which they navigate. deity. pen. Lady luck seems determined to stay on your team. You should give yourself time before ty through hard work and knowing the score; otherwise, you may find that someone hungrier 53. The branch of engineering science that 35. 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Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the 62. Swelling from excessive accumulation faces. of serous fluid in tissue. 78. Move in a gyrating fashion. 64. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989). 79. A small cake leavened with yeast. 66. Remove with or as if with a ladle. 67. Type genus of the Anatidae. DOWN 70. A nucleotide derived from adenosine 1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake that occurs in muscle tissue. Chad. 71. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a 2. Using speech rather than writing. hill. 3. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver 75. A radioactive transuranic element pro- cells. duced by bombarding plutonium with neu- 4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made trons.

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low-cooked coming-of-age tale “Boyhood” took and an important stop for Hollywood awards hope- the best film and director trophies at the British fuls. Steve Carell, Michael Keaton, Amy Adams and SAcademy Film Awards on Sunday, while Wes Reese Witherspoon were among the American actors Anderson’s candy-colored comedy “The Grand who walked the red carpet before the ceremony at Budapest Hotel” won the biggest haul of prizes, with London’s Royal Opera House. British stars included five. Both are unusual works by distinctive directors, Kristin Scott Thomas and Rosamund Pike, soccer great and there were also multiple trophies for the Stephen David Beckham - and Hawking, who received a huge Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything” and the ovation when he appeared onstage to present the jazz-drumming drama “Whiplash” at an event that visual effects award to “Interstellar.” British talent has proved small, personal films could emerge as winners. been especially well represented in Hollywood this Awards-season high-flyer “Birdman” had its wings year, led by multiple awards nominations for “The clipped, taking only a cinematography prize from 10 Theory of Everything” and “The Imitation Game.” nominations. And World War II code-breaking drama BAFTA organizers said that acclaimed civil rights “The Imitation Game” won nothing despite nine nomi- drama “Selma,” which stars British actor David nations. Richard Linklater, who spent 12 years making Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr, was overlooked “Boyhood,” was named best director, and Patricia because it arrived in Britain too late for academy Arquette won the supporting-actress trophy as a strug- members to see it. The film’s tally of just two Oscar gling mother in the film. Arquette said Linklater had set nominations helped spark a debate about out to show “how extraordinary an ordinary life is.” Hollywood’s lack of diversity. “Imitation Game” star “Boyhood” star Ellar Coltrane, who grew from 6 to 18 Benedict Cumberbatch said the omission of “Selma” onscreen, thanked British voters for rewarding “an exer- was the “one bitter note” of the event. “I wish David cise of collaboration and vulnerability.” The British Oyelowo was here with us as well,” he said. “I’ll be hon- awards, known as the BAFTAs, are considered an indi- oring him in my head tonight.” cator of likely success at Hollywood’s Academy Awards The British academy also overlooked Mike Leigh’s later this month. “The Theory of Everything” was named artist biopic “Mr Turner” in the major categories, best British film, and won an adapted-screenplay despite critical praise and a Cannes best-actor prize award for Anthony McCarten. Eddie Redmayne, already for star Timothy Spall. But Leigh was not forgotten. He an awards-season favorite, won the best-actor prize for received a lifetime honor, the British Academy his performance as physicist Hawking, who probed the Fellowship, for a body of films blending social realism cosmos while his body was wracked by motor neuron and sly humor. The awards are presented by the disease. British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which Redmayne said the evening went much better than hosts a separate ceremony for TV programs. his last BAFTA appearance, which he spent vomiting backstage with food poisoning when he was supposed British Academy Film Awards winners: Producer Cathleen Sutherland (2nd left) poses with the award for best film for “Boyhood” along with producer to be presenting an award. “It was one of the worst Film - “Boyhood” Jonathan Sehring (left), actor Ellar Coltrane, actor Ethan Hawke, actress Patricia Arquette who won the award nights of my life,” Redmayne said. “This is one of the British Film - “The Theory of Everything” for a supporting actress in the same film and John Sloss. —AFP Photos best nights of my life.” The actor paid an emotional trib- Director - Richard Linklater, “Boyhood” ute to Hawking, his ex-wife Jane and their families, “for Actor - Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything” reminding me of the great strength that comes from Actress - Julianne Moore, “Still Alice” the will to live a full and passionate life.” Julianne Moore Supporting Actor - JK Simmons, “Whiplash” was named best actress for portraying a professor with Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood” Alzheimer’s in “Still Alice.” Anderson won the original Rising Star - Jack O’Connell screenplay trophy for “The Grand Budapest Hotel, British Debut - Writer Stephen Beresford and produc- which also took prizes for production design, cos- er David Livingstone, “Pride” tumes, hair and makeup and Alexandre Desplat’s score. Original Screenplay - Wes Anderson, “The Grand Damien Chazelle’s jazz-drumming drama “Whiplash” Budapest Hotel” - a taut psychological showdown that was shot in 19 Adapted Screenplay - Anthony McCarten, “The days - took prizes for sound and editing. The support- Theory of Everything” ing-actor trophy went to the film’s JK Simmons, a stal- Film Not in the English Language - “Ida” wart character actor who is finally receiving major Music - Alexandre Desplat, “The Grand Budapest awards recognition. “The Lego Movie” was named best Hotel” animated feature, a prize the filmmakers said helped Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman” ease the pain of its Oscars snub. “You are our favorite Editing - “Whiplash” academy by far,” said co-director Phil Lord. Production Design - “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Costume Design - “The Grand Budapest Hotel” British cinema’s glitziest event Sound - “Whiplash” British actor Jack O’Connell, star of “71” and Visual Effects - “Interstellar” “Unbroken,” won the Rising Star award, the only tro- Makeup and Hair - “The Grand Budapest Hotel” phy decided by public vote. The others are chosen by Animated Feature - “The Lego Movie” several thousand members of the British film acade- Documentary - “Citizenfour” US actor Ethan Hawke (right) collects the best British actor Jack O’Connell US actress Julianne Moore poses my. The Oscar-nominated Polish film “Ida” won the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema - BBC director award on behalf of US director Richard poses with the Rising Star with the award leading actress for award for best film not in the English language. The Films Linklater for the film “Boyhood”, posing with Award . her work on the film “Still Alice”. awards ceremony is British cinema’s glitziest event, Academy Fellowship - Mike Leigh —Agencies actor Steve Carell.

