tinguish themfrom thetensofthousands male- shaws -whichmay bepaintedpinkorpeach to dis- women toapply forthesepermits.”Theauto-rick- dence andearnaliving,so we wouldlikemore taxis. Wewanttoseewomenhere alsogaininconfi- age them,”hesaid.“Abroad,women areevendriving Rajendra Navale,assistantRegional TransportOfficer. wheeled vehiclesinacouple ofmonths,said permits thisweek,andcouldbedrivingtheirthree- more inthewesternMaharashtrastatereceived in theMumbaimetropolitanregionandabout100 more womentotakethewheel.Atleast467 or tuk-tuks,throughalotteryaimedatencouraging Mumbai havewonpermitstodriveauto-rickshaws, MUMBAI: in Mangaf for sellingbabies Filipino arrested ing hiswishcometrue.(SeePage3) as partofMoI’sdutiesincommunityservices.ThechildwassoexcitedandthankfultoMoIformak- tion chopper.Thechild,HamadThamerissickwithachronicdisease.Officersrespondedtohiswish KUWAIT: Asix-year-oldKuwaitirecentlyrealizedhisdreamofflyinginMinistryInterior’sopera- “This willhelpcreatejobsforwomen andencour- permits todrive tuk-tuks SUBSCRIPTION Mumbai women getfirst Hundreds ofwomenintheIndiancity 4 150 Fils AUDY AUR 6 06 AIATAI6 47A No: SATURDAY, 1437 AH JANUARY RABI 16,2016 ALTHANI 6, fill gapleftbyfallingcrude Oman borrows$1billionto Oil priceslumpstretchesstatefinances survey of16cities worldwide.—Reuters for womenina 2014ThomsonReutersFoundation among themost dangerouspublictransportsystems en lawsonsexcrimes.Delhiwas rankedashaving nationwide protestsandforced authoritiestotight- on abusinNewDelhi2012, acasethatledto scrutiny afterayoungwomanwas fatallygangraped transport systemshavecome underincreasing empowerment andabilitytowork andstudy.India’s between safetransportandwomen’seconomic al harassment.Studieshaverepeatedlyshownalink common inMumbaiandNewDelhibecauseofsexu- passengers, Navalesaid. congested streets-willalsogiveprioritytowomen driven, black-and-yellowtuk-tuksthatplyMumbai’s Women-only commutertrainsandcoachesare child marriagebill block ‘un-Islamic’ Pakistani clerics 11 tional bond,whichbankersexpecttohappenin2016.—Reuters raise moneyabroad.Thegovernmenthasalsotalkedaboutsellinganinterna- sure totheliquidityinlocalbankingsystemandforcinggovernment program, includingregulartreasurybillauctions.Theborrowingisaddingpres- es andfuelsubsidyreforms.Thecountryhasanextendeddomesticborrowing rials ayearearlier.Tobridgethedeficit,Omanhasbegunspendingcuts,taxris- 3.26 billionrialsinthefirst10monthsofyearfromasurplus189.6million Credit Agricole,StandardCharteredandEuropeArabBank. Sumitomo MitsuiFinancialGroup,BankofTokyo-MitsubishiUFJ,JPMorgan, action. TheotherbanksareNationalBankofAbuDhabi,SocieteGenerale, International BankandNatixis,whoweretheinitialbookrunnersfortrans- ing ratehigher.The11banksparticipatingintheloanincludeCitigroup,Gulf erupted betweenSaudiArabiaandIran.Bothcouldhavepushedtheborrow- the firsttwoweeksof2016,towards$30perbarrel,andgeopoliticaltension added tothepricingpressure. and severalbankcorporateissuersallseekingfundsatthesametime, of thebankerssaid.Crowdedloanmarketstowardsend2015,withQatar after theofferingwaslaunched,hurtsentimentstowardsdealfurther,”one grade ofOmanbyStandardandPoor’stothebrinkinvestmentgrade,just ed thecountry’sdebtandretainedanegativeoutlook.“Theuntimelydown- over Libor.IthadtoraisethatafterratingagencyStandard&Poor’sdowngrad- ay intotheinternationaldebtmarketthisyear. this week.Qatar,SaudiArabiaandKuwaitarealsoexpectedtomakeararefor- the UnitedArabEmirates,hasstartedmeetinginvestorsforapotentialsukuk Qatar closeda$5.5billionfive-yearloanearlierthismonthandSharjah,oneof by thedeclineinoil,whichhaslostthree-quartersofitsvaluesinceJune2014. either theinternationalbondorloanmarkettoplugbudgetdeficitsopenedup in thefive-yearloan. tary attheministryoffinance,toldReutersonThursday.Elevenbankstookpart over theLondoninterbankofferedrate(Libor),NasserAl-Jashmi,under-secre- small oilexporter,raisedfundsthroughasyndicatedloanat120basispoints tries tocopewithstrainsonitsfinancesasoilpricesplummet.Thesultanate,a DUBAI: comment onthehike. ment officialsdidnotimmediately run QatarNewsAgencyandgovern- post lateThursday,thoughthestate- made theannouncementinaTwitter low. ThestatefuelcompanyWoqod global oilpriceshavehita12-year Gulf countrytocutitssubsidiesas the statefuelcompanysaid,latest gasoline pricesbyatleast30percent, DUBAI: ($0.27), while“regular” gasolinewill riyals ($0.35)aliterfrom1Qatari riyal gasoline wouldgoupto1.30Qatari Cup. Woqodsaidpricesfor“super” country settohostthe2022World line pumpsinthesmall,peninsular showing pricenoticestapedtogaso- Q Oil’s plungesince2014hashitOman’sfinanceshard.Itswungtoadeficitof However, Omanpricedtheloanbeforeoilslumpedanother20percentin Oman beganseekingafive-yearloaninNovember,offering110basispoints The countryhasbecomethelatestGulfgovernmenttoseekfundsfrom Pictures circulatedonsocialmedia atar toraiseoil The governmentofOmanhasborrowed$1billionastheGulfcountry Qatar willraiseitssubsidized transfer bans hit byoneyear Real, Atletico 48 sidized fuelprices in2011.—AP year. Previously,Qatarhasraised sub- Arabia reducedfuelsubsidies last The UnitedArabEmiratesandSaudi reduced theirstategasolinesubsidies. Already, BahrainandOmanhave four yearsuntilthesummerof2014. for roughly$100abarrelnearly lowest levelin12years.Oilhadsold oil nowstandsaround$30abarrel,its faces lowerrevenuesasthepriceof AAA. regular gasolineis$1.93,accordingto The averageUSpriceforagallonof in Qatarwouldsellforabout$1.17. means a“regular”gallonofgasoline up from0.85Qataririyals($0.23).That sell for1.15Qataririyals($0.31)aliter, 16757 Qatar, richinnaturalgasandoil, prices Max Min 21º 07º LOCAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Kuwaiti students participating in ‘be among the excellent’ program Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Mansour Elimane Kane pictured with the delegation of outstanding Kuwaiti students. Kuwaiti students visit fascinating ‘Lac Rose’ Kuwait plays vital role in developing Senegal

DAKAR: Kuwaiti students, on a current mis- up to 25, 000 tons of salt from it per year, Development in Senegal He said that KFAED’s sponsorship of the sion in the African nation to take part in a pro- using primitive means. The group of students Kuwait played an integral role in pushing Kuwait students’ visit to the country would gram themed “be among the excellent,” have also reached tracks of the “Dakar Paris,” where development in Senegal, said Minister of hopefully inform and educate them on the visited Senegalese tourist landmarks. Among most of the famous rallies in the world are reg- Infrastructure and Transportation Mansour various contributions by the fund. So far, the visited sites was Lake Retba (also known as ularly organized. The rally, launched in the 70s, Elimane Kane in Dakar on Thursday. This state- KFAED offered Senegal around KD 110 million Lac Rose), color of which turns rosy during the involve racers challenging very rugged and ment came during the Minister’s meeting with in loans to fund several development projects summer, due to interaction of the sunlight snaky roads. Auto makers test solidity of their a delegation of outstanding Kuwaiti students in the West African nation. The Senegalese- with tiny living creatures living in the lake. At vehicles in this competition, as it is said. visiting the country. Kane told KUNA that Kuwaiti diplomatic relations dates back to sunset, the lake, five kms in length and 800 Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development through Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic 1971 when Senegal opened its embassy in meters in depth, restores its original color. has organized the students’ visit to the nation, Development (KFAED), Senegal had managed Kuwait. The Kuwaiti embassy in Dakar was It is known as a salt mine, for locals extract as an encouragement to top-grade students. to finish several development projects. opened in 1981. — Agencies

Dr Malallah re-elected as API director general

CAIRO: Kuwaiti Dr Bader Malallah has been re-elected director general of the Arab Planning Institute (API). The first meeting of the API Board of Trustees in Cairo on Thursday agreed that Malallah would stay in his post for a new five-year term (2016-2021). Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Sabeeh Al- Sabeeh, who is also chairperson of the API Board of Trustees attended the meeting. Al-Sabeeh led the Kuwaiti delegation, including Malallah, and Acting Secretary General of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) Dr Khaled Al-Mahdi, to the meeting. API Undersecretary, Jordan’s Hussein Al-Talafaha, was also re- elected for a new five-year term, till 2021. It was agreed that the Board would hold its next meet- ing in Jordan in May. Today’s meeting, discussed a host of API’s administrative and financial topics, as an Arab insti- tution specialized in developmental planning, Malallah said. In addition, participants discussed latest develop- ments on the Arab scene, and means of enhancing coordi- KUWAIT: Photo shows the traditional bedroom in the ancient Kuwaiti house. — KUNA nation and cooperation. He noted that the API had pre- pared a report on the economic conditions in the Arab World, under “Managing economic and social develop- Kuwait, Egypt ink $20 million deal ment and extensive operational growth in the Arab region.” The report reviews the conditions of the Arab for improving education services economies as well as obstacles and challenges hindering them, especially the falls of oil prices and the repercus- CAIRO: The Kuwait Fund for Arab sentatives of Arab funds, the Islamic Bank Conference for Syria held by Kuwait. “We sions on the Arab region’s economy as a whole, Malallah Economic Development (KFAED) and and representatives from Egypt’s Ministry allocated a grant to neighboring countries said. It also offers a host of policies that are likely to reme- Egypt’s government have signed a grant of Defense to discuss Sinai’s development hosting Syrian refugees and $20 million dy the economic and financial imbalances of these agreement worth $20 million for improv- project. for Egypt whose schools are full of these economies. ing education services and building 30 Following the signing ceremony, Al- refugees,” he said. In the meantime, the Board of Trustees reviewed the schools slated for next year. Bader said that the deal is part of Kuwait’s He stressed the importance of today’s assistance in training and planning and the consultancy The deal was inked by KFAED Director commitment to supporting Syrian meeting, which discussed how to make studies the API presented to the Arab countries. Over the General Abdulwahab Al-Bader and refugees living in neighboring countries, Sinai an attractive destination for people. past four years, the API offered training to 7,000 Arab Egyptian Minister of International adding the commitment worth $500 mil- A similar meeting was held in Kuwait last employees on the needs of development. — KUNA Cooperation Dr Sahar Nasr. This came on lion was announced during the Third December and reviewed programs of new the sidelines of Nasr’s meeting with repre- International Humanitarian Pledging development in Sinai, he noted. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Kuwait assessing bids for 15-year LNG deal KUWAIT: Kuwait is assessing bids from liquefied natural gas (LNG) providers for a 15-year supply deal to begin in 2021, trade sources said. Kuwait is seeking a minimum of 1.5 million tons of LNG to be supplied over the period, and has only invited producing heavy- weights to participate in the tender, trade sources said. The tender will close in early February, one trader said, and Kuwait is expected to buy more than its minimum requirement.

Kuwaiti oil down Meanwhile, the price of Kuwaiti oil was down by 94 cents on Thursday settling at $21.70 per barrel after being at $22.64 the day before, said Kuwait Oil Corporation (KPC) yesterday. On the global level, the price of oil witnessed a retreat due to investors’ fears over the resumption of Iranian oil production which would pump more oil into the already high level of supplies. The Brent mix price was down to $30.4 per barrel. The future contracts for the Brent mix was also down to $30.57 pb, a similar case for the February future contracts for the American crude which went down by $30.61 pb. — Agencies Crime Kuwaitis grab 6 ALECSO APPS awards Report DOHA: Kuwait has won six prizes of the national cultural awards as well as the “The motto of the award is “Arab Arab League Educational, Cultural and two regional-level awards. applications by Arab cadres key to Kuwaiti woman arrested for Scientific Organization award for In statements to KUNA following the entrepreneurship and firm identity,” insulting, threatening police mobile applications (ALECSO Apps ceremony, Eng. Bassam Al-Shemmery, Eng Al-Shemmery said, noting that the Award) - four on the national level and ALECSO expert and Kuwait’s represen- ALECSO will foster the talented youth By Hanan Al-Saadoun two on the regional Arab one. At the tative at the arbitration panel, said this and remove any obstacles that might award-giving ceremony on Thursday is the first edition of the Organization’s face them. He congratulated His KUWAIT: A female citizen working for Ministry of Health was recently evening, the ALECSO announced annual award which aims to honor the Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- chased and arrested for insulting and threatening police officers on ‘Manaheg Al-Kuwait’ (Kuwait curricula) best smart phone applications in the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the duty in Ahmadi. Security sources said that the suspect had insulted application, developed by Ali Al-Ni’ma educational, cultural, scientific and Kuwaiti people and government on the and threatened policemen at a check point - saying that her father is and Nasser Al-Ni’ma, as winner of the entertainment domains. “The ALECSO winning of two out of 10 regional Arab a Brigadier and that her sister is a police officer. When the suspect first education prize; and ‘Al-Mama’ APPS Award is part of a framework proj- awards. Kuwait is the only country that was asked to stop at a check point, policemen noticed that she had (chess-like) game, by Dr Anwar Al-Harbi, ect aiming to create the necessary tech- won two regional awards in addition to been on drugs - and also suspected her of being in possession of winner of the regional award. Dr Nader nological infrastructure for the domesti- four national ones at the contest, he some illicit drugs. She then drove off in an attempt to escape the Marafi’s ‘ketabi’ (my book) application cation of smart phone and tablet indus- added. A total of 1,200 candidates from checkpoint. and Eng Hussein Al-Bustan’s ‘raqeb naf- tries in the Arab countries through a 19 Arab countries vied for the first sak’ (keep eye on your weight) won the common perspective,” he said. ALECSO Apps Award. — KUNA Liquor factory busted A Sri Lankan was recently arrested in Ahmadi after he escaped at a checkpoint and for running a local liquor factory, said security sources. When the suspect was asked to show his ID at a checkpoint, Government’s ‘austerity he ran away on foot, taking refuge in an apartment in Mangaf that turned out to be used for manufacturing local liquor. Another sus- pect was arrested in the apartment and both are facing charges of plan’ triggers reactions manufacturing and selling liquor. In another development, an Asian was recently arrested on arrival at Kuwait airport after security offi- By A Saleh zens. Al-Tamimi also renewed calls to diversify sources of cers found two kilograms of marijuana in his luggage. income by establishing various oil-related industries that KUWAIT: The parliament’s observer, Abdullah Al-Tamimi has would increase national income over a period of time during Asians arrested for fraud rejected the government’s intention to increase gas prices and which the deficit could be covered from national reserves. Five Asians have been arrested for fraud, said security sources, reducing subsidies to basic items citizens get. He said that Meanwhile, MP Abdullah Al-Tuiraiji also urged government noting that the suspects had made use of the sufferings of people in such move contradict the speech HH the Amir delivered on to take it easy on lifting the subsidies on goods and services distress and claimed to be collecting donations and furniture to send inaugurating the parliamentary term in which he insisted on because such steps would have adverse effect on the citizens. to the underprivileged. On raiding a place suspected rented, police- rationalizing without affecting citizens with limited income. “Many lawmakers have warned against government’s austeri- men found a large quantity of furniture, brochures and fake invoices. “The Finance Ministry is capable of rationalizing expenses ty plan”, he stressed noting that the plan entirely contradicts in many other ways”, he underlined, pointing out that the with the statements made by the ministers. “Many reports talk Humane gesture state budget had been reduced from KD 24 billion to KD 19 about considerable waste in various governmental bodies”, he MoI recently helped a six-year-old Kuwaiti realize his dream of fly- billion - and this step would have been okayed if waste in trav- remarked urging the government to regulate its spending ing in MoI’s operations chopper, said security sources. The child, el allowances, conferences and bonuses were cut down rates before resorting to any other measures. He also called for Hamad Thamer is sick with a chronic disease. Officers responded to instead of making up for the difference at the expense of citi- more privatization to cut down expenses. his wish as part of MoI’s duties in community services. The child was so excited and thankful to MoI for making his wish come true. LOCAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 , 2016

Kuwaitis express affection to Sheikh Jaber with ‘longest letter’

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis on January 15, 2007, placed a 3-km-long eulogy letter to the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah between Dasman and Seif palaces. It was a gesture of faithfulness to the ‘Amir of Hearts,’ depicting the Kuwaitis’ deep affection to the late Amir. The banner, the longest in the world, manifested his personal special traits. —KUNA

Crime KRCS holds a photographic Report exhibition about its action

Filipino arrested KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) launched yester- Societies (IFRC) has touted the work of KRCS all over the world. day a photographic exhibition at the Avenues Mall, displaying After meeting with KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi, for selling babies pictures covering years of activities since its establishment in Elhadj As Sy expressed satisfaction with the range of coopera- 1966. Anwar Al-Hasawi, the KRCS Deputy Chairman said after tion between the two relief aid organizations. The two men KUWAIT: In a strange human trafficking case, a Filipina the opening that such an activity is necessary to bring into reviewed further steps at augmenting this cooperation. On the was recently arrested in Mangaf for selling newborn limelight the society accomplishments and Kuwait’s humani- other hand, Al-Hasawi considered the guests’ visit to KRCS a babies. Security sources said that all the babies were born tarian action. The exhibition includes pictures of KRCS teams boost for its mission to provide relief aid to the needy every- outside wedlock. Case papers indicate that detectives had relieving people stricken with natural catastrophes or falling where. On a related matter, KRCS chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer met been tipped off concerning the suspect’s activity and after victims to armed conflicts. with member of the Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mauro placing her under surveillance for a while; the suspect was Arrigoni where they discussed, among other issues, the humani- arrested along with one of the mothers and four newborn KRCS extolled tarian situation in the city of Matay in war-ravaged Syria. The babies. The two women were referred to relevant authori- In another development, Elhadj As Sy Secretary General of chairman said that KRCS was planning a donations drive to help ties - and the babies have been hospitalized. The suspect the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent the people of that city beginning next Sunday. —Agencies confessed to acting as a midwife for her compatriots. She said she usually took the babies immediately after birth and sold them (KD 250 each) to childless couples.

Family perished in car crash A Saudi, a Kuwaiti father, his daughter and son were all killed while the Kuwaiti’s wife and three other chil- dren were seriously injured in a tragic accident along Hafral Baten road, KSA while driving back to Kuwait, said security source. Ten Saudi ambulances and 20 paramedics were dispatched to the scene where they were assisted by a Kuwaiti doctor who was on his way back to Kuwait. The injured were rushed to a Saudi hospital.

Oil pipe stolen The legal representative of an oil company recently filed a case with Subbiya police station reporting that an unidentified robber had stolen a 200-meter-long oil pipe from one of the company’s sites. He also said that the pipe was worth KD 1400. A case was.

Witchcraft items An Iranian sailor was recently arrested on arrival at Doha Port. According to security sources, some witch- craft items were found in his possession.

A brothel in Mangaf Five citizens, two female expats were recently arrested in Mangaf, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a citizen was arrested after officers found 4 bottles of import- ed liquor in his possession. On asking him, he said that he bought them from another citizen living in Mangaf. On storming the second suspect’s apartment, security opera- tives found out that it is used as a brothel. Four citizens and two female prostitutes were arrested and 5 cartoons of liquor were also seized. A case has been filed and the sus- pects have been referred to relevant authorities. Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) photographic exhibition at the Avenues. LOCAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

KUWAIT: Under the auspices of the National Guards Deputy Chief, Lt General Hashim Al-Refa’e and in the presence of Reinforcement Commander Maj General Faleh Shoja’ Faleh, the national Guards recently held a graduation ceremony for a batch of graduating students on Basic Infantry Education. Officers from Bahrain participated in the program. GCC deeply concerned over Ooredoo announces North Korea’s H-bomb test

RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is deeply con- Xpress draw winners cerned over North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test which could threaten peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the world, Secretary General Abdullatif bin Rashed Al-Zayani said. In a press statement, Al-Zayani said that the hydrogen bomb test was a violation of international law, stressing that the GCC was in support of all efforts to prevent the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The test was in violation of the Non- proliferation Treaty (NPT), said Al-Zayani who called on the international community to take the necessary procedures to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

‘Necessary’ response Meanwhile, China said yesterday it supported “necessary” action against North Korea by the UN Security Council to pre- serve the authority of the United Nations in the face of Pyongyang’s latest nuclear weapon test this month. The North’s nuclear test angered both China and the United States and again raised questions about what can be done to stop its development of nuclear weapons. The country is already under a wide array of international sanctions, and diplomats have said UN Security Council members were expected to discuss the possibility of adding to those. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the nuclear test violated UN resolutions and ran counter to goals for denuclearization on the Korean peninsula. “China supports the UN Security Council in taking the neces- sary response to this. We believe the United Nations’ authority must be preserved, and the nuclear non-proliferation system must KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, a member of the international ously engages with its customers through different cam- be safeguarded,” the ministry cited Wang as saying, in a statement Ooredoo Group, yesterday announced the winners of its paigns and promotions, as part of its customer centric on its website. He did not elaborate on what that response should Xpress campaign in collaboration with the Sultan Center approach. be. Despite differences over the issue of new Security Council res- (TSC). Five winners won Ford Fiesta 2015 and were olutions, the international community must take a “clear and con- announced during a raffle draw that took place at Ooredoo sistent” direction and return to six-party talks, Wang said. “It is not Head Office on Thursday. The winners are Mamdouh Ahmed One more candidate for 3rd to provoke confrontation, but rather to firmly advance denu- Kamel, Ghadah Mohammad Abdulbaqi, Sanjay Prasad, Cristha constituency by-election clearization goals,” he added. “It is not to bring chaos to the penin- Villarey and Jose Xovasw. sula, but to seek a plan for lasting stability.” KUWAIT: Up to 16 Kuwaitis have registered to run for Last week, North Korea said it had tested a powerful hydro- The Xpress campaign was rolled out across 13 different TSC by-election in the 3rd constituency, since the door was gen bomb but the United States and various experts doubt locations, where customers who purchased the Xpress line that, as the blast was roughly the same size as that from its pre- were rewarded through a ‘scratch and win’ campaign. Prizes opened on Wednesday. Some 10 people applied in the vious test, of an atomic bomb, in 2013. South Korea warned the included 10 smartphones, iPhones and Samsung Galaxy, 10 first day, five in the second and one, Bader Sehab Al- North that the United States and its allies were working on sanc- 42” LED screens, five home theatre systems and last but not Muwaizri yesterday, all male candidates, said Director tions to inflict “bone-numbing pain” for the test, and urged least, 750 recharge voucher. Mijbil Alayoub, Director of of the Election Directorate Salah Al-Shatti said. China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbor. The World Corporate Communications at Ooredoo Kuwait, said: “I would Registration door closes by the end of January 22, he Economic Forum withdrew its invitation for North Korea’s for- like to start by congratulating each of the lucky winners and added. A candidate must be a Kuwaiti citizen, not less eign minister to attend its annual Davos meeting because of the to thank TSC for this successful collaboration. It is important than 30 years of age, able to read and write, with an nuclear test, a move Pyongyang said was “based on unjust to us that our customers are constantly rewarded for their loy- immaculate criminal record, according to an earlier political motivation” driven by the United States. — Agencies alty and trust in us as a service provider”. Ooredoo continu- Interior Ministry statement. — KUNA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Iraqi forces enter oil city Several dead as Shabab Jakarta bloodshed spotlights to disarm tribal fighters 8 storm AU base in Somalia 9 rise of IS affiliate in SE Asia 12

A Jordanian soldier carries a Syrian refugee child after his entry into Jordanian territory with his family through the Hadalat border crossing, located near the northeastern Jordanian border with Syria and Iraq, near the town of Ruwaished, Jordan, on Thursday. — AP Starvation deaths stalk Syria’s Madaya US military discloses civilian casualties in IS fight BEIRUT: The UN children’s agency said yester- warring parties to lift sieges on towns where are 14 other Madayas,” she said. the aid delivered by international groups had day that it witnessed the death of a teenager hundreds of thousands have been cut off Singer, in the statement, said that at the been sent to areas under the rebel control who died of starvation “in front of our eyes,” from aid and many are starving. makeshift hospital UNICEF visited in the town, and most of it had fallen into the hands of as well as several cases of severe malnutrition UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who there were only two doctors and two health extremists. among children trapped in a besieged Syrian called the deliberate starvation of civilians a professionals working under overwhelming town near Damascus. “war crime,” also stepped up the pressure, conditions. Civilian deaths Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s representative in calling Thursday for both the Syrian govern- Meanwhile Russia, which has been con- Meanwhile, the US military said yesterday Syria, said in a statement that the 16-year-old, ment and rebels to end the sieges before the ducting airstrikes in Syria to support its Syrian eight civilians likely were killed and three identified as Ali, died of malnutrition on commencement of peace talks scheduled for army allies, said that Russian airplanes wounded in air strikes against Islamic State Thursday in a clinic in the town of Madaya. Jan. 25 in Geneva. Ban said the United Nations dropped 22 metric tons of humanitarian car- targets in Iraq and Syria between April 12 and Trucks from the UN and other humanitarian and its humanitarian partners are able to go over the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, which July 4 last year. organizations entered Madaya on Thursday deliver food to only 1 percent of the 400,000 has been besieged by the Islamic State group It was only the third time since the start of for the second time in a week after reports of people under siege in Syria, down from 5 per- for a year. The city is contested, with IS con- the US-led air campaign against Islamic State starvation deaths. The town has been under cent just over a year ago. trolling most of the territory but the Syrian in 2014 that the US military’s Central siege for months by government forces. Juliette Touma, an Amman-based UNICEF government holding some neighborhoods. Commander has disclosed civilian casualties Two other communities, the villages of representative, said the agency’s staff who The Russian defense ministry did not say following its internal investigations. It has pre- Foua and Kfarya in northern Syria, besieged spent close to seven hours in Madaya when, or in which part of the city, the aid drop viously reported a total of six civilian deaths in by Syrian rebels were also included in the aid Thursday are “terribly shocked.” occurred. But the Britain-based Syrian its air campaign. operation. The death of the teenager as inter- Her staff saw “pretty horrific scenes” of Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition US military data shows there have been national aid workers were inside Madaya rein- malnourishment, including among women, activist group that monitors both sides of the 9,627 US-led coalition air strikes as of Jan. 13, forced the scale of the humanitarian catastro- children and the elderly, she told The conflict, said the aid was parachuted over with 6,393 in Iraq and 3,234 in Syria. “We con- phe in the town and other besieged areas. Associated Press. She added, however, that neighborhoods controlled by government tinue to review additional claims of civilian The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold many felt relief at finally arriving at these forces. casualties and will provide additional informa- an emergency meeting Friday at the request hard-to-reach areas. “It is important right now Lt-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian mili- tion in the future,” Central Command said in a of Western countries trying to press Syria’s to maintain this humanitarian access ... There tary’s General Staff said that to date most of statement. — Agencies INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

UN rights chief cites worrying trends in Burundi

BUJUMBURA: The UN human rights chief Niyongabo and Helmenegilde Nimenya Rwanda. neighborhoods. An eyewitness told AP yesterday denounced what he described had been among more than 20 former mil- “All the alarm signals, including the some of the dead had their hands tied as gang-rapes of women in Burundi by itary officers and soldiers put on trial for increasing ethnic dimension of the crisis, behind their backs. Another witness security forces, torture and signs of ethnic their alleged roles in the May coup. are flashing red,” he said. He also called for blamed government security forces saying repression in nine months of simmering The office of UN rights chief Zeid Raad an urgent investigation into the events they went after the victims in door-to-door violence there. Al-Hussein’s said in Geneva yesterday that that took place in Bujumbura, the capital, searches. In his statement, Zeid referred to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision 432 people have been killed in violence on Dec. 11 and 12, including the reported “large-scale human rights violations” that to seek a third term last year has left since April 26. Zeid said his office is analyz- existence of at least nine mass graves. occurred in the immediate aftermath of Burundi on the brink of civil war. Yesterday, ing satellite images to shed light on allega- In coordinated attacks, gunmen the Dec. 11 attack. “The increasing number a court in Burundi sentenced four military tions about the reported discovery of nine stormed three military installations in of enforced disappearances, coupled with generals who were the alleged leaders of a mass graves. His office also cited growing Burundi before on Dec. 11. The next day, allegations of secret detention facilities and failed coup to life in prison. Cyrille signs that Tutsis were being targeted in the The Associated Press reported at the time, mass graves is extremely alarming,” he Ndayirukire, Zenon Ndabaneze, Juvenal Hutu-majority country that is next to 28 people were found shot dead in three said. — AP

