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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 SHAABAN 19, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Prices at Israel expands UK issues Spurs beat Mubarakiya hunt for missing dire warning Heat to Market teens, kills on washing win fifth remain3 stable Palestinian8 chicken28 NBA17 title Day of lawsuits over Max 44º Min 27º corruption scandals High Tide 02:38 & 13:12 Low Tide MPs demand debate on developments in Iraq 07:57 & 20:50 40 PAGES NO: 16199 150 FILS By Staff Reporter

Dust storm KUWAIT: The premier yesterday submitted a letter to the attorney general asking him to investigate alleged finan- cial and political scandals that have rocked the country, closes ports as the government plans to sue the opposition over accusations regarding the highly sensitive issue. The KUWAIT: Operations at Kuwait’s three ports were Audit Bureau has also started a separate investigation, halted yesterday due to bad weather, the state while the recently-established Kuwait Anti-Corruption news agency KUNA said, and an oil source said the Authority said it will launch an investigation into corrup- OPEC member has suspended receiving ships at the country’s oil ports. “Maritime traffic in the three tion allegations that undermine the country’s order. ports Shuaiba, Shuwaikh and Doha were halted due The new developments came following last week’s to the current dust storm,” KUNA reported citing the public rally during which leading opposition figures ports authority. Kuwait produces around 3 million claimed that former senior officials stole around $50 bil- barrels of crude per day. lion from public funds and deposited them in foreign Director of Sea Operations at Shuwaikh Port Capt banks, including one in Israel. Marzouq Al-Qahtani told KUNA operations were Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, who was the first to stopped for safety reasons after wind speed uncover the alleged conspiracy videotapes, yesterday reached 36-40 nautical knots and horizontal visibili- filed through his lawyer Falah Al-Hajraf a lawsuit to the ty dropped lower than 1.5 nautical miles. According attorney general against two high-ranking former offi- to rules of the International Maritime Organization cials. Sheikh Ahmad made more sensitive accusations (IMO), navigation must be halted when visibility during a television interview late Saturday, prompting drops lower than three nautical miles. A ship Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to ordered to stay off the harbor will be allowed in submit a letter yesterday morning asking the attorney once the weather conditions improve, while three general to investigate the claims made in the interview. ships sailed out. State Minister for Cabinet Affairs and acting justice Capt Faraj Al-Saeed, in charge of maritime opera- minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah said tions at Shuaiba port, told KUNA wind speed at the the letter was backed with all the documents available harbor exceeded 40 nautical knots and visibility with the government including those received by the dropped lower than one nautical mile. — Agencies KUWAIT: Falah Al-Hajraf, lawyer of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, answers journalists’ questions as he prime minister from the “political leadership”. leaves the courthouse after filing a lawsuit yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 15 Saudis, Qatar blame ‘sectarian’ Maliki US open to working with Iran over Iraq RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Qatar have northern and north-central Iraq, although blamed “sectarian” policies by Iraq’s Shiite- their advance has since been slowed. Gulf billions insulate led government against the Sunni Arab Saudi Arabia, which shares long borders minority for the unrest that has swept the with Iraq, urged the swift formation of a country. Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, national consensus government to work to economies, markets whose relations with the government of “reinstate security and stability”. The unrest DUBAI: For years, the rich oil states of the the politics around it,” said Jason Tuvey, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki have been “could not have taken place if it was not for Gulf have struggled to insulate them- Middle East economist at Capital strained, also warned against foreign inter- the sectarian and exclusionary policies selves from political turbulence in the rest Economics, a London-based consultancy. vention in Iraq. In March, Maliki accused implemented in Iraq over the past years of their volatile region. Markets’ reaction He added that apart from Saudi Arabia’s both Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting that threatened its stability and sovereign- to the insurgency in Iraq suggest they Eastern Province, which has seen some terrorism in Iraq. Militants, spearheaded by ty,” the government said in a statement. It may finally have succeeded. Saudi Arabia low-level unrest among its Shi’ite minori- the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the underlined the need for the “participation and Kuwait face the potential disintegra- ty, it was difficult to see how events in Levant (ISIL) and joined by supporters of of all components of the Iraqi people in tion of a country on their borders. At the Iraq could have any direct impact on Gulf executed dictator Saddam Hussein, have in determining the future” of the country. very least, the turmoil in Iraq looks set to states. If there is any impact, govern- the past week overrun a large chunk of Continued on Page 15 widen the Sunni-Shiite divide which has ments have the monetary and security poisoned politics across the region. resources to deal with it, he added. But in contrast to past episodes of The region has been buffeted by a instability in the Middle East, the Gulf’s string of geopolitical shocks since early financial markets are mostly reacting 2011, when revolutions in Egypt and oth- calmly. Foreign investors have continued er Arab states briefly raised the possibili- to plough hundreds of millions of dollars ty of similar unrest within the Gulf. Five- into Gulf bonds. There have been no year Saudi Arabian credit default swaps - signs of pressure on Gulf currencies’ pegs which insure against the risk of a Saudi to the US dollar. Stock markets have sovereign debt default, and are therefore dropped, but traders largely see that as a an indicator of foreign investors’ jitters natural adjustment after big gains earlier about the Gulf - shot up to a peak of 140 this year, not a panicked response to basis points in Feb 2011. They rocketed geopolitical risk. back to that level in early 2012, as inter- The calm reflects the Gulf’s progress national tensions over Iran’s nuclear pro- in building up its financial resources on gram rose. A smaller spike occurred in the back of high oil prices as a defence Aug 2013, as the United States threat- against regional instability, as well as its ened to bomb Damascus over the use of success in containing domestic political chemical weapons. fallout from the Arab Spring uprisings This month, however, CDS have over the past three years, economists stayed low, sliding to 37 bps last week, and fund managers said. “I think people the lowest level since early 2013. now see the Gulf as well insulated from Continued on Page 15 MOSUL: Demonstrators chant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) slogans in front of the provincial government headquarters yesterday. — AP in the news

Al-Jazeera journalist China executes 13 on hunger strike freed UAE to work with US for Xinjiang attacks CAIRO: Egypt’s prosecutor general yesterday ordered to cut ‘terror’ funding BEIJING: China executed 13 people yesterday for “terror- the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy, ABU DHABI: The UAE and the United States agreed yes- ist attacks” in the violence-wracked northwestern region who has been on hunger strike for nearly five months, terday to cooperate to prevent “terrorist” groups from of Xinjiang, state media said, as death sentences were state media reported. Al-Jazeera swiftly issued a state- using the Gulf state’s finance sector, according to a state- issued over a suicide car crash at Beijing’s Tiananmen ment calling for the release of three other staff on trial in ment from the US Treasury. Treasury Secretary Jacob Square. The announcement by the official Xinhua news a separate case. The court in that trial said it would issue Lew and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed agency said the 13 were involved in seven different cases its verdict on June 23 against the three journalists bin Zayed Al-Nahayan agreed to cooperate more closely connected to Xinjiang, where Beijing says separatist mili- accused of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood of “to disrupt terrorist support networks” in talks in Abu tants are behind a string of attacks that have rocked ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Elshamy, who works Dhabi. They “stressed the importance of ensuring the China in recent months. Xinhua provided names of four for the main Arabic-language channel of the Qatar- United Arab Emirates’ financial system is closed off to of the executed without identifying them by their ethnic- based network, was arrested on Aug 14 last year when the broad range of terrorist and criminal groups,” the ity, though some of the names appeared to be Uighur, a (Top) Argentina’s Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring police dispersed protest camps in Cairo set up by sup- statement said. The meeting comes as nine men stand Turkic-speaking mainly Muslim group with cultural and trial in Abu Dhabi for allegedly forming “Al-Qaeda cell” his team’s second goal during the Group F World Cup porters of Morsi. “Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat linguistic links to Central Asia. The report identified two accused of supporting Al-Nusra Front, the jihadist net- match between Argentina and Bosnia Hercegovina at ordered the release of 13 defendants... among them of the cases as taking place last year and resulting in Abdullah Elshamy, a correspondent with Qatari channel work’s Syrian affiliate. Among other charges, the men more than two dozen deaths, including those of 24 the Maracana Stadium in Rio De Janeiro late Sunday. are accused of having “financed Al-Nusra Front,” state (Above) Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during Al-Jazeera, due to their health conditions,” the official police officers and ordinary citizens in Xinjiang’s Turpan news agency WAM said. The officials also discussed Prefecture in June. The announcement came hours after the Group G World Cup match between Germany and MENA news agency reported. The military-installed authorities have been incensed by Al-Jazeera’s coverage improving economic ties between the countries, the state media said three people had been sentenced to die Portugal at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador yester- Treasury statement said, as well as the situation in Iraq. over the Tiananmen crash last October. day. — AFP/AP (See Pages 19 & 20) of their crackdown on Morsi supporters. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 LOCAL Exams cheating increases with help from technology Ministry investigation ongoing KUWAIT: Acting Minister of In spite of the ministry’s efforts to answers. Meanwhile, 12th grade stu- Education Dr Abdul Mohsen Al- prevent cheating by smart phones dents of the arts department did the Mudej said that an investigation is and headsets, some reports suggest- same thing with the history test, ongoing to determine if a physics ed that many high school students according to unnamed sources. final exam sheet for public high were able to break the anti-cheating They added that the same schools was leaked. The senior offi- measures and shared the answers of method was used by 11th grade stu- cial’s statements came in response to the mathematics, history, geography, dents during the biology and geog- rumors on social media speculating and biology exams. raphy tests. that a large number of students had The ministry failed to prevent Earlier reports had indicated that access to leaked model answers, and cheating as students were innova- several accounts appeared on social that teachers could be involved in tive and created new ways to cheat networks ahead of the exams, selling the scandal. during the exams, said educational devices that could help students Minister Mudej could neither con- sources with knowledge of the case. cheat, such as digital watches and firm nor deny the rumors, saying “The students are organizing tiny earpieces that are hard to that the ministry is waiting for the themselves in groups, and contact- detect. The passing rate is expected results of an investigation. ing tutors during the exams who to increase in high schools because “Everything is going well,” Mudej sent them the answers to their smart of the high rate of cheating, the told reporters during a tour of two phones,” explained the sources who sources said. So far, the ministry local high schools Sunday. “We felt spoke to Al-Jarida on the condition announced that the passing rate in KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received, at Bayan Palace yesterday, that students were serious and stud- of anonymity. physics was 80%, while five student Minister of Communications, Minister of State for Municipal Affairs and Chairman of the Supreme Council of Civil ied hard. We did not observe any Consequently, 12th grade stu- were kicked out of the exam for Aviation (SCCA) Essa Ahmad Al-Kandari and SCCA board members on the occasion of the formation of the new problems which could affect this dents of the scientific department cheating, which the sources say board. In a separate meeting, the Amir received at Bayan Palace, Minister of Communications, who chairs the phase of their lives. We wish success shared pictures during the math could prove the theory that cheating Board of Directors of Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA), Essa Ahmad Al-Kandari and KPA board members on the occa- to all students.” exam for a paper said to contain the using technology has happened. sion of the formation of the new board.

TEC sponsors Kuwait Diving Team efforts

KUWAIT: Out of keenness on fulfilling its communal duties through taking part in all activities oriented to pro- tecting Kuwait’s environ- ment from pollution, the Touristic Enterprises Co. (TEC) recently took part in sponsoring Kuwait Diving Team projects designated to protect and rehabilitate Kuwait’s marine environ- ment and stop pollution cre- ated by sea users through Sager Al-Bader both raising public awareness and removing wastes polluting marine life. On this occasion, TEC’s acting PR and marketing manag- er, Sager Al-Bader stressed the significance of TEC’s partici- pation in such activities noting that TEC always provided moral and financial support needed for all project that serve Kuwait’s public interest. He added that TEC also encourages voluntary work. Kuwait to lift ban on Japan products

KUWAIT: Reliable sources said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry will soon lift a ban on some Japanese prod- ucts that were banned after the Fukushima nuclear disas- ter. They said the ban will be lifted after making sure about the safety of products entering the country. They said that concerned authorities have banned cer- tain products from countries with dangerous viruses that threaten public health, and products that have suspicions about their quality and validity. The sources said there are strict restrictions on imports, as some business owners who aim at quick profits bypass the law and bring in harmful products, but they are impounded before they reach consumers. Meanwhile the countdown to select heads of depart- ments in hospitals has begun, and it is supposed to be dur- ing July after the health ministry extended their tenure. Informed health sources told Al-Anbaa said that all health zones sent their nominations to the ministry after it asked them to do so two weeks ago. The sources said names of nominees to become heads of departments are now at the ministry and will be reviewed and decided upon soon. They said the change in heads of departments will be around 40 percent only. New labor survey starts in October KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor’s assistant undersecretary for labor statistics Mona Al-Daas said that the ministry has been preparing to conduct a labor survey for six months that would be conducted according to the latest methodologies that match ILO recommendations. She added that the three-month survey to be conducted from October would be preceded by an experimental poll from June 15-27 on a selected number of families. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a special ceremo- ny held to honor labor statistics’ employees who took part in a field survey, Daas said the survey aims at having an accurate reading of the state’s manpower, which would positively help decision makers set policies the local labor market needs. p3.e$S_Layout 1 6/16/14 9:40 PM Page 1

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KUWAIT: Camels graze in the desert off Salmi Road. — Photo by Chidi Emmanuel Prices at Mubarakiya Market remain stable Meat, fruit, vegetable sales increase 10

By Ben Garcia traders noted an average 10 per- same,” said Ashraf, owner of a food and traditional Ramadan foods, has cent increase in sales overall. stall in Mubarakiya. also maintained a stable price KUWAIT: As Ramadan draws near, “For the last three months, the Souq Al-Mubarakiya is one of band. According to Ahmad prices of basic commodities prices of products here are the the most popular destinations for Ashkanani, a date trader at remained stable though overall same, but we have already noticed local produce, meats and especially Mubarakiya, “Dates are the only sales are on the rise. A survey of an increase in number of cus- spices during the holy month of food advised by the Prophet (pbuh) prices of meat, fruits and vegeta- tomers. There is no movement of Ramadan. Food consumption usu- to be taken on an empty stomach bles at Souq Al-Mubarakiya in prices, we have enough supply we ally doubles if not triples during right after the long day of fasting. Kuwait City yesterday indicated don’t expect a shortage. So even if Ramadan during the night after So the government here monitors that prices remained stable even as Ramadan comes, prices will be the most of the country fasts from us strictly. Just before Ramadan, we dawn to dusk. often welcome municipality offi- “Supplies nowadays are also cials to check the prices. There is no increasing — an indication that price increase of dates, we have some are now busy preparing and various sources of dates including buying extra food items in anticipa- Saudi, Turkey, UAE and even Iraq,” tion of Ramadan. My sales jumped he explained. 10 percent already since last week,” Dates range in price from KD Ashraf explained. 1.5-KD 5 per kilo, depending on the Shuraaf, a meat shop owner at variety and origin and what type of Mubarakiya reaffirmed the stability preparation it passed through. of prices, noting however that “Normal dates which ripened in growing demand and a drop in normal process are KD 1.5 per kilo supply could result in price hikes even if it’s from Kuwait or Saudi closer to the holy month. “Most of Arabia. There are dates that are our meat products are from various processed and cooked with spices countries. If there is shortage of and seedless, their prices ranged supply, like sheep for example; from KD 2.5 to KD 5,” Ashkanani there we can notice the sharp said. increase. But so far, there is no In Ramadan as well, there are shortage,” Shuraf noted. days that dates are sold very cheap- Similar comments were made by ly. “So don’t be confused, some- fruit vendors. “The prices are all the times instead of selling the dates in same, with no changes so far. Some increased price, we instead offer it vegetables that are coming from on sale, meaning we can give up to Syria are no longer coming in 50 percent discount. So, wait for because of the prevailing situation that day, when we sell our dates at there. We can get from many half price. Surely during Ramadan it sources and it has never affected will happen,” he noted. the prices of fruits and vegetables Dates are sold in half price if we sell here. One of the fruits that they have more than enough sup- are very popular on the table of plies. “Usually we have many sup- Arabs is fresh figs and they are plies. So in order to dispose the available at KD 2.5 per kilo. They are supplies, we need to come up with mostly coming from Syria but we the sale, we usually conduct that get it from Saudi now,” he added. during first or second week of KUWAIT: Scenes from the Al-Mubarakiya market yesterday. Dates, one of the most popular Ramadan,” he mentioned. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kuwait-Japan relations Union fires back at PIFSS management

strong, prospering KUWAIT: The labor strike at the Public Institution for Social Security entered its second week Sunday TOKYO: Strong bilateral relations ed. The economic event the ambas- with no light at the end of the tunnel as govern- and mutual keenness on furthering sador took part in had been attend- ment officials refuse to discuss their demands No current plans to cooperation and exchange ed by the Japanese Deputy unless they end their work stoppage. The labor between Kuwait and Japan are evi- Economy, Trade, and Industry union’s lawyer was present at the PIFSS building end gas subsidization dent at times of trial, such as the Minister Midori Masushima, Sunday to reassure employees that their strike is March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami Hokkaido Governor Takahashi, legal, and that the management, Finance Minister KUWAIT: Kuwait has no plans to remove subsi- that the government delays studying the possi- disaster that rattled Japan, when mayors of several Hokkaido Anas Al-Saleh or any government official cannot dies from gasoline and cooking gas for now, in bility of lifting subsidies on petrol and cooking the Kuwaiti people and govern- regions, and over 100 figures from take legal action against them. order to avoid considerable price increases that gas, because these are closely related to the ment rushed to help in every way the business and economy sector. Attorney Nawaf Al-Mutairi commented on will directly affect consumers. A Finance needs of citizens that the state is keen to ensure they could. This sentiment was During the visit, the GCC delega- leaflets that the PIFSS management handed to the Ministry committee was formed in recent are covered by subsidization, Al-Anbaa daily expressed by Kuwaiti Ambassador tion had visited Hokkaido striking employees, warning them of penalties months to find ways to curb the state’s gener- reported yesterday quoting sources with here Abdulrahman Humoud Al- University Hospital in the capital should their work stoppage continue. Mutairi insist- ous subsidization program to reduce current knowledge of the committee’s thinking. Otaibi. The ambassador was on a city, Sapporo, and were introduced ed that the warning letter is inappropriate, and spending amid concerns over the spending Earlier reports had also suggested that the tour of Hokkaido, June 13-15, along to the latest methods and tech- accused senior PIFSS officials of corruption, being rate’s long-term effect on the national budget. committee recommended categorizing electric- with ambassadors of the Gulf nologies used in cancer treatment involved in wasta (connections), profiteering and The committee made a recommendation to ity and water consumers based on consump- remove subsidies from diesel, and the govern- tion level and limiting heavy users’ access to Coope-ration Council countries at the facility, and feasibility of theft of public funds. ment took a decision accordingly that includes subsidized energy. The category system pro- upon invitation of Governor of bringing the technology over to the Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electricity and Water Hokkaido, Harumi Takahashi. GCC states. There was also a visit to selling unsubsidized diesel at gas stations, posed stipulates that subsidization would appealed with power plant employees to avoid while allowing companies and factories to have reduce gradually the more consumption level The aim of the invitation and the Hokkaido Islamic Society to see going on strike, saying that coordination is ongoing tour is to bolster cooperation what kind of support could be access to subsidized diesel from three outlets increases. There is no set date currently for with other state departments to meet their financial that the state controls in order to avoid price when the government could put the commit- between the GCC bloc and the extended for the benefit of the demands as soon as possible. Minister Abdulaziz Al- inflation. The committee also recommended tee’s recommendation into effect. northern Japanese Prefecture. Muslim community, within the Ibrahim contacted Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi The ambassadors had also just guidelines set by the local authori- and concerned departments to finalize the neces- taken part in an economic forum ties. sary procedures to approve the allowances that the on cooperation between the two The embassy seized the oppor- employees demand, said Fouad Al-Oun, the assis- Ministry to hire more sides. During the event, the ambas- tunity of this gathering and visits tant undersecretary for operations and mainte- sador stressed Kuwait abounds and distributed a publication print- nance of power and water desalination plants. with lucrative investment opportu- ed in both English and Japanese Dozens of power plant employees held a sit-in at imams for Ramadan nities and reviewed aspects of the showcasing the main historical, the ministry’s head office to demand payment of Kuwaiti economy that are attractive urban, and economic landmarks of allowances they say the ministry had promised to KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Undersecretary for the Mosques Department. plans to bring imams and da’iyas (preachers) from The senior official also indicated that the min- to investors. Kuwait and shedding light on pay them. Oun explained meanwhile that the min- In addition to the exchange and investment opportunities in the different Islamic and Arab countries to Kuwait in istry is keen on choosing qualified preachers with istry could not simply sign a paper to pay the preparation for Ramadan. good reputations in order to attract more worship- cooperation in the oil and related country. The publication also shed allowances before Ramadan as the protestors sectors, the two nations also coop- light on the country’s respect of The ministry will sign contracts with 75 imams pers. demand, appealing with employees to have who will be distributed to different mosques “The ministry is working to provide all means of erate in the scientific, technological, Human rights, women rights, and patience and allow the process to go through the and health spheres as well, he not- democratic practices. — KUNA around Kuwait at the holy month, in addition to 25 comfort for prayer and tackle problems that could correct channels. da’iyas, said Waleed Al-Shuwaib, the Assistant affect worshippers,” he added. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 LOCAL

In my view Local Spotlight Students’ Fighting terrorism diplomacy via education

By Abdullah H. Erakat

ntil this week, Al-Quds University fresh- By Muna Al-Fuzai man Sama Dabait had never met a Jew. UCurious, she joined a three-day program that brought six students from Brandeis, an American university with a large Jewish popula- tion, to visit Al-Quds in the West Bank. [email protected] “It’s a new experience for me to listen to ideas from other views of the conflict,” she said. She admits that at first she had concerns because she an we fight terrorism through education? Yes we can. is Palestinian and the Brandeis University stu- Outdated education facilitates the rise of extremist ide- dents are Jewish. Cologies, because it acts as a base for the birth of new “Before they came my thoughts were that we terror cells. wouldn’t get along together, but when we met it Al-Qaeda, ISIL, Muslim Brotherhood, etc - different names was totally different, I learned a lot. It won’t be that have been internationally labeled as terrorist groups with easy for me to say goodbye,” she said. hundreds of young followers and believers. Terror is a popular Hosted by the student affairs department of product now. Politicians use terror to either justify their ill actions or kill more people. Media channels are being bought Al-Quds University, officials at Brandeis to sell their ideas and justifying killings. Terror is now being University were aware of the three day exchange used as a weapon rather than a phenomenon that need to be program, which was a student initiative on both addressed and stopped. sides. Brandeis suspended its long relationship How easy is it to fight terrorism through education? with Al-Quds last November after an on-campus Education in a place like Kuwait needs monitoring and updat- rally where Palestinian demonstrators wore ski ing of curricula to ensure a society free from conservative ideas. We need to call for promoting a strong education sys- masks and carried fake weapons. The demonstra- kuwait digest tion also featured posters of “martyred” tem as a way to counter extremism from its roots, especially Palestinian suicide bombers. Brandeis President young followers. We need an education that empowers the image of women as partners and associates and not tools of Fred Lawrence said the university cannot “turn a Sponsorship for terrorism male satisfaction. blind eye to intolerance” and suspended the I don’t think for a second it is impossible except it is not an partnership, saying it could be reevaluated easy mission because we have governments, organizations based on future events. By Abdullatif Al-Duaij and even individuals who make money out of terror. So the The Brandeis students who came to the West crisis of a people is an advantage for others! Bank said the tensions between the two institu- We need an education that calls for freedom of expression t has no longer become possible or acceptable for the stitution and true Kuwaiti tradition. In the meantime, the tions should not affect the trip. and beliefs and democracy and equality, while observing the government and state establishments, especially the government failed to move or seek to enforce the law needs of modern life and economic growth. This is the real Iones that originated after the so-called ‘era of Islamic and constitution. education we need in Kuwait to stop the spread of wrong Both sides had a chance to listen to awakening’, to continue going along with terrorism and And now as terrorism stands at our doors, or actually ideas among the youth. supporting religious extremism and intolerance. Ending exists within, the government is required to make up its The Kuwaiti government must double its budget for edu- each other’s narrative and gain the alliance between the conservative administrations in mind and decide to end its spoiling of and ‘generous’ and cation. We need more seats for Kuwaiti students overseas .We the region, especially Kuwait, and extremist religious tolerant sponsorship for terrorism and terrorists. I am not don’t have roundtable discussions for Kuwaiti students in insight into perspectives that they groups has become necessary to protect national securi- calling for anyone to be persecuted, or for depriving any high schools to learn what they really need or wish to have in had never heard before. ty and people’s lives and properties. party or individual of their political or general rights. I am their educational program. The lack of a reform program in Since the religious suppression (referring to the afore- calling however for order, enforcement of general princi- education is a shame for a rich country like Kuwait. mentioned awakening era) began coincidently with the ples and reverting back to the regulations of constitu- I was not surprised to see some Kuwaitis encouraging ter- “Regardless of any decisions universities parliament’s dissolution in 1976, and the coup of tional rule - not the visions of religious groups. ror groups in Iraq and Syria, because the education they grew make, we wanted to be able to take matters into Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat against the July 23 I am calling for an immediate return of the civil face of up with approves it. We should not waste time and start tak- our own hands and meet people if we want to revolution, the government in Kuwait allowed religious the state, and ending all kinds of religious ‘heresy’ that ing precautionary measures to stop the spread of terror cells. meet them,” said Brandeis student Catie Stewart, groups to have total control. the government has practiced since the 1976 parliament one of the organizers of the trip. State establishments wore the religious cloak, and the dissolution. This is inevitable, and there is no longer a jus- The students visited Ramallah, Jerusalem and general policies of the state on the economic, social and tification in light of the current tensions to continue kuwait digest Jericho together. They also held a session at Al political scenes were subjected to the desires and adven- appeasement of those who seek to undermine the gen- Quds University, talking about peace, stereo- tures of religious extremists who have since acted as the eral system and eliminate the civil orientation of the types, fears and the future. actual rulers of the country without consideration of the state. The battle between civil forces and religious trends Palestinians on state’s system, the tolerant nature of its people, or even is not looming, but already in motion. All the govern- “If that kind of relationship existed, we value its laws and constitution. ment has to do is to choose, today and not tomorrow, it. And that’s why we decided to do this,” said They kept releasing ‘decisions’ and drawing policies which side to take. hunger strike Brandeis student Eli Philips, who organized the that have the same power as laws but contradict the con- — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas trip with Stewart. The trip was funded from a By Linda Gradstein grant obtained from the US-based Davis Project For Peace. ome 270 Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike, The aim of the program is to have more dia- including 75 men who have been admitted to Israeli hos- logue between Palestinians and American Jews. Spitals after 48 days of a hunger strike protesting Israel’s Philips said there was some opposition to the In my view kuwait digest policy of administrative detention. Palestinian officials are ask- trip from American Jews. ing for international intervention against Israel over the policy, “There are always people who say “don’t UN medal for which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians without charges or come”, he said. “What was most inspiring for me International trial for six months a time. was the amount of support that we received. Al- Sheikh Nasser “We call on you to call on Israel to annul the policy of Quds University has been extremely supportive, administrative detention and to condition deepening your peace, security bilateral ties with Israel pending Israel’s fulfilment of all its obli- so welcoming.” By Abdullah Buwair gations,” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat wrote in a letter sent to Like Palestinian Sama, American Jewish stu- members of the European Union and the United Nations. dent Elizabeth Villano was also nervous about embers of Kuwait’s delegation in the United Israeli Prison Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizmann said meeting Palestinians for the first time. By Labeed Abdal Nations handed over a historical UN document to that the 75 Palestinian administrative detainees are spread out “The first Palestinian I ever met was on the MHis Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- among 12 hospitals. All are drinking water and taking vitamin first day of this program. I wasn’t sure we could Sabah, which is the official accreditation as Kuwait’s first and salt supplements. She said that none of them is in immi- find any common ground and not really sure permanent envoy to the UN in Geneva. nent danger of dying but their condition is serious. how it would play out,” she said. “Now after three The event was a documentation for a relationship “I’m not a doctor, but I can say that if someone fasts for a days, I feel like I have made a lot of really good between the State of Kuwait and the United Nations, and month and a half, they are not in the same health situation friends. We do have a lot of tense moments, but I half a century of successful journey that was started by they were in before,” she said. [email protected] Sheikh Nasser. Since then Kuwait has been able to strongly It is the longest mass hunger strike in recent history. think it’s a constructive dialogue,” Villano said, Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups say the men are chained to adding that her father and brother tried to talk represent its interests in front of the United Nations and its different organizations. the bed, and have to ask guards permission to use the bath- her out of being involved in what she describes he Los Angeles Times wrote recently an extensive room. They have not been allowed family visits, and say that as a ‘life changing event.’ Sheikh Nasser left clear impressions in anchoring the report covering the direct talks between officials relationship between the State of Kuwait and UN organiza- some of them are in a life-threatening situation. Both sides had a chance to listen to each oth- Tfrom the United States of America and Iran, tions in Geneva, stemming from his studies of economics “Some of them are suffering from serious symptoms includ- ing low blood pressure and they have lost a lot of weight,” er’s narrative and gain insight into perspectives regarding the latter’s nuclear program. US Deputy and political sciences at Switzerland’s finest universities in Sahar Francis, a lawyer and the director of Addameer, an NGO that they had never heard before. Palestinians Secretary of State William Burns met his Iranian coun- 1964, and his fluency in French, English, Persian in addition that supports the rights of Palestinian prisoners said. “Some of and American Jews who participated both said it terpart Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and to Arabic. His career reflected positively on the ambassa- them are losing consciousness, and two prisoners were in is important to experience the reality first hand. their negotiating teams to discuss ways to revive the dors that followed him in continuing the path of serving stalled nuclear negotiations. intensive care.” “I feel as Palestinians we really need to express the causes of Kuwait, the Arab and Islamic world sand all The Palestinian street is also mobilizing in support of the There is no doubt in my mind that these talks will ourselves more often to outsiders or foreigners,” humanitarian causes around the world. administrative detainees. The owners of the Zman cafe, a said Nour Hamayel. lead to the expected and desired results, as I do not find It is not strange that Sheikh Nasser received many trendy restaurant in Ramallah, closed the restaurant down ear- “I think it’s a really good thing that two aca- myself sharing the skepticisms, apprehensions and mis- medals in appreciation for his achievements. The latest of lier this week as part of a Palestinian commercial strike in soli- demic institutions, an American Jewish one, and givings that many people have on this issue. which he received from the University of Bologna, which darity with the prisoners. a Palestinian one could have a partnership Opening direct negotiation channels between Iran awarded him with its highest level academic medal for his “We are usually open 24/7 and we largely do not agree with together,” Brandeis student Mitch Mankin said. “I and the P5+1 group of world powers under the efforts in encouraging cultural dialogue amongst nations. closing down businesses to protest because we feel it is detri- Sheikh Nasser joins an elite group of political and reli- think it’s good to see what life looks on the United Nation’s umbrella, or between Iran and each of mental to Palestinian economic activity,” co-owner Huda Jack these countries individually, is a great opportunity to gious leaders as well as ideologists and scientists who said. “However, in the last 30 days, we have gladly closed down ground for both peoples.” received the Magnum Sigillum medal, such as the Pope Palestinian Rand Shaar, a political science discuss different opinions and come up with interna- twice.” The first time, she says, was on May 20 to protest Israel’s John Paul II, the late Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Sutab killing of two Palestinian teenagers who were killed on “Nakba major, heard about this exchange from one of tionally acceptable controls regarding the use of nuclear reactors. Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean- day”, the day Palestinians celebrate the catastrophe of the cre- her professors and got involved because she was Claude Juncker, Italy’s former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, The US, United Kingdom, Russia, China and France - ation of Israel. The Israeli army is still investigating the incident, interested in ‘breaking down the barriers’ and former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl. the permanent members of the UN Security Council, but human rights groups have said the two were not involved between the sides and hearing ‘the other point Founded in 1088, the University of Bologna, is widely plus Germany, which is a key trade partner of Iran, in anti-Israel demonstrations at the time. The second time she of view.’ “We can find a common ground where recognized as the oldest university in continuous opera- closed was in solidarity with the Palestinian administrative together play a key role in maintaining international you can discuss and talk,” the third year student tion, considering that it was the first to use the term univer- detainees. peace and security through the negotiations. said adding that she encourages everyone to sitas for the corporations of students and masters which Based on a 1945 British law, administrative detention allows I hope that they continue playing the same role on came to define the institution. The university’s Rector Ivano Israel to jail Palestinian prisoners for six months at a time with- ‘keep an open mind.’ the international scene, and avoid superpower strug- “It seems they would like to establish an Dionigi said that His Highness Sheikh Nasser deserved to out presenting any charges or evidence. In some cases, the gles that happen directly or indirectly and political be honored with the medal for his efforts in diplomacy and move is used to protect Israeli intelligence assets, or methods alliance between the students of Al-Quds quarrels with regrettable consequences. services to his country. of surveillance. Of the 5,300 Palestinian prisoners currently in University and students of Brandeis University,” Israeli jails, some 190 are in administrative detention. “I think Al-Quds University President Imad Abukishek administrative detention is legitimate only in the case of a “tick- said. ing bomb” when somebody is about to plant a bomb and you He says the Brandeis students considered the kuwait digest can’t divulge the way you got that information,” lawyer move by the university administration to sus- Jonathan Livny, who served as a military court judge for more pend the ties with the Palestinian university to Bad decisions at wrong time than 20 years said. “All other cases should be based on actual be ‘biased’ and ‘unacceptable’ and says this meet- evidence presented in court.” ing came about because they wanted to see Al- Palestinians in the West Bank, which is under Israeli control, Quds University for themselves. By Jaber Al-Hajri are subject to Israeli military law and military courts. Sahar Francis of Addameer says Israel uses administrative detention Brandeis University student organizer Stewart he Kuwaiti people are showing dissatisfaction People are not against taking measures to stop waste as a political tool and frequently renews the six-month deten- agreed. “When we have a relationship like this, about unconfirmed news of thefts, in addition to in public services, but to raise the prices in such a tion orders repeatedly. Six members of the Palestinian it’s much easier to hold each other accountable Tmultibillion gifts presented to other states and gov- provocative way while the government fails to take any Legislative Council are currently in jail under administrative to be in conversation. If we don’t have a relation- ernments. The rumors are yet to be confirmed, but where action to improve the services is an unwise step. detention orders. ship, there’s no ability to do that. So it’s impor- there is smoke, there is fire. What is the fault of a citizen who has power discon- Israeli legal experts say that Israeli Jews and Arab citizens of tant that we understand the culture, and the There were a lot of news about huge thefts, bloated nected from his house, because he could not pay his bills Israel can also be arrested under administrative detention people. Without that, there’s no way to bridge bank accounts and names of banks involved. The num- due to the complicated mechanisms applied at the orders but it is done infrequently. In both cases, the detention that gap,” said Stewart. bers mentioned could be inaccurate, but they caused Ministry of Electricity and Water? is subject to judicial review every six months, but in Israel that review is done by a civilian court, while in the West Bank it is Abukishek said he considers Brandeis to be a anger and confusion among Kuwaitis. The situation is difficult to contain, and our country carried out by a military court. model for Al-Quds because of its ‘prestigious’ And while people are becoming increasingly doubtful has become implicated with problems caused by some “Administrative detention is not necessarily anti-democrat- reputation and ‘long history of teaching.’ He said of the integrity of some officials, the government is mak- officials and their failed decisions, as well as their failure ic,” Barak Medina, an expert on human rights at the faculty of he regrets the suspension of their close ties. ing careless decisions which are not related to politics at to address corruption which led to the demise of other law at Hebrew University said. “But it should be the rare excep- all. It plans to raise the prices of services and to remove countries in recent years. tion and narrowly tailored rather than for mass use. I don’t — The Media Line the subsidies from some consumer products; a very believe that hundreds of Palestinians who are arrested are con- unfortunate step that comes at a very bad time. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas templating terror activity.” — The Media Line TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 LOCAL Kuwait reiterates support for Iraq security, stability Weekly Cabinet meeting KUWAIT: The Cabinet has reaffirmed its internal affairs, and condemning all ter- Meanwhile, the Cabinet approved sever- Ghanem short of its planned visit to Syrian Kuwait’s support for Iraq’s security, stability rorist acts in Iraq. al draft laws on agreements and memos of refugee camps in the Beqaa region in the New chapter in and territorial integrity, while voicing confi- In their concluding statement, the Arab understanding between Kuwait and other east of the country. dence in the Iraqi people’s ability to over- foreign ministers also urged all political countries. The Kuwaiti delegation intends to Kuwait-Hungary come this distress soon. The position was parties and forces to get engaged in seri- The Cabinet also asked the minister of assess, first-hand, the situation in the made during a weekly Cabinet meeting ous and comprehensive dialogue in order state for cabinet affairs to supervise the refugee camps and is visiting upon invita- relations held at Seif Palace yesterday under chair- to face perilous threats to their country, he Communication and Information tion extended to the speaker, current manship of His Highness the Prime Minister said. Technology Authority in line with Law No. speaker of the Arab parliament, by a UN VIENNA: “The recent official visit by the Kuwaiti First Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The Cabinet was also apprised of the 37/2014. The ministers finally discussed refugee affairs official in Lebanon. Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- During the meeting, First Deputy Prime outcomes of a recent meeting of Arab and several reports on the current political The latest statistics indicate the number Khalid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was an all-round success, Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah EU foreign ministers in Athens. developments on both Arab and interna- of Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceeded a partly a reflection of the strong diplomatic relations the Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah briefed the The Cabinet ministers then reviewed a tional arenas. million people, mostly given shelter in the country has with Hungary, dating back a half-century,” ministers on the findings of a recent Arab recent letter sent to His Highness the Amir Beqaa, Akkar, Tripoli, and Manyeh areas. said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Tibor ministerial meeting on Iraq, Minister of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Syrian refugees A host of Kuwaiti charities and volunteer Navracsics, yesterday. State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Justice from outgoing Lebanese President Michel Kuwait is in the lead of countries lend- groups organize ongoing relief campaigns The minister expressed hope the visit would help Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Sleiman, thanking Kuwait for supporting ing a hand to alleviate the suffering of to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, expand cooperation particularly in the fields of invest- Mubarak Al-Sabah said in news remarks fol- his country’s security and stability. Syrian refugees, stressed UN High and Jordan. These include Zakat House, the ment, agriculture, and water resource management. lowing the meeting. They then listened to a briefing by Commissioner for Refugees representative Red Crescent Society, Al-Rahma “Kuwait is our first partner in the Gulf ... and this is an Sheikh Sabah Khaled quoted the final Sheikh Sabah Khaled on the outcomes of in Lebanon, Ninette Kelly, yesterday. International, International Islamic opportunity to begin a new chapter in our relations.” communiquÈ of the meeting as stressing his recent visit to Greece and Hungary to The official made the remark during her Charitable Organization, Social Reform Describing his talks with Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid as Iraq’s sovereignty, security, stability and mark the 50th anniversary of forging diplo- meeting with a Kuwaiti parliament delega- Society, Society for the Revival of Islamic productive, the minister added the two nations are to national unity and rejecting interference in matic relations with both friendly countries. tion headed by Speaker Marzouq Al- Heritage, and many others. — KUNA see their cooperation enhanced even more with the recent signing of several agreements. The new agree- ments are in the fields of agriculture, services, water resource management and are hoped to serve as work- ing framework for regular and strong bilateral exchange. Minister Navracsics said he had received an invitation from his guest to visit Kuwait, and noted he would be pleased to honor it. The timing of the visit would be decided in coordination with the two sides, he said. The minister also praised the Kuwaiti Ambassador Dr. Hamad Burhama for his efforts to help boost coopera- tion and exchange. Reflecting on bilateral relations initiated in 1964, the minister said that “Kuwait is Hungary’s first ally in the Gulf and closest friendly nation in the region.” The minister recalled “numerous and immense chal- lenges the two nations had to overcome in the past 50 years.” He recalled his country’s switch to democracy and joining NATO and the EU, along with Kuwait’s increas- ingly prominent role in Middle East and international affairs in the 20th and the 21st century. Turning to the future, he said the two countries need to “rise to the challenge inherent in an atmosphere of BEIRUT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem pictured during his tour to Syrian refugee camps in the Eastern Lebanese city of Beqaa. globalization and to seize opportunities wherever possi- ble.” The official then remarked that the Hungarian gov- ernment intends to maintain its open policies of 2010, Kuwait committed to help Lebanon and is therefore keen on bolstering relations with Kuwait on all levels, along with other countries. “We have worked together for a more peaceful and prosper- deal with influx of Syrian refugees ous future for our peoples, and our two nations’ shared BEIRUT: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Lebanon and tour to the Syrian refugee values lend added momentum along this course, which and Head of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary camps. He spoke highly about Kuwait’s lead- means our bilateral relations would see further boom in Union Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday reiterat- ing role in addressing the humanitarian crisis the next 50 years,” the minister concluded. —KUNA ed Kuwait’s commitment to help Lebanon caused by the Syrian conflict. deal with economic and social burden caused Darbas hoped the visit would be a start of by the non-stop influx of Syrian refugees into new Arab and international initiatives to aid its territories. Lebanon. Ninette Kelley, UNHCR “Kuwaitis and Arabs would not let Lebanon Representative in Lebanon, expressed grati- tackle this problem alone,” Al-Ghanem told tude for Kuwait’s generous humanitarian aid reporters during a tour to Syrian refugee to Syrian refugees. camps in the Eastern Lebanese city of Beqaa. She stated that Lebanon’s host of 1.1 mil- “It is a humanitarian, religious and national lion Syrian refugees is imposing huge chal- obligation to offer a helping hand to our lenges to the potential of this small country. brothers and sisters in Syria and Lebanon.” He Kelley acclaimed Al-Ghanim’s visit to the pointed out that his visit is meant to get refugee camps. acquainted with the situation of the refugees, Al-Ghanem, heading a parliamentary dele- the services provided to them as well as their gation, and Chairman of Kuwait-based needs. International Islamic Charity Organization “This would end up with a number of prac- (IICO), Amiri Diwan Advisor and The visit comes upon invitations from the catering for Syrian refugees to discuss their tical measures to help alleviate the suffering Representative of the UN Secretary General MENA regional office of the United Nations needs. of Syrian refugees and ease the burden on for Humanitarian Affairs Abdullah Al-Maatouq High Commissioner for Refugees and He will also hold talks with Lebanese coun- Lebanese government and people,” he said. started Sunday a three-day visit to Lebanon to Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. terpart Berri on a wide array of issues includ- For his part, Lebanese Social Affairs Minister get first-hand view and information about During the visit, Al-Ghanem will meet repre- ing bilateral relations and developments in Rashid Darbas welcomed Al-Ghanem’s visit to Syrian refugee camps and their needs. sentatives of humanitarian organizations Lebanon and the region. —KUNA

Some of the birdsseen in Kuwait. Birds brave scorching summer heat KUWAIT: Chirping birds break Kuwait’s dawns and new days’ serenity and take advantage of the moderately hot wee hours, flapping their wings in the skies above urban and rural areas in search for nutritional giving by the nature or the residents. The birds, mainly “Al-Zarazeer” (plural for Zarzour) sur- vive on trees’ fruits, namely unripe dates-nowadays quite visible dangling from the high palm trees lining the streets or decorating the parks-scraps of food namely bread left behind by people at tree-shaded public places, parks or around restaurants and beverages’ kiosks. They drink and freshen up at pools of water among shrubs or on shaded alleys’ sides and corners. No limits for their habitat; they own the skies and the terrain and brave the scorching summer heat by easily finding shelter in cracks of buildings facades, in the heart of trees and among the green leafy plants. —KUNA LOCAL TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

KUWAIT: Two Asian women sustained burns when a huge fire broke out in an illegal 40 sq m warehouse used to store used tyres and furniture in Jleeb. The warehouse was in the basement of an 8-storey building, and firemen split into three teams - one to fight the fire, one to rescue the trapped tenants including two injured people on the seventh floor andthe third to clear an escape route and ventilate the building. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun Kuwait to observe ‘World Day to Combat Desertification’ Woman raped, left KUWAIT: Kuwait is to observe the ‘World Kuwait. Day to Combat Desertification’, today. Al-Kulaib pointed out that the project This year’s theme is “Land Belongs to the was established in 2006 where hundreds Future, Let’s Climate Proof It” that high- of trees were planted in desert areas. In naked on street lights the benefits of mainstreaming sus- 2010, the Kuwait Oasis team launched tainable land management policies and “Kuwait Green Wall Project”; its biggest practices into collective response to cli- environmental initiation where addition- mate change. al thousands of trees were planted The theme of this year was chosen to through the help of almost 200 employ- ‘Wasta’ frees two fugitives increase awareness about the potential ees and students. of ecosystem-based adaptation as a As for marking WDCD today, Al-Kulaib KUWAIT: Police are looking to arrest a man man who said he was brutally assaulted by an strategy for coping with the impacts of explained that phase two of Kuwait accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend and armed suspect who left him critically wounded on climate change, especially in the dry- Green Wall Project will put into action by leaving her naked in a street in Jahra. According to the Sixth Ring Road. The Egyptian man told police lands. transferring water tanks to the degraded the police report, a lawyer who was driving in the that he was sitting in his car on the side of the Ecosystem-based adaptation means areas. He added that 400 students from area saw the woman, covered her with his court road to monitor workers nearby, when a pickup the strengthening of natural systems to four different schools as well as 200 robe and called police. The man helped the truck approached his vehicle. A man came out of cushion the worst impacts of climate employees from the Petrochemical woman to the police station where she told offi- the truck with a gun in hand and used it to beat change. When ecosystems are healthy, Industries Company (PIC) will get cers that her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her while she him after dragging him out of his car, according to they are less vulnerable to the impacts involved in the process. was on her way to visit her sister. She added that his statement. He added that the gun discharged and hazards of climate change. In 1994, the United Nations General the bedoon man raped her, took photos of her, left while the suspect was beating him with it, but the On this occasion, Head of Kuwait Assembly declared June 17 the World her in public and fled. Investigations are ongoing. bullet missed him. The man gave police a medical Oasis Team of the Environmental Day to Combat Desertification and report showing injuries in the head and chest Voluntary Foundation Khaled Al-Kulaib Drought to promote public awareness of Teen molester areas. A search is ongoing for the suspect based said that degraded areas occupies 10% of the issue, and the implementation of the Police arrested a teenager while a search is on on descriptions that the victim provided. the country’s land; hence, comes the United Nations Convention to Combat for accomplices who helped him assault a 14-year- importance of Kuwait Oasis project’s mis- Desertification (UNCCD) in those coun- old boy physically and sexually. The victim’s father Liquor factory sion that strives to increase the green tries experiencing serious drought filed a case at the Qairawan police station, saying Police discovered an illegal alcohol ‘factory’ in foot print in the Kuwaiti deserts in inten- and/or desertification, particularly in that the incident happened Saturday night. Jaber Al-Ahmad during a raid. Patrol officers sus- tion to bring back life to the deserts of Africa. — KUNA According to his statements, the suspects took his pected an Asian man who was behaving abnor- son to a park in the area after beating him up, mally near a workers’ residence in the area. They molested him and escaped. Police managed to noticed while placing him under arrest that a arrest the prime suspect, a 19-year-old American nearby room had its door open, with a foul odor Zain honored for of Arab descent, while investigations are ongoing emanating from inside. They entered the place to arrest the others. and discovered 27 barrels filled with homebrewed liquor, in addition to tools used in manufacturing sponsoring Fugitives released alcoholic drinks. The man was taken to the author- Two men reported missing by their employers ities to face charges. were released two hours after their arrest following KUWAIT: Narcotics detectives recently arrest- Arab Media Forum a senior Interior Ministry official’s intervention, a Policemen offended ed a citizen with possession of one kilo of ice, local daily reported yesterday. Sources quoted in the Two police officers accused a lawyer of assault- half a kilo of hashish, 1,000 psychotropic pills KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunica- Information Sheikh Salman Al-Homoud Al- report said that the two were among three Indian ing them verbally at a checkpoint on Fahaheel and live ammunition. Detectives had been tions company in Kuwait, was honored by Sabah as well as Arab Information Ministers men who were arrested during a recent crackdown. Expressway. The man reportedly tried to explain to tipped off concerning the suspect’s activity. the Arab Media Forum for its successful par- and a large number of senior local and for- Two hours later, the police station’s director received officers that his license was confiscated, then start- Following investigations and getting a ticipation and Diamond sponsorship of the eign media executives and journalists, aca- a call from a senior ministry official who asked for ed mocking them after he failed to talk them out search warrant, the suspect’s house was raid- 11th edition of the forum. The Arab Media demics interested in media issues, and the two men to be released, which is what hap- of issuing him a traffic ticket. He was arrested and ed where the police found the drugs and the Forum was held in Kuwait on April under major public figures and businessmen. pened, the sources said. The report does not name taken to the police station where he was charged ammo. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun the patronage of His Highness the Prime The company stated that its sponsorship the official in question, and only mentions that the for offending police officers on duty. expatriate men were suspiciously gathered Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad of this year’s Arab Media Forum affirmed its police station where the two men were held is locat- around a TV set. He called back up after discover- Al-Sabah with the presence of Prince Bader commitment to the advancement of local ed in the Capital governorate. Cafe closed ing that the men were watching porn, and police Bin Abdulmohsen. and regional press and media. The company A Salmiya cafe was closed after pornography soon arrived and placed the supervisor under Zain explained that it was recognized participated in discussions during the Brutal assault was shown on TV there. A detective off duty arrest. The cafe was closed, and police are working during the honoring ceremony held in the forum to explore how to improve the over- Investigations are ongoing in a case involving a noticed after entering the cafe that a number of on summoning its owner for questioning. Regency Hotel to honor sponsors, partici- all Arab media involvement, in addition to pants, and volunteers for their efforts in exploring the possible development of making the latest edition of the forum a Arab media journalists’ skills. success. This year’s edition witnessed the Zain underlined that it will continue sup- attendance of His Highness the Prime porting this very important sector which Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad carries significant and informative messag- Al-Sabah and Prince Bader Bin ing to the public at large and the communi- Abdulmohsen and the Minister of cations world as a whole.

