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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 SAFAR 15, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net India scrapped Trump hires 2016 ‘very Seahawks notes without establishment likely’ hottest make valiant homework: figure, year on stand to stop Congress4 leader firebrand10 record:29 UN New20 England Dashti out of election race Max 33º after final court ruling Min 12º High Tide 12:46 & 23:52 Opposition candidates blast dissolved Assembly Low Tide 06:22 & 18:27 40 PAGES NO: 17051 150 FILS By B Izzak

Skygazers gawk at extra bright ‘supermoon’ KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday ruled former MP Abdulhameed Dashti cannot run in the parliamentary elec- JAKARTA: Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, tions on Nov 26 for filing his registration papers while he observatories and beaches yesterday to get a glimpse was outside the country. Dashti has been living in Britain of the closest “supermoon” to Earth in almost seven since March, and asked his elder son to file his nomination decades, and snap dramatic pictures. The unusually papers. The election authorities rejected them, but the low- big and bright moon appeared at its most impressive er court ordered them to accept his registration after he as night fell over Asia, but astronomy enthusiasts produced a medical certificate saying he is undergoing were able to see Earth’s satellite loom large anywhere treatment and cannot travel. in the world shortly after sunset. The phenomenon Last week, the appeals court overturned that ruling happens when the moon is full at the same time as, and said candidates must submit their registration or very near, perigee - its closest point to Earth on an papers in person. The cassation court yesterday upheld elliptical, monthly orbit. the ruling. Dashti acknowledged the ruling and said this It was the closest to Earth since 1948 at a distance was not the end of the road. Kuwaiti courts have sen- of 356,509 km, creating what NASA described as “an tenced Dashti to 31 years and six months in jail for extra-supermoon”. Skygazers and photographers insulting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in statements he headed to the best viewing spots in Asia, where the made and in comments he wrote on Twitter. phenomenon was visible first, hoping that cloudy The government meanwhile challenged appeals court skies and the perennial pollution that blights many of rulings that allowed a number of candidates, including for- the region’s cities would not spoil the fun. The eastern mer MP Safa Al-Hashem, to run in the polls. Hashem was Sydney suburb of Bronte became an unexpected among 47 candidates barred by the election authorities for viewing spot as thousands of people armed with pic- not fulfilling registration conditions or for being previously nic mats and cameras packed its small beach near convicted in court. The courts have already reinstated sev- Bondi to catch a glimpse of the supermoon after a eral candidates, and are still looking into the cases of others. Facebook invite went viral. Separately, former opposition MPs who are running Loud cheers went up among the crowd as the in the election strongly lashed out at members of the moon made brief appearances between heavy, grey dissolved Assembly, blaming them for failing to defend clouds before disappearing. “It’s really nice,” Aidan the rights of the Kuwaiti people. Speaking at an election Millar-Powell told AFP of the festive, community gathering, former Islamist MP Bader Al-Dahoum urged atmosphere at the beach. “People don’t usually come voters not to vote for any of those members, saying that they had approved a large number of very dangerous together like this in Sydney for a natural phenomenon.” KUWAIT: People observe the “supermoon” spectacle yesterday from Balajat beach in Salmiya. The moon is at its and antisocial laws. Continued on Page 13 closest position to earth since 1948, making it the brightest in nearly 69 years. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Geneva Mayor Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Deputy Head of Kuwait Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with National Security Apparatus Guillaume Barazzone. —KUNA photos National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Chief Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali Al-Sabah. Crown Prince meets Geneva Mayor and top officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown ing Geneva Mayor Guillaume Barazzone and his accom- Humoud Al-Sabah and ambassadors of both countries. Crown Prince received Deputy Head of Kuwait National Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah panying delegation. The meeting was also attended by Mayor Barazzone arrived in Kuwait yesterday on a Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, as received at Seif Palace yesterday, Farwaniya Governor head of the protocol of the Diwan of His Highness the three-day official visit, in response to an invitation by well as National Security Apparatus Chief Sheikh Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah and visit- Crown Prince Sheikh Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem Al- Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud. Meanwhile, His Highness the Thamer Al-Ali Al-Sabah. —KUNA

Kuwait-Polish ties to deepen after signing of visa agreement: Expert

BRUSSELS: A visa waiver agreement between Kuwait and Poland, signed in Warsaw last Thursday, will deepen ties further as both coun- tries expecting business ties to grow, an expert in Arab-Polish ties said. Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah signed with Polish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Joanna Wronecka, a reciprocal visa exemption agree- ment for diplomatic passports’ holders. Kuwait was the first Arab state in the Arabian Gulf region which had allowed Poland to open KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. —KUNA its mission when Warsaw was still under com- munist rule, Surender Bhutani said in a state- ment by phone from the Polish capital Sunday. Cabinet congratulates US “The relations between the two countries remained very cordial. Kuwait also gave schol- arships to Polish students in the 1970s. Professor Jerzy Zdanowski of the Polish President-Elect Trump Academy of Sciences was one of the first stu- dents who studied Arabic in Kuwait. Today, Zdanowski is one the finest Arabists of Poland,” said Bhutani, who hails from India and is a visit- Palestine thanks Kuwait for recognizing passport ing professor to Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw for the last 22 years. KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet yesterday Justice and Acting Minister of State for fund’s goals and challenges. Furthermore, President Receb Tayyip Erodgan, inviting “Since the beginning of the 21st century, congratulated US President-Elect Donald National Assembly Affairs Sheikh the cabinet was apprised of recommenda- His Highness the Amir to attend the 32nd Kuwait has also opened its diplomatic mission Trump on the win of the recent presiden- Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- tions pertinent to educational, youth and session of the COMCEC due in Istanbul on tial race, hoping that Kuwaiti-US relations Sabah said in a statement following the entrepreneurship reports. November 21-24, and hailing bilateral rela- in Warsaw. Now Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the would be further promoted and devel- meeting. It, further, voiced confidence In this regard, the cabinet asked the tions between both friendly nations. UAE are the other Gulf states who have opened oped during his term of office. that the next parliamentary elections Ministry of State for Youth Affairs and the Afterwards, Minister of State for Cabinet their diplomatic missions in Warsaw,” said Meanwhile, the Cabinet voiced much would come up with results that would National Fund to set out a permanent and Affairs and Acting Foreign Minister Sheikh Bhutani who is a renowned scholar, poet and appreciation to the Ministry of serve national and public interests, he effective mechanism for cooperation Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- writer. Information for its good efforts in cover- pointed out. between them with a view to promoting Sabah briefed the meeting on the recent ing the upcoming parliamentary elections entrepreneurship in Kuwait, especially visit to Kuwait by Yemeni Deputy Prime He was a Research Associate and in charge of due on November 26th. The cabinet made Reports regarding the youth sector. Minister and Foreign Minister Abdulmalik the Middle East Division, at Institute for Defense the appreciation during its customary The cabinet, then, reviewed a recom- Al-Mekhlafi, who appreciated Kuwait’s his- Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, from 1973 to weekly meeting held at Seif Palace under mendation by the economic committee Palestinian passport toric role in achieving peace and stability 1978. He was Executive Director with a rank of chairmanship of His Highness the Prime on the State Audit Bureau’s biannual At the onset of the weekly meeting, the and stopping bloodshed in Yemen. an Ambassador at the Arab Cultural Centre, Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad report that includes remarks on state bod- ministers were briefed on a letter At the Gulf level, the Kuwaiti cabinet Al-Sabah. ies’ employment system. Also reviewed addressed to His Highness the Amir from expressed sincere congratulation to Omani New Delhi, from 1979 to 1982. Bhutani has The cabinet hoped that the electoral was another recommendation by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Sultan Qaboos bin Said on the occasion of authored and edited many books including process would be held in an atmosphere quarterly report on the National Fund for thanking Kuwait for officially recognizing his country’s National Day, and appreciat- “Contemporary Gulf” published in New Delhi of fair competition among all hopefuls Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) the Palestinian passport. ed distinguished accomplishments made 1980, and The UN and the Arab-Israeli Conflict contesting the coming race, Minister of Development during the period from May They also reviewed two letters sent to under his leadership in all fields and published in 1977. —KUNA State for Cabinet Affairs, Minister of 1 to September 9, 2016, together with the His Highness the Amir from Turkish domains. —KUNA Kuwait, US enjoy solid ties: Info Minister

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s ties with the United Information noted that the ministry and States have always been cordial and the US embassy are collaborating on a close, Minister of Information and number of programs in the works. Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh “Kuwait possesses all the attributes of a Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- modern and democratic nation,” the US Sabah said yesterday. Ambassador said. He also commended Sheikh Salman made these remarks recent headway made in the country’s when he met with the US’s new media sector, attributing it to the efforts of Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Sheikh Salman. Elsewhere, Sheikh Salman ABU DHABI: Kuwait’s former Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (center) participates in the first ses- Silverman, as the talks centered on also met with South Sudan’s new sion of the Third Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate. —KUNA strategies to boost bilateral cooperation, Ambassador to Kuwait Barmina Rayak, particularly, efforts to fight extremism. where the two discussed bilateral ties in the GCC leads Arab action, secures Moreover, a statement by the Ministry of youth, media and culture sectors. —KUNA Arab interests: Kuwaiti ex-FM

ABU DHABI: The Gulf Cooperation international politics of the strate- tion amid the critical conditions of rely on for dissolving their crises Council (GCC) bears the responsi- gic arena. the Arab World. According to the and restoring their stability. The bility of heading the Arab joint Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah former senior official, the GCC is conference that wraps up discus- action to secure the basic Arabs’ referred to the potential approach the only regional entity that with sions on Monday, cover extensively interests, and leading them to safe- to be adopted by the new US presi- has stood the ‘Tsunami’ of events in the complex political and security ty, said Kuwait’s former First dent Donald Trump, and its impact the region. He said that the Arab issues in the region and the world Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign on the European politics, as well as system is in need to be revamped in light of the new administration’s Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah the effect of the Brexit on the polit- after the changes that hit it. potential shifts in foreign policy. Al-Salem Al-Sabah. The GCC has to ical and economic situation of the The ADSD has gained a reputa- coordinate with the other Arab continent, beside selections in Developments tion as a prestigious platform at the countries that are still united to France and Germany. Meanwhile, Chairperson of the international level to discuss policy avoid further disintegration and The Arab World is facing numer- UAE Policies Center Dr Ibtisam Al- and strategy, geopolitical shifts, collapse in the region, Sheikh ous challenges on the national lev- Ketbi, told the session that the regional and global political ends, Mohammad Al-Sabah said after el, besides the regional hazards in Third Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate national security issues in the Arab taking part in the first session of the Middle East, namely the for- provides a review of the regional world, as well as threats posed by the Third Abu Dhabi Strategic eign interference in the internal and international developments, an unprecedented pattern of ter- Debate. The session was themed affairs of the GCC states, terrorism, on the political-security, and the rorist and extremist groups. The ‘the Gulf in a changing internation- and Israel, he said. Sheikh economic-development levels. objective of the conference is to al and regional system.’ He noted Mohammad Al-Sabah pointed to The GCC states have turned into provide a clear vision of future that the new year would see sever- the negative impact on the a fulcrum and a regional and inter- trends of the international system, KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs al “uncertain” changes and condi- Palestinians who have been suffer- national active player, that some and to address these challenges in Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah meets with the US new tions whose repercussions, on the ing non-stop injustice and persecu- Arab countries of strategic weight, their various forms. —KUNA Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman. —KUNA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 LOCAL

Minister of Education and PAAET Director General Minister of Higher Education Dr Ahmad Al-Athari Dr Bader Al-Essa ‘Smart Development’ cuts time, cost: Minister

KUWAIT: Minister of Education and has proved that material wealth alone is Knowledge economy Minister of Higher Education Dr Bader Al- not enough to build a nation, and does not In the meantime, the general coordinator Essa said yesterday that the technological allow it to advance and flourish economi- of the conference Dr Najlaa Al-Faraj expressed development reduces administrative costs cally and socially, except by how much it appreciation to sponsoring companies that because it sums up the time and cost. Essa has invested in its human resources. are well known in the service of the country. made his remarks in a press statement dur- “Human resources are the result of what She said the conference topics revolve around ing the opening of ‘Heading Global 2016 educational establishments produce, as the role of knowledge economy in developing Exhibition’ organized by the Public they are the key to knowledge and the the scientific, engineering, technological, Authority for Applied Education and source of gaining skills and abilities. industrial and health sectors to become pio- Training (PAAET) with participation of 23 Here we realize the important role of neers in the national economy sectors. She government bodies and private sector. The PAAET in developing human resources and said the conference has eight topics - smart vision of the event is to promote smart, readying citizens who can bear the respon- cities, smart energy, smart transport, smart sustainable and inclusive growth, he sibilities of national action in various devel- health, smart negotiations, smart environ- added. opment fields,” Athari said. He said the mental technology, smart society and smart authority has always looked for the sources work environment. Heading Global 2016 Human resources of knowledge and science to participate in Exhibition is a three-day exhibition that aims Meanwhile, PAAET Director General Dr development, enhancing education quality to identify emerging opportunities and help KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Bader Al-Essa, PAAET Ahmad Al-Athari welcomed all those pres- and preparing skilled national manpower formulate and implement successful smart Director General Dr Ahmad Al-Athari, PAAET Public Relations Director Dr Fatemah Al- ent at the Heading Global conference host- that can navigate the future with all its sustainable and inclusive growth strategies, Enezi, and Kuwait University Rector Dr Hussein Al-Ansari are pictured with KU’s construc- ed by PAAET. He said human experience obstacles and difficulties. policies and practices. — Agencies tion program members.

55,376 eligible voters Local Spotlight Letters to in 2nd constituency Muna Al-Fuzai KUWAIT: Total electorate for upcom- statistics, law and maritime naviga- PhDs in economy, faith, philosophy, ing elections due on November 26 tion. The ten nominees with diplo- construction engineering and physi- Dear Muna, stands at 483,186, including 29,026 mas studied mechanical engineer- cal philosophy law. Three had MAs in I am writing you as you have highlighted an females in the second constituency. ing, business administration, techno- engineering, organ transplantation important subject matter for respecting people The number of franchised citizens in logical studies, and at the Industrial and business administration. with disabilities. I agree that it is our prime the constituency has risen to 5,621, College. Thirty-three BA holding candi- duty to respect disabled people. I have lived in by 1. 16 percent of the overall elec- In the 2013 elections, twenty- dates studied economy, political sci- the UAE for a few years and it is far away from Professor of social work at Political science professor torate as compared to the figure of three candidates (57.5 percent) of ence, industrial engineering, com- Kuwait in terms of many things. Kuwait University (KU) at KU Dr Hanan Al-Hajeri Thanks Dr Hayfa Al-Kandari the July 2013 polls-with 2,870 men the total 40 nominees then, had aca- puter science, civilian engineering, and 2,751 women. Total figure of the demic degrees; six candidates (15 law, mechanical engineering, busi- Anis voters in the second constituency percent) carried diplomas and five ness administration, police science, *** Kuwaiti women: A tale constitutes 11.46 percent of the total (12.5 percent) were high school psychology, accounting, media, sta- Dear Muna, of adversity, triumph number of eligible voters; 5.45 per- graduates and five (12.5 percent) tistics information systems. The sev- Your words in the article “Disabled in Kuwait” cent men and six percent women. studied till medium term. en nominees with diplomas were touched me deeply, I could certainly relate to KUWAIT: Utterly dedicated and laborious, Kuwaiti The voters of this constituency are Among the 23 candidates, five qualified in banking, business your words, not because I’m disabled but I’m women have long sought to be on equal footing with residents of 13 areas: Dahiat had PhDs in education, business administration, accounting, commu- afraid, for 4 years I’ve been part of a team who men in efforts to establish a leveled playing field to help Abdullah Al-Salem 6,435 (including administration, psychology, Sharia, nications, commercial studies, were devoted to socially and economically build a developed and prosperous nation. In the pre-oil 3,323 women), Al-Gibla 34 (including and political geography. Three nomi- mechanical engineering and elec- empowering this sector, whether they were era, women mainly handled household chores at a time 19 woman), Al-Shuwaikh 1,327 nees had MAs in political science, tricity. physically impaired or they had hearing impair- where men usually went on sabbaticals due to the (including 682 women), Al-Shamiah mechanical engineering, and man- ments. lengthy pearl diving season. However, in the post-oil era, 5,237 (including 2,698 women). agement of comprehensive research. Age I was a project manager at enactus for 4 women were able to ascend to administrative positions, Number of franchised citizens in Al- Fifteen BA holding candidates In terms of age, most candidates years - I’m sure you will be impressed by the where they occupied such lofty posts as ministers, direc- Qadsiah stands at 7,200 (including 3, studied computer science, statistics, of the Second Constituency standing work done by the enactus teams worldwide if tors, ambassadors and so forth. Moreover, in the political 744 women), Al-Mansouriah 3,022 mechanical engineering, psychology, for the 2016 elections are 50 years you look it up. However, the reason I’m sending front, women had long been deprived of suffrage and to (including 1,489 women), Al-Faihaa history, aviation science electrical old, or over. These are 26 (42.62 per- you this email isn’t just to convey my ultimate run for office, reducing them to mere spectators in a 5,973 (including 3,313 women). engineering, civilian engineering, cent) of the total figure. Twenty-one respect and support to your words, but rather a country with a dynamic political scene. In Al-Nuzha, the electorate social studies, statistics, Sharia, law, nominees (34.42 percent) are 40-49 call if you’re willing to help me to actually make Ever steadfast and persevering, women were adamant amounts to 4,327 (including 2,326 financing and marketing. The six years old, and 14 ones (22.95 per- a difference and change the “dark” situation to win full-fledged political rights in their quest to achieve women), Al-Sulaibikhat 8,124 nominees with diplomas were spe- cent) are 30-39 years. In the 2013 this community is currently facing here in gender parity. After an arduous struggle, the time to (including 4,151 women), Al-Doha cialized in aviation engineering, or elections, 18 candidates were 50 Kuwait. rejoice finally arrived when on May 16, 2005, parliament 8,212 (including 4,393 women). studied at the College of Education. years old or over, 45 percent of the I’ve read plenty of articles in both Arabic and unanimously voted to grant women full political rights, Franchised nationals in Gharnata total number. Fifteen nominees (37.5 English, and I realized the situation is no differ- which enabled Masouma Al-Mubarak to become the first amounts to 2,240 (including 1,347 2012 elections percent) were 40-49 years old, and ent than that in Egypt. The public and the gov- female minister in the history of the nation. Furthermore, women), Al-Qairawan 3,209 (includ- In the 2012 parliamentary elec- seven ones (17.5 percent) 30-39 ernment authorities specifically need to hear in another political milestone, Jenan Boushehri ing 1,541 women), and none has tions, 41 candidates (61.19 percent) years old. them out, to be aware of the fact that there’s an announced her candidacy for the 2006 municipal council been registered in Al-Murgab. of the total 67 nominees at the time, Candidates for the 2012 elections entire community full of potential and brilliant elections. Even though she failed to win a seat, Boushehri held academic degrees; seven (10.44 included 32 candidates of 50 years skills that is being wasted and underutilized garnered 1,800 votes in a harbinger of brighter things to Education percent) carried a diploma; fourteen old and above, about 47.76 percent due to lack of awareness. These people need to come. In 2009, in a major political breakthrough for Many of the candidates of the (20.89 percent) were high school of the total number. Twenty-four personally send a shout-out to the whole world women, four female candidates won seats in parliament. Second Constituency, vying for seats graduates and five (7.46 percent) nominees were 40-49 years old, 35.82 and make them listen to their needs! Therefore, in the National Assembly for the 15th studied till medium term. percent, and 11 ones 30-39 years old, I was hoping you can help me achieve that. Short time legislative term, slated for November Out of the 41candidates, five had about 16.41 percent. — KUNA I know I tend to come on too strong when it Speaking in statements yesterday, professor of social 26, have high levels of education. comes to this subject, but I’m very delighted to work at Kuwait University (KU) Dr Hayfa Al-Kandari said More than 42 percent of them are 50 finally find someone who wants to see an actu- that, “Women were able to attain their political rights in a years, or over. al difference happening. Finally, I know that short time as a result of a groundswell of support from Thirty-seven candidates (60.65 you don’t know me and I really don’t want to the government and the nation as a whole.” percent) of the total 61 nominees, sound cliche’ by quoting Ghandi and tell you Kandari explained that women have always had an hold academic degree; ten candi- “Be the change you want to see in the world!”, “imposing presence” in election seminars, noting that dates (16.39 percent) carry a diplo- but I know that if a group of people gathered “political action is not dependent upon gender, as ma; seven (11.47 percent) are high together with their mind set on one goal, Kuwait’s parliament has always been a male-dominated school graduates, and seven (11.47 believing that they can achieve it, trust me, arena.” percent) studied till medium term. there’s no force on Earth could make them On the social front, the KU professor said that women Among the 37 candidates, seven stop! make up half of society, being caretakers and guardians. carry PhDs in philosophy, private She also spoke of how instrumental social media is to law, Tafseer (Interpretation) of the Warm Regards. familiarize the electorate with the candidates’ campaigns Holy Quran, fundamentals of the reli- Radwa and ideologies. Similarly, political science professor at KU gion, programming engineering and *** Dr Hanan Al-Hajeri said that it is difficult to overlook political science. Five nominees have Dear Al-Fuzai, female contributions in a country with a highly patriarchal MAs in business administration, edu- “It is normal that children who grow up with society. “According to national statistics, Kuwaiti women cation management, criminal law, the maid’s habits and values will end up with are in the forefront of GCC nations in terms of employ- and pharmacology. Twenty-five BA psychological problems. I always wonder why ment opportunities,” she said. Kuwait remains the only holding candidates studied business many Kuwaiti families have a lot of domestic GCC nation with an active female workforce, Hajeri noted, administration, electrical engineer- workers - even young, newly-married couples. citing that around 47 percent of government employees ing, civilian engineering, mechanical They show the world how wealthy they are, but are women. — KUNA engineering, financing, economy, this is wrong.” Are these maids’ habits and values due to their social status as maids or because they are non-Kuwaiti? Maids are people with values, morals and KUNA issues book on candidates’ bios ethics and to demonize a group of people based on their social status or ethnicity. KUWAIT: Kuwait News Agency to choose representatives for the will participate as candidates and democracy under gains guaranteed Can you substantiate your claim of psycho- (KUNA) issued yesterday through its parliamentary term and to continue voters in these elections, the seventh by the Constitution. He also hoped logical problems attributed to maids’ values research and information center a the wheels of development and since they gained their political this book would simplify for the vot- and habits? new book biography of candidates prosperity. rights in May 2005 and have made ers their roles in positive participa- Any child having to substitute a parent’s for the 2016 parliamentary elections, Sheikh Mubarak said that as per remarkable achievements by winning tion. love with that of another regardless of social coinciding with the National Amiri decree No 276/16 and on four seats in the Parliament of 2009 Meanwhile, in addition to the doc- status or ethnicity will be affected. Assembly elections, 15th legislative polling day, some 483,186 voters will and three seats in the December umented information about biogra- If a maid’s value is to respect all people as term, scheduled for November 26. go to the polls to elect members of 2012 parliament, which was invali- phies of candidates, the book con- equals, I am sure that would a hundredfold Introducing the new book, the National Assembly according to dated by the Constitutional Court, tains the full text of the Constitution beater than the values you would teach to your Chairman of the Board and Director the single vote system, stating that and one seat in the 2013 parliament. of the State of Kuwait and the elec- children. General of KUNA, Sheikh Mubarak the number of male voters stand at Sheikh Mubarak wished that this toral law along with amendments Duaij Al-Ibrahim Al-Sabah said that 230,430 voters, whereas the number book would help voters identify their made, besides tables of polling Yours sincerely Kuwait awaits on this historic day an of women stand at 252,756 voters. candidates before polling day and a places and committees of all con- A reader active participation on polling day He explained that Kuwaiti women documentation of the march of stituencies.—KUNA [email protected] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Live ammunition Kuwaitis safe New fuel stations

drill KUALA LUMPUR: The Embassy of KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Kuwait in New Zealand yesterday Petroleum Company (KNPC) will KUWAIT: The Ministry of Defense announced assured the safety of its diplomatic mis- offer 120 new gas stations for bid- yesterday that the Air Force will carry out a sion and their family members, as well ders in less than seven years to shooting drill on November 16-17, using live as Kuwaiti students on the aftermath of come, said Deputy CEO for Mina ammunition. The exercise will take place in the a series of earthquakes that shook the Abdullah Refinery, Ahmad Saleh Al- shooting range, where it will be 16.5 miles east country last night. The Embassy, in a Jemaz. Nineteen stations have of Ras Al-Jelaiaa, all the way to Garu island, six press release, called on Kuwaiti nationals already been offered and 15 others nautical miles east of Ras Al-Zor, all the way to to be cautious and to follow instructions will soon follow, Al-Jemaz told Umm Al-Maradem island. Sea-goers are advised of local authorities. It also urged them to reporters on the sidelines of launch- to refrain from approaching the identified loca- contact the embassy once necessary at ing the smart control system for the tions during the drill. — KUNA the following numbers: 0064-04719980 - new filling station in Riqqa area, 0064-021468683. — KUNA operated by solar power. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Classic vehicles on display during a festival organized recently by the Kuwait Motor Sports Club. — KUNA KCCI: Trade exchange with Switzerland hit $700 million Farwaniya Governor lauds ties

KUWAIT: Deputy Chairman of the Kuwait Chamber of meeting the investment climate in Kuwait, and KDIPA ‘s Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Abdulwahab Al-Wazzan major role to attract local and foreign capital. yesterday said that bilateral trade with the Swiss He referred to some of the advantages offered by the Confederation has reached about $700 million. Wazzan 2013 investment law, namely a foreign investor can own added that the Kuwaiti-Swiss ties date back to more than up to 100 percent of an enterprise, and can even enjoy a five decades. 10-year tax exemption. There are also customs exemptions, Kuwait enjoys a sound democratic approach and a partial or full, on supplies and equipment, he said. modern banking system, Wazzan said as he received the Yesterday’s meeting was attended by representatives of visiting Geneva Mayor Guillaume Barazzone at the cham- many Kuwaiti companies interested in economic coopera- ber. Barazzone and an accompanying delegation arrived in tion with Switzerland. Kuwait on Sunday on a threeday official visit, invited by Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal AlHumoud AlMalek All fields AlSabah. Earlier yesterday, Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al- During the meeting, Wazzan referred to the govern- Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah praised Kuwait’s ties with the ment’s achievement of projects on a development plan Swiss Confederation in all fields, especially economy, trade based on privatization, free market and encouraging and tourism. Sheikh Faisal received at the governorate’s KUWAIT: V M Sudheeran, president of Kerala state’s Congress committee meets with Farwaniya Governor Sheikh investments. The senior KCCI official lauded the strong his- headquarters the visiting Geneva Mayor, who arrived in Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah. torical economic and tourist ties between the two coun- Kuwait on Sunday on a three-day official visit. tries, hoping the visit would have positive direct effect on During the meeting, the Farwaniya Governor stressed them. He called for making the utmost benefit from the keenness on enhancing ties between the two friendly India banned cash without Swiss expertise in financing and implementing infrastruc- countries, calling for exchange of expertise on the level of ture projects in Kuwait. the local administrations, as well as on that of gover- norates. homework: Congress leader Partnerships According to Sheikh Faisal, Farwaniya is seeking to con- Wazzan stressed the need for establishing investment clude a twin and sister city agreement with Geneva in the partnerships between the two sides, pointing to Switzerland future. He referred to the deep-rooted bilateral ties on the By Sajeev K Peter cooperative movement in the state under the pretext of a leading center for economy and services, especially in the official and the popular levels, saying that the Kuwait-Swiss black money eradication, which will badly hurt farmers financial and banking sectors. He said that Switzerland is a relations date back to more than 50 years. Mayor KUWAIT: The India government’s shock decision to and the rural economy. Sudheeran, voicing dismay at major tourist destination for many Kuwaitis. Barazzone expressed gratitude to Sheikh Faisal AlMalek for demonetize 500- and 1,000-rupee banknotes without the Indian government’s decision to scrap the ministry Meanwhile, Assistant Director General for Business his invitation to visit Kuwait saying that bilateral ties are ‘proper homework’ has wrought havoc across the coun- of overseas Indian affairs when it came to power nearly Development at the Kuwait Direct Investment Authority developing thanks to mutual eagerness to better them for try, and ordinary people are struggling to pay for their two years ago, said the Indian expatriate community (KDIPA) Mohammad Yusuf Yaqoub, reviewed during the the good of both states. — KUNA basic goods and needs, said a visiting Congress leader must get a fair deal from the Indian authorities. from India on Sunday. The worst-ever disruption to cash transactions in High airfares India comes in the wake of the announcement last The visiting Indian leader admitted the fact that the Tuesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi banning the governments in India over the years have failed to solve two large denomination notes with a view to bring bil- the persistent problem of exorbitant airfares levied by lions of dollars of unaccounted wealth into the main- Indian carriers in the Gulf region. “We have to make con- stream economy and curb large-scale corruption in the tinuous efforts and interventions to find a solution to country. However, the decision triggered an unprece- the problem that is affecting the expatriate community dented cash crunch in the country, with ATMs running in the region,” he remarked. He said his party is keeping dry and banks failing to dispense money. up pressure on both India and Kerala governments to “The move was ill-conceived, ill-thought-out and develop a rehabilitation project for Indians who return politically motivated. The situation is becoming worse to the state from the Gulf in large numbers. with every passing day,” V M Sudheeran, president of Sudheeran arrived in Kuwait on a three-day visit to Kerala state’s Congress committee, said at a press con- attend a conference of the Overseas Indian Cultural ference. The abrupt measure was fraught with serious Congress (OICC). He called on Farwaniya Governor consequences for an essentially rural economy that is Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah and dis- largely powered by cash, he said, urging the India gov- cussed issues pertaining to the Indian community in ernment, the Reserve Bank of India, the ministry of Kuwait. “It is gratifying to note that the Kuwaiti authori- finance and other concerned policymakers to find an ties are by and large happy with the Indian community immediate solution to the crisis before the situation in Kuwait which is the largest expat community in the deteriorates any further. “The authorities must act on a country,” he said. KPCC treasurer Johnson Abraham, war footing to find a solution to the crisis,” Sudheeran Secretary Mannar Abdullateef and OICC president KUWAIT: Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) members, including Deputy Chairman Abdulwahab said. Varghese Puthukulangara were also present during the Al-Wazzan meet with Geneva Mayor Guillaume Barazzone. — KUNA He said there is also a concerted move to wreck the press conference. LOCAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Railway project offered for bidding next year

By A Saleh desalination plant for public bidding before the end of the year. KUWAIT: The Kuwait Authority For Partnership Projects (KAPP) is scheduled to Stateless students offer the railway project’s tender for public Kuwait University’s higher (postgradu- bidding during the first half of 2017 ate) studies college announced new mas- because it is committed to executing the ters programs and three new PhD pro- project jointly with other GCC states. The grams will be accredited soon. The college project comprises of a railway network link- also announced stateless students would ing Kuwait City to the airport and marine be accepted once a ministerial decision is ports as well as link Kuwait with other GCC issued in this regard. They would be accept- states over a 511-km long two-way railway ed within the 20 percent ratio allocated for line. KAPP is also preparing to offer a ten- non-Kuwaitis as per the global universities’ der to build the Khairan power and water classification system. Coastguards foil bird smuggling attempt By Hanan Al-Saadoun Traffic campaign dent reported on Wafra Road. They were trans- New private hospitals Traffic detectives carried out surprise cam- ferred to Adan Hospital. KUWAIT: Coastguards foiled two attempts to paigns against ATVs including many vital roads, smuggle 10 birds of prey and 101 houbara bus- resulting in detaining a person at the traffic Encroachments to have reduced areas tards via the sea. A boat was spotted south of detention cell and sending another to the juve- Farwaniya Municipality branch carried out a Boubyan Island, so it was followed and stopped. nile prosecution. Two ATVs and 26 motorcycles campaign to remove encroachments on state By Meshaal Al-Enezi added that since its establishment in Two citizens were found onboard, and two bags were impounded. property near Seventh Ring Road, under direct 2010, the hospital has received over were found containing eight birds of prey and supervision from Kuwait Municipality’s Director KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health will 330,000 patients. 80 houbaras. The second haul was discovered Accidents General Ahmad Al-Manfouhi. A statement by the reduce the areas of private hospitals when boats arriving into the country were A car accident in Boubyan Island left a man Public Relations Department said that munici- built in the future due to a lack of Road projects searched and 21 houbaras and two birds of prey injured in the head and other parts of his body. pality workers removed violations set up by a enough space to build hospitals the way Minister of Electricity and Water and were found. The suspects and birds were sent to He was transferred to hospital by medvac. company on state property illegally, which cov- they used to be, assistant undersecre- acting minister of public works and concerned authorities. Meanwhile, five people were injured in an acci- ered an area of around 83,964 square meters. tary for private medical services Dr awqaf Ahmed Al-Jassar signed a con- Mohammed Al-Khashti said. Speaking to tract to design, build and maintain rain reporters at the sidelines of Omooma drainage lines on the new roads extend- Hospital’s 6th anniversary celebrations, ing from Saad Al-Abdullah Road to Health Ministry to host Khashti said some owners had already Buhaith Gate at a total cost of KD 97.96 been granted licenses to build new hos- million. pitals. Meanwhile, Omooma Hospital’s founder and supervisor Alia Faisal Al- Final verdict Otolaryngology conference Khaled said the hospital had faced vari- Kuwait Football Association’s official ous challenges since it opened in 2010, Twitter account said that a final verdict KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health (MoH) is set to host on including hiring skilled medical and was issued by the comprehensive court Thursday a surgical conference dealing with administrative staff. Also speaking on ordering freezing the association’s finan- Otolaryngology, an event expected to feature Arab and the occasion, the hospital’s CEO Dr cial assets to pay a KD 47,500 debt due international participation. In a press conference yesterday, Saeed Rateb said new wings would be to a sportswear company contracted in honorary head of the conference and head of the ENT added to the hospital next year. He 2012 to provide national team jerseys. department at Zain Hospital Dr Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah said that a contingent of 10 doctors from the United States, Canada, Germany, Greece and other nations, will take part in the conference. Moreover, he noted that the two-day conference will GCC meeting to discuss attract 11 foreign visitors, all of whom will conduct impromptu surgical operations and hold informative lec- important topics: Minister tures. On the conference, Dr Sheikh Basel added that it also includes three workshops that tackle otolaryngological surgeries, adding that Zain Hospital is in the process of KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and the meeting are enhancing GCC joint conducting 15 intricate surgical procedures, an effort to Labor Hind Al-Subaih said yesterdaythe action, the uniform code of protecting the curb the increasing number of patients seeking treatment 3rd session of the GCC Labor Ministries disabled as well as discussing earlier social abroad. Committee and Social Affairs Ministries resolutions, the statement said. The agen- Meanwhile, head of the conference Dr Mutlaq Al- Committee due in Riyadh today will dis- da of the third meeting will also address Sayhan said that the conference will showcase Kuwaiti cuss important topics related to joint the uniform law on voluntary work, GCC medical prowess, adding that it provides an opportunity GCC work. This came during Subaih’s strategy in social development, Kingdom for the exchange of know-how. He also underscored that statement before leaving for Riyadh, of Bahrain’s proposal to form a coordinat- Kuwait is in need of such events due to the pervasiveness heading Kuwait’s delegation participat- ing body for the charitable work in the of otolaryngological diseases. The MoH routinely organizes KUWAIT: Head of the ENT department at Zain Hospital Dr Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah and ing in the session. Gulf, in addition to sustainable develop- such events in efforts to bring local hospitals at par with head of the conference Dr Mutlaq Al-Sayhan attend the press conference. — KUNA Amongst the topics to be discussed by ment goals in 2030. —KUNA international standards. — KUNA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS Crime Report Al-Jarida Buffet Will vote Prostitutes arrested in Mahboulah for money KUWAIT: A security source said residency affairs detec- tives were monitoring videos on social media showing two Romanian prostitutes making offers to meet any- By Mohammed Al-Owaissi one in any country. The two later arrived in Kuwait after a busy week in another Gulf country. An undercover he slogan of ‘Will Vote for my Country’ used source was asked after thorough investigations to make by the information ministry to boost people’s a deal with them, and they agreed to receive KD 200 Tawareness of the need to vote is a very beau- each per hour. Detectives then raided a flat in Mahboula tiful one, but is unfortunately hard to put into prac- and arrested them. The two admitted servicing clients tice because of the one-vote electoral system, for the same fee for three days, and were transferring where most voters vote for candidates from the the money immediately. The suspects were sent to the same tribe, clan, sect or even those known for deportation center. Their clients’ phone numbers were doing services for constituents. Nowadays, voters also noted in case the two have any infectious diseases. usually opt to vote for ‘dinar’ candidates. Al-Qabas on Oct 25, 2016 published a story with a headline reading “Up to KD 1,300 per vote” in the fourth, third and other constituencies. This story Work mishap reminded me of a vote-buying incident during the A gas cylinder explosion killed a Pakistani air condi- 2003 elections. A voter said that on the eve of the tioning technician in a shop in Fahaheel industrial elections, he went to the campaign headquarters of area. His body was recovered by the coroner. a candidate known to buy votes and asked him

Investigations are underway. Vote Al-Anbaa how much he paid per vote. The candidate told him that he will pay KD 1,000 and they agreed on the amount. The candidate asked him to come the following morning to the Bag missing tent pitched next to the polling center along his citi- An Egyptian mandoub (company representative) told zenship certificate. Meeting him, the candidate Khaitan police a bag containing five passports and KD asked him to swear by the Holy Quran to vote for 800 was stolen from his car. Detectives are working on Al-Anbaa him, which he did, and received the KD 1,000. the case. Next, the voter went to the polling center accom- panied by the candidate’s representative to vote for Urbanite contemplation the bribe-paying candidate. On the way, the voter Fights thought of a way to shake off the representative so that he could find another vote-buying candidate Four persons were involved in a fight and used and make more money, which he did, and ran to his knives, so police were called in and broke up the By Salah Al-Sayer house to have an afternoon nap. In the evening, the fight. One of those involved was stabbed in the voter went back to the same center looking for n the recent past, the word ‘bedouin’ was not used formations nowadays after they politically, socially and shoulder. He was sent to Mubarak Hospital, while another ill-mannered and conscienceless candidate the way it is nowadays in Kuwait. It was symbolically economically changed and started living in the out- the other three were detained. Meanwhile, three who would buy his vote. Finding one, he asked for used and had no indication in real life of desert life skirts of modern cities in which citizenship and the rule Egyptian juveniles were injured during a fight I KD 1,000 for his vote, but the candidate refused, because there were no more nomads travelling from of the law are more valued than tribal fanaticism. with other Egyptians, as knives were used. Two of bargained with him and only gave him KD 750. one place to another. Just like sailors stopped sailing The problem seems more complex with younger the suspects were sent to Adan Hospital for The voter swore by the Holy Quran to vote for their dhows after the discovery of oil, bedouins generations who keep fanaticizing about bedouin life treatment of wounds they sustained. him, collected the money and started counting it stepped down from their camels and lived in urban in a platonic way with merely ‘a rababa (a bowed musi- Investigations are underway. Separately, a fight before leaving. He found out that the sum included residential areas in the early stages of Kuwait’s boom, cal instrument), a cup of coffee and a falcon’, which is broke out in Julaia over the rental charges of an an extra KD 10 and insisted on returning it because with the spread of education and the availability of job totally against the bitter truth! If we go back to ATV, leaving a citizen and an Iraqi injured. Police he would “never accept haram money”, which highly opportunities in various government bodies, and bedouin life nowadays, many people will be looted, broke up the fight. The citizen sustained various appealed to the candidate, who admired his hon- many more aspects that are very different from those murdered or socially excluded. bruises and the Iraqi had a broken nose. Both esty and insisted on giving him the extra amount, known by nomads. Finally, I would like to remind you of the ‘Please don’t were taken to Adan Hospital. praying to Allah to have many more of his likes! However, things are not the same nowadays. The let me down’ call, which is absolutely against true demo- Well, voters swear by the Holy Quran to vote for word ‘bedouin’ reflects and refers to a different and cratic practices. Some people tried to justify it as a those paying bribes, who in turn swear by Almighty special culture that ought to be confirmed and pro- bedouin value of requesting assistance and forgot that Residency law Allah to be loyal to the nation and HH the Amir, to tected in the minds of some people. They believe it the Kuwaiti society nationally did so by consolidation, respect state laws and the constitution and defend the Authorities arrested 20 residency law violators in Kabd. ought to be separated from urban culture, and thus which is far stronger than sectarian bonds, when people’s freedom and funds and do their work honest- Committee Chairman Mohammad Jaloud Al-Dhafiri said seem like an illusionary trick played by some magicians Kuwaitis of all sects, tribes and races worked hand in ly. What an oath! employers of the arrested people were issued citations. who make audiences imagine things that do not really hand to build the third Kuwait wall. —Translated by Kuwait Times The arrestees were sent to concerned authorities. exist. In fact, it is impossible for them to have the same —Translated by Kuwait Times —Al-Rai Burgan Bank sponsors Nuqat Creative Conference For four consecutive years

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank is delighted to announce its spon- Conference, an annual event, brings together thousands sorship of the seventh edition of Nuqat Creative of participants to discuss the current state of creativity in Conference, took place at the Americani Cultural Center the Arab world. This year’s event, “The Seventh Sense: from 13-16 November 2016. Supporting and encouraging Powering the Creative Economy”, looked at how innova- creative thinking and thought-provoking platforms helps tion in business and technology has contributed to Arab youth unleash their creativity and potential, and the growing creative industries in the Middle East and Nuqat Conference has proven highly effective in achieving around the world. this. Burgan Bank, being a long-term partner of the confer- Burgan Bank’s support of this initiative falls under its ence, sponsoring it for four consecutive years, remains full-fledged community program entitled ‘ENGAGE’ - committed and engaged with local communities. The Bank Together to be the change. This program sheds light on believes that education, in all its forms, plays a crucial role important aspects affecting every segment of the society in fuelling growth, creating opportunities for everyone and by promoting social welfare through educational, cultural, providing creative solutions to 21st century challenges. social and health initiatives. Burgan Bank’s approach to Nuqat is a not-for profit organization that aims to nur- ‘ENGAGE’ begins with a vital principle that as a Kuwaiti ture creativity and curiosity in adults by boosting out of financial institution, its conduct and policies should be VIVA organizes health the box thinking in various walks of life. The Nuqat aligned with the needs and interests of the Kuwaiti society. awareness campaign Coincid with World Diabetes Day

KUWAIT: Coinciding with World Diabetes Day, VIVA, healthy and suitable environment for its employees. Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most developed telecom VIVA’s employees turned out in large numbers to par- operator, organized a health awareness campaign for ticipate in the health awareness campaign. They its staff, VIVA Family’s members, in collaboration with acknowledged the importance of having regular med- Safwan Medical Services Company. ical checkups to prevent chronic diseases. VIVA held a medical clinic with Safwan health pro- Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), fessionals at its headquarters located at Olympia each World Diabetes Day focuses on a theme related Tower, whilst health campaign offered diabetes, blood to diabetes. Topics covered have included diabetes pressure and cholesterol tests and compared results and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, diabetes and against healthy levels. It also provided health tips to obesity, diabetes in the disadvantaged and the vulner- employees that highlighted the importance of follow- able, and diabetes in children and adolescents. While ing a healthy lifestyle and good eating habits. the campaigns last the whole year, the day itself marks This campaign is in line with VIVA’s CSR program, in the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Health section, towards its employees, the underlying Charles Best and John James Rickard Macleod, first foundation for delivering the company’s aspirations conceived the idea which led to the discovery of and objectives. VIVA is also dedicated to providing a insulin in 1922.

Senior Officer Public Relations at Burgan Bank Hessa Al-Najadah with Al-Shaikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah and Nuqat Founder Hessa Al-Humadhi.