Behind frontline, Iraq town torn as anti-IS forces clash

TUZ KHURMATU, Iraq: When a wave of deadly ethnic violence swept through the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, Ahmed Hassan Majid’s house was on the wrong side of an invisible line. The Kurdish-Turkmen violence ignited by a checkpoint dispute in November has since faded, but divisions between the communities are sharper than ever. They fight the same jihadist enemy but in areas where their frontlines meet, the autonomous Kurdish region and the Baghdad-backed Shiite paramilitary forces are vying for influence, a contest that sometimes descends into violence. After clambering over his charred belongings to reach the roof of his house, which was torched during the unrest, Majid pointed to a cinderblock wall that went up recently, dead-ending a street to mark an ethnic border. “On this side, Kurds. Over here, it’s Turkmen,” said the 36-year-old father of two. Majid is a Turkmen Shiite, but the house he spent a quarter of a million dollars on before moving in earlier this year was one of the first Turkmen homes on the edge of the Kurdish district. As he sat on a plastic chair in the darkness of his gutted home, his eyes drifted into a sorrowful haze. “It was one of the first to be torched. I have lost everything,” Majid said. In the bridal parlor he ran from a small office attached to his house, a wedding dress survived the destruction. But Tuz Khurmatu is a divorcing town-neighborhood minority residents who were not forced out by fire and threats have spontaneously moved back across RAMADI: Residents leave their homes as Iraqi security forces clear the Sufiya district on the outskirts of Ramadi the ethnic divide. In some cases, Kurdish and Turkmen families that were both on the “wrong side” of town traded homes to save having yesterday, a few weeks after declaring victory against the Islamic State (IS) group. — AFP to find a new place to live. Iraqi forces enter oil city Over 100 homes burned Nihan Bahaeddin’s home in the same area was occupied by Kurdish forces at the height of the November tensions but was not burned down. The 35-year-old biotechnology professor was already to disarm tribal fighters displaced once in June 2014 when the Islamic State jihadist group took over the city of Mosul where she was teaching. “It’s dangerous Troops arrest residents, confiscate weapons but we had no other choice than to come back. The Kurdish soldiers made a mess but we have no other place to live,” she said. BASRA: Iraq has sent an armored army the major OPEC member. province, which is the country’s eco- “Tuz is part of Kurdistan” was scribbled on walls in the children’s division and a police strike force into “This security operation targets areas nomic backbone, has become a priori- room and hallway, a reference to the Kurds’ three-province region the southern oil city of Basra to disarm north of Basra that have an abundance ty,” said Bazouni, the provincial council that has expanded its territorial control during the conflict with IS. residents amid intensified feuding of tribal clashes and will also include head. As the holder of the world’s fifth- Tuz Khurmatu, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of among rival Shi’ite Muslim tribes, local neighborhoods inside Basra city in the biggest crude reserves, oil makes up Baghdad, is a major crossroads in Iraq-a gateway to Kurdistan to the officials and security sources said yes- future,” said Jabar al-Saadi, head of the around 40 percent of Iraq’s gross north, IS-held territory to the west, Iran to the east and Shiite Arab terday. security committee at the Basra provin- domestic product and more than 90 areas of Iraq to the south. The word “Kurdish” has been spray-painted Forces had been deployed earlier to cial council. percent of fiscal and current external on the iron doors of hundreds of shops to prevent them from being restore calm to rural areas running Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi held receipts. burned down. — AFP north of the city towards West Qurna his weekly cabinet meeting on But lower oil prices and costs associ- and Majnoon oilfields on Wednesday, Wednesday in Basra where he called on ated with the fight against the insur- but a local official reassured foreign security forces to “strike with an iron fist gents have strained Baghdad’s finances. companies their assets were secure. (against) the gangs that tamper with The 2016 budget forecasts oil at $45 a “The oil companies and oil sites and the Basra’s security”. With tanks and heavy barrel and average exports nationwide roads leading to them are completely machine guns, the security forces of 3.6 million barrels per day. safe. There are no concerns in this entered overnight the northern Basra Oil exports from southern Iraq regard,” said Sabah al-Bazouni, head of district of al-Hussein, a flashpoint for dropped last month to an average of Basra’s provincial council. tribal fighting also known as al- 3.215 million bpd, down from a record The tribal fighting and military Hayaniya, Saadi said. Backed by army high in November but up from a year response are a sign of the growing helicopters, they began raiding homes earlier. problems that could face foreign oil and seizing weapons, he added. Abadi visited West Quena-2 oilfield companies, even though they operate in August to reassure its Russian opera- far from areas of conflict with Islamic IRAQ’S ECONOMIC BACKBONE tor Lukoil after officials warned produc- State. Security forces arrested around 30 tion could be affected by protesters The disputes have forced Baghdad people on criminal charges and seized demanding jobs. to divert critical security resources machine guns, mortars, rocket-pro- The people of Basra complain that from the frontlines with those mili- pelled grenades, assault rifles and large although the bulk of Iraq’s oil is pro- tants in the north and west to the ammunition caches, the security duced and shipped from their BAGHDAD: An Iraqi Muslim eats fire during a Sufi ritual, south, where oil fields account for sources said. province, they do not enjoy the bene- attended by Sunni and Shiites, in the Iraqi city of Hilla, more than 85 percent of production by “Protecting security in Basra fits. — Reuters south of Baghdad yesterday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Boko Haram attacks killed 1,200 people since 2013: Cameroon

YAOUNDE: Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists simultaneous incursions in some areas. sition to the Islamists. Cameroon has mean- Chibok and its aftermath, but signaled no have killed nearly 1,200 people in neighbor- “In the face of such unjustified and gra- while banned the Islamic veil in a bid to pre- progress in efforts to rescue the students ing Cameroon’s far north since 2013, the tuitous harassment our defense and securi- empt suicide bombings staged by attackers abducted nearly two years ago. Buhari told communications minister in Yaounde said ty forces have inflicted heavy losses on the wearing the full-face veil. Boko Haram’s six- parents of the missing students that he yesterday. enemy,” he said, adding that the group had year campaign for a hardline Islamic state in goes to bed and wakes up every day “with Issa Tchiroma Bakary told reporters that been so weakened that it was now taking northeast Nigeria has killed at least 17,000 the Chibok girls on my mind.” the group had staged 315 raids in the bor- recourse to bomb attacks, often staged by people and made more than 2.6 million The president announced the investiga- der region during this period and carried women or girls. others homeless. tion Thursday, telling parents it will seek to out 32 suicide bombings. “In total, 1,098 Since late November, the Cameroon Despite the offensives launched by unravel the circumstances that led to the civilians, 67 of our soldiers and three police army has carried out operations in several regional forces, the group maintains April 15, 2014 kidnapping and the actions officials have been killed in these barbaric border areas aimed at weakening Nigerian strongholds in areas that are difficult to and inactions that followed, according to a attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group,” jihadists active in the region. Boko Haram in access, such as the Sambisa forest, the statement. Bakary said. the past year stepped up cross-border Mandara mountains and the numerous Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, the chief of Since July last year, Cameroon’s far attacks in Niger, Chad and Cameroon while islands of Lake Chad. defense staff, accompanied the president north has been hit by a series of attacks continuing shooting and suicide assaults and told the parents that the military has blamed on Boko Haram, which has pledged on markets, mosques and other mostly Probe ordered the ability to rescue the Chibok girls but allegiance to the Islamic State group. This civilian targets within Nigeria itself. President Muhammadu Buhari is order- “intelligence is delicate and we don’t want year, the number of attacks in the region The group has increasingly targeted ing an investigation into Boko Haram’s to do anything to jeopardize the lives of the has increased to a near daily basis with imams and traditional chiefs for their oppo- mass kidnapping of the schoolgirls from girls.” — Agencies

Two Saudi teachers home after freed by Yemen rebels

RIYADH: Two Saudi Arabian religious teachers have arrived home after their release from more than nine months’ detention by Houthi rebels in Yemen, official media reported yesterday. Abdulrahman Al-Sharari and Salem Al-Ghamdi landed in Riyadh on Thursday evening from Djibouti, the Saudi Press Agency said. They were accompanied by the kingdom’s ambassador to Yemen and UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed who on Thursday finished a five-day mission to the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa, SPA said. The teachers were on their way to work in the Comoros, on a flight which transited Sanaa, when air service was suspended at the start of a Saudi-led bombing campaign against the Iran-backed Huthi rebels on March 26, SPA said. The teachers were staying at the United Nations mission in a local hotel but Huthis arrived and detained them until they were freed and handed over to Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Thursday, SPA added. In Sanaa, Ould Cheikh Ahmed met Huthi officials and others from the General People’s Congress, the party of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh who is allied with the rebels. The UN envoy said the rebels had taken positive steps during his visit, including the release of the Minister of Technological Education, Abdel Razzak al-Ashwal, a prominent member of the Al-Islah Sunni TABDA: Kenyan army soldiers ride on a vehicle at their base in Tabda, inside Somalia. Heavily armed fighters Islamist party. Four other detainees, including activists and journal- from the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabab attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in southwest- ists, were also freed, he said. He added that he received assurances ern Somalia yesterday. —AP about the condition of Defence Minister General Mahmud Sobeihi as well as Nasser Mansour Hadi, a brother of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, and another general, Faisal Rajab. Several dead as Shabab Huthis captured them just before the coalition’s intervention. The liberation of the three men, and the lifting of a rebel siege on the city of Taez, are among the demands of Hadi’s government before a new storm AU base in Somalia round of peace talks can occur. Ould Cheikh Ahmed had hoped to reach an agreement in Sanaa for a new round but he left Sanaa saying no date had been set. The Suicide commando blasts way into base in Gedo Saudi-led coalition is fighting in support of anti-rebel forces and Hadi’s internationally backed government, in a war that has killed MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked and they have killed many of the Christian he heard a huge explosion followed by more than 5,800 people. The UN says an estimated 80 percent of the Shabab militants stormed an African Union soldiers from Kenya,” Musab said. “We have intense gunfire for about 45 minutes. “We population requires humanitarian aid. — AFP base yesterday in the country’s southwest, counted 63 dead bodies inside the base.” don’t know about the casualties, but people with several killed in fierce gun battles, sol- The Shabab frequently exaggerates the who went there saw many dead bodies diers said. “They launched an offensive on a number of troops they kill, while AMISOM strewn around,” he said, having spoken to military base at El-Adde and there was heavy rarely gives exact tolls. The attack came as those who went to the base. The Shabab, fighting which caused casualties,” Somali politicians met in the southern port of fighting to overthrow Somalia’s internation- army colonel Idris Ahmed said, adding a Kismayo, with President Hassan Sheikh ally-backed and AU-protected government, Shabab suicide commando blasted a way Mohamud leading a “National Consultative has launched a string of similar attacks. into the base in the Gedo region, which bor- Forum” to debate planned elections due lat- In September 2015, Shabab fighters ders Kenya and Ethiopia. Both Somali troops er this year. “Somalia is no longer a failed stormed a Ugandan AMISOM base in Janale and Kenyan soldiers with the AU force, AMI- state,” Mohamud said in a statement, which district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of SOM, are deployed at the isolated base. made no reference to the attack. “Somalia is Mogadishu in the Lower Shabelle region. “There was suicide attack followed by the building a strong foundation to support a And in June, Shabab killed dozens of fighting and it seems that the base was better future.” Burundian soldiers when they overran an stormed,” Ahmed said. “AMISOM can con- AMISOM outpost northwest of Mogadishu. firm that there was an attack on our troops in ‘Unfortunate incident’ The militants also stage frequent suicide El-Adde,” the force said in a brief statement Kenya’s defence ministry confirmed there attacks in the capital. But the 22,000-strong hours after the attack began, but gave no fur- had been “casualties” but was unable to con- AMISOM force has also made significant gains ther details. Shabab spokesman Abdiaziz firm numbers, describing the assault as an against the Shabab, pushing them out of sev- Abu Musab claimed 63 Kenyan troops were “unfortunate incident”. Kenyan military eral strongholds in the southwest. The JUBA: Nyawura Taker, 10,(L) brings bread to her shelter killed in the pre-dawn raid, but this could not spokesman David Obonyo said the army “is Shabab have also staged attacks in Kenya, at the United Nations Missions In South Sudan be immediately verified. “The mujahedeen doing all it can to consolidate the situation in killing at least 67 people at Nairobi’s Westgate (UNMISS) Protection of Civillians (PoC) site, in Juba, fighters carried out a successful operation the shortest time possible,” without giving Mall in 2013 and massacring 148 people at a South Sudan, yesterday. Nyawura’s parents currently this morning on a military base at El-Adde, further details. Local elder Hussein Adam said university in Garissa in April 2015. — AFP live in the northern part of the country. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 As Danes debate, Swiss seizing refugees’ cash

GENEVA: As Denmark faces a barrage of criticism over its con- troversial plan to seize refugees’ valuables, Switzerland has already been doing so for years, Swiss authorities said yester- day. Swiss asylum law has since the 1990s required asylum seekers to contribute to the costs of hosting them in the wealthy Alpine country. The country is permitted to confiscate from people seeking asylum in the country amounts over 1,000 Swiss francs ($995, 913 euros), Celine Kohlprath, a spokeswoman for Swiss migration authorities, said. Her statement confirmed information revealed in a debate program on the public SRF channel Thursday. “This practice is based on the fact that Switzerland (wants) people arriving in Switzerland to contribute as far as possible to the costs of the asylum process and the social assistance provided,” she wrote in an email. An information notice given to asylum seekers on arrival was displayed on Thursday’s “10 vor 10” debate program, stat- ing: “If you have ... more than 1,000 Swiss francs when you arrive at the reception centre, you must hand them over against a receipt.” Kohlprath stressed that “in practice, the person must have at least 1,500 Swiss francs in their pocket” before any cash is confiscated. The Swiss law also differs from the bill being debated by the Danish parliament in that it does not allow for material BRUSSELS: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (R) welcomes Swiss President Johann Schneider- goods to be taken, she said. The Danish proposal would allow Ammann at the European Commission in Brussels yesterday. —AFP Danish authorities to seize asylum seekers’ cash exceeding 10,000 kroner (1,340 euros, $1,450), as well as any individual items valued at more than 10,000 kroner. EU, British officials upbeat Kohlprath’s colleague Lea Wertheimer also told Thursday’s program that “if a person leaves of their own accord within seven months, they can retrieve their money and take it with about getting reform deal them.” ‘Unfair’ Leaders hopeful of averting Brexit A Syrian refugee invited to speak on the program mean- while showed a receipt he allegedly received from Swiss BRUSSELS: Top officials in Britain and the European authorities in exchange for the money he had left over after Union say they are optimistic about striking a deal next paying off traffickers to get him and his family to Switzerland. month on reforms aimed at discouraging Britain from Pub nights provide The married father of three insisted the law was “unfair”. leaving the 28-nation bloc. Swiss law also requires refugees permitted to reside and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said work in the country to hand over 10 percent of their earnings yesterday that he is “quite sure” a deal will be brokered at solace for Paris over a 10-year-period, or up to 15,000 Swiss francs in total, to a Feb. 18-19 summit in Brussels. That would allow Prime help cover the costs of their asylum process. Minister David Cameron to call a referendum on Britain’s attacks survivors Stefan Frey of the Swiss Refugee Council lashed out against EU membership as soon as the summer. the measure, telling Thursday’s program it was “disgraceful”. Cameron has promised to hold the vote by the end of PARIS: On a weekday night in a pub in the French capital, a The UN refugee agency, which has condemned the bill 2017, and says he will argue to stay in the EU as long as he group prop up the bar with beers in hand to share their experi- being debated by the Danish parliament cautioning it will fuel gets a new deal for Britain, including more power to curb ences of the terror attacks that rocked Paris on November 13. xenophobia, meanwhile said Friday it had previously raised immigration and looser ties with the Brussels-based EU. The survivors gather regularly for a drink after meeting on concerns about the Swiss law with authorities. “I’m quite sure that we will have a deal, not a compro- Facebook-and say the get-togethers have become a lifeline “UNHCR has drawn attention to the fact that, having to mise, a solution, not a weak compromise, a permanent because only people who were there can really understand. contribute a part of their salary, could be an obstacle to solution in February,” Juncker said in Brussels. “Where were you?” “How did you get out?” “Did you lose accessing the labor market and to the integration of asylum British Treasury chief George Osborne said the “essen- anyone?” are just some of the questions that participants in the seekers and persons with recognized protection needs,” tial pieces” of a deal were falling into place. Cameron “therapeutic aperitif” ask. Most of those nursing drinks were at spokesman William Spindler told AFP in an email. “There is a argues the EU needs to fundamentally change the way it the Bataclan theatre when jihadist gunmen burst in, spraying new legislative proposal to abolish this provision and we is run, reducing bureaucracy and handing more power to concert-goers with bullets. Others were enjoying a drink on a would very much hope it will be adopted.” — AFP national legislatures. Other EU leaders are sympathetic to terrasse or watching France play Germany in a football friendly that view. at the Stade de France. Cameron’s most contentious goal is to bar migrants All are survivors of the attacks or relatives of victims, who from other EU countries from receiving some benefits were driven to seek out and share their experiences with others until they have been in Britain for up to four years. Many who narrowly escaped death on that mild autumn night. other EU leaders see that as violating the fundamental principle of free movement among the bloc’s member For many of them, Life For Paris, a private Facebook page for states. the survivors and their loved ones has become an essential part Juncker, who has acted as a facilitator between Britain of life. What binds its more than 400 members, who are and the other EU members, said the welfare issue would required to supply a concert ticket, medical certificate or other be “particularly difficult.” proof of their connection to the attacks to gain admittance, is Still, there was growing optimism on both sides of the that they “all went through hell that night”, says 27-year-old Channel a deal could be brokered. Osborne said the ambulance driver Cedric Rey. Cedric was at the Bataclan Cafe, Treasury was not making plans to navigate Britain’s exit in front of the concert hall, when the three jihadists who even- from the EU. He also dismissed suggestions - made by tually killed 90 people stormed the venue. London Mayor Boris Johnson, among others - that a refer- For the past two months he has been haunted by the “stu- endum vote to leave could trigger negotiations on re- pid voice on the cop’s answering system” that answered his entry under different terms. “There’s no second vote,” he distress call. told the BBC. “This is the crucial decision of our lifetimes.” He is also stalked by the memory of a pregnant woman with LISBON: Right-wing candidate for Portugal’s presidency Britain’s industry and services sector stands to lose billions thick glasses who walked past him just as one of the gunmen Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (center) is cheered by supporters in trade if the country leaves the EU. Europe would also cocked his rifle and pointed it in his direction. “That woman as he arrives for a campaign event in Caldas da Rainha lose if Britain departs, leaving the continent with much took the bullets for me,” he told AFP.—AFP yesterday. — AFP less diplomatic and military clout. — AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Japan ski tour bus in Nagano crash kills 14, injures 27

TOKYO: An overnight tour bus on its way to a ski resort in central Japan careened off a mountain road early yesterday, killing 14 passengers and injuring 27 others. Fire and disaster management officials said the bus veered into the opposite lane near the famous resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano prefecture, rammed through a guardrail and slid down the mountainside a short distance before coming to a rest on its side against some trees. The chartered bus was carrying 41 people, including two drivers who were taking turns, when it crashed. The drivers were among the dead. There was no snow or ice on the road surface in the area, about 180 kilome- ters (110 miles) northwest of Tokyo. Those with injuries are being treated at nearby hospitals. Most had injuries to the head, neck and chest, doctors said. The bus fell about three meters (10 feet) down the mountain- side and landed on its side, with its front window bashed in, according to Japanese media. Television footage showed the bus bent in the middle and on its side, leaning against several trees as police investigators examined the wreckage while dozens of Japanese reporters and camera crew looked on from a distance. The accident is the latest in a series of highway crashes in Japan involving tour buses that experts attribute to harsh PAKISTAN: In this Jan 27, 2000 file photo Maulana Masood Azhar, center, (wearing glasses and white turban), arrives in working conditions for long-distance bus drivers. In some cas- Islamabad.—AP es, drivers had fallen asleep at the wheel. A fatal highway tour bus crash in 2012 that killed seven on their way to Disneyland prompted some legal steps to improve driving safety, but accidents have continued. There were several last year, includ- Pakistani top militant in govt ing one that involved two deaths and 26 injuries. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the transport ministry has set up a taskforce and dispatched officials to the crash site custody over attack in India for investigation. “We must thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident so that similar accidents won’t be repeated,” ISLAMABAD: The leader of an outlawed Pathankot attack. The group is believed is setting the process for custodial inter- he said at a regular news conference.—AP Pakistani militant group has been taken to be based in Pakistan’s section of rogation. It doesn’t amount to presump- into “protective custody” amid a probe Kashmir. According to two security offi- tion of guilt or arrest.” as to whether he is linked to a deadly cials, the head of outlawed Jaish-e- attack earlier this month on an Indian air Mohammad militant group, Maulana Abduction and killing base, two security officials and a provin- Masood Azhar, was put under custody Azhar was arrested by India in 1994, cial minister said yesterday. The security this week. The officials also said that the after crossing into Indian-part of the officials also said that Pakistan has 25 arrested suspects were all members Himalayan region of Kashmir, which is arrested this week a total of 25 militants of the Jaish-E-Mohammad, or divided between Pakistan and India but suspected in the Jan 2 assault in Mohammed’s Army. They were captured is claimed by both in its entirety. He was Pathankot, close to India’s border with in various parts of the Punjab province, freed along with two other militants as Pakistan. The attack, which killed seven considered the seat of Azhar’s group. part of a demand by five hijackers Indian soldiers and all six attackers, Pakistani officers also raided one of the behind the December 1999 hijacking of sparked concerns it could derail a seminaries belonging to Azhar in Daska, an Indian Airlines passenger plane that recently launched peace process to a town in Punjab, the officials said, with- was taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan. All resolve decades-old disputes, including out elaborating. The officials spoke on 178 passengers and 11 crew were on Kashmir. condition of anonymity because they board were released in Afghanistan. Though Pakistan denounced the aren’t authorized to speak to reporters. Two others released with Azhar were assault and promised action against all Azhar’s “protective custody” does not Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, an Indian suspects linked to it, India on Thursday amount to an arrest. Rana Sanaullah, the Kashmiri, and Ahmed Omar Saeed postponed a scheduled round of talks, minister for law in the eastern Punjab Sheikh, a Pakistani-born British citizen as it evaluated actions taken by province, says Azhar is in the custody of who was later convicted over his role in Islamabad against Pakistan-based insur- the Counter-Terrorism Department but the abduction and killing of Wall Street gents whom it blames for the base that so far no case against him has been Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. In attack. Indian investigators have said registered, a requirement under 2000, Azhar arrived from Afghanistan to that phone intercepts suggest that the Pakistani law that precedes an indict- Pakistan where he has stayed since. In gunmen in the assault came from ment. Commenting on Pakistan’s action 2002, former Pakistani President Pervez JAPAN: Investigators work near a damaged bus after it Pakistan. However, the United Jehad on Azhar, and his group, G Parthasarthy, Musharraf outlawed Azhar’s militant was transferred by crane onto a road in Karuizawa, Council, an alliance of 13 Kashmir-based India’s former high commissioner to group as part of the global anti-terror Nagano prefecture, central Japan yesterday.—AP rebel groups, claimed it was behind the Pakistan, said that “what has happened campaign.—AP Pakistani clerics block ‘un-Islamic’ child marriage bill

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani lawmakers have with- to amend existing child marriage legislation in it has drawn widespread criticism in the past age for girls’ marriage to be raised from 16 drawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties the lower house but was forced to withdraw for other rulings-including in 2013, when it years to 18 years, which does not in any way on those who arrange child marriages after it her bid after it was rejected by a parliamen- suggested making DNA inadmissible evidence violate the teachings of Islam,” the source was scuttled by a religious body who branded tary committee on religious affairs, a source in rape cases, instead calling for the revival of said. it “blasphemous” and against Islam, sources familiar with the development said. A repre- an Islamic law that makes it mandatory for a The original law stipulates the age of mar- said yesterday. The proposal, which would sentative from the Council of Islamic Ideology survivor to provide four witnesses to back riage at 16 for women and 18 for men but also have raised the legal age of marriages for (CII) had dubbed the amendment to the Child their claims. “Marvi wanted deletion of the Pakistani religious scholars believe it is not in females from 16 to 18, called for “rigorous” Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014 as word ‘simple’ punishment for those involved accordance with Islamic teachings. They say punishment up to two years in prison for “anti-Islamic” and “blasphemous” during the in arranging child marriages to ‘rigorous’ or there is no specific age limit for marriage in those who organize child marriages, still com- committee meeting, the source said. The CII ‘two-year’ punishment in the actual legisla- Sharia as an individual can marry when he or mon in some parts of Pakistan. was formed in 1962 to advise parliament on tion,” the parliamentary source, who did not she reaches puberty and puberty cannot be Marvi Memon, a member of the ruling the compatibility of laws with Sharia. want to be identified due to the sensitivity of defined by age. Rights activists strongly criti- Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), had moved Its recommendations are non-binding, and the matter, told AFP. “Marvi also wanted the cized the rejection of bill. —AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

INDONESIA: An activist holds a poster during a rally condemning Thursday’s attack, out- INDONESIA: Activists hold flowers during a rally condemning Thursday’s attack outside side the Starbucks cafe where it took place in Jakarta yesterday. — AP photos the Starbucks cafe where it took place in Jakarta. Jakarta bloodshed spotlights rise of IS affiliate in SE Asia

JAKARTA: The deadly Paris-style attack in Turkey as well as Southeast Asia,” he told Thursday’s attacks from Syria, where he is extremist networks, and there had been no Jakarta has thrown a spotlight on a shadowy reporters this week. Indonesian police have believed to be instructing Southeast Asian mili- major attacks for years. If Katibah is responsible, Southeast Asian faction of the Islamic State pointed the finger at Katibah Nusantara, a mili- tants and organising recruitment. He has been the Jakarta violence marks its first high-profile group and offers new evidence of the spread of tant unit of Malay-speaking IS jihadists fighting described in some media reports as a former strike in its home region, and will challenge IS franchises. Under growing pressure in Iraq in Syria. While there has as yet been no direct Internet cafe employee. Analysts say he was Indonesian authorities to once again tame the and Syria from the US-led bombing campaign, Katibah Nusantara claim, the group has loomed previously imprisoned briefly in Indonesia on extremists in their backyard. the extremist group is spreading its tentacles, ever larger on the radar of IS-linked groups. suspicion of terrorism involvement, and has metastasising into new regions. The IS group Its extended name translates roughly as been linked with other extremist groups in the Thinking big’ already has affiliates in Libya and Nigeria, and “Malay Archipelago Unit for the Islamic State in past. “He is an active player,” said Joseph “One of the saving graces for Indonesia over has targeted a host of other countries like Iraq and Syria.” Its goal: a Southeast Asian outpost Chinyong Liow, an expert on Southeast Asian the last five years is that local terrorists have Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, using its sig- for its global caliphate. The faction’s fighters, pri- Islam at Singapore’s S Rajaratnam School of thought small,” Jones wrote in a recent analysis nature brutality to lure disaffected fighters from marily from Indonesia and Malaysia and who coa- International Studies. “He has a website which of Katibah Nusantara. “Bahrun Naim and some other jihadists like the Taliban. lesced along shared lines of language and culture, celebrates IS and its successes, and more specifi- of his friends think bigger.” Some fighters from Now, with its claim of responsibility for rose to prominence in 2015 after distinguishing cally, he celebrated the Paris attacks.” Southeast Asia have returned from the Middle Thursday’s suicide bomb and gun attacks in themselves on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, Sidney Jones, a regional terrorism expert, has East with tales of disappointment at being given Jakarta-which left five attackers and two other helping to capture territory. Those victories were a called him an “ex-prisoner and jihadi intellectu- little respect or responsibility there, analysts people dead-the brutal grouping appears to be Southeast Asian publicity coup for IS, which trum- al”, saying he was involved in a previous plot last said. But the language and cultural commonali- getting a foothold in Southeast Asia. “IS is peted them in glowing terms on social media in year to carry out an attack in Indonesia, which ties of Katibah Nusantara followers could help changing strategy,” said Jakarta police chief Tito the Malay language, publicity aimed squarely at appears not to have gone ahead. Indonesia suf- keep fighters in the fold and provide an endur- Karnavian, the former head of Indonesia’s anti- potential jihadists across the region. fered several large and deadly bomb attacks by ing tool for coordinating attacks across terrorism unit. “They are establishing branches Police say Katibah Nusantara is led by Bahrun Islamic radicals between 2000 and 2009, but a Southeast Asia and recruiting more fighters to of IS across the world-in France, Europe, Africa, Naim, who they accuse of orchestrating subsequent security crackdown weakened Syria, analysts said. —AFP Chinese President to visit Chinese netizens help boy in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran

TOKYO: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Saudi Arabia, US with cancer realize his dream Egypt, and Iran from Jan 19th, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. Xi will pay five-day state visits to the CHINA: Thousands of Chinese before going to heaven. The conver- according to Dorian’s wish and three Middle Eastern countries at the invitation of Saudi King Internet users are involved in efforts sation between the boy and his father bought a model of the Great Wall and Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Egyptian President Abdelfattah to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken was posted on Facebook, where it was souvenir medals on which the boy’s Al-Sisi, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the ministry said boy from the United States to realize shared and commented upon by name is engraved. Xu has asked a in a press release. While the world’s second-largest economy his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, thousands of Internet users, including friend to upload the photos to needs oil to feed its development, the first visit by a Chinese Rhode Island, has been receiving many from China. Facebook in the hope that Dorian will top leader in more than five years since the start of the region’s regards from Chinese netizens in Some responded with photos tak- see them and find some comfort. “I turmoil, goes far beyond ensuring its energy security, state-run recent days. Among them are many en at the Great Wall, in which they just did what a human should do,” Xu Xinhua News Agency said. Saudi Arabia and Iran are locked in a new chapter of their from Chinese standing on the Great held signs with words of encourage- said. “Let’s pray for Dorian.” long-standing sectarian rift. Although China never takes sides, Wall in Beijing and holding signs say- ment. Some left messages beneath A Chinese Internet user named it will be a rare opportunity for China to call for calm and ing “#D-Strong” and “You are very the post, saying such things as, “I wish Zhang Heng even made a souvenir restraint from both sides, the report said. Just ahead of Xi’s vis- famous in China.” It is Dorian’s dream you recover soon”, “I will do that for badge for the boy that depicts Dorian it, China published its Arab Policy Paper, reaffirming the strate- to be famous in China and to see the you” and “People in China are delight- on the Great Wall. gic significance that Beijing attaches to the region. It is China’s Great Wall, which he called “the ed to make your dream come true”. After receiving the regards and long-held diplomatic principle to consolidate and deepen bridge that people walk on”. After the post was translated into greetings, Dorian’s father, Christopher China-Arab traditional friendship, read the paper, the first of its Dorian has been fighting rhab- Chinese and spread on China’s social Murray, said on Facebook on Monday: kind issued by the Chinese government. domyosarcoma, a pediatric cancer, networking platforms, even more “A couple of the first photos to come Meanwhile, it underlines China’s wish to enrich and deepen since he was 4. Although the disease people were moved by the boy’s story in! The power of social media! More all-round, multi-layer and wide-ranging cooperation with Arab had been brought under control after and have taken steps to help fulfill his are coming in! Dorian is going to be so nations, and safeguard peace, stability and development of the a series of painful treatments, a med- dream. pleased! Keep them coming!” The region and the world at large. During Xi’s trip, more concrete opportunities will be offered, particularly Xi’s signature “Belt ical checkup early this month found After hearing Dorian’s story, Xu Jin, father also posted two of the photos, and Road” initiative. The Chinese President may well discuss that cancer cells had spread to the a Beijing resident, drove 70 kilometers one of which showed Chinese neti- with the three nations ways to link the initiative with their boy’s spinal cord and brain. The family to the Juyongguan section of the zens greeting Dorian with a large respective development plans. — KUNA decided to halt treatment. Dorian Great Wall in north Beijing on cardboard sign with encouraging then told his father what he wanted Tuesday. There, Xu took some photos words. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Trump-Cruz rivalry intensifies in rollicking GOP debate ‘New York values’ NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina: The said: “I can frame it another way: Not a lot of rivalry between the Republican Party’s two conservatives come out of Manhattan. I’m just leading candidates for president intensified in saying.” Thursday’s debate, which featured the most Just as Cruz was ready to dismiss concerns rollicking action to date. Yet rising tensions about his Canadian birth, Trump was ready to between billionaire businessman Donald defend New York. The real-estate mogul said Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz left little he found that kind of talk “insulting.” And he space for any of the other candidates to make seemed to show his softer side while reflect- an impression. With less than three weeks ing on how New Yorkers came together after until Iowa’s leadoff caucuses, the renewed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “Everybody in focus on the two candidates leading most the world watched, and everyone in the world preference polls suggests the overall shape of loved New York and loved New Yorkers,” he the 2016 contest may be solidifying - much to said. “That was a very insulting statement that the dismay of Republican officials who fear Ted made.” It was hard to imagine a stronger neither Trump nor Cruz is electable in a gen- response from Trump, who puts a lot less time eral election. into debate preparations than his opponents. Trump and Cruz starred in Thursday’s He seemed to handily win that exchange with primetime event. And Trump, in particular, Cruz, a former college debate champion. may have had his finest debate performance. Florida Sen Marco Rubio and New Jersey Gov. Bush stands alone Chris Christie had strong moments, but didn’t Pressed on whether he regretted his call to have the breakout needed to begin coalesc- bar Muslims from entering the US, Trump had ing mainstream Republicans behind their can- a one-word answer: “No.” And when asked SOUTH CAROLINA: Republican presidential candidate, Sen Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as didacies. Just one debate remains before whether they supported Trump’s proposal, Republican presidential candidate, Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla, left, and Republican presiden- Iowa’s Feb. 1 caucuses. But the likelihood of a the candidates sharing the stage with him tial candidate, businessman Donald Trump gestures during the Fox Business Network major shakeup in the race becomes less and largely demurred, talking instead about immi- Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, in North Charleston.—AP less as days pass. Here are some other key gration and security. All except Jeb Bush. The takeaways from the Thursday night debate. former Florida governor has made taking on he once called Trump and his proposal The Christie-Rubio dynamic stood out at Trump the cornerstone of his struggling cam- unhinged, Bush replied: “Yeah, they are times, particularly when Rubio refused to con- New York, New York paign, and he slammed the proposal as one unhinged.” demn an ad from a super PAC supporting him Cruz and Trump went toe-to-toe several that would make it impossible for the US to that portrays Christie as similar to President times, including Trump’s questioning of build the necessary bridges with Arab nations Establishment lane fender-benders Barack Obama. Rubio claimed that Christie whether Cruz, born in Canada to a US citizen, to defeat the Islamic State. With Trump and Cruz surging in many polls, “endorsed many of the ideas” that the presi- is eligible to serve as president. Yet no “All Muslims? Seriously? What kind of sig- the candidates seeking the support of more tra- dent supports. Christie strongly disagreed - and exchange encapsulated the night better than nal does that send to the rest of the world?” ditional Republican Party voters desperately he said that while two years ago Rubio called their clash over “New York values.” “Everyone Bush said. “What we need to do is destroy ISIS. hoped to break out. None did. But not for lack him a “conservative reformer,” now he is mis- understands that the values in New York City The other Arab countries have a role to play in of trying. Bush tried to score points by going representing his record. “When you’re a senator are socially liberal ... focused around money this. Sending that signal makes it impossible after Trump. Rubio went after Christie. Kasich what you get to do is talk and talk and talk and and the media,” Cruz charged. And in a nod to for us to be serious about taking out ISIS and called for unity. And Christie mixed it up with no one can keep up to see if what you’re saying Trump’s home in midtown Manhattan, Cruz restoring democracy in Syria.” Reminded that Cruz and Rubio. is accurate or not,” Christie said.—AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Chicago releases videos of police shooting of black teen

CHICAGO: Chicago on Thursday released video footage of a fatal Chicago police shooting of a black teenager in 2013 after a court ruling, as protesters renewed criticism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the handling of police killings. Images from neighborhood surveillance cameras showing the killing of Cedrick Chatman, 17, in January 2013 had been sealed under a protective order. The city also released audio recordings. One 10-second segment of video shows two officers chas- ing Chatman, who then runs around a corner out of sight. It next shows an officer drawing his gun, followed by an image of Chatman on the ground. An officer stands with one foot on Chatman before emergency crews arrive. Another video appears to show Chatman hit while running. The decision allowing the videos’ release comes with Emanuel and the police department already under pressure over a fatal 2014 police shooting of another teenager. The video of that killing was not released until November. US District Judge Robert Gettleman said at a hearing on Thursday that releasing the Chatman videos would not inter- fere with finding impartial jurors for a civil lawsuit by the teenager’s family. The city had withdrawn its opposition to the videos’ release. Activists at the courthouse after Thursday’s hearing demanded reform of the police depart- ment. For weeks protesters have been demanding Emanuel step down over his handling of the 2014 police killing of Laquan McDonald, 17.—Reuters CUBA: In this May 14, 2009, file photo, reviewed by the US military, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire, inside Camp 4 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base.—AP 2 Marine helicopters collide off Hawaii’s Oahu Fewer than 100 Guantanamo

HONOLULU: Two Marine helicopters collided off the prisoners left as 10 leave to Oman Hawaiian island of Oahu with a total of 12 people on board and a search was underway yesterday, military officials said. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers said that the ‘Guantanamo will probably close sooner rather than later’ Marine Corps reported the crash just before midnight MIAMI: Thursday. Mooers says each aircraft had six people aboard. A Ten prisoners from Yemen who John F Kelly, who turned over leadership Obama administration decision to trans- Coast Guard helicopter and C-130 airplane arrived on scene 2 were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of Southern Command to Navy Vice fer a large number of Yemeni detainees 1/2 miles offshore shortly after midnight and located a debris have been released and sent to the Adm Kurt W Tidd at Thursday’s ceremo- from Guantanamo to Oman would rep- field. Middle Eastern nation of Oman for reset- ny, said before the event that the mili- resent a thinly veiled attempt to under- Mooers said a Navy helicopter, a Honolulu Fire Department tlement, officials said Thursday, tary would still need a place to hold cap- cut the will of Congress and would fur- rescue boat have also responded and Coast Guard cutters are portraying it as a significant mile- tured detainees indefinitely, but he con- ther endanger the American people,” coming in. Marine Capt Timothy Irish confirmed that a search stone in the long-stalled effort to shutter ceded that as the population dwindles, Ayotte said. and rescue is underway for the two CH-53Es - transport heli- the detention center. The release, “Guantanamo will probably close sooner House Speaker Paul Ryan noted in a copters. He said the aircraft were from the 1st Marine Aircraft among the largest on a single day under rather than later.” statement Thursday that the most Wing from Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Mooers told Los President Barack Obama, puts the prison recent defense bill signed by Obama Taliban medic Angeles radio station KNX-AM that search conditions were population below 100 for the first time prohibits the transfer of Guantanamo challenging because of darkness and high surf. She said a since shortly after it opened in January The 10 men who left Guantanamo detainees to American soil. “And that’s high surf advisory is in effect for waves 10 to 15 feet building 2002 to hold men suspected of links to late Tuesday were among several dozen not going to change anytime soon.” throughout the morning. al-Qaida and the Taliban. There are now from Yemen who could not be sent back Carter said the decision to resettle the There was no immediate word on what caused the colli- 93 still held. Lee Wolosky, the State to their homeland, which is embroiled in men in Oman was made only after a sion or if any survivors have been found. The collision comes Department’s special envoy for a civil war. All were deemed low-level thorough security review. Ian Moss, less than a year after the Marine Corps’ new hybridized air- Guantanamo Closure, said the US enemy combatants and cleared for chief of staff to the State Department’s plane-and-helicopter aircraft crashed during a training exer- expects to transfer the remaining pris- transfer since at least 2010. The prison- special envoy, said it would be wrong to cise, killing two Marines. The MV-22 Osprey went down last oners who are cleared to leave, about a ers included one who was 17 when cap- continue holding men just because of May with 21 Marines and a Navy corpsman on board.—AP third of the total, by summer. tured and another who the government their Yemeni nationality. Guantanamo held nearly 680 prison- conceded had only briefly served as a ers at its peak in 2003 and about 245 Taliban medic. None were ever charged. Detainee resettlements when Obama took office, pledging to David Remes, a lawyer for three of the “If we as a government have deter- close it as a symbol of overreach in the men, said two, Mukhtar al Warafi and mined that an individual can and should war against terrorism and a needless Saeed Hatim, got down on their knees be transferred from Guantanamo respon- propaganda symbol for enemies of the and prayed in December when they sibly and we’ve identified an appropriate United States. Defense Secretary Ash learned they would be released. The resettlement location, like Oman, then Carter announced the release of the third, Fahmi Ahmed, at first wasn’t sure we will transfer them,” Moss said. Oman, Yemenis at a change-of-command cere- whether to believe it and wanted proof which has cultivated closer ties to the US, mony in Miami at US Southern when he got word this week. has taken 20 foreign prisoners for reset- Command, which oversees “The men learned to lower their tlement, including 10 last year. The Guantanamo. He said the administration expectations and indeed to have no Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the would submit a plan to Congress, where expectations so that everything good is detainees were taken at the request of many want to keep the prison open, to a surprise,” Remes said in a phone inter- Washington and based on humanitarian move those who can’t be freed to a facil- view from the base. “But this was a joy- considerations. A statement described ity within the United States. ful surprise.” Sen Kelly Ayotte, a promi- their stay as “temporary” though “Not everyone in Gitmo can be safely nent advocate for keeping the deten- detainee resettlements are generally transferred to another country, so we tion center open, criticized the decision expected to be long-term. Advocates for need an alternative,” Carter said, using a to transfer the men to Oman, which bor- closing the prison were cautiously opti- common abbreviated name for the base ders their homeland along the Arabian mistic this latest transfer reflected CAVITE PROVINCE, Manila: In this Feb 18, 2003 file photo, on the southeastern edge of Cuba. A Sea. Congress momentum to shutter the facility. US Marines and their Philippine counterparts jump from a White House official confirmed that has prohibited the transfer of any Attorney Brian Foster, whose firm repre- US Marines CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter at Ternate in Obama’s national security team recently Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, as sents 14 Yemenis, including two released Cavite province south of Manila.—AP received a new version of the plan and well as to the United States, a law the this week, said he was at least relieved for was making final revisions. Marine Gen White House is seeking to change. “Any those who finally made it out. —AP Etihad sees approval of Air Coordinated oil output cuts Govt targets activists as BusinessBerlin codeshares beyond 16March with OPEC unlikely: Russia17 workers of China unite 20 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 GE sells appliance business to China’s Haier for $5.4bn18

JIUJIANG: A Chinese investor checks stock prices on a computer terminal in a brokerage house in Jiujiang in central China’s Jiangxi province Yesterday. China’s Shanghai stock index sank to its lowest level in more than one year yesterday as renewed concerns about the world’s second-largest economy led global benchmarks lower. — AP Oil prices tumble to new 12-year lows Wall Street plunges, European shares touch 13-month low

LONDON: Oil prices slumped to fresh 12-year low losses for crude. The implementation of a deal European shares fell yesterday to their lowest KEEPING SCORE: European stocks opened higher points yesterday, as dealers prepared for increased between the two sides, allowing the removal of since December 2014, hit by losses in commodity- but quickly fell. Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 1.5 per- Iranian exports to the market against a backdrop of sanctions, is expected by Sunday. related stocks as BHP Billiton announced a major cent to 5,832.45 while Germany’s DAX lost 1.4 per- a global supply glut. New York prices hit $29.39 a At about 1230 GMT, Brent North Sea crude for writedown and oil fell below $30 a barrel. BHP cent to 9,657.65. France’s CAC 40 dropped 1.4 per- barrel, a level last seen in November 2003. Brent delivery in March retreated $1.06, or 3.4 percent, to Billiton shed 6 percent, the top faller on the pan- cent to 4,252.75. Futures showed that Wall Street meanwhile dropped to $29.45 — the lowest level stand at $29.82 a barrel. US benchmark West Texas European FTSEurofirst 300, after saying it would was set for losses. Dow and S&P futures each since February 2004. Crude prices have shed three- Intermediate (WTI) for February delivery plunged write down the value of its US shale assets by $7.2 dropped 1.7 percent. quarters of the value in 18 months and dropped $1.46, or 4.7 percent, to $29.74 compared with billion. That cemented expectations the company CHINA CONCERNS: The Shanghai Composite under $30 this week for the first time for 12 years. Thursday’s close. Meanwhile, US stocks were open- will be forced to cut its dividend for the first time in Index finished at 2,900.97, down 3.6 percent. It But Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at ing sharply lower, led by steep declines in energy more than 25 years. The STOXX Europe 600 Basic was its lowest close since Dec. 8, 2014, and also CMC Markets in Sydney, said prices may have hit or companies as the price oil takes another tumble. Resources index was down 5.1 percent, with Rio below its level during the summer when its crash are nearing the end of their downward spiral. “If The sharp slump in crude from over $100 a barrel Tinto, Glencore and Antofagasta also among top sent jitters across global financial markets. China’s we’re not at the lows, we’re very close to the lows for in the summer of 2014 has eviscerated energy com- fallers. All four stocks also suffered from target price official Xinhua News Agency reported that banks’ oil,” he told AFP. “I do expect to see a turn very pany profits and made it much harder for them to cuts by Japanese bank Nomura. Copper has hit a new yuan loans during the last month fell over a soon.” Oil prices have shed more than 15 percent pay off their debts. new 6-1/2 year low this week and was set for its sec- year earlier, in a sign that momentum for the credit already this year as investors worry about the pro- Intel dropped as earnings from its PC business ond straight weekly loss. that fuels economic growth was slowing. longed oversupply crisis and weak global economic continue to slump. The Dow Jones industrial aver- Global markets fell yesterday after China’s Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.5 percent to 17,147.11 outlook, particularly in chief energy user China. age plunged 350 points, or 2 percent, to 16,028 as of Shanghai stock index sank to its lowest level in more and South Korea’s Kospi slid 1.1 percent to close at However, with major producer Iran poised to hike 9:35 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 than one year amid renewed concerns about the 1,878.87. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.5 per- output after the lifting of Western-backed nuclear index fell 42 points, or 2.2 percent, to 1,879. The world’s second-largest economy. The price of oil fell cent to 19,520.77. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.3 sanctions, some analysts have warned of further Nasdaq fell 117 points, or 2.5 percent, to 4,499. below $30 per barrel. percent to 4,892.80. — Agencies BUSINESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

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OPEC basket price stands at $25.00 pb VIENNA: The OPEC daily basket price stood at $25.00 a barrel Thursday, compared with $25.69 the previous day, the OPEC bulletin said yesterday. The OPEC Yearly Average price in 2015 was $49.64. The new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE) and Merey (Venezuela).

Kuwaiti oil price down 94 cents to $21.70pb KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil was down by 94 cents Thursday settling at $21.70 per barrel after being at $22.64 the day before, said Kuwait Oil Corporation (KPC) yesterday. On the global level, the price of oil witnessed a retreat due to investors’ fears over the resumption of Iranian oil production which would pump more oil into the already high level of supplies. The Brent mix price was down to $30.4 per barrel. The future contracts for the Brent mix was also down to $30.57 pb, a similar case for the February future con- tracts for the American crude which went down by USD 30.61 pb. ROISSY: Air France planes parked on the tarmac of Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy during an Air France pilots’ strike. The Air France direction presented to the trade union of the company yesterday a new plan aiming to add to the long- Turkish FM sees budget distance flight air fleet two new planes per year between 2017 and 2020. — AFP revenues up 11.9% in 2016 ANKARA: Turkey’s budget revenues are expected to rise 11.9 percent this year but its budget deficit is still expected Etihad expects approval of Air to widen to 29.7 billion lira ($9.78 billion), Finance Minister Naci Agbal said yesterday. The primary surplus is seen at 26.3 billion lira this year, he told a news conference in Berlin codeshares beyond March Ankara. Court approves majority of codeshares for winter

Morocco trade deficit FRANKFURT/BERLIN: Gulf airline Etihad falls 18.7% in 2015 said a German court ruling announced late Equity fund exodus continues, RABAT: Morocco’s trade deficit fell 18.7 percent to on Thursday meant it expected to receive 152.27 billion dirhams ($15.43 billion) in 2015 com- approval for its codeshare routes with Air largest outflows in 18 weeks pared with a year earlier, thanks to lower import costs Berlin in the future. and higher exports, the foreign exchange regulator An appeals court in Germany on LONDON: Investors’ exodus from stocks. said yesterday. Energy imports fell by 28 percent from Thursday allowed Abu Dhabi-based Etihad equity funds continued in the sec- The bank said there had been a year earlier to 66.84 billion dirhams, data showed. to continue 26 of its 31 disputed codeshare ond week of January, wiping $5.7 “carnage” in technology stocks, with Wheat imports also fell 32.6 percent as the local har- flights with Air Berlin for the winter sched- trillion off global stocks in the first $1.1 billion of outflows, and in finan- vest hit a record high last year. Total imports fell 5.6 ule ending in March, citing a bilateral nine trading days of 2016, Bank of cials, which suffered redemptions of percent and total exports rose 6.7 percent from a year agreement struck between Germany and America Merrill Lynch (BAML) said $700 million-the largest in 20 weeks earlier to 214.27 billion dirhams, led by a 21 percent Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates yesterday. for both sectors. It also noted the rise in auto exports and 16.3 percent hike in phosphate (UAE) in 2000. Some $11.9 billion was pulled selling had spread to European equi- sales. Exports covered 58.5 percent of imports for the “The court’s interpretation of the UAE- from equity funds, the largest out- ty funds, which chalked up their first first time in 10 years, the regulator said. Tourism Germany Air Services Agreement also flow in 18 weeks, but the bank, net outflows in 15 weeks, albeit a receipts dropped 1.4 percent to 58.51 billion dirhams, means that Etihad Airways will be able to which also uses data from the EPFR modest $100 million. Emerging equi- while remittances from the 4.5 million Moroccans liv- continue with all those codeshares beyond Global fund research house, said ty funds suffered $1.6 billion of out- ing abroad rose 3 percent to 61.75 billion dirhams. the Winter Schedule,” Etihad, which owns redemptions were not yet big flows, the largest in five weeks. 29 percent of Air Berlin, said in a statement enough to indicate “true capitula- Japanese equity funds bucked the yesterday. Germany had previously tion”. trend, attracting $2 billion, their approved the disputed codeshares but Over the last two weeks, some largest inflows in 17 weeks. For the Iran-India $2.5bn steel said in August 2014 it would not continue $21 billion has been pulled from most part, investors sought safety in to approve them because it believed they equity funds, compared with $36 bil- bond funds, which attracted $2.3 bil- deal totters as end were not covered by the bilateral agree- lion during the August 2015 sell off, lion, and money-market funds, ment, prompting months of wrangling. and a whopping $85 billion during which took in $24 billion. That of sanctions looms The court decision is good news for the 2008 global financial crisis. The marked a clear rotation out of high loss-making Air Berlin, because the code- bank also noted that some of its U.S. yield and emerging market debt into NEW DELHI: India’s largest-ever steel export deal, struck with Iran shares, which allow Etihad to sell tickets for East Coast clients were “not yet will- the safer havens of treasury, invest- in 2014 to allow it to buy the metal without violating Western flights operated by the German carrier, ing to accept that we are already ment grade and municipal bonds. sanctions that are now set to end, has become mired in a dispute bring it additional passengers to fill its well into a normal, cyclical reces- High-yield bond funds lost a that has seen no payments made or shipments delivered since last planes and boost its sales. sion/bear market”. chunky $4.1 billion while emerging fall. The impasse underlines how Tehran is taking a more assertive Air Berlin Chief Executive Stefan Pichler The S&P 500 has lost almost 6 per- market debt funds lost a more mod- posture in its dealings with trading partners as options open up said the carrier was “delighted” with the cent since the start of the year, with est $500 million. On the flip side, for business and it looks to strike better deals. decision. “Based on this decisive ruling, Air $12.5 billion of outflows from US government and treasury bond Iranian Gas Engineering & Development Company (IGEDC) has Berlin and Etihad Airways can face the equity funds over the week to Jan. funds attracted $3.4 billion, their written to Indian state-trader STC India Ltd complaining that steel future optimistically and will continue to 13. largest inflows since February 2015. shipments have been irregular and far below terms set out in the grow their partnership in a sustainable Investors have been panicked by Commodities also attracted $1.5 $2.5 billion contract, according to a letter seen by Reuters. It also manner,” he added. wild swings in Chinese mainland billion of inflows, the largest in 12 said in the letter, dated late last month, that it would like to deal The German transport ministry will stocks, and a general deterioration in months, suggesting the heavy sell- directly with Essar Steel India Ltd, which was supplying the steel to review the court’s decision and reasoning the outlook for commodity produc- ing of the last two weeks, which has STC for export, if the state trader did not restart regular shipments before deciding on how to proceed, a ers, as oil prices have tumbled to 12- seen Brent crude crash below $30 a soon. “We strongly urge STC to either be more flexible to enable spokesman said yesterday. It reiterated it year lows . But selling has not been barrel, has attracted some bargain regular and faster shipments or allow the contract to be dealt was open for talks with the UAE on the traf- limited to energy and materials hunters. — Reuters directly between IGEDC and the manufacturer,” it wrote.—Reuters fic agreement. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 , 2016 Coordinated oil output cuts with OPEC unlikely: Russia

MOSCOW: Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said yesterday coordinated oil production cuts with OPEC to support falling oil prices were unlikely and would be ineffi- cient if they did happen anyway. Novak’s comments follow a meeting last month of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries which ended without any agreement on how to prop up prices and after some OPEC members urged Russia to cut its own oil output. “From our point of view, it is unlikely that all the coun- tries within OPEC can agree on production cuts, let alone those countries which are not in the OPEC coalition,” the RIA news agency quoted Novak as saying in an interview with RBC TV. “Such consultations have been underway for the past year and a half since oil prices started to fall in mid-2014,” he said. “(But) we see that in 2015 countries like Saudi Arabia in OPEC have increased total production by 1.5 mil- lion barrels per day.” Any coordinated efforts to cut oil output would “not be efficient” anyway, he said, because balance in the market depended mostly on shale oil output in the United States. Oil prices have fallen by more than 70 percent over the last 18 months, mainly as a result of oversupply. That presents a challenge for Russia, where oil and gas sales account for CHICAGO: A job seeker fills out an application during a National Career Fairs job fair in Chicago. The Labor Department more than half of its budget revenues. said on Thursday applications for jobless aid rose 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 284,000. —AP Russia has in the past brushed off calls for it to cut out- put by saying its harsh climate would make it hard to quick- ly restart production once wells had been closed. Novak said the critical oil price level for domestic oil pro- US producer prices ducers was $5-$15 per barrel, which amounted to the cost of production. He ruled out the oil price falling to a long- tern price of $10 per barrel from around $30 now. dipped 0.2% in Dec Gazprom loss Russia’s gas giant Gazprom yesterday announced a loss for the third quarter of 2015, citing rising costs and finance expenses, despite an increase in sales. The net loss by Data reflects impact of falling energy prices Russia’s biggest energy company between July and WASHINGTON: US producer prices fell December, energy prices at the whole- 2 percent level for more than two years. September of two billion rubles ($26.1 million at the current slightly in December, reflecting a big sale level dropped 3.4 percent, the The central bank’s quarter-point rate exchange rate) was lower than expected, however, with drop in energy prices. The decline biggest decline since September when hike was the first Fed rate increase in analysts having anticipated severe consequences from the capped a year in which prices at the energy was down 5.6 percent. nearly a decade and lifted its target for Russian ruble’s depreciation. wholesale level fell, underscoring the Wholesale food prices also fell in overnight bank lending from near zero Revenues increased by 14 percent to 1.293 trillion rubles continued absence of inflationary pres- December, dropping 1.3 percent, the to a range of 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent. ($16.86 billion), more than expected. Gazprom saw its net sures. The Labor Department said yes- biggest monthly decline since last But Fed officials stressed that the pace profit for the first nine months of 2015 increase by 21 per- terday that its Producer Price Index, February. The small 0.1 percent rise in of the future rate increases will be heavi- cent to 674 billion rubles ($8.76 billion), the company’s which measures inflation before it core wholesale prices reflected increases ly dependent on the currently low level results said. Gas sales to European countries, the company’s reaches consumers, dropped 0.2 per- in such areas as cigarette prices, which of inflation showing evidence of moving biggest source of profit and revenues, grew by 17 percent cent in December after a 0.3 percent rose 2.1 percent, doctors’ charges, which toward the Fed’s 2 percent target. On during that time, to 1.430 trillion rubles ($18.64 billion), due increase in November. Over the past 12 rose 1.3 percent. Thursday, James Bullard, president of to a boost in sales volume and the price in rubles. months, producer prices have declined Inflation at the consumer level has the Fed’s St. Louis regional bank, said in The average oil price in dollars fell by 29 percent, howev- 1 percent. also been low this year with the a speech that the latest big drop in ener- er, due to the global collapse of oil. Gas export sales to ex- Core inflation, which excludes Consumer Price Index up just 0.5 per- gy prices could mean that it will take Soviet countries fell by four percent to 292 billion rubles volatile food and energy costs, edged cent in the 12 months ending in longer to get inflation back to the Fed’s ($3.81 billion), due to a drop in sales volume amid a gas dis- up a slight 0.1 percent in December. For November. And a price gauge favored 2 percent target. pute with neighboring Ukraine, Moscow’s traditional key the past 12 months, core inflation at the by the Fed is up just 0.4 percent for the The fall in energy prices has meant market, which has stopped all purchases from Gazprom wholesale level is up a scant 0.3 percent. 12 months through November and more good news for consumers. The since late November. Gazprom also cited an increase in tax- While the Federal Reserve raised a shows a 1.3 percent gain when energy nationwide average for gasoline is now es on mineral extraction and the rising ruble-denominated key interest rate last month, many econ- and food are excluded. That’s well under $2 per gallon at $1.94, down costs of transit through European countries which rose by omists say the absence of inflation pres- below the Fed’s 2 percent target for about 8 cents in just the past month and 34 percent over the nine months. — Agencies sures may delay future rate hikes. For inflation. It has been running below the 16 cents lower than a year ago.— AP Moscow stocks drop by 5% as ruble hit

MOSCOW: The Moscow stock exchange the last weeks and especially in the last nonetheless insisted the country would Vedomosti business daily yesterday, the dropped by five percent yesterday as days, creates serious risks for carrying out not rush to recalculate its budget. government is set to revise its economic Russia’s energy-dependent economy reels the budget,” Russian news agencies quot- Earlier this week the government forecast for this year to a contraction of 0.8 from low oil prices, while the country’s cur- ed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as say- announced fresh spending cuts in an effort percent instead of the 0.7 percent growth rency hit a new low. ing at a cabinet meeting yesterday. to cope with tumbling oil prices. it had previously expected. The dollar-denominated RTS index was President Vladimir Putin said last month Medvedev yesterday told his ministers he “This adjustment in official expecta- down 5.0 percent around 11:40 GMT, while that Russia had calculated its 2016 budget expected “proposals to reduce spending tions is not a surprise, as it follows weak Russia’s battered ruble stood at 77.73 based an oil price of $50 per barrel, admit- and shrink the workforce of the govern- global oil price performance,” said against the dollar and 84.71 against the ting that the figure was now an “opti- ment administration.” Dmitry Dolgin, an analyst at Russia’s Alfa euro, a level last seen during the currency mistic” assessment of the situation. The objective of the cuts, Medvedev Bank. “The key question is what policy slump of December 2014. “The dramatic This week global benchmark crude oil said, was to ensure the state’s ability to ful- actions will be taken following this revi- variation in oil prices we have witnessed in prices fell below $30. The Russian leader fil its social obligations. According to the sion.” — AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

GE sells appliance business 1MDB may tackle debt mountain early if cash to China’s Haier for $5.4bn comes in quickly One of largest Chinese acquisitions by an American firm KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE: Malaysian sovereign fund 1MDB may consider redeeming some of its outstanding debts ahead of time if cash payments from a land sale can NEW YORK: US industrial giant General come through quickly and if market conditions improve, Electric will sell its appliances business to President Arul Kanda told Reuters. China’s Haier Group for $5.4 billion, it said 1MDB is at the centre of graft allegations that have yesterday, in one of the largest Chinese engulfed Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and sparked acquisitions of an American firm yet. investigations from Switzerland to the United States. The The transaction epitomizes the changing state fund is in the final stages of a radical land and power nature of the global economy, with a 100- assets sale plan aimed at paring $7.6 billion of long-term debt year-old US company selling what was once and putting a lid on its problems. Arul said retiring a costly $3 one of its core units to a Chinese upstart that billion overseas issue arranged by Goldman Sachs would emerged from a refrigerator factory that was depend on the final terms of the sale of Kuala Lumpur’s real nearly bankrupt 30 years ago. estate development Bandar Malaysia to a China-led consor- Haier is seeking to establish itself as a tium. global brand, while China is looking to re-bal- 1MDB wants to sell Bandar Malaysia for $1.7 billion, but ance its economy more towards consump- the Chinese-Malaysian consortium said the land was worth tion and away from the infrastructure and $1.2 billion. China Railway Engineering Corp (CREC), a mem- investment-driven model of the past. The ber of the consortium, later clarified that it valued the land at Chinese firm was “committed to growing the $1.2 billion but would assume portions of liabilities and costs business globally”, GE chairman and CEO Jeff that come approximately to $500 million. This, however, is Immelt said in a statement, calling the agree- subject to mutual agreement. There is also yet no agreement ment “a good deal which will benefit our on whether the payment would be done upfront or deferred. investors, customers and employees”. “If we do receive (outright) cash for the sale of Bandar GE had previously been due to sell the GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt. Malaysia then it opens up the possibility of exploring that unit to Swedish rival manufacturer Electrolux option,” Arul said when asked about an early bond repay- for $3.3 billion, but the deal ran into opposi- ods have been studied in business schools ed 2013’s $7 billion purchase of Smithfield ment. tion from US competition authorities. Haier But with the ringgit trading at 17-year lows against the Group is China’s second largest electronics including Harvard, but its exact ownership Foods by Shuanghui, and Lenovo buying structure remains opaque. IBM’s PC business for $1.75 billion. Haier says dollar, “it may not as much make sense to repurchase dollar manufacturer, and emerged from the denominated bonds”. Najib, who chairs the advisory board of Qingdao Refrigerator Factory, in the eastern Officially, the group is divided into several it is the world’s biggest large household units which are collectively owned. It has two appliance brand, with a 10.2 percent global the scandal-hit fund and is also Malaysia’s finance minister, port of the same name, which its CEO Zhang has said 1MDB’s restructuring program should be concluded Ruimin was appointed to run in the mid- quoted subsidiaries, Haier Electronics in market share, and also has businesses in Hong Kong and Qingdao Haier in Shanghai- communications, logistics, finance and real at the earliest. 1980s. Zhang is renowned for his reaction to If 1MDB continues to exist, even in a skeletal form to con- a customer complaint, when he examined which is the vehicle for the GE acquisition. estate. It had a global turnover of 200.7 bil- Haier has close ties to the ruling Communist lion yuan ($30.47 billion) and total profit of tinue servicing its debt, it would be a thorn in the side for the firm’s warehouse and found 76 fridges Najib, who is under attack by political opponents because of out of more than 400 in stock were substan- Party, and Zhang Ruimin an alternate mem- 15 billion yuan in 2014, according to its web- ber of the party’s elite central committee. site, with activities and customers across 100 it. “If we repay the bonds, in theory we can close down the dard. He ordered the personnel to smash company. So long as the bonds remain, the company will them to pieces, personally leading the countries and regions. ‘World brand’ Haier bought the white goods operations remain,” said Arul. 1MDB’s 4.4 percent bond arranged by destruction with a hammer. Goldman and due in 2023 was one of the worst performers “If I allow the 76 fridges to be sold, it The deal is the latest major Chinese acqui- of Japanese company Sanyo in 2011, the first sition of a US company, and comes in the time a Chinese firm has bought major busi- among those listed on the JP Morgan Asia Credit Index (JACI) would imply that I would allow 760 or even last year. The bond lost a third of its price to 70 cents in 7,600 such substandard fridges to be pro- same week that Wanda Group, founded by ness segments from a large Japanese manu- China’s richest man Wang Jianlin, acquired facturer. But it had just a one percent share of September, but it since recovered to 88/89 cents as investors duced tomorrow,” he was quoted as saying started to bet on a buyback. “That’s why we are seeing a lot of by the official news agency Xinhua. Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment the US consumer appliance market in 2015, for $3.5 billion. the state-run China Daily cited market ana- hedge funds and alternative fund managers who seek alpha, The tool Zhang wielded is now in a getting into this bond,” said a bond holder. — Reuters national museum, Xinhua said. Haier’s meth- Previous major acquisitions have includ- lysts Euromonitor as saying. — AFP Brazil’s economic activity slows for 9th month in Nov