KUWAIT: Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al- Sabah, Talal Behbehani and other dignitaries at the opening Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait new branch in Al-Shaab residential area. — Photos by Joseph Shagra ABK opens a new branch in Al Shaab KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait is proud to opening was attended by the Deputy here.” Behbehani added, “We are grateful to announce the inauguration of its new branch Chairman Talal Behbehani, along with the Retd. General Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al Ahmed in Al-Shaab residential area in the Hawalli Executive Management of the Bank and VIP Al Sabah for taking precious time off his busy Governorate. ABK’s expansion plan is part of customers and guests. At the occasion Talal schedule to do us the honors.” its strategic initiative of reinforcing its domes- Behbehani commented “ABK would like its He concluded, “Our new branch is fully tic presence, and being easily accessible to its presence at locations convenient to the cus- equipped to deliver quality customer care. valued customers. tomer, and strives to give its loyal customers Extending our branches network to 29 is just Yesterday, Al-Shaab branch was inaugurat- premium quality financial and banking servic- another way to ensure the highest standard of ed by Retd. General Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al- es. Also, opening another branch in the Hawalli quality and care is maintained, which is of Ahmed Al- Sabah, the Governor of Hawalli. The Governorate strengthens the Bank’s presence prime importance to ABK.” AAW donates KD 100,000 to help treat lymphoma cancer patients

KUWAIT: Ali Abdulwahab Al-Mutawa Commercial to cancer and the organization project the percent- (AAW) is one of the largest trading and commercial such as Procter and Gamble, Clorox, Roche, Takeda, AAW’s continuously growing business lines Co. (AAW), one of Kuwait’s leading medical distribu- age will grow to 17.2% by the year 2030. companies in Kuwait, operating in seven diverse Biotronik, Nuxe, Bioderma, Nolte Group, La Cornue, include Consumer Goods, Furniture, Kitchens, Home tion companies and the main distributor of Roche AAW was awarded last month for this generous business sectors and distributes in Kuwait’s surging Bosch, Siemens, The North Face, Coleman, Nike, The Appliances, Outdoor Gear and Equipment, Sports Pharmaceuticals in Kuwait, yesterday announced a contribution in a ceremony under the patronage of wholesale, retail and consumer market over 100 dif- Athlete’s Foot, Crocs, Puma, Shoebox New York, and Fashion, Real Estate, and Pharmaceuticals donation of over KD 100,000 of the cancer-fighting HE the Minister of Health, Dr Ali Al-Obaidi and in the ferent global brands, including world-class brands among many others. where it is a leading wholesale and retail distributor medicine “MabThera” to the International Islamic attendance of Mohammad Al-Otaibi and Sheikh of pharmaceutical and medical products. It also Charity Organization (IICO). Fahad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. holds a renowned portfolio of principals like Pfizer The Kuwait-based charity IICO will be distribut- As part of AAW’s ongoing effort to help cancer and Novo Nordisk distributed through its subsidiary ing the medicine to 100 non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients in Kuwait, the company through its Safwan Trading and Contracting (Safwan). Safwan is (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) Chairman and Managing Director, Faisal Ali listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. cancer patients in Kuwait who cannot afford the Abdulwahab Al-Mutawa, made a long-standing The International Islamic Charity Foundation medicine. AAW Chairman and Managing Director, donation to Hayatt Breast Cancer Foundation by (IICO) is an independent non-political organization Faisal Al-Mutawa said: “There is a consensus among providing the non-profit organization with offices in that is established, managed and operated in experts that Kuwait is facing specific health chal- Shuwaikh. Kuwait, and offers a wide range of pure humanitari- lenges and steep rise in cancer patients. At AAW, we an services. IICO was founded to meet the increas- believe that we have a moral and social responsibili- World-class brands ing urgent needs in poor societies especially Muslim ty to help patients who cannot afford treatment and AAW also has an on-going commitment in cor- countries and communities where poverty, illitera- often work with local non-profit organizations to porate social responsibility in more than half a cy, unemployment, diseases, famine and other diffi- ensure the efficient delivery of our donated medi- dozen fields. In the last 10 years, AAW has con- cult situations are persisting. cines, and to make sure they reach the right people.” tributed yearly to NGOs similar to International IICO is working worldwide, and provides services According to the World Cancer Factsheet by The Islamic Charity Organization which also include for people all over the world regardless of their race World Health Organization, non-Hodgkin lym- Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN), the Human Rights or nationality. IICO provides help for the needy in phoma is the most prevalent cancer for males in Watch, and the Women’s Social and Cultural Society social economical, educational, medical, and cultur- Kuwait andone of the top five cancer deaths among for causes like human rights, helping children with al fields as well as urgent relief aids in case of war, both men and women in Kuwait. The World Health terminal illnesses, and aid to Syrian families. natural disasters, epidemics, famines and similar cir- Organization attributed 12.7% of deaths in Kuwait Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa Commercial Co. cumstances. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

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MPEKETONI: A man observes the remains of destroyed vehicles and buildings in the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya yesterday. Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked the small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, nda spraying bullets into the street killing dozens, officials said yesterday. — AP Islamist gunmen kill 49 in Kenya attack Security forces combing area for attackers

MOMBASA: At least 49 people were killed when sus- David Kimaiyo told AFP, adding “we suspect the involve- pected Shebab militants from Somalia stormed into a ment of Al-Shebab in this attack.” “It is an atrocity we would Kenyan coastal town and launched a major assault on a not want to see repeated anywhere else,” he said. police station, hotels and government offices, officials said yesterday. Around 50 heavily-armed gunmen drove into the town ‘Bodies on the road’ of Mpeketoni, near the coastal island and popular tourist Kenyan troops crossed into southern Somalia in 2011 to resort of Lamu, late on Sunday, officials said. Witnesses fight the Shebab, later joining the now 22,000-strong added they first attacked a police station, before starting to African Union force battling the Al-Qaeda-linked militants. randomly shoot at civilians, some of whom had been The Shebab vowed revenge, carrying out a string of watching the World Cup in local bars and hotels. attacks on Kenyan soil, including last September’s assault District deputy commissioner Benson Maisori said sev- on Nairobi’s Westgate mall in which at least 67 people were eral buildings in the town-which is around 100 kilometres killed. (60 miles) from the border with Somalia-were burned The town of Mpeketoni, a trading centre on the main down including hotels, restaurants, banks and government coastal road, lies on the mainland some 30 kilometres (20 offices. miles) southwest of Lamu island, a popular tourist destina- “There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three tion whose ancient architecture is listed as a UNESCO vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag. They were World Heritage site. shouting in Somali and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (‘God is Kenyan army spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir Greatest’),” he said, adding they attacked a police station described how the gunmen had stormed the town, over- but officers fought them off. whelming local police officers, and firing from vehicles Resident Anne Gathigi, 38, a mother of five, said the “shooting people around in town.” attackers killed her husband. “They forced their way into Chirchir also said the attackers were “likely to be Al- our house, found us in the bedroom. They picked up my Shebab,” although there was no immediate claim of husband and took him to the sitting room where they responsiblity from the Islamists themselves. demanded money from him, as soon as he gave them Military surveillance planes were launched shortly after some cash, they shot him at close range,” she told AFP. the attack began. Attackers tried to storm a police post “Then they turned to me and asked me if I knew Al- including an armoury, but Maisori said officers had defend- Shebab. They told me since ‘our government has refused to ed the building and fought the gunmen off. pull our soldiers from Somalia, they had come to leave us Residents in villages surrounding the town also report- ‘widows and orphans’.” ed that the gunmen attacked settlements as they pulled Local resident and witness John Waweru, 28, said he lost out after fighting in Mpeketoni. “There are six bodies here, two of his brothers to the attackers. “I heard them shouting a man and a child in their house, four lying on the road,” in Somali as they fired around. I lost two of my brothers, said Mohammed Hassan, a local resident of Kibaoni, a and I escaped. I ran and locked up myself in a house,” he small settlement some five kilometres (three miles) outside told AFP. the town. The fierce gun battles continued until after midnight, Last month one of the Shebab’s most senior command- but by dawn yesterday the town of Mpeketoni was report- ers, Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, released radio broadcasts urg- ed calm with security forces saying they were in pursuit of ing fighters to strike Kenya. the attackers and authorities recovering the dead. Hundreds of British tourists were also evacuated last Police spokeswoman Zipporah Mboroki confirmed that month from beach resorts near Kenya’s port city of 49 people had died, including at least one police officer. Mombasa following warnings of terror attacks from “Our officers are still combing the area,” Kenyan police chief Britain’s Foreign Office. — AFP Pakistan jets strike kills 27 militants MIRANSHAH: Pakistani fighter jets pounded North early on Monday. “In these precise strikes 27 terrorists were Waziristan yesterday, a day after the army announced the killed. There is no (civilian) population in the area,” it said in a start of a full-scale military operation to flush Islamist insur- statement. “(The) operation in North Waziristan Agency is gents out of the volatile region bordering Afghanistan. progressing as per plan. ... North Waziristan Agency has In a long-awaited military operation precipitated by a been isolated by deploying troops along its border with deadly insurgent attack on Pakistan’s biggest airport a week neighbouring agencies and FATA (Federally Administrative ago, Pakistan has deployed troops, artillery and helicopter Tribal Areas) regions to block any move of terrorists in and gunships to fight insurgents in North Waziristan. The out of the Agency.” It said troops had cordoned off all mili- Taleban and their ethnic Uzbek allies holed up in North tant bases, including the town of Mirali where many ethnic Waziristan have both claimed responsibility for the June 8 Uzbek and other foreign fighters are based, and the regional commando-style attack on Karachi airport, which was seen capital of Miranshah. as a strategic turning point in how Pakistan tackles the insur- The Taleban appear determined to fight back. In the first gency. The army said combat aircraft destroyed six hideouts attack since the start of the operation, at least five Pakistani in the Shawal sector of North Waziristan, home to some of soldiers were killed on Monday when a roadside bomb hit Pakistan’s most feared militants and al Qaeda commanders, an army convoy just north of Miranshah. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Iranian veil site gets half million ‘likes’ and state TV rebuke

LONDON: When Masih Alinejad posted a picture of cafe to show the most recent photo uploaded. “That clothes off while high on drugs. personal freedoms and women’s rights are unlikely herself online jumping in the air in a sunny, tree- was posted four minutes ago, and already has 439 The popularity of the page, and the vitriolic reac- to be high on his agenda. lined London street, the journalist hoped to cheer likes and 11 shares.” tion, have made it the focus of one of the most But Alinejad doubts Rouhani would ease the up readers weary of her stories of grim human Born two years before the Islamic Revolution prominent challenges to President Hassan Rouhani, hijab rules even if he were able to in a system where rights cases in her native Iran. that brought down the Western-backed Shah in a self-proclaimed moderate. the ultimate say lies with the supreme leader, She did not expect what followed: A Facebook 1979 and ushered in Iran’s hybrid of democracy and Like the arrest of six young people last month Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. phenomenon that gained half a million followers in religious rule, Alinejad is too young to remember who posted a video of themselves - the women And Alinejad does not trust Rouhani’s invitation a month and scathing, personal criticism by Iranian her country before women were obliged to wear unveiled - singing along to the Pharrell Williams for all Iranian expats to return to Iran, where she state television, accusing her of drug addiction, per- the veil. As then, she says, many people underesti- pop song “Happy”, “My Stealthy Freedom” has fears she would be arrested due to her reporting on version and insanity. mate the importance of the obligatory veil, saying shown the yearning of liberal-minded Iranians, human rights in Iran that is carried by British and Inspired by Alinejad’s photo, taken in a public there are far more pressing political issues. But she many of whom voted for Rouhani, for greater per- U.S.-funded broadcasters. place with her hair showing without the Islamic veil maintains that forcing a woman to cover her hair is sonal freedoms. “I love my country and I never want to stay in that is obligatory in Iran, thousands of women the state’s way of stamping its authority. “When I “#Happiness is our people’s right. We shouldn’t England even for one single day if I am allowed to inside Iran uploaded their own self-portraits to a was in Iran, my hair was like a hostage of the Iranian be too hard on behaviours caused by joy,” Rouhani be safe in my country and cover the news that I cov- page she hastily set up and called: “My Stealthy government.” wrote on Twitter after the “Happy” arrests. er from here,” she says. Freedom”.(https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFree He also appeared to agree that social rules - in a In response to the TV report of her drug taking dom) ‘Our people’s right’ country where morality police patrol the streets to and rape, Alinejad posted a video of herself, stand- “To me, it was like a virtual demonstration on my Her Facebook followers agree. Many photo- detain women they deem to be showing too much ing on the platform of the London Underground, Facebook page,” the 37-year-old told Reuters in an graphs show women standing in front of signs hair - should be eased, saying: “We can’t take people singing a song in Persian about “my homeland”, as interview, seeming genuinely astonished to find reminding women of their duty to respect the hijab, to heaven by force and with a whip.” people walk by, unfazed by her hair or her song. herself the figurehead of a campaign against Iran’s the Islamic dress code, holding their headscarves in “My real revenge was to use what the hardliners restrictions on women’s dress. their hands. The photographs are unremarkable to a Expired are most petrified of: singing a song without a veil, A political journalist who already had 200,000 Western eye, but have outraged parts of the Iranian But reformist Iranians say those words have not in London,” she said. “Can you publish this video on Facebook followers before posting her selfie, she set establishment which have hit back. been followed by policy changes. “All the nice Iranian TV? No. Would I be safe singing on the up the separate “My Stealthy Freedom” to prevent The state TV news channel IRINN, on a clip still words have expired,” Alinejad said. Tehran subway without a veil? No.” her own page becoming swamped by women available on YouTube, reported that Alinejad had With Rouhani pushing for a nuclear deal with the The state TV reported on the video - although it wanting to share their pictures. been raped by three men, in front of her son, on the West to lift crushing economic sanctions, and civil did not broadcast it - saying Alinejad had lost her “Look,” she says, opening her laptop at a London London Underground after she took her own wars raging in Iran’s regional allies Syria and Iraq, mind due to the “rape”. — Reuters Israel PM in rare phone call to Abbas over kidnap crisis

JERUSALEM: Israeli premier Benjamin dead during clashes in Jalazoun refugee camp Netanyahu told Palestinian president Mahmud near Ramallah which erupted when troops Abbas yesterday he expected his help in ensur- arrived on an arrest mission, medics told AFP. ing the return of three kidnapped teenagers, in An army spokeswoman said soldiers opened fire their first direct political contact since 2012. after “violence erupted and stones were thrown The phone conversation took place as Israel at them from rooftops and alleyways, injuring pressed a vast search operation in the West Bank three.” to find the three youths, whom Netanyahu has Although arrests have taken place across the said were kidnapped last week by militants from West Bank, troops are focusing their search on the Islamist Hamas movement. the southern city of Hebron and the surround- As the manhunt entered its fourth day, Israeli ing area, home to some 663,000 Palestinians. troops continued with a massive crackdown on Hamas, arresting scores of its operatives, among A policy of kidnapping them former ministers and MPs. Since Friday, Overnight, soldiers arrested more than more Israel has arrested more than 150 Palestinians, than 40 Palestinians “including Hamas leader- most of them Hamas members, in the biggest ship and operatives” the army said. sweep in the territories in years. As the crisis Among those picked up was parliamentary developed, Netanyahu telephoned Abbas to speaker Aziz Dweik, a Hamas member who lives spell out his demands in what was their first in Hebron. conversation of a political nature in nearly two A Palestinian security source said Dweik was years. “I expect you to help in the return of the one of six Hamas MPs arrested in Hebron. The kidnapped youths and the capture of the kid- Islamist movement holds 74 of the 132 seats in nappers,” Netanyahu told him. the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). A “The Hamas kidnappers went out from terri- Palestinian intelligence officer told AFP that the tory controlled by the Palestinian Authority and kidnapping bore the hallmarks of a Hamas oper- returned to territory controlled by the ation, noting that the Islamist movement had a Palestinian Authority,” he said. policy of keeping its captives alive in the hope of So far, there has been no formal claim of securing a prisoner swap deal. responsibility, with Hamas dismissing Israel’s “A movement like Hamas is the only BAGHDAD: Security forces patrol on Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the accusations as “stupid”. Confirming the phone Palestinian movement which has a policy of kid- highway to Syria early yesterday, compounding the woes of Iraq’s Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the call between Netanyahu and Abbas, the official napping and holding hostages alive in exchange insurgents in the country’s north. — AP WAFA Palestinian news agency said the conver- for prisoners,” said Nizam al-Jaabari, former head sation had “focused on following up on the case of intelligence for the Hebron division. of the three (teenagers) who disappeared last The crisis emerged 10 days after the estab- Sunni militants capture Thursday and the ongoing Israeli escalation.” lishment of a new Palestinian government of Abbas’s office issued a statement condemn- technocrats, the firstfruits of a reconciliation ing “the kidnapping of three Israeli youths”. But deal between rival leaders in the West Bank and it also denounced Israel’s “raids on Palestinian Gaza which has been furiously denounced by homes” and the widespread arrest of “many Israel. “It is important to understand the impli- northern Iraqi town innocents” during which a 19-year-old cations of the partnership with Hamas-it is bad Palestinian was killed. for Israel, bad for the Palestinians and it is bad The victim, Ahmad Arafat Sabarin, was shot for the region,” Netanyahu told Abbas. —AFP Security at US Embassy in Baghdad strengthened

BAGHDAD: Sunni militants captured the northern responded with Shiite chants. Fighting in Tal Afar scores of captured Iraqi soldiers. The pictures, on a Iraqi town of Tal Afar early yesterday, its mayor and began on Sunday, with Iraqi government officials say- militant website, appear to show masked ISIL fighters residents said, the latest blow to the Shiite-led gov- ing that ISIL fighters were firing rockets seized from loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forc- ernment a week after it lost a vast swath of territory in military arms depots in the Mosul area. They said the ing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their the country’s north. local garrison suffered heavy casualties and the main arms tied behind their backs. The final images show The town, with a population of some 200,000 peo- hospital was unable to cope with the wounded, with- the bodies of the captives soaked in blood after being ple, mostly ethnic Shiite and Sunni Turkomen, was tak- out providing exact numbers. shot at several locations. Iraq’s chief military en just before dawn, Mayor Abdulal Abdoul told The spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi confirmed Associated Press. Graphic photos the photos’ authenticity and said he was aware of cas- The ethnic mix of Tal Afar, 420 kilometers (260 Over the weekend, militants posted graphic pho- es of mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers in areas miles) northwest of Baghdad, raises the grim specter tos that appeared to show their gunmen massacring held by ISIL. of large-scale atrocities by Sunni militants of the Al- Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, who already claim to have killed hundreds of Egypt’s carpet king pulls Shiites in areas they captured last week. A Tal Afar resi- dent reached by phone confirmed the town’s fall and said militants in pickup trucks mounted with rug from under Brotherhood machineguns and flying black jihadi banners were CAIRO: At a plush Cairo dinner for visiting tre in London,” Khamis told Reuters at the din- roaming the streets as gunfire rang out. The local British politicians, one of Egypt’s top business- ner. Before tasting their first course the politi- security force left the town before dawn, said Hadeer men served his guests seafood cocktails, cians watched militants holding up a severed al-Abadi, who spoke to the AP as he prepared to head ALQOSH: In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 photo, Iraqis attend Mass at the Chaldean chocolate fondants and a blood-filled video head, churches in flames and a series of out of town with his family. Local tribesmen who con- Church of the Virgin Mary of the Harvest, in Alqosh, set in the seventh century Saint depicting the Muslim Brotherhood as a brutal Islamist assassinations. None of the guests Hormoz monastery built into a hill overlooking Alqosh, a village of some 6,000 tinued to fight later surrendered to the militants, he said. “Residents are gripped by fear and most of them threat to society. commented on the film in their speeches. inhabitants about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Mosul, northern Iraq. Dozens of Mohamed Farid Khamis, an influential car- Although many of those attacks were claimed Christian families that fled to this ancient Iraqi village have taken a much-traversed have already left the town to areas held by Kurdish security forces,” said al-Abadi. pet tycoon with connections to new President by groups other than the Brotherhood, the route — many from their minority community have escaped to Alqosh before, in fear Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, used Sunday’s dinner to film seemed to link them to the group. for their lives. — AP Security at the US Embassy in Baghdad was strengthened and some staff members were sent else- profile the dangers state authorities believe Since its banishment from Egypt’s presi- where in Iraq and to neighboring Jordan, the State the Brotherhood poses in Egypt. It briefly held dential palace, the Brotherhood’s main public Iraqi Christians flee Department said Sunday. A military official said about elected power before it was toppled and mouthpiece has operated out of a two-floor 150 Marines have been sent to Baghdad to help with almost all of its leaders jailed last year. flat above an abandoned kebab shop in north- homes amid militant push embassy security. Set to dramatic music, the film mixed west London. footage of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, ALQOSH: Over the past decade, Iraqi and Armenian churches. The past week, some Target of assault who hailed from the Brotherhood, with clips Carpet Empire Christians have fled repeatedly to this ancient 160 Christian families - mosly from Mosul - The State Department also issued a travel warning of armed jihadi fighters and images of Islamist Khamis, one of Egypt’s richest men and mountainside village, seeking refuge from have fled to Alqosh, mayor Sabri Boutani told for Iraq on Sunday night, which cautioned US citizens attacks. The harrowing presentation to the once a member of parliament under former violence, then returning home when the dan- The Associated Press, consulting first on the to avoid “all but essential travel to Iraq.” The warning British visitors came upon Khamis’ personal president Hosni Mubarak, is the founder and ger eased. Now they are doing it again as number with his wife by speaking in said the Baghdad International Airport was “struck by invitation, but tied in with an effort by Cairo to chairman of Oriental Weavers, the self-pro- Islamic militants rampage across northern Chaldean, the ancient language spoken by mortar rounds and rockets” and that the international calm an international furore over its fierce claimed largest machine-made carpet produc- Iraq, but this time few say they ever want to many residents. airport in Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, has crackdown on the Brotherhood since Mursi’s er in the world. His political clout allowed him also been the target of militant assault. go back to their homes. fall. Hundreds of its backers have been killed to set up meetings for the British delegation The flight is a new blow to Iraq’s dwindling Pastel-painted homes However, a senior Baghdad airport official, Saad al- and thousands arrested, with hundreds of with a number of high-profile public figures Christian community, which is almost as old Alqosh, dating back at least to the 1st cen- Khafagi, denied that the facility or surrounding areas including Sisi, who overthrew Mursi after mass as the religion itself but which has already tury BC, is a jumble of pastel-painted homes have been hit. State-run Iraqiya television also denied those prisoners sentenced to death. Although been devastated since the 2003 US-led inva- nestled at the base of a high craggy hill the attack, quoting the Ministry of Transport. A city of the almost century-old Brotherhood protests against him and was himself elected sion. During the past 11 years, at least half of among rolling plains of wheat fields. The vil- seven million, Baghdad is not in immediate danger of renounced violence decades ago and has president last month. the country’s Christian population has fled lage’s population of 6,000 is about half falling in the hands of the Sunni militants, but a string denied any link with recent Islamist militant Sisi says Egyptians have rejected the the country, according to some estimates, to Christian and half ethnic Kurds. Located just of bombings on Sunday killed 19 people and wound- violence in Egypt, it has been banned and Brotherhood and stressed the importance of escape frequent attacks by Sunni Muslim mili- outside the autonomous Kurdish zone of ed more than 40. The violence added to the nervous- declared a terrorist organisation in Egypt and balancing rights and freedoms with security tants targeting them and their churches. Now northern Iraq, Kurdish fighters known as ness of the Iraqi capital’s residents. Saudi Arabia. concerns when he met the British delegation many of those who held out and remained peshmerga have moved into the town to pro- Security has been tightened around the city, par- “We have decided to make this short film... at the weekend, according to his office. may be giving up completely after fighters tect it. ticularly on its northern and western edges, and food that gives you the truth about what happened The Brotherhood has said it would openly belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Many Christians are deciding that the prices have dramatically gone up because of the in my country,” Khamis told the British politi- engage with the British review, despite con- Levant swept over the city of Mosul and a comparatively liberal and prosperous Kurdish transportation disruptions on the main road heading cians who earlier met Sisi, a former army chief cern that Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, broad swath of the country the past week. regions are their safest bet. “Every Christian north from the capital. who deposed Mursi last July. The timing for John Jenkins, would be leading it. “I’m not going back,” said Lina, who fled prefers to stay in Kurdistan,” said Abu Zeid, an The fall of Tal Afar comes a week after Sunni mili- the invitation of the parliamentarians is telling The Brotherhood long based its public sup- Mosul with her family as the militants swept engineer. He too said he wouldn’t be going tants captured Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, and - Britain is conducting a review into the activi- port on well-established charity networks and in and came to Alqosh, about 50 kilometers back to Mosul. Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in a lightening ties of the Brotherhood and its possible links has won the majority of votes in Egypt since (31 miles) to the north. “It’s a shame because Mosul is the most offensive. The town is some 150 kilometers (93 miles) with violence. the 2011 revolt that ousted autocrat Mubarak. “Each day we went to bed in fear,” the 57- important city in Iraq for Christians,” he added. from the border with Syria, where ISIL is fighting Khamis, asked why he was hosting the But when in office, the Brotherhood failed against President Bashar Assad’s government and year-old woman said, sitting in a house for Mosul is said to be the site of the burial of British politicians for the second time in six to reassure many that they were committed to displaced people. “In our own houses we controls territory abutting the Iraqi border. Jonah, the prophet who tradition says was months, confirmed that London’s review of a democratic Egypt. A decree shielding the knew no rest.” Like other Christians who fled swallowed by a whale. Tal Afar’s capture came just hours after Shiite Prime the Brotherhood was a factor behind his hos- Mursi’s decisions from any appeals system, here, she spoke on condition she be identified Iraq was estimated to have more than 1 Minister Nouri al-Maliki, addressing volunteers joining only by her first name for fear for her safety. In million Christians before the 2003 invasion the security forces, vowed to retake inch of territory pitality. “Great Britain is important in shaping threats to the freedom of artists, and Islamic leaving, the Christians are emptying out com- and topping of Saddam Hussein. Now church seized by the militants. the international judgment and opinion. The preachers calling for holy war in Syria under munities that date back to the first centuries officials estimate only 450,000 remain within “We will march and liberate every inch they Muslim Brothers are concentrating in the UK. his watch unsettled Egyptians and foreign of the religion, including Chaldean, Assyrian Iraq borders. —AP defaced, from the country’s northernmost point to the The international organisation have their cen- observers alike. —Reuters southernmost point,” Al-Maliki said. The volunteers TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Hidden Cash craze hits New York’s Central Park

NEW YORK: Guided by a few clues from Twitter, er New Yorkers found the same prizes hidden in helping the homeless and charitable causes. “We see photos of themselves with their finds. The altruistic Stephanie Culff hailed a cab to Central Park on Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in that a lot and we’re happy to see that,” Buzi said. group also hid money Saturday in Houston and Saturday and started searching for money planted Brooklyn - all part of a movement born last week in Culff started following Hidden Cash on Twitter last Mexico City. Another hunt is scheduled for Sunday in there by Hidden Cash, the scavenger hunt craze that San Francisco as a “social experiment for good.” week when the account directed people to Chicago and they plan events in London, Paris and made its New York debut this weekend. Jason Buzi, a California real estate investor who envelopes with $50 and $100 inside them in San Madrid in the next two weeks. Culff arrived before the masses of cash-seekers said he is one of several people behind Hidden Cash, Francisco and 36 cash-filled Angry Birds orbs in Hidden Cash has inspired similar, unaffiliated cash and walked away with an envelope containing a $50 described the giveaways as a “fun way to give back to Hermosa Beach, California. giveaways in St. Louis, Boulder, Colorado and other bill and a silver dollar she said was worth $23. Both, the community.” He encouraged people who find The account announced its foray into New York on cities. “Mostly it’s a way for people to get together and she said, will go to her dad for Father’s Day. cash to “pay it forward.” Friday, saying: “Lots of Lady Liberties and Mr. Grants have a good time,” Buzi said of his movement. “We were looking forward to the adventure,” Culff So far, he said, many have responded by spending will rain in Manhattan and Brooklyn” on Saturday. “Sometimes you see people who, even $100 or $200 said. “We actually didn’t expect to win.” Dozens of oth- the cash on coffee, groceries or gas for others or by New Yorkers who found money Saturday tweeted dollars makes a — AP

Guam crash-stabbing Colombia’s Santos re-elected rampage trial opens Tells Marxist rebels it’s time for peace HAGATNA: The murder trial of a 22-year- old man charged with killing three BOGOTA: President Juan Manuel Santos Japanese tourists during a rampage on vowed to bring peace to Colombia after win- Guam last year opened yesterday with the ning re-election on Sunday, telling Marxist prosecution saying rage triggered the rebels his victory shows that voters demand attack, while the defense argued the an end to five decades of war. defendant was mentally ill. Santos, a center-rightist who has staked his Authorities accuse Chad Ryan DeSoto reputation on securing a peace deal with the of barreling his car down a sidewalk, crash- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ing into a convenience store, then getting (FARC), won almost 51 percent support in the out and stabbing bystanders during the runoff election on Sunday. His right-wing rival Feb. 12, 2013, attack that killed the three Oscar Ivan Zuluaga trailed with 45 percent. tourists and injured 11 others, a spate of The election divided Colombia between violence that shocked the island US territo- voters who support a deal to end Latin ry. Chief Prosecutor Phillip J. Tydingco told America’s longest-running insurgency and the 11-woman, one-man jury that DeSoto, Zuluaga’s backers who want to force the his anger and rage fueled by problems Chad DeSoto rebels into a battlefield surrender. with his life and relationships, committed The defendant sat impassively next to his crimes in the heart of Guam’s Tumon “This is the end of more than 50 years of his counsel, public defender Eric Miller, as violence and the start of a new Colombia,” tourist district. the prosecutor argued his guilt. Miller told Santos said after his election victory, holding DeSoto “shattered the peaceful and the panel that the case was about severe once enjoyable tropical night of at least 14 mental illness. “He is not guilty by reason up a hand daubed with the word “peace” and innocent human beings,” Tydingco said. He of insanity,” Miller said. “Mental illness is like wearing a trademark pin of a white dove on argued that the defendant acted out “his any illness. It’s like breast cancer, tuberculo- his lapel. “A Colombia at peace with itself.” anger over his depression, anger about his sis, measles. You don’t choose to get it.” At Santos opened talks with the FARC in late life, anger about his girlfriend who left him one point, Miller held up a model of a 2012. The conflict has killed over 200,000 peo- a year or more ago to live away in Utah, human brain and said, “When this brain get ple and forced millions more from their anger about his job, his friends and family diseased, a lot bad things can happen.”A homes. life.” Tydingco said that included in the evi- few prosecution witnesses testified after Last week, Santos also revealed preliminary dence he will present will be an admission the opening statements concluded, before talks with a smaller rebel group, the National that he told his mother four hours after the the trial was adjourned until Tuesday Liberation Army (ELN), and he said on Sunday BOGOTA: Supporters of Colombian President and presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos attack that he was going to jail. morning. — AP the Colombian people were now insisting on show the palms of their hands reading “Peace” as they celebrate after knowing the results of peace. the runoff presidential election yesterday, in Bogota. Santos was re-elected with 50.90 percent “The demand is not just for the govern- of the vote, compared with 45.04 percent for the more conservative Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, with ment. Today’s message is for the FARC and the 99.37 percent of votes tallied. — AFP ELN and it’s a clear message - this is the end,” March. agenda, including land reform and the rebels’ the center-right president said surrounded by Santos, the son of one of the country’s withdrawal from drug trafficking. family. most influential families and a Harvard-edu- A key question is whether the rebels will be He will start his second four-year term on cated economist, says he began to dream of more stubborn at the negotiating table after Aug. 7. During a bitter campaign, Santos leading Colombia toward peace two decades recent advances, especially now that they no faced a barrage of criticism from Zuluaga and ago. longer have to worry about a Zuluaga victory. his mentor, former President Alvaro Uribe. Learning from the mistakes of previous Responsible as defense minister under They played to the outrage felt by millions of attempts to end the war, Santos said he prom- Uribe for operations that killed senior FARC Colombians that FARC leaders could escape ised himself he would not allow the rebels to leaders, Santos insists there will be no impuni- prison time and even hold public office as strengthen their ranks, build up their war ty for serious crimes, but also says it is unreal- part of a negotiated settlement. chests or take the upper hand over the gov- istic to probe 50 years of atrocities. ernment. As his supporters raised cut-out figures of ‘Prepared For Peace’ “You don’t improvise with peace building,” white doves on Sunday, Santos recognized Zuluaga’s strong support in the election Santos told Reuters in a recent interview. “I’ve that achieving peace will not be easy and shows how tough it will be for Santos to win spent 20 years thinking about this opportuni- thanked those voters from the left who rallied the nation’s approval in a future referendum if ty. I’m prepared, I’m well advised and hopeful- around him in the election runoff. CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (C) arrives at the a peace deal is signed and for it to pass ly this process will be irreversible.” “This was a triumph for millions of compa- Prosecutor’s office in Caracas yesterday to declare about her presumed involvement through Congress. And Uribe will be a formi- Agreements have already been reached triots who support a dream we share. They in an alleged plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. — AFP dable foe after being voted into the Senate in with the FARC on three items on a five-point voted to change fear for hope.” — Reuters Despite Bergdahl swap, peace talks in limbo

WASHINGTON: Despite securing the release of five top have witnessed the successful prisoner deal, the former detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay in official said they will be less fearful that peace talks are a exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, there are few indica- sellout to the West or the US-backed Afghan government. tions that the Taleban will head into peace talks with the Already, Afghan forces have taken the lead in the fight, Afghan government any time soon. making it harder for the Taleban to argue that they are The peace process is virtually on hold anyway until it’s waging war against a foreign occupying force. The even- clear who will succeed Afghan President Hamid Karzai. tual exit of U.S. and other international forces that have Results of the second round of the Afghan presidential trained Afghan security forces means the insurgents election Saturday won’t be known until July, and it will be increasingly are fighting other Afghans. Rising fatalities months before the winner will be able to set up his admin- among Afghan policemen, soldiers and civilians only istration and lay the groundwork for possible talks. It’s also weaken the Taliban’s campaign for the hearts and minds unclear what role the Obama administration can or is will- of the population - a reason that also could make peace ing to play to coax the Taleban to the negotiating table. talks more appealing to the militants, the former official The Taleban say exchanging Bergdahl, held by Afghan said. militants for nearly five years, for the five detainees is a On the flip side, both the moderate and hard-line victory for their side. Still, US and former and current members of the Taliban feel emboldened by the deal. Afghan officials say the transfer is evidence that the two Their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, called it a signifi- sides can come together and deal peacefully. They say cant victory. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said they hope the deal will bolster the influence of more the group still has no interest in peace talks with either moderate members of the Taleban interested in reconcili- the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai or his ation talks. successor. Because the Afghan government was not party Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the swap could to the negotiations, the Taliban feel they have been given provide a “new opening” that can produce a peace agree- a shot of international stature or recognition, which ment. When Obama appeared in the Rose Garden with makes Karzai’s government appear impotent. — AP Bergdahl’s parents after their son was released, he said “This negotiation has legitimized the Taliban, the the US would continue to support an Afghan-led process organization that safeguarded the 9/11 al-Qaida perpe- of reconciliation but didn’t offer any specifics. trators and ruled Afghanistan through atrocities,” Rep. Obama didn’t mention the Taleban or the peace effort Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House in a major foreign policy speech he delivered late last Armed Services Committee, said in a hearing Wednesday month at the US Military Academy in West Point, New on the prisoner exchange. York. Obama has made “encouraging, if vague” gestures While he knew the exchange was being discussed, toward helping with Afghan-led peace talks, said Kate Karzai was angry that he wasn’t given prior notice and Clark of the Kabul-based Afghan Analysts Network, who was under the impression that if the deal happened, it has tracked events in the country for years. “In reality. would be part of a more comprehensive deal to start though, the US is on its way out and the swap looks like a peace talks. After the Taleban detainees were released to clearing up of unfinished business before its troops leave the Qatari government, the Afghan government wrote at the end of 2014.” the US Embassy, claiming that the arrangement with “Whether the release of the five men might now aid Qatar violates accepted international rules that say no reconciliation is unknown. They may be useful for negoti- government can hand over the citizen of another country ations or many years in detention may have hardened to a third state as a prisoner or as someone whose free- them to thoughts of compromise.” Ronald Neumann, a doms are taken or restricted. former US ambassador to Afghanistan, said he’s not con- Earlier, Karzai had offered to have the five Guantanamo vinced that the swap will have any impact on prospects prisoners transferred home to Afghanistan, where the for peace talks and he doubts the U.S. has much of a role Afghan intelligence agency would make sure they didn’t to play if they ever materialize. return to the fight. Instead, the US chose to work through “No talks are imminent,” he said. “I don’t see anything interlocutors in Qatar, where the detainees were flown happening anytime soon and by the time you get there, and will be under a one-year travel ban. the Bergdahl swap will be ancient history.” In February 2011, Karzai asked the US to release one of The deal did help mend a fissure in the Taliban ranks, the five detainees, Khairullah Khairkhwa, saying he had according to a former Afghan government official with been a moderate official in the Taleban government close ties to the palace, who spoke on condition of before it was toppled and would “positively contribute to anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan.” He exchange. For years, moderate Taliban leaders willing to was never released into the custody of the Afghan gov- engage in peace talks have been under pressure from ernment and now is with the other four detainees in unrepentant Taliban foot soldiers. Now that those soldiers Qatar. — AP TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 INTERNATIONAL S Sudan warring forces boycott new peace talks ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan’s warring South Sudan passed the six-month mark, executive secretary Mahboub Maalim of delegates “faulty” and demanding a Machar committed themselves again last forces have boycotted a new round of having already left thousands of people that the two sides were “stupid” for “transparent and inclusive process”. week to a ceasefire and agreed to forge a peace talks in protest at being accused of dead, more than a million displaced and believing military victory was The talks, being held in the Ethiopian transitional government within 60 days. seeking a military solution to the conflict, pushed the world’s youngest country to possible.Government team leader and capital Addis Ababa, have so far cost over Two previous ceasefire deals swiftly col- mediators said yesterday. the brink of famine and genocide. “The Minister of Information Michael Makuei 17 million dollars (12 million euros) but lapsed. The latest blow to peace efforts comes two parties, who are not here with us, told AFP they would “suspend attendance have failed to stop the war. Fighting broke out on December 15, after several months of talks that have told us that they are not joining us,” chief or participation in the negotiations until Mesfin pressed both sides to return to pitting government troops against militia already been hit by delays and boycotts mediator Seyoum Mesfin, from the East this issue is addressed”. the negotiating table urgently. “With forces loosely loyal to Machar. The vio- over other seemingly trivial issues, such African regional bloc IGAD, told reporters. The rebels said they were boycotting every day passing, human lives are lost lence has taken on a complex ethnic as the venue of the talks themselves. South Sudan’s government said it object- talks, claiming they were not consulted and destruction continues,” he said. dimension, with the Dinka people of Kiir The delay comes as the the civil war in ed to comments made last week by IGAD on who will attend, calling the selection President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival Riek fighting the Nuer, Machar’s tribe. — AFP