Farm Land, golden sponsor of Horeca

KUWAIT: Farm Land Company, the exclu- tality, food industries and hotel require- sive distributor of the ‘President’ trade- ments in Kuwait, the region and the mark, announced its golden sponsorship Middle East. He also noted that Horeca of Horeca Kuwait for the sixth consecu- provides a golden opportunity to tive year. In this regard, Farm Land’s exchange expertise in a way that would General Manager Antoine Obeid said that help develop the business in view of the his company provides the best quality revolutionary development towards products including President Cheese, one changing Kuwait into a regional financial of the world’s premiere cheese makers. and commercial hub. He also noted that President offers many Horeca Kuwait 2017 is organized by dairy products that are produced of 100 Leaders Group in collaboration with percent pure milk, which can be used to Antoine Obeid Hospitality Services Company at Mishref prepare the most delicious dishes under International Fair Grounds in the period prestigious brand names such as the McLaren cheddar cheese. of January 16-18, 2017 under auspices of KUWAIT: Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met yesterday with members fresh Italian Galbani Mozzarella, the Obeid strongly praised the Horeca the Minister of Information and Minister of the Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN) campaign, and congratulated them following the Health famous French Valbreso Feta, SociÈtÈ Kuwait exhibition and its ability to of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Roquefort cheese and the English attract companies specializing in hospi- Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Ministry’s decision to approve building a radiology cancer treatment center in the governorate. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Kerry in Oman for Yemen peace talks

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BLUFF STATION, New Zealand: A woman and child are seen in front of a house damaged by an earthquake as it sits on the fault line near Kaikoura on the South Islandís east coast. —AFP ‘Utter devastation’ after NZ quake At least two people killed, tourist town cut off

WELLINGTON: A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake pummeled central normally, although many offices in the capital were closed. The New New Zealand early yesterday, killing at least two people, damaging roads Zealand dollar initially fell to a one-month low before mostly recovering. and buildings and setting off hundreds of strong aftershocks. Emergency Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, said some its farms were with- response teams flew by helicopter to the region at the epicenter of the out power and would likely have to dump milk. Prime Minister Key post- tremor, which struck just after midnight some 91 km northeast of poned a trip to Argentina, where he had planned to hold a series of trade Christchurch in the South Island, amid reports of injuries and collapsed meetings ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ buildings. summit in Peru this week, as he met disaster officials. “It’s just utter devastation, I just don’t know ... that’s months of work,” At least one of those killed was found in a house in Kaikoura that “col- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key told Civil Defense Minister Gerry lapsed like a stack of cards”, Kaikoura Hospital’s Dr Christopher Henry told Brownlee after flying over the coastal town of Kaikoura, according to Fairfax media. Two other people were pulled alive from the same building. Brownlee’s Twitter account. He described landslips in the area as “just hor- New Zealand media reported one of the pilots taking rescuers to the area rendous”. In a statement seen by Reuters, Key said of the likely damage bill: was Richie McCaw, the recently retired captain of New Zealand’s world “You’ve got to believe it’s in the billions of dollars to resolve.” Powerlines champion All Blacks rugby team. “At one point, the railway was way out and telecommunications were down, with huge cracks in roads, land slips over the sea - it had been pushed out by (land) slips. It would not have and other damage to infrastructure making it hard to reach the worst- been a nice place to be at midnight last night,” McCaw told the New affected areas. Zealand Herald after helping fly the USAR team to Kaikoura.—Reuters A tsunami warning that led to mass evacuations after the original quake was downgraded after large swells hit New Zealand’s capital Wellington, in the North Island, and Christchurch. Wellington was a virtual ghost town with workers ordered to stay away while the city council assessed the risk to buildings, several of which were dam- aged by the tremor. There were concerns that loose glass and masonry could be dislodged by severe weather hitting the capital, with 140 km per hour winds forecast. Hundreds of aftershocks, the strongest a 6.2 quake at about 1.45 p.m. local time (0045 GMT), rattled the South Pacific country, fraying nerves in an area where memories of a deadly 2011 quake are still fresh. Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand’s ruggedly beautiful South Island, is still recovering from the 6.3 quake in 2011 that killed 185 people. New Zealand’s Civil Defense declared a state of emergency for the Kaikoura region, centered on a tourist town about 150 km northeast of Christchurch, soon after yesterday’s large aftershock. Kaikoura, a popular spot for whale watching, appeared to have borne the brunt of the quake. “Our immediate priority is ensuring delivery of clean water, food and other essentials to the residents of Kaikoura and the estimated 1,000 tourists in the town,” Brownlee said. The Navy’s multi-role vessel HMNZS Canterbury was heading to the area, he said. Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) said a 20-person rescue team and two sniffer dogs had arrived in the town. A second team was on standby in Christchurch, USAR said in a statement. Police in the area around Christchurch reported 19 burglaries of homes and commercial properties after the quake as residents headed for higher ground. “It is extremely disappointing that at a time when people are facing such a traumatic event and communities are coming together to support one another, there are others who are only interested in taking advan- tage,” Canterbury District Commander Superintendent John Price said in a statement.

Twin quakes Hours after the quake, officials said a slip dam caused by the quakes that had blocked the Clarence River north of the town had breached, sending a wall of water down- stream. A group of kayakers missing on the river was later reported safe. New Zealand’s Geonet measured yesterday’s first quake at magnitude 7.5, while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.8. The quakes and aftershocks rattled buildings and woke residents across the country, hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter. Geonet said four faults had ruptured, with one at the coast appearing to have slipped as much as 10 meters. Government research unit GNS Science said the overnight tremor appeared to have been two simultaneous quakes which together lasted more than two minutes. New Zealand lies in the seismically active “Ring of Fire”, a 40,000 km arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encir- cles the Pacific Ocean. Around 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur within this region. Stock exchange operator NZX Ltd said markets traded INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Heavy pollution shuts schools in Tehran

TEHRAN: Tehran officials shut schools encourage people to use public trans- larly dangerous for the elderly, pregnant, yesterday as the first of the winter’s port. Despite having around 100 sta- children and those with existing respira- heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital. A tions, Ghalibaf says the metro is not suffi- tory and heart conditions. Sand and blanket of choking brown-white smog ciently funded by the central govern- cement factories around Tehran were descended on the city on Sunday, block- ment, and Tehran has some of the also shuttered. Every year, Tehran suffers ing out the view of the mountains that world’s worst traffic congestion. some of the worst pollution in the world line its northern edge and leading many Pollution has become a political foot- when cold weather traps the vast levels of its 14 million residents to retreat ball in recent years, with conservatives of exhaust from the city’s 10 million age- indoors or don face masks in the street. and reformists blaming each other for ing cars and motorbikes. The level of the deadliest PM2.5 particles the problem. Hardliners regularly accuse Two permanent zones of traffic hit 156 yesterday-more than three times the reformist vice-president Massoumeh restrictions introduced in 1979 and 2005 the level considered safe by the World Ebtekar, who heads the environmental have failed to rectify the sprawling city’s Health Organization. “Kindergartens and protection organization, of not doing poor air quality. Local carmakers have primary schools are closed yesterday in enough. The ultra-conservative daily shown little interest in introducing Tehran and most of the cities of the Vatane Emrooz said yesterday that 70 cleaner engines, while foreign firms have province,” the Ministry of Education percent of deaths in Tehran were linked been kept out by international sanctions. announced, according to official agency to pollution. The pollution has been In 2014, almost 400 people were hospi- Irna. building for six consecutive days and is talized with heart and respiratory prob- Officials extended traffic restrictions expected to continue until Wednesday lems caused by heavy pollution in that alternate cars with odd and even when forecasters hope winds will move Tehran, with nearly 1,500 others requir- licence plates in two central parts of the the stagnant air, an official told state tel- ing treatment. The health ministry esti- city, and deployed ambulances to wait in evision. mated that pollution contributed to the the busiest and dirtiest areas. Tehran Residents were advised to stay TEHRAN: A general view taken from Western Tehran shows a blanket of brown- premature deaths of 4,500 people in mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf rode indoors unless absolutely necessary, white smog covering the city as the first of the winter’s heavy pollution hit the Tehran in 2012 and about 80,000 across the metro to work on Sunday in a bid to with warnings that pollution is particu- Iranian capital yesterday. — AFP the countr. —AFP Jihadists say Trump’s victory a News in brief

BBC cancels a debate rallying call for new recruits on Islam and politics RABAT: The BBC has been forced to move a debate on Islam and politics from Morocco to another country IS commander calls Trump a ‘maniac’ because of problems over filming permissions, the broad- caster has said. “Global Questions, our highly respected KABUL: From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use attacks in the West. The United States has seen a handful of takes office in January, analysts say his statements during and internationally renowned current affairs program, had Donald Trump’s shock US presidential victory as a propa- attacks inspired by Islamist militant groups, including the the campaign trail were enough to fuel the militants’ prop- planned to travel to Casablanca in Morocco for a debate ganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields. June massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub by a aganda machine. “Militants will still use those quotes,” said about Islam’s place in politics”, the BBC said on Sunday. Taleban commanders and Islamic State supporters say gunman who called a TV station swearing allegiance to IS Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and “Unfortunately, for unforeseen reasons related to permis- Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric against Muslims - at one and the killing of 14 people at a San Bernadino, California, Insurgency Centre. “The key thing militant groups, particu- sions, we will no longer be filming this debate in Morocco point calling for a total shutdown of Muslims entering the social services agency last December. US officials have larly Islamic State and al Qaeda, depend on for recruitment but plan to take it to an alternative country,” a spokesper- United States - will play perfectly in their recruitment warned the country will likely face a higher risk of similar purposes is convincing Muslims in the Western world that son said. French-language Moroccan newspaper efforts, especially for disaffected youth in the West. “This attacks as IS urges supporters to launch attacks at home the West hates them and won’t ever accept them as part of l’Economiste said the episode would instead be filmed in guy is a complete maniac. His utter hate towards Muslims instead of joining its fight in the Middle East. their society.” Tunisia. A flagship BBC debate program, Global Questions will make our job much easier because we can recruit “Our leaders were closely following the US election but A senior Taleban commander in Afghanistan said the is presented by Sudanese-British journalist Zeinab Badawi thousands,” Abu Omar Khorasani, a top IS commander in it was unexpected that the Americans will dig their own group, whose resurgence is undermining efforts to end and broadcast on both television and radio. The broadcast- Afghanistan said. graves and they did so,” said IS’s Khorasani, who described America’s longest war, had kept track of all of Trump’s er said the episode was to be an “informed and balanced Trump has talked tough against militant groups on the President Barack Obama as a moderate infidel with at least speeches and anti-Muslim comments. “If he does what he discussion” of the role of Islam in politics in Morocco and campaign trail, promising to defeat “radical Islamic terror- a little brain in comparison to Trump. Al-Qaeda, which has warned in his election campaign, I am sure it will provoke the region. It was to feature a “high-profile panel of politi- ism just as we won the Cold War.” The president-elect later proven resilient more than 15 years after launching the Muslim Ummah (community) across the world and jihadi cal, civil society and religious figures”, it said. toned down his call for a total ban on Muslim entry to say Sept 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, has yet to organizations can exploit it,” said the militant leader, who he would temporarily suspend immigration from countries comment on Trump’s victory. declined to be identified because of strict Taleban policy Bahraini opposition figure that have “a history of exporting terrorism.” But he has The militant group will likely respond after Trump’s first that only its official spokesman can make statements. accused of inciting hatred offered few details on his plans to combat various radical speeches as president, anticipating they will be able to Shortly after Trump’s victory, several jihadist sympa- DUBAI: Bahraini authorities have accused a prominent groups, including IS, the Taleban and al Qaeda, which rep- exploit his comments to win support, said Hisham al thizers took to social media to declare this as an oppor- opposition figure of “inciting hatred and contempt resent a wide spectrum of political views. Hashemi, who advises the Iraqi government on Sunni tunity for their cause. “The dog Trump’s victory in the US against the regime” in a statement to foreign media, a “He does not differentiate between extremist and mod- jihadist movements. “Al-Qaeda is known for its recruitment elections is a gold mine for Muslims not a setback if they local newspaper reported Monday. The prosecution erate Islamist trends and, at the same time, he overlooks strategy that heavily quotes speeches of the White House know how to use it,” tweeted @alhlm200, who regularly said on Sunday it had summoned Ibrahim Sharif after (the fact) that his extremism will generate extremism in and other Western officials,” he told Reuters. posts statements in support of Islamic State. And in he made a statement that “harms the kingdom’s consti- return,” Iraq’s powerful Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al- Algeria, @salil_chohada, an Islamic State supporter tutional system” to a foreign press outlet. Sharif denied Sadr said in a statement. Sadr’s political reform movement, Propaganda machine whose name on the Twitter account is Mohamed parts of the statement attributed to him, it said, adding which commands thousands of followers, is a staunch Trump’s office did not immediately respond to requests Aljazairie, said: “Congratulations to the Muslim nation that he was released after being charged and pending opponent of the radical Sunni movements IS and Al- for comment on the statements from the militants. Even if over the infidel Trump’s victory. His stupid statements further investigations. The Al-Wasat daily confirmed Qaeda, and unlike them has not waged or promoted Trump tones down his anti-Muslim comments when he alone serve us.”— Reuters the release with Sharif’s lawyer. Sharif, the former sec- retary general of the Waed secular association, spoke to foreign press last week during a visit by Britain’s Kerry in Oman for Prince Charles to the Gulf kingdom. Authorities in July freed Sharif after he served a one-year jail term for anti- Yemen peace talks regime incitement. He had already served four years of a five-year sentence over the 2011 protests before MUSCAT: US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks yes- being released under a royal amnesty in June last year. terday with officials in Oman on efforts to end Yemen’s 19- month conflict, state media in Muscat said. Kerry and Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi discussed the “peaceful and humanitarian role played by the sultanate in Yemen,” ONA state news agency reported. Kerry is also expected to meet ruler Sultan Qaboos, in one of his last trips as secretary of state before President Barack Obama’s administration ends on January 20. The US chief diplomat has been pushing for a settle- ment of Yemen’s deadly conflict, which escalated with the military intervention of a Saudi-led coalition to support the government against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in March 2015. Oman, one of the few Arab states to have good rela- tions with Iran, has used its links to mediate peace talks between the insurgents and Yemen’s UN-recognized gov- ernment of president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. It is also the only Arab nation in the Gulf not part of the Saudi-led coalition, although it maintains good relations with region- al powerhouse Saudi Arabia. More than 7,000 people have been killed and nearly SEOUL: Police block a subway exit during an anti-gov- 37,000 wounded in Yemen since March 2015, and the UN ernment protest in central Seoul. — AFP says millions are in need of food aid. Another 21 million people urgently need health services, according to the UN S Korean prosecutors health agency. Yesterday, 12 civilians, including a child, were killed in an air raid that targeted a convoy of three lor- to question president MOSUL: A front line drone operator from the Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division takes cover behind a rooftop wall as ries in the central Ibb province, while nine rebels were SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors want to question he eyes his aircraft while smoke billows from an Islamic State (IS) group position that was hit during fighting in killed in an ambush in the same region, military and med- President Park Geun hye this week over suspicion that she Mosul’s Karkukli neighborhood yesterday. — AFP ical sources said. Five other rebels, three soldiers and one let a shadowy longtime confidante manipulate power from civilian were killed Sunday in renewed violence in the behind the scenes, an official said Sunday. It would be the southwestern Taez province, military sources said. After first time that a sitting South Korean president has been Hand grenade drone adds Oman, Kerry will travel to Abu Dhabi for talks on regional questioned by prosecutors. The explosive scandal is the conflicts, including Syria. — AFP most serious challenge for Park, whose public apologies to Islamic State’s arsenal have done little to calm public anger. Prosecutors are seek- ing to question Park face-to-face on either Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest, a prosecution official said. The ARBID: The Islamic State group drone hovered in the sky Dueling drones official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the over the advancing Iraqi forces before dropping a grenade, IS is flying drones to spy on Iraqi forces-so Iraqi forces investigation was underway, said prosecutors conveyed the jihadists’ latest move to weaponise small off-the-shelf are sending up their own devices to spot the enemy as their position to Park’s office and were awaiting a response. aircraft. Down below, the grenade exploded on the roof of well. Moayyad watched a screen inside a specially convert- The president’s office said earlier Sunday that it can work a building where Iraqi police forces were sheltering as they ed armored bank van he has turned into a mobile drone out its position on a Park investigation as early as today. It advanced some 10 kilometers south of Mosul, the last IS- control centre. “Now I am entering the dangerous zone, said it needs time to review when and how Park should be held Iraqi city. No one was injured, according to an Iraqi this is where Daesh is,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for investigated. officer, but the incident nonetheless represents another IS as he maneuvered the drone’s remote control to focus escalation in the war of commercially available drones that on jihadist positions some five kilometers away. is playing out as Iraqi forces battle the jihadists. Like the IS operation, the Iraq police have also cobbled ‘War has just begun,’ Masters of invention, IS jihadists have booby trapped their drone program together with shop-bought equip- Boko Haram warns household appliances and turned cars into armored sui- ment and ingenuity. Moayyad-who has a masters degree in KANO: The leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram cide bombs as they try to stymy the Iraqi forces. Now they computing-modified drones bought in Dubai and Turkey has reacted to the election of Donald Trump to the seem to have found another way to try to slow the to give them greater range, longer battery life and the abil- White House with a warning that “the war has just progress: weaponising the $1,000 drones that they normal- ity to film at night. When he spots enemy movement, he begun” against the West. “Do not be overwhelmed by ly use to spy on their foes. “We have recorded three inci- coordinates with the Iraqi artillery, air force or sometimes people like Donald Trump and the global coalition dents,” police Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Moayyad said. the US-led coalition bombarding IS from the sky. In east- fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and The jihadists appear to have used an add-on-similar to ern Mosul, Iraqi special forces soldiers are using drones for everywhere,” Abubakar Shekau said in an audio mes- those intended to help fisherman drop their hooks farther the same purpose. sage posted on YouTube late Sunday. “We remain out at sea-to release the drone’s payload, Moayyad said. “There were three car bombs coming out from Al-Bakr steadfast on our faith and we will not stop,” he said in They rig the grenade so the pin is pulled free when the toward our positions that we spotted with our drone and the hour-long message. “To us, the war has just begun.” explosive device is dropped, arming it. While this attack hit with our tanks,” Staff Lieutenant Colonel Muntadhar Boko Haram is waging a seven-year-old uprising was relatively primitive and-for now-pretty ineffective, IS Salem recently said, referring to an area in the city. In total, against the Nigerian state that has claimed more than drones have already proved more deadly in other ways. Moayyad said, the Iraqi police force drones-superior to the 20,000 lives, with the insurgency spilling over the West Last month a hobby plane rigged with explosives killed ones IS use-end up costing somewhere around $26,000. African nation’s borders into neighboring states. Boko two Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and injured two But despite having superiority over the jihadists, he said Haram, which last year pledged allegiance to the French soldiers. According to a US defense official, the inci- the Iraqi forces could do with equipment that can let you Islamic State group, has been in the grip of a power dent unfolded on October 2 when a small plane with a sty- take control of unknown drones, especially now that IS is struggle since late last year. The IS high command said MUSCAT: US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets rofoam body was either shot down or crashed in Arbil in arming them. in August that Shekau had been replaced as leader by with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs northern Iraq. Two Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters “Maybe they could get bigger drones,” Moayyad said. Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, the 22-year-old son of Boko Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah in Muscat, Oman yester- grabbed it and took it back to their camp to inspect and “And if they manage to use chemical weapons on them, Haram’s founder Mohammed Yusuf. photograph it, when it blew up. then this is more scary, of course.”— AFP day. — AFP BELGIUM KING’S DAY 15 NOVEMBER

Words by Ambassador Andy Detaille

Dear Readers, third best education system amongst the 35 degree and 15% graduated with a master’s. degree. Belgium comes third from last of all 'Center of Excellence' quality label for their OECD countries. Thanks to outstanding teach- The Belgian expenditure for education is OECD countries within this segment. In addi- ground-breaking research into rheumatism, want to thank the Kuwait Times for giving ers and a flexible education system, our coun- 5.8% of Gross Domestic Product. This amount tion, female teachers are still underrepresent- an illness characterised by joint pain. This us the opportunity, on the occasion of our try has scored considerably better than the is considerably higher than the OECD average ed in Belgian education. Whilst 97% of the pre- shows they are among the very best in the IKing’s Day, to present my country to you. world average. of 5.2%. The majority of the education budget school teachers are female, this proportion world. Most of you know Belgium as the land of The OECD research “Education at a Glance” (95%) originates from the public sector whilst decreases strongly in primary, secondary It is now the third time that EULAR, the chocolate and beer, which of course we are. In speaks very highly of the Belgian education only 5% comes from the private sector. (63%) and higher education (48%). European League Against Rheumatism, has fact to earn the Belgian AMBAO quality label system. Teachers and head teachers are rela- There is, however, a downside to the awarded this highly-coveted label to a team of the chocolate cannot contain any vegetable tively young in our country. In secondary edu- Belgian education system. Only 26% of Belgium is leading the fight rheumatologists from Ghent, coordinated by fat as is often the case with non-Belgian prod- cation 16% of the teachers are younger than women successfully completed a science, against rheumatism Professor Dirk Elewaut and consisting of a fur- ucts. 30. That is twice the EU22 average (countries mathematics or computer science orientated Scientists from Ghent have received the ther forty scientists from UGent, UZ Gent and But my country is so much more. We are in which are both members of the European VIB (the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology). fact the per capita biggest exporters in the Union and the OECD). The number of teachers Although the EULAR quality label does not world, a whopping 80% of our prosperity older than 50 is considerably lower than the elicit any financial contributions in itself, this stems from selling products and services EU22 average. international acknowledgement may well abroad. The salaries of teachers in primary and sec- open doors to necessary funding in the future. This has led to innumerable success stories, ondary education are higher than the OECD It may also facilitate future collaboration with some global, some in Kuwait and I invite you and EU22 average. The salaries of teachers other research centers and universities. to discover some of them on this page. delivering post-16 education in Belgium are EULAR is a non-profit organisation based in even higher than the average salary of others Switzerland that represents an estimated 3 Yours truly, who have completed higher education. Whilst million sufferers of rheumatism across all post-16 education teachers have a master’s European countries, along with professional Andy Detaille degree, the majority of higher educated peo- experts, scientific researchers and other care Ambassador of Belgium ple only have a bachelor’s. providers. to the State of Kuwait. The youth of Belgium start higher educa- The team of rheumatologists from Ghent tion at a very young age. 95% of those carries out basic experimental research along younger than 25 following higher education with clinical testing with the aim of develop- Belgium has the third enrol furthermore for the first time. The aver- ing medication. This also involves various best education system age age to start a bachelor’s degree is 19. For a forms of collaboration with Belgian companies According to the annual education report of master’s degree it is 23. In 2015 almost 37% of such as UCB, Galapagos and Ablynx for the the Organisation for Economic Cooperation 25 to 64-year-olds obtained a higher educa- manufacture of medicines specifically and Development (OECD), Belgium has the tion degree. 21% of them attained a bachelor’s designed to target rheumatism.

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KAGA BANDORO: A month after rebels killed own, the attackers killed at least 37 people and set killed. After that, inspections shut down,” said an program to disarm fighters in CAR was officially dozens of civilians in Kaga Bandoro, residents of fire to the camp.”People were burned on the spot, aid worker with MINUSCA. “Civil servants had launched a year ago, but in practice little has been the Central African Republic town still live in fear like two children and a grandmother over there,” returned (to Kaga Bandoro), but they went back to done since to actually collect weapons or demobi- despite the presence of UN peacekeepers in the said site watchman Michel Kenze, near a pump Bangui after what happened,” said local govern- lize combatants. country and the prospect of nationwide disarma- where children were drawing water. After the ment official Paul Fradjala, who never ventures far Sylvie no longer dares to visit Muslim traders ment. Returning to the scene of the massacre for attack, victims’ corpses were left in the open to be from the UN base. The large country’s army, police on the far side of town over a bridge guarded by the first time, Sylvie pointed to the ruins of the eaten by wild pigs and other animals. Thousands of and government have a very limited presence out- a few Pakistani UN troops-members of the small home she built in what was a settlement for survivors, including Sylvie, fled to set up another side the capital, Bangui. MINUSCA contingent accused of standing by as 8,000 civilians displaced during years of unrest. camp between a base of the UN’s MINUSCA peace- In 2013, Seleka’s coup led to the formation of last month’s massacre unfolded. The Muslim quar- “That’s where I lived for three years,” she said, keeping force and the runway of the town’s airport. “anti-Balaka” vigilante units, drawn from the ter is busy with shops selling food and clothes, a recovering a comb from the scorched ground Christian majority, which began to target Muslims. motel and a garage fixing motorbike taxis. In this between the low walls of now roofless huts. On No longer in school Both sides committed widespread atrocities in dif- part of town, Seleka fighters, along with gunmen October 12 the predominantly Christian settle- Sylvie now makes ends meet selling peanuts ferent parts of the country, even after Seleka was from neighboring Sudan and Chad, rub shoulders ment was attacked by remnants of the mostly and fritters in a marketplace opposite the MINUS- chased from power. “We want peace, we want the with civilians, residents say. “In the displaced per- Muslim rebel “Seleka” coalition, which overthrew CA base. On the edge of the runway, young girls armed groups to be disarmed,” Sylvie said in her sons’ camps, there are also armed men among the national government in March 2013, only to be sing songs and play games. They are not in school. new home, a hut made from plastic sheeting the civilians and MINUSCA sees and knows about dislodged the following January. “We had just started the school year on September where she stores her few possessions: a notebook, them,” counters Idriss Al Bachar, a young Seleka In apparent reprisal for the death of one of their 19. On October 12, an education inspector was a jerrycan and an old mosquito net. A National leader. —AFP

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Missing Mexican priest Americans have nothing to fear found alive, tortured COATZACOALCOS: A priest whose disappearance Trump ‘saddened’ by harassment reports sparked protests in an eastern Mexican town was found alive on Sunday but with injuries consistent with tor- ture, the Catholic Church said. Father Jose Luis Sanchez NEW YORK: President-elect Donald Trump House Speaker Paul Ryan, the others being Ruiz had last been seen on Thursday, and the next day has vowed to move aggressively on a con- action to undo Obama’s signature health the doors to his church in Catemaco, a town in the east- servative agenda in filling Supreme Court care reform and a bill to cut taxes and sim- ern state of Veracruz, had signs of forced entry. His dis- vacancies, cracking down on immigration plify the tax code. appearance sparked fears that he had suffered the and cutting taxes, but also sought to reas- Trump had previously indicated he same fate as two other priests who were found dead in sure worried Americans they have nothing would keep some aspects of Obamacare, Veracruz in September shortly after their disappear- to fear from his presidency. Setting aside including a ban on insurance companies ance. But the archdiocese of San Andres Tuxtla said in a the strident tone of his campaign, the 70- denying coverage for pre-existing condi- year-old assumed a gentler manner in his tions. He also signaled that he would not statement that Sanchez Ruiz, 54, was found on Sunday first television interview since his shock seek to overturn the legalization of same- morning “with notable signs of torture.” After his disap- election, saying he was “saddened” by sex marriage in the United States. “It’s law. It pearance, townspeople blocked roads in protest on reports of harassment of Muslims and was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean Friday night. On Saturday, protesters burned part of Hispanics, and telling the perpetrators: it’s done,” Trump said when asked if he sup- Catemaco’s municipal office and a police car. Sanchez “Stop It.” ports marriage equality. “And I’m-I’m fine Ruiz had received threats after complaining about The interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” with that,” he added. He also confirmed he crime in Catemaco. which was taped Friday and aired in full would forgo the $400,000 salary that comes Sunday, offered Trump an opportunity to with the office of US president. reintroduce himself after an ugly, name- “I’m not going to take the salary. I’m not Bangladesh buys two calling campaign and surprise victory that taking it,” he said. “I think I have to by law Chinese submarines sparked protests in cities across the United take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year,” he added. In a States. “I just don’t think they know me,” the call to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump DHAKA: Bangladesh took delivery yesterday of its billionaire real estate mogul said at one told the leader he believes they will have first submarines, bought from China, as it seeks to point, of the thousands of protesters who “one of the strongest relationships for both boost its naval power in the Bay of Bengal. have massed in streets below his Trump countries moving forward,” according to a Bangladesh paid a reported $203 million for the two Tower headquarters. Told that many statement released by the president-elect’s submarines, a deal that reflects the country’s grow- Americans are scared of his presidency, team yesterday. Trump-who frequently sav- ing economic and defense ties with Beijing. Armed Trump said: “Don’t be afraid. We are going WASHINGTON: This combination of pictures shows Republican National aged China on the campaign trail and forces spokeswoman Taposhi Rabeya said they to bring our country back.” Convention Chairman Reince Priebus (left) and Donald Trump’s campaign threatened to impose a 45-percent tariff on would become part of the country’s naval fleet at Chinese-made goods-agreed to meet “at an Chief Executive Officer Stephen K Bannon. President elect Donald Trump the beginning of next year. “This is the first ever Conservative agenda early date” to discuss the relationship, Millions were expected to tune in to announced his White House transition team by appointing running mate Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. addition of submarines in Bangladesh defense Trump’s interview for clues on how the bil- Mike Pence as its chairman and naming Reince Priebus and Stephen force,” she said. Bangladesh has been expanding its lionaire will govern, and to what degree he Bannonon as members of the executive committee. —AFP Conspiracy-mongering defense capabilities in recent years, building a new intends to convert his slogans into policy. While Trump has veered on some airbase close to neighboring Myanmar, opening sev- Trump earlier Sunday named anti-establish- immediate opportunity to fill a vacancy on have a lot of these people, probably two pledges, his choice of Bannon as top strate- eral new military cantonments across the country ment firebrand Steve Bannon his top strate- the court left by the death of arch conserva- million, it could be even three million, we gist suggests he intends to preserve his and adding new frigates to its naval fleet. In 2013 gist and senior Republican Reince Priebus tive justice Antonin Scalia. President Barack are getting them out of our country or we populist edge. Bannon, who was campaign the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina his White House chief of staff, blending Obama’s attempt to fill the seat was blocked are going to incarcerate,” he said. chairman in the final months of the Trump signed a billion-dollar deal with Russia to buy fighter pragmatism with a rabble-rousing edge in by the Republican-controlled Senate. On campaign, is CEO of the right-wing, conspir- training jets, helicopters and anti-tank missiles. the first appointments of his new adminis- immigration, Trump reaffirmed his signa- Conciliatory notes acy-mongering Breitbart News website Hasina announced the plan to purchase two sub- tration. On the issues, however, Trump ture campaign pledge to build a wall on the He left the door open, however, on the known for withering attacks on the marines the same year as part of her government’s made it clear he intends to aggressively border with Mexico, although he conceded fate of the millions of other immigrants in Republican elite. It has railed against every- move to build a modern navy to defend the push a right-wing agenda, pledging to parts of it may be just a fence. the country illegally. “After the border is thing from Muslim immigrants to women, resource-rich Bay of Bengal. name justices to the Supreme Court who And he said as many as three million secured and after everything gets normal- once telling females facing online harass- are against abortion and for gun rights. undocumented immigrants with criminal ized, we’re going to make a determination ment to go away and stop “screwing up the “The judges will be pro-life,” Trump told records would be deported or incarcerated. on the people that you’re talking about internet for men.” Priebus, meanwhile, is a CBS. “In terms of the whole gun situation,” “What we are going to do is get the people who are terrific people,” he said. seasoned political operative and head of he added, “they’re going to be very pro- that are criminal and have criminal records, Immigration, he said, was one of three top the Republican National Committee, with Second Amendment.” He will have an gang members, drug dealers,” he said. “We legislative priorities he has discussed with close ties to Ryan, the House speaker. —AFP Still reeling, US Democrats begin Bulgaria in turmoil battling for future Russophile wins presidency; PM resigns

WASHINGTON: Still reeling from a devastating defeat in last SOFIA: EU member Bulgaria headed between Ukraine and Romania, where backed by the opposition Socialists to week’s election, Democrats are beginning the process of charting yesterday into fresh political turbu- the pro-Russian Igor Dodon beat his run for president. Like other anti-estab- the direction of their party in the Donald Trump era. With Hillary lence after a former airforce command- pro-European rival Maia Sandu to the lishment politicians-not least Trump Clinton and her team staying out of the public eye, liberal politi- er seen as more sympathetic to Russia presidency. but also populists around Europe-he cians have begun jockeying for control of the party’s future. While MANILA: Smoke continues to rise from the Addition triumphed in presidential elections, “The results clearly show that the struck a chord with voters by attacking Hills community in suburban Mandaluyong city east they all backed Clinton, they’re now pushing for a serious shift in prompting Prime Minister Boyko ruling coalition no longer holds the the status quo and stressing issues like the party’s policy positions, financial resources and grassroots Manila, Philippines, following an overnight fire that Borisov to quit. In his victory speech, majority,” Borisov said on Sunday national security and immigration. destroyed hundreds of homes. —AP organizing to focus more on motivating their base and winning Rumen Radev reiterated his opposition evening as he threw in the towel. “I Experts also saw his victory as a protest back the white working class voters who went for Trump. to EU sanctions on Russia and praised apologise to those who supported us. vote at Borisov’s failure to improve the Fire sweeps through “We have to do a lot of rethinking,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie new US President-elect Donald Trump I thought I was doing the right thing... lot of ordinary Bulgarians-the average Sanders, who mounted a fierce challenge to Clinton in the pri- for “seeking more dialogue” with If Bulgarians want a political crisis monthly is just 480 euros ($535) - and Philippine city slum mary. “Democrats are focused too much with a liberal elite, which President Vladimir Putin. “This gives a then they shall have one,” the burly to tackle rampant corruption. Radev’s MANILA: A fire that raged for seven hours through a is raising incredible sums of money from wealthy people,” lot of hope for reducing (the risk) of 57-year-old told reporters. Bulgaria is clear support for the lifting of sanc- Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” crowded Manila slum community killed two people and tions on Russia and ambivalent state- left close to 1,500 families homeless, fire authorities said The Democratic National Committee, the last bastion of party ments about the EU, NATO and Crimea power in Washington, is quickly emerging as ground zero for the yesterday. More than 5,000 people were temporary have prompted speculation that housed in four public schools in Mandaluyong City, to fight. After losing the White House and Congress - and likely the Bulgaria could lean more towards ideological tilt of the Supreme Court - the Democrats’ new chief the east of downtown Manila, as fire protection officials Moscow. investigated the cause of the fire, which destroyed more likely will be one of the party’s most visible faces in politics, mak- This could further undermine unity than 500 houses on Sunday. Damage was estimated at ing the role a far more influential post than it was during the within the EU, already reeling from Obama administration. Already, around a dozen Democrats’ June’s Brexit vote, in its stance towards 10 million pesos ($203,800). A blaze destroyed 800 names have been publicly floated to succeed interim chair- Russia just as Trump’s surprise election houses in the same community last year. “The fire woman Donna Brazile, who replaced Florida Rep Debbie victory raises worries about the future spread rapidly because the houses were made of light Wasserman Schultz in July after she was caught up in a hacking of NATO. “General Radev’s victory rep- materials and the roads were so narrow,” a fire official scandal. resents the unfolding of a pro-Russian said, adding the two casualties had been trapped in Minnesota Rep Keith Ellison, a prominent progressive and scenario in Bulgaria so that the country their homes. the first Muslim elected to Congress, has emerged as an early supports Russian interests in the EU contender, backed by much of the party’s liberal wing. He’s and NATO,” political expert Antoniy also picked up support from several key Democratic leaders, Galabov said. But at the same time including outgoing Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Nepal finds wreckage Radev, stressing that he is a “NATO gen- of missing ultralight Reid’s likely replacement, New York Sen Chuck Schumer. Ellison eral trained in the US”, has said that was expected to officially announce his bid today. His support- Bulgaria’s membership of the KATHMANDU: The wreckage of an ultralight aircraft ers argue that Ellison’s faith would send an important signal European Union and the NATO military that disappeared in Nepal last year with two people about the party’s commitment to inclusivity during the Trump alliance have “no alternative”. on board has been found, an aviation official said administration. Bulgaria and Russia have deep his- “My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong pro- yesterday. The aircraft went missing shortly after tak- torical, cultural and commercial ties ing off from the popular mountain resort town of gressive who knows how to get things done. Now is the time for SOFIA: Bulgarian president Rosen Plevneliev (right) shakes hands and the country has long walked a new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Pokhara on October 8 with a Russian pilot and a with president-elect Rumen Radev (left) prior to their meeting at tightrope in its relations with Moscow South African tourist on board. Search teams were Keith,” Reid said in a statement on Sunday. In interviews on the Bulgarian Presidency office in Sofia yesterday. —AFP and the West. Bulgaria’s outgoing pres- Sunday talk shows, Ellison pushed back on concerns that he’d be dispatched to the area after debris was spotted from ident has been sharply critical of the air, Pokhara’s airport chief Bhola Prasad Guragain unable to balance party responsibilities with the politics of his confrontation, particularly in Syria” now set for months of political inertia. Moscow and Borisov’s government day job in Congress - a problem some Democrats believe ham- said. “The team recovered wreckage of the ultralight where Russia and the US are backing Borisov yesterday formally handed his angered Moscow by banning Russian craft and bones from the site,” “The marks on the pered Wasserman Schultz. opposite sides in a bloody civil war, the resignation to parliament. An interim supply flights to Syria from using its air- wreckage confirm it is the missing craft but we have “There’re a lot of places that I can serve,” he said, in an inter- fighter pilot said. government will govern until fresh space last September. Antoniy Todorov view on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’m looking for a place to be of He won 59.4 percent of the vote, elections, which are not expected at New Bulgarian University pointed handed the remains to authorities for tests.” use and benefit. And every single Democrat in this country better well ahead of the more Western-lean- until March at the earliest and could out that as president a largely ceremo- Ultralight flights are popular among tourists in be thinking the exact same way.” Ellison is far from the only con- ing Tsetska Tsacheva, Borisov’s unin- well be inconclusive. nial but highly respected position- Pokhara for panoramic views of the majestic snow- tender for the job. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean spiring hand-picked candidate, who Radev on his own can do little. “The capped Annapurna mountains. In 2013, a Chinese announced his intention Thursday to reclaim a post he held dur- garnered just 36.2 percent, near-com- Anti-establishment president only has influence if the gov- tourist and a Nepali pilot were killed when their ing the Bush administration. Former Maryland governor Martin plete official results showed yesterday. Radev, 53, due to take office on ernment is on the same wavelength... ultralight crashed in the same area. Nepal, which is O’Malley, DNC National Finance Chairman Henry MuÒoz III, and The outcome was mirrored in Moldova, January 22, has no political experience Radev is not going to pull Bulgaria out still reeling from a devastating earthquake last April, South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison have a small ex-communist nation wedged and was little known before being of NATO,” Todorov said. —AFP has suffered a number of air disasters in recent years. also said they’re considering bids. —AP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Japan, S Korea ink controversial intelligence deal

TOKYO: South Korea and Japan reached media blaming anti-Japanese sentiment continue making final arrangements historical sensitivities. “Japan, which growing military ambitions under Prime a controversial deal yesterday to share among the South Korean public for the toward the official signing,” the state- once occupied the Korean peninsula and Minister Shinzo Abe, describing the deal defense intelligence, Japanese officials move. ment said. enslaved Koreans with its military might, as “the first step towards allowing and said, despite protests from opposition Both sides reopened talks last month The issue remains divisive in South is still not admitting a lot of its past recognizing Japan’s military rise.” parties and activists in Seoul. Japan con- following North Korea’s continued Korea and the timing comes as the coun- atrocities,” the main opposition However Tokyo lauded the agreement, trolled the Korean peninsula as a colony advances in its nuclear and missile pro- try has seen massive street demonstra- Democratic Party said in a statement saying the move was “important” for from 1910-1945, with the legacy of the grams, which are seen as a threat in both tions calling for the resignation of yesterday before the agreement was checking North Korea’s power. “It is harsh rule marring relations with both countries. Officials meeting in Japan’s President Park Geun-Hye over a domes- announced. important that Japan and South Korea North and South Korea today. South capital “reached a working agreement tic political scandal. The deal has been “This deal is an unpatriotic, humiliat- cooperate to deal with North Korea’s Korea and Japan were on the verge of and conducted a provisional signing,” fiercely opposed by South Korean oppo- ing deal that is opposed by our own peo- nuclear and missile issues,” top Japanese signing a deal in June 2012, but Seoul Japan’s foreign ministry said in a state- sition parties and civic activists, citing ple and not accepted by history.” The government spokesman Yoshihide Suga suddenly backtracked, with Japanese ment, without providing details. “We will Seoul’s failure to seek public support and party also voiced concern over Japan’s told reporters. — AFP Pro-Russia candidate Dodon wins Moldova presidency

CHISINAU: Pro-Russian candidate Igor towards Europe, calling for the withdrawal of Dodon yesterday emerged as winner of thousands of Russian troops from the Moldova’s presidential runoff, viewed as an Russian-speaking separatist region of East-West choice in the impoverished ex- Transdniester, which broke away in the early Soviet country. With 99.9 percent of ballots 1990s after a brief civil war. Moldova signed counted, Socialist Party chief Dodon had an historic EU association agreement in 52.3 percent of the votes, according to the 2014, and half of its exports now go to the electoral commission, with pro-European bloc. rival Maia Sandu on 47.7 percent. “We have The move was bitterly opposed by Russia, won, everyone knows it,” Dodon told a press which responded with an embargo targeting conference overnight. The full results are Moldova’s crucial agriculture sector. “Close expected to be announced later this week. ties united us with Moldova before but then Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the scope of our relations slid,” Peskov told Moscow respected the results of the journalists Monday. “But Russia has always Moldovan vote and congratulated its winner. been and remains committed to maintaining The vote marks the first time in 20 years ties with Moldova.” Both candidates criticized that Moldova-wracked by corruption scan- the vote as badly organized, highlighting the dals in recent years-is electing its leader by shortage of ballot papers for overseas voters. national vote instead of having parliament More than 4,000 Moldovan and international select the head of state. Wedged between observers were on hand to monitor the vote. Ukraine and Romania, the tiny nation of 3.5 Turnout was 53.4 percent, the electoral com- million people is caught in a political tug-of- mission said. war between Russia and the West. Dodon had come out top in the first round of voting Corruption scandals on October 30 with 48 percent ahead of The vote comes as a Moscow-friendly Sandu, a centre-right former education min- general also claimed victory in ex-commu- ister who worked for the World Bank, with 38 nist Bulgaria’s presidential election Sunday, percent. prompting Prime Minister Boyko Borisov to They have diametrically opposed visions announce his resignation as his nominee for Moldova’s future. Dodon-who served as was dealt a crushing defeat. Speaking at a economy minister under a communist gov- polling station on Sunday, Dodon had ernment between 2006 and 2009 - has called described his campaign as “against the oli- for deeper ties and boosting trade with garchs, against those who have robbed our Moscow. Sandu meanwhile had urged a path country and want to destroy it”. — AFP KARACHI: People offer funeral prayers for the victims of bomb blast at a shrine, in Karachi, Pakistan. — AP Pakistan arrests 10 for Islamic State flourishes flogging transgender and recruits in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police arrested 10 was friends with the victim. “I was punish- alleged members of a criminal gang yester- ing him because he didn’t refrain from his day accused of flogging a transgender bad habits, which I pointed out to him sev- woman and posting a video of the abuse eral times,” he said in an interview conduct- Extremists adopt new name ‘Islamic State in Khorasan’ on social media, officials said. The arrests ed while he was in police custody. were made in the eastern city of Sialkot Transgender people in Pakistan are social ISLAMABAD: The Islamic State group is increas- set up its base in Afghanistan’s eastern tion said he spoke with two Iranian Islamic State after a video of the flogging was shared outcasts who are often forced into beg- ing its presence in Pakistan, recruiting Uzbek Nangarhar province, and while it has pledged members late last year. thousands of times on social media, said ging, dancing and prostitution to earn militants, attracting disgruntled Taleban fighters allegiance to the Islamic State group in Syria and Unlike the Pakistani and Afghan insurgents, police official Iqbal Sindhu. money. Fearing attacks, most either change and partnering with one of Pakistan’s most vio- Iraq, it remains unclear whether there are direct the resident, who fled to Pakistan after his The video shows the gang leader pin- their names or use only one name. lent sectarian groups, according to police offi- operational or financial links between the two. home was overrun by IS fighters, said the for- ning the woman face down on a bed with TransAction, a local transgender rights cers, Taleban officials and analysts. Its latest According to police, Afghan officials and IS eign fighters were friendly and engaged with his foot and beating her with what appears group, posted a video interview with atrocity was an attack Saturday on a Sufi shrine media outlets, the majority of Islamic State fight- local residents. One Iranian fighter said he was to be a leather belt. At one point, while another transgender woman who identi- in southwestern Pakistan that killed at least 50 ers in Afghanistan are Pakistani nationals, mostly recruited for his computer skills, the resident another gang member continues the flog- fied herself as Jolie and said she was pres- people and wounded 100 others. from the tribal regions. Disgruntled Taleban said. Previously, Uzbek insurgents normally ging, the leader places his foot on the vic- ent when the attack took place. She said The group said in a statement that a suicide fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan have allied with the Pakistani and Afghan branches tim’s neck and twists her arms. Police chief the gang members barged into a house bomber attacked the shrine with the intent of joined along with foreign fighters, mainly from of the Taleban, having sworn allegiance to Abid Khan said five of those arrested have where several transgender women were killing Shiite Muslims and issued a picture of the central Asia. The group’s leader until his death in Taleban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar. been charged with torture and extortion, living, beating and torturing one of them attacker. When IS circulated a photograph of one July in a drone strike was Hafiz Saeed Khan, a However, many Uzbek fighters split from the while the other five are under investigation. for several hours and shaving the heads of of the attackers in last month’s deadly assault on former Pakistani Taleban commander. IS has nev- Taleban and declared allegiance to IS last year The alleged gang leader, who identified others. Sindhu, the police official, con- a police academy in southwestern Baluchistan er acknowledged Khan’s death, which was con- after it was revealed that Taleban officials had himself as Jajja, told Dunya News that he firmed Jolie was present at the scene. — AP province, two Taleban officials said that the firmed by both the Afghan and US militaries. hidden the fact that Mullah Omar had died two attacker was an Uzbek, most likely a member of Counterterrorism officials in Pakistan say that years earlier. the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. IS has begun reaching out to local militants A senior police official in Pakistan’s eastern through its rich social media presence. “They are Punjab province, where several militant groups Suicide attacks inspiring the like-minded youth in Pakistan are headquartered, said the IS group is firmly More than 60 people, most of them police through their strong social media propaganda,” entrenched in Pakistan and its roots are growing recruits, were killed in that Oct 26 attack when said Junaid Sheikh, a senior counterterrorism stronger as it aligns with Pakistan’s Sunni Muslim three assailants battled security forces for hours commander in the southern city of Karachi. extremist groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The before being killed or detonating their suicide “There is evidence that militants of other organi- police official spoke on condition of anonymity vests. The Taleban officials, both of whom are zations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Al-Qaeda in the because he was not authorized to speak to the familiar with the IMU, spoke on condition of Subcontinent and other Sunni extremist organi- media. The official also said that Lashkar-e- anonymity because their leadership has banned zations switched their ideology toward Daesh Jhangvi had largely relocated from Punjab to them from talking to the media. Authorities ini- and acted like their activists,” he said, using an Baluchistan province in the face of a major mili- tially said the police academy attack was orches- Arabic acronym for IS. tary campaign. trated by militants hiding out in Afghanistan and “Pakistani Taleban factions that have sparred blamed Pakistan’s virulently anti-Shiite group, Significant threat with the parent Pakistani Taleban have tended Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The recruitment of Uzbek militants is particu- to express public support for ISIS,” said Michael But IS later claimed responsibility and larly worrisome and a “significant threat to our Kugelman, senior associate for South Asia at the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi spokesman Ali Bin Sufyan national security,” he added. He said Uzbek US based Wilson Center. “I could certainly envi- said they partnered with IS to carry out the fighters have carried out numerous major sion collusions materializing between disaffect- assault. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the extrem- attacks in Pakistan, including a 2011 attack on a ed Pakistani Taleban fighters now aligned with ist group has adopted the name the Islamic naval base and a 2014 attack on the Karachi ISIS, and Uzbek militants with preexisting ties to State in Khorasan - a reference to an ancient Airport. Local militant groups provided the intel- the Pakistani Taleban. Either way, at the end of geographical region that encompassed a vast ligence to carry out the attacks, he said. A resi- the day, all of these terrorists are cut from the SIALKOT: People allegedly involved in the flogging of a transgender person arrive at swath of territory stretching from Turkmenistan dent of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province who same cloth ideologically and so we should never a court in Sialkot, Pakistan yesterday. — AP through Iran and Afghanistan. IS in Khorasan has did not want to be identified for fear of retribu- rule out operational partnerships.” — AP Pakistan accuses India of killing seven troops