BRASILIA: Economic activity in government to the brink of col- floundered in 2015 after Rousseff Brazil slowed in November for the lapse and shocked investors who and the central bank raised taxes, ninth straight month as the coun- had poured funds into the world’s cut investments and jacked up try sank into one of the world’s seventh-largest economy until interest rates to keep both infla- deepest recessions for the year, recently. tion and public deficits under but the drop was smaller than A Reuters poll this week shows control. Consumer and business expected due to a surprise Brazil’s economy shrinking 2.8 confidence plunged as prices increase in retail sales. The percent in 2016 following an esti- continue to rise far above the offi- Brazilian central bank said yester- mated drop of 3.7 percent last cial target and agencies stripped day that its IBC-Br economic activ- year. Only Venezuela had a worse the country of its investment- ity index, which measures the outlook in the global survey, grade rating. farming, industry and service sec- which covered all G20 countries A massive corruption scandal tors, fell 0.52 percent from plus a few mid-sized economies. at state-controlled oil producer October after seasonal adjust- Analysts said the surprise Petroleo Brasileiro SA has also ments. recovery in retail sales in weighed on the economy. A Reuters survey of 17 analysts November was probably an antic- Executives from top construc- had forecast a 1.00 percent ipation of Christmas demand due tion, engineering and financial decline in the indicator. The sur- to “Black Friday” and “Cyber companies are under investiga- vey had been conducted before Monday” discounts. A likely tion or in jail. The severe eco- retail data showed a surprise slump in December sales could nomic downturn has already cost increase in early holiday sales of weigh on economic activity, they more than 1 million jobs. Brazil’s appliances and electronics. added. national unemployment rate Economic activity plunged 6.14 “The IBC-Br index will probably rose to 9.0 percent in the three TOKYO: Renault’s latest passenger car Lutecia is displayed at Tokyo Auto percent from November 2014, keep its negative trend, with no months through October from Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba yesterday. The exhibition, which is highlighting the intensity of a signs of recovery,” MCM 8.6 percent in the previous three one of the largest annual custom car and car-related product shows, is being recession that has helped send Consultores economists said in a months, data showed yesterday. held from January 15-17. — AFP the President Dilma Rousseff’s research note. Brazil’s economy — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Argentina vows to publish ‘pure’ economic data

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s new poverty. Those are two politically be as pure as possible.” He said he tionist policies that earned her the pro-business government said sensitive measures that ex-president estimated the Argentine economy- love of many Argentines but the Thursday it hoped to begin publish- Cristina Kirchner was accused of Latin America’s third biggest would mistrust of businesses and investors. ing “pure” and accurate economic masking. start to recover in the second half of Alfonso Prat-Gay on Tuesday esti- data this year after its leftist prede- Bevacqua said it could be eight this year. mated inflation last year hit about 30 cessors were accused of manipulat- months before inflation data could He forecast it would grow by percent and the public deficit about ing economic figures. be published, though “work is being “about 0.5 to 1.0 percent” overall in six percent of gross domestic prod- The head of the INDEC national done to do it sooner.” 2016 and an average of 4.5 percent uct. statistics institute, Graciela She said the simplest data to over the following three years. The Since taking office a month ago, Bevacqua, said the body hoped to compile were the foreign trade bal- International Monetary Fund in 2013 President Mauricio Macri has pushed relaunch publication of economic ance figures, which would be ready censured the figures published by through a series of economically lib- growth data within the first six in February. “It is better to have no Kirchner’s administration, which dif- eral reforms to reverse Kirchner’s months of 2016. indicator at all than to have a false fered wildly from the estimates of policies. These included freeing up But she warned it would take indicator,” Finance Minister Alfonso private economists. foreign trade and currency controls, longer than that to fix the system for Prat-Gay told a news conference. Kirchner championed populist moves that critics say will hurt poor- accurately calculating inflation and “The aim is for the indicators to social welfare programs and protec- er Argentines. — AFP

Juncker: EU economy will suffer BoE: UK banks report big rise in demand if free-travel zone collapses for personal loans Warning after EU members traded accusations LONDON: British banks saw a notable rise in demand for BRUSSELS: EU citizens would have a integration process.” many people in. The southern states personal loans and other unsecured credit in late 2015 harder time finding jobs and the econ- “Without Schengen, without the lambasted Berlin for an open-door which was expected to remain strong in early 2016, the omy would suffer should Europe’s free movement of workers, without policy that encouraged more arrivals. Bank of England said. internal passport-free zone collapse freedom of European citizens to trav- Last year, more than one million The BoE’s Credit Conditions Survey said banks were under the pressure of the migration el, the euro makes no sense.. And the arrived in the EU. The bloc had little providing more unsecured lending to households as crisis, the head of the bloc’s executive same applies to the link between success in creating migrant registra- their appetite for risk grew. Bank of England Governor said yesterday. Schengen, freedom of movement and tion ‘hot-spot’ sites in Greece and Mark Carney said this week that Britain’s economic European Commission President the internal market.” Italy, relocating people who already recovery was not reliant on growing debt levels among Jean-Claude Juncker conceded it “If anybody wants to kill off arrived to other EU countries or get- households. would not be easy to curb the mass Schengen, then ultimately what they ting Turkey to keep more of the “The increase in unsecured credit availability influx of migrants and refugees, a top are going to do is do away with the migrants and asylum-seekers on its appeared particularly apparent in other unsecured lend- priority for Germany - the 28-nation single market as well. And that’s soil. ing, such as personal loans, where credit scoring criteria bloc’s biggest economy and the main going to lead to unemployment issues Juncker said he would not give up were reported to have loosened,” the BoE said as it destination for those arriving. in Europe.” seeking a European solution to pre- released its quarterly survey yesterday. The migration crisis, Europe’s worst Juncker said the brake-up of vent member states from resorting to It also said banks had reported a slight increase in since World War Two, exposed bitter Schengen would also make freight national fixes, like reintroducing bor- demand for mortgages in the fourth quarter of last year disagreements between EU members and business travel much more der controls within Schengen. But he and it was likely to rise in the first quarter of this year. and has put the Schengen zone of expensive as he urged member states admitted that would continue to be Demand for buy-to-let (BTL) lending increased signifi- passport-free travel on the verge of to deliver on measures the bloc has an uphill battle. cantly in the fourth quarter, the BoE said. The BoE is collapse, a prospect Juncker set out to already adopted to mitigate the crisis “I don’t have too many illusions seeking powers to limit the size of BTL mortgages in warn against. “Less Schengen means but largely failed to deliver on. about the year ahead because every- order to reduce risky lending while Britain’s finance min- less employment, less economic EU members have traded accusa- thing is going to be difficult. But I’m ister George Osborne has said he will charge more tax growth,” he told a news conference in tions over who is to blame for the cri- not going to give up, I reject the idea on BTL investments. — Reuters Brussels. “Schengen is one of the sis, with Brussels and Germany accus- that this is somehow the beginning of biggest achievements of the European ing Italy and Greece of letting too an end,” he said. — Reuters Experian gets Q3 revenue boost from North America

LONDON: Credit data company Experian Plc reported a 6 percent rise in third-quarter revenue at unchanged exchange rates, helped by strong growth in its North America and Latin America businesses. Experian, which generates about half its revenue in North America, reported a 6 percent revenue rise from the region, driven by demand for its credit and consumer services. Revenue from Latin America was up 7 percent at con- stant currency rates. The stock was the biggest gainer on the FTSE-100 index on Friday, climbing as much as 5 per- cent. “Experian continues to perform better than the local economies in Latin America, group organic revenue growth has accelerated, and we think it will benefit further from the economic recovery in its two main regions of North America and the UK & Ireland,” analysts at JP Morgan Cazenove wrote in a note. Experian, best known for running consumer credit checks for banks, landlords and retailers, said if current exchange rates prevail, it expects a hit on EBIT of about 11 percent for the year ending March 31, and a further hit of about 3 percent next year. The Brazilian real depreciated almost 33 percent against the dollar during the last year while the euro fell 10 percent. Latin America is Experian’s third-biggest market by rev- enue, after Britain and Ireland, and the United States. Shares SEOUL: A currency trader looks at the computer monitors near the screen showing the foreign exchange rates at the in the company were up 2.6 percent at 1160 pence in early foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. — AP trading on the London Stock Exchange. — Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 China bank lending slides in Dec despite loosening

SHANGHAI: China’s bank lending declined sharply in December from November, the central bank said yesterday, despite moves to keep the world’s second largest economy from slowing further with looser monetary policy. New loans extended by banks slid to 597.8 billion yuan ($91.1 billion) in December, against 708.9 billion yuan in November, the People’s Bank of China said. “The lower-than- expected new loans suggest that credit demand remained weak,” ANZ Banking Group said in a research note, adding that commercial banks were reluctant to lend given increas- ing risk. China has cut interest rates six times since late 2014 and has also lowered the proportion of reserves that banks must set aside, in an effort to boost lending and revitalise the flag- ging economy. The country’s yuan-denominated lending for all of 2015 reached 11.72 trillion yuan, figures showed, which the official Xinhua news agency described as a new high. Workers resting while commuting on the back of a truck on an elevated road in Guangzhou, the capital of China’s total social financing-the broadest measure of China’s southern province of Guangdong. — AFP credit in the economy-was 1.82 trillion yuan in December, the central bank said, higher than 1.02 trillion yuan in November and above the median forecast of 1.15 trillion yuan according Govt targets activists as to a Bloomberg News survey. “Lending to the real economy remained strong at the end of last year, which should help support economic activity in the coming months,” Capital workers of China unite Economics said in a research note. China’s economic growth hit a 24-year low in 2014 and the country logged its worst economic performance since the Manufacturing hub Guangdong hit by slowdown, strikes global financial crisis in the third quarter of 2015, with gross domestic product (GDP) expanding 6.9 percent. The govern- PANYU, China: Around a dozen police (CLB), there were 2,774 across the country in social media to stop people organizing effec- ment will announce fourth quarter and 2015 GDP figures on barged into Wu Rongpu’s apartment in the 2015 — more than the previous four years tively and have cracked down on groups that Tuesday. — AFP early hours and dragged away his labor put together-with unpaid wages the most threaten to gather in large numbers, whether activist wife, leaving their one-year-old common grievance. As China’s manufactur- in front of a factory or in Tiananmen Square. daughter screaming. ing hub, Guangdong has been hard-hit by “They came into the room and tore the country’s growth slowdown and had ‘Conflict of interest’ China Dec new yuan through everything they could” looking for almost twice as many strikes and protests last The accusations against Zhu also come evidence of Zhu Xiaomei’s work for a small year as any other province. as Beijing wages a widening campaign loans hit 597.8bn Chinese workers’ rights organization. Unions represent one of the govern- against civil society, including the mass Last week, just over a month after she ment’s greatest fears: that economic dissatis- detentions of human rights lawyers. Zhu, her BEIJING : Chinese banks extended a weaker-than- was detained, authorities formally arrested faction, a widening crack in one of the key husband said, only wanted to help employ- expected 597.8 billion yuan ($90.76 billion) of new loans her on charges of “gathering a crowd to dis- pillars of the ruling Communist Party’s claim ees protect their rights. But in early in December, down from 708.9 billion in November, and turb social order,” which carries a maximum to legitimacy, might lead to an organized December, authorities detained her and two adding to worries that the economy started 2016 on a sentence of seven years in jail. political movement. other members of the Panyu Workers weaker footing. The central bank said broad M2 money Zhu, 36, came to Chinese authorities’ “Labor unrest is one of the things that Service Centre, along with at least four other supply (M2) grew 13.3 percent from a year earlier, miss- attention for her role as a labor activist in keeps the Communist Party up at night,” said activists. Chinese state media vilified them, ing forecasts for a 13.5 percent increase and down from with the official Communist Party mouth- 13.7 percent in November. piece the People’s Daily saying they had Outstanding yuan loans grew 14.3 percent from a year “plotted behind the scenes to organize and earlier, below forecasts for 14.8 percent growth and com- control labor strikes” that “seriously dis- pared with 14.9 percent in the previous month. Total turbed social order” and “trampled on work- social financing, a homegrown measurement of total ers’ rights and interests”. credit issuance in China, was 1.82 trillion yuan, compared Their work, it said, targeted the govern- with November’s reading of 1.02 trillion yuan. ment, using funds provided by foreign Leaders at the annual Central Economic Work organizations, including CLB. But a factory Conference last month pledged to make monetary policy employee who worked with Zhu and more flexible and expand the budget deficit in 2016 to requested anonymity said that she “taught help underpin growth and reforms. They also called for us how to not break the law, taught us legal tax cuts and a gradual expansion of China’s fiscal deficit knowledge”. “She gave so much, but society ratio this year. In the face of weak commercial bank lend- has repaid her with this kind of slander,” the ing for much of the year, the central bank also made worker added. The tactics have not stopped more extensive use of unconventional monetary tools demonstrations: more than 60 strikes were like its pledged supplementary lending facility, which reported nationwide in the first week of provides low cost funding to selected banks targeted at January alone. specific sectors such as infrastructure or housing. Independent groups such as Zhu’s actu- Net corporate bond issuance leaped to 914 billion ally help to resolve strike actions, according yuan in the third quarter, accounting for 29 percent of to CLB campaigner Geoffrey Crothall, by net new social financing, up from 381 billion yuan and Wu Rongpu holding a picture of his wife Zhu Xiaomei in Panyu, an negotiating with angry workers and encour- just 8 percent in the first quarter. industrial district in Guangzhou, the capital of the southern province aging them to focus on “reasonable” This huge shift of financingactivity into the bond of Guangdong. —AFP demands. “It’s completely the opposite from market has helped firms which were unable to secure what the government is pretending is hap- bank finance as big lenders retrench, but also raised con- Panyu, in the southern province of Eli Friedman, an expert on labor relations at pening,” he said. The state-run All-China cerns that many of the new issuers could be of poor Guangdong. The region’s bustling ports and Cornell University in the US. Federation of Trade Unions is the country’s credit quality, raising risks in the bond market. The cen- factories have made a huge contribution to Beijing, he said, has closely studied how only approved union and the only group tral bank has cut interest rates six times over the past China’s transformation into the world’s sec- Poland’s Solidarity union movement con- legally allowed to collectively bargain on year and lowered bank reserve requirements (RRR) as it ond-largest economy. But as the country’s tributed to the fall of its communist govern- workers’ behalf. But many employees feel struggles to hold down real interest rates for heavily growth slows and factories shut at an alarm- ment. Authorities have spent hundreds of that it has not “adequately represented” indebted Chinese firms, but these measures appear to ing rate, they have become ground zero for billions of dollars trying to prevent a similar them, Friedman told AFP. “It’s a typical prac- have done little to arrest a slide in investment. China is an explosion in strikes and worker protests. scenario, by propping up failing companies tice to have the HR manager also serve as set to release fourth quarter and full-year GDP data on According to data from Hong Kong- to avoid mass unemployment. the union chair, which creates an obvious Jan. 19. — Reuters based rights group China Labor Bulletin They also tightly control tools such as sort of conflict of interest,” he said. — AFP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 www.kuwaittimes.net in Monaco.—AP International CircusFestival 40th Monte-Carlo during theopeningof Juggler KrisKremoperforms SEE PAGE 23 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 How ‘13 Hours’ tries to get at the truth of Benghazi ichael Bay’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opens with the Mmessage, “This is a true story.” In other words, not “based on a true story,” but “a true sto- ry.” Given the political controversy that has swirled around the events of the Benghazi attacks for more than three years, the movie is destined to be heavily scrutinized for how it portrays the team of six security contractors housed at a secret CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. It shows how they put their lives on the line to respond to the Sept 11, 2012, attack on the nearby diplomatic com- pound. The contractors have said that they wanted to see their story told on screen because the politics surrounding Benghazi have obscured the actual events on the ground that evening as well as the lives that were lost. Four Americans, including US Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed. “Probably the biggest challenge was remaining completely true to the events that transpired that night,” said producer Erwin Stoff. “Any time you are doing a real story or a true story, there is that temptation to say, ‘Well, it would be better if this would hap- In this photo Pablo Schreiber, from left, as Kris “Tanto” Paronto, John Krasinski as Jack Silva, David Denman as Dave “Boon” Benton pen or that would happen.’ But there is not a and Dominic Fumusa as John “Tig” Tiegen, in the film, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”. — AP thing in this movie that is not verifiable by two or compelling pitches they had heard but every- none such order was given, even if there was a lem, he said, was that the militia was unreliable. more sources.” body was reluctant about the politics of it.” The delay as the CIA chief sought out a local militia. “We have never heard anything from the CIA oth- book, “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What (The chief’s identity is not revealed in the movie, er than, ‘No [the stand-down order] didn’t hap- Security team Really Happened in Benghazi,” was published and he is named “Bob”). Another report is expect- pen.’ These guys [the security contractors] are The movie’s origins came just months after that September. “The biggest challenge was get- ed this spring from a House special committee on putting their lives and their reputations on the the attacks, Stoff said, when Richard Abate, book ting it right,” Zuckoff said.” I felt very deeply that Benghazi, and the issue is expected to be raised line saying, ‘We were forced to wait, and the agent with Stoff’s 3 Arts Entertainment, was put so much false information had flown around this again, according to Politico. record shows it.’” A problem, he said, was that the in touch with Kris “Tanto” Paronto, one of the that if this book had even a small error we would The issue is important because some of the CIA chief was a spy, not a military tactical com- security contractors. “We got all five [contractors] be doing a disservice to them and to their serv- contractors believe that if they had gotten their mander. The book and the movie do not suggest together and we all realized there was a book ice.” sooner they could have saved Stevens and Sean what some conservative critics have-that the there and eventually a movie,” Stoff said. After a Smith, an information management officer who “stand down” order came from higher ranks, per- bidding war between a number of publishers, a Diplomatic mission was killed. The contractors “heard the calls imme- haps from the White House. Hachette imprint got the book, and Mitchell Production started in April, 2015, including diately,” Zuckoff said. “No one has disputed that “We are not claiming that there was some Zuckoff was hired to write it with the security nine weeks in Malta and one week in Morocco. they ‘jocked up’-in their lingo, they armored up order from on high, that there was some kind of team. Other Benghazi film projects began to sur- Perhaps no other moment in the movie has been immediately and they staged these cars ready to overarching order out of Washington or even out face, so instead of waiting until the book was as hotly debated as the contractors’ assertion that go. And then 20 minutes go by. There’s no ques- of Tripoli,” Zuckoff said. published, they began to develop and pitch the they were given an order to “stand down” by the tion that Bob was trying to get help from the local “The book makes clear and the movie movie beforehand. Four of the contractors came CIA annex chief, a wait of about 20 minutes militia forces. And so the delay did take place and absolutely does, it absolutely gets it right, that with them to pitch the studios. before responding to the attack at the nearby the guys ultimately went on their own.” these are fast-paced decisions, and they turned “They, as much as anybody, told the story,” diplomatic mission where Stevens was quartered. out to be wrong decisions.” The movie also por- Stoff said. Paramount bought it, with Chuck Eventually they bucked orders and left. The con- Higher ranks trays Stevens’ belief in the US engagement in Hogan writing the script and Bay attached by tractors insist that a “stand down” order was giv- Zuckoff said that he believes what the CIA Libya and assistance in transforming itself from a August, 2014, Stoff said. en, even though the CIA has denied it and con- chief was doing was “sincerely trying to gather dictatorship, but at the same time some of the Other studios said it “was one of the most gressional investigations have so far found that forces, but it was a misguided effort.” The prob- cynicism of one of the contractors. —Reuters DiCaprio has ‘no nerves’ Singer Nick Carter is surrounded by over Oscar nomination media after being released on $1,500 bond S actor Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday claimed to feel no from the nerves at the prospect of claiming his first Oscar for his Monroe County Urole in “The Revenant”, saying he had “done the work” and Detention could do no more. “The one reassuring thing about all this award Center in Key season stuff is that you have absolutely no control over the out- West. — AP come,” he told BBC radio. “You’ve done the work, I do not know why I should be nervous. While you’re on the set and you give Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys everything, that’s all you can do,” he added, after film’s British premiere. arrested in Key West The actor has been nominated four times for the Best Actor award but has never got his hands on the famous statuette. “The ackstreet Boys singer Nick Carter has been arrested in Florida Revenant” is an odyssey of survival and revenge in which after a fight outside a bar. Carter, 35, made his initial court DiCaprio ate raw buffalo liver, climbed snowy mountains and Bappearance Thursday afternoon and was released from the bathed in icy rivers as he played the legendary trapper Hugh Monroe County jail several hours later on $1,500 bail. He faces a misde- Glass. The film, directed by Alejandro Inarritu, is up for 12 Oscars, meanor battery charge. According to a Key West Police report, Carter it was announced Thursday. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio signs autographs upon arrival at was intoxicated when officers arrived Wednesday evening at the Hog’s “It feels great, man. It really does,” DiCaprio said. “This is an the premiere of the film ‘The Revenant’ in London. —AP Breath Saloon. The report says a bartender refused to serve Carter and epic art film. So to have something not only do as good as it’s Cranston (“Dalton Trumbo”), Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”) Michael Rae Papayans of Palos been doing in the box office, but to get having this movie recog- Verdes Estates, California, who became agitated and aggressive. and Matt Damon (“Alone on Mars”). English actor Eddie nized by our peers, it does feel amazing.” On his chances of win- The bar’s staff repeatedly told both men to leave. According to the Redmayne received his second consecutive nomination, for his report, once outside, Papayans head-butted one employee and Carter ning, the 41-year-old said: “It’s all this crazy blur, because you’re interpretation of a transsexual pioneer in “The Danish Girl”. The then grabbed a bouncer by the throat. Papayans, 27, also was held on so attached to the process of making a movie. Oscars will be awarded in Los Angeles on February 28. “The a misdemeanor battery charge. Jail records don’t show whether either “I’m too attached to the movie to really understand or know Revenant” was released in Britain on Friday, after opening in the man has an attorney to comment on the case. —AP what’s worthy of awards or not.” DiCaprio is up against Bryan United States on January 8. — AFP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Celine Dion’s husband, manager Rene Angelil dies

eline Dion’s husband Rene Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and Clong managed her career, died Thursday aged 73, after a struggle with cancer. Dion announced his passing in a Twitter message, saying: “Rene Angelil passed away this morn- ing at his home in Las Vegas after a long and courageous battle against cancer.” A spokesman for the singer, Marc Olivier, said more information would be given in the com- Canadian singer ing days, but for now the family wished to be Celine Dion and left to mourn in private. husband Rene News of Angelil’s death triggered an out- Angelil pose upon pouring of sympathy from Dion’s fans, with arrival at the Palais the singer’s name trending on Twitter world- des Festivals in wide. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted Cannes, southern his condolences to Dion and to Angelil’s six France, in this children, including three from a previous mar- January 26, 2008, riage. Angelil’s home city of Montreal file photo. announced that flags would be flown at half mast in his honor, as mayor Denis Coderre For me, it was the most beautiful voice in the him,” Dion once said. “Ninety-nine point nine paid tribute to “a monument of the entertain- world,” he would recall in interviews. The busi- percent of what’s happened to me (my suc- ment world.” nessman set out to make Dion the biggest cess) is because of Rene.” In 1994, when she Born in Quebec to Lebanese-Syrian immi- singer in the world. His protegee and future was 19 and he was 45, the couple married in grants, Angelil started out in music dabbling wife went on to become one of pop’s music’s an extravagant wedding ceremony that was in yeye-French 60s music-before trying his best-known voices, winning five Grammy televised live in Canada, and splashed all over In this July 25, 2001 file photo, singer hand at comedy, and finally settling on a awards including for the “Titanic” theme song glossy magazines. Celine Dion and her husband, Rene career in music management. As a talent “My Heart Will Go On,” and collaborating with “My mother wanted to kill him,” Dion said Angelil, hold their six-month-old son Rene- agent, he signed one of the biggest names in stars from Stevie Wonder to Barbra Streisand. later. Eventually the couple landed in Las Vegas Charles after his baptism at Notre-Dame Quebec music, Ginette Reno, but the arrange- where Dion played nearly 1,000 shows, earning Bascilica in Montreal. — AP/AFP photos ment ended abruptly in 1981, leaving Angelil ‘All my life’ her more millions. Their fairytale life, however, Today she described dealing with the pending destitute and desperate. Just then, another Behind the scenes, Angelil invested Dion’s took a turn when Angelil was diagnosed with loss of “the only boyfriend I’ve ever had” and opportunity arose. At age 12, Dion had record- earnings from concerts and 220 million throat cancer in 2013. A year later he stepped “the leader of the band all my life.” In a soft ed a demo tape with her mother and sent it to albums sold worldwide in restaurants, dance down as Dion’s manager-a position he held for voice, she recalled: “I’ll say, ‘You’re scared? I Angelil. He was so struck by her voice that he clubs and golf courses. He launched clothing more than 30 years. After taking a break from understand. Talk to me about it,’” pausing signed her to an exclusive management con- lines, perfumes and other Dion branded mer- performing to care for her husband, Dion before adding: “And Rene says to me, ‘I want to tract-mortgaging his house to finance her chandise, building an empire of wealth for returned to performing on the Strip in 2015 at die in your arms.’ OK, fine, I’ll be there, you’ll die debut album. “I’d never heard anything like it. them to share. “There is no other manager like Angelil’s urging. In a candid interview with USA in my arms.” — AFP David Bowie family plans private ceremony

avid Bowie’s family said Thursday it planned a private ceremony to cele- Dbrate the late rock legend, honoring his wishes to remain discreet about his death. Bowie, one of pop culture’s most influential figures whose career took him from glam rock to soul to science fiction films, died Sunday after an undisclosed 18- In this Wednesday, Jan 13, 2016 file photo, Elton John per- month battle with cancer. Few other forms at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. — AP details have emerged. “The family of David Bowie is currently making arrangements for a private ceremony celebrating the John plays musical memory of their beloved husband, father and friend,” said a statement on Bowie’s official Facebook page. tribute to Bowie in concert “They ask once again that their privacy be respected at this most sensitive of times. “We are overwhelmed by and grate- lton John didn’t just premiere tracks from his new album at ful for the love and support shown Projected photos of British pop star David Bowie used for the “Heroes” album his most recent concert, he offered a tribute to his late throughout the world.” Representatives for cover by photographer Masayoshi Sukita and a framed picture of Bowie by Efriend David Bowie. About halfway through John’s perform- the London-born artist declined to com- photographer Jimmy King are seen during a memorial event for Bowie in the ance at the intimate Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles Wednesday ment on a report in Britain’s Daily Mirror main hall of Berlin’s Hansa recording studio yesterday. night, he shared a story about Bowie, who died earlier this week. that said his body was cremated in New of mourning, with fans around the world concert to Bowie at New York’s Carnegie John said that many years ago, he was looking for a new produc- York, his adopted home, immediately after leaving flowers, candles and glitter on sites Hall had been announced just moments er and arranger to work with, “then I heard a record which blew his death. People close to him said that associated with the artist, and leading before his death. me away called ‘Space Oddity.’ “ Bowie wanted to keep his illness away musicians including Elton John and Performers for the March 31 concert, John hired Bowie’s collaborators to work on his breakthrough from the glare of 24-hour social media. He Madonna covering his songs live. “It is which sold out quickly, include Cyndi hit, “Your Song.” “I have David Bowie to thank for that,” John said. instead released a final album, “Blackstar,” important to note that while the concerts Lauper-whose flamboyant appearance in “So I’d like to dedicate this to the star man himself.” With that, on his 69th birthday on Friday in what in and tributes planned for the coming weeks the 1980s showed a clear influence of John began a rich, layered cover of “Space Oddity” before launch- retrospect was an elaborate artistic state- are all welcome, none are official memori- Bowie-and Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, ing into “Rocket Man.” Amid a set filled with hits and guest ment on his death and nearly half-century als organized or endorsed by the family,” who brought a broader audience to alter- appearances by such artists as Demi Lovato and Shawn Mendes, career. In the words of photographer Annie the Facebook statement said. “Just as each native rock in the early 1990s. Organizers John also debuted several songs from his forthcoming album, Leibovitz, “he really curated his death.” and every one of us found something announced that the tribute would extend “Wonderful Crazy Night,” an experience he called “nerve-wrack- unique in David’s music, we welcome to a second night on April 1 at Radio City ing.” “Playing new songs for the first time is a terrifying feeling,” Huge interest in tributes everyone’s celebration of his life as they Music Hall, another prominent, but larger he said. “Thank you for being so patient.” — AP Bowie’s death triggered an outpouring see fit.” In an eerie coincidence, a tribute venue in New York. — AFP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