Gunmen kill at least 15 in northern Nigerian market

MAIDUGURI: At least 15 people were But Zaka Sama’ila, another trader, said killed when suspected Boko Haram gun- the latest attack was the first of its kind in men stormed a market in northern Nigeria Daku. “It seems the terrorists are extending late on Sunday, witnesses and a security their frontiers every day. About 20 of them source said. stormed the market area around 11.15am Villagers in the farming community of (1015 GMT) with one (jeep) and some Daku, in Borno state, described how they motorcycles. were surrounded by at least 20 gunmen “There was serious pandemonium who fired indiscriminately and threw petrol because they shot randomly, forcing unsus- bombs, engulfing the market in flames. pecting people in the market to scamper “Sunday is normally a market day and for safety.” Sama’ila said villagers found 15 people from neighbouring villages had bodies among the market stalls after the gathered at the local market in Daku when gunmen left. the insurgents laid siege,” said grocery sell- Residents said 10 others were found er Laraba Simon. dead after being shot in their homes or as “Scores of people escaped with bullet they were fleeing the violence. Neither the wounds while dozens of shops, stalls, hous- police nor the army have commented on es, vehicles, motorcycles and assorted the attack but a senior security source in foodstuff were set ablaze by the rampaging the state capital Maiduguri confirmed that attackers.” Laraba said the insurgents “sur- it took place. rounded the village with sophisticated Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, all in weapons and petrol bombs”. northeast Nigeria, have been under emer- Attacks by Islamist extremists from Boko gency rule since May last year. Haram have increased in recent months, Around 20 gunmen on motorcycles with the military apparently incapable of stormed a mosque in Yobe less than two preventing the almost daily bloodshed hours after the Borno market attack and exacerbated by the kidnapping of more seized the local chief, residents said. than 200 schoolgirls in April. The gunmen set fire to the police station The group has killed thousands during and a telecom mast in the village of Gumsa KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (2nd L) speaks during a National Security and Defence Council sitting in Kiev yesterday, flanked by its battle against the government since before fleeing. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (2nd R) and speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Turchynov (L). Poroshenko said during 2009, but the conflict has received “They took away a four-wheel van the opening of the sitting that a ceasefire was the beginning of his peace plan for resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine. — AFP unprecedented global attention since the belonging to the chief and kept firing shots abduction of the schoolgirls. in the air,” said a resident. — AFP Ukrainian president proposes truce to push peace plan Pro-Russian rebels seize Ukraine state bank

KIEV: President Petro Poroshenko called yester- ers lost effective financial control over a vital ‘Technical break’ day for a truce in east Ukraine, where his govern- eastern industrial region yesterday when pro- A group of armed men in black masks guard- ment faces a rebellion by pro-Russian sepa- Russian rebels seized the central bank building ed the main entrance of the Donetsk branch of ratists, to provide time to seek agreement on a in the separatist stronghold city of Donetsk. the National Bank from which the Ukrainian peace plan. The surprise offensive by dozens of crest had been torn down. In a statement to security chiefs, Poroshenko Kalashnikov-wielding pro-Russian gunmen fur- A sign announcing a “technical break” hung said he had set government forces the task of ther complicated Kiev’s deadly and thus-far on the door. “They are having a meeting. Inside regaining full control of Ukraine’s border with inconclusive two-month campaign to reunify are loads of armed men,” one woman said hurry- Russia this week. Once the frontier was secure, the fractured ex-Soviet state. ing away without giving her name. he said, a temporary ceasefire should be The riverbank city of nearly one million most- AFP reporters saw the rebels take out of the observed and efforts made to agree on a peace ly Russian speakers has been under effective building bottles of alcoholic drinks and a laptop plan. “Declaring a ceasefire while the border is rebel control since early April. But the gunmen in a pink case that appeared to belong to staff. LISBON: Kate, centre, and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing British girl open would be irresponsible,” he said. The sepa- had until now only occupied administration Matyushyn said his unit had entered discus- Madeleine McCann, leave a court in Lisbon, yesterday. The parents of missing British ratists rose up against central rule in April follow- buildings and had no access to the vast sums sion with local administrators about transferring girl Madeleine McCann face an unexpected delay in their libel case against a former ing the removal of a president in Kiev who was flowing through the government’s tax collection control over the local treasury and tax collection Portuguese detective after a Lisbon court granted him 10 days to find a new lawyer. sympathetic to Moscow, and Russia’s subse- service. That threatened to change yesterday as service to the separatist leader of self-pro- The McCanns are seeking 1.2 million euros ($1.6 million) in damages from Goncalo quent annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of frightened personnel steamed out of the claimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”. Amaral, who was part of the police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance from Crimea. Scores of government troops, rebels and National Bank of Ukraine in Donetsk with their “We are gradually taken control of the bank- a Portuguese vacation resort in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday. — AP civilians have been killed in fighting since then. hands in the air while masked guerrillas looked ing system. Our specialists have been working Since he was sworn in on June 7, Poroshenko on. “We have been preparing this for more than quite a long time to come to this stage,” he said has been trying to win agreement for peace pro- a month,” a rebel named Oleksandr Matyushyn proudly. posals, few details of which have been pub- told AFP as five separatist gunmen stood guard Donetsk and the neighbouring coal and steel Polish leaders try to limit lished. His efforts have included talks with a at its main entrance and bank staff filed out of producing region of Lugansk declared inde- Russian envoy and a phone call with President the building. pendence from Kiev in disputed May 11 referen- damage in new scandal Vladimir Putin. Kiev and the West have accused “We want the tax revenues to stay here dums whose legitimacy was rejected by state Russia of arming the rebels in east Ukraine but instead of going to Kiev,” he added. “Everything authorities and decried as a sham by the West. WARSAW: The Polish government and ing. However, Belka in effect confirmed Moscow denies the accusations. Poroshenko went peacefully. There were no excesses,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin urged central bank were in damage-control the authenticity of the tapes in his reac- said his proposals included constitutional another rebel adorned with with a tattoo of Ukraine’s new pro-Western leaders to listen mode yesterday after a secret recording tion to them. He apologized for vulgar changes to allow more decentralisation of pow- crossed hammers on his neck. The Ukrainian closely to the opinions expressed in the referen- was published in which two key leaders language and said that his comments er, a demand by many people in eastern Ukraine. government’s press service said that the raid had dums but also refused to recognised the two appeared to be making an improper were taken out of context and that he did He did not say how long the truce he was pro- interrupted the payment of “pension, social ben- regions’ independence from Kiev rule. under-the-table deal. nothing wrong. posing should last. efit and salaries to state employees.” Federal forces’ escalating campaign to regain Polish magazine Wprost on Saturday “Through manipulation, these frag- “We are not receiving tax payments of control over the region of seven million people published the recording in which central ments try to present a conversation that Surprise offensive Donetsk enterprises,” the Ukranian government has now claimed the lives of more than 370 civil- bank head Marek Belka told Interior concerned the stability of the financial Meanwhile, Ukraine’s new pro-Western lead- said in a statement. ians and fighters on both sides.— Agencies Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz last July system as a case of the head of the that he would help the government get National Bank of Poland exceeding his out of financial trouble if it fired the power, which never happened,” the cen- finance minister. tral bank said in a statement. That minister, Jacek Rostowski, was Political analyst Anna Materska- Pope, Anglican leader join replaced four months later. The central Sosnowska told The Associated Press that bank is supposed to be independent from the tapes - many of which still have not the government and interference either been published - would probably not way is prohibited. cause the government to fall; but Belka, a forces against trafficking During the meeting, which took place former prime minister, has jeopardized in a Warsaw restaurant at Belka’s request, the central bank’s independence, she VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis and Britain’s Despite doctrinal differences, they have found Bible. It has members in more than 30 countries. the two men discussed how the National said. Archbishop of Canterbury committed their common ground on social issues and have recently Last month, another group of nuns backed by Bank of Poland could help the govern- She said the case is also disturbing Churches yesterday to work more closely together stepped up their joint efforts, including at the grass the pope raised the alarm over increased risks of ment emerge from its then-weak financial because it reveals the vulnerability of to fight “the grave evil” of human trafficking and roots level, to raise global awareness about human human trafficking, exploitation of workers, forced situation in order to increase its chances leaders to eavesdropping. As interior min- modern slavery. trafficking and slavery. Both support the Global prostitution and sexual tourism at the soccer World of winning re-election in 2015. The con- ister, Sienkiewicz is in charge of the coun- Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 Freedom Network, an inter-religious initiative that Cup in Brazil. versation included references to possible try’s secret services and even he appeared million Anglicans, held talks with Francis at the encourages faith leaders to help victims. On Sunday, Welby agreed that the proceeds of a central bank stimulus for the economy. unable to protect himself from being tar- Vatican on how to combat what both Churches Catholic nuns, for example, have formed the charity cricket match to be played between squads It wasn’t clear who made the record- geted. — AP have called a crime against humanity. International Network of Consecrated Life Against from the Vatican and the Church of England in “It is a crime that we all need to overcome as a Trafficking in Persons, known as Talitha Kum (Little September in Canterbury would go to organisa- matter of urgency, as a matter of human dignity, Girl, Arise), a phrase in Aramaic taken from the tions fighting human trafficking.—Reuters freedom and wholeness of life. May God give us the resolve and cooperation we need together,” Welby told the pope in his address. Francis, leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, spoke of their shared “horror in the face of the scourge of human trafficking and forms of mod- ern-day slavery”. “(The Churches must) stand together, with per- severance and determination, in opposing this grave evil,” the pope added. According to a global slavery index issued last year by the Walk Free Foundation charity, nearly 30 million people, including children, live in slavery worldwide, many of them trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labour. Welby, 58, is the 109th leader of the Church which was formed when England’s King Henry VIII split from Rome in 1534. Neither Welby nor Francis spoke of the doctrinal differences dividing the two BUDAPEST: Hungarian President Janos Ader delivers a speech during a commemora- Churches, such as a female priesthood, which the VATICAN: In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L’ Osservatore Romano, tion event for former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy, the leader of 1956 Anglican Church allows but Rome forbids. Pope Francis greets the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on the occasion of a private uprising against Soviet occupation, at the Koztemeto cemetery in Budapest yester- The 77-year-old Argentinian pope noted that audience at the Vatican, yesterday. Pope Francis and the archbishop of Canterbury denounced day during the 56th anniversary of Nagy’s execution. The uprising began after a stu- while “the goal of full unity may seem distant human trafficking as a crime against human dignity yesterday and pledged to combat it jointly dent demonstration on October 23, 1956 and had been bloody crushed on indeed,” the goal should still guide the Churches as they found common ground on a social issue amid deep theological divisions over the November 4 by tanks sent by Moscow. More than 2,000 civilians were killed during and their members in their daily relations. Anglicans’ ordination of women bishops. — AP the fighting, while around 200,000 people fled the country. —AFP

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

China deports Australian artist after Tiananmen remarks BEIJING: China deported a well-known Chinese- and remembrance of those who died in connection Beijing studio, a large diorama of Tiananmen Square licly marked in mainland China, though every year born Australian artist yesterday after he was with the events 25 years ago. that he had at one point last month covered in raw there are commemorations in Hong Kong, which detained following his comments on the 25th Melanie Wang, a friend of Guo’s, told reporters at minced pork. returned to Chinese rule in 1997. anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro- Beijing airport that he had been put on an Air China Guo’s girlfriend Yang Fangfang said that Guo had The government has never released a death toll democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. flight to Sydney. “I’ll be taking off immediately. been able to return to his Beijing studio briefly to for the crackdown, but estimates from human rights Guo Jian, 52, a former Chinese soldier, was Thank you, all of you,” Guo said in a telephone call to pack up some of his old paintings, but that his groups and witnesses range from several hundred detained last month after an interview with the Wang, which she recorded and played to journalists Tiananmen-related pieces had been destroyed. to several thousand. Financial Times regarding his experiences as a pro- at the airport. For the ruling Communist Party, the 1989 This year’s anniversary was marked by the tester during the army’s violent dispersal of the China’s foreign ministry has said that Guo had demonstrations that clogged Tiananmen Square in detention of at least 66 rights activists, according demonstrators on June 4, 1989. been detained on visa fraud charges. Beijing and spread to other cities remain taboo. to rights group Amnesty International, increased His detention was seen as part of a wider effort The Sydney Morning Herald reported that The anniversary of the date on which troops shot security in Beijing, and tighter controls on the by authorities to stifle criticism of the government authorities had smashed one of Guo’s works at his their way into central Beijing has never been pub- Internet. — Reuters Religious riots kill 3 in Sri Lanka resorts US urges Colombo to end violence ALUTGAMA: Sri Lanka extended curfews in a popular tourist region yesterday after a rampag- ing Buddhist mob killed three Muslims and burned dozens of homes and shops, the latest outbreak of religious violence on the island. Community leaders accused authorities of doing little to prevent Sunday night’s violence, with the most senior Muslim member of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government THIMPHU: In this handout photograph released by the Royal Office of Media Bhutan, threatening to resign at the decision to allow mili- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Bhutanese King Jigme tant Buddhists to rally in the flashpoint region. Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in Thimphu yesterday. India’s Narendra Modi received a “Three deaths have occurred and 78 people grand welcome to Bhutan Sunday on his first foreign trip as prime minister, as he steps have been seriously wounded in the mob up a charm offensive with neighbours to try to check China’s regional influence. — AFP attacks... Places of Muslim religious worship have also been attacked with total impunity,” Justice Minister Rauf Hakeem said as he toured the dam- Modi vows stronger age in the neighbouring towns of Alutgama and Beruwala. “The government allowed the Bodu Bala Sena Bhutan energy ties (BBS) to hold their gathering and therefore they must take responsibility for what has happened,” THIMPHU: India’s Narendra Modi yesterday plans for more, officials have said. he said, referring to a hardline outfit better known pledged stronger energy ties with tiny neigh- Modi arrived in Bhutan on Sunday for the as the Buddhist Force. bour Bhutan as he wrapped up his first for- two-day trip seen as the latest step in a Hakeem told reporters that he was now under eign visit since becoming prime minister, a charm offensive aimed at stopping India’s pressure from his own supporters to quit the gov- trip aimed at checking China’s influence in neighbours from falling into China’s embrace. ernment to protest the failure to prevent the the region. In an address to Bhutan’s parlia- “A strong and stable India is needed to attacks, the latest in a series of violent incidents ment, Modi said he also planned to build a make sure that we can help our neighbours involving the BBS. ALUTHGAMA: Sri Lankan Muslims walk to safer places following attacks by hard-line Buddhist stronger India which could better support its with their problems,” Modi told parliament. “A The unrest erupted on Sunday night when fol- group Bodu Bala Sena in Aluthgama, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka,yes- regional neighbours, on the final day of his stronger India will be better for Bhutan and lowers of the BBS staged a protest over a recent terday. — AP visit to the Buddhist kingdom. other SAARC nations.” road rage incident in the area. After stones were “In the last few years India and Bhutan Modi invited Tobgay and seven other Illangakoon said in a statement. worship, and property are protected,” the US allegedly thrown at them, the BBS supporters embassy said in a statement. have made a strong start in the field of hydro leaders of the South Asian Association for then tore through the two towns, attacking peo- power-we can improve it further,” Modi told Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to his inaugu- President urges ‘restraint’ BBS leader, Buddhist monk Galagodaatte ple on the street and setting fire to property. Both towns are popular beach resorts fre- Gnanasara, is currently on bail after being arrest- lawmakers in the capital Thimphu. ration last month in an attempt to assert his Several mosques were also damaged. “Energy security will be a key issue in the influence in the region. quented by international tourists, but there were ed in May on a charge of insulting the Quran. Local residents said police did little to protect no reports of any foreigners or hotels being The latest unrest came weeks after Muslim leg- near future,” said Modi, who won a landslide On Sunday, Modi met Bhutan’s King Jigme them when the Buddhist mobs started their election victory last month on a pledge to Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and inaugurat- caught up in the violence. islators asked Rajapakse to protect their commu- onslaught around sundown in the mainly Muslim However, several hotels told their guests to nity from “Buddhist extremist elements”. revive India’s flagging economy. ed the Supreme Court, built with Indian assis- towns which are around 60 kilometres (37 miles) Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart tance. India Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj remain indoors and Western embassies advised Videos posted on YouTube have shown mobs south of the capital Colombo. their nationals to avoid travelling to the region led by Buddhist monks throwing stones and Tshering Tobgay later unveiled a plaque and told reporters in Thimphu yesterday the visit Police fired teargas and imposed a night-time laid a foundation stone for a new hydropow- had been a “grand success”. Indian analysts until further notice. smashing a Christian prayer centre in southern Sri curfew but the violence went on for several hours, Rajapakse, currently in Bolivia, said in a state- Lanka in January this year and attacking mosques er power plant, a joint venture between the have said the trip underlines the importance according to residents. “We pleaded with the two countries. the new Modi government has given to ment that he would not allow “anyone to take the while police looked on. police to come and stop the mob attacking our law into their own hands” and urged “restraint”. Senior Buddhist monks have also been caught “Construction on 600MW Kholonchhu India’s immediate neighbourhood, where the houses but the police did nothing,” said Hydroelectric Project officially begins with country’s influence waned under the previ- The attacks are the latest in a series of religious on video threatening violence against their mod- Mujahedeen, a resident of Alutgama’s Milton clashes to hit the island following unrest in erate colleagues who advocate tolerance. Sri laying foundation stone,” Tobgay tweeted. ous administration. With the exception of Road where around a dozen buildings were set Bhutan, with its abundant winding rivers, has Pakistan, India has enjoyed generally close January and also last year when Buddhist mobs Lanka, facing an international probe of its war on fire. attacked a mosque in the capital Colombo. record in crushing separatists Tamil rebels in may set its sights on becoming an energy power- ties with its South Asian neighbours. But crit- Police chief N.K. Illangakoon said the situation house, with most of its electric power already ics say the previous Congress party govern- The United States, which has led international 2009, is also criticised for its alleged failure to pro- was “improving” although the curfew would condemnation of Sri Lanka’s human rights record, tect minority religious groups. sold to energy-hungry India. ment began to take relationships for granted, remain overnight. “The situation is improving and Three hydropower projects have been allowing economic giant China-which shares urged Colombo to end the violence. Muslims make up about 10 percent of Sri police, the Special Task Force (commandos) and “We urge the government to ensure that order Lanka’s 20 million population, but are accused by built in India-Bhutan joint ventures and a border with four of India’s neighbours-to the army have been deployed to ensure security,” another three are under construction, with step into the breach. — AFP is preserved and the lives of all citizens, places of nationalists of having undue influence. — AFP Judge delays verdict over Bangladesh bombings

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court yester- they deemed offensive to Islam. “We hope the court will sentence day delayed its verdict against a group However defence lawyers say the them to death,” prosecutor S.M. Zahid of Islamic militants accused of carrying accused only admitted to the attacks Hossain said ahead of yesterday’s out a 2001 bomb attack on the main after confessions were forced them hearing. “The court must send a mes- Bengali New Year celebrations which during police interrogation. The sage that this kind of heinous act killed 10 people. bombings were allegedly among a won’t be tolerated in the country,” Nine of the 14 accused were in the series carried out by HuJI head Mufti Hossain added. dock amid tight security at the court in Abdul Hannan and his group, who also Five of the accused are still at large the capital Dhaka when Judge Ruhul attempted to kill Prime Minister and are believed to have fled abroad. Amin announced he would now hand Sheikh Hasina when she was opposi- Of the remainder, Hannan and two down his verdict next Monday, June tion leader in 2004. others have confessed their involve- 23, saying he “needed more time”. After eight years of investigation ment in the plot in statements made Prosecutors accuse the Islamists, and another five years of protracted to magistrates. Hannan has already including the head of the outlawed trial the lower court last month set the been sentenced to death for a 2004 Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HuJI) outfit, case for verdict for June 16 with prose- grenade attack targetting the British of targeting the popular secular cele- cutors seeking death penalty for each High Commission in the northeastern brations in Dhaka’s main park which of the 14 accused. city of Sylhet that killed three people. ULUGAN BAY: This photo taken on June 7, 2014 shows the Philippine Navy frigate BRP Ramon Alacraz anchored at The Bengali New Year, celebrated on the mouth of the South China Sea in Ulugan Bay off Puerto Princesa on Palawan island. Ulugan Bay, with a coast- April 14, is the most important secular line partly concealed by thick mangrove forests, is at the centre of the Philippine military’s efforts to shore up the festival for the 155 million ethnic defence of contested South China Sea islands and waters. — AFP Bengalis in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. Hundreds of thousands of people, including Muslims, traditionally gather and sing under a Banyan tree in the cap- ital’s historic Ramna Park and the nearby Philippines calls for freeze grounds of Dhaka University. Hossain said the Islamists targetted the celebration because they consid- on actions in S China Sea ered it “un-Islamic and against Sharia” law, and viewed the traditional singing MANILA: The Philippines yesterday called on nations with nullify Beijing’s claims. and dancing performed as “obscene”. overlapping claims in the South China Sea to halt all action that China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, including They also wanted to undermine the could provoke tensions in the area, amid fears of China’s expan- waters close to the shores of the its neighbours. ASEAN mem- secular government of then-prime sionism. bers the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei, as well as minister Hasina, who later that year Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said he backed a US Taiwan also have competing claims to the sea. lost elections to her main rival Khaleda proposal for a fresh regional dialogue that could take place “They’re accelerating their expansion agenda for the follow- Zia, he said. Police also accuse the within the year where he hoped to put the moratorium plan ing reasons. One is they want to do this before the conclusion group of trying to blow up courts and formally on the table. of the code of conduct. They’re also trying to do this very quick- other secular institutions, as well as “Let’s call for a moratorium in terms of activities that escalate ly in anticipation of the handing down of the tribunal award,” Sufi shrines and a church. tension,” del Rosario told ANC Television, calling on the interna- del Rosario said. Hannan, who fought with the tional community “to say that we need to manage the tensions But he said the Chinese effort would be futile. “If you take a Taliban in the 1990s, was arrested in in the South China Sea before it gets out of hand.” reef and convert it to an island to be able to increase its mar- 2005 after the government banned He said he hoped to have the “reasonable proposition” taken itime entitlements, that is not allowed,” he said. the HuJI comprising of Afghan-trained up by the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations The Philippines has protested what China describes as recla- militants, following other deadly (ASEAN) while it continues to work with China for a binding mations in reefs within its exclusive economic zone, including bomb attacks. “code of conduct” that would govern the region. in one it fears Beijing intends to convert into an airstrip. Defence lawyers said some of their The idea for a “voluntary freeze” on possible provocation was China had also recently deployed an oil rig to an area close clients were charged based on disputed first voiced by US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia to Vietnam’s coast, and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat near the confessions. “My clients are only named Daniel Russel during a visit to Myanmar, during which he noted area. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying DHAKA: Bangladeshi policeman produce Mufti Abdul Hannan, leader of in the case because Mufti Hannan men- a surge in tensions. rejected del Rosario’s accusation of expansionism, noting that banned radical group Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami, at a court in Dhaka, tioned their names in his confessional Russel however said the idea was not a formal proposal but the Philippines also had installations in the area. Bangladesh, yesterday. The court delayed its verdict till June 23, against a statements,” defence lawyer Idi Amin merely a suggestion. “This is totally unreasonable. We will by no means accept the group of Islamic militants accused of carrying out a 2001 bomb attack dur- told AFP. “But he himself later retracted He accused China of rushing construction on reefs to so-called representations by the Philippines side and we ing the Bengali New Year celebrations in 2001 which killed eight people his confessional statement, saying it was “change the facts” on the ground before a United Nations arbi- require (it) to refrain from taking any action that may compli- and injuring several others. — AP taken by coercion.” — AFP tral tribunal rules on a case filed by the Philippines asking it to cate the situation,” Hua said. — AFP

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By Andrew Osborn

ike a poker player, Prime Minister David Cameron prefers to hold his cards tight to his chest when it Lcomes to clawing back powers from the European Union, lest he blow his bargaining position, aides are fond of saying. Yet he has thrown caution to the wind in dramatising his implacable opposition to Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, becoming the next president of the European Commission, the EU’s most powerful job. Cameron has gone as far as to suggest that Britain will drift closer to the EU exit if he doesn’t get his way, a warning that angered German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A number of European leaders privately share Maliki security errors set stage for crisis Cameron’s reservations about appointing Juncker, 59, a veteran deal-maker who has worked for closer EU inte- By W G Dunlop manner,” Sowell said. to retake some areas north of Baghdad. obstinance is one issue, with politicians gration for the last 25 years. But his all-out, public drive to Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Most of the areas that have been seized and clerics making “absolutist demands take down the Luxembourger has embarrassed potential raqi premier Nuri Al-Maliki’s mishandling Strategic and International Studies, agreed. by militants are populated by Sunni Arabs, that no Shiite PM would ever agree to, allies and hardened adversaries. For some EU insiders, it of security and perceived sidelining of Maliki “has spent the last few years... both many of whom are angry with the Shiite- including the formation of autonomous shows the British leader doesn’t understand how the EU ISunni Arabs set the stage for a major corrupting the Iraqi security forces and put- led government over what they view as the regions with a de facto independent Sunni works. “He has painted himself into a really difficult cor- militant offensive, but factors such as Syria’s ting people in (its) command chain (who) unjust targeting of their community by army that Baghdad would fund,” said ner,” Rem Korteweg, a senior research fellow at the Centre civil war also played a role, experts say. are loyal to him,” Cordesman said. And “he security forces, and the marginalisation of Sowell. He also said contentious issues that for European Reform in London, a think tank, told Maliki’s opponents accuse him of sectarian has used it systematically to repress the their leaders. Sunni anger has played a contributed to the crisis, including de- Reuters. “Putting the nuclear option of Brexit (a British EU discrimination against the Sunni minority, legitimate Sunni opposition.” Security major role in a surge in violence over the Baathification, a process aimed at keeping exit) on the table immediately and not using it as an centralising power and moving toward dic- forces carried out operations against Sunni past 18 months to levels not seen in years, officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime out option of last resort didn’t do him any good. It’s a techni- tatorship, while the prime minister insists Arab anti-government protest sites, includ- making it easier for militants to operate of office that opponents say has been used cal mistake to be forceful from the get-go.” he is working to keep the country safe. The ing the demolition of one camp west of and recruit, and reducing residents’ cooper- to target Sunni politicians, “have little to do The European policy adviser of one EU prime minister militant assault, which began a week ago Baghdad that set off a chain of events in ation with security forces. with Maliki specifically”. criticised the British leader’s lack of patient coalition- and is spearheaded by jihadists but which the government lost control of all of John Drake, a security analyst at AKE The civil war in neighbouring Syria has building and guile. “Everyone knows that European involves other groups as well, overran all of one city and parts of another. Group, said Maliki should have incorporat- also been a major factor, bolstering mili- affairs is a consensual game. You don’t win by going one province and swathes of three others ed the Sunni Arab militia known as Sahwa, tant groups including the Islamic State of nuclear,” the adviser said, speaking on condition of in a matter of days. Security Forces ‘Extremely Ineffective’ who fought alongside US forces against Iraq and the Levant, which has spearhead- anonymity. “I’ve wondered whether Cameron needs a It poses one of the biggest challenges of Iraqi forces have also launched wide- militants, into the security forces. This ed the offensive in Iraq, by rallying fighters Europe adviser.” Cameron’s objections to Juncker are pro- Maliki’s career. The prime minister has ranging operations that sweep up large would have had the effect of “providing to their cause and giving them a base of found. The British leader has promised to try to reshape made major mistakes when it comes to numbers of Sunni Arabs said to include job security and empowering the Sunni operations and additional combat experi- Britain’s EU ties if re-elected next year before giving security, for which he is directly responsible the innocent along with the guilty. “The community, encouraging them to buy-in ence. Maliki is vying for a third term as pre- Britons an in/out EU membership referendum in 2017. as commander-in-chief of the armed forces end result has been to basically make to the Iraqi state,” he said. Maliki should mier after April 30 parliamentary polls, but That makes it vital, say aides, that the next president and acting defence and interior minister, the Iraqi security forces a structure also have sought to extend the American it is unclear if he will weather the storm. He of the EU executive, the body that proposes and enforces experts say. “He’s appointed every senior which is extremely ineffective” and “has military presence in Iraq beyond 2011, and is likely to need support from Sunni and EU rules, should be someone willing to impel reforms officer in the military currently serving, so lost any real morale,” Cordesman said. “there should have been more dialogue Kurdish blocs in order to secure re-election that would return some powers to member states while issues like illegal arrests, torture, extraction Security forces performed poorly during with people such as senior tribal figures in during the protracted period of govern- focusing on free trade and market liberalisation. Cameron of bribes to free detainees, etc. I’d lay at the initial assault by militants, with the central region in order to reach mutual ment formation, but faces strong opposi- sees Juncker as far too federalist and wedded to the idea Maliki’s feet,” said Kirk Sowell, a political risk some abandoning vehicles, positions agreements,” Drake said. tion from those communities’ leaders. “I of “ever closer union”, a concept the British leader would analyst and publisher of the Inside Iraqi and uniforms to flee. But they seem to But internal and external factors think these events make Maliki’s reelection like to erase from the 28-nation bloc’s founding treaties. Politics newsletter. “He is clearly incapable have recovered somewhat from the beyond Maliki’s control have also con- less likely for sure,” said Sowell. “His credi- Instead, he is thought to favour Danish Prime Minister of running the military in a competent shock of the onslaught and have begun tributed to the current crisis. Sunni Arab bility is shot.”— AFP Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a reformist Social Democrat from a country that like Britain has stayed outside the euro zone. Indonesia takes on ‘Dolly’ red-light district ‘No Clear Wins’ His campaign against Juncker is freighted with risk. If he succeeds in thwarting Juncker, he may be feted at home by the Eurosceptic press and his divided By Maud Watine million rupiah ($25,000 - $42,000). ples out for a stroll and children playing, Fighting Back Conservative party. But such a victory would be pyrrhic. and the atmosphere was peaceful. The area But Lilik Sulistyowati, from NGO Yayasan Europe-watchers believe he would have used up his ex workers in skin-tight outfits sit in ‘ I Really Need This Work’ appeared to be operating normally in Abdi Asih which works with prostitutes in political capital with fellow leaders, damaged Britain’s shop windows, ignoring the call to Sex workers and residents have been recent days, apart from regular protests the area, warned that the workers were chances of a good Commission job, and above all antag- Sprayer that blares from mosques staging protests in recent weeks, with hun- during the day time, an AFP reporter said. unlikely to go quietly. “They will fight the clo- onised Germany’s Merkel, Juncker’s most important across the heart of one of Southeast Asia’s dreds of prostitutes marching through According to local reports, the mayor will sure,” she said, and blamed the government backer and the person Cameron needs most to enable EU biggest red-light districts. The series of nar- Dolly earlier this month. “I am not going to issue a declaration tomorrow evening, say- for trying to push through the plan in such a reform. He would also have set the European Parliament, row alleys in Surabaya’s “Dolly” district on accept the government offer because I real- ing that Dolly and Jarak are closed and short time, saying authorities should have which backs Juncker, on a collision course with EU lead- Indonesia’s Java island teem with prosti- ly need this work,” said Mawar, who gave police will move in to shut it down. The aimed to shut it within five years after ers and with whomever they nominated instead of him. If tutes touting for business, smiling through only one name, sitting on a faded old sofa prostitutes will have to leave the same day retraining the sex workers. Despite concerns he fails to stop Juncker, the outlook for Cameron is even the windows and doorways of dingy clubs in a club in Dolly. “I would never be able to and will receive training for the next seven in some quarters, for local Muslim leaders worse. It would be interpreted as a sign of embarrassing and bars housed in crumbling buildings. find another job because I did not even fin- days, according to officials. Those who the closure will be a huge victory after years weakness at home and abroad. Political foes would be While foreign tourists may first think of ish elementary school.” The sex worker, who came from villages outside Surabaya will of campaigning. “The closure of Dolly must likely to say it showed his chances of overhauling the places such as Thailand when it comes to earns between 10 million and 13 million have to return to them. be highly praised,” said Abdusshomad bloc were nil, and he would have made an enemy of the Southeast Asian red-light destinations, one rupiah a month ($850 to $1,100), said it For some members of the public, this Buchori, local head of the country’s top new Commission chief. “It’s damned difficult for him. of the largest has been challenging would be hard for her to support her two will be a welcome move. “I want Dolly to be Muslim clerical body, the Indonesia Ulema There are no clear wins,” said Mats Persson, director of the assumptions in the world’s most populous children, aged five and eight, if Dolly closes. closed - this place brings shame on Council. “As the world’s most populous Open Europe think-tank in London. Muslim-majority country for decades, On a recent evening, there were crowds Surabaya,” said Siti, a 46-year-old teacher Muslim country, it is not too much to “If he does lose, he will have spent a lot of political largely undisturbed by authorities. of people and hordes of cars and motor- who like many Indonesians goes by one demand that Dolly be closed. What they are capital and will look domestically like a person not in But now a crusading mayor - credited bikes thronging the streets, including many name. “The people who go there for girls doing is not a job. Selling one’s body is control. The charge will be: ‘You said you can reform the with regenerating Surabaya, Indonesia’s prostitutes and pimps. There were also cou- are sexually unstable.” immoral and inhuman behaviour.”—AFP EU and negotiate but you can’t even stop a federalist second-biggest city after the capital Jakarta who has been appointed by the European Parliament’,” - is making a determined push to close Persson said. Juncker, who has made clear he feels per- down the notorious brothel network sonally bruised by Cameron’s campaign against him, despite fierce resistance and warnings that would hardly be sympathetic to the British leader’s plans it could push sex workers into destitution. to reduce the Commission’s powers and return control “We have to lift our people from oppres- over some policy areas to national authorities. sion,” said Tri Rismaharini, a female mayor Cameron is in a tight spot over Europe at home, a who wears the Muslim headscarf and familiar position for leaders of his often fractious party, whose stewardship of Surabaya has led which like the US Republicans is wedded to national sov- many to predict she could have a future ereignty. He faces an electoral challenge from the anti-EU role in national politics. UK Independence Party (UKIP), which won the European While the city says the plan is its own, Parliament election in Britain last month, pushing Islamic leaders are also claiming credit after Cameron’s Conservatives into third place. —Reuters pressuring authorities for years over Dolly, which is thought to take its name from a Dutch madam who ran a brothel in the city during the Netherlands’s colonial rule of All articles appearing on these Indonesia. Now Rismaharini has set a date pages are the personal opinion of of June 18 to close the brothels in Dolly and a neighbouring area called Jarak, the writers. Kuwait Times takes no which have a largely local clientele. responsibility for views expressed Authorities are offering each of the esti- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- mated 1,400 prostitutes around five million rupiah ($420) and training in new profes- ers to voice their opinions. Please sions that are expected to replace prostitu- send submissions via email to: opin- tion there, such as baking or handicrafts. [email protected] or via snail While many have welcomed the move, the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. plan has stirred strong opposition from sex workers and others whose jobs depend on The editor reserves the right to edit Dolly, such as taxi drivers and street ven- any submission as necessary. dors who contribute to the area’s estimated In this photograph taken on June 5, 2014, Indonesian sex workers participate in a demonstration in Surabaya city’s red light dis- nightly income of between 300 and 500 trict popularly known as Dolly. — AFP NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Day of lawsuits over corruption scandals Continued from Page 1 former top officials. According to lawyers, the prosecu- tion must call on the two accused in person and interro- The letter called on the attorney general to validate gate them. the claims and documents and then investigate the alle- The opposition Popular Action Movement issued a gations made in them. Later, the Cabinet asked Sheikh statement on the issue, criticizing the government for Mohammad to coordinate with the government’s legal downplaying their accusations against the alleged cor- body to prepare to file another lawsuit against speakers ruption. The statement provided more details about the at last Tuesday’s public rally organized by the opposition. amounts of money transferred from Kuwait by the former Last week, the judicial council filed two lawsuits against officials and in what means they were deposited in opposition figures and a Twitter account for involving the banks, saying more than $20 billion are deposited in judiciary and top judges in the political dispute. Israeli banks. But the main development that attracted most of the In another development, several MPs signed a motion attention came when Hajraf filed a criminal lawsuit calling for debating the crisis in Iraq and its effect on against two very prominent former officials accusing Kuwait during the coming Assembly session next week. them of plotting a coup, making cover contacts with a Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said on Sunday he had regional country and financial dealings with Israel. The made an agreement with the government to hold a full text of the lawsuit got great publicity on Twitter and meeting with the foreign minister in the Assembly to dis- by some news websites and mentioned the names of the cuss the issue. Saudis, Qatar blame ‘sectarian’ Maliki Continued from Page 1 soldiers as they pushed an advance on the capital, including in a “horrifying” massacre that has drawn inter- Riyadh said it rejected any foreign intervention in national condemnation. In the latest fighting on Monday, An image made available by the jihadist Twitter account Al-Baraka news yesterday allegedly shows Islamic State Iraq’s internal affairs, an apparent reference to talk of militants entered and took control of several neighbour- of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants executing members of the Iraqi forces on the Iraqi-Syrian border. — AFP intervention by its regional rival Tehran. Saudi analyst hoods of Tal Afar, a Shiite Turkmen-majority town in Abdel Aziz Al-Sagr said Riyadh was concerned its US ally Nineveh province, according to officials and residents. Gulf billions insulate economies, markets might give Tehran its tacit blessing for such an interven- Abdulla Abbas, the local official responsible for the tion. “We need a regional coordination over Iraq, not a town and surrounding area, said Tal Afar was dealing Continued from Page 1 spending at current levels even if oil revenues plunged US-Iranian dialogue,” said Sagr. Qatar’s Foreign Minister with “martyrs, wounded, chaos and refugees,” and that tomorrow. Also, in contrast to Iraq, GCC governments Khaled Al-Attiyah said the trigger for the unrest was the around 200,000 people - nearly half the area’s population The Saudi riyal forwards market, which shot up dur- have over the past three years shown they can spend marginalisation of Iraq’s Sunni Arabs. He cited as exam- - had fled to nearby areas. The town, which lies near the ing the Arab Spring to show expectations for riyal their oil money effectively to maintain social peace. ples the dispersement by security forces of peaceful Syrian border in otherwise Sunni Arab and Kurdish-domi- depreciation, has barely moved. In another vote of con- Riyadh has directed tens of billions of dollars towards protest camps maintained by the minority community in nated Nineveh province, had briefly held off a militant fidence in the Gulf, United Arab Emirates telecommuni- social benefits, new housing and new jobs to avert any April 2013 and January this year. offensive that saw fighters led by ISIL take control of vast cations operator Etisalat sold $4.3 billion worth of pro-democracy unrest. “This has deepened the divide between the compo- swathes of territory north of Baghdad in a matter of days. bonds last Wednesday in the region’s biggest corporate Compared to three years ago, “governments are bet- nents of the brotherly Iraqi people,” Attiyah said in com- Militants also took control of the Al-Adhim area, in Diyala bond issue ever. The sale, a day after the Iraqi insurgents ter prepared to confront the sectarian threat, the fiscal ments reported by the official QNA news agency late on province, north of Baghdad, on Sunday. seized the major city of Mosul, attracted massive reserves they have to do this with are bigger, and Sunday. He urged the Iraqi government to take into con- Kerry said yesterday that drone strikes were an option demand from European fund managers in particular macroeconomic conditions are better,” said Raza Agha, sideration the “demands of a large part of the population in combating the offensive, after US President Barack and set a record for the cheapest pricing of any Gulf chief economist for the Middle East and Africa at VTB who are only asking for equality and participation, away Obama said he was weighing “all options” on how to sup- bond relative to mid-swaps, bankers said. Capital in London. He noted that since the Arab Spring, from sectarian discrimination.” port the Iraqi government. Drones might not be the Shakeel Sarwar, head of asset management at the GCC states had also developed a mutual support Kuwait, which has maintained good relations with “whole answer,” Washington’s top diplomat told Yahoo Bahrain’s Securities & Investment Co, a major fund man- mechanism, with the richest governments - Saudi Baghdad, issued a more reserved statement, calling only News, “but they may well be one of the options that are ager, said the markets recognised that the six Gulf Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar - pledging $10 billion for the safeguarding of Iraq’s territorial integrity. “The important to be able to stem the tide and stop the move- Cooperation Council economies could function smooth- each to the less wealthy ones to fund economic and council of ministers affirms its backing of security and ment of people who are moving around in open convoys ly next to an unstable Iraq. “Unless the contagion social welfare projects. stability in Iraq and safeguarding its territorial integrity,” and trucks and terrorising people.” spreads to the entire region and it becomes a serious If Iraq’s sectarian confrontation sucks in Iran on the the cabinet said after its weekly meeting. It expressed Washington has already deployed an aircraft carrier to conflict, the probability of which is quite low at present, I Shiite side, the Sunni monarchies of the Gulf could con- confidence that the Iraqi people will be able to “over- the Gulf, but Obama has ruled out a return to Iraq for US don’t think that a contained conflict limited to Iraq is ceivably drift towards a conflict that damages their come this ordeal... and preserve national unity.” soldiers, who left the country at the end of 2011 after a going to negatively impact the GCC economies,” he said. economies and endangers their security. This would Meanwhile, militants battled security forces for control bloody and costly intervention launched in 2003. The US have a major effect on financial markets. Even then, of a strategic Shiite town in north Iraq yesterday, forcing and Iran have also raised the possibility of working Spending however, the financial position of the Gulf states could half the area’s population to flee as Washington weighed together over the crisis - with Kerry saying he would be One reason for the growing confidence in the Gulf is become stronger in some ways, as higher oil prices drone strikes against jihadist fighters leading the charge. open to cooperating with Tehran, just days after Iranian that three years of high global oil prices have allowed boosted their revenues. Iraq has been producing US Secretary of State John Kerry also said he was open to President Hassan Rouhani said his country may “think most governments to build up their financial reserves, around 3.5 million barrels of oil per day; if that were cooperating with arch-foe Iran to resolve the week-long about” cooperating with Washington. The Wall Street leaving them in better shape to cope with any political lost because of fighting, much of it would probably be crisis which has spurred the United States and Australian Journal reported, citing US officials, that the Obama or economic shocks. Saudi Arabia’s net foreign reserves, replaced by Saudi Arabia’s almost 3 million bpd of embassies to begin evacuating some staff. administration may use nuclear talks that started in for example, have ballooned by over a third since 2011 spare capacity, raising its revenues substantially, Tuvey Militants from ISIL are said to have killed scores of Iraqi Vienna yesterday as a venue. — Agencies to $730 billion - enough to finance several years of state said. — Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 SPORTS

Gatlin, Felix to star in Spartak Moscow appoint Eto’o could be out Ostrava with Bolt out Murat Yakin as new coach for rest of WCup MOSCOW: Spartak Moscow have appointed Murat Yakin as their OSTRAVA: Justin Gatlin and Allyson Felix are among the top stars set for today’s new coach, handing the 39-year-old Swiss a long-term contract a MANAUS: Cameroon captain Samuel Eto’o will miss tomorrow’s match against Croatia and Golden Spike athletics meet in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava after Usain Bolt month after he led FC Basel to a second domestic title in as many may play no further part in the World Cup because of his on-going knee injury, both he pulled out as he continues to recover from a foot injury. Gatlin has run the three seasons in charge before parting ways with the club. According to and team officials said yesterday. The four-time African Footballer of the Year tweeted he fastest sprints this year, leading the world 100m tables with 9.87sec from Beijing Russian media, Yakin will receive a salary of 1.6 million euros was out of the next Group A match against Croatia in Manaus. last month. ($2.18 million) a season at the side who finished sixth in the 2013- “The doctors confirm! I would probably not be able to play the match vs Croatia on In Ostrava, the American will take on compatriot Mike Rodgers, veteran Kim 14 Russian Premier League. Wed, june18th due to an injury on my knee causing me pain,” he said on his account Collins of St Kitts and Nevis, and South Africa’s Simon Magakwe, who has a sea- “I’m very happy to take charge of a club with such great tradi- @setoo9. “Eto’o has been told by the doctors he cannot play for the next 10 days,” said the son’s best of 9.98. Gatlin is a replacement for the world’s fastest man tion. Even during our negotiations in Moscow, it was clear to me team’s media spokesman Laurence Fotso, adding an extra prognosis. Bolt, who pulled out of Ostrava and the July 5 Diamond League how serious and professional Spartak were,” Yakin said in a news If out for 10 days, it would also mean him miss- meet in Paris in a bid to recoup training time after a foot injury. “If conference yesterday. “For me it’s a great challenge and I hope my ing their final group game against hosts Brazil in the weather holds up and if there’s going to be a good, fair wind, coaching staff will cope with the task of securing at least a top Brasilia next Monday. Eto’o has battled with the I think we can go out there and do something very special,” said knee problem from the end of the English league Gatlin, who last raced in Ostrava in 2004, over 200m. Among three finish.” The former Grasshoppers, FC Basel and Swiss interna- season with Chelsea. “For three and a half months, I female sprinters, four-time Olympic gold medallist and three- tional midfielder retired as a player in 2006. have not had the time to recover. You could see that even time world champion Felix will likewise replace out-of-form After hanging up his boots, he had coaching stints at Concordia Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica. Coming back from a Basel, Thun and Luzern before taking over at Basel in October in the build-up to the World Cup I hadn’t had a lot of prac- hamstring injury that plagued her throughout the 2013 2012. He opted to leave the club on May 17 after Basel had tice until the friendly against Germany,” he told Cameroon season, the American sprinter will face Jamaica’s Aleen secured their fifth successive domestic title and had been linked state television on Sunday. “During the match against Mexico, Bailey and France’s Myriam Soumare over her preferred with the vacant managerial post at Premier League side I tried but after consulting the medical staff we realised that I 200m. —AFP Southampton. —Reuters needed a rest. — Reuters Kaymer romps to eight shot win at US Open

