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SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 RAJAB 10, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Union chief Pope returns Surging oil Villa relegated hails move to with 12 refugees production, as Aguero shift nurseries after visit to low prices to treble takes under MoE Greek island challenge meet Man City third 5Oil union7 rejects21 govt20 Min 19º Max 33º appeal to cancel strike High Tide 08:12 & 19:33 Low Tide Saleh urges workers to renegotiate • Firms begin contingency plans 01:01 & 13:46 40 PAGES NO: 16847 150 FILS

By A Saleh and Meshaal Al-Enezi

Yemen talks KUWAIT: The oil sector employees’ union reiterated its determination to go ahead with its strike today, turning to begin amid down an appeal from the acting oil minister to call off the total strike in protest at alleged pay cuts and to accept negotiations, adding all preparations had been made. The shaky truce union explained that all employees would show up as usu- al wearing their official uniforms to sign in and out. “The strike will start from 7:00 am till 3:00 pm or during official KUWAIT: A concerted United Nations effort aimed at working hours,” explained the union, adding employees ending nearly 13 months of war in Yemen sees peace and workers working morning or afternoon shifts would talks resuming tomorrow, but with a ceasefire barely go on strike according to their working hours. holding. Previous attempts have failed to stop the Minister of Finance and acting oil minister Anas Al- fighting which has killed thousands of people, forced Saleh yesterday urged oil workers’ unions to uphold almost 2.8 million from their homes and raised public interests, rationality and wisdom to avoid caus- regional tensions. A ceasefire that came into effect ing damage to the Kuwaiti oil sector, and consequently last Sunday at midnight to pave the way for the talks pushing the country into disputes that could harm its in Kuwait has been violated numerous times. reputation, both at home and overseas. The critical But the Iran-backed rebel Houthis, the govern- stage the Kuwaiti economy is experiencing due to the ment, and the United Nations, which sponsored the fall in oil prices prompts unity and working according to ceasefire, have avoided talk of it collapsing, as hap- a joint vision to keep away causing any harm to the oil pened with three earlier truces. The ceasefire does sector and the development process it is going through, not apply to jihadist groups, which have exploited Saleh said in a statement yesterday. the chaos to strengthen their hold in the south. The KPC and its affiliate companies reiterate preservation coalition led by Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia ear- of workers’ rights, wages, bonuses and indemnities, and ly this week described ceasefire violations as the way the latter is calculated, as well as other advan- “minor”. The coalition began air strikes in March last tages they have gained through labor agreements and year to support Yemen’s government. KUWAIT: A general view shows the Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday. Oil workers plan to go on strike today in protest the arbitration authority, the minister added. Continued on Page 13 against what they call the government’s plan to cut their annual benefits and bonuses. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Two nights of Japan quakes kill 41

KUMAMOTO, Japan: Scores of people counted for over a wide area. News were feared buried alive yesterday after “We are aware of multiple locations two powerful quakes hit southern Japan where people have been buried alive,” in Brief a day apart, killing at least 41 people, as a Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga forecast storm threatened more devas- told a press conference. “Police, firefight- Saudi factory tating landslides. Homes, roads and rail- ers and Self Defense Force (military) per- way lines were swept away when huge sonnel are doing all they can to rescue fire kills 12 hillsides collapsed as thousands of them.” More than 90,000 people have RIYADH: A fire at a petrochemicals plant in the eastern tonnes of mud were dislodged by the been evacuated, including 300 from an Saudi city of Jubail killed 12 workers yesterday, the offi- thunderous seismic tremors. Buildings area near a dam thought to be at risk of cial SPA news agency reported. The fire broke out dur- were reduced to rubble, including a uni- collapse. A hospital was left teetering by ing maintenance work at the Jubail United versity dormitory and apartment com- yesterday morning’s 7.0-magnitude Petrochemical Co, a spokesman for the Jubail and plexes, with dozens of people unac- Continued on Page 8 Yanbu industrial zone, Abdel Rahman Al-Abdel Khader, told the agency. The victims suffocated from fumes of burning chemicals, he said. Another 11 employees were AGRA: Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of injured, six of them left in a “serious state”. United is a Cambridge pose at the Taj Mahal yesterday. — AFP subsidiary of Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corp (SABIC). Spokesmen for SABIC and United could not immediate- Will and Kate end India ly be reached for comment.

trip with Taj Mahal visit Petrol bomb kills Bahrain policeman AGRA, India: Prince William and his wife William told reporters after the couple DUBAI: A petrol bomb attack in a village in Bahrain Kate arrived at the Taj Mahal yesterday, spent about half an hour inside the mau- yesterday killed a policeman and gravely wounded wrapping up their weeklong trip to India soleum, famous for its pure white mar- two more, the Gulf state’s interior ministry said. “A and Bhutan with a visit that carries ble. The Duchess said it had been “incred- policeman was martyred in a terrorist Molotov poignant echoes for Britain’s royal family. ible learning about the romance of the cocktail attack in Kerdabad” village, a tweet from When the late Princess Diana was pho- building and its really beautiful architec- the ministry reported. It said an enquiry had begun tographed sitting alone outside the trag- ture”. Their visit to India’s most recogniza- into the attack which also seriously injured two offi- ic monument to love in 1992, it sparked ble landmark follows a whirlwind week cers. Locals said a large security presence had gath- much media speculation and later that saw the young royals feed baby rhi- ered around the area. The Gulf kingdom has been became a symbol of her failing marriage. nos in northeastern Assam and trek to a rocked by sporadic violence since an uprising in The Taj Mahal was cleared of tourists mountain monastery in Bhutan - retrac- MIMAMI-ASO, Japan: Rescue workers try to save people from a collapsed house 2011 demanding political reform was suppressed. minutes before the Duke and Duchess of ing the footsteps of Prince Charles. in this town in Kuammoto prefecture yesterday. — AFP Cambridge arrived, after flying in earlier Also waiting for the royal couple in to Agra, its streets decked out in fairy Agra was a 73-year-old fan whose family lights and flowers to welcome the high- memories stretch back even further, to Iran, Turkey vow to cooperate profile visitors. the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. “I As temperatures soared, workers have been dreaming of meeting the sprinkled ice water on the famous “Diana Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ever ANKARA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and tions with Moscow cooled after Turkey shot bench” in front of the monument, before since I got to know they would be com- Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan down a Russian warplane. the pair posed for a photo, Kate wearing ing to the Taj,” Surendra Sharma told AFP. vowed to boost trade between their two coun- Despite their rapprochement, Turkey and Iran a white-and-blue dress and her husband Sharma’s late uncle Kailash Nath Sharma, tries at talks yesterday following the lifting of remain on opposing sides of the five-year civil in a matching blue blazer. “It’s a beautiful a keen photographer whose studio in most international sanctions on Tehran. They war in Syria. Tehran backs Syrian President place, stunning designs in there,” Prince Continued on Page 13 also agreed to cooperate in the fight against ter- Bashar Al-Assad, while Ankara sees Assad’s rorism during their meeting at Erdogan’s lavish ouster as key to any resolution of the conflict palace near Ankara, just a day after Iran was and supports rebels fighting to overthrow his accused of supporting extremists at a summit of regime. Rouhani said stability in Syria, Yemen Muslim heads of state in Istanbul. and Iraq would benefit the Islamic world. Rouhani boycotted the closing meeting of Erdogan said despite their differences on region- the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in al issues, Turkey and Iran agreed on the need to protest at the rebuke. His meeting with Erdogan stop the bloodshed in the region. focused on the Syrian conflict and trade The war in Syria has pitted Shiite-majority between the two neighbors. In a joint press con- Iran against Turkey’s ally, predominantly Sunni ference, Erdogan said he hoped bilateral trade Saudi Arabia, with both aiming to increase their would reach $30 billion annually. It currently influence in the region. stands at just $10 billion after years of sanctions. Iran and Saudi Arabia have been embroiled in After being brought in from the cold follow- a diplomatic crisis since a mob set fire to ing last year’s nuclear deal with world powers, Riyadh’s missions in Tehran and Mashhad in Iran is being courted by both Europe and Turkey January in protest at the execution by Saudi as a potentially lucrative market for trade and Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric. The Turkish investment. Rouhani called for banking and and Iranian leaders also agreed to seek to end energy ties between the two nations to be sectarian divisions in the Islamic world and join ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip enhanced as the two leaders inked several coop- forces to fight terror. “What matters is the unity Erdogan (right) shakes hands with his Iranian eration deals. Energy-hungry Turkey is depend- of the Islamic world. We must tell the world: Our counterpart Hassan Rouhani during an offi- AL-QURAYYAH: An Emirati trainer tries to separate two bulls at the end of a ent on Russia and Iran for its oil and natural gas identity is Islam, not to be Sunni or Shiite, or cial welcoming ceremony at the presidential traditional bullfight in the north of Fujairah this emirate yesterday. — AFP but may turn more to Tehran after Ankara’s rela- from another sect,” said Rouhani. — AFP complex yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 LOCAL

Kuwait never let Yemen A Blend of Albanian Culture and Traditions down: Delegate to UN By Kujtim Morina, Albanian Ambassador to the State of Kuwait

NEW YORK/KUWAIT/RIYADH: The Yemeni n the occasion of activities and Delegate to the United Nations Ambassador events organized in Kuwait as Khaled Hussein Al-Yamani lauded Kuwait’s sup- OCapital of Islamic Culture for portive role to his country in times of distress 2016, I would like to thank National and crises. Kuwait as an effective part of the Council for Culture, Arts and Letters for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which has never their support and cooperation in organ- let down Yemen even in the most difficult times, izing an Albanian concert of Folks Songs Yamani said in speech at a special UN Security and Dances on 18 April 2016, 19:00 at Council session to discuss the Yemeni crisis. He Abdul Hussain Andulredha Theatre in noted that Kuwait’s hosting of the upcoming Salmiya. My high appreciation goes talks between different Yemeni parties has ‘great especially to the Minister of Information implications.’ and State Minister for Youth Affairs, Yamani said that Kuwait has been hosting Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- Albanian Ambassador Kujtim Morina Yemeni-Yemeni dialogues during the conflict. Humoud Al-Sabah and Secretary He underlined that Yemeni people is looking General of NCCAL, Dr Ali Yohua for their tourism and agriculture. Last year, there forwards to the success of the coming round of continuous support to the Albanian were registered 4 million tourists in talks to reach a viable and sustainable peaceful embassy activities. This concert will be Albania and we are working to receive solution based on the Gulf initiative, national delivered by the Albanian National more. Mediterranean weather of dialogue outcome and relevant UNSC resolu- Ensemble of Folks Songs and Dances Albania, sandy and rocky beaches, tions including resolution 2216. under National Theater of Opera and mountainous resorts and several Yamani unveiled that after five days from the Ballet of Albania which is well-known UNESCO protected sites with Roman, Saudi-led coalition’s announcement of ceasefire, for many successful performances Greek and Ottoman heritage and budg- the Houthi militias and pro-former president Ali throughout the years in many countries et-friendly prices compared to some Abdullah Salah forces have committed dozens since its establishment in 1957. other countries, makes the country of violations, including several rockets and Given that I am in the end of my mis- more attractive for the visitors. Since the artillery attacks of residential areas. sion in Kuwait, I want to extend my removal of visas for Kuwaiti citizens from thanks and appreciation to all Kuwaiti the Albanian government in February Discernable decrease authorities and officials under the lead- last year, more Kuwaitis are visiting the The UN Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh MARIB: Mabruk Mughrabi (center), a Yemeni boy injured in his leg as a result of a land mine, ership of His Highness the Amir Sheikh country and we hope that this trend Ahmad said meanwhile that first days of the stands with friends at a camp for internally displaced on the outskirts of Marib on April 15, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, for goes on. As I mentioned before, this cessation of hostilities, which started on April 2016.— AFP their cooperation and support. The bilat- concert of Albanian folk songs and 10, witnessed a discernable decrease in the lev- eral relations between Albania and dances on 18 April will show some el of military violence in most parts of the coun- the handover of heavy weapons to the State, mechanisms of implementing the relevant UN Kuwait are strengthened more during blend of Albanian culture and traditions try. “However, there have also been a worrying the restoration of state institutions and the resolutions and reaching permanent peace, he recent years. I use the opportunity to and also the feelings of friendship and number of serious violations particularly in Al- resumption of inclusive political dialogue, the affirmed. He renewed the Yemeni government’s mention here the exchange of visits fraternity with the people of Kuwait. Jawf, Amran, Mareb and Taiz. Fighting in Taiz release of prisoners and detainees. With these determination to find a peaceful end to the pro- from the authorities of the both coun- Director of Albania’s Opera House will be continues to cause civilian casualties and I am components, we are building on what has been tracted conflict, stressing the need to put the tries and the official visit recent weeks of visiting the country and this is a good concerned that a spiral of escalation could discussed and agreed upon in principle, in Biel, national unity above all narrow-minded parti- the Minister of Public Works and opportunity to meet and exchange threaten the success of the peace process,” he December 2015 based on the demands of UNSC san considerations. National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al ideas of cooperation with Kuwaiti rele- cautioned. 2216 (2015),” he said. He went on to say that Berri reaffirmed the commitment of his gov- Omair to Tirana, cooperation with the vant authorities. I would like to conclude He noted that a number of events over the “this framework provides a strong foundation ernment to the UN resolutions, the GCC initia- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic this article for Kuwait Times thanking last weeks at the same time rose hopes for suc- for developing a new political consensus that tive for peace in Yemen and the outcomes of Development and signing of a loan the staff of this newspaper for their sup- cess of peace process. “I would like to acknowl- will help Yemen achieve the stability and securi- the previous rounds of the national dialogue. agreement in the end of last month and port in promoting relations between our edge the courage displayed by the Kingdom of ty that its people deserve and that its future The planned talks will start one week after the the increasing interest from Kuwaiti countries and with best impressions for Saudi Arabia and Ansarallah by accepting to set- requires. “A positive outcome will require diffi- arrival of representative of the Yemeni parties to companies and Kuwaiti citizens to visit being here in Kuwait with my family for tle border disputes. Both parties confirmed that cult compromises from all sides, as well as Kuwait to discuss ways of consolidating the Albania. Main priorities for development three years and willing to maintain these agreements pave the way for the general determination to reach an agreement. I encour- ceasefire in Yemen, addressing the humanitari- as set by the Albanian government are these contacts and relations. cessation of hostilities in Yemen,” he said. age all sides to come to the talks in good faith an crisis and preparing the ground for ending He also expressed gratitude for Kuwait’s and flexibility. The path to peace will be difficult the conflict. hosting for the Yemeni talks. “I am sincerely but it is in reach and failure is not an option.” grateful to the Government of Kuwait, who gen- GCC commends Kuwait erously offered to host these talks, and who is Kuwaiti efforts GCC Secretary General Dr Abdulateef Al- providing every kind of support possible for Charge d’Affaires of Yemen Embassy in Zayani praised the State of Kuwait for hosting their success,” he said. Kuwait Mohammad Al-Berri spoke highly of the political talks between the Yemeni parties. Kuwait’s initiative for hosting the intra-Yemeni He commended efforts of Kuwait under leader- Comprehensive agreement peace talks, due to start tomorrow. “The State of ship of His Highness the Amir to stop bloodshed He added that the talks will commence Kuwait, under the leadership of His Highness in Yemen and restore peace nationwide. He not- tomorrow and aim to reach a comprehensive the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- ed that the government of Kuwait provided all agreement, which will end the conflict and Sabah, spares no effort in reaching a peaceful facilities to bring about success for the talks. allow the resumption of inclusive political dia- settlement to the Yemeni crisis,” he said. Zayani hoped the talks would contribute to logue in accordance with UN Security Council “Kuwait is a long-standing mediator in the completion of the political process in line with resolution 2216 (2015) and other relevant UNSC problems of many Arab countries,” Berri said, the GCC initiative and its implementation mech- resolutions. recalling Kuwait’s role in ending the crisis of civil anism, and UN resolution 2216. The Gulf He argued that these talks build on a negoti- war in Yemen between 1962 and 1970. He not- Cooperation Council, he said, was standing ating framework which provides a mechanism ed that the recent visit to Kuwait by Yemeni behind the UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould for return to a peaceful and orderly transition President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi reached Sheikh Ahmad for the success of the talks. based on the GCC Initiative and National positive results which will reflect positively on Zayani called for the respect of the ceasefire Dialogue Outcomes. “I will encourage the par- UN-sponsored Yemeni talks in Kuwait. and the facilitation of the delivery of humanitar- ties in the talks to negotiate a detailed way for- The Yemeni government received assurances ian aid for the Yemeni people nationwide. He ward starting with each of the following areas: from the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail said the violation of the truce would not help the creation of interim security arrangements, Ould Cheikh Ahmed that the Houthis agreed to providing suitable atmosphere for the forth- the withdrawal of militias and armed groups, take part in the first round of talks to discuss the coming talks.— KUNA CAMBRIDGE: Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Sabah is pictured with the Right Honorable Lord Chris Smith. — KUNA Kuwaiti teen wins silver at Pembroke College applauds Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah’s sponsoring Geneva inventions exhibition KUWAIT: The British Pembroke College, March 31, was Sir Roger Tomkys, a former Cambridge, has expressed deep gratitude Master of the College, who was Sheikh Ambassador praises achievements to Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Sabah for Mubarak’s Tutor and who has been closely patronizing research at the renowned uni- associated with the Book Prize since its GENEVA: Kuwaiti inventor Nasser Issa Al-Jimaz, 16, the auspices of the World Intellectual Property versity, the Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah inception. won on Friday the silver award of the 44th Organization (WIPO) to this exhibition reflects the Foundation said yesterday in a statement. The foundation, under the aegis of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva credibility of the awards, where getting a certificate This came when Sheikh Mubarak late Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak’s wife, (2016) for innovations in the field of environment from such a prestigious organization constitutes Abdullah Al-Sabah has recently paid a for- Sheikha Sou’ad Al-Sabah, is widely recog- protection. obtaining a birth certificate that the inventor has mal call on Lord Smith of Fisbury, the new nized for its generous support of academic He exhibited a new mechanism for reducing the started an important step in the march of excellence Master of Prembroke College. “Developing work. Each year since 1998 the British- carbon dioxide emissions through absorbing these and innovation. our understanding of the culture, history Kuwait Friendship Society administers and emissions from air, treating them chemically and Jimaz is an example for the youth of Kuwait for and society of the Middle East and Islamic awards a valuable Prize for the best original turning them into plastic material that could be used his early consciousness on the problems of the envi- world has never been more important than academic monograph or monographs pub- in many applications. The arbitration panel appreci- ronment and human and on how can the Kuwaiti now; and the generosity of Sheikh Mubarak lished in the English Language in the pre- ated Jimaz’s invention, saying it is cost-effective, and contribute to resolving such problems and be part of in sponsoring academic research and dis- ceding year. will open new job opportunities and have positive the international efforts in this regard to save the covery here at Pembroke College is espe- The Right Honorable Lord (Chris) Smith impacts on environment besides its economic blue planet from the consequences of environmen- cially deeply valued,” Lord Smith was quot- was Secretary of State in the Labor returns. tal pollution, he explained. The Ambassador pointed ed by the Foundation as saying. Government and subsequently Head of the Kuwait’s permanent representative to the United out that Kuwait with this win also gained interna- Sheikh Mubarak was a Pembroke stu- Environment Agency, before being elected Nations and international organizations in Geneva, tional admiration in the applied scientific field that is dent where he took an MPhil degree as a Master of the College at which he was him- Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim said described added to its excellence in humanitarian work around postgraduate in International Studies. He self a student. Jimaz’s win as an excellence award for Kuwait as a the world. has kept in close touch with Pembroke, The foundation has funded a prestigious whole. “This victory shows the success of the govern- The world’s unique annual exhibition, being especially in connection with the support Research Fellowship in Middle Eastern and ment’s policy of encouraging scientific research and sponsored by the Swiss Federal Government and of given by the family Foundation named for Islamic Studies at the College, enabling care for young talent down to participating in such the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), his late father, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak, outstanding post-doctoral scholars to GENEVA: Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim international exhibitions to raise the name of Kuwait showcases 1,000 new inventions and products; it one of the great figures of the Al-Sabah establish their careers and help spread bet- is pictured with Kuwaiti inventor Nasser high among innovative nations in the field of science gathers 752 exhibitors from 48 countries between Ruling Family in the middle of the last cen- ter understanding of the region in the Issa Al-Jimaz. — KUNA and technology,” the ambassador said. He added that April 13 and 17. — KUNA tury. Also present at the meeting, held on Western World. — KUNA Kuwait hosts int’l forum on humanitarian work

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s third international motto: The Use of Technology and forum for humanitarian work began yes- Innovation in Humanitarian Work, which, terday with the participation of experts the minister said is quite apt as the effect from government, private sector, interna- of technology and media are great on tional agencies and organizations as well humanitarian work, since with fast infor- as volunteers - all consecrated to the goal mation and technical know-how relief aid of furthering humanitarian work every- can reach those it is destined for with where. ease and with successful results. The forum is taking place in Kuwait for Coordinator of the forum Abdullah Al- the third year because of Kuwait’s eager- Khubaizi said it was Kuwait who was at ness to continue on the path it has taken the forefront of establishing the forum in for itself to be a center for humanitarian 2014 in an effort to solidify Kuwait’s posi- work, said Minister of Social Affairs and tion as a center for humanitarian work. Labor and Minister of State for Planning Speaking for the Ministry Of State for and Development Hind Al-Subaih, in a Youth Affairs, Hamad Al-Aftan said the speech opening the one day forum. forum reflects the government’s efforts at She said Kuwait seeks to derive from bolstering Kuwait’s position as a center of the forum expertise on how government, humanitarian work, highlighted by the local and international organizations well generosity of the government and its versed in relief efforts can pool their leadership in giving donations to local, resources together to help victims of regional, and international relief aid man-made or natural disasters around organizations and holding several donors the world. conferences for the benefit of Syrian KUWAIT: Minister Hind Al-Subaih attends an exhibition held on the Speakers at the first session held at Kuwait’s third international forum The forum is being held under the refugees. — KUNA sidelines of the forum. — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh for humanitarian work. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 LOCAL

KNPC describes closure of refinery units as ‘normal’ Local Spotlight KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Bahrain, OAPEC Secretary General Abbas Company (KNPC) said yesterday the clo- Naqi confirmed, adding that it would State administration sure of some units at Al-Ahmadi refinery comprise experts in oil and petrochemi- is a normal procedure owing to regular cal industries and refining from OAPEC’s maintenance or integration into a biofuel member states and some Arab compa- venture executed at the refinery as well nies in the fields. as Mina Abdullah port. It will focus on latest advanced tech- The company said in a press release nologies and optimization of solutions in that online reports about the closure of the downstream industry. The confer- By Muna Al-Fuzai operating units at the refiner under the ence will also include a review of the cur- exceptional circumstances experienced rent and future outlook of the refining by the oil sector are “totally untrue.” It and petrochemical industries, as well as added that some units could be closed “if case studies of major upgrading projects necessary, and as part of an emergency from across the world. plan.” In other news, the ‘Latest Naqi added that deliberations during [email protected] Advancements in Refining and the gathering will address latest tech- Petrochemical Industries Conference’ is nologies and innovations for the petrole- hy does Kuwait look as if the wheel of scheduled to kick off in Manama, Bahrain um industries’ development, current and progress has stopped in it? The most today, under sponsorship of Bahraini future challenges, plans for hiking earn- Wimportant question is who bears the Minister of Energy Dr Abdulhussein Bin ings, rationing programs, upgrading responsibility for the mistakes made and what is the Ali Mirza, the Organization of Arab installations’ capacity, cutting expendi- way out? Starting from Kuwait International Airport, Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) tures, environmental safety manage- you feel as if time has gone back 20 years, and while yesterday. ment, development and expansion of all rich and poor countries enjoy new, clean and The conference is co-organized by installations. Delegations will be invited comfortable airports for passengers, ours often OAPEC, Japan Cooperation Center for a site visit to Bahrain Petroleum seems a very busy one because it is very small. Petroleum (JCCP) and National Oil and Company (BAPCO) refinery and the Gulf Going outside the airport, you will realize that Gas Authority (NOGA) in the Kingdom of Petrochemical Industries (GPIC). — KUNA The Ahmadi Refinery despite the clean streets, restaurants and hotels, that something is absent or missing. Traffic jams are common in the world, but in Kuwait you feel that everyone is angry about something, with a willing- Citizens in apartments ness to engage in a fight while driving, both women Kuwait’s real estate and men. Ignoring and violating traffic laws are to be exempted from widely common among nearly everyone, especially paying higher fees taxi drivers. sales rebound Try to sit with any citizen or expatriate and you By A Saleh can hear a lot of complaints about life here in Kuwait and the spread of nepotism, corruption and KUWAIT: Chairman of KUWAIT: Real estate sales in Kuwait lack of serious or new businesses opportunities. In the parliamentary rebounded in February, following a fact, you will end up feeling miserable and con- financial affairs com- slowdown in recent months, with cerned about your future in Kuwait. While reading mittee MP Faisal Al- commercial sales outpacing resi- the papers, you will find several wishful news and Shaya said that the dential for the first time in eight reports that cannot withstand reality. committee would years. According to a report pub- On the other hand, many Kuwaiti writers are rephrase the new elec- lished by the National Bank of alarmed by the situation, but they do not fully tricity consumption Kuwait (NBK) in March, total sales express their exact feelings to avoid legal accounta- tariff law to add new reached KD261 million ($865 mil- bility, and possibly prison. Political activists are also amendments to lion) in February, a 17 percent year- complaining about the restrictive confinement of exempt citizens living on-year (y-o-y) increase and up 22 freedom of expression and the laws. A visit to a gov- in investment residen- percent over January. ernment ministry will make you find indifference tial buildings from the Lending is also on the rise as the and chaos, while nepotism has spread like cancer. new prices as well. This government moves to accelerate its People are becoming accustomed to the situation to step helps prevent a MP Faisal Al-Shaya delivery of 174,000 new residential such a dangerous extent that even when they hear scenario where units for Kuwaiti nationals. The con- about a million-dinar theft committed by men in Kuwaitis living in apart- power, they digest it like ordinary news, just like the ments would challenge the constitutionality of the struction of the new units is expect- ed to extend benefits to private news of a latest movie. law based on the fact that it does not equal them It has become obvious that we have two con- with citizens living in houses, who were exempted construction contractors wishing to bid on the residential projects. trasting teams: The first is the government and its from the law. The parliament passed the law in its allies in the National Assembly and others, and the first hearing last Wednesday. Properties boost recovery second is the opposition and its allies. The problem here is that this team does not have a clear vision of Holiday delayed Sales figures indicate the invest- policies because the difference is about people in The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is expected to ment and commercial segments issue a directive within a few days to announce shift- performed especially well in power and not about substance. ing the Esra and Miraj holiday from Wednesday, May February. Investment property sales We the people should not be part of the power 4 to Thursday, May 5. rose by 5.8 percent y-o-y to KD93.9 struggle or have to bear the mistakes of any govern- ment party or the opposition. We are just numbers million ($311 million), while sales and users of services being offered to us by the gov- Meds prices volumes increased by 65 percent, ernment and its bodies. We should use our power as Starting next week, Gulf Cooperation Council indicating a move towards smaller- voters to determine who should be our representa- (GCC) states will reduce the prices of 400 medicines ticket investment apartments, tives in the National Assembly away from personal by 10 to 60 percent, especially allergy medicines. This according to the NBK. comes in implementation of the decisions made by interests. Although investors appear more We do not have even a decent entertainment city the GCC committee formed by the executive office of cautious as a result of market the GCC health ministers. or a new airport. Plus, Kuwait’s parliament passed a volatility, prices in the investment bill last week allowing the government to raise pow- Policeman questioned segment are on the rise. Following y-o-y in February to stand at 180.2 units in the area, after delivering er and water charges on foreign residents and on An environment police officer is being interrogat- three months of contraction, the points, an improvement from 12,000 new units in 2015. businesses, but exempted citizens. The state admin- ed for standing by and doing nothing while nine state’s investment building index January’s 178.3 points. According to the commission, istration unfortunately is absent from the reality of juveniles were fighting in a popular mall, said securi- rose by 2.3 percent y-o-y in The development of govern- there were an additional 11,139 the region, its demographics and available ty sources, noting a video circulated over social February to hit 220.8 points. ment-subsidized greenfield housing housing receipts for land plots resources. Repeated news of thefts by top officials in media networks showing the officer standing by Commercial sales, meanwhile, projects are thought to be weighing ready for delivery to waitlisted the government will naturally lead to losing the watching the fight like other civilians did. surpassed residential sales for the on unit sales in the residential seg- applicants, with the 12,000 citizens trust of citizens in the fight against corruption and first time in nearly a decade in ment, NBK noted, with the govern- who recently received their plots the spread of nepotism and bribery will make them Suspects arrested with contrabands February to reach KD90 million ment’s commitment to distributing expected to take possession of lose confidence in the government sector. Facts Narcotics detectives separately arrested two citi- ($298 million), more than tripling 12,000 new plots of land every year completed units in 2018. today confirm that we are no longer a productive zens and two expats for drug trafficking, said securi- the KD27.8 million ($92 million) seen as discouraging potential Construction tenders for the community. ty, sources noting that the two citizens were arrested recorded in January. homeowners from buying existing project are set to be released in This article is not supposed to point fingers over with 15 grams of heroin, an expat woman was arrest- Fourteen transactions took place residential properties. Although December of this year, creating new who is behind this fragile condition of Kuwait today, ed with four grams of marijuana and an expat man over the month, three of which residential unit prices were down, opportunities for private invest- but is analyzing and evaluating the real situation in was arrested with 500 illicit pills. Meanwhile, an Asian were in Sabah Al Ahmed Sea City land costs have risen, with the resi- ment. In one recently released order to save the population and provide new man was arrested with 48 homebrewed liquor bot- and were worth a total of KD69.7 dential land price index increasing request for proposals for houses in resources, and eventually save the country’s reputa- tles, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a million ($231 million), while another by 3.7 percent y-o-y in February to South Al-Mutlaa, for example, the tion, which has reached a place that does not fit police patrol suspected three Asians standing by a large transaction took place in the 185.1 points. prequalification documents speci- with its history and location among the rest of the vehicle in an open yard in Salmiya and on approach- coastal area of Fahaheel, valued at fied that companies applying for Gulf countries. ing them, they fled the scene on foot, except for one, around KD4 million ($13 million). A citizen should not have a feeling that this coun- who was arrested. On searching the vehicle, police- National housing benefits the work must be international con- try was found to serve the interests of his family, rel- men found six imported whiskey bottles and 42 Kuwaiti nationals are legally enti- tractors. home-made liquor bottles. New plots and lending tled to government-subsidized Lending at Kuwait Credit Bank atives and grandsons only through the acquisition While activity in the commercial housing after marriage, although (KCB), which provides home-build- of the largest amount of government tenders and sphere was strong, the residential the state’s backlog of housing appli- ing loans and mortgages to Kuwaiti that there should be real enforcement of laws. Also, segment posted weaker results, cations reached more than 100,000 nationals, has been on the rise as a it is time to evaluate the role of the National Former prisoner with sales declining by 28 percent y- by January 2014, according to the result. KCB lending jumped by 51 Assembly after 50 years of parliamentary work. o-y in February to KD76.7 million Public Authority for Housing percent y-o-y in February to hit Kuwait has lost several priorities and lack of narrates bitter ($254 million) and the number of Welfare. To address this, in March KD23 million ($76 million), NBK achievement is the reality of the Kuwaiti administra- transactions down 29 percent to 2013 the government announced reported. Approved loans for new tion. The solution of this is our approach to the 221. This represented the lowest plans to build 174,000 new housing construction, meanwhile, rose by adoption of management style results of adminis- memories in book number of transactions ever record- units for Kuwaiti citizens by 2020. 39.3 percent month-on-month tration as well as decentralization with the real ed for the month of February. Progress on some developments and 29.7 percent y-o-y in February implementation of technology and e-government KUWAIT: Twenty-five years have passed since the former Iraqi Real estate price indices, howev- has been promising. In November to reach KD15.2 million ($50 mil- for speeding up delivery and effective performance. regime launched the 1990 aggression on Kuwait, however bit- er, have reflected more balanced the parliamentary housing commis- lion), equivalent to close to two- We need to set new laws to reshape the country ter memories of the aggression linger on, particularly among results. The residential home price sion unveiled studies concerning thirds of all loans dispersed that with our extended history and not make it a tempo- former and surviving prisoners. Retired Colonel Nasser Sultan index lost just 2 percent of its value the dispersal of new residential month. — Oxford Business Group rary shelter. Salmeen shares his experience with the public in his book titled ‘Days of a Kuwaiti in Iraqi Prisons - We Will Not Forget,’ depicting cruelty of languishing behind iron bars of the defunct regime’s prisons, experienced by hundreds of other fellow citizens. Colonel Salmeen wrote in his 304-page book Subsidized food sold illegally in Jleeb that imprisonment was the toughest period of his life and only faithfulness to Kuwait soothed the pain and hardships, aggravated with torture and maltreatment. In his somber nar- By Meshaal Al-Eenezi bags to re-sell them in local markets rative, the retired colonel wrote that the Kuwaiti prisoners, in under other brand names. Rasheedi the early period of their imprisonment, were in a state of KUWAIT: Commercial supervision pointed out that according to law shock and grief for separation from the homeland. The prison- and consumer protection teams at number 10/1979, those trading in ers, in addition to the suffering behind the bars, were deeply the Ministry of Commerce and subsidized goods by reselling or worried about Kuwait’s destiny after it had fallen prey to Industry (MoCI) raided an illegal exporting them can be penalized by Saddam’s regime claws. market in a Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh build- the maximum of three months The prisoners, in their state of weakness, were subjected to ing yesterday. Tons of subsidized prison and/or the maximum of a KD various methods of pressure by the Iraqis, seeking to per- supply goods were offered for sale 225 fine in addition to confiscating suade some of the inmates to cooperate. In addition to the at the building’s basement. The raid the goods and closing down the psychological pressure, they had to withstand and survive was led by MoCI’s Assistant store for a maximum of six months. poor feeding and lack of hygiene and healthy conditions. Undersecretary for Commercial However, they had managed to cooperate, help and motivate Supervision and Consumer Jleeb’s residents each other’s to steadfast and hide identity of some of them Protection Affairs Eid Al-Rasheedi, Separately, Municipal Council who had served in the military or held key posts. who said that the raid resulted in member Nayef Al-Sour urged the The book mentioned that relevant UN resolutions that confiscating four tons of rice, 134 political leadership to consider pur- urged the regime to pullout, the liberation operation start, milk powder cans, 1,200 tomato chasing the remaining residential comeback of the legitimate leadership, namely the late Amir paste cans, 76 baby milk cans and plots in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh to end His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and 116 oil bottles. the sufferings of citizens still living His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al- Rasheedi added that the inspec- there, especially after the area has Salem Al-Sabah, “when a new dawn was born for the home- tion team also found three sewing been ‘invaded’ by bachelors. Sour land with the withdrawal of the occupiers, enforcement of the machines used to sew bags to pack added that many citizens had aban- cease-fire and the joyful release of the prisoners.” — KUNA the subsidized goods in different doned their houses or rented them. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 LOCAL Only 40 percent Kuwaitis exercise regularly: Study