SkyRide, a new attraction that will be onboard the Carnival Vista ship when the new ves- A submersible sightseeing capsule in waters off the Seychelles islands, an excursion sel launches this spring. — AP photos offered to passengers aboard the Crystal Cruises yacht Crystal Esprit. Cruises 2016: Big new ships, submarine trips, ‘voluntourism’ nderwater sightseeing in a cruisers with deep pockets, luxuries a submersible vessel. The underwa- top deck and 150 feet above the glass submarine, shopping range from round-the-clock personal ter excursions take place near the water. Vista will also have an Uwith a chef for dinner ingredi- assistants to long-term leases for resi- Seychelles islands in winter and on onboard brewery and a 455-foot- ents and volunteering with locals: dences at sea. Here are some details the Adriatic Coast in spring and long tube slide. Holland America These are some of the new options and other cruise news. summer. The glass capsule holds Line debuts the Koningsdam in this season for cruise passengers. Also two people and a captain. Thirty- April, with staterooms for families in 2016 from the cruise industry, Royal The submarine, minute rides are $599 per person. and for singles; a theater with two- Caribbean launches the world’s voluntourism and more Later this year, Crystal launches a story-high, 270-degree LED screens, largest ship, and a new ship from Crystal Cruises has just launched yacht for river cruising in Europe, and music options ranging from B.B. Carnival features a biking track sus- Crystal Esprit, a 62-guest yacht that Crystal Mozart, with four more river King’s Blues Club to nightly chamber pended high above the water. And for offers among its excursions a ride in yachts in 2017. Crystal is also get- music. HAL is also collaborating with ting into the airplane business with a travel planning service called Utrip charter flights on four jets connect- so guests can go online and create ing to trips by ship and on land. And customized shore itineraries. Black Sabbath to release later this year Crystal launches resi- Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest dences at sea, with long-term leases ship, Escape, debuted in the fall of new songs with final tour for staterooms on three new ocean 2015 with an urban craft beer hall, vessels, prices to be determined. Mondavi wine bar, a Margaritaville eavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are ready for “the end,” but Fathom, a new brand from Carnival and a tapas bar. the band still has some new material. Black Sabbath announced Corp, offers “voluntourism” trips to Norwegian is also introducing a HThursday that it would release four new songs on a limited-release the Dominican Republic in April and new “Free at Sea” promotion invit- album as part of a global tour that starts next Wednesday in Omaha, to Cuba in May. Carnival is still ing guests to pick a free amenity Nebraska. The metal band has said that the tour, which ends September 21 The cruise line’s kennel master negotiating details on the Cuba walking a dog on the top deck of from four options: a beverage pack- in Phoenix, Arizona, will be its last with no further concerts or albums. trips with the Cuban government age, specialty dining package, But Black Sabbath said that the limited CD-also called “The End”-will fea- the Queen Mary 2. but tickets are on sale. Passengers excursion credits or WiFi package. ture four songs that were recorded and unused during sessions for the will work with locals on everything sail its first British Isles itinerary, to Regent Seven Seas Explorer launch- band’s final album “13,” released in 2013. The CD will only be sold at the Scotland, England and Ireland. concerts for “The End” and feature artwork by Shepard Fairey, the street from learning English to reforesta- es in July with the $10,000-a-night artist best known for the “Hope” poster for Barack Obama’s first presiden- tion, while immersing themselves in super-luxurious Regent Suite, com- Biking in the sky, dogs tial campaign. The CD “The End” will also include four live recordings from the culture. plete with private spa and grand the tour for “13,” the band said in a statement. New from Celebrity Cruises: onboard and big new ships piano. Despite the price tag, the Black Sabbath was instrumental in creating heavy metal in the early Passengers on certain sailings in the In June, Royal Caribbean launches suite is already sold out for its entire 1970s with dark and high-volume guitars coupled with a keen interest in Caribbean and Europe are participat- what will be the world’s largest ship, first season. the occult. Frontman Ozzy Osbourne, 67, went on to a successful career as ing in the Chef Market Discoveries Harmony of the Seas, with a capacity Viking, once known just for river a solo artist famous for sensational shows. But earlier talk of a reunion was program, in which they shop with of 5,479 passengers. Harmony will cruises, is launching the second of clouded by health crises suffered by guitarist Tony Iommi, who has battled chefs in local markets for ingredients feature the “neighborhood” areas its ocean-going ships, Viking Sea, in cancer in recent years. — AFP used in the meals they’ll eat onboard already found on other Royal April, a sister ship to Viking Star, that night. Caribbean ships, including Central launched last year. Seabourn New from Princess Cruises: Park and Boardwalk. Harmony will expects its first new ship in five Chocolate Journeys with chocolate- also have robot bartenders, a mini- years, Seabourn Encore, to be deliv- infused menus and other treats golf course, surfing on a FlowRider ered in December for a January designed by chocolatier Norman machine, waterslides, a zip line and, 2017 launch. The ship will have all- Love, plus menus by celebrity chef for guests who need their every suite staterooms and a Thomas Curtis Stone, on-deck stargazing in a whim catered to, round-the-clock Keller restaurant. And Cunard is ren- partnership with Discovery Channel, personal assistants called Royal ovating the Queen Mary 2, adding and a magic show and musical Genies. Another new Royal staterooms for solo travelers and revue, “Magic to Do,” with music by Caribbean ship, Ovation of the Seas, expanding the number of onboard Broadway composer Stephen debuts in April, designed primarily kennels where guests are permitted Schwartz of “Wicked” and “Godspell” for service in China. to keep their dogs. The QM2 will be fame. Disney Cruise Line features a Carnival Cruise Line launches its out of service for the redo from May “Star Wars” day on each of eight largest ship in May, Carnival Vista, 27 to June 21. Looking ahead to Disney Fantasy ship sailings in the which can carry 3,954 people based 2017, the Queen Victoria will Western Caribbean beginning this on two per cabin. Vista’s showcase become the largest ship to ever month, with “Star Wars” characters, attraction, SkyRide, lets guests cycle navigate the Amazon, on Cunard’s activities and themed celebrations. on bikes suspended from an 800- first voyage to that part of the In this file photo, Black Sabbath pose in an event. — AFP In June, the Disney Magic ship will foot long track, 20 feet above the world. — AP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

This photo shows the entrance to Mardi Gras World located in a 300,000-square-foot facility where visitors can view actual Mardi Gras floats and watch as Mardi Gras workers create new additions for the floats in New Orleans. — AP photos Time to plan for Mardi Gras: This undated photo provided by Miraval Resort & Spa shows guests on a guided hike organized by the spa, which is located north of Tucson, Ariz. — AP It’s early this year, Feb 9 Business meetings

at the spa: From eems like we’ve barely recovered from Safety The Aquarium of the Americas has redone its wellness to manicures Christmas and New Year’s, but it’s The city police force is about 73 percent walk-through tank as “The Great Maya Reef” Salready Carnival time, with Mardi Gras of what officials consider optimum strength, (for $250, you can snorkel or scuba dive in it). falling early this year, on Feb 9. Carnival, from but, as usual at Mardi Gras, 12-hour shifts, The World War II Museum recently opened a isiting a spa might sound like an indulgence incompat- the Latin, means “farewell to the flesh.” Mardi state police and sheriff’s deputies from the permanent exhibit about the war in the ible with a business meeting. But spas get plenty of Gras - which literally translates as Fat area will supplement the force. Pacific. Hipster neighborhoods include the Vbookings these days from corporate clients and organ- Tuesday - is the deadline for finishing off all Warehouse District, Bywater and the izations, whether for team-building, wellness education or the goodies in the house before the begin- The routes Marigny. even “manicure meetings.” Some groups send employees for ning of Lent, a period of austerity leading up Twenty-nine parades roll this year along guided meditation classes in hotel spas, or to tackle outdoor to Easter. So in practical terms, Carnival sea- the popular St Charles Avenue route. The Mardi Gras exhibits challenge courses at destination spas. Other companies offer son is an almost immediate challenge to any suburbs, from nearby Metairie and St. The Presbytere, one of three state muse- staff spa credits for a private massage or sauna time. An auto- New Year’s resolutions to eat wisely. One Bernard Parish to cities across the 24-mile- ums on Jackson Square in the French motive group meeting in Florida at Palm Beach Marriott tempting Carnival tradition: the sweet baked long Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, host 20 Quarter, has a permanent exhibit about the Singer Island Beach Resort enlisted the spa to provide 25- rings called king cakes. For those heading to parades. There are no parades in the French festival’s origins and history, with costumes minute services during meeting breaks like facials, massages New Orleans, here’s a guide to routes, tradi- Quarter, but there are lots of costumes, a and other memorabilia. Blaine Kern’s Mardi and manicures. tions, attractions and more. good few of them scanty. The quarter’s nar- Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, Spafinder Wellness 365 Research Director Beth McGroarty estimates that corporate meetings and executive retreats Hotels and parking account for 4 percent of day spa revenue and 11 percent of As with any big event, hotel rooms are revenue at resort, hotel and destination spas. Eve Salon and going fast. What’s left can run into hundreds Haven Spa in Manhattan have hosted “manicure meetings,” of dollars per night. Parking is also tight including one recently at Eve for Jenee Naquin’s staff. Naquin, along parade routes. French Quarter resi- dents and hotel guests get parking passes, a handbag designer and branding consultant, recalls working but the Quarter is closed to outside vehicles in places in the past where people “would cut out for a quick the entire weekend. pedi when things were slow. So I thought, just make work more productive by combining the two. I also think working Seating moms, like myself, can really appreciate this,” so they don’t Bring chairs, towels or blankets. Come have to arrange for child care to get their nails done. early for front-row spots and several hours Sara Daly, who owns a wellness company in Vermont early for huge night parades and Mardi Gras called a’chromatherapy has taken her staff of eight women weekend extravaganzas. Some locals show for spa days a number of times. “When we put on robes up at dawn. But floats rise well above eye together, we create a uniformity to our ideas,” Daly said. She level, so even from the back you’ll have a said the shared experience bolsters creativity and problem- view. Grandstand seating gets expensive. solving in a stress-free environment where her employees have “moments of quiet and reflection and then moments of Throw me something, mister! brainstorming all in the same day. You can accomplish much The 37,000 float-riders throw gew-gaws more this way.” Miraval Resort & Spa, located north of Tucson, to the crowd. Plastic beads, cups and alu- This photo shows the entrance to Mardi Gras World located in a 300,000-square- Arizona, has hosted groups ranging from an outdoor clothing minum “doubloons” - colorful disks named foot facility where visitors can view actual Mardi Gras floats and watch as Mardi company to a financial insurance company. after a centuries-old Spanish gold coin - are Gras workers create new additions for the floats in New Orleans. — AP photos ubiquitous. But depending on the parade, Equine program you might catch pecans, bracelets, fedoras, row streets are sometimes so jammed that it’s is where hundreds of floats are built for plush toys, selfie sticks, hand-decorated all but impossible to walk against the crowd. parades here and elsewhere. The Backstreet “Recently we had a group of 22 from AllSource Global shoes, purses or coconuts. Bring a bag to car- Cultural Museum, 1116 St Claude Ave, in the Management come in for a couple of days to do team-build- ry whatever you can’t wear. Parade dates Treme neighborhood, has the city’s largest ing exercises on our low-ropes course and with our equine The season’s first parade took place Jan collection of feathered and beaded Mardi program,” said Miraval’s general manager Laura McIver. Loading and unloading 10 in Slidell, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The Gras Indian costumes, each created by the Miraval’s leisure guests skew 80 percent female, but corpo- Food is available from trucks, carts, next is in Metairie, next door to New Orleans, African-American who wore it. rate groups are a more even mix of men and women. A three- restaurants and even schools and churches Jan 24. The weekend of Jan 29-31 sees 18 day group stay, depending on the season, can range from along parade routes. Some restaurants offer parades in the city and suburbs with daily Other attractions $400 per person per day to up to $700. Typically, corporate fine dining with a quiet view of screaming parades starting Feb 3. Check out the Louisiana Children’s bookings give each participant $150 credit toward individual parade-goers. Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; or the spa services or activities to be done on their free time. You can walk around with drink in a can What’s new Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Metairie Other activities that Miraval’s corporate guests sign up for or plastic cup - nothing breakable. Public uri- The Lafitte Greenway, a 2.6-mile bicycle Cemetery, just outside city limits, has mau- range from guided hikes, fitness classes and meditation ses- nation and public drunkenness are two com- and pedestrian trail and green corridor link- soleums both fanciful and historic, many incor- sions to lectures on improving communication. Dena Roche, mon reasons for arrests on Mardi Gras. Some ing the French Quarter’s Armstrong Park to porating stained glass. You need to be part of editor of TheTravelDiet.com and a wellness speaker, attended churches, schools and restaurants sell passes City Park in mid-city, opened in November. a tour group to get into St Louis Cemetery No. a program at Miraval a few years back for entrepreneurs that to use their portable toilets. The city sets up (Stay on the asphalt, please, to coddle turf 1, near the French Quarter, where tombs explored how to “create your business as part of a healthy about 700 free toilets in high-traffic areas but and other plantings that are late taking hold include one believed to be that of 19th centu- lifestyle.” She says it’s a misconception to regard spas as a lines can be long. Bars, restaurants and stores because of rain.) ry voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. There also place where people go to get pampered. —AP also sell potty passes or allow use if you buy The Orpheum Theater, closed since are good tours of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in something. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, recently reopened. the Garden District. — AP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Actors performing during a show. Chinese pensioners keep historic opera alive

hite make-up covering their aged faces, Chinese Wperformers-all aged over 50 — don richly-coloured robes and false beards to belt out tunes passed down for more than two centuries. The “Flower Lantern” Yunnan Opera troupe performs each day on a run-down stage, their dron- ing instruments and melismatic singing mingling with sounds from a vegetable market next door. But just a few elderly spec- tators sit watching, a sign of wan- He Zhengcai, director of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe, being reflect- Zhong Huifangi, of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe being reflected in a ing interest in the art despite ed in a mirror while putting on his makeup. mirror while getting dressed during a show. their efforts.

He Zhengcai (center), director of the ‘Flower An elderly Lantern’ troupe, audience leaving the place watching a after a show. show. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

An actor of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe performing on stage during a show. An actress of the ‘Flower Lantern talking to colleagues backstage during a show.

“The situation is getting worse each entertainment, young people are no longer year, our stage has moved seven times and interested in this art, and our audiences are each time it gets smaller,” said He old fellows in general.” Zhong Huifang, 66, Zhengcai, the group’s 72-year-old director. has performed the operas since she was a Backstage with half-done make-up, he young girl. But she smiled about the com- briefed each performer about the charac- pany’s small box office takings. “No one ters and plots for the afternoon’s two hour here is coming for money, I just enjoy per- show. He has six decades of experience, forming,” she declared. and many of the seven other actors, who The mostly aging audience seated on looked in rusty mirrors to daub their faces makeshift wooden benches was sparse, with powder, are also veterans. “I normally with some more interested in playing inform everyone his or her role half an hour mahjong on tables beside the stage. Others before the show. They prepare their lines watched for only a few minutes, snapping while doing make-up.” Similar to the bet- pictures on their smartphones before leav- ter-known Peking Opera, the performances ing. Group founder Gao Qinying, 75, says in Yunnan date back more than 200 years, she is worried about the future. “I don’t with government officials declaring it part think the group could survive another of the nation’s Intangible Cultural Heritage year,” she said, calling for more govern- in 2008. ment support as fans literally die off. “Five But He said the troupe generally only old friends used to sit there together, they attracts audiences of around 30 people and came and sat on the same spot every day,” makes little money from the shows. An actor of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe putting on his makeup backstage said Gao, pointing to some back row seats. “Nowadays there are so many kinds of before a show. “Now they are all gone.” — AFP

Zhong Huifangi, of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe, posing He Zhengcai, director of the ‘Flower Lantern’ troupe, for a picture after a show. Actors performing during a show. putting on his makeup before a show.

Actors performing during a show. Elderly playing mahjong during a show. —AFP photos SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

In this Sept 14, 1984 file photo, Madonna poses at the In this Jan 19, 1998 file photo, a model wears an embroi- This 1969 file photo, concert-goers sit on the roof of a MTV Video Music Awards where she was nominated “Best dered evening gown during a presentation for the Volkswagen bus at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair at New Artist” in video, at Radio City Music Hall, in New York. Christian Dior 1998 Spring Summer high fashion collec- Bethel, NY. — AP photos tion designed by John Galliano in Paris. New book captures pop culture moments that scream love

ashion and style have forever been in bed with film, television and music, especially the Fmoments that scream love. We all have our top pop memories of romance, lust, marriage, heartbreak from those worlds and more, including the beauty industry and the world of advertising. In a new book, “The Looks of Love: 50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance,” insider and designer Hal Rubenstein has rounded up some of his. We asked him to illuminate his favorites from the book, which was released by Harper Design in plenty of time for Valentine’s Day:

Love story Rubenstein calls 1970’s “Love Story” a “cheaply produced, poorly shot and badly edited” film of Erich Segal’s runaway best-selling book. Both had fans weeping by the millions. Among the reasons the film did well were the genetically blessed stars, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, but coming as it did in the ascendancy of Woodstock, with its bell-bottoms and beaded necklaces, “Love Story” ironically led the way for preppy style. Forever. In this May 2, 2005 file photo, bottles of Chanel No. 5 perfume are displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume In his Harris Tweed blazers over Shetland Institute exhibit in New York. sweaters and blue Oxford cloth shirts with collars out, O’Neal’s Ollie might well have been raised by Valiant ‘dos. But there’s something else, and Cher to be onstage together. “An uncomfort- as a source of gender power as their courtship the sales staff of Brooks Brothers, Rubenstein said. Rubenstein said, besides their break out dueting able audience felt the same way,” Rubenstein unfolds. MacGraw’s Jenny, meanwhile, walked a protest- that hit the Top 40 in 1965. They followed up with writes. “The reunion show barely lasted two Alex was gutsy in love and style, stomping free campus in a peacoat, black turtleneck and “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” that premiered years.” around in her welder’s boots by day and sliding plaid skirt with matching scarf once the book on CBS in 1971, ending in 1974. The two fell out of up her short black leather skirt as she sat to slip off (thanks to a plug of gold from fan Barbara Walters) love and divorced in 1975. Both had short-lived Flashdance her lace bra under her torn sweatshirt after their hit the big screen the year after the seismic solo TV shows before CBS persuaded them in You can thank director Adrian Lyne and cos- first date. The scene had Nick bug-eyed in aston- Woodstock. The film’s score had legs. Mick and 1976 to reunite as a divorced couple in the same tume designer Michael Kaplan for moving along ishment. “This film is a time capsule, watershed Bianca, as in the Jaggers, were married twice in time slot, Sunday nights. the casualization of America’s dress code through moment of everything that was basically happen- 1971 in St Tropez, first in a civil ceremony, then in “They were the first high-profile couple ever to this movie in 1983. It was high gloss and paper ing in pop culture, in fashion, in sexuality. It hits a Roman Catholic wedding where the Nicaraguan appear in public divorced and getting along,” thin, Rubenstein writes, but it incorporated big every single button,” Rubenstein said. beauty and future rock wife walked down the aisle Rubenstein said. “When I was a kid (he’s 65) you shifts in youth culture, from sex to style. With their to a selection of sappy songs from “Love Story.” said the word divorce the same way everybody curly manes, olive skin and dark brooding eyes, Chanel No. 5 She requested the music. said the word cancer. And they basically said, stars Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri - who Coco Chanel wasn’t fond of flowery scents. She ‘Here we are and we’re having a good time,’ and it played her boss and her love interest, Nick - not considered perfumes that were too perfumey Sonny and Cher changed people’s attitudes toward divorce.” Then only looked like they could be fraternal twins but overly girly and oppressive, triggering memories Her Bob Mackie gowns and long straight raven Cher got pregnant with Gregg Allman’s child. The wore interchangeable outfits in identical colors. of her years as a seamstress for wealthy women hair are legendary, as are his furry vests and Prince larger she got, the more uneasy it was for Sonny That, Rubenstein said, helped neutralize clothing who reeked of musk and lavender to mask body SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

In this Oct 3, 1981 file photo, 1960’s pop singers In this April 18, 2005 file photo, Jennifer Beals In this March 5, 2006 file photo, Australian actor Sonny and Cher appear during a taping of ABC’s arrives to the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Heath Ledger, left, and actress Michelle Williams “Good Morning America” in New York. Tribute to Dustin Hoffman in New York. arrive for the 78th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. odor, Rubenstein said. What she did recol- Michelle Williams James Dean lect fondly, from her teen years at Aubazine At the 2006 Academy Awards, Sandra With Taylor Swiftian efficiency, Dean’s Abbey’s convent, was how everyone Bullock wore navy, Jennifer Lopez picked rise to teen idol started with his debut as the smelled clean. olive green, Amy Adams was in mocha troubled Cal Trask in “East of Eden.” The film In 1921, Chanel commissioned perfumer brown and Meryl Streep donned taupe. And served as 1953 counterpart to the more Ernest Beaux to create an unusual fragrance then there was Michelle Williams, on the macho stars of the previous generation - that “reflected the scent of a woman,” arm of love Heath Ledger, in a Vera Wang Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Gregory Rubenstein writes. Beaux presented her chiffon and tulle gown of many folds Peck and even Marlon Brando, just seven with 10 options. Option No. 5 had floral declared one of the best Oscar dresses of all years Dean’s senior, Rubenstein writes. Trask notes, but Beaux included an experimental time. It had delicate pleating along a low was followed in 1955 by Dean’s portrayal of chemical called aldehyde, which extended neckline and graceful folds, including a train the vulnerable, unsure Jim Stark, who wears the aroma of a perfume. On its own, alde- that oozed sensuality with every step. But it his teen heart on the sleeve of a red nylon hyde smells like soap. The No. 5 formulation was the standout color that killed, windbreaker in “Rebel Without a Cause.” It’s was Chanel’s choice and an iconic perfume Rubenstein said. Wang called it “Bahamian not easy looking that cool in a red zip wind- was born. When filmmaker Baz Luhrmann yellow” and it was perfection against her breaker, but Dean pulls it off. created a short film aimed in 2004 at re- pale skin, platinum swept-back hair and Offscreen, he was more closely associ- establishing No. 5 amid a crowded field of bright red lips. ated with Schott NYC Perfecto black designer fragrances, he cast his “Moulin “There’s something so beautiful and leather motorcycle jackets. He never wore Rouge” star Nicole Kidman as a cross wonderful and tragic about that dress,” one in a movie but Brando did and the This June 3, 1937 photo shows the Duke and Duchess between Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly. Rubenstein said. “They were the perfect Perfecto line of leather jackets lives on. of Windsor posing after their wedding at the Monroe once said all she wore to bed was new Hollywood couple.” The two separated “There is not a leather jacket out there that Chateau de Cande near Tours, France. Their wedding “five drops of Chanel No. 5.” in late 2007 and Ledger died in January is not stolen from that Schott jacket,” is included in a new book, “The Looks of Love: 50 2008 of an accidental drug overdose. Rubenstein said. — AP Moments in Fashion that Inspired Romance. Milan fashion forces rally against the gloom

names like Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada complemented by a handful of international brands, including Britain’s Vivienne Westwood. Norwegian designer Peter Dundas’ eagerly awaited first menswear collection since his return to Roberto Cavalli will get proceedings under way. Along with the dampening effect of the threat of terror attacks, factors such as economic sanctions on Russia and uncer- tainty in China and other emerging markets have helped to make it a difficult year for sellers of upmarket menswear. “In a Models present creations for fashion house Giorgio conjunctural context that was globally favorable but still too Armani during the women Spring / Summer 2016 Milan’s fluctuating and uncertain, Italian menswear sales should register Fashion Week on Sept 28, 2015 in Milan. — AFP photos modest growth for the year,” said the Italian Textile Federation (SMI). With the help of the euro’s significant decline against the error attacks around the world and the recent death of dollar, the organization’s number crunchers are expecting style icon David Bowie form a gloomy backdrop for the growth of 1.8 percent to a total of nearly nine billion euros worth Twinter 2016/17 menswear shows that kicked off yesterday. of sales. That is significantly down from the 3.8 percent growth But Carlo Capasa, President of the Italian Chamber of Fashion, is SMI was predicting at the time of the Spring/Summer menswear Models present creations, part of the Giorgio Armani col- confident the big names of the fashion world will kick back with collections in June. With domestic demand weakening, export lection show, during the Fall/Winter 2015 Men’s Fashion a “dose of positive energy” over the next five days. “Fashion rep- growth is expected to slow to 2.4 percent, compared to 5.1 per- Week in Milan. resents one of the great strong points of our Western culture,” cent in 2014. Exports account for nearly two thirds of Italian Capasa told AFP. “It is a world of multiple possibilities, where the menswear sales. terms of creativity but also in terms of industry,” Marenzi said. young are welcome, can get answers and express themselves, Accessible elegance Gaetano Marzano, president of the Pitti Uomo industry event in and where the only thing that counts is your talent.” SMI President Claudio Marenzi said another year of modest Florence which precedes the Milan shows, said his main hope More than 40 catwalk shows are scheduled for the latest growth (2 percent) was anticipated for 2016. “Our goal has to be for 2016 was that the dollar’s recent strength against the euro mens fashion week in the Italian style capital with the big Italian maintaining the global dominance of Italian fashion, not only in would be sustained. — AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Scooter owners revolt over ban in Vespa birthplace

ROME: Scooter owners are up in arms in Genoa, birth- della Sera daily. “Especially not in 2016, the 70th place of the iconic Vespa, after the Italian city’s mayor anniversary of the birth of the Vespa, and in Genoa, banned models produced before 1999 in a bid to tack- where it was produced in 1946 by a Genovese entre- le pollution. preneur, Enrico Piaggio.” The city has fewer cars than The hashtag #handsoffmyvespa went viral on social any other in Italy-apart from Venice, where the main media, with furious riders in the northwest coastal city- mode of transport is boat or gondola-and pro-Vespa which boasts more motorcycles per capita than any campaigners say the public transport services are poor. other Italian city-taking up the slogan: “Born in Genoa, But environment assessor Italo Porcile is deter- dies in Genoa”. Mayor Marco Doria signed off in mined not to give in to the pressure. “I love the December on an anti-smog initiative due to come into Vespino, I used to have one myself,” he said. “But the force in February, which would have stranded close to ‘Euro 0’ (a model produced before 1999) pollutes terri- 20,000 riders of the two-wheeler, whose name in bly and public health is more important”. Italian means “wasp.” But the measure banning their Piaggio, which started off producing locomotives use in large areas of the city centre between 7am and and then fighter planes, came up with the Vespa after 7pm has sparked such a backlash it has been suspend- the Second World War, when the country’s roads, sev- ed until April to give people time to organize alterna- erly damaged by bombing, were crying out for an tive transport-and may yet be scrapped. alternative to cars for the masses. “Roman Holiday,” starring Audrey Hepburn and “This really shouldn’t be happening,” Vittorio With its distinctive pressed steel frame, the Vespa Gregory Peck, who use it to take a wild ride around the Vernazzano of the Vespa Club Genova told Corriere was made famous outside Italy by the 1953 film Eternal City. — AFP

Amazon expands logistics reach with move into ocean shipping

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon.com Inc’s China arm has registered as an ocean freight forwarder, according to the US Federal Maritime Commission, a move that will give it more control over shipping products from Chinese factories to US shoppers. The registration is the latest indication that Amazon plans to expand its logistics reach to cut costs for its retail business and potentially provide third-party logistics services to other industries. Its new status as a freight forwarder, or “non-vessel operating common carrier,” gives Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, a foothold in the $350 billion a year ocean freight business. It will not operate ships but subcontract that work. Amazon is already negotiating a deal to lease 20 jets to start an air-delivery service in the United States, the Seattle Times reported last year. The retailer bought truck trailers to add shipping capacity and started a pro- gram last year that uses a fleet of on-demand drivers to deliver packages. “It has more and more control over the supply chain of their business and it gives them the ability to squeeze (costs) even fur- ther,” said Satish Jindel, a logistics consultant and president of SJ Consulting Group. He added the move gives Amazon an even big- ger edge against traditional US retailers in negotiating lower prices for goods. — Reuters

CHIBA: Visitors look at a custom car “March 718 Speed Ster” based on a Nissan March, remodeled by the Tsukuba Institute of Science and Technology at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba yesterday. The exhibition, which is one of the largest annual custom car and car-related product shows, is being held from January 15 to January 17. — AFP US pledges $4 billion to speed self-driving cars 21st century autonomous vehicles to help reduce congestion

DETROIT: The US administration pledged dents through better awareness of the sur- months that will make it easier for car makers Thursday to help clear the way for rounding environment. “We are on course for to install autonomous driving features in their autonomous vehicles with an investment of a future where congestion will only get vehicles. DOT also will draft model legislation $4 billion to fund research and testing proj- worse,” said Foxx, adding that in the future for could be used by various states and make ects. 75 percent of the US population will be con- it easier to introduce automated vehicles. US Transportation Secretary Anthony centrated in 11 “mega regions.” John Krafcik, who heads Google Cars, wel- Foxx made the announcement in Detroit, Foxx said that because most accidents are comed effort, saying that to implement these flanked by executives from Google and auto caused by human error, autonomous vehicles changes “you need to have a clear path and manufacturers General Motors, Ford Motor can eliminate many road fatalities. “By my guard rails and DOT is offering to provide Co, Volvo, Fiat Chrysler and Honda. “Much simple math, that means that autonomous that.” Mark Reuss, GM executive vice presi- needs to be done to create the transportation cars could have saved 25,000 lives last year,” dent for vehicle development, said he system of the 21st century,” Foxx said at the he said. The agency is proposing that some believes the initiative will help automakers as North American International Auto Show. funds be made available to local govern- they move into an area where the technology LONDON: EE is pictured in central London on February 5, He said the Obama administration plans ments to develop the kind of infrastructure is evolving rapidly. GM, Ford Motor Co, 2015 (top) and (above) The British Telecom logo pictured to ask for funding to speed up the introduc- needed to increase the effectiveness of vehi- Honda, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, in central London. British telecoms and broadcasting tion and use of autonomous vehicles, saying cle-to-vehicle communication. Such an infra- Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai have and all said firm BT’s purchase of mobile operator EE was given the it would help reduce the congestion and structure can give drivers up-to-the-minute they are actively working on autonomous green light yesterday by the nation’s competition watch- improve road safety. The initiative also aims information on traffic conditions, or even driving, and have unveiled features such as dog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said to improve the US transportation system and automatically stop a vehicle short of crash by automatic braking and automated steering in a statement that it has cleared the 12.5 billion GBP vehicle-to-vehicle communications technolo- automatically applying brakes. Foxx said DOT that allow the driver to let go of the steering ($18.0 billion, 16.5 billion euros) acquisition after a 10- gy which helps cars avoid obstacles and acci- will propose rule changes over the next six wheel.— AFP month probe. —AFP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