Americans Fowler, Compton tie for second

PINEHURST: Germany’s Martin Kaymer, ice-cool say it was probably the toughest day that I have in hot conditions, confirmed his status as one of played golf today .... especially the first nine. If the game’s very best by coasting to his second you have two or three Americans chasing you, major victory by eight shots in Sunday’s final playing in America, it’s never easy being a for- round at the US Open. Five ahead at the start of eigner.” Rickie Fowler, who played with Kaymer another humid day at Pinehurst Resort, the 29- in the final pairing, carded a 72 to tie for second year-old from Dusseldorf left his closest pur- at one under, level with fellow American Erik suers trailing in his wake as he closed with a Compton, a double heart-transplant recipient one-under-par 69 on the challenging No 2 who also signed off with a 72 in only his second Course. Kaymer, whose first major win came at major appearance. the 2010 PGA Championship, mixed two birdies with one bogey in the last six holes on a layout Commanding lead where danger lurked at every corner to post a However, the tournament was Kaymer’s to nine-under total of 271, the second lowest ever win or lose as he headed into the final round at the event. with a commanding lead and he prevented his The former world number one, who had rivals from making significant inroads as he struggled for much of 2012 while working on his mixed aggressive golf with careful recovery work as and when needed. Kaymer, watched by several LPGA Tour players including fellow German Sandra Gal and former women’s world number one Yani Tseng, recorded his first birdie of the day after driving the green at the 313- yard, par-four third and two-putting. Compton birdied the par-five fifth to trim Kaymer’s lead to five and the German, playing one group behind, failed to follow suit there when he missed his birdie putt from six feet. Though Compton faltered with a three-putt MISSOURI: Matt Holliday #7 of the St Louis Cardinals slides safely into home during the seventh inning against the Washington Nationals on bogey from just 15 feet at the par-four seventh, June 15, 2014 in St Louis, Missouri. — AFP Kaymer also went on to drop a stroke there after missing the fairway off the tee and failing to MLB CAPSULES reach the green in two. Compton went birdie- bogey to reach the turn in even par before Kaymer struck a superb eight iron to five feet at Cardinals thump Nationals the par-three ninth and rolled in the birdie putt to stretch his advantage to six strokes. Kaymer, who gained a major confidence ST LOUIS: Matt Adams homered for the third straight TIGERS 4, TWINS 3 Miami won it against Jared Hughes (3-2). boost from his victory at the elite Players game, all with his father in attendance, as the St Louis Right fielder Oswaldo Arcia’s error led to J.D. Championship last month, made a mess of the Cardinals beat Washington 5-2 Sunday for a sweep. Martinez’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, lifting the INDIANS 3, RED SOX 2, 11 INNINGS PINEHURST: Martin Kaymer of Germany par-five 10th to end up with a bogey, missing Adams gave St Louis a 2-0 lead in the second inning Detroit Tigers over Minnesota. Torii Hunter led off the Nick Swisher led off the 11th inning with a homer celebrates with the trophy after his the fairway of the tee and finding an awkward with a two-run shot on an 0-2 pitch, his sixth homer of ninth with a single off Casey Fein (3-3). One out later, as the Cleveland Indians beat Boston for a four-game eight-stroke victory during the final lie in a waste area with his second before over- the season. His dad, Jamie, had been visiting from Victor Martinez hit a fly ball that Arcia dropped at the split. It was Swisher’s fourth homer of the season and round of the 114th US Open at Pinehurst shooting the green with his third. Compton’s Pennsylvania on Father’s Day weekend. Adams has wall, setting up the winning fly. Earlier in the game, first since being activated from the disabled list on Resort & Country Club, Course No 2 on challenge unravelled as he bogeyed 11 and 12, homered in all three games since coming off the dis- Arcia lost a routine fly in the sun with two outs and a Thursday before the series opener. Cody Allen (3-1) June 15, 2014. — AFP and Kaymer distanced himself further from the abled list with a torn calf muscle. Jaime Garcia (3-0) runner on third for a run. Joe Nathan (3-2) pitched a ended the game with two perfect innings, striking out field with astonishing birdie putts at the 13th pitched seven innings, allowing five hits and a run. scoreless ninth. three. Junichi Tazawa (1-1) took the loss one day after swing to develop a draw, became the first and 14th, holing out from 15 and 30 feet to Trevor Rosenthal got the final out for his 20th save. walking in the winning run in Cleveland’s 3-2 victory. German to win the US Open and the seventh storm eight strokes clear at 10 under. Doug Fister (5-2) had his five-start winning streak REDS 13, BREWERS 4 player to complete a wire-to-wire victory at the The German could afford the luxury of a snapped. Billy Hamilton led off the game with a home run, RAYS 4, ASTROS 3 year’s second major. After soaking up a standing bogey at the 16th, where he failed to get up and Brandon Phillips added a two-run shot in the first David Price shook off a tough start to strike out 10, ovation as he walked along the 18th fairway and down from just in front of the green, and did BLUE JAYS 5, ORIOLES 2 inning and Todd Frazier later hit his team-high 15th pinch-hitter Jerry Sands broke three bats while sin- on to the green, Kaymer sank a 15-foot putt for well to save par at the last after his tee shot end- J A Happ pitched into the seventh inning and homer as the Cincinnati Reds beat Milwaukee. gling home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and par, dropping his putter in delight a few seconds ed up in a poor lie behind a bush in the native Dioner Navarro had three hits and two RBIs as the Hamilton connected for the second straight day, off Tampa Bay beat Houston. For the second time in a before the ball disappeared into the cup. “To win waste area. Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore for a four-game split. homer-prone Marco Estrada (5-4). Ryan Ludwick had week, Astros manager Bo Porter moved reliever Tony one major is already very nice in your career, but “He kind of killed the event in the first two Edwin Encarnacion also had three hits for the Blue three doubles and got four of the Reds’ season-high 19 Sipp to left field, then brought him back to pitch. Price to win two, it means a lot more,” Kaymer, who days,” Swedish world number two Henrik Jays, who had totaled 15 runs in losing six of their pre- hits. Frazier also doubled and drove in four runs. (5-6) allowed homers to Dexter Fowler and Matt took a stranglehold on the championship by fir- Stenson said of Kaymer after carding a 73 to fin- vious eight games. The AL East leaders take a 4 1/2- Estrada’s infield single with the bases loaded in the Dominguez in the first inning. He went eight innings ing successive 65s in the first two rounds to lead ish in a five-way tie for fourth at one over. “He game lead into a three-game series at Yankee Stadium fourth off Mike Leake (4-6) helped tie the game at 3. in his first win since May 13. It was the 20th career by six shots, told reporters. went out and shot two 65s and left everyone in starting Tuesday night. Ace Masahiro Tanaka starts the Frazier’s two-run shot the next inning put Cincinnati up double-digit strikeout game for Price, setting a Tampa “Even though I don’t feel like I need to prove the dust.” England’s Justin Rose, who won last opener for New York. Adam Jones homered and for good. Estrada has given up a major league-high 23 Bay record. Jake McGee pitched a scoreless ninth for anything to a lot of people, somehow it’s quite year’s US Open at Merion, finished in a tie for Nelson Cruz had three hits and his major league-lead- homers in just 84 innings, with 18 coming since May 1. his first save. Sands then broke two bats on foul balls satisfying to have two under your belt. I played 12th at three over after shooting a 72, one ing 56th RBI for the Orioles. Happ (6-3) gave up one before shredding a third one on his hit to left field off really, really well on Thursday and Friday and stroke worse than Australian world number one run, seven hits and no walks in six-plus innings. Casey CUBS 3, PHILLIES 0 Jerome Williams (1-3). that gave me a really nice cushion. “But I would Adam Scott (69). — Reuters Janssen got four outs for his 12th save. Chris Tillman Travis Wood pitched hitless ball into the sixth (5-4) is 0-4 with a 2.78 ERA at home and 5-0 with a inning as the Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia to win a ROYALS 6, WHITE SOX 3 6.33 ERA on the road. road series for the first time this season. Anthony Rizzo Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer as the Kansas Royal Ascot - a fusion hit his 14th home run as the Cubs took two of three at City Royals swept a three-game series of the Chicago ROCKIES 8, GIANTS 7 Citizens Bank Park. The Cubs last-place had been 0-9-3 White Sox. James Shields (8-3) won his fifth straight Justin Morneau hit a two-run double in the eighth in sets away from Wrigley Field. This was the Cubs’ first decision and the Royals extended their season-high of fashion and racing inning as Colorado came back to sweep a three-game series win in Philadelphia since April 2001. Wood (7-5) win streak to seven. Greg Holland pitched the ninth series from San Francisco. Morneau’s pinch hit high- didn’t allow a hit until Ben Revere’s one-out single in for his 20th save in 21 chances. Andre Rienzo (4-4) ASCOT: The annual fusion of high-end fashion result of extended television coverage that will lighted a four-run rally for the Rockies, who scored in the sixth. He gave up three hits in eight innings and took the loss in Chicago’s fourth straight defeat. and top-class racing which is Royal Ascot see all 30 races broadcast live on terrestrial tel- the ninth in each of the first two games of the series Neil Ramirez got his third save. AJ Burnett (4-6) moved comes with added spice this year, thanks to evision for the first time. Ascot executives are for the win. Troy Tulowitzki had three hits, including a past Hall of Famer Eddie Plank into 50th place on the METS 3, PADRES 1 the presence of two outstanding fillies. sure to keep a close eye on television viewing home run, and drove in two runs for the Rockies, who career strikeout list. Curtis Granderson hit his first leadoff homer in five Estimate, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, figures, which plummeted by 50 per cent last won extended their season-high winning streak to years, Carlos Torres and two other relievers filled in attempts to win the meeting’s showcase, the year when they switched broadcasters. five. The Giants have lost six of seven. Matt Belisle (2-2) MARLINS 3, PIRATES 2, 10 INNINGS admirably for an ailing Daisuke Matsuzaka as the New Ascot Gold Cup, for the second year running The audience for the Derby on June 7 fell pitched an inning for Colorado. Juan Gutierrez (1-2) Casey McGehee tied the game in the eighth inning York Mets beat San Diego. Bobby Abreu added an RBI on Thursday. And Treve bids to advance her to an all-time low of 1.55 million viewers. The got the loss. with a two-out, two-run double, then drove home the double against Ian Kennedy (5-8), helping New York status as the world’s best racehorse in the slump prompted the broadcaster to hire pop- winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th as the take the rubber game in a series between the two Prince Of Wales Stakes tomorrow. ular jockey Frankie Dettori, synonymous with ATHLETICS 10, YANKEES 5 They are the headline acts during a week Ascot after he rode all seven winners in one Miami Marlins prevented a sweep by Pittsburgh. worst hitting teams in the majors. Matsuzaka barely when total prize money has risen to £5.31 mil- day there in 1996, as a guest presenter. In oth- Derek Norris and Coco Crisp each hit a three-run Vance Worley pitched seven innings in his season made it through an inning because of a severe upset lion ($9m, 6.65m euros), a six per cent increase er new developments, capacity within the homer, powering Jesse Chavez and Oakland to the debut for the Pirates and departed with a 2-0 lead. stomach. Torres (3-4) went four innings, Vic Black on last year. The running order of races has Grandstand area has been restricted to 22,000, win. Carlos Beltran hit his first home run for the Reliever Tony Watson had thrown 21 1-3 consecutive pitched two scoreless innings and Jenrry Mejia made been amended this year. The feature race will while Qipco, a private investment company for Yankees since coming off the disabled list. But the All- scoreless innings before McGehee doubled. AJ Ramos his first appearance since leaving Thursday night’s now be run as the fourth race each day as a members of the Qatari ruling family, has been Star veteran also was called out on a strange play in (4-0) loaded the bases with none out in the 10th but game with a stiff back, working two hitless innings for embraced as an Official Partner for the first the eighth inning when he seemed to lose track of the escaped. The Pirates had won four in row before his seventh save. — AP time. The arrangement represents a relaxing of outs and wandered away from first base. Norris home- Royal Ascot’s previously rigid stance on com- red in the first and Crisp connected in the second off mercial backing and on-site branding. It has Vidal Nuno (1-3). The A’s had been held to one run or been introduced by Ascot chief executive fewer in four of their previous nine games before tak- Queen’s champ Dimitrov Charles Barnett, who will stand down after ing a 10-0 lead in four innings. Chavez (6-4) pitched six overseeing his seventh Royal Ascot. innings of one-run ball. targets Wimbledon glory Muscle injury DIAMONDBACKS 6, DODGERS 3 LONDON: Grigor Dimitrov insists his Queen’s Club him compared to Roger Federer when he was a Today’s opening day features three cham- Paul Goldschmidt and Miguel Montero homered triumph proves he is finally ready to end his long teenager.Asked if he is set to make the break- pionship races, when runners from France, to help Bronson Arroyo win his third straight start as wait for a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon. Dimitrov through at one of the four majors, Dimitrov, who Ireland and South Africa oppose a strong Arizona averted a three-game series sweep. Arroyo (7- enjoyed the perfect preparation for Wimbledon as reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final at the British-trained contingent in the Queen Anne 4) allowed a run and five hits in five innings. Los the world number 13 hung tough to defeat Spain’s Australian Open earlier this year, didn’t back down Stakes. Unusually, however, there are no run- Angeles starter Josh Beckett (4-4) gave up three ners from Australia or Hong Kong in today’s earned runs in seven innings. Goldschmidt hit his 15th Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (8/10), 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (8/6) in a from the challenge: “We’re about to find out in a King’s Stand Stakes or the Golden Jubilee homer in the first inning and Montero hit his 10th in classic final on Sunday. The 23-year-old’s maiden week. It would be special to win that one. Stakes on Saturday. Horses from those coun- the ninth, a two-run shot off Chris Perez. success on grass makes him the first player since “Wimbledon has been closer to me and what I tries have posted six victories in the two cham- Roger Federer and David Ferrer in 2012 to win have always wanted to achieve, and it’s definitely pionship sprints since Choisir, trained in MARINERS 5, RANGERS 1 titles on three different surfaces in the same year on my list to do or to win, and I’m going to have Australia by Paul Perry, won both races in Kyle Seager had four hits and three RBIs as Seattle after his victories on hard courts in Acapulco and the chance in a week to go out there and perform 2003. In their absence the international baton stopped a five-game losing streak. Hisashi Iwakuma clay in Bucharest. the best way I can.”Ever since I’ve played as a passes to Mike de Kock and Wesley Ward. De (5-3) pitched eight sharp innings, allowing Brad Dimitrov’s fourth ATP trophy of a career so far teenager I’ve dreamt of winning Queen’s. So I’m Kock, from South Africa, saddles Soft Falling Snyder’s first career homer. Charlie Furbush then got scarred by unfulfilled expectations will make him a just heading into Wimbledon with a lot of positive Rain in the Queen Anne Stakes and Shea Shea three outs to complete the six-hitter. Iwakuma dark horse for the title when Wimbledon gets vibes.” If Dimitrov, the youngest player in the top in the King’s Stand Stakes, a race in which Shea improved to 2-1 with a 1.61 ERA in three starts this underway on June 23. The 2008 junior Wimbledon 20, does enjoy a strong run at the All England LOUISVILLE: Victor Espinoza smiles Shea finished runner-up 12 months ago. after riding California Chrome to a vic- Horses trained by Ward in the US will contest month. The right-hander struck out six and walked champion’s impressive displays on the grass at Club, he will no doubt lean on the advice of girl- one in his fourth start this season of eight innings. tory during the 140th running of the many of the meeting’s races for two-year-olds, Queen’s proved he is perfectly suited to the sur- friend Maria Sharapova, who won Wimbledon starting with Hootenanny, ridden by Espinoza, Nick Martinez (1-4) allowed nine hits and walked one, face and added to the growing feeling he is ready aged 17 and clinched her second French Open Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill but held the Mariners to two runs in six innings. Downs in this file photo. — AP in the Windsor Castle Stakes today. —AFP to make the most of the vast potential that saw title earlier month. —AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 SPORTS Spurs grab fifth NBA title Leonard named MVP; Heat denied 3-peat SAN ANTONIO: The San Antonio Spurs delivered a chance to do this again...It’s a real emotional time.” decisive end to LeBron James’ two-year reign atop Mercurial Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who has the basketball world by routing the Miami Heat coached Duncan to each of his titles, joins Phil 104-87 on Sunday to win the NBA Finals four games Jackson, Red Auerbach, John Kundla and Pat Riley to one. San Antonio trailed by 16 in the game’s first as the only coaches with five NBA crowns. seven minutes but outscored the Heat 55-29 over In the 2013 finals against Miami, the Spurs the decisive second and third quarters and were squandered a five-point lead in the last 28 seconds never threatened. James, the four-time NBA MVP of regulation of Game Six to lose 103-100 in over- who led the Heat to titles the past two seasons, time. The Spurs were so close to the title, the court scored 31 points but was largely ineffective after was being lined with tape for the post-game award the first quarter when he had 17 points. ceremony. Given new life, Miami went on to win “That’s how team basketball should be played,” Game Seven and the championship. “We remem- James said of the Spurs. “It’s selfless. Guys move, bered what happened last year,” Duncan said. cut, pass, you’ve got a shot, you take it, but it’s all for “How it felt in our locker room and we used it, the team and it’s never about the individual. That’s built on it and got back in.” San Antonio came back the brand of basketball. “They were the much better this year with the same roster, except for the addi- team.” The Spurs were paced in scoring by the Finals’ tion of Italian Marco Bellinelli. MVP Kawhi Leonard who had 22 points, while Quality minutes in the finals from Frenchman Argentina’s Manu Ginobili added 19. San Antonio Boris Diaw, Mills and Brazilian Tiago Splitter, and hit just one of its first 12 shots and trailed 22-6 but improved play in the finals from Ginobili, lifted the outscored the Heat 25-11 in the second quarter and Spurs to the title. James played well overall in the led 47-40 at the half. finals but Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were San Antonio, who lost to the Heat in the finals a unable to score consistently and the point guard year ago, opened the second half on a 18-4 run to pair of Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole underper- seize a 65-44 lead, igniting the crowd hungry for the formed. Spurs’ first title since 2007 and their fifth overall. A Bosh hit six of 14 shots for 13 points on Sunday, three-point shot by Australian Patrick Mills and a while Wade totaled 11 points on four of 12 shoot- SAN ANTONIO: The San Antonio Spurs pose for a photo after Game 5 of the NBA basketball finals jumper by Duncan hiked the Spurs’ lead to 75-53 ing. “They’re that good,” Bosh said of the Spurs. “I against the Miami Heat on Sunday, June 15, 2014. — AP late in the third quarter and the rout was on. “It just thought we’d get over the hump and we never did. feels like a dream to me,” said Leonard. “This is my en shots in the first quarter but nailed only five of sive finals since the Boston Celtics in 1984-87, and They dominated us in this series, frankly speaking, second finals appearance in my third year. I’ve been 14 the rest of the way. The Heat shot 40 percent were hoping to become the first three-time cham- and they deserve everything that they got.” The just progressing each year and the team has also. from the floor, including just seven of 25 from pion since the Los Angeles Lakers more than a Heat’s ‘Big Three’ - James, Wade and Bosh - are all “Losing in the semifinals my first year, and losing three-point range. decade ago. The title was the fifth for the Spurs’ Tim eligible to become free agents in the offseason, the championship my second year, and now win- Duncan, a 38-year-old, 14-time All-Star who has not and, despite winning the Eastern Conference in ning in my third year, it just makes you believe in Three-peat denied yet said if he will continue to play. “I know it is com- each of their four seasons together, it is uncertain if your craft and your hard work.” James hit five of sev- Miami was the first team to play in four succes- ing to an end,” he said. “I don’t know if I will have a they will return. — Reuters Spurs coach Popovich savors fifth NBA title

SAN ANTONIO: Gregg Popovich thought “When he first came I was going to make he had seen it all in his 17 seasons as a him a heck of a player. “And after 20 minutes coach in the National Basketball I realized that he didn’t need me to do that. Association. That is until his San Antonio He was already a heck of a player. Spurs exploded in the opening half of game “Sometimes being quiet and letting the three of the NBA finals, shooting a finals player play is much more important than record 76 percent. “I don’t think we’ll shoot trying to be Mr Coach and teach him this or 76 percent in a half ever again. That’s crazy,” teach him that. Popovich said. For a coach who often “I didn’t make him a competitor and rebuffs interviewers with surly one-word there is no way I could make him a non- answers, Popovich’s impromptu answer was competitor.” Popovich believes communica- refreshingly out of character. But make no tion is the key to any good relationship mistake, behind that gruff exterior is a between coach and player. “You take some- coach who knows how to motivate and body like Danny Green, who we’ve worked cares immensely about his players. The 65- with for a long time and actually cut him year-old Popovich is a great decision maker twice,” Popovich said. “When you see some- who led the Spurs to the fifth title in fran- body develop and come into his own, you chise history Sunday as San Antonio feel like you did something worthwhile. “So wrapped up a five-game victory over the it’s one of the sources of satisfaction in the Miami Heat. business, if you can see a young player The Spurs stomped the two-time grow and become confident.” This year defending NBA champion Heat in the 2014 Popovich led the Spurs to a NBA best 62-20 finals, shooting a finals record 52.7 percent record, extending their streak of winning at from the field overall.They put together two least 50 games to a record 15-straight sea- straight blowout wins in games three and sons. Popovich had guided the Spurs to six four on the road before returning home to NBA finals appearances. clinch the series with another lopsided 104- 87 win. This season Popovich has been able NBA coach of the year to mold the raw talent of Kawhi Leonard Popovich was named the NBA’s coach of into the MVP of the finals. He also took the year in April. It is the third time he has Charlotte Bobcats castoff Boris Diaw and fit earned the award, joining Pat Riley and Don him perfectly into the Spurs’ system. Nelson as the only coaches to receive the LAUSANNE: A general view of the CHUV hospital (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois) in Lausanne, Red Auerbach Trophy three times. He also where Formula One champion and former pilot Michael Schumacher (inset) was transferred from a French ‘Take advantage’ won the award in the 2002-03 and 2011-12 hospital yesterday after emerging from a coma following his devastating ski accident last December. —AFP “As time evolves and you get older in the seasons. Popovich is the longest tenured business you figure out what’s really impor- active coach in the NBA, but in 1999 there tant, and you don’t waste time trying to were calls for his ouster after the Spurs got Schumacher out of coma, make people what they’re not going to be,” off to a rocky start to the lockout-shortened Popovich said. “You’ve just got to figure out season. who people are and what they can give you San Antonio had lost five of seven and take advantage of their positives. “You including back-to-back double digit losses shifted to Swiss hospital learn that you can’t make everything the to Utah and Seattle. The Spurs eventually way you think you might. You can’t make turned it around, going on a 15-2 run in the LAUSANNE: Formula One champion Michael wanted to “thank all his treating doctors, nurses and brain injury. Schumacher is well known for his love of somebody great, so you don’t waste your playoffs. They topped it off by beating the Schumacher was transferred from a French hospital to therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the adrenaline sports, and even after retiring from the New York Knicks in five games for their first time. You make a trade. You get rid of some- a facility in Switzerland on Monday after emerging place of the accident, who did an excellent job in high-risk world of racing, he kept pursuing thrill-seek- body. “You make sure you’re bringing peo- NBA title. Popovich says NBA owners are from a coma following his devastating ski accident in those first months.” “For the future we ask for under- ing hobbies as the holder of a pilot’s license, an ple in who fit in all the areas you want. often too quick to pull the trigger on coach- December. In a surprise announcement, the retired standing that his further rehabilitation will take place accomplished motorbike rider, parachutist, skier and Competitiveness and team play.” es when teams get off to poor starts or German racing star’s spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said away from the public eye,” she said. mountain climber. He survived a motorbike accident Popovich likes to tell the story of when don’t live up high expectations. “Guys get he had left hospital in the French Alpine city of in Spain in 2009, during which he suffered head and Manu Ginobili first arrived in San Antonio. fired every year who are good coaches and Grenoble, where he had been treated since December No details on condition neck injuries but was released from hospital after just “I’ve learned to shut up more, and that it has got nothing to do with what they 29 when he slammed his head on a rock while skiing She gave no further details about Schumacher’s five hours. The latest accident proved near fatal, but probably is due to Manu Ginobili,” he said. know or don’t know,” Popovich said. — AFP with his son and friends. The 45-year-old was trans- condition, which have been kept under a tight lid in several statements released to the media, his wife ferred to a hospital in the Swiss city of Lausanne since his accident. The racing star underwent two and children had said they remained confident that where he will be undergoing further treatment, hospi- operations to remove life-threatening blood clots the man who defied death more than once on the tal spokesman Darcy Christen said. Stressing the hos- after the freak accident that shocked the world, before track would pull through. Schumacher: F1 greatest pital’s commitment to privacy, Christen said being plunged into a medically induced coma. His In her statement Monday, Kehm said Schumacher’s Schumacher’s family was with him “in a space created family announced at the end of January that drugs family wanted “to thank all the people who have sent or a tainted champion? especially to ensure their intimacy and to ensure the used to keep him in his deep sleep were being Michael all the many good wishes”. “We are sure it best possible care.” reduced with a view to bringing him back to con- helped him,” she added. Schumacher, who made his PARIS: From a young driver with a delin- horse, I’m ready,” said the German after his Schumacher, his wife Corinna and two children live sciousness. Since then, Kehm had said he was show- debut in 1991, dominated Formula One. A ruthless quent temperament to the all-conquering second retirement, the first being between in Switzerland in the small town of Gland. While news ing short moments of consciousness, but few other and at times controversial competitor, the German “Red Baron” of Formula One, Michael 2007 and 2009. Not rodeo, however, but an of his accident in the French skiing resort of Meribel details had filtered out and it is still unclear as to what won an unprecedented 91 races, and seven world Schumacher was for many a year the undis- ambassadorial role for Mercedes on road attracted throngs of global media to the Grenoble the future holds for Schumacher. Doctors say some titles including five in a row with Ferrari from 2000 to puted king of the circuit. A ruthless and at safety projects. hospital, his departure Monday morning was very dis- patients only show signs of improvement several 2004. He first retired aged 37 but was unable to resist times controversial competitor, the German A surprising choice for a man who was creet and no press conference was scheduled to fur- years after their accident, and in an April interview the lure of the track. In 2010, he came out of retire- won an unprecedented 91 races, and seven never able to do things slowly. After years of ther brief the media. In a statement, the seven-time with German broadcaster ARD, Kehm said that “a med- ment but failed to re-enact his previous performanc- world titles including five in a row with racing in the high risk world of Formula One, world champion’s spokeswoman Kehm said his family ical prognosis is not possible” due to the nature of his es, and he quit for good in 2012. —AFP Ferrari from 2000 to 2004. But his stupen- his skiing accident suggests that retirement dous life of glory and triumph turned sud- had not dulled his relish of dangerous pur- WNBA CAPSULES denly into tragedy in late December when suits. Holder of a pilot’s license, an accom- he smashed his head off a rock after falling plished motorbike rider, parachutist, skier while skiing off-piste with his 14-year-old and mountain climber, the young retiree Mercury stun Lynx son in France. had not lost his love of risk taking, turning Brain surgery and an induced coma fol- his back on the career of television pundit lowed and then months of agony for his embraced by many of his former rivals. He MINNEAPOLIS: Diana Taurasi had 21 points and plagued Mystics. Sims added 15 points. family, friends and fans around the world as already survived a motorbike accident in 11 assists and Candice Dupree had 18 points Sancho Lyttle scored 10 of her 15 points in Tanisha Wright scored 24 points to lead the they waited for him to regain consciousness Spain in 2009 suffering head and neck and 10 rebounds as the Phoenix Mercury beat the fourth quarter and Tiffany Hayes had 14 for Storm (5-8). Sue Bird added 12 and Shekinna in the specialised unit of a hospital in injuries but that time he was released from the Minnesota Lynx 80-72 on Sunday. Brittney the Dream (7-3), who turned Washington’s 21 Stricklen had 11 for Seattle. The victory com- Grenoble. Finally on Monday, nearly six hospital after just five hours. Griner scored 14 points and DeWanna Bonner turnovers into 21 points. Washington trailed by pleted a four-game homestand for the Shock. months after the accident, they heard the As an F1 racer, Schumacher was known added 12 for the Mercury (7-3). 11 in the first half and tied the game three times the news they had been waiting so long to for his daring overtaking manoeuvres, his at- The Mercury beat the Lynx for the first time after halftime, but never took the lead. Lyttle’s SUN 76, LIBERTY 72 hear, that he had emerged from his coma times almost reckless abandon in the pur- since 2011 - a streak spanning 10 regular season scoring fueled a decisive 11-3 run starting with Kelsey Griffin had 12 points as the Sun and had been transferred to another hospi- suit of victory. When he won his first world and four playoff games. Maya Moore had 14 3:48 remaining. Atlanta outrebounded earned their fourth straight win with a victory tal in Lausanne “to continue his long phase title in 1994 with Benetton, he did so in con- points for the Lynx (8-3). The Mercury handed Washington 17-4 on the offense boards and over the Liberty. All five starters scored in dou- of rehabilitation.” troversial fashion, crashing into his title rival the Lynx their first home loss of the season as held an 18-0 advantage in second-chance ble figures for the Sun (6-6). Katie Douglas had Schumacher retired in November 2012 Damon Hill in the final race in Adelaide, Minnesota has lost three of its past four games points. Bria Hartley scored 13 points for the 14 points, rookie Alyssa Thomas had 13 points holding every major statistical benchmark - Australia after he had already scuppered his after starting 7-0 on the season. After trailing by Mystics (5-6), who have lost four of five. and seven rebounds. Alex Bentley had 12 points the most world titles (7), wins (91), poles own hopes by going off the track when as much as 23 points, the Lynx pulled within sin- and four assists. Kelsey Bone added 10 points (68), fastest laps (77) and races won in a sin- pushing hard despite leading comfortably. gle digits in the fourth quarter, but the come- SHOCK 85, STORM 79 and five rebounds. Connecticut was without gle season (13). After his seventh place in He almost provoked a similar crash in the back attempt fell short. Skylar Diggins scored a career-high 26 points starters Allison Hightower (sprained knee) and Sao Paulo for his 308th and final Grand Prix, final race of the 1997 season when battling to help the Shock win a franchise-record fourth- rookie Chiney Ogwumike, who was at Stanford’s “Schumi” had for a time considered a switch Jacques Villeneuve for the title, an incident DREAM 75, MYSTICS 67 straight game with a victory over the Storm. graduation. Cappie Pondexter had 21 points to another type of horse power ... rodeo. for which he was retrospectively disqualified Erika DeSouza and Angel McCoughtry each Courtney Paris added 16 points and 12 and five assists for the Liberty (3-8) and former “My wife Corinna has already chosen the from the whole season. —AFP scored 16 points as the Dream won their fourth rebounds while Glory Johnson had 12 points Sun center Tina Charles added 15 points and straight game with a victory over the turnover- and 13 rebounds for the Shock (4-5). Odyssey five assists. —AP TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

World Cup demonstrates Birthday Paradox

TOKYO: Mathematicians are running the rule over the day, and five have two pairs of birthdays. No coinci- must-win game against Nigeria the following day. FAN FERVOR World Cup-less for the quality of the football than for dence, explained Frankl. South Korean players Kwak Tae-hwi and Son Heung- the chance to prove an intriguing statistical quirk “It is hard to convince people but it’s almost always min might be able to enjoy a birthday tipple on July called the “Birthday Paradox”. Strange as it may exact,” said the Hungarian. “Actually with 32 teams 8, unless the team repeats its astonishing run to the sound, 16 of the 32 teams at the World Cup have play- and 23 people, 50 percent is less than the expected World Cup semi-finals of 2002. ers who share a birthday-though mathematicians are result, mathematically speaking.” Frankl says one need Though something of a long shot, if the teams face far less surprised than the rest of us. Statisticians have only think back to school when many people would each other in the last 16 on June 30, Germany’s known for some time there is a slightly more than 50 have shared a birthday with a classmate-the probabil- Benedikt Howedes and Algeria’s Saphir Taider will percent chance that in any group of 23 people, two of ity of two schoolchildren in a class of 30 sharing a come face to face-both players only getting to cele- them will have the same birthday. birthday being 70 percent. “With 41 people in the brate an official birthday every four years because While it appears to defy logic, the “Birthday classroom, the chances are 90 percent,” he said. The they were born on February 29. Paradox” stacks up. And delightfully, the World Cup- mathematical principle holds true at the World Cup Sceptics trying to shoot down the theory by claim- with its 32 teams of 23-man squads-proves it exactly. where half the sides, including Brazil and holders ing the data field is too narrow will be disappointed “It might look far-fetched,” Japan-based mathemati- Spain, have at least one pair of birthday boys. to learn that by including the 2010 World Cup squads, cian Peter Frankl said. “Mathematics deals in the Argentina, France, South Korea, Switzerland and 31 out of the 64 squads had shared birthdays, still counter-intuitive on a daily basis. “When people Iran have two. Some team-mates will celebrate joint hovering near 50 percent. “Sometimes in mathemat- make millions on the stock exchange or try to predict birthdays at the World Cup, although champagne and ics it’s no use trying to explain things to your wife, the future, you are talking about the theory of proba- cake are likely to be banned. On Friday Bosnian pair- children or neighbors,” said Frankl. “But I’ve tried the bility.”However improbable it sounds, precisely half ing Asmir Begovic and Sead Kolasinac will have to Birthday Paradox about 20 times in lectures and it’s the competing teams have at least one shared special toast their joint birthday in secret if so inclined-with a only failed once.” — AFP

SALVADOR: German fans cheer near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday during the public viewing of FIFA World Cup 2014 group G match Germany vs Portugal played in Salvador, Brazil. — AFP Belgium’s young guns set to dazzle

BELO HORIZONTE: Belgium’s vibrant on young Manchester United sensation Tunisia, will spearhead an attack missing powers. young team are preparing to launch Adnan Januzaj and his club team-mate injured Aston Villa forward Christian “We have a young squad, it’s their first their World Cup campaign against Marouane Fellaini as well as Chelsea Benteke. Belgium, also grouped with major tournament,” he said. “I think it’s a Algeria today with competition hotting goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, outstand- Russia and South Korea, are expected to still a bit too early to dream of the sum- up on the training pitch ahead of the ing while on loan at Atletico Madrid last qualify for the knockout rounds with mit. For overall victory it’s better waiting Group H clash. Seen as dark horses to lift season. Lukaku, who only returned to ease but Manchester City captain until 2016 and the Euros in France.” the trophy, the richly talented squad is training on Wednesday after suffering an Kompany urged caution over their Despite their impressive playing blessed with players such as Chelsea ankle injury in a bruising friendly with chances of unseating football’s super- resources, Belgium will come up against playmaker Eden Hazard, powerful striker a side looking to cause an upset of their Romelu Lukaku and Manchester City own to go alongside their shock win over defender Vincent Kompany. Belgium eventual finalists West Germany in 1982. have not appeared at a major interna- Despite that famous win, Algeria, taking tional championships since the 2002 part in their fourth World Cup, have nev- World Cup in Japan and South Korea but er gone beyond the group stages. they impressed in qualifying and will fan- Key players for the north African side cy their chances of matching their semi- include defender Madjid Bougherra, final showing in Mexico in 1986. midfielders Sofiane Feghouli and Medhi The sole survivor from their 2002 Lacen, and forward Islam Slimani. “We campaign is veteran defender Daniel van have a young group which has talent, Buyten, who said there were some feisty but is lacking a bit of maturity,” said assis- tackles flying in during the team’s train- tant coach Nourredine Kourichi. “Match ing sessions in the build-up to their after match this team is growing, you match in Belo Horizonte. “We usually could see it (in friendlies) against train lightly before important matches so Armenia, Slovenia and Romania ‘We players hit their peak at the right time,” know that the first match is important, said the Bayern Munich player. “But the not vital, but important especially for duels on the training pitch have become confidence. The group is lacking a bit of more full-blooded.” “Every player should experience but they are fearless and they be ready. There are only 11 starting have one important weapon: speed. places and everybody wants to be in the BELO HORIZONTE: Algeria’s goalkeeper Rais Mbohli attempts to catch the “We’re going to try to trouble this line-up but the substitutes must be ball during a team training session at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Belgian team, we’re ready for it and ready at any moment to make the differ- Horizonte yesterday, on the eve of Belgium’s 2014 FIFA World Cup group H we’ve done everything possible to pre- ence.” Coach Marc Wilmots can also call football match against Algeria. — AFP pare ourselves.”— AFP Del Bosque under Returning Russia face Korean test in Cuiaba immense pressure CUIABA: Out-of-sorts South Korea face a Russia side desper- ate to prove a point in Cuiaba today. The Korean’s fortunes have nose dived since the heady days of 2002 when they BRASILIA: Since Friday’s shock 5-1 World Cup reverse opening game in South Africa four years ago before turned the formbook on its head by becoming the first Asian to Group B rivals Netherlands, Spain coach Vicente del they went on a six-match winning run that secured side to make it through to the semi-finals. But before reach- Bosque has been bombarded with advice about per- their first world title. ing their eighth consecutive World Cup, they struggled in sonnel changes he needs to make before Wednesday’s “We may make two or three changes,” Del Bosque qualifying, squeaking home only on goal difference. They Chile clash. It remains to be seen whether the genial said in an interview with Spanish television broadcaster also lost World Cup warm-ups to Tunisia, 1-0, and more wor- 63-year-old will make any adjustments following the Cuatro yesterday. “If I make changes we are not point- ryingly a 4-0 drubbing by Ghana last week. holders’ woeful second-half performance in their open- ing the finger at anyone,” he added. “None of the play- Coach Hong Myung-Bo is fretting over his Taeguk ing match in Salvador but he certainly has plenty of tal- ers should be worried, they all have our affection. “But Warriors’ fate in Brazil, aware that defensive frailties will make ent to call on if he decides tweaks are needed. the team is more important than that fondness. We are the going tough for them in a Group H also containing Although the scale of Friday’s thrashing was truly flexible but we will also keep certain things in place.” favourites Belgium and Algeria. Hong, 45, gained iconic sta- shocking, Del Bosque reacted with much the same Captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas looks certain to tus in Seoul after his side-footed penalty took Guus Hiddink’s calm as when Spain slipped to a 1-0 defeat in their keep his place despite an error-riddled performance side into the 2002 World Cup last four. He insists that rather against the Dutch when he lost some of the sheen that than regressing, the Korean team has made progress in the earned him the nickname “San Iker” in his native coun- last 12 years. “The fact is that the quality of football in South MATCHS ON TV try. Korea has developed a lot since 2002,” he declared. The One area where Del Bosque could introduce fresh Koreans arrived in Cuiaba on Sunday, 24 hours before Russia. blood is in central defense, with the versatile Javi And before a training session at a local university, defender Martinez waiting in the wings to replace either Sergio Lee Yong took time out to forecast what lay in store for him FIFA WORLD CUP Ramos or Gerard Pique. Martinez could also come in for and his colleagues. Belgium v Algeria 19:00 Xabi Alonso to bolster central midfield, an area Spain “It’s true the Russian team are quite technical and strong. beIN SPORTS 1 HD normally dominate effortlessly but where they were Maybe the Russians are physically stronger than Asian sides beIN SPORTS 2 HD brutally exposed on Friday. Playmaker Xavi, who at 34 is like us but we are well prepared for this game, we’re focused,” beIN SPORTS 11 HD nearing the end of a glittering career, may make way he told the hordes of Korean press. “We’re well prepared for beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR for young pretender Koke, 22, who had a breakthrough the match,” he pledged. Unlike the Koreans, who are part of beIN SPORTS 1 FR season with Atletico Madrid and whom Xavi himself recent World Cup history’s fixture and fittings, Russia make Brazil v Mexico 22:00 recently named as his natural successor. their return to the feast of football for the first time since beIN SPORTS 1 HD 2002, when like in 1994 they failed to make it out of the Important role beIN SPORTS 2 HD group stages. Under Fabio Capello, who guided England to “Things didn’t work out as we wanted (against the the last 16 in South Africa four years ago, Russia coasted beIN SPORTS 11 HD Netherlands) but the group is strong and more united beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR through qualifying and in stark contrast to today’s opposi- that ever, with a lot of desire to play the next match,” tion are unbeaten in 10 games. beIN SPORTS 1 FR Koke said on Spain’s official site (www.sefutbol.com) on They hold a psychological advantage going into the Tomorrow Monday. “Chile is going to be a very tough opponent game at the Arena Pantanal as they saw off South Korea 2-1 Russia v South Korea 1:01 but if we match them for intensity and even show more in a friendly in Dubai last November. Capello’s crew set off for beIN SPORTS 1 HD and play as we know how I think that will be key.” Chile Brazil missing one vital component of their assault on the beIN SPORTS 2 HD forward Esteban Paredes said the South Americans, World Cup-captain, Roman Shirokov. The 27-year-old mid- beIN SPORTS 11 HD who began their campaign in Brazil with a labored 3-1 fielder’s failure to recover from a knee ligament injury repre- beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR win against Australia in Cuiaba, had been practicing sented a serious blow to Capello’s plans, with Rubin Kazan’s beIN SPORTS 1 FR their pressing game before the Spain game in Rio De Pavel Mogilevets stepping in to replace him. —AFP Janeiro. —Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Messi’s strike lights up Maracana

FAN FERVOR Argentina sink battling Bosnia 2-1

RIO DE JANEIRO: Argentina’s forward and captain Lionel Messi (center) shoots the ball during a Group F football match between Argentina and Bosnia- Hercegovina at the Maracana Stadium on June 15, 2014. — AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: Lionel Messi finally made his mark ference. “In the first one I think we controlled the Senad Lulic and Edin Dzeko going close in the first on the World Cup and lit up the Maracana with his Bosnians well, but beyond that, we didn’t create the half. Substitute Ibisevic scored Bosnia’s first World first goal in the finals for eight years as Argentina kind of depth that we managed in the second half. Cup goal when he shot through Sergio Romero’s were forced to battle for a 2-1 win over debutants Obviously we need to improve.” legs, but it was too little too late. Bosnia were far Bosnia in their opening Group F match on Sunday. from outplayed, however, and capitalised on a cau- Messi, four-times world player of the year and Unwanted record tious safety-first approach from Sabella in the first Argentina’s best footballer since Diego Maradona The match began dramatically when Kolasinac half. Playing with five at the back against lone striker graced the 1986 tournament, put his side 2-0 ahead put through his own net after two minutes eight sec- Dzeko and with Sergio Aguero and Messi getting lim- on a night when the stadium was turned into little onds, beating the previous unwanted record set by ited service in attack, Bosnia dealt with their more Buenos Aires by tens of thousands of his country- Paraguay’s Carlos Gamarra against England in 2006 illustrious opponents with relative ease. men. Although they took the lead in the third minute by 38 seconds. He was in the wrong place when a Muhamed Besic did a good policing job on Messi when Sead Kolasinac netted the fastest own goal in Messi free kick, headed on by Marcos Rojo, hit him who was largely anonymous in the first half. Sabella World Cup history, Argentina looked unconvincing and went in. Bosnia, naturally shaken after making changed his formation at halftime, introducing until Messi struck with a dazzling run and sweet left- such a bad start to their first ever match in the finals, Fernando Gago in midfield and Higuain in attack but foot shot that went in off the post in the 65th minute did not dwell on their misfortune for long. After sur- in the end it was Messi’s magic, as so often is the after a one-two with substitute Gonzalo Higuain. viving a nervy spell, they began to look the better case, that made the difference. “The objective was to It was Messi’s first goal in the finals since scoring side against a subdued Argentina team who were in play as well as we can against Argentina, who are the in Argentina’s 6-0 win over Serbia & Montenegro danger of losing their record of winning their open- favorites to win the World Cup, and I think we played almost eight years ago to the day. Even then they ing match in their last five World Cups. a good match,” Bosnia coach Safet Susic said. “We could not afford to relax as substitute Vedad Ibisevic Messi, whose tepid displays in the last World Cup played well in both halves and it was only because of scored in the 85th minute for Bosnia to set up a in South Africa when he failed to score have been the psychological pressure that we looked as if we thrilling finale. “They were two different halves,” exhaustively documented, made little impression had run out of steam a little bit in the closing Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella told a news con- until his goal and Bosnia had their chances with both stages.”— Reuters Mexico-Brazil clash stirs bad memories