British filmmaker Mike Leigh poses with British actor Eddie Redmayne poses with Stephen Hawking and Eddie Redmayne British actress Felicity Jones poses on the British actress Natalie Dormer poses in the BAFTA Fellowship Award. the award for a leading actor for his work pose for the cameras. red carpet. the winners room. on the film “The Theory of Everything”. Jupiter Ascending failure is bad for movies

By Brent Lang such as “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and buy a ticket to “Jupiter Ascending” even as those look like-for better or worse.” the film has been very bad indeed. The sense of dud, following “Speed Racer” and “Cloud Atlas,” “Ghostbusters.” That’s bad for audiences and, she acknowledged that it was deeply So what went wrong? Ever since “Jupiter impending cinematic disaster intensified after these once blazing hot talents risk being iced e careful what you wish for. Originality is ultimately, for business. Right now the formula flawed. “Do it because the Wachowskis are Ascending” introduced footage last spring at Warner Bros. opted to push the film out of its out of the A-list. a virtue in most creative pursuits, but in is working, but the repetition risks making the part of a shrinking species: original sci-fi CinemaCon of Mila Kunis as a cleaning lady July release date last summer and into “They’ve been making the movies they BHollywood, it will always be less appeal- movie-going experience stale and overly famil- filmmakers,” she wrote. “And in these long, who discovers she’s queen of the universe and February. want to make ever since the first ‘Matrix,’” said ing to studio bosses than more of the same. iar. As Lana Wachowski told the Los Angeles cold months before the Marvel machine Channing Tatum as her protector, a genetically Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst Audiences and critics often decry the sequels Times on Friday, “When I was young, originality cranks back up, it’s good to remember what enhanced creature with Spock ears, the buzz for Overcoocked bore at BoxOffice.com. “But there’s only so much and franchises that flood multiplexes, but was everything. A sequel was like a bad word. The studio was hoping that additional mileage you can get from a big hit until peo- when filmmakers like the Wachowskis answer We’ve gone to the opposite place where [audi- time for reshoots and effects work would help ple turn off the funds. They need to find some- their calls for something original and innova- ences] actually are more excited about a story salvage the film and put it on the path to sol- thing more commercially accessible and crank tive with a film like “Jupiter Ascending,” they’re we know the ending to.” She’s right. Where are vency. It had employed a similar strategy for out a hit quick if they’re going to buy their often rewarded with a cold shoulder. the fresh visions of distant worlds and futuristic troubled or problematic productions such as clout back.”Like Michael Mann, who headlined With a production budget of $179 million, conflicts to inspire the next George Lucas or “300: Rise of an Empire,” “The Great Gatsby” the recent box office disaster “Blackhat,” the not to mention tens of millions spent to pro- Steven Spielberg? Younger audiences are and “Gravity,” one of the rare original science- Wachowski siblings may be forced to return to mote the science-fiction adventure, and an already abandoning the theater in favor of fiction epics that worked. Unfortunately, for lower budgeted films and face years in the big opening of only $19 million, “Jupiter videogames and mobile devices. Nostalgia for “Jupiter Ascending,” the extra time couldn’t studio wilderness. That’s a shame. The movie Ascending” will likely be one of the year’s an era of popcorn films they didn’t grow up wipe away the stench of failure and critics business needs these sorts of prickly geniuses. biggest flops. “Audiences are kind of reticent to with is unlikely to lure them back. overwhelmingly decried the film as an over- The alternative is over-caffeinated and com- take a chance on something they don’t know cooked bore. Across town, there’s likely a feel- moditized productions designed to sell toys, or understand,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior Iconoclastic works ing of Schadenfreude among Warner Bros.’ not stir imaginations. “Jupiter Ascending” may media analyst at Rentrak. “They marketed the At the same time, television and gaming competitors, but delighting in the Wachowskis have crashed and burned, but at least it tried heck out of this movie and it was still tough to have supplanted movies as a platform for misfortunes would be misguided. It signals to soar on the strength of its own originality bring people through the door.” There will be iconoclastic works of art ranging from “Mass that the siblings have lost the deft sense of and daring. Its failure makes it harder for other more reboots, retreads and revivals as compa- Effect” to “Breaking Bad.” In a Wired opinion culture that made “The Matrix” a phenome- filmmakers to get a chance to take similar risks. nies try to give facelifts to geriatric franchises piece, Angela Watercutter urged people to non. Given that it marks their third consecutive In this climate, would “The Matrix” ever have LIFESTYLE37 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Music Backstage at the Grammys: Pinky by Tissot Valentine’s Day Smith, Weird Al and more he Pinky by Tissot is both a watch and a piece of jewelry, with the elegant am Smith was the big winner on ulate, but inside I’m going, ‘oh my God, I Double Tour version featuring the strap that encircles the wrist two times Sunday, with four Grammys including just won three in a row.’ I just showed up for Tjust like a beautiful bracelet, to add a jewelry-inspired edge to any outfit. Sbest new artist, song and record of the work for 35 years and this is what hap- This time, has a strap that is deliciously bright red with a patent leather strap, in year. But that didn’t mean he was entirely pened to me.” honor of the day of love, Valentine’s Day. It is the moment to let your loved one satisfied. He took a moment backstage to Weird Al Yankovic, who won best come- know just how special she is, and the Pinky by Tissot is the perfect gift for the acknowledge dance duo Disclosure, who dy album, was asked if he might try to pitch woman who is both glamorous and feminine and appreciates the beautiful things gave him his first breakout feature on the a parody song to fellow attendee Prince: “If in life. single “Latch.” “I’m really pissed off they did- Prince wants to hang, I’m certainly open for n’t win the Grammy today because they it. In the ‘80s I had half a dozen ideas that Seductive Choice really deserve it,” he said. would have worked. Prince is the one guy She will fall in love all over again thanks to the heartfelt gesture and the Smith (pictured with Taylor Swift) also who’s always said no to parodies, but if he romance-inspired dial which features delicate hearts to symbolize the love you addressed his future career direction. wants to go bowling or play Parcheesi, I’m have for each other. The Pinky by Tissot Valentine’s Day’s design is both fun and “What’s beautiful is that I didn’t play a char- certainly open to that.” He was also asked trendy, making it the obvious choice for this annual celebration of passion. It is the acter, so I don’t have to work hard to do it what his future holds now that his record most sentimental day of the year and Tissot has created the perfect gift to help again. It’s just me being me, so if no one contract with RCA has been fulfilled. “I you express your feelings. This watch is definitely a must this romantic season. don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be going the album route,” he said. Features “Frozen” songwriters Kristen Anderson- The Pinky is one of the finest examples of Swiss watch making with Quartz Lopez and Robert Lopez continued the ani- movement and a 316L stainless steel case. The back is protected by a scratch-resis- mated smash’s long winning streak with tant sapphire crystal which is both durable and water resistant up to 100 feet. Grammys for best soundtrack and best song written for visual media. Asked if he turns the ubiquitous “Let It Go” off when he hears it on the radio, Lopez quipped, “No, I turn it up.” Meanwhile, Anderson-Lopez was asked if she felt bitter regarding the song’s surprise omission from the major categories. “We would seem really dou-if we came out and said that (after winning two Grammys)... Maybe don’t use that quote in the family media.”