The differences between the new online cable bundles EU privacy regulators

NEW YORK: Traditional cable providers are launching TV packages that don’t require cable boxes - good for you to meet on February 2 because you save on monthly equipment fees and don’t need a technician to come install it for you. But there are also draw- Top EU court last year struck down EU-US data transfer system backs. Some services are easy to add and cancel, like Netflix is. Time Warner Cable required a phone call for both. Apart from BRUSSELS: European Union privacy regula- have insufficient privacy safeguards, of The regulators have been analysing the Sling, leaving your home cuts off access to a lot of video. As tors aim to agree next month on whether which the United States is one. legality of the other transfer mechanisms with traditional cable service, sometimes there are unexpect- and how data transfers to the United States Revelations of mass US surveillance pro- and should reach a common position on ed fees that end up on your bill. should continue in the absence of an EU-US grams where American authorities hoovered Feb. 2, a spokeswoman for the French data A breakdown of what’s good and what’s not: data-transfer pact that was struck down last up private information directly from big tech protection authority, which will chair the year on privacy concerns. companies such as Apple, Facebook and meeting, said. DISH’S SLING TV European data protection authorities will Google riled Europe two years ago, and set “It is evident that we will sanction any What you get: About 20 cable channels, including ESPN, gather in Brussels on Feb. 2 to find a com- the stage for the ECJ ruling. transfers of personal data which are solely ABC Family, AMC and Food Network. Over-the-air channels mon position on which legal channels com- EU data protection authorities gave busi- based on the old safe harbour decision,” said like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are not available; Univision is for panies can use to shuffle data across the nesses a three-month grace period in which Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg data an additional fee. You can only watch one stream at a time, so Atlantic after the simplest system was they could set up alternative legal systems protection authority in Germany which it’s not for families. Benefits: It’s the best deal for live TV, with a quashed by the top EU court. The 15-year- to shuffle data across the Atlantic, such as polices Google and Facebook. slim package of some of the most popular cable channels. The old Safe Harbour framework used by over binding corporate rules within multination- He said a new Safe Harbour framework same shows are available at home as when you’re away. 4,000 firms to transfer Europeans’ data to the als, model clauses between companies or would have to include a number of legal Drawbacks: There have been quality issues with streaming. United States was declared invalid by the asking people for their consent. safeguards such as an effective judicial You can’t record shows. There are some on-demand episodes, European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Oct. 6 They also urged Brussels and review and independent oversight. but you can’t skip commercials for most, and it’s hard to figure because the court found US national security Washington to agree on a new data transfer The United States submitted a package out where the on-demand episodes are. Sling announced at requirements trumped privacy safeguards, framework in the same period, failing which of proposals on a new Safe Harbour deal this CES last week that it will improve that by March. meaning the data were not adequately pro- they could start taking enforcement action week including a letter from US Secretary of You don’t get access to apps created by channels except tected. against companies if they decide that alter- Commerce Penny Pritzker explaining US for WatchESPN. A family with multiple TVs would probably Under EU data protection law, compa- natives such as model clauses offer no commitments on the oversight of a possible want more than one subscription. (If you add HBO, you get nies cannot transfer EU citizens’ personal greater protection against US snooping than new framework, according to a person famil- three streams for that channel only.) Where it’s available: data to countries outside the EU deemed to the old Safe Harbour did. iar with the discussions. — Reuters Nationwide. Price per month: Starts at $20, plus taxes where required. Adding HBO costs $15, and add-on packages of channels with themes like sports, movies, kids and world news are $5 each. Wikipedia gets another source

SONY VUE What you get: Major broadcast networks and popular of cash for 15th birthday cable channels. Those owned by Disney, including ABC and ESPN, will be added at an unspecified date, and CW isn’t avail- SAN FRANCISCO: Wikipedia is getting of millions of people looking to quickly to about 300 employees today. able. You can watch up to three simultaneous streams in a another source of cash for its 15th birthday, answer questions covering everything from Wikipedia, though, gets all its material for home. expanding beyond fundraising drives that schlock to science. free from about 80,000 volunteer editors Benefits: You can record shows so you can fast-forward have already poured $250 million into the Satisfying all that curiosity has become around the world. The site’s index now spans through commercials, but they expire after 28 days, with no Internet’s leading encyclopedia. increasingly expensive as Wikimedia has more than 35 million entries in 280 lan- ability to archive them, as you can with traditional DVRs. The additional money will come from a spent more on the computers, software and guages. Wikipedia’s growth has spurred criti- Drawbacks: You need a PlayStation or Amazon’s Fire TV new endowment created for Wikipedia, other technology that keeps Wikipedia run- cism that its parent foundation has become device to sign up. Price is comparable to regular cable. Where whose website started Jan. 15, 2001 and is ning. The foundation’s staff has also swelled bloated and doesn’t need to raise so much it’s available: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, now overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia from just a handful of people in its early days money. — AP Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. Price per month: Foundation in San Francisco. Three tiers. The cheapest is $50 a month for about 50 chan- The Wikimedia Endowment will start with nels, including AMC, CNN, ESPN, Fox and NBC. Tops out at $65 less than $1 million donated by the estate of for 85 channels. Pricier bundles have more sports options. Jim Pacha, a software engineer who died in Showtime is another $11, and a few others are available on an 2014, and then build toward a goal of accu- a la carte basis. mulating $100 million by 2026. Wikipedia still plans to ask its users to donate money to COMCAST STREAM keep advertising off its website. The addition- What you get: Local networks, HBO and the ability to al income from the endowment will help watch two simultaneous streams. Benefits: An Internet-based insulate Wikipedia from economic turmoil DVR with 20 hours of storage that lets you fast-forward com- and other potential threats to its survival, said mercials and watch outside the home. Drawbacks: Live TV Lisa Gruwell, chief advancement officer for works only on phones, tablets and computers in your house. the Wikimedia Foundation. For the TV, you need an antenna for live channels, though you “We have a great fundraising model right get channel apps like HBO Go and Fox Now for on-demand now, but things on the Internet change so it’s video if you have a streaming gadget like Roku, Apple TV or not something we can count on forever,” Xbox. Where it’s available: Boston and Chicago markets for Gruwell said. “Wikipedia is a pretty rare thing, In this June 27, 2013 photo provided by NASA, Sierra Nevada Corp engineers Comcast’s existing Internet customers. The company plans for and the endowment is there to ensure this and technicians prepare the Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle for tests at expand to other regions and create more channel options. cultural treasure will never go away.” NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California. On Thursday, NASA Price per month: $15, plus taxes and fees, which can add up to Since starting out as an experimental announced the Sierra Nevada Corp will join SpaceX and Orbital ATK in launch- an additional $4. — AP patchwork of information, Wikipedia has ing cargo to the International Space Station. These flights, yet to be finalized, turned into indispensable tool for hundreds will run through 2024. — AP Uber subsidiary fined $7.6m in California

SAN FRANCISCO: The California Public included whether requests for rides got sim- vowed to appeal. Uber has expanded to hundreds of cities Utilities Commission on Thursday hit an ilar responses regardless of neighborhood Uber maintained that it provided what around the world in at least 68 countries, Uber subsidiary with a $7.6 million fine for and whether people with disabilities are information it could without risking the pri- offering new options for both riders and failing to comply with reporting require- able to access Uber vehicles, a press release vacy of riders and drivers. Uber lets people drivers but also running into complaints ments fully and in a timely manner. said. The commission said it was trying to use smartphone applications to summon from the taxi industry and regulators. The commission also said that the sub- determine whether services were being and pay for rides provided by drivers using The company has reached a valuation of sidiary, Raiser-CA, was in contempt and had provided safely and “in a nondiscriminatory their own cars. more than $50 billion based on private 30 days to pay the penalty or face suspen- manner enabling equal access to all.” The San Francisco-based company last investment disclosed to date. Uber still faces sion of its license to operate in the state. In a statement later Thursday, Uber said month made its billionth trip in a milestone competition from US-based Lyft and other Information sought by the commission it was disappointed with the ruling and for the global ridesharing service. global startups. — AFP TV listings SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

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News 00:30 Cristela 00:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 00:00 Cadillac Man 21:00 Still Alice-PG15 23:00 The Soup 01:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 01:00 Good Morning America 02:00 Delivery Man 23:00 The Necessary Death Of 00:40 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 23:30 Fashion Police Wilmore 03:00 Downton Abbey 04:00 Big Fat Liar Charlie Countryman-18 01:30 The Haunted 02:20 Ghost Lab 03:10 Serial Killers 04:00 Deadly Devotion 04:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 05:30 The Haunted 06:20 Deadly Affairs 07:10 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones 08:00 Fatal Encounters 08:50 Disappeared 10:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 12:10 The Will 13:00 The Will 13:50 California Investigator 14:15 California Investigator 14:40 Dr. G: Medical Examiner 15:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 17:10 Disappeared 18:50 California Investigator 19:40 Deadly Affairs 23:00 Swamp Murders 23:50 Deadly Women

00:00 Violetta 00:45 The Hive 00:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage Witch 01:40 Wolfblood 02:30 Violetta 03:15 The Hive 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage Witch 04:10 Wolfblood 04:35 Wolfblood 05:00 Violetta 05:45 The Hive 05:50 Mouk 06:00 Lolirock 06:25 Hank Zipzer 06:50 Girl Meets World 07:15 H2O: Just Add Water 07:40 Austin & Ally 08:05 Austin & Ally THE LAST DAYS ON MARS ON OSN MOVIES PREMIERE HD TV listings SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

01:15 Bolts And Blip 03:00 Marvel’s The Invincible Iron Man 04:30 The Olsen Gang In Deep Trouble 06:00 Echo Planet 08:00 Bamse And The City Of Thieves 10:00 Ice Age: The Meltdown 11:30 Rugrats In Paris: The Movie 13:00 Krazzy Planet 14:30 Pim And Pom: The Big Adventure 16:00 Delhi Safari 18:00 Ice Age: The Meltdown 20:00 Dixie And The Zombie Rebellion 22:00 Pim And Pom: The Big Adventure 23:30 Delhi Safari

00:00 The Last Days On Mars-PG15 02:00 Planes: Fire And Rescue-PG 04:00 Son Of Batman-PG15 06:00 Bears-PG 08:00 Salinger-PG15 10:15 Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods-PG 12:00 Parkland-PG15 14:00 The Book Of Life-PG 15:45 Salinger-PG15 18:00 To The Wonder-PG15 20:00 The Purge: Anarchy-PG15 22:00 Nurse-18

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05:00 Art Attack 00:35 Zou 06:45 American Restoration 13:24 Breadwinners 06:00 Say Yes To The Dress ‚Äì 05:25 Henry Hugglemonster 00:50 Loopdidoo 07:10 American Restoration 13:48 Get Blake Bridesmaids 03:00 Road House 05:35 Calimero 01:05 Art Attack 07:35 Shipping Wars 14:12 Rabbids Invasion 06:25 Say Yes To The Dress: The Big 04:55 The Great Escape 05:50 Zou 01:30 Henry Hugglemonster 08:00 American Restoration 14:36 Henry Danger Day 07:45 Big Screen 06:00 Loopdidoo 01:45 Calimero 08:25 Ultimate Wheels 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 07:15 My Giant Life 08:00 Beat Street 06:15 Art Attack 02:00 Zou 09:15 The Legend Of Shelby The 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 08:05 Perfect Look 09:45 A Star For Two 06:35 Henry Hugglemonster 02:15 Loopdidoo Swamp Man 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 09:45 Obsessive Compulsive 11:20 The Man In The Iron Mask 06:50 Calimero 02:30 Art Attack 09:40 The Legend Of Shelby The 17:00 Sanjay And Craig Cleaners 13:30 Big Screen 07:00 Zou 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster Swamp Man 17:24 Harvey Beaks 10:35 7 Little Johnstons 13:45 Of Mice And Men 07:20 Loopdidoo 10:05 American Pickers 17:48 Breadwinners 11:25 Jon & Kate Plus 8 15:35 Saved! 07:35 Art Attack 11:00 Mountain Men 18:12 Henry Danger 13:30 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 17:05 The Man In The Iron Mask 08:00 Calimero 12:00 Ax Men 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 14:20 Belief 19:15 Mannequin 08:10 Zou 13:00 Barry’d Treasure 19:00 The Haunted Hathaways 15:10 Cake Boss 20:45 Big Screen 08:25 Loopdidoo 13:30 Barry’d Treasure 19:24 Max & Shred 17:15 Catwalk 30+ 21:00 Fear The Walking Dead 08:40 Jake And The Never Land 14:00 Leepu & Pitbull 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 18:05 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 22:00 Breaking Bad Pirates 15:00 Counting Cars 20:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:55 Cake Boss 23:00 Les Miserables (1998) 07:00 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 09:05 Sofia The First 15:30 Counting Cars 21:00 Breadwinners 19:20 Curvy Brides 01:20 Tales Of Terror 07:25 Boyster 09:30 Miles From Tomorrow 16:00 Big Rig Bounty Hunters 21:48 Sanjay And Craig 20:10 My Giant Life 02:45 Hamburger Hill 07:50 Supa Strikas 09:55 The Hive 08:15 Lab Rats 17:00 Pawn Stars 22:12 Sanjay And Craig 21:00 Belief 10:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 08:40 K. C. Undercover 17:30 Pawn Stars 22:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 21:50 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 10:35 Doc McStuffins 09:10 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 18:00 Pawn Stars 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:40 Long Island Medium 11:00 Sofia The First 09:35 Kirby Buckets 18:30 Pawn Stars 23:24 Henry Danger 23:05 Too Ugly For Love? 11:30 Jake And The Never Land 10:00 Lab Rats 19:00 Pawn Stars 23:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 00:45 My Big Fat Fabulous Life Pirates 10:25 Kickin’ It 19:30 Pawn Stars 00:12 Max & Shred 01:35 7 Little Johnstons 12:00 Miles From Tomorrow 20:00 Search For The Lost Giants 00:36 The Haunted Hathaways 02:25 Long Island Medium 03:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 10:50 Mighty Med 12:25 Lilo And Stitch 11:20 Supa Strikas 21:00 Ax Men 01:00 Sanjay And Craig 04:00 Crime Stories 12:50 Lilo And Stitch 22:00 Swamp People 01:24 Sanjay And Craig 05:00 Britain’s Darkest Taboos 11:45 K. C. Undercover 13:15 Lilo And Stitch 12:10 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 23:00 Storage Wars: Best Of 01:48 Sanjay And Craig 06:00 Britain’s Darkest Taboos 13:35 Lilo And Stitch 23:30 Storage Wars 02:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 07:00 Frenemies 12:35 Annedroids 14:00 Sofia The First 13:00 The Incredibles 00:00 Outlaw Chronicles: Hells 02:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 08:00 After The First 48 14:25 Sofia The First Angels 09:00 After The First 48 14:55 Phineas And Ferb 14:50 Miles From Tomorrow 15:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 01:00 Sean Bean On Waterloo 00:50 River Monsters 10:00 The FBI Files 15:15 Jake And The Never Land 02:00 Search For The Lost Giants 11:00 The FBI Files 15:15 Rocket Monkeys 01:45 Call Of The Wildman Pirates 15:40 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 02:10 Call Of The Wildman 12:00 Private Crimes 15:40 Jake And The Never Land 12:30 Private Crimes 16:05 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 04:50 Adopt A Sailor 02:40 River Monsters Pirates 16:30 Kirby Buckets 06:20 Movie Talk 03:35 Tanked 13:00 Private Crimes 16:05 The Adventures Of The 13:30 Private Crimes 16:55 Gamers Guide To Pretty Much 06:45 Subconscious Password 04:25 The Lion Man Disney... Everything 07:00 The Great Train Robbery Pt.1 05:15 Gator Boys 14:00 Private Crimes 16:35 Miles From Tomorrow 03:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 14:30 Private Crimes 17:25 K. C. Undercover 03:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 08:30 The Great Train Robbery Pt.2 06:02 Treehouse Masters 17:00 Sofia The First 17:50 Supa Strikas 10:00 Letter’s From The South 06:49 River Monsters 15:00 Gangs Of Britain... 17:25 Aladdin 03:48 Henry Danger 16:00 Gangs Of Britain... 18:15 Lab Rats 04:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 11:45 Circles 07:36 Call Of The Wildman 17:50 Gummi Bears 18:40 Mighty Med 13:35 Francine 08:00 Call Of The Wildman 17:00 Gangs Of Britain... 18:15 Chip ‘n’ Dales Rescue Rangers 04:36 The Haunted Hathaways 18:00 Gangs Of Britain... 19:10 Annedroids 05:00 Winx Club 15:20 Welcome To Pine Hill 08:25 Treehouse Masters 18:40 Jake And The Never Land 19:35 Kickin’ It 16:45 Discovering: Lennon 09:15 Treehouse Masters 19:00 Gangs Of Britain... Pirates 05:24 Sanjay And Craig 20:00 Martina Cole’s Lady Killers 20:00 K. C. Undercover 05:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 17:35 Sensation: The Story Of The 12:55 Snake Sheila 19:05 Miles From Tomorrow 20:25 Supa Strikas Who’s Tommy 13:20 Snake Sheila 21:00 Martina Cole’s Lady Killers 19:30 Sofia The First 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:00 Martina Cole’s Lady Killers 20:55 Lab Rats 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 18:35 Letter’s From The South 13:50 Lion Man: One World African 19:55 Doc McStuffins 21:20 Gamers Guide To Pretty Much 20:20 Adonis Safari 23:00 Born To Kill 20:15 Jake And The Never Land 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:00 Born To Kill Everything 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 20:30 Charge! 14:20 Lion Man: One World African Pirates 21:45 Kickin’ It 22:05 Francine Safari 01:00 The Haunting Of... 20:45 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 07:48 Sanjay And Craig 02:00 Celebrity Ghost Stories 22:10 Phineas And Ferb 08:12 Harvey Beaks 23:20 Heartland 14:45 Safari Sisters 21:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 22:40 Super Matrak 01:00 Welcome To Pine Hill 15:10 Safari Sisters 21:35 Sofia The First 08:36 Breadwinners 23:05 Super Matrak 09:00 Get Blake 02:25 Circles 15:40 Secret Creatures Of Jao 22:00 The Adventures Of The 23:30 Boyster 02:50 In Conversation With 16:10 Secret Creatures Of Jao Disney... 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 09:48 Henry Danger 16:35 Natural World 22:25 The Adventures Of The 17:30 The Lion Man 03:05 Calimero Disney... 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 10:36 The Haunted Hathaways 17:55 The Lion Man 03:20 Zou 22:55 The Adventures Of The 18:25 Wild Things With Dominic 03:30 Loopdidoo Disney... 11:00 Winx Club 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants Monaghan 03:45 Art Attack 23:20 Lilo And Stitch 03:00 Pawn Stars 11:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 19:20 Africa's Trees Of Life 04:10 Henry Hugglemonster 23:45 Cars Toons 03:30 Pawn Stars 03:15 My Strange Addiction 12:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 20:15 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 04:20 Calimero 23:50 Zou 04:00 American Pickers 03:40 My Strange Addiction 12:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 21:10 River Monsters 04:35 Zou 00:05 Henry Hugglemonster 05:00 Alone 04:05 Your Style In His Hands 13:00 Breadwinners 22:05 Dog Rescuers 04:45 Loopdidoo 00:20 Calimero 05:50 American Pickers 05:00 Your Style In His Hands 23:00 Africa's Trees Of Life WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

KDNA celebrates Xmas, New Year

ozhikode District NRI Association the Treasurer Zaheer Alakkal. and Sathian Varoonda, President and Gen. Kuwait]. (KDNA) Kuwait organized the Christmas The Chief Guest Sony Sebastian (MD Secretary respectively. Facilitation were ren- As an entertainment program various cul- KNew year family get together recently Fusion Group Of Shipping) Award winner of dered by krishnan Katalundi,Basheer tural activities were performed by the at Indian Community School, Khaitan. The Quantum Elite Award -2014, CEO of the Year Batha,Sony Sebastian, S A Labba, Anil Keloth, Association members and children under the prominent dignitaries from various phases of Award-2013, CEO of the Year Award-2012, Sathar Kunnil Afzal Khan for the event. leadership of Program convener Suresh the society including social, political, cultural Top 10 Contribution Award - 2012, Project As a part of the charity distribution a cash Mathur, Santhosh Punathil, Illyas Thottathil, and media gave lively among the Audience. Forwarding Award - 2011, International fund was distributed to KDNA member Jose Alikkoya, Praju T M, Mohanraj, Shijith Kumar The function was inaugurated by Rajan Award -2010, Top Gun” award from MSI, Top Chakko was handed over by Samkutty Chirakkal, Santhosh Nambayil, Karunan Rawther, KDNA president Azeez Thikkodi Producer cum Regional Pacer; was honored Thomas, and also distributed an amount for Peramabra, Mohammed Haneefa, Abdul presided over the function and the General with “Ponnnada” by Advisory Board Members Rashid Kasargode’s Releasing fund, was hand- Salam, Thulaseedharan, Reghunath, secretary Sathian Varoonda welcomed the Krishnan Kadalundi and Zubair M M and ed over by S A Labba to Media Forum Acting Shamsudheen, A M Ajesh Somasundaran. Audience. Vote of thanks was rendered by Memento was handed over by Azeez Thikkodi Convener Muneer Ahammed [Media One TV Pakistan Employment Forum Kuwait organizes third anniversary event

akistan Employment Forum Kuwait of its kind in State of Kuwait which is purely organized their 3rd anniversary with designated to provide assistance for job seek- Pthe theme of “Interschool Pakistan ers and career counseling for students resid- National Song Competition” last Friday at ing in Kuwait especially among Pakistanis. Kuwait Center of Autism Auditorium, Mishref. PEFK is a non Political and non Governmental Students from different schools presented organization. It is a social welfare group National Songs. which was inaugurated on January 27, 2012 Six well known schools from Pakistani with a vision to provide career guidance to community took part in the competition. jobseekers & students, mainly Pakistani citi- International school Pakistan Kheitan, zens in Kuwait, and help those in need of Pakistan English school Jaleeb Al-Shuyoukh, assistance in their career development, with Pakistan School Mangaf, Pakistan Sunshine no limitations of religion, nationality, race or School Hawally, Hawally Pakistan English ethnicity. School & Pakistan School Salmiya took part in We are here to serve humanity and the the competition. career of all humans is precious to us. We aim Nadiya Mohammad and Waqas Ahmed to provide the Best Career Development conducted the event. This event was official Counseling and Job Hunting guidance to our started with verses from Holy Quran recited community in Kuwait. He emphasis to contin- by Qari Mohammad Sohaib Anjum followed ue this mission effectively. PEFK Team was by the National Anthem of both Countries. honored and appreciated for their remarkable Naat (Nasheed) was presented by Junior contribution and services to the community Section of ISP trained by Robeela Ghazal, in noble cause of career development. President Pakistan Qirrat o Naat Council for Later two special National Songs were pre- women Kuwait. Amjad Ahmed, Munir Faraz sented by Junior Section of ISP Khaitan and Robeela Ghazal were judges for the inter- trained by Robeela Ghazal, President Pakistan school competition. HE Ambassador of Qirrat o Naat Council for women Kuwait. Pakistan, Muhammad Aslam Khan was the Pakistan English School was among the chief guest of the event. After the competi- Winner followed by Pakistan Mangaf School tion, Chief Guest Praises the Progress and with 2nd Position & International School efforts of PEFK. Kheitan with 3rd Position Respectively. HE Vote of thanks was presented by Founder Muhammad Aslam Khan Along with and President PEFK Muhammad Irfan Adil. He President Pakistan Business Council, Arif Butt highlighted PEFK achievements covering Handed over trophy & Shields to the winning hundreds of jobless peoples got job place- team. ment, Career Guidance, Professional CV writ- There were around 300 people from the ing services, Professional Training for working community that attended this event. The professionals and Career guidance Seminars event was sponsored by multiple cooperates; for Students. Significant in-kind sponsorship was received He briefly explained about Pakistan from Mais Alghanim, Al Shaya Printing Co, Employment Forum Kuwait and stated that Xerox (Alghanim) & Al Yasra Foods. PEFK is a premier & first ever Pakistani Forum WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Bishop Moore College Alumni organizes Traditional carol singing contest

ishop Moore College Alumni Koshy (President). Parimanam Manoj (General the program. The winners of the Christmas contest. A variety of games and songs added Association Kuwait (BMCAAK) conduct- Secretary) delivered the welcome address and Tree Decoration Contest were awarded tro- much color to the event. Manoj Mavelikara, Bed Christmas Tree Decoration & Rev Fr Shaji P Joshua (Vicar-St. Basil Indian phies and cash prizes - Thomas Chacko & Sunil Kulanada, Santhosh Parapuram, Roney Traditional Carol Singing Contest at the Orthodox Church) inaugurated the function. Team bagged the first prize; Mathew Karoor & Kurein Joy, & John MV were the judges. The United Indian School Auditorium, Abassiya, as Siddiquue Valiyakath (Shiifa Al Jazeera Team and Saviyo Fernandez & Team won the end of the program was marked by the vote a part of their Christmas- New Year celebra- Executive Director), Social Activist in Kuwait second and third prizes, respectively. of thanks by Vinu Oommen (Convener). tions program. The program commenced and Ex-Student of BMC - Sam Pynumood , Mr For Traditional Carol Singing Contest, Kumari Sradha Ann Binu compared the pro- with Kuwaiti and Indian National Anthems. A I Kurein & Babuji Bethery felicitated the KMRM Yuva Jyothi and LOGOS (Abassiya) gram. The meeting was presided by Mr Jerry John occasion. Miss Sneha Merin Suresh anchored were declared as the 1st & 2nd winner of the Kerala minister opens Konni Nivasi Sangamam celebration

onni Nivasi Sangamam conducted welcomed the audience and Mathai gold medal for 100m and 200m races in its tenth anniversary Celebration Varghese - General Secretary delivered a individual championship in CBSE cluster K(Souhrudolsavam) on 8th January vote of thanks. A brief report on the meet 2015 and Shaji Varghese for 2016 at Abbassiya United Indian School activities of the organization in the past designing the cover page of souvenir. Auditorium with various programs. was presented by Mathai Varghese, gen- Caricatures of the minister and patron Kerala’s Minister for Revenue Affairs and eral secretary. An attractive souvenir, a were drawn and presented by Johnarts Coir Adoor Prakash was present as the keep-sake booklet containing useful and Shaji Varghese. The highlight of the chief guest to grace the occasion. A information in commemoration of the event was the musical extravaganza per- Writers’ Forum Kuwait warm welcome was given to him with event was released by Varghese formed by Vivekanandan - Idea star chedamelam and thalappoli. Chittoor Mathew, souvenir convener handing singer fame and team. Programs were begins new session Sankar, former Konni block-panchayat over the first copy to Mohan Muruppel, coordinated by Rajan P George, pro- president and dignitaries from social, vice president. gram convener and well compeered by riters Forum, Kuwaits’ New Year session began on cultural and political realms in Kuwait The following KNS members were Asha Abraham Mathews and Sneha January 8, 2016 with the patriotic note. Writers and also attended the function. honored at the public meeting: Liza Susan Suraj. Wpoets presented their best of work on various national Programs started at 11.15 am with Rachel Saji, D/o Saji Thomas for bagging and social issues. Hindi and Marathi writer Chhaya Athalve was cultural events by the association’s the chief guest of the evening while the meeting was presided young talented children, such as, over by Rajesh Verlerkar; the English story and poetry writer. The Mohiniyattom by Heera Harikumar, meeting was held at Salmiya residence of President of the forum group dance by Sandra Susan Suraj and Umesh Sharma. Tajwer Sultana; the General Secretary of the team, Bharatanatyam by Jesna Mariam forum conducted the proceeding. Reji and Anugraha Ashok and also by The story session began with the story by a budding writer Tinsa, cinematic dances by Aleena Nazneen Ali titled “Khushnaseeb ya Badnaseeb, on issue of a girl Manoj and team and Ritty Mathew and child followed by a “Nukkad Natak” on corruption read by Chhaya Team, semi classical dance by Keerthana Athalve. Poetry session also opened with full enthusiasm and the Girish and Punjabi dance by Manna and poets recited their poems on social and national issues. They tried Emiley. to draw the attention towards the social and emotional crisis of The public function started with the society is passing through. silent prayer followed by a prayer song All the members including Rajiv Athavale & Dr Sabiha Bilgrami, sung by Divya Mary Thomas. The meet- appreciated the Hindi couplet recited by Sunil Sonsi well written ing was presided over by President for valor of his Fouji friend. Members also enjoyed the poems Samkutty George. The event was inau- recited by the Hindi poets; Umesh Sharma, Tajwer Sultana and gurated by lighting the traditional lamp Ravin Singh. The Urdu writers who made the evening vibrant by the minister. included Afroz Alam, Sayeed Nazar Kadapawi, S Qamar Minto and Felicitation speeches were rendered Kamal Ansari. Mohan Singh read an English poem “Father” on by Chittoor Sankar, Raju Varghese - behalf of his daughter Praminder Kaur. Toward the conclusion of Patron, Varghese Puthukulangara - the program, the Chief guest Chhaya Athalve expressed her view Norka Welfare Fund Director Board about the evening and the President of the evening Rajesh Member, Adv John Thomas, Sathar Verlekar read out an enlightening and motivating poem for the Kunnil, KK Ramachandran - Co-Patron nation. He also appreciated the creative work of the members and Prasad Koshy - Advisory board and encouraged them for writing more. member. George Varghese - secretary HEALTH SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Italian medieval village orders elderly to defy death