KUWAIT: Forty percent of citizens of both of energy, pointing out that her depart- sexes in Kuwait practice physical exercise, a ment has completed its study on the basic Ministry of Health official said, pointing out obstacles on the lack of exercise by citizens, that the decline in the ratio is attributed to especially the adult. She pointed out that personal, social and environmental obstacles. scientific studies have shown that the per- Efforts are needed to create an integrat- formance of regular physical activity has a ed program to promote health including positive effect in the prevention of many environmental modifications in order to chronic non-communicable diseases and surpass the issue of high temperatures and that it reduces the risk of premature death. provide suitable places for physical activity, She noted that research conducted in said Dr Abeer Al-Bahou, Director of Health the Gulf Arab states and various countries Promotion Department. of the world showed a low level of physical She called for organizing an awareness activity in most adults, arguing that the campaign involving all segments of society environmental model of health promotion to show the importance of physical activity is one of the most commonly used models and its positive reverberation on health to study the barriers to doing this activity. with a plan to stimulate exercise between She said that the study prepared by her the various age groups starting with department aims to determine the level of KUWAIT: Officials attend the fourth diabetes conference. — KUNA schools. physical activity among Kuwaiti adults and She added that the Health Promotion the obstacles they face, stressing reliance Department defined physical activity as on the latest census of the State of Kuwait Diabetes challenges nation’s any bodily movement performed by skele- which estimated number of adult citizens tal muscle and requires spending amount at about 530,000. — KUNA development plans: Minister

KUWAIT: Diabetes has become a major chal- lenge to successful efforts at sustainable growth and development in the country, Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi said yester- day. The Ministry of Health is committed to providing all necessary treatments to diabetic patients in concert with the WHO and other relevant international organizations, said the minister in a speech opening the fourth dia- betes conference which is slated to last two days. His speech was read for him by assistant secretary for medical services at the Ministry of Health Dr Mohammad Al-Khishti. Dr Mohammad Al-Khishti delivers a The minister noted in his speech that the speech on behalf of Health Minister Dr conference reviews the latest approaches and Ali Al-Obaidi. methodologies in the treatment of diabetic patients and allows health professionals to fessionals from the medical college at Radcliff RIYADH: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sheikh Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al- compare notes and expertise on this widely University in the United Kingdom, one of the Sabah honors young girl Sharifa Mohammed Al-Hagbani. — KUNA occurring disease. He said the conference specialized and internationally recognized Kuwait honors ‘Ambassador offers workshops supervised by health pro- diabetes treatment centers. — KUNA of Anti-Cancer Campaigner’

RIYADH: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Saudi patience and positivity, especially during Arabia Sheikh Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al- periods of treatment of cancer. Sabah yesterday honored Sharifa Despite being diagnosed with leukemia, Mohammed Al-Hagbani, a young girl who Sharifa was able to overcome the chal- was given the title of ‘Ambassador of Anti- lenges by trusting God and the love of her Cancer Campaigner’ in recognition for her family and everyone who stood with her, he voluntary efforts and awareness in the fight said. Furthermore, he praised her book, against cancer. titled ‘Despite Pain, Hope Remains’ in which During a meeting with the girl and her she talks about her experience with cancer, father at the Kuwaiti embassy, the expressing finest pictures of defiance and Ambassador expressed his admiration for courage. Sheikh Thamer extended an invita- her ‘high spirit’ that enabled her to achieve tion to the young girl to visit ‘her second objectives to restore hope and to engage in home Kuwait’ to review her successful expe- normal life stemming from her faith, rience and help inspire others. — KUNA SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 LOCAL

Special Report Union chief speaks about decision to shift nurseries under education ministry CUNK only official union representing nurseries in Kuwait

By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: According to a recently issued law, nurseries will work under the authority of the Ministry of Education instead of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, which was supervising them earlier. But the application of this law was recently deferred for another three months. After the law was passed by the parliament, it was sent to the Fatwa and Legislation Department by the Ministry of Education to complete the organizational structure of nurseries.

The Children’s Union of Nurseries in Kuwait Municipal Council will grant 200 plots of 6,000 is fine. Otherwise, mixing or having 3-year-old (CUNK) was behind this law. Kuwait Times spoke sq m to build kindergartens. “An area of 1,000 children play in the same place with 10-year- to President of the General Assembly and the square meters can be deducted from this land olds may lead to serious problems and even Honorary President of CUNK Dr Mohammad Al- to establish a nursery on it,” Refaei noted. “This reach child abuse. The minister of education Refaei about this issue. will help avoid traffic jams and also avoid con- assured us there won’t be merging of nurseries CUNK was founded in 2003 and includes 36 flicts with neighbors, which are now happening, with schools.” member nurseries. “The union is in charge of the as nurseries are located in residential areas. This nurseries, staff and children,” he told Kuwait will also be safer for the kids as they will not Other parties Times. “Nurseries that are not our members real- have to cross the road. In this way, nurseries will Kuwait Times also sought to get opinions ized our vital and important role when they have unified standards. If any mistake happens from nurseries that are not members of the encountered problems, such as the closures they after applying the new law, I will be responsible union, as some of these nurseries previously KUWAIT: Dr Mohammad Al-Refaei, President of the faced in 2009 during the swine flu crisis. We sup- and will resolve any problem with the ministry. announced in the media that they are against Children’s Union of Nurseries in Kuwait (CUNK) speaks ported them and protested in front of the parlia- At the end of the day, we want what is best for the new law. But none of the 14 nurseries that to Kuwait Times. ment and the Cabinet, and as a result, the deci- the child.” promised to contact Kuwait Times responded, — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat sion was cancelled and the nurseries reopened despite repeated calls. after three months.” Future plans CUNK is the only official union or NGO repre- Approving this law is the first step in the senting nurseries in Kuwait. “The members of the reform of nurseries. “Our future plan is to set up board of the union are elected every four years,” a national authority for early childhood” he Refaei added. “Members pay a symbolic fee, said. “Various ministries will participate in this which is the source of the union’s expenses. project. This authority will also include a tech- Members of CUNK care about children’s benefit nical committee which will include members

• Members of CUNK care about children’s benefit and not material issues • We refuse to license a nursery whose owner has rented out the license to somebody else • From 1974 to 2009, 150 nurseries opened, which is an acceptable figure spanning 35 years • At the end of the day, we want what is best for the child • Our future plan is to set up a national authority for early childhood

and not material issues. As we are a legal body, from different institutions such as the universi- we can act to defend the interests of the nurs- ty and others.” eries - we filed seven cases against the ministry Nurseries are places of learning and not edu- of social affairs and labor and won all of them. cating. “I am against having nurseries as part of The union is also allowed to receive donations or schools in the same building,” he indicated. “If grants, as we are an NGO.” the nursery is placed in a separate building, this There are certain conditions for joining the union. “We refuse to license a nursery whose owner has rented out the license to somebody else,” he pointed out. “Also, we refuse applicants if the license is issued to somebody who is not a graduate of education or a related field, or at least if the director of the nursery is not a graduate in this specialization. All these conditions are also included in the new law that mainly aims to eliminate the commercial exploita- tion of children.”

Dramatic growth The number of nurseries has grown rapidly in the past few years. “From 1974 to 2009, 150 nurseries opened, which is an acceptable figure span- ning 35 years,” Refaei indicated. “What I consider ridiculous is that 170 new nurseries were established within just four years, between 2010 and 2014, many of which are committing viola- tions against the interests of the kids.” According to the new law, the con- ditions to get a license for establish- ing a nursery should be stricter. “For instance, an employee is not allowed to get a license to establish a nursery,” he explained. “Also, the owner should be a specialist in the field, so he or the director of the nursery should be graduates from the educational field. The law also requires that the nursery should have a curriculum, which can be enforced and inspected by the ministry of education as they already have experience with schools. Also, the ministry of social affairs was issu- ing licenses for nurseries very easily, as the only condition was to be a 21- year-old citizen.” According to the new law, the SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Al-Qabas Al-Qabas Every suspect is mentally disturbed Jordan forum

By Yousuf Shihab By Moudhi Al-Muftah

f we accept the ‘record of lies,’ which is that every- t the invitation of the Arab Sports Journalism one who commits a crime is mentally disturbed, Union, in coordination with the local organizing and that he is a patient of psychiatric medicine, Acommittee of the World U17 Women’s World I Cup and the Jordan Federation for Sports Media, and then all those crimes would have been registered against an unknown person although he is known to under the patronage of Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein, I had us, or that the suspect is not guilty as he lost his mind the honor to participate with an elite group of female and cannot control his actions and behavior, and this sports journalists in the Arab world in the Jordan means the closure of criminal courts, because of the Forum to shed light on preparations for Jordan’s host- non-existent suspects who commit the crime while ing of this international event. mentally competent. We saw on the first day a video display presented A human being who has lost his mind, or is half- by the executive director of the Women’s World Cup mad, knows what is going on around him, and one Samar Nasser, during which she spoke about the latest who plans a crime, chooses the time and place to com- preparations such as playgrounds and facilities. She mit it and even decides the persons against whom he asked journalists to pay more attention to the champi- will commit the crime, cannot be entered in the list of onship, because its success is success of all Arabs. the non-healthy, because he planned and executed it Deputy Media Director of the World Football in total sanity. The mentally disturbed cannot commit Federation Velantine Segolin gave a detailed presenta- a crime that because he does not realize what he can tion of means to cover the championship through the do, nor does he realize the place and time during FIFA website and through various social media. which he could commit his crime. President of the International Sports Press It is true that the madman is not responsible for his Association Gianni Merlo spoke through Skype to par- actions, and this cannot be disputed, but the most ticipants, and lauded the efforts of female journalists, Al-Jarida important matter here is that such people should not and activities of the first day were concluded by fill the streets or markets because their place is the Ahmad Shubair, who spoke about the importance of psychiatric hospital, or their homes or under their par- media presence in international events and promoting ents’ supervision, but for any person to get out and Sustainable service quality KFH’s them. commit any felony cannot be considered among the On the second day, Professor of Journalism and crazy - rather he is fully mentally competent and must Media Manal Mazahreh gave a lecture on new journal- be held accountable for his crime. strategy for expansion: CEO Nahedh ism that dominates traditional journalism, then Every criminal, when he commits a crime, stands in Hussam Barak, Editor-in-Chief of Kooora website con- court to claim that he is a patient at the psychiatric cluded lectures with an address on electronic web- hospital, and that he has a document proving that, but sites. The Amman municipality organized a tour for what is the number of those if their claims are true? participants of downtown Amman, the Roman Then, does the person who leaves the psychiatric hos- amphitheater and the castle. pital remain sick with his condition or did he leave I thank the President of the Arab Association after recovering from a psychiatric illness? Shooting Mohammad Jameel, Asian Association President innocent people or running them over is not done by Mohammad Qasim Ali, Journalist Hiba Al-Sabbagh and all those who contributed to the forum’s success. a psychiatric patient who does not realize his actions, — Translated by Kuwait Times if he prepared the crime tools and chose the time, place and victims he wants to commit the crime against, as the issue has nothing to do with any psy- chiatric illness, a hospital or a certificate to confirm that - rather is a case of premeditation and selecting the time to commit the crime. Extremism and not understanding Islam as it is and its forgiveness, as well as the existence of intellectual terrorism elements, are what brought up a stray group that commits crimes in the name of religion, in which KUWAIT: “Excellent customer service time, due to increasing and developing it sees as a grand jihad, while it has nothing to do with and high customer satisfaction is a customers’ expectations. “The best religion or jihad - rather they are cases of terrorism and major goal for upper management and advertising can only be created through rotten intellect that Satan shrouded them with, and staff at Kuwait Finance House (KFH). KFH customers’ satisfaction. Attracting new such a person adopts and immerses himself in the filth avails the latest technological develop- customers certainly cost more than of crime and holds grudges against anyone who does ment for more enhancements in systems retaining existing customers; thus we not agree with his ideology and direction. This is the and more innovative high-end services should not underestimate the value of deciding point between he who claims insanity and and products. KFH works tirelessly to be customer retention” he added. being a psychiatric hospital patient, and those who the first bank among peers in Service Meanwhile, Houssam Al-Khatib went after extremism and terrorism with blind eyes Excellence at the local level and the best Executive Manager Service Quality at the and minds, so he commits the crime and targets inno- Islamic bank at the global level” said CEO bank said that striving for further devel- cent victims. of KFH Group Mazin Saad Al-Nahedh. opment, Service Quality adapted a wide PS: The claim of mental problem with a certificate He affirmed, in his speech during the range of performance evaluation pro- from the psychiatric hospital is easy, but the question: honoring ceremony of 80 KFH staff who KUWAIT: CEO of KFH Group Mazin Al- grams that fit every department and How can that be taken into account when a person were distinguished in their Customer Nahedh speaks during the ceremony. function in the bank. Service quality mis- commits a crime very accurately, and chooses the suit- Service Performance for the year 2015, the innovation spirit and motivating its sion is not confined to following up and able time and even the right place - what kind of men- that service quality is a fundamental cri- human resources to ensure sustainable evaluating agents at KFH branches, tal disturbance is this?! Tell us before we lose our minds. terion and a key pillar for growth. In service quality. He called on employees showrooms and retail departments, but — Translated by Kuwait Times light of the stiff competition in the bank- to fulfill their commitment towards mari- also to other departments in the bank. ing sector and the increasing and devel- nating KFH’s pioneering position, indi- It is worth noting that the awardees oping customers’ demands, Service cating that there has been a concrete were the top 3 branches of ‘Ladies’ and quality has become crucial for excel- and considerable change of customer ‘Men’ for each, the top performing show- Crime lence and leadership. service. room, the best performing staff from call Nahedh added that KFH pursues in- Meanwhile, the Group Chief Strategy center and Tamayoz Relationship Report depth strategic planning for achieving a Officer at KFH, Fahad Khaled Al- Managers, in addition to the Individual quantum leap in customer service, Mukhaizeem, explained that Service Merit scheme staff, and the Golden Club Dead baby found affirming that KFH aims at promoting Excellence is the major challenge of our members of 2016. KUWAIT: Hessa Al-Najadah (center) is pictured with in sewer in Egaila Margaret Al-Sayer (left) and Banafsheh Azizi. KUWAIT: Ministry of Public Works (MPW) workers conduct- 330 disabled students Burgan Bank ing periodic maintenance in a sewage plant in Egaila reported finding a dead baby’s body in the sewer. The subjected to violence continues support workers reported finding an object blocking the system and on removing it, they found out that it was a premature KUWAIT: More than 300 children with ers handled 467 cases of behavioral dis- of KACCH activities six-month old dead fetus. Police were informed and they disabilities were subjected to violence orders that resulted from disabled chil- rushed to the scene. A case was filed and further investiga- in schools in Kuwait last year, a recent dren being subjected to violence and KUWAIT: As part of its firm Corporate Social Responsibility tions are in progress. study shows. Official statistics published mistreatment, as well as failure to enroll strategy that is dedicated to supporting humanitarian by Al-Qabas yesterday indicate that 330 the children in specialized rehabilitation causes, Burgan Bank reaffirmed its support to the Kuwait students were subjected to ‘verbal and programs. Furthermore, the statistics Association for Care of Children Hospital (KACCH) by pre- Fatal crash physical abuse’ last year at schools for revealed that students with mental dis- senting its annual donation. This year is the bank’s 15th A citizen was killed when he lost control over his vehi- children with special needs, which fall abilities were subjected to the most consecutive year of commitment to KACCH. cle at the Kabd roundabout and it rolled over several under the umbrella of the Ministry of number of violence cases with 100, Hessa Al-Najadah, Senior Officer - Public Relations at times, said security sources. Further investigations are Education. Meanwhile, the statistics while there were 41 cases of students Burgan Bank presented the annual donation to Margaret in progress to determine the cause of the accident. show that psychiatrists and social work- who ‘ran away’ from class. — Al-Qabas Al-Sayer, Founding Director of KACCH and Deputy Director, Banafsheh Azizi KACCH is a non-profit organization that operates Child Roommates assault Nugra man Gulf Bank Gold Sponsor Life Programs supported by Child Life Specialists and Play An Egyptian man accused three of his compatriots of Leaders across 6 government hospitals in Kuwait. KACCH assaulting him in a room they share in Nugra, said security staff work closely with nurses, doctors, and other health- sources, noting that the man provided a medical report of of ‘Arab Woman Awards’ care professional to reduce the negative impact of hospi- his injuries and explained that he had argued with his talization and create a positive experience for sick children roommates and that the argument developed into a fight. and their families. KUWAIT: Gulf Bank is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the ‘Arab tries, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom Burgan Bank’s initiative in supporting these children Woman Awards - Kuwait 2016,’ which will take place today in of Saudi Arabia. The intention is to see the launch of the ‘Arab over the past 15 years stems from its firm belief in creating Reckless drivers arrested Kuwait City under the patronage of Sheikh Mubarak Fahed Woman Awards GCC’ in 2020, which will bring together all par- a lasting difference and contributing to the development Following up the case of the reckless driver who ran Salem Al-Sabah. Gulf Bank will be presenting the awards to the ticipating counties in one large celebration of the achievements of healthcare within pediatric facilities at various health over a traffic police officer and was assisted by some winners of the Business and Finance Categories. These will be of the winners since inception. institutions. By doing so, Burgan Bank is assuring that chil- friends to flee the site in Naeem in Jahra, security presented by Laila Al Qatami, Assistant General Manager - Gulf Bank is committed to supporting initiatives related to dren and their families in the hospitals are receiving funda- sources said that the young man’s father turned him in Corporate Communications at Gulf Bank. women’s empowerment. The bank along with Alghanim mental support. The ‘Arab Woman Awards’ event was launched in 2009 with Industries will be holding a conference entitled ‘Women in the at Saad Al-Abdullah police station. The suspect turned Burgan Bank’s support to this initiative falls under its out to be a citizen in his twenties. Further investiga- a mission to provide a platform for increasing public awareness Corporate World: Beyond the Glass Ceiling’ conference on 4 of the significant achievements of Arab women in various areas. May 2016 at the Jumeriah Messilah Beach Hotel which will recently launched full-fledged community program enti- tions are in progress to identify and arrest the friends The nomination process began in March and a group of judges bring together key influential international, regional, and local tled ‘ENGAGE’ - Together to be the change. This program who helped him escape. Separately, a reckless driver convened to select the winners in each category. There are 20 leaders together to discuss the important issue of gender diver- sheds light on important aspects affecting every segment was arrested for endangering his and others’ lives in award categories these include: business, finance, entrepre- sity in the workplace. For information on the conference visit of the society by promoting social welfare through educa- Jaber Al-Ali, said security sources. Case papers indicate neurship arts, literature, media, fashion design, young talent, the website: www.womeninthecorporateworld or the tional, cultural, social and health initiatives. Burgan Bank’s that the area’s residents called the police reporting and humanitarian causes. The awards help to raise the profile Instagram account GDC2016. approach to ‘ENGAGE’ begins with a vital principle that as a that someone was dangerously driving his sports car of women succeeding in these areas and provide role models For more information about Gulf Bank’s initiatives, visit one Kuwaiti financial institution, its conduct and policies in the rain and on the wrong side of the road. A police and inspiration for future female leaders. of Gulf Bank’s 56 branches, call the Customer Contact Center on should be aligned with the needs and interests of the patrol was dispatched to the scene and managed to The ‘Arab Woman Awards’ event is held in several GCC coun- 1805805, or go online at www.e-gulfbank.com. Kuwaiti society. arrest the driver.

Gamblers caught Afya Arabia launches health Nineteen Asian nationals were arrested while gambling in a Mahboula apartment, said security sources. Case papers indicate that detectives had been tipped off concerning app on smart phones, windows the suspects’ activities and they were all arrested red- handed. KUWAIT: With the aim of benefiting from radiology test appointments. Ghanim added that the application was tional doctors, which would save patients prepaid smart services, Afya Holding In this regard, Afya’s executive manager launched last December and that it had the trouble of travelling abroad to get Two trade insult charges Company recently launched its Afya Arabia Haya Al-Ghanim said that Afya Arabia was been used by over 6,000 patients and 18 medical care. A citizen accused a non-Kuwaiti woman of insulting him, integrated health mobile application for the first system of its kind in Kuwait and the doctors so far. She also urged all doctors Moreover, Ghanim said that the app fol- said security sources, noting that the man filed a case at doctors, patients and insurance. The new Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). She added operating in Kuwait to join the new appli- lows the HIPAA security system; a protocol Fintas police station. However, on summoning the application enables patients to book that this application uses modern technol- cation. that provides both doctors and patients woman, she denied the charges and said that it was the appointments with doctors registered in ogy to reduce patients’ sufferings and help Further, Ghanim pointed out that Afya with utmost privacy. She noted that the complainer who assaulted her at her house and that all the system, get remote doctor advice, them get proper medical care more easily Arabia would soon provide new services new app was downloadable through what she did was blame him for doing so. A case was request house calls, surf through the medi- through their smart phones, iPads or com- like the medical lab, e-pharmacies and Android and Windows App Store at filed and further investigations are in progress. cines prescribed, use lab services and book puters in return for small fees. remote consultation with over 150 interna- www.afyaarabia.com. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

Mountain lion Angry and frustrated upstate New York swings behind Trump dashes from Los Angeles school Page 12 Page 10 Tears flow as Pope visits Europe’s migrant frontline Pontiff returns with 12 refugees after visit to Greek island

LESBOS: Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees of paper into his hand as Francis passed by, which he handed back to Rome yesterday after visiting the frontline of Europe’s to an aide. The pope has often defended refugees and urged migrant crisis at a camp in Greece where migrants wept at his Catholic parishes in Europe to host them. His first trip after feet, kissed his hand and begged for help. At a sprawling becoming pontiff in 2013 was to the Sicilian island of fenced complex on the Aegean island of Lesbos, adults and Lampedusa, which, like Lesbos, has received thousands of children broke down in tears before the head of the Roman refugees. Hundreds of people have died making the short but Catholic Church, after their onward journey to Europe was cut precarious crossing from Turkey to the Lesbos shores in inflat- short by an EU decision to block a migrant route used by a able dinghies in the past year, and the island is full of million people fleeing conflict since early 2015. While borders unmarked graves. have now largely been shut for migrants, Francis symbolically Francis and Orthodox leaders later threw wreaths into the took a small group of refugees with him on his aircraft as he sea to commemorate those who died. They stood silently, left the island after a five-hour visit. with heads bowed, as wreaths of yellow and white flowers “The Pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome bobbed over the water. regarding refugees, accompanying on his plane to Rome The migrant crisis has added to an already heavy burden three families of refugees from Syria, 12 people in all, includ- upon Greece, which has received three international bailouts ing six children,” a statement issued by the Vatican said. The since 2010. Francis said he admired the Greek people, saying individuals were selected from lots drawn, media reports said. they had “kept open their hearts and doors.” “Many ordinary They had arrived on Lesbos before a deal between the EU and men and women have made available the little they have and Turkey came into effect to halt the migrant flow on March 20 shared it with those who lost everything. God will repay this and were staying at a different, open camp on the island. generosity,” he said. But religious leaders appeared less chari- Sant’Egidio, a Christian community which offers help for those table towards the rest of Europe. A joint declaration by the in need and is headquartered in Rome, will be looking after leaders of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches cited a verse the families. from the Gospel of Matthew, the first book of the biblical New LESBOS: Pope Francis greets children during his visit to the Moria detention center for migrants and refugees near “It’s one way to show the entire world that we should Testament - all will be judged by their actions. — Reuters Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday. — AFP accept refugees,” Petros Vasiliadis, a Greek biblical scholar and retired theology professor said of the pontiff’s gesture. “It may motivate other churches to do the same.” Francis, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, shook hands with hun- dreds of people as hundreds more were penned behind metal barriers at the Moria camp, which holds some 3,000 people. “Freedom, freedom,” migrants chanted as the pope walked through the hillside facility in scorching sun. Some women ululated.

You are not alone “I want to tell you, you are not alone,” Francis said in a speech at the camp. “As people of faith, we wish to join our voices to speak out on your behalf. Do not lose hope!” he said, flanked by Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, and Greek Archbishop Ieronymos. On at least three occasions, adults fell to the feet of the pontiff, weeping and begging for help. One woman wearing a crucifix broke through a police cordon and flung herself at Francis’s feet. “No camp, no camp,” sobbed the woman, who appeared to be in her early thirties. “I want to go.” In a tent where Francis met with migrants, a little girl with pigtails dressed in pink and white bowed at his feet. As he helped her up, she cried uncon- trollably. An adult man broke down. Migrants slipped pieces

BEIRUT: Lebanese PM Tamam Salam (right) shakes hands with French President Francois following a joint press conference yesterday. — AFP Hollande vows to support Lebanon

BEIRUT: French President Francois Hollande said yesterday his country will stand by Lebanon to boost security in the tiny Arab country that is “surrounded by crisis and wars” and urged the parliament to elect a new president whose post has been vacant for nearly two years. Hollande said Paris will give immediate assistance to boost Lebanon’s capabilities in fighting terrorism, adding that the defense ministers from the two countries will discuss the details. Holland’s visit to Lebanon is the start of a regional tour that will take him to Egypt and Jordan. During his two-day visit to Lebanon, the French president is scheduled to meet senior officials and visit a group of Syrian refugees in the country’s eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanon is home to more than a million registered Syrian refugees, the equivalent of a quarter the country’s population of 4.5 million. Another half a million Syrians live in the country as well. An official ceremony was held outside the parliament building in downtown Beirut where Hollande received a red carpet welcome. Usually heads of state are welcomed by the president but the post in Lebanon has been empty since May 2014 when the term of President Michel Suleiman ended. “Lebanon is hosting more than 1.5 million refugees and therefore we have to give Lebanon solidarity and assistance,” Hollande said after meeting Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, adding that Paris will give assistance worth ‚€50 million ($56.4 million) in 2016 and ‚€100 million ($112.8 million) in the coming years. He later met Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail in Beirut. “France stands by you and France is concerned that security is boosted in Lebanon through military cooperation,” Hollande said. “We are with you because Lebanon is surrounded by crisis and wars ... Lebanon that knows the war on its border also knows the threat of terrorism,” Hollande said referring to Syria’s civil war that has spilled over into Lebanon on several occa- sions. Lebanon and France have also been struck by attacks from the extremist Islamic State group. A day before the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that that killed 130 people, two sui- cide attackers struck in Beirut killing nearly 50 people and wounding many others. —AP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 Deadly earthquakes rock Japan

This aerial view shows damaged houses covered with blue plastic sheets to shelter them from the rain after an earthquake in Mashiki yesterday. —AFP The toll and the damage in Japan deadly quakes

TOKYO: Key facts about the two deadly earthquakes that struck the same area in southern Japan on successive nights: FIRST QUAKE: A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck at 9:26 pm Thursday at a depth of 11 kilometers (7 miles). SECOND QUAKE: A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck at 1:25 am yesterday at a depth of 12 kilometers. WHERE: Both quakes were centered near Kumamoto, a city of 740,000 people on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. DEATHS AND INJURIES: 41 people are reported dead in the two quakes, and about 1,500 injured, at least 184 seriously. HARDEST-HIT AREAS: Town of Mashiki, which borders the eastern edge of Kumamoto city, and Minamiaso, a rural village farther east near Mount Aso volcano. DAMAGE: At least 1,000 buildings have been damaged, including 90 totally destroyed. Many roads have buckled and cracked, and huge landslides have blocked roads and left buildings hanging pre- cariously. UTILITIES: About 200,000 households have no power, and 400,000 have no running water. EVACUEES: About 90,000 people have evacuated to shelters and elsewhere. RAIN: Rain is forecast for overnight Saturday, raising fears of more landslides.—AP College students carry blankets and foods toward a gym-turned shelter after an earthquake in Minamiaso village, Kumamoto prefec- ture, Japan. —AP

MINAMIASO: A bridge is cut off by landslides after the earthquake in Minamiaso, Kumamoto prefecture yesterday. The village near Mount Aso volcano appears to have been the hardest hit by the second earthquake. —AFP

MASHIKI: Evacuees talk to each other at a gym-turned shelter after an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture yesterday. — AP

The aerial view shows a collapsed road after an earthquake in Houses are seen destroyed after an earthquake in Mashiki, Police officers conduct a search operation at the site of a landslide caused by an Minami-Aso, Kumamoto prefecture yesterday.—AFP Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan yesterday. — AP earthquake in Minamiaso village, Kumamoto prefecture. — AP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 Inmate in terror case in coma after suicide attempt Ferhani admits plotting to bomb New York City synagogues

NEW YORK: A man who admitted plotting about police tactics and questions about his accused investigators of entrapping a men- to bomb New York City synagogues has tried mental health. tally ill man - hospitalized at least two dozen to kill himself in prison after guards torment- While most terror cases are handled by times before his arrest - to justify extensive ed him because of his terror case, his lawyers federal prosecutors, New York created its surveillance of Muslim communities, a pro- said. Ahmed Ferhani, who is halfway through own anti-terror law days after 9/11. It had gram illuminated in stories by The Associated a 10-year sentence in a rare state-level terror been used only once - against a gang leader Press. The New York Police Department has case, is in a medically induced coma after try- who, appeals courts concluded, wasn’t truly since disbanded a unit at the heart of the pro- ing to hang himself in New York’s Attica a terrorist - before Ferhani and a co-defen- gram but still uses informants and undercov- prison, according to his lawyers. “He was nei- dant were arrested in May 2011. An under- ers to hunt for terror threats. ther protected nor acknowledged” in prison, cover investigator recorded Ferhani, an A grand jury rebuffed a top terror con- lawyer Lamis Deek said, calling Ferhani’s Algerian who came to the US as a child, dis- spiracy charge but indicted Ferhani and his treatment “an outrage.” paraging Jews and talking about attacking co-defendant on other terror and hate crime The state Corrections Department would synagogues in retaliation for what he saw as charges with the potential for 32 years in say only that Ferhani, 31, has been taken the mistreatment of Muslims worldwide. prison. Ferhani pleaded guilty in December from Attica to an outside hospital and offi- Then Ferhani bought guns, ammunition and 2012, in exchange for 10 years. At his sen- cials were investigating, though the agency an inert grenade in a police sting. The case tencing, he said he’d “use this time to wouldn’t say what was being investigated. showed “the threat of terrorism from these strengthen my mind and character.” Ferhani Deek said a Buffalo hospital informed lone-wolf radicals is real,” Manhattan District and his lawyers say guards at Attica and NEW YORK: Ahmed Ferhani, who is charged with plotting to blow up New York Ferhani’s family April 7 of what had hap- Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. once said. another prison beat and taunted him City synagogues, appears in court in New York. After stating in letters to pened, but details are unclear. Ferhani’s sui- But officials faced questions about why because of his terror conviction. One attack authorities and reporters that guards had tormented him because of the cide attempt is a somber afterword to a case federal authorities had declined to pursue left him needing 12 staples in his head, he nature of his case, Ferhani is in a coma after trying to hang himself in New freighted with the rise of homegrown terror- the case. Police said there was no doubt said in a letter to The Nation, which first York’s notorious Attica prison, according to his lawyers. — AP ists, the legal legacy of Sept 11, complaints about its strength. But Ferhani’s lawyers reported his suicide attempt. — AP Court’s ‘turn in’ fight over California teacher tenure