FORTALEZA: Brazil striker Hulk insists revenge is not on the agenda as the World Cup hosts bid to all but secure their place in the last 16 against rivals Mexico today. Mexico shattered Brazil’s dream of winning the only major prize missing from their honors list two years ago, when they stunned the South Americans 2- 1 to claim the Olympic gold medal in London. But Hulk insists there is no question of Brazil looking to settle a score as they face the Mexicans at Fortaleza’s Castelao Stadium. It is the same venue where they met in the group stage of the Confederations Cup last year when Luiz Felipe Scolari’s side claimed a 2-0 victory. That success means a measure of revenge has already been exacted, and forward Hulk insisted that Brazil will only have one thing on their minds come kick-off today. “In the Confederations Cup we tried to think only about winning the game and it will be the same this time. If we think about revenge it could cause us problems,” said the powerful forward, who scored in the Olympic final clash. Nevertheless, the Olympic defeat left its mark on him, Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Oscar and Neymar, the five members of Brazil’s 2014 squad who featured at Wembley. PORTO ALEGRE: The recording of the goal line technology is shown on a screen after Honduras’ goal- “Of course I was very sad. It is a medal that Brazil keeper Noel Valladares (bottom left) scored an own goal during the group E World Cup soccer match have never won and we lost the final. Mexico are a very between France and Honduras on Sunday, June 15, 2014. — AP good team. I just hope the Selecao, in the next Olympics (in Rio de Janeiro), can win gold,” said Oscar, one of the standout performers in Brazil’s opening 3-1 Goalline technology, French win against Croatia in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Of today’s encounter, the Chelsea player added: “It will victory a win-win for soccer certainly be as difficult as last year. In the World Cup there is an extra desire to win and I hope we can do so PORTO ALEGRE: Justice was done on all fronts in against Germany at the World Cup two years earlier as again this time. Mexico are a very different side to Croatia. They play the ball out from the back well and Porto Alegre on Sunday as goalline technology it convinced him of the need for goalline technology. are very good on the counter-attack.” passed its first World Cup test with flying colors and The current Mexico side, featuring eight members French free-flowing football conquered the heavy- Cinderellas or ugly sisters? of the gold medal-winning 2012 team, also started handed tactics of Honduras. With France leading 1-0 While technology played its part in France’s win, their Group A campaign in positive fashion, beating in Group E thanks to Karim Benzema’s penalty just ‘Les Bleus’ fully deserved the three points. Their pace, Cameroon 1-0 in Natal on Friday. Oribe Peralta scored before halftime, the GoalControl system took centre direct running and inventiveness was in stark con- the only goal in that game, although Brazil are quite stage three minutes into the second half. trast to the aggressive, confrontational approach of familiar with his threat - he netted a brace in the Benzema’s shot cannoned off a post, came back the Central Americans. Coach Luis Fernando Suarez Olympic final as well. The hosts are more concerned by across the face of goal before Honduran goalkeeper had called his side the “Cinderellas” of the World Cup Mexico’s left wing-back Miguel Layun, the Club Noel Valladares inadvertently nudged the ball but on Sunday it appeared the ‘ugly sisters’ had America player who was a constant danger against towards his own net. To the naked eye it was almost showed up as Honduras sought to prevent France Cameroon and who could cause problems for the right impossible to tell if it had crossed the line. Adding to from getting into a rhythm. Wilson Palacios became side of the Brazil defence, where Dani Alves was fre- the confusion Benzema wheeled away in delight, the second player at this tournament to receive a red quently caught out against Croatia. while Valladares played on trying to convince card after he barged into French midfielder Paul Brazilian referee Sandro Ricci he had gathered the Pogba with a reckless challenge seconds before the Pressure on referee ball in time. break. Of greatest concern to Mexico, however, would appear to be the potential of Turkish referee Cuneyt But there was no fooling GoalControl. The system, Honduras lived up to their reputation for playing Cakir to be swayed by the pressure from the passion- which features 14 high-speed cameras located with an intense, bruising style, and while France ate home fans, after seeing the Selecao benefit from a around the pitch, seven focusing on each goal- allowed themselves to be drawn into a physical bat- controversial penalty award against Croatia. “It is not mouth, confirmed to Ricci that the ball had crossed tle in the first half they were also responsible for the something you can compete against. You have to the line and he blew for a goal to put France 2-0 game’s brightest moments. ‘Les Bleus’ hit the wood- accept things and fight to try and prevent them from ahead. Benzema went on to crack home another for work three times and dominated possession, with happening,” said Mexico captain Rafael Marquez, a vet- France, giving the 1998 World Cup winners a com- Benzema and fellow frontman Antoine Griezmann eran of four World Cups. Mexico must also attempt to fortable 3-0 victory, but had the technology not particularly impressive. While there is a long way to improve on a miserable record against Brazil in World been available it is unlikely the referee would have go before France can exorcise the ghosts of their Cups-in three previous meetings, El Tri have been beat- been able to award the goal. woeful 2010 campaign, when the players mutinied en every time and have never scored a goal, although In 2012, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said it was “a against coach Raymond Domenech and returned the last clash came in Chile in 1962. —AFP historic day for international football” when England home in disgrace, it was a positive first step in repair- midfielder Frank Lampard ‘scored’ his “ghost goal” ing their tarnished reputation. — Reuters Spurs overcome Messi magic Heat in Game 5 gets Argentina to win NBA title up and running

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SALVADOR: Germany’s forward Thomas Mueller scores a goal past Portugal’s goalkeeper Rui Patricio (right) during the Group G football match between Germany and Portugal at the Fonte Nova Arena yesterday. — AFP Germany crush 10-man Portugal 4-0 Mueller outguns Ronaldo; claims a hat-trick SALVADOR: Thomas Mueller claimed a hat-trick as Germany tain was powerless to prevent his side being over-run. “We lost into space, but the Germans were soon on top. Sami Khedira after a tussle to earn a straight red card. Mueller had his revenge opened their World Cup yesterday with a 4-0 rout of 10-man the game in the first-half,” said Portugal coach Paulo Bento. “I fired wide after a loose pass from Rui Patricio with eight minutes on the stroke of half-time when he chested down Kroos’ long Portugal as Cristiano Ronaldo enduring an afternoon to forget. A think it’s better if I don’t say anything about the referee.” The gone at the start of a busy period for the Portugal goalkeeper. pass and smashed his shot past Patricio as it finished 3-0 at the decisive first-half saw Germany race into 3-0 lead as Mueller con- Portuguese suffered the same fate at Salvador’s Arena Fonte When left-back Joao Pereira tugged back on Mario Goetze’s interval. verted a penalty, then fired home their third on the stroke of half- Nova as their Iberian neighbors Spain last Friday when the hold- shirt, Serbian referee Milorad Mazic pointed straight to the spot. After the break, Portugal kept chipping away at the solid time after a Mats Hummels header had also hit the target. “It’s ers were routed 5-1 by the Dutch. Germany continue their domi- Mueller, who scored five goals in the 2010 finals to claim both the German defense, which had been a concern coming into Brazil. glorious to score three goals in a game like that,” said Mueller. nation of Portugal by adding Brazil 2014 to their list of recent Golden Boot and best young player award, planted his penalty in But Portugal’s fortunes were summed up when one of Ronaldo’s “When you are 1-0 up, you get a tail-wind and when we made wins over Ronaldo’s side which includes the 2006 World Cup, plus the bottom corner to open the German’s account on 12 minutes. trademark free-kicks cannoned off the German wall leaving the it 2-0, that was a huge advantage. With the numerical advantage, the 2008 and 2012 European championships. Bento was forced into an early substitution as Almeida pulled world’s best player with his head in his hands. Having already lost the game was as good as won.” Portugal played almost an hour up with a muscle injury to make way for Eder. Goetze then injured midfielders Marco Reus and Lars Bender before arriving in with a man down after defender Pepe was red-carded for aiming Busy period crashed a shot just wide of the post, just before the Germans Brazil, there were worrying scenes for Germany coach Joachim a head-butt at Mueller after an altercation.”I felt a fist in my face The result capped a remarkable day for Germany, in front of went 2-0 up. Toni Kroos swung in a corner and centre-back Loew when Hummels had to be helped off on 73 minutes. and what happened after that was nothing to do with me,” Chancellor Angela Merkel, just hours after news broke that ex- Hummels out-jumped Pepe to plant his header past Patricio on Sampdoria’s 22-year-old Shkodran Mustafi, the son of Albanian added Mueller. Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has come out of his 32 minutes. immigrants, came on to win only his second cap. Mueller World Player of the Year Ronaldo played the full 90 minutes of lengthy coma. Having declared himself ‘100 percent fit’, Ronaldo Portugal’s fortunes went from bad to worse on 37 minutes wrapped up his hat-trick on 78 minutes in scrappy fashion in a the Group G opener despite recent injuries, but the Portugal cap- lived up to his word with an early shot, then put Hugo Almeida when the standing Pepe aimed a head-butt at the seated Mueller goal-mouth scramble after Patricio had parried a shot. — AFP Iran and Nigeria Singapore match-fixers booed at Baixada ‘planned to rig WCup’ after 0-0 draw SINGAPORE: Singapore authori- investigators SI Sports Intelligence, league”. Tan, a reclusive ties last year placed leaders of a as saying “this syndicate allegedly Singaporean businessman, first CURITIBA: Iran and Nigeria labored to the first stalemate of a global match-fixing ring operating sets up fixes six months ahead of came to prominence when fixer scintillating World Cup yesterday with a dismal 0-0 draw that from the city-state in indefinite major matches”. Wilson Raj Perumal, also a left both sides still chasing their first victory at a finals since detention after uncovering plans “From source information, they Singaporean, was arrested and 1998. While Iran could take some small satisfaction in keep- to rig the World Cup, according to were allegedly gearing up for the jailed in Finland in 2011 for rigging ing a clean sheet for the first time since their debut in 1978, a book released yesterday. Zaihan World Cup,” Pride said. Singapore’s top-tier games there. Perumal told the bore at the Baixada arena stood out like a suit salesman Mohamed Yusof, a Singaporean police and anti-corruption agency prosecutors in Finland he was a on Copacabana beach. With Lionel Messi’s Argentina, investigative journalist who has in September last year rounded up double-crossed associate of Tan, installed as clear Group F favorites, and exciting debutants reported extensively on football 14 alleged members of a global who has also been named in sev- Bosnia still to come, the other two look destined for an early match-fixing, details how he learnt match-fixing syndicate, in one of eral European match-fixing inves- exit unless they can raise their game considerably. of the now-crippled gang’s plans the biggest crackdowns yet on tigations. Tan protested his inno- Both teams were whistled and booed off the field by the from government officials and a corruption in football. Authorities cence in a rare media interview in largely Brazilian crowd of 39,000 after a first half that looked prominent sports corruption subsequently used a special law 2011 and said he was mystified shockingly meagre compared to the goal feasts served up investigator. “The syndicate had that allows indefinite detention to about why he had been branded elsewhere. Iran packed their defense as expected and been posturing, setting up a base hold four key ring leaders of the as a match-fixer. In the book, Nigeria, with Emmanuel Emenike rarely posing a threat as of corrupt football players and offi- group, including alleged kingpin Zaihan said Tan was living a “fairly the main target man for the African champions, squandered cials through matches played Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet visible lifestyle” in early 2013, even overseas in national leagues and Eng. Officials say the indefinite after he became known in the their chances with long balls to nowhere and passes straight international friendlies,” Zaihan detention-under a law typically media as an alleged match-fixing to opponents. The Super Eagles had the ball in the back of quoted one senior unnamed used against gangsters-is neces- mastermind. — AFP the net after seven minutes in a goalmouth scramble but Singapore official as saying in sary because witnesses fear Ecuadorean referee Carlos Vera, perhaps harshly, ruled it out “Foul! The Inside Story of reprisals if they testify in court. for a push on goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi. Singapore Match Fixers”. Speaking at the book’s launch Ogenyi Onazi then drilled a shot wide two minutes later. “When the 2014 World Cup on Monday, Zaihan said the arrests Iran came closest to breaking the deadlock in the 33rd comes, all they will be doing is col- last year had not deterred other minute when goalkeeper captain Vincent Enyeama pro- lecting (their betting earnings),” Singapore-based fixers from rig- duced a fine save to beat out Reza Ghoochannejhad’s header the official said of the tournament ging games. “I can assure you that from their first corner of the game. Nigeria defender Godfrey which kicked off in Brazil last some things may have changed, Oboabona made an early exit from the fray, replaced by for- week, according to the book. but nothing has stopped. mer captain Joseph Yobo on the half hour after earlier receiv- “Something had to be done to Attempts are still going on,” he ing treatment on the touchline following a heavy tackle. stop them... We couldn’t take the said. He cited audio recordings he Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi warned on Sunday that the chance,” another official was quot- had received recently implicating African sides were as good as any in Brazil and could win the CURITIBA: Nigeria’s Juwon Oshaniwa (top) and Iran’s Reza Ghoochannejhad battle for ed as saying. Zaihan also quoted an unnamed “prominent tournament, but yesterday’s evidence they will not be cele- the ball during the group F World Cup soccer match between Iran and Nigeria at the Michael Pride, head of operations Singaporean and a known match- brating in Lagos.— Reuters Arena da Baixada in Curitiba yesterday. — AP at Australia-based match-fixing fixer in the Indonesian football Turkey CB ponders cutting rate if inflation edges up

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WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine arrives at a news conference at IMF headquarters yesterday in Washington, DC. — AFP IMF cuts US growth outlook for 2014 Brutal winter, slowing housing recovery cause economy to shrink WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund fore- Recent figures suggest that a “meaningful rebound” respond to uncertainties about the economy, Lagarde ket analysts expect. Raising rates too fast could “con- sees the US economy growing a modest 2 percent this will propel US economic growth for the rest of 2014, the said. Lagarde also suggested that Fed Chair Janet Yellen strict the recovery momentum that we have observed,” year, below its previous estimate of 2.7 percent. That IMF said. Still, that will only partly offset what many ana- should increase the number of news conferences she Lagarde said. She added that that would have spillover would be nearly identical to the economy’s 1.9 percent lysts think was a contraction of up to 2 percent last holds to up to six a year from the current four. Yellen is effects around the world and hurt growth in emerging growth in 2013. A brutal winter and a slowing housing quarter. The unemployment rate has tumbled to 6.3 per- scheduled to hold one of her quarterly news confer- economies. recovery caused the economy to shrink during the first cent from 7.5 percent in 12 months. But the IMF warns ences tomorrow. Lagarde declined to take a stance on the dispute over three months of 2014, the IMF noted in a report released that US wages remain stagnant and the rate of long- The Fed has kept short-term interest rates near zero payments for natural gas that Ukraine owes Russia. The yesterday. term unemployment high. As a result, it urged lawmak- to bolster the economy. It has also bought US Treasury two countries, embroiled in a broader territorial strug- “Extreme weather occurrences have a serious effect ers to lift the minimum wage and increase the Earned and mortgage bonds to keep longer-term rates low, a gle, missed a Monday deadline to reach an agreement on the economy,” Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing Income Tax Credit for those with low wages. program the Fed has been unwinding since the start of on payments. As a result, the Russian company Gazprom director, said at a news conference. Lagarde added: The IMF also highlighted the challenge for the the year. The IMF projects that the United States won’t has cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. “We don’t intervene “Extreme weather occurrences have repeated much Federal Reserve to properly time the unwinding of its reach a level of employment that would meaningfully in commercial transactions,” Lagarde said. “We certainly more frequently in the past 20 years than the previous policies to spur borrowing, investment and spending. lift wages until 2017 and that inflation pressures will hope for the stability of that part of the world and for century. That’s a reason to wonder about climate change Investors appear to be acting with a sense of certainty stay muted until then. It thinks the Fed might consider the stability of the supply of gas that the situation can and how to deal with it.” about Fed policies, even though central banks must keeping rates near historic lows longer than some mar- be addressed promptly and satisfactorily.” — AP Iraq prompts more profit-taking EU to team up with

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS South Korea in DUBAI: Most markets in the Gulf contin- On Monday, the stock edged up 1.1 per- “Dubai’s market at present is purely at ued to decline yesterday because of the cent after the opening, but then resumed the mercy of retail investors and speculators,” global 5G race conflict in Iraq, while volatile Dubai led its plunge and once again closed down its said Shakeel Sarwar, head of asset manage- losses as construction firm Arabtec 10 percent daily limit. It ended at 4.05 ment at Securities & Investment Co in BRUSSELS: The European Union is teaming pulling itself out of recession. remained in freefall. dirhams, down 48 percent from May’s peak Bahrain. “The 4,200 level, it seems, has up with South Korea to jointly research the “5G will become the new lifeblood of the Another city in northern Iraq, Tal Afar, of 7.74 dirhams. become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” next generation of mobile broadband tech- digital economy and digital society once it is fell on Sunday to insurgents from the In late trade, Arabtec’s chief executive The measuring objective of a symmetrical nology, hoping the Asian country’s expert- established,” Neelie Kroes, the EU commis- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, whose Hasan Ismaik told Al-Arabiya television triangle formed by the highs and lows since ise will help it catch up in a field crucial for sioner for telecoms, said in a statement yes- offensive threatens to dismember the that recent rumors of a conflict between mid-May, and triggered earlier this month, is economic growth and jobs. South Korea has terday. Kroes said South Korea and the EU country. Apart from a handful of firms with the managements of Aabar and Arabtec roughly 4,200 points. one of the fastest mobile broadband net- had agreed to set a timetable for the rollout major exposure to Iraq, it is not clear that were untrue, and that the stock’s plunge works and is home to Samsung, the world’s of 5G by the end of 2015 and would work to the conflict will have any direct impact on did not reflect its fair value. Dana gas drops biggest smartphone maker. ensure the necessary radio frequencies Gulf economies. But coupled with the “I think it’s just the sentiment that is Other markets in the Gulf also pulled back, Europe had led the competition in GSM were able to support the new network. deepening conflict in Ukraine, it has hurt driving Arabtec down today,” said Hettish but at a slower pace. Abu Dhabi’s bourse fell technology - the original standard for European industry players such as global equity markets as some investors Karmani, senior manager of research at 1.0 percent as heavyweight Etisalat slid 1.3 mobile networks - in the 1990s, but fell Alcatel-Lucent, Deutsche Telekom, start shifting into other asset classes such Global Investment House in Kuwait. percent. Shares in Dana Gas, which has opera- behind the United States and Asia in the Telefonica and Orange , which are part of as precious metals and bonds. Sitting on “People are mostly concerned with Iraq tions in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, tumbled 8.9 rollout of faster 4G connections. The puta- Europe’s 5G Infrastructure Association, will sizeable year-to-date gains, Gulf markets now, which is driving all the MENA markets percent to a six-month low of 0.72 dirhams. tive 5G mobile network promises better work with South Korea’s 5G Forum, she said. are vulnerable to profit-taking. down and has raised the oil price to its The company told Reuters on Sunday those connections to cope with the ever-increas- The EU said in December it would spend The negative sentiment stifled a tenta- nine-month high.” operations were operating normally. ing number of mobile internet users. The EU 700 million euros ($953 million) on 5G tech- tive rally by Arabtec, Dubai’s most heavily Dubai’s index was the biggest loser in Saudi Arabia’s bourse fell 2.0 percent, estimates a high-definition movie could be nology research over the next seven years, traded stock, which has plunged in recent the Gulf, dropping 3.1 percent to 4,469 its biggest drop in more than two downloaded in six seconds with the new while companies in the telecoms sector days on worries that major shareholder points and breaking through support on months, as most index components technology, up from six minutes with 4G. would provide more than 3 billion euros. Aabar may be downgrading its relation- the May low of 4,544 points. The emirate’s declined. The petrochemical sector, Businesses have repeatedly called on the EU Chinese smartphone maker Huawei ship with the firm. Aabar has declined to stock market had earlier outperformed the which could benefit from higher oil to improve the quality of its mobile commu- announced in November that it planned to comment, but cut its stake in Arabtec last region with year-to-date gains of 60 per- prices due to the Iraq crisis, did slightly nications infrastructure, saying that inade- invest $600 million in research into 5G, and week. cent in early May, making it very volatile. better, sliding 1.5 percent. - Reuters quate networks hinder job creation and expected the network to be ready for growth at a time when Europe is slowly deployment by 2020. — Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 BUSINESS Arabtec denies rift with big shareholder Aabar

DUBAI: Dubai construction firm Arabtec late May, Arabtec said Ismaik had raised his maintains a good relationship with major stake to 21.46 percent from 8.03 percent; shareholder Aabar Investments and on Sunday, bourse data showed his stake expects to continue growing strongly, had risen further to 28.85 percent. Ismaik Arabtec’s chief executive said yesterday. said on Monday that the recent changes in Shares in Arabtec, one of the most heav- Arabtec’s ownership structure had nothing ily traded stocks in Dubai, have plunged 48 to do with its huge project pipeline, which percent from their May peak to close at he put at 215 billion dirhams ($58.6 billion) 4.05 dirhams yesterday, dragging down the around the region. This apparently includes entire Dubai market. a $40 billion deal announced earlier this One factor behind Arabtec’s slide was year to build one million homes in Egypt. the decision of Aabar, an Abu Dhabi state The chief executive added he had no fund, to cut its stake in the company to intention of increasing his stake in Arabtec 18.85 percent from 21.57 percent between any further and repeated there was no June 8 and 11. The stake is now 18.94 per- intention to delist Arabtec from the Dubai cent, according to bourse data. Financial Market. The divestment raised fears among In early June, Forbes magazine said investors that Aabar, which has played a Ismaik, 37, had become the first Jordanian key role in steering billions of dollars of billionaire - and the third-youngest billion- contracts to Arabtec, might be reducing its aire in the Middle East - because of his commitment to the firm. Aabar has Arabtec stake, estimating his net worth at declined to comment on its strategy. $1.4 billion. Forbes said it was not clear In an interview with Al Arabiya televi- where Ismaik raised the money to boost his sion yesterday, Arabtec’s chief executive Arabtec stake. Hasan Ismaik said recent rumors of a con- Arabtec announced on Sunday that its flict between the managements of Aabar board would meet on June 18 to discuss and Arabtec were untrue. the company’s projects, among other “What is happening to Arabtec’s share issues. Four of Arabtec’s nine board mem- price has no basis and does not reflect the bers are associated with Aabar and Aabar’s fair value of the stock,” Ismaik said, speak- parent firm International Petroleum ing after the stock plunged its 10 percent Investment Co, including Arabtec chairman daily limit yesterday. Khadem Abdulla Al-Qubaisi. The board As Aabar has cut its stake, Ismaik has meeting will take place at IPIC headquar- raised his own holdings in the company. In ters in Abu Dhabi. —Reuters John Pittenger tosses up a pizza dough at the Whole Foods Market in Woodmere Village, Ohio. The Labor Department released its May report on producer prices on Friday.—AP Abu Dhabi’s Al-Jaber Group signs debt restructuring Turkey CB ponders cutting ABU DHABI/DUBAI: Abu Dhabi-based Time conglomerate Al-Jaber Group has Negotiations between Al-Jaber and signed a debt restructuring deal with its banks were complicated by the lack rate if inflation edges up its bank creditors, the conglomerate of tried and tested bankruptcy law in said yesterday, addressing one of the the UAE. The need to have 100 percent Basci says rate cut being priced in by market United Arab Emirates’ last big debt agreement on the final deal before it hangovers from the global financial cri- could be signed meant all lenders’ KONYA, Turkey: Turkey’s central bank could cut next year, has been a frequent critic of central the broader MSCI index of emerging markets , sis. issues had to be accommodated, interest rates as soon as next week if it is con- bank policy and has repeatedly called for lower which was down 0.21 percent. Al-Jaber, a family-owned group with which dragged out the process. vinced that the outlook for inflation is improv- interest rates. operations in aviation, construction Despite agreeing on a five-year plan ing significantly, Governor Erdem Basci said yes- Asked how soon an interest rate cut could More balanced growth and retailing, had been in talks with to repay obligations in March 2013 terday. He said that economic growth was on come, Basci said it could be on the agenda at Basci defended the bank’s use of interest bank creditors to renegotiate its obli- with the creditor committee, some track and that Turkey’s current account deficit - the monetary policy committee meeting on rates as one of its main policy tools after repeat- gations since 2011. banks - including Citigroup and its main economic weakness - would narrow June 24. “If everyone is convinced that inflation ed criticism from Erdogan and some of his cabi- Like many family-owned groups in International Bank of Qatar - initially “swiftly” this year as the economy keeps rebal- is falling, if we are convinced that the inflation net ministers of high borrowing costs. the Gulf, Al-Jaber looked to expand ancing. outlook has improved, we will evaluate it ... but “We are human, and we are also citizens of refused to sign up. Citi sold its debt to “A cautious, measured, gradual rate cut we don’t have to do it. We will make a decision this country. We also don’t want high interest beyond its core business - in Al-Jaber’s Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, sources case, construction - during the boom process is being priced in. We are observing it in that takes into account all risks, all factors, all rates, but this is a policy tool for us,” Basci said. told Reuters earlier this year, while long-term rates, as long as the confidence in the possible shocks, risk premiums,” he said. “It is one of the tools, and if one tool was miss- years of the mid-2000s. But it was International Bank of Qatar and dragged down by a poor performance central bank reducing inflation continues, as He also said the bank was monitoring events ing, you could not do what’s necessary. We have Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp have long as it’s being observed in long-term rates, in Iraq - Turkey’s second-biggest export market. showed to everyone that we can use this tool in the new business, the weight of now also been bought out by local we will do it,” Basci told business leaders in the An offensive by Sunni fighters threatens to dis- when needed.” debt raised to achieve the expansion, banks, two banking sources said, central city of Konya. member Iraq and leave Turkey with a widening Basci said the economy was growing at and a slowdown in the local construc- declining to give details. “But we will do it with caution, without Islamist insurgency along its southern borders. around 4 percent, in line with the government’s tion sector. No figure for the amount of Given the length of time taken to upsetting the balances, without destabilising,” The lira briefly firmed after his remarks, but was targets, and that inflation would start falling debt renegotiated was given in secure a deal, attention now turns to he added. trading back at 2.1405 to the dollar by 0953 from June. He said the current account deficit Monday’s statement, but bankers had whether the firm’s main construction Basci asserted the bank’s independence, say- GMT, around its weakest since late April. would narrow towards 5 percent of economic previously said it was in the region of business can regain lost ground in its ing it was not subject to political interference or Bond yields eased as Basci spoke, with the output this year as growth becomes more bal- $4.5 billion. main Abu Dhabi market. “Throughout any sort of “tutelage” and would use interest 10-year benchmark yield falling to 9.19 percent anced, with net exports set to have had a posi- “This is a great milestone for both the negotiations period, Al-Jaber rates as it saw fit. He vowed to stick to a pledge from 9.31 percent earlier in the day, but still tive impact in the second quarter. the group and the banks,” Obaid to bring inflation down to 5 percent by the end above Friday’s close. But he warned that Turkey’s high loan-to- Group has continued to successfully Khaleefa Al-Jaber Al-Marri, chairman of of 2015. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, deter- The main Istanbul share index was down deposit ratio of around 135 percent could trig- operate, winning significant new busi- Al-Jaber Group, said in the statement. mined to maintain growth ahead of presidential 1.12 percent at 77,888 points, recovering from a ger forex and interest rate volatility if it contin- Al-Jaber joins other UAE firms which ness in the UAE, the region and Asia,” elections in August and parliamentary polls session low of 77,660.47 but underperforming ues at this level. — Reuters have sealed debt restructuring deals Marri said. worth billions of dollars, including However, backed by state-linked Dubai World, property developer Aabar Investments, Dubai-based BNP hands years of oil trading files to US Nakheel and Dubai Group. Arabtec has been making inroads into Still outstanding is a restructuring the UAE capital - in February, for exam- LONDON: French bank BNP Paribas, which is fying information from related dollar wire trans- They said BNP provided the lion’s share of for real estate finance firm Amlak, ple, Arabtec signed an agreement to facing a potential $10 billion fine for breaking fers to be cleared by the US financial system. trade financing to Chinese companies includ- US sanctions, has handed over to US investiga- BNP declined to comment. It has said pub- ing Sinopec and CNPC, which were the main which is renegotiating around $1.9 bil- build 37 mixed-use, residential and tors files covering many years of its dealings licly only that it is in discussions with US author- importers of Sudanese crude during the peri- lion of debt but now has a tentative hotel towers for Aabar in Abu Dhabi and Dubai worth $6.1 billion. with leading companies in the oil market. ities about “certain US dollar payments involv- od. The Chinese companies declined to com- agreement with its creditor committee, A dozen former BNP insiders and senior trad- ing countries, persons and entities that could ment. Sudan’s oil production rose from around a member of the committee said last “Now that the debt restructuring is done, the group has to compete in the ing executives said it had in recent months have been subject to economic sanctions”. 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to a month. Its shares have been suspend- handed over a host of documents relating to its The sources told Reuters that the probe has peak of almost 500,000 bpd in 2010, according market for deals. A lot will depend on ed since late 2008. oil dealings with Sudan and Iran, including so far mostly focused on the bank’s dollar to US Energy Information Administration data. Al-Jaber’s creditor committee is how much support it would get from details on trading houses’ and oil majors’ financing of oil trade out of Sudan - a much Although China was and remains the main chaired by National Bank of Abu Dhabi the Abu Dhabi government in terms of involvement in the trades. smaller producer than Iran - between 2002 and importer of crude from Sudan, BNP also pro- and includes Abu Dhabi Commercial contracts,” said one local banker Before now, all that had been known about 2009, long after Washington imposed sanctions vided trade finance to major global trading Bank , HSBC, RBS and Union National involved in the negotiations, speaking the probe was that US authorities were investi- against the government in Khartoum in 1997 houses such as Trafigura and Vitol, which were Bank. on condition of anonymity. — Reuters gating whether BNP evaded sanctions relating over human rights violations. It extended the also involved in trading Sudanese oil at the to Sudan, Iran and Cuba and if it stripped identi- sanctions in 2007. time.—Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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TOKYO: A pattern of spending on hostess bars and a widespread practice of spending on entertaining to given suspended sentences. Tsurisawa was convicted tions, the SESC’s investigation found. overseas junkets for local pension fund officials went win business from pension fund officials before regula- earlier this year for accepting a bribe. He was fined and For his part, Echigo had been promoted to a man- unchecked by senior managers at Deutsche Bank’s tors and prosecutors began to crack down in 2012. handed an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for agement position in the pension sales team in March of Japanese securities arm, who failed to prevent or On one occasion cited in the SESC report, the chair- three years. Tsurisawa’s lawyer said his client could not last year, two months before the SESC began an audit turned a blind eye to expenses that could be prosecut- man of Tokyo-based Deutsche Securities Inc, Norimichi be immediately reached for comment. The entertain- of Deutsche and less than a year before his arrest. He ed as bribery, previously undisclosed details of a regu- Kanari, was present at the entertaining of a pension ment of pension fund managers came under the spot- told SESC auditors that he had informed two managers latory investigation show. Deutsche Securities was fund official in October 2011. Mitsuhisa Murata, now light after a scandal in early 2012 in which the financial at a meeting on the issue, including a compliance offi- ordered by Japan’s Financial Services Agency in the head of the German bank’s asset management regulator found that fund manager AIJ Investment cer, that the executives they were entertaining were December to bolster its compliance after the Securities operations in Japan, was aware of such entertaining Advisors had lost more than $1 billion in pension mon- the same as public servants under the law, according to and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) found it and the manipulation of expense receipts, but gave the ey and falsified reports to investors to cover up its loss- the report. spent the equivalent of almost $62,000 to entertain practice his “tacit consent, believing it necessary to es. The SESC found evidence that AIJ executives had The investigation also raised questions about the officials at three pension funds between 2010 and promote the business,” the report said. used lavish entertainment as a way to keep pension conduct of Chief Operating Officer Bret Dandoy, who 2012. The SESC had no comment. A spokesman for officials investing with it, and began probing entertain- approved Deutsche picking up about $15,000 in The wining and dining was deemed problematic Deutsche in Tokyo, Takayuki Inoue, said the bank had ment policies across Japan’s financial industry, people expenses to take pension fund executives on a trip to because the three funds belong to a class of pension no comment. Kanari and Murata also declined to com- with knowledge of those investigations have said. In Frankfurt to visit the bank’s home office to learn more fund that manage public money as part of their invest- ment, Inoue said. They could not be independently June 2013, it recommended sanctions against a Tokyo- about its funds and do some sightseeing. Dandoy was ment portfolios. Japanese law says that senior officials reached for comment. based investment advisory firm for entertaining a pen- unaware that the officials were considered public ser- at such funds are the equivalent of public servants, sion official, marking the first case of its kind. vants under the law, the report said. meaning that spending to entertain and win favour Club chick Deutsche spokesman Inoue said Dandoy, like the from them can be prosecuted as a form of bribery. Echigo escorted the Mitsui pension executive, Compliance breakdown other bank executives, would not comment. He could In a parallel criminal investigation, public prosecu- Yutaka Tsurisawa, to various restaurants around Tokyo, Kanari, who became chairman in 2008 after a long not be independently reached for comment. It’s not tors arrested a former Deutsche sales executive, 37- including Jojoen, which specializes in “yakiniku” Korean career at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, realized that clear why prosecutors chose to charge only Echigo and year-old Shigeru Echigo, for charging around $9,000 in barbecue, and Osteria Nakamura, which serves Italian pension officials could be considered public servants not other executives. The Tokyo District Public expenses to the bank, Germany’s biggest, for entertain- food and fine wine. Their evenings out sometimes con- and that entertaining them was a problem after the AIJ Prosecutor’s Office declined to comment, citing its poli- ing a former executive at a pension fund affiliated with cluded at Club Chick, a high-end hostess bar in the scandal, the SESC report said. But even after that scan- cy not to discuss pending cases before a sentence is trading house Mitsui & Co Ltd. Roppongi district that is a popular destination for dal, Deutsche’s pension sales team continued to woo imposed. In acknowledging compliance lapses, Deutsche bankers and their clients, according to a person with business by entertaining officials, according to the In April 2013, a month before the SESC began its announced in December that it would revamp its sys- knowledge of the matter. Echigo has pleaded guilty to report. Sales staff manipulated entertainment expense audit, Deutsche created new compliance guidelines tem of oversight and said it was dismissing some bribing a public official for paying for these nights out. receipts to get around compliance checks, and in 2012 which put a per-person cap of about $100 on meals employees involved in the entertaining. It also cut the But at a hearing in April, he said that he was acting on the team spent the equivalent of almost $108,000 with pension officials, according to an internal memo salaries of its chairman, president and chief operating the direction of his superiors and that the practice of entertaining pension officials, more than in either of seen by Reuters. In December, the bank announced it officer. But an internal report prepared by the SESC and entertaining such officials was company-wide. A hear- the previous two years, the report said. had closed the Pension Sales Group department at the not made public sheds light on the extent to which ing in his case, which could be the last before sentenc- While Kanari maintained that he was not aware of heart of the problem and outlined a raft of measures to senior managers, including some still with the bank, ing, is set for today. the problem of expense receipts being falsified to bolster compliance. These included new guidelines were aware of or involved in the practice. A copy of the Both Echigo and his lawyer declined comment. The avoid compliance checks, he failed to report his own that outlawed offering entertainment to quasi-public report was reviewed by Reuters. The report illustrates former banker faces a possible jail sentence, although involvement in pension fund entertainment or to order officials or paying for clients’ travel and accommoda- what bankers across Japan’s financial industry say was defendants in white-collar cases in Japan are typically any internal investigation in the wake of the AIJ revela- tion on overseas trips. — Reuters Euro/sterling may be heading towards 77.60 pence

LONDON: The euro may depreciate to 77.60 degree of comfort, if indeed they had ever pence to the pound in coming weeks, a level had any qualms about a possible UK breakup. not seen since July 2012, as investors absorb On the flip side of the coin, the European the fuller implications of the divergence in Central Bank has disclosed a raft of new ultra- British and euro-zone monetary policy. accommodatory policies even as the Bank of “There’s already great speculation about the England is edging toward tightening mone- exact timing of the first rate hike and this tary policy. decision is becoming more balanced,” Bank of Referring to the euro zone central bank’s England Governor Mark Carney said in a stance, ECB Executive Board member Benoit speech late on Thursday alongside UK finance Coeure was quite open, on June 7, in admit- minister George Osborne. ting the measures should help weaken the “It could happen sooner than markets cur- euro. “We are going to keep rates close to zero rently expect,” Carney added, prompting a ral- for an extremely long period, whereas the ly in the value of the pound that saw it trade United States and the United Kingdom will at above $1.70 yesterday, hitting a five-year high some point return to a cycle of rate rises,” against the dollar. Coeure said. There are other arguments in favor of the Carney’s subsequent comments on pound. Yesterday’s visit of China’s Premier Li Thursday have cemented that idea in the eyes Keqiang to Britain may bring substantive of the forex market. If the pound can make a trade deals, which would also feed into a ster- five-year high against the dollar, traders ling-positive narrative. Meanwhile, opinion might reasonably conclude that a rise in ster- polls continue to suggest that Scottish voters ling’s value versus the euro, towards 77.60 will vote to stay in union with the rest of pence, would be a perfectly rational expecta- Britain, which should provide investors with a tion. — Reuters India’s inflation

hits 5-month high Gas pipeline station workers walk past the gas pressure engines in Zakarpattia region, Western Ukraine, 15 km on border with Slovakia in Uzhgorod. — AP NEW DELHI: India’s inflation accelerated to while fuel prices, including that of electrici- a five-month high in May, in a worrying sign ty, rose by 0.5 percent. for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new The government is expected to unveil Russia cuts gas to Ukraine, government which has made fighting price the annual budget next month, with ana- rises a priority. lysts calling for long-term reforms to return The Wholesale Price Index, the most the economy to health. closely watched cost of living monitor, rose “The uptick in fuel and food inflation in supplies to EU threatened to 6.01 percent in May-the highest figure the month of May is not surprising,” said since December and compared to 5.20 per- Siddhartha Sanyal, chief India economist at cent in April. Barclays. “What we need to see is how the The jump, which was in line with market new government tackles food prices and Moscow, Kiev talks on gas price collapse expectations, was driven by higher food agricultural policies,” Sanyal said, referring KIEV/GORKI: Russia cut off gas to any previous momentum towards a country was receiving no gas. Ukraine could make it harder to arrange a truce and fuel prices, commerce ministry data to the monsoon and the budget. Ukraine yesterday in a dispute over compromise. Moscow, he said, would no has at least 12 billion cubic metres of gas in east Ukraine, where Ukrainian troops showed. The increase comes amid a rally in “They seem (to be leaning) towards pru- unpaid bills that could disrupt supplies longer accept Kiev paying off part of its in storage, enough to meet its and the are fighting pro-Russian rebels, some of oil prices and forecasts for weaker monsoon dent long-term moves and fixing the econ- to the rest of Europe and set back hopes total debt to restart supplies. It would EU’s needs over the summer. whom want the region to be absorbed rains that threaten to cut crop production omy at fundamental levels rather than for peace in the former Soviet republic. restart gas supplies only when Ukraine A long-term reduction of supply by Russia, as Crimea was in March. At and further drive up food prices. going in for short-term steps like an eco- After weekend violence that included paid off all the almost $4.5 billion it could hit EU consumers, which get 1226 GMT, the dollar-denominated RTS Modi’s right-wing government, which nomic stimulus.” The monsoon is expected the loss of 49 troops in the downing of a owed and paid up front for a month’s about a third of their gas needs from index had pared some of its losses and came to power a month ago after a land- to be below normal this year because of the Ukrainian plane, Russia said Kiev missed deliveries, he said. Russia, around half of it through was down 1.45 percent at 1,355 points, slide election victory, has pledged to revive threatening El Nino, which could lower crop a deadline for a $1.95 billion debt pay- pipelines that cross Ukraine. Earlier price while the ruble-based MICEX was down the economy growing at under five per- production and undermine Modi’s efforts to ment and it would now only get gas it ‘Not about gas’ disputes led to “gas wars” in 2006 and 0.7 percent at 1,491 points. Prices for cent. The government has also made tack- curb inflation and boost growth. Oil is also has paid for in advance. It insisted Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny 2009, and Russian accusations Ukraine Brent crude were up near $113 a barrel. ling inflation, which hits millions of India’s trading higher globally due to the worsen- Ukraine must also ensure that it lets Yatseniuk accused Russia of deliberately stole gas destined for the rest of Europe. Western countries saw the talks as a poor through high costs of basic items, a ing crisis in Iraq. Higher energy costs could Russian gas flow through international blocking a deal to cause Kiev supply Gazprom’s Miller said Russia would gauge of Putin’s willingness to compro- priority. The price of food across-the-board drive up power prices in India which pipelines to Moscow’s clients in the problems next winter, when tempera- provide Ukraine with the volumes nec- mise and had been looking for signs that rose 2.3 percent in May from a year earlier, imports most of its oil. — AFP European Union. tures plunge and heating needs essary to cover EU demand, but implied he was trying to avert the threat of the Kiev and Moscow blamed each other increase. “But it is not about gas. It is a that Kiev may take some of those sup- West adding to sanctions imposed after for the failure to agree overnight on the general Russian plan to destroy Ukraine,” plies for their own use - a potential Russia seized Crimea. British watchdog fines Credit price of future gas deliveries and refused That move came after Moscow-lean- to abandon well established positions: ing Ukrainian president Viktor Suisse, Yorkshire Bldg Society Russia offering a discount and Ukraine Yanukovich was ousted by street rejecting that as a tool for political protests in February and pro-Western LONDON: Britain’s financial conduct receiving the maximum return were close manipulation. The talks are bound up leaders took over power in Kiev. Russia watchdog handed out more than million- to zero but they nevertheless highlighted with the worst crisis between Russia and denounced that as a Western-backed pound fines to Credit Suisse and Yorkshire this as a key promotional feature of the Ukraine since the Soviet Union collapsed fascist coup. Ill-feeling notched up again Building Society for promising unrealistic product. - a crisis that has brought Western sanc- at the weekend. Protesters ripped up returns to investors who had limited market This was unacceptable,” McDermott said. tions on Moscow, the Russian annexa- Russia’s flag outside Moscow’s Kiev knowledge. The Financial Conduct Both firms have agreed to contact cus- tion of Crimea and Cold War-style saber- embassy after the loss of the military Authority (FCA) said in a statement yester- tomers who bought the product between rattling along the borders. Western- plane in the east. NATO released satellite day that it had fined Credit Suisse November 2009 and June 2012 to offer the backed Ukrainian President Petro pictures that it said raised suspicions International (CSI) 2.4 million pounds ($4 chance of exiting it without penalty and, Poroshenko, elected last month to about Russia’s role in moving military replace the Kremlin-friendly leader oust- million) and Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) where applicable, receive an interest pay- equipment into eastern Ukraine. ed in February, said on Monday he want- The gas talks broke down with the 1.4 million pounds, its second and third ment. Credit Suisse and YBS generated 19 ed troops to regain full control of the sides unable to reach agreement on biggest fines for marketing failures related million pounds and 18.5 million pounds in border with Russia this week. After that, price and on changes to a 2009 contract to investments totalling 797 million revenue, respectively. there could be a ceasefire and efforts to that locked Ukraine into paying the pounds. Credit Suisse said it accepted the FCA’s come up with a peace plan. Hopes of a highest price in Europe. “These promotions were a serious findings and took the matter very seriously, reduction in tension had already been MOSCOW: Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak (right) listens as Kiev wants to pay $268.50 per 1,000 breach of the requirement to be clear, fair along with agreeing a comprehensive dented before the failure of the gas talks Russian state-run natural giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller speaks at a cubic meters of gas - the price it had and not misleading,” the watchdog’s direc- redress process. YBS said it fully accepted by Saturday’s shooting down of the air- news conference in Moscow yesterday. — AP been offered when Yanukovich was in tor of enforcement, Tracey McDermott, said. the FCA’s decision and apologised to its cus- craft by pro-Russian separatists at power. But, in a compromise last week, it It was also the first time that the watchdog, tomers, adding that on this occasion it fell Luhansk in the east, an attack on Russia’s Yatseniuk said in Kiev. “It is yet another shortfall Moscow could not be expected said it would agree to pay $326 for an launched in April 2013 with a specific remit short of its own high standards. embassy in Kiev and new accusations step against the Ukrainian state and to cover. interim period until a lasting deal was to protect consumers after a string of mis- Regulators are becoming increasingly from NATO that Russia is arming the against Ukrainian independence.” “Regarding transit risks, they exist reached. Moscow had sought to keep selling scandals spanning decades, has worried about the impact of fines on banks Ukrainian rebels. All that sent Russian Medvedev said some of Kiev’s ruling and they are not insignificant,” Miller said the price at the 2009 contract level of fined the producer and distributor of a for misconduct generally, but the Swiss financial markets lower on Monday and elite were not up to the job, echoing of supplies reaching the EU. The bloc’s $485 per 1,000 cubic meters, but had product at the same time. bank said it did not expect the compensa- helped oil and gas prices climb in outrage over Ukraine’s acting foreign energy commissioner, Guenther offered to waive an export duty, bring- Credit Suisse told customers that its tion bill to be material. YBS said its contribu- Europe that were already firm on fears of minister using a coarse anatomical Oettinger, who has been brokering the ing down prices by about a fifth to $385, Cliquet deposit product provided capital tion would not affect the mutual’s financial supply disruption due to violence in Iraq. expression to describe President gas talks, said in Vienna that the EU broadly in line with what Russia charges protection and a guaranteed minimum strength. “Thanks to the unconstructive posi- Vladimir Putin during the weekend should top up its storage or could face other European states. return, with the apparent potential for sig- After concerns were raised by Britain’s tion of the Ukrainian government, today protests in Kiev. “You can see this in problems in winter. Kiev says that waiving the duty a prepayment system was introduced,” many situations; from the paranoid He urged Russia to reconsider a com- nificantly more if Britain’s FTSE 100 share consumer group Which? and others in rather than agreeing a new contract Alexei Miller, the chief executive of behaviur of the acting foreign minister promise and held out the prospect of price means Moscow could use the index performed consistently well. Almost September 2010, Yorkshire Building Society Russian state exporter Gazprom , told at the Russian embassy in Kiev to the future talks. But with both sides filing threat of cancelling the waiver to keep 83,800 customers invested a total of 797.4 changed its promotional literature but con- Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during failure of the prime minister of Ukraine lawsuits at the Stockholm international Ukraine under its thumb. million pounds in the product, with YBS the tinued to give an unfair impression of the a sombre meeting at a government resi- to agree on gas on the basis of a dis- commercial arbitration court to try to Oettinger said Moscow had declined distributor responsible for approximately 75 likelihood of achieving maximum returns, dence at Gorki, outside Moscow. He said counted price,” he said on Facebook. recover billions each says they are owed, a compromise proposal under which percent of the total amount invested. the FCA said. Credit Suisse also reviewed its Ukraine had “adopted a position that any quick agreement seems a way off. Kiev would pay $1 billion immediately The FCA said the probability of achieving literature but decided not to change the can only be called blackmail”, adding: Supplies in storage and then make monthly debt payments only the minimum return was 40-50 per- brochure significantly. “They wanted an ultra-low price.” A source at Gazprom said supplies to Shares fall to Gazprom. Ukraine would also pay cent, and the probability of achieving the Both firms obtained a 30 percent dis- At a news conference, he pressed his Ukraine had been reduced as soon as Russian shares fell on the talks’ col- $385 per 1,000 cubic meters in winter maximum return was close to zero percent. count on their fines after agreeing to settle argument, unable to contain his frustra- the deadline passed and Ukrainian lapse, which is likely to increase tensions and around $300 in the summer “CSI and YBS knew that the chances of with the FCA at an early stage. — Reuters tion over the failed talks which erased Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said the between Moscow and the West and months. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 European shares dip on geopolitical worries