Moments of the night After performing with best new artist nominee Brandy Clark, Dwight Yoakam arrived backstage just after Beck, who pro- duced songs on Yoakam’s last album, “3 Pears,” won album of the year. “Beck is gen- uinely one of the great purveyors of the pure love of music,” Yoakam said. “He approaches music with a reverence that allows irreverence; it allows him to be self- deprecating.” Colombian star Juanes, who delivered the first Spanish-language per- formance in Grammy history, said, “From the first moment they asked us to play, they just said bring your band and play your song, so they didn’t really make too much of it.” Asked to pick a favorite performance from the rest of the night, he replied, “I real- ly liked what I saw from Paul (McCartney) Common raises his arms in a “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose as he performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards. —AP and Kanye and Rihanna, because I liked the message they were sending - one guitar, three voices, basic.” Christian rapper Lecrae, who won for Christian contemporary music performance, talked about also scoring a Singer Charli XCX performs onstage nomination for best rap performance at the Warner Music Group annual alongside secular artists. “(The rap nomina- Grammys turn into stage for activism Grammy celebration at Chateau tion) was a testament to hip-hop, in that Marmont. —AFP you can have morals and faith, we’re not an homogeneous group. It’s about what’s in he music industry’s biggest night turned the rapper Common, who directly spoke of the was lashing out because he was in pain and likes it it’s not really in my control. I had my you,” he said. “If I am a Christian, you’re into a globally watched stage for activism tensions with police in Ferguson, Missouri in the needed help. I believed my compassion could first manager at age 12 and had a very gonna hear it in whatever I talk about. If I’m TSunday, with stars at the Grammys speak- song “Glory,” which is featured in the Oscar-nomi- restore him and our relationship. My empathy warped idea of what it took to be a pop writing about taking a bath, you’re going to ing out against police brutality and domestic nated civil rights film “Selma.” “Hand to the was used against me. star, and I started losing all of this weight. hear it in my articulation of my apprecia- abuse. Two of the biggest names at the annual Heavens / No man, no weapon,” he sings on the “I was terrified of him and ashamed I was in But it was when I stopped caring about tion of bathwater.” Kimberly Perry, whose awards night, Pharrell Williams and Beyonce, song performed with John Legend, who accom- this position,” Axtell said. Perry-usually known for that and started being myself and eating the Band Perry won country duo or group incorporated subtle protests in separate per- panied on piano. “That’s why Rosa sat on the bus her cheery, elaborate performances including lots of In-and-Out Burger that it really performance for a cover of Glen Campbell’s formances as their back-up dancers raised their / That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our during halftime of last week’s Super Bowl-then worked.” Smith gushed about meeting Paul “Gentle on My Mind,” noted the Grammy arms in the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose. hands up.”And during the evening, Prince, pre- proceeded to sing one of her more unadorned McCartney, Madonna and Lady Gaga dur- connection to their recording of the song The protest comes amid the growing “Black senting the Album of the Year award, offered a songs, her ballad “By the Grace of God,” which ing Grammy Week celebrations, but when penned by John Hartford. “We got to play a Lives Matter” movement in the United States in pointed comment: “Like books and black lives, tells of a troubled relationship. Attention to asked with whom he’d most like to collabo- snippet of ‘Gentle’ three years ago at the response to a string of high-profile killings by albums still matter.” Despite the Grammy focus domestic violence has been growing in the rate going forward, he singled out Joni Grammys, so Glen and the Grammys were police of African Americans. Williams-whose on racial inequality, no African American artist United States in part due to abuse cases involv- Mitchell and Antony and the Johnsons. sort of the matchmakers between us and “Happy” become a global hit with its straightfor- won in the four top categories. ing prominent athletes. The night’s performers the song,” Perry said. “It was truly an honor ward theme of joy-took the song in a more politi- included the R&B singer Rihanna, who notorious- Setting up collaborations to sing this poem.” cal direction with dark classical strings and a Fighting domestic violence ly suffered abuse by partner and fellow musician Rosanne Cash, a triple winner on Perhaps the least likely of this year’s piano interlude by Lang Lang. In a more planned effort, the Recording Chris Brown. Sunday, mentioned at the pre-telecast cer- Grammy winners, Neela Vaswani won best While Williams dressed as a hotel servant in Academy worked with US President Barack Asked about Brown, Axtell later told emony that Ronald Reagan was president children’s album for her spoken word read- the style of the irony-rich film “The Grand Obama and superstar Katy Perry to turn the reporters that it was critical to have male allies the last time she won a Grammy. She can- ing, “I Am Malala.” “I’m a professor and an Budapest Hotel,” his dancers put on black hood- Grammys into a platform to stop sexual assault and to work with people who have committed didly discussed her dry spell and the spirit educator, so this (Grammy) is kind of weird ies-a likely reference to Trayvon Martin, the and domestic violence.”Right now, nearly one in abuse in the past. She voiced hope that the use of rebellion that is part of her heritage as to me,” she said. “I didn’t even know it had unarmed black teenager who was wearing a five women in America has been a victim of rape of music to highlight the issue would “reach the daughter of Johnny Cash. “I grew up been submitted to the Grammys. I was hooded sweatshirt when he was shot in February or attempted rape. And more than one in four people in a way that moves past the mind and with a healthy sense of rebellion about the reading something about Pharrell’s hat and 2012 by a neighborhood watchman in Florida. women has experienced some form of domestic to the heart and soul.” “I am hopeful that it will industry. I kept doing this for years when I got a message saying that I had been Williams and his dancers raised their arms in the violence,” Obama said in a video message broad- inspire people to take action,” she said. Neil no one cared, so I had to have a sense of nominated.” —Reuters “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” tribute-which has been cast at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Portnow, president of the Recording Academy rebellion,” she said. “I’m standing here talk- used at rallies across America, and mirrored by Domestic violence survivor-turned-activist that runs the Grammys, said that the night’s ing very adult to you and trying to be artic- university and professional athletes in protest at Brooke Axtell took to the stage and told her har- activism theme was not surprising, considering police mistreatment of minorities. rowing story. the nature of the music in competition this year. Later in the show, Beyonce took a similar tack, “After a year of passionate romance with a “We’re at a time when musicians are thinking with her dancers also putting their hands up in handsome, charismatic man, I was stunned when about the world, our society, and you see that in the dramatic pose. She later gave the stage to he began to abuse me,” Axtell said. “I believed he the songs,” he said. —AFP David Beckham launches new UN children’s fund