LOS ANGELES: Teachers across dence to “shock the conscience” that California may have breathed a sigh of incompetent teachers were almost relief when an appellate court upheld impossible to fire because of tenure job protection that has long been con- laws and that schools in poor neighbor- sidered sacrosanct. But the court’s hoods were dumping grounds for bad unanimous ruling that found teacher teachers. The closely watched case tenure is constitutional and doesn’t highlighted tensions between teacher deprive students of a fair education unions, school leaders, lawmakers and may not be settled if the state’s highest well-funded education reform groups court decides to review the case, which over whether policies like tenure and has ramifications for more than 6 mil- firing teachers with the least seniority lion students and hundreds of thou- keep ineffective instructors in the class- sands of teachers. room, particularly in already low per- A lawyer representing nine students forming schools. who sued the state - and won at the tri- Stuart Biegel, a law and education al court - vowed Friday to appeal to the professor at the University of California, California Supreme Court and Los Angeles, said the California expressed confidence they have what’s Supreme Court is likely to take up the needed to prevail. “We knew there case because it has state and national would be three rounds to this fight,” implications. But, he said the high court attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr said. “We is likely to side with the appellate court think we will win the third and final decision, which he described as “much round because we know we are on the more sophisticated in its reasoning” right side of this case and the right side than the trial judge’s. He said the prop- of history.” Attorney Michael Rubin, who er venue for the fight is at the defended teachers unions in the case, Legislature, as opposed to the courts. said he doesn’t think the California Even if the plaintiffs end up being suc- Supreme Court will take up the issue, cessful in getting the state’s tenure saying it broke no new ground in its statutes thrown out, the Legislature analysis of constitutional principles. would need to craft new law as a result. “It puts to rest - we believe forever - “Litigation can be a very powerful the constitutional attacks on job securi- vehicle and oftentimes it’s the correct ty for teachers,” Rubin said Thursday. If vehicle,” he said. “But in this case I felt the California Supreme Court takes up from the beginning that it was the the case, the attorneys representing the wrong direction for plaintiffs to take.” students who filed the lawsuit are fac- Boutrous, the plaintiff’s lawyer, said ing an uphill battle because the appel- there are a number of “strong avenues” late court’s opinion is “very soundly and he has to appeal the appellate court’s tightly reasoned,” said Bill Koski, a ruling. He said the court erred by not Stanford Law professor who directs the relying on the trial judge’s factual find- school’s Youth and Education Law ings and incorrectly blamed school Project. “The appellate court made it administrators for the failures of the pretty clear: This might not be the wis- education system. He also said he est set of statutes but it’s not our job to thought the court was incorrect in find- say what’s wise or smart, it’s our job to ing that the plaintiffs didn’t prove the decide what’s constitutional,” he said. state’s tenure laws violate students’ In Thursday’s ruling, the 2nd District right to a quality education. Court of Appeal acknowledged that the Regardless of the result of an case did reveal problems with tenure appeal, the case has escalated the and layoff statutes, and showed the national conversation around teacher “deleterious impact” of staffing deci- tenure and its potential unintended sions on poor and minority students. consequences, and that’s a good thing, But it said state law wasn’t to blame. said Katharine Strunk, an education “Some principals rid their schools of and policy professor at the University highly ineffective teachers by transfer- of Southern California. She pointed to ring them to other schools, often to similar lawsuits in New York and low-income schools,” Boren wrote. “This Minnesota. “What this case has done is phenomenon is extremely troubling highlight the fact that the laws in place and should not be allowed to occur, but enable the unequal distribution of it does not inevitably flow from the teachers across schools and kids,” she challenged statutes.” said. “The critical piece is that we con- The ruling reverses a Los Angeles tinue to have a conversation about Superior Court judge who found evi- how to fix these problems.” — AP

Brazil sees rising threat from Islamist militants

RIO DE JANEIRO: The threat of en several measures to avert a attack by militant Islamists is on the potential attack, including sharing rise in Brazil as the country prepares information with foreign security to host the Olympic Games in Rio forces and improved training. But de Janeiro in August, the national security experts have warned that intelligence agency said. Brazil has many Brazilian officials do not real- long regarded itself as an unlikely ize how big a stage the Olympics is target of extremists thanks to its for anyone seeking to sow terror, historical standing as a non-aligned, either through an attack on game multicultural nation that is free venues, infrastructure nearby or the from enemies. But Counterterrorism athletes and 500,000 tourists Director Luiz Alberto Sallaberry said expected to attend. in a statement the threat had Brazilian officials, eager to pull increased in recent months due to off South America’s first Olympics attacks in other countries, and a rise after successfully hosting the soccer in what he described as the number World Cup in 2014, have said previ- of Brazilian nationals suspected of ously they will ensure a safe games sympathizing with Islamic State mil- starting Aug 5. Olympic organizers itants. Sallaberry also confirmed plan to deploy around 85,000 secu- that a credible threat to state secu- rity personnel for the games, dou- rity had been made last year. ble the number used in London in A tweet threatening Brazil sent in 2012. A large part of this group will November by Maxime Hauchard, a be members of the National Force French national identified as an for Public Security, a body of police executioner in Islamic State propa- and other law enforcement officials ganda videos, was genuine, whose commander stepped down Sallaberry said. “Brazil, you are our last month amid reports he had crit- next target,” the tweet said. icized embattled President Dilma Sallaberry said his agency had tak- Rousseff. — Reuters SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

EU foreign policy chief admits ‘Iran deal’ difficulties

TEHRAN: The European Union’s top diplo- other side’s cooperation, especially the sure our financial and banking system that mat during a visit to Tehran yesterday United States, is made good in practice, all the new information on the new system admitted difficulties in implementing not only on paper,” Zarif said, alluding to is provided.” Mogherini pointed to other Iran’s recent nuclear deal with world pow- Seif’s comments. evidence of cooperation, saying the EU has ers, but maintained that the agreement “We warned the US and we will put agreed to support Iran’s bid to join the was on track. Federica Mogherini’s com- some pressure on them, to pave the way World Trade Organization (WTO) for exam- ments, in a joint press conference with for cooperation between non-US banks ple, and Iran will take part on a joint dia- Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Mogherini logue on human rights. Zarif, underscored tension in Tehran over sought to play down concern, saying that But Mogherini also raised with Zarif the the accord, which has been in force for three months of “challenges” on the deal’s EU’s concern about recent ballistic missile three months. Under the deal, all nuclear- implementation was nothing compared to tests by the elite Revolutionary Guards, related sanctions were lifted but Iranian the 12 years of diplomacy it had taken to which a UN panel said breached Security officials have accused the West, particular- produce the nuclear agreement. “We obvi- Council resolutions. She said the EU did ly the United States, of failing to honor its ously have not finished the work on imple- not regard the missile tests as a breach of side of the bargain. menting the JCPOA,” Mogherini said, refer- the nuclear deal. “We see this as a worrying Among their grievances is the con- ring to the nuclear deal by its official name, step. Any step that could pass different tention that US government officials are the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, messages (other than cooperation) is not scaring off European banks from investing describing it as “an ongoing task”. welcome.” Mogherini, who personally in Iran for fear of falling foul of regulations helped negotiate the nuclear deal TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) wel- that saw massive fines imposed in recent ‘Doing all that we can’ between Iran and Britain, China, France, comes European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica years. Mogherini, on her first trip to Iran Put to her by a reporter that the bank- Russia and the US plus Germany, was Mogherini before a meeting yesterday in the capital Tehran. — AFP since the nuclear deal came into force in ing issues were obstacles, Mogherini coun- accompanied by other top EU officials. The January, said the diplomatic gains of the tered: “There are challenges in implemen- six powers led by the United States agreed higher level of oil exports when the deal global finance remains limited. Mogherini agreement must now be turned into “ben- tation, it is true.” She cited 50 pages of in July last year to lift sanctions that had was implemented, as well as opening up said the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, where efits in Iranians’ daily lives.” But Zarif guidelines that have been issued to locked down much of the Iran’s economy more trade opportunities. But with the US the West has been looking for Iran’s cooper- echoed remarks from other Iranian offi- European financial institutions that detail for years in exchange for limits on Tehran’s still maintaining some sanctions, including ation with peace efforts, as well as Iran-EU cials about the deal not producing dis- how business can now be conducted with nuclear program. on what it says is Iran’s sponsorship of des- cooperation on energy production and cernible benefits. “It is necessary that the Iran. “We are doing all that we can to reas- The move allowed Iran to resume a ignated terror organizations, Iran’s access to technology were also discussed. — AFP

Iraq lawmakers quit session aimed at replacing speaker

BAGHDAD: A group of Iraqi lawmakers said remove him on the grounds that the session they would not take part in a parliament ses- lacked a quorum and called parliament to sion to select a replacement for the speaker, meet yesterday, but cancelled the session apparently leaving it without the necessary over an unspecified security risk. He later quorum. Iraq was on course to have two rival announced the official delay of parliament claimants to the speakership, further increas- sessions and called for dialogue to end the ing chaos in parliament, which has already current deadlock. But Juburi’s opponents seen a vote to sack speaker Salim Al-Juburi, a insisted that the vote to sack him was legiti- fistfight among MPs and a sit-in this week. mate and planned to hold their own session The political turmoil had sidelined Prime to nominate replacements for him and his Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s efforts to replace two deputies. The Badr withdrawal effectively the current cabinet, a setback for the premier. precluded the session from being held, Both the United Nations and Washington though it was not immediately clear if it was have warned that the political wrangling final or just a strategy to gain concessions. could undermine Iraq’s fight against the Badr chief Hadi al-Ameri is a top com- Islamic State jihadist group, which overran mander of Shiite paramilitary forces fighting large areas in 2014 but has since lost signifi- against IS, and also aspires to a senior gov- cant ground. MP Qassem al-Araji announced ernment post. MP Kadhim Al-Shammari, a that 23 lawmakers from the Shiite Badr bloc member of another bloc involved in the anti- would not participate in the session, saying Juburi session, called on the Badr lawmakers the parliamentary division could result in two to return and “participate with their brothers governments and undermine the fight in writing a new history for Iraq.” Abadi has against IS. “We were living with two parlia- called for the current cabinet of party-affiliat- ments, and that could lead to two govern- ed ministers to be replaced by a government ments,” Araji told journalists, warning that of technocrats, but has faced significant might result in “the collapse of the front” resistance from the powerful parties that rely against IS. “We are against dividing the parlia- on control of ministries for patronage and ment and we want to maintain the democrat- funds. Those efforts have been put on hold ic political process in Iraq,” Araji said. by disputes over the new lineup and by the Juburi rejected the Thursday vote to move to oust the speaker. — AFP

PORT ELIZABETH: South African president and African National Congress (ANC)’s president Jacob Zuma sings and dances during the Party offi- cial launch of the Municipal Elections manifesto yesterday in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. — AFP Pentagon chief in Gulf, South Africa’s Zuma bids seeks support for Iraq ABU DHABI: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in the United Arab Emirates yes- to win back ANC support terday for a six-day Gulf tour aimed at galva- nizing support for Iraq as it battles the Islamic State group. Washington is eager to see the Ruling ANC launches manifesto in Nelson Mandela Bay Gulf Arab monarchies do more to help Baghdad at a crucial moment in its fight PORT ELIZABETH: South African President Elizabeth, using Mandela’s clan name. “Now you He is required by law to step down in 2019 after against the jihadists. “The success of the cam- Jacob Zuma, facing calls to resign from within his find we have a president that steals, people are two five-year terms. An Ipsos poll late last year paign against ISIL in Iraq does depend upon African National Congress, sought to win back poor and they don’t have jobs. Our country is suggested a very tight race in Mandela Bay, with political and economic progress as well,” Carter support with the launch yesterday of the party’s going down and a hell of a lot needs to change.” the ANC winning only 43 percent of the vote said ahead of his visit, using another acronym manifesto in Port Elizabeth, where it risks losing Creating jobs and improving service delivery are against 42 percent for the combined opposition for the jihadist group. “It’s important that we an important poll. Losing power in Nelson expected to feature heavily among the ANC’s parties and 15 percent of undecided voters. In continue to support” Iraqi Prime Minister Mandela Bay municipality, a stronghold of the manifesto pledges. Deputy President Cyril the 2011 local poll in Mandela Bay, where Port Haider Al-Abadi in his efforts to build a “multi- ANC’s fight against apartheid and named after its Ramaphosa said ahead of the launch that he was Elizabeth is the largest city, the ANC won 52 per- sectarian” country, he said. “That’s the chal- liberation hero, would be a symbolic blow for “convinced” the ANC would win the Aug. 3 vote cent of the vote, against 40 percent for the main lenge in Iraq.” Zuma and his party nationally. and brushed off recent scandals. The ANC will be opposition Democratic Alliance. Abadi is grappling with plummeting oil Defense Secretary Ash Carter Zuma has faced calls to resign from within the relying on loyal supporters who don’t see an The constitutional court ruling against Zuma prices and a political crisis that led to scuffles ANC since a court ruled this month that he obvious alternative to a party they still associate and subsequent splits within the ANC may have in parliament this week, hindering his efforts on vast areas of the two countries, they have breached the constitution by ignoring an order with its leading role in ending apartheid. eroded its support base further since the Ipsos to replace the cabinet. Carter will hold talks suffered some serious setbacks including the to repay some of the $16 million in state funds poll was taken, analysts say. Local governments with regional leaders including Saudi King loss of Ramadi in Iraq. Retaking Iraq’s second spent renovating his private home. Many South ANC for life manage large budgets and will be able to influ- Salman and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh city of Mosul is among the US-led coalition’s Africans are angry at corruption in the ANC and “We are ANC for life,” Cumisa Msuthu told ence voters ahead of a presidential election in Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and join US top objectives but the battle is expected to be feel the liberation movement has not done Reuters from the Nelson Mandela Stadium where 2019. “This would be an extremely symbolic vic- President Barack Obama at a Gulf summit in one of the most difficult yet. Washington says enough to help lift people out of poverty since tens of thousands of supporters danced and tory or loss for the ANC,” said Joleen Steyn-Kotze, Riyadh on Thursday. He will also meet US offi- it has nearly 3,900 troops in Iraq, mostly in the late Nelson Mandela swept to power on a sang liberation songs. “The ANC is not Zuma. We professor at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan cials overseeing the campaign against IS. training and support roles. It is said to be wave of optimism in 1994. have and will always be ANC.” Zuma survived an University. “Should the ANC lose, it would send a Washington has urged its allies to increase preparing to announce a further increase of “If Madiba was still alive I would have been impeachment vote last week thanks to the ANC’s very strong message nationally that within its support for the fight against the jihadists in troops, after deploying a unit specialized in the first one in that stadium,” Patricia Domons, big majority in the 400-seat national assembly own heartland and stronghold, people are losing Iraq and Syria. ground raids to capture or kill IS leaders at the 58, told Reuters at her simple home in Port and hopes to now put the scandal behind him. faith in its ability to deliver.” — Reuters Although the jihadists maintain a firm grip start of the year. — AFP

IS makes gains in northern Mountain lion dashes out Syria from regime, rebels from Los Angeles school forces near Khanasser, a battleground BEIRUT: The Islamic State jihadist LOS ANGELES: Students and teachers at a Los rooms and called authorities. Police sealed off the confused after the darts hit. “He’s on his way back to group made gains in northern Syria town southeast of Aleppo that has Angeles high school missed their lunch break Friday area until a game warden could arrive and knock the Santa Susana Mountains, in what we call suit- yesterday from both government changed hands several times. The after a mountain lion strolled onto campus and tried the animal out with a couple of tranquilizer darts, able habitat,” Hughan said, adding that the animal forces and their rebel opponents, a road through Khanasser is the sole to join them. The big cat was spotted walking across said Andrew Hughan, state Department of Fish and appeared to be healthy and about 2 or 3 years old. monitoring group said. The northern link between government-held areas the quad at John F Kennedy High School shortly Wildlife spokesman. The department later posted a video on Twitter of province of Aleppo borders Turkey in and around Aleppo and those in after noon. Instead of sitting down to eat, students When officers arrived, the mountain lion bolted the “groggy” big cat returning to the wilderness. and is criss-crossed with supply the rest of the country. and teachers quickly secured themselves in class- into a nearby backyard but quickly grew sleepy and Kennedy High School is in the city’s Granada Hills routes that are strategic for practically Yesterday, IS took several hilltops section, on the edge of mountain lion country. Still, all of Syria’s warring sides. Yesterday, in the area but had not yet cut the it had to journey a couple of miles through a large IS fighters seized another border vil- supply route, Abdel Rahman said. In residential neighborhood, across a golf course and lage in their offensive against non- Aleppo itself, two civilians were killed around a freeway to get there.”Probably what hap- jihadist rebel groups in the province, by rebel fire on a residential neigh- pened was it was chasing a deer, a rabbit or a dog the Syrian Observatory for Human borhood in the government-held late last night for food, and it looked up this morn- Rights said. west of the city, the Observatory said. ing, saw the school and thought, ‘Oh, oh, I’m in trou- The IS counterattack has rolled Aleppo was once Syria’s commercial ble now,” Hughan said. back rebel gains in the border area, hub, but since rebels seized eastern Mountain lions wander into cities somewhere in which had seen advance them from districts in 2012 a front line has California every few weeks, he added, but this one Azaz, a town eight kilometers south carved through the heart of the city. got more attention than usual when it caused a of the Turkish border, towards IS bas- The escalating clashes in Aleppo school lockdown. “Be assured that all students and staff are safe,” school officials said in an outgoing tions further east. “The IS gains have province have strained a fragile telephone recording. A famous mountain lion ceasefire in place since February 27, cut off opposition territory around known as P-22 has been wandering the Hollywood Azaz from rebels in the town of and left more than 200 combatants Hills near Griffith Park, a sprawling urban wilderness, Dudyan further east,” Observatory dead in the past week. IS and its for some time. P-22 was blamed for devouring a head Rami Abdel Rahman said. “Now jihadist rival Al-Qaeda are not party to koala in the park’s Los Angeles Zoo last month, but the rebels in Dudyan are practically the truce. In total, more than 270,000 it remains popular enough to have its own surrounded by IS.” The jihadist group people have been killed since conflict Facebook page. The animal wears a tracking collar also advanced against government first erupted in Syria in 2011. — AFP LOS ANGELES: A tranquilized mountain lion is shown in the bed of a pickup truck after it was and was famously photographed near the captured near John F Kennedy High School in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles. — AP Hollywood sign for National Geographic. — AP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

Gunmen kidnap four Indonesian sailors off Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Gunmen have abducted four ban,” he added. On April 1, four Malaysian sailors Indonesian sailors and shot and wounded one crew were kidnapped from a ship near Sabah’s Ligitan member on the high seas off the east coast of Island. It is still unconfirmed who was responsible Malaysia’s Sabah state, waters where Abu Sayyaf for that kidnapping. militants are known to operate, a senior police offi- Several days earlier 10 Indonesian sailors were cial said yesterday. If the Philippines-based Abu kidnapped in waters off the southern Philippines, Sayyaf is confirmed to be behind the kidnapping, it with initial information indicating the sailors may would be their third such hostage-taking in as have been taken by an Abu Sayyaf faction to Sulu, a many weeks and comes amid a surge in such remote southern island that is a hideout of the mili- attacks. tant outfit. Someone claiming to be from Abu “The incident happened late Friday in interna- Sayyaf called the vessel’s owners to demand a ran- tional waters. Four Indonesian seamen were som for the sailors’ release. Many Western and other abducted by the kidnappers. One man was shot embassies routinely issue warnings against travel- and is being treated at a hospital,” Abdul Rashid ling to most of the Philippines’ Muslim-populated Harun, Sabah police chief said. The tugboat carrying southern regions, which lie just northeast of Sabah, coal was sailing from Cebu in the Philippines back because of the risk of being abducted by the group. to Tarakan in Borneo, Indonesia, when the kidnap- In the past Abu Sayyaf has mainly targeted pings occurred. Six other seaman on the tugboat, tourists as they can demand high ransoms for for- including the wounded man, managed to escape. eigners. Two Canadians and a Norwegian were kid- In a bid to curb kidnappings, Malaysia has napped from yachts at a marina in September, with imposed a temporary ban on the trade route the militants setting an April deadline for a ransom between Sabah and the southern Philippines. “The to be paid. The militants in a video demanded one government has suspended barter trade between billion pesos ($21 million) for each of the three for- the two regions until a comprehensive plan is for- eigners. Since the April 8 ransom deadline passed mulated to ensure the safety and security of Sabah there has been no word on the hostages’ fate. Last state. It is a temporary ban,” Abdul Rahim Abdullah, year, Malaysian Bernard Then was kidnapped from a LAHAD DATU: Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a member of Malaysian marine police chief said. “We have deployed marine seaside restaurant in Sabah, about 300 kilometers Maritime Enforcement Force rescuing an Indonesian sailor after being shot during a kid- police boats along with ships from the maritime from the Abu Sayyaf’s Jolo stronghold. He was later napping at the east coast of Malaysia’s Sabah state in Lahad Datu. — AFP enforcement agency and the navy to enforce the killed by the group. — AFP

North Korea missile launch a ‘catastrophic’ failure: US

SEOUL: A North Korea missile launch meant to ed a clear violation of UN Security Council reso- celebrate the birthday of the country’s founder lutions although the launch was a failure. ended in failure, US defense officials said, an The launch comes as the two Koreas trade embarrassing setback in what was reportedly threats amid Pyongyang’s anger over annual the inaugural test of a new, powerful mid-range South Korean-US military drills that North Korea missile. “It was a fiery, catastrophic attempt at a calls a rehearsal for an invasion. The North has launch that was unsuccessful,” Capt Jeff Davis, a recently fired a slew of missiles and artillery Pentagon spokesman, said Friday. US officials shells into the sea in an apparent protest are still assessing, but it was likely a road-mobile against the drills. The surge in belligerent rheto- missile, given that it was launched from a loca- ric and nuclear and missile activity in the North tion not usually used for ballistic missile launch- may also be linked to leader Kim Jong Un’s es, on the country’s east coast, he said. preparations for a major ruling party meeting South Korea’s Yonhap news agency carried next month that analysts believe he will use to an unsourced report that a “Musudan” missile, further solidify his autocratic rule. which could one day be capable of reaching Some believe that Kim may try to use the far-off US military bases in Asia and the Pacific, country’s claims of recent nuclear and missile exploded in the air a few seconds after liftoff. A success as a way to turn domestic focus toward US official speaking on condition of anonymity tackling the country’s abysmal economy. A sen- to discuss intelligence matters told The ior US defense official, speaking on condition of Associated Press that it appeared to be a anonymity because the official wasn’t author- Musudan missile but no definitive conclusion ized to comment publicly, said the US Strategic had been reached. Despite the failure, the Command systems have detected and tracked North has another Musudan loaded on a what officials assessed as a failed North Korean mobile launcher and Pyongyang will likely fire missile launch. ANSAN: People arrive to offer flowers to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol during a ceremony for the second anniversary of it, according to South Korean and US authori- “We strongly condemn North Korea’s missile the sinking at a memorial altar in Ansan, South Korea, yesterday. — AP ties, Yonhap reported. test in violation of UN Security Council US Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaking Resolutions, which explicitly prohibit North to reporters during a stop on the USS John C Korea’s use of ballistic missile technology,” the 2 years after the ferry tragedy, Stennis aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, official said. White House Press Secretary Josh said that while the US deemed the launch to be Earnest said in a statement that said the US is unsuccessful, it “was nonetheless another “strongly committed” to the defense of its Asian grieving relatives await salvage provocation by North Korea in a region that allies, particularly South Korea and Japan. doesn’t need that kind of behavior.” The UN “We’re going to continue to stand with them as Security Council issued a statement saying its they face these threats but also reiterate our 304 perished in South Korea ferry disaster members “strongly condemned” the North’s fir- commitment to the defense of our allies,” ing of a ballistic missile, which it said constitut- Earnest said. — AP SEOUL: Grieving relatives yesterday threw white will be the main challenge. “Unfortunately, nothing the ocean before me,” said Lee Keum-Hui, who has chrysanthemums into the sea at the spot where the can be guaranteed and we can only do the very best been camping out at Paengmok harbor near the sal- Sewol ferry sank, as South Korea marked the second we can do to ensure that the risk is minimised,” said vage site, praying for the recovery of her 16-year-old anniversary of the disaster which killed 304. Most of Simon Burthem, a naval architect at TMC Marine, a daughter’s body. “I know where she is but I can’t get Bernie Sanders meets the victims were schoolchildren when the ship sank global consulting firm involved in the salvage project. her,” Lee said. “I know the government can do more. off the southwestern island of Jindo, in a tragedy Still, he said, there was an 80 percent chance the But all I can do is just wait and trust its words,” she privately with Pope caused by human error that shocked and enraged operation would succeed. “Lifting the wreck in one said. the country. Salvage crews are now preparing for the piece from such a depth has never been done before, Other bereaved family members accused the gov- ROME: Pope Francis said his brief encounter opportunity to meet with him this morning,” challenging task of raising the 6,825-ton ferry-a key so this is a very, very difficult and challenging project ernment of a lack of transparency. “Everything is con- yesterday with US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said. “It was a real honor for me, for my demand of victims’ families, who cling to hope that and indeed a world first,” Burthem said. ducted behind closed doors and the families are not Sanders was a sign of good manners, “nothing wife and I to spend some time with him. I think nine bodies still unaccounted for may yet be recov- Wang Weiping, the site superintendent of the permitted to observe the recovery operation,” said more,” and hardly evidence of interfering in he is one of the extraordinary figures not only in ered. “Son, how are you? I’ve come to see you,” a Chinese salvage company, praised the dangerous Jung Seong-Wook, who acts as a families’ representa- American politics. The White House hopeful the world today but in modern world history.” father shouted from the deck of a coastguard vessel work done by dive teams in often treacherous condi- tive for the salvage project. The maritime ministry called it a “real honor” to meet “one of the Sanders said he had the chance to tell the that brought mourners to the scene. tions. Their main task had been to seal the vessel says it can arrange trips for the families as long as extraordinary figures” in the world, a kindred pope that “I was incredibly appreciative of the “Come back to us now. Your mother is waiting for with netting to ensure nothing such as human they do not disrupt salvage operations. For relatives spirit on economic inequality, which is a main incredible role that he is playing in this planet in you,” he said before tossing a flower overboard. A remains-tumbles out when the ship is being lifted. like Lee, the prospect of not recovering victims’ Sanders’ campaign theme. Francis was on his discussing issues about the need for an econo- crowd of some 2,500 mourners took part in a service For the families of the nine victims whose bodies remains is almost unbearable. “We tremble with fear way to Greece to highlight the plight of my based on morality, not greed.” Sanders and on Jindo, reading memorial poems and releasing were never recovered, the two-year wait has been at even the slightest chance of never finding the refugees and Sanders was wrapping up his trip his wife, Jane, stayed overnight at the hotel, on thousands of yellow balloons. Memorial events also emotionally draining. “It’s been 730 days and I can see missing bodies,” she said. — AFP to Rome when they met in the lobby of the the same floor as the pope. Francis noted to took place in Seoul and in the city of Ansan, where pope’s residence, the Domus Santa Marta hotel reporters that members of the Vatican confer- the students had gone to school. Mourners queued in the Vatican gardens. The Vermont senator ence that Sanders had attended also were stay- to lay flowers in front of hundreds of portraits of vic- had attended a Vatican conference Friday on ing at the hotel. tims on an altar set up beside a street in central Seoul. economic inequality and climate change, and Jeffrey Sachs, a Sanders foreign policy advis- Online websites were full of postings mourning the flew back to New York for campaign events on er, said there were no photographs taken of the dead. Saturday. pope and Sanders together. The Vatican is loath The disaster was mainly due to human error-an “This morning when I left, Sen. Sanders was to get involved in electoral campaigns, and usu- illegal redesign of the ship, an overloaded cargo bay, there. ... He knew I was leaving at that time and I ally tries to avoid any perception of partisanship inexperienced crew and a questionable relationship had the kindness to greet him and his wife and as far as the pope is concerned, although between the ship operators and state another couple who were with them,” the pope Francis in February rebuked Republican presi- regulators.Captain Lee Jun-Seok was sentenced to life told reporters traveling back with him to the dential candidate Donald Trump over Trump’s in prison for “murder through wilful negligence” and Vatican. “When I came down, I greeted them, stand on immigration. Popes rarely travel to sentences ranging from two to 12 years were shook their hands and nothing more. This is countries during the thick of political cam- imposed on 14 other crew members. The $72 million good manners. It’s called good manners and paigns, knowing a papal photo opportunity salvage project being spearheaded by a Chinese not getting mixed up in politics. If anyone with the sitting head of state can be exploited company is expected to begin next month and could thinks that greeting someone means getting for political ends. be finished by late July. “The government will do its involved in politics, they should see a psychia- But Francis has been known to flout Vatican best to salvage the ship and bring back the nine miss- trist,” the pope said. protocol, and the meeting with Sanders was ing bodies to the families,” Oceans Minister Kim Earlier, Sanders said in an AP interview that evidence that his personal desires often trump Young-Suk said at the memorial service at Jindo. he told the pope that he appreciated the mes- Vatican diplomacy. “His message is resonating sage that Francis was sending the world about with every religion on earth with people who ‘World first’ the need to inject morality and justice into the have no religion and it is a message that says The Sewol lies more than 40 meters beneath the ANSAN: High school students hold candles to pay their respects to the victims of the sunken world economy. Sanders said that was a mes- we have got to inject morality and justice into surface, and officials say lifting the 145-metre-long ferry Sewol during a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the ferry sinking in Ansan, sage he, too, has tried to convey. “We had an the global economy,” Sanders said. — AP vessel from the seabed without causing it to break up South Korea. — AP Bangladesh’s police arrest elderly editor for sedition

DHAKA: Bangladesh police yesterday arrested a 2015,” police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder ongoing feud with the current premier. well-known magazine editor for sedition, officials said. Police found “connections in a conspiracy to In recent months, Rehman became the con- said, the latest in a series of detentions of pro- abduct and murder” the premier’s son, according venor of the international affairs committee of opposition journalists that has sparked fears of a to M R Khaled, a deputy police commissioner. Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and crackdown on the press. Three plain-clothes offi- Rehman is the third pro-opposition editor to headed a pro-opposition think-tank named G-9. cers entered 81-year-old Shafik Rehman’s home in have been arrested by the government of Hasina, Last week, Bangladesh’s high court suspended 72 Dhaka in the early morning claiming to be from a triggering repeated calls by rights groups for their defamation and other criminal lawsuits filed by private television station and took him away, his release. Two other top journalists, who edit the government supporters against Mahfuz Anam, wife Taleya Rehman said. country’s leading Bengali and English newspapers, the editor of The Daily Star newspaper, over a Police later announced Rehman, who is also a have also been charged in criminal lawsuits includ- challenge to their legality. Human Rights Watch is British citizen and was formerly a speechwriter for ing dozens of defamation and sedition cases. among those which have slammed the lawsuits the Bangladeshi prime minister’s arch-rival, had Rehman was a long-time editor of Jai Jai Din, a against Anam, saying they “are part of a larger, been arrested for sedition. Officers also said they mass-circulation Bengali daily. He now edits a pop- organized assault on independent media”. It had found evidence linking the editor to a conspir- ular Bengali monthly magazine called Mouchake comes amid widening fears for freedom of acy to murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son, Dhil. He previously served as a speechwriter for speech in the Muslim-majority nation, which has DHAKA: Bangladeshi security personnel escort Shafik Rehman (center) at a court following his Sajeeb Wazed Joy. “He has been arrested over sedi- opposition leader Khaleda Zia, a two-time former seen a spate of Islamist killings of secular blog- arrest in Dhaka yesterday. — AFP tion charges filed by police in Dhaka in August prime minister who is involved in a deeply bitter gers and publishers. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

In slow dance with capitalism, Cuba’s Communists turn to future

HAVANA: Cuba’s Communist Party met track but it needs to accelerate,” said young professionals who are rarely yesterday under pressure for the slow Wilson Batista, who has been a party allowed to set up private practices. With pace of promised market reforms as it member for twenty years. “The world’s news from the outside world closer prepares for a future without the octoge- policies, the world’s economy changes thanks to more Internet access and narian leaders who guided the country daily and we need to adjust ourselves booming tourism, ever greater numbers from a 1959 revolution to a cautious exactly. We need to get on the world are taking advantage of new freedoms to embrace of the United States. The meet- economic train.” Cuba has improved its travel and emigrate. ing was the Communist Party’s first con- financial credibility over the last five The congress takes place three gress in five years and the first since years, running trade and current account weeks after Obama made history as the President Raul Castro and his US counter- surpluses and restructuring $50 billion in first US president to visit the island in 88 part Barack Obama announced they mainly old debt, although harsh US sanc- years and eloquently called for more were to end decades of enmity and seek tions remain in place. A nascent middle- political freedom and democracy in the normal relations. class has emerged, making money from one-party state. His words are unlikely The party has been secretive about small businesses such as construction to be heeded, because the party sees the agenda of the meeting, even by and hospitality. But in what one Cuban itself as the greatest defense against Cuba’s opaque standards, triggering blogger called “paralysis at the cliff edge,” Washington’s past attempts to domi- grumbling among younger members the party has not relinquished control of nate Cuba. Cuba’s top leaders started who have grown accustomed to a freer trade or larger businesses. their careers as young guerrilla fighters MARIEL: The General Director of Logistics Service of Cuban Mariel port, Annia flow of information and contact with who overthrew a US backed govern- Quintana (2nd left) and Mathaus Friedberg (2nd right), Director of French com- the world. As well as the lack of discus- Anointing a successor ment in 1959, and a few years later pany CMA-CGM Logistics, sign bilateral cooperation agreements in Mariel port, sion, party foot soldiers said they were The party has implemented about a repelled the US-backed Bay of Pigs inva- Cuba, on April 15, 2016. — AFP worried that the country had not fifth of the measures it adopted in 2011, sion - which the party congress is timed implemented quickly enough the and Cubans are eager for more, especial- to commemorate. the end of the four-day congress it will seen as more powerful in Cuba than the sweeping market reforms adopted at ly a unification of the country’s two cur- Now, party chief Raul Castro is 84 and be clear whether he remains as party government. It was formally led by Fidel the last party congress in 2011 to avoid rencies and an end to the government’s his top lieutenant in the party, JosÈ leader until 2021, or whether somebody Castro until 2011, although his younger economic collapse. monopoly on imports and exports. Many RamÛn Machado Ventura is 85. Castro is younger takes over the leadership. brother had effectively taken command “The economic plan is still getting on Cubans are tired of waiting, especially due to retire as president in 2018 and by Founded in 1965, the Communist Party is several years earlier.— Reuters