SELLIA: The Grim Reaper has got his work cut ‘Check-up or pay up’ tests and orthopaedic care, are subsidized for second term as mayor, is determined not only to out in Sellia in southern Italy, thanks to a Poverty-struck Calabria, which in 2014 had most patients and free for those unable to pay. keep inhabitants upright but also to attract new decree ordering the village’s elderly and dwin- the highest rate of unemployment in Italy, has The mayor brought in a new tax with the health residents and tourists to the area-and has dling population to stay in good shape. There slashed health care funding, “leading to a care decree, of 30 euros a year. Those who can snapped up 1.5 million euros from the EU to do are more stray cats and dogs than people on notable reduction in services”, with Sellia losing prove they have gone for a check-up are exempt so. In an old pig farm on top of the hill he is build- the winding streets of this Calabrian hillside 100,000 euros ($108,000) from its budget in five from the tax, while those who do not go have to ing an adventure park, complete with zipline, community, where over half of the houses lie years. “As a region we are essentially just like pay 30 euros. The idea is to match if not beat the Tibetan bridges strung high up between trees, a empty. But there’s a queue of elderly locals out- underdeveloped countries like Hungary or national life expectancy of 83-years old. plunge tower and a vast recreation ground for side the new medical centre. Bulgaria... nevertheless Sellia managed to secure Grandmother Giovanna Scozzafava, 71, said she the disabled. “Human life is naturally valuable, but here it European Union funds to transform an aban- had felt ill for a while but had dreaded going pri- The derelict nursery school has been trans- has a social value as well because every person doned school into a medical clinic,” Zicchinella vate and jumped at the chance to get a check-up formed into a youth hostel and two bed-and- who dies takes us a step closer to the village no said. here: “Not everyone can pay private fees. What breakfasts have opened ready for spring, in the longer existing,” Mayor Davide Zicchinella said. Pensioner Vincenzo Rotella, 79, rolls up his happens to those who can hardly afford food?” hope the village-some 20 kilometers from the Mass emigration in the 1920s and 1960s saw shirt so blue electrodes can be attached to his sea-will attract young visitors. “We wanted to younger generations head to wealthier north- chest for a cardiogram. He is the first of several ‘Adrenalin borgo’ transform a place where you pass time waiting to ern Italy and Europe for work, leaving nearly patients, the others sitting in an improvised wait- In the month after the decree was issued, 100 give up the ghost into an adrenalin ‘borgo’, (and two-thirds of the population aged over 60. And ing-room which also serves as the village cinema. residents went for a check-up and nearly half the be) a national leader in adventure sport,” with the remaining residents dying of old age, “When you get to a certain age, taking the bus to village has now signed up. The council also pro- Zicchinella said. And many of the run-down the population has dropped in the last 15 years go to the nearest city to book appointments and vides a bus service to ferry the elderly to thermal houses in the hamlet, erected at the foot of a from 1,000 inhabitants to just over 500 - having to wait months to get seen is not easy. baths reputed to ease the aches and pains asso- Byzantine castle and with sweeping views of spurring Zicchinella in August to order the eld- We felt neglected as older people, but here we ciated with ageing and improve breathing, while olive groves, are being refurbished by private erly to undergo regular tests to help them can be seen by a doctor whenever,” he said. others keep limber at locally-run dance classes. investors from the north, helping defiant stave off the inevitable. The appointments, which also include eye But Zicchinella, 40, a doctor who is serving his Sellia’s battle against oblivion. — AFP

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PARIS: The process of vetting experimental drugs is designed, with safety in mind, to be cautiously meticulous. Still, things sometimes go wrong, as in France where the authorities announced yester- day that tests with a candidate painkiller left one person brain-dead and five in hospital. This is how drug trials work: After preliminary tests on animals and human cells in petri dishes, a laboratory must obtain permission from health authorities for clin- ical trials on humans to assess a drug’s safety and effectiveness. This testing usually consists of three phases: Phase I is generally carried out with a sample of fewer than 100 healthy volunteers to assess drug tolerance and check for side-effects. The French trial was in this phase. Normally, Phase I involves RENNES: French Health Minister Marisol Touraine (left) and Professor Gilles Edan, the chief neuroscientist at Rennes young adults who have passed a medical exami- Hospital address the media during a press conference held in Rennes, western France yesterday. Six previously healthy nation to declare them in tip-top shape. After medical volunteers have been hospitalized - including one man who is now brain dead - after taking part in a botched safety has been established, Phase II evaluates the drug test at the Biotrial lab in western France. —AP effectiveness of the drug and the optimal dosage, usually on a sample of several hundred people. Phase III compares the treatment to a dummy French drug trial leaves drug (placebo) or a medicine already in use-usual- ly testing it on several thousand people. The aim 1 brain dead, 5 injured is to confirm the drug’s effectiveness. Some trials take place in hospitals, others at licensed private institutions. Phase I test involved cannabis-based painkiller After clinical trials, which can last between five and 10 years, the laboratory applies to a medi- PARIS: One person has been left brain maker Sanofi both said they were not as looking like “the elephant man” after dead and five others are in a serious involved in the trial. “This test was car- his head ballooned. Another lost his fin- cines watchdog to bring the drug to market. In condition after taking part in a clinical ried out at a private facility specialized in gertips and toes. Europe, this is the European Medicines Agency trial in France of an experimental medi- carrying out clinical trials,” a ministry (EMA), and in the United States it is the Food and cine from an unnamed drug company, statement said. Inherent risk Drug Administration (FDA). For approval, a new the French Health Ministry said yester- The brain dead individual was admit- In the initial so-called Phase I stage of treatment must demonstrate a benefit/risk ratio day. The ministry did not say what the ted to hospital in Rennes on Monday. clinical testing, a drug is given to healthy that is equivalent to, or better than, any existing medicine was intended to be used for. A Other patients went in on Wednesday volunteers to see how it is handled by person familiar with the situation said and Thursday. All trials on the drug have the body and what is the right dose to drug. According to the French National Agency for the drug was a cannabis-based been suspended and all volunteers who give to patients. “Undertaking Phase 1 Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM), it painkiller in the initial stage of human have taken part in the trial are being studies is highly specialist work,” said can take 10 to 15 years from when a drug is first testing. called back. A spokeswoman for the Daniel Hawcutt, a lecturer in clinical tested in a laboratory to it reaching the market. The ministry said the six volunteers in European Medicines Agency in London pharmacology at Britain’s University of Once it becomes commercially available, any new Rennes, in western France, had been in said it did not have full details of the Liverpool. Medicines then go into larger drug remains under surveillance and ongoing good health until taking the oral med- case but was monitoring the situation. Phase II and Phase III trials to assess their assessment of any side effects. If there are any ication, developed by “a European labo- Cases of early-stage clinical trials going effectiveness and safety before they are ratory”. Britain’s GW Pharma, which mar- badly wrong are rare but not unheard finally approved for sale. Europe has health risks, it can be taken off the shelves at any kets an approved cannabis-derived of. In 2006, six healthy volunteers given strict regulations governing the conduct time.—AFP treatment for spasticity caused by multi- an experimental drug in London ended of clinical trials, with Phase I tests subject ple sclerosis, and France’s largest drug- up in intensive care. One was described to particular scrutiny. —Reuters HEALTH SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Smog-choked Delhi ends car ban trial Air quality levels remain ‘unhealthy’

NEW DELHI: New Delhi yesterday wrapped up ue driving only on alternate days, telling a PM2.5 levels at 156 - six times the World WHO’s safe limits. It is part of a wider anti-pol- a trial of draconian driving restrictions that has news conference it was “a matter of our lives Health Organization (WHO) safe limit. lution drive that will also include shutting taken around a million cars off the roads and and our city”. His transport minister said the PM2.5 refers to microscopic particles that some coal-fired power plants and vacuuming seen even judges and diplomats carpool, but roads to reduce dust. A survey of nearly 18,000 made little obvious difference to air quality in Delhiites by global petition website the world’s most polluted capital. Air quality Change.org on Friday found on Friday that 4.5 levels remained “unhealthy” yesterday, the times more people supported an extension of final day of the two-week experiment in allow- the scheme than were against. ing private cars on the roads only on alternate days. Delhi commuters were nonetheless posi- ‘People are dying’ tive about the scheme, which the government A 2014 WHO survey of more than 1,600 may adopt on a more permanent basis, cities ranked Delhi as the most polluted, partly although mostly because it freed up traffic on because of the 8.5 million vehicles on its roads, the city’s usually clogged roads. with 1,400 more added every day. India’s “The traffic situation in Delhi has really Supreme Court has backed the scheme, dis- improved. Earlier, it used to take me nearly missing a slew of legal challenges, and even one hour to commute to work and back top judges said they were carpooling. “People (home), but now the time has cut to half. It’s are dying due to pollution and you are chal- such a relief,” said Rohit Srivastava, a 32-year- lenging it for publicity,” justices AK Sikri and R old bank executive who had been carpooling Banumathi said in a ruling Thursday. Foreign with his colleagues and taking the metro every diplomats, motorbike riders and women trav- second day. Autorickshaw driver Tej Bahadur elling alone or with children under 12 were Patel, meanwhile, said the reduction in traffic also exempt, although many chose to abide at least meant he was breathing less car fumes by the scheme voluntarily. The city’s filthy air as he plied the roads. “Less cars means less claims up to 30,000 lives each year, according traffic jams, which in turn means we inhale to the Delhi-based Centre for Science and less pollution,” the 38-year-old said, calling for Environment. But the auto industry argued the restrictions to be imposed on a regular that cars have been unfairly targeted when basis. polluting industries were mainly to blame, and says just three percent of the city’s pollution is ‘A matter of our lives’ NEW DELHI: Indian commuters board Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses in New from cars, with heavy industry and other vehi- In a city where road rules are routinely Delhi. New Delhi yesterday wrapped up a trial of draconian driving restrictions that has cles accounting for more. A report by India’s flouted, most drivers appeared to be obeying taken around a million cars off the roads and seen even judges and diplomats carpool, but top technology institute also found that fly- the restrictions and many said they viewed the made little obvious difference to air quality in the world’s most polluted capital. — AFP ash from coal-based tandoor ovens, burning scheme positively. More than 9,000 violators of solid waste and road dust were among the were, however, dealt fines of 2,000 rupees trial resulted in a 20-25 percent drop in air pol- penetrate deep into the lungs and are particu- main culprits. The city’s air usually worsens in ($30), a large sum for most Delhiites. Delhi lution. Figures from the US embassy in Delhi larly harmful to health. The Delhi government winter as cooler air traps pollutants and peo- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated showed PM2.5 levels were lower than on the introduced the scheme after a court ordered ple light fires to stay warm. The Delhi govern- the city of some 17 million for complying with first day of the trial, but air quality was still authorities to act on pollution levels that ment will meet on Monday to discuss the suc- the strict rules, and urged residents to contin- “very unhealthy” on Friday morning, with sometimes reach more than 10 times the cess of the scheme.— AFP SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

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NHL begins domestic violence and sexual assault training

FLORIDA: The NHL has joined other profes- league makes it mandatory, to take those sional leagues in mandating domestic vio- steps and educate ourselves and players lence, sexual assault and sexual harassment around the league of certain steps we can training for all of its players. The program, take to help each other out, help our fami- developed by the NHL and NHL Players’ lies out and help our teammates out, and Association, involves all 30 teams going just to be there for support,” said Mike through hour-long educational sessions Weber, the Buffalo Sabres’ player represen- with outside professionals. It began last tative. week, and teams will complete the seminar over a two-month span. Rookie symposium The NFL and Major League Baseball The Sabres were the first team to com- instituted similar programs in the aftermath plete the program, which had been in the of situations involving football players Ray works for more than six months and was Rice and Adrian Peterson. Hockey has had unveiled by league officials to owners at its own high-profile cases. A former their December meeting. The NHL already defenseman with the Los Angeles Kings, had this type of training in place for its rook- Slava Voynov, was sentenced to three ie symposium and adjusted the content so months in prison when he pleaded no con- it would be more applicable for veterans. test to a misdemeanor charge of domestic Rachael Smith Fals, senior vice president violence against his wife. Patrick Kane of the of public engagement and corporate rela- FLORIDA: In this Dec 8, 2014, file photo, NHL hockey commissioner Gary Stanley Cup-champion Chicago tions for Futures Without Violence, has con- Bettman speaks to the media after attending an NHL owners meeting in Blackhawks was investigated following an sulted with various leagues on education Boca Raton. — AP alleged rape near Buffalo, New York, but for players. Futures Without Violence is an prosecutors declined to file charges organization that provides programs active and encourage questions and con- “If the stuff continues to get swept because of a lack of credible evidence. designed to end violence against women versation. “There was a lot of discussion and under the rug and people look the other Last month, Buffalo police said Sabres and children. It is not the organization the a lot of open-forum talking,” Weber said. “It way when these things happen, it sends a forward Evander Kane was being investi- NHL chose for this program, but Smith Fals was basically a lot of education, more the message,” Smith Fals said. “On the other gated following an alleged sex crime. No said it is a step in the right direction. domestic side of it, guys with partners, girl- hand, what’s happening now with the inci- charges have been filed and Kane said he “Any dedicated education and focus on friends, wives, that side of it, and obviously, dents being addressed and penalties being looked forward to having his name cleared. these topics, from even defining the issues touching on the sexual abuse and that evoked and more importantly preventative Commissioner Gary Bettman and other to discussing strategies for how to support aspect of it, without going into too much education being implemented, that also league officials have maintained that the a fellow player or how to seek help if you’re detail.” An NHLPA representative is allowed sends a message. That’s an important mes- vast majority of NHL players are exemplary in need of help - any of that dedication is to be there for each team’s session, which is sage that we want certainly this generation citizens. The league and union decided to more than what was being done before,” only for players and not coaches or execu- to see and hear from their role models. “It implement this training so players have Smith Fals said in a phone interview. “It’s tives. Smith Fals recommends to sports will, if done well, have a ripple effect and useful resources on the topics. really important and it’s positive.” leagues that every member of an organiza- last for many generations behind it and ulti- “We’ve tried to take steps before the The goal was to make the sessions inter- tion go through such training. mately change the culture.” — AP Injury, comeback reboot on Manning story line

DENVER: No one ever really rooted for Peyton preparation he lives for, is being lauded, not Manning to fail, but boy, did some folks like to scoffed at. point out his flaws. Take the Super Bowl, for exam- Some might say this is a culmination of a 12- ple. It wasn’t that he couldn’t win the big one, but month stretch that, at times, has felt a bit like pil- that he didn’t win enough of them. ing on to an athlete who signed with Denver sim- Yet in the span of a few short weeks, dating to ply looking for the same things Broncos fans his relief appearance for the Broncos on Jan. 3, the wanted - a few more Super Bowl titles. narrative about the 39-year-old’s trials and travails has shifted. The quarterback, sometimes derided Overtly communicated as an over-prepared perfectionist and too-clever- After yet another playoff disappointment last by-half pitchman, is now portrayed as the grizzled January, Manning was asked to take a pay cut. veteran trying to coax his team to a title more on Gary Kubiak got the head-coaching job and his grit than talent. Sports fans love that sort of story. task - whether overtly communicated or not - was “A lot of people have looked at him the last to build a new offense for the post-Manning era. few weeks and said, ‘Wow, this guy is not who I The season started and the Broncos won in spite thought he was,’” said retired receiver Brandon of Manning, who finished 2015 second in the Stokley, a longtime favorite of Manning’s. “It’s league in interceptions despite missing six games. great for people to see who he really is. He’ll do While sitting out, Manning bristled at reports anything to help the team.” suggesting he’d rather play elsewhere, or not play Manning’s entry into the regular-season finale at all, than be a second-stringer. He then quietly against the Chargers conjured images we’ve seen went out and did the work of an injured backup. before in sports: Willis Reed limping onto the He threw on the side to equipment managers. He court for Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Jack Nicklaus took the scout-team reps. He suited up to back up winning the Masters at age 46. Serena Williams ENGLEWOOD: In this Aug 12, 2015, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Osweiler on Jan. 3. making a run at the Grand Slam at 33. Manning (18) grimaces as he throws a pass during at the team’s NFL training camp. — AP Around that time, a report linked him to a clinic that deals in banned human growth hor- Softening stories Manning’s record in the playoffs (11-13), his used to be, it was clear against San Diego that his mone. He angrily denied doing anything wrong The narrative changed for each star once he or record when it’s cold in the playoffs (0-5 under 40 mind is still in good shape. “You see (backup quar- and said he put in the hard work and never took she had been humbled - and grown a bit older. degrees), his record against Tom Brady (5-11), and terback Brock Osweiler), and you can see he’s a shortcuts to make it back. That brought out Reed got hurt when his team needed him most; his arm strength (never elite, but good enough to good player,” Salisbury said. “But after watching some raw emotion that, at many times over a Nicklaus was considered washed up; Williams got laser a couple of 15-yard out patterns against the him, you also gain a great appreciation of career that will land him in the Hall of Fame, has upset on the doorstep of a Grand Slam. Just as Chargers). Manning’s ability to keep all 11 guys on offense in felt either lacking or contrived. All that played those stories softened, Manning’s is softening There’s been much more talk about his gift for sync the entire time.” into this new story line. It’s Manning playing the now. “I still hear whispers of the usual, but far diagnosing defenses, for getting his team into the Nothing new about that. But now that he’s role of Nicklaus, or Reed, or, yes, Broncos fans, more of the, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t take this guy for right play and for his willingness to do anything, been humbled - now that fans have seen Mr. John Elway, whose very best moments came as granted,’” said Sean Salisbury, the former NFL including be a backup, to help the Broncos win. Perfect brought down to earth during a 17-inter- he gimped (and helicoptered) his way to the fin- quarterback who now hosts a pair of sports talk For sure, the Chargers game was not Manning ception season that included a four-pick debacle ish line. Oh, sure, Manning’s stats are still gaudy shows. “We’ve got to enjoy this.” in his prime. He threw only nine passes. in a game he got pulled from in November - all (NFL-record 71,940 passing yards) and, in other With the Broncos preparing for the Steelers on Completed only five for 69 yards. But if his arm that nitpicky attention to detail, those “one-game- respects, awful (“Only” one Super Bowl ring Sunday, there’s been far less discussion about (and foot, and shoulder, and neck) isn’t what it at-a-time” bromides he regularly delivers, the despite all the success). — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Vijay Singh tries to find his old head and his old form

HONOLULU: To look at his scorecard, it would appear Vijay Singh relied heavily on his putter in the first round of the Sony Open. He made birdie putts from 50 feet, 30 feet and two from 20 feet. To listen to the big Fijian, his opening round had more to do with a book. Singh, who turns 53 next month, brought an aggressive attitude to the opening round and shot 7-under 63 for a five-way share of the lead on Thursday. “There’s a book that I’ve always carried for the last 20 years, and I haven’t read it for the last 10 years,” he said. “So I picked it up yesterday and started reading a few of the things that I’ve been doing. And it’s just a different mindset.” It allowed him to attack the golf course instead of trying to hit fair- ways and make a good swing. The name of the book? “I can’t tell you,” he said. “I’d have to kill you.”He laughed, always a good sign. Smiles came easily on the first day at Waialae, which featured island warmth, plenty of sunshine, and a mild breeze that led to low scoring. Singh was tied with Morgan Hoffmann and Ricky Barnes, with Brandt Snedeker and Kevin Kisner joining them in the afternoon. And maybe the warm sun made everyone feel younger. Three players in their 50s - Singh, Fred Funk and Davis Love III - all shot 66 or better.

This artist rendering provided by the Japan Sports Council shows the interior view of the newly selected Chasing history design of the new main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics proposed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma Vijay Singh hasn’t won on the US PGA Tour since 2008 at the and construction companies, announced on Dec 22, 2015 by the Sports Council. Kuma says his design has Deutsche Bank Championship, which effectively wrapped up the not borrowed from earlier blueprints by British-Iraqi designer Zaha Hadid that were dropped last year. FedEx Cup. By opening with a 63, he opened the possibility of enter- Kuma said yesterday that the structures were “absolutely” different and that similarities in details of their ing the tour record book as the oldest winner in history. seating and layout reflected the need to meet fire standards and other requirements. — AP The record belongs to Sam Snead, who won the Greater Greensboro Open in 1965 at 52 years, 10 months and 8 days. Singh will be 52 years, 10 months and 26 days when the Sony Open ends on IOC asks for transcripts, implies Sunday. Having been around that long, however, brings some per- spective. The tournament is just getting started. “See what the next three days bring,” he said. bribery in 2020 Olympics bid Anyone in Hawaii who looks at the scores might wonder if the Champions Tour is being played on the wrong island. The 50-and-old- LONDON: The IOC is ready to examine connection with the 2020 bidding figure in the Olympic world, he could er circuit starts the 2016 season next week on the Big Island, though it allegations of possible bribery in the bid- process. have held sway in influencing a bloc of was represented nicely on Oahu. Singh was tied for the lead at 63. ding for the 2020 Olympics. The Olympic IOC votes. Diack resigned as an honorary Fred Funk, who turns 60 this summer, was trying to catch him until a body said yesterday it has asked the Sponsorship money IOC member in November, a day after he bogey on the 16th hole. Funk shot a 65. Davis Love III made two World Anti-Doping Agency’s independ- “Turkey lost LD’s support because they was provisionally suspended by the exec- tough putts at the end of the round for a 66. Love is 51, and last ent commission for transcripts from its did not pay sponsorship moneys of $4 to utive board. The move came after he was August won the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro to become report on doping and corruption in track 5 million either to the Diamond League placed under criminal investigation in the third-oldest winner on the PGA Tour behind Snead and Art Wall. and field that raises the possibility that or IAAF,” the note said, referring to France on corruption and money-laun- Sing, Funk and Love are sticking around next week to play the $5 million in sponsorship money was Lamine Diack. “According (to) the tran- dering charges in connection with cover- Champions Tour. paid to help Tokyo secure the games. script the Japanese did pay such a sum.” ups of Russian doping cases. A footnote to the WADA report indi- “The 2020 Games were awarded to Odds & ends cates that former IAAF president Lamine Tokyo,” the note added. “The IC did not ‘Forensic look’ Defending champion Jimmy Walker opened with a 69 in his bid to Diack was prepared to sell his vote in the investigate this matter further for it was Pound on Thursday recommended win the Sony Open for the third straight year. He was six shots behind. 2020 bidding contest in exchange for not within our remit.” the IAAF “take a vigorous, forensic look” A year ago, he was four shots behind after the first round at Waialae sponsorship of IAAF events. The report Tokyo defeated Istanbul 60-36 in the at the 2020 Olympic vote-buying allega- and won by nine. ... Tim Clark has used a long putter anchored to his suggests that Diack - an IOC member at final round of IOC voting in 2013 in tion and the awarding of world champi- chest his entire year. The ban on anchored strokes began on Jan. 1, the time - dropped his support for Buenos Aires. The third candidate, onships to certain cities and countries. and in his first round Clark shot 66. Carl Pettersson also has used a Istanbul because Turkey refused to pay, Madrid, was eliminated earlier in a runoff “We have had reports from people who long putter since college. He shot a 71. ... Robert Allenby returned to and backed Tokyo after the Japanese did with Istanbul. “The note in the (WADA) seem to know what they are talking the Sony Open to find closure over an incident in which his forehead pay. report is beyond our understanding,” about,” Pound said at a news conference. was bloodied, his wallet and cellphone was taken and he has no “We have already asked the Hikariko Ono, a spokeswoman for the “We have brought that to the attention of memory of what happened. He found the driving range with his Independent Commission for the tran- Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, the IAAF and recommended they take a opening tee shot, out-of-bounds and lead to triple bogey. He played script so that we can better understand said in a statement. “The games were vigorous forensic look at it, to see even par the rest of the way for a 73. — AP the context and the claims being made,” awarded to Tokyo because the city pre- whether there is anything to the allega- the International Olympic Committee sented the best bid. Tokyo’s bid was tions.” said in a statement to The Associated about Japan’s commitment to address It’s not the first time Diack has been Press. Tokyo organizers said the allega- issues around the integrity of sport.” linked to possible Olympic bribery. The tion was “beyond our understanding,” Ugur Erdener, head of the Turkish Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday while Turkey’s Olympic committee said Olympic Committee, issued a statement that it had seen emails from one of Diack’s reported demand was not the yesterday saying Istanbul did not lose Diack’s sons, Papa Masata Diack, regard- reason Istanbul lost. because of Diack’s reported demand for ing alleged “parcels” to be delivered to six The IOC statement noted that Dick sponsorship money. “Lamine Diack was IOC members in connection with the bid Pound, an IOC member who chaired the the head of the IAAF at the time and may from Doha, Qatar, for the 2016 Games. WADA panel, said he was “fairly confi- have been expecting sponsorship for his The Guardian said the parcels were to dent” the current Olympic bidding federation,” said Erdener, who also serves have been delivered through a man process is free or organized corruption. on the IOC executive board. “He may believed to be Lamine Diack. It wasn’t “We have done an enormous amount have used his individual vote in favor of known whether any packages were sent. since 1999, to make sure that that cannot another city that met his expectations.” In any case, a month after the email was happen,” “Lamine Diack does not have the sent in May 2008, Doha failed to make the Pound said, referring to the cleanup authority to grant the Olympic Games to list of finalists in the 2016 bidding. Last after the Salt Lake City bidding scandal. any city, and in the end, he only used his week, Papa Masata Diack was banned for “If there is going to be individual bits of vote,” Erdener said. “Therefore, it would life by the IAAF ethics commission for cor- corruption you can’t stop all that. But not be a correct approach to explain the ruption and cover-up allegations linked organizationally, I don’t think that’s an fact that Istanbul did not win the right to to Russian doping. The IOC said it asked issue with the Olympics.” The WADA organize the 2020 Olympic Games the Guardian for copies of the emails so commission report cites transcripts of through Lamine Diack’s vote alone.” the material could be sent to its ethics HONOLULU: Vijay Singh, of the Fiji Islands, reacts to his conversations between one of Diack’s Diack, of Senegal, served as an IOC commission, but that the Guardian had putt on the 18th green during the first round of the Sony sons, Khalil, and Turkish track officials in member from 1999 to 2013. As a senior refused. — AP Open golf tournament. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Afridi stifles New Zealand as Pakistan win by 16

WELLINGTON: Pakistan outsmarted New Zealand by stifling their feared batting barrage to win the opening Twenty20 by 16 runs at Eden Park in Auckland yesterday. One-time bad boy Mohammad Amir may have been the centre of attention in his comeback game, but it was Shahid Afridi’s astute captaincy and the miserly bowling by Imad Wasim that made the differ- ence. With no warm up game to acclimatize, Pakistan were rather run shy at the top and tail of their innings but still managed 171-8. But apart from a quickfire 46 off 27 by Colin Munro, and a stubborn 70 by Kane Williamson, New Zealand had no answer to the Pakistan attack and were all out on the last ball of their innings for 155. When Munro was at the crease New Zealand raced to 89-1 in 10 overs, a slightly better run rate than Pakistan managed at the same stage. But his dismissal started a dramatic collapse in which five wickets fell for 19 runs. Afridi bowled a two-wicket maiden to finish with two for 26 to go with three catches while Imad Wasim took one for 18 off his four overs with nine of those runs coming in one over. Wahab Riaz took two wickets in the final over to finish with three for 34, and Amir marked his return to international crick- et after a five-year ban for spot-fixing with one for 31. New Zealand pin a lot of their scoring hopes on opener Martin Guptill, who bludgeoned the Sri Lanka attack in recent weeks, but only faced three balls before he was run out for two. New Zealand had quickly lost patience with the tight Pakistan field settings and accurate bowling and Williamson’s eagerness for a quick single in the second over cost Guptill his wicket. Williamson batted through until the final over but without being able to dictate the pace of the game and his 70 coming off 60 deliveries. Mohammad Hafeez set up the Pakistan BRISBANE: Australia’s captain Steven Smith looks to drive during the one-day international cricket match innings with 61 off 47 but the real damage for Pakistan came between India and Australia in Brisbane yesterday. - AFP in a brief cameo by man-of-the-match Afridi in which he belt- ed 23 off eight deliveries. He particularly distorted Matt Henry’s figures, clouting 20 Australia beat India by 7 wickets runs off four balls. Umar Akmal’s 24 off 14 and Imad’s 18 off nine also helped boost Pakistan to a target the ultimately Takes 2-0 series lead proved too much for New Zealand. Adam Milne was the most successful of the New Zealand bowlers with four for 37 while BRISBANE: George Bailey scored 78 ened. firmly to fine leg and paid for a momen- Mitchell Santner took two for 14. The second match in the from 58 balls to steer Australia over Sharma was only the third batsman tary hesitation in taking a single. But three-match series is in Hamilton tomorrow. — AFP India by seven wickets in the second after England’s Graham Hick and his fel- Sharma was unlucky when he was run limited-overs international and a 2-0 low Indian VVS Laxman to score back- out at the non-striker’s end after James lead in the five-match series yesterday. to-back one-day international centuries Faulkner deflected Rahane’s straight In a near repeat of the series opener at against Australia in Australia. He also drive onto the stumps. Australia’s reply Perth, where Australia won by five wick- became the first Indian batsman to was more aggressive in the second ets, India won the toss and batted and score four ODI centuries on Australian match, with Aaron Finch (71) and Shaun Rohit Sharma scored 124 in a total of soil, overtaking Laxman’s three. While in Marsh (71) sharing a 145-run opening 308-8. Perth India looked to be aggressive and stand. Sharma made 171 not out in Perth, force the scoring early on, Sharma guid- Steve Smith, who scored 149 in where India posted 309-3, and shared a ed a more careful policy on Friday as the Perth, scored at almost a run-a-ball to second-wicket stand of 207 with Virat tourists tried to maintain wickets to post 46 before leaving Bailey, who also Kohli. The pair again provided the impe- allow a late surge in the run chase. But scored a century in Perth, to combine tus for India’s innings, putting on 135 for the Indian innings was cut short by with Glenn Maxwell to guide the the second wicket in Brisbane. Ajinkya unfortunate run outs. Australians home. The third match is at Rahane then made 89 as India set Kohli, on 59, was the victim of a good the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomor- Australia a testing target as rain threat- piece of fielding when he hit the ball row. — AP SCOREBOARD BRISBANE, Australia: Scoreboard yesterday from the second one-day cricket international between Australia and India at the Gabba Ground: India (3w), Glenn Maxwell 6-0-33-0, James Faulkner 10-0-64-2. Rohit Sharma run out 124 Shikhar Dhawan c Wade b Paris 6 Australia Virat Kohli run out 59 Aaron Finch c Rahane b Jadeja 71 Ajinkya Rahane c Smith b Faulkner 89 Shaun Marsh c Kohli b Ishant Sharma 71 MSDhoni c Maxwell b Boland 11 Steve Smith b Yadav 46 Manish Pandey c Paris b Faulkner 6 George Bailey not out 76 Ravindra Jadeja run out 5 Glenn Maxwell not out 26 Ravichandran Ashwin c Boland b Hastings 1 Extras (7lb, 11w, 1nb) 19 Umesh Yadav not out 0 Total: (for 3 wickets ) 309 Extras (7w) 7 Overs: 49 Total (for eight wickets) 308 Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-134, 3-255, 4-276, 5-298, 6-302, 7-306, Fall of wickets: 1-145, 2-166, 3-244. 8-308. Bowling: Barinder Sran 9-1-51-0 (1w,1nb), Ishant Sharma 10- AUCKLAND: Shahid Afridi of Pakistan celebrates the wick- Did not bat: Barinder Sran, Ishant Sharma. 0-60-1 (8w), Umesh Yadav 10-0-74-1 (2w), Ravindra Jadeja 9- et of New Zealand’s Luke Ronchi during the second 20/20 Bowling: Joel Paris 8-0-40-1 (1w), Kane Richardson 8-1-61-0 0-50-1, Ravi Ashwin 10-0-60-0, Virat Kohli 1-0-7-0. cricket match between New Zealand and Pakistan at Eden (1w), John Hastings 8-0-46-1 (2w), Scott Boland 10-0-64-1 Result: Australia won by 7 wickets, leads five-match series 2-0. Park. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 Spurs down Cavs to extend home win streak

SAN ANTONIO: Tony Parker had 24 points and the San Antonio Spurs used a furious start to the fourth quarter to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 99-95 on Thursday night, remaining undefeated at home this season and aveng- ing their previous loss in their own building. Kawhi Leonard added 20 points and 10 rebounds for San Antonio, which has won 10 straight overall. LeBron James had 22 points and Tristan Thompson added 18 points and 14 rebounds for Cleveland, which had won eight in a row. The Spurs extended their home winning streak to 23 games to begin the season. San Antonio has won 32 straight at home dating to 2015. The team’s last loss at home came against the Cavaliers on March 12 last year when Kyrie Irving scored 57 points in a 128-125 overtime victory. Irving was limited to 16 points on 6-for-16 shooting this time.