ootballing legend David Beckham pledged to change the lives of mil- Flions of children on Monday as he launched “7”, a new fund with UNICEF to protect the world’s most vulnerable young- sters.”Over the coming years I am going to work with UNICEF to raise millions and speak out for children all over the world,” said Beckham. The fund-named after Beckham’s lucky number on his England and Manchester United shirts-will focus on children at risk Winner for Album of the Year Beck reacts as Kanye West appears on stage. —AFP of violence, abuse or disease. “Today, the need to help children has never been greater and since retiring I have more time and I want to do so much more,” said Kanye West almost pulls Beckham, who is marking 10 years as a good will ambassador for the UN Children’s a Kanye on winner Beck Fund. “Everything I have done, my football career, my family, has led to this point - this anye West almost pulled another Awards. Beck seemed as surprised as the is the moment for me to do what I can to Kanye at the Grammy Awards. West rest of the audience when he won the help children in every corner of the world. Kbriefly popped up on stage as Beck award Sunday and appeared to be look- This is something I want my own children Former England footballer David Beckham attends the launch of “7”, an initiative accepted the album of the year award on ing around for help. Recording academy to be proud of,” added Beckham, a father of with children’s charity UNICEF, in London. —AFP Sunday for “Morning Phase,” beating out President Neil Portnow said the almost- four. expected victor Beyoncé. West smiled Kanye moment was part of the excite- Beckham also asked his fans to back his UNICEF said. More than 15 million children orphaned and many more out of school. and quickly jumped down, but not before ment of a live television show. “It’s unpre- call to world leaders to put children first as were exposed to extreme violence in con- Worldwide, some 168 million children are getting guffaws from BeyoncÈ and Jay Z. dictable,” he said. “You don’t know what’s they negotiate new global development flicts in 2014 and millions more were hit engaged in child labour and many others Kanye famously got involved in an going to happen... That turned out to be goals. The launch of “7” comes after one of by natural disasters. The Ebola epidemic in are victims of sexual violence, trafficking award presentation in 2009 when Taylor a fun moment at the end of the day.” — the worst years for children on record, West Africa has also left thousands and female genital mutilation, UNICEF Swift beat Beyoncé at MTV’s Video Music AP lifestyle TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 AWARDS

Singer Sam Smith (right) and songwriter James Napier accept the Song of the Year award Recording artist Beck (2nd from right) and members of his production team accept the Album of the Year award for “Morning Phase” for “Stay With Me”. from singer Prince. — AFP Photos 57th Annual Grammy Awards Sam Smith takes home 4, Beck wins album of the year