Brazil’s impeachment problem: the accusers are also accused

RIO DE JANEIRO: One by one, Brazilian lawmakers rise on national television, faces red with indignation, voices shaking, to demand impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. The problem with this righteous scene playing out in Brazil throughout this weekend? An astonishing number of those deputies are themselves accused of crimes. In Brazil’s often surreal politics, the oddest-and most ignored- aspect is that many of the politicians bay- ing for Rousseff’s head should be in as much trouble as she is, or worst. Rousseff faces impeachment on charges that she illegally used creative accounting to mask government shortfalls BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Dilma during her 2014 reelection. She does not Rousseff briefly closes her eyes as a gov- deny this and defends herself saying that ernor speaks during a meeting on state previous governments used the same land issues, at Planalto presidential tricks, a mitigating factor that numerous palace in Brasilia. —AP legal experts consider legitimate. Now consider Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of a lobbyist pay maintenance to his former the lower house of Congress and architect lover with whom he’d fathered a child. Peek of the impeachment process plunging further down the power pyramid and the Brazil into political war. stench of corruption is overwhelming. The He has been charged with taking mil- NGO Transparencia Brasil says that 58.1 per- lions of dollars in bribes linked to a massive cent of the 513 deputies in the lower house embezzlement cartel centered on state oil headed by Cunha face or have faced crimi- company Petrobras. The Bible-quoting nal charges, which include corruption but wheeler and dealer allegedly hid the mon- also murder and rape. HARTFORD: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking at a rally at the Connecticut Convention Center ey in Switzerland. Far from being damaged, In the run-up to Sunday’s vote a lower in Hartford, Connecticut.— AFP Cunha denies the charges and continues to house committee first had to analyze wield huge power, fending off a congres- Rousseff’s case, coming down heavily on sional ethics committee where he is the side of impeachment. Of those 65 accused of lying about the Swiss accounts. deputies, 36 face criminal charges or have Angry and frustrated upstate On Sunday, he will oversee the lower house already been condemned, Transparencia vote on whether to send Rousseff’s Brasil reported. And in the Senate, where impeachment case to the Senate. Rousseff could end up making a final stand, New York swings behind Trump Meanwhile, Michel Temer-the vice presi- the numbers are even more damning: no dent who turned on Rousseff and would less than 60 percent of the 81 senators face become interim president if the Senate or faced charges. The unedifying spectacle Cruz dismissed as too radical, too religious, unlikeable opens a trial-is alleged to have been of scandal-tainted politicians working to involved in illegal ethanol dealings. oust Rousseff recently left one Supreme BINGHAMTON: What do a New York lawyer, a Democrat John F Kennedy as the best US presi- cil, says it is rural areas where Trump, 69, is mak- Court judge gasping. Describing seeing business owner who calls himself a left-leaning dent in his lifetime, is also supporting Trump. ing hay. “Would I ever vote for Trump in a million My God! Cunha, Temer and others from the heavy- Republican and a construction worker who Binghamton supporters are not blind to years? No, but I can easily identify why so many Temer and Cunha are the two most sen- weight PMDB party after announcing they elected Barack Obama have in common? They’re Trump’s shortcomings-his tabloid divorces, busi- people in our area think that he’s a good candi- ior politicians in the country after the presi- would turn on their former ally Rousseff voting for Donald Trump. None of them live on ness flops, dubious policy pronouncements, talk date,” he said. People are angry with Republican dent. The next in line, Senate president and seek her impeachment, Justice Luis the breadline. They share surprisingly varied of banning Muslims. But it just makes him more grandees conspiring to deny Trump, who has Renan Calheiros, also faces corruption alle- Roberto Barroso said: “My God in heaven! opinions. Yet they are profoundly frustrated-with human, they argue. He may be imperfect, but never held elected office, the nomination-expos- gations, including tax dodging and having This our alternative government?” —AFP the economy, with career politicians and with he’s the best of the bunch, they say. Those who ing a gulf between Washington’s elites and party perceptions of declining American prestige. The spoke to AFP dismissed Cruz as too radical, too rank-and-file. Republican frontrunner’s supporters are often religious, unlikeable-even “scary.” They write off “Frankly, I’m fed up,” said Kevin Guyette, a life- portrayed as undereducated, underearning Kasich and have no time for Clinton, a two-time long Republican who specializes in personal whites. But in upstate New York, where Trump New York senator, even if one couple admitted injury and criminal defense law-and another calls himself “the most popular person that’s to voting for her in the past. “I think it’s just the backing Trump for the White House. He is exas- ever lived,” the breadth of support spotlights his frustration of people who have voted for many perated by Republicans who deny climate enduring appeal, albeit as the Republican elites years and they’re getting disgusted, tired, change, marginalize women, explain the world plot to bring him down. desensitized even,” said Love, 49, asked about through the Bible and refuse to entertain The most divisive presidential campaign in a Trump’s appeal. Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court. “They make generation hits New York on Tuesday. “I don’t some outlandish comments that defy logic,” he think he’s the Hitler everyone puts him out to be, You’re kidding said, appearing to ignore remarks by Trump that I really truly don’t and as a New Yorker I grew up Conrad Taylor, a 19-year-old student and have seen him accused of everything from with the guy,” says Lloyd Knecht, 59, who owns a elected Democrat on the Binghamton city coun- misogyny to inciting violence at his rallies.— AFP heating and air conditioning company that employs 30 people. Knecht works in Binghamton, one of the fastest-shrinking towns in America and a pale imitation of an illustrious With friends like these: GOP race past where IBM was founded more than a centu- ry ago and where the flight simulator was spurs awkward endorsements invented. The gradual departure of IBM and oth- er manufacturing corporations, taking jobs and WASHINGTON: Sen Lindsey Graham says any public appearances with his Senate col- technology overseas, has left behind unemploy- Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is league. Trump has had more success getting ment above the US average and a poverty rate “not my favorite.” Ben Carson says there are his supporters to appear on stage with him. higher than the state average. “better people” than Donald Trump to serve His surprise endorsement from Chris BRASILIA: Activists supporting the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff take Knecht worries about rising insurance and as commander in chief. And those are the Christie stunned the political world and part in a protest in an area separated by a fence from the Congress in Brasilia.—AFP wage bills, though he believes in “some sort of candidates Graham and Carson want to win. appeared for a time to be a perfect union, national health plan.” He fears the economy is Presidential endorsements often create with the New Jersey governor traveling with becoming sluggish. He supported Obama’s strange alliances - remember over-the-top the billionaire businessman, and even stand- decriminalization of petty drug crimes. Trump’s Trump validating buttoned-up Mitt Romney ing beside Trump during a celebratory press Protesters denounce populist message promising to bring back jobs four years ago? But rarely have so many part- conference after the March 1 Super Tuesday and restore national pride with his say-it-how-it- nerships of political necessity appeared to be contests. That’s when things took a turn. big money in politics is manner strike a deep chord in an area that has as reluctant, awkward, even downright tor- Christie’s deer-in-the-headlines expression as long felt forgotten by state and federal politi- tured as in the 2016 GOP race. Trump rambled on at length sparked a thou- “Neither Trump nor Cruz win Mr. sand internet parodies. Not only has Christie BOSTON: Conservative and independent nications director for Represent.Us. cians. Bernie Sanders, trailing Hillary Clinton for protesters channeling themes from the presi- The group, which has promoted anti-cor- the Democratic presidential ticket, was this week Congeniality contests,” said Ana Navarro, a not appeared on stage with Trump since Republican strategist whose preferred candi- then, he’s barely spoken about his favored dential campaigns of Donald Trump and ruption resolutions in American cities, says it the first candidate to visit Binghamton since Bernie Sanders dumped faux contributions neither endorses nor opposes any presidential George W Bush 16 years ago. date, Jeb Bush, flamed out in February. When candidate in public and has bristled at ques- it comes to the leading GOP candidates, tions about the real estate mogul from into Boston Harbor on Friday, one of some 30 candidate. Represent.Us said it would stage nationwide demonstrations planned against events in 33 cities. Trump, a billionaire Heroin-addicted ghost town Navarro said she’s “not sure why anybody reporters back home in New Jersey. would want to hang out with them.” Bush Carson was also game for an on-camera big money in politics. In Washington, police Republican, and Sanders, who describes him- Ahead of next week’s crucial primary Trump arrested 142 members of a more liberal group self as a democratic socialist running for the leads the Republican polls in New York state on found a way to throw his support behind endorsement of Trump last month. The soft- Cruz without ever actually having to hang spoken retired neurosurgeon, who is a called Democracy Spring including 12 who Democratic nomination, have both criticized 53.4 percent to Ohio Governor John Kasich’s 21.7 cuffed themselves inside the Capitol Rotunda the influence of large campaign contributions percent and Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s 17.6 per- out with the Texas senator. Rather than join favorite of religious conservatives, praised Cruz for the traditional on-camera grip-and- Trump as a man who is far more reflective to protest the influence of special interests in their surprising runs for the White House. cent, according to a RealClearPolitics average. and to denounce laws making it more diffi- “It doesn’t matter if you’re conservative or Christopher Love, a union member who has grin that normally accompanies an endorse- privately than he comes across publicly. ment, Bush took a more subdued approach: a Trump probably would have preferred if cult to vote. progressive. Two hundred and forty-three lived in the area 42 years and works in construc- Nearly 1,000 Democracy Spring demonstra- years after the original Boston Tea Party, tion, says Binghamton has gone from “valley of brief, 219-word statement posted on Carson had just left it there. Instead, Carson Facebook. has set off on one of the most extraordinary tors have been arrested in Washington this Americans of all political stripes are still facing opportunity” to a “ghost town” where young week. Both the week-long protests in taxation without political representation,” said people either leave or get hooked on heroin. Bush has made no public appearances surrogate tours, raising more questions with Cruz since that initial announcement about Trump’s qualifications to be president Washington and Friday’s nationwide demon- Dan Krassner, political director of Represent.Us. Trump, a billionaire real-estate mogul and strations led by the activist group Represent.Us About 40 activists attended the symbolic re- reality television star, is the only candidate talk- and has stayed quiet about his support for than he’s answered. He’s said he would have his former rival on social media. Graham, who preferred another scenario than seeing have tapped into some of the voter frustration staging of the Boston Tea Party near the spot ing about issues that matter to him, says Love. seen on the presidential campaign trail. “From where American colonists dumped tea into “We’ve got to do something different. What joked earlier this year that choosing between Trump winning the nomination, suggested Cruz and Trump was like picking between Trump’s supporters aren’t making a rational super PACs (political action committees) to the harbor to protest taxes levied by the we’ve been doing the last 30 years isn’t working,” lucrative job offers and campaign contribu- British. Represent.Us activists tossed a stack of he said, wearing a Trump 2016 trucker hat. His being murdered or poisoned, did hold a pri- decision, and conceded that his favored can- vate fundraiser for Cruz, but has not made didate has “major defects.”—AP tions, there are tons of perfectly legal ways to wooden crates into the water, representing octogenarian father-in-law, who described bribe a politician,” said Charlotte Hill, commu- campaign contributions.—Reuters NEWS SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

A picture taken on Friday shows tens of thousands of vehicles that were seized by police forces due to traffic violations at a makeshift impound in the Wadi Laban suburb, west of Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is listed in a top of countries that suffer from traffic accidents and violations yearly. —AFP Oil union rejects govt appeal to cancel ... Will and Kate end India trip with Taj...

Continued from Page 1 services like electricity, water and the more important Continued from Page 1 work, with scaffolding covering three of the minarets - and a oil sector, and the possible losses this would lead to is senior archaeological official told AFP it would not be dis- The KPC and subsidiaries still call on the oil trade strictly haram. the city is still thriving, took several black-and-white pic- mantled for the visit. It marks the final stop of a hectic itiner- unions to take part in a proposed joint commission, Hit by a sharp drop in crude prices, Kuwait is intro- tures of the Queen and Prince Philip. In one, the Queen is ary for the royal couple, on their first official trip to the coun- which is one of workers’ demands, to work on a concilia- ducing a new payroll scheme for all public employees shown dressed in an elegant overcoat and a knee-length try that the British ruled for close to 200 years. tory solution and overcome this critical stage, Saleh not- and wants to include the country’s 20,000 oil workers, dress, sitting next to her husband in an open-top car. Their whistle-stop tour has seen them hobnob with ed. which would mean an automatic cut in wages and Sharma may have reason to hope he gets his wish - in Bollywood stars in Mumbai and meet Prime Minister He pointed to the enormous challenges facing the incentives. The union has not said how long the strike, Mumbai, the couple took time out from engagements to Narendra Modi for lunch at a former palace in New Delhi. They Kuwaiti economy, which prompted the state to take involving thousands of workers at state-owned oil, gas meet with a 93-year-old admirer, Boman Kohinoor. The then spent two days in Bhutan, meeting the king and the serious steps to counter them in all sectors, in addition and petrochemical companies, would last. Britannia & Company restaurant owner became the star of a queen of the remote Himalayan kingdom, trying their hand at to crystalizing an obvious economic vision to manage KPC said the workers union had boycotted negotia- social media campaign that saw arrangements made for him the national sport of archery, and taking a mountain hike. The oil wealth, the backbone of the national economy. He tions called for Thursday by the social affairs and labor to meet the royals at the last minute. couple are set to return to England on Sunday in time for the added that the KPC and its subsidiaries had freezed the ministry. It said KPC had offered to “suspend” all spending Security was beefed up around the monument, a UNESCO Queen’s 90th birthday on April 21. Crafted in white marble suggested retrenchment initiatives during the negotia- cuts if the union agreed to join a committee to negotiate world heritage site, ahead of the Duke and Duchess’s arrival, and inlaid with precious stones, the Taj Mahal was built tion period as per articles 131 and 132 of Law 6/2010, a settlement. Union chief Qahtani said the negotiations with several paramilitary personnel standing guard with snif- between 1631 and 1648 under Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, fer dogs. The mausoleum is currently undergoing renovation in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. — AFP out of their responsibility for the size of risks and chal- were illegal and aimed only at preventing the strike. The lenges the oil sector is facing. The minister concluded union is also protesting plans to privatize parts of the oil by calling for necessarily maintaining the oil sector, sector. “The KPC statement is talking about ‘freezing’ the Yemen talks to begin amid shaky truce which is the backbone of Kuwait’s national economy, decisions, while our demand is to cancel them,” said and giving top priority to the country’s higher interest. Qahtani. “The strike is still on and on time.” Continued from Page 1 ters of substance. President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s The union, however, immediately rejected the minis- Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), a sub- internationally recognized government insists on the rigid ter’s call as offering nothing new and said the strike will sidiary of KPC and one of five state-owned companies Briefing the Security Council Friday ahead of the talks, application of UN Security Council Resolution 2216 calling go ahead from today morning. “The strike will go ahead that would be affected, has said there is a contingency UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who has conducted for the political process to resume and for rebels to with- as planned,” union chief Saif Al-Qahtani said, holding oil strategy to ensure production and exports would not months of shuttle diplomacy, said Yemen has “never been draw from Yemen’s cities while surrendering their companies and the minister responsible for the strike be affected. KPC had called on the unions to work with so close to peace”. The government and the rebels and weapons. The Houthis are allied with elite troops loyal to and the potential losses from it. it to find a way out of the dispute, and warned that their allies last sat down to talk in Geneva in December, but former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Meanwhile, Kuwait Oil Co yesterday started taking under Kuwaiti laws it was illegal to obstruct work in six days of negotiations ended with no major break- Alley says rigid implementation of Resolution 2216 special measures to face the proposed strike, said oil public facilities in areas such as oil, gas and petro- through. “We can expect a hard time” at the Kuwait talks, would amount to “a Houthi/Saleh surrender and is unrealis- sources, noting that 70 percent of gathering centers, chemicals. “There is no doubt that the commotion con- said April Longley Alley, a Yemen specialist at the tic”. It is also unclear if the Houthis would be willing to dis- gas booster stations and water processing plants had tains a direct and major threat to the stability of the oil International Crisis Group. band their “revolutionary councils” and allow a more inclu- been shut down by KOC and that similar steps had been sector which represents the main economic artery for “In a best case scenario, the two sides will agree to a sive government to return to Sanaa, she said. Probably taken by Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Kuwait National the country’s revenues and is the source of its wealth package of compromises that will build trust, strengthen most important is for the two sides to agree on interim security arrangements essential for strengthening the Petroleum Company (KNPC) also said yesterday it was and prosperity,” the statement said on Thursday. It said the ceasefire, allow for an inclusive government to return ceasefire, Alley said. This would also help prepare for other closing some units at Ahmadi refinery for routine main- that anyone inciting a work stoppage risked “subjecting to Sanaa and restart the political process,” she told AFP. “But this is a tall order.” In contrast with previous ceasefires, joint progress such as the return of the government and Houthi tenance, dismissing reports the closures were related to himself to legal questioning”. Other firms whose workers committees of rebel and loyalist troops were formed to disarmament. the planned strike, said state news agency KUNA. KNPC plan to join the strike include KOC, Kuwait Oil Tanker monitor compliance. However they have not really begun Yemen was already the Arab world’s poorest country said the closures were planned in advance as part of a Company, Equate Petrochemical Industries Company their work. On Thursday, military sources reported at least before the conflict escalated but now the humanitarian sit- clean fuels project being implemented at the Mina Al- and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company. 35 pro-government fighters killed in clashes with rebels over uation is “staggering”, says the UN. More than 6,300 people Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries. It added that it Strikes are relatively common among public sector three days near the Houthi-held capital Sanaa. The coalition have been killed in Yemen since March last year - around may close one or more of the total 52 units at Ahmadi workers in Kuwait - one of the world’s richest countries - which is not a party to the Kuwait talks - intervened after half of them civilians - and 82 percent of the population as part of an emergency plan, if necessary. per capita - compared to other Gulf states such as the the Zaidi Shiite Houthis overran Sanaa in Sept 2014 and later need aid. “We would of course hope and expect all the par- Commenting on the strike, cleric Sheikh Ajeel Al- United Arab Emirates, where unions are banned. OPEC- advanced to other regions. Chaos and misery have ruled the ties involved to respect the cessation of hostilities,” UN Nashmi said strikes that lead to disruption of public member Kuwait pumps three million barrels of crude Arabian Peninsula country since. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. “We have services and affect people’s interests are religiously per day and has three refineries with a combined capac- Rights groups criticized the civilian toll from coalition seen that is not, unfortunately, the case but we do think it ‘haram’ (forbidden). Nashmi posted a tweet saying that ity of 930,000 bpd. bombings, but also accused the Houthis of abuses. Alley is largely holding. We are continuing and on track with the delaying the work of people, namely those related to (Material from Agencies used in this report) says the government and rebels remain far apart on mat- peace talks.” —AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 ANALYSIS

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essy party photos, offensive tweets, pepper spray- ing student protesters ... sometimes, you just want Ma do-over when it comes to your online presence. And for a hefty price tag, you can. The University of California, Davis is under fire for contracting consultants for at least $175,000 to clean up its online reputation after a November 2011 incident in which campus police pep- per-sprayed peaceful protesters, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee. If that PR campaign worked at all, it’s now backfired. Here’s how this sort of reputation scrub- bing is supposed to help - and some ways in which it might have the opposite effect. Washington Watch Call the Pros Services such as Reputationdefender.com and Naymz.com offer to clean up your name, or, as the latter advertises, achieve your “professional and personal aspira- Why I support Bernie Sanders tions.” A company called ICMediaDirect advertises reputa- tion control for $6,300, in which the service will try to By Dr James J Zogby A few months ago, I endorsed Bernie the need for universal health care coverage. Democratic debate in Brooklyn, NY. When “push down” your undesirable search results by populat- Sanders for president. There were many rea- By demonstrating a fierce determination to asked why he had accused Israel of using dis- ing Google with friendly links instead. These companies n 2003, while I was teaching at Davidson sons, which I will describe in a moment, but raise these issues, he has the opened space proportionate violence, he stood his ground didn’t return messages seeking information about their College in North Carolina, I saw an ad in high on my list is that I never forgot what making them a part of our political debate. calmly explaining his position to the cheers of services. Ithe local newspaper announcing a “Going happened to my hometown and so many Equally impressive is the way young voters his supporters. out of Business” sale of Utica Linen products. other American cities across the Northeast have responded to Sanders. Early on, polls Finally, I am deeply moved when I hear The mill that had been making these linens and Midwest. Sanders earned my support were showing that younger voters had grown Bernie Sanders speak with a sense of awe at was closing and relocating to Asia where they because he understands what bad trade disenchanted with politics as usual. Unwilling the trajectory his life beginning with his would be able to pay lower wages. When I deals and corporate greed have done to our to just settle, they have been inspired by father’s immigration to the US, his family’s saw that ad, I thought back 50 years ago to communities. While some politicians have Sanders’ passion and authenticity and have hard work to succeed in this New World, all when that same company’s mills had first paid lip service to consequences of factory become engaged in the process. Millennials leading to his run for the presidency. It is a moved to North Carolina after shutting down closings and the exporting of jobs to Asia, have an instinct that can sniff out phonies. In classic American story that resonates in so operations in Utica, my hometown. They did Sanders in the only one who has addressed the exit polls in state after state, Sanders over- many ways. The fact that Sanders carries this so to take advantage of North Carolina’s the issue forcefully and pledged decisive whelmingly wins the support of voters under story with him speaks volumes about the cheaper non-union labor. action to protect American workers and their 35. And by a 70-point margin, young voters man, how grounded he is, and the source of What I remember most about that period communities. I realize, of course, that Sanders say that they trust Sanders more than his com- his commitment to fighting for immigrants wasn’t just how the factories emptied out isn’t going to bring back the Utica of the petitor. They see him as authentic and this has and the needs of working people. In many leaving parts of Utica looking like a ghost 1960s, but what he has done is shine a light moved them to support his candidacy. ways, he is the embodiment of the American town, it was what the closures and loss of on the corporate greed that continues to put I have also been impressed by Sanders’ Dream. thousands of jobs did to my community and their interests ahead of their responsibility to opposition to committing US troops to fight Early on, Sanders candidacy was ignored by my neighbors. Those mills had defined life in be fair to those who have given their lives to in reckless wars and by his smart and coura- the press. Even now, his chances of winning Utica for generations. And then they were build their businesses - opening a national geous call for balancing concern for Israelis the nomination are cynically dismissed. In this Nov 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, gone. The stress of mass layoffs created ten- debate on this important concern. with concern for the Palestinians and by the Through it all, this 74 year old Brooklyn born Davis Police Lt John Pike uses pepper spray to move sions that tore families apart. One third of the compassion he has demonstrated for the suf- son of a Polish immigrant continues to rack up Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit population was forced to leave in search of Unvarnished Truth fering the Palestinian people have endured victories while transforming our politics for the from the school’s quad. — AP employment. In short order, Utica went from I have also been impressed with the way living under occupation. On this critical issue, better. As another New Yorker once famously being a vibrant city to a depressed town with Sanders speaks the unvarnished truth about Sanders not only has the best position of any said, “it ain’t over till it’s over”. Stay tuned. Instead of lawsuits, for example, the companies prom- dilapidated neighborhoods. And now a North other long-ignored critical issues facing the candidate in the race - he has the best posi- ise that search results will turn up your LinkedIn profile, Carolina town was going to suffer as Utica did country - issues like: income inequality, the tion of any major party candidate in decades. NOTE: Dr James J Zogby is the President of business website or other sites that portray you in a more - for much the same reasons. corrupting role of big money in politics, and This came through so clearly in this week’s the Arab American Institute positive light. Of course, there’s no guarantee any of this will work; it’s awfully hard to delete anything permanently from the Internet.

Or Just Ask, If You’re Continental Scant evidence of Russia drawdown in Syria If you happen to be in Europe, you can also exercise By Jack Stubbs and Maria Tsvetkova your “right to be forgotten.” This entails filling out a form that asks search engines like Google to remove certain month since Vladimir Putin announced links when people look up your name. Of course, this the withdrawal of most Russian forces means nothing if someone Googles you in the U.S. Afrom Syria, his military contingent there is as strong as ever, with fewer jets but many Some Things Just Don’t Erase more attack helicopters able to provide closer Just ask Justine Sacco, the former IAC media relations combat support to government troops. A representative who lost her job after an unfortunate tweet Reuters analysis of publicly available tracking - one widely seen as racist, although Sacco said she was data shows no letup in supply missions: The aiming for irony - raised the hackles of the Twitterverse. Russian military has maintained regular cargo Three years later, the incident still turns up first when you flights to its Hmeimim airbase in western Syria search for her name on Google. since Putin’s declaration on March 14. You also have to consider the possible blowback when Supply runs have also continued via the and if your cleanup attempts see the light of day. That’s “Syrian Express” shipping route, Russian engi- the pickle UC Davis is in now. Some California legislators neering troops have been deployed to the have called for the resignation of university chancellor ancient city of Palmyra and further informa- Linda Katehi, who approved the PR campaign. tion has surfaced about Russian special forces operating in Syria - suggesting the Kremlin is Get Old-Fashioned, If You Have Clout more deeply embroiled in the conflict than it For companies and public figures like celebrities and previously acknowledged. “There hasn’t been politicians, putting a positive spin on the negative can be as simple - or as complicated - as getting a friendly story in a drawdown in any meaningful way,” said Nick the news. Being proactive is key. de Larrinaga, Europe Editor of IHS Jane’s Terry Corbell, a business performance consultant, rec- Defence Weekly. “Russia’s military presence in ommends “shameless self-promotion” as a way to build a Syria is just as powerful now as it was at the positive online reputation before disasters happen. Be end of 2015.” active on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have a Announcing a drawdown gave Putin some Russian soldiers stand on a road as smoke rises from a controlled land mine detonation by Russian experts inside the ancient strong reputation to begin with, it’s easier to deal with the breathing space from Western political pres- town of Palmyra in the central Homs province on April 14, 2016. — AP bad stuff if and when it happens. And if it does? sure over the operation, and an opportunity ‘More Formidable Force’ Separate images show 22 jets and 14 helicop- strikes on other Assad opponents, including “If an organization is at fault, they need to come clean,” to carry out maintenance on heavily-used jets. Russian troops and equipment have also ters stationed at the Hmeimim airbase, com- some viewed by the West as moderate. he says. “First is admission of guilt.” Katehi did apologize for But by keeping a strong military force in place, been deployed to Syria by air in recent weeks. pared to 29 jets and 7 helicopters seen there Swapping jets for helicopters illustrates the original pepper spraying - but so far hasn’t followed Putin is maintaining his power to influence An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane operated by the in early February, said Justin Bronk, a research Russia’s new military role in the Syrian conflict, suit in the current controversy. — AP the situation in Syria by shoring up President Russian Air Force under registration number fellow at the Royal United Services Institute engaging directly with fighting on the ground Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s closest ally in the RA-78830 has flown two supply trips a month (RUSI). “All that’s really gone is the fixed wing instead of dropping bombs from thousands of Middle East. He will also want to secure to Syria since December. Its last flight to close air support attack jets,” he said. “On the feet. “Russia’s attack helicopters are getting Russia’s role in efforts to broker a resolution to Russia’s Latakia airbase was on April 9-10 rotary side it’s a substantially more formidable much more into the thick of things than their All articles appearing on these the conflict - a process the Kremlin has used according to tracking data on website force than it was.” fixed wing aircraft were previously,” said de pages are the personal opinion of to reassert itself as a global political power FlightRadar24.com. Able to carry up to 145 Larrinaga. “We never really saw Russian strike after being ostracised by the West over the people or 50 tonnes of equipment, Il-76 Special Forces aircraft operating at low level like this before.” the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Ukraine crisis. planes have been used to transport heavy The Ka-52, known for its unusual double set Both the Ka-52 and Mi-28N, which is responsibility for views expressed As recently as Thursday, photos and video vehicles including helicopters to Syria, a of top-mounted rotor blades and no tail rotor, broadly equivalent to the U.S. Apache gun- footage taken by Turkish bloggers for their Russian Air Force colonel told Reuters, bolster- is the Russian military’s official special forces ship, were used to provide close air cover to therein. Kuwait Times invites online project Bosphorus Naval News showed ing the number of gunships in the country as support helicopter and its appearance in Syria the Syrian army when it secured a major victo- readers to voice their opinions. a Russian Navy landing ship - the Saratov - en Russia’s jet force deployment is wound down. is testament to the growing number of Russian ry by retaking Palmyra from Islamic State mili- route to Russia’s Tartous naval facility in the “We removed some planes and added heli- ground troops in direct combat roles, western tants in March. Bronk said the helicopter Please send submissions via email western Syrian province of Latakia loaded copters. We don’t need mass bomb drops dur- officials say. Russia acknowledged having spe- deployment was in response to the changing to: [email protected] or with at least ten military trucks. ing a ceasefire,” the colonel said. “Helicopters cial forces in Syria for the first time shortly after needs of the Syrian army. “They are no longer via snail mail to PO Box 1301 The Saratov is a regular feature on Russia’s fly lower and can observe the territory better.” its military drawdown was announced, saying bombarding besieged cities so much, trying “Syrian Express” shipping route, which Russia now has more than 30 helicopters they were conducting high-risk reconnais- to dislodge rebels,” he said. “Instead they are Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves Moscow has used to transport increased sup- operating in Syria, including a fleet of around sance missions and “other special tasks”. trying to assist a more mobile, manoeuvrable the right to edit any submission plies and equipment to Syria since the mili- eight Mi-28N Night Hunter and Ka-52 Alligator Since the announcement, Western diplo- style of engagement. Because that tactical tary draw down was announced. The Russian gunships stationed at its Shayrat airbase mats say Russia’s forces have increasingly tar- role or focus of Assad’s forces has changed, as necessary. Defence Ministry did not respond to written southeast of Homs city, according to satellite geted Islamic State militants and an offshoot then the Russian support methodology needs questions submitted by Reuters images posted online by IHS Jane’s analysts. of Al-Qaeda. Previously Russia focused its to change along with it.” — Reuters SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 SPORTS

Liverpool’s Can out for FINA maintain Efimova ban Phelps ‘not happy’ six weeks with injury PARIS: Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova’s bid to have her pro- with 200m fly win visional suspension lifted has been rejected by the LIVERPOOL: Liverpool midfielder Emre Can has been ruled out of action for International Swimming Federation (FINA). Efimova was hand- LOS ANGELES: Olympic superstar Michael Phelps saw plenty of room for between four and six weeks with ruptured ankle ligaments, the Premier League ed a provisional ban in March after testing positive for the improvement after winning the 200m butterfly at the wind-whipped Mesa Pro club confirmed yesterday. The 22-year-old limped off in Thursday’s dramatic banned drug meldonium. The swimmer had asked FINA to lift Swim on Friday in 1min 58.14sec. “Not happy,” the 18-time Olympic gold Europa League win over Borussia Dortmund, and a scan revealed ruptured liga- the ban so that she could compete at Russia’s Olympic Trials medallist said after winning in a time that didn’t crack the top 20 in the world ments. Liverpool’s medical team are hopeful the lay-off will only be starting in Moscow today. But FINA said in a statement early this year-a list led by the 1:54.14 of Japan’s Daiya Seto. Phelps was in control at four weeks allowing the Germany international to make the Saturday that Efimova will not be allowed to return to compe- the 100m mark, but Pace Clark closed strong to finish second in 1:58.71 and Europa League final if the club get past Villarreal in the last four. tition until after her hearing. “Considering the provisional sus- Jonathan Gomez was third in 1:58.79. Phelps said the wind, with “He is injured. It is with the ligament in the right ankle,” said Reds pension imposed by FINA to swimmer Yulia Efimova (RUS) gusts up to 30 mph (48 km/h) were a challenge. “That wind, oh boss Jurgen Klopp of the second injury blow after captain Jordan and the recent WADA recommendations on the use of meldo- my gosh,” Phelps said. “I felt like I was moving backwards with Henderson damaged knee ligaments in the first leg against nium, the FINA Doping Panel decided to maintain the provi- about 15 meters to go going into that wall.” Reigning Olympic Dortmund. “At this moment it is not the best news to be honest. I sional suspension of this athlete, until a hearing of Ms Efimova 100m freestyle champion Nathan Adrian said it was howling don’t want to give a timescale but we will try everything to get is held by the FINA Doping Panel,” a statement from FINA read. so loudly in his ears he was afraid he wouldn’t hear the start him back as soon as possible,” continued Klopp. “It is the last “FINA will not make any further comments on this case, until a of the 50m free. He managed, and won in 21.69sec, knocking four or five weeks of the season so we should not say ‘OK final decision is made by the FINA Doping Panel.” The 24-year- one-hundredth of a second off his third-fastest time in the the season is finished’ because there is hope and it is old, who won a bronze medal in the 200-metre breaststroke world this year. Anthony Ervin was second in 22.28 and Cullen not. “But if he is not available we have to find other at the 2012 London Games, conceded she had taken meldo- Jones third in 22.30. With the wind at her back, Madison solutions, we have to give the job to different peo- nium for medical reasons before the World Anti-Doping Kennedy won the women’s 50m free in a sizzling ple, change the style. — AFP Agency’s (WADA) ban on the drug came into effect on 24.45sec, sixth-fastest in the world this year. —AFP January 1. —AFP Rosberg takes pole at Chinese Grand Prix Hamilton to start at back