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military soldiers in what appeared to be one accused India yesterday of killing seven such incident is relatively high. soldiers in cross-border fire in disputed The border skirmishes come against Kashmir, in what appeared to be an the backdrop of months of protests unusually high toll after months of against Indian rule of Kashmir, sparked surging tensions between the nuclear- by the killing of a popular rebel leader armed neighbors. “Seven (Pakistani) sol- in July. Nearly 90 people, most of them diers embraced shahadat (martyrdom) young protesters, have been killed in at the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber clashes with security forces in Indian- sector in a crossfire LOC violation by administered Kashmir since then. Indian troops late last night,” the mili- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tary said in a statement. “Pakistani accused India of carrying out the latest troops while responding to Indian cross-border skirmishes in an effort to unprovoked firing targeted Indian posts distract the world’s attention from the effectively.” There was no immediate violent protests. “We are fully capable response to the allegation from Indian of defending our soil against any officials. aggression,” he added in a statement. Tensions across the long-disputed Nearly 90 people, most of them de facto Himalayan border reached young protesters, have been killed in dangerous levels in September, when clashes with security forces in Indian- India blamed Pakistani militants for a administered Kashmir since the killing raid on an army base that killed 19 sol- of a popular young rebel leader in July. diers. India said it had responded by Kashmir has been divided between carrying out “surgical strikes” across the India and Pakistan since the end of heavily militarized border, sparking a British colonial rule in 1947. Both claim furious reaction from Islamabad, which the Himalayan territory in full and have denied the strikes took place. There fought two wars over the mountainous have since been repeated outbreaks of region. The two sides have also cross-border firing, with both sides expelled diplomats in a tit-for-tat row JHELUM: Pakistani army chief Raheel Sharif (4th left) and military officials offer funeral reporting deaths and injuries including that has even spilled into the glam- prayers for soldiers who were killed in cross-border firing at the Line of Control (LoC) in of civilians, though the deaths of seven orous world of Bollywood.— AFP Bhimber sector, in Jhelum some 120 kms south of Islamabad. — AFP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Indonesian toddler dies after church attack

JAKARTA: An Indonesian toddler died fered less serious injuries and were still the city of Medan on Sumatra island yesterday from injuries sustained in a being treated in hospital but would and tried to detonate a homemade suspected extremist attack on a church, likely be discharged soon, the bomb. with a group of militants who support spokesman said. Police arrested the sus- Indonesia, which has the world’s the Islamic State (IS) group detained pected attacker, an Islamist militant pre- biggest Muslim population, has long over the assault. Two-year-old Intan viously jailed over a parcel bomb plot in struggled with Islamic militancy and Olivia Marbun was among four small 2011, shortly after the assault. suffered a string of extremist attacks in children hurt when an attacker wearing Yesterday they detained five more the 2000s, including the 2002 Bali a T-shirt with the word “jihad” on it people as part of their investigation, bombings that left 202 people dead. A threw Molotov cocktails at the place of with national police chief Tito Karnavian sustained crackdown had weakened the worship on Borneo island from a motor- describing them as “old players” who most dangerous networks but IS has bike on Sunday. also had links to the 2011 plot. All those proved a potent new rallying cry for the The youngsters, aged between two detained-including the attacker-were country’s radicals. and four, had been playing in the car allegedly part of the Jamaah Ansharut A suicide bombing and gun attack in park of the church in the city of Daulah group, a local militant outfit that the Indonesian capital Jakarta in Samarinda at the time of the attack. supports IS. January, claimed by IS, killed four Local police spokesman Fajar Setiawan “Their aim is to incite violence, I urge attackers and four civilians. Religious said Marbun suffered extensive burn people to remain calm,” said Karnavian. minorities have also increasingly come injuries and respiratory problems, Sunday’s attack was just the latest on a under attack in recent times as the adding: “Unfortunately the doctors church in recent months. In August, an SAMARINDA, Indonesia: An Indonesian policeman stands guard outside the influence of hardliners has grown, with could not save the victim... she died ear- Indonesian teenager who was obsessed Oikume Church after a man allegedly threw Molotov cocktails towards it in Christians, Buddhists and Muslim ly this morning.” The other children suf- with IS stabbed a priest in a church in Samarinda, East Kalimantan. — AFP minorities targeted.— AFP WikiLeaks founder Assange questioned by prosecutors LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian of the allegation. Assange, speaking Assange was being questioned by prosecu- through his lawyer, has said he welcomes tors yesterday at the Ecuadoran embassy in the “chance to clear his name” and hopes London in the latest twist in the long-run- the investigation will subsequently close. ning legal battle over a rape allegation In May, a Swedish court reaffirmed the against him. Swedish prosecutor Ingrid arrest order, rejecting the finding of a UN Isgren, who will attend while Assange is working group that his confinement in the questioned by an Ecuadoran prosecutor Ecuadoran embassy amounted to arbitrary entered the embassy building shortly detention. before 1000 GMT, an AFP photographer said. Assange’s lawyer Per Samuelsson has Petition for Trump ‘pardon’ said the questioning, which has been In the days since the US election, sup- delayed in the past because of diplomatic porters have launched a petition calling on disagreements between Ecuador and President-elect Donald Trump to pardon Sweden, could last for several days. Assange by “absolving him of any crimes A Swedish police inspector will also alleged against him”-an apparent reference attend and investigators plan to take a DNA to the military leaks. The petition on the sample from Assange, subject to his agree- change.org website, which has gathered ment. The creator of the secret-spilling more than 17,700 signatures, hails Assange website has been holed up in the red-brick as a “hero” for exposing the “corruption of building behind Harrods luxury depart- those who presume to rule us”. ment store for more than four years. The Assange’s lawyer said he had made 45-year-old Australian sought refuge in the “repeated requests” for an interview with embassy in June 2012 after Swedish prose- police to address the rape claim, though cutors issued a European arrest warrant Ecuadoran prosecutors say a hearing against him, over allegations of rape and scheduled for October was postponed at sexual assault filed by two women who the Australian’s request. “Julian Assange has met Assange during a 2010 trip to Sweden. always wanted to tell his version to the He denied the claims, saying they were Swedish police. He wants a chance to clear politically motivated, and insisting his sexu- his name,” Samuelsson said. The legal al encounters with the two women were grilling comes after WikiLeaks returned to consensual. the spotlight with the leak of tens of thou- He has refused to travel to Sweden for sands of emails from the US Democratic questioning, fearing he would be extradit- Party and presidential candidate Hillary ed to the United States over WikiLeaks’ Clinton’s campaign in the final weeks of the SHANGHAI: A copy of the local Chinese magazine Global People with a cover story that translates to ‘Why did Trump win’ is seen with a front release of 500,000 secret military files on race for the White House. cover portrait of US president-elect Donald Trump at a news stand in Shanghai yesterday. — AFP the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Swedish Assange defended the publication, prosecutors dropped the sexual assault denying links with Russia and claims that probe last year after the five-year statute of his website was trying to influence the US limitations expired. But they still want to vote which saw Trump, a republican, elect- In phone call, Xi tells Trump question him about the 2010 rape allega- ed. Tensions with his Ecuadoran hosts have tion, which carries a 10-year statute of limi- been growing, with the leaks prompting tations. “It’s planned to last a few days,” the embassy to cut Assange’s internet cooperation is ‘only choice’ Samuelsson said, adding that it was too access, citing respect for “non-intervention” early to say what might arise from the in the affairs of other states and their elec- meeting or what would be made public. It toral processes. WikiLeaks released medical Trump will not treat bilateral trade ‘childishly’ will be the first time Assange has been records in September claiming Assange’s interviewed over the matter since initial mental health was at risk if he remained BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told US United States could cooperate. “The facts large orders for Boeing planes would switch to questioning by Swedish police at the time any longer in the embassy. — AFP President-elect Donald Trump that coopera- prove that cooperation is the only correct Europe, US auto sales in China would face set- tion was the only choice for relations between choice for China and the United States,” China backs, Apple phones would essentially be the world’s two largest economies, with Trump Central Television (CCTV) cited Xi as saying. Xi’s crowded out, and US soybeans and corn would saying the two had established a “clear sense remarks were a reiteration of phrasing typically be eradicated from China,” the paper said in a of mutual respect”. There has been intense used by Beijing to describe bilateral relations. commentary. speculation over the impact of Trump’s win on The two sides must “promote the two coun- “Trump, coming from a business back- issues facing the two countries, from global tries’ economic development and global eco- ground, is very astute. We do not believe he trade and climate change to the security bal- nomic growth” and “push for better develop- will treat China-US trade so childishly.” China ance in the Asia-Pacific. ment going forward in China-US relations”, Xi has signaled it will promote plans for regional Trump lambasted China throughout the US said. “During the call, the leaders established a trade integration, vowing to seek support for a election campaign, drumming up headlines clear sense of mutual respect for one another, Beijing-backed Asia-Pacific free trade area at a with his pledges to slap 45 percent tariffs on and President-elect Trump stated that he summit in Peru later this month, after Trump’s imported Chinese goods and to label the believes the two leaders will have one of the win dashed hopes for the US-led Trans-Pacific country a currency manipulator on his first day strongest relationships for both countries mov- Partnership (TPP). in office. His election has injected uncertainty ing forward,” a statement from Trump’s presi- Trump’s criticism of US allies, including into relations at a time when Beijing hopes for dential transition office said. Japan, for free-riding on US security guaran- stability as it faces daunting reform challenges The two agreed to maintain close communi- tees, has deepened anxiety among at home, slowing growth and a leadership cations and meet soon, CCTV said. Xi had con- Washington’s allies about its commitment to reshuffle of its own that will put a new party gratulated Trump in a message delivered post-war security arrangements in the face of a elite around Xi in late 2017. shortly after his surprise election victory last rising China and volatile North Korea. Trump In their first interaction since the US elec- week. The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid appears to be seeking quick ways to withdraw tion, Chinese state media said Xi told Trump in published by the ruling Communist Party’s the United States from a global accord to com- a telephone call yesterday that as the world’s People’s Daily newspaper, said if Trump bat climate change, which has been billed by largest developing and developed economies, slapped China with heavy tariffs it would “para- China and US President Barack Obama as a key there were many areas where China and the lyze” bilateral trade. “When the time comes, area for cooperation. — Reuters LONDON: Protesters hold banners that read ‘Free Assange’ outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London yesterday where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned over a rape allegation against him. — AFP First woman to fly China’s J-10 Lack of school drives girls into fighter killed in crash armed groups in Congo’s east BEIJING: The first woman to fly Yu was seen as a pioneering trail- show in Zhuhai two years ago. The Aerospace Knowledge magazine, DAKAR: Girls in conflict-ravaged eastern compulsory by law, most schools in China’s J-10 fighter plane was killed blazer in a country which enshrines pair strode to their fighter planes as saying: “Female pilots have Democratic Republic of Congo are join- Congo charge fees for books and uni- in a crash during an aerobatics women’s rights but where tradi- in lock-step with male pilots, all learned to fly cutting-edge fighter ing armed groups because they cannot forms, CSI said. “Despite the horrific training exercise, state-run media tional values are still widespread. wearing identical green jumpsuits jets in the Chinese air force. “It afford to go to school, while former girl abuse the girls go through while with reported yesterday. Yu Xu, 30, a Users on the Twitter-like Weibo and sunglasses. At the time the means the air force has diversified soldiers struggle to return to class amid armed groups, it is the rejection from member of the Chinese air force’s social media service posted pic- China Daily newspaper quoted its pilot pool and can recruit more stigma from their communities, a charity their families and communities which dis- “August 1st” aerobatic display team, tures of candles in her memory, Wang Yan’an, deputy editor of female pilots.” — AFP said yesterday. Many girls in the region tresses many of them the most,” Guitard ejected from her aircraft during a with thousands mourning her join militia groups to obtain food and told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by training exercise in the northern death. “We praise her not as an indi- money, to seek protection against vio- phone from London. While civil society province of Hebei at the weekend, vidual, but for the spirit she transmit- lence, or because their families cannot groups have had some success in getting the China Daily newspaper said. ted to us, becoming the ideal vehicle afford to pay their school fees, according boys out of armed groups and into rein- She hit the wing of another jet for everyone’s hopes,” wrote one to a report by Britain-based Child Soldiers tegration programs, this shame and fear and was killed, it said, although user. Others raised questions about International (CSI). of rejection back home has kept many her male co-pilot ejected safely the crash. “Rather than stirring up Eastern Congo is plagued by dozens girls in the bush, according to CSI’s and survived. “As one of only four emotion, the most important thing of armed groups that prey on locals and report. female pilots in the country capa- is to investigate why this accident exploit mineral reserves. Millions died “If we leave the group, we’re going to ble of flying domestically made occurred, was it a problem with the between 1996 and 2003 as a regional be targeted ... so many girls accept and fighter jets, her death comes as a design problem in the fighter, or in conflict caused hunger and disease. continue to live with their bush husband,” tremendous loss to the Chinese air the rules of operation, or in inade- Around a third of all children in armed said one of the 150 former girl soldiers force,” the Global Times newspa- quate training,” wrote one. “Only by groups in the country are estimated to be interviewed by CSI. Most of these girls per said. ascertaining the causes can we girls, who are often married off to mili- said going to school was the best way to Yu, from Chongzhou in the ensure it doesn’t happen again.” tants and are vulnerable to abuse and regain acceptance from their communi- southwestern province of Sichuan, rape, activists say. “It is deeply shocking ties, and that it helped them to deal with joined the People’s Liberation Army Jumpsuits and sunglasses that, because their families cannot afford trauma suffered while with the armed (PLA) Air Force in 2005, reports said. Yu rose to become a flight to pay school fees, some girls see joining groups. CSI said it was working with local She graduated from training four squadron leader and according to an armed group as their only option, and partners to help former girl soldiers go years later, one of the first 16 the Global Times dreamed of Chinese women pilots qualified to becoming an astronaut. She was ZHUHAI: Photo shows Chinese female J-10 fighter pilot Yu Xu getting decide to throw themselves in harm’s back to school, provide catch-up sessions ready to perform at the Airshow China in Zhuhai, south China’s way,” said Isabelle Guitard, director of pro- and literacy classes for those who have fly fighter jets, the China Daily said, one of two female members of the and in July 2012 was the first August 1st team-named for the Guangdong province. The first woman to fly China’s J-10 fighter plane grams at CSI. never been educated or who are too old was killed in a crash during an aerobatics training exercise, state-run While primary education is free and to start.— Reuters woman to fly the J-10. Fans dubbed date of the founding of the PLA- her the “golden peafowl”, it added. pictured at China’s premier air media reported yesterday. — AFP NEWS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 UAE jails Emiratis up to 10 yrs for Islamist links

ABU DHABI: A UAE court yesterday jailed two Emiratis jail following a mass trial that saw them convicted for up to 10 years for their links to a “terrorist” organization their links to Al-Islah. The trial was the largest in the his- seen as a branch of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, tory of the UAE, where authorities have cracked down media said. The first defendant was handed a 10-year jail on dissent and calls for democratic reform in the after- term after he was convicted of playing a “leading role” in math of the Arab Spring uprisings that swept other a “banned secret group”, the official WAM news agency countries. reported. The local Gulf News daily said in its online edi- Also yesterday, the same court sentenced a citizen tion that he was found guilty of joining the outlawed Al- from Comoros Islands to three years in jail after he was Islah group, which authorities accuse of activities aimed found guilty of promoting the Islamic State group, the at overthrowing the government and seizing power. He Gulf News said. The man drew slogans and symbols on will remain under surveillance for three years after serv- public law promoting the jihadist group as well as “slan- ing his prison term, both sources said. derous and degrading phrases about state officials”, it The same Abu Dhabi-based Federal Supreme Court added. The United Arab Emirates is a member of the US- sentenced another Emirati to seven years in prison after led coalition that has been bombing IS jihadists in Iraq it convicted him of joining the same organization, run- and Syria since Sept 2014. Authorities in the Gulf state ning one of its offices in the Gulf country, and promoting have enacted anti-terror legislation, including the death its ideology, the sources said. The United Arab Emirates penalty and harsher jail terms for crimes linked to reli- in 2013 sentenced 69 activists to up to 15 years each in gious hatred and extremist groups. — AFP Russian fighter crashes in Med The “supermoon” is covered by clouds behind the skyline of Frankfurt yesterday. — AFP MOSCOW: Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that a the aircraft carrier despite the accident. “The flights of fighter jet crashed while attempting to land on the aircraft from the carrier are continuing in accordance Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean with the set tasks,” it said. The ministry released a state- Skygazers gawk at extra bright... off Syria, but the pilot survived. In a statement to Russian ment after US broadcaster Fox News reported the crash, news agencies, the defense ministry said the MiG-29K citing US officials. Continued from Page 1 the phenomenon to curious members of the public. In fighter crashed due to a “technical fault” a few kilometres The Mig-29K is a multi-functional plane developed in Thailand, astrologers were variously predicting the from the carrier. The pilot ejected and was recovered the Soviet era and is used to strike targets both in the air Tourists, office workers and couples crowded the supermoon would bring disaster or great fortune. and taken aboard the ship. “The pilot’s health is in no and on the ground. Russia acquired 24 MiG fighters last Hong Kong waterfront as the supersized moon rose Soraja Nuan-yoo, renowned for predicting the 2004 danger. The pilot is ready to carry out missions,” the min- year. It also deploys Sukhoi bomber planes in Syria. The over the skyscrapers of the financial hub, while further tsunami that killed many in Thailand and other countries istry said, quoted by Interfax news agency. Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier arrived in the eastern north in the Chinese capital Beijing the moon climbed round the Indian Ocean, warned that when the moon The defense ministry did not say when the incident Mediterranean off the Syrian coast as part of a flotilla of spectacularly over the city’s skyline. “I’ve never seen a gets close to the Earth, “natural disasters happen”. The occurred, but said the plane was taking part in training ships sent to reinforce Russia’s military in the area, its moon this big,” said Lee Pak-kan, 44, who was watching supermoon also means a stronger high tide, something flights. It stressed that flights were still going ahead from commander confirmed on state television. — AFP at the Hong Kong waterfront. “The moon is quite that gets surfers giddy with excitement, not only at the orange too... it’s quite special.” prospect of riding bigger waves, but doing so at night. In the Taiwanese capital Taipei, more than 100 peo- Forecasters had predicted higher than usual tides on Dashti out of election race after final... ple queued up to get a look at the spectacle through Indonesia’s Bali, a favorite with surfers. But the holiday telescopes outside a major public hall, while others island was overcast and rainy when the moon rose, with Continued from Page 1 contesting the polls. Tabtabaei also strongly condemned some flocked to the city’s landmark Taipei 101 skyscraper - surfers deciding not to take to the waters. Astronomers members of the previous house on their position on the trial of one of the world’s tallest buildings - to witness the say it can be hard to notice that the moon appears Dahoum, who was speaking at the election headquar- 25 Kuwaitis and an Iranian for spying for Iran and Hezbollah. ters of former Islamist opposition MP Osama Al-Munawer, Candidate Saud Busaleeb charged that the government’s supermoon. “It’s quite moving, to see it up close. It’s so brighter than usual. Once it is high in the sky, it can be urged those who win in the elections not to vote for Marzouq economic reform plan is a cover to end subsidies on com- big, so round, so bright,” said Julia Lee, who was peering hard to tell it is larger but on the horizon, it could Al-Ghanem as the next speaker, adding that he will not vote modities and services and this will result in increasing the through a telescope outside the hall. appear quite spectacular. To get the best view, Pascal for him if elected. financial burden on citizens. Former MP Adnan Abdulsamad The supermoon was visible across much of India Descamps of the Paris Observatory recommended that Former Islamist MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei also urged voters defended the dissolved Assembly, saying that it made some although residents of New Delhi, the world’s most pol- people choose somewhere with a well-known landmark to vote for good candidates who will serve the interests of the great achievements and people opposed to it are essentially luted capital, struggled to see it clearly through the tox- in the foreground. Supermoons are actually quite com- people. He said a law passed by the previous Assembly to bar against the single-vote election system. Abdulsamad said that ic smog that has been shrouding the city in recent mon - there is one every 14 months on average. “But those convicted over religious offences and insulting HH the people are becoming increasingly frustrated from the election weeks. Meanwhile, professional astronomers were at some supermoons are more super than others,” said Amir from public office was especially designed to prevent for- process because of repeated polls, as this will be the seventh the ready at observatories across the region to explain Descamps. —AFP mer opposition MP Musallam Al-Barrak, currently in jail, from general elections in a decade. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 ANALYSIS

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arack Obama travelled yesterday to Greece and Germany in a final official visit designed, in a Bstrange bit of political contortion, at reassuring worried Europeans about a man he once warned was “unfit” for the presidency: Donald Trump. The irony is cru- el: In the name of a peaceful transition, the American president, having thoroughly denounced the billionaire Republican during the recent campaign, must now do his best to reassure his European counterparts about the future of American democracy under a President Trump. “I think the design of the trip was meant to just give everybody some reassurance that we made it through this campaign and we’re going to come out of it all right,” said Heather Conley of the Center for Strategic and Malaysia child abuse goes unpunished International Studies, in Washington. “We just have a dif- ferent scenario now.” The bombastic populist, whose vic- tory over Hillary Clinton surprised virtually everyone, has ost complaints of child sexual abuse in Criminal Justice Weakness sex offences team in the United Nations Office on Drugs given Europeans ample cause for concern. He has ques- Malaysia do not lead to successful prosecu- Weak policing and child protection laws make it diffi- and Crime’s (UNODC) East Asia headquarters in tioned the relevance of some of America’s paramount Mtions, largely due to weaknesses in the cult to punish child abusers in Malaysia, leading to inad- Bangkok, said pedophiles compare notes and share alliances, starting with NATO; put the Paris climate- nation’s criminal justice system, police, lawmakers and equate investigations and low convictions on the report- information online about countries, where they can change accord in doubt by calling global warming “a child welfare groups say. According to classified data ed cases, according to officials and child welfare groups operate most freely. hoax,” and sharply criticized the strenuously negotiated Malaysian police compiled and shared with Reuters, Reuters interviewed. They also say a significant number Elena Martellozzo, a London-based criminologist pact that Washington and five other countries signed 12,987 cases of child sexual abuse were reported to of child sexual abuse cases are never reported because who specializes in child sex abuse on the internet, said with Iran to curb its nuclear program. police between January 2012 and July of this year. of taboos around child sex abuse and mistrust of author- Huckle could have chosen Malaysia “because it was not Trump’s attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Charges were filed in 2,189 cases, resulting in just 140 ities. In 17 years of operation, PS the Children, Malaysia’s on the radar, or perhaps it’s where he found it easier to Putin - the New York mogul called him “a leader, far more convictions. biggest NGO dealing with child abuse, has seen zero get work permits, visas and some work opportunities”. than our president has been a leader” - is deeply concern- The data doesn’t show how many people were convictions on the cases it has handled, its founder Typically, children are sexually abused by someone they ing in Europe, particularly in small countries like the Baltic involved, or what happened in the cases where there Madeleine Yong told Reuters. know - a neighbor, a relative, a caregiver, or someone nations living in Russia’s shadow. Beyond the many con- cerns over the future of American foreign policy, many were no convictions after charges were filed. No “There needs to be improvement in the criminal jus- like Huckle, who according to court testimony groomed European Union countries are bracing for a possible rip- details were disclosed in the cases where there were tice system if we want to encourage more people to children in an impoverished ethnic Indian neighbor- ple effect of the outspoken Republican’s victory. convictions. Child rights advocates have long pushed report, otherwise we will re-victimize the child,” she hood in Kuala Lumpur. “They are very worried, because the same populist, the government to publicly disclose data on child sex- said. Ong at the sexual crimes unit said police take But increasingly, pedophile activity is moving into the nationalist expressions” that Trump exposed in America ual abuse to increase awareness so action can be tak- every case of child sexual abuse seriously and “all cases online world, police say. Australian detectives who inves- on immigration and trade could amplify the already “very en to address what they call a growing problem. are investigated in detail”. Police blame weak laws and tigate pedophiles in the region believe Malaysia has strong political currents within Europe,” Conley said. She A veil was lifted in June when a British court rules governing court evidence that give little weight become one of Southeast Asia’s biggest centers for the noted that several European countries have important handed Richard Huckle 22 life sentences for abusing to children’s testimony as the reason most cases never transmission of child pornography on the Internet. Team elections coming up, not least of them the French presi- up to 200 babies and children, mostly in Malaysia, result in charges. Argos, the Australian detective unit that found Huckle in dential election next spring. and sharing images of his crimes on the dark Web. Malaysia does not have a law specifically prohibiting the dark web in late 2014, made a startling discovery In Greece today for his first visit there, Obama is set The reason the Malaysian government doesn’t pub- child pornography and defines rape narrowly as penile from the team’s scouring of online pedophile networks: to meet with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and lish child sexual abuse data is because it is protected penetration. “Grooming” - touching and befriending The unusual number of Internet addresses in the Kuala Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Security will be tight in under Malaysia’s Official Secrets Act. The govern- children as a prelude to sexual abuse - draws no legal Lumpur area transmitting child sexual abuse material central Athens, with thousands of police officers on the ment provides data on child abuse only at the penalties. By contrast, Indonesia’s parliament has from the dark Web. streets and traffic cut off for several hours. Civil ser- request of a member of parliament. passed legislation authorizing chemical castration, The dark Web is a vast virtual space within the vants, communists, far-left groups and anarchists all “We don’t want people to misinterpret it,” said Ong minimum sentences and even execution for convicted Internet, which requires special encryption tools to plan to hold demonstrations as Obama swings Chin Lan, the head of the Sexual, Women and pedophiles. Thailand introduced stricter laws against access. The Brisbane, Australia-based detectives found through the Greek capital. Children Investigation Division of the Malaysian child pornography last year. 1,000 transmissions of child pornographic materials from national police. The government doesn’t want to A Child Sexual Crimes bill, expected to be introduced the Malaysian capital over a 24-hour period last year, The Roots of Populism unduly alarm the public about possibly high numbers to parliament by the end of the year, would widen the according to Argos data provided by the UNODC. It was During a day heavy with symbolism, Obama tomor- row will visit the Parthenon in Athens, then deliver a of child abuse cases, she explained. It is unclear how definition of sexual crimes to include online abuse, and the second-largest transmission location in Southeast speech - sure to have considerable resonance, given the Malaysia’s number of reported cases compares with make such crimes easier to prosecute. It would also set Asia after Bangkok’s 1,800 - Bangkok’s population of 8.2 recent US elections - on the challenges of globalization. its neighbors, some of whom are also reluctant to dis- up a special court to deal with child sex abuse cases million is more than four times that of Kuala Lumpur’s. His advisers, pointing to the results of that election but close a high incidence of child sexual abuse. more quickly. The Malaysian capital is a “high concern” location for also to the equally stunning British vote to leave the Thailand’s government declined to provide data the distribution of child sexual abuse materials, said European Union, said the US president would offer his to Reuters. A senior health ministry official, who did The Dark Web Smelser at the UNODC. Ong at the child sex crime unit thoughts on the reasons so many people in the world feel not want to be identified, said it could “make Foreign pedophiles could be targeting Malaysia as said Malaysian police can’t properly monitor the “like decisions are made beyond their control.” Thailand look bad”. Cambodia, long known as a des- other countries around the region strengthen child pro- encrypted pedophile networks. “We do not have expert- Speaking at the United Nations in September, at a tination for travelling pedophiles, also does not dis- tection laws and step up enforcement, some experts ise in handling the dark Web. We get alerted from our time when the US presidential campaign was in full stride close official data. said. Snow White Smelser, program officer at the child counterparts overseas,” she said. —Reuters but a Trump victory seemed anything but certain, Obama had called on his fellow leaders to come to grips with the rising frustrations fueling populist movements. He warned them against succumbing to a “soulless capital- Coalition advisers help fight for Raqqa ism that benefits only the few”. “Twenty-five years after the Cold War, the world is less violent and more prosper- ous,” he said, “and yet there is uncertainty and strife.” “This n the roof of a house in northern ‘Civilian Human Shields’ weapons, but other times coalition aircraft mortar rounds IS fires as it struggles to hang is the paradox that defines our world today,” he said, Syria, a foreign soldier from the “The forces advancing on the ground strike them after we tell them the coordi- on to Al-Heisha. stressing that a world in which one percent of the people OUS-led coalition against the give us coordinates close to the targets,” nates,” Osman says. “Our comrades are preparing for an control as much wealth as the other 99 percent can never Islamic State group monitors progress says SDF commander Ahmed Osman, in The US-led coalition began strikes in attack, and the mercenaries are firing mor- be stable. towards the militant bastion of Raqqa. He the yard of another house that has been Syria in Sept 2014, and has worked closely tars, but planes are over the region now,” For his sixth visit to Germany since coming to power in is one of a few dozen advisers from the turned into a command center. “They cal- with Syrian Kurdish-led forces to push IS says Akid Kobane, another SDF commander. 2009, the Democratic president will again meet with international coalition helping a Kurdish- culate the distances between them and from large swathes of territory. Such cooper- Kobane says the air strikes are a key part of Chancellor Angela Merkel, long one of his closest foreign Arab alliance known as the Syrian the mercenaries and work out where the ation has angered Washington’s NATO ally the SDF assault, considered a precise way to partners, according to Ben Rhodes, the US national secu- Democratic Forces advance towards IS’ fire is coming from, then they send us the Turkey, which considers the main Syrian target IS while minimizing civilian casualties. rity adviser. The day after his election, the chancellor Syrian stronghold. The advisers are leery coordinates and we transmit them to the Kurdish YPG militia a “terrorist” group, and is “IS is using civilians as human shields,” he pointedly reminded Trump of the criteria that have long of journalists, demanding that an AFP coalition so the targets are hit.” The strikes currently waging its own offensive inside says. “We’re not using heavy weapons in the bound the two countries in close cooperation: photographer stop taking photographs are sometimes used against one of IS’ Syria, targeting both IS and the Kurds. On battle for Raqqa, we’re relying on personal “Democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of and leave when they spot him. favored weapons: Suicide car bombs. the ground, SDF vehicles speed through the weapons and the coalition’s strikes.” law and the dignity of each and every person, regardless SDF sources say that around 50 foreign “Sometimes we take them out with our desert towards the front line, despite the of their origin, skin color, creed, gender, sexual orientation troops are involved in the operation, Concealing Car Bombs or political views.” which began on Nov 6, primarily to guide In a bid to protect themselves, some civil- Obama will also meet in Germany with French anti-IS coalition air strikes. AFP journalists ians have raised white flags on their roofs, President Francois Hollande - who once said Trump’s on the ground have seen soldiers with US but there have been allegations of civilian “excesses” made people “want to retch” - British Prime markings on their uniforms, along with deaths in air strikes. The Syrian Observatory Minister Theresa May, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo others speaking French. The coalition’s for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, Renzi. The leaders plan to discuss the crises in Syria and press office declined to detail the number reported at least 20 civilians killed in coali- Ukraine, as well as the fight against the Islamic State of its forces on the ground, or their tion strikes on Al-Heisha on Nov 9. An SDF group. The American president will conclude his trip nationalities, but confirmed they were spokeswoman at the time dismissed the with a stop in Peru for a summit of the Asia-Pacific playing a wide-ranging role in the fight report as IS propaganda, although the coali- Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). Among the lead- for Raqqa. tion said it was investigating the incident. ers he is expected to meet there is President Xi Jinping “As part of the coalition’s commitment Civilians who have fled the fighting confirm of China. —AFP to advise, assist and accompany the SDF, that IS is embedded among local residents. we are asked to help with operational “There are always strikes on areas where planning, the coordination of air strikes, Daesh (IS) is present... and Daesh hides itself, arranging troop movements, training and even among children,” says 38-year-old All articles appearing on these pages are supplying equipment to the SDF for the Amsha at a makeshift camp for displaced the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait isolation of Raqqa,” a spokesperson told civilians outside the town of Ain Issa, around Times takes no responsibility for views AFP. In the village of Al-Huriya, one advis- 50 km north of Raqqa. “Our children are ter- er peers through binoculars at the fight- rified when the planes are overhead. We’ve a expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites ing in the nearby village of Al-Heisha, little girl who shrieks ‘Plane, plane!’ each readers to voice their opinions. Please send which SDF fighters eventually wrenched time she hears one and runs to hide,” she submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- from IS control on Friday. On radios, says. “Daesh would hide explosive-packed times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 SDF fighters can be heard relaying cars between houses to try to conceal them Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right details to commanders about their Fighters from a Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces from the planes,” adds Ghada, in her twen- progress and where they might need are seen in the northern Syrian village of Al-Huriya on Nov 11, 2016 near the ties. “The militants would tell us they had no to edit any submission as necessary. help from the coalition aircraft flying frontline of fighting against militants of the Islamic State group. —AFP problem dying, so why would they care if constantly overhead. civilians are killed alongside them?” —AFP

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Renault Al Babtain, main partner of 2016 NBK Walkathon

KUWAIT: Renault Al Babtain has tion’s passion for life and healthy living. continues to grow year after year. officials along with Al Babtain’s senior Renault Al Babtain’s on-going partner- announced its major partnership of the Al Babtain has always proudly Participants will also be entering a representatives and will begin the race ship portfolio. This partnership contin- 22nd NBK walkathon scheduled to kick worked with key local partners, who draw for three exciting prizes Three along the scenic coastline area of the ues Al Babtain’s long-standing tradition off on December 3rd, 2016. Titled, ‘We like us, share the responsibility of 2016 Renault Captur vehicles. The Arabian Gulf Road, assisted by NBK vol- of contributing to a wide variety of Are Stronger With each Step’ organized spreading awareness on the impor- Renault models will be displayed inside unteers and amidst cheering fans, rela- local sporting activities. by the National Bank of Kuwait, this will tance of a healthy lifestyle. Al Babtain the registration tent for viewing. tives and friends. Registration for the NBK Annual be Renault Al Babtain’s 2nd consecutive thrilled to support the Walkathon, The participants expected to reach This partnership with NBK coincides Walkathon has already started at the year to take a major part in this initia- which is by far the most popular and record numbers this year will be joined with Renault Al Babtain’s health aware- scientific center and will end on tive in strong support of the organiza- awaited walkathon in the country, that by several public figures, NBK senior ness month making it an ideal fit within December 1. Perez wins by two shots in Mexico

PLAYA DEL CARMEN: Pat Perez won the OHL Classic at Mayakoba on Sunday in his third start since returning from shoulder surgery. Perez closed with a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory over third-round leader Gary Woodland on the Greg Norman-designed El Camaleon course. Perez finished at 21-under 263. Perez had sur- gery on his shoulder in February. He returned with a tie for 33rd in Malaysia, and tied for sev- enth last week in Las Vegas. Perez shot a 62 on Saturday to pull within a stroke of Woodland. The 40-year-old former Arizona State player birdied five of the first eight holes and had a bogey on the par-4 12th. He also won the 2009 Bob Hope Classic. Woodland birdied the final two holes for a 70. Russell Knox was third at 18 under after a 66.

CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP Paul Goydos and Bernhard Langer got the big trophies and checks in the PGA Tour Champions’ season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Goydos completed a wire-to- wire victory in the tournament, and Langer fin- ished second to win his third straight season points title and fourth overall. Goydos shot a 4-under 66 to finish at 15- SAO PAULO: Williams Martini Racing’s Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, holding his coun- under 195 on Desert Mountain’s Cochise Course. try’s flag, greets fans after his final appearance at Interlagos circuit before retirement, He opened with a 62 in windy conditions and at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. —AFP shot a 67 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead in the final round. Langer had a 64. Recovering from a left knee injury that forced him to with- Brazil’s Massa crashes but draw from the playoff opener at Sherwood, the 59-year-old German star won the $1 million gets warm farewell at home annuity as the Charles Schwab Cup season champion and also topped the tour with four SAO PAULO: Williams’ veteran driver Felipe Formula 1 car at the season-finisher in Abu victories and $3,016,959. Massa failed to finish his last race in front of Dhabi, after reaching his 250th start. Colin Montgomerie had a 68 to finish third at his home crowd at Interlagos on Sunday, Massa’s F1 career began in 2002 as a 11 under. The 52-year-old Goydos earned but he still earned a warm and emotional member of Sauber. He shone at Ferrari, the $440,000. He also won the Dick’s Sporting Goods goodbye. team that gave him his best chance at the Open in July in New York and has four victories In a Brazilian Grand Prix deeply impact- title race in 2008. At a Brazilian GP that he on the 50-and-over tour. He won twice on the ed by rain, Massa crashed out in the 48th of won, Massa lost the crown to Lewis PGA Tour. 71 laps when he was in 14th position. Hamilton after the British driver made a key In tears, the 35-year-old driver walked overtake on the very last lap. CITIBANAMEX LORENA PLAYA DEL CARMEN: Pat Perez of the United States holds up his trophy after he won the OHL through the pit lane wrapped in a Brazilian One year later Massa’s life was put at OCHOA INVITATIONAL Classic at Mayakoba golf tournament in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Sunday. — AP flag and was greeted by his wife Anna serious risk after he was struck on the head Carlota Ciganda rallied to win the Raffaela, his son Felipinho, a rowdy local by a wheel at the Hungarian Grand Prix. He Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Invitational for her Inbee Park on the tree-lined course. Third-round Challenge, rebounding for a third-round 75 with crowd and members of all teams. stayed in the hospital for days. second LPGA Tour victory in four starts. The 26- leader Austin Ernst had a 71 to drop into a tie for a 63 for a six-stroke victory. “I am leaving with my head up and my Massa joined Williams in 2014. In the year-old Spaniard shot a 4-under 68 at Club de second with Angela Stanford (69), Jodi Ewart The 34-year-old Swede has four European heart still aching,” Massa told reporters by current season he is 11th with 51 points. Golf Mexico for a two-stroke victory over six Shadoff (67), Karine Icher (69) and Sarah Jane Tour victories this season. Noren was 9 under the pit lane. With his retirement and the difficulties for players. She played the four par-5 holes in 5 Smith (70). Tournament host Ochoa won 27 through the first 11 holes at Gary Player Country “I apologize to this crowd, this is not the Felipe Nasr of Sauber to renew his contract, under, making an eagle on No. 2 and birdies on LPGA Tour titles. The Mexican star retired in Club. He finished at 14-under 274 and earned result that I expected here. I can only thank there is a chance that no Brazilian drivers 6, 11 and 17. Ciganda won the LPGA KEB-Hana 2010. She will be inducted into the World Golf $1.16 million to move into third place in the them for the love, for all the emotions that I will be on the grid in 2017. That would be Bank Championship a month ago in South Korea Hall of Fame next year. Race to Dubai standings entering the season- felt.” The Brazilian driver also said he the first time in 48 years. There are no oth- for her first tour title. The former Arizona State ending World Tour Championship next week in expects to be part of a different racing er Brazilian drivers in Europe being consid- player has five straight top-10 finishes. NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGE Dubai. Third-round leader Jeunghun Wang of series next year, without providing further ered for a place at the moment. Sunday’s Ciganda won a year after finishing second Alex Noren rallied to win the Nedbank Golf South Korea had a 75 to finish second.— AP details. race was won by three-time series champi- Massa has 11 Grand Prix career wins, on Hamilton, forcing a showdown for the including two in Brazil. Two weeks from season title with Mercedes teammate Nico now, he will make his final appearance in a Rosberg in Abu Dhabi. —AP Japan ahead of England as Brazil’s F1 future remains cloudy after wet thriller WCup hosts: Rugby chief SAO PAULO: Lewis Hamilton emphasised The final calendar, currently 21 races, will LONDON: World Rugby’s chief executive tried England-where Japan caused one of the all- southern hemisphere rugby union seasons has how much the Brazilian Grand Prix meant be published in December. Interlagos, with to allay fears about Japan’s readiness to stage time great upsets by beating South Africa-were long been seen as a way of bringing more order to him after winning in the wet on Sunday, fans exposed to the elements and the track the 2019 World Cup, saying yesterday the coun- widely praised for delivering a successful tour- to a congested fixture list and easing the but the race’s future on the Formula One close by slums on one side, has undergone try was three years ahead of where 2015 hosts nament on and off the field. demands on top players. calendar remains clouded by uncertainty. “I an upgrade to the cramped pits and pad- England were at the same point. But Gosper said Japan was primed to deliver “It’s challenging,” said Beaumont. just assume this is going to be on the grand dock area but there is always more to do. There was consternation last year when the in its own right. “There is a lot of excitement in “I came in thinking it was something I could prix calendar because it is one of the best “They’ve done a good job, but it needed to original plan for the redevelopment of Japan,” the Australian said. “They’re ahead of sort out pretty quickly, but I found otherwise. It races,” said the triple champion after suc- be done,” commented Ecclestone, who is Yokohama Stadium-the main venue for the England at this stage of the preparations, three is a case of one step back and one step for- ceeding at Interlagos, his boyhood idol married to a Brazilian and owns a ranch in 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2019 Rugby World years out, on most of the criteria.” wards. “I’m hopeful that by early next year we’ll Ayrton Senna’s home track, for the first the country. Cup final-was abandoned because of spiralling Gosper’s comments were endorsed by World reach a solution, but there is no easy solution.” time. “It is part of the heritage of Formula The 86-year-old Briton said long-stand- construction costs. Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, who said he Former lock Beaumont, who played 41 Tests One. We cannot lose this grand prix.” ing talks with Argentina, which last hosted a This led to speculation that the first Rugby had been pleased by what he saw on his visits — 34 for England and seven for the British and Despite the Mercedes driver’s words, the race in 1998, could lead to another South World Cup in Asia could be moved to one of to Japan. “I was both impressed by the passion Irish Lions-said the physical demands of rugby chances of Brazil remaining on the calendar American option but “it would be good not rugby union’s more established nations. But and the expertise,” Beaumont, captain of made it impossible for the sport to copy foot- remain very much a ‘maybe’ due to the to lose this race”. Canadian promoters have World Rugby CEO Brett Gosper said feedback England’s 1980 Grand Slam-winning side, said. ball’s schedule. “Our number one priority is country’s ongoing economic crisis. sounded optimistic about keeping their from “everyone down” from Japanese Prime “Japan will be groundbreaking for the sport player welfare, we can’t play more than once a Brazil will also have only one driver next grand prix but the prospects for Germany, a Minister Shinzo Abe had convinced him that of rugby in terms of attracting new fans and week. year, in an uncompetitive car, and even that home race for champions Mercedes and Yokohama, scene of the 2002 football World players in Asia as they look to the ‘Land of the “We’re not like soccer where a player in the is not certain with Felipe Nasr yet to be Ferrari’s four-times champion Sebastian Cup final, would be ready to stage the climax of Rising Scrum’.” Premier League can fly to Chile and play an confirmed by struggling Sauber. The Vettel, do not look good. “Trouble is it’s all the 2019 rugby showpiece. international on Tuesday and come back and atmospheric amphitheatre has an asterisk commercial. If they can’t make it work com- “We were out there a couple of months ago ‘NO EASY SOLUTION’ play for his club on the Saturday.” against it, along with Canada and Germany, mercially they will stop,” Ecclestone said of for a formal review,” Gosper told reporters on While upbeat about Japan’s progress, the on the 2017 draft calendar and commercial Germany. Hockenheim held the race this the sidelines of the World Rugby conference in 64-year-old said solving the thorny issue of a ‘OLYMPIC HALO’ supremo Bernie Ecclestone is not sounding year but has been reluctant to do so in suc- London. “From the prime minister down we got global rugby calendar, another major task in his But Beaumont was unequivocal about the positive. “I think we may well be able to cessive seasons unless the hosting fees are a good sense of momentum. We are happy in-tray when he succeeded France’s Bernard success of the Olympic debut of rugby sevens sort Canada out, possibly, but the other frozen, while the Nuerburgring has baulked with Yokohama.” Lapasset in July, was proving more difficult. at this year’s Games in Rio, saying it had done two...,” the Briton told Reuters with a shrug. at the cost. —Reuters Organisers of the 2015 World Cup in A global calendar aligning the northern and wonders for the sport’s profile. — AFP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 SPORTS

First Pakistan Test still on after New Zealand quake

WELLINGTON: The first test between ting off hundreds of strong aftershocks. Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur told TVNZ. “I was just laying in bed and woke up to “I think (cricket) always brings a com- New Zealand and Pakistan is scheduled It was felt strongly in Christchurch, “We were on the seventh floor of the quite a long rumble, so a bit scary,” munity together,” Henry said. “For a brief to go head this week after engineers South Island’s largest city, which was hit hotel and it was pretty scary. Henry told reporters. moment, you can get back to a bit of checked the safety of the Christchurch by a 6.3 quake in 2011 that killed 185 “The boys all raced down stairs and “They are obviously a bit hard to get normality. “It’s probably good timing to cricket venue following a massive earth- people. New Zealand Cricket officials most of the guys slept in the team room used to. You kind of sit there waiting to have the test match this week and it will quake that rattled the centre of the told reporters in Christchurch yesterday last night. They were a bit scared to go see if you need to react or if you can sit be a really good occasion.” country early yesterday. the match would go ahead. Both teams back up to their rooms.” tight. It was quite a long rumble this Henry said his team mates would be The powerful 7.8 magnitude earth- arrived in the city on Monday, with the New Zealand bowler Matt Henry, one.” With parts of north Canterbury and conscious of safety concerns at their quake pummelled central New Zealand’s Pakistan side arriving from Nelson, who lives in Christchurch, added he had around the tourist town of Kaikoura dev- hotel in Christchurch. “I’m sure a lot of South Island, killing at least two people, where they felt the tremors. been woken by the initial quake, which astated, Henry said he hoped the test them will want to stay on the lower lev- damaging roads and buildings and set- “It was pretty scary, it really was,” struck shortly after midnight yesterday. would help bring people together. els,” he added. — Reuters Luck deserts Warner as Proteas maintain grip

HOBART: Luck deserted Australia in from claiming their third successive their desperate bid to salvage the second series in Australia with only next week’s Test with South Africa snaring the vital day-night third Test in Adelaide still to wicket of David Warner in unfortunate play. South Africa earlier extended their circumstances in Hobart yesterday. first innings lead to 241 before they were Warner, who was seeking redemption all out for 326 with Quinton de Kock after his reckless dismissal in the opening plundering a century and Hazlewood fin- over of the first innings, lost his wicket ishing with six for 89. while at the forefront of Australia’s fight- After Sunday’s second day was back. At stumps on the third day the washed out, the Australians chased early home side were 121 for two, still 120 wickets but de Kock and Bavuma batted runs behind the Proteas, who have been South Africa into a position of strength in control of the Test since routing with a century stand. Australia for 85 on Saturday. The swashbuckling wicketkeeper, Usman Khawaja was unbeaten on 56, likened to Australian Test great Adam his ninth Test half-century, with skipper Gilchrist, was bowled by Hazlewood just Steve Smith not out 18. Warner flung his before lunch for 104 off 143 balls with 17 head back in despair when a ball from boundaries. Kyle Abbott hit his hip and ricocheted off His stand of 144 with Bavuma was the an elbow onto his stumps when he was highest by a visiting team in Hobart for on 45. It gave the Proteas a huge fillip the sixth wicket. after Warner and Khawaja had recovered “Obviously, I’m happy with what we’ve the innings with a 79-run stand after the done and what we’ve achieved, but the loss of Joe Burns in the first over. game has only gone past halfway and we Burns lasted just four balls before he still have a lot to do,” de Kock said. was caught behind, tickling at one wide “The Aussies looked very determined down the leg-side from Abbott. in their second innings so we have a lot “We’ve done well with the bat, two to play for.” unlucky dismissals, but that happens in De Kock has scored 540 runs in 2016 cricket and the boys have shown some in just nine Test innings and leads the good fight, digging in even though the year’s international averages with 80 hav- ball is nipping around a fair bit,” ing been unbeaten twice. Australian paceman Josh Hazlewood He became only the fourth South said. “A really good partnership in the African to register 50 or more in five con- morning, a good first hour and that will secutive Tests after he swept spinner go a long way to having a good day Nathan Lyon for four over wide mid-on. HARARE: Zimbabe bowler Tinashe Panyangara is in action during the opening match of an ODI series Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe in Harare, tomorrow.” Shortly after lunch, Tembo Bavuma was yesterday. —AFP Khawaja played some lovely shots in surprised by a rearing delivery to spoon his vigil, providing great support for his an easy catch to Nathan Lyon at point captain Smith, who top scored with an and give Joe Mennie his first Test wicket S Lanka thrash Zimbabwe unbeaten 48 in the first innings sham- for 74. Vernon Philander was the last man bles. Australia face a mighty struggle to out for 32 off 28 balls, caught behind off prevent South Africa, already 1-0 up, Hazlewood. — AFP by eight wickets in ODI

HARARE: A change of format could not bring a change in fortunes for Zimbabwe, as SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka thrashed them by eight wickets in HARARE: Scoreboard in the first one-day international between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka on yesterday. the first match of a one-day international tri- angular series at Harare Sports Club yester- Zimbabwe Bowling: Kulasekara 8-2-23-2, Lakmal 7-0-19-2, day. B. Chari c Mendi b Lakmal 7 Pathirana 10-0-44-1, Pradeep 7-1-21-2, Jayasuriya 3-0- C. Chibhabha lbw b Pradeep 18 24-0, Gunaratne 6.3-1-21-3. Four days after Sri Lanka sealed a 2-0 Test C. Ervine c Mendis b Lakmal 0 series sweep, the tourists bowled Zimbabwe Sikandar Raza c Pathirana b Kulasekara 1 Sri Lanka out for 154 before chasing their target inside S. Williams st Dickwella b Pathirana 9 D. de Silva not out 78 25 overs to claim a bonus-point victory. P. Moor lbw b Kulasekara 47 K. Perera c Sikandar Raza b Chibhabha 21 As with the Test matches, Zimbabwe suf- E. Chigumbura c Dickwella b Pradeep 1 N. Dickwella c Mumba b Panyangara 41 fered from the fragility of their top order, G. Cremer not out 31 K. Mendis not out 12 D. Tiripano c Kulasekara b Gunaratne 19 Extras (2lb, 1nb) 3 falling to 14 for three in the first five overs. C. Mumba lbw b Gunaratne 1 Total (2 wkts, 24.3 overs) 155 However, this time around they could at T. Panyangara c Jayasuriya b Gunaratne 12 Fall of wickets: 1-56 (Perera), 2-140 (Dickwella). least point to some challenging conditions - Extras (2lb, 6w) 8 Did not bat: U. Tharanga, S. Jayasuriya, A. Gunaratne, S. Harare experienced heavy rain over the Total (all out, 41.3 overs) 154 Pathirana, N. Kulasekara, S. Lakmal, N. Pradeep. weekend, and cloudy skies on yesterday Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Chari), 2-13 (Ervine), 3-14 (Sikandar Bowling: Panyangara 7.3-0-37-1, Mumba 4-0-31-0, morning gave Sri Lanka’s seamers plenty to Raza), 4-29 Tiripano 3-0-17-0, Chibhabha 2-0-18-1, Sikandar Raza 3- (Williams), 5-46 (Chibhabha), 6-50 (Chigumbura), 7-105 0-25-0, Cremer 5-0-25-0. work with. “In losing the toss we knew it (Moor), 8-136 was going to be tough, but there were too (Tiripano), 9-139 (Mumba), 10-154 (Panyangara). Result: Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets. many soft wickets,” said Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer. “This was not a 150 type of wicket.” The collapse began in just the fourth over, when Suranga Lakmal had both Brian New dad Cook’s runs Chari and Craig Ervine caught at second slip in the space of three deliveries, and in the ease pain of being away next over Sikandar Raza Butt’s careless leg- side flick off Nuwan Kulasekara found mid- NEW DELHI: England skipper Alastair Cook and you want to try to make it worthwhile by wicket. said scoring his ninth Test century in Asia dur- scoring a few runs,” said Cook Sunday. It was Sean Williams was then bamboozled by ing the drawn first Test against India made left-handed batsman Cook’s 30th Test centu- Sachith Pathirana’s left-arm spin and was the struggle of being away from his newborn ry and fifth in India, the most for any foreign stumped by Niroshen Dickwella, before baby “worthwhile”. Cook jetted back to batsman surpassing Everton Weekes, Clive Nuwan Pradeep dismissed Chamu England from Bangladesh to be there for the Lloyd and Hashim Amla who each managed Chibhabha and Elton Chigumbura in succes- birth of his second daughter in October, but four centuries in India. Cook also bettered sive overs to leave Zimbabwe 50 for six in returned after spending just 18 hours with his Jacques Kallis’ score of eight tons in Asia and the 18th over. family’s new addition. Don Bradman’s tally of 29 centuries. As in the Test series, it was left to But the difficult separation was softened But Cook dismissed the Bradman compari- Zimbabwe’s lower order to repair the dam- slightly by Cook’s score of 130 as he put on son. “Let’s not talk about Bradman who prob- age. Wicketkeeper-batsman Peter Moor 180 runs with teenage-opener Haseeb ably did it in a third of the knocks. I’ve sacri- struck a polished 47 and added 55 for the Hameed (82) in second innings in Rajkot-a ficed a bit to come out here,” he said. “Batting seventh wicket with Graeme Cremer, and record opening stand for England in India. on top of the order it is our responsibility to once Moor was trapped lbw by Nuwan England’s strong showing in the drawn Test do that and luckily my record here is OK.” Kulasekara, Cremer marshalled the tail to comes as welcome relief to Cook and compa- After giving India a scare in the first of the good effect. The Zimbabwe captain put on ny who were tested in the two-match five Tests, the tourists now head to the south- Bangladesh series which ended 1-1. “I’ve eastern city of Visakhapatnam for the second 31 for the eighth wicket with Donald HOBART: Australia’s batsman Steven Smith plays a shot on the third day’s play of the sec- seen my daughter for 18 hours. It’s never easy Test starting Thursday. — AFP ond Test cricket match between Australia and South Africa in Hobart yesterday. —AFP Tiripano, who made 19, and was left strand- ed on 31 not out when No. 11 Tinashe Panyangara attempted one big shot too SCOREBOARD many. Panyangara sliced a delivery off Asela Gunaratne to cover to give the allrounder HOBART, Australia: Scoreboard at stumps yesterday after the third day of the second cricket test figures of 3 for 21 in 6.3 overs, while between Australia and South Africa at Bellerive Oval. Kulasekara, Lakmal and Pradeep finished with two wickets apiece as Zimbabwe were Australia 1st Innings: 85 Hazlewood 30.5-10-89-6, Joe Mennie 28-5-85-1, South Africa, 1st Innings (Overnight: 171-5) Nathan Lyon 17-2-57-0, Steve Smith 1-0-5-0. bowled out in 41.3 overs. Stephen Cook c Nevill b Starc 23 “Everyone did really well,” said Sri Lanka Dean Elgar lbw b Starc 17 Australia, 2nd Innings captain Upul Tharanga. “The bowlers stuck Hashim Amla c Nevill b Hazlewood 47 Joe Burns c de Kock b Abbott 0 to the plan and bowled in the right areas. J.P. Duminy c Smith b Starc 1 David Warner b Abbott 45 They knew the wicket would do something.” Faf du Plessis lbw b Hazlewood 7 Usman Khuwaja not 56 With Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Temba Bavuma c Lyon b Mennie 74 Steve Smith not out 18 Quinton de Kock b Hazlewood 104 Extras: (1lb, 1nb) 2 Perera putting on 56 for the first wicket, the Vernon Philander c Nevill b Hazlewood 32 TOTAL: (for 2 wickets) 121. result was never in doubt. Keshav Maharaj b Hazlewood 1 Overs: 36. Batting time: 156 minutes. Although Perera was well caught at deep Kyle Avbbott lbw b Hazlewood 3 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-79. square leg by Sikandar Raza for 21 and Kagiso Rabada not out 5 Still to bat: Adam Voges, Callum Ferguson, Peter Niroshan Dickwella fell for 41 with the target Extras: (3b,8lb,1nb) 12 Nevill, Joe Mennie, Mitch starc, Josh Hazlewood, in sight, De Silva finished unbeaten on 78 as TOTAL: (all out) 326 Nathan Lyon. Overs: 100.5. Batting time: 425 minutes. Bowling: Kyle Abbott 14-1-55-2, Vernon Philander Sri Lanka romped home in 24.3 overs. Fall of wickets: 1-43, 2-44, 3-46, 4-76, 5-132, 6-276, 9-1-28-0 (1nb), J.P Duminy 1-0-8-0, Kagiso Rabada The triangular series also includes the 7-292, 8-293, 9-297, 10-326. 9-2-19-0, Keshav Maharaj 3-0-10-0. West Indies, who will take on Sri Lanka at Alastair Cook Bowling: Mitch Starc 24-1-79-3 (1nb), Josh Series: South Africa leads 1-0. the same venue tomorrow. — AFP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 SPORTS

Kane goal helps Blackhawks hand Canadiens second loss

CHICAGO: Patrick Kane scored a spec- finding a loose puck off a faceoff and tacular tiebreaking goal in the second snapping it past Lehtonen. period and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Montreal 3-2 on Sunday night, handing JETS 3, KINGS 2, SO the league-leading Canadiens just their Mark Scheifele scored the deciding second regulation loss of the season. goal in a shootout to give Winnipeg a Marian Hossa added his team-leading victory over Los Angeles. Patrik Laine ninth and rookie Gustav Forsling scored also beat Peter Budaj in the shootout, his first in the NHL as Chicago improved and Dwight King scored against the Jets’ to 9-0-2 in its last 11 and ended Connor Hellebuyck. The Jets are 3-0-1 in Montreal’s four-game winning streak. their last four games and 8-7-2 overall. Shea Weber and Andrei Markov scored The Kings have lost three straight to drop for the Canadiens in a matchup of con- to 7-8-1. Kings forward Kyle Clifford was ference leaders. Both goalies faced teams called for a boarding major in the first from their hometowns. Canadiens back- period for a hit that sent Jets forward up Al Montoya, a Chicago native, made Kyle Connor into the boards head-first. 32 saves. Chicago’s Corey Crawford, from Adam Lowry and Marko Dano took Montreal, stopped 21 shots. Kane put advantage with power-play goals. Chicago ahead 3-2 with 3:37 left in the Connor left for the dressing room, but second period to cap a terrific individual returned for the second period. Tanner effort. Kane skated down the slot, fooled Pearson scored in the first period for Los Jeff Petry with a move and chipped a Angeles, and defenseman Tom Gilbert shot past Montoya - while falling to the tied it midway through the third. ice with Max Pacioretty checking him closely from behind. WILD 2, SENATORS 1, OT Matt Dumba scored late in overtime RANGERS 3, OILERS 1 and Darcy Kuemper stopped 35 shots, Michael Grabner scored twice, Antti helping Minnesota beat Ottawa. Ryan Raanta stopped 38 shots and New York Suter scored a short-handed goal for the beat Edmonton. Dan Girardi also scored Wild, and Kuemper was nearly perfect in to help the Rangers win for the seventh his third start of the season. Craig time in eight games - including two vic- Anderson made 40 saves and was again tories against the Oilers. Grabner now solid for the Senators, who got a goal has 10 goals in 16 games this season, from Kyle Turris 5:06 into the third peri- topping the nine he had in 80 games od. The Wild were playing their third OAKLAND: Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, left, drives to the basket next to Phoenix Suns’ Eric Bledsoe, second from left, Suns’ Alex Len with Toronto last year. Andrej Sekera game in four nights to conclude a four- (21) and Warriors’ Zaza Pachulia during the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, in Oakland, Calif. — AP scored for Edmonton and Cam Talbot fin- game trip, but they controlled much of ished with 24 saves. The Oilers have lost the action with Ottawa looking disorgan- three straight to fall to 2-5-1 since start- ized for most of the night. Thompson big fourth quarter ing the season 7-1-0. BRUINS 2, AVALANCHE 0 CANUCKS 5, STARS 4, OT Tuukka Rask stopped 21 shots and leads Warriors past Suns Troy Stecher tied it with 1:40 left in David Krejci scored in the first period, lift- the third period and Markus Granlund ing Boston over Colorado. Rask showed scored in overtime, helping Vancouver no signs of fatigue despite being in net OAKLAND: Klay Thompson hit a go-ahead 3- Irving scored 19 points and Kevin Love added Randle had 14 points and six rebounds and rally to beat Dallas. Dallas held leads of 3- for a second straight night. He made 31 pointer with 4:31 left and another with 3:13 17, but neither played in the fourth quarter as Jordan Clarkson scored 14. 1 and 4-3, but Vancouver got goals from saves in a 2-1 win over Arizona on remaining to score a season-high 30 points, Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue stuck with the Louis Eriksson, Brandon Sutter, Bo Horvat Saturday. Rask got his 33rd career Stephen Curry also had 30 points with five 3s, group that helped Cleveland take control of the TRAIL BLAZERS 112, NUGGETS 105 and Stecher to force overtime. The shutout and moved to 7-0 on the road and the balanced Golden State Warriors held off game.Kemba Walker scored 21 points for the Damian Lillard scored 32 points and the Trail Canucks were coming off a 1-5 road trip this season. Krejci scored his second goal the Phoenix Suns 133-120 on Sunday night. Hornets, who have lost two straight after start- Blazers handed the struggling Nuggets their and have two wins in their last 12 games. of the season on a wrist shot midway Kevin Durant added 29 points, nine rebounds ing the season 6-1. fourth straight loss. CJ McCollum added 21 and five assists as Golden State just missed a points for the Blazers, who have won five of their Ryan Miller made 17 saves for Vancouver. through the first period. The Avalanche third 30-point performance by its star three. The TIMBERWOLVES 125, LAKERS 99 last six games. Portland trailed 57-50 at the pulled Semyon Varlamov with about a Patrick Eaves scored twice and Lauri Warriors avoided a second home loss at this ear- Andrew Wiggins had a career-high 47 points, break, but came alive in the second half and Korpikoski and Antoine Roussel also minute remaining but couldn’t generate ly stage that would have matched their total of equaling the entire Lakers starting lineup to lead outscored Denver 36-15 in the third quarter. scored for the Stars, who wrapped up a much offense. Dominic Moore sealed it two defeats at Oracle Arena in each of the past Minnesota. Wiggins made 14 of 21 shots and Jamal Murray hit a 3-pointer to pull Denver with- five-game road trip 2-1-2. Kari Lehtonen with an empty-net goal with 27.2 sec- two regular seasons. Thompson shot 11 for 18 Nemanja Bjelica added a career-high 24 points in 110-105 in the final seconds, but the rally stopped 25 shots for Dallas, which had onds remaining. Varlamov was the hard- also with five 3s and scored 14 of his points in and eight rebounds for the Timberwolves, who came up short. It was the Blazers’ seventh won 10 straight against the Canucks. luck loser, stopping a season-high 43 the fourth, while Draymond Green finished with played without starting guard Zach LaVine and straight victory over the Nuggets at the Moda Granlund scored 1:27 into overtime by shots. —AP 14 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for reserve forward Shabazz Muhammad. Both Center. Murray and Danilo Gallinari led the Golden State. Eric Bledsoe and T.J. Warren scored missed the game with sore right knees. Lou Nuggets with 19 points apiece and Kenneth 20 points apiece to lead six players in double fig- Williams scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth Faried added 18. The Nuggets have struggled ures for the Suns. quarter for the Lakers, who got 47 points from with injuries this season and have just three their starters and 52 from their bench. Julius wins. —AP MAGIC 119, THUNDER 117 Serge Ibaka’s baseline jumper with less than a NBA results/standings second remaining lifted Orlandao past Oklahoma City. Ibaka, who was traded from the Cleveland 100, Charlotte 93; Orlando 119, Oklahoma City 117; Minnesota 125, LA Lakers 99; Thunder to the Magic in the offseason, scored a Golden State 133, Phoenix 120; Portland 112, Denver 105. career-high 31 points and added nine rebounds and four blocks. With the score tied in the final Eastern Conference Western Conference minute, Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook Atlantic Division Northwest Division missed a pull-up jumper, and Orlando rebound- W L PCT GB Utah 7 4 .636 - ed and called timeout with 11 seconds remain- Toronto 7 2 .778 - Portland 7 4 .636 - ing to set up Ibaka’s winner with 0.4 seconds left. Boston 5 4 .556 2 Oklahoma City 6 4 .600 0.5 Westbrook finished with 41 points, 16 assists Brooklyn 4 5 .444 3 Minnesota 3 6 .333 3 and 12 rebounds for his third triple-double of NY Knicks 3 6 .333 4 Denver 3 7 .300 3.5 the season and 40th of his career. The Thunder Philadelphia 1 8 .111 6 Pacific Division Central Division had won 20 straight when Westbrook tallied a LA Clippers 9 1 .900 - Cleveland 8 1 .889 - triple-double. Elfrid Payton scored 23 points and Golden State 8 2 .800 1 Chicago 6 4 .600 2.5 Evan Fournier added 21 for the Magic, who LA Lakers 6 5 .545 3.5 Milwaukee 5 4 .556 3 snapped a three-game losing streak. Sacramento 4 7 .364 5.5 Detroit 5 5 .500 3.5 Indiana 4 6 .400 4.5 Phoenix 3 8 .273 6.5 CAVALIERS 100, HORNETS 93 Southwest Division LeBron James sparked a fourth-quarter Southeast Division Atlanta 7 2 .778 - San Antonio 7 3 .700 - comeback with 11 points, Channing Frye scored Charlotte 6 3 .667 1 Houston 5 4 .556 1.5 a season-high 20 and Cleveland beat Charlotte. Orlando 4 6 .400 3.5 Memphis 4 5 .444 2.5 CHICAGO: Patrick Kane #88 of the Chicago Blackhawks is shoved to the ice by Max James, who finished with 19 points, also had five Miami 2 6 .250 4.5 Dallas 2 6 .250 4 Pacioretty #67 of the Montreal Canadiens as he shoots and scores a second period assists in the final period. He had eight points on Washington 2 7 .222 5 New Orleans 1 9 .100 6 goal at the United Center on Sunday in Chicago, Illinois. — AFP 4-of-15 shooting through three quarters. Kyrie

‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ promises record turnout

KUWAIT: The ‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ held a Commissioner for Refugees and their ‘Voices She also highlighted UNHCR’s long stand- From his side, Mr. Ahmad Al-Majed, The route for the race will start at Souq pre-event press conference yesterday to for Refugee’ program to raise awareness of the ing cooperation with the government of Managing Partner of Pro Vision Sport Sharq, at 7:00 am, and will take place on Gulf announce the launch of Kuwait’s biggest plight of refugees and make their stories Kuwait and said:” In fact, the State of Kuwait Management, stated: “It is our honor to have Road, passing by Kuwait Towers, the Grand marathon, which takes place this Saturday 19 heard so people will keep remembering they has been one of the top 10 contributors that Gulf Bank as our partner. To date we have reg- Mosque, Al Seif Palace, the National Assembly, November, at 7:00 am from Souq Sharq. are human. Please join their campaign and helped alleviating the burden of the Syrian istered over 3,000 participants from various Souk Al Mubarakiya, the Gulf Bank head office, Mohammad Al-Otaibi, Gulf Bank Corporate add give your voice, so the world will hear refugees with its donations amounting to ages across all four-race categories, and we are as well as other landmarks. Communications Manager said: “We are proud theirs.” $338 million. We have been working closely ready to welcome them on Saturday. We have The ‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ remains only to launch the ‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ 2016 Dr Hanan Hamdan, Head of Office - UNHCR with the Kuwaiti government on various activ- participants coming in from the US, Europe, road race in Kuwait to have three of its longer for the second consecutive year together with Kuwait, emphasized the importance of its ities aimed at mobilizing resources and fund- and the GCC to take part in ‘Gulf Bank 642 distance race categories accredited by the Marathon’. This event is made for every indi- our strategic partner, Pro-Vision Sports partnership with the ‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ ing to help Syrian refugees who fled their Association of International Marathons and Management. Last year was a great success, as by saying:” On behalf of UNHCR, I would like to country”. vidual who wants to experience a run, touring Distance Races (AIMS) and the International we had almost 2,400 participant and more express my gratitude to Gulf Bank for choos- Ahmad Al-Huzami, CEO of Pro-Vision Sport through the beautiful landmarks of Kuwait.” Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF than 70 nationalities represented at the event. ing the plight of refugees as their cause for Management, expressed his gratitude to both From challenging athletes to beginners This year we are expecting an even higher this year’s marathon”. the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of and even families, this Marathon caters to Athletics), meaning that those races appeared turnout, and we encourage you to join the Dr. Hamdan added:” The goal of our “Voices Health for their efforts and cooperation in everyone and includes four different dis- in the international calendar of races. run/walk event. I would like to invite all those for Refugees” campaign goes beyond the val- making the marathon a success, and tances/categories: To find out more about the Gulf Bank 642 who haven’t registered yet, to do so before 16 ues of solidarity and sympathy, we want your explained that: “The ‘Gulf Bank 642 Marathon’ * Family Fun Walk/Run (5KM) Marathon, visit the dedicated website at: November by visiting our website www.gulf- voices to raise attention and humanitarian is a unique run/walk event and the only inter- * Souq Run for regular runners (10KM) www.gulfbank642marathon.com or its bank642marathon.com.” actions, representing our unity and hopes for nationally accredited marathon in Kuwait. This * Half Marathon for more advanced runners Instagram account GulfBank642. The number Al-Otaibi added: “This year we have part- a better future to all those who have fled their year promises to be an even bigger event, we (21KM) 642 represent the number of muscles in the nered with the United Nations High country due to war atrocities”. hope to see you there”. * Full Marathon (42KM) human body. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 SPORTS

More than a game as China and Qatar meet in ‘symbolic’ clash

DOHA: An Asian zone World Cup qualifier four qualifying games. Their last home match- between the bottom two sides in Group A, a 1-0 defeat by Syria in Xi’an-saw angry fans who have won just one game in eight protest in the streets. between them, may not seem a particularly World Cup 2022 hosts Qatar are only noteworthy match. slightly better off. They have clawed three But when China face Qatar in Kunming points from four matches, following a 1-0 vic- today, it will also be a clash between arguably tory in Doha last month against Syria. the most ambitious and certainly in their But only the top two teams from the region biggest spending nations who, in the group qualify automatically for Russia. Iran long-term, could both play a central role in head the group with 10 points and shaping the sport’s future. Uzbekistan are second with nine. The third- In the short-term both could deal an placed team will have a play-off chance to get almost fatal blow to each other’s already very to Russia, the position currently held by slim chances of reaching Russia 2018. “It South Korea with seven points. would be easy simply to dismiss the China Qatar game as a dead rubber or as a match THE PRICE OF FAILURE between weaker nations on the periphery of Emphasising how desperate China and world football,” said Professor Simon Qatar are to qualify for the 2018 tournament, Chadwick, a British-based Asian football both have sacked their coaches during the expert. “However, these are two aspiring current round of qualifying. football nations, with major football ambi- Notably, China have appointed World Cup tions. “Both nations still hold out hope of winning-coach Marcello Lippi on a reputed making Russia 2018 and failure to do so $20 million-a-year contract to revive hope in would be an embarrassment and a setback in their almost moribund World Cup campaign. their desire to be considered as being among Today’s game will be his first big test in the world’s leading football nations. charge of “Team Dragon”. “The game therefore has huge symbolic Qatar turned back to popular former meaning.” It is the World Cup where both coach Jorge Fossati after losing their first two countries wish to make a mark on the global matches in this round of qualifying, despite game. Both have invested heavily to fuel their storming through the last stage. Lippi said he ambitions. China, which aims to be a foot- and the Chinese nation are hoping for a mira- balling superpower by 2050, has spent an cle. Fossati is insistent that whatever happens estimated $1 billion developing its domestic in Kunming will not be decisive. “We are very game, says Chadwick. optimistic about the result of the game in It harbours hopes of hosting its own World China, but it is not a definitive game,” he said Cup and, one day, winning football’s greatest before his team flew out. prize. Qatar is in the middle of transforming Last week China played a behind closed itself by splurging $200 billion-plus to host doors friendly in preparation for today’s the 2022 tournament. The stadiums alone for match. In contrast, Qatar beat Russia 2-1 in that World Cup will cost some $10 billion. Doha in a match broadcast live on television. Both countries’ ambition also represents a “We wanted to help Marcello if he wanted to challenge to the established world football watch the game,” joked Fossati. Defeat today order, says China-based Cameron Wilson, and the costs could be high. BRUSSELS: Belgium’s Thomas Meunier scores against Estonia during the World Cup Group H qualifying soccermatch between Belgium and founder of the Wild East Football website. “I For Qatar, it could mean the end of any Estonia, at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Sunday. — AP think it is clear the balance of power is shift- hope of qualifying for their first World Cup ing away from Europe, albeit slowly, and it’s before they host in 2022, and showing a scep- no coincidence that money is a big part of tical footballing world they deserve to host that-neither Chinese nor Qatari football lacks the tournament. China could pay a price off Belgium rampant, Portugal serious financial backing,” Wilson told AFP. the pitch, says Chadwick, where continued But with ambition comes pressure, and football failure could unleash the “potential neither nation is responding too well at the for political and socio-cultural fallout at moment. China have one point from their home”. — AFP survive scare in qualifiers

Standings PARIS: Belgium hammered Estonia 8-1 to go Switzerland. Ronaldo converted a first-half spot misfiring Dutch in the hunt for a place at Russia clear in Group H, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored kick to open the scores but then missed a sec- 2018, but they will need to play better if they are twice as Portugal survived a scare before over- ond one which hit the post. to trump the twin threats of table-toppers Group B Thailand 3 0 0 3 1 6 0 coming Latvia 4-1 in World Cup qualifying on Within a minute Latvia were level as substi- France and Sweden in Group A. Australia 3 2 1 0 5 2 7 Sunday. tute Arturs Zjuzins pounced on the loose ball Arjen Robben had a chance after a quarter of Saudi Arabia 3 2 1 0 5 3 7 Note: Top two in each group qualify for the finals There were braces from Romelu Lukaku and following a goalmouth scramble to fire home on an hour for the Dutch, but should have done Japan 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 in Russia. Two third-placed teams play-off with Dries Mertens as Belgium ran rampant with fur- 67 minutes. better than firing at Ralph Schon in the UAE 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 winner to face CONCACAF play-off winner over ther goals from Thomas Meunier, Eden Hazard, But headers from Willian and Bruno Alves and Luxembourg goal, as the Dutch tightened the Iraq 3 0 0 3 2 6 0 two legs for place in finals. — AFP Yannick Carrasco and an own goal to make it a spectacular scissor-kick from Ronaldo assured screw. The home stopper was finally beaten on four wins from four. Portugal of the three points. 36 minutes when Robben moved the ball onto In the same group Greece scored a 95th- Earlier in Group B, the Faroe Islands were sim- his favourite left foot to slot home for a deserved minute equaliser through Giorgos Tzavellas after ilarly plucky in soggy Lucerne, where Dutch lead. US women close year with a free-kick had given Bosnia the lead as the ball Switzerland scored seven minutes from the end But a minute before the break the minnows rebounded back off the post and in off goal- through Stephan Lichtsteiner to grind out a 2-0 grabbed a leveller after Joshua Brenet felled keeper Orestis Karnezis. The point for Greece victory and maintain their 100 percent record. Daniel da Mota in the box and Maxime Chanot a 5-0 win over Romania means they have 10 from four games in Group In the same group Hungary hammered punished the visitors from the penalty spot. H, two behind the Belgians. Andorra 4-0 at home. Robben, whose brilliant career has been CARSON: It was an eventful year for the US Gibraltar made a piece of history and were blighted by injury, failed to make it out for the women’s national team off the field, with level for a while in Cyprus before going down DEPAY SPARES DUTCH BLUSHES second half. Wesley Sneijder was also hooked at Hope Solo’s suspension after the Rio Matches on TV agonisingly 3-1. But they had cause to celebrate Out-of-favour Manchester United winger the break. Olympics, lawsuits over the expiring collec- a significant consolation with Lee Casciaro’s Memphis Depay came off the bench to score It was Depay, one of the replacements, who tive bargaining agreement and Megan (Local Timings) 51st-minute equaliser-their first ever World Cup twice and save the Netherlands’ blushes in struck soon afterwards to break home hearts. Rapinoe’s protest during the national qualifier away goal. Luxembourg. And the 22-year-old, strongly linked with a anthem dominating the headlines. World Cup 2018 - Asia Ronaldo scored twice and even missed a Depay gave United manager Jose Mourinho a move away from Old Trafford to Everton, sealed But in their final match of the year, the Cup 2019 Qualifying spot-kick as European champions Portugal reminder of his worth just as the Dutch were the match with his second goal in the final min- Americans offered a summary of how recovered from a second-half wobble in Lisbon sliding to an embarrassing draw. utes. Also in Group A Bulgaria edged Belarus 1-0 things played out on the field in equal Japan v Saudi Arabia 13:35 beIN SPORTS 1 HD to remain three points adrift of Group B leaders The 3-1 victory over Luxembourg keeps the in Sofia. —AFP parts fulfillment and disappointment, with South Korea v Uzbekistan 14:00 Crystal Dunn, Christen Press, Morgan Brian beIN SPORTS 4 HD and Samantha Mewis scoring to help the China v Qatar 14:35 US beat Romania 5-0 on Sunday night. The beIN SPORTS 2 HD US blistered Romania with 31 shots and did Syria v Iran 15:00 not allow a shot, but U.S. coach Jill Ellis was beIN SPORTS 3 HD not happy with the team’s wastefulness. Thailand v Australia 15:00 “I think we left a lot to be said,” Ellis said. beIN SPORTS 5 HD The same could be said of a year in which UAE v Iraq 18:20 beIN SPORTS 1 HD the Americans went 22-0-3 in regulation play, scoring 92 goals and conceding 10, WC2010 S. American but failed to defend their Olympic gold medal after losing to Sweden on penalty Qualifying kicks in the quarterfinals. Still, the U.S. end- Bolivia v Paraguay 23:00 ed on a largely positive note. beIN SPORTS 4 HD Ecuador v Venezuela 0:00 “I think we all reacted well to it and 2017 beIN SPORTS 3 HD is going to be an intense year,” Dunn said. Chile v Uruguay 2:30 An own goal in the 20th minute opened beIN SPORTS 4 HD the scoring for the US when Dunn’s cross Argentina v Colombia 2:30 was chested into the net by Teodora beIN SPORTS 1 HD Meluta. Dunn scored her 14th goal this year Peru v Brazil 5:15 in the first minute of first-half stoppage beIN SPORTS 1 HD time, sprinting past two defenders to take a pass from Press and put a shot between Roxana Oprea’s legs. for the second consecutive match. Press made it 3-0 in the 55th minute, Ellis is planning to hold camps for the connecting with Tobin Heath on a give- national team and the Under-23s in and-go and scoring for the fourth consecu- January, operating on the assumption that tive game. Press had a hat trick Thursday they will be conducted under the current night in San Jose in the Americans’ 8-1 vic- contractual structure. But Ellis did not know tory over Romania. the status of negotiations between players Brian scored on a penalty kick in the and US Soccer. 88th minute and Samantha Mewis added a “I don’t get involved in that,” Ellis said. goal in the first minute of additional time. “That’s between them and lawyers and all Rapinoe wasn’t included on the US roster that good stuff.” — AP

Zain football team. Zain successfully concludes employees football tournament

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommuni- attention from employees given football’s ferent talents and interests of its employ- cations company in Kuwait, successfully status as the most popular sport in ees. The company continues to look for concluded its annual Employees Football Kuwait. ways to positively impact the communi- Tournament at Mishref United football Zain’s football tournament was held ties in which it operates, and to remain an pitches. The tournament, which is con- throughout three days at Mishref United inspiration to its staff. ducted annually for the company’s pitches, and witnessed the attendance of Zain is keen to ensure employees take employees, took place throughout three former Kuwait National Team Star and part in all of the company’s social activi- days with active participation. member of the National Football Union ties and programs, whether they be cul- The tournament is considered a main Saad Al Houti and Zain Kuwait’s tural, sporting, or entertainment events. pillar of Zain’s internal strategy towards Corporate Communications and Relations The organization of this championship is the health of its employees. The Company Director Waleed Al Khashti, who awarded part of Zain’s belief in supporting the remains committed to the wellbeing of its the first and second place winners. physical wellbeing and health-orientation employees, and this is highlighted by the The tournament was organized as part of its employees, as well as the company’s CARSON: Alex Morgan #13 of United States attacks against Maria Ficzay #6 of organization of this annual sporting of Zain’s Corporate Social Responsibility commitment to the development of the Romania during the second half of their international friendly soccer match at event, which attracts a great deal of strategy, which looks to cater to the dif- sports sector in Kuwait. StubHub Center on Sunday in Carson, California. — AFP Perez wins by two S Lanka thrash shots in Mexico Zimbabwe by eight 16 wickets17 in ODI

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FOXBOROUGH: New England Patriots defensive backs Duron Harmon (30) and Devin McCourty (32) tackle Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse (15) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, in Foxborough, Mass. — AP Seahawks, Broncos, Cowboys get defining wins

NEW ORLEANS: Coaches and well-trained players will stage. Dez Bryant added six catches for 116 yards, uprights, lifting the Chiefs (7-2) to their fifth straight vic- Houston Oilers. Brian Orakpo had two of Tennessee’s tell you that every win is worth the same. They’re including a 50-yard touchdown reception. Ben tory and 17th win in their last 19 games. Eric Berry also five sacks, and the Titans also forced three turnovers. wrong. No better examples can be found than the way Roethlisberger threw for 408 yards and three touch- returned an interception 42 yards for a touchdown as The Packers (4-5) started a three-game road swing by Seattle, Dallas and Denver won on Sunday. Those victo- downs. Antonio Brown caught 14 passes for 154 yards, Kansas City’s defense came up with big plays when losing their third straight. ries are the kind that can define a season, catapult you including a 15-yard score with 42 seconds left after needed. The Chiefs failed to score an offensive touch- to special things. This time, Seattle won it at the goal Roethlisberger faked a spike to surprise the Dallas down. Newton threw for 261 yards and a touchdown TEXANS 24, JAGUARS 13 line. It certainly won’t make up for the Super Bowl loss defense. The heady play - a throwback to Hall of Famer and ran for 54 yards and a score for the Panthers (3-6). Brock Osweiler threw two touchdown passes and two seasons back, but the Seahawks’ goal line stand lift- Dan Marino’s move while leading Miami to a victory Kareem Jackson returned an interception 42 yards for a ed them to a 31-24 victory over the New England over the New York Jets in 1994 - gave the Steelers (4-5) a EAGLES 24, FALCONS 15 score. The Texans (6-3) scored on offense and defense Patriots on Sunday night. Tom Brady couldn’t connect one-point lead. It also gave Prescott and Elliott too Ryan Mathews ran for 108 yards and two touch- and set up another score with special teams, a complete with Rob Gronkowski on a fade pattern on fourth down much time. downs, while a tenacious defense held down the team effort that led to their first road win of the season. as New England (7-2) failed four times from inside the 2 league’s highest-scoring offense. Carson Wentz threw It kept them perfect (3-0) against the AFC South. They in the dying moments. It was reminiscent of how the DOLPHINS 31, CHARGERS 24 for 231 yards and led the Eagles (5-4) to a comeback vic- won their fifth in a row against Jacksonville. The Jaguars Seahawks (6-2-1) lost the 2015 Super Bowl when Kiko Alonso intercepted Philip Rivers’ pass and tory for the first time this season. Caleb Sturgis made (2-7) lost their fourth straight and fell to 0-4 at home. Malcolm Butler intercepted at the goal line to win the returned it 60 yards for a touchdown with 1:01 left to three field goals, including a clutch kick from 48 yards Coach Gus Bradley’s team rallied late, with Blake Bortles NFL title for the Patriots. Doug Baldwin caught three give Miami a fourth straight win. The Dolphins (5-4) to seal the win. Matt Ryan threw a 76-yard touchdown hitting Allen Robinson for a touchdown and again for a touchdown passes, including a 15-yarder for the final intercepted Rivers four times, all in the fourth quarter. pass to Taylor Gabriel in the fourth quarter to give 2-point conversion. The loss dropped Bradley’s record to margin. Strangely, Seattle went for 2 points and failed Alonso jumped in front of Tyrell Williams and outraced Atlanta (6-4) a 15-13 lead, but Philadelphia answered. 14-43 in four seasons and prompted even the most loy- on the conversion, leaving the Patriots a chance to tie everybody into the end zone for the winning score. Two Mathews ran in from the 5 and also converted the 2- al supporters to question why owner Shad Khan hasn’t with a touchdown and an extra point kick. But plays into the ensuing drive, Rivers was intercepted point conversion for a 21-15 lead. On Atlanta’s ensuing made a change. LeGarrette Blount, who earlier rushed for three touch- again, by Tony Lippett, his second of the game. Rivers possession, Julio Jones dropped a pass on third-and-12 downs, couldn’t get into the end zone from close range, threw three touchdown passes to move past John and the Falcons punted. Jones couldn’t make a difficult BUCCANEERS 36, BEARS 10 nor could Brady on a pair of sneaks. Elway for eighth place on the career list with 301. Rivers’ catch on fourth-and-5 on Atlanta’s next drive. Jameis Winston threw for 312 yards and two touch- 51-yard touchdown pass to Williams with 4:04 left gave downs against mistake prone Chicago. Winston threw BRONCOS 25, SAINTS 23 the Chargers (4-6) a 24-21 lead. Miami came right back REDSKINS 26, VIKINGS 20 for TDs of 10 yards to Cameron Brate and 43 yards to Denver’s Justin Simmons used a perfectly timed leap to get a 27-yard field goal from Andrew Franks to tie it. Kirk Cousins threw for two touchdowns, Preston Freddie Martino, the latter set up by a bizarre highlight- over the offensive line to block an extra-point kick that That was set up by Ryan Tannehill’s 56-yard pass to Smith had two sacks and a game-altering interception reel play. The No. 1 pick in last year’s draft scrambled 23 would have given New Orleans a late lead, Will Parks ran DeVante Parker and a roughing-the-passer call that put in Washington’s first victory in almost a month. yards backward into his end zone before avoiding a it back 84 yards for a defensive 2-point conversion, and the ball on the San Diego 10. Washington (5-3-1) got all of its second-half points off safety and launching a 39-yard completion to Mike the Broncos pulled out a wild victory. The decisive play the foot of Dustin Hopkins, who hit four field goals, Evans at the Chicago 38. Martino, a former practice came while the Superdome crowd was still celebrating CARDINALS 23, 49ERS 20 including a 50-yarder. The Redskins shut out Minnesota squad player with two career receptions, scored his first Brandin Cooks’ twisting, 32-yard touchdown catch Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 34-yard field goal as (5-4) in the second half, and Smith sacked Sam Bradford NFL touchdown after a delay-of-game penalty pushed between two defenders. That put New Orleans (4-5) in time expired. Catanzaro missed twice on winning field in the final seconds to hand the Vikings their fourth the Bucs (4-5) back to the 43. Two weeks after returning position to take the lead with 1:28 left. Simmons’ block goal tries earlier in the season, most memorably a 24- consecutive loss. Cousins was 22 of 33 for 262 yards from injury and helping the Bears (2-7) beat NFC North of Wil Lutz’s kick was scooped up by Parks, who nearly yarder in overtime of a 6-6 tie against Seattle. But this with touchdown passes to Vernon Davis and Jamison leader Minnesota, Jay Cutler threw two interceptions stepped out of bounds as he raced down the left side- attempt was right down the middle as Arizona (4-4-1) Crowder. Robert Kelley ran for 97 yards, helping and fumbled twice, one resulting in a third-quarter safe- line. It was the first such play to provide the winning narrowly averted a devastating loss. The 49ers (1-8) lost Washington bounce back from a rough 6-minute ty that put the Bucs up 29-10. The Bucs forced four points in an NFL game. The rule was instituted last year. their eighth in a row despite a strong game by Colin stretch. Bradford was 31 of 39 for 307 yards, two touch- turnovers overall and sacked Cutler four times. The Broncos then recovered an onside kick and ran out Kaepernick, who tied it 20-20 on a 4-yard run with 1:55 downs and the interception that Smith tipped and the clock. Safety Darian Stewart intercepted Drew Brees to play. That was enough time for Carson Palmer to gain caught with 5:44 left. Stefon Diggs had 13 catches for RAMS 9, JETS 6 twice and recovered a fumble for the Broncos (7-3), redemption after three second-half turnovers, the last 164 yards. Alec Ogletree intercepted Bryce Petty with just under while Trevor Siemian overcame two interceptions by an interception by Gerald Hodges that led to the tying two minutes left to clinch this snoozer. Petty made his passing for touchdowns to Jordan Taylor and touchdown. Palmer completed 4 of 7 passes for 64 TITANS 47, PACKERS 25 first NFL start in place of an injured Ryan Fitzpatrick, but Demaryius Thomas. yards, including a leaping 26-yard grab by Michael Marcus Mariota threw for 295 yards and four touch- couldn’t get much going against the Rams’ defense. Floyd, as the Cardinals drove from their 15 to the San downs in the rout. Five Titans scored a touchdown in After getting the ball with 2:55 remaining and down by COWBOYS 35, STEELERS 30 Francisco 16 to set up the winning kick. the first half as Tennessee put together its best scoring three, Petty tried to lead the Jets (3-7) downfield. But Ezekiel Elliott ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns performance this season with 35 points. With the win, Petty’s pass to Quincy Enunwa was picked off by - both in the final two minutes - and had an 83-yard CHIEFS 20, PANTHERS 17 the Titans (5-5) also matched their five victories over the Ogletree and Enunwa tried to wrestle it away from the catch-and-run for a score as the Cowboys pulled off a Marcus Peters stripped Kelvin Benjamin with 20 sec- past two seasons combined. DeMarco Murray set the linebacker to no avail. Greg Zuerlein kicked three field thrilling victory for their eighth straight win. Dak onds left, Cairo Santos kicked a 37-yard field goal as tone on the opening play from scrimmage, running 75 goals, including a go-ahead 34-yarder with 6:52 left, Prescott overcame an early fumble to pass for 319 yards time expired, and the Chiefs overcame a 17-point yards for a touchdown. He finished with 123 yards and helping the Rams (4-5) snap a four-game losing streak and two scores for Dallas (8-1), which matched the deficit. The game was tied when Benjamin caught a also threw a TD pass, becoming the first non-quarter- and avoid their first five-game skid since Weeks 9-13 last longest single-season win streak in club history behind pass from Cam Newton, and Peters ripped the ball from back to do that for this franchise in the same game season. The game featured 15 punts - eight by the Jets the two rookies who hardly seem bothered by the his arms. Santos’ fourth field goal of the day split the since Earl Campbell on Sept. 7, 1980, for the then- and seven by the Rams. — AP IMF’s Egypt loan shows risks of its Mideast role