am Smith was the king of the Grammys, taking home Annie Lennox was a powerhouse when she sang “I Put A three of the top four awards, including song and Spell On You” and joined Hozier for “Take Me to Church,” Srecord of the year for “Stay With Me,” and best new nominated for song off the year. Beyonce won best R&B artist, while Beck won album of the year. Smith, along with song and R&B performance for “Drunk In Love” and sur- Beyonce, Pharrell and Ed Sheeran, lost album of the year to round sound album for “Beyonce.” “This has been such an Beck’s “Morning Phase,” which also won best rock album incredible year,” she said, thanking her “beloved husband” Sunday night. and “my daughter who is watching.” “I want to thank the man who this record is about ... In one of 23 performances, AC/DC kicked off the show Thank you so much for breaking my heart because I have with a performance of their latest single, “Rock or Bust,” and four Grammys,” said Smith, who also won best pop vocal then transitioned into the classic “Highway to Hell.” It album for “In the Lonely Hour.” Kanye West, who famously earned a rousing applause from Pharrell, Lady Gaga and interrupted Taylor Swift when she beat Beyonce at the MTV Katy Perry, who wore devil horns. Ariana Grande gave a Video Music Awards, almost walked onstage when Prince stripped, piano-led performance of “Just a Little Bit of Your announced Beck’s name. Some in the audience seemed Heart,” a song co-written by One Direction’s Harry Styles, shocked, from Pharrell to Questlove. while Miranda Lambert brought a rock-heavy vibe to “Little Beck’s album debuted at No 3 on the Billboard 200 Red Wagon.” She won best country album for “Platinum.” “I albums chart and sold about 300,000 units. Pharrell and put my heart and soul in this record,” she said. “Thank you Rosanne Cash walked away with three awards each. so much for this amazing night. I love y’all!” Cash led the Pharrell won best pop solo performance for a live version pre-show with three Grammys, while Eminem, Kendrick of “Happy,” released in 2013. He also won best music video Lamar, Chick Corea and the “Frozen” soundtrack earned for the song and best urban contemporary album for “G I R two awards apiece. L,” beating Beyonce. “Reagan was president last time I won a Grammy,” said “I am going to moonwalk my way off the stage right Cash, who won best American roots performance, Pharrell Williams took home the award for Best Pop now,” said Pharrell, wearing a blazer and shorts. Pharrell’s American roots song and Americana album. “I just showed Solo Performance. performance of “Happy” was dramatic with background up for work for 35 years and this is what happened.” Lamar, dancers in black, musicians in yellow and a choir in white. who lost in seven categories last year, marked a redemp- When the chorus was supposed to come in, Lang Lang tion by winning best rap performance and rap song for “i.” Miranda Lambert accepts the Best Country Album for played the piano skillfully. Hans Zimmer also played the Eminem won best rap album, beating Common and Iggy “Platinum”. guitar. “Thank you, God,” Pharrell, in a bell-boy hat, said at Azalea. He also won best rap/sung collaboration for “The the end of the performance. Rihanna gave an impressive Monster” with Rihanna. The late Joan Rivers won best spo- vocal performance of “FourFiveSeconds” with Paul ken word album for “Diary of a Mad Diva,” and her daugh- McCartney to her right and Kanye West to her left. Her hair ter, Melissa Rivers, was on hand to accept the award. was slicked back, and she rocked a black suit like her co- stars. Katy Perry, in all white, sang the ballad “By the Grace Here are the winners in key categories of God” after a woman who had been abused talked about Album of the Year: Beck, “Morning Phase” getting help and moving on with her life. A video of Record of the Year (for singles): Sam Smith, “Stay With Me” President Barack Obama appeared before she spoke, and Song of the Year (for songwriters): Jimmy Napier, William he encouraged artists to help out. “It’s on us, all of us, to Phillips and Sam Smith, “Stay With Me” create a culture where violence isn’t tolerated,” he said. Best New Artist: Sam Smith Another serious moment came with Prince, who earned a Best Pop Vocal Album: Sam Smith, “In the Lonely Hour” standing ovation when he walked onstage to introduce Best Pop Solo Performance: Pharrell Williams, “Happy” album of the year. Best R&B Performance: Beyonce, “Drunk in Love” “Albums - you remember those? They still matter. Like Best R&B Song: Beyonce, “Drunk in Love” books and black lives, they still matter.” Madonna, dressed Best R&B Album: Toni Braxton and Babyface, “Love, as a matador, performed “Living for Love” atop a platform Marriage & Divorce” Beyonce poses with her three Grammys in the press surrounded by a plethora of background dancers wearing Best Rock Album: Beck, “Morning Phase” room. bull masks. A choir did most of the singing, while Madonna Best Rap Album: Eminem, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” danced and the audience at the Staples Center clapped in Best Urban Contemporary Album: Pharrell Williams, “Girl” unison. She ascended into the air as the performance fin- Best Music Video: Pharrell Williams, “Happy” ished. West performed on a nearly pitch-black stage, with a Best Dance/Electronic Album: Aphex Twin, “Syro” light glowing from under his feet (he also sported the new Best Alternative Music Album: St Vincent, “St Vincent” sneakers he designed). He sang the new song about his Best Country Album: Miranda Lambert, “Platinum” Singer/songwriter Angelique Kidjo, won for Best World late mother, “Only One.” . — Agencies Music Album for “Eve”.

Lady Gaga kisses her Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocals for her album “Cheek to Cheek” with Tony Bennett.

Clean Bandit hold their Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Rihanna and Kayne West perform with Paul McCartney . “Rather Be”.

Madonna performs “Living for Love”onstage.

Weird Al Yankovic poses in the press room after win- Angus Young of legendary rock band AC/DC kicks off the Recording artist Stevie Wonder (left) and actor/singer Jamie ning Best Comedy Album for “Mandatory Fun”. Taylor Swift speaks onstage. show. Foxx announce an award. lifestyle TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 FASHION

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Antonique Smith Mary J Blige Stars in black and white on Grammys red carpet