SHANGHAI: Mercedes has become used to starting on the front row after a dominant cou- ple of years in Formula One. Not so much from the back of the field. Nico Rosberg will take the team’s customary spot of pole position at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, but defending world champion Lewis Hamilton will have to start from the last row after an early exit from qualifying due to a power unit problem. Rosberg set a time of 1 minute, 35.402 sec- onds on Saturday despite using a harder tire than his rivals, qualifying a half-second ahead of Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo in a surprise second place. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel qualified third and fourth, respectively, after misjudging the final hairpin turn on their last laps. VICTORIA: Laurianne Lissar (C) of team France works drills with trainers on Friday at Hamilton had issues with his engine through- Windsor Park in Victoria, BC, Canada, for the upcoming HSBC World Rugby Women’s out the first segment of qualifying and, even Sevens World Series The tournament runs from April 16-17. — AFP though his team tried to repair the problem, he couldn’t set a timed lap. The last time Hamilton started this far back Tomane scores hat trick on the grid was at the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix when he qualified last after his engine caught fire. He worked his way through the field as Brumbies down Waratahs to finish third in that race. SYDNEY: Winger Joe Tomane scored a in NSW colours and equals Lote Tuqiri’s The British driver was hoping to replicate that feat on a Shanghai circuit where he’s had partic- hat trick of tries as the ACT Brumbies try-scoring record for the Waratahs. ular success in the past, winning four races. “I SHANGHAI: Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s British driver Lewis Hamilton stands in the pits downed the NSW Waratahs 26-20 in a But any thoughts the Waratahs may take encouragement from (the fact) I’ve been during the third practice session at the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yester- torrid Super Rugby match yesterday. have had of taking a lead into the half- driving a long time ... there’s no question in my day. — AFP The win took the Brumbies four points time break were dashed when Moore mind of how I’m going to battle my way through the end of 2015,” Ricciardo said. “It feels good to Fernando Alonso, racing for the first time clear at the top of the Australian confer- crashed over at the back of a rolling tomorrow,” Hamilton said. “Whether or not you be back up here.” Williams driver Valtteri Bottas since fracturing a rib in a dramatic crash at the ence, with New South Wales languishing maul. Christian Leali’ifano’s conversion can get all the way up to third, I think that’s qualified fifth, followed by Ricciardo’s Red Bull Australian Grand Prix, let out a loud groan over in 13th place overall. The victory also put the ACT ahead 19-17 at the break, going to be a very, very tough challenge, for teammate, Daniil Kvyat, in sixth. Sergio Perez of his radio when the session ended early. ensured the Brumbies defeated the and they extended that lead to 26-17 sure.” It’s been a frustrating few weeks for Force India was seventh, with Carlos Sainz and “It was massively frustrating today because Waratahs twice in a season for the first when Tomane scored his third eight min- Hamilton, who already faced a five-place grid Max Verstappen of Toro Rosso eighth and ninth, we felt competitive,” Alonso said. “That was a time since 2012. utes after the restart. penalty in Shanghai for making an early switch respectively. shame.” Hulkenberg received a three-place grid “I’m very happy with that,” said The match developed into an arm of his gearbox after it was damaged in a collision After early showers wiped out yesterday’s penalty after F1 officials deemed his team Brumbies captain Stephen Moore. “We wrestle and the Waratahs got within at the Bahrain Grand Prix. final practice session, qualifying got off to an released his car from the pits in an unsafe condi- knew we just had to work hard in that striking distance with a second Foley Rosberg, meanwhile, has been on a roll of eventful start when Manor driver Pascal tion. He initially finished 10th but with the second half and I’m very proud of our penalty when there were eight minutes late, capturing the first two races of the season Wehrlein hit a bump and lost control in a wet penalty will start 13th, elevating Williams driver defence particularly.” remaining. But the Brumbies held on to and five straight dating to last year. “I’m pleased, patch just three minutes in, skidding off the cir- Felipe Massa to 10th. Alonso will start 11th, fol- After a big loss to the Waikato Chiefs secure the points despite a wave of NSW of course. The whole weekend has gone well,” cuit and slamming into the barrier. lowed by teammate Jenson Button. in Canberra in their last outing, the attacks in the closing stages. Rosberg said. “I’m not ecstatic because Lewis He walked away uninjured but the red flag Formula One reverted to last year’s qualifying Brumbies needed to get away to a quick “It wasn’t pretty, there was a lot of had bad luck and his car broke down so the fight came out for 20 minutes as his car was removed format after experimenting with a new rolling- start. They did that when Tomane dropped ball-it was quite slippery and (with him) didn’t happen.” and officials dried the track. Then, at the end of elimination system for the first two races of the crossed for his first five-pointer after only there was a lot of physicality from both Ricciardo has a pair of fourth-place finishes so the second segment, Nico Hulkenberg’s front left season that proved unpopular with drivers and far this year and is hoping he can hold off the tire came loose, popped off the car and rolled fans alike. seven minutes. They were in again eight sides,” said Brumbies coach Steve Ferrari cars - and perhaps Hamilton - on Sunday across the grass. Another red flag was shown, Some fans in Shanghai showed their appreci- minutes later when Tomane grabbed his Larkham. to get back on the podium for the first time ending the session a minute early as both ation for the change, hanging a giant banner second with a 50-metre run to the line “But I loved their composure in that since last year’s Singapore Grand Prix. McLaren drivers were trying for a final flying lap from the stands that read, “Finally ‘Real’ following a break from Wallabies centre last little passage.” Waratahs captain “It’s testament to how far we’ve come since to advance to the third qualifying segment. Qualifying is Back.” —AP Matt Toomua. The Waratahs struck back Michael Hooper conceded his team had with a try to winger Reece Robinson and been outplayed. “They came out hard a Bernard Foley penalty, before hitting and they hit us early,” he said. the front in the 31st minute when Israel “They found some space on the open Folau finished some superb work from side, so we need to do some work on our the NSW backs. Folau’s try was his 29th defensive systems.” —AFP

Sevens big guns survive gruelling day in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Fiji, New Zealand and “I’m pretty happy about day one,” Australia all rebounded after losing their South Africa coach Neil Powell told AFP. opening matches yesterday to scrape “It’s always a tough week after Hong into the quarterfinals of the Singapore Kong because all the big teams target Sevens, the newest and perhaps most that and when they get to the next one gruelling leg of the World Series. they seem to struggle to get back to the Fiji, still weary after winning last same level.” week’s Hong Kong round, were beaten South Africa finished at the top of 28-14 by their South Pacific neighbours Pool C and will play New Zealand in the Samoa first up before hammering quarters after the All Blacks were blown Portugal 38-0 then England 26-12 to fin- away by a brilliant French team that ish top of pool A in stifling humidity at scored four unanswered tries, including Singapore’s National Stadium. one in each half from the elusive Jeremy New Zealand, finalists in Hong Kong Aicardi. and currently second behind Fiji in the Fijian born Virimi Vakatawa scored in championship standings, were thrashed each of France’s three matches, including SHANGHAI: McLaren driver Fernando Alonso of Spain, left, and Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany, right, steer their cars during the 24-0 by France before they atoned with a double in the 19-17 win over the US third practice session of the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit, in China, yesterday. — AP hard fought wins over Canada (24-17) France will play Kenya in the quarter- then the United States (19-12) to finish finals while Argentina tackle Samoa. runner-up in Pool B. After upsetting Fiji, the Samoans lost Ricciardo bullish after China front row Australia slipped up in their opening their second match to England (12-5), a fixture against Argentina (12-7) after con- result which cost them top spot in the SHANGHAI: Daniel Ricciardo believes Red Bull “go-faster haircut”. “Second is pretty awesome,” thing we’ve got, and we’ve shown true dry pace ceding a late try but safely made it group. Fiji played England in the last can give Ferrari a run for their money as they all he said after securing his first front row since here. “To get a front row in dry conditions is through to the last eight on Sunday with match of the day, needing to win to keep chase race favourite Nico Rosberg in today’s China two years ago. “It feels good to be back awesome,” he added. “It’s testament to how far victories over Japan (17-12) and Wales alive their record of making the quarter- Chinese Grand Prix. here. We didn’t expect this!” we’ve come since the end of 2015. I know it’s (31-12). “We were probably a little bit off finals at every World Series sevens event The Australian’s late surge saw him qualify Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff also admitted only qualifying, but the plan is to be back here our game but at the end of the day we since January 2014. second behind Rosberg yesterday, helped by Ricciardo, who scored all three of his Formula after the race.” Ricciardo admitted he had strug- some mistakes by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and One victories in 2014, had caught everyone by gled earlier during qualifying, which was got the job done,” Australia coach Andy They did it easily in the end and now Sebastian Vettel, who occupy row two. surprise. “That kind of came out of nowhere,” he delayed for 20 minutes after Pascal Wehrlein’s Friend told AFP. “Coming so soon after face Australia in Sunday for a place in the “Today is encouraging,” said Ricciardo, who said. “We know of Daniel’s qualities, he’s been Manor crashed into a wall moments into the first Hong Kong, that was a really tough day, semi-finals. “It’s incredibly hard to do the finished fourth in the season’s first two races in impressive. But he wasn’t on the radar until Q3 session. “It didn’t seem like we were going to be which is why you had three of the top (Asian) double, no team has managed it Australia and Bahrain-both won by Rosberg. “If and there he was-P2.” in the fight for the front few rows today,” he said. four teams fall over in the first game.” Of in the last 10 years,” Fiji coach Ben Ryan we can have this on one lap then in the race we Red Bull team-mate Daniil Kvyat starts on the “But I found a bit more speed, although the the top four ranked teams in the world, said. “But we will not for one minute be should still be pretty competitive. We’re normal- third row and Ricciardo predicted they could be super-soft is a tricky tyre to manage-it gets only South Africa survived the first day using it as an excuse if we don’t play well ly better off in the race. I hope to have a race in the mix at the business end of Sunday’s race. chewed up quite a bit as the lap goes on. undefeated, thrashing Scotland 33-0 this weekend and we don’t win our with Ferrari.” Ricciardo’s performance surprised “We have to try to keep this going,” said the 26- “Nico, starting on the softs, should be in good before battling to wins over Russia (21- games, it will have nothing to do with even himself, with Red Bull team chief Christian year-old. “We’ve only had a couple of races, but shape but if we can battle for the podium, that 10) and Kenya (14-0). fatigue.” —AFP Horner putting it down to the Australian’s new up until now we’ve exceeded, maximised every- will be awesome.” —AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 SPORTS Nadal sinks Murray to reach final with Monfils

MONTE CARLO: Rafael Nadal returned to the Spaniard who has spent the last 18 the final of the Monte Carlo Masters for the months recovering mental confidence first time in three years as the eight-time after a deep slump. champion struggled to close out a 2-6, 6-4, The 14-time Grand Slam champion has 6-2 win over Andy Murray yesterday. not won a title of any kind since last sum- Nadal, who lifted the title in the mer in Hamburg. Nadal improved to 17-6 Principality uninterrupted from 2005-2012, over Murray, defeating him seven of the last lost the 2013 final to Novak Djokovic. eight times they have met on clay. The But Spain’s fifth-seeded king of clay Spaniard ran his record in semi-finals in showed hints of the form which took him Monte Carlo to an impressive 10-1, and to multiple seasons of total dominance on now stands 57-4 over his career record at the surface as he overcame second seed the event. Nadal will be playing in his Murray in a battle lasting for more than 100th ATP final (67-32) when he takes on two and a half hours. It was not all one- the winner from the French pair of eighth way traffic for Nadal, who spent 10 min- seed Tsonga and number 13 Monfils. utes in the final game between his first Nadal stands 27-14 at the Masters 1000 match points and his fifth in fighting off a level, one title behind all-time leader late Murray charge. Djokovic. Murray will need to step up his The 28-year-old Murray saved four pace on clay after winning his first two tro- Nadal match points and had two break phies on the surface last spring in Munich chances of his own before Nadal finally and Madrid back-to-back. The Scot won drilled over a winner which the Scot could the opening set in 49 minutes with a single not quite handle. Nadal, 29, will bid for a break of Nadal, but could not carry on after ninth title in the Principality on Sunday being broken at the start of the second set. against either France’s Gael Monfils or Jo- The second seed got the break back a Wilfried Tsonga. Murray had been working game later but then lost serve for a second to repeat his upset of the Spaniard from time in the seventh game as Nadal made a the Madrid Masters final last May as he winning return off a Murray overhead. played in his third Monte Carlo semi-final The Spaniard claimed the set after more MINNEAPOLIS: LOS ANGELES: Minnesota Twins right fielder Miguel Sano, top, and second baseman Eduardo Nunez collide in right field while after going this far in 2009 and 2011 — than an hour as the total match time chasing a fly ball hit by Los Angeles Angels’ Yunel Escobar who was thrown out at third base trying to stretch a double during the fourth inning losing both matches to Nadal. Murray was ticked over to two hours. Murray’s game of a baseball game Friday, in Minneapolis.— AP unable to maintain his winning momen- went into collapse in the third set as he tum after lifting the opening set against trailed 5-1 before his futile late rally. —AFP Twins and Braves avoid 0-10 starts with breakthrough wins

MINNEAPOLIS: The Minnesota Twins became the ROCKIES 6, CUBS 1 enth. The Pirates cut the gap to 5-4 later in the last team in the major leagues to win this season, Chad Bettis pitched six scoreless innings, Ben inning on back-to-back doubles by David Freese after Byung Ho Park drove in the go-ahead run Paulsen had an RBI single and threw out a runner and Starling Marte with two outs. Jeff Locke (0-1) with a double in the eighth inning for a 5-4 victory at the plate, and Colorado took advantage of gave up three runs, five hits and walked seven in 4 Friday night over the Los Angeles Angels. Both Chicago’s shaky defense for a victory. The Cubs, 2/3 innings. Minnesota and Atlanta stopped nine-game losing who had won eight of nine in their best start in 47 streaks Friday. The Braves beat Miami earlier in the years, managed only four singles and made four ORIOLES 11, RANGERS 5 night. That left the 2002 Detroit Tigers with the dis- errors. Third baseman Kris Bryant committed two Mark Trumbo hit two of Baltimore’s four home honor of being the last team to start a season 0-10 of the errors, including a wild throw on a bunt that runs in a nine-run seventh inning and the Orioles or worse. Albert Pujols and Kole Calhoun homered scored a run in the seventh. Bettis (2-0) was sharp beat Texas. The Orioles were still down 5-3 after for the Angels, whose four-game winning streak in first career start against the Cubs. The 26-year- Trumbo’s two-run homer chased Martin Perez with ended. Miguel Sano and Trevor Plouffe hit consecu- old right-hander allowed three hits, struck out four no outs in the seventh. They went ahead to stay tive RBI doubles in the sixth off Angels starter and walked three. Chicago right-hander Kyle when Jonathan Schoop and Nolan Reimold hit back- Garrett Richards, the third multi-run inning for the Hendricks (1-1) was charged with four runs, two to-back homers off Tom Wilhelmsen (1-1), and Twins this season. This was the first time they earned, and seven hits in six innings. The Cubs had Trumbo added a three-run shot off a second reliever topped three runs in a game, but they’re still last in won five in a row. later in the inning. Trumbo is the first Baltimore bat- the majors with 19 runs. ter ever with two homers in the same inning, and MARINERS 7, YANKEES 1 first in the majors since Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion MONACO: Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Britain’s Andy Murray during the Monte- BRAVES 6, MARLINS 3 Robinson Cano got two more hits to celebrate against Houston on July 26, 2013, according to Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament semi finalmatch, yesterday in Monaco. —AFP Adonis Garcia drove in three runs in the final his special connection to Jackie Robinson Day as STATS. Schoop homered again in the eighth, a solo three innings and the Atlanta Braves rallied for Seattle sent New York to its third straight loss. shot that was his third of the season and gave him their first victory of the year after nine consecutive Cano’s father, a former major league pitcher, his third career game with multiple homers. losses, beating Miami. The Braves managed just named his son for the Brooklyn Dodgers great. Strycova gets Czech one hit in the first six innings, trailed 3-0 in the sev- Cano improved to 14 for 38 (.368) on the day all CARDINALS 14, REDS 3 enth and appeared on the verge of falling to 0-10, major leaguers honor the late Hall of Famer by Matt Holliday had two of St. Louis’ six home runs which would have matched the worst start in fran- wearing his No. 42. Cano was 1 for 19 when he hit in a rout of Cincinnati. Aledmys Diaz and Brandon holders off mark chise history in 1988. Their comeback began with an early RBI single. The former Yankees star began Moss each added three-run homers to help the three consecutive hits in the seventh, including a the season on a home run binge, but had cooled Cardinals to their sixth win in the last seven games. PARIS: Barbora Strycova got holders the her 14th win for just one singles defeat in double by Garcia to drive in the first Atlanta run. off. Chris Iannetta homered, singled twice and They have scored seven or more runs in all six wins Czech Republic off to a winning 1-0 start in Fed Cup. “I think the key to my success was Nick Markakis’ RBI single in the eighth made it 3-all, drove in three runs. The Mariners opened a nine- and hit double-digits four times. Moss and Matt the Fed Cup semi-final yesterday as the to serve well,” said Bertens. “On my first and Garcia’s two-run double put the Braves ahead. game trip by boosting their road record to 3-1. Adams also homered. Adams’ pinch-hit homer was Netherlands lead France by the same score- service game I was 0-40, but I hit two aces They are 1-5 at Safeco Field. the second of the game and sixth of the season. line. In Lucerne, Strycova needed just 65 and from that moment I gained in confi- WHITE SOX 1, RAYS 0 That surpasses the Cardinals total of four from minutes to demolish world number 17 dence.” France’s Kristina Mladenovic, ranked Chris Sale tossed a two-hitter, Melky Cabrera RED SOX 5, BLUE JAYS 3 pinch hitters last season. Holliday drove in four Timea Bacsinszky 6-0, 6-2 to give hosts 28, next takes on 139th-ranked Richel singled in Jimmy Rollins in the ninth and Chicago Rick Porcello pitched 6 1/3 solid innings and runs and reached base four times in recording the Switzerland a battle as they bid for a first Hogenkamp in the second singles tie on beat Tampa Bay. Sale (3-0), from nearby Lakeland, Travis Shaw hit a two-run double to lead Boston to 20th multi-homer game of his career. Carlos Fed Cup final appearance since 1998. Saturday. France are chasing a first finals struck out nine for his best start to a season since a victory over Toronto. David Ortiz added a run- Martinez (2-0) allowed three runs and six hits over It was a first Fed Cup win for 33rd- appearance since 2005 and had gone into going 5-0 in 2014. He retired 16 straight between scoring double for Boston, moving him one RBI seven innings. Tim Melville (0-1) gave up seven ranked Strycova who had lost all three of their tie on clay as heavy favourites against singles by Desmond Jennings in the second and behind Hall of Famer Tony Perez (1,652) for 26th all runs in three innings. her previous singles ties in the competition. surprise semi-finalists the Netherlands. Steve Pearce in the seventh. The game was delayed time. Big Papi also stole a base, joining Ted In an early upset, France were trailing in the Switzerland will now look for Viktoriya for about 10 minutes after the seventh so a woman Williams, Cy Young and Rickey Henderson as the ROYALS 4, ATHLETICS 2 western town of Trelaze after Kiki Bertens Golubic to upset Karolina Pliskova in the struck by a foul ball in the bottom of the inning only four Red Sox players with a steal at 40-years- Kendrys Morales had three hits and got his saw off Caroline Garcia 6-4, 6-2. Bertens, second rubber to get back into the tie. could get treatment. The fan, sitting in box seats old. Edwin Encarnacion hit his first two homers of 500th career RBI to help Kansas City win its fourth ranked 96, dominated France’s number two The hosts had suffered a blow as Swiss next to the Tampa Bay dugout on the first-base the season, drove in all three Toronto runs and had straight by beating Oakland. Edinson Volquez (2-0) player Garcia, ranked 45, calmly converting number one Belinda Bencic pulled out of side, was taken off on a stretcher. The ball came off all of three of the Blue Jays’ hits. Porcello (2-0) gave pitched six innings, retiring seven of the last eight her only break point opportunity in the first the tie with a back injury. The Czechs will the bat of Rays designated hitter Steven Souza Jr. up three runs and two hits, striking out eight and batters he faced. He gave up two runs and four hits. set. She increased the pressure in the sec- be counting on 18th-ranked Pliskova as walking one. Craig Kimbrel got the final three outs Eric Hosmer homered for the Royals. Stephen Vogt ond to wrap up the tie after one hour and they look to keep their bid for a fifth title in DODGERS 7, GIANTS 3 for his third save. R. A. Dickey (1-2) gave up four homered, singled twice and scored both runs for 11 minutes at the Arena Loire, to notch up six years on track. — AFP Kike Hernandez homered his first two times up runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings. the A’s, who lost their fourth straight and fell to 1-7 against Madison Bumgarner, drove in four runs and at home. Rich Hill (1-2) struggled through 4 1/3 prevented two more with a diving catch in left NATIONALS 9, PHILLIES 1 innings, allowing three runs and nine hits on 106 field, leading Clayton Kershaw and Los Angeles Bryce Harper had three hits, including a home pitches. Kelvin Herrera, Joakim Soria and Wade over San Francisco. Kershaw (2-0) was charged with run, and drove in three runs, and Joe Ross allowed Davis each pitched a scoreless inning, with Davis three runs - two earned - and five hits over seven three hits in 7 2/3 shutout innings to help recording his fifth save in five chances. innings with six strikeouts and no walks. The Giants Washington to its best start in club history. Jayson scored their first two runs on the left-hander’s first Werth added two doubles and three RBIs, and DIAMONDBACKS 3, PADRES 2 two wild pitches of the season. Bumgarner (1-1) Michael Taylor also went deep for Washington, Jake Lamb dashed home with the go-ahead run gave up seven runs - four earned - and five hits in which improved to 8-1 to mark the best nine-game on a soft infield single by pinch-hitter Phil Gosselin five-plus innings. He struck out seven, but his beginning since the franchise was born in 1969 as with one out in the ninth inning, lifting Arizona teammates committed three errors behind him. the Montreal Expos. Ross (2-0) struck out five and over San Diego. Brad Ziegler escaped a big jam to The 2014 World Series and NLCS MVP was 3-0 with walked two. The 22-year-old, facing the Phillies for preserve the victory, getting Jon Jay to ground into a 1.23 ERA in his other three head-to-head show- the first time, retired 12 straight before Freddy a game-ending double play with the bases loaded downs with Kershaw at Dodger Stadium. This was Galvis’ two-out single in the eighth ended his night. for his second save. Lamb reached on an infield sin- the sixth time in Kershaw’s last seven starts against gle against Fernando Rodney (0-1) to start the the Giants that his mound opponent was BREWERS 8, PIRATES 4 ninth, stole second and went to third on a throw- Bumgarner. Neither got a decision last Saturday in Ryan Braun hit two long two-run home runs ing error by catcher Derek Norris. Lamb then San Francisco. and Jimmy Nelson took a shutout into the seventh scored when Gosselin hit a dribbler to first base. inning as Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh. Braun had a The Padres dropped to 0-4 at home. However, METS 6, INDIANS 5 460-foot shot off the batter’s eye in center field off Alexei Ramirez and Alexi Amarista drove in the Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker each hit a two- Kyle Lobstein in the sixth to put the Brewers ahead team’s first runs in San Diego this season. Daniel run homer in a five-run fifth inning, and New York 5-0. After the Pirates drew within a run, Braun hit a Hudson (1-0) earned the win in relief of Zack held off Cleveland. Michael Conforto and Alejandro 415-foot shot to dead center in the eighth off Greinke, who lost his first two starts with Arizona. De Aza also went deep for the Mets, who entered Neftali Feliz for his third of the season to make it 7- Greinke was lifted after allowing Wil Myers’ double with 20 runs and a major league-low two homers in 4. It was Braun’s 23rd career multi-homer game. with one out in the eighth. He allowed two runs their first eight games. De Aza had a leadoff homer Pinch-hitter Matt Joyce hit a three-run homer, his and six hits. Arizona’s Welington Castillo homered in the fifth and finished with three hits from the No. first, to chase Nelson (2-1) with none out in the sev- off James Shields leading off the second. — AP 9 spot in the batting order. Cespedes also had three of New York’s 14 hits. Cleveland scored three times MLB Results/Standings in the ninth before Jeurys Familia retired Jose Ramirez with two on for his third save. Bartolo Colorado 6, Chicago Cubs 1; Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 4; Seattle 7, NY Yankees 1; Washington 9, Philadelphia 1; Atlanta Colon (1-1) allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings. He 6, Miami 3; Chicago White Sox 1, Tampa Bay 0; NY Mets 6, Cleveland 5; Boston 5, Toronto 3; Baltimore 11, Texas 5; struck out five and earned his 219th win, tying Houston 1, Detroit 0; Minnesota 5, LA Angels 4; St. Louis 14, Cincinnati 3; Kansas City 4, Oakland 2; LA Dodgers 7, San Pedro Martinez for second-most by a Dominican- Francisco 3; Arizona 3, San Diego 2. born pitcher behind Juan Marichal (243). American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Washington 8 1 .889 - ASTROS 1, TIGERS 0 Baltimore 8 2 .800 - Dallas Keuchel pitched eight scoreless innings, Philadelphia 5 6 .455 4 Boston 5 4 .556 2.5 NY Mets 4 5 .444 4 Colby Rasmus provided the offense with an RBI sin- Toronto 5 6 .455 3.5 Miami 3 5 .375 4.5 gle and Houston snapped a three-game skid with a NY Yankees 4 5 .444 3.5 Atlanta 1 9 .100 7.5 win over Detroit. Luke Gregerson pitched a perfect Tampa Bay 3 7 .300 5 Central Division Central Division ninth to complete the shutout and earn his third Chicago Cubs 8 2 .800 - Chicago White Sox 8 2 .800 - St. Louis 6 4 .600 2 save. Keuchel (2-1), who was last year’s American Kansas City 8 2 .800 - League Cy Young winner, has won a franchise- Detroit 6 3 .667 1.5 Cincinnati 5 5 .500 3 record 17 straight regular season games at home. Cleveland 4 4 .500 3 Milwaukee 5 5 .500 3 He hasn’t lost in Houston since Aug. 10, 2014. On Minnesota 1 9 .100 7 Pittsburgh 5 6 .455 3.5 Friday he allowed five hits and struck out four with Western Division Western Division LA Dodgers 7 4 .636 - one walk for his second win this season. Mike Texas 6 6 .500 - LA Angels 5 5 .500 - Colorado 6 4 .600 0.5 LUCERNE: Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic returns to Switzerland’s Timea Pelfrey (0-2) allowed five hits, one run and tied a Seattle 4 6 .400 1 San Francisco 6 5 .545 1 Bacsinszky during their Fed Cup World Group semifinal tennis match between career-high with six walks in six innings for his sec- Houston 4 7 .364 1.5 Arizona 4 7 .364 3 Switzerland and the Czech Republic, in Lucerne, Switzerland, yesterday. — AP ond straight loss to start the season. Oakland 4 7 .364 1.5 San Diego 3 8 .273 4 SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 SPORTS Burnett chips in to edge ahead at LPGA in Hawaii

KAPOLEI: Katie Burnett chipped in for Korean LPGA event sponsored by Lotte 68s for the second straight day at LOTTE CHAMPIONSHIP International on his 63rd birthday. Todd birdie on the par-4 18th for a 5-under - a win that earned her a spot next year Harbour Town to join Day at 6 under MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CLASSIC Hamilton, Jesper Parnevik and Kenny 67 and a one-stroke lead in the Lotte at Ko Olina. US Women’s Open champi- 136. Day has won two of his past three Tom Watson was in position to make Perry were a stroke back at TPC Sugarloaf. Championship. Winless in 59 career on In Gee Chun (65) and Moriya PGA Tour events. The Australian opened PGA Tour Champions history after shoot- starts on the LPGA Tour, the 26-year-old Jutanugarn (68) were 10 under. on the 10th tee and birdied the diffi- ing a 4-under 68 for a share of the first- SPANISH OPEN Georgia player had her second straight cult, wind-swept lighthouse hole at No. round lead with Tom Byrum and Mark Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal shot an even- bogey-free round to take a 13-under RBC HERITAGE 18. He added birdies on Nos. 2, 3 and 6. O’Meara in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. par 71 in strong wind to take a two-shot 203 total into the final round at Ko Top-ranked Jason Day shot a 2- Luke Donald, tied for the first-round A week after making his final appearance lead after the second round of the Olina. Su-Yeon Jang was second after a under 69 on Friday in the RBC Heritage lead after a 66, was a stroke back along in the Masters, the 66-year-old Watson is European Tour’s Spanish Open. 67. Playing on a sponsor exemption, for a share of the second-round lead with Russell Knox and Patton Kizzire. trying to become the oldest winner on Larrazabal had a 3-under 139 total at the 21-year-old South Korean player is with Kevin Chappell and Charley Donald had a 71, Knox shot 65, and the 50-and-over tour. Mike Fetchick set Valderrama. England’s Andrew Johnston coming off a victory last week in the Hoffman. Chappell and Hoffman shot Kizzire 68. the mark in the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors was second after a 74. —AP Semenya wins triple at South African nationals

STELLENBOSCH: Stealing the show from a 1,500 victory was in 4:10.93, outside the reigning world champion, Caster Semenya Olympic qualifier. In between Semenya’s first won national titles in the 400, 800, and 1,500 two victories, world champion Wayde van meters and ran Olympic qualifying times in Niekerk retained his 400-meter title in 44.98 the first two events at the South African seconds, also going under the South African championships yesterday. qualifying mark for the Rio Games. Looking sharper than she has in years, the Van Niekerk cruised through the first 200 former 800-meter world champion set world- to win easily on the final day of the two-day leading times in the 400 and 800. Finishing meet in Stellenbosch, near Cape Town. He with the 1,500, Semenya became the first ath- said he ran cautiously after feeling tightness lete to win all three titles at the champi- in his back and hamstrings during his qualify- onships, and did it within about four hours. ing races on Friday. “The legs don’t feel too much pain. I’ll pay “I’m just really pleased that I can leave the tomorrow,” she said. Even though it’s early in track feeling healthy and feeling confident the Olympic year, Semenya’s performance in again,” Van Niekerk said. “I had quite a few her favored 800, which came less than an challenges this weekend.” hour after her 400 race, suggested she may Van Niekerk, whose victory was one of the again put a list of struggles behind her to big surprises of last year’s world champi- challenge in Rio de Janeiro in August. onships in Beijing, said he’d stay at home and The competition may not have been train for the next six weeks before heading to strong, but her times in both the one and Europe to race in June. “I’ll try and pick up the two-lap races were: A personal best 50.74 sec- momentum (for the Olympics),” he said. onds in the 400, and 1 minute, 58.45 seconds Shrugging off concerns over the short gap in the 800. “I’m quite impressed with the per- between the 400 and 800 finals, Semenya formances of tonight. I didn’t expect to run sped past her rivals on the last corner in the like this, fast times like this,” Semenya said. 400. It was her first South African title in the “The 400 and 800, it was just marvelous.” Her event. —AP

Superstar Lin Dan booted TAMPA: Alex Killorn #17 and Tyler Johnson #9 of the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate a goal against the Detroit Red Wings during the third period in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals during the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on Friday in Tampa, from Singapore Open Florida. —AFP