LONDON: European stocks slipped yester- start of 2014. day, adding to last week’s retreat as mount- The selloff in these stocks was fuelled by ing violence from Iraq to Kenya pummelled comments by European Central Bank travel shares and prompted investors to Governing Council member Ewald cash in on recent gains. Airlines and cruise Nowotny, who told a newspaper the ECB’s operators such as Carnival and Ryanair stress tests may end up being too tough. both fell more than 1 percent as Brent Swiss biotech group Actelion Ltd crude rose to near $113 per barrel on con- bucked the trend, surging 14 percent after cerns over disruptions to oil exports from it said its experimental heart and lung drug Iraq, the second-largest OPEC producer. Selexipag met its primary goal in a late- Yesterday, Sunni insurgents solidified stage study, giving it a potential second big their grip on northern Iraq after a lightning seller. Trading volume on the stock was offensive that threatens to split the coun- nearly five times its full-day average for the try. While airlines tend to lock in prices for past three months, compared to light vol- their immediate fuel needs using financial ume on the FTSEurofirst first volume of a derivatives, known as hedges, higher oil quarter of the index’s own average. prices in the coming months would affect their profit from next year. “Most of the Geopolitics drives market major European airlines are around 65-80 Investors were also rattled by violence in percent hedged for the remainder of the Kenya, where at least 48 people were killed current financial year,” Jack Diskin, an ana- and others wounded when more than two lyst at Goodbody Stockbrokers, said. dozen unidentified gunmen attacked a “If oil prices stay at these levels, the cost coastal town overnight. “Geopolitics is driv- of hedging ... will become more expensive ing the market again, with worrying news and that will impact their performance coming from Iraq, but also Kenya and next year.” The STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Russia. Overall, there’s a lack of positive leisure index, down 0.6 percent, fell for a momentum since the ECB meeting,” said fourth straight session. The FTSEurofirst Guillaume Dumans, co-head of research 300 index of top European shares was firm 2Bremans. down 0.3 percent at 1,385.12 points by In Ukraine at the weekend, 49 Ukrainian 1042 GMT, retreating further from a 6-1/2 military personnel were killed when rebels year high hit last week. shot down a cargo plane over the airport of The euro zone’s blue-chip Euro STOXX the eastern city of Luhansk, while talks 50 index was down 0.5 percent at 3,267.07 between Moscow and Kiev over Russian points. The best-performing sectors this gas import prices broke down. Around year were among the worst hit on Monday, Europe, Britain’s FTSE 100 index, Germany’s with Italian and Spanish banks both drop- DAX index and France’s CAC 40 were all ping 1 percent after surging 33 percent down by between 0.3 percent and 0.5 per- and 18.5 percent respectively since the cent. — Reuters Brent up near $113 on supply worries

LONDON: Brent crude was up near $113 a may be able to restrict the ISIS civil war,” barrel yesterday after a strong rally last one said. “But while the Kirkuk-Ceyhan week, as Sunni insurgents advanced in pipeline is out of action I don’t think we Iraq, intensifying concerns over a potential will see prices fall much more.” “Brent disruption to oil exports from the second- should correct the lion’s share of its latest largest OPEC producer. The eruption of price rise,” Carsten Fritsch, an oil analyst at violence in Iraq led to a spike in prices last Commerzbank in Frankfurt, said in a note. week, with both Brent and US crude gain- “Nonetheless, the threat of civil war ... ing more than 4 percent - the most since does justify a risk premium given that the July and December, respectively. But the anticipated growth in Iraqi oil production rally seemed to run out of steam on may fail to materialize on account of the Monday as the market waited to see how unstable security situation and an unwill- far oil exports would be impacted. ingness to invest as a result.” “We’ve had the initial shock, now we need to see what sort of response there Exports safe for now will be from the Iraqis and how successful Should the militants advance south of they will be in containing this,” said Ole the capital, analysts expect them to Hansen, senior commodity strategist at encounter much greater resistance. A third Saxo Bank. “The rally now needs to be sup- export cargo of piped oil from Iraqi ported by real concerns about supply.” Kurdistan is scheduled to depart Turkey’s Brent crude for August delivery was up 25 Mediterranean port of Ceyhan on June 22, cents to $112.71 a barrel by 1108 GMT, and crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan is flow- after touching an intraday high of $113.28. ing as normal. The July contract, which expired on On Friday President Barack Obama said Friday, settled 39 cents higher at $113.41 he needed several days to determine how per barrel, the highest settlement level the United States would help Iraq deal since September 2013. US oil was up 16 with the Islamists’ advance. But he ruled cents to $107.07 a barrel, after reaching an out sending US troops back into combat in intraday high of $107.54 in Asian trading. Iraq, which US troops departed in 2011. In On Friday, it rose as high as $107.68 before Libya, the western Al-Feel oilfield has settling up 38 cents at $106.91 per barrel. resumed production after security guards Reflecting on Monday’s more modest ended a protest that lasted more than two gains, oil futures brokers and analysts said months, oil ministry officials said, but it looked as if the move up last week had many oilfields and ports remain blocked. been overcooked. Production at El Feel will reach 80,000 bar- “There seem to be some grounds for rels a day within 24 hours, an official said thinking that the government in Baghdad yesterday. — Reuters Gold hits three-week high on Iraq turmoil

LONDON: Gold hit its highest in nearly managers increased their bullish bets in three weeks yesterday, as turmoil in Iraq gold futures and options in the week to and Ukraine supported its safe-haven June 10, their first increase in five weeks. appeal relative to higher-risk assets like But traders also warned that this equities, while platinum gained ahead of week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting the outcome of talks to end a strike in could bring caution to any rally in gold. South African mines. Investors often turn The Fed will conclude a policy meeting to gold or other precious metals in times on Wednesday, with markets watching of political or financial trouble, as they can out for any signals on when the US cen- be perceived as an insurance against risk. tral bank might begin raising interest Spot gold rose 0.3 percent to rates. $1,280.00 an ounce by 1004 GMT, having hit its highest since May 27 at $1,284.85 Platinum gains earlier in the session. US gold futures for Among other precious metals, plat- August delivery gained 0.5 percent to inum rose after falling sharply last week $1,280.90. on expectations that the strike in South “Escalating violence in Iraq is going to Africa might be close to a settlement. The be bullish for gold and technically we leader of South Africa’s AMCU union said could see another leg up pushing gold on Friday a wage deal with the top three above $1,300,” Societe Generale analyst platinum producers was imminent. Robin Bhar said. Platinum rose 0.8 percent an ounce to “But safe-haven buying could only last $1,435.50. It lost almost 4 percent in past until you have to sell any profitable posi- two sessions on signs that a five-month tions to make up margins for other mar- strike crippling 40 percent of platinum kets.” Sunni insurgents seized a mainly production could finally come to an end. ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq Palladium was up 0.1 percent per on Sunday after heavy fighting, solidify- ounce to $816.00, having touched its ing their grip on the north after a light- lowest since May 16 on Friday. The metal ning offensive that threatens to dismem- had rallied to a 13-1/2 year high earlier ber Iraq. last week, also underpinned by strong Ukraine was also in the spotlight after demand from the auto sector, which pro-Russian separatists shot down a accounts for more 70 percent of total off- Ukrainian army transport plane, killing all take. 49 military personnel on board. Gold also “The prospects of an end to the five- gained some support from rising crude month long industry strike triggered oil prices, with Brent trading just below a heavy longs liquidation - especially in pal- nine-month high hit on Friday, on fears ladium,” VTB Capital said in a note. “We the of supply disruptions from the sec- could see a little more downside from ond-largest OPEC producer Iraq. here in both metals,” it said. “However, Gold is usually seen as a hedge against questions remain over the long-term oil-led inflation. European shares fell, damage done to the industry, the size of while the dollar gained 0.1 percent depletion of stockpiles, which will need against a basket of currencies. to be replenished, as well as the speed at Data from the Commodity Futures which returning workers can re-ramp up Trading Commission on Friday showed production capacity.” that investor sentiment towards gold was Silver rose 0.3 percent to $19.72 an turning positive. Hedge funds and money ounce. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 US homebuilder confidence rose modestly in June

WASHINGTON: US homebuilders are feeling more 407,000 in March. But they were down more than 4 confident about the housing market but don’t think percent from a year earlier. In a healthy market, the it is healthy yet. The National Association of Home annual sales rate for new homes typically runs Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index rose around 900,000. Sales surged in the first half of last to 49 in June, highest since January and up from 45 year but have sputtered since. Last year’s gains and in May. Readings below 50 indicate that builders a limited supply of homes pushed up prices to lev- view sales conditions are poor rather than good. els that strained the household budgets of poten- The index has been stuck below 50 since January. tial buyers. The median price for an existing home The low numbers earlier this year reflected a bitter was $201,700 in April, up 5.2 percent from a year winter that chilled economic activity across much of earlier. the US. “With affordability still hugely impaired com- But warmer weather hasn’t done much to help: pared to last year, don’t expect a sustained revival in Sales of new homes are running about half the rate demand anytime soon,” Ian Shepherdson, chief of a healthy housing market. Still, builders are the economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a most confident they’ve been since January about research note. “And if mortgage rates rise over the new single-family home sales over the next six summer, as we expect, housing will take another months. They report seeing more potential buyers turn for the worse.” Existing home sales came in at shopping for homes, though traffic remains mod- an annual rate 4.65 million in April, up 1.3 percent est. from March but down 6.8 percent from a year earli- “Consumers are still hesitant, and are waiting for er, according to the National Association of Realtors. clear signals of full-fledged economic recovery In a healthy housing market, roughly 5.5 million before making a home purchase,” said David Crowe, existing homes are purchased each year. The chief economist for the homebuilders group. increase in home sales over the past year has “Builders are reacting accordingly, and are moving occurred primarily among homes worth more than cautiously in adding inventory.” $750,000. Buying fell during the same period for HAGERSTOWN: Jerry Drury installs parts on a truck engine assembly line at Volvo Trucks’ powertrain New home sales rose 6.4 percent in April to a homes worth less than $250,000, which make up manufacturing facility in Hagerstown, Maryland. The Federal Reserve released industrial production seasonally adjusted annual pace of 433,000 from the majority of all purchases. — AP figures for May yesterday. — AP

Africa needs to rely on Russian CB leaves rates itself for infrastructure DAKAR: Africa needs to first rely on inter- Closing the event on Sunday, Sall on hold, warns on hikes nal investment if it is to achieve the infra- called for greater integration of the structure developments it urgently economies and infrastructures of African needs, the president of Senegal said countries, and a “paradigm shift” in the Sunday at a regional summit. “We rely on way the resources of the continent are Economic slowdown not dampening inflation our own efforts (to mobilise) domestic used. MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank left its key inter- to raise the key rate,” she said. The bank said a recent weeks the central bank has warned that it resources, because of the shift in public He also said that while Africa has “cer- est rate on hold as expected yesterday, citing con- continuing slowdown in Russia’s economy was is too soon to relax its guard, citing continuing development aid and the volatility of tain urgent needs”, it should be seen “not cerns about high inflation, and said further rate having little restraining influence on inflation as signs of financial instability. capital markets,” President Macky Sall as a receptacle for aid but as a place of hikes were possible if inflation remained above the slowdown was largely caused by structural Nabiullina said the bank was sticking to its said at the Dakar Financing Summit. The opportunity, investment, and partner- target. The decision leaves the bank’s major policy factors such as unfavorable demographic trends, strategy of moving towards a freely floating rou- two day meeting of NEPAD-the New ship”. rate, the one-week minimum auction repo rate, high capacity utilization, sluggish labor produc- ble exchange rate but that it would temporarily Partnership for Africa’s Development- Current priority projects for Nepad, unchanged at 7.5 percent after cumulative rate tivity growth and declining capital investment. keep its threshold for interventions before it brought together the leaders of Mali, include the extension of the port in Dar hikes of 200 basis points in March and April linked The bank forecast that economic growth in moves the ruble’s floating corridor at $1.5 billion. Nigeria, and Benin, with 300 delegates es Salaam and a gas pipeline between to financial instability caused by the crisis in 2014 would be 0.4 percent, below the govern- The bank increased its threshold for interven- from across the continent. Nigeria and Algeria. — AFP Ukraine. ment forecast of 0.5 percent, though it predicted tions from $350 million in March in response to The central bank has played down expecta- a slight acceleration in the second half of the year. the big ruble sell-off. On capital flight, which tions of rate cuts in the near future, arguing that it It also cut its forecast for 2015 growth to 0.9 per- soared as the threat of Western sanctions over cannot afford to relax monetary policy at a time cent and for 2016 to 1.9 percent. In February, the Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine Greenpeace loses $5.2m on when inflation, which hit 7.6 percent as of June 9, bank forecast the economy would grow by spooked foreign investors, Nabiullina said $7.4 remains well above the bank’s 5 percent target for between 1.7 percent and 2.0 percent in 2015 and billion left Russia in May, excluding currency rogue employee trading the end of 2014 and its medium-term target of 4 2016. swaps, down from $8.8 billion in the previous percent. “Keeping the (bank’s key) rate at the cur- month. AMSTERDAM: Greenpeace has suffered a Townsley said the employee was fired for rent level for the next few months will be enough Ruble free float She reiterated the bank’s forecast for capital 3.8 million-euro ($5.2 million) loss on an ill- ignoring rules, not for the loss itself, which - to achieve medium-term inflation goals,” central The steep rate hikes in March and April coin- flight this year of up to $90 billion. The ruble timed bet in the currency market by a well- although sizeable compared with donor bank governor Elvira Nabiullina told a news con- cided with heavy selling pressure on the ruble was little changed after the decision to hold intentioned - if reckless - employee in its contributions - amounts to a fraction of the ference after the regular board meeting. stemming from the political crisis in neighboring rates. It shed 0.5 percent against the dollar on finance department. The environmental organization’s annual revenues of around “However we observe the presence of signifi- Ukraine, which has fuelled capital flight from the day to 34.63, weighed down by fighting in group, which is based in Amsterdam, said 300 million euros ($406 million). cant inflationary risks at the current time. If these Russia amid fears of tougher Western sanctions. eastern Ukraine and a gas dispute between Monday the employee - who had bet the Gerald Steinberg, the president of NGO risks are realised, the Bank of Russia will continue Although the ruble has seen a strong rally in Moscow and Kiev. — Reuters euro would not strengthen against other Monitor, which studies accountability at currencies in 2013, when it did - had acted nonprofit organizations, said he wasn’t beyond the limits of his authority. familiar with Greenpeace’s finances. But he Greenpeace International fired the said 300 million euros is “a huge amount of employee, whom it did not identify, but money,” and it puts Greenpeace in the first said there was no evidence of fraud. “Every rank of international non-governmental indication is, this was done with the best of organizations in terms of size. intentions but not the best of judgment,” He said it would be normal for a non- said spokesman Mike Townsley in a tele- profit organization that large to turn to phone interview from Mexico. external experts to oversee at least some of He said the organization was deeply the more complex aspects of its finances. concerned that the incident would offend In the 1970s, human rights groups and its supporters, and apologized. Greenpeace environmental groups may have been does not accept contributions from compa- “mom and pop operations with a lot of vol- nies or governments and is funded entirely unteers and limited budgets,” he said. Now by individuals. Responsibility lies partly any image of head offices filled with “T- with the employee and partly with the shirts and jeans” should be discarded. organization, Townsley said. The employee “It’s big business,” he said. “But what you was a financial expert whose job included see sometimes at an organization like this currency trades to protect the organization is that its ability to manage finances has from fluctuations in the market. He was not lagged behind its ability to solicit and raise qualified, however, to undertake trades on funds.” the scale he did. In addition, he ignored Townsley of Greenpeace said the organi- company rules, under which he should zation has already taken steps to strength- have checked with supervisors and proba- en financial controls to prevent such inci- bly hired an external expert for advice on dents in the future. The group said it would how to manage risks. absorb the loss by cutting planned invest- “Hindsight is 20/20, but we believe if he ments in “infrastructure” and pledged not MOSCOW: British energy giant BP Chief Economist, Christof Ruehl (left), speaks at a plenary session of the World Petroleum Congress in had followed rules and procedures this to reduce spending on campaigns and Moscow, yesterday with Pulitzer-winning author and leading energy consultant Daniel Yergin (second left), BP CEO Bob Dudley (second right) wouldn’t have happened,” Townsley said. protest actions. — AP and Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister, Kirill Molodtsov (right), attending. — AFP Turkish Airlines buys 15 Egyptian property Boeing 737 MAX airplanes firm SODIC mulls WASHINGTON: US aerospace giant Boeing ogy officer of Turkish Airlines, in a state- rights issue and Turkish Airlines yesterday finalized an ment. order for 15 additional 737 MAX 8s, valued With Monday’s order, Turkish Airlines CAIRO: SODIC, Egypt’s third-largest listed property at $1.6 billion at list prices, the companies has more than 100 unfilled orders for developer, is considering a deeply-discounted 1 billion said. The deal stemmed from the Turkish Boeing airplanes: 65 737 MAXs, more than Egyptian pound ($140 million) rights issue, it said yes- flag carrier’s biggest Boeing order in its his- 25 Next-Generation 737s and 20 777-300ER terday. tory, in May 2013, for 70 single-aisle 737s, (Extended Range) airplanes, the companies “The board of directors has agreed to submit a sug- Boeing best-selling airplane. said. The Istanbul-based carrier currently gestion to the extraordinary general assembly to look That order, for 50 of the new 737 MAXs operates a fleet of more than 100 Next- into increasing the capital of the firm,” SODIC said in a and 20 Next-Generation 737s, was valued at Generation 737s and 15 777-300ERs. statement. It added the firm would look to raise around Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’ is escorted by a Russian coast guard boat, in Kola $6.9 billion at list prices. As part of the deal, Boeing has more than 2,000 orders for the 1 billion pounds divided over 250 million shares worth Bay at the military base Severomorsk on the Kola peninsula in Russia, at dawn. Turkish Airlines took an option to buy 25 737 MAX, a fuel-efficient airplane that it four pounds each. Greenpeace has suffered a 3.8 million-euro ($5.2 million) loss on an ill-timed bet in additional airplanes, valued at $2.5 billion. says will deliver an 8.0 percent operating That suggests a discount of about 88 percent on the the currency market by a well-intentioned - if reckless - employee in its financial unit. Airlines typically receive discounts on cost per seat advantage over the new sin- current share price of around 34 pounds. SODIC did not The environmental group, which is based in Amsterdam, said yesterday, the employ- aircraft list prices. “Today’s order represents gle-aisle aircraft planned by European rival ee - who had bet the euro would not strengthen against other currencies in 2013, another component of our continuous Airbus, the A320neo. The 737 MAX is say what it wanted the money for. Naeem Brokerage when it did - had acted beyond the limits of his authority. —AP growth strategy, with the 737 MAX provid- Boeing’s response to the new A320Neo. The said the move would help SODIC maintain a strong bal- ing Turkish Airlines with increased flexibili- first flights of both planes are scheduled in ance sheet while it prepares to acquire much needed ty across our ever-expanding network,” said 2016, with deliveries to customers begin- land for future developments. “The added liquidity German appetite for short trips Ahmet Bolat, chief investment and technol- ning in 2017. — AFP should help monetize and unlock long term sharehold- er value through new project executions,” Naeem said in lifts European cruise industry a research note. FRANKFURT: Europe’s cruise lines passenger Germany, told Reuters. Barcelona, Civitavecchia Siemens, Mitsubishi unveil Egypt’s economy has been hit by more than three growth rose in 2013 due to the popularity of the north of Rome, Venice and Southampton were years of economic and political turmoil since a popular Mediterranean as a destination and Germans’ the busiest cruise ports. joint bid for Alstom’s ops uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. appetite for short trips in northern Europe, a “Some of the big ships with their wellness Last month US private equity firm Ripplewood lobby group said. A record 6.4 million and fitness opportunities, restaurants and FRANKFURT: Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy they were joining forces to launch a rival offer bought a near 10 percent stake in SODIC for 217.2 mil- Europeans booked cruises last year with opera- entertainment shows, are seen as a holiday Industries unveiled yesterday the terms of their to a $17-billion bid by GE, but the details were lion pounds, in a sign of revived interest in Egyptian tors such as Carnival, TUI and All Leisure Group, resort themselves,” Grammerstorf added. In joint bid for the energy assets of French indus- hammered out in talks on Sunday. equities. In April, the firm ended a dispute with Egypt’s up 3.6 percent after an increase of 1.3 percent in the 1980s, when TV series like “The Love Boat” trial jewel Alstom, also coveted by General Under the terms of the bid, MHI would cre- government, agreeing to pay 900 million pounds over 2012, according to a report published by the stirred a desire for what were then expensive Electric in the US. ate three joint ventures by acquiring 40 percent seven years after a revaluation of its Eastown develop- Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) cruises, the average number of passengers Siemens said in a statement that it of Alstom’s Nuclear business and 20 percent ment project in Cairo. Eastown is twice the size of yesterday. aboard was 400-600. Now it is 3,000 and a “intends to acquire 100 percent of Alstom’s each of its grid and hydroelectric business for London’s 97-acre Canary Wharf business district and Germany saw a 9.2 percent rise in passen- week-long cruise can be booked for about gas business, including related service con- 3.1 billion euros in cash. Alstom’s energy unit, includes offices, shops and homes. The government had gers, drawing level with Britain as Europe’s the same price as a onshore package holiday. tracts, for 3.9 billion euros ($5.3 billion) in which builds generators, turbines and transmis- largest markets, with each accounting for Doubts about the safety of cruise ships have cash”. Japan’s MHI “will inject into Alstom 3.1 sion systems, accounts for 70 percent of its busi- sought to revoke SODIC’s rights over the land because around 27 percent. “Cruising from German ports faded more than two years after Carnival billion euros in cash” and “become a stable ness. It is one of France’s biggest private sector of delays in the development. benefits from the fact that some people increas- Corp’s Costa Concordia sank off Italy in 2012, and long-term shareholder of Alstom by employers with about 18,000 staff nationwide. In the property sector, demand for new housing ingly tend to go on short breaks instead of tak- Grammerstorf said, adding that the industry offering to acquire up to 10 percent stake Seeking to allay any fears about possible layoffs remains strong and officials have said Egypt needs ing a long holiday to a far-away place,” Helge had seen a dip in bookings shortly after- from Bouygues,” the statement said. arising from a deal, GE promised late May to around 500,000 new units a year to satisfy the demands Grammerstorf, National Director of CLIA wards. — Reuters Siemens and MHI announced last week that create 1,000 jobs in France. — AFP of its population. — Reuters TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 BUSINESS

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ProCons SAP Gold Partner boosts presence in Kuwait KUWAIT: ProCons, the accredited SAP He added: “We are very pleased to gold partner and Master VAR for SAP have agreed terms and established this Business One, has signed a joint venture joint venture with ProCons. The company with Al-Awama Group of Companies- a is one of the most reputable in its indus- large Kuwaiti Group involved in a spec- try and has clear benefits for our invest- trum of business activities such as ment portfolio. We welcome our new Electro-Mechanical works, Catering partners and look forward to a long and Services, Telecommunications, Education, successful business relationship,” Travel & Tourism and many more. Wassim Hassanieh, Managing Director Kuwait, which is rocketing in diverse of ProCons, said: “Kuwait is very strategic services sectors, is moving to integrate for us; it took us sometime to find the the latest Information Technologies into right partner which shares the same val- the services sector. This decision comes ues, but now we are very glad to partner amidst development plans, which heavily with Al-Awama.” He added: “Using our rely on a strong IT infrastructure. The industry expertise, technological capabil- services sector is already playing a major ities and SAP software, we will help move role in the development of the country, any business entity in Kuwait from one and a brighter future depends on level to another.” whether the expansion in services is sup- Hassanieh added: ”ProCons strong ported by strong IT platforms. The sup- network and partners is all what Al- port of IT in different sectors establishes Awama needs to significantly improve robust and collateral benefits for all other their performance by brining greater sectors: Education and Healthcare, competition and better technologies to Energy, Telecommunication and any services sector in Kuwait.” Transportation. As SAP’s Gold partner with more than Over the past few years, ProCons has 10 years of business project experience, built a strong network of channel part- ProCons is committed to developing ners and demonstrated great success and innovations that improve the lives of NBK named ‘Priceless growth across the region. The joint ven- people everywhere. SAP which is the ture comes during aggressive expansion market leader in enterprise application plans and amazing growth of ProCons as software has helped companies of all well as the services sector in Kuwait. sizes and industries to run more efficient- Partner’ by MasterCard Ibrahim Al Ghanim the CEO of Al- ly. Over the last few years, ProCons has Awama Group, said: “The services sector built a strong network of channel part- is highly dependent on the IT platforms ners and resellers across the Middle East KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has Al-Nahedh said, “This award marks a new ence ever, by building on the longstanding and infrastructure that we acquire in and Africa. Established in Dubai in 2005 been recognized as a ‘Priceless Partner’ in recognition of NBK’s unique and leading posi- relationships with a world leading partner and Kuwait. The service industry is a large and with offices in UAE, KSA, Lebanon, Qatar, Kuwait by MasterCard in recognition of the tion locally and regionally. We are privileged to brand such as MasterCard,” Al-Nahedh added. growing source of jobs across the coun- Kuwait and Turkey the company provides long standing and successful collaboration be named MasterCard’s ‘Priceless Partner’ in Speaking on the occasion, Raghu Malhotra try and our strength in the area will play professional SAP consultancy and expert- between the two companies to promote the Kuwait as this distinction underpins the excel- said, “NBK has been a key advocate for further- an important role in economic and social ise to businesses within the MENA region. adoption of electronic payment solutions. lence of NBK’s services and its pioneering posi- ing electronic payment solutions in Kuwait and development. Our joint venture with ProCons-4it is acknowledged for deliver- To commemorate the occasion, Raghu tion in offering specialized and innovative the bank’s leadership has always been a ProCons will establish highly productive ing many solutions across numerous dis- Malhotra, Division President, Middle East and banking services that are available in the world staunch supporter of our vision of a world sector generating benefits for many ciplines and sectors, and for having a North Africa, MasterCard and Pankaj Kathuria, today.” beyond cash. We are delighted to recognize industries, and this in return will provide proven track record of providing full life- Area Head for Southern Gulf, MasterCard pre- “NBK’s relationship with MasterCard extends NBK as our ‘Priceless Partner’ and we look for- services that power inclusive growth.” cycle projects. sented a plaque to Mazin Saad Al-Nahedh, NBK over several years. NBK is committed to provid- ward to jointly achieving greater milestones in General Manager, Consumer Banking Group. ing its customers with the best banking experi- the near future.” SAMENA to hold Telecom Leaders’ summit in Dubai ‘E’tamid Warba & Transfer your Salary’ KUWAIT: SAMENA Telecommunications cussions on issues such as setting invest- campaign to last until June 26 Council is set to present The Telecom ment-friendly policies and regulations by Leaders’ Summit 2014 on Thursday, June the governments and regulators, diversi- KUWAIT: Warba Bank yesterday “E’tamid Warba & Transfer your tive response received from cus- 19th at Armani Hotel Dubai. Hosted by fication of revenue streams by telecom announced that “E’tamid Warba & Salary” Campaign received a very tomers, Adnan Al-Salem, Chief Huawei, the Summit will be held under operators, introducing efficient, service Transfer your Salary” campaign is positive response from customers Retail Banking Officer at Warba the theme “The Rise of the Broadband delivery platform by technology Economy - Shaping Excellence in providers and innovative applications running until June 26th, 2014. in the Avenues and 360 Mall Bank said: “Our ‘E’tamid Warba & Cooperation - Government, Telecom and services by the Internet players,” said The campaign gives customers where they could enquire about Transfer your Salary’ campaign Operators, Internet Players” Bocar Ba, CEO, SAMENA Telecomm-unica- the opportunity to win a state-of- the campaign, how to register, falls in line with our aim to The agenda for The Telecom Leaders’ tions Council. the-art Mercedes G63 AMG by and to find out more about the enhance the bank’s marketing Summit 2014 will encompass various ses- “At the same time, we are also excited simply transferring their salaries grand prize; the Mercedes G63 strategy which is designed to sions in the presence of ministers from the about the future of “Cooperation” among to their Warba accounts. AMG. Commenting on the posi- expand our customer segment.” ICT sector of various countries as well as industry stakeholders within the region “All customers who transfer key industry figures from the region, and look forward to seeing strong repre- their salaries to their Warba including H.E. Mohamed Al Ghanim - DG sentation and participation from the account before the closing date TRA, UAE; Hamadoun Toure - Secretary regional telecoms and ICT community in will have the opportunity to win a General, ITU; Osman Sultan - CEO, du; the Council’s initiatives and meetings top of the range Mercedes G63 Bocar A Ba - CEO, SAMENA Telecommu- such as this Summit,” he added. AMG. Our Al-Safwa distinguished nications Council; Shi Yaohong - President, “This region is home to a thriving salary customers whose salaries pliant banking products with a Huawei Middle East. The discussions will telecommunications landscape; one in are above KD 1500, will have view to meet customers’ growing span three areas including Role of which governments, businesses and twice the chance to win with expectations, and allow them to Government, Digital Governance and operators continue to set new milestones double entries to the draw. The keep pace with the economic Broadband Development Strategy. in delivering services to the public. That winner will be announced at the developments of the local bank- “Considering that the ICT sector in the progress will no doubt continue as we prize giving ceremony, scheduled ing market.” region is on the threshold of a digital rev- keep the customer at the heart of our on July 10, during which the elec- For more information about olution, SAMENA Telecommunications industry’s innovation. 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At The Telecom porting the advancement of the region’s is Warba’s first promotional cam- June15th, 2014;contact the Leaders’ Summit 2014, we are looking broadband economy,” said Shi Yaohong, paign for 2014, but it won’t be Customer Service Center at forward to very dynamic and prolific dis- President of Huawei Middle East. the last, as Warba Bank continues 1825555or visit your nearest innovating excellent Sharia com- Warba Bank branch. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 technology

Amazon launches music streaming for Prime members

LOS ANGELES: Amazon’s newly announced music ranked Universal Music Group. Wedbush analyst surged 39 percent to $1.4 billion, according to the played on other digital services, the person said. Both streaming service is yet another attempt by the Michael Pachter said the service is not likely to make Recording Industry Association of America. Early people were not authorized to speak publicly and company to move beyond e-commerce and infuse a big impact on Prime membership. He said Prime results this year showed a further decline in music spoke on condition of anonymity. itself into the daily lives of Americans with an members are likely to already use other streaming download sales, Boom said. “Music consumption Amazon will recommend songs to customers increasing number of offerings -including grocery services so there is not much of a reason to switch to habits are changing, which is why we started this,” he who have bought music from it in the past with delivery and streaming TV. Amazon’s service. said. “We saw the change happening.” offers to complete albums if they’re available on The announcement comes just days ahead of the “Very few people are going to use it, like Prime Seattle-based Amazon reached licensing deals the service. It has also hired experts to compile expected unveiling of the company’s first smart- Instant Video, very few people even know that with most of the top independent labels and major hundreds of playlists that are 20 to 50 songs in phone. Starting Thursday, Amazon.com Inc will offer exists,” he said. “We are Prime members because we recording companies Sony and Warner Music, but length based on genre or mood that are easy to more than a million tracks for ad-free streaming and want free shipping.” Steve Boom, Amazon’s vice pres- failed to reach a deal with top-ranked Universal download before getting on the subway or on a download to Kindle Fire tablets as well as to comput- ident of digital music, said the service will pay for Music Group. That means that while the service will plane, Boom said. ers and the Amazon Music app for Apple and itself and isn’t part of the reason why the company feature artists like Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Amazon’s strategy has long been to plow the Android devices. The service, called Prime Music, is raised the price of Prime from $79 in March - a move Bruce Springsteen, Pink and Madonna - it will lack money it generates back into its business, focusing likely to be integrated with an Amazon smartphone Amazon said would cover higher shipping costs. music by Universal stars such as Katy Perry, Taylor on growth. The tactic results in thin margins, but expected to be previewed tomorrow. Instead, the company will benefit because Prime Swift and Jay-Z. investors largely give Amazon a pass for forgoing a People who pay $99 a year for an Amazon Prime members tend to buy more from Amazon and The service also won’t have many new releases - strong profit for growth. The company boosted its membership can listen to tens of thousands of remain loyal customers. “If they come to Amazon for and for major artists that could mean music that has Prime 2-day shipping membership program annual albums from artists including Beyonce, The their music needs, they become better and longer- been released within the last six months. Universal fee from $79 to $99 in March to offset higher ship- Lumineers and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for no term Amazon customers, and we think that’s a good didn’t reach a deal with Amazon because it disagreed ping costs. Since then, it has been adding services to extra cost. By adding music, Amazon is hoping to thing,” Boom said. with the value of the lump sum royalty payment on Prime membership to attract new customers and hook new customers and retain existing ones on its The deal comes on the heels of Apple Inc.’s offer for the albums in question, according to two encourage existing customers to spend more. Prime free-shipping plan, which also allows sub- announcement that it is purchasing headphone and people familiar with the matter. One person said the It started a service that lets Twitter users add scribers to watch streams of movies and TV shows music-streaming company Beats for $3 billion and is royalty amounted to about $40 million to $50 million Amazon.com products to their carts without leaving and gives Kindle owners a library of books they can a further acknowledgement of the rise in popularity for the entire music industry over two years. the social media site. In April, it launched Prime borrow once a month. of streaming and the decline of digital downloads. Labels other than Universal concluded the Pantry, a grocery delivery service for Prime members. But the service has far fewer songs than services US sales of downloaded songs slipped 1 percent last amount would be equal to or better than a per-play The same month, it introduced Amazon Fire, its first like Spotify or Rhapsody, and no deal with top- year to $2.8 billion while streaming music revenue streaming royalty, given how often the songs were set-top video streaming box. — AP FCC examining reasons Apps let parents control for Internet traffic jams SAN FRANCISCO: The Federal Commun- Communications, arguing they should ications Commission is setting out to unrav- be able to afford to deliver whatever online kids’ usage of e-devices el the mystery behind the Internet traffic content that their subscribers want, given jams bogging down the delivery of Netflix that their customers pay $50 to $80 per videos and other online content. month for their Internet service. Netflix Agency studies effects of technology on young users The inquiry announced Friday by FCC charges $8 to $12 per month for its Internet Chairman Tom Wheeler will dissect the video service. With the FCC inquiry, Wheeler TORONTO: Parents struggling to get their chil- and family time. Once a device has been paused, which outlines how much time kids spend on routes that video and other data travel to hopes to get a better understanding of how dren away from smartphones and tablets for all functions on their device are blocked, includ- certain apps, and how often they used them. reach Internet service providers such as Netflix and other websites are reaching the meals, homework, exercise and other activities ing the ability to text and play with apps. With another app called ScreenTime, parents can Comcast and Verizon. This crucial handoff of Internet service providers through intercon- can arm themselves with new apps to remotely To use the app, parents install it on the child’s push a button on their phones to block usage on content has gained more attention in nection, or “peering,” arrangements. block access to the devices. device and enter in their phone number to link their children’s devices. They can also set daily recent months as Netflix Inc. and other crit- “The bottom line is that consumers need Usage of smartphones and tablets among chil- the two devices. Parents can then set specific time limits for particular apps. The app, for ics have accused the two Internet service to understand what is occurring when the dren has tripled since 2011, according to break times, ranging from 30 minutes to three Android, requires a subscription of $3.99 a providers of deliberately slowing incoming Internet service they’ve paid for does not Common Sense Media, a San Francisco based hours, when the device will be locked. A count- month. traffic from websites unwilling to pay for a adequately deliver the content they desire, non-profit that studies the effects of media and down screen displayed on the child’s device Kimberly Young, a psychologist who focuses less congested entry point. especially content they’ve also paid for,” technology on young users. A new app called shows when they can use it again. on Internet addiction, believes parents need to Comcast and Verizon contend Netflix Wheeler said in a statement. DinnerTime Parental Control, for iPhone or Sah said he was inspired to develop the app by control how much time their children spend on should bear some of the cost for handling In the process, the FCC also could shed Android smartphones, enables parents to restrict the tradition of family dinners, which he thinks is their devices. But she added an app might not be the heavy traffic caused by its 36 million more light on whether Netflix is saving when children can use their smartphones and being lost in the age of technology. “Dinner time the best way to do it. “I do not agree that any app USsubscribers watching video over high- money in its peering deals with Comcast tablets. brings families together for quality time and to is better than good old-fashioned parenting in speed Internet connections. At peak view- and Verizon. Although the terms of the “The price of entry level smartphones and have lots of different conversations. We want peo- terms of treating Internet addiction,” said Young, ing hours, Netflix accounts for about one- partnerships haven’t been disclosed, both tablets have come down a lot, and as a result, ple to come together for engaging conversations, who added that she has seen children as young third of the Internet traffic in the US, accord- Comcast and Verizon have suggested more and more kids have their own individual rather than be distracted by a tablet,” he said. as 3 years old using mobile devices. “The larger ing to the research firm Sandvine. Netflix is paying them less for a direct con- devices,” said Richard Sah, co-founder of DinnerTime Plus, another free app from the issue is how young is too young,” said Young. Sah The picture quality of Netflix video, nection to their network than what it previ- DinnerTime, based in San Mateo, California. company, lets parents manage the apps their chil- is also concerned about usage of devices by though, has been increasingly erratic dur- ously cost Netflix to deliver video through With the free app, parents can pause activity dren use and to views the apps they are using in young children. “Most kids can use smartphones ing the past year at several major Internet other intermediaries. on a child’s Android smartphone or tablet so that real time. before learning to write their names or tie their service providers, including Comcast and they can focus on things like homework, exercise Parents can also purchase detailed reporting, shoes,” he said. — Reuters Verizon, which have a combined 30 million Greater transparency subscribers in the US. While Netflix has In a rare show of unanimity, Netflix and been streaming more smoothly at Comcast both said they welcomed the Comcast since those two companies FCC’s inquiry in the interests of greater forged their partnership in February, some transparency. Verizon reaffirmed its sup- problems have still been occurring on port for the status quo and pointed out Verizon’s network. Netflix CEO Reed that “Internet traffic exchange has always Hastings has continued sniping at both been handled through commercial agree- Comcast Corp. and Verizon ments.” — AP Vodafone targets ‘connected cars’ with Italian agreement LONDON: Vodafone is buying an Italian car invest in the business to offer our automo- electronics maker for 145 million euros tive and insurance customers a full range of ($197 million), seeking to get ahead in the telematics services.” race to connect more products to the inter- Other mobile operators are also invest- net and offset slowing growth in its core ing in the M2M industry - also known as mobile phone business. Telecoms and tech- “the internet of things” - looking for new nology firms are looking to tap an expect- sources of income as stiff competition and ed surge in demand for so-called machine- regulation slow growth in their core mar- to-machine (M2M) communications - or ket. For example, Verizon Communications, using the internet to get products from the largest US wireless carrier, spent $612 cars and washing machines to turbines and million in cash in 2012 to buy Hughes medical equipment to carry out more tasks, Telematics, which sells products including more efficiently. GPS tracking, communications and safety Cars are at the forefront of the new features in cars. industry, as manufacturers strive to add Technology companies are also deeply new features such as streaming music, involved. Earlier this year, Apple unveiled playing audio books, navigation aids and its CarPlay technology, which integrates its security improvements to their vehicles. iPhone with a car and allows drivers to use Only about 10 percent of vehicles cur- certain apps on the dashboard with Siri, the rently have built-in connectivity to the voice-enabled assistant, to view maps, internet, but that number is expected to make calls, listen to music and send and rise to more than 90 percent by 2020, receive text messages. according to British consulting firm In other industries, examples of M2M Machina Research. Vodafone said yesterday technology already in use include smart it had agreed to buy Cobra Automotive meters which monitor energy usage at Technologies, which provides products homes, or devices in offices which tell an aimed at improving car security, telecom- owner when their coffee machine needs re- munications and vehicle tracking for the stocking. Enders analyst James Barford said automotive and insurance industries. mobile operators were still undecided “The combination of Vodafone and whether they wanted to provide just the net- Cobra will create a new global provider of work capabilities for M2M communications TOULOUSE: Airbus Group CEO, German Tom Enders, flanked by Airbus CEO, French Fabrice Bregier (left) and A350 Airbus plane project manag- connected car services,” said Erik Brenneis, or actually compete with IT providers to er Didier Evrard (center), gestures in front of the final assembly line of the A350 XWB Airbus (Airbus long-haul plane, eXtra Wide Body), yester- Director of M2M at Vodafone. “We plan to manage the services themselves. — Reuters day in Colomiers’ Airbus plant, near Toulouse, southwestern France. — AFP Airbus, Safran team up to compete with SpaceX

PARIS: Aerospace giant Airbus Group and together “expertise in the launcher systems for $60 million, half the cost of Ariane rockets. French engine maker Safran announced a from Airbus Group as well as propulsion sys- Arianespace’s mainstay launcher is the Ariane joint venture yesterday on space launchers, as tems from Safran.” “It’s all about enhancing the 5, a heavy rocket that is highly reliable but it Europe looks to compete with rising US rival competitiveness of our space launcher busi- has to carry two large satellites to be prof- SpaceX. ness going forward,” Airbus Group CEO Tom itable, and this can cause delays. The two companies said in a statement Enders said in the statement. France and Germany, the major sharehold- they would team up on production of Ariane “The Ariane program has been hugely suc- ers in Arianespace, have not been able to rockets for Arianespace, which is facing cessful during the last 30 years, but in order to agree on strategy for the development of intense competition from low-cost SpaceX in remain relevant and competitive for the future rockets. Many analysts say the satellite sending up communications satellites. The future we need a much more efficient indus- market is evolving fast towards smaller rock- companies announced the plan after talks in trial structure.” ets with single payloads, such as SpaceX’s Paris with President Francois Hollande, who Arianespace has dominated the commer- Falcon. France has supported developing by hailed the deal as “a major step toward the cial space launch business with its line of 2021 the Ariane 6, sketched as a low-cost consolidation of the European space pro- Ariane rockets, but newcomer private Space X flexible successor able to place a single pay- gram.” The companies said the deal was aimed has begun to shake up the industry with load of three to 6.5 tonnes into a geostation- LONDON: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (center) and former Mayor of New at “further strengthening their relationship to cheaper rockets. ary slot. ESA also plans to tweak the Ariane 5 York city, Michael R. Bloomberg (center-right) are joined by London school children propose a new family of competitive, versatile Owned by US billionaire Elon Musk who with an ME version-for Midlife Evolution-that to mark the start of the first London Technology Week as they make and play with and efficient space launchers, to serve both was behind online payments system PayPal would be ready by 2017 and yield opera- computer and coding kits designed by Kano, a London based start-up, at Central commercial and institutional needs.” and Tesla electric cars has quickly brought the tional savings over the existing ECA and ES Working in London yesterday. — AP It said the 50-50 joint venture would bring Falcon rockets that can lift satellites into orbit models. — AFP TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Progress made on a ‘bionic pancreas’ for diabetics