he mega-stars of the music world rocked best new artist prize-turned up in basic black, ted out in white tie-told E! television when Album. Several of music’s top male stars went daring outfits in classic black and white but Danielle Haim strode down the carpet in a asked about his meteoric rise. He later for shades of gray. Pharrell Williams, with three Ton the Grammys red carpet Sunday, white pantsuit. Britain’s Charli XCX-perhaps changed several times as he went up on stage awards on the night, busted out a pale gray strutting their stuff in Los Angeles on the best known for singing the hook on Iggy to accept four awards Record of the Year, Song Bermuda shorts suit from Adidas-but not the industry’s biggest night. Beyonce-who took Azalea’s ubiquitous hit “Fancy”-also worked of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal towering Vivienne Westwood Smokey the Bear home three Grammys-sashayed in a sheer the white suit look from Moschino, but gave it hat that was the talk of last year’s show. John black Proenza Schouler gown with a deep V a girly twist with a pink bow tie. Legend opted for a gray Dolce & Gabbana suit neckline and long sleeves. Queen Bey wasn’t with no tie. His wife, model Chrissy Teigen, was the only star to show some major cleavage. Pretty in pink? sultry in a white Gucci gown with strategic Madonna channeled her inner naughty tore- Nominee Taylor Swift set herself apart in a cut-outs snaking around the curves he sings ador in a skimpy black-and-pink blue-green Elie Saab gown with a high-low about in his hit love song “All of Me”-nominat- Givenchy mini-dress, her breasts pushed up hemline. Australian rapper Azalea also added ed for Best Pop Solo Performance. — AFP to a dangerous level. Thigh-high black boots a pop of color to the proceedings, in a royal and elbow-length gloves completed the look. blue figure-hugging Armani gown, with her Rapper Nicki Minaj left nothing to the imagi- blonde hair braided in a crown around her nation in a black Tom Ford gown that was cut head. Rihanna was pretty in pink-well, not down to her bellybutton in a wide V and everyone on social media thought so. The hugged her hips. Meghan Trainor, a nominee Barbados native floated up the red carpet in a for record and song of the year for her sugary billowing cloud of pink tulle-Giambattista Valli pop hit “All About That Bass,” strutted her stuff tulle. Twitter blew up with comments-pro and in a gauzy black Galia Lahav dress with a long con. “Rihanna on the red carpet suddenly lace overlay. Her red carpet accessory? Her made me hungry for a cupcake. Is there a baby father. Trainor said being at the Grammys was under there? Or a gaggle of birds? I’m con- a “dream come true.” fused,” said one user, @mikaelav35. The fierce Pop princess Katy Perry, fresh off her well- tuxedo she wore on stage to perform with received Super Bowl halftime show, rocked a Kanye West and Paul McCartney-accessorized sheer, white-silvery backless Zuhair Murad with a diamond choker-was a much safer sar- dress studded with crystals-and purple hair. torial choice. The Grammys have been the Two of the three sisters who make up the pop- scene of some of fashion’s classic red-carpet rock group Haim-nominated for the coveted moments: Jennifer Lopez’s plunging barely there green Versace gown in 2000 is still a fierce benchmark.

Sharp dressed men The men of music attending the ceremony at the Staples Center did not disappoint. “It’s very, very surreal,” British singer Sam Smith-kit-

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Ariana Grande performs on stage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. — AFP Inside Rosie O’Donnell’s dramatic exit from ‘The View’