SINGAPORE: Two-time Olympic champion Speaking to media after the game, Lin Lin Dan became the latest casualty at the said: “I lost the first set too quickly and took Lightning go up 2-0 over Singapore Open yesterday when he suf- too long to find my rhythm. “I didn’t play as fered a stunning semi-final defeat at the well as I could have.” Kuncoro, ranked 56th hands of Indonesian qualifier Sony Dwi in the world, said he began to believe he Red Wings with 5-2 victory Kuncoro. The 32-year-old Lin, who has nev- could win after his quick-fire start. er won the tournament, trailed early on “It was such an awesome game and I’m against the composed 2004 Olympic very happy,” Kuncoro said. “My game was TAMPA: Tyler Johnson scored a pair of third- Crawford had a strong game in net and its first-round playoff series with a victory over bronze medallist Kuncoro, who raced to a pretty hesitant in the second set so in the period goals Friday night, helping the Tampa Duncan Keith also scored for Chicago in his Anaheim. Pekka Rinne made 27 saves for the 11-4 lead before taking the first set 21-10. third set I just put in my all and was aggres- Bay Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 first game back from a six-game suspension Predators, who got the early jump on the The Chinese superstar salvaged the sec- sive. I did not want to follow Lin Dan’s style in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series. for a dangerous high stick to Minnesota’s Pacific Division champion Ducks with a gritty ond set to win 21-17, but the 31-year-old of play,” added the Indonesian. Ben Bishop had 30 saves for the defending Charlie Coyle. Keith assisted on Artemi road effort. James Neal and Colin Wilson also Indonesian kept his cool to seal a nailbiting Kuncoro, who won the Singapore Open Eastern Conference champions, who took the Panarin’s clinching empty-net goal with 1:34 scored, while Forsberg scored the go-ahead 22-20 victory in the final set. in 2010, will face Korea’s Son Wan-Ho in the first two games at home despite playing with- to go. The series shifts to Chicago with Game goal when his cross-ice pass to Craig Smith hit On Friday world number ones Chen finals after Son beat giant-killer Ng. out injured leading goal scorer Steven 3 on Sunday. Vladimir Tarasenko and Kevin defenseman Shea Theodore’s skate and trick- Long of China and Carolina Marin of Spain In the women’s singles world number had crashed out in the quarter-finals, two Ratchanok Intanon beat Yamaguchi Stamkos and defenseman Anton Stralman. A Shattenkirk scored for St. Louis. led past John Gibson. Game 2 is tonite in unceremoniously shown the door by 21-12 22-20 to progress to the finals. The bloody brawl involving several players capped Anaheim. Captain Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan young upstarts. clinical Thai will be bidding to win three this one, with 14 penalties called - including a PREDATORS 3, DUCKS 2 Kesler scored for the Ducks, who lost an open- Chen fell to Hong Kong’s 21-year-old successive Superseries tournaments in as game misconduct on Justin Abdelkader - with Filip Forsberg got credit for the tiebreaking er for just the second time in seven playoff Angus Ng, while Marin fell in three sets to many weeks when she faces Chinese 54 seconds left. Game 3 is Sunday in Detroit, goal with 9:35 to play, and Nashville opened series under coach Bruce Boudreau. — AP Japan’s 18-year-old Akane Yamaguchi. defending champion Sun Yu. — AFP where the Red Wings won both regular-sea- son meetings between the teams. NHL results/standings PANTHERS 3, ISLANDERS 1 Roberto Luongo made 41 saves for his first Florida 3, NY Islanders 1; Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2; St. Louis 2, Chicago 3; Anaheim 2, Nashville 3. playoff win in five years, and the Florida Eastern Conference Western Conference Panthers evened their Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Pacific Division quarterfinal series by beating the New York W L OT GF GA PTS Dallas 50 23 9 267 230 109 Islanders. Reilly Smith and Nick Bjugstad each Florida 47 26 9 239 203 103 St. Louis 49 24 9 224 201 107 had a goal and an assist for Florida, which sal- Tampa Bay 46 31 5 227 201 97 Chicago 47 26 9 235 209 103 vaged a split in the series-opening back-to- Boston 42 31 9 240 230 93 Nashville 41 27 14 228 215 96 back. Dmitry Kulikov added an empty-netter Detroit 41 30 11 211 224 93 Minnesota 38 33 11 216 206 87 with 9.3 seconds left to clinch the win. Game Ottawa 38 35 9 236 247 85 Colorado 39 39 4 216 240 82 MontrÈal 38 38 6 221 236 82 3 is in Brooklyn on Sunday. John Tavares Winnipeg 35 39 8 215 239 78 Buffalo 35 36 11 201 222 81 scored with 3:33 left for New York, and Central Division Toronto 29 42 11 198 246 69 Thomas Greiss stopped 28 shots for the Anaheim 46 25 11 218 192 103 Metropolitan Division Islanders. Los Angeles 48 28 6 225 195 102 Washington 56 18 8 252 193 120 San Jose 46 30 6 241 210 98 Pittsburgh 48 26 8 245 203 104 BLACKHAWKS 3, BLUES 2 NY Rangers 46 27 9 236 217 101 Arizona 35 39 8 209 245 78 Andrew Shaw stuffed home a rebound on NY Islanders 45 27 10 232 216 100 Calgary 35 40 7 231 260 77 a power play with 4:19 remaining, minutes Philadelphia 41 27 14 214 218 96 Vancouver 31 38 13 191 243 75 after the Chicago Blackhawks won a coach’s Carolina 35 31 16 198 226 86 Edmonton 31 43 8 203 245 70 challenge to negate a goal, and the defending New Jersey 38 36 8 184 208 84 Note: Overtime losses (OT) worth 1 pt and not included Stanley Cup champions pulled even with the Columbus 34 40 8 219 252 76 in loss column (L). SINGAPORE: Lin Dan of China returns a shot to Sony Kuncoro of Indonesia during St. Louis Blues in their first-round series. Corey their men’s singles semi-final match at the Singapore Open Badminton champi- onship yesterday in Singapore. — AP Third local disabled games kicks off today

By Abdellatif Sharaa of a large number of club players of both genders and will continue for three days. KUWAIT: The third local disabled games Club president Shafi Al-Hajiri said this will kick off today at the Kuwait Disabled tournament marks the end of a series of Sports Club in shooting, athletics and tar- championships the club organized this year get ball for the blind with the participation and included all the sports that are prac- ticed in the club, and aimed at improving the players’ levels and prepare for champi- onships abroad, besides being a good opportunity to discover new talent. Al-Hajiri said the club completed all technical and administrative preparations for the tournament and expected to have good competition technically especially that several players who qualified for the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro next September, particularly in shooting and athletics. He said the club’s athletics track, Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Hall which will see the shooting competition and the Target ball hall are all ready for competition. Shafi Al-Hajiri appreciated the major support the public authority for sports under its Director General Sheikh Ahmad Al-Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and hid Deputy Dr Humoud Fulaiteh gives his club including the patronage of all three local Shafi Al-Hajiri tournaments that is besides its continued HONG KONG: Players from the women’s singles pose for a photo at the awards ceremony after qualifying at the Asian Table Tennis Qualification support for the national teams abroad. Tournament for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 SPORTS

Ibrahimovic double helps PSG rebound with Caen thrashing

PARIS: Paris St Germain rebounded further goals from Blaise Matuidi, we have to keep going, because the only during his dazzling career. Matuidi effort compounded the visitors’ misery. after their Champions League exit to Edinson Cavani, Angel Di Maria and way we will get over it is by winning,” added another in the second minute of “Is Ligue 1 too easy? I mustn’t say that Manchester City with a 6-0 victory over Maxwell secured a convincing victory said PSG defender Marquinhos. first-half stoppage time, before turning in front of the TV cameras,” added Caen in Ligue 1 yesterday. over mid-table Caen. The win moves Top scorer Ibrahimovic struggled to provider after the break as he duped Marquinhos. The beleaguered Vercoutre, PSG, who wrapped up the Ligue 1 Laurent Blanc’s side on to 86 points — assert himself against City, but opened Vercoutre with a cut-back, leaving whose side remain ninth on 46 points, title last month, suffered heartbreak in 30 ahead of second-placed Olympique the scoring in the 12th minute when his Cavani to bury the ball into the open said he would not be watching a video midweek when City won the second leg Lyonnais-and needing one more win to long-range shot evaded goalkeeper net. Di Maria added insult to injury when of the match. of their quarter-final 1-0 following a 2-2 equal the club’s all-time record points Remy Vercoutre, who should have done he sent a delicious chipped effort over “I’ll try to forget it,” he said. “Tonight, draw at the Parc des Princes. total for a single Ligue 1 season. better. The strike was the Swedish front- the advancing Vercoutre in the 52nd I’ll have nice beer, sleep well and try not They responded emphatically, how- “The victory doesn’t help us forget man’s 31st of the Ligue 1 campaign, his minute, while Ibrahimovic’s fine volley to have nightmares about what hap- ever, as a Zlatan Ibrahimovic double and the defeat against Manchester City, but biggest haul in a single league season and substitute Maxwell’s close-range pened here.” — Reuters

Sunderland down Norwich to grab survival lifeline

Defoe picked out Borini in the penalty area and when he cut back inside to attack Norwich City 0 Andre Wisdom, the Norwich defender got the slightest touch on the ball before following through to catch the Italian with an ugly tack- le that convinced referee Andre Marriner to point to the spot. Sunderland 3 Norwich’s furious players surrounded Marriner to protest, but Borini ignored the fuss as he calmly slotted the penalty low to NORWICH: Sunderland grabbed a priceless Ruddy’s right for only his fourth goal of the lifeline in the fight for Premier League survival season. Neil sent on Nathan Redmond at half- as goals from Fabio Borini and Jermain Defoe time and the Norwich winger nearly had an inspired a 3-0 win over relegation rivals instant impact with a skidding shot that Norwich yesterday. struck the outside of a post. Sam Allardyce’s side would have been on But it was Sunderland who struck again in the brink of crashing into the Championship the 53rd minute. Norwich defender Sebastien if they had lost at Carrow Road, but Borini’s Bassong was nudged off the ball by Kirchhoff first half penalty and strikes from Defoe and far too easily inside his own half and Borini Duncan Watmore after the interval signifi- whipped over a sublime cross that Defoe met cantly improved their hopes of staying up. with a typically predatory sliding finish at the Sunderland remain in the relegation zone far post. The Canaries laid seige to after their first win in seven matches, but they Sunderland’s goal in the closing stages with- are now only one point behind fourth bottom out success as Lee Cattermole cleared off the Norwich with a game in hand. Allardyce has line from Mbokani and then Wes Hoolahan. never been relegated from the top-flight and Watmore rubbed salt in Norwich wounds in he could be on course to mastermind another stoppage-time when he took Seb Larsson’s great escape to emulate Sunderland’s last- pass and clipped a near post finish past ditch revival under Dick Advocaat 12 months Ruddy. — AFP ago. For Norwich, it was further setback to their survival bid after last weekend’s loss at GETAFE: Real Madrid’s Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas (C) dives for the ball during the Spanish league football match Getafe CF vs Real Crystal Palace and they face a nervous last Madrid CF at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez stadium in Getafe yesterday. —AFP four matches as the relegation struggle goes to the wire. Norwich’s failure to avoid defeat Matches on TV also meant Aston Villa were given a stay of (Local Timings) Real Madrid beat Getafe to execution, although the bottom club would be relegated if they fail to win at Manchester ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE United later. After unexpectedly meeting in Leicester City v West Ham 15:30 the 1985 League Cup final, these two clubs beIN SPORTS 2 HD keep pressure on Barcelona had established such a rapport that matches Bournemouth v Liverpool 15:30 between them are now played for the beIN SPORTS 3 HD ‘Friendship Trophy’. Arsenal v Crystal Palace 18:00 beIN SPORTS 2 HD BARCELONA: Karim Benzema ensured Real and closer,” said Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane, sive match in the debut of coach Juan Esnaider, Allardyce was unaware of the curious Madrid kept the pressure on leader Barcelona in whose team trailed Barcelona by 12 points just a former Madrid player who replaced the fired alliance until it was pointed out in the build- SPANISH LEAGUE the Spanish league by scoring one goal and four rounds ago. “We are going to bed one point Fran Escriba on Tuesday. up this week but, with so much at stake, it Malaga v Athletic de Bilbao 13:00 assisting on two more as bottom-side Getafe behind, but we can’t look beyond that.” “We tried,” said Esnaider, praising his players’ wasn’t long before the relationship was put to beIN SPORTS 3 HD was defeated 5-1 yesterday. Barcelona will try to end a three-round win- attitude. Despite Getafe’s best effort, Madrid the test as tempers frayed. Sevilla v Deportivo La Coruna 17:00 Benzema scored his 22nd goal of the compe- less run against Valencia on Sunday, when outclassed its crosstown rival. Ronaldo, who hit Robbie Brady sparked the flashpoint when beIN SPORTS 1 HD tition before setting up Francisco “Isco” Alarcon Atletico will host Granada. Diego Simeone’s a hat trick on Tuesday to lead Madrid’s come- the Norwich winger needlessly shoved Rayo Vallecano v Villarreal 19:15 and Gareth Bale to put the result beyond doubt side, which eliminated Barcelona from the back over Wolfsburg in the Champions League, Sunderland’s DeAndre Yedlin into the adver- beIN SPORTS 1 HD Atletico de Madrid v Granada 19:15 early in the second half. Champions League quarterfinals this week to struck the post early, and waves of attacks tising boards right in front of the visitors’ beIN SPORTS 3 HD After James Rodriguez made it 4-1, Cristiano advance to a tie with Bayern Munich, trails inevitably led to Benzema’s breakthrough when bench. Brady was confronted by a member of Barcelona v Valencia 21:30 Ronaldo rounded off Madrid’s seventh consecu- Barcelona by three points. After this weekend he used his right foot to sweep in Rodriguez’s Sunderland’s coaching staff and Allardyce beIN SPORTS 3 HD tive league victory in stoppage time with his there will be five rounds left. cross. wasn’t far behind as he angrily pushed away tournament-leading 31st goal. “We have always said that we will never give Benzema worked a one-two passing combi- Norwich’s Cameron Jerome while players ITALIAN CALCIO LEAGUE Madrid, which this week advanced to a up,” Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas said. “We nation to help Isco make it 2-0 before halftime, from both sides joined the shoving match. Atalanta v AS Roma 13:30 Champions League semifinal against have to win our remaining matches and then and his pass let Bale romp forward before beat- When the furore had died down, Dieumerci beIN SPORTS 4 HD Manchester City, provisionally passed Atletico see what happens.” Also, Sporting Gijon stayed ing goalkeeper Vicente Guaita in the 50th. Pablo Mbokani rose to above Younes Kaboul to Fiorentina v Sassuolo 16:00 beIN SPORTS Madrid into second place and moved to within in the relegation zone, one point above Levante Sarabia got Getafe’s consolation goal with six meet Brady’s cross, but the Norwich forward’s Juventus v Citta 16:00 one point of struggling leader Barcelona. and Getafe, after drawing 1-1 at Las Palmas. minutes left before Rodriguez and Ronaldo header was straight at Sunderland goalkeep- beIN SPORTS 4 HD “We are doing our job and are getting closer Getafe remained winless for a 13th succes- struck. — AP er Vito Mannone. Udinese v Chievo 16:00 beIN SPORTS UGLY TACKLE Hellas v Frosinone 16:00 Sunderland threatened when Jan beIN SPORTS 8 HD Kirchhoff flicked a free-kick into the path of SS Lazio v Empoli 19:00 Gomes the hero as Watford beat West Brom Fabio Borini, but the Italy striker’s cross-shot beIN SPORTS 4 HD Sampdoria v AC Milan 21:45 flashed just past John Ruddy’s far post. beIN SPORTS 4 HD As Norwich began to dominate, Mannone West Brom 0 alertly kept out Kaboul’s deflected attempt to GERMAN BUNDESLIGA clear a Brady cross before brilliantly tipping Borussia v Hamburger 16:30 over Martin Olsson’s long-range effort. beIN SPORTS 5 HD Mannone’s heroics had kept Sunderland FSV Mainz 05 v FC Koln 18:30 afloat and Allardyce’s men took full advan- beIN SPORTS 5 HD Watford 1 tage four minutes before half-time.

WEST BROMWICH: Watford’s Heurelho Gomes saved two second-half penalties as the Hornets won 1-0 away to West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League yesterday. Baggies striker Saido Berahino was twice denied from the spot by the Brazilian goalkeeper as he helped the FA Cup semi-finalists preserve a lead established by Ben Watson’s 27th-minute goal at the Hawthorns. Prior to his penalty heroics, former Tottenham Hotspur keeper Gomes had already made two fine saves, denying Stephane Sessegnon in the first half and then producing an acrobatic effort to thwart Gareth McAuley shortly after half-time. But he topped those efforts with his two penalty stops. Having brought down Berahino in the 66th minute, he then dived to his right to beat away the West Brom forward’s first penalty effort yesterday. And three minutes from time he secured Watford’s victory when he went low to his left to keep out another Berahino spot-kick, the Hornets winning for just the third time in 16 NORWICH: Sunderland’s Italian striker Fabio Borini (L) vies with Norwich City’s league matches. Gomes was involved early on Swedish defender Martin Olsson during the English Premier League football match when he parried Sessegnon’s well-struck free- between Norwich City and Sunderland at Carrow Road in Norwich, eastern England, kick, with the midfielder putting the rebound yesterday. — AFP wide. Soon afterwards, Watford were in front when Adlene Guedioura’s corner was steered ino the far corner of the net by former Albion loan Newcastle see off Swansea player Watson. West Brom’s James McClaren then squandered a promising position by nei- City to keep hopes alive ther shotting himself or crossing for Berahino, his final ball neither one thing nor the other. Centre back Lascelles put Newcastle Craig Dawson and Salomon Rondon then ahead with a header at the end of the first combined to create a chance for Sessegnon, but Newcastle 3 half before Sissoko doubled Newcastle’s lead the Benin star was denied by a superb fingertip in the 82nd minute when Swansea failed to save from Gomes. McClean sent a shot into the clear a corner. Townsend added the third side-netting within a minute of the restart with one minute remaining, sliding in before Gomes athletically tipped McAuley’s Aleksandar Mitrovic’s pass to give Rafa Swansea 0 header over the crossbar. Benitez his first win since becoming At the other end, Albion keeper Ben Foster Newcastle’s boss five weeks ago. Although denied Watford captain Troy Deeney. Then came they remain in the relegation zone, they are the first of Gomes’s penalty saves and he was ST JAMES PARK: Newcastle United boosted only three points behind 17th-placed called upon again when Etienne Capoue tripped their hopes of avoiding relegation when they Norwich with a game in hand. Swansea dom- James McClean for a second spot-kick. beat Swansea City 3-0 at St James’ Park where inated much of the play after the break but Berahino didn’t shy away from the responsi- WEST BROMWICH: Watford’s Ben Watson, right, and West Bromwich Albion’s Salomon Rondon Jamaal Lascelles, Moussa Sissoko and Andros Ashley Williams and Jefferson Montero bility, but then suffered the agony of seeing battle for the ball during the English Premier League soccer match at The Hawthorns, West Townsend scored for the home side. missed good scoring chances. —Reuters Gomes save again. — AFP Bromwich, England, yesteday. — AP Rosberg takes Real Madrid beat pole at Chinese Getafe to keep Grand Prix pressure on Barcelona

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MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Memphis Depay, centre, is brought down by Aston Villa’s Kieran Richardson, right, earning Richardson a booking as Ciaran Clark looks on during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Aston Villa at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, yesterday. — AP Villa relegated as Rashford strikes again

Villa, under the caretaker charge of Eric and last Champions League place on offer to rivals, bolstered their hopes of top-flight sur- Gomes’s saves helped Watford maintain a Black after former manager Remi Garde was English clubs if they win away to Chelsea in vival with a 3-0 win at home to Swansea. lead established through Ben Watson’s 27th- Man United 1 sacked last month, have won just three times Saturday’s late kick-off. Jamaal Lascelles headed in Andros minute goal at the Hawthorns. in 34 league games this campaign and Earlier, Sunderland gave themselves hope Townsend’s corner four minutes before the Meanwhile Southampton moved to within Saturday’s loss saw them drop down to the of yet another escape from relegation, with a break and Moussa Sissoko made the game a point of a top six place after a 1-1 draw away second-tier of English football for the first time 3-0 win away to fellow strugglers Norwich City. safe for the Magpies eight minutes from time, to Everton, unable to win in 29 years. Victory at Carrow Road left the north-east as they marked manager Rafael Benitez’s 56th Ramiro Funes Mori put Everton, who now Aston Villa 0 “It’s a mood of disappointment,” said Black. side still in the bottom three but just one point birthday in style. haven’t won any of their last four league “What I will say is today I thought they were adrift of Norwich and with a game in hand Townsend rounded off the scoring in the games at Goodison Park, ahead in the 68th outstanding. “I know there has been criticism, over the Canaries. 89th minute. Newcastle remained in the rele- minute but their lead lasted just eight min- LONDON: Aston Villa’s long-expected relega- some of it deserved, but today they made a Fabio Borini’s first-half penalty and strikes gation zone but victory saw them move to utes, with Sadio Mane equalising for the tion from the Premier League was finally con- step back for the supporters and showed from Jermain Defoe and Duncan Watmore within three points of Norwich. Saints. firmed with a 1-0 loss away to Manchester there was some pride for the shirt. after the interval saw Sunderland to a first win “I have to say congratulations to the play- Sunday will see leaders Leicester City look- United yesterday as teenage rising star Marcus “There are players in there capable of play- in seven matches. The result was an under- ers,” Benitez told the BBC. “They showed pas- ing to go 10 points clear of second-placed Rashford scored his seventh goal in 12 games. ing in the Championship. People in certain standable relief for Sunderland manager Sam sion and commitment.”Watford, promoted last Tottenham Hotspur against West Ham, while The 18-year-old striker, also on target in places will make sure that Villa will come back, Allardyce, who told the BBC: “The most pleas- season, cemented their place in the Premier Arsenal will try to maintain their grip on third United’s FA Cup quarter-final replay win over I’m confident of that.” ing thing of all was the clean sheet, that is our League with a 1-0 win away to West Bromwich spot at home to London rivals Crystal Palace. West Ham United in midweek, struck in the United’s victory saw them move to within a way forward with five games to go. Albion, that saw goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes Liverpool, buoyed by a dramatic come- 32nd minute when he turned in Antonio point of local rivals Manchester City but man- “I know if we can keep two or three clean twice save penalties from Saido Berahino. from-behind Europa League quarter-final win Valencia’s low cross. ager Louis van Gaal criticised his side’s display, sheets in those games we’ll be safe because I His first spot-kick stop came in the 66th over manager Jurgen Klopp’s former club Defeat left bottom-of-the-table Villa 15 saying: “I’m not too happy with the perform- know we can score.” minute after he had tripped Berahino and Borussia Dortmund, are away to points shy of safety with only a maximum of ance. We have to finish the games a lot earlier Gomes denied the striker again three minutes Bournemouth. Tottenham, bidding for a first 12 on offer to the Birmingham club in their and today we didn’t do that.” Benitez’s birthday present from time when he dived low to his left to English title since 1961, travel to Stoke on four remaining league matches this season. City will strengthen their grip on the fourth Newcastle United, Sunderland’s north-east push another penalty effort past the post. Monday. —AFP Mane pounces to secure point for Saints

EVERTON: A disap- pointing home draw against Southampton Everton 1 yesterday piled more pressure on Everton manager Roberto Martinez ahead of a Southampton 1 week that will define the club’s season. Everton took the lead against the run of play through Ramiro Funes Mori LONDON: Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero (R) vies with Chelsea’s in the 68th minute before Sadio Mane capitalised on Burkina Faso midfielder Bertrand Traore during the English Premier League football some poor defending to equalise seven minutes later. match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Stamford Bridge in London yester- Everton suffered more bad news when full-back Seamus day. — AFP Coleman suffered a suspected hamstring injury. That will be an extra worry for Martinez ahead of games against derby rivals Liverpool and the FA Cup Aguero hat-trick keeps semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley next Saturday. Man City on the rise Meanwhile, a disgruntled Everton fan confronted manager Roberto Martinez on the field after a 1-1 draw City, who beat Paris St Germain to reach with Southampton in the Premier League yesterday. the Champions League semi-finals on Within eight second-half minutes, Everton defender Chelsea 0 Tuesday, deservedly took the lead in the Ramiro Funes Mori scored and then missed a tackle that 32nd minute when Aguero got on the end allowed Southampton striker Sadio Mane to equalize. of a slick move prompted by Kevin De Bruyne. The former Chelsea midfielder was Discontent at Everton’s underachievement has been equally influential after the break, starting growing at Goodison Park in recent weeks with Martinez Man City 3 the attack which led to Aguero’s second in the target of increasing criticism. Eleventh-place Everton the 54th minute. Aguero then rounded has not won at home in the league since early February off the comfortable win from the penalty and has managed just four victories at Goodison in the CHELSEA: Sergio Aguero scored a hat- spot after Thibaut Courtois brought last year. It was far from ideal preparation for a midweek trick as Manchester City capped an excel- down Fernandinho, a challenge for LIVERPOOL: Everton’s Ivorian striker Arouna Kone (up) vies with Southampton’s Merseyside derby against Liverpool followed by lent week by beating 10-man Chelsea 3-0 which the Belgian keeper was dismissed Portuguese defender Jose Fonte during the English Premier League football match Saturday’s FA Cup semifinal against Manchester United. at Stamford Bridge to move ahead of in the 78th minute. The Argentine’s hat- between Everton and Southampton at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north west Southampton, which remained seventh, could still quali- Arsenal and into third place in the trick took his tally to 21 league goals for England yesterday. — AFP fy for the Europa League. —AP Premier League. the season. — Reuters

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BASRA: An Iraqi worker operates valves at the Nahran Omar oil refinery near the city of Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (right) Smoke rises from an oil pipe at sunset in the desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. Oil-producing countries are to meet in Qatar today to discuss a plan to freeze output but their gathering comes as nations like Iran rapidly ramp up their pumping. — AP Doha is no panacea for oil market crisis Kuwait remains optimistic, but surging output a challenge

DOHA: OPEC isn’t what it used to be. Ahead of a planned The countries hope the cap will help global oil prices Analysts say Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia face Ministry reiterated it would not join a freeze “before it meeting of most of the cartel and other major oil produc- rebound from their dramatic fall since summer 2014, when the biggest threat from the low prices, especially if no brings its oil exports to the pre-sanctions levels.” ers in Qatar to approve a freeze on oil production, some prices stood at above $100 a barrel, though no one is talk- deal is struck. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, producing Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia already has said it won’t back OPEC members are pumping record levels of crude even as ing seriously about the more dramatic step of reducing some 10 million barrels of oil per day, is rapidly burning any freeze if Iran, its Shiite rival, doesn’t agree to it, throw- prices wallow at less than half their level two years ago - a global supply by collectively cutting production for now. through cash reserves while keeping its production ing into question whether any deal will be agreed to at all. clear sign of the dissention gripping the group. Prices dropped briefly under $30 a barrel, a 12-year low, high to fund its ongoing war in Yemen and cover gov- The kingdom seems determined to ride out the low prices While markets may well react off any decision made in January, but have climbed to around $40 a barrel this ernment spending. that could squeeze Tehran. That dispute underscores the today in Doha, analysts predict low prices will continue week, boosted in part by market speculation about the “If nothing is decided in Doha, then the fiscal con- level of discord inside OPEC as it faces arguably its biggest through this year and into the next as producers keep coming meeting. The drop is good news for consumers. straints will accelerate much more rapidly than if action is challenge since the oil glut of the 1980s. pumping to keep their government budgets afloat. Drivers in the United States now pay $2.05 a gallon (54 taken and oil prices respond,” said Mathias Angonin, a “Ultimately, we believe the biggest hurdle to reaching That calls into question what long-term gain producers cents a liter) on average, the lowest rate for this same date Dubai-based analyst with the ratings agency Moody’s. any meaningful agreement will be the conflicting Saudi can expect from a promised freeze, and indeed how much since 2009, according to AAA. Airlines also have enjoyed and Iranian stances,” Goldman Sachs said in a report power OPEC now wields as American shale firms stand savings of billions of dollars in jet fuel costs. Kuwait optimistic released this week. poised to re-enter the market if prices rise. “We put the But for producing countries that depend on oil rev- Some are hopeful for an agreement. Anas Al-Saleh, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said nothing to journal- probability of a successful freeze agreement ... at 50 per- enues, the results have been devastating. OPEC member Kuwait’s finance minister and acting oil minister, smiled ists after arriving in Doha. Yet there is a market risk to walk- cent,” Societe Generale analyst Michael Wittner wrote this Nigeria’s once-fast-growing economy cratered, while and acknowledged being optimistic before being whisked ing away without a deal: a contentious OPEC meeting in month. “There is simply a tremendous amount of uncer- Venezuela faces triple-digit inflation and rationing. away in an elevator with his entourage after entering the December that ended without an agreement saw oil tainty.” luxury hotel hosting the meeting in Doha. prices tumble. At least 15 oil-producing nations representing about 73 GCC budget crunch But several spoilers lurk for oil producers, chief among Meanwhile, though more-costly US shale oil produc- percent of world output are expected at the Doha meet- The low prices have squeezed wealthy Gulf nations too, them OPEC member Iran, which announced late Friday it tion has dropped, it could re-enter the market if oil prices ing, Qatar’s energy and industry minister, Mohammed bin though less dramatically, with rulers across the United would send an emissary to the meeting. With many inter- rise. And a large amount of crude already building up pro- Saleh al-Sada, has said. The gathering follows a surprise Arab Emirates raising fees on airport departures and park- national sanctions lifted after its nuclear deal with world vides a major damper on prices, as does a generally weak- Doha meeting in February between Qatar, Russia, Saudi ing. Iraq says it boosted its production to over 4 million powers, Iran began exporting oil into the European market ened global economy, according to the US Energy Arabia and Venezuela, in which they pledged to cap their barrels of oil a day in March, record territory, as Kuwait says again and is eager to claw back a market share. It produces Information Administration. Perhaps prophetically, crude output to their January levels if other producers do it pumps 3 million barrels a day and wants to reach 4 mil- 3.2 million barrels of oil a day now, with hopes of increas- Goldman Sachs titled its recent report: “Doha is no the same. lion a day by 2020. ing to 4 million by April 2017. On Friday, the Iranian Oil panacea.” — AP G20 embraces crackdown on tax havens Finance chiefs warn over ‘Brexit’

WASHINGTON: The world’s leading economies took a step financial system,” British Finance Minister George Osborne Jacob Lew expressed support. Brexit warning Friday toward denying tax evaders and money launderers said in a statement. The move laid out a challenge to both “We need to act to deal with tax shelters and the prob- Under pressure from the IMF and World Bank to help pre- around the world the ability to hide behind anonymous Britain and the United States, where the use of shell com- lems of the international tax system permitting havens,” vent the world economy from stalling, the G20 also pledged shell companies. panies is legal and widespread. But US Treasury Secretary which most people see as “unfair,” he said. to support growth with more investment and other fiscal Acting in the wake of the “Panama Papers” scandal, actions, rather than relying on central banks to stimulate finance chiefs of the Group of 20 powers meeting in activity with monetary measures such as negative interest Washington supported proposals requiring authorities to rates. share the identities of shell companies’ real owners. They “Monetary policy alone cannot lead to balanced growth,” also backed creating a blacklist of international tax they said. “We will use fiscal policy flexibly to strengthen havens that do not cooperate with information-sharing growth, job creation and confidence.” programs. Making the beneficial owners of companies, Lew said the talks focused on the need for more invest- trusts and foundations transparent “is vital to protect the ment in sustainable infrastructure. “Today’s low interest rate integrity of the international financial system,” the G20 environment makes it an opportune time to make growth- finance ministers and central bank governors said in a enhancing infrastructure investments,” he said. But the rest of statement. Doing so is important “to prevent misuse of the world should not depend on the United States to spur these entities and arrangements for corruption, tax eva- demand, Lew warned. “The United States cannot and must sion, terrorist financing and money laundering.” The dec- not be the only engine of growth, nor the importer of first laration came hours after the Panama Papers scandal and last resort for the global economy,” he said. “All major claimed another victim. Spain’s industry minister Jose economies need to deploy a full toolkit of economic policy Manuel Soria resigned Friday over allegations he had measures.” The G20 ministers, however, warned that the glob- links to offshore companies. al economy faced a number of serious risks, among them the Files from the leaked document trove of Panama law possibility that Britain would pull out of the European Union. firm Mossack Fonseca showed Soria was an administrator “Geopolitical conflicts, terrorism, refugee flows, and the of an offshore firm in 1992. He was just the latest in a num- shock of a potential UK exit from the European Union also ber of powerful officials, including the leaders of Russia, complicate the global economic environment,” they said. The Iceland, Britain and Argentina, linked by the Panama Papers G20 statement came during the IMF and World Bank Spring to offshore tax havens. The leak provided the impetus for Meetings, where officials warned of potentially severe dam- the strong proposals to the G20 Thursday by Germany, age to regional and global economies from the so-called France, Italy, Spain and Britain. Brexit. With two months to go before Britain holds a referen- The five said they would take the lead on creating an dum on splitting with the EU, IMF chief Christine Lagarde international database that provides tax and other authori- called on the two sides to save their “long marriage.” “Because ties the identities of the owners of shell companies, trusts, WASHINGTON: International Monetary and Financial Committee Chair, Bank of Mexico Governor AgustÌn keeping Europe together after what it has gone through over foundations and other vehicles often used to hide assets. Carstens speaks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, during the the last century, and what the risks are on the horizon... is “Today we deal another hammer blow against those who International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) conference at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings actually a huge asset which is vastly underrated in my view,” hide their illegal tax evasion in the dark corners of the at IMF headquarters in Washington yesterday. — AP she said. — AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 BUSINESS Are you a lifelong learner?