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NEW YORK: The ABInBev logo appears above the post where it trades on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets mostly climbed yesterday and the dollar surged to multi-month highs with traders shrugging off concerns over the Trump presidency.—AP Saudi is wrestling down money rates: CB Delayed payments should push down rates, no longer term repos

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s central bank is suc- one-day repos. Ayman Al-Sayari, deputy last week showed it had set aside 100 bil- ceeding in wrestling down market interest governor for investment at the central lion riyals ($26.7 billion) for that purpose. rates and expects to see further declines as bank, told the news conference that a num- “The payment of delayed payments will Gulf banks could lose it fights a liquidity squeeze caused by low ber of banks had used the new instruments have a positive impact on liquidity in the oil prices, top officials said yesterday. to obtain liquidity, though he declined to banking sector. It depends on the size, but access to dollar Shrunken flows of petrodollars through the say how much. The central bank has no we expect it to have a good impact on the banking system have sent interbank mon- plan to introduce repos longer than 90 banks, especially on SAIBOR,” Kholifey said. clearing: UAE CB chief ey rates soaring to seven-year highs this days, he added, noting that money rates Slowing deposit growth due to low oil year, making it more expensive for compa- were approaching the central bank’s repo prices has brought the loan-to-deposit ABU DHABI: Commercial banks in the Gulf nies to raise money and contributing to a rate, which it uses to supply funds. The rate ratio of Saudi banks near the regulatory could lose their ability to have dollar trades sharp slowdown in the economy. is 2.00 percent. ceiling of 90 percent, but Sayari said there cleared through the US banking system, But central bank Governor Ahmed Al- Pressure on liquidity has also been was no plan to change the ceiling, especial- increasing risks for them, the United Arab Kholifey said a modest pull-back of rates in eased by the finance ministry’s decision not ly since new funds were expected to enter Emirates’ central bank governor warned yester- the past three weeks, with the three-month to make a monthly issue of domestic bonds banks. He reiterated the central bank’s day. Mubarak Rashid Al-Mansouri told a finan- Saudi interbank offered rate falling to 2.189 in October. Sayari said the ministry would commitment to keeping the riyal pegged cial conference that US and European banks percent from 2.386 percent, showed decide on its plan for the rest of 2016 and at 3.75 to the dollar. Some economists have were continuing to scale back their relation- authorities had the situation under control. communicate that to the market. Two other speculated that to reduce outflows of cur- ships with Gulf banks because foreign regula- The rate was below 0.80 percent in August factors could bring rates down further. Last rency from Saudi Arabia, authorities could 2015. “Now we’re more secure, and we’re month, the government raised $17.5 billion impose fees on remittances abroad by the tors were requiring them to do more due dili- reassured that SAIBOR will continue to fall, in its first international bond issue; Sayari some 10 million foreign workers in the gence on customers, raising costs for the for- although we do not expect it to hit 1 per- said the proceeds had not yet been kingdom. Kholifey said no such a step was RIYADH: Governor of Saudi Arabian eign institutions. cent,” Kholifey told his first news conference deposited in local banks. Bankers believe intended, however, because although the Monetary Agency, Ahmed Al-Kholifey, “One large US bank had derisking issues in since he was appointed in May. that if they are, that could provide a big remittances were huge, the number of for- holds a press conference in Riyadh yes- the region in order to comply with tighter risk Authorities are using several tools to boost to liquidity. eign workers was also large. terday.—AFP controls. As the US dollar remains the dominant bring down rates. In September and Also, the government has said it will aim Asked whether the central bank international currency, other US banks are fol- October, the central bank launched seven-, by the end of 2016 to pay billions of dollars might put some of its foreign assets into that exchange rate stability would be its lowing suit,” Mansouri said. “This could leave 28- and 90-day repurchase agreements of unpaid debts that it owes construction the Chinese yuan because of growing priority. Most of its $546.7 billion of net banks in the region without any US correspon- that it could use to supply banks with companies and other private-sector credi- trade and investment ties with China, foreign assets are believed to be in US dent banking relationships, forcing them to funds; previously it had typically only used tors. An official document seen by Reuters Sayari declined to say, merely noting dollars. —Reuters clear their US dollar trade through central banks.” Such an arrangement would increase risks because it would add one more party to the payment process, and it would put an “unrea- Modi promises to ease cash crunch sonable burden” on the Gulf’s central banks, Mansouri said. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi loot money that belongs to India’s poor.” accept the new notes, adding to the general as medical assistance. They can be exchanged Senior monetary officials in the Gulf have yesterday urged Indians to give him more frustration. for new ones or deposited in a bank account been publicly complaining for a year about the time to resolve a cash crunch that followed ‘Financial chaos’ Yesterday, Shaktikanta Das, India’s secretary until December 30, but long queues and a lack reluctance of international, particularly US, the withdrawal of high-value banknotes from But opposition parties lashed out at for economic affairs, said the government of cash has hampered that process. Modi circulation, as rival politicians lashed out at Modi’s currency recall with several political would increase a weekly withdrawal limit of pledged to crack down on so-called black banks to deal with some of their Arab counter- his handling of the crisis. parties teaming up to corner the government 20,000 to 24,000 rupees. It will also allow a net- money-vast piles of wealth kept hidden from parts, and Mansouri’s remarks suggested the sit- His comments came as the government in the parliament’s winter session, which work of so-called banking correspondents, the tax authorities-when he came to power in uation remained serious. said it was increasing a weekly cash with- begins on Wednesday. “Modi is saying give who travel to rural areas to provide people with 2014. Analysts have broadly welcomed the lat- A study by the Arab Monetary Fund, pub- drawal limit and taking steps to help people me 50 days to deal with the crises. But who access to banking services, to carry more cash. est initiative, but said consumer spending lished in September, found foreign banks were in remote areas access money as frustration created the crises?” Randeep Surjewala, main The government has said the old notes can would likely dip in the short term as the new shying away for various reasons including con- mounted. There have been huge queues out- opposition Congress party spokesman said. temporarily be used for essential services such notes made their way into circulation.— AFP cern about violating economic sanctions, the side banks and ATMs ever since they Opposition leaders have accused the govern- risk of unwittingly being implicated in money reopened last Thursday, two days after Modi ment of throwing millions of common people laundering and financing of terrorism, and a announced that 500 ($7.50) and 1,000 rupee in financial distress as the government failed broadly shrinking appetite for risk. Mansouri notes would no longer be legal tender in a to put adequate measures in place. “(The) said the Gulf was already complying well with bid to tackle corruption and tax evasion. rich are sleeping in peace and only poor peo- rules against money laundering and terrorist Indians rely heavily on cash for their daily ple are on roads to exchange their notes,” financing, and that UAE authorities were in transactions and those living in rural areas or Kumari Mayawati, former chief minister of touch with US authorities and banks to con- who do not have bank accounts have been Uttar Pradesh state said. She termed the deci- particularly hard hit. Modi said he had been sion anti-poor and anti-farmer, saying it has vince them of this. He said the central bank was “pained” by the hardships people were facing, hit the common man “very hard”. also working with the UAE association of banks but insisted the move would ultimately bene- Two leading bank unions also criticized the to assess the level of compliance further, partic- fit poor Indians in the long run. “I am aware note ban saying it has led to “financial chaos” ularly for smaller banks. Meanwhile, the central you are facing difficulties... I understand the and the decision was taken “without proper bank is scrutinizing money exchange houses inconvenience,” he said at a political rally in planning or preparation”. Banks remained open and may take some houses’ licenses away if Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, over the weekend to try to ease the crunch, but they don’t comply with rules, Mansouri added. which goes to the polls next year. “I am really were closed yesterday due to a public holiday The UAE central bank revoked the licenses of pained by the inconvenience and that is why I with many ATMs across the country running two money exchange companies in 2013 and am working tirelessly to help people over- out of cash. The government has said it will SILIGURI: Indian customers queue outside a ATM to withdraw money in Siliguri yes- another one this year. —Reuters come this situation. “I will never let anyone take time for the machines to be recalibrated to terday.— AFP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 BUSINESS IMF’s Egypt loan shows risks of its Mideast role

CAIRO: A $12 billion loan by the detailed advice on a large scale to rich EGYPT slow the drive to cut its budget deficit. rated and investment dried up International Monetary Fund to Egypt oil exporters in the Gulf such as the The shift towards the IMF is partly “I think we’ve learned,” Masood overnight. “The Arab Spring had a highlights the extent of the multilat- United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, on due to huge economic pressure: the Ahmed, who ran the IMF’s Middle East humbling effect on the staff of the eral lender’s re-engagement with the issues including the introduction of turmoil of the Arab Spring slashed department from 2008 until last Fund.” Middle East and the risks of a back- value-added tax to boost non-oil rev- investment in poorer countries while month, said of its role in the Middle So far, the IMF appears to have suc- lash against governments carrying enues. That is good news for investors, the plunge of oil prices from mid-2014 East. In the past, the IMF sometimes ceeded in avoiding the public outrage out painful reforms return for the aid. who are reluctant to put money into squeezed the Gulf’s energy exporters. focused solely on macroeconomic that marked many of its past forays From the late 1980s through the Arab the region without the IMF’s seal of In the past, poorer countries preferred numbers such as deficits and growth into the region. Ordinary Egyptians Spring uprisings in 2011, the IMF was approval. But it exposes the IMF and loans, aid and migrant workers’ remit- rates; it now looks more at other are complaining about the fuel price vilified in the region as an agent of its partner governments to public tances from the Gulf, which attached issues which can affect the macro pic- hikes but few are blaming the Fund, Western big business pressuring anger if they fail to solve deep-rooted political conditions to its aid, to mon- ture, such as poverty, he said. and many say they understand the countries into austerity policies that economic problems. ey from the IMF, which demanded After the Arab Spring, Ahmed need for austerity. Coming years may impoverished their populations while Mohsin Khan, who headed the tough economic reforms. By hurting mounted a public relations cam- test that success, however. The three- benefiting foreign bankers. IMF’s Middle East department from the Gulf’s finances, cheap oil has made paign to improve the IMF’s image in year Egyptian loan may just be the After IMF-inspired spending cuts 2004 to 2008, said its re-engagement that model unsustainable. the region, launching an Arabic-lan- start of a long-term financial burden; triggered riots in Algeria, Jordan and with the region was tricky because But the IMF itself has also changed. guage blog to explain its policies many economists think it will have to Sudan, many governments shunned while the Fund knew how to fix state It is less insistent on dogma such as and meeting frequently with politi- be renewed. Syria and Yemen will cooperation with the Fund. At least finances and external deficits, it was - freeing currency rates, and more cians and journalists. Reham El need aid when conflicts there eventu- one Egyptian minister privately com- like economists in general - less focused on reducing poverty and Desoki, senior economist at regional ally end. pared it to British imperialists who expert at reducing inequality and inequality, said Bessma Momani, sen- investment bank Arqaam Capital, Meanwhile, the IMF will be caught seized the Suez canal. The loan to creating millions of jobs. ior fellow at Canada’s Centre for said that partly as a result of such in the middle as governments in Egypt, approved on Friday, shows how “Governments are undertaking dif- International Governance Innovation, efforts, the IMF’s ties with Egypt had both oil importers and exporters cut much has changed. The IMF, touting a ficult economic reforms. If after a few who is writing a book about the Fund. changed since the 1990s. back welfare benefits. Fuel prices are new, softer image, is now a key part of years they haven’t succeeded in For example, last week Cairo float- “The relationship has developed. expected to rise further and new tax- efforts to shore up many Middle East improving living standards, people ed its currency and hiked fuel prices - It’s more of a partnership than a car- es to be imposed in many countries. economies; as well as Egypt, it is pro- will point fingers,” said Khan, now sen- classic IMF policies. But to limit the rot and stick relationship,” she said. “This means the IMF can’t avoid viding billions of dollars of support to ior fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for pain for poorer citizens, it plans - with Khan said the IMF had changed political engagement in countries, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, and The Middle East at the Atlantic Council IMF acquiescence - to boost spending because it was shocked by the fragili- exposing it to a backlash if economic advising Algeria on reforms. in Washington. on a consumer subsidy scheme and ty of economies during the Arab transitions prove painful,” said For the first time, it is also giving keep the price of bread flat, which will Spring, as rapid growth rates evapo- Momani. —Reuters

Dubai duo Arabtec News and Drake & in brief

Scull cut losses Yields mixed at Egypt’s T-bond auction DUBAI: Two of Dubai’s largest construction contractors, Arabtec Holding and Drake & Scull (DSI), reported narrow- CAIRO: Yields were mixed on Egypt’s three- and seven- ing third-quarter net losses yesterday after cutting costs year treasury bonds at an auction yesterday, with yields on amid a regional slowdown in infrastructure projects. the shorter term bonds increasing while the yields on the Construction companies have been struggling with a diffi- longer term debt fell, data from the central bank showed. cult industry environment as Gulf economies slow and The average yield on the three-year bond increased to governments restrain spending because of low oil prices, 18.573 percent from 18.258 percent at the last auction on leading to projects being halted and payments being Oct 31, while the average yield on the seven-year bond fell delayed. to 18.373 percent from 18.732 percent in the last auction. In a sign of continuing pressures, Drake & Scull said it appointed a financial adviser in the third quarter to assist in a number of business transformation and strategic ini- Egypt’s first gold mining tiatives. The unidentified adviser would help DSI to tender set for early Dec address “challenges the group is facing in its key markets”, Chief Financial Officer Kailash Sadangi said in a bourse CAIRO: Egypt will hold its first international ten- statement. der for gold mining concessions since 2009 in ear- Recently appointed Chief Executive Wael Allan said the ly December, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla company has begun a financial review of the business and said at an economic conference yesterday. that it could “necessitate difficult executive decisions”. Geologists say that Egypt has mineral-rich territo- These could include a withdrawal from non-core markets, ry that could be ripe for mining, but investors retrenching on civil works in Saudi Arabia and a more con- have said that commercial terms offered in previ- servative stance on recovering certain receivables. DSI has ous tenders were unattractive and have kept the made significant provisions in recent quarters for non-pay- sector underdeveloped. Last year the government ment of dues, including a large impairment on its Saudi said it wanted mining to increase its contribution business in the third quarter of last year. to GDP to more than 5 percent from the less than This has weighed on its profitability, with the company 1 percent currently. reporting worsening earnings in nine of the preceding ten quarters. By not repeating the large Saudi impairment from TOKYO: People stand in front of an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. Asian a year earlier, as well as doubling its contract revenue to shares were mostly lower yesterday but Japan’s benchmark got a boost from a weaker yen. —AP GGICO restructuring 868.5 million dirhams ($236.5 million) and continuing its $643 million of debt “relentless” cost-cutting program, the company managed to arrest some of the damage in the three months to Sept DUBAI: Gulf General Investment Company (GGICO) is 30. DSI made a 46.3 million dirham net attributable loss in Saudi fund PIF considers in talks with banks to restructure loan facilities worth the quarter, compared with 877.8 million dirhams a year a combined 2.36 billion dirhams ($643 million), the ago and an EFG Hermes forecast for a quarterly net loss of 56.41 million dirhams. —Reuters Dubai-based company said in its financial statement buying stake in ACWA yesterday. It is the second time in recent years that the company, which has investments spanning financial GIB requests proposals Fund invites investment banks for advice services, property, hospitality, manufacturing and for dollar bond issue retailing, has been forced to renegotiate its financial commitments. It completed a 2.8 billion dirham DUBAI: Gulf International Bank (GIB) has asked banks to DUBAI/KHOBAR: Saudi Arabia’s main sov- more than 23 gigawatts of power and pro- would like to increase its total holding to restructuring in 2012. submit proposals to arrange a potential US dollar-denom- ereign wealth fund, Public Investment duce 2.5 million cubic metres of desalinat- anywhere between 25 and 35 percent. inated bond issue, banking sources familiar with the situa- Fund (PIF), is considering buying a stake in ed water a day. The fund has also been behind a number tion told Reuters yesterday. The request for proposals was Riyadh-based ACWA Power, which oper- The fund declined to comment, when of domestic investments in recent months Qatar CB to offer sent a few days ago and no mandate has been awarded ates power and water plants around the contacted by Reuters yesterday. ACWA - ownership of a stalled financial district 3 billion riyals bonds yet, the bankers added. GIB, a Bahrain-based lender, did world, sources familiar with the matter also declined to comment. PIF’s invest- project in Riyadh is to be transferred to not immediately respond to a request for comment. told Reuters. PIF, which already owns a ment strategy aims to help the govern- the fund, and the fund is expected to DUBAI: Qatar’s central bank will offer 3 billion riyals The new bond is likely to be issued early next year, the 13.7 percent stake in ACWA indirectly ment diversify the Saudi economy away make an investment into King Abdullah ($825 million) of government bonds yesterday, bankers and Dubai-based investors said. Unless docu- through a subsidiary, invited investment from oil into power and other sectors. PIF’s Economic City. banks last month to pitch for the role of subsidiary Sanabil Investments, which PIF is seen as a key driver of the king- with allocations due to take place today, an offer mentation for a new deal is ready by now, there is little circular seen by Reuters showed. It will offer 1.5 bil- time to launch a new bond transaction in the Middle advising it on a potential ACWA deal, focuses on making direct equity invest- dom’s Vision 2030 plan to diversify the Eastern debt market before year-end, they noted. GIB has according to four sources, declining to be ments in local companies and projects, economy, with the authorities aiming to lion riyals of three-year bonds at 2.25 percent, 1 bil- a $500 million Eurobond maturing in December 2017. named due to the sensitivity of the matter. acquired a 13.7 percent stake in ACWA in turn it into the world’s largest sovereign lion riyals of five-year bonds at 2.75 percent, 250 That paper, issued in December 2012 at 165 basis points Talks are still at a preliminary stage, and January 2013. wealth fund. Central to the reform plan is million riyals of seven-year bonds at 3.25 percent, over mid-swaps and yielding 2.4 percent at issue date, neither party has appointed an advisor, It is unclear how the new investment greater involvement by the private sector in and 250 million riyals of 10-year bonds at 3.75 per- was yielding 2.355 percent yesterday, according to said two of the sources, who are based in will be made at this stage: whether it the Saudi economy, including in the power the Gulf. Privately held ACWA describes would be structured as a stake increase by sector: it has called on raising the percent- cent. Interest rates are the same as in the last Thomson Reuters Data. Barclays, GIB Capital, JP Morgan, domestic government bond sale in October, when National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Societe Generale and itself as an investor, developer, co-owner Sanabil or whether the PIF will take a age of power plant electricity generation Standard Chartered were joint lead managers for the sale and operator of a portfolio of plants in direct stake, a third source said. through strategic partners to 100 percent the central bank sold 1.5 billion riyals of bonds. of those notes. —Reuters Europe, Asia and Africa that generate One of the Gulf-based sources said PIF from 27 percent currently. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Sterling Pound 385.550 Nepalese Rupees 3.860 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037164 0.039914 Canadian dollar 226.250 Malaysian Ringgit 72.482 Indian Rupee 0.000298 0.004191 Turkish lira 94.170 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 ASIAN COUNTRIES Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.243 Swiss Franc 310.670 Japanese Yen 0.002745 0.002925 Japanese Yen 2.853 Thai Bhat 9.664 Australian Dollar 232.790 Kenyan Shilling 0.002989 0.002989 Indian Rupees 4.580 Turkish Lira 94.850 US Dollar Buying 303.100 Korean Won 0.000249 0.000264 Pakistani Rupees 2.906 Malaysian Ringgit 0.067832 0.073832 Srilankan Rupees 2.064 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002827 0.002997 Nepali Rupees 2.835 20 Gram 249.81 Pakistan Rupee 0.002702 0.002992 Singapore Dollar 217.980 10 Gram 127.83 Philippine Peso 0.006105 0.006405 Hongkong Dollar 39.231 CURRENCY BUY SELL 5 Gram 64.76 Sierra Leone 0.000051 0.000057 Bangladesh Taka 3.865 Europe Singapore Dollar 0.209720 0.219720 Philippine Peso 6.235 British Pound 0.375484 0.385484 South African Rand 0.015156 0.023656 Thai Baht 8.663 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004134 0.016134 Danish Krone 0.040061 0.045061 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001655 0.002235 Euro 0.0322945 0.331945 Taiwan 0.009408 0.009588 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Norwegian Krone 0.031973 0.037173 Thai Baht 0.008290 0.008840 Saudi Riyal 81.201 US Dollar 304.200 Romanian Leu 0.072895 0.072895 Qatari Riyal 83.633 Canadian Dolla 225.044 Slovakia 0.009106 0.019106 Arab ani Riyal 780.800 Sterling Pound 383.455 Swedish Krona 0.029260 0.034260 Bahraini Dinar 0.801254 0.809754 Bahraini Dinar 808.560 Euro 329.642 Swiss Franc 0.300393 0.311393 Egyptian Pound 0.015530 0.024783 UAE Dirham 82.893 Swiss Frank 301.458 Turkish Lira 0.090355 0.100655 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000086 Bahrain Dinar 805.769 Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 83.216 Jordanian Dinar 0.425404 0.434404 Egyptian Pound - Cash 22.900 Australasia Qatari Riyals 84.433 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 19.091 Australian Dollar 0.221285 0.233285 Saudi Riyals 82.003 Lebanese Pound 0.000151 0.000251 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.222 New Zealand Dollar 0.209399 0.218899 Jordanian Dinar 429.495 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019984 0.043984 Tunisian Dinar 135.240 Egyptian Pound 19.620 America Nigerian Naira 0.000364 0.000999 Jordanian Dinar 428.860 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.065 Canadian Dollar 0.219045 0.228045 Omani Riyal 0.784618 0.790298 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.029 Indian Rupees 4.498 Georgina Lari 0.137551 0.137551 Qatar Riyal 0.082841 0.084291 Syrian Lira 2.170 Pakistani Rupees 2.902 US Dollars 0.300450 0.305150 Saudi Riyal 0.080127 0.081427 Morocco Dirham 31.210 Bangladesh Taka 3.875 US Dollars Mint 0.300950 0.305150 Syrian Pound 0.001291 0.001511 Philippines Pesso 6.189 Tunisian Dinar 0.131103 0.139103 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 160.643 Asia Turkish Lira 0.090355 0.100655 US Dollar Transfer 304.300 Japanese Yen 3.826 Bangladesh Taka 0.003389 0.003973 UAE Dirhams 0.081493 0.083193 Euro 333.060 Syrian Pound 2.427 Chinese Yuan 0.043316 0.046816 Yemeni Riyal 0.001377 0.001457 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 BUSINESS

Kuwait credit growth moderates to 7.2% in Sept

NBK ECONOMIC REPORT KUWAIT: Outstanding bank credit recorded a healthy gain weakest it’s been in five years. Private deposits rose in September, following three the last twelve months compared to a gain of only KD in September, but saw growth slow notably to 7.2 percent Lending to nonbank financial companies saw a healthy months of decline during the summer. Deposits rose by 825 million in private deposits during the same period. year-on-year (y/y) due to base effects. Loans rose by a good net gain and maintained positive growth from a year ago. KD 405 million. The gains were concentrated in KD Banking system liquidity improved in September, KD 272 million, driven largely by lending for the purchase Sector debt added KD 42 million during the month, with sight and time deposits. Meanwhile, foreign currency further bolstering its healthy level. Bank reserves (i.e. of securities. Meanwhile, household loans were flat during growth coming in at 2.7 percent y/y. The sector appears to deposits declined, partially offsetting the gains. The cash, deposits with the CBK and CBK bonds) added KD the month and business credit was mixed. Private deposits have largely completed deleveraging that began in the notable rise in KD sight deposits pushed growth in the 210 million to reach KD 5.8 billion or 9.5 percent of saw a solid gain during the month combined with a small- wake of the 2008 financial crisis. narrower M1 money supply higher to 2.3 percent y/y; total bank assets. The increase was predominantly in er increase in government deposits. Domestic interest rates All remaining credit rose by KD 231 million, though meanwhile, broad M2 money supply growth slowed time deposits with the CBK and coincided with a KD held steady throughout the month. growth eased to 7.5 percent y/y on basis effects. A large slightly to 2.6 percent y/y on base effects. 413 million increase in CBK foreign reserves, which Household lending was flat in September, with growth part of the gain came from a KD 219 million increase in Government deposits added KD 46 million on the jumped to KD 8.1 billion. Meanwhile, net domestic slowing to 7.2 percent following months of softening. The lending for the purchase of securities. Other business sec- month with growth steady at 27 percent. Government debt issuance, which taps back liquidity, rose from the absence of growth during the month was the worst result tors were mixed. Some solid gains were visible in the con- deposits have grown notably over the last twelve previous month; outstanding public debt instruments since early 2011, though it did come on the heels of a struction, real estate and trade sectors. This was offset, how- months at a time when private sector deposits have (PDIs) rose by KD 200 million during September to KD strong showing in August. As a result, growth was the ever, by a notable weakness in crude oil & gas and “other”. been under pressure; they added KD 1.4 billion over 2.77 billion. Egypt, Saudi hit by profit-taking

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS

DUBAI: Profit-taking hit stocks in Egypt UAE, QATAR and Saudi Arabia yesterday following Currencies from the Mexican peso to strong rallies in both markets, while gener- the Malaysian ringgit fell yesterday as the al weakness in emerging markets dragged US dollar soared to an 11-month peak. But down the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. in the Gulf, foreign exchange pegs mean Cairo’s blue chip index, which had foreign investors do not have to worry soared 28.1 percent since the Egyptian about currency depreciation against the pound was floated on Nov. 3, fell 2.0 per- US dollar. cent ending 12 consecutive sessions of Nevertheless, Dubai’s main index lost gains. The broader EGX100 index dropped 0.9 as builder Arabtec dropped 2.3 per- 0.8 percent. Exchange data showed non- cent. The company reported a narrower Arab foreign investors remained net buyers quarterly loss of 225.5 million dirhams of stocks to the tune of about $6.7 million, ($61.4 million) compared with a 944.8 mil- a smaller amount than in previous days. lion loss in the same period of last year. Many Egyptian blue chips surged after Index compiler MSCI is due to announce the pound’s float partly because the depre- the results of its semi-annual index review ciation of currency meant companies’ dol- at the end of the day. VTB Capital said in a Chevrolet Alghanim lar-denominated global depositary receipts note that it estimated an 80 percent prob- were suddenly worth much more in local ability that DXB Entertainments would currency. But that effect now appears to replace Arabtec in MSCI’s emerging mar- have largely run its course. The Cairo-listed ket index. Shares in the amusement park promotes kind driving shares of Commercial International Bank , builder closed down 0.7 percent. for example, fell 3.9 percent to 66.60 VTB Capital also expects Dubai Egyptian pounds. At $4.26, its GDRs were Financial Market, the only listed Gulf worth 67.10 pounds at an exchange rate of exchange, to be excluded from the index. Sponsorship activities in 2016 Yellow Parade 15.75 pounds to the dollar. Its shares dropped 1.8 percent. But Air Saudi Arabia’s index slipped 0.5 percent, Arabia climbed 2.4 percent after it report- KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing commitment ending seven consecutive sessions of gains ed a 26 percent rise in third-quarter net to promoting safety and kindness on the road, in the heaviest trading volumes since April. profit to 297 million dirhams, at the upper Yusuf A. Alghanim & Sons Automotive, the Petrochemical shares lost their footing as end of analysts’ forecasts. exclusive distributor of Chevrolet Alghanim, Brent futures fell below $44.50 a barrel, Similarly, Abu Dhabi’s index fell for a has participated in and sponsored for the sec- heading for their lowest settlement since fourth straight session, closing 1.2 percent ond year in a row the Yellow Parade organized August. Heavyweight producer Saudi Basic down. MSCI emerging market index com- by Alnowair, a non-profit initiative founded by Industries fell 0.6 percent. ponent Etisalat lost 2.3 percent. Sheikha Intisar Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah that The banking sector was mixed as Saudi In Qatar, the index slipped 1.3 percent aspires to spread positivity in Kuwait through central bank officials told a news conference in modest volume to a fresh five-month campaigns and activations. Coinciding with that they wanted money rates to fall further, low. Twelve of the 13 shares that are mem- the World Kindness Day, the Yellow Parade and easing a liquidity squeeze in the sector. They bers of the MSCI emerging market index kindness carnival, which hosted over 100 vehi- indicated that more fund inflows into the fell, with Qatar Navigation losing 3.5 per- cles and dozens of motorbikes along with rep- banking system were expected. cent. —Reuters resentatives from many organizations, aim to promote kindness and empathy on the road and in our daily lives through a variety of pub- IDB to announce sukuk lic activities under the social umbrella, #DriveKind. As one of Yellow Parade’s sponsors, Chevrolet roadshow this week Alghanim had a captivating booth that garnered the attention of many visitors through a number DUBAI: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will Middle East - to wait a bit longer to assess the of interactive activities led with positive mes- announce this week plans for investor roadshows impact of Trump’s victory on the regional bond sages. One of the activities that drew a large covering its planned sukuk sale, bankers familiar market, bankers said. number of participants was the “Wheel of with the situation told Reuters. The issue, expected “The deal would have gone out earlier if Kindness,” where a participant would spin the to be in excess of $1 billion, is one of the few Clinton had won,” said one. Some Middle Eastern wheel and perform one of the 12 acts of kind- the company’s varied social initiatives. The com- Chevrolet Care remaining debt sales likely to be completed in the bond transactions for which banks had already ness on the spot, such as thanking five volun- pany promises to continue sponsoring and par- All customers who purchase a Chevrolet from Middle East before the end of this year, as the win- been mandated have been put on hold because of teers for their efforts, meeting someone new, ticipating in events that promote noble and Yusuf A. Alghanim & Sons will receive the bene- dow to prepare new bonds shrinks and as market the market turmoil caused by Trump’s win, and taking a group selfies with friends, and more. social causes in a creative manner, especially fits of the Chevrolet Care Program, which entails volatility puts investors in a defensive mode, new mandates for issues that could have taken Attendees also had the chance to write on the ones like Alnowair’s Yellow Parade and its brand new levels of post-sale support and trust. The bankers and investors said. place after a Clinton victory have been frozen, “Wall of Kindness,” an interactive wall that invit- of positivity, whose core values of pursuing a life Chevrolet Care is an exceptional customer serv- The IDB did not respond to an emailed request bankers said. Potential borrowers have decided to ed them to write down behaviors that they of fulfillment and happiness through empathy ice that is based on four main pillars: competi- to comment. It mandated nine banks for the wait until January to see how markets perform. An appreciate on the road from other drivers; thus, with others coincide with values that Chevrolet tive and transparent service costs (especially for Islamic bond sale in late October, with the aim of interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve Bank in return, relaying their messages to other driv- Alghanim endorses, both internally and publical- four-wheel drive vehicles), scheduled service issuing the sukuk after the US elections on Nov 8. in December seems likely, and the market has ers who stopped by to read them. ly, through its “I Care” pledge. Chevrolet appointment booking with same day delivery, But the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in already priced that in, “so what’s the advantage in Ultimately, the event underscores Chevrolet Alghanim encourages all of its customers to quality service by certified technicians and the US presidential election last week caused the issuing now rather than in January?” said the Alghanim’s commitment to build an engaging #DriveKind and to stay tuned for the feedback 3yr/100,000km warranty with 24x7 roadside IDB - as well as other potential debt issuers in the banker. —Reuters relationship with the youth of Kuwait as part of that was shared on its interactive wall. assistance for 4 years. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 BUSINESS Dollar soars as US yields spike; shares divided

LONDON: The US dollar hit an 11-month peak major infrastructure spending. The reflation fuelled US fiscal binge that will push up infla- bond markets, the worst rout in nearly a will have an accelerating recovery with yesterday as the risk of faster inflation and wider trade also saw futures for the S&P 500 and Dow tion,” TD Securities European Head of Currency year and a half, according to Bank of higher growth,” he said. budget deficits, if president-elect Donald Trump Jones industrial add another 0.2 percent to 0.5 Strategy Ned Rumpeltin said. “People are repric- America Merrill Lynch. The jump in yields should go on a US spending spree, sent percent after the Dow chalked up its best week ing the Fed on the basis of that so it all seems to on safe-haven US debt threatened to suck Asian markets hit Treasury and other benchmark global bond for five years last week. be a relatively straightforward.” The dollar has funds out of emerging markets, while the Japanese stocks soared yesterday as the yields shooting higher. The dollar meanwhile bounded towards 108 been romping ahead since Trump won the US risk of a trade war between the United dollar reached a four-month high against Currencies in many emerging markets - from yen, having hit and then dropped back from the presidential election on Nov 8, triggering a mas- States and China is also causing jitters. the yen, but most other Asian markets the Mexican peso to the Malaysian ringgit - fell eye-catching 100 threshold on the index that sive sell-off in Treasuries. “There are signs that higher bond yields were hit by worries about the impact of to new lows and for share markets it made for a measures it against the world’s other major cur- Yields on the US 10-year Treasury notes and the knock of a stronger US dollar are Donald Trump’s presidency on global mixed start to the week. The pan-European rencies. Trade was brisk with the greenback’s ral- climbed to their highest since January on having a domino impact, taking down the trade. Equities around the world have seen STOXX 600 index had lost much of its early ly taking the pace off a resurgent sterling and Monday at 2.28 percent, while 30-year paper weakest risky assets first, before moving on volatile trading since the tycoon’s shock buoyancy by the time US trading neared but seeing the euro slide to its lowest since the start reached 3 percent. German 30-year yields to the next,” Deutsche’s global co-head of election win, with his pledge of big-spend- was still up 0.2 percent as banks eyed a boost of the year at about $1.0745. topped 1 percent for the first time in more than forex, Alan Ruskin, said. ing measures and tax cuts leading to pre- from higher interest rates and mining company “Clearly the market has settled on a ‘buy dol- six months. Just two days of selling last week “There is only so much financial condi- dictions of a surge in inflation and higher shares rose on the back of Trump’s promises of lar’ theme on the basis there will be a debt- wiped out more than $1 trillion across global tions tightening that risky assets can take borrowing costs. The prospect of better when fiscal stimulus is still a promise that and safer returns in the US has also led to lies some way in the future.” The stampede an exodus from emerging markets and cur- from bonds has seen 30-year yields post rencies, while the Mexican peso is also their biggest weekly increase since January struggling owing to concerns about 2009 and the 50-basis-point move in 10- Trump’s warning he will tear up a key trade year bonds is the equivalent of two stan- deal. Tokyo’s Nikkei ended up 1.7 percent, dard interest rate hikes. Three Federal with exporters rallying on the back of the Reserve officials are due to speak later. weakened yen. The dollar was at 107.61 yen, its highest mark since July.”The SUBMERGING MARKETS Federal Reserve now face the conundrum Africa’s rand were all at the centre of the of rising inflation expectations,” Chris sell-off. Emerging market stocks also Weston, chief market strategist in extended their post-US election slump to Melbourne at IG Ltd, said, according to more than 7 percent. MSCI’s broadest Bloomberg News. index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan “What we saw last week was a genuine ended at its lowest since mid-July as Hong change in the thought process of many Kong and Indonesia led the region’s losses money managers, with some feeling we with drops of 2.7 and 2.2 percent. By con- need to be prepared for inflation, while trast, Japan’s Nikkei jumped 1.7 percent on many others have been truly skeptical of the weakening yen to hit its highest in nine the moves and note that while markets are months. firmly in the ‘hope’ phase there are great It got an added fillip from data showing execution risks.” Japan’s economy grew at an annualized Japanese investors were also lifted by rate of 2.2 percent in the third quarter, news the economy grew more than handily beating forecasts. Elsewhere, the expected in the third quarter as exports New Zealand dollar eased after an earth- offset slack consumer spending. quake on Monday that killed at least two people and prompted a tsunami warning Dollar surges that sent thousands fleeing to higher Wellington gained 0.5 percent as a ground. The currency dipped to $0.7092, deadly earthquake in New Zealand’s south with losses limited by talk that rebuilding island boosted construction firms on work would support an already strong expectations of a rebuilding program. economy and lessen the need for further Shanghai put on 0.5 percent despite data interest rate cuts. showing below-forecast retail sales and Egypt’s pound strengthened, mean- industrial output for October. However, while, after the International Monetary Hong Kong sank 1.4 percent, extending a Fund approved a $12 billion, three-year heavy loss on Friday, while Seoul and loan program the government hopes will Sydney each shed 0.5 percent and help restore investor confidence and stabi- Singapore fell 0.9 percent. Manila dived 1.5 lize the currency and economy. In com- percent and Jakarta was 1.8 percent lower, modities, the rampant US dollar put pres- with dealers concerned Trump’s protec- sure on gold, which lost 0.8 percent to tionist rhetoric could see him throwing up $1,215 an ounce. It has lost 7 percent over tariffs. The prospect of higher US interest the last week. Yet, industrial metals extend- rates battered higher-yielding currencies ed their bull run, with copper adding 1.2 last week and on Monday South Korea’s percent. won was down 0.6 percent, the Philippine In the oil market, Brent crude began peso fell 0.5 percent and the Thai baht lost backsliding, dipping 70 cents to $44.17 a 0.1 percent. “Asian currencies continue (to barrel, while U.S. crude eased 60 cents to come) under almost universal pressure in $42.75. One market rate, measuring the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in expected US inflation over the five-year the US presidential elections as traders bet period that begins five years from today, that an isolationist and protectionist presi- shot up 30 basis points to 2.46 percent last dency could harm the region,” Greg week, the highest since late 2014. It had McKenna, chief market strategist at CFD been as low as 1.84 percent in June. and FX provider AxiTrader, said. The dollar Speaking in Frankfurt, European Central was also at record highs against the Bank Vice President Vitor Constancio Mexican peso. The peso and Mexico’s warned about the uncertainty being stock market have been hurt by fears caused by the sudden swing in markets. Trump will follow through on campaign “We should be cautious in drawing hasty, pledges to renegotiate the North positive conclusions from those market American Free Trade Agreement, as well developments because they may not nec- as pressure the country to pay billions of essarily indicate that the world economy dollars for a giant border wall. — Reuters Oil pinned near 3-month lows as gloom grows LONDON: Oil fell to its lowest in three Friday its output hit a record 33.64 mil- months yesterday, as the prospect of lion barrels per day in October, and fore- another year of oversupply and weak cast an even larger global surplus in 2017 prices overshadowed chances that OPEC than the International Energy Agency on will reach a deal to cut output. Thursday. Yet, Saudi Energy Minister Donald Trump’s surprise victory in last Khalid al-Falih has said it was imperative week’s US presidential election has for OPEC to reach a consensus on activat- boosted stocks and the dollar, but under- ing a deal made in September in Algiers mined much of the commodities com- to cut production. “OPEC know what plex, including oil, which has sagged as needs to be done but too few members expectations that the world’s largest will agree to take the production pain for exporters will agree to reduce output this the price gain, knowing also that the month have waned. price gain incentivizes non-OPEC to pro- Brent crude futures fell 43 cents on duce more, lengthening the rebalancing the day to $44.32 a barrel by 1205 GMT, process,” PVM Oil Associates analyst while NYMEX crude futures shed 56 cents David Hufton said. to trade at $42.85 a barrel. “In the same The dollar index hit an 11-month peak way that a strong OPEC agreement was on Monday, driven by an aggressive sell- needed to continue the rally above $55, a off in bonds that has pushed Treasury lack of agreement will be needed to yields to their highest since January. break below $40 and right now, we’re at Ordinarily, a strong dollar would push oil $45,” Petromatrix strategist Olivier Jakob lower, but the correlation between the said. “So I think on a risk basis, we’re start- two is at its most positive in two months, ing to be a bit more concerned about the suggesting they are more likely to move in upside price risk, than about the down- lockstep with one another than in oppo- side.” OPEC plans to cut or freeze output, site directions. Data from the but analysts doubt the group’s ability to InterContinental Exchange on Monday reach an agreement at its meeting on showed investors delivered the largest Nov 30. The Organization of the weekly cut on record to their bets on a Petroleum Exporting Countries said on sustained rise in the price of oil. — Reuters Gold hits 5-month low on strong dollar