hen Rosie O’Donnell made her tri- which was certainly rocky, O’Donnell to look happier on air, a note that the ator/exec producer Barbara Walters getting umphant return to “The View” in increased viewership and made the show comedian didn’t appreciate, according to caught in that public feud, as well as a Arab horror film WSeptember, she promised a relevant again. This year, “The View” has sources. While O’Donnell remains a skilled spectacular shouting match with ex-host calmer version of the host who previously plummeted 9 percent in its target demo of interviewer, it’s also clear that she isn’t as Elisabeth Hasselbeck on her final day. But fled the program in 2007 after a single sea- women 25-54, sometimes even losing the attuned to pop culture as she used to be. In the off-stage interactions between screens at EFM son. But O’Donnell’s unhappiness at “The demo race to CBS’ upstart rival, “The Talk.” 2011, she had a short-lived talk show on O’Donnell and the ABC staff were often View” led her to announce on Friday, via a The disappointing numbers could be a OWN, and by many accounts drove her cold. “She shut down completely,” one s Arab cinema begins to veer towards genre story in the New York Post’s Page Six sec- result of O’Donnell’s different persona on staff crazy by berating them and constantly employee says. O’Donnell didn’t gel much movies, hot Egyptian chiller “Warda” - touted tion, that she was exiting the show after “The View,” where she wasn’t as political as changing the format-veering from light with the staff, and she once singled out cer- Aas the first Arab found footage film in the five months. ABC executives agreed to the outspoken liberal who used to trash celebrity interviews to games with the tain people in a meeting and accused them “Blair Witch Project” vein - is premiering at EFM, after release her early from a 11-month contract, George W Bush’s policies and offer Sept. 11 audience. of leaking information about her in the making a local splash. Directed by young multi- estimated to be worth $5 million. conspiracy theories. The daytime TV star Staffers say there weren’t as many back- press. And she constantly talked about how hyphenate Hadi El Bagoury, “Warda” is rooted in the In a brief interview with “Entertainment looked uncomfortable and tentative at the stage fights as there were during she had made a mistake in agreeing to true story of a rural village in Egypt rattled by Tonight” over the weekend, O’Donnell “Hot Topics” table this season, and kept her- O’Donnell’s previous tenure on the show- return to “The View,” and threatened to quit demonic occurrences. The picture, which traces a attributed her departure to focusing on her self from long stretches of conversation. which included the fallout from O’Donnell on several occasions. video blogger probing strange happenings in his family after divorcing with wife Michelle ABC executives would often ask O’Donnell mocking Donald Trump’s hair, and cre- O’Donnell then took over as moderator, Egyptian countryside home, has performed well in Rounds, whom she married in 2012, and and started to channel her old personality. Egypt, the UAE, Oman and Palestine. The script is whose first initial she tattooed on her wed- She cracked one-liners, improvised from written by prominent indie producer Mohamed ding-ring finger. But insiders say that the the TelePrompTer and was happy to steer Hefzy, who co-produced with El Bagoury’s The end of her second marriage, which she can- the show her own way, according to Producers shingle. didly talked about with “The View’s” staff, sources. But she was disappointed that rat- Distributed by Cairo and Abu Dhabi-based MAD isn’t the only reason she’s leaving. ings for “The View” dipped with her in Solutions with locally innovative marketing tools, O’Donnell, who has a reputation as a charge, a decline that could also be the including test screenings - which caused the ending demanding and sometimes abrasive boss, result of a rotating panel of B-list guest co- to be changed, in a first for the Arab world - and also didn’t feel like her strengths were being hosts. O’Donnell was disheartened that she massive social media use, “Warda” has pulled a rela- properly used by ABC, according to those couldn’t steer “The View” in the right direc- tively strong $370,000 from its first four territories. It close to the 52-year-old comedian. tion, and that her ideas weren’t being will soon be released in Kuwait, Jordan and Qatar. Compounding the problem were tensions heard. O’Donnell