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KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- laptops and console-class graphics, munications company in Kuwait, yes- while also delivering all-day battery terday announced it will offer the all- life, an advanced 12-megapixel iSight new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, which intro- camera sensor which shoots 4K video duces breakthrough pro features and and an improved 5-megapixel front- advanced technologies. The new iPad facing FaceTime HD camera. iPad Pro Pro is available to order at kw.zain.com delivers pro audio through a four- and in Zain’s branches. Zain will offer speaker audio system, which provides the 9.7-inch iPad Pro with a range of powerful, clear and rich stereo sound attractive data plans that will allow for more than twice the output of customers to connect to its ultrafast iPad Air 2. and nationwide LTE-A network. iPad Pro also supports pro acces- The 9.7-inch iPad Pro introduces a sories Apple Pencil and Smart KSE indices surge on pro display featuring advanced tech- Keyboard, available for purchase sep- nologies like True Tone, which uses arately, that bring breakthrough lev- new four-channel sensors to dynami- els of precision and utility. cally adjust the white balance of the Zain’s nationwide and ultrafast LTE- positive sentiment display to match the light around you A network, combined with the 9.7- for a more natural and accurate, inch iPad Pro’s ultra-fast wireless con- KUWAIT: This has been another On the total market breadth, paper-white viewing experience. The nectivity allows customers to tackle positive week for the indices. As KFH CAPITAL MARKET REPORT Of the 56 Islamic Companies, 33 pro Retina display is 25 percent the most demanding tasks no matter KSE price index closed up 1.34 per- advanced while 10 declined dur- brighter and 40 percent less reflective where they go. The new iPad Pro fea- cent, 5300.51 up 70.07 points com- remarkable 34 percent in share Co.-NINV ( Mcap - KD 106.89 mil- ing the week. The Islamic uni- than any previous iPad display. The tures support for even faster LTE pared to the week before the top trading. Among the major contrib- lion) witnessed a 17.31 percent verse market cap witnessed a an new iPad Pro is just 6.1mm thin and Advanced with up to 50 percent performer of indices this week. utors the Financial Services Sector increase on a weekly basis. increase of 1.18 percent in its weighs less than a pound, yet delivers faster cellular connectivity, the most MUDX was with 1 percent gains up (contributing 43.43 percent) wit- The overall Market Cap was up market cap to close at KD 6.46 bil- groundbreaking performance, con- LTE bands supported by any tablet 5.24 points to close at 526.91 for nessed 541.41 million shares of by a marginal 1.1 percent as it lion. The universe heavyweights nectivity and versatility. It features the and 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MIMO tech- the week. KSE Weighted was up as trading compared to 281.05 mil- stood at KD 25.06 billion .As for The like Kuwait Finance House - KFH powerful A9X chip with third-genera- nology. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro comes well to 365.07 up 1.12 percent and lion shares in the previous week, Blue Chips National Bank of (Mcap - KD 2.45 billion) saw an tion 64-bit architecture which pro- in silver, space gray, gold and a new 4.03 points to the previous week. while Real Estate Sector (contribut- Kuwait - NBK (Mcap - KD 3.54 bil- increase of 1.3 percent in its mar- vides performance that rivals many rose gold metallic finish. While the market blue-chip index ing 28.46 percent) witnessed lion) saw its market cap increase ket cap. While Boubyan Bank the KSX15 was up by 10.27points 354.77 million shares of trading for the week with a 1.52 percent. (Mcap - KD 888.23 million) also to close at 863.14 up 1.20 percent. compared to 268.27 million shares However; another counters with saw an increase of 2.50 percent in Brent crude oil witnessed an in the previous week. Financial gains include Kuwait Food Co. - its market cap. Ahli United Bank. - increase on a weekly basis to reach Services sectors witnessed consid- Americana (Mcap - KD 1.04 billion) AUB ( Mcap - KD 716.57 million) $44.27. erable volumes increase in Al- saw its market cap move up by saw an increase of 2.25 percent in The reported weekly volumes Deera Holding Co.-ALDEERA (Mcap 1.56 percent. While Kuwait Projects its market cap. Kuwait were 1246.61 million shares com- - KD 7.69 million) saw a remarkable Co- KIPCO ( Mcap - KD 839.93 mil- Telecommunications Co. (Mcap- pared to 930.22 million shares in increase of 36.84 percent during a lion) saw its market cap increase KD 509.39 million) saw a decrease previous week an increase of a weekly basis. National Investment 3.64 percent . of 1.92. Gulf Bank announces winners of Al-Danah daily draws

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah daily draws includes daily draws (2 winners per working day Al-Danah also offers a number of unique serv- on 10 April 2016 announcing the names of its each receive KD1000). Al-Danah’s 2nd Quarterly ices including: the Al-Danah Deposit Only ATM winners for the week of 3 April - 7 April 2016. The draw for the prize of KD250,000 will be held on card which helps account holders deposit their Al-Danah daily draws include draws each and the 30th of June and the 3rd Quarterly draw for money at their convenience; as well as the Al- every working day for two prizes of KD1,000 per the prize of KD500,000 will be held on Danah calculator to help customers calculate winner. September 29th. The final Al-Danah draw for KD1 their chances of becoming an Al-Danah winner. The winners are: million will be held on 5 January, 2017 whereby Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open to (Sunday 3/4): Abdulrazaq Husain Jouhar Ali, the Al-Danah millionaire will be announced. Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti residents of Kuwait. Farouq Abdulaziz Yousef Al-Asousi Five reasons why the Al-Danah account is Customers who open an account and/ or deposit (Monday 4/4): Inas Mohammad Attiah, the best: more will enter the draw within two days. To take Mohammed Thamer Mohammed Zutoon 1) Kuwait’s single biggest yearly cash prize of part in the Al-Danah 2016 upcoming quarterly (Tuesday 5/4): Mahmoud Ali Jashi, Yousif KD 1 million and yearly draws, customers must have an Al- Abdulreda Yousif Bo Abbass 2) Kuwait’s biggest quarterly cash prizes, up Danah account containing at least KD 200; cus- (Wednesday 6/4): Jassem Mohammed to KD500,000 tomers can visit one of Gulf Bank’s 56 branches, Sulaiman Al-Deekan, Maleehah Jasem 3) Two winners of KD1,000 every working day transfer on line, or call the Customer Contact Mohammed Al-Shamali 4) The most chances to win Center on 1805805 for assistance and guidance. (Wednesday 7/4): Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah, Sarah 5) Only Bank that transfers your chances to Customers can also log on to www.e- Ali Hussain Boshohri win from year to year gulfbank.com/aldanahwinners, to find out more Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2016 draw lineup Win big, live big with Al-Danah 2016. about Al-Danah and its winners.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 237.710 Malaysian Ringgit 78.470 Indian Rupee 0.004350 0.004740 Turkish lira 107.180 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.005 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Swiss Franc 317.320 Thai Bhat 9.570 Japanese Yen 0.002701 0.002881 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 234.240 Kenyan Shilling 0.003113 0.003113 Japanese Yen 2.777 Turkish Lira 107.365 US Dollar Buying 301.050 Korean Won 0.000253 0.000268 Indian Rupees 4.572 Malaysian Ringgit 0.073622 0.079622 Pakistani Rupees 2.886 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002884 0.003054 Srilankan Rupees 2.092 20 Gram 252.300 Nepali Rupees 2.847 Pakistan Rupee 0.002669 0.002949 10 Gram 129.070 Philippine Peso 0.006458 0.006738 Singapore Dollar 225.390 5 Gram 65.380 CURRENCY BUY SELL Hongkong Dollar 38.975 Europe Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Bangladesh Taka 3.853 British Pound 0.423826 0.432826 Singapore Dollar 0.219759 0.225759 Philippine Peso 6.581 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004659 0.016659 South African Rand 0.014875 0.023375 Thai Baht 8.642 Danish Krone 0.041927 0.046927 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001696 0.002276 Euro 0.0336505 0.0344505 Taiwan 0.009248 0.009428 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Norwegian Krone 0.032761 0.037961 Thai Baht 0.008289 0.008839 Saudi Riyal 80.643 US Dollar 302.350 Romanian Leu 0.086817 0.086817 Qatari Riyal 83.070 Canadian Dollar 236.400 Slovakia 0.009018 0.019018 Arab Omani Riyal 785.473 Sterling Pound 431.575 Swedish Krona 0.033278 0.038278 Bahraini Dinar 0.796216 0.804216 Euro 345.995 Bahraini Dinar 803.110 Swiss Franc 0.3086740 0.316940 Egyptian Pound 0.030692 0.035810 Swiss Frank 299.540 UAE Dirham 82.335 Turkish Lira 0.100708 0.111008 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Bahrain Dinar 799.875 Iraqi Dinar 0.000192 0.000252 UAE Dirhams 82.560 ARAB COUNTRIES Australasia Jordanian Dinar 0.422863 0.430363 Egyptian Pound - Cash 33.675 Qatari Riyals 83.770 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Saudi Riyals 81.305 Australian Dollar 0.225860 0.237360 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.427 Lebanese Pound 0.000151 0.000251 Jordanian Dinar 425.915 New Zealand Dollar 0.203553 0.213053 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.411 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020643 0.044643 Tunisian Dinar 151.430 Egyptian Pound 33.951 Nigerian Naira 0.001248 0.001883 Jordanian Dinar 426.090 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.093 America Omani Riyal 0.779684 0.785364 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.015 Indian Rupees 4.540 Canadian Dollar 0.230991 0.239491 Syrian Lira 2.155 Pakistani Rupees 2.881 US Dollars 0.298550 0.303050 Qatar Riyal 0.082419 0.083632 Morocco Dirham 31.883 Bangladesh Taka 3.846 US Dollars Mint 0.299050 0.303050 Saudi Riyal 0.079820 0.080770 Philippines Pesso 6.553 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 575.880 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.147693 0.155693 US Dollar Transfer 302.250 Japanese Yen 3.790 Bangladesh Taka 0.003440 0.004014 Turkish Lira 0.100708 0.111008 Euro 344.870 Syrian Pound 2.375 Chinese Yuan 0.045169 0.048669 UAE Dirhams 0.081419 0.082568 Sterling Pound 432.220 Nepalese Rupees 3.845 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036949 0.039699 Yemeni Riyal 0.001368 0.001448 SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 BUSINESS SevenCapital participates in RIE 2016 expo in Kuwait

By Ben Garcia

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis are diversifying invest- ments both at home and abroad, specifically in the real estate sector. According to the World Investment Report of 2015, released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Kuwait is the Middle East’s largest and the world’s seventh largest foreign investor. Many exhibitions related to real estate have been held in Kuwait recently, the latest of which kicked off on Monday at the Kuwait International Fairgrounds in Mishref. SevenCapital, a real estate investor and developer in the commercial, residential and hospitality sectors based in central and northern UK, is participating in the RIE 2016 expo. Top Real Estate, the marketing arm of John Treacy Adrian Endersby SevenCapital, revealed it has a good number of customers from this part of the world. refurbishments have been taking place. quality of life. People want to live near their amount yield can be about 18 percent per pletion of the payments, said Endersby. The SevenCapital is currently promoting its Kuwaitis are really pleased to know that this workplaces and walk and not be stuck in year,” he added. property is secured with 24-hours security. newest project in Birmingham, ‘The city is near the capital city of London - they traffic,” he said. Enderby pointed out that Birmingham’s Kuwaitis and other nationals can own prop- Kettleworks’, which is expected to be deliv- want to live in a quiet but also very dynamic Endersby noted that Birmingham is cur- real estate is not reliant on international erties in the UK 100 percent for 125 years. ered to investors by 2017. It is located in the place. Birmingham is the most livable city in rently constructing a high-speed train line sales. Many in the UK seized the opportunity “The property is virtually yours and no one Jewelry Quarter, with studios and one, two England, and this is the best time to buy that could shorten the travel to London for investment in the past years, so when can take it away from you. We have a team and three bedroom apartments. Adrian properties and expect huge returns on from 1.5 hours to 45 minutes. “International they want to sell, they have the local market of lawyers at the Top Real Estate that can Endersby, Business Development Manager investments,” Endersby said. banks are setting up retail centers in to buy it. “The good thing about help prepare the documentations,” he said. of Top Real Estate, said Birmingham is 1.5 Lots of real estate and infrastructure Birmingham and they are redeveloping very Birmingham is that we are receiving a good John Treacy, Global Sales Manager of hours away from London and considered developments are in the works in quickly. This can attract thousands of amount of investors. We have many SevenCapital noted that most of the prop- the second city of England. Birmingham, but also many completed proj- employees each year who need apartments investors from the Middle East such as erties they developed are mainly sold in the “The population of Birmingham is about ects such as shopping malls and plenty of and houses in Birmingham. London is high- Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates,” local market, and only 30 percent are sold to 3.7 million, but the city proper is not as commercial establishments. Endersby said value, and has capital appreciation, but the he stressed. international or overseas investors. “Fifty crowded compared to London, and is con- rentals are also far lower than the capital. rental value in London is far lower compared The units are sold to investors with 30- percent of these are sold in Asia, mostly sidered as one of the best cities in the world,” “The people there are warm and friendly. to Birmingham. You can expect rental percent down payment. The remaining 70 China, Hong Kong and Singapore, while the he said. “Birmingham preserved its buildings This is the most populous British city outside income in London at 3-5 percent while in percent is up to investors to pay and the other 50 percent to investors from GCC in their original form and structure but many London, and Birmingham has the UK’s top Birmingham it is about 8 percent. The rental keys will be given to owners after the com- countries,” he said.

Current Greece finance Global markets are calmer, plans not realistic: IMF but economy faces risks WASHINGTON: The International to understand how fiscal targets and Monetary Fund said Friday that the a return to economic growth can be Leaders say Chinese fallout largely contained fiscal projections underpinning achieved. To reach the 3.5 percent Greece’s proposals for moving ahead target, he said, Greece would need to in its bailout program are not realis- take large fiscal measures, the equiv- WASHINGTON: The world economy is still slug- tic. Poul Thomsen, director of the alent of around 4.5 percent of GDP. gish. But at least markets are calmer and China’s IMF’s European Department, raised “We think that’s a lot. That’s a lot of-if economic problems look more manageable than they did when the world’s top finance offi- questions about the forecast that you want-austerity,” he said. cials met in February. Finance ministers and cen- Greece could maintain a 3.5 percent “If Greece and its European part- tral bankers from the Group of 20 major budget surplus for years as part of its ners want to stick to that target, we economies emerged from their meeting in plan for debt relief from European can accept that target. But we need Washington on Friday relieved that financial Union creditors. to see the measures.” He said the IMF markets had recovered from that turbulence. “I “We question whether it is plausi- still believes Athens needs to priori- came away feeling a little more encouraged ble for a country with such high tize structural reforms, particularly in than when I arrived,” Bank of Canada Governor unemployment and the attendant tax collection. Stephen Poloz told reporters. social pressures to be running such “Tax evasion has kept on going up The G-20 discussions took place as part of the big surpluses over many political and up, and tax collection rates have spring meetings of the 189-nation International cycles to come,” Thomsen said at the gone down and down and down... Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Talks spring meetings of the IMF and the numbers are truly extraordinary,” wrapped up yesterday. Early this year, world mar- World Bank in Washington. he said. He noted that Greece kets were being rattled by a drop in the Chinese “So we are cautioning that... the exempts 55 percent of households currency and by tumbling oil prices, both of debt relief needs to be calibrated on from taxes, compared to two percent which seemed to signal deep troubles for the something that we think is more real- in Portugal. global economy. Since then, the yuan and oil istic.” Thomsen was speaking after “What we need to do is to broad- prices have stabilized, and China on Friday said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras en the tax base... that’s the first point its economy registered solid 6.7 percent growth wrote in an article published in the of discussion.” Speaking later, US the first three months of 2016. Financial Times that the IMF should Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew called The respite from market tumult does not mean all is well with the world economy. The IMF stop tinkering with the country’s lat- for the parties to move urgently to on Tuesday downgraded its outlook for the glob- est bailout with European creditors, resolve their differences. al economy this year and issued a list of risks that blaming the global lender for causing “This is a problem that needs to be could make things worse: Conflict in the Middle WASHINGTON: Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso (right) chats with US Federal a delay in talks. solved and it needs to be solved as East. A refugee crisis in Europe. The possibility Reserve Chair Janet Yellen (left) following the International Monetary and Financial The IMF has been standing by quickly as possible,” he told journal- that British voters will decide in June to pull their Committee (IMFC) family photo during the International Monetary Fund, World Bank with the possibility of adding its ists. “The solution is not for any one country out of the European Union. A growing Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters yesterday. ‚— AFP funds to the country’s third bailout party to say they would walk away, political backlash in the United States and program with the EU but says it but for all the parties to make the Europe against international trade. dollar despite an unusual move by the Bank of investing heavily in inefficient state-owned com- needs to see a strong package of tough decisions about how to get Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said that Japan in February to introduce negative interest panies - an approach that could drag down structural reforms and a “credible” those issues resolved.” the world’s financial markets are starting to rates in an unsuccessful effort to spur flagging growth in the long term. Global finance officials plan for growth and fiscal adjustment “Greece has implemented many regain “composure” but “downside risk” persists. growth and keep the yen low to boost exports. are seeking to address the political backlash going forward. difficult policies but there’s still a gap He expressed particular concern about risks from Even China’s solid first-quarter numbers raised against globalization, which has helped propel Thomsen said the IMF could back and that gap needs to be fixed,” Lew volatility in capital flows and foreign exchange fears the Chinese government is backsliding on the presidential campaign of Republican front- the outlined EU-Greece plan but has added. — AFP rates. Japan is concerned about the value of the commitments to reform its economy. Critics wor- runner Donald Trump in the United States and a yen, which has risen rapidly this year against the ry it pumped up the first-quarter numbers by campaign in Britain to leave the EU. — AP Spanish govt pressures Argentina, IMF restore regions to curb spending checkups after decade WASHINGTON: Argentina will resume two weeks in September,” said Nigel policy changes of President Mauricio MADRID: Spain’s acting treasury indecisive December vote. from the PP to coalitions between annual fiscal checkups with the Chalk, the Fund’s deputy director for Macri, who took office in December minister met with the heads of the Spain’s 17 regions manage their the opposition Socialists and leftist International Monetary Fund this year the Americas. The Fund will restart its after a long period of IMF-hostile country’s regional governments late own budgets on big ticket social newcomer parties, making it more after a 10-year hiatus, an IMF official Article IV missions, in which it assesses Argentine governments. on Friday, urging them to control spending in areas such as health difficult for Madrid to enforce auster- said on Friday. The move marks a the strengths and weaknesses of the Macri has moved to repay defaulted their spending this year in order to and education where cuts lose ity. Spain announced a 2015 budget repairing of relations that soured in the economies of each member country debt and implement market-friendly rein in one of the European Union’s votes. Over-spending by the region- shortfall of 5 percent of economic wake of the country’s default on $100 every year. reforms, as well as replacing the coun- largest public deficits. The task is a al governments helped lead the output last month, missing the 4.2 billion in debt in 2001. “It’s a very normal process that we try’s statistics chief with someone more politically uncomfortable one for the country to the brink of an interna- percent agreed with the European Ties between the two hit rock-bot- do with every other country,” Chalk credible. Under the previous govern- caretaker government of the centre- tional bail-out at the time of the Commission and prompting calls tom when the IMF censured Buenos said. The team “will discuss with the ment of Cristina Kirchner, the govern- right People’s Party (PP) at a time euro zone debt crisis. from Brussels and Washington for Aires in 2013 for not meeting an IMF central bank, the government, also ment regularly issued data that when Spain is likely to hold a second Since then, many of the regional swift action to cut costs. requirement that members must pro- with civil society and the private sector showed economic growth far higher general election in June after an governments have changed hands Only three of the 17 regions - the vide reliable, basic economic statistics. to see what is going on.” The shift and inflation far lower than main- Canary Islands, the Basque Country “It looks like we are going to go for comes after the sweeping economic stream economists believed. — AFP and Galicia - met their deficit targets for 2015. Six even oversaw spending rises from the previous year. Together the regions booked a deficit of 1.66 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015, overshooting by one percentage point a 0.7 percent target. Acting Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro said on Friday the government would approve spending cuts worth 2 billion euros at the central govern- ment. Rather than asking the regions to implement more cuts, he has asked them to maintain spending levels and use any savings from items such as lower interest rates on debt payments to pay down their deficits. However, regional heads have said the controls on spending are excessive and will hurt ordinary peo- ple. “It’s unrealistic, both from a social and a practical point of view,” WASHINGTON: Bank of Algeria Governor Mohammed Laksaci (L) Oriol Junqueras, the economy head chats with Norwegian Minister of Finance Siv Jensen as they arrive of the northeastern region of WASHINGTON: IMF Secretary-General Lin Jianhai chats with People Bank of China Governor Zhou for the IMFC Plenary Session during the IMF and World Bank Group Catalonia, wrote in a letter to Xiaochuan (right) as they arrive for the IMFC Plenary Session during the IMF and World Bank Group 2016 Spring Meetings yesterday in Washington, DC. — AFP Montoro on Friday. — Reuters 2016 Spring Meetings yesterday in Washington, DC. — AFP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 BUSINESS

Kuwait stocks surge on renewed optimism BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) end- ed last week in the green zone. The Price Index closed at 5,300.51 points, up by 1.34 percent from the week before closing, the Weighted Index increased by 1.12 percent after closing at 365.07 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 863.14 points up by 1.20 percent. Furthermore, last week’s aver- age daily turnover increased by 30.41 per- cent, compared to the preceding week, reaching KD 16.43 million, whereas trading volume average was 248.27 million shares, recording an increase of 33.45 percent. heavy stocks, in addition to the continued 590.49 points. Whereas, in the second place, The three stock market indicators were quick speculations on the some small-cap the Health Care sector’s index closed at able to realize a grouped gain for the second stocks. In the end of week session, the mar- 957.04 points or 3.23 percent increase. The consecutive week, especially the Price Index ket witnessed some profit collection opera- Basic Materials sector came in third as its which was able to reach in one session of tions on a number of small-cap stocks, index achieved 3.05 percent growth, ending the week its highest closing level in around caused its Price Index to record limited the week at 968.21 points. The least growing three months, supported by the purchasing decline, while the Weighted and KSX-15 sector was the Consumer Services sector, as and speculative operations that were exe- indices were able to continue its positive its index closed at 923.15 points increasing cuted on many listed stocks, in addition to performance to enhance its weekly gains. by 0.09 percent. the moral support received as a result to the In addition, the market capitalization On the other hand, the Oil & Gas sector oil prices’ increase during the week. reached KD 23.69 billion by the end of last headed the losers list as its index declined Moreover, the market well performed week, increasing by 1 percent compared to by 4.26 percent to end the week’s activity despite the watch and cautious state that is its level in a week earlier, where it was KD at 762.32 points. The Technology sector over controlling many of the traders, waiting 23.54 billion; however on the annual level, was second on the losers’ list, which index for the listed companies to disclose its first the market cap for the listed companies in declined by 1.30 percent, closing at quarter financial results for the current year, KSE decreased by 6.50 percent from its value 941.80 points, the least declining sector which is expected to be announced succes- at the end of 2015, where it reached then KD was the Telecommunication sector, as its sively in the coming weeks. 25.27 billion. index closed at 616.88 points at a loss of As for the daily trading activity, the mar- As far as KSE annual performance, the 0.10 percent. ket initiated its first sessions of the last week price index ended last week recording 5.60 with good increases to the three indicators, percent annual loss compared to its closing Sectors’ activity supported by the quick speculative opera- in 2015, while the weighted index decreased The Financial Services sector dominated a tions executed on the small-cap stocks in by 4.36 percent, and the KSX-15 recorded total trade volume of around 539.67 million particular, in addition to the random pur- 4.14 percent loss. shares changing hands during last week, chasing operations that included some representing 43.47 percent of the total mar- large-cap stocks, especially in the Banks sec- Sectors’ Indices ket trading volume. The Real Estate sector tor. However, the second session witnessed Eight of KSE’s sectors ended last week in was second in terms of trading volume as Services sector’s stocks were the highest the sector’s last week turnover was approx mixed closings for the three indicators, the green zone, while the other four record- the sector’s traded shares were 28.37 per- traded in terms of value; with a turnover of KD 20.59 million representing 25.07 per- whereas the Price and Weighted indices con- ed declines. Last week’s highest gainer was cent of last week’s total trading volume, with around KD 24.48 million or 29.81 percent cent of the total market trading value. — tinued its upward direction affected by the the Financial Services sector, achieving 3.67 a total of around 352.17 million shares. of last week’s total market trading value. Prepared by the Studies & Research continued speculative operations on the percent growth rate as its index closed at On the other hand, the Financial The Banks sector took the second place as Department, Bayan Investment Co. small-cap stocks, whilst the KSX-15 Index recorded some losses as a result to the profit collection operations that a number of heavy stocks were subject to. On Tuesday’s session, the profit collection operations overwhelmed the market performance dur- ing most of the session’s period, which caused the three indicators to drop, howev- er slightly, whereas many stocks witnessed a partial selling operations, in a move for establishing new price positions, especially after the good gains recorded in the previ- ous sessions. Furthermore, the market was able to return to the green zone in the next session, and the three indicators were able to realize good gains to compensate its losses of the previous session, supported by the return of the active trading and the strong purchasing operations executed on the leading and US stocks dip with oil prices, but finish the week higher

NEW YORK: US stocks took small losses in is far from a sure thing, and oil prices have Natural gas fell 7 cents, or 3.5 percent, to er. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares quiet trading Friday as energy companies slipped in recent days. WALL STREET WEEKLY ROUNDUP $1.90 per 1,000 cubic feet. declined 0.3 percent. The benchmark Nikkei sank with the price of oil, but the market fin- “Many of us are skeptical about whether China reported that its economy grew 6.7 225 index in Japan shed 0.4 percent, while ished higher for the week. The price of oil fell there will be an agreement and even more to $10.86. In other energy trading, wholesale percent in the first quarter of 2016. While that South Korean Kospi dipped 0.1 percent. Hong 3 percent and made energy companies the skeptical about whether that will stabilize oil gasoline slipped 4 cents, or 2.9 percent, to is the slowest pace in years, it matched analyst Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.1 percent. The worst performing sector of the market. Utility prices where they are now,” Warne said, $1.46 a gallon and heating oil decreased 2 projections. Germany’s DAX fell 0.4 percent euro rose to $1.1288 from $1.1267 and the dol- companies rose as bond yields decreased, because even if countries keep oil production cents, or 1.8 percent, to $1.23 a gallon. and the CAC-40 in France was 0.4 percent low- lar fell to 108.70 yen from 109.28 yen. — AP and metals and mining companies rose as near current levels, they’ll still be producing gold and silver prices edged higher. more than necessary to meet demand. For the week, the market was propelled Occidental Petroleum lost $2.17, or 2.9 per- higher by quarterly financial results from big cent, to $72.15. EOG Resources fell $2.10, or banks that were less ugly than investors were 2.7 percent, to $75.71. Utility companies, the bracing for. The market quieted, though, best performing group of stocks on the mar- toward the end of the week. ket this year, made the largest gains Friday. “We’re in a wait and see market,” said Kate Investors are being drawn to their relatively Warne, investment strategist for Edward high dividend payouts because rising bond Jones. “People are still skeptical about earn- prices are lowering the yields investors can ings growth in the first quarter, but there’s no earn from bonds. Edison International rose longer the grave concern there was a few $1.02, or 1.5 percent, to $71.06 and NextEra weeks ago.” Energy rose $1.28, or 1.1 percent, to $117.43. The Dow Jones industrial average fell Bond prices rose and the yield on the 10- 28.97 points Friday, or 0.2 percent, to year US Treasury note declined to 1.75 per- 17,897.46. The Dow rose 1.8 percent for the cent from 1.79 percent. Citigroup said Friday week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost its first quarter profit shrank 27 percent on 2.05 points Friday, or 0.1 percent, to 2,080.73 weak results from its consumer bank and but finished the week up 1.6 percent. The trading businesses, but the bank’s net Nasdaq composite index dipped 7.67 points, income and revenue were greater than or 0.2 percent, to 4,938.22. For the week it expected. The stock fell 6 cents to $44.92, but was up 1.8 percent. still finished the week 11 percent higher. US crude fell $1.14 to $40.36 a barrel in Bank holding company Regions Financial also New York. Brent crude, the international reported a bigger profit and greater revenue benchmark, lost 74 cents, or 1.7 percent, to than expected. Its stock added 26 cents, or $43.10 a barrel in London. The prices of 3.1 percent, to $8.74. wholesale gasoline, heating oil and natural The price of gold and silver both edged gas also slumped. Ministers from major oil- upward, which gave metals and mining com- producing countries will meet this weekend panies a boost. Gold gained $8.10 to in Qatar to discuss their production policies. $1,234.60 an ounce, while silver rose 14 cents The price of oil has risen in recent weeks in to $16.31 an ounce. Copper lost 2 cents to part on hopes that those countries will be $2.15 a pound. Newmont Mining added 69 able to strike a deal that will limit oil produc- cents, or 2.4 percent, to $29.37 and Freeport- tion and help relieve a global glut. But a deal McMoRan picked up 13 cents, or 1.2 percent, NEW YORK: People pass a Wall Street subway stop, in New York’s Financial District. — AP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 BUSINESS Oil market bullish on Doha hopes

KUWAIT: Oil prices remained elevated country would continue increasing oil during March-16 on the back of hopes production and exports until it reaches KAMCO OIL MARKET MONTHLY REPORT that a deal between OPEC and non- pre-sanction levels. OPEC producers would bring about Other factors that supported oil emerged that Iraq boosted its output to in India, in line with demand growth for balance in the oil market. However, prices included a broad weakness in $ a record 4.55 mb/d during March-16. the complete OECD Europe region. these hopes got a temporary jolt dur- as well as signs of rising oil demand in This follows news that Russia increased Demand in total OECD grew by 1 per- ing the first week of April with prices China. In addition, the latest inventory its oil production to historical highs. This cent or 0.45 mb/d to 46.17 mb/d during tumbling almost 4 percent in a single data from US pointed to a surprisingly recent boost in oil production by OPEC 2015 whereas Developing Countries day when Saudi Arabia said that it higher fall in inventory levels coupled and non-OPEC members indicates that saw an even stronger demand growth would not join an output freeze with- with a decline in US oil production that the producers are preparing for a pro- of 0.72 mb/d or 2.4 percent to reach out the participation of Iran and other declined for the 10th time in the past duction freeze at their highest possible 30.72 mb/d during the year. major oil producer. eleven weeks. US oil production stood individual production levels. Oil demand growth for 2016 was Average monthly OPEC oil prices surprisingly lowered by 50 tb/d to 1.20 surged 21 percent during March-16, the mb/d to an average consumption of highest jump in thirteen months, to 94.18 mb/d. The downward revision pri- reach $ 34.65/b. Similarly, average marily reflected economic weakness in monthly Kuwait oil prices also surged the Latin American region that is 20 percent to reach $ 32.27/b by the expected to result in a marginal rise in end of the month. In terms of monthly oil demand in the region. Within the production, according to Bloomberg, region, economic conditions in Brazil is March-16 output was marginally up by expected to remain slow during the 64 tb/d to 33.09 mb/d as compared to year although upside risks remain 33.02 mb/d during the previous month. strong that includes the ongoing low oil The increase in production was largely price environment as well as the associated with increase in production upcoming Olympics in the country in Iraq, Iran and Angola, partially offset both of which are expected to push by marginal declines in production in transportation fuel requirements. In UAE, Nigeria and Libya. OECD Americas, the most recent monthly US oil demand data pointed to Oil prices a decline in oil requirements due to The expected talks on oil freeze warm winter and lower industrial activi- today at oil producers’ meet has been ty. However, strong demand for jet fuel driving oil prices for over a month. The helped to offset some decline during positive sentiments started fading espe- the month. Oil requirements also cially after Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown declined in Canada and Mexico during prince said that the Kingdom would January-16 primarily led by lower join the agreement only if Iran and oth- demand from the power generation er major producers join the agreement. sector partially offset by transportation However, a positive statement from fuel requirements. OECD Europe also average at 56.39 mb/d. The downward sea wells. In addition, the Khajfi oilfield Kuwait’s OPEC governor pushed oil presented a depressed picture for oil revision primarily reflects lower expect- jointly operated by Kuwait and Saudi prices to above the $40/b level. On the demand during the first two months of ed oil output from onshore mature Arabia, which was non-operational impact of Iran not joining the output 2016 on the back of a warmer winter as fields in China as well as lower supply since October 2014, is set to resume freeze talks, the governor said that this compared to the previous year as well from Columbia. These declines more production. The field is expected to would not hinder the agreement as it as the higher baseline effect in 2015. In than offset upward revisions in Canada, reach a pre-stoppage production level will be difficult for Iran to sell its crude in Asia, oil demand declined in Japan Norway, Russia and Oman in Q1-16. In 280 tb/d - 300 tb/d gradually after the an oversupplied market. She also said whereas the rest of the region including terms of regional supply, the OECD requirements of the amended con- that oil market is expected to balance South Korea, India, Indonesia, Taiwan Americas region is expected to see the tracts are met. In the medium term, during 2H-16 and oil may close the year and China all recorded higher demand steepest decline in oil supply in 2016. In Kuwait plans to increase its total pro- between $ 45 - $ 60 per barrel. In a sim- during the start of the year. a related development, the US EIA, in its duction to 4 mb/d by 2020. ilar statement, the CEO of Abu Dhabi’s Non-OPEC oil supply growth in 2015 monthly drilling report, said that US The overall production by OPEC ADNOC said that the oil market would was once again revised upward by 40 crude oil production from the seven members continued to remain elevat- balance by the end of next year and tb/d to 1.46 mb/d to average at 57.13 major shale regions could fall by 114 ed at above the 90 percent capacity by prices are expected to rise in the medi- mb/d on the back of upward revision in tb/d to 4.8 mb/d in May-16 as com- the end of March-16. Among the mem- Nevertheless, a reassuring statement at just above the 9 mb/d mark, the low- um term, although it would remain Bahrain (3Q-15 and 4Q-15) and Russia pared to April-16. ber countries, Saudi Arabia continues from Kuwait’s OPEC governor regarding est production level since November- volatile in the near term. (first three quarters of 2015) partially to hold the largest buffer capacity at output freeze pushed up Brent prices to 14, adding to hopes that it would fall Demand side factors saw limited offset by downward revisions for US, OPEC production & spare capacity almost 2.3 mb/d at the end of March-16 a 4-month high level of $ 43.49 on 12- below this psychologically important upside but a key data point highlighted UK and Other Asia Pacific regions. The According to Bloomberg, March-16 followed by Libya with a spare capacity April-16. The governor expressed confi- level in the next week. Furthermore, US higher oil demand in China with car largest increase in oil supply from oil production was marginally up by 64 of 0.45 mb/d and Nigeria at 0.39 mb/d. dence that irrespective of whether or oil rigs fell for the 15th time in the last sales up 6 percent year-on-year during among the non-OPEC producers in tb/d to 33.09 mb/d as compared to The total share of production of Saudi not Iran joins the oil output freeze deci- 16 weeks to 354 after declining by eight Q1-16 and is further expected to grow 2015 was recorded for the OECD 33.02 mb/d during the previous month. Arabia stood at 30.8 percent almost in sion during the April 16-17 OPEC meet- rigs in the latest weekly data released by 5 percent during the first half of the Americas region (with US being the The increase in production was largely line with its share during the previous ing in Doha, other countries can agree by Baker Hughes. year, according to industry reports. On main contributor to growth) that saw associated with increase in production month. On the other hand, the share of on a production freeze as there is no On the other hand, supply side fac- the supply side, EIA data released at the its supply revised upwards by 10 tb/d in Iraq (+150 tb/d), Iran (+100 tb/d) and Iran increased from 9.4 percent in other option for stemming oil prices. tors, although significant, did not had end of the first week of April-16 saw to 0.92 mb/d in the latest monthly Angola (+41 tb/d), partially offset by February-16 to 9.7 percent in March-16. The governor also said that the produc- much of an impact on oil prices due to declining oil production and invento- report. Meanwhile, the OECD Asia marginal declines in production in UAE The share of Iraq also increased from tion freeze could be at February 2016 the overall positive sentiments in the oil ries, which coupled with the ongoing Pacific region saw a downward revision (-90 tb/d), Nigeria (-74 tb/d) and Libya (- 12.7 percent during the previous production levels and could also set a market. With Saudi Arabia already pro- broad softening of the dollar, pushed of 10 tb/d primarily due to decline in 40 tb/d). Higher production in Iraq month to 13.1 percent during March- floor price for oil. Meanwhile, an Iranian ducing at elevated levels and Iran plan- oil prices to 4-month high levels. crude oil production in Australia. comes despite cuts in investment as 16. Furthermore, Iran’s oil minister has oil official was quoted as saying that the ning to add additional output, it However, inventories went up again Furthermore, in the Middle East region, the country targets to reach an oil out- forecast that the country’s oil output during the second week of April-16 production figures for Bahrain and put level of 6 mb/d by 2020 primarily would reach 4 mb/d by March 2017 according to data from EIA and API. Oman were revised for 2015 that led to by increasing production in the with an export of 2.25 mb/d. According Meanwhile, the latest weekly report an upward revision of 10 tb/d for the Southern Iraq’s Basra region. to a report, the country increased oil from Baker Hughes showed that oil rigs region during 2015. Meanwhile, Kuwait, which is cur- production by 0.23 mb/d during the in the US declined by eight to a new his- Non-OPEC oil supply growth for rently producing at the rate of 3 mb/d, first quarter of the year and has torical low of 354 rigs bringing the YTD 2016 was revised downward by 30 tb/d has plans to add additional 165 tb/d by increased exports by almost 0.6 mb/d decline in rig count to 184. in the latest monthly oil report and is offering contracts for offshore rigs and by giving deep discounts to regain oil Average monthly OPEC oil prices expected to decline by 0.73 mb/d to support services to drill its first under- market share. surged 21 percent during March-16, the highest jump in thirteen months, to reach $ 34.65/b. Similarly, average monthly Kuwait oil prices also surged 23 percent to reach $ 33.0/b by the end of the month. Prices continued to surge during April-16 resulting in strong YTD- 16 gains which stood at 18 percent for OPEC oil and 22 percent for Kuwait oil. Prices of Brent crude also surged during March-16 with average monthly prices up by 19 percent as compared to the previous month’s average.