LONDON: Gold edged lower yesterday, al fell 1 percent to $1,212.26 an ounce earli- hovering just above an earlier five-month er in the session, its lowest since June 3. US low, as the dollar and Treasury yields gold futures were down 0.1 percent at strengthened on expectations that $1,222.20 an ounce. The dollar rose to an President-elect Donald Trump will boost US 11-month high against a basket of major spending. “Gold is suffering from an irra- peers, while yields on the US 10-year tional dollar rally on expectations Trump’s Treasury notes climbed to their highest fiscal policies will boost spending and since January at 2.2 percent. A broad sell- therefore inflation, which could lead to off in global commodities and surging bond higher US interest rates,” said ActivTrades yields had seen the metal dipping nearly 3 chief analyst Carlo Alberto de Casa. percent in the previous session. “People “However, uncertainty about the US seem to have unwound their Trump-risk and economic outlook and also about interna- are now talking more about ‘Trumpflation’,” tional risk events such as the Austrian presi- said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at dential election and the Italian constitu- OANDA. “The rate hike in December is an tional referendum next month could have absolute done deal now.” The market is now an impact on wider markets and impact betting on the Federal Reserve raising inter- gold’s trading in the medium term.” est rates more quickly. Higher US interest Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at rates could lift the opportunity cost of hold- $1,223.51 an ounce by 1231 GMT. The met- ing non-interest-bearing gold. — Reuters TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 BUSINESS

KUWAIT: Khalid Al-Shammiri, Abdulla Al-Najran Al-Tuwaijri, and Hossam Zahda. Boubyan’s UTap technology available for customers Service at all Boubyan ATMs and POS machines: For first time in GCC

KUWAIT: Once again, Boubyan Bank Boubyan’s involvement in digital emphasizes its leadership in the digi- banking services will have a positive tal banking market by launching the effect on the bank’s customers who UTap technology across all service will feel the difference with time, levels, whether through ATMs or especially that such services save a lot P.O.S. machines at stores and show- of time and effort.” rooms, for the first time across the Zahda went on to praise the coop- GCC banks. The technology is known eration with Boubyan Bank during the internationally as (Near Field past years, adding: “Such a cooperation Communication “NFC”) where a cus- resulted in a number of remarkable tomer waves his banking card near banking products and services distin- the P.O.S. machine or the ATM, which guished by their high technology. The will identify all the information and bank’s customers always benefitted process the payment/withdrawal greatly from such services, especially transaction within seconds by tap- the new one launched by Boubyan ping the card on the ATM/P.O.S. Bank in cooperation with NCR for the machine and entering the PIN. first time across the GCC region.” Abdulla Al-Najran Al-Tuwaijri, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, stat- The World’s Best Islamic ed: “Currently, all the bank’s cards are Digital Bank equipped with this technology, mak- On the other hand, Al-Tuwaijri ing it easier to use them. It is suffi- you may access your information and dards in addition to maintaining the the new ones from any branch with- use provided by the service as well as dwelt on Boubyan Bank’s receipt of cient to wave the card near the P.O.S. complete your debit transactions confidentiality of information. out any additional fees. Meanwhile, all saving time and effort in addition to the World’s Best Islamic Digital Bank machine or the ATM in order to iden- swiftly. Furthermore, the service main- Al-Shammiri added: “This type of new cards will be equipped with such enjoying the highest security stan- Award for the second year in a row tify the card’s data and information tains the highest security standards, technology is now commonly used in a technology. dards. “K-net is saving no effort in from the Global Finance Magazine in in a secure and encrypted manner and one can imagine the speed and a number of countries around the cooperating with local banks to pro- addition to being named the Best after entering the PIN and then the flexibility this payment method will globe. However, in Boubyan Bank we K-net, NCR & Boubyan Bank - vide the local market with advanced Islamic Digital Bank in Kuwait. The debit or withdrawal transaction is add to our daily life in addition to the take pride that our customer are not Continuous Cooperation services and products which put Global Finance Magazine named the completed. This way is easier com- various ways where we can benefit only the first to benefit from such a Al-Tuwaijri extended his thanks to Kuwaiti banks in the leadership posi- international winning banks where pared with the current method from such a significant development.” technology in Kuwait but also the first the Shared Electronic Banking tion on the GCC level.”, he added. Al- CitiBank received the World’s Best where the card is inserted into the Khalid Al-Shammiri, Boubyan to do so across the GCC region. Our Services Company (K-net) stating that Tuwaijri also thanked NCR, the inter- Corporate/Institutional Digital Bank P.O.S./ATM in order to read the data Bank’s Executive Manager - Direct cards are the only GCC cards to use such a step made by Boubyan Bank in national company, for the services it Award and Standard Chartered through the smart chip.” Banking Channels, said that in addi- such a technology for both ATMs & cooperation with K-net represented a provided to the Kuwaiti market. In this received the World’s Best Consumer Speaking of the most significant tion to the ease of use those new P.O.S. machines.” Boubyan Bank cus- qualitative leap in the state of Kuwait context, Hossam Zahda, General Digital Bank Award while Boubyan advantages of the service, Al-Tuwaijri cards enjoyed, the new cards enjoyed tomers may now replace their existing in terms of using both the ATMs & Manager of NCR’s Kuwait Office, stat- Bank was crowned as the World’s Best added: “It is easier in terms of use and the highest approved security stan- cards, banking or credit cards, with P.O.S. machines due to the speed of ed: “By cooperating with NCR, Islamic Digital Bank. Trump fiscal plan could spur spending in EU too: C Suisse

HONG KONG: Donald Trump’s election will lead to an era of fiscal spending that could lift growth in the United States and spur European governments to follow suit, said John Woods, Asia Pacific Chief Investment Officer at Credit Suisse. Trump, the Republican nominee who last week unex- pectedly defeated Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the US presidential race, has promised to boost growth at home through a combination of heavy infrastructure investment and deep corporate tax cuts. Although it is too early to say what measures the new administration will prioritize, or how they will fund them, Trump’s con- trol of both houses gives him great flexibility. “The initial indications we have had from the incom- ing government coupled with comments made during BEIJING: People walk past a fashion outlet billboard in a shopping mall in the campaign trail have focused investor perceptions Beijing yesterday. China’s retail sales growth slowed to 10.0 percent on-year in on the inflationary consequences of the expected poli- October, government data showed yesterday missing expectations in a worry- cies,” said Woods, speaking at the Reuters Global ing sign for domestic demand in the world’s second-largest economy. —AFP Investment Outlook Summit in Hong Kong. “By that, I mean there seems to be a much higher degree of fiscal activism being discussed than previous administra- China retail sales growth tions,” he said. “It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that we start to see also fiscal activism in the EU.” slowed in October Woods, who expects a rising trend for US interest rates, recommends investing mostly in equities, with a BEIJING: China’s retail sales growth year. “Growth momentum likely got help preference for segments such infrastructure and slowed last month, government data from steady property investment in defense, healthcare, financials and resources explo- showed yesterday, in a worrying sign for October,” said Zhao Yang of Nomura in a ration companies. This is in anticipation of lighter regu- domestic demand in the world’s second- note. But concerns about surging hous- lation for the financial sector, a partial repeal of the largest economy. Retail sales in October ing prices caused authorities to roll out grew 10 percent from a year earlier, cooling measures in major cities last Affordable Care Act championed by outgoing US missing expectations for sales to match month, which will slowly take effect and President Barack Obama and more spending in the con- the previous month’s pace of 10.7 per- lead to a moderate slowdown in growth struction sector. cent, the National Bureau of Statistics next year, he added. PARIS: French Economy and Finance Minister Michel Sapin (R) and Chinese Vice CHINA TRADE (NBS) said. Other data for last month Premier Ma Kai (left) pose prior to a joint press conference following a Franco- Woods said he thought a full-blown trade war showed industrial output growth of 6.1 ‘Fizzle out’ Chinese Economic and Finance meeting at the Economy Ministry, in Paris yester- between the United States and China, its largest trading percent, unchanged from September The factory output figures-which day. — AFP and slightly below forecasts in a showed accelerating growth in output partner, was unlikely, despite the campaign rhetoric Bloomberg News survey of economists. of steel, glass and cement last month- from Trump, who accused Beijing of artificially assisting China is a key driver of the world econo- reflected an increase in investment its exporters and talked of introducing steep tariffs on my but its expansion has slowed signifi- spending, said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Chinese goods. Greek economy grows for cantly from the double-digit years of the Capital Economics. “Although state-sec- “My own sense is that precipitating, or increasing past. Now Beijing is seeking to make a tor investment remains strongest, much trade friction for example between the United States first time in two years difficult transition away from its of the recent recovery has come from a and China is frankly self defeating,” he said. Trump would also have a hard job in making the case that dependence on exports and heavy marked rebound in private investment, ATHENS: The Greek economy posted quar- Athens gaining access to the European industry towards consumption as the which had stagnated earlier this year,” he China is a currency manipulator, given its economy has terly growth for the first time since 2014 in Central Bank’s quantitative easing program key driver of the economy, but the said. But recent policies to rein in credit been slowing in the past two years, triggering massive the three months to September, figures which involves purchases of sovereign process is proving bumpy. growth and the hot property market will capital outflows, Woods said. released yesterday showed. Greece’s gross bonds. “It could be the consumer participa- cause those drivers to “fizzle out” early China’s fast-rising debt and slowing economic domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 Apart from a brief respite in 2014, the tion in growth is declining,” independent next year, he added. growth topped the list of investors’ worries a year ago, percent from the previous quarter, and by Greek economy has been steadily contract- Hong Kong-based analyst Andrew Chinese bank lending almost halved but Woods said that was less of a concern now. “Why 1.5 percent from the third quarter of 2015, ing since 2008 as the country’s creditors as Collier told Bloomberg. “It’s harder for month-on-month in October, official there’s been a sea change in opinion in my view now is statistics bureau Elstat said. well as the European Union and the IMF the government to control retail sales data showed, after a credit surge in because we are seeing some indications of moderation The Greek government expects the Greek imposed harsh austerity measures accompa- than (fixed-asset investment) or indus- August and September sparked official in that deceleration, and indeed there are some people economy to contract by 0.3 percent in the nying successive bailouts. trial production, which is heavily state- alarm about debt risks. that even see some stability,” Woods said. full-year 2016, before returning to growth Falling salaries and pensions combined driven.” Beijing has ramped up fiscal Investors were unfazed by the data, Woods said he expected Beijing to focus on stabilis- next year when it predicts GDP to surge by with tax hikes have had a devastating stimulus and loose credit to keep the buying infrastructure and coal shares as ing growth until the next five-year plenum of the 2.7 percent. impact on demand, particularly consumer economy on target to meet its 6.5-7 per- the benchmark Shanghai index climbed Communist Party in October 2017. After that, On Thursday it said the growth dynamic spending. In May, Greece’s eurozone part- cent growth target for the year. Fixed- yesterday, closing above the symbolic President Xi Jinping, could take some tough measures was now in better shape than at any point ners and the IMF agreed in principle to debt asset investment, a gauge of infrastruc- 3,200-point level for the first time in to rein in debt. ture spending, rose 8.3 percent in the since the financial crisis. “The Greek econo- relief as well as series of short-term meas- almost 10 months. NBS spokesman Mao “The government is entirely motivated to support first 10 months of the year. The NBS fig- Shengyong said the slowdown in con- my has not known a comparable growth ures to be finalized in December. growth and to cushion any downturn because I don’t ures showed an October jump in real- sumption growth was due mainly to a rhythm since the first quarter of 2008,” gov- They have not, however, been able to think there’s a political will at the moment to counte- estate investment, which grew 6.6 per- higher base of comparison last year ernment spokesman Dimitris agree on the pace or the scope of long-term nance a sharper decline in growth,” he said. “They are cent in the first 10 months, compared when automobile sales surged thanks to Tzanakopoulos said. debt restructuring. European Union heavy- going to have to nationalize a large part of their debt, with 2.0 percent in the same period last government tax cuts. — AFP He said Greece was counting on debt weight Germany has pushed back any such and they have the means to do it.” — Reuters relief to support growth, as well as on deal to end-2018. — AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Air Arabia posts strong Q3 net profit of AED 297m

SHARJAH: Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost passengers in the first nine month of 2016, a 14 per- carrier (LCC) in the Middle East and North Africa, cent year-on-year increase. The average seat load today announced its financial results for the third factor - or passengers carried as a percentage of quarter ending September 30, 2016, as the success available seats - for the same period stood at an of the company’s expansion strategy continued to impressive 80 percent. be reflected in strong performance figures. Air Arabia completed 13 years last month, main- Air Arabia’s net profit for the third quarter of taining its continuous record of profitability since its 2016 was AED 297 million, up 26 percent compared first year of operations. The carrier added five new to AED 235 million reported in the corresponding routes to its global network during the first nine period of 2015. For the three months ending months of 2016 from its operating hubs in the UAE, September 30, 2016, the airline posted a turnover of Morocco and Jordan. AED 1.12 billion, in line with the revenue generated Air Arabia also added to its impressive list of in the same period of 2015. Air Arabia served over international accolades in the third quarter of 2016 2.27 million passengers in the third quarter of 2016, when it was ranked third among the top 50 airlines a 14 percent increase compared to 2 million passen- in the world following a report compiled by er high value air travel to its customers and return ue-for-money promise to our customer’s everyday”. gers in the same period of last year. The average Airfinance Journal surveying 137 carriers across the on investments to its shareholders”. Air Arabia’s net profit for the first nine months of seat load factor - or passengers carried as a percent- globe. The carrier was also named “Low Cost Airline He added: “Despite challenging trading condi- 2016 stood at AED 542 million, up 15 percent com- age of available seats - for the same quarter stood at of the Year’ at the Aviation Business Awards and tions driven by excess capacity in the market, politi- pared to AED 472 million reported in the correspon- an impressive 81 percent. took home the ‘Corporate Social Responsibility cal instability in some markets and the effect of low- ding period of 2015. For the nine months ending Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al-Thani, Initiative of the Year” award in recognition for its er oil price in the regional economies, we remain September 30, 2016, the airline posted a turnover of Chairman of Air Arabia said: “The strong third quar- ‘Charity Cloud’ program. Air Arabia’s Group Chief confident about the long-term prospects for the AED 2.96 billion, an increase of 3 percent compared ter and year to date performance is a reflection of Executive Officer Adel Al Ali has also won ‘Airline low cost industry in region and our ability to contin- to AED 2.86 billion in the same period of 2015. The Air Arabia’s commercial and operational strengths CEO of the Year’ award at the 10th CEO Middle East ue with our growth plans while delivering our val- low-cost aviation pioneer served over 6.3 million supported by the company’s commitment to deliv- Awards that took place in September 2016. KFH-Turkey wins Turkey’s sukuk issuer award 2016 TSPB organizes ‘Capital Markets Awards’ event

KUWAIT: Turkish Capital Markets Association (TSPB) has this year nominated Kuwait Finance House-Turkey (KFH-Turkey) for its contribution to the market at its award ceremony where the com- panies adding value to capital markets each year. KFH-Turkey issued Tier-II sukuk of $350 million in February, domestic lease certificate of 300 mil- lion Turkish Liras in May and international sukuk of $500 million in October this year holding its title of AUB named ‘Best Private being the largest sukuk issuer in Turkey. Expressing their pleasure that they have con- tributed to the Turkish economy with the highest- Bank in Bahrain 2016’ amount “sukuk” issues performed by the private sector and that they have been deemed worthy of KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank has been named Private Banking & Wealth Management, that award, Ufuk Uyan, CEO of KFH-Turkey stated “Best Private Bank in Bahrain” at the presti- AUB said: “We are honoured to win this dis- that they were pleased with the demand for the gious Global Private Banking Awards 2016 tinction as Bahrain’s best private bank for sukuk issuance and regional diversity of the ceremony held recently in London. The three years in a row now. The award is a demand. Emphasizing that the sukuk issuance was award is jointly announced by The Banker testimony to our clients’ trust in us as well the indication of international investors’ confidence and PWM (Professional Wealth Management) as to our track record in supporting their in KFH-Turkey, Uyan said, “this reveals their KFH- magazines, the industry’s leading publica- goals to protect, grow and diversify their Turkey and their appetite for taking the medium- tions of the Financial Times Group. wealth and investments, both at home and long term risk of KFH-Turkey and Turkey. In this In recognition of its excellent services in overseas. It is with AUB’s strong cross-bor- respect, we are very pleased that we bring in new the private banking and wealth manage- der reach and expertise, that we are able to resources to our country. It is seen that our ment sector, AUB has received the award meet our clients’ high expectations and issuance will serve as a benchmark for other over- for the third consecutive year amidst the connect them to key markets and opportu- seas issues to take place in Turkey. As a matter of numerous local and international banks nities worldwide”. fact, when all the issues of other banks in 2016 are operating in the Kingdom. The winners “Our on-the-ground teams in key mar- compared, this is the most successful issue in terms were selected by an international panel of kets in the region and the UK are better of the demand level and the cost. Ongoing devel- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan handed the award to Ufuk Uyan. experts based on a set of criteria that positioned to understand the unique needs opment and improvement of investment banking included progress made in accordance of our clients from the region, and to cater and confidence of sukuk investors in the sector and Malaysia and Turkish Lira, and 5,6 billion TL is cur- ice, while developing common interest for all with the business model and growth to their requirements for trusted advice our country as well as the strong equity structure rently circulated in various markets. those concerned with the financial institution. strategies, client relationship management, and effective investment, wealth manage- and quality asset structure of KFH-Turkey have KFH was established in Kuwait in 1977 and is KFH’s vision is to spearhead the global develop- and adaptability of product offering to ment and trust planning solutions, all deliv- become influential in successful closing of this enlisted in the Kuwait Stock Exchange. KFH ment in Islamic financial services, and to meet changing clients’ needs. ered with an attentive and personalized issue”. Group is a global pioneer in the field of Islamic upgrade the bank into the level of becoming Prakash Mohan, Acting Group Head - approach”. KFH-Turkey had issued 20 sukuk issuance of banking services, where it offers a wide array of the most sustainable profitable Islamic bank in around 1 million 400 thousand TL and lease certifi- Islamic products and services, not to mention a the world. cate of 200 million TL with a tenor of 179 days in high standard of innovation and client service. KFH’s values include cementing leadership Al-Tijaria achieves a net profit 2015 to the eligible investors in the country as well KFH manages its operations in the GCC, Asia, through all its businesses, including leadership as in terms of initial public offering which is the and Europe through over 446 branches, includ- in the Islamic banking services worldwide, highest-amount lease certificate issuance made so ing KFH-Turkey, in order to offer services for the through innovation and in client service and of KD 8,383,474 at end of Q3, 2016 far by the private sector in Turkey. So far, KFH- bank’s clients in Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the development of its employees. In addition, Turkey has issued lease certificates of a total of TL Bahrain, Germany, Jordan, and Dubai. KFH’s KFH is committed to all its procedures, and to KUWAIT: Abdulfatah M R Marafie, Chairman estate solutions by delivering real estate proj- 9,8 billion in domestic and overseas markets in dif- mission is to achieve highest levels of excel- setting up long-life partnerships with the con- of The Commercial Real Estate Company has ects (residential and commercial) with high ferent currencies such as US dollar, Ringgit lence and innovation in the field of client serv- cerned authorities. stated that the business outcome of the com- quality that delivers luxury and development.” pany for the period which ended on Marafie also announced that, “The 30.09.2016 resulted in achieving net profits of Company has entered a new real estate KD 8,383,474 (Eight million three hundred & investment in the kingdom of Netherland Rating agency CI raises rating eighty three thousand & four hundred & sev- worth 5 million Euros equivalent to KD Egyptian enty four Kuwaiti dinar). 1,699,600 (One million and six hundred and of Alargan bonds to ‘BBB’ ninety nine thousand and six hundred Kuwait pound soars dinar) in alliance with a group of investors. This acquired property is the head quarter of KUWAIT: Capital Intelligence (CI), the international as dollar Heerema Marine Contractors”. credit rating agency, yesterday announced that it Nevertheless, he added that diversifying has raised its rating on the KD26.5 million bond Al-Tijaria’s international investment portfolio issued by ALARGAN International Real Estate liquidity rises will follow the company’s strategy in diversi- Company in April 2012 to “BBB” and revised the fying income generating real estate invest- outlook to “stable” from a previous “BBB-” rating CAIRO: The Egyptian pound strength- ments in terms of geographic and sectorial and “positive” outlook issued in December last year. ened slightly yesterday and importers location for the purpose of maintaining our The raise was supported by identified resources reported increased dollar liquidity at investment portfolio and guarantee continu- (cash plus unutilized committed funding lines) in banks days after the International ous good results. place to repay the obligation. The rating upgrade Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $12 Marafie further stated, Al-Tijaria continues also reflects the increase in equity and the fall in billion loan the government hopes will organizing and supporting social responsibili- debt (and therefore leverage). jump-start the economy. Banks were The rating agency also said in its report that Abdulfatah M R Marafie ty initiatives as part of its corporate gover- selling the pound at around 15.7 to the nance principles including “Rafad” weekly ALARGAN enjoys a sound financial profile, a geo- dollar and buying it at around 15.2 With 9 percent growth compared to the meal distributions. It’s worth mentioning that graphically diversified business model, and a good compared with a sell price of around 16 same period of 2015. The outcomes has also “Rafad” as a nonprofit project aims at raising funding structure with close to no reliance on and a buy price of around 15 on resulted in achieving a growth in sharehold- awareness about the consumption of food. short-term bank borrowing (though the bond has Sunday. ers’ equity with a percent of 5.4 percent and “Rafad” volunteers work on weekly basis to now become a current liability as it matures in April Khaled Al-Meshaan, ALARGAN Egypt floated the pound on Nov. 3 in growth in return on shareholders’ equity with distribute dates and extra food from 2017). CI also highlighted that the company’s International Real Estate a dramatic move welcomed by business- ongoing changes to the business model have es as the key to unlocking investment. It a percent of 3.4 percent and a growth in Symphony Style Hotel restaurants and special Commenting on the rating, Khaled Al-Meshaan, already begun to lower the overall risk generated devalued the currency by about a third return on Capital with a percent of 9 percent occasions or the freshly cooked food in the CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of from the sector in which it operates through the from the former peg of 8.8 against the compared to the same indicators of the same hotel’s kitchen. ALARGAN International Real Estate Company, said: proportion of revenues coming from recurring dollar and allowed it to drift lower. period in 2015. Marafie concluded by announcing that “The Capital Intelligence rating confirms once rental income steadily increasing over time. The pound initially fell to a rate of Marafie also added that, “The Commercial The Commercial Real Estate Company is again the company’s stable position. ALARGAN is CI said that the remaining borrowing amount of roughly 18 to the dollar, in line with Real Estate Company has been able to devoting all its resources towards achieving committed to delivering sustainability in every the company is not considered large enough to prices quoted on the country’s currency strengthen its position as a real estate pio- its future vision based on strong capabilities aspect of its business, including ensuring the busi- impact the rating, while more than three quarters black market just days before the float. neer and an integral part of the overall con- and potentials. The Company works continu- ness model is sustainable financially and opera- is repayable after the maturity date of the bond. In The currency has been strengthening struction growth in the state of Kuwait. Al- ously on developing and investing these tionally for the benefit of shareholders and stake- addition, ALARGAN has a solid balance sheet with since last Wednesday, however, when Tijaria continues this march with success, capabilities based on strategic plans made to holders. As we move forward, ALARGAN will con- improved financial ratios, which are forecast to IMF Managing Director Christine maintaining its commitment, innovation and achieve continuous growth and exceptional tinue to focus on generating steady revenue remain strong throughout the short remaining life Lagarde said she would recommend the development for a better future with signifi- profits along with an added value to the through developments that add value to their sur- span of the bond. international lender approve Egypt’s cant accomplishments and innovative real shareholders. rounding communities.” lending program. Monday’s stronger pound rate is in line with reports that importers of strate- Etihad Airways awarded best first class, best gic goods are increasingly able to source their dollar needs from banks. One importer said he had been receiving his long-haul airline in Mideast and Africa full currency requests on the same day, a dramatic improvement from the lengthy queues experienced before the float. KUWAIT: Etihad Airways has won awards for Best First Class and Airlineratings.com award but Etihad Airways has taken that to “The awards also underscore our uncompromising com- Moody’s said in a report yesterday Best Long Haul Airline Middle-East and Africa in the another level by winning each category three years in a row. mitment to engineering and operational excellence as well that increasing dollars sales to banks was AirlineRatings.com 2017 Airline Excellence Awards. The Abu “The airline is only one of a handful that has also achieved a as safety which is, and will always be, our number one pri- credit positive “because it increases the Dhabi-based airline was also named in the global Top Ten. seven-star ranking for both product and safety with ority.” availability of US dollars to them, which, AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Geoffrey Airlineratings.com.” The 2017 AirlineRatings.com awards come just weeks after in turn, will help service their customers’ Thomas, said: “Etihad Airways’ attention to excellence at every Etihad Airways’ Chief Executive Officer, Peter Baumgartner, the UAE flag carrier received a Skytrax Certified 5-Star Airline need for foreign currency, allow the level has resulted in a third consecutive win for Best First Class said: “To win Best First Class and Best Long Haul Airline Middle- Rating. This followed Skytrax awards for the World’s Best First banks to improve their dollar liquidity and Best Long Haul Airline Middle-East and Africa as well as a East and Africa for the third consecutive year is a great honour Class Airline, World’s Best First Class Onboard Catering, and and reduce their net foreign liability placing in AirlineRatings.com Top Ten. and cements our position as a leader in innovative products, World’s Best First Class Airline Seat for its Airbus A380 First position.”—REUTERS “It’s an outstanding achievement to win an intuitive service and world-class hospitality. Apartment in July 2016. technology TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Facebook lets Messenger ‘bots’ tap analytic smarts

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook yesterday where sponsored messages come in.” exchanges with customers. The bots can breakdowns by demographics was openly shared at Facebook including began letting interactive “bots” inside its Facebook shares took a hit early this answer questions, offer goods and servic- aggregated and made anonymous. gender, country, language, education lev- Messenger service tap into analytic capa- month after the huge social network es, send receipts or confirm reservations. els and relationship status. That data is bilities once reserved for the social net- delivered a blockbuster earnings report Data gathered and provided by the social Boosting Business aggregated and made anonymous, work, ramping up the potential to earn but warned that its stunning growth network would include how often people Last year, Facebook made analytics according to Facebook. “You could never money from e-commerce. The move pace was set to slow. Although the are transferred to humans at businesses tools available for apps synched to the snoop on a particular individual,” Twist comes as Facebook is under pressure to California group reported a surge in prof- or click through to websites to make pur- social network. Providing the insights to said. Twist said the company’s goal is to profit from services such as Messenger, it and revenue, it also said it was unlikely chases. bots at Facebook-owned Messenger help businesses using bots discern what WhatsApp and Instagram, having recent- to sustain that kind of growth in the near Analytics tools can also provide moves them outside the social network makes people buy rather than browse. ly told investors it is hitting a limit on the future. Facebook executives on an earn- demographic insights on users based on for the first time. The company could Bots do not receive analytic data in number of ads it can pack into the online ings call said the social network can no what people share publicly at the leading then make money from the messaging real time, so artificial intelligence cannot social network. longer keep boosting the number of ads social network. “These bots are providing service by acting as an intermediary learn along the way or detect if it is chat- Facebook last week rolled out news delivered without harming the user new ways for businesses to interact with between businesses and customers. ting with a man or a woman, according feed ads that open into Messenger experience. their customers,” Facebook product man- Analytics may reveal reasons people add to Twist. He said developers currently exchanges, and began letting businesses ager Josh Twist told AFP. “Because we items to virtual carts but don’t complete build artificial intelligence for bots, and send “sponsored messages” to users who Bet on Bots own the Messenger platform, we can purchases, or which marketing approach- Facebook handles the analytics. The com- have interacted with them before. Since they were first announced at help get analytics without any effort.” es work better with women or men. “This pany also announced it will begin accept- “Driving people to a Messenger conver- Facebook’s annual developer conference Twist stressed that data being made is about understanding user behavior ing developers of bots for Messenger sation isn’t enough,” Facebook vice presi- in April, more than 30,000 chatbots have available to businesses came only from and identity,” Twist said. into a Facebook-sponsored program that dent of messaging products David been built with artificial intelligence to interactions in their own bots, and that User demographics derived from ana- provides free tools, services, and other Marcus said in an online post. “This is act as virtual agents for businesses in text any broad insights such as behavior lytics potentially include information resources to those who qualify. — AFP Huawei launches nova smartphone series in Kuwait New Macs, Lenovo laptop

KUWAIT: The Huawei Consumer Business to innovation and design. Trevor Liu, Chief Group in Kuwait launched the Huawei nova Executive Officer of Huawei Technologies make keyboards touchy and Huawei nova plus, the first smart- Kuwait, said: “Huawei recognizes that phones in the new series designed to meet dynamic consumers demand a device that the needs of today’s most dynamic con- keeps up with their fast-paced lifestyle. This NEW YORK: Can the venerable laptop keyboard sumers. The nova smartphones are avail- is why the nova smartphone brings new get more touchy-feely - and in a good way? We’re able at local retailers. experiences to life with its incredible per- about to find out. Higher-end models of Apple’s The new nova series features a stunning formance, stylish design and advanced MacBook Pro now come with a narrow touch multi-curve design, camera advances for camera features. The nova series is the per- screen above the regular keyboard for quick more vivid photography and performance fect fit for a generation that lives their life access to common settings and tasks, while updates for enhanced usability. Every fea- on a smartphone.” With its nova series, Lenovo’s Yoga Book laptop loses the physical key- Huawei continues to defy expectations fol- board entirely. The traditional keyboard has nev- lowing its successful smartphones launch- er struck me as needing much improvement, es earlier this year, including the powerful although people who’ve grown up on touch Mate 8 and Huawei P9 which redefined the screens might well feel differently. These touch standard in smartphone photography. innovations, in fact, may mostly be aimed at lur- ing such users to laptops. So how do the new Ergonomic Design touch features improve typing and computing? The Huawei nova smartphone’s curved surfaces and 5-inch screen connect seam- Touch Screens, Not Keyboards lessly to create an ergonomic, compact Many Windows laptops and tablets with phys- design that fits perfectly in the user’s hands, ical keyboard accessories have long had touch enabling single-handed functionality. The screens. You still type primarily on a traditional nova plus smartphone has a 5.5-inch screen. keyboard, but you can poke screen icons and menus directly with your finger instead of navi- Outstanding Photography Experience gating with a mouse or trackpad. This can be The nova smartphone sports a 12- useful for basic tasks such as opening apps, mov- megapixel rear camera which allows users ing the cursor to the search bar and rebooting to capture photos in low-light conditions, the machine. But when fixing typos in docu- while the nova plus features an outstand- ments, selecting email to delete and even editing ing 16-megapixel rear camera, enabling it photos, my trackpad is generally more precise to capture more light for sharper, clear and than my fat fingers on the screen. A stylus helps, but I’m prone to misplacing it. It’s also generally richly refined photos in any environment. faster to just keep your fingers on the keys. In addition, the Huawei nova series sup- ports fast autofocus for amazing accuracy, Touch Keys helping consumers to capture wonderful Largely for these reasons, Apple has shunned moments in their life. touch screens on its notebooks. But its high-end The smartphone is equipped with an 8- MacBooks are getting a separate, narrow strip megapixel front-facing camera, enabling that replaces the top row of function keys you’ll users to take and share better selfies in any find on most keyboards. This Touch Bar offers the lighting condition. Additional features same functions, but instead of hitting F11 or F12 include the proprietary Beauty Makeup 2.0 CUPERTINO, California: This Oct 27, 2016 photo shows MacBook computers in a demo room to change volume, for instance, you tap the following the announcement of new products at Apple headquarters. —AP and Beautiful Skin 3.0 applications, which speaker icon to bring up a volume slider. You can apply cosmetic effects and skin smoothing fix up to four icons in place; the initial defaults you’re a pretty good typist with a command of MacBook Pro, but it is slower and has ports filters to create more flattering images. are brightness, volume, mute and the Siri voice keyboard shortcuts. The Touch Bar will be more only on one side. The Touch Bar models start at assistant. The rest of the strip changes based on useful for those who look down at the keys about $1,800 for a 13-inch screen and $2,400 Real-world Performance context. when typing. One suggestion: The mute icon for 15 inches. The Huawei nova series is powered by When you’re using the Safari browser, for stays the same regardless of whether the Mac is the Snapdragon 625 processor, which uses instance, you typically get thumbnails of individ- already on mute. How about a distinct icon to Disappearing Keyboard ture of the Huawei nova and Huawei nova advanced 14nm technology to increase ual tabs for easy switching between websites. unmute, now that the options are dynamic? Meanwhile, the 10-inch Yoga Book (about plus is designed to support consumers’ performance and reduce power consump- But that changes to play and pause if you’re $500 for Android, $600 for Windows) retains fast-paced lifestyles and express their tion. The Huawei nova’s 3020 mAh battery watching Netflix, while your name and address Fingerprints the clamshell design of a laptop but has a sec- unique personalities, whether that means with Smart Power 4.0 can power longer pop up as choices when filling out online forms. The Mac now turns on automatically when ond touch screen where the keyboard normal- capturing the perfect selfie or taking thou- sessions for users to easily navigate Apple’s Maps app offers one-touch access to you open the lid. In place of a power button is ly goes. Unlike pop-up touch keyboard in sands of shots on a single charge. The between different apps. With a next-gener- nearby businesses or directions. Mail and a fingerprint scanner, similar to what’s found tablets, this one doesn’t block the main display Huawei nova series delivers brilliant usabili- ation 3D fingerprint sensor, the Huawei Messages offer auto-complete suggestions as on mobile devices. You still have to type in my as you type. Without physical keys, the device ty features combined with stunning looks, nova supports faster and more accurate you type, plus a button for emojis, similar to password occasionally as a security measure, is just 0.38 inch thick, or about two-thirds the powerful performance and fantastic cam- 360-degree unlocking for improved securi- what you’d find on iPhones and iPads. You get but you can avoid doing so most of the time thickness of the new MacBooks. era which continues Huawei’s commitment ty, convenience and single hand selfies. touch access to system controls, such as “cancel” when resuming a session or installing new The Yoga provides both tactile and audio and “save,” so you don’t have to move your cur- software. People sharing a computer can feedback when you hit the keys, although it’s sor. Third-party apps can add their own func- instantly switch profiles with their own finger- still easy to miss the ones you’re aiming for. It tionality, too, though the ones I use regularly prints. takes longer to type because of all the typos, Gigamon to showcase innovative have yet to do so. which gets annoying very quickly. You would visibility fabric solutions at RSA What Else think that with a touch keyboard, the Yoga Habits and Discoveries The MacBook Pro has a larger trackpad and could reconfigure the keys to toggle between DUBAI: Gigamon, the leader in traffic visi- The new volume and brightness sliders are is lighter and thinner than previous models, upper and lower cases and switch languages, thanks in part to shorter keys that don’t feel bility solutions, announced its participa- much easier to use than tapping the appropriate much the way a touch keyboard on a phone or awkward. You no longer get regular USB ports tablet does on the screen. But the keys them- tion as Silver Sponsor at the second edi- function key multiple times to get the level I or an SD memory card slot for photos. That selves always appear in standard English and tion of RSA Conference 2016 Abu Dhabi, want. In Photos, I can scroll through my library means buying adapters to connect older print- in upper case, even when you’re typing in Thai. being held from November 15-16, 2016 at more quickly than using arrow keys. And the ers, scanners and your iPhone to the new USB- Call it a missed opportunity. An Australian the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi. The Touch Bar does make it easy to include emojis in messages. Because I use it frequently, I made the C ports. On the plus side, you can now con- startup called Sonder is already planning to company will showcase its innovative nect the power charger on either side, ship such a keyboard for $199 this year, but Visibility Fabric solutions and the indus- screenshot function a default icon. No more opening Grab, navigating a menu and returning depending on where the outlet is. who wants to carry around an extra accessory? try’s first security delivery platform - to the window I’m trying to preserve. I’ve also And the MacBook retains a headphone If it makes it onto a future laptop, it could mark GigaSECURE at the niche IT security con- discovered functions I never knew existed, such jack, something the latest iPhones dropped. If a true revolution that goes well beyond the ference. as the ability to highlight text in Preview with you don’t need the Touch Bar or the fingerprint minor changes the Touch Bar and the second “Globally enterprises are getting different colors. This may matter less if, like me, scanner, you can save $300 with an entry-level touch screen offer. — AP increasingly stretched with the challenges of managing sophisticated and versatile security threats on a daily basis as well keeping the lights on for IT security opera- Cisco transforms security with AMP for Endpoints tions. Cybercriminals are continuously DUBAI: At the annual Partner security architecture. With a new Yet organizations are struggling to threat in their own environment, it attempting to breach every major corpora- Summit in San Francisco, Cisco endpoint security solution, partners protect mobile users, desktops, lap- is clear that organizations need a tion and government department around unveiled a new approach to end- have the opportunity to tap into a tops and servers against advanced new approach to endpoint security. the world with varying degrees of success. point security that is transforming market that is growing rapidly at 48 malware attacks. Why? Most organi- AMP for Endpoints offers a path As organisations grow, data is getting dis- the market. Cisco AMP for percent per year. Through Cisco’s zations focus on a prevention-only to simpler, more effective endpoint persed across the infrastructure, and IT Trevor Dearing Endpoints combines prevention, differentiated approach to endpoint strategy based on legacy solutions security. By combining prevention, organisations are struggling to manage, detection and response to simplify security and new security software that are not effective in defending detection and response in one analyse, and secure their networks. structure is reduced. “Gigamon under- endpoint security, allowing cus- consumption models, Cisco part- against modern malware. Some SaaS-deployed, cloud-managed Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric can provide an stands the importance of critical data and tomers to ditch ineffective preven- ners can create additional service organizations then layer additional solution, it reduces complexity and overview as well as granular visibility into we have solutions available today, from tion-only strategies. By leveraging opportunities and unlock recurring products onto the endpoint to gain stops more threats. Through this the network,” said Trevor Dearing, EMEA standalone visibility-in-a-box to distrib- the scale and power of the cloud revenue streams.” visibility and respond to threats that cloud-based approach, AMP for Marketing Director at Gigamon. uted offerings extending visibility to and Cisco’s threat-centric security have evaded these legacy solutions. Endpoints gets actionable intelli- Gigamon has been designing and remote locations. At the RSA Conference architecture, AMP for Endpoints A New Approach to This creates significant operational gence into the hands of organiza- building traffic visibility products since 2016 Abu Dhabi, we are looking forward to allows customers to see and stop Endpoint Security complexity and inefficiency. With tions faster, giving them an edge 2004. Its solutions are deployed globally highlighting the importance of visibility in more threats, faster. A secure foundation is essential the fact that it takes enterprises, on against today’s attackers. across vertical markets including over half the security strategy of regional enterprises. “Cisco continues the relentless for today’s digital business models. average, over 100 days to detect a From the network to the end- of the Fortune 100 companies and many We are showcasing GigaSECURE as an inno- evolution of our security architec- point to the cloud, Cisco’s threat- government and federal agencies. The vation that makes the world’s most effective ture from the network to the end- centric security architecture ensures company will showcase its GigaVUE port- security tools even stronger,” Dearing point to the cloud. The AMP for that customers get more from exist- folio of high availability and high-density explained. Globally, RSA Conferences are Endpoints launch is a critical mile- ing security investments, increasing products that intelligently deliver network the world’s largest IT security conferences, stone. Customers now have the capability while decreasing com- traffic using management, compliance and which play a crucial role in providing a opportunity to simplify their end- plexity. Like other Cisco security security tools. learning platform for IT leaders, security point security strategy, securing products, AMP for Endpoints shares Gigamon will also place the spotlight vendors, policy makers to meet, network mobile users, servers and desktops and correlates threat information on GigaSECURE, the industry’s first security and share the latest security trends and by leveraging Cisco’s threat-centric across the entire architecture, both delivery platform that provides visibility of technologies. The RSA Conference 2016 security architecture,” said Scott the AMP ecosystem and other Cisco network traffic, users, applications and sus- Abu Dhabi will bring together leading IT Manson, Cyber Security Leader for security platforms. This architectural picious activity, and delivers to multiple security experts from around the world to Middle East and Turkey at Cisco. approach to security means Cisco security devices without impacting net- discuss the most critical challenges facing Shadi Salama, Channel Leader - customers can see more threats, work availability. The direct result is that organizations. Gigamon has been partici- Middle East Theatre, Cisco added, faster. In recent testing by NSS labs, third party security appliances are more pating in RSA Conferences globally and is “Cisco’s global partners are playing Cisco achieved the fastest TTD with effective at protection and remediation, continuing its presence at the Abu Dhabi a strategic role in helping cus- 91.8 percent of threats detected in and cost and complexity of security infra- edition of the event in November 2016. tomers build and manage their Scott Manson Shadi Salama under three minutes. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE New Chinese home for ‘world’s saddest polar bear’

SHANGHAI: A polar bear dubbed the species to try to draw in shoppers said: the US-based Humane Society physical and mental condition, it said. health that could be another factor. “world’s saddest” by animal rights “Pizza left the aquarium with escorts International mounted a media-friendly Peter Li, China policy expert at HSI “We implore the Mall to make this a activists has been removed from a after the farewell party” on Sunday. campaign to highlight the bear’s plight, said in a statement: “Pizza the polar bear permanent move for Pizza and to not Chinese shopping mall where campaign- Chinese media reports said he was coining the description the “world’s has endured a life of deprivation and suf- condemn him to return,” he added. ers said it was suffering in unsuitable returning to the facility where he was saddest polar bear” and generating fering in his small, artificial glass-front- Pictures of the bear’s farewell party conditions. The Grandview Mall in the born in captivity in the northern port of global headlines. It distributed video ed room at the shopping mall. “At last posted on China’s Twitter-like Weibo by southern city of Guangzhou held a Tianjin. showing Pizza pacing around his 40- he will feel the sun on his fur, sniff fresh the mall showed children queuing up farewell party for Pizza the bear at the The mall claimed the move was a square-metre glass-fronted enclosure air and see the sky above in the compa- to say goodbye to the bear. “Tears and weekend, it said on social media. A temporary one due to the facility being and shaking his head as onlookers took ny of his mum and dad.” The move was sadness are only temporary, we will spokesman for the mall, which set up an renovated, and that Pizza would return pictures on their cellphones. The a result of public pressure, he said, and make the cosiest home to await your “Ocean World” attraction with 500 after the works were completed. But footage showed the bear was in poor suggested that if the bear was in poor return,” it said. — AFP China to burn, not bury, as it tackles trash challenge ‘Waste-to-energy’ encouraged