BOSTON: Scientists have made big progress on a “bionic pancreas” to free some people with diabetes from the daily ordeal of managing their disease. A wearable, experimental device passed a real-world test, constantly monitoring blood sugar and auto- matically giving insulin or a sugar-boosting drug as needed, doctors said Sunday. The device improved blood-sugar control more than standard monitors and insulin pumps did when tested for five days on 20 adults and 32 teens. Unlike other artificial pancreases in development that just correct high blood sugar, this one also can fix too-low sugar, mimicking what a natural pan- creas does. The device was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University. Results were featured Sunday at an American Diabetes Association conference in San Francisco and were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. “I’m very excited about it,” said Dr Betul Hatipoglu, an endocrinologist at Cleveland Clinic who had no role in the work. Many patients have been frustrated waiting for a cure, so “this is really a great new horizon for them,” she said. The bionic pancreas is for Type 1 diabetes, the kind often found during childhood. About 5 percent of the 26 million Americans with diabetes have this type and cannot make insulin to turn food into ener- UK issues dire warning gy. Sugar builds up in the blood, raising the risk for heart disease and many other problems. These peo- ple must check their blood and inject insulin several on washing chicken times a day or get it through a pocket-sized pump BOSTON: This undated product image provided by Boston University Department of with a tube that goes under the skin. Biomedical Engineering shows the bionic pancreas developed by a Boston LONDON: British authorities advised con- The food body has made the campaign “This would lift that burden off of their shoul- University/Massachusetts General Hospital research team. — AP sumers yesterday against washing chicken against washing chicken the focus of its ders,” Dr Steven Russell, a diabetes specialist at he sleeps, which can cause seizures or even death. companies - DexCom and Tandem Diabetes Care Inc saying that, contrary to common belief, the 2014 Food Safety Week, writing an open Massachusetts General, said of the bionic pancreas practice could lead to food poisoning. The letter to cooking show producers to ask he helped design. It has three parts: two cellphone- “It’s a disease that I think people think is not a big - made components of the version tested in the cur- deal but it’s tough. It’s hard on a family,” said rent study. Boston University and Massachusetts stern warning was aimed at the 44 percent them to stop the washing of chicken on TV. sized pumps for insulin and sugar-raising glucagon, of Britons who wash raw chicken before Campylobacter can cause abdominal and an iPhone wired to a continuous glucose moni- Herndon, who lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. General own or have patents pending on the system, and several researchers may someday get royalties. cooking it, according to a survey by the pain, severe diarrhoea and vomiting, and tor. Three small needles go under the skin, usually in British Food Safety Authority (FSA). Washing in some cases death. Those most at risk are the belly, to connect patients to the components, Next-generation version Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and several oth- Next steps: A study starts Monday in 40 adults er companies also are working on artificial pan- raw chicken can spread campylobacter bac- children and older people. Poultry is the which can be kept in a fanny pack or a pocket. teria, the most common cause of food poi- main source of the Campylobacter, which Patients still have to prick their fingers to test who will use the device for 11 days. By fall, creas devices. The Boston group’s work is exciting researchers hope to have a next-generation version and the results are compelling, but there still are soning in Britain-though just 28 percent of can also cause Guillain-Barre syndrome, blood sugar twice a day and make sure the monitor the 4,540 adults surveyed had heard of it. which can leave victims paralyzed. is accurate, but the system takes care of giving combining all three components in one device to be practical challenges to bringing a device to market, tested in studies next year aimed at winning federal said Aaron Kowalski, who oversees grants by the The most common reasons given for “Campylobacter is a serious issue. Not insulin or glucagon as needed. Kristina Herndon said washing chicken were the belief that it only can it cause severe illness and death, her 13-year-old son, Christopher, “loved it” when he Food and Drug Administration approval. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation on artificial “My goal is to have this device done by the time pancreas development. “Most people with diabetes removes dirt and bacteria, and because it but it costs the economy hundreds of mil- tried it for the study, and “felt pretty badly giving it was a family tradition. In fact, the practice lions of pounds a year as a result of sick- back” when it ended. Christopher has to check his my kid, who has Type 1 diabetes, goes to college” in want less devices in their lives, not more,” so put- about three years, said Ed Damiano, a biomedical ting the components into a single automated sys- can spread the dangerous bacteria onto ness absence,” FSA Chief Executive blood sugar eight to 10 times a day and his family hands, clothing and surfaces, the FSA said. Catherine Brown said. — AFP has to watch him closely in case it dips too low while engineer at Boston University. Two San Diego-based tem is key, he said. — AP Royale Hayat Hospital With handy app, Brazilians welcomes Dr Preeti Kumar hope to fight dengue KUWAIT: Royale Hayat Hospital recently welcomed Dr Preeti Kumar specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the British Menopause Society and Royal College NATAL: While World Cup referees finally have goal-line of Obstetrician and Gynecologist in UK. technology to prevent mistakes, doctors in Brazil will Dr Preeti’s 26 years of experience in UK, KSA, Dubai and soon have their own computer gizmo to contain Kuwait include management of normal and high risk preg- dengue outbreaks. In the tropical northeastern city of nancy, medical disorders in pregnancy, management of Natal, a new smartphone application could allow resi- recurrent miscarriages, normal, operative and caesarian dents to alert authorities about the location of concen- deliveries, adolescent gynecological and menstrual disor- trations of mosquitos and cases of dengue with the ders, postmenopausal health of women, in addition to touch of a finger. The app was developed by university screening and managing early gynecological cancers, col- researcher Ricardo Valentim in collaboration with epi- poscopy, hysteroscopy and laparoscopy procedure, and pre- demiologist Ion de Andrade, who works for the Natal conception health and family planning management. city council. Since opening, Royale Hayat Hospital enhanced the med- “If someone identifies dengue, they pinpoint it on ical experience with devoted professionals and excellent the (application’s) map and that allows us to see where care combined with advanced technology and unsurpassed it is developing and to react immediately to stop it luxurious hospitality. Dr Preeti Kumar spreading,” Andrade said. The “Dengue Observatory” app is in beta mode for now but is expected to come online this month. Once up and running, it will allow China official blasted authorities to know exactly where to act. “If it’s mosqui- tos, we can locate and treat the water source. If a sus- for blaming lead pected case is confirmed, we can treat the victim,” Andrade said.

poisoning on pencils World Cup plan There is no cure for the mosquito-borne disease. BEIJING: A Chinese government official are made from graphite,” the article by Brazil has been hit harder than any other country this who blamed lead poisoning in more than commentator Zhang Yusheng said. “Does century, with seven million cases reported since 2000, 300 children on the possible chewing of this official’s statement show ignorance, or including 800 fatalities in the last five years. In the Sao school pencils was excoriated in state-run just disregard for the people’s welfare?” Paulo state city of Campinas, where Portugal’s team and media and ridiculed online yesterday. Lead Chinese Internet users also mocked the star Cristiano Ronaldo are based, three women aged 27, levels as high as three times national stan- official. “How can such low IQ cadres appear 69 and 81 died of dengue this year. NATAL: Aberdal Varela Da Fe, a Natal municipality agent, tests areas infested with dards were found in the blood of children in public?” asked author Cui Chenghao on The World Cup’s northeastern host cities of Natal, mosquitoes to prevent dengue fever from spreading on June 14, 2014. — AFP in a village in the central province of Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter. Recife and Fortaleza were flagged as danger zones in a Hunan, with the contamination blamed on China’s rapid industrialization over the past paper published by European and Brazilian scientists in pollution from a local chemical plant, the 30 years has left the country with wide- The Lancet Infectious Diseases last month. Natal has official news agency Xinhua reported. spread environmental damage that has tak- recorded 3,000 cases this year, and the city has endured Resistant mosquitoes The factory has been closed down for en a heavy toll on public health. Recent torrential rain since the World Cup started last Thursday. investigation, Xinhua said citing local offi- studies have shown that roughly two-thirds Sitting at the local hospital, Joana was waiting to under- cials. But Su Genlin, the chief of Dapu of China’s soil is estimated to be polluted may fly in to fight go a blood analysis. “I have a sore head, my joints are township, told the told state broadcaster and that 60 percent of underground water sore and I’m feverish. On Sunday, I had pain in my eyes,” CCTV that “Kids use pencils in school, and is too contaminated to drink. she complained. dengue in Australia chewing pencils could also cause the In 2011 authorities in the eastern Although all are symptoms of dengue, she may be excessive (lead) levels.” In Chinese, the char- province of Zhejiang detained 74 people SYDNEY: Australian scientists said yes- told ABC Radio. suffering from a simple virus. “We’ve seen several cases acter for the heavy metal is also used in the and suspended work at hundreds of facto- terday they want to fight dengue fever- of dengue recently, but we’re nowhere near epidemic word for pencil, in the same way that “lead” ries after 172 people-including 53 children- which is spread by mosquito bites-by No vaccine levels,” said local doctor Mario Toscano. The poorer has a double meaning in English. fell ill with lead poisoning. US battery mak- releasing more of the buzzing, flying If the Townsville model is successful, neighborhoods of Natal often do not have ready access The online mouthpiece of China’s ruling er Johnson Controls was in 2012 blamed insects into the environment. The mos- O’Neill hopes the method could be used to running water, never mind computers or telephones Communist party, the People’s Daily, blast- for lead pollution in the commercial hub of quitoes released would be resistant to around the globe to combat the disease, with mobile applications. So in some of the city’s fave- ed the official in an op-ed published yester- Shanghai, after 49 children were diagnosed dengue and expected to quickly infiltrate which the World Health Organisation las, where the children run barefoot and waste water day. “It is scientific knowledge that pencils with lead poisoning. — AFP the insect population in the Queensland estimates may be infecting up to 50-100 runs in open gutters, the risk of dengue is potentially city of Townsville and stop the spread of million people each year. “We could have greater. the disease. Small-scale trials have a very sizeable impact on dengue fever “This is exactly the kind of place that would attract already been conducted in communities around the world and hopefully one day mosquitos,” said Aberdal Varela Da Fe, pointing at a con- in northern Australia, but coastal contribute significantly to eliminating it,” crete bath of stagnant water used by several families for Townsville, with its population of O’Neill told the ABC. cooking and washing in their tiny, one-room concrete 189,000, would be the first time an entire Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection shacks. In stagnant water, female mosquitos can lay city had been targeted. found in tropical and sub-tropical eggs which grow into the larvae which can then Professor Scott O’Neill from Monash regions. There is no vaccine, so preven- become disease-carrying mosquitoes. University, who will meet with the tion focuses on mosquito control. “We’ve After visiting another house nearby, Varela Da Fe, Townsville community on Monday, said just had an outbreak in northern one of 380 health inspectors employed by the city to he hoped to begin the city-wide trial by Queensland of over 170 dengue cases control dengue, received better news. “Your house is the end of the year if given support. “This which is small on a global scale-but still very well kept,” he told the elderly occupant Iivanilda will be the first-large scale trial of our 170 cases too many,” said Gary Firmino. “All the water receptacles are covered.” Firmino method and we are committed to being Eddiehausen, who is chair of the has reason to be very vigilant. “I’m really careful, open and responsive with the Townsville Townsville community group looking at because my son has had dengue four times already,” community about our research,” he said. the plan. said Firmino. In the trials, mosquitoes infected with “We now have an opportunity in With hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors travel- a bacteria called Wolbachia were intro- Townsville to consider how we may be ling across Brazil until the World Cup final on July 13, duced in small numbers to communities able to assist in reducing possible future authorities are being careful. “There’s always a risk, but in northern Australia. Research has dengue outbreaks in our own backyards- this year it’s not so big,” said Alessandre de Medeiros shown that Wolbachia prevents mosqui- and being part of something that reach- Tavares, the chief doctor in Natal city council’s dengue toes from transmitting dengue. The idea es so much further.” Dengue is transmit- task force. “Thanks to our work on the ground, we’ve is that over time the Wolbachia mosqui- ted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, had less cases. But if we do have more, we have a ‘World toes breed out the dengue-carrying which can pick up the virus from an Cup’ plan ready to go into action,” he said. “But accord- ones. “The science has been very good infected human and transmit it to the ing to our analyses, it is likely we won’t have to.” —AFP and it’s looking very promising,” O’Neill next person it bites. — AFP

WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 American School celebrates 48th graduation Class of 122

The American School of Kuwait celebrated the 48th graduation class of 122 students. The graduation ceremony took place at Courtyard-JW Marriott Al-Raya Ballroom on Wednesday June 4 with the presence of Dr Yousef Al Ebraheem and the Chairman of the American School of Kuwait Wael Abdul Ghafoor.

Ramadan Former minister gives talk Etiquette on Arab women in arts at GUST

for Expats he Gulf University for Science ambition and injustices where critical University of Singapore. Speaking to a and Technology (GUST) wel- elements shared by the women Dr. full lecture hall, Dr Labidi also stressed By Dr. Teresa Lesher Tcomed the Minister of Women’s Labidi profiled from numerous Arab the important role of Arab universi- Affairs under the 2011 Tunisian transi- countries. Her intent was to illustrate ties, where women constitute more ot sure how to conduct yourself in Ramadan? tional government, Professor Lilia these women’s contribution to the than 60% of the overall student body. Join Dr. Teresa for a 30-minute PowerPoint Labidi, to give a lecture on the impor- construction of a new aesthetics, to Equipped with a quality education, Npresentation on the meaning of Ramadan, tance of studying Arab women in art, the improvement of everyday life, and women can increasingly contribute to Kuwait’s laws related to Ramadan, expected public eti- science and politics. Dr. Labidi, who is to the struggle for social justice. It is new forms of knowledge and ways of quette, customs you will encounter in your neighbor- also an anthropologist and psycholo- through such stories that women can being in the world. gist from the University of Tunis, nar- affect change and inspire others to The event was jointly organized by hood and workplace, how to cope with daytime rated the stories of several significant achieve. the Department of Humanities and restrictions, such as restaurant closures, and how to Arab women and their impacts on Dr Labidi, is currently serving as a Social Sciences, and the Mass get the most out of your Ramadan experience. The society, both currently and historical- Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Communication & Media Department presentation will be followed by a discussion and a ly. Varying degrees of education, Middle East Institute in the National at GUST. Q&A session. Thursday, June 26 @ 7pm To register, phone: 25231015 Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, House 67 - Kuwait United Real Estate Company Ramadan Sweets Cooking Class By Farinal Jarrar With Ramadan right around the corner, it is the perfect holds annual blood drive time to learn how to make special Ramadan sweets and treats (Yes, including Konafa). Farinal Jarrar is a nited Real Estate Company (URC), chef, blogger, and assistant of Manal Al-Alem with over the MENA region’s leading real 8 years of experience. Join her as she demonstrates Uestate developer announced yester- some tasty and easy recipes that are sure to satisfy any day company’s annual blood drive at its craving. Impress your guests this Ramadan! headquarters in Al Shaheed Tower, Kuwait. The date of the blood drive was planned to Sunday, June 22 @ 7pm coincide with ‘World Blood Donor Day’, the Fee: 10KD international day for raising awareness on Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, House 67 - Kuwait the importance of blood donation by the World Health Organization (WHO). This Islamic Guidelines and Quran Memorization year, the organization’s campaign focuses By Sharaf Al-Nisaa on “Safe Blood for Saving Mothers”. The first half of this class will focus on Fiqh about dif- In coordination with the Kuwait Central ferent Islamic rulings with a special focus on purity. Blood Bank, URC invited its colleagues as The second half of the class will focus on Quran mem- well as the tenants and employees of Al orization. Shaheed Tower and the adjacent City and Tuesday, June 24 @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm KIPCO towers to donate blood. There was a Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, House 67 - Kuwait large partaking in the blood drive, demon- strating active participation and success of the annual initiative. Islamic Guidelines URC’s blood drive is an initiative that the By Hassan Bwambale company aims to organize each year in This weekly Fiqh class teaches different Islamic rulings effort to highlight the importance of with a special focus on purity. donating blood, a scarce resource that can numerous initiatives, led by the company’s which are interconnected to social welfare partnership with the Kuwait Central Blood Monday, June 23 @ 6:00pm - 7:00pm potentially save countless lives. URC Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strat- and overall corporate success. URC is com- Bank. Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, House 67 - Kuwait strongly believes in contributing to the egy. The strategy is based on a number of mitted to many annual programs including community on a national level through sustainable programs and focus areas, the blood drive, which is held every year in Ramadan Arabic Class: Greetings and Courtesies Learn how to exchange common Arabic greetings, conversations, and courtesies specific to Ramadan and Eid. Exchanging greetings and courtesies is an essen- FOKE officials meet Indian Ambassador tial part of living in Kuwait, which is especially true during occasions such as Ramadan and Eid. This will come in handy when hosting or visiting locals. Sunday, July 6, 13 and 20 @ 1-3pm To register, phone: 25231015 Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, House 67 - Kuwait Friends of Kannur Expatriates association (FOKE) officials held a meeting with Indian Qur’an Memorization & Explanation Course Ambassador to Kuwait HE Recite, memorize, and understand 3 greatly distin- Sunil Jain. Officials requested guished verses of the Quran. This class will meet twice the embassy to expedite the a week for 3 weeks where students will learn the vers- case of Elsamma, hailing from es with tajweed. Students will learn to understand Kolayadu, Kannur district, who their meanings, secrets, and virtues. The teacher will has been sheltered at Indian be using tafsir from numerous sources including Ibn Embassy shelter. Ambassador Kathir and Ibn Uthaymeen. Students are encouraged reminded the Indian commu- to participate in an optional Quran Competition, which nity to abstain from any activi- will focus on these three verses. ties which are against the law Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 1 to 17 @ 1-3pm of the land. To register, phone: 25231015 Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street 413, Villa 67 - Kuwait WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Vapiano opens in The Avenues Mall

apiano has finally opened in Kuwait with a huge fan base that extends through- Every meal is made-to-order and creat- is a Bahraini based company, which oper- at The Avenues Mall. It promises to out the GCC region. More than the oppor- ed right in front of the guests’ eyes, allow- ates as a franchisee and operator of popu- Vbring its guests a special restaurant tunity to mingle with their favorite blogger, ing for the ultimate interactive experience; lar food and beverage concepts in the GCC. experience through its first ever branch in guests also enjoyed a synchronized pizza guests can express personal preferences The company enjoys a reputation in the the country. Defining the future of “fresh flipping show and the music of DJ Kade. throughout the preparation of their meal. market for introducing many well-known casual dining”, this European chain has The opening guaranteed an evening of Also, customers can customize made-to- brands such as Zayt Zaytoon, Gloria Jean’s been praised by critics for its delicious delicious food and entertainment. order creations, which include fresh home- Coffees and The Yellow Chilli. menu, interactive atmosphere and innova- The name Vapiano comes from the made pasta, fire roasted pizzas and gour- “We are very excited to be opening our tive restaurant technology. Italian expression Chi vapiano va sano e va met salads. first Vapiano location in Kuwait,” says Vapiano is an established restaurant lontano, literally translated to mean “One Once guests receive their food, coffee or Chairman of SunCity Ventures Mohammed concept since 2002 with more than 140 who takes life easy and relaxed, lives dessert, Vapiano invites guests to unwind Adel Fakhro. “Kuwait is such an amazing worldwide locations in the US, Europe, the healthier and longer.” Through their inno- in its spacious seating area beneath an 85- culinary state with many different success- Middle East and Asia with several addition- vative spin on the age-old Mediterranean year old olive tree, and enjoy the soothing ful concepts and we are confident there is a al international locations currently in devel- tradition of group cooking, Vapiano has dÈcor which include contemporary furnish- place for Vapiano. It’s an exciting chal- opment. been one of the most influential restaurant ings made from imported German oak typi- lenge.” Last Wednesday, June 11, the highly concepts in the region, winning awards cally used on yachts and villas, natural Vapiano Kuwait, located at The Avenues anticipated grand opening of Vapiano such as the 2013 “Best Newcomer” by stone, soft earth-toned leather, and a green is open for lunch and dinner, Saturday- Kuwait was a 11highlight at The Avenues Timeout Restaurant Awards, and was also wall of herbs imported from Holland. Wednesday from 10:00am to 12:00 mid- Mall, starting at 7:30 pm. The event was placed in the 2013 “Favorite In Mall The brainchild behind Vapiano’s pres- night and Thursday-Friday from 10:00am to hosted by Ascia AFK, one of Kuwait’s most Restaurant” by Citibank Fact Dining Awards ence in the GCC is SunCity Ventures W.L.L. 1:00am. prominent and influential Kuwaiti bloggers, in the Middle East. Established in 2003, SunCityVentures W.L.L.

Win a 2014 Ford Focus, airline tickets with Holiday Inn Salmiya summer, Ramadan promotion

oliday Inn Salmiya announced the all the hotel’s outlets and they will also be that reflects the spirit of the holy month your event and cater all your needs. Special one of the most preferred destinations for launching of the Summer & entitled to enter the weekly raffle draw on through its various Iftar and Sohour meals, Ramadan menus will be available even for travellers and families who are looking for a HRamadan promotion which will offer many valuable prizes ranging from airline drinks and desserts complemented with outside catering services. getaway as for it’s location which is in the to the hotel’s guests an exceptional experi- tickets to many destinations, hotel stays light oriental music with the chance to enter Since Ramadan is best enjoyed with the heart of Salmiya where most shopping ence with their families and friends. within InterContinental Hotels Group and the weekly raffle . family, Holiday Inn has introduced the “Stay malls, and entertainment parks are nearby Starting with the approach of the 2014 the chance to win the grand prize a 2014 Whether you are planning for a private Close” package providing its guests with a also for the services that the hotel team FIFA World Cup, the hotel has announced a Ford Focus. Iftar of a large corporate Ghabqa, Holiday comfortable stay, the chance to enjoy a deli- strives to provide a memorable experience special promotion for the football fanatics And as the holy month of Ramadan is Inn is the best place for your occasions as it cious meal, 24 hours access to the gym and for it’s guests. where they will be watching all the World approaching, Holiday Inn Kuwait - Salmiya is equipped with two state of the art ball- many other facilities. Cup matches live on the large HD Screens in has announced it’s special arrangements rooms. The dedicated team will personalize Holiday Inn Kuwait Salmiya is considered TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

07:55 Bargain Hunt 05:15 The Chase 08:40 Beat My Build 06:05 Dancing On Ice 16:10 Mako Mermaids 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 09:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 07:30 Shetland 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes Notebook: Cosmo Cook 08:25 Seven Dwarves 17:00 Dog With A Blog 07:00 What Not To Wear 00:45 Great White Shark: Uncaged 09:55 Come Dine With Me 09:20 Take On The Twisters 17:20 Good Luck Charlie 07:50 Extreme Cheapskates 01:35 Untamed & Uncut 11:35 Antiques Roadshow 10:15 Murdoch Mysteries 17:45 Liv And Maddie 08:15 Extreme Cheapskates 02:25 Lion Man: One World African 12:30 Bargain Hunt 11:10 Emmerdale 18:10 Jessie 08:40 Craft Wars Safari 13:15 Beat My Build 12:00 Coronation Street 18:30 Austin & Ally 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 03:15 Too Cute! 14:05 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 12:30 The Chase 18:55 Mako Mermaids 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 19:20 Violetta 04:05 Preposterous Pets Notebook: Cosmo Cook 13:20 Dancing On Ice 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 20:05 Liv And Maddie 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 14:30 Come Dine With Me 14:45 Murdoch Mysteries 11:10 Cake Boss 20:30 Jessie 05:45 Bondi Vet 16:10 Antiques Roadshow 15:35 Take On The Twisters 11:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 20:50 Dog With A Blog 06:35 Breed All About It 17:05 Design Rules 16:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 12:00 Little People, Big World 17:30 Bargain Hunt 18:20 Murdoch Mysteries 21:15 Mako Mermaids 07:00 Animal Airport 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 18:15 Beat My Build 19:10 Coronation Street 21:40 Austin & Ally 07:25 Must Love Cats 13:15 Oprah’s Master Class 08:15 Natural World 19:10 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 19:35 Take On The Twisters 22:00 Shake It Up 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 09:10 Cats Of Claw Hill Notebook: Cosmo Cook 20:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 14:55 Extreme Couponing 10:05 Lion Man: One World African 19:35 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 22:20 Coronation Street 22:50 Good Luck Charlie Safari 20:00 Come Dine With Me 22:50 Emmerdale 23:10 Wolfblood 15:20 Cake Boss 11:00 Animal Precinct 20:45 Bargain Hunt 23:45 Murdoch Mysteries 15:45 What Not To Wear 11:55 Animal Airport 23:00 Beat My Build 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 12:20 Breed All About It 23:50 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 12:50 Animal Maternity Ward Notebook: Cosmo Cook 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 13:45 Biggest And Baddest 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 14:40 Lion Man: One World African 01:00 Iyanla, Fix My Life 18:40 Little People, Big World Safari 00:00 Megacities 01:50 Breaking Amish: Brave New 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 15:30 Tanked 01:00 Brilliant Beasts World 20:05 Extreme Couponing 16:30 Natural World 02:00 Dogtown 02:40 Secretly Pregnant 20:30 Cake Boss 17:25 Crocodile Hunter 00:20 Tech Toys 360 03:00 Adventure Wanted 03:30 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 21:00 Secret Eaters 18:20 Animal Battlegrounds 00:45 How Does That Work? 04:00 Somewhere In China 03:55 Long Island Medium 21:55 Too Fat For 15: Fighting Back 05:00 Street Monkeys 19:15 Animal Clinic 01:10 World’s Top 5 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 22:50 Long Island Medium 20:10 Dog Rescuers 06:00 Salvage Code Red 02:00 Close Encounters 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 23:15 Secretly Pregnant 21:05 Lion Man: One World African 02:25 Close Encounters 07:00 Close Quarter Battle Safari 02:45 Mythbusters 07:30 Close Quarter Battle 22:00 Animal Clinic 03:35 Sci-Trek 08:00 Megacities 22:55 Dog Rescuers 04:30 Cosmic Collisions 09:00 Brilliant Beasts 05:20 Thunder Races 10:00 Dogtown 06:10 Meteorite Men 11:00 Adventure Wanted A lost Cole Porter 07:00 Trek Nation 12:00 Somewhere In China 08:45 Sci-Trek 13:00 Britain’s Underworld 14:00 Salvage Code Red 00:20 Doctors 09:40 Meteorite Men 10:30 Superships 15:00 Close Quarter Battle 00:50 Lark Rise To Candleford 15:30 Close Quarter Battle musical to be 01:45 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 11:20 Cosmic Collisions 12:10 Thunder Races 16:00 Megacities 02:15 Doctor Who Confidential 17:00 Brilliant Beasts 02:30 Great Expectations 13:00 How Does That Work? 13:30 Sci-Trek 18:00 Jean Michel Cousteau’s 03:20 Spooks Ocean Adventure staged in NYC 14:20 Mythbusters 04:15 The Weakest Link 19:00 The Great Serengeti 05:00 Nina And The Neurons 15:10 Thunder Races or the first time later this month, a few lucky 16:00 Superships 20:00 Mega Breakdown 05:15 Poetry Pie 21:00 Engineering Connections people will get to hear what no one in 05:20 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 16:50 Meteorite Men America has - a collection of lost Cole Porter 17:40 Close Encounters 22:00 Air Crash Investigation F 05:40 Charlie And Lola 18:30 World’s Top 5 23:00 Lords of War songs. The one-night-only June 27 premiere of 05:50 The Green Balloon Club “The Ambassador Revue” at The Town Hall near 06:15 Nina And The Neurons 19:20 Tech Toys 360 06:30 Poetry Pie 19:45 How Does That Work? Times Square will mark the first time the 1929 06:35 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 20:10 Mythbusters show has ever been staged outside Paris. 06:55 Charlie And Lola “Just when you think you’ve heard all of Cole 07:05 The Green Balloon Club THE NEXT THREE DAYS ON OSN MOVIES HD Porter’s songs, here are 20 new ones for people to 07:30 Big Bear Diary 00:00 The Crazy Ones really have fun with,” says Grammy Award-winning 00:30 The Daily Show Global 08:00 Gavin & Stacey 03:00 Nip/Tuck 15:30 What To Expect When You’re Edition 01:45 Andy Bates Brazilian Street bandleader Vince Giordano, who arranged the 08:30 As Time Goes By 04:00 Royal Pains Expecting-PG15 01:00 The Colbert Report Global Feasts show and will sing with his band the Nighthawks. 09:00 Eastenders 00:00 Chelsea Lately 05:00 Drop Dead Diva 17:30 Oz The Great And Powerful- Edition 02:10 Andy Bates Brazilian Street “It’s really thrilling.” The lost show - a revue with 09:30 Doctors 00:30 Scouted 06:00 Suits PG 02:30 The Big C Feasts 10:00 Great Expectations 01:25 Style Star 07:00 C.S.I. New York 19:45 Argo-PG15 individual singers, tap dancers and showgirls akin 03:00 Community 02:35 Jenny Morris Cooks The 10:50 Lark Rise To Candleford 02:20 THS 08:00 Warehouse 13 21:45 2 Guns-18 to the current Broadway hit “After Midnight” - was 04:00 Seinfeld Riviera 11:40 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 03:15 Extreme Close-Up 10:00 Drop Dead Diva 23:30 On The Road-R written at the beginning of Porter’s career and has 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 03:00 Jenny Morris Cooks The 12:10 Gavin & Stacey 04:10 THS 11:00 Royal Pains hints of his combination of witty lyrics and Jimmy Fallon Riviera 12:40 As Time Goes By 05:05 E! Entertainment Special 12:00 Emmerdale 05:30 Two And A Half Men 03:25 Andy Bates American Street singable melodies. 13:10 Eastenders 06:00 THS 12:30 Coronation Street 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers Feasts 13:40 Doctors 07:50 Style Star 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00 Seinfeld 03:50 Iron Chef America 14:10 Great Expectations 08:20 E! News 14:00 Warehouse 13 08:30 Two And A Half Men 00:00 Fright Night 2: New Blood-18 04:40 Chopped 15:05 The Weakest Link 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 15:00 Suits 09:00 Community 02:00 The Runway-PG15 05:30 Unwrapped 15:50 Gavin & Stacey 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 16:00 Emmerdale 09:30 Last Man Standing 04:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 16:15 Lark Rise To Candleford 11:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 16:30 Coronation Street 05:50 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 10:00 Hot In Cleveland 06:00 3 Times A Charm-PG15 17:10 Eastenders 12:05 E! News 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:10 The Next Food Network Star 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 17:40 Doctors 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 18:00 Warehouse 13 08:00 The Expatriate-PG15 07:00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam Jimmy Fallon 18:10 Outcasts 13:35 E!ES 19:00 Psych 10:00 Standing Ovation-PG15 07:25 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 12:30 Seinfeld 19:00 The Old Guys 14:30 Style Star 20:00 Perception 12:00 The Sapphires-PG15 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 Two And A Half Men 19:30 Hunderby 15:00 Keeping Up With The 21:00 24: Live Another Day 14:00 The Three Stooges-PG15 08:15 Iron Chef America 13:30 Breaking In 20:00 Great Expectations Kardashians 22:00 Justified 16:00 The Expatriate-PG15 09:05 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 14:30 Last Man Standing This circa 1910 20:50 Scott & Bailey 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 23:00 Nip/Tuck 18:00 After Earth-PG15 Basics 15:00 Hot In Cleveland file photo 21:40 The Job Lot 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 16:00 The Colbert Report Global 20:00 Looper-18 shows 18:00 The Drama Queen 10:20 Easy Chinese 22:05 Mistresses Edition 22:00 21 & Over-18 19:00 E!ES 10:45 Andy Bates Brazilian Street American 22:55 Lark Rise To Candleford 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills Feasts songwriter Cole 23:45 Eastenders 18:00 Cougar Town 20:30 Giuliana & Bill 11:10 Tastiest Places To Chowdown Porter. A few 18:30 Raising Hope 00:00 Breaking Point-18 21:30 Giuliana & Bill 11:35 Jeni & Olly’s West Coast Wine lucky people 19:00 About A Boy 02:00 Dredd-18 22:30 Fashion Police Adventure will get to hear 19:30 Hot In Cleveland 04:00 Excess Baggage-PG15 04:00 ITU World Triathlon Series 23:30 Chelsea Lately 12:00 Reza’s African Kitchen what no one in 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Skyline-PG15 05:30 ITU World Triathlon Series 12:25 Charly’s Cake Angels America has - a Jimmy Fallon 08:00 Grosse Pointe Blank-PG15 07:00 Golfing World 12:50 Siba’s Table collection of 00:15 Celebrity MasterChef 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 10:00 Waterworld-PG15 08:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 13:15 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 01:10 Come Dine With Me Stewart 12:00 The Amazing Spider-Man- 09:00 U.S Open 13:40 Andy Bates Brazilian Street lost Cole Porter PG15 02:00 Antiques Roadshow 21:30 The Colbert Report 16:00 Golfing World Feasts songs. — AP 14:15 Grosse Pointe Blank-PG15 02:55 Bargain Hunt 17:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 14:05 The Next Food Network Star 03:40 Beat My Build CHOICE HD 16:00 Terminal Velocity-PG15 14:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin “They’re fun. There’s not a classic, I don’t think. 17:45 The Amazing Spider-Man- 18:00 World Match Racing Tour 04:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen 00:35 Dancing On Ice 19:00 Golfing World 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives But there are the saucy lyrics, the double enten- 02:00 Emmerdale PG15 Notebook: Cosmo Cook 20:00 PGA European Tour 15:45 Chopped dres. There are some romantic ballads and some 02:55 Coronation Street 00:00 Suits 20:00 Sudden Death-PG15 04:55 Come Dine With Me Highlights 16:35 Tastiest Places To Chowdown funny songs,” says author and musical theater his- 05:45 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 03:25 Shetland 01:00 Game Of Thrones 22:00 Terminal Velocity-PG15 17:25 Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco 21:00 Challenge Series Golf 06:10 Antiques Roadshow 04:20 Seven Dwarves 02:00 Dracula 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives torian Ken Bloom, who will direct the revue. “It’s 21:30 HSBC Sevens World Series 18:40 Siba’s Table typical Porter on his way to becoming great Porter. 19:05 Reza, Spice Prince Of India You can see everything that’s going to come in just 00:00 Ingenious-PG15 19:30 Andy Bates Brazilian Street a year or two.” The variety show will feature Tom Feasts Wopat singing a few songs and the veteran of such 02:00 3 Geezers!-PG15 00:00 ITU World Triathlon Series 19:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin Broadway shows as “The Trip to Bountiful” and 04:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 03:00 International Rugby Union 06:00 Tin Men-PG15 20:20 Chopped 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 “Catch Me If You Can” said the prospect is exciting. 08:00 A Christmas Story 2-PG 21:10 The Next Food Network Star 09:30 Futbol Mundial “I’m just proud to be a part of it and it’ll be a lot of 10:00 Super Buddies-FAM 22:50 Unique Eats 10:00 World Match Racing Tour 23:15 Unique Eats fun. It will be revealing in many ways, I’m sure,” said 12:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 Wopat, who did “Kiss Me Kate” in summer stock. “It 14:00 Jingle All The Way-PG 11:00 World Aquabike 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:00 Super Buddies-FAM Championship Highlights sheds some light on his process.” The original show 18:00 The Great Outdoors-PG15 12:00 NRL Premiership was staged at the Ambassadeurs nightclub near 20:00 Look Who’s Talking-PG15 14:00 Snooker World the Champs-Elysees. It was performed in English 22:00 Ingenious-PG15 Championship by American singers including Morton Downey 17:00 NHL and Evelyn Hoey. Band leader Fred Waring was also 00:00 Violetta 19:00 IndyCar Highlights there and, intriguingly, so was George Gershwin’s 20:00 NRL Full Time 00:45 The Hive 00:50 Art Attack sister, Frances, who sang her brother’s songs at the 20:30 Futbol Mundial piano. It ran for a few months and then disap- 21:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 01:15 Art Attack 01:40 Wolfblood 03:00 Oh Christmas Tree-PG 22:00 Golfing World peared, with none of the music published in 02:05 Wolfblood 05:00 Pop Star-PG15 23:00 PGA European Tour America. Porter would later return to America and 02:30 Violetta 07:00 Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Highlights go on to write hit songs like “What Is This Thing Fight-PG15 03:15 The Hive Called Love,” “Night and Day,” “I Get a Kick Out of 03:20 Art Attack 11:00 Stuck In Love-PG15 You,” “You’re the Top” and “Begin the Beguine.” The 12:45 Quiet Flows The Don-PG15 03:45 Art Attack 15:45 The Key Man-PG15 04:10 Jungle Junction variety show slipped into obscurity, with many 17:15 Dark Horse-PG15 04:25 Jungle Junction Porter experts giving up on ever finding its music. 19:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking 00:30 IPL Highlights 04:35 Jungle Junction Dawn Pt. 2-PG15 01:30 ICC World T20I Highlights 04:45 Jungle Junction ‘The Battle of Paris’ 21:00 Maladies-PG15 02:30 ICC Cricket 360 05:00 Art Attack “Back then, when a show was not a huge suc- 03:00 ICC World T20I Highlights 23:00 Puncture-18 05:25 Art Attack cess or didn’t have a future life, they figured, ‘Well, 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 05:50 Mouk 07:30 ICC World T20I Highlights 06:00 Austin & Ally that’s that.’ And they moved on to the next thing,” 09:30 ICC Cricket 360 06:25 Dog With A Blog said Bloom. “No one had any idea of saving stuff.” 10:00 IPL Highlights 06:45 Mako Mermaids Unearthing the 85-year-old show was labor of love 12:00 Best of ICC World T20I 07:10 A.N.T. Farm for both Bloom and Giordano, who found the miss- 01:00 Beyond Borders 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 07:35 Jessie ing music in a Universal Music archive in Milan. A 03:15 Sparkle 13:00 ICC World T20I Highlights 07:55 Good Luck Charlie concert of some songs - with titles like “Boulevard 05:15 Moonrise Kingdom 15:00 Best of ICC World T20I 08:20 That’s So Raven Break,” “Blue Hours” and “Fountain of Youth” - was 08:45 Suite Life On Deck 07:00 Stomp The Yard 15:30 ICC Cricket 360 staged in Paris in 2012. 09:00 Timer 09:05 Dog With A Blog 16:00 IPL Highlights Then the original orchestrations were discov- 11:00 Resistance 18:00 ICC Cricket 360 09:30 Shake It Up 13:00 Hoosiers 09:55 Austin & Ally ered in Waring’s archive at Penn State and music 18:30 ICC World T20I Highlights 15:00 I Am 10:15 A.N.T. Farm was also uncovered for two more songs and a 19:30 ICC World T20I Highlights 16:30 Resistance 10:40 Good Luck Charlie tune that had no lyrics. All will be played at The 18:30 Anna Karenina 20:30 Best of ICC World T20I 11:05 Suite Life On Deck 21:00 IPL Highlights Town Hall, creating as much as possible the show 21:00 Cinderella Man 11:25 Jessie first heard in Paris in 1929. It’s actually not the first 23:30 The Paperboy 22:00 IPL Highlights 11:50 That’s So Raven 23:00 ICC Cricket 360 12:15 Hannah Montana time that Bloom has discovered a lost Porter tune. 23:30 IPL Highlights 12:35 Hannah Montana While writing a book about songs for the movies, 13:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place he was rummaging in the Paramount archives 13:25 Wizards Of Waverly Place when he found a Porter song written for “The 01:00 The Possession-PG15 13:45 A.N.T. Farm 02:45 The Next Three Days-PG15 Battle of Paris.” “I accidentally specialize in it, I 14:10 Jessie guess,” he says with a laugh. “I think the point is 05:00 Monsters University-PG 14:35 Dog With A Blog 00:05 Tastiest Places To Chowdown we just don’t know what’s out there. You just have 07:00 Beastly-PG15 15:00 Good Luck Charlie 09:00 Oz The Great And Powerful 00:55 Jeni & Olly’s West Coast Wine 15:25 Liv And Maddie to be persistent.” — AP 11:15 Fast & Furious 6-PG15 Adventure 15:50 Gravity Falls EXCESS BAGGAGE ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 13:30 Red Lights-PG15 01:20 Roadtrip With G. Garvin Classifieds

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (12/06/2014 TO 18/06/2014)

SHARQIA-1 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:30 PM FANAR-3 AVENUES-3 MALEFICENT (DIG) 2:45 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 1:30 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 1:30 PM 7500 (DIG) 4:45 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 3:15 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 4:00 PM 7500 (DIG) 6:30 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 5:00 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 6:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 8:15 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 6:45 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 9:00 PM 7500 (DIG) 10:45 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 9:15 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 11:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:30 AM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 11:45 PM AVENUES-4 SHARQIA-2 FANAR-4 BLENDED (DIG) 1:15 PM REQUIRED MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 3:30 PM TUITION SITUATION VACANT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 3:15 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 4:15 PM BLENDED (DIG) 6:00 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 5:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 6:15 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 8:15 PM Arabic Teacher for non- A lady maid needed to For a beauty MALEFICENT (DIG) 7:30 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 8:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 10:45 PM native speakers beginners & work as a part-timer for an salon THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 9:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 10:30 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 1:00 AM advanced - All levels of the American/Lebanese single THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 12:05 AM BLENDED (DIG) 12:45 AM 1:00 AM Arabic language - IGCSE & man in an apartment locat- 360º- 1 GCSE, language training syl- ed in Salmiya. Working Hair/Bidi Mini SHARQIA-3 FANAR-5 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM labus foreign and common- hours is about 10-12 Eyelash Technical BLENDED (DIG) 1:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 4:30 PM wealth office. Only KD 10 for hrs/week with a salary of 75 - Good salary A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 3:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 3:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 7:00 PM an hour & free books. KD/month. Call 66417504. BLENDED (DIG) 5:45 PM JUMP JILANI (DIG) (Telugu) 3:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 9:30 PM Contact: Mr Khalid: (C 4748) + traveling tickets BLENDED (DIG) 8:00 PM JUMP JILANI (DIG) (Telugu) 6:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:05 AM 99619998. (C 4740) 17-6-2014 Contact: ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:15 PM FRI+SAT+MON 15-6-2014 90033612 BLENDED (DIG) 12:15 AM THE RAID 2 (DIG) 6:30 PM 360 º- 2 NO FRI+SAT+MON BAD WORDS (DIG) 12:30 PM MUHALAB-1 JUMP JILANI (DIG) (Telugu) 9:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 2:30 PM CHANGE OF NAME Automated enquiry aboutthe Civil ID card is BLENDED (DIG) 2:00 PM THE RAID 2 (DIG) 12:30 A BAD WORDS (DIG) 4:30 PM JUMP JILANI (DIG) (Telugu) 4:15 PM THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN (DIG) 6:30 PM I, Husain Suksorwala 1889988 FRI+MON MARINA-1 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 8:30 PM Murtuza Mohammed, holder X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 4:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 12:30 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:30 PM of Indian Passport No: End Time: 3:00am 7500 (DIG) 2:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 12:30 AM L4536374, hereby change Prayer timings NO FRI+MON BLENDED (DIG) 4:30 PM my name to Murtuza Fajr: 03:13 BLENDED (DIG) 7:15 PM 7500 (DIG) 6:45 PM 360 º-- 3 Mohammed Husain BLENDED (DIG) 9:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 8:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 2:00 PM Suksorwala. (C 4747) Shorook 04:49 BLENDED (DIG) 11:45 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:45 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM 14-6-2014 7500 (DIG) 12:30 AM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 6:30 PM Duhr: 11:49 MUHALAB-2 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 8:45 PM I have changed my name MALEFICENT (DIG) 1:30 PM MARINA-2 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 11:00 PM Asr: 15:23 from Archana Jeetendra THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 3:30 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 12:45 PM Maghrib: 18:49 MALEFICENT (DIG) 6:00 PM A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (DIG) 3:15 PM AL-KOUT.1 Vyas to Safiyah Shaikh as per MALEFICENT (DIG) 8:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 12:45 PM Maha Gazette No. U-45730 Isha: 20:22 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 10:00 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 7:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 3:00 PM dated 17/01/2013. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 12:30 AM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 10:15 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:45 AM MALEFICENT (DIG) 7:15 PM MUHALAB-3 MALEFICENT (DIG) 9:30 PM No: 16199 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 12:30 PM MARINA-3 BLENDED (DIG) 11:45 PM 7500 (DIG) 2:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 4:15 PM MALEFICENT (DIG-3D) 3:45 PM AL-KOUT.2 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 6:30 PM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 1:15 PM 7500 (DIG) 8:45 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 8:00 PM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 3:00 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG-3D) 10:30 PM MALEFICENT (DIG) 10:00 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 5:30 PM 7500 (DIG) 12:45 AM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 12:05 AM THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 7:30 PM ELISA KHATAFHA JAMEEL (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:00 PM FANAR-1 AVENUES-1 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (DIG) 12:45 AM MALEFICENT (DIG) 12:45 PM 7500 (DIG) 12:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 2:45 PM 7500 (DIG) 2:30 PM AL-KOUT.3 EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:00 PM 7500 (DIG) 4:30 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 7:15 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 6:30 PM 7500 (DIG) 4:00 PM ELISA KHATAFHA JAMEEL (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 9:30 PM 7500 (DIG) 8:30 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 5:45 PM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 12:15 AM 7500 (DIG) 10:30 PM 7500 (DIG) 8:00 PM 7500 (DIG) 12:30 AM EDGE OF TOMORROW (DIG) 9:45 PM FANAR-2 7500 (DIG) 12:05 AM HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 1:30 PM AVENUES-2 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (DIG) 3:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 1:15 PM AL-KOUT.4 ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 6:00 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 4:00 PM BLENDED (DIG) 1:00 PM 7500 (DIG) 7:45 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 6:00 PM THE RAID 2 (DIG) 3:15 PM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 9:30 PM BAD WORDS (DIG) 8:30 PM BLENDED (DIG) 6:00 PM 24835616/7 ,24833199 7500 (DIG) 11:15 PM X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (DIG) 10:15 PM BLENDED (DIG) 8:15 PM 7500 (DIG) 1:00 AM BAD WORDS (DIG) 12:45 AM ALIEN ABDUCTION (DIG) 10:30 PM

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ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 PIA 240 Sialkot 02:20 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 NIA 251 Alexandria 16:50 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:45 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 02:30 KAC 672 Dubai 16:50 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 JAI 576 Kochi/Abu Dhabi 02:35 UAE 857 Dubai 16:55 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 SVA 501 Jeddah 15:45 FDB 5067 Dubai 03:05 UAL 982 IAD 17:25 FDB 5068 Dubai 03:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 MEA 406 Beirut 17:30 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 OMA 643 Muscat 03:20 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:20 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 QTR 1076 Doha 03:25 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 OMA 644 Muscat 04:20 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 QTR 1077 Doha 04:25 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 JZR 483 Istanbul 17:55 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 KAC 522 Al Najaf 17:55 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 FDB 055 Dubai 04:40 KAC 678 Muscat/Abu Dhabi 17:55 FDB 056 Dubai 05:25 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 JZR 560 Sohag 05:35 NIA 252 Alexandria 17:50 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 UAE 858 Dubai 18:15 KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 06:35 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 BAW 157 London 06:35 FDB 063 Dubai 18:35 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 JZR 1541 Cairo 06:40 KAC 166 Paris/Rome 18:40 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 MEA 407 Beirut 18:30 FDB 053 Dubai 07:00 KAC 104 London 18:45 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 JZR 156 Dubai 18:35 JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 AXB 393 Kozhikode 18:55 JZR 240 Amman 07:05 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:40 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 ABY 129 Sharjah 19:00 JZR 150 Dubai 07:15 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 KAC 618 Doha 19:00 FDB 054 Dubai 07:50 JZR 134 Bahrain 18:50 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 BAW 156 London 08:25 FDB 064 Dubai 19:20 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:55 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:55 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:00 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 KAC 287 Dhaka 19:30 KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 JZR 256 Beirut 09:05 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 OMA 647 Muscat 19:55 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 FDB 5061 Dubai 20:05 KAC 513 Tehran 09:15 AXB 394 Kozhikode 19:55 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 KAC 363 Colombo 20:05 IRA 675 Lar 09:20 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:15 KAC 613 Bahrain 09:30 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 JZR 1543 Cairo 20:25 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 FDB 5062 Dubai 20:50 FDB 5055 Dubai 09:35 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 KLM 415 Amsterdam 21:05 JZR 482 Istanbul 10:00 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 FDB 5056 Dubai 10:15 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 KAC 741 Dammam 10:15 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 JZR 151 Dubai 11:50 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 KAC 561 Amman 10:15 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 JZR 561 Sohag 12:00 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 IRA 674 Lar 10:20 MSR 607 Luxor 21:25 KAC 614 Bahrain 12:30 JZR 135 Bahrain 21:45 KAC 101 London/New York 10:25 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 FDB 071 Dubai 12:35 FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 KLM 415 Dammam/Amsterdam 22:05 JZR 241 Amman 12:40 AIC 981 Chennai/Hyderabad/Ahmedabad 22:25 KAC 677 Abu Dhabi/Muscat 11:20 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 UAL 981 Bahrain 22:40 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 SYR 341 Latakia/Damascus 22:50 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JZR 157 Dubai 23:10 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:45 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 KAC 742 Dammam 13:15 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 KAC 514 Tehran 13:40 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 JZR 513 Sharm el-Sheikh 23:30 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 FDB 057 Dubai 13:50 THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 KAC 671 Dubai 12:20 FDB 060 Dubai 22:55 DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION stars34 TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

CROSSWORD 581 STAR TRACK

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

You may have been considering your own business. You are scrappy and Parental relationships could have been better when you were growing up inventive and can come up with a multitude of ideas. For now, put your but now, somehow, these same people that were telling you what to do ideas on paper. Look at all sorts of possibilities. Once you settle on something that you are listening to you tell them what to do. The difference is you are very patient. The times have and others want, you have a good business start. Now, the point of today is to think and the money are different from the past; stress may have been to an extreme that you through to the long-term. You have a tendency to think short-term. This long-term think- knew nothing about. At this time, you can afford to teach through patience and tough ing includes insurance, taxes, hiring people and having the ability to conduct an orchestra, love. Honest interactions with others will eventually pay off through your own relationship so to speak. All kidding aside, when you take on a group of people, you must be able to with your own children. Any blocked emotions or actions will stop you or others from conduct and command a great performance out of each one without having to carry the moving forward. This can be anything from clutter or cleaning habits to not being able to load all by yourself. Trust is a big issue. Now, you have a real beginning. communicate and find the truth in any particular matter. Free yourself and clean house.