BULLS 115, 76ERS 111, OT Jimmy Butler scored a career-high 53 points and E’Twaun Moore had seven of his 14 in overtime to lead Chicago over Philadelphia. Butler also had 10 rebounds and six assists while making 15 of 30 field goals and 21 of 25 free throws to help the Bulls snap a three-game losing streak. He became the first Chicago player to score 50 points since Jamal Crawford in 2004. Robert Covington scored 25 points and Ish Smith had 24 for the 76ers, who fell to 4-37. Chicago was without star guard Derrick Rose (knee) and starting center Pau Gasol (rest).

WARRIORS 116, LAKERS 98 Stephen Curry scored 26 points, with his first eight baskets coming on 3-pointers, and Golden State beat Los Angeles in what was likely Kobe Bryant’s last game in Oakland. SAN ANTONIO: LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers drives on Tim Duncan #21 of the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center. — AP Bryant had eight points, six rebounds and three assists in 28 minutes. It was the Lakers’ 92 victory on Dec. 9. Marc Gasol had 19 points game-winning shot with 0.9 seconds Western Conference playoff race. Gay hit a final regular-season visit to Oracle Arena, and for Memphis, and Barnes scored 18. Jeff Green remaining to lift Sacramento over Utah. 17-foot fadeaway after Joe Ingles’ 3-pointer Bryant plans to retire after the season. Curry finished with 16. Rookie forward Stanley DeMarcus Cousins had his 21st double-dou- tied the score at 101 with 4.1 seconds left. put the Warriors ahead 84-70 on a breakaway Johnson led the Pistons with 19 points. ble of the season with 36 points and 17 Rookie forward Trey Lyles scored a career- dunk off a long pass from Andre Iguodala in rebounds. Rajon Rondo added 13 assists and high 19 points for the Jazz, and Gordon the closing seconds of the third quarter for his KINGS 103, JAZZ 101 six rebounds for the Kings, one game Hayward had 21 despite shooting 4 for 17 first score inside the 3-point line. The reigning Rudy Gay scored 24 points and hit the behind Utah for the No. 8 spot in the from the field. — AP MVP made eight 3s for the eighth time this season and the 18th time in his career - most in NBA history. Draymond Green had seven points, nine rebounds, five assists and three Bryant enjoying farewell tour steals for Golden State after missing Wednesday night’s loss in Denver for rest. OAKLAND: At every stop, in every road arena, you” and waving after scoring eight points on “He was incredible. I’ve never, still to this Kobe Bryant is reflecting on 20 years of mem- 4-for-15 shooting to go with six rebounds in day, ever seen anyone play through the stuff RAPTORS 106, MAGIC 103, OT ories and many great basketball games. He’s 27 1/2 minutes. In honor of Bryant’s five NBA that he’s played through. Early on in my Kyle Lowry scored 24 points, Cory Joseph enjoying every second of this farewell ride titles, the Warriors gifted him with a five-day career, I would think, ‘OK, well he’s not going added 19 and Toronto beat Orlando in over- despite all the losing, which isn’t exactly how Napa Valley vacation with five wineries and to be out there tonight and we have to step time at O2 Arena. DeMar DeRozan had 13 he intended to go into retirement. five restaurants included. He also received a up and then after a while you just learn that points and 11 rebounds to help the Raptors The 37-year-old Bryant returned to Oracle five-liter bottle from Amuse Bouche winery he’s playing no matter what unless someone win their fourth straight game. Victor Oladipo Arena, the site of his first career 50-point featuring a special label with his jersey. takes him off the court,” Walton recalled. scored 27 points and Evan Fournier had 21 for game, but his Los Angeles Lakers lost 116-98 “There was a game he couldn’t even lift his Orlando. The Magic lost for the sixth time in to the defending NBA champion Golden State Incredible career right shoulder up above his head to shoot the seven games. Nikola Vucevic’s last-second Warriors late Thursday. “This place has always Bryant received many a hug at midcourt ball so he started shooting it left-handed and shot from near halfcourt bounced off the rim. been a special place to play,” Bryant said. from the Warriors beforehand. He started finally that’s when Phil (Jackson) pulled him Vucevic had 17 points and 11 rebounds for “They’ve always been great fans. To have that despite a sore right shoulder and a right out. “That kind of hurt a little bit that he Orlando. Before the game, and after the play- appreciation from them tonight was pretty Achilles strain, and made his first shot. “He thought him shooting left-handed 3-pointers ing of “O Canada,” “The Star-Spangled awesome. I was really stiff, but I thought it was fixated in not having a career. He was fix- was more effective than passing me the ball. Banner,” and “God Save the Queen,” Lowry was the right thing to do, go back in the ated on having an incredible career,” West That’s what made him such a great player.” and Vucevic stood at center court and briefly game and play and try to enjoy it one more said during a pregame news conference, This is the arena where Bryant produced his spoke to the London crowd, thanking fans for time.” recalling the first NBA workout Bryant went first career 50-point game, when he scored 51 their support. During pregame introductions, the through 20 years ago at age 17. on Dec. 6, 2000. Golden State star Antawn Warriors showed a tribute from Lakers Hall of “For someone that age, it was remarkable Jamison also scored 51 that night in a 125- GRIZZLIES 103, PISTONS 101 Famer and Golden State executive Jerry West the skill, the love that he had for the game 122 overtime win against the Lakers. Mario Chalmers scored 25 points, includ- with a highlight video on the main score- and the desire to excel. The one thing that Bryant acknowledged it has been fun to ing a leaning 19-foot jumper with less than a board. Fans in the sellout crowd - including was very evident to me right away, this was a see Golden State grow into a contender again second left to give Memphis a victory over retiring Raiders defensive back Charles player at 17 years old, I had never seen some- after all the down years - but he has no desire Detroit. Chalmers was fouled on the play and Woodson, Oakland quarterback Derek Carr one with the skill that he had.” Bryant left a to face Stephen Curry and these Warriors in missed the ensuing free throw. The shot and Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin - lasting impression on interim Warriors coach the playoffs. “No, I’m good. They play too well appeared to miss the front of the rim, and the chanted “Kobe! Kobe!” before a rousing ova- Luke Walton with his grit to play no matter here,” Bryant said with a grin. “If I had to and clock ran out with players scrambling for the tion when his name was called. what body part was hurting or how tired he the challenge presented itself, of course I’d rebound. Chalmers’ basket meant the Pistons Bryant waved, tipped his head and might be, and they won two NBA champi- rise to the challenge. If I had a choice, lost both games to Memphis this season on a clapped his hands in appreciation. He left to a onships during 8 1/2 seasons together with absolutely not. I don’t want to deal with this late shot. Matt Barnes’ heave from halfcourt warm ovation with 3:04 to play, saying “thank the Lakers. crowd.” —AP with 1.1 seconds left gave the Grizzlies a 93- SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Immobile delighted with Torino return

MILAN: Borussia Dortmund striker eight appearances for the Spanish La that’s what made it so special.” Although Immobile made no men- Ciro Immobile said he can’t wait to Liga side this season, leaving him on Immobile, who will wear the number tion of Italy, he is keen to return to play for Torino again after complet- the fringes of Antonio Conte’s Italy 10 shirt after fellow forward Andrea the international fray. He made his ing his six-month loan signing yester- squad ahead of next summer’s Belotti inherited his number nine jer- competitive debut for Italy in the day in a bid to boost his Euro 2016 European Championships in France. sey, has yet to train with Torino but is Azzurri’s 2-1 win over England in selection chances. Immobile moved Naples-born Immobile was met by expected to start today when Manaus in the sides’ World Cup open- to Bundesliga side Borussia dozens of fans when he returned to Giampiero Ventura’s side host er last year, when he replaced match- Dortmund in 2014 following Italy’s ill- Turin earlier this week and said Frosinone. winner Mario Balotelli 17 minutes fated World Cup campaign in Brazil, Friday: “I’m super happy, I can’t wait “I’m returning here with lots of from the final whistle. Italy crashed but despite hitting the net four times to get playing again. enthusiasm,” pledged Immobile. “I out of the World Cup at the first in the Champions League for the “I want to thank the club for show- know all the players here and I want round for the second successive edi- Bundesliga side he was sent on loan ing faith in me and say thanks to the to help the club as much as I can tion following 1-0 defeats to Costa to Sevilla. fans for the welcome they gave me at wearing a shirt that has given me so Rica and Uruguay, prompting The 25-year-old striker made only the airport: I wasn’t expecting that, much satisfaction in the past.” Prandelli’s resignation. — AFP

Nigeria main contenders to win unique tournament

JOHANNESBURG: The fourth edition of a unique senior national team tournament kicks off in Rwanda today with Nigeria and Tunisia among the title favorites. Only footballers playing in their country of birth are eligible for the African Nations Championship (CHAN), whose matches are recognized by FIFA as full internation- als with results counting toward the monthly rankings. A brainchild of CAF president and acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou, the CHAN was introduced to give local stars national team experience they would not ordinarily get because overseas-based compatriots are preferred. Labeled the ‘baby brother’ of the Africa Cup of Nations, the CHAN has the same format with 15 qualifiers and the hosts split into four groups from which winners and run- ners-up advance to the quarter-finals. The home-only rule will have little effect on finalists like Rwanda and Ethiopia, the bulk of whose leading footballers perform in the domestic championships. But the Ivory Coast CHAN squad bares no resemblance to that which competes in the Cup of Nations and is dominated by Europe-based stars like four-time African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure. However, France-born Ivorian Cup of Nations coach Michel Dussuyer is also in charge of a CHAN selec- tion in which first-time champions AS Tanda have six players. Franco-Pole Henryk Kasperczak fills a similar role for Tunisia, but gallbladder surgery prevented him travelling to Rwanda and assis- tant Hatem Missaoui takes charge. Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh sees little difference between the Africa Cup of Nations and the African Nations Championship tournaments.

National squad players FROSINONE: Napoli’s Argentinian-French forward Gonzalo Higuain (right) celebrates after scoring during the Italian “We do not have A and B teams,” he stressed in South Africa Serie A football match Frosinone Calcio vs SSC Napoli on January 10, 2016 at the Matusa Stadium. — AFP while preparing for the 22-day CHAN, which will be staged at four venues, two of them in the capital Kigali. “They are all national squad players with the only difference being that some play Title-chasing Napoli await abroad and others at home.” Tunisia and Nigeria are the first and second seeds in Group C and it would be a shock if they failed to reach the knockout stage at the expense of Niger and debutants Serie A’s new giant killers Guinea. Nigeria defender Samson Gbadebo is brimming with confi- MILAN: Former Napoli defender Paolo Juventus at home, drew at home with underline their objectives, telling Jtv in mid- dence after the West Africans beat Ivory Coast and drew with Cannavaro has played down Sassuolo’s Fiorentina and stunned Inter Milan 1-0 week: “We have to try and finish top and Angola in Pretoria warm-up matches against fellow finalists. ‘giant-killer’ status as the Serie A minnows thanks to a late Domenico Berardi penalty we’ve got the whole half of the season to “There is nothing to worry about in our group. We will start with a look to claim another scalp on their way to two weeks ago. achieve that.” But with several teams firing victory against Niger and top the standings. “Our players compete an unlikely place in Europe next season. Since their reverse to the Tuscans, Napoli on all fronts, he added: “It could all come in a leading African national championship and I believe we have Cannavaro was a reluctant departee have put their mediocre start firmly behind down to the final day, so it will be important what it takes to go all the way.” from Napoli when he was transferred to them to finish top of Serie A at the halfway to collect as many points, and as many wins, Oliseh is wary of Tunisia, whose squad contains many of the Sassuolo in January 2014. But the 34-year- stage of the season for the first time in 26 as possible.” stars who helped Etoile Sahel beat Orlando Pirates of South Africa old centre-back is now a pivotal part of years. The last time was 1990 and Diego Like Juve, Inter are only two points off in the 2015 CAF Confederation Cup final. “Tunisia have a strong Eusebio Di Francesco’s well-oiled, attacking Maradona was still strutting his stuff at the the pace in third but Juve defender domestic league and many of the CHAN squad also play in the outfit and has a simple explanation for their San Paolo. Napoli’s rise to the top prompted Leonardo Bonucci said: “If I had to name a Cup of Nations,” he said. The draw did Rwanda no favours with recent wave of success. “This season we’re a Maradona to claim last week: “If Napoli win team, for the way they play and what Gabon, Ivory Coast and Morocco the strong Group A rivals of a lot more aware of our capabilities compared the scudetto, I’ll fly to the city by helicopter they’ve done in the first half of the season host nation coached by 30-year-old Johnny McKinstry. to last season,” Cannavaro, the 34-year-old to party with the fans.” I’d have to say Napoli.” The comment “Rwandans can be confident that our squad will give every- younger brother of retired Italy internation- Napoli this weekend are the only title won’t have gone unnoticed by Inter, who thing in pursuit of good performances,” was the reassuring mes- al Fabio, told Sky Sport. “We’re growing as a contenders playing at home, but with 19 travel to Atalanta in Saturday’s early fixture sage from the Irishman. Democratic Republic of Congo, winners team and what we’ve achieved so far is sim- games remaining and Juventus back in con- looking to make amends for conceding of the maiden CHAN in Abidjan seven years ago, and Cameroon ply down to our performances.” tention after a poor start, Maurizio Sarri’s defeat twice in their past three games but look the strongest sides in Group B, which is completed by Yet Sassuolo, who sit 10 points behind men have it all to do. Juventus travel to with the chance to go top. Brazilian Felipe Angola and Ethiopia. But choosing two likely quarter-finalists leaders Napoli in sixth place, are becoming Udinese looking for a 10th consecutive Melo will sit out the last of a three-match from Group D contenders Mali, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe the team none of this season’s ‘scudetto’ league win and will be without Spanish suspension handed down for a karate kick is difficult. Zambia have chosen midfielder Isaac Chansa and challengers want to face. Promoted to Serie striker Alvaro Morata, unless he makes a on compatriot Lucas Biglia in a 2-1 defeat striker Christopher Katongo, pivotal figures in the team that A in 2013, Sassuolo are the only team to speedy recovery from ‘flu. to Lazio last month. But the Inter midfield- mocked the form book by winning the 2012 Cup of Nations. have escaped being beaten by all five of this er hit out: “People criticize us because they Recalled after two years in the international wilderness, the vet- season’s title challengers. De Francesco’s Allegri objectives don’t like seeing Inter being near the top erans said they were “humbled by the call-ups and the confi- men beat Napoli at home on the opening For the first time this season, coach of the league. I’m sorry for them, but I dence shown in their abilities”. — AFP day of the season, drew away to Roma, beat Massimiliano Allegri is in a position to don’t care. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

Man City out to close gap to League leaders

MANCHESTER: It is a signal of Manchester City’s inconsistency that they have not managed to string together two successive Premier League victories since mid-October. Yet it is a sign of the division’s unpredictability this season that despite this, Manuel Pellegrini’s side remains just three points off the top as they go into Saturday’s home match against Crystal Palace. Wednesday’s 0-0 draw at home to mid-table Everton has not proved as costly as it might have done, with leaders Arsenal also dropping points in a 3-3 draw at Liverpool on the same night. In addition, City kept a second successive clean sheet, LONDON: Chelsea’s suggesting that their defence is Dutch manager Guus finding some semblance of sta- Hiddink (2nd R) watches bility in the continued absence from the touchline of injured captain Vincent during the English Kompany. Premier League football Kompany is likely to be out match between Chelsea for another month as his club try and West Bromwich to get to the root of the calf trou- Albion at Stamford ble that has restricted him to just Bridge. — AFP three league starts since City won 1-0 at Palace on September 12. With fellow centre-back Eliaquim Mangala recovering Hiddink wants Chelsea to from a hamstring problem, Pellegrini may continue with Martin Demichelis alongside make most of home turf Nicolas Otamendi, though Bacary Sagna could move across from full-back if required. LONDON: Guus Hiddink says Chelsea’s slender tastic shot,” Courtois told Chelsea’s website. Pellegrini has indicated that hopes of challenging for a top-four finish in the “The second came after a free-kick, we tried to he will make some changes for Premier League hinge on them enjoying a per- head it clear, the ball touched our player and Matches on TV the Palace match, which kicks fect record at Stamford Bridge. After dropping the shot went in the corner again. (Local Timings) off less than 66 hours after two points at home already this week in a 2-2 “They were unlucky and that’s the position Wednesday’s game finished, draw against West Bromwich Albion, Hiddink’s we are in at the moment. They were goals English Premier League giving little time for his players side have little margin for error ahead of maybe last year we didn’t concede because we Tottenham v Sunderland 15:45 to recover. Playmaker David Everton’s visit to west London today. were up top, and now they are the kind of goals beIN SPORTS Silva is likely to be given a more But Hiddink, the club’s interim manager, you concede because you are down there. We Man City v Crystal Palace 18:00 significant role, having been maintains that as long as there is a mathemati- have to keep on fighting, we have Everton now beIN SPORTS rested altogether for last Chelsea v Everton 18:00 cal chance of claiming a place in next season’s which will be a difficult game as well but we beIN SPORTS Saturday’s 3-0 FA Cup win at Champions League, that will be the club’s tar- have to fight for every game and every point.” Newcastle v West Ham 18:00 Norwich City before being given get. And the belief Hiddink might oversee a dra- Hazard is expected to again miss out with beIN SPORTS a 16-minute run-out as a substi- matic transformation in Chelsea’s fortunes dur- Hiddink anxious not to risk further injury by Bournemouth v Norwich City 18:00 tute in mid-week. ing the second half of the season has been gath- rushing the Belgium international back too beIN SPORTS For Pellegrini, whose team go Southampton v West Bromwich 18:00 ering pace during his first three weeks in charge. soon. Everton have lost just one league game beIN SPORTS into Saturday’s game lying third, Results have improved - Chelsea are unde- away from home all season and have let in only Aston Villa v Leicester 20:30 the priority is to regain the feated in six games since Jose Mourinho was nine goals on their travels. In addition, they beIN SPORTS league leadership, although he sacked before Christmas, five of those with have drawn more Premier League matches so Spanish League acknowledges that positions Hiddink at the helm - and, more importantly, so far - 10 in total - than anyone else so perhaps Sevilla v Malaga 18:00 only count for so much at this beIN SPORTS too have performances. But against West Brom Everton’s 0-0 draw at Manchester City this week stage of the season. Celta v Levante 20:15 “It’s important to try to reduce the flaws that surfaced during their dismal first should not have come as a surprise. Martinez’s beIN SPORTS half of the season resurfaced, with Hiddink’s men are hard to beat, but they do not win Villarreal v Real Betis 22:30 the gap as soon as we can beIN SPORTS between ourselves and the two side guilty of conceding two sloppy goals and enough either; the consensus among the club’s Diego Costa once again apparently intent on support is that a team containing the talents of Italian Calcio League leaders, Arsenal and Leicester, Atalanta v Inter 17:00 but we are not going to win the staging a running battle with his opponents. John Stones, Ross Barkley, Gerard Deulofeu and beIN SPORTS title in January,” he said. “I think If they are to recover and beat Roberto Romelu Lukaku should be higher than 11th in Torino v Frosinone 20:00 it’s important to be solid and a Martinez’s Everton, Chelsea must demonstrate the table. Having conceded seven times in beIN SPORTS consistent team from now until more steel to match the enterprise they occa- home defeats against Leicester and Stoke at SSC Napoli v Sassuolo 22:45 sionally showed going forward against West Christmas, their defense is looking more solid beIN SPORTS the end of the season. There are French League so many examples of teams that Brom, even with Eden Hazard still sidelined with following the return of Phil Jagielka after two Toulouse FC v PSG 19:00 had the title in their hands in a groin injury. For Blues goalkeeper Thibaut months out with a knee injury. beIN SPORTS April, then lost important points Courtois the goals scored by Albion typified the The captain has been key to successive clean Guingamp v Nantes 22:00 and didn’t win the title. “So it’s difference between this season and last, when sheets against Dagenham and Redbridge in the beIN SPORTS important first to reduce the Chelsea dominated games for long periods on FA Cup, and at Eastlands in the league. “I’m still Girondins v Lille 22:00 points gap and after that try to beIN SPORTS their way towards their title success. trying to find a bit of match sharpness,” Jagielka Troyes v Stade Rennes 22:00 continue in all the competitions said. “This was only my second 90 minutes in beIN SPORTS we are in, and try to be a solid Unlucky goals about three months. The games are going to Bastia v Montpellier 22:00 and consistent team, especially “The goals were a bit unlucky. The first, Pedro come thick and fast now, we’ve got Chelsea beIN SPORTS in the Premier League.” — AFP Ajaccio v Stade 22 :00 wanted to come inside and play the ball but it away today, so it’ll be an interesting couple of beIN SPORTS took a touch to (Craig) Gardner and he hit a fan- weeks or so.” — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016

MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann, left, challenges Rayo Vallecano’s goalkeeper Yoel to score his team’s third goal during the Copa del Rey second leg soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano at the Vicente Calderon stadium. — AP Atletico shrug off ban to reach Cup quarters

MADRID: Atletico Madrid bounced ing an ineligible player, Atletico tie still evenly balanced after a 1-1 cruised into the quarter-finals in half-time. Spanish international back from a difficult day for the club could at least console themselves draw in the first leg, coach Diego comprehensive fashion with a 3-0 Paco Alcacer then made it 2-0 within off the field to book their place in with a place in the last eight. Simeone introduced top scorer win away to Granada to seal a 7-0 seconds of coming on as a substi- the quarter-finals of the Copa del “I was preparing for the game, so Antoine Griezmann from the bench aggregate victory. Neville is yet to tute before Pablo Piatti rubbed salt Rey with a 3-0 win over Rayo the club phoned me to explain the 20 minutes from time. taste victory in La Liga in five into Granada’s wounds five minutes Vallecano. FIFA handed the Liga stuation. They have notified us (of And for the fifth game in a row, attempts since taking charge last from time. leaders and rivals Real Madrid a one- the ban) and the club will appeal,” one of Simeone’s substitutes scored month, but has now won each of his “I am happy with the result, per- year transfer ban to take effect from said Atletico boss Diego Simeone. “It as Griezmann forced the ball home three cup ties. formance and to have kept a clean July on Thursday for alleged irregu- is the people in the offices that have from close range 10 minutes later. Already carrying a healthy 4-0 sheet,” said Neville. Atletico and larities in the signing of minors. to fix this more than us.” Griezmann then added his 16th goal lead from the first leg, Neville Valencia join holders Barcelona, Both clubs have signalled their Angel Correa’s stunning strike in of the season in stoppage time as he named an experimental side, but Sevilla, Athletic Bilbao, Celta Vigo, intention to appeal, but unlike Real, off the underside of the bar brought beat Rayo ‘keeper Yoel to a long ball was rewarded for giving youth its Las Palmas and second-tier who were expelled from the Cup an uneventful first half to life six before slotting into an empty net. chance as Wilfried Zahibo netted his Mirandes in yesterday’s quarter-final earlier in the competition for field- minutes before the break. With the Gary Neville’s Valencia also first goal for the club just before draw. — AFP Another big win expected of Zidane’s rejuvenated Madrid

MADRID: After the rousing success of a well. Hopefully 2016 will be a great year kick-off. The Argentine wasn’t given the 5-0 win over Deportivo la Coruna on his for Real Madrid,” said captain Sergio night off as Barca eased into the quar- managerial debut last weekend, more of Ramos as he and three other Madrid ter-finals of the Copa del Rey on the same is expected from Zinedine players were named in the FIFPro team Wednesday with a 2-0 win over Zidane’s Real Madrid at home to of the year in midweek, highlighting the Espanyol in the final of three bad-tem- Sporting Gijon tomorrow. The club were quality that remains in the squad pered Catalan derbies in the past 12 rocked on Thursday by a one-year trans- despite a disappointing year. Zidane has days. fer ban handed down by FIFA for a full complement of players to choose However, Neymar, Sergio Busquets, alleged irregularities in the signing of from and Madrid will be out for revenge Andres Iniesta and Gerard Pique were all minors. after being surprisingly held 0-0 by rested and will return, as will Luis MADRID: Real Madrid’s French coach Zinedine Zidane looks at players Of more immediate concern for the Sporting on their first match back in the Suarez, who was suspended for the visit during the Spanish league football match Real Madrid CF vs RC 10-time European champions, though, top-flight on the opening day of the to Cornella-El Prat. League leaders Deportivo La Coruna at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. — AFP is their pursuit of Atletico Madrid and season. Barcelona lead Real by two Atletico were also hit with a 12-month Barcelona at the top of La Liga and, for- points and have a game in hand on their transfer ban on Thursday, but that other day in Vigo, we managed both to negotiate Los Che into the quarter-finals tunately for Zidane, the Frenchman eternal rivals, but face a tougher task didn’t distract Diego Simeone’s men as win and play well. That is the growth of the Cup as they completed a 7-0 already has a hugely talented squad at this weekend when they host Athletic they too eased into the Cup quarters that the team still has in it. aggregate win over Granada on his disposal. Bilbao visit the Camp Nou. with victory over Rayo Vallecano. “We hope to be able to maintain that Thursday, but admitted he needs to pick Gareth Bale struck his second hat- Los Rojiblancos travel to Las Palmas consistency because in the league sea- up league wins quickly if he is to make a trick in four games and Karim Benzema Silverware clean sweep looking for their ninth win in their last son that is the most complex and diffi- case for his contract to be extended took his tally for the season to 18 goals The Basques denied Barca a clean 10 league games on Sunday, but cult thing.” Valencia boss Gary Neville beyond the end of the season. “I don’t in as many matches as Zidane got off a sweep of silverware in 2015 on their last Simeone believes there is still plenty of has a great chance to register his first La shy away from what Valencia’s expecta- dream start against Deportivo just days visit to the Camp Nou by sealing a 5-1 room for improvement from his young Liga win at the sixth attempt since tak- tions should be. In La Liga in the last few after replacing the sacked Rafael win in the Spanish Super Cup in August. squad. “We have managed to get ing charge last month when struggling weeks we’ve not achieved the results Benitez. Lionel Messi will present his record fifth results, but I have always had the sensa- Rayo visit the Mestalla on Sunday. we wanted to and I accept that we have “The change of coach has suited us Ballon d’Or to the home fans before tion that the team could play better. The Neville has at least managed to to start winning games quickly.” — AFP Win expected of Zidane’s rejuvenated Madrid 47 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 JANUARY SATURDAY, SportsSports

MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s Angel Correa, right, vies for the ball with Rayo Vallecano’s Ze Castro during the Copa del Rey second leg soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano at the Vicente Calderon stadium. (Story on Page 47) Real, Atletico hit by one year transfer bans

MADRID: Spanish giants Real Madrid suffered anoth- FIFA to all sports authorities, considering it absolutely FIFA said the alarm was raised over the two clubs by David de Gea was also frustrated at the last minute er institutional embarrassment on Thursday as they inadmissible,” read a statement on the Madrid web- FIFA’s Transfer Matching System and its disciplinary in August as the clubs failed to register the and rivals Atletico Madrid were banned by FIFA from site. “We will appeal, we think we are right and I think committee completed the inquiry. Under interna- required paperwork in time. buying players for one year over their dealing in this is unjust,” said Atletico president Enrique Cerezo. tional football rules, players under 18 cannot be The sanction could also be bad news for the likes under-age players. European champions Barcelona have just com- transferred to another country, except in limited cir- of Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, who The ban will start from the July transfer window pleted a one year ban for similar reasons. Barca were cumstances. All transfers need the approval of a spe- had targeted Madrid stars Cristiano Ronaldo and this year and finish with the January transfer market initially banned in April 2014, but managed to delay cial FIFA committee. Gareth Bale, with Real highly unlikely to dispose of in 2017 meaning newly appointed Real coach the sanction taking effect until the transfer windows However, the Spanish league labeled the sanc- their best players without the chance to sign suitable Zinedine Zidane will be unable to strengthen his in January and the summer of 2015 by launching an tions “disproportionate” and called for a change in replacements. La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid’s usual- squad this summer. Atletico were also fined 900,000 ultimately unsuccessful appeal to the Court of the rules, claiming they don’t have the desired effect ly hectic transfer policy will also be put on hold. Swiss francs (820,000 Euros) and Real 360,000 Arbitration for Sport (CAS). of protecting the rights of minors. Madrid admitted However, Diego Simeone’s men look well-placed (330,000 euros). However, both clubs are still allowed By delaying the ban, Barca managed to sign the in January that they had supplied FIFA with the to cope with the ban having invested heavily in to sign players until the end of the month. likes of Luis Suarez and Ivan Rakitic in the summer of details of 51 players as part of their investigation, young talent over the past year. “Not being able to “The two clubs were found to have violated sev- 2014 to propel them to a treble of La Liga, which they claimed were exempt from the regula- sign is a problem because the seasons are very long eral provisions concerning the international transfer Champions League and Copa del Rey, a route poten- tions for various reasons. and you always need players. Fortunately, we have a and first registration of minor players as well as other tially open to both clubs depending on how quickly The news is the latest off-field blow for Real good and big squad with young players that can relevant provisions with regard to the registration CAS can hear their appeals. Real and Atletico were having sacked two Champions League winning overcome these two windows without signings,” and participation of certain players in competitions,” “issued with a reprimand and given 90 days in which coaches in Carlo Ancelotti and Rafael Benitez in the added Cerezo. Indeed, Atletico have already made said a FIFA statement. to regularize the situation of all minor players con- past seven months, as well as being thrown out of two additions to their squad in January in Argentine Both clubs announced their intention to appeal cerned,” FIFA said. the Copa del Rey for fielding an ineligible player. international midfielders Matias Kranevitter and the ban. “Real Madrid will appeal this decision by They can still sell players during the transfer ban. The signing of Manchester United goalkeeper Augusto Fernandez. — AFP