WUJIANG: Thousands of tons of urban ous targets, with daily incineration capaci- waste are hidden behind scrubbed white ty of 235,224 tons by the end of 2015 miss- walls at a new power plant on the outskirts ing a goal of more than 300,000 tons. “The of the Chinese city of Wujiang, with even main reason is the level of understanding its chimney disguised as a clock tower. among local governments, and we also Desperate to fight mounting trash prob- need to work on eliminating the problem lems but wary of public opposition, China of Nimbyism,” Cai said. Waste incinerators is building new incineration capacity have provoked protest as communities designed to blend into its surroundings worry about stench and the risk of toxic and limit environmental damage. Located emissions. Last week, the housing ministry in sparsely populated farmland around 60 vowed to toughen pollution controls and miles west of Shanghai, with white geese combat “Nimbyism” by offering cheaper dotting the lake around it on three sides, water, heat and electricity for those living the Wujiang plant is designed to burn near waste projects. Such moves would 1,500 tons of garbage every day. transform perceptions to “profit in my It generates heat to run turbines that backyard” from “not in my backyard”, the ILLINOIS: A nurse at Family Guidance Center, an deliver 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electrici- ministry said. addiction treatment center in Joliet, Ill, holds a ty to the power grid at preferential tariffs, syringe used for Vivitrol, a high-priced monthly injec- around double those of coal-fired plants Incentives tion used to prevent relapse in opioid abusers. — AP and the source of two-thirds of its revenue. China wants to remedy environmental “Combustion reduces the volume, turns it damage caused by three decades of Prisons fight into a resource and detoxifies it, so we breakneck growth through incentives for believe it is going to be a mainstream HEIHE: Smoke billows from a heating factory in Heihe, in northeastern China’s private businesses to profit from environ- opioids with product within 20 years,” said Cai Heilongjiang province. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly mental protection. It now has fewer low- Shuguang, deputy general manager of flat for three years in a row-a ‘great help’ but not enough to stave off dangerous income “scavengers” to sort garbage in big China Everbright International, which built global warming, a report said yesterday. — AFP cities, as rising living standards and falling $1,000 injection: the plant. With land scarce and consump- prices of raw materials have blunted recy- tion surging, China has little choice but to bricks. Everbright’s first waste-to-energy day by then, or 2-1/2 times the 2014 figure. cling incentives, Zhao said. “Garbage Does it work? burn as much trash as it can, said Cai. (WTE) plant was built in nearby Suzhou Better-off cities will have to burn most mountains” and “garbage rivers” litter the The landfills encircling Beijing are more than a decade ago. China as a whole garbage, and curb landfill expansion. countryside, where China aims to treat 90 SHERIDAN: US prisons are experimenting with a high- known collectively as the capital’s “seventh had 223 WTE plants by the end of last year, “Waste-to-energy is being encouraged percent of household waste by 2020. But priced monthly injection that could help addicted ring road”, while throughout the country and that number could double by 2020. from top to bottom: Subsidies are very officials say innovative funding mecha- inmates stay off opioids after they are released, but burial of untreated waste has contaminat- But household waste treatment and high and profits far exceed those from nisms are needed. Subsidy is not a sustain- skeptics question its effectiveness and say the manu- ed land and built up potentially hazardous recycling rates are still way too low, China recycling,” said Zhao Youcai, a waste man- able path, so China must boost market facturer has aggressively marketed an unproven drug pockets of methane. About 200 trucks said in a plan published in September, agement expert at Shanghai’s Tongji participation, Zhao said. “Garbage recy- to corrections officials. A single shot of Vivitrol, given in dump up to 10 tons of trash each day in a adding that industry spending would need University. cling relies on government, and waste-to- the buttocks, lasts for four weeks and eliminates the silo 26 meters deep at the Wujiang plant. to reach 192.4 billion yuan ($28 billion) energy is subsidized,” he added. “It is a need for the daily doses common with alternatives Toxic emissions are captured and little is from 2016 to 2020. The plan aims to incin- Tackling Nimbyism bottomless pit: the amount is just too high such as methadone. But each shot costs as much as wasted, with furnace slag recycled into erate more than 500,000 tons of waste a But China has struggled to reach previ- and the profits too low.”— Reuters $1,000, and because the drug has a limited track record, experts do not agree on how well it works. Proponents say Vivitrol could save money compared Washington rejects with the cost of locking up a drug offender - about $25,000 a year for each inmate at the Sheridan carbon tax, but Correctional Center, 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Dr Joshua Lee, of New York University’s medical backers undeterred school, said more evidence is needed to determine whether the medication can help substantial numbers SEATTLE: Washington’s carbon tax initiative was billed as a of people and whether it’s worth paying for, but the bipartisan approach to curbing carbon emissions. But vot- early results are encouraging. “It sounds good, and for ers in this progressive state roundly rejected the measure some of us, it feels like the right thing to do,” said Lee, a that drew opposition from the fossil fuel industry and, leading researcher on the treatment. Vivitrol is emerg- more surprisingly, many major environmental groups. The ing as the nation searches for ways to ease an opioid proposed tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels such as epidemic that affects more than 2 million Americans coal and gasoline would have been the first in the US, and and an estimated 15 percent of the US prison popula- sponsors hoped it would serve as a model for actions tion. Many experts view prisons - where addiction’s across the country. human toll can be seen most clearly - as a natural The measure failed by a vote of 59 to 41 percent, but place to discover what works. Christopher Wolf had backers said their efforts spurred urgent conversations already served prison time for nonviolent crimes about climate change in an election year where the issue when he was ordered into treatment for a heroin got little national attention. “Our campaign all along said, addiction by a judge who suggested Vivitrol. Three ‘We’re going to take a swing at the ball,’ and we did that. months later, the 36-year old from Centerville, Ohio, is But the game is not over,” said Yoram Bauman, an econo- clean and working full time as a cook. He now sug- mist who founded Carbon Washington, the grassroots gests the medication to other addicts. “I don’t have group behind Initiative 732. “Our group and other folks will cravings,” Wolf said. “I see how much better life is. It gets better really fast.” look for other opportunities to try to take action.” WAJIR, Kenya: An employee of charity Save the Children gives explanations to a group of women during a session A state group representing businesses said voters Vivitrol targets receptors in the brain’s reward sys- at the local maternity facility on what Islam allows and does not allow in terms of family planning, and on the ben- tem, blocking the high and extinguishing urges. In rejected a flawed proposal that would have driven up ener- efits of family planning at a village in Wajir County. — AFP gy prices for families, workers and employers. Initiative 732 some programs, prisoners get an injection before would have started taxing carbon emissions at $15 a met- release, then follow-up shots from any clinic. For ric ton in July, gone up to $25 the next year and gradually Seeking halal contraception decades, researchers have recognized addiction as a relapsing brain disease with medication an important increased until it hit a maximum of $100 a ton. Money from part of therapy. But most jails and prisons reject the tax, which would be paid by power plants and fuel in Kenya’s Muslim northeast methadone and buprenorphine, the other govern- importers, would have been used to reduce the state sales ment-approved medications for opioid addiction, tax, virtually eliminate business taxes for manufacturers WAJIR: Swaddled in colorful hijabs the tens intently. “I want to have more chil- births, unsanitary and without qualified because they are habit-forming and can be abused. and return a rebate to many working families. women exchange puzzled looks and dren, but not now. I want to wait until midwives. On top of that, the average Just ask Joshua Meador, 28, an inmate at Sheridan It had the support of many economists, climate suppress embarrassed giggles. “You’re my child has grown up a bit and I’m sure woman has eight children, a large who hopes to get into the Vivitrol program before his activists, state Democrats and scientists such as James sure it’s halal?” asks one, peering at a she is healthy,” Halima says. brood-like a herd of livestock-seen as a release in January. Before incarceration, he abused Hansen, the former NASA climate scientist often consid- collection of birth control pills, condoms symbol of wealth in Somali culture. both older treatment drugs. When given take-home ered the godfather of global warming research. “Among and IUDs. Such everyday forms of con- Tradition vs health - “When an adolescent girl becomes doses of methadone for the weekend, he would sell economists, one of the most frustrating parts of the elec- traception are little known and rarely Here, maternity and tradition are pregnant or there is not enough space them for heroin. “When I’m on Vivitrol, I can’t get high,” tion was the fact that environmentalists didn’t seem to get seen in Kenya’s arid and neglected issues that burn as hot as the sun beat- between pregnancies, the risk of com- he said. The drug has no street value or abuse poten- behind this as much as we hoped that they would,” said northeast, an overwhelmingly poor, ing down on the sandy soil and dry plications is high,” says Sulekha tial. “You couldn’t design something better for the Christopher Knittel, professor of applied economics at conservative and Muslim part of the thorn bushes outside, issues that side- Mohamed of Save the Children, criminal justice system,” said David Farabee of the MIT’s Sloan School of Management. country where most people are pas- line women and can endanger their adding that 98 percent of women in University of California at Los Angeles, who leads a Left-leaning groups that opposed the measure said they toralist ethnic Somalis. lives and those of their children.More northeast Kenya are circumcised, Vivitrol study in a New Mexico jail. support climate action, but I-732 was a “false solution” that A study of early marriage by the than four in 10 women in northeast heaping further risk on giving birth. “If “There’s been pushback with other medications, would hurt the poor. They said it wrongly focused on tax charity Save the Children found that just Kenya are married before their 18th you are pregnant four months after people saying, ‘We’re just changing one drug for cuts rather than investing money in clean energy projects two percent of the population of Wajir birthday, their youth leading to giving birth, your body has not had another.’ That argument goes out the window when and communities hardest hit by climate change. “The bur- county uses contraception-compared increased problems in pregnancy, time to recover,” she says. you’re talking about a blocker” like Vivitrol. Prison sys- with a national Kenyan average of 58 labour and birth. Making the situation den would be on those who can least afford it,” said tems in Illinois, Vermont, Wyoming and Wisconsin are percent-due to modern contraceptive worse is that most deliveries are home Religion to the rescue Rebecca Saldana, executive director for Puget Sound Sage, trying the drug on a small scale. Michigan is offering methods being seen as a breach of A 2014 demographic study showed part of a coalition that has been working on a parallel Vivitrol to parolees who commit small crimes, if addic- Islamic principles. But Deka Ibrahim, a perinatal deaths in Kenya’s northeast effort in the state. tion is the reason for their new offense. The federal female Islamic teacher, explains that were more than 50 percent higher than “Washington will continue to lead. We led by having Bureau of Prisons ran a field trial in Texas and plans to something on the ballot, and now we’ll lead by getting contraception is halal, permissible, as the national average. Since then reli- she talks to a group of 40 newly-weds gious leaders have been co-opted into expand the program to the Northeast next year. The something that works.” Saldana’s group and others in the drug’s manufacturer hopes prisons will be the gateway Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy are planning to bring a and mothers sitting on the dusty con- battling the statistics. “Historically, in our crete floor of a dark room that is the vil- culture, men take many wives and to a larger market. similar tax on carbon pollution to the Washington Also known as extended-release naltrexone, the Legislature next year - though their version would redirect lage’s tiny maternity centre. women have many children, so family One woman feeds her child while medication won Food and Drug Administration money to clean energy projects and low-income and minor- planning is seen as a foreign idea, a others absentmindedly fidget with the colonial Western idea to limit the popu- approval for alcohol dependence in 2006 and in 2010 ity communities. The initiative was billed as “revenue-neu- long sleeves of their austere outfits, lation,” says Mursal Abdiwahab, the kha- to prevent relapse in post-detox opioid users. The evi- tral” but many, including Gov. Jay Inslee, worried about its revealing intricately painted henna tat- di of Wajir in charge of the Muslim fami- dence for giving Vivitrol to inmates is thin but promis- fiscal impact on the state budget. A state analysis estimated toos and fake diamond bracelets. “The ly court, who ruled that contraception is ing. In the biggest study, sponsored by the National the carbon tax could cost the state about $800 million in lost Muslim religion allows the use of these halal. “Our role as religious leaders and Institute on Drug Abuse, about 300 offenders - most of revenues over the first six fiscal years, though sponsors dis- methods in certain circumstances, espe- learned people is to explain what Islam them heroin users on probation or parole - were ran- puted that. Washington state has been on the forefront of cially if the health of the baby and allows or not.” The message seems to be domly assigned to receive either Vivitrol or brief coun- climate policy as Inslee pushed measures to curb green- mother are at the heart of the thought getting through. In the first three seling and referral to a treatment program. house gas emissions blamed for global warming. In process,” says Ibrahim. She adds howev- months of this year, 3,177 women After six months, the Vivitrol group had a lower rate September, the state passed regulations to limit those emis- er that according to this interpretation joined the family planning program, a of relapse, 43 percent compared with 64 percent. A sions from Washington’s large carbon polluters. “The public of Islam there are conditions for using major increase from the 1,382 partici- year after treatment stopped, there had been no over- wants to act on climate change, but it wants to have a policy contraceptives: they must be tempo- pants in the same period the year doses in the Vivitrol group and seven overdoses, that cuts pollution and invests in clean energy solutions,” rary, spousal approval is required, and, before. Safiya, a 28-year-old mother of including three deaths, in the other group. The results, said Greg Small, executive director of Climate Solutions, she reminds them, abortion is illegal in four, says she wants “more children, published in March in the New England Journal of which didn’t support I-732. It’s always an uphill battle to pass Islam as well as in Kenyan law. As a gov- A nurse explains how various con- because that is what my religion dic- Medicine, have been promoted by the drugmaker, measures with the word “tax” in it, said Gail Gatton, execu- ernment nurse goes on to explain how traceptive methods work during a tates,” but after learning that contracep- Ireland-based Alkermes, as it markets Vivitrol to US cor- tive director for Audubon Washington, the only major envi- to use the different devices, Halima, 16, session at the local maternity facili- tion is permitted in Islam she is now rectional systems. — AP ronmental group in the state to support I-732. — AP the mother of a nine-month-old girl lis- ty in Wajir County. — AFP spacing out her pregnancies. — AFP TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Moroccan vault protects seeds from climate change and war RABAT: Should a doomsday agricultural wheat and barley to lentils and chickpeas crisis hit the world’s driest environments, inside a vault in near-freezing tempera- scientists and farmers will turn to an up- tures. The seed bank not only preserves and-coming research center and seed these essential staples but develops them bank in Morocco to restock their harvests. to become more resistant to disease and a Tucked away in the university hub of warming climate. Irfane in Rabat, the International Center Last year, Morocco faced an unprece- for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, dented drought that scientists and the or ICARDA, hosts the largest collection of government and have linked to climate seeds in North Africa. “If for any reason, a change, with drier and warmer winters in particular community lost all their Morocco and neighboring countries. resources, we are capable of providing Domestic grain production dropped, forc- them with the seeds for restoration and ing the government to drop tariffs on rehabilitation,” says Ahmed Amri, head of imports to avoid shortages and stem ris- ICARDA’s Genetic Resources Unit. ing prices. Last month, the government The crucial role of seed banks in pro- decided to temporarily remove import tecting biodiversity is receiving increasing duties for lentils to lower the price just in attention because of climate change, time for the winter season - a time when which threatens to wipe out crops as dry lentils are widely consumed in Morocco. areas of the world get even hotter and dri- Scientists at the Rabat center work closely er. The impact on African agriculture is with farmers in Marchouch, a nearby rural among the topics being discussed at UN town. The scientists provide seed samples climate talks taking place through next to farmers who allocate about 2 percent of week in Morocco. The site in Rabat has their own farm land to test the seeds and become ICARDA’s primary center of stor- provide feedback to scientists. age and research after its previous hub in “We are looking for science-based solu- Aleppo, Syria, was seized by an Islamist tions for farmers’ problems,” says Shiv rebel group in September 2015. Kumar Agrawal, a lentil breeder with ICAR- “We couldn’t continue doing this work DA. These problems include contending because of the situation in Syria, so we with droughts, invasive insects and decided to make arrangements to move increasing production. Farmers report elsewhere to continue our work,” says back to scientists on the results of the har- Amri, who used to work in Aleppo, but is vest yielded from the seed samples, after now leading genetic research efforts in which further tests are conducted to Rabat. While many of the research activi- improve the seeds’ durability and produc- MARRAKECH: Hundreds protest against climate change and urge world leaders to take action, in a march coinciding with the Climate ties moved to Rabat, 98 percent of the tion yield. Farmer Abdellah Slimani, 48, Conference, known as COP22, taking place in Marrakech, Morocco. — AP Aleppo center’s seeds were safely trans- president of a farmers’ cooperative in ferred to ICARDA’s center in neighboring Marchouch, believes the feedback loop Lebanon. Duplicates were also sent to a has helped him and fellow farmers to “doomsday” seed vault in Svalbard in the improve their own methods as climate Norwegian Arctic, which serves as a back- change continues to impact harvests. Sweltering 2016 to up for other seed banks worldwide. “We hope that this year’s harvest will be Rebels from the ultraconservative better, God willing,” Slimani says. Bruce Ahrar Al-Sham group have occupied the Campbell of the Consortium of Aleppo center since September 2015, cut- International Agricultural Research Centers ting off access to its 75 employees. Amri says the climate conference in Marrakech set heat record has daily contact with the five staff mem- offers a unique opportunity to address the bers who remain in Aleppo, including impact of climate change on African agri- associate scientist Ali Shehadeh. “With the culture. “Considering all African countries Global warming stokes more floods and rising sea levels cease-fire, it’s stable and unstable at have included agriculture in their climate MARRAKESH: The world is set to notch up a carbon dioxide emissions were expected to stay The most damaging weather event in 2016 times,” Shehadeh told The Associated adaption strategies, (the conference) will new heat record in 2016 after a sizzling 2015 as flat for the third year in a row in 2016 and that was Hurricane Matthew, which killed more than Press from Aleppo in a Skype interview be the ideal setting to discuss how the global warming stokes more floods and rising US emissions would fall by 1.7 percent in 2016, 500 people in Haiti, it said. The Yangtze basin in facilitated by Amri. The Rabat center holds most promising solutions can be deployed sea levels, the UN weather agency said yesterday driven by declines in coal consumption. China had its worst summer floods since 1999, tens of thousands of seeds spanning from and indeed, funded,” he says. — AP at climate change talks overshadowed by US President Barack Obama has made fight- killing 310 people and causing an estimated Donald Trump’s election win. President-elect ing climate change a key policy and the United $14 billion in damage. Record daily tempera- Trump has called climate change a hoax and a States was the driving force behind the design of tures were recorded from South Africa to source in his transition team says he is seeking the Paris Agreement. “Because of climate Thailand. Canada had its worst recorded wildfire quick ways to pull the United States out of the change, the occurrence and impact of extreme in May around Fort McMurray, Alberta. Data 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to shift the events has risen,” Taalas said. “‘Once in a genera- from the UN refugee agency said 19.2 million world economy away from fossil fuels towards tion’ heat waves and flooding are becoming people were displaced by weather, water, cli- renewable energy. more regular. Sea level rise has increased expo- mate and hazards such as earthquakes in 2015, The World Meteorological Organization sure to storm surges associated with tropical more than twice as many as for conflict and vio- (WMO) said this year would be the warmest cyclones,” he said. lence, it said. — Reuters since records began in the late 19th century, with average surface temperatures 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. Sixteen of the 17 hottest years recorded have been in this century. “Another year. Another record,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement in Marrakesh, Morocco, where almost 200 nations are discussing ways to slow climate change. The heat, with impacts such as melting Greenland ice and damage to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, was stoked by an El Nino weather event in the Pacific early in the year and by man- made greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels. “The extra heat from the powerful El Nino event has disappeared. The heat from glob- al warming will continue,” he said. The WMO said it was “very likely” that 2016 would be the hottest, barring a freak chill in coming weeks.

Paris deal The Paris deal, backed by almost 200 nations including the United States but rejected by Trump, has an overriding goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to “well below” 2C (3.6F) above IN SPACE: NOAA/NASA image shows planet Earth. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels A man shops for vegetables at a Berber weekly market in Asni, a small town in the pre-industrial times, ideally 1.5C (2.7F). Earlier on have been nearly flat for three years in a rowa ‘great help’ but not enough to stave off danger- High Atlas region, near Marrakech, Morocco. — AP Monday a scientific report projected that world ous global warming, a report said on November 14, 2016. — AFP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Innovation Management Certification launched in Kuwait

ovember 6th to 8th marked an interesting partner- organization driving standards for innovation manage- enough to merely declare, we want to be more innova- DEWA, the UAE Prime Minister’s Office and Etisalat has ship between ShiftIN and Vigor Events as they host- ment worldwide. tive.” said Roberto Wyszkowski a Partner of ShiftIN Partner started to adopt its frameworks and tools to boost innova- Ned the 1st edition of the Innovation Management Business innovation is a pervasive force in today’s fast with large experience in Kuwait where he has been lead- tion management capabilities. In its Kuwaiti edition, the Certification Program in Kuwait with support from the changing environment. In fact, CEOs around the world ing engagement with Zain and the National Technology course was attended by senior executives from the presti- International Advertising Association (IAA) Kuwait recognize that business innovation is not only a core driv- Enterprises Company NTEC. gious organisations sucha as Equate, Hadi Clinic, Kout Chapter. The program is designed as an interactive work- er for creating and capturing new business value, but it’s The program that has been adopted by major MBA Food Group and Habchi and Chalhoub. “This workshop is shop aiming at developing the necessary capabilities in also the key to long-term business survival and success. Programs and Corporations all over the world including designed to build awareness, excitement and recognition both, public and private sector organizations and is certi- “Over the last decade, we have seen many impressive many Fortune 500 companies, is still relatively in the for the importance of business innovation” said Carlos fied by the prestigious Global Innovation Management innovation breakthroughs in a range of industries. Despite region. However, these standards are becoming very pop- Guevara, Partner of ShiftIN Partners and Lead Trainer of Institute, the Boston-based non-for-profit professional such successes, innovation does not come easily. It is not ular among leading organisations such as Zain Telecom, this course.

The wife of the Peruvian Ambassador to Kuwait invited fellow International Women’s Group members to a Peruvian cooking show hosted at Ruby Tuesday recently.

Diabetes Program ends up with smiling faces NSH’s efforts lauded by KNPC

he healthy unit of UNO, World Health Organization’s paign aimed at increasing the understanding of diabetes World Diabetic Day celebrated by NSH at the KNPC - risk factors, symptoms and prevention. TNew Refinery Project (NRP) at Al Zour ends up with Dr Venkateshwaralu explained the ways and means on smiling faces from the labour community, and was well how to prevent diabetic. Project Manager Dileep Kumar appreciated by the KNPC Officials for the efforts taken by Raroth, HSE Officials from TSHJ Hakan Ayata, Subhi NSH in raising awareness on how to better manage and Dadashov and Somasekhat Patil gave their inputs. prevent the disease. KNPC officials Mohammad and Parak honored the win- The multinational business conglomerate and the sin- ners of the contest held in connection with the diabetic. gle largest employer in the Middle East, NSH joined in cele- NSH Corporate HR Manager Pani J Anthony moderated the brating the World Diabetes Day worldwide by all member session and conducted the competitions. The arrange- states of UN and other organizations and associations that ments were done by NSH team comprising safety manager develop a range of activities for the global awareness cam- Maximo Perez, Admin Manager Anandan Pillai, Hari, Saju. Q8 Open Quiz - 2016 by IIT-IIM Alumni Association

s the winter slowly sets in Kuwait in and educational qualifications. This year. November, the cold northerly It has surpassed all the expectations of Awinds get warmer by the hottest competition, as more than 200 teams quiz show in Kuwait as the most ardent from over 20 schools and many other quiz lovers in their quest to keep their individual groups of quizzers from all mind active away from the chores of their walks of life including corporates, organi- daily routines of work, grapple with oth- zations, associations and individual ers for the prestigious title of being the groups are contending for the coveted best quizzers in Kuwait. Razor sharp honor of being the best among the brains answering tough, out of the blues finest. Several schools have already gone questions in femtoseconds before anyone through preliminary selections. could even get a feel of the question. The Auditorium is expected to be jam- Quiz enthusiasts of all ages and diverse packed. Come early and take a comfy fields and talents living in Kuwait, will be seat to view from a vantage point. Association of Muslim Professionals, Kuwait (AMP) has conducted yet another Skill Development Lecture (SDL) at Salmiya Indian contending for the top place in The-Quiz The event will be inaugurated by the Model School (SIMS) on 29th Oct 2016. The topic was “Leadership Skills and Confidence Building” and the SDL was delivered by Competition of Kuwait, titled “Q8 Open Ambassador of India, His Excellency Sunil renowned motivational speaker Abdullah Hassan Thakur (CEO, Dhow Capital, Al Sagar Group). The event was attended by Quiz - 2016”. It is the toughest, best, Jam, who is the Chief Guest. Kuwait Professionals, Parents and School Children. AMP, Kuwait Chapter, has earlier conducted SDLs on “Resume writing and Mock entertaining and above all very fiercely College of Science and Technology Interviews” and “MS Excel - Pivot tables”. AMP is founded by a group of citizens in India and registered as a welfare organization fought annual signature quiz event of the (KCST), is associated with IIT-IIM Alumni working for the overall development of the Indian Society at large. prestigious IIT-IIM Alumni Association, as the Event Partner for the third Kuwait. The Quiz Contest is scheduled on Year in a row. KCST, a private college, Friday, the 18th November, 2016 at the has a mission to Providing Science and majestic Indian Embassy Auditorium. It is Technology Education with a socially Pink Day being hosted by the highly acclaimed, responsibility and entrepreneurial mind very entertaining, and world renowned while promoting educational talent relat- at ESF master quizzer, Giri Balasubramaniam, ed pursuits, of which QOQ-2014, 2015 popularly known as “Pickbrain”. and 2016 are the fine examples. he English School Fahaheel has a Giri is known for his distinctive techno Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and long tradition of serving the com- savvy style of quizzing, sense of humor Indian Institute of Management (IIM) are Tmunity and working to help those coupled with great flair and approach- globally renowned premier Indian insti- in need. Recently ESF held its annual able easy nature, which has earned him tutions of higher education in the fields Pink Day. The eventful day saw all staff several accolades. He holds seven Limca of Engineering Technology and and students adorning pink t-shirts as records for quizzing achievements and Management, respectively. The associa- they raised money for Kuwait Breast has hosted more than 1250 shows in 65 tion can be reached at contact@iiti- Cancer Society and Against Breast destinations across India. He has also imkuwait.com or the official website Greetings Cancer UK. The well-organized day hosted many quiz shows in USA, www.iitiimkuwait.com ur whole included a special event in the Lloyd Srilanka, Singapore, London and in the Registration: Please visit www.iiti- world can be Webber Theatre which included a talk by Middle East Region. Tata Crucible imkuwait.com and for any further clarifi- Osum up to just breast cancer survivor Gail Benobaid. Business Quiz for Colleges and cations, contact by email at: qoq@iiti- three letters - S O N. Pink Day also included a Bake sales, an Corporates, TCS IT WIZ quiz far Schools, imkuwait.com IIT-IIM Alumni Association, Happy Birthday, son! Art and Craft sale and face painting. A Reserve Bank of India IQ quiz, Times of Kuwait invites all the passionate quizzers We love you to eterni- big thank you to the active citizens club Oman Quiz are some of the most popular and non-competing quiz enthusiasts, as ty and beyond! Baba, and heads of houses for helping with the shows hosted by Giri. beside the prizes for top three placed Amma, Alizey and organizing of the day and a special This third annual quiz, a very popular teams, several other interesting cate- Afroz thank you to Gail Benobaid for her inspi- and unique event, is open for all, irre- gories of prizes are up for grabs, includ- rational lecture. spective of age, nationality, profession ing plenty of audience rewards. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 GUST sheds light on Brexit and future of European Union

ulf University for Science and globally, and will even be felt here in Kuwait, a Technology’s (GUST) Global Studies major ally of Great Britain. With this lecture, we GCenter (GSC) organized this week a lec- aim to shed light on various topics, and try to ture led by Dr Jan Claudius Voelkel, entitled understand them from different perspectives in “Brexit and the Future of the European Union”. order to form sound and meaningful opinions.” The lecture, which was open to the public, and The GSC was founded in 2015 in partnership took place on its campus in West Mishref. with the National University of Singapore, and Dr Jan Voelkel, a lecturer in Euro- aims to conduct cutting-edge research on Mediterranean studies at the Deutsche cross-national political, economic, social, cultur- Akademische Austauschdienst, better known al, and environmental issues of critical impor- as the German Academic Exchange Service tance, as well as share research output and (DAAD), in Cairo, provided a different perspec- information regionally and globally. It seeks to tive on the ramifications and effects of the foster public understanding of global issues recent Brexit vote made by the UK population. and support the policy-making processes of The lecture examined the short and long term concerned states. effects of the Brexit on the UK, and gave an in- Previous events hosted by the GSC include a depth analysis of the current situation, and how discussion to commemorate the 25th anniver- it could affect its relationship with the sary of the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occu- European Union. Dr Voelkel also analyzed the pation, sponsored by the US Embassy in upcoming negotiations and whether they will Kuwait, a lecture by Dr Peter Sluglett, an expert have an impact. The lecture was then followed on Middle Eastern history and Director of the by a Q&A session. Middle East Institute at NUS, entitled: “An Head of the Global Studies Center at GUST, Improvement on Colonialism? The ‘A’ Mandates Dr Martin Rosenstock, said, “We live in a world and their Legacy in the Middle East”, and anoth- which is not only dynamic, but also more inter- er by Dr Daniel Brumberg, the Kuwait Program connected than it has ever been in the past. Visiting Professor at the Paris School of Referendums that take place in the UK, will International Affairs, on US-Arab Relations in a have a ripple effect not only on Europe, but Time of Crisis.

The Japanese Embassy hosted a beach cleaning campaign yesterday in cooperation with the Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS). TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

02:05 John Oliver’s New York 18:50 I Almost Got Away With It 18:00 Ancient Aliens 04:45 Ultimate Survival Alaska Stand Up Show 19:40 True Crime With Aphrodite 19:00 Ancient Aliens 05:40 Don’t Tell My Mother 03:00 Workaholics Jones 20:00 The Universe: Ancient 06:05 Don’t Tell My Mother 03:25 Ridiculousness 20:30 I’d Kill For You Mysteries Solved 06:35 Live Free Or Die 00:00 Kiss The Girls 03:50 Ridiculousness 21:20 Love The Way You Lie 21:00 Ancient Discoveries 07:30 Big Fix Alaska 02:00 Age Of Ice 04:15 Key And Peele 22:10 Disappeared 22:00 World War II: Lost Films 08:25 America’s Lost Treasures 03:30 Heatstroke 04:40 Impractical Jokers 23:00 Steven Avery: Innocent Or 23:00 Ancient Aliens: The Ultimate 09:20 Ultimate Survival Alaska 05:15 Independence Day 05:05 Ridiculousness Guilty? 10:15 Big Fish, Texas 07:45 Close Range 05:30 Disorderly Conduct: Video 23:50 Killer Confessions 11:10 Wicked Tuna: North vs 09:15 Con Air On Patrol South 11:15 Hidalgo 06:20 Tosh.0 12:05 Air Crash Investigation 13:45 Independence Day 06:50 Tosh.0 13:00 America’s Lost Treasures 16:15 Close Range 07:15 Catch A Contractor 14:00 Big Fix Alaska 17:45 Con Air 08:05 Impractical Jokers 00:20 Aussie Pickers 15:00 Live Free Or Die 19:45 Blackhat 08:30 Ridiculousness 01:10 Storage Wars 16:00 Big Fish, Texas 22:00 Double Team 08:55 Disorderly Conduct: Video 01:35 Storage Wars 17:00 Wicked Tuna: North vs On Patrol 00:10 Hank Zipzer 02:00 Storage Wars South 09:45 Nathan For You 00:35 Binny And The Ghost 02:25 Storage Wars Miami 18:00 Air Crash Investigation 10:10 Nathan For You 01:00 Violetta 02:50 Leepu And Pitbull 19:00 Live Free Or Die 10:35 Ridiculousness 01:45 The Hive 03:40 American Restoration 20:00 Big Fish, Texas 11:00 Ridiculousness 01:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 04:30 Pawn Stars 20:50 Wicked Tuna: North vs 11:25 Catch A Contractor Teenage Witch 05:00 Billion Dollar Wreck South 00:50 River Monsters 12:15 Workaholics 02:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 06:00 Ice Road Truckers 21:40 Air Crash Investigation 01:45 Bondi Vet 12:40 Workaholics Teenage Witch 06:50 American Pickers 22:30 Live Free Or Die 02:40 Wild Animal Repo 13:05 Disorderly Conduct: Video 02:40 Hank Zipzer 07:40 Pawn Stars 23:20 Don’t Tell My Mother 03:35 Tanked On Patrol 03:05 Binny And The Ghost 08:05 Pawn Stars 23:45 Don’t Tell My Mother 04:25 My Wild Affair: The 13:55 Impractical Jokers 03:30 Violetta 08:30 Storage Wars Texas Elephant Who Loved Too Much 14:20 Ridiculousness 04:15 The Hive 08:55 American Restoration 05:15 Gator Boys 14:45 Catch A Contractor 04:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 09:45 Ultimate Wheels 06:02 River Monsters 15:35 Disorderly Conduct: Video Teenage Witch 10:35 Shipping Wars 06:49 Wild Animal Repo On Patrol 04:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 11:00 Shipping Wars 01:00 Cop Car 07:36 Call Of The Wildman 16:30 Nathan For You Teenage Witch 11:25 Billion Dollar Wreck 03:00 Ricki And The Flash 08:00 Call Of The Wildman 16:55 Nathan For You 05:10 Hank Zipzer 12:15 Swamp People 05:00 4 Minute Mile 08:25 Too Cute! Pint-Sized 17:25 Workaholics 05:35 Binny And The Ghost 13:05 Ax Men 07:00 Some Girls 09:15 Wild Animal Repo 17:50 Lip Sync Battle 06:00 Violetta 13:55 Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour 09:00 Ricki And The Flash 10:10 Weird Creatures With Nick 18:15 Lip Sync Battle 06:45 The Hive 14:45 Aussie Pickers 10:45 The Age Of Adaline Baker 18:39 Tosh.0 06:50 Mouk 15:35 Pawn Stars 12:45 Before We Go 14:30 Zootropolis 11:05 Tanked 19:03 Tosh.0 07:00 Jessie 16:00 American Pickers 16:30 The Longest Ride 12:00 Too Cute! Pint-Sized 19:27 Urban Tarzan 07:25 Jessie 16:50 Storage Wars 19:00 Creed 12:55 Bondi Vet 19:50 Urban Tarzan 07:50 Miraculous Tales Of 17:15 Storage Wars Miami 13:50 Wild Animal Repo 21:15 Star Wars: The Force 20:13 Impractical Jokers Ladybug And Cat Noir 17:40 Mountain Men 14:45 Gator Boys Awakens 20:37 Ridiculousness 08:15 Tsum Tsum Shorts 18:30 Billion Dollar Wreck 15:40 Weird Creatures With Nick 23:30 Inherent Vice 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 08:20 Liv And Maddie 19:20 American Pickers Baker Noah 20:10 Pawn Stars 16:35 Tanked 08:45 Bunk’d 21:30 I Live With Models 09:10 Austin & Ally 20:35 Pawn Stars 17:30 My Wild Affair: The 21:54 John Oliver’s New York 21:00 Mountain Men Elephant Who Loved Too Much 09:35 Shake It Up Stand Up Show 10:00 A.N.T. Farm 21:50 Forged In Fire 18:25 Swimming With Monsters: 22:42 Tosh.0 00:00 Cooties 10:25 A.N.T. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Your attitude about your work is commendable. If there is a job, you can do Give very little energy to the difficult person in your office or the short-tem- it. As a hard worker, you pour yourself into any task with absolute determi- pered driver that may be in your way of making an appointment on time today. Any neg- nation. You are responsible to the extreme and take on obligations as though you cannot atives can distract you from your goals and keep you out of focus just now. Effort is impor- get enough. Others could seek you out for your psychological insight and understanding. tant with your work-staying away from emotional issues is a very wise plan. You may be This could be a time to make changes in your environment. Gathering and sharing infor- feeling more private and in a stay-at-home mood this evening. A cycle of nostalgia and mation takes on a more emotional significance for you now. Being more involved with domesticity begins now emphasizing a need for security and a sense of roots. You might neighbors or siblings satisfies a deep emotional need this evening. Communicating feel- enjoy getting out the old photograph albums. Be sure to write the names of people you ings becomes more important. You have a natural ability to use emotions in productive remember under each picture so that future generations will know who the pictures are ways. Entertaining others is one form this might take. all about. Consider filling the room with soft music.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) You have an inner urge for order and organization and a great sense of responsibility. You are competent, ambitious and cool. This marks the coming of a good A morning business trip is inspiring. Positive results occur as a result of your time as far as career and social life are concerned. If you have not discovered this already, it hard work. You have an opportunity to fund a special project today-perhaps group orient- seems your time of paying dues is over. Real accomplishment and focus are possible now. ed. Check this out and make a decision now. This could be a positive move on your part You are a very hard worker and driven to accomplish the projects before you. You like to and will increase your standing in the workplace. Your earning power is in an upward manipulate a situation for its own benefit and this would make you a natural supervisor. motion. Doing good deeds elevates your self-esteem. This afternoon you may discover You can demonstrate a fine kindhearted nature, and a deep sensitivity to the needs of oth- that someone bought a special gift for you. It is good that you do not forget to express ers may find you as a representative or possibly a politician when it comes to your com- your gratitude to this person. Conversations this evening focus on dreams and you may munity. It is easy for you to be a counselor for others. express the belief that dreams can be used to solve problems. You are not the only one that has expressed this belief. Happy birthday!

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

There are entrepreneurial energies available to you now and they continue You may feel your independence is blocked. Take the initiative-work coop- to promote harmonious risk-taking. Make new starts in as many areas as possible and be eratively to reach mutual goals. You reason and analyze endlessly and are willing to take chances that can further your dreams. The energy for achieving your goals never happier than when fully engaged in some project. You may be tempted to place a is strong! Actively take charge of whatever needs to be done to make your dreams come bet later today. An opportunity to improve your financial situation will soon present itself- ACROSS 3. Designer drug designed to have the effects true. Make a plan and follow it as closely as possible. Reassess it often and change it when don’t let it slip through your fingers by involving yourself with reckless gambles. The plan- 1. A guided missile fired from shipboard of amphetamines (it floods the brain with necessary. 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A constellation in the southern hemisphere DOWN near Telescopium and Norma. 1. Any of a number of fishes of the family 70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made Carangidae. from aba cloth. 2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs 74. A white soft metallic element that tarnish- northeast into the Rhine. es readily.

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This image released by Warner Bros Entertainment shows Eddie Redmayne in a scene from, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Eddie Redmayne, left, and Katherine Waterston in a scene to Find Them.’ — AP photos from, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’ Film Review ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’

ust when you thought the world of Harry Potter It’s 1926, and Scamander arrives at Ellis Island most devoted of Rowling’s fans, and though it may ultra-villain, a powerful dark wizard named Gellert couldn’t get any darker, along comes a bleak-as- with a bottomless suitcase full of illegal “livestock,” prove confusing to newcomers, the faithful will Grindelwald, who shows up just long enough to dis- Jsoot spin-off that makes the earlier series look ranging from a mischievous Niffler (a naughty duck- appreciate the fact the film never talks down to its appear. like kids’ stuff. Borrowing its title from one of the billed marsupial with a nose for treasure) to a giant audience. Unsurprisingly, “Fantastic Beasts” amplifies both textbooks Potter studied at Hogwarts School of storm-causing Thunderbird, whose keeper intends Oddly, Rowling’s script gives us practically no infor- the strengths and weaknesses of Rowling’s story- Witchcraft and Wizardry, “Fantastic Beasts and to release back into the wild somewhere far from mation about Scamader’s backstory at this point, telling approach, which unfolds in the episodic style Where to Find Them” marks the first screenplay writ- people in Arizona. But the United States is notorious- whereas Goldstein gets multiple flashbacks over the of vintage serials-a cliff-hanger-oriented tactic that ten by JK Rowling herself. Though the world-renown ly intolerant when it comes to magic. (Remember course of the film. That’s probably because Rowling, works well in novels, where readers might otherwise novelist had always kept a tight rein on how those the Salem witch trials?) As a precaution, all beasts whose world-building skills are rivaled only by George be tempted to put the book down after each chapter, adapting her Potter stories went about their task, have been outlawed by MACUSA, the Yankee equiva- Lucas, appears to be primarily concerned with plot at but feels less elegant on screen, since viewers invari- this assignment gives her the unprecedented ability lent of the Ministry of Magic, with stiff penalties for this point, and Goldstein’s memories serve the story, ably commit to taking in the entire story in one sit- to address her massive global fanbase directly, any who disobey. while this two-plus-hour-plus pilot evidently doesn’t ting. And yet, the writer has learned something from while current events have given her something leaves much room for the sort of character detail we’d the Potter franchise, clearly going out of her way to more substantive to say. Absent-mindedness all like to get about Scamander (whom Redmayne establish a foundation that can be enriched and Scamander means well, but he’s a bit of a klutz- plays with stooped shoulders and a slightly bow- expanded upon in future films. One can hardly forget and not nearly as careful as someone charged with legged walk, easily winning sympathy for someone how powerful the revelation of Severus Snape’s back- keeping a menagerie of potentially dangerous crea- whose every judgment seems to endanger the fate of story was, enriched by having a master plan from the tures really ought to be. (If he were cleverer, he proba- his kind). beginning, and here, we can sense the first glimmers bly would have left behind those beasts capable of These are times of intense superstition for No-Majs of character details that will require several install- destroying New York City, such as the atom-bomb-like and wizards alike, and though the latter are progres- ments to take focus. Obscurus, before traveling.) In his absent-minded- sive in their choice of leader, electing a mixed-race ness, however, Scamander accidentally swaps suitcas- female president named Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Races and religions es with Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a No-Maj factory Ejogo), they’re largely intolerant of No-Maj And yet, rather than simply promising a greater worker, who swiftly unleashes half a dozen or so of Americans-with good reason, as it turns out: There’s a scope to come, “Fantastic Beasts” takes place in a the animals into the streets-animals that have a nasty new sect of magic-fearing protesters on the rise, led world far larger than any of the Potter films, by virtue habit of leaping directly into the lenses of Philippe by a zealot named Mary Lou Barebone (played with of both its heightened budget and setting, taking Rousselot’s 3D cameras. Puritanical self-righteousness by Samantha Morton). place in New York City right under the No-Majs’ noses. What follows may as well be a high-end, period- Outfitted like a character out of “The Crucible,” It may be cute to obliviate witnesses one at a time, themed upgrade to the popular Pokemon GO iPhone Barebone steals/adopts children from the magic fami- memory-wiping bystanders the way the Men in Black game, as Scamander plays a freckle-faced, tweed- lies she exposes, but doesn’t keep nearly a close did after any alien sighting, to do so to a city at large jacketed version of Ash Ketchum, scrambling to track enough eye on her kids, leaving room for her deeply smacks of cheating. Though Rowling takes the oppor- down and recapture the escaped creatures before troubled “son” Credence (Ezra Miller) to hold private tunity to introduce a few tolerance-oriented mes- things get really out of hand. Things first spin out of meetings with a powerful-and power-hungry-auror, sages, one can’t help but question the limits of the control in an unusually complicated scene at the Percival Graves (Colin Farrell). allegory: In the real world, bigots don’t have a real bank, where Rowling and Yates spin so many layers of reason to hate members of other races and religions, This image released by surveillance-ex-auror Tina Goldstein (Katherine Unsuspecting human population whereas wizards-however much we love them-pose a Warner Bros shows Colin The first in an ambitious new pentaptych, whole Waterston) spies on Scamander, who is following Naturally, Graves is hiding one of those elaborate very real threat to normal people (grisly Obscurus Farrell, in a scene from, five installments are all being handled by David Yates Kowalski, who in turn is being watched by a suspi- duplicitous agendas that Rowling loves to invent, rais- attacks result in at least two deaths, and the destruc- ‘Fantastic Beasts and (the director responsible for the four ultra-bleak cious bank manager-that it starts to feel like trying to ing the stakes for her protagonists-Scamander, tion of large swaths of New York). Where to Find Them.’ blockbusters that wrapped the Potter franchise), follow a piece of fruit as it passes through a blender. Kowalski, Goldstein and Tina’s sister, a mind-reading It’s the same logical flaw that operates in both the “Fantastic Beasts” does double-duty as yet another legilimens named Queenie (Alison Sudol, who looks Avengers and X-Men franchises, and Rowling doesn’t imagination-tickling fantasy adventure and a deeply Challenging ideas the part of a period-appropriate showgirl) from mere- have much to add ... yet. But considering that Queenie troubled commentary on tolerance, fear, and bigotry Maintaining Yates as director lends a consistency ly recapturing all of those fantastic beasts on the and Kowalski’s romantic subplot is by far the film’s in the world today. Focusing on a scatterbrained mag- to the project, and yet, it would have been refreshing loose to preventing Barebone and Graves from expos- most charming detail, there are clues that Rowling izoologist named Newt Scamander (Eddie to get a completely new take on Rowling’s world with ing America’s magic underworld to the unsuspecting will have more to say on the subject of half-bloods- Redmayne), whose personal crusade for the protec- this series, especially considering how murky and self- human population. Those are enormous stakes better such as Harry Potter, born to mixed magic-and- tion of magical creatures will eventually lead him to serious they got in the final chapters. Still, Yates suited to some of Scamander’s powerful friends back Muggle parents-in the very near future. — Reuters publish the aforementioned guide, this often heavy- knows this world as well as anyone, and he excels at home (like Albus Dumbledore, who may appear in handed political allegory trades present-day England finding visual solutions for challenging ideas future installments), and judging by the desperate for Prohibition-era New York, at a time when conflicts (whether it’s how a witch might cook without an oven look on Redmayne’s face-reminiscent of a waiter between magic folk and No-Majs (American for or a creature who either grows or shrinks to the avail- attempting to balance a wobbly, six-foot stack of “Muggle”) are brewing-when the humans aren’t fight- able space). With all its ties to Harry Potter arcana, porcelain dishes-he’s going to need considerable rein- ing world wars among themselves, that is. “Fantastic Beasts” has clearly been designed for the forcements before facing off against the series’ new Japan actor gives his all to play shogi master in ‘Satoshi’

he devotion Kenichi Matsuyama gave to portraying a shogi prodi- (145 pounds). “I ate potato chips in bed with my daughter.” Becoming gy who lived a fearlessly single-minded life is clear in the months Murayama was about more than getting fat, although that brought him The spent practicing placing the pawns in the Japanese board closer to the part. Even the way he walked, the way he carried himself, game, immersing himself in the master’s selfless view on death and and the aches and twitches that followed, as well the way his mind gorging to gain weight. “He lived in a win-or-lose world, and for that, he worked, all changed, recalled Matsuyama, whose marital partner Koyuki had to give up so much, to be living on the edge, totally devoted to that played opposite Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai.” one calling. That fascinated me. I wanted to give it my all,” he told The Associated Press, ahead of the premiere of “Satoshi: A Move for Thick silence Tomorrow.” The film portraying the angst-filled story of Satoshi Matsuyama spent a year practicing the way shogi masters place Murayama, who died of bladder cancer at 29 in 1998, opens at theaters their pawns, flat hexagon-shaped tiles, with that decisive click against around Japan on Nov 19. It closed the Tokyo International Film Festival the board, their fingers placed just so. The tension of the shogi scenes - and is being showcased at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, which two people facing off, sitting Japanese-style on the floor, in thick runs through Nov 24. It was eight years in the making. And Matsuyama silence, except for the click-clicks against the board - is gripping, even to wanted the role right away. audiences unfamiliar with the art. The intense rivalry that’s also a Murayama had a serious kidney ailment since he was 5. He fell in This image released by ‘Satoshi no Seishun’ Film Partners shows respectful love story with Yoshiharu Habu, still a shogi star today, drives love with shogi while hospitalized. His pudginess was a side-effect of his Kenichi Matsuyama, portraying shogi master Satoshi the film, as dramatic as that between top-level athletes - Ted Williams sickness and the medication he had to take all his life. Shogi, besides his Murayama, in a scene from the film, ‘Satoshi: A Move for versus Joe DiMaggio, Martina Navratilova versus Chris Evert, Bill Russell Tomorrow.’ — AP photos love for manga, was about all he knew in life. He never had a girlfriend, versus Wilt Chamberlain. This file photo taken on November 9, 2016 he confesses in one scene. His last words were about shogi moves. His month after major surgery. He is in constant pain, but he doesn’t stop. While Habu gained a reputation as a cool thinker, Murayama dazzled shows actor Brad Pitt as he attends The story is that universal one of a legend in any field, those so pure they He doesn’t want to cut his nails because, he says, even nails are trying to with his unpredictable intuitive moves. The movie closes with an unfor- ‘Allied’ Fan Event Presented by Paramount would dedicate their entire lives, even risking death, for the pursuit of live. Matsuyama gained 26 kilograms (57 pounds) in about three gettably haunting scene. Soft wind whirls on a street. A young shogi Pictures, in Westwood, California. — AP perfection. “He confronted his life head-on, and it wasn’t about living for months, speeding the transformation since it ruled out other acting player, who had known and looked up to Murayama, senses anyone else” said Matsuyama, who has starred in “Norwegian Wood,” jobs. Gorging on ice cream and rice cakes, he gradually felt he was mor- Murayama’s presence in the air, long after the master’s death. And then Brad Pitt back in the 2010 coming-of-age film based on the best-selling novel by Haruki phing into Murayama, that all-out physical role-building that often there he is, standing as he always did, big, smiling, gazing at what’s Murakami. “Mr Murayama always felt death close to him. That was his grabs attention - Robert De Niro in “Raging Bull” or Charlize Theron in ahead, an everyday street corner that serves as a profound reminder predicament.” “Monster.” that such a legacy, such passion for the game, is eternal. — AP China after reported Similar to the way boxers have to keep winning to remain champi- “Usually, I’m told to lose weight for this job, and we have to restrict ons, shogi players have to keep winning. That’s why Murayama kept our eating and drinking. But for this, I got to let all that go,” Matsuyama ban over Tibet film delaying treatment and then goes back to the shogi board barely a said, looking lean and nimble, back at his usual weight of 66 kilograms rad Pitt made his first promotional appearance for a movie in China since Breportedly being banned over a film about Tibet almost 20 years ago. He spent 40 minutes giving autographs to Chinese fans yesterday and 20 minutes at a tightly con- trolled media event promoting his latest movie. The Chinese government reportedly didn’t like his 1997 film, “Seven Years in Tibet,” about an Austrian explorer’s relationship with a young Dalai Lama, because of its portrayal of harsh Chinese rule in the Himalayan region. Reporters were not allowed to ask ques- tions at the event in Shanghai held to publi- cize the World War II romantic thriller “Allied.” Interest is high in his recent split from Angelina Jolie Pitt. Instead, a host asked a string of questions about “Allied.” Pitt did visit China two years ago to accompany his then- partner, who was on a publicity tour, but kept In this Nov 2, 2016 photo, Japanese actor Kenichi Matsuyama, left, and film director In this Oct 25, 2016 photo, film director Yoshitaka Mori, left, Japanese actors Kenichi Matsuyama, center, a very low profile. “Allied” debuts on Nov 23 in Yoshitaka Mori, right, are interviewed in Tokyo. and Masahiro Higashide pose for photographers on the red carpet during Tokyo International Film China, the US and some European and Asian Festival opening ceremony in Tokyo. countries. — AP lifestyle TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

GOSSIP

JK Rowling is ‘still learning’ how to write screenplays he 51-year-old author has been capturing children’s imaginations since 1997 when she released the first T‘Harry Potter’ book and has since become a world renowned writer, but says she still struggles when it comes to writing the screenplays for the movie versions of her hit novels. Speaking at the premiere of her ‘Harry Potter’ spin- off ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ in New York City, the author said: “It was intense. I was learning to write a screenplay while writing a screenplay. “It’s a totally different thing to novels. It was a real challenge. To tell you the truth, I loved that. I am still learning.” But screenplays are something the writer will have to get used to, as the spin-off movie - which was originally supposed to be a stand-alone feature - has been slated for a five-part series with the author work- ing as a screenwriter on all the installments. Answering a fan question on Twitter, she wrote: “I’m the screenwriter. Currently putting the finishing touches to the second one.” The Eddie Redmayne-fronted movie franchise then posted on its own Twitter account: “@jk_rowling has just confirmed the magic continues in a total of FIVE MOVIES! We can’t wait #FantasticBeasts (sic)” Meanwhile Bonnie Wright - who played the flame-haired Ginny Weasley in the original film series - believes the series is a hit because it offers people a world they can “escape to”. She said at the premiere: “[‘Harry Potter’ is a hit because of] the themes of loyalty and friend- ship and love .?.?. Something we all strive to live by. When the world can sometimes be challenging, people love a world to escape to.”