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

A color change and a few new shelves for your fine possessions and you are This is one of the best times for romance. You and another could make a happy camper. This is a good day to begin a new rule and create a cardboard clock that beautiful music together. Really, this relationship may have had its begin- can be hung like a wreath on the outside of your office or timeout room. Yes, you read this ning because you had a musical duet together or you enjoy the same music and continue correctly. A timeout room is a room where you can relax or work in private, perhaps hum a to meet in a music store. This is the time to get to know each other better. As you visit song or two or talk on the phone for a while. This is only for you and should only have your places and friends together you will learn more about your new friend. This should be a things. When you are in this room or area, find a reasonable time period and set the card- place where both of you agree would be fun and relaxing-perhaps a new art exhibit. With board clock to show when you will accept interruptions or when you will be leaving the other people present, there will be a comfort zone; try to remain patient. Just being room. This is just a time for you and a reasonable period of transition or rest from your together for a determined length of time will give you hints of temperament and personal- busy day. Exercise or perhaps rest with your feet up. ity. Future weekends will be cozier and cozier. There are promising energies.

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

There are conditions in your horoscope this morning that may indicate your You are adamant about some government issue and may find that you will need to think through your thoughts before acting too quickly. You could eventually want to enter politics so that you might be able to help change feel blocked emotionally and not really know the truth behind some activity. Some very policies. In the area of health issues and treatment techniques, you find the country is due ACROSS garlic. personal thoughts are important so that one can work through options and gain a focus. for change. There are issues of which you feel the need to make others aware. Politics can 1. A persistently annoying person. 5. Ludicrously odd. The morning will pass successfully. This afternoon, you will find that there is plenty of fun be a powerful tool, and you are willing to try to use the tool for several subject matters. It is 5. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic lan- 6. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary. and relaxation; there is certainly a social atmosphere. You could choose a crew, select a good that you are willing to take steps forward in this arena. Romance can flourish this guages. 7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit cast or assemble a crowd. You won’t find the usual scenarios today, but you will find peo- afternoon, particularly if you can find a way to gain the attention. At one time people ple flock to be near you. You are the type of person that people just feel good about being made an introduction by asking about birth signs and names, but now it seems more diffi- 12. An undergarment worn by women to juice. cult. A good friend to introduce you is a smart move. support their breasts. 8. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are around. This is your time to relax and let others do for you. Happy birthday! 15. Of or relating to near the ear. used for ropes and baskets. 16. Relating to or characterized by or hav- 9. A region of northeastern France famous ing nodules. for its wines. ) 17. A graphical record of electrical activity 10. A state in midwestern United States. Cancer (June 21-July 22 Capricorn (December 22-January 19) of the brain. 11. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice. You don’t want to be alone for a lifetime, so you may decide that now is a If you are in the middle of moving or performing some alteration to your 18. Type genus of the Ranidae. 12. The hair growing on the lower part of a good time to plan a future that can be shared with a beloved. Fine-tuning home environment, you may find that there are no real complaints and 19. The time of life between the ages of 12 man's face. your thoughts on the type of person you would like having in your life may help you make progress is recognized. There will be an opportunity later to touch up a few places and and 20. 13. A network of intersecting blood vessels some choices-take it easy. Savings and investments are fun to experiment with, but you laugh over some bizarre findings, but on the whole, work stays on schedule. The best part 20. Make less active or intense. or intersecting nerves or intersecting know eventually, a family is where you will be placing the bulk of your earnings. Now is about this time is being able to share stories with family or friends or listen to music togeth- 22. A branch of the Tai languages. lymph vessels. the time to get some good advice on your investments. Gather your information together er while you work. It always seems to make the work go faster with the addition of others. In 24. A gay festivity. 14. American novelist (1909-1955). so you can get on that project next week with an investment counselor from your bank. some cases you may have to have strangers help you; however, this weekend, there have The powers that be are indicating a romantic time is in the works; however, only the pow- been several opportunities to communicate in new ways with people you care about. Stop 26. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomit- 21. German mystic and theosophist who ers that be know who, where and when that might become a reality; relax. early this evening for rest; perhaps dinner away from the area would be good. ing (especially in cases of drug overdose or founded modern theosophy. poisoning). 23. A brittle silver-white metalloid element 29. Covered or protected with or as if with a that is related to selenium and sulfur. case. 25. A member of a nomadic people of the Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 30. A metallic element having four allotrop- northern Ural mountains. Glancing through the paper this morning, you might have noticed a few When it rains, it pours. Many opportunities come to you in the next few ic forms. 27. A white linen liturgical vestment with garage sales in your neighborhood. This may be a good time to enjoy a days and they are all positive and will be beneficial. Pick one quickly and keep moving for- 32. Filled with a great quantity. sleeves. garage sale day. As a suggestion, if you have the wherewithal, consider shopping at one ward because if you hesitate for too long, the opportunities will move on to someone else. garage sale outside your area. There may be some surprises out there just for you and a great 36. Being ten more than one hundred forty. 28. Open-heart surgery in which the rib Look around and you will find many people that present you with a lot of job ideas, choice investment for a future collection. You could make a fun day of it and perhaps go and get a 38. South Asian deer with three-tined cage is opened and a section of a blood in living accommodations, choice of travel, etc. There are distractions that seem to keep friend to join you. You might purchase a few snacks for on the way home-you have had a big antlers. vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coro- you separated from your own focus. Letter writing this afternoon is a must as someone is day. Of course, all of this just wouldn’t be as much fun without a friend or family member or 41. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region nary artery to bypass the blocked section of waiting to hear some special words from you. Perhaps someone you know has a birthday two. Much laughter and chatting over a fun garage sale or a flea market makes for fun mem- coming up soon. Whatever the case, if you think about this person’s needs and his or her of northern Spain. the coronary artery and improve the blood ories. Tonight is good for counting blessings. 45. Either of two folds of skin that can be supply to the heart. personality, you will come up with just the right words. moved to cover or open the eye. 31. Unable to see. 46. A town in southern Turkey. 33. An uproarious party. 49. Lower in esteem. 34. A fractional monetary unit in Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 51. A master's degree in religion. Bangladesh and India and Nepal and 52. An assertion of a right (as to money or Pakistan. Many people have days when dreams of something or somewhere new A day at home this day is not the usual day at home. Someone will be teach- property). 35. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt. and different become strong mental thoughts and desires, and you are no exception at ing you how to fix canned pickles or fruit for jam; in turn, you could be teach- 54. According to the Old Testament he was 37. Noisy talk. this time. You may be searching for that special place or feeling. Consider putting your ing someone else about a garden project or how to set up a water garden in that person’s a pagan king of Israel and husband of 39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike dreams, wishes and desires on paper to create a focus. You may also find that creating real backyard. This is a busy but accomplished day that you will refer back to for many years in a Jezebel (9th century BC). part of an organism. plans to get you where you want to go will help you relax and find the right direction. sort of I-remember-when scenario. A performance early or later in the evening by a family When you were a kid, you might remember the fun of just being in a quiet place, perhaps member or friend may find you hustling quickly to be ready to give your support. New 55. A region of Malaysia in northeastern 40. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing. clothes or new shoes put you in the mood for a fun evening. This time is the beginning of a Borneo. 42. United States inventor who manufac- with a pet, a kite, a pair of binoculars or maybe a good book. Allow yourself to learn from someone younger than you. Enjoy this day and promise yourself more days like this; romantic time, so if you are single, don’t close off your attention from recognizing those spe- 57. Austrian composer who influenced the tured the first elevator with a safety device include the opportunity to visit a few tourist places you may have never seen. cial signals from a potential mate or loved one. classical form of the symphony (1732- (1811-1861). 1809). 43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo. 58. Being one hundred more than three 44. Type genus of the Amiidae. hundred. 47. A dull persistent (usually moderately Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 60. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635). intense) pain. 62. A town and port in northwestern Israel 48. A great raja. in the eastern Mediterranean. 50. Obvious and dull. 66. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in 53. A white fatty substance that forms a central Asia. medullary sheath around the axis cylinder 70. Using speech rather than writing. of some nerve fibers. 72. United States physiologist (born in 56. The eleventh month of the civil year. Germany) who did research on partheno- 59. Any of numerous low-growing cushion- genesis (1859-1924). forming plants of the genus Draba having 73. African tree having an exceedingly thick rosette-forming leaves and terminal trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and racemes of small flowers with scapose or has an edible pulp called monkey bread. leafy stems. 75. An oil port in southern Iraq. 61. True gudgeons. 77. A run that is the result of the batter's 63. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) performance. (1893-1956). 78. A French abbot. 64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked 79. Capital of the People's Republic of on a skewer usually with vegetables. China in the Hebei province in northeast- 65. A promontory in northern Morocco ern China. opposite the Rock of Gibraltar. 81. A metric unit of volume or capacity 67. A desert in central Asia. equal to 10 liters. 68. In bed. 82. Set down according to a plan. 69. A white soft metallic element that tar- 83. Genus of tropical hardwood timber nishes readily. trees. 71. The seventh month of the Hindu calen- 84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made dar. from aba cloth. 74. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave DOWN messages and access information of gener- 1. Outer bark of the cork oak. al interest. 2. A state in the western United States. 76. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- 3. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai cially in Turkey). Peninsula (7,500 feet high). 80. Angular distance above the horizon 4. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and (especially of a celestial object).

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Lloyd has taken up knitting

her Lloyd has taken up knitting. The 20-year-old teenager with all those hormones going on but I was singer, who has been on a two year hiatus after doing it in front of millions.” She added: “Everyone had Cachieving success in America, has been spending an opinion [about me], I’ve even annoyed myself. I’m her spare time creating knitted scarves. Speaking to back and I’m better now.” Cher is going head-to-head in Heat radio after her set at the Isle of Wight Festival, she a chart battle with ‘X Factor’ mentor Cheryl Cole with her said: “I’ve recently taken up knitting. I knit scarves and new single ‘Sirens’ out on July 20, the same day as Cheryl blankets but that’s as far as I’m at as the patterns are con- releases ‘Crazy Stupid Love’. Cher said: “I didn’t realize it fusing me. I knit, I watch ‘EastEnders’ and do my knitting was out on the same day. She was my ‘X Factor’ mentor! I ... it’s relaxing.” The ‘I Wish’ star admits she didn’t initially cannot think of a better person to ask for advice now we plan to take so much time out of the industry but felt are back. “We’re not in touch but I would like to speak to she had a lot of maturing to do after finding success on her. We had an amazing experience together, I hope she ITV talent show ‘The X Factor’ in 2010. She said: “I’ve feels the same.” Cher is also glad to see Cheryl back on been away two years and I’m a new person. I packed my ‘The X Factor’ panel with Simon Cowell and admits she bag for two weeks but have come back two years later. “I would like to meet up with her record label boss. She realized I had a lot of growing up to do, and it’s the best added: “Not over dinner though, that’s too formal. That’s thing I could have done. I needed to do a lot of growing not me. Despite the rumors ... I’m still signed to Syco!” up ... I was a brat when I was on ‘The X Factor’. I was a

Butler struggled to top ‘Olympus has fallen’ with ‘London Has Fallen’ sequel erard Butler insists the sequel to ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ will be “pretty insane”. The ‘300’ actor - who will reprise his role as secret service agent GMike Banning in ‘London Has Fallen’ - claims it will be a struggle to make it as good as the original, but is convinced they’ll be able to do so. He told Collider.com: “That [‘London Has Fallen’] was one that kind of came out of nowhere. The first one [‘Olympus Has Fallen’] was pretty insane and it’s the same with this. How do you top that? But that’s what we are trying to do right now.” Although Butler, 44, is yet to start filming the movie- which is due out in October next year and also stars Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart - he let slip that the plot will be just as thrilling as the previous installment. He said: “It’s about a terror- ist attack in London and the president is over there because there’s a funeral for the British Prime Minister which is part of the plot to get everybody who is any- body to London. Then the thing hits the fan.” Meanwhile, Butler’s latest movie ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ opened in cinemas this week.

Nicole Kidman’s director wish icole Kidman wants to work with Michael Haneke. The ‘Grace of Monaco’ star was awestruck by the NAustrian director’s Oscar-winning drama, ‘Amour’, Reeves joins and says he is top of her wish list to work with in future. She added: “I’m offered unusual roles and I’m usually offered ‘The Whole Truth’ things with interesting directors. At this stage in my career, I don’t want to get safe.” The 46-year-old actress’ career has eanu Reeves has joined ‘The Whole Truth’. The 49-year-old actor is set to spanned over 30 years and she hopes to keep the momen- replace Daniel Craig, who left the movie in April days before filming was tum going until she’s well into her old age. She said: “You Kdue to kick off, in Courtney Hunt’s courtroom drama, according to can give the greatest performances of your life in your 70s Deadline.com. The hunky star has taken on the role of a defence lawyer, who is and 80s. If you manage to get to that age. They say, ‘Oh, a representing a teenager accused of murdering his wealthy family. Reeves will woman in her 40s wont work’, but that’s not true. “There be starring alongside Renee Zellweger and Gabriel Basso in the film, which has may be fewer roles, but there’s certainly great material been penned by Nicholas Kazan. However, details on the plot are being kept because human beings grow old. As long as there are peo- tightly underwraps. Filming, which was due to start three months ago in Boston, ple willing to make movies about that subject matter, there was thrown into chaos earlier this year when the ‘James Bond’ hunk departed will be roles.” Nicole - who was previously married to Tom the project abruptly, without reason. However, the news of Craig’s exit came as Cruise isn’t enamored with the Hollywood lifestyle and a shock to everyone as according to The Boston Globe newspaper at the time, prefers to spend her time with her husband Keith Urban the actor - who is married to Rachel Weisz - had been spotted at Suffolk County and their young daughters Sunday, five, and Faith, two, on Superior Court in March doing research for the role. Meanwhile, now that Hunt their farm. She told Britain’s Glamour magazine : “I’m not has found her leading man and a full cast is in place, production is set to kick off suited to the big glamorous life. I tried it and it doesn’t quite next month in New Orleans. sit with me.” Lana Del Rey wishes she was dead

ana Del Rey wishes she was “dead already”. The 27-year-old singer, who shot to fame following her hit ‘Video Games’, believes her life is like “one movie” and Lshe’s adamant she doesn’t want to live anymore. Speaking in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, she said: “I wish I was dead already ... That’s just how I feel. If it wasn’t that way, then I wouldn’t say it. I would be scared if I knew [death] was coming, but ...” The brunette beauty admits Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, who both died aged 27, are her heroes and she insists there is something beautiful about dying young. Asked whether she regards early death as glamorous, she replied: “I don’t know. Ummm, yeah.” Lana, whose computer was hacked in 2012 and her songs were leaked online, admits she hasn’t felt any pleasure towards fame in the three years she’s been in the spotlight. She explained: “I never felt any of the enjoyment. It was all bad, all of it.” The ‘Born to Die’ hitmaker also revealed that she had planned to work with Velvet Underground’s former frontman Lou Reed - who passed away on October 27, 2013 - but he died the day she flew out to America to meet him. She recalled: “I took the red eye, touched down at 7am... and two min- Cusack and Brody utes later he died.” for Dragon Blade ohn Cusack and Adrien Brody are to star in ‘Dragon Blade’. The Kings of Leon actors have signed on to star as Roman soldiers lost in ancient Jtimes alongside action star Jackie Chan in the upcoming histori- cal epic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Speaking about the go unrecognized on the casting of Cusack and Brody, Chan said: “I’m really excited to be in a movie with two of the most respected actors working today.” Cusack will play Lucius, a Roman general who leads a legion of soldiers into London Underground the Han Dynasty in China while Brody will take on the role of Tiberius, who assassinates Rome’s Consul Crassus and tries to hunt down ings of Leon admit they’re not recognized on The London Underground. The Lucius. Meanwhile, Chan will star as the Commander of the boy band - which includes Caleb, Jared, Matthew and Nathan Followill - find it Protectorate of the Western Regions, who joins forces with Lucius in a Keasy to ride the tube in England’s capital without having fans notice who they bid to protect China’s borders and sovereignty from Tiberius. Brody are since everyone has their head down anyway. In an interview with Absolute Radio, said of joining ‘Dragon Blade’: “It is a dream to finally work with Jackie. bassist Jared said: “We never get recognized. I think people would be surprised but Aside from my longtime appreciation for his many talents, he is a bea- we’re not a very recognizable band.” Lead guitarist Matthew added: “No one makes eye con of generosity, and an inspiration to me. “Dragon Blade is a tale of contact or looks at you on the underground right. Everyone’s all head down so. It was mythical proportions —- of good prevailing over evil - and an oppor- rush hour and were coming from rehearsal and we just didn’t want to wait and sit in tunity for me to explore a character whose ambition challenges his traffic so. I don’t know where it was from.” The boys are currently preparing to headline honour.” Cusack added: “I grew up watching Jackie Chan films and at the Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday night and admit they’ll be getting having a cou- stood in awe of his talent, energy and spirit. This will be a great ple of drinks before they hit the stage and time-permitting, are hoping to enjoy the adventure for me.” The movie - which is being directed by Daniel Lee Red Hot Chili Peppers on Saturday night as well. Drummer Nathan said: “We try to and is inspired by a missing legion of Roman soldiers that travelled to keep the beer closer to show time. We have the wives and the babies out with us on China in 48 BCE - will soon begin shooting on location in the historic this run so it depends on if we want to stay home with them of if we get to go down city of Dunhuang, western China and in the Gobi Desert. ‘Dragon early. But I love the Chilli Peppers and my daughter would love Flea.” Absolute Radio Blade’ is scheduled for release on February 19 2015.—Bang Showbiz will be broadcasting live from the Isle of Wight Festival all weekend. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 Features Private tours no longer just for wealthy travelers

This Dec 25, 2013 image shows a display of lights outside a church in Medellin, Colombia, which is famous for its holiday lights.

This 2011 photo This 2012 photo provided by Jeremy Hanson provided by Vanessa shows Hanson, left, and a friend, Stephen Giacoppo shows a Conroy, in Malacca, Malaysia, where they waterfall in Iceland. hired a private tour guide to take them — AP photos around.

By Beth J Harpaz domain of wealthy travelers and high-end pack- meet a local. Robin Samora of Boston paid $100 foodie tours there. But I started reading about truf- the bathroom, we have to go to eat.’ He said, ‘I’ll ages. Websites and social media have made it easy each for four-hour tours in Budapest and Prague. fle-hunting with a guide in Le Marche in rural Italy, give you 15 minutes and then we’ll start the sec- had one night only in Medellin, Colombia. It for travelers to book a personal guide. “There is a “We loved that the tour was personalized, with and we changed our trip so we could go truffle- ond half.’” was Christmas and I was determined to see growing desire for this,” said Jamie Wong, founder what we liked to do,” she said. “We also had the hunting.” She and her husband spent several hours Vanessa Giacoppo of Hoboken, New Jersey, IMedellin’s famous holiday lights. An online of Vayable.com, one of the biggest sites connect- ability to ask questions about any subject,” includ- on a bus getting there, but it ended up being “a took a private photography tour in Iceland for search led me to LandVentureTravel.com, which ing tourists with locals, offering 8,500 experiences ing what it was like to grow up under communism. foodie once-in-a-lifetime experience.” $400 that included door-to-door transportation, as specializes in private Medellin tours. By email, I in 800 cities. “We’re leaving the double-decker bus- Jeremy Hanson, a New Yorker who just gradu- many private tours do. The guide drove her and booked a guide to meet my family at our hotel and es and prefab, packaged tours and entering an era Social media ated from law school, often finds guides through her fiance to waterfalls and other hard-to-reach take us to see the lights. of eclecticism where niche is becoming main- The hardest part is finding the tour of your local travel agencies in the place he’s visiting. sites, and coached them on taking photos that I found good reviews for the service on other stream.” Prices for personal tours are often but not dreams. Many travelers simply ask friends or use “These types of guides don’t have the infrastruc- were so good, she blew one up to a 3-by-7-foot websites, but felt nervous. What if the guide didn’t always lower than group tours, ranging from $15 social media. Others search on blogs, TripAdvisor ture to man the phone and put up a website,” he canvas. “In terms of the price, you do everything show? What if his driving was bad? What if the to hundreds of dollars, depending on location, or Lonely Planet threads. Tours on Vayable and explained. In Nicaragua, he found a guide for a vol- when you travel for the experience,” she said. neighborhoods were scary? But our guide was duration and logistics. Tours4Tips charges nothing other sites - ToursByLocals, UrbanAdventures, cano hike “essentially just by walking up and down “When were we going back to Iceland? We wanted phenomenal. We not only loved the lights, but we for walking tours of Santiago, Chile - participants Rent-A-Guide, Nomaders - tend to fall into obvious the street and speaking to people in my broken to be able to capture that moment.” genuinely connected with our guide about every- pay what they wish at the end, with an average categories such as food, shopping, major attrac- Spanish.” Karmina Zafiro of San Francisco booked two thing from the economy to politics. It was my first $12 tip. Our tour for four in Medellin was $140 - tions, history, art, architecture and outdoor adven- private tours in Taiwan, one for food through private tour, and it was a revelation - completely $35 per person, or half the price of a Christmas tures. But Vayable also lets users request a custom Capture the moment Vayable and one to see Taroko Gorge, found different from group tours with canned scripts and lights bus tour in New York. itinerary, which local guides then bid on. The only downside? Sometimes guides are too through TripAdvisor. “After both tours, I felt like I’d time wasted waiting for others to shop and use Regardless of cost, personal tours are often Elisse Goldstein-Clark, who owns the Elkhorn devoted. “We had one in Malacca, Malaysia, who made local friends. You made that personal con- bathrooms. more meaningful than packaged tours. You not Inn in Eckman, West Virginia, “was Googling to find wanted to show us every little detail,” he recalled nection. They weren’t selling me anything. But Private tours are no longer the exclusive only get a customized itinerary, but you get to foodie things to do in Rome - there are lots of with a laugh. “We tried to say, ‘We have to go to they imparted that local flavor.” — AP Big Picasso to move to NY museum, ending dispute

stage curtain believed to be Mirrer called the painting “an icon of repairs to the wall behind it. The the biggest Pablo Picasso New York for more than half a century, Landmarks Conservancy sued RFR to Apainting in the United States is embodying both an influential social try to stop the move, disputing the moving to a museum after a dispute milieu and an important moment in extent of the wall damage and saying over whether it could stay in its long- the city’s cultural development.” the move could destroy the brittle time spot in the storied Four Seasons Picasso painted the curtain in 1919 canvas. restaurant, the painting’s owner for “Le Tricorne,” or “three-cornered The preservation group’s concerns announced Thursday. hat,” a ballet created by the avant- have been somewhat assuaged by the The 19-by-20-foot curtain, called garde, Paris-based Ballet Russes current plan, which involves carefully “Le Tricorne,” is being donated to the troupe. The painting depicts the after- wrapping the painting on a huge New-York Historical Society, where it’s math of a bullfight. Although praised roller and having conservators do any expected to go on display after some at $1.6 million in 2008, the painting needed restoration work, Breen said. conservation work, painting owner isn’t considered one of Picasso’s great- Rosen is paying for it all, said Breen, Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco poses at the Thiepval WWI Memorial, northern France.—AFP the Landmarks Conservancy said. The est pieces but stands as a major exam- who wouldn’t disclose the estimated timetable isn’t clear; the groups still ple of his theatrical set work, experts cost. are working out the arrangements. say. And it has graced the Four Through a spokeswoman, Rosen WWI: Horror of Somme gets graphic The agreement will keep the paint- Seasons’ landmarked, modernist inte- and RFR declined to comment on the ing, which is so familiar a sight that its rior since its 1959 opening. The paint- agreement, first reported by The New Four Seasons berth is known as ing itself isn’t landmarked. York Times. Some art and architec- treatment from comic book master “Picasso Alley.” The pact also resolves a The midtown Manhattan restau- ture critics had decried the move, at lawsuit that caused a stir among art rant, unaffiliated with the nearby Four least as initially planned, though oth- oe Sacco’s first impressions of next month, is nearly twice as long, of the individual was not lost. lovers and preservationists, pitting the Seasons hotel, is a power-lunch ers took the landlord’s side. Rosen, an World War I were forged as a several metres high and every bit as Before starting on the project, he Landmarks Conservancy against a real hotspot that has hosted high-wattage art collector whom the Landmarks Jschoolboy in Australia, more than rich in telling detail. spent months devouring books on estate magnate known as an art diners ranging from President Bill Conservancy itself once honored as a four decades ago. But the Malta-born At its heart, on the 12th of its 24 the war and visiting the Imperial War patron. Clinton to Madonna. The restaurant’s preservationist, told the Times in master of comic book reportage panels, a British officer, pipe in mouth, Museum in London to ensure that he “It’s going to be at a good home, landlord, RFR Holding Corp - co- March the outcry had “elevated this found himself delving much further points the way for his troops as they got details like the extent of a where even more people will see it,” founded by state Council on the Arts into something that it shouldn’t back in time after taking on his latest calmly make their way towards the Howitzer’s recoil right. conservancy President Peg Breen said. Chairman Aby Rosen - recently said be.”—AP project, a massive cartoon mural German lines with rifles slung over Field Marshal David Haig, the Historical Society President Louise the curtain had to be moved for depicting the first day of the 1916 their shoulders. “The officers tried to British commander in the Battle, and Battle of the Somme-a project that he convey a sense of calm to their men ... one of the WWI generals most readily says was partially inspired by the 11th at least for a few seconds,” Sacco told associated with allegations of incom- Century Bayeux Tapestry. AFP by way of explanation of one of petent leadership, appears three The author of acclaimed comic the many carefully calibrated images times in the piece, including in the strip treatments of contemporary con- that make up an extraordinary piece opening panel, launching the offen- flicts in Israel/Palestine and Bosnia, of work. sive. The final panel depicts bodies Sacco, 53, has long nurtured the idea Darkest Day being discreetly buried and the of doing something about the Great Convinced that days of bombard- injured receiving treatment while oth- War. “It all started when I was playing ments would have left the German er troops take their turn in advancing darts with a friend of mine in New forces opposite them severely deplet- to the front line. York. ‘Why don’t you do something ed and demoralized, Britain’s military “It gave me a chance to draw as a on the first world war?’ he asked. That high command judged that their mediaeval artist would have drawn,” was 15 years ago.” The same friend lat- troops could march towards the ene- added Sacco. “Everything was packed er suggested an accordion-style book. my. It was a calamitous miscalcula- together in medieval art. “I wanted to “I thought of the Bayeux Tapestry: it is tion: the Germans had not suffered convey the enormous undertaking a long corridor of images you can read anything like the anticipated damage that war involved. Humans cooperate from left to right. and by the end of the day, 20,000 to kill other humans. I wanted to show “And I have been interested in the British troops were dead. The what was at the foreground as well as first world war since I was 10 years old. Somme’s place in history as a byword in the background, to give a feeling of In Australia it is part of the national for carnage born of tactical error was depth.” The drawings have already psyche.” An epic work of embroidery assured. been published in book form and the depicting the Norman conquest of “It was the darkest day for English mural itself goes on display from July England that culminated in the 1066 troops in the war: in one way it epito- 1 on the wall of a long underground Battle of Hastings, the Bayeux mized the war,” said Sacco, who lives passage way at the Paris subway sta- Tapestry is nearly 70 meters long (230 in the United States. Against a back- tion of Montparnasse.-AFP In this Feb 28, 2014, file photo provided by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a stage curtain painted by feet). Sacco’s mural, which goes on drop of mass slaughter, Sacco was Pablo Picasso hangs on a wall at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York.—AP display in a Paris underground station determined to ensure that the place lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 AWARDS

The Sam Roberts Band accept their MMVA. Sam Roberts Bands performs on stage. Lorde performs during the 2014 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto on Sunday. Kendall, Kylie Jenner amazing MuchMusic Video Awards hosts

By Emily Longeretta

fter Kendall’s flub at the BBMAs, it’s no secret that everyone was wor- Aried about the Jenner sisters host- ing the 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards. But I’m so happy to say that they were absolutely incredible on stage! No one has better chemistry than fami- ly, so it wasn’t surprising that Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner totally compli- mented each other on stage at the MMVAs in Toronto on June 15. After they walked the red carpet in probably the sexiest dresses I’ve ever seen them in, I knew it was going to be a good night! Kendall, 18, definitely had to reestab- lish herself after her flub at the Billboard Awards on May 18, and she did that and so much more. With her sister Kylie, 16, by her side, the two were a total power team! At one point in the night, Kendall even called out the guy controlling the cue cards for trying to trick her into messing up her lines by putting up the wrong words. It was adorable that she laughed and pretty much made fun of herself! Imagine Dragons performs on stage. I’ve also got to say that I was impressed by how natural they both appeared - it can’t be easy to take the stage in front of that many people on an outside stage in Toronto Canada! The sisters said on the red carpet that they got advice from big sister, Kim Kardashian who told them to Imagine Dragons arrive on the red carpet. just have fun and enjoy it, and that’s what they definitely did! At one point in the night, the girls were introducing Lorde and had an argument about who should get to do it. The banter was cute; Kylie called out Kendall for scratching Kris Jenner’s car, and then added that one time she got to wear Kanye West’s chains, so she should get to do the intro. All in all, we’re so proud of the girls for getting up there, regardless of the criticism Kendall got from the BBMAs. They both looked stunning and nailed it. — hollywoodlife.com MuchMusic Video Awards Winners 2014

Director of the Year: Amos Leblanc & Virginia to Vegas perform on stage. Ohji Inoue for Thug Li’s “Run This” International Video of the Year (by a Canadian): “Hold On We’re Going Home” by Drake Hip-Hop Video of the Year: “Worst Behavior” by Drake MuchFACT Video of the Year: Everywhere We Go” by SonReal International Video of the Year: “Royals” by Lorde International Video of the Year by a Group:“Demons” by Imagine Dragons Rock/Alternative Video of the Year: “Shapeshifters” by Sam Roberts Band Pop Video of the Year: “Anything” by Kendall and Kylie Jenner arrive on the red carpet at the Hedley 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards. Favorite International Artist or Group: Selena Gomez Favorite Video:“Anything” by Hedley Favorite Artist or Group: Justin Bieber Video of the Year: “Anything” by Hedley. Winnie Harlow arrives on the red carpet. Magic! Perform on stage.

Hedley accepts their MMVA.

Hedley performs on stage. Liz Trinnear arrives on the red carpet. lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES

In this Nov 15, 1992 file photo, Bruce Dumont, president of the Museum of Broadcast Communication, far left, stands with inductees, from left, ABC radio pioneer Leonard Goldenson, country music’s Porter Wagoner, Detroit radio personality JP McCarthy, and ‘Top 40’ host Casey Kasem, into the museum’s Hall of Fame in Chicago, Ill. Also participating in the ceremony is Paul Harvey, far right. (Right) In this Jan 26, 1991 file photo, Seacrestentertainer Casey Kasem leads says a group estimated at 15,000Kasem’s people through the streets in Los death Angeles protesting the United a State losss’ involvement in thefor Persian Gulf. —radio AP photos listeners

yan Seacrest says the death of his radio music. His voice was heard in TV cartoons such better place and no longer suffering, we are role model, Casey Kasem, is a loss for as “Scooby-Doo,” where he was Shaggy, and in heartbroken. Thank you for all your love, sup- Rradio listeners worldwide. Kasem, an numerous commercials. port and prayers. The world will miss Casey internationally famous radio broadcaster with Kasem, an incredible talent and humanitarian; a cheerful manner and gentle voice, died Quotes on the passing of Kasem we will miss our Dad.” - Kerri, Mike and Julie Sunday at age 82. He became the king of the “Very sorry to hear of Casey’s passing. Aside Kasem top 40 countdown with a syndicated show from being a Johnny Carson-esque staple in all “For many, the multitalented Casey Kasem that ran for decades. our lives, Casey was always so personally kind was the voice of popular music, and his long- In this Sept 20, Seacrest, who took over the countdown to me. I still have a voicemail he left me years running countdown program brought expo- 1987 file photo, from Kasem in 2009, said in a statement that ago telling me how much he loved my new sure for many of his fellow union members. My Casey Kasem, as a child, he’d listen to Kasem’s show every record at the time. He was gracious. And a deepest sympathy to his family and friends, along with his weekend “and dream about someday becom- class act.” - Singer Richard Marx and may we all remember him best by ‘reach- wife Jean Kasem ing a radio DJ.” He says Kasem had a distinctive “Early this Father’s Day morning, our dad ing for the stars.’” - Ken Howard, president of arrives at the friendly on-air voice and will be greatly Casey Kasem passed away surrounded by fam- SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors, DJs and Emmy Awards in missed. Kasem’s legacy reached well beyond ily and friends. Even though we know he is in a other media professionals. — AP Los Angeles.

Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour performs during the 20th edition of the World Sacred Music Festival in Fez, Morocco yesterday. — AFP photos African music legends pay homage to Mandela at Morocco festival

frican superstars Johnny Clegg and renowned as the “White Zulu” for mixing English news on apartheid with my mom”. Youssou N’Dour paid homage Sunday to and Zulu lyrics and rhythms, took to the stage. “At that moment, you really felt as if the Alate South African icon Nelson Mandela at “Thank you for this homage to a great man image of Nelson Mandela was soaring over the the 20th edition of the World Festival of Sacred who played an important role in my life and in stage,” said French festival-goer Michel Pautel Music in Morocco. The show in Fez, the spiritual the world,” Clegg, 61, said in French, after belting after the three-hour double concert. The show capital of the north African nation, began with a out his hit 80s ode to Mandela “Asimbonanga” fell on the day that Mandela’s family marked the reading of English poet William Ernest Henley’s (We have not seen him). He melded his voice traditional end of mourning-six months after his “Invictus”, often recited by Mandela while impris- with that of another African great, Senegal’s death on December 5 at the age of 95, after a Revelers throw a youth in the air during the performance of a group at the Gnaoua oned by the apartheid government. Thousands Youssou N’dour, in a medley including N’dour’s long illness-which prompted a global outpour- World Music Festival. of people then broke into dance as South Africa’s song “Nelson Mandela”, which he wrote in 1985 ing of grief. It also came as excerpts were pub- Johnny Clegg, a musician internationally after spending hours in Dakar “watching the lished from a book by a longtime aide to South Africa’s first black president, that tells of family squabbles as Mandela lay in hospital fighting for his life. “Good Morning, Mr Mandela” by Zelda la Grange, his personal assistant for 19 years, is due for official release Thursday. The Moroccan music festival, which is celebrating its 20th edition, ends on Saturday. — AFP

Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour performs A musician of Moroccan Gnaoua group A member of Gnaoua group Maalem A member of Gnaoua group Maalem Hassan Boussou performs in Essaouira. on stage. Maalem Hassan Boussou perform. Mohamed Kouyou performs. African music legends pay homage to Mandela at Morocco festival

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Models display dresses made from paper using the origami technique designed by Colombia designer Diana Gamboa, alongside metal objects produced by Gamboa’s husband Luis Fernando Bohorquez during an art performance ‘The Cyclops: a love story’ in Tokyo. — AFP photos Brazil inaugurates Pele Museum, honoring legend

he city where Pele rose to fame honored its favorite son Sunday, celebrating the life and career Mandela aide’s Tof the Brazilian football great while his country hosted the World Cup. Hundreds of dignitaries were on hand in the port city of Santos to toast the 73-year-old memoir set to Pele at the official opening of the Pele Museum - a 4,000 square meter complex inside the city’s old town that cost about $22 million and houses more than 2,500 ruffle feathers items related to his career, including trophies, jerseys and images of him with world leaders and celebrities. elson Mandela’s widow was treated badly by members Considered by many to be the greatest footballer of his family as the peace icon was fighting for his life in ever, Pele rose to stardom at Santos FC, where he played Nhospital, excerpts from a memoir by his long-time aide between 1956 and 1974. During that period he also led have revealed. In a book likely to ruffle some feathers within Brazil to three World Cup titles. Pele rode into the cere- the large Mandela family, Zelda la Grange, Mandela’s personal mony on a tram and was greeted by wild applause. assistant for 19 years, tells of shabby treatment suffered by Visibly emotional, he said the museum was a “dream” Graca Machel, even in the aftermath of her husband’s death. La and that he was proud to represent the city and his Grange’s book “Good Morning, Mr Mandela” will be launched country. on Thursday. Excerpts published by Sunday Times newspaper “In 1958 (Brazil’s first World Cup victory) no one knew reveal that Machel was once called “Ms Frantic” by Mandela’s Brazil and today everyone’s here at the inauguration of eldest daughter Makaziwe, after media reports that she had been in a frenzy when an ambulance driv- ing Mandela to hospital broke down on a motor- way on a cold evening in June 2013. La Grange also recalled Soccer great, Pele poses for a photo next to young players of the Santos soccer team. family squabbles over con- trol of the revered states- my museum,” he said at the podium. “When I played in Like other World Cup-related events, protesters man during his final days, the 1958 Cup nobody knew Brazil, now we’re getting awaited outside the barricaded compound. They sidelining Machel. She says the Cup of all Cups and all eyes are on us here.” delayed the dignitaries and their chants could be heard politics within the Mandela To this day, he remains a national hero. He is also a throughout the ceremony as a series of politicians took family about his funeral successful businessman and a United Nations goodwill the stage. But when it came to Pele, there was pretty took place for years before ambassador. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was sup- much a consensus, said Anna Beatriz Ayroza Galvao, he died in December last posed to attend the ceremony Sunday but had to cancel who works in the city of Sao Paulo’s Brazilian heritage year at the age of 95. Soccer great Pele poses for photos during the inau- at the last minute. A recorded video address was deliv- department. “He is part of our cultural history. He is a Machel had refused to be party to such arrangements. “I don’t guration of the Pele Museum showing his history as ered instead, followed by a video tribute that included reference, a symbol that every Brazilian is proud to fol- know of any person alive who has been treated with the a player in Santos, Brazil, Sunday. — AP photos Pele’s career highlights. low,” she said. “He is an example for everyone.” — AP amount of disrespect that people have shown to Mrs Machel,” writes La Grange. She also says that Machel, like anybody else, was compelled to get accreditation to attend her own husband’s funeral on December 15. The Machel family was allocated only five spots at the service. Makaziwe told the Sunday Times that La Grange would have to prove any reference she made about the family in the book “otherwise she will be sued.” But the former aide has defended her words. “My book was not written as a definitive account-to say ‘this is Madiba’. It’s just my experience,” she told the Sunday Times. La Grange, a white Afrikaans woman, had over the years become a permanent feature at Mandela’s side, often seen holding his hand to offer support during his frail final years. On a lighter side, she told how she was at loss for words when she met him for the first time. “I said: ‘Good morning, Mr Mandela’,” and started crying. “I felt guilty that this kindly-spoken man with gentle eyes and generosity of spirit spoke to me in my own language after my people had sent him to jail for so many years.” La Grange also claims that Machel had to intervene after Makaziwe had prevented her from visiting Mandela in hospital, telling her that she was no longer an employee. — AFP Former great, Pele does a high five with young players of the Santos team. A man takes a picture as he visits the Pele Museum.