was accustomed to being The films’s official Facebook page has reached 11,700 with co-host Whoopi Goldberg and in charge as she was during her six-season fans, making it among the top 5 fastest-growing behind-the-scenes executive turmoil at run on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” which entertainment pages in Egypt at the moment, MAD “The View,” which recently shifted to man- ran in syndication from 1996-2002. She’d Solutions claims. agement under ABC News. frequently cite her previous TV experience “From the very beginning, “Warda” was an inter- During her first stint on the show, and awards in meetings, as proof that other esting experience,” enthuses The Producers co-top- O’Donnell had served as “The View’s” mod- staffers should listen to her. per Hani Osama. “It was a new challenge to present erator, but that job now belongs to The in-house bickering over “The View” such an unconventional film genre to an Arab audi- Goldberg. Insiders say this turned out to be meant that important decisions, like cast- ence.” The picture is screening at EFM thanks to the a source of frustration for O’Donnell, as she ing the new co-hosts that would join Arab Cinema Center, the Arab film industry’s first felt Goldberg was dismissive of opposing O’Donnell and Goldberg, became frantic, umbrella group, organized by MAD Solutions. viewpoints during some of the show’s key eleventh-hour decisions. ABC finally settled debates. For example, O’Donnell didn’t like on Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace Iranian film gets buyers what she saw as Goldberg’s refusal to let and Perez just weeks before the first live Banned Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi” is prov- the co-hosts have a candid discussion airing, as new exec producer and showrun- ing a hot item at Berlin’s EFM market, after screening about one of the most explosive topics of ner Bill Wolff was cobbling together a in competition at the festival to positive reviews. the past few months: the allegations of revamped set without communicating with “Taxi”-in which Panahi plays a Tehran cabbie driving rape levied at Bill Cosby by more than two any of the co-hosts. a diverse mix of candidly confiding passengers-has dozen women. “The View” is now being micro-man- rapidly been sold by Gaul’s Celluloid Dreams to: The working relationship between aged by five executives under the direc- France (Memento); Italy (Cinema - Valerio De Paolis); O’Donnell and Goldberg became even tion of ABC News president James Germany and Austria (Weltkino); Switzerland more strained as a result of the show’s Goldston. Sources have expressed frustra- (Filmcoop); Sweden (Folkestbio); Norway (Arthaus); morning meetings. “The View” staff typical- tion that seemingly mundane decisions Poland (Solopan); Former Yugoslavia (12 Films); ly congregated at 9 am each day to brain- are filtered through an exec gantlet that Baltics (Must Kasi); and Columbia (Cine Columbia). storm for the “Hot Topics” segment. includes Tom Cibrowski, senior VP of pro- Celluloid topper Hengameh Panahi, who is the O’Donnell didn’t think this gave them grams; Barbara Fedida, senior VP for talent director’s regular sales agent (no relation to the enough time to prepare for an 11 am live and business; David Sloan, a senior execu- director), said she is fielding multiple offers for North show, so the meetings were moved to 8:30 tive producer at “20/20”; Randall Barone, America and a slew of other territories. am. But the earlier time meant that VP of daytime programming; and Wolff, a “Taxi” is Panahi’s third film smuggled abroad since Goldberg (who commutes into the city former “Rachel Maddow” producer, who 2010, when he was arrested by Iranian authorities each morning from New Jersey) would sources say doesn’t exercise much control and banned from moviemaking. His other two post- sometimes arrive a few minutes late. This and seems lost in the daytime zone. Last ban pictures are “This Is Not a Film” and “Closed irked O’Donnell, who interpreted week, “View” co-exec producer Brian Curtain,” which competed in Berlin in 2013 where it Goldberg’s occasional tardiness as a sign Balthazar announced he was leaving to won the screenplay prize. — Reuters that she wasn’t committed to the job. The take on a job as VP of programming at meetings eventually moved back to 9 a.m. HGTV. “There are way too many cooks,” During her previous ‘06-07 tenure, Rosie O’Donnell poses at the premiere of “Rosie O’Donnell- A Heartfelt Stand Up”. — AP says one staffer. — Reuters