Heidi Klum has learnt Rihanna is set to launch her to ‘embrace’ her body second footwear collection he 43-year-old model - who has four workouts every day. Being the mother of with Manolo Blahnik this week children, Leni, 12, Henry, 11, Johan, four kids is a workout in itself! Balancing Tnine, and Lou, seven, with former my work and their schedules makes it hard he 28-year-old singer songwriter husband and musician Seal - has seen her to find time for a traditional exercise rou- unveiled her debut shoe line with the figure fluctuate over the years because of tine, so we try to do as many outdoor activ- fashion designer in May this year, and ities as a family as possible. We love to go T her pregnancies but she isn’t worried the pair have joined forces once again on about the toll they took on her figure as on bike rides, take our dogs hiking, or jump their latest winter footwear range called she has just learnt to “roll with it”. She said: on the trampoline. That’s the best way to Savage, which will feature three boots. “I’m now 43 ... My stomach has stretched in stay fit and healthy - do things that don’t According to WWD.com the forthcoming and out and in and out and in and out four feel like work.” And Heidi - who is now in a designs have been inspired by the long- times. I’ve breastfed four children ... You relationship with art curator Vito Schnabel - standing and durable Timberland shoes, as just have to embrace it, go with it, just roll says her biggest motivation is her family, as well as her love for suede and shearling with it. “I love my shape because it’s mine. he wants to be “as healthy as possible” for materials. The capsule will see the At the end of the day, it’s not what anyone them. Speaking in the December issue of Timberland style boot re-designed to else thinks about my body but how I feel Shape magazine, the former Victoria’s include a stiletto heel and fur trim called about myself. I’m working it and owning it!” Secret angel said: “Whenever I need moti- the Fallon, a thigh-high boot with a sheep- The ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge manages vation, I think of the big picture. I remind skin lining made from black pony skin and to stay in shape without a strict exercise myself that I’m staying active and eating a floral laser-cut detail titled the regime, as she says being a mother “is a right to live a better and healthier life. I Dominique, and the Alexis, which is a knee- workout in itself”. Instead, the star likes to want to be as healthy as possible for myself high lace up boot with fur trim. The cre- get her family engaged in “outdoor activi- and my family.” ations come in a muted and earthy color ties” to stay healthy without feeling forced palette, as the Alexis will be available in to exercise. She added: “I try to be active as Sir Mick Jagger took ivory or cinnamon shade, whilst the fur much as possible. I don’t have time for detailing on the Fallon comes in either ivory or coffee. Rihanna x Manolo Blahnik’s media to share the news. Alongside a pic- Savage collection will be available to buy in ture, which shows the imprint of the high- Robbie Williams: select Manolo Blahnik stores, and online ly-coveted design in sand, on her Page’s obsession back the clothes he Instagram account, she wrote: “God be the from Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Barbadian beauty - who is the creative Glory!!! What a blessing to be honored with with my house is like a ‘mental illness’ director at PUMA - has launched a number this prestigious award, and to be the first of lines under the sportswear giant’s label woman receiving ‘SHOE OF THE YEAR’ at lent to his daughters including her debut footwear line the #FNAA !! Never could I have imagined the obbie Williams has likened Jimmy Fenty x PUMA Creepers. And Rihanna’s sig- amount of support and love we got from Page’s behavior over his renovation ir Mick Jagger took back the clothes he’d lent to his nature platform trainer has led to her to be around the world for #THECREEPER !!! Rplans to a “mental illness”. The 42- children for his Rolling Stones exhibition. The 73- crowned the Shoe of the Year award at the Thank you to everyone who represented year-old musician has been feuding with Syear-old rocker’s two model daughters - Elizabeth, Footwear News Achievement Award. The and made the movement!!! One Love . the Led Zeppelin rocker since 2013 when 32, and Georgia, 24 - had previously borrowed some of his ‘Work’ hitmaker - who has also designed for #FENTYxPUMA (sic).” Robbie purchased the mansion next to his 1970s fashion items when the style became popular again, Stance hosiery - previously took to social in West London and applied for permission and he has now revealed he reclaimed the goods as part of to renovate his home. Robbie was eventu- the vast selection of items on display for ‘Exhibitionism: ally granted the permission for building The Rolling Stones’. Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar magazine, work, and has now claimed Jimmy, 72, sits the ‘Paint It Black’ hitmaker said: “I’m a throwing-out per- in his car outside the home of the ‘Party son. Years ago I put [my old clothes] in a warehouse, so a Lily Aldridge: ‘After I had my daughter, Like a Russian’ hit maker with “recording lot of the clothes in the exhibition are ones I actually kept. equipment”. He told The Sun newspaper: “My daughters had ‘borrowed’ them. They thought it was “So, Jimmy has been sitting in his car out- funny to wear my ‘70s clothes. I got a couple of things back side our house with the windows down, from them. I used it as a good excuse to say, ‘OK, time for I completely changed my workouts’ four hours at a time with recording equip- you to give them back now. It has to be hung up in an ment. “He’s recording the workmen to see if exhibition.’” The ‘Ruby Tuesday’ musician also noted that his they’re making too much noise. And also slim daughters suited the clothes are they were able to fit ily Aldridge “completely changed” her practice yoga, pilates and ballet. Speaking two weeks ago, the builders came in and into the “rail-thin trousers”. He added: “Elizabeth and fitness regime since becoming a in a video, which was posted on Victoria’s he was asleep in his garden waiting. “I do know it makes a great story and I’m Georgia .?.?. can get in those rail-thin trousers.” And the Lmother. The 30-year-old model - who Secret Instagram account, she said: Honestly it’s like a mental illness. Like, con- really pleased, just for me in general for the ‘Gimme Shelter’ singer - who has five other children, Karis, has four-year-old daughter Dixie with her “Working out is definitely a part of my daily centrating. “It’s really strange. At first it’s like rest of my life. I’m really pleased it’s Jimmy 46, Jade, 45, James, 31, Gabriel, 18, and Lucas, 17, from var- husband Caleb Followill - has revealed life. “After I had my daughter, I completely oh god, now it’s taken so long - four years. Page and not Jimmy the accountant. “It’s ious relationships - says he thinks the exhibition, which is working out is “definitely” part of her “daily changed my workouts. I started doing But now it’s like what are you hiding? Is actually Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin currently on display at Industria in New York City until life”, but after she gave birth she had to yoga, pilates, ballet, things that are more there something you’re hiding? So, so and it’s a wonderful story to have in your March 12 2017, “could be better” on certain days. He said: alter her exercise plans, which led her to lengthening and I was more passionate weird.” Previously, the former Take That back pocket - about, you know, the neigh- “I’ve got different feelings about it on different days. Yes, about it. “I love it and it makes me feel member said he was “really pleased” he bor that doesn’t want to help you out.” it’s all about the Stones and my life and the band, but it’s good to be healthy and strong.” And the could boast he came to loggerheads with Despite his apparent amusement at the still a creative piece of work. So you put yourself in the brunette beauty - who has graced the run- the famous musician, as it makes a “great feud, Robbie admitted it is frustrating that mind of the person who’s going to visit this show and you way for the lingerie giant - has revealed pri- story”. He said: “I win. Did he win? I don’t his renovation plans were held up for so go, ‘Well, I think that’s good, but this could be better, and or to stepping foot on the highly coveted know if there are any winners necessarily. long. let’s change this,’ so you’re not just wallowing in nostalgia.” catwalk for the lingerie giant’s showcase, all you think about is your preparation and working out as “hard” as possible. She explained: “Getting ready for the runway you are working out as hard as you can. John Cleese: I wish my ex-wives were dead There’s not a moment when you’re not thinking about getting ready for the show ohn Cleese has joked that he wishes his ex- Barbara are Connie Booth and Alyce dead in the nicest possible way.” To which John and wanting to give your all, because when wives were dead. The 77-year-old comedian Eichelberger. John said: “No, no [I have no anger replied: “In the nicest possible way, yes. And not you give your all you feel so much more Jhas been married four times and paid out toward them]. I’d be quite happy if one or two of slow, agonizing death, sort of drawn out over confident on the runway.” And the catwalk over $30 million in divorce settlements, and has them were dead, but I have nothing against many many years or anything like that. icon has revealed she “always” tells herself now admitted he wouldn’t be too bereft if “one them. I don’t have anything against them as Something quick like a tree falling on them.” The to be thankful prior to her catwalk shows. or two of them” were struck by a falling tree. people.” Eric, 73, then added: “You wish them news comes after John - who is now married to She said: “The final words I say to myself Appearing on chat show ‘Conan’ alongside Eric Jennifer Wade who is 32 years his junior - before I hit the runway is ‘Always be thank- Idle - with whom he is currently on tour in North famously headed out on his ‘Alimony Tour’ in ful’. “We work so hard to be a part of the America - the ‘Fawlty Towers’ actor referenced 2011 in order to fund his bitter divorce from show and I always feel so blessed that I get his second wife Barbara Trentham who died in third wife and psychotherapist Alyce. He said to be a part of this phenomenal experience 2013 after suffering from leukaemia. He said: “I previously: “She went after me really quite bru- and see how far I have come in my job, it’s have been married for 34 years. To four different tally by hiring the nastiest - and I don’t mean the really incredible.” wives. One of my ex-wives died, did you know second nastiest or the third nastiest - but the that? It was very sad because it was the wrong nastiest lawyer in Santa Barbara. “My wife went one!” The show’s host Conan O’Brien then asked and hired this really nasty woman and I had to the ‘Monty Python’ star if he had any real anger give her $20 million. It’s not fair.” toward his former spouses - who alongside TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 lifestyle

GOSSIP Kim Kardashian warned she could ‘bleed to death’ if she ever gets pregnant again

im Kardashian West has been warned she could “bleed matic, we’re always worried about the next serious complica- to death” if she fell pregnant again. The 36-year-old tion. I think the potential fear of the whole situation is legiti- K‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star, who has three- mate. “You never know that you might not have the same year-old daughter North and 11-month-old son Saint with type of problem that might be more serious this time. You’re her husband Kanye West, has admitted she would love to always taking a little bit of a chance. There are situations expand her brood and have another child, but her doctor where retained placenta could be life and death.” And Kim’s Paul Crane has revealed it wouldn’t be “safe” for her after the 61-year-old mother, Kris Jenner, bluntly added: “You could complications during her first two pregnancies. Speaking on bleed to death.” Following Kim’s consultations she visited fer- the popular E! show on Sunday , the brunette beauty - who tility specialist Doctor Huang to discuss the possibility of a married the ‘Famous’ rapper in 2014 - said: “Lately I’ve been gestational surrogate. However the ‘Selfish’ author has thinking I would love to maybe have another baby. But like I revealed she is “scared” about having a surrogate because had two really difficult pregnancies and really difficult deliv- she doesn’t know if she will love the baby as much as her two eries so getting pregnant again it’s something that does con- children, although she thinks she could keep it a secret. Kim cern me.” However, Doctor Crane has highlighted there is a said: “Nobody has to know. “I think my biggest fear is that if I “potential fear” for Kim, who suffered toxaemia - which is tox- had a surrogate, I just don’t know like, would I love them the ins in the blood caused by an infection - and endured a “very same? That’s the main thing that I keep on thinking about, traumatic” labor when she had North and Saint, which could that scares me.” cause further complications if she was to have more children in the future. He said: “Here’s what I think, your pregnancies, you had toxaemia, you had a retained placenta, very trau-

Jenner has deleted Phil Collins regrets her Instagram account cheating on second wife

endall Jenner has reportedly number of results for fan accounts of hil Collins regrets cheating on his second earlier this year: “Our separation was the wrong deleted her Instagram account. the brunette beauty, but the official wife Jill Tavelman. The 65-year-old rocker has decision. I now call Phil my husband again. “We are KThe 21-year-old model is known page for the star has vanished from the Padmitted to being unfaithful to his ex-part- so close that it does not actually make a difference for her presence on the photo sharing app. Those who were able to make it to ner - with whom he has daughter Lily Collins - if we are married or not, but we are determined to website, but on Sunday afternoon fans where her page used to be were faced which ultimately led to the end of their marriage, get married for a second time one day.” The were left baffled as they tried to search with a message that read “sorry, this although he has claimed he was just “following ‘Invisible Touch’ musician - who has famously paid for the model’s account. When searching page isn’t available”, whilst others [his] heart.” Speaking to Australian news program over $50 million in divorce settlements - also for the ‘Keeping Up with the received a message, which suggested ‘Sunday Night’, the former Genesis drummer said: “I opened up about his failed marriages in his new Kardashians’ star, fans were faced with a there were “no posts yet”. Thankfully for was following my heart. But it turned out I was autobiography ‘Not Dead Yet’, in which he reveals fans of the star, her Twitter and being a bit of a b*****d.” The ‘In The Air Tonight’ hit- he’s “disappointed” in himself for having been Facebook pages are still up and running, maker has been married three times - to Andrea divorced three times. He wrote: “I am disappointed though she has yet to address her Bertorelli from 1975 - 1980, Jill from 1984 - 1996, I’ve been married three times ... I’m even more dis- Instagram disappearance on either of and Orianne Cevey from 1999-2008 - and recently appointed that I’ve been divorced three times. the social media sites. However, fans rekindled his relationship with third wife Orianne “While three divorces might seem to suggest a shouldn’t be too disheartened as last year. And the star has revealed despite other casual attitude towards the whole idea of mar- Kendall has admitted she enjoys a social people’s opinions of his love life, he believes it’s riage, this couldn’t be further from the truth. “I’m a media cleanse every now and again. “wonderful” the pair are back together. He added: romantic who believes, hopes, that the union of Speaking previously, she said: “I definite- “I’m back with my third wife now, which people marriage is something to cherish and last. “Yet cer- ly have close friends, and even some find strange. But to me, it’s wonderful. “We got tainly that trio of divorces demonstrates a failure to family members, who are so connected divorced ... I paid her a lot of money. But that’s co-exist happily and to understand my partners. “It to their phone and can’t get off of it. divorce, you know. We realized it was a mistake and suggests a failure to become and stay, a family. It “That was the moment it kind of clicked now we’re back together and everything’s great.” shows failure, full stop.” for me. And I didn’t like it. So sometimes And Orianne - with whom the rocker shares the I delete Instagram or Twitter or youngest two of his five children, Joely, 44, Simon, Snapchat off my phone for a couple 40, Lily, 27, Nicholas, 15, and Matthew, 11 - is just as days.” Before her apparent disappear- excited about their rekindled relationship. She said Disick ‘desperately ance from the site, Kendall held one of the most popular celebrity Instagram wants to make accounts, with one picture of her lying on the floor with her hair spread into things work again’ hearts earned her over three million likes - the most of any photo in 2015. with ex Kardashian cott Disick is desperate to “make things work again” with former part- Sner Kourtney Kardashian. The 33- year-old television personality - who has sons Mason, six, and 23-month-old Reign, as well as four-year-old daughter Penelope Kelly Clarkson treats her kids with the ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star - reportedly “whisked” his ex-girlfriend away to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, over the weekend in a bid to win her back. Speaking to PEOPLE about the couple - who were to a DisneyWorld trip together for nine years before splitting in 2015 - a source said: “Scott set it all up and elly Clarkson treated her children to place on [Earth] Secondly, couldn’t have [it] was a way to try and make things work a “magical” trip to DisneyWorld survived without caffeinated pixie dust again with Kourtney. He surprised her and Florida. The 34-year-old musician “Thank you @WaltDisneyWorld for our whisked her away on this trip.” And it has K been reported the pair were “very close took her two-year-old daughter River Rose amazing guides Justin and Kelly ....that’s Marion Cotillard thinks and six-month old Remington Alexander to right, we went back and forth from Justin and happy” during their getaway. A sepa- the Walt Disney theme park in Florida on to Kelly hilarious (sic)” The ‘Because of You’ rate source said: “They seem very close and Saturday , and took to Twitter to thank the singer - who shares her children with her Brad Pitt happy.” And the businessman, who also fantasy themed world for making their day husband Brandon Blackstock whom she is ‘a good man’ stars in the popular E! program, has taken “amazing”. Posting on Twitter on Sunday , married in 2013 - then shared a series of to social media to gush about the brunette the ‘Stronger’ hitmaker wrote: “First of all pictures of River Rose enjoying her day he 41-year-old actress stars alongside the beauty. Alongside a photograph of @WaltDisneyWorld IS the most magical dressed as Cinderella. She captioned the Hollywood hunk in ‘Allied’, and has branded Kourtney sporting a skimpy swimsuit photos: “River Rose started Disney like the actor, 52, as “such a good person”. whilst leaning over the edge of the infinity T pool, which was shared to Scott’s this.... #DisneyWorld #Rella “Then she met Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, Marion said: Snow White and LOVED IT!! “Then Tinker “[Brad is] such a good man. Of course he’s an amaz- Instagram account, he wrote: “Views (sic).” Bell was amazing!! (sic)” And the ‘Piece by ing actor. He’s such a good person that it’s really Although the duo appeared to be getting Piece’ musician also shared a photo of her- not difficult to get along with him.” And the actress on well, the mother of three has revealed self managing her two children. She wrote: admits that working with the ‘Fury’ star was nerve- she is skeptical about rekindling her rela- “And in between every other awesome wracking, as she worried about how she would tionship with Scott. Speaking previously, experience things looked like this #igotthis sound in the original reading. She added: “I’m the 37 year old said: “I mean I’m so happy ....and also so did my family ha! (sic)” The always super nervous, because I’m like, ‘Oh, my that Scott and I are getting along so well news of Kelly’s day out with her children God, if my reading is really bad, what are they and that we’re co-parenting, but I think comes after she insisted she would never going to think?’” Marion’s defense of Brad’s person- hanging out with Scott without the kids. have any more children as she finds preg- ality comes after the star was recently cleared of Scott can just take any little thing and run nancy “horrible”. She said previously: child abuse allegations after he was accused of with it and think that like we’re getting “Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, you’re getting your striking his 15-year-old son Maddox on board a pri- back together tomorrow. “Right now I can’t tubes tied...’ No, they’re gone. My husband, vate jet in late September while under the influ- closed and he has been cleared of the allegations, even wrap my head around that idea. like, while I was pregnant we agreed that ence of alcohol. Following weeks of extensive Brad should have a better chance in his bitter cus- There’s so much work that would be he was going to get snipped ... “We have interviews with the child and evidence gathering, tody war with estranged wife Angelina Jolie, 41. involved and I’m so not even there yet. magical babies together ... They’re amaz- the Los Angeles County Department Of Children The actress - who married the hunk two years ago - “The idea of having my family together is ing, but I have the worst pregnancies. I And Family Services decided to close the case earli- filed for divorce from Brad just days after the jet amazing, but it’s not the way things ended would die if I had to do it again. It was hor- er this week. Law enforcement sources told TMZ incident and asked for sole physical custody of up. They may end up there. I’m not sure. To rible.” that it has been decided the ‘Allied’ star had not their children Maddox, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, me, it’s in God’s hands. If it’s meant to be, physically or emotionally harmed Maddox when 10, and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. then things will line up.” they allegedly got into a war of words on their pri- However, Brad is determined to get joint custody vate jet. Now that the investigation has been of all their children. Anna Kendrick: I thought only ‘a couple of nerds’ would like Pitch Perfect

nna Kendrick thought only a “couple of nerds” since seen her reprise her role in ‘Pitch Perfect 2’, as well as that exists in the world.” But it wasn’t always plain sailing would watch ‘Pitch Perfect’. The 31-year-old actress an upcoming third installment. And it wasn’t just the for the movie star, as she previously admitted she used her Abecame a Hollywood superstar when she took on movie that spelled success for the star, as she also found small role as Jessica Stanley in the ‘Twilight’ saga to help the lead role in the musical movie, and says she had no herself sitting at number six in the Billboard music chart for “pay the bills”. She said: “Twilight mostly paid the bills idea that the movie would be as successful as it was. Asked the movie’s hit song ‘Cups (When I’m Gone)’. Speaking on because there were four of them that I got to do. They just if she expected the flick to be successful, the brunette American news program ‘Sunday Today’, Anna said: “It’s so kept hiring me. People don’t realize that I get paid to make beauty said: “No, not at all. When I read the script I was so weird. I was just like, ‘How is this just happening?’ The other a movie and then a year goes by and then I promote it for expecting it to be something I’d seen before. I was just people on the charts were Miley Cyrus and Macklemore six months. I’ve only got the one paycheck, and that was a hoping a couple nerds would really like it.” ‘Pitch Perfect’ and they’re out promoting and they must be like, ‘What is year and a half ago. So ‘Twilight’ saved me in the sense that went on to make Anna a cool sum of $115 million, and has this b******t?’ “I think it was a real testament to the nerdery it was this thing that kept going.” lifestyle TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

MUSIC

In this March 10, 2008, file photo, musician Leonard In this March 22, 2013 file photo, Leonard Cohen performs In this Feb 4, 2006, file photo, Leonard Cohen poses in In this May 13, 2006, file photo, Leonard Cohen sings dur- Cohen poses backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of on the Old Ideas World Tour, at The Fabulous Fox Theatre Toronto. ing a free concert Toronto, Ontario. Fame Induction Ceremony after he was inducted in in Atlanta. New York. — AP photos Leonard Cohen was the natural born king of movie soundtracks

eonard Cohen, who died last week at 82, was a and Julie Christie’s tough-cookie madam drowns her Then there’s the Cohen-soundtrack movie that’s poet, a pop star, a womanizer, a monk, a poor loneliness in smoky wisps of opium. Yet Cohen’s as memorable as “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”- Lman, a rich man, a joker, a sage. But for those of songs, especially the great “Suzanne,” transform the though the world is still catching up to it. Fans of us who are movie fanatics, he also occupied a role as film into a frontier daydream. The music says: The Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers” don’t necessarily extraordinary as it was utterly accidental: He was one world you’re watching is harsh, but if you look close think of it as a “soulful” movie. The words that come of the most natural-born composers of movie sound- enough (which no one could do like Altman), you’ll to mind are more along the lines of: delirious, ultra- tracks who ever lived. I say “accidental” because if you see that it’s also the Garden of Eden. violent, over-the-top, meta-satirical, crazy. Yet it is look at the films that made indelible use of Cohen’s soulful, and it’s also a gonzo jukebox musical. The music, there isn’t one among them in which the Uniquely cinematic unruly collage of pop that Trent Reznor assembled songs in question were written or recorded for the In the years since “McCabe,” Cohen’s music has for the movie adds up, in context, to one of the great- A woman places a candle in front of the home of singer and poet Leonard Cohen in Nov movie. In each case, the songs were composed sever- been used in more than 50 films (and countless TV est soundtracks in history, and the beating raw heart 10, 2016 in Montreal. al years beforehand and appeared on one of Cohen’s shows), a handful of which stand out as drop-dead of it is three songs from Cohen’s 1992 album “The 14 studio albums. sublime. His greatest songs have a shimmer of Future.” It’s those songs that lace the madness with a The mystique of a great Cohen soundtrack was majesty, and part of what makes them uniquely cine- tragic humanity. tied to the fact that he was almost never a Top 40 matic is Cohen’s voice: that low, talky, mellifluous artist. If, like me, you followed his career from a dis- man-in-black rasp-the sound of a holy man who Miracle to come tance, when you encountered a song of his in a smokes four packs a day. One of his greatest songs is The opening sets the stakes. The sound of Cohen movie, that was usually the first time you’d ever “Everybody Knows,” and while fans of “Pump Up the singing “Waiting for the Miracle,” a gorgeous dirge heard it. The effect was startling: Leonard Cohen may Volume” will point to its celebrated use there, I con- (“Baby, I’ve been waiting,/I’ve been waiting night and not have known that he was writing soundtracks, but fess that I’ve never been able to get past my dislike of day”), tells you that the film you’re about to see will it’s as if he knew. It’s as if he’d written that song, and Christian Slater’s late-night-cornball-rebel cult fable. touch something that is-for lack of a better word-reli- then sat back and waited for destiny to create the To me, the greatest use of “Everybody Knows” is in gious. So what could be religious about a gory post- movie it would be perfect for. Atom Egoyan’s “Exotica,” where it’s the recurring modern “Bonnie and Clyde” that hitches itself to two I can remember, as if it was yesterday (though, in theme to Mia Kirshner’s ominous strip-club dance. It wild-ass serial killers on a joyride to hell? The answer fact, it was 1977), the first time I ever saw Robert makes sense that at least one Canadian filmmaker is: The kaleidoscope of images that they worship and Altman’s incandescent mist-and-dust Western would tap the magic of the folk-pop bard who was live inside. Because it’s the one that we live inside “McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” At the time, I’d never Canada’s answer to Dylan, and in “Exotica,” too. The message of “Natural Born Killers,” embodied heard of Leonard Cohen (my tastes ran to ELO, the “Everybody Knows,” with the back-and-forth insinua- in the film’s every channel-surfing frame, is that we’re Sex Pistols, ABBA, and Steely Dan), so I didn’t recog- tion that makes it sound like “Eleanor Rigby” on all now helpless addicts of the media dreamworld. nize his voice. I just knew, as the movie started, that I downers, is used as a warning. The film asks a ques- Trapped in that hall of mirrors, we’re waiting for the was seeing images-a woodland wilderness that tion to any man who has ever sat in the darkness of miracle to come, the one that-until we free ourselves- somehow glowed, a shaggy silent man in a dark suit an “exotic” club staring up at a stripper: What, in will never come. and bowler hat lumbering by on horseback-that pos- truth, are you staring at? In “Exotica,” it’s “Everybody Speaking of religion, Cohen’s most famous song- A woman places a candle in front of the home of legendary singer and poet Leonard sessed an aura I couldn’t account for. The acoustic Knows” that knows the answer. and his most famous movie song-is a prayer, but it Cohen Friday, Nov 11, 2016 in Montreal. guitar on the soundtrack spun out a series of slow- didn’t start off as the song you think you know. Just paced-yet-rapid notes that were sad and wistful but go back and listen to his original version of that truly seemed to be spinning, and the voice on “Hallelujah,” which appears on the 1984 album top of them-craggy and oddly becalmed, mournful “Various Positions.” It’s got the lyrics, and the basic yet lordly-was already telling the story of the movie. melody, but they add up to the nuts and bolts with- out the glory. The late Jeff Buckley, who had the Secret vulnerability voice of an ethereal angel, did a celebrated cover of There are moments when a pop song will declare “Hallelujah,” but the artist who was responsible for what’s inside the hidden heart of a movie’s main transforming Cohen’s version of “Hallelujah” into the character. Think of “Everbody’s Talkin’” in “Midnight lilting epiphany that launched a thousand tears is Cowboy,” and how it catches the sunny alienated John Cale (it appears on his 1991 Cohen tribute dreams of Joe Buck (the thing the world’s about to album “I’m Your Fan”). Cale took the slight bombast crush out of him), or the falsetto aggression of the of Cohen’s version of and elevated it with his salva- Bee Gees singing “Staying Alive” at the start of tion-in-the-heather Welsh melancholy. “Saturday Night Fever,” and how it expresses John Rufus Wainwright duplicates the Cale version Travolta/Tony Manero’s secret vulnerability. That’s almost exactly-which is why Cale’s could be used in what Leonard Cohen singing “The Stranger Song” “Shrek,” and Wainwright’s could appear on the film’s (“Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is soundtrack album. (Is there anything less religious so high and wild,/He’ll never need to deal another”) than music-licensing issues?) Through all the musical does for Warren Beatty’s McCabe. The character nev- chairs, there’s something fitting about the notion er has much to say-he’s about as introspective as a that “Hallelujah” is a Leonard Cohen song that is no pine cone-but the song is murmuring something longer Leonard Cohen’s; it belongs to everybody. In A makeshift shrine is seen in front of the home of legendary singer and poet Leonard about his nature. It’s telling the audience that he’s “Shrek,” it expresses the joy that’s swelling in Shrek’s Cohen in Montreal. sweet, and idealistic, and doomed. heart, making this ogre more receptive to the one Altman had been a fan of Cohen’s first album, thing-love-that will save him from ogredom. It’s the “Songs of Leonard Cohen,” when it came out in 1967, most overt example of something that’s been there but three years later it was an associate of Altman’s almost every time a Leonard Cohen song shows up who suggested layering on a few songs from it as a in a movie: He’s not just making us feel good-he’s let- temp soundtrack for “McCabe.” The temp track stuck, ting you hear the rapture. — NReuters and you can see (and hear) why: Without those songs, “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” would be a com- In this April 17, 2009, file photo, Leonard Cohen pletely different film. Altman shot a rough-hewn, salutes the crowd during his performance on dark-toned revisionist Western filigreed with despair. the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts The hero has little idea of the forces he’s up against, Festival in Indio, Calif.

A makeshift shrine is seen in front of the home of legendary singer and poet Leonard Cohen.

A person holds a record of Leonard Cohen at a recordstore in The Hague. Photo shows Leonard Cohen’s family burial plot in a cemetery in Montreal. lifestyle TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016

FASHION

Bolivian Aymara designer Eliana Paco, offers an interview to AFP at her workshop in La Paz, weeks after presenting her traditional ‘chola’ (indigenous Aymara and Quechua women from the Bolivian altiplano) creations at New York’s Fashion Week. — AFP photos Bolivian designer exports high-end indigenous fashion

enturies ago, Spanish colonizers forced their Bolivian ser- New York, where she made headlines with her latest collec- 10-kilo skirts vants to wear the puffy skirts that have come to symbol- tion, “Pachamama” (Mother Earth, in the Quechua language). Paco, the daughter of two artisans, takes pride in the quali- Cize the country’s “cholitas,” or indigenous women. Today, “It’s the first time a chola women’s suit has arrived on the run- ty of her designs. Her colorful “aguayo” shawls are hand- one local designer is turning the tables with plans to export way. There were 12 international models wearing our designs,” woven with naturally dyed alpaca or vicuna wool. The best high-end cholita fashion-blossoming skirts, bowler hats and she said. ones take a team of three people two weeks to finish. The intricately woven shawls-to Madrid, Paris and beyond. Fresh off below-the-knee skirts have three or four layers, each using up her first show at New York Fashion Week, Eliana Paco, a 34- Turning heads to six meters (yards) of fabric. They can weigh up to 10 kilos year-old indigenous Aymara designer, is ready to bring her Paco’s exuberant dresses, vibrant shawls and gravity-defy- (22 pounds). A full outfit can cost 1,500 to 30,000 bolivianos take on a once-stigmatized style to the world. ing bowlers captured industry insiders’ attention. “I love choli- ($200 to $4,300). “Cholitas”-a diminutive of “chola,” a sometimes derogatory ta clothing. It reminds me a lot of Yves Saint Laurent and the For special occasions, members of Bolivia’s newly wealthy world for a woman from Bolivia’s indigenous majority-were best era of Armani, when he used bowler hats,” said Spanish “cholita elite” add gold or silver pins, brooches and jewels that once seen here as a silent underclass of maids and manual designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. “I would love to take (Paco’s can add thousands of dollars to the price tag. “To me (the out- laborers. But in a changing Bolivia currently governed by its designs) to Madrid, to Paris,” she told AFP in Lima, Peru, where fit) symbolizes culture, identity, pride and work, because chola first indigenous president, Evo Morales, Paco said she sees the she was presenting her own collection. women work long and hard,” said Paco, who has three chil- traditional women’s costume as a symbol of “identity and “Until now there had never been a cholita with the market- dren. “It’s also about the empowerment of independent and pride.” She has already made her mark on the local fashion ing sense she has.” Paco said she sees an international market professional women,” she said, sporting an outfit of her own scene, where TV presenters and cabinet ministers now regu- for her designs. “I think it’s possible European women could design. — AFP larly sport the indigenous look, updated and embellished. use the shawls or hats for everyday wear,” said the soft-spoken Her mission now is to “use that sophisticated touch to cross designer with her ever-present smile. She envisions her shawls borders,” she told AFP. She took a big step in September in accessorizing Western dresses or jeans, she said.

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A supermoon rises over the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol dome in Washington, DC November 13, 2016. The supermoon will venture to its closest point in 68 years, leaving only 221,524 miles (356,508 km) between Earth and the moon.— AFP

Exiled writer Nasreen fears for Bangladesh’s future Munch, Monet,

aving herself been the subject of fatwas and forced Arguably her most famous work was the 1993 novel “Lajja” de Kooning to into exile by fundamentalist critics of her writing, (Bengali for Shame) which was about the persecution of a HTaslima Nasreen despairs at the wave of assassina- Hindu family living in Bangladesh, where more than 90 per- tions of secular bloggers in her native Bangladesh. “You cent of the population is Muslim. Nasreen’s latest book “Exile” star in New York know Islamisation started in Bangladesh in the 1980s and in is a memoir about how she was hounded out of the Indian the 80s I was very worried,” recalls the prize-winning poet state of West Bengal a decade ago following protests by fall auctions and novelist in an interview with AFP in New Delhi. “I wrote Muslim groups who tried to force her out of the country for about Islamic fundamentalists. I said that they should not go good. She remains effectively persona non grata in West ew York’s fall auction season kicks off next week unopposed or they will destroy our society, that’s exactly Bengal and her enmity for her critics is as sharp as ever. with a sparkling array of masterpieces expected what’s happened now.” “Who are they to decide who can stay in India and who Nto draw bidders from around the world at It’s 22 years since Nasreen last set foot in Bangladesh, hav- cannot? ... Those people committed a crime but you are pun- Christie’s and Sotheby’s. From Edvard Munch’s ing been forced to flee in fear of her life after tens of thou- ishing me for no fault of mine,” she says animatedly on her Expressionist “Girls on the Bridge” to Willem De Kooning’s sands of Islamists took to the streets to denounce her writing. rocking chair. “They issued a fatwa, put a price on my head- abstract “Untitled XXV,” the two major auction houses Her novels and essays had brought her no shortage of ene- which is illegal in India but nobody was punished for that. I have put together an impressive collection of paintings mies and she upset the government by railing against rights was punished for that, the victim was punished.” Nasreen’s and sculptures from some of the 20th century’s greatest abuses and the treatment of women. She infuriated Islamists home is dotted with stickers and banners with slogans of the names for the prestigious sales running till Thursday. with her fiercely pro-secular views. She was feted abroad, win- Bangladesh was born as a secular state but now it’s a kind of causes close to her heart, such as “Proud To Be A Feminist” and There will be dozens of Picassos and Chagalls on display ning the European parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of fundamentalist state,” she said. “Islamic fundamentalists are “Atheism Cures Religious Terrorism”. A book of cartoons from in the auction houses’ galleries ahead of the sales-togeth- Thought in 1994, but the government back home filed a case very powerful, they can kill anyone if they want. “And because the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is displayed er with paintings by Kandinsky, Sisley, Dubuffet and against her for hurting religious sentiment. those atheist bloggers criticize Islam-they criticize other reli- prominently on her coffee table. Rothko-rivaling the exhibits at some of the neighboring After three separate fatwas calling for her execution were gions too-but because they criticized Islam they were hacked major museums. issued, Nasreen fled first to Europe before moving to to death and the government didn’t take any action against Right to offend Starting prices are often set well below artworks’ Bangladesh’s giant neighbor India. Her plight is all too familiar those killers,” she added. Twelve people were shot dead in Charlie Hebdo’s offices in estimated values in order not to discourage anyone to a new generation of secular writers whose blogs criticizing January last year by Islamist gunmen who had taken offence interested and attract as many buyers as possible, says fundamentalism have been met with fury by Islamist groups. Living with fear to cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Nasreen Christie’s America president Brook Hazleton. There’s no Dozens have either been murdered with machetes, gone into As someone who lives round-the-clock with protection, argues the right to offend is a fundamental part of freedom of shortage of bidders in the United States, Paris, London- hiding or fled with their families to Europe and the United Nasreen says it’s important not to allow oneself to be over- expression. “Many of my books, people say they hurt their reli- and increasingly Asia, with growing Chinese fortunes States. No one has been convicted of any of the attacks whelmed by fear. “I think I’ve got used to it, you have to,” she gious feelings,” she said. “But I think that if we believe in free- spent on internationally recognized works at both although some suspects have been killed during raids by the said inside her small apartment, armed guards stationed out- dom of expression then we should believe also that every- major auction houses. security forces. side. “Of course every time a fatwa is issued I get shocked, I body should have the right to express their opinions and The sales will serve as a barometer of the global art market, which did well during this year’s spring auctions Bangladesh, which gained its independence in 1971 after get sad, I get scared and then you know you have to live your everybody has the right to offend others and nobody has the despite a slow 2015. Records could be broken this time. winning a war of secession against Pakistan, is an officially everyday life. “You cannot think of death all the time, then it’s right to live their entire life without being offended. “Freedom Munch’s “Girls on the Bridge,” a 1902 canvas depicting secular nation. But Nasreen says Prime Minister Sheikh not a living. If I think of death all the time then I would not of expression cannot exist without the right to offend.” — AFP women in colorful dresses that contrast with a dark, Hasina’s government has made the same mistake as her pred- have been able to write so many books.” Since her first collec- anguished landscape, has broken records every time it ecessors by failing to stand firm against hardliners who want tion of poetry came out in 1982, Nasreen has had more than has gone under the hammer. It went for $30.8 million in the country to be defined by religion. “I am very worried. 40 books published. 2008, compared to $7.7 million in 1997. This time, Sotheby’s estimates its worth above the $50 million. The Norwegian artist’s most famous work, “The Scream,” became the world’s most expensive work of art to sell at auction in 2012, at $120 million. Claude Monet’s “Meul,” another likely centerpiece of the autumn season- to be sold by Christie’s-is part of a series of haystacks the artist painted during the winter of 1890-91. It’s estimated at $45 million. As with many great Impressionist works, prices are determined by scarcity: most are now in national museums and out of reach for private collectors. The record for a Monet came in 2008 with the bucolic “Le bassin aux Nympheas,” which brought in $80.5 million in London. Testament to Chinese collectors’ growing clout, the painting was exhibited in Hong Kong at the end of October before it went on display in New York. The prolif- ic Picasso is also omnipresent in next week’s sales. At Christie’s, his painting “Bust of a woman,” inspired by his mistress and muse Dora Maar, is estimated at between $18 and $25 million. At Sotheby’s, the spotlight returns a long-running series of Picasso paintings titled “Painter and his model,” this installment from 1963, owned by New York’s Oestreich family until now. The art- work is estimated between $12 million and $18 million. There’s no shortage of gems among contemporary art for sale. De Kooning is set to figure prominently next week with the imposing “Untitled XXV” — 6.5 by 7 feet (2 by 2.2 meters) — featuring his typically vigorous, multicol- ored brush strokes. Christie’s estimates it at $40 million. Gerhard Richter’s “Abstraktes Bild (809-2)” is another abstract jewel, a canvas dominated by yellow and blood red, valued between $18 million and $25 million.—AFP

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen speaks during an interview with AFP at her residence in New Delhi. — AFP photos