World oil demand Total world oil demand growth for 2015 was kept largely unchanged from the last month at 1.54 mb/d to reach 92.98 mb/d. Oil demand grew consis- tently over the four quarters of 2015 with India seeing the largest percentage increase in oil demand during the year recorded at 7 percent. Demand growth in China was also strong but stood at a distant second recording a growth of 3.5 percent or 0.37 mb/d to reach 10.83 mb/d during the year. In terms of absolute demand growth, US recorded the strongest growth of 0.3 mb/d fol- lowed by demand growth of 0.26 mb/d Citigroup profit sinks 27%, but beats expectations

NEW YORK: Citigroup’s profit fell near- er this week. Big banks were required the downturn in oil prices either. Citi ly 27 percent in the first quarter, hurt to submit a plan to regulators to set aside $233 million to cover bad by weak results at its consumer bank show they could be successfully loans in the quarter, primarily due to and trading business. But the compa- unwound in the event of a bankrupt- souring energy loans. Citi’s global ny’s earnings still beat Wall Street cy or crisis. It’s a victory for a bank consumer banking division, which expectations. that was once known for its compli- includes its US Citibank operations as The New York-based financial con- cated legal structure and balance well as retail banking operations glomerate quarter continued to clean sheet. “Winding down Holdings has overseas, had net income of $1.2 bil- up its balance sheet and slim itself been a longtime goal and shows lion in the quarter, down 28 percent down from the depths of the financial Citi’s progress in becoming a simpler, from a year earlier. crisis. Citi Holdings, the so-called bad smaller, safer and stronger institu- Overall, Citi reported net income of bank that holds most of Citi’s toxic tion,” said Citi CEO Michael Corbat in $3.5 billion, or $1.10 per share, in the assets left over from the bubble years, a prepared statement. three months ending in March, com- posted its seventh straight quarterly Citi’s trading operations were hit pared with $4.77 billion, or $1.51 per profit. The value of Citi Holdings’ hard in the quarter though, just like share, a year ago. The results beat the investments fell 44 percent from a year its competitors Bank of America and $1.03 per share analysts had expected, earlier as the bank sold off complicat- JPMorgan Chase that reported earlier according to FactSet. Revenue in the ed derivatives, bonds and other assets. in the week. Revenues in Citi’s mar- quarter fell 11 percent to $17.56 bil- These efforts were part of the rea- kets and securities division fell 15 lion, beating the $17.44 billion that son why Citi was the only large US percent to $4.1 billion, with stock and analysts expected. Citigroup shares fell bank to pass the Federal Deposit bond trading revenue both falling 10 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $44.88 in Insurance Corporation and Federal double digits from a year earlier. late-afternoon trading. Shares are NEW YORK: People walk past a branch office of Citibank in New York. Citigroup reported financial Reserve’s test for its “living will” earli- The bank was not immune from down 13 percent this year. — AP results on Friday. —AP BUSINESS SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

Toyota Mirai wins 2016 World Green Car award

KUWAIT: Toyota Mirai was declared the 2016 all over the world. According to Takayuki Yoshitsugu, Chief harm to the environment. We sincerely appre- Green Car and the overall World Car of the Year World Green Car recently at the New York “Just as Prius changed the world nearly 20 Representative, Middle East and North Africa ciate the support of our customers who have categories. In addition, the Toyota 86 was a International Auto Show. In order to win the years ago, the hydrogen-powered Mirai is Representative Office, Toyota Motor endorsed the Mirai and Toyota’s future direc- ‘Top Three in the World’ finalist for World Car of award, tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption ready to make history,” said Bill Fay, Group Vice Corporation, “As recognized pioneers in hybrid tion in terms of environmentally-friendly vehi- the Year in 2013; the Toyota iQ in 2009 for the and use of a major advanced power plant President and General Manager, Toyota technology, we are truly honored to have cles including our approach with the latest same category; and the Toyota Harrier Hybrid technology (beyond engine components), Division. “With a range of over 500 km per received such an award. Prius model.” in 2006 for World Green Car. aimed specifically at increasing the vehicle’s tank, a refueling time of under five minutes With the Mirai, Toyota is taking the oppor- Toyota is no stranger to the World Car Vehicles in all award categories were select- environmental responsibility, were all taken and emissions that consist only of water vapor, tunity to really make a difference for future Awards program - now in its 12th year. The ed and voted on by an international jury panel into consideration. The Mirai was chosen from Mirai is leading the world forward towards a generations through the adoption of hydro- Toyota Prius 2010 has previously earned ‘Top comprised of 73 top-level automotive journal- an initial entry list of eight new vehicles from more sustainable future.” gen fuel-cell technology in order to reduce Three in the World’ status for both the World ists from 23 countries around the world. Tawasul Telecom teams with Travsys, BV

KUWAIT: Tawasul Telecom, KSCC Kuwait, a Middle East and Africa. leading provider of MPLS telecoms servic- Al-Mutairi further added: “This project es and Travsys, BV The Netherlands, an reinforces our corporate strategy for IATA certified common use passenger pro- steady growth by expansion. And, by cessing (check-in) sys service provider teaming with TRAVSYS demonstrate that announces combining technologies and TAWASUL can expand in vertical markets, technical resources for the successfully add value to our brand while still serving delivery, installation commissioning of the GCC telecom business community advanced passenger and baggage han- with flexible and hi- quality MPLS net- dling information sys, IT infrastructure work communications services.” technology and modern network commu- Firstly, Tawasul and Travsys will provide nications sys at Sulaymanyah WAN non-stop airlines host departure International (ISU) Airport, Kurdistan - Iraq. control sys connectivity and airline mes- saging - network operations and mainte- nance management network infrastruc- ture support 24/7/365 support services. Secondly, Tawasul and Travsys will install and commission LAN network infrastructure and IATA advanced check - in passenger and baggage handling sys- tems in order to manage increasing air- Participants at Huawei CEM Elite Club. lines growth and scalable electronic check-in /boarding gate facilitate faster boarding with increasing passenger Huawei brings its global demands. And thirdly, Tawasul and Travsys will provide all passenger/baggage handling hardware and software systems; and open ecosystem initiative maintain check -in sys, LAN/WAN network sys infrastructure with 24/7/365 online sys monitoring, remote diagnostics, [periodic- schedule- annual] hardware/software/net- ICT solutions provider starts regional ‘CEM Elite Club’ work maintenance management, disaster This new contract is for the provision- recovery support, onsite training and cer- DUBAI: Huawei, a leading global ICT solutions ing, technical operations and 24/7 mainte- tificate coursework for ISU passenger han- provider, is starting its first ‘CEM Elite Club’ initia- nance professional services contract is for dling agents and airline staff. tive in the Middle East in response to growing an initial five (5) year contract period with Renze Tilma, TRAVSYS CEO said: “With end-user demand for more customer-centric AZMAR Air Handling Co and Sulaymanyah passenger numbers continuing to grow, experiences and services by telecom operators in Airport Authorities for management its IT development of a strong IT network an increasingly connected world. The “CEM Elite infrastructure, integrate business applica- infrastructure and implementation IATA Club”, was held this week and hosted 43 senior tions and improve airport management standard practice management sup- executives from 14 regional telecom players, ana- efficiencies across the entire departure ports Sulaymanyah Airport Authorities lyst firms and industry partner organizations and arrival area footprint. objective to ease congestion, reduce coming together to exchange views and share Fajhan Al-Mutairi, TAWASUL CEO com- operating costs and improve the pas- experiences across aspects related with mented and said: “Collaborating for the senger travel experience in Kurdistan - Customer Experience Management (CEM) such delivery of total solution IT infrastructure Iraq.” Mr. Tilma also added, “We are again as providing holistic solution, expediting ROI services is a winning strategy for TAWA- delighted to partner with Tawasul towards superior customer experience, use-case SUL to gain market share and take advan- Telecom and very pleased with TAWA- sharing, resources and capabilities to name a few. tage of the enormous emerging growth SUL delivery and managed services Huawei has recognized the need for cus- opportunities with aviation marketplace.” quality. And, we look forward to team- tomer-centricity approach within the operator And, with state-of-the-art carefully ing with TAWASUL in the future to dis- and more so now as communication service designed products and managed services cover and develop more airlines interna- providers (CSP’s) aspire to transform and delivery will keep TAWASUL in the fore- tional airport business opportunities become players in the digital business space. front within telecom sector and increas- within the enormous Middle East and These transformations address new challenges ing our growth with new markets in Africa emerging growth markets.” to ensure that user experiences are understood by various players within the CSP organization. Regional winners at Huawei CEM Elite Club. “The event’s focus is on building a digital open industry ecosystem that enables agile for CSP’s with Multi-vendors environment. Owning a home in UAE has just business which is an industry trend and under- innovations, advancing the ICT industry as well During the conference, VIVA Kuwait, part of going such a transformation brings significant as all social sectors in the digital age. Customers the STC Group, received 1st place award for two become simpler with ABK’s challenges, with the pressure being put on oper- want a consistent brand experience each time CEM categories for ‘Best Network Experience’ ators and vendors to deliver an outstanding user they interact with a company - and they want and ‘Best Contact Center’, having deployed new mortgage scheme! experience at every touch point and placing it in this experience across all channels delivered Huawei’s SOC SmartCare Solution, while Huawei at the center of the CSP organization,” said Sun through the products and services in both FBB accepted 1st place award for ‘Most Innovative Xiaofeng, VP of Huawei Middle East. and MBB areas,” added Sun Xiaofeng. use of Technology to Improve Customer “This transformation is vital in today’s increas- Huawei was also present at this week’s IQPC Experience’. ingly connected world and CSP’s are constantly CEM In Telecoms Middle East Conference held The ‘CEM Elite Club’ is a recent initiative by looking to drive growth faster while reducing on 10-13 April 2016, and shared its latest Huawei and creates a platform for industry their operational expenditure. Adopting an Smartcare solution offerings such as Omni- leaders to discuss their requirements, share Omni-channel management approach and per- Channel Management, influencing operators’ pain points and investment strategies in the sona-based marketing strategy ensures that customer satisfaction (CEI) via persona-based CEM space. The event also serves as a working they can deliver on the experience promise, and analytics-to-action and showcased a profit-dri- platform for analysts, operators and industry reduce customer care costs by up to 70 percent ven Service Operation Center (SOC) that demon- partners looking to build a CEM ecosystem that while increasing customer satisfaction by 19 per- strates how to exploit the wealth of data avail- enables the development of long-term strategy cent. Huawei’s ROADS vision encompasses the able to operators. Huawei’s team also exhibited for improved customer experience and gain the five fundamental characteristics for the ultimate capabilities related to FMC (Fixed Mobile skills and capability to break down cross-func- user experience: Real-time, On-demand, All- Convergent CEM) and CEM Platforms’ openness tional silos to deliver a seamless customer online, DIY, and Social. This vision will foster an to fulfill ecosystem implementation, especially experience. US rules for Norwegian Air in dispute over US-Europe flights DALLAS: Norwegian Air Shuttle has won pre- Obama administration “has chosen foreign cor- liminary approval to expand flying between porations over workers’ rights and good KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK), one be extremely user friendly, while being very the United States and Europe using an Irish American jobs.” American carriers and their of leading banks in the region, recently competitive. They allow: subsidiary. The decision Friday by the US unions had argued that Norwegian decided to launched a new mortgage scheme through * Borrowing up to seven times annual salary Department of Transportation was a setback expand US service using an Irish subsidiary its Dubai branch for aspiring home owners * Repayment terms up to 20 years for the major US airlines and their labor unions, because Ireland’s tax and labor laws are weaker in the United Arab Emirates. ABK’s new * Competitive interest rates who said the subsidiary will be an unfair, low- than those in the United States. They said scheme is simple and straightforward and * Loans up AED 25 million wage competitor on key trans-Atlantic routes. Norwegian would gain an unfair advantage loans can be used for buying a family home * Borrowing up to 70 percent of the value of The decision followed intense lobbying and and undercut the American carriers on fares. or investing in buy-to-let property. the property being purchased public-relations campaigns by both sides and American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and These loans are available to anyone, not To qualify for a loan, customers will need an unusually long review - more than two years United Airlines all declined to comment Friday. just ABK customers. They are designed to to provide evidence relating to identity and - by regulators. flights “will be win-win for consumers and the All three operate flights across the Atlantic and be as simple and as flexible as possible, income such as salary certificate, a six The Transportation Department said that it economy on both sides of the Atlantic.” He said have European partners that do the same. The whether you are buying a first home, or if month account statement and civil ID or will take public comments before issuing a final Norwegian would create “thousands” of jobs Norwegian subsidiary plans to fly between you already own property and want to passport. order that could allow the Norwegian sub- and help the economies of its US destinations. Boston and Cork, Ireland. The short-term effect invest further in property. ABK’s commitment to excellence, sim- sidiary to begin flying to the US. Norwegian, a US airline unions immediately criticized the of Friday’s ruling would appear limited, but the The Bank handles most of the paper- plicity and transparency is supported by the low-fare, no-frills airline, called the decision a decision. Tim Canoll, president of the Air Line big US airlines could eventually face more com- work, making the whole process very Bank’s ‘Simpler Banking’ strategy, which victory for consumers and said it intended to Pilots Association, called it “an affront to fair petition as Norwegian and other low-fare rivals straight forward and simpler for customers focuses on presenting customers with hire US-based crews. Bjorn Kjos, CEO of competition.” Sara Nelson, president of the add routes and flights in the lucrative trans- to manage. banking solutions that make their experi- Norwegian Group, said final approval for the US Association of Flight Attendants, said the Atlantic market. —AP The new ABK mortgages are designed to ence as easy and enjoyable as possible. SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 TECHNOLOGY Deep in the virtual world: A newbie’s first brush with VR

NEW YORK: My descent from the boat, gliding through off. It’s also hard not to feel self-conscious wearing goofy- an up-close-and-personal version of “Jaws.”) I knew the schools of fish and clouds of phosphorescent jellyfish, looking headgear, especially when surrounded by zombies weren’t really rushing at me through the dark- seemed to be going pretty smoothly. At least until the strangers you can’t see. The experience, though, had its ness, but I couldn’t help ducking anyway. shark emerged from the deeper gloom and tried to tear its moments. Zombies and sharks pushed me uncomfortably way into my protective cage. Of course, it wasn’t really a close to real terror; a few contemplative moments lost in a A VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL shark. And I wasn’t really in a cage - or underwater or even blind man’s virtual diary, by contrast, proved unexpectedly Film festivals are starting to showcase VR films as direc- anywhere near the ocean. But it sure felt like I was. affecting. And there was another big plus: no queasiness. tors explore the new medium. At New York’s Tribeca Film At its best, this is exactly what you can expect from the (For me, at least. Your experience may differ.) Festival, which opened Wednesday, I watched “Allumette,” much-hyped technology of virtual reality. All you have to a dreamy short based on the fairy tale “The Little Match do is put on a headset that blocks out the surrounding ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ Girl.” For 20 minutes, the story took me around a doll- world and replaces it with one that’s fake - but often utter- My first plunge into VR involved a virtual roller coaster. house-like town built in the clouds. It was charming to ly realistic. Suddenly it’s like you’ve stepped out of your life Which is funny only because the real things scare me to crane my neck to look at houses from different angles; at and into someone else’s. death. If I ride them at all, I get on somewhere near the one point, I even stuck my head into a flying boat to see With the debut of new VR headsets from Facebook’s back and keep my eyes shut tight. what was going on. “Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness,” Oculus unit, Samsung and Sony over the past few months, This Samsung demo, featuring the company’s Gear VR meanwhile, translates the audio diary of man who’d gone virtual reality hype has been off the charts. To its propo- system, got extra points for realism. Its VR video, shot at a blind into a virtual representation of his world. I found nents, it’s the Next Great Thing, a whole new way of Six Flags park, was synced to mechanical chairs that jerked myself in a minimalist landscape in which sounds from a “immersing” (a word you’ll be hearing a lot) yourself in around in time with the coaster’s virtual movements. And park formed ephemeral images - laughing children, bark- games, movies, even live music or sports. of course, the video put me right in the first car. For all ing dogs - that dissipated as their echoes faded. Until a few weeks ago, though, the prospect left me that, the virtual ride proved sort of tame, at least for a LAS VEGAS: Matthew Taylor paints in 3D virtual reali- cold. The first wave of VR entertainment consists largely of coasterphobe like me. For once, I could keep my eyes ty at the Intel booth using HTC Vive virtual reality VIRTUAL CONCLUSION video games, which have never much interested me. open and enjoy gawking at fellow passengers or the trees goggles at CES International in Las Vegas. — AP Bottom line: My VR experiences to date have mostly Reports that VR can make you nauseous also put me off. below me. It may not have matched the adrenaline rush of were enjoyable, but few were as dramatic as “The Deep,” been interesting, but still not entirely compelling. It’s clear- Eventually, though, I had to try it, and my first brush with the real thing, but that was just fine. which had me shaking alone in a dimly lit shark cage while ly a medium in its infancy, and creators are still devising the technology was intriguing enough to keep me explor- what felt like the real thing circled outside. new storytelling techniques that can exploit the technolo- ing. Just not enough to plunk down more than a thousand GOING DEEP INTO ZOMBIELAND I had a similar moment playing “Until Dawn: Rush of gy’s power. But it’s impossible to deny the technology’s dollars for a full-fledged VR system anytime soon. Current A demo of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, due out in Blood,” a horror game set in a zombie-infested amusement underlying potential. VR offerings have a lot of room for improvement; many of October, was mostly devoted to games ranging from park. (Yes, it was a lot like the finale to “Zombieland,” just Maybe it’ll even help me lose my fear of roller coasters them get old quickly once the initial “wow” factor wears space shoot-em-ups to family puzzle games. A lot of them like “The Deep” bore more than a passing resemblance to one day. — AP Privacy wars pit tech firms against the feds NEW YORK: Companies like Apple and MICROSOFT’S COURT BATTLES Microsoft are pushing back against govern- Earlier this week, Microsoft filed suit ment surveillance in the courts, arguing against the Justice Department over its use that federal authorities have gone too far in of court orders requiring the company to obtaining chats, emails and other private turn over customer files stored in its com- information from phones and online servic- puter centers. Microsoft Corp. says the gov- es. The stakes for both sides continue to ernment is using a dated 1986 law to get rise. More and more of daily life is moving court orders for customers’ data, while in into digital devices and online, putting some cases prohibiting the company from individuals more at risk as messages, files notifying the customer. Microsoft says and photos move to the cloud. But that those “non-disclosure” orders violate its information is also a treasure trove for crim- constitutional right to free speech, as well inal investigators. as its customers’ protection against unrea- Here’s what the battleground looks like sonable searches. right now. According to Microsoft, authorities used the Electronic Communications Privacy Act APPLE AND THE FBI to demand customer information more Sparks flew for weeks over the FBI’s than 5,600 times in the last 18 months. In demand that Apple help it unlock an nearly half those cases, the company was iPhone linked to the December San ordered by a court to keep the demand Bernardino attack that killed 14 people. The secret and, in about 1,750 cases, those gag FBI wanted Apple Inc. to create a software orders were indefinite. Microsoft is also tool for bypassing a self-destruct feature on fighting the government’s demand for the phone. Apple insisted that doing so emails of a non-US citizen that the compa- would weaken security for all iPhone users. ny has stored in a data center located in But the government Ireland. Company officials have argued the maintained that Apple was required to case could open the door to other govern- do so under the All Writs Act, which dates ments demanding information stored in back to 1789. The two sides appeared to be the US. gearing up for a long court battle, but the government announced last month that WHAT OTHER COMPANIES ARE DOING MUNICH: People wait in front of an Apple store in Munich, before the worldwide launch of the iPhone 6s. The government’s fight with Apple an outside party had come forward with a With no end in sight to these battles, oth- over an encrypted iPhone may be the first of many battles in a broader war over who gets access to individuals’ data, as more tech companies way to crack the phone, effectively ending er companies are also boosting security in offer encrypted messaging and other services. —AP the case. The underlying issue, however, hopes of assuring their customers that their remains unsettled. The FBI said that the information is safe from government snoop- method used to unlock the phone only ing. Google , Facebook and Yahoo have Apple opposes US appeal over works on the iPhone 5C. Several other increased their use of encryption, which pending federal cases involve newer ver- shields private information from prying eyes. sions of the iPhone. Most notably, the They’ve also sued for the right to report how iPhone in New York drug case Justice Department is still trying to force often authorities demand customer informa- Apple to help it unlock an iPhone involved tion under national security laws, after for- in a New York City drug case . The judge in mer National Security Agency contractor iPhone production cut extended for another quarter that case ruled that the government can’t Edward Snowden leaked details of govern- use the All Writs Act to justify its request. ment data-gathering efforts. — AP NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Apple Inc said the notified of the plan. Apple apparently does not production orders for its cheaper iPhone 5C a US government had failed to show a continued plan to make enough of the newly launched month after its launch, the Nikkei said. Apple has need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a iPhone SE model, the Nikkei report said. told parts suppliers in Japan and elsewhere that New York drug case after a third party came for- The company’s shares fell 1.8 percent to it will maintain the reduced output level in the ward with a solution to crack a different phone $110.05. Shares of some Apple suppliers also fell current quarter, the Nikkei report said. belonging to one of the shooters in December’s following the report. Skyworks Solutions Inc was Apple did not immediately respond to a San Bernardino killings. down 1.4 percent, Broadcom Ltd fell 2.4 percent request for comment. In January, Apple said it The technology company made the argu- while Jabil Circuit lost 1.7 percent. The Nikkei expected a fall in revenue for the quarter ending ment in a brief filed in federal court in the New reported in January that the technology giant was March - its first forecast for a revenue drop in 13 York City borough of Brooklyn on Friday, a week expected to cut production of its iPhone 6s and 6s years - as the critical Chinese market showed after the US Department of Justice said it would Plus models by about 30 percent in the quarter signs of weakening. It also reported the slowest- push forward with its appeal of a federal magis- ended March, but production was expected to ever increase in iPhone shipments. Global smart- trate’s ruling saying he could not force the com- return to normal in the current quarter. phone sales in 2016 are expected to grow at their pany to assist authorities. The production cut could last longer than the slowest rate - in single digits in percentage terms, The government’s decision to continue one it implemented in 2013, when Apple cut according to research firm Gartner Inc. — Reuters appealing the February ruling at a higher level, to US District Judge Margo Brodie, came after an outside party provided the US Federal Bureau of Investigation a way to access the phone in the Strong interest in US cab San Bernardino case without Apple’s help. In its brief, Apple argued the government had service just for women not said if it had tried to use the secret method NEW YORK: US entrepreneur Michael Pelletz’s proj- “We need to make sure that our technology CUPERTINO: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an event to announce new products at from the San Bernardino case on the iPhone in the drug case, nor if authorities had consulted ect of a rideshare service for women and children can handle the millions of people that are going Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. Companies like Apple and Microsoft with vehicles driven by women has prompted such to use our company,” the Boston-based Pelletz pushing back against the surveillance state in the courts, arguing that federal with the unnamed third party or anyone else about it. Apple, which reiterated many of its oth- interest that he is postponing the service’s launch told AFP on Friday. “We’re going to delay for a few authorities have overstepped their legal authority to obtain your chats, email and date. Chariot For Women, fully funded by its months just to make sure.” In Boston, where the other crucial information from phones and online services. —AP er legal arguments in the case, said the govern- ment “has utterly failed to satisfy its burden to founder and close associates, was initially set to service is to be launched, rates will be about the demonstrate that Apple’s assistance in this case kick off on Tuesday. Interest in the service has large- same as Uber and Lyft, the two ridesharing giants, EU wants more transparency is necessary.” The Justice Department, in a state- ly been driven by the apprehension some women but without Uber’s progressive pricing system. ment, noted that some 70 times before the have of male taxi rideshare drivers. Several sexual Pelletz also said that the company would keep in web search results Brooklyn case emerged, Apple had helped harassment and even rape cases have been report- 25 percent of the first $100 earned daily by each authorities access data on iPhones. “Indeed, ed on rideshare vehicles driven by men. driver, but nothing beyond that. Uber takes a 25 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s digital ried about how transparent some search Apple has said it would take them only a few Pelletz, a former part-time Uber driver, wanted percent share on all rides. “I’m not really in this for chief wants search engines such as engines are when displaying ads in search hours to open this kind of phone, because they to initially collect a roster of 1,000 potential driv- the money but because there’s such a need to Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing results. The Commission is also looking into already have a mechanism that would allow ers in the northeastern state of Massachusetts. keep women and children safe,” Pelletz said. to be more transparent about advertising in the transparency of paid-for reviews as well them to do so,” the Justice Department said. Like other rideshare services, these drivers would Chariot For Women is not the first service to offer web search results but ruled out a separate as the conditions of use of services such as Prosecutors are challenging a Feb 29 ruling use their personal vehicle to drive on demand. services in this niche, but none has ever been law for web platforms. European Google Maps, Apple Inc’s IoS mobile operat- by US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein hold- However the drivers would be female, and their successful, in part due to charges of discrimina- Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip, ing system and Google’s Android. ing he did not have the authority to order Apple customers would be women and children. tion. “Our legal department is well prepared” for who is overseeing a wide-ranging inquiry “Maybe it’s not too much to ask for more to disable the security of an iPhone seized in a Without spending a dime on advertising, no few- any challenge Pelletz said. He even hopes to be into how web platforms conduct their busi- transparency talking about search engines,” drug probe. That case has taken a higher profile er than 7,000 female candidates contacted him in legally challenged “because laws can change if ness, said on Friday the EU executive would Ansip said. The former Estonian prime min- after prosecutors dropped their effort to get four days to offer to become company drivers. we show that there is a need,” he said. — AFP not take a horizontal approach to regulat- ister also poured cold water on the idea that Apple’s help accessing the phone of Rizwan ing online services. “We will take a problem- the Commission would make search Farook, one of the two killers in the San driven approach,” Ansip said. “It’s practically engines pay to display snippets of news Bernardino massacre, which left 14 people dead impossible to regulate all the platforms with articles, dubbed the “Google tax”, as part of and 22 wounded, after a third party provided one really good single solution.” its EU copyright law reform due later this the FBI a method to crack it. That will come as a relief to the web year. The EU executive is looking into mak- FBI Director James Comey said last week that industry, dominated mainly by big US tech ing rules on taking down illegal content the method used on the San Bernardino iPhone firms such as Facebook, Google and clearer and more effective without making 5c would not work on other models, including Amazon, who lobbied hard against new hosting websites such as YouTube directly the iPhone 5s, the type in the Brooklyn case. rules for online platforms and what they liable. “Now musicians ask, please, take it That phone belonged to Jun Feng, who has saw as an anti-American protectionist back- down and keep it down,” Ansip said. “We pleaded guilty to participation in a metham- lash. “We praise the Commission for under- want to make those rules more clear.” phetamine distribution conspiracy, which prose- standing that a horizontal measure for all But the Commission will not change a cutors are continuing to investigate. Unlike the platforms is practically impossible,” said provision where websites such as Amazon, phone used in San Bernardino, Feng’s phone Jakob Kucharczyk, director of the Computer eBay and Google’s YouTube are not held had an older operating system, iOS 7, which is & Communications Industry Association liable for illegal content that is uploaded on not protected under the same encryption tech- which represents the likes of Facebook, to their systems. They do, however, have a nology, which is why Apple could access Google and Amazon. responsibility to take it down once they are it.Meanwhile, Apple Inc will continue its “While a lot of online platforms enable notified of it. The Commission will publish a reduced production of iPhones in the quarter economic growth, their business models dif- communication detailing its plans on web ending June in light of sluggish sales, the Nikkei CHARLTON: Kelly Pelletz, co-creator of the ride-sharing service Chariot for Women, dis- fer widely.” However Ansip said he was wor- platforms in June. — Reuters business daily reported, citing parts suppliers plays the app on a mobile phone. — AP SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE More infections from dirty scopes than estimated

WASHINGTON: At least 300 patients have patients sickened by contaminated scopes, other steps, companies would need to noti- been sickened by life-threatening infections though that finding came from a shorter fy the FDA whenever they change the linked to contaminated medical scopes - timespan between 2012 and early 2015. design or cleaning instructions for a device. more than previously estimated by federal Last year, the FDA reported 142 patient A separate bill would require companies to regulators, according to figures released infections from the medical scopes made by scientifically confirm the effectiveness of Friday. Between 2010 and 2015 more than Olympus Corp. and other companies. their cleaning procedures. Sen. Patty 41 hospitals worldwide, most in the US, The FDA came under fire in early 2015 Murray, D-Wash., released similar legislation reported bacterial infections linked to the after several high-profile outbreaks at hospi- in the Senate last month. Despite the links scopes, affecting 300 to 350 patients, states tals in Los Angeles and Seattle were linked to infections, the FDA previously ruled it a memo released by US Rep Ted Lieu, D- to so-called duodenoscopes made by would keep the devices on the market Calif. The lawmaker stressed that those fig- Olympus, a Japanese manufacturer which because they fill an important need in rou- ures likely underestimate the problem since dominates the US market. The specialized tine medical procedures. hospitals don’t always test patients for the fiber-optic scopes are threaded through the The agency said late Friday it would antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” that cause digestive tract to diagnose and treat tumors “carefully consider” the congressional such infections. “I’m absolutely certain there and other blockages of the pancreas and report’s findings. It’s already taken steps to are lots more infections out there that are bile ducts. Officials at the hospitals said they reduce infection with the scopes, said not being reported just because no one is had followed the manufacturers’ instruc- agency spokeswoman Deborah Kotz in an getting tested,” Lieu said in an interview tions for cleaning the devices. “It was not emailed statement. Duodenoscopes feature with The Associated Press. hospitals or doctors who weren’t cleaning a mechanized tip with moveable instru- Investigators for the House Committee the devices correctly or using them correct- ments used to drain blockages and perform on Oversight and Government Reform ly, it was a fault with the devices them- other procedures. The complex design obtained the updated figures from the Food selves,” Lieu said. makes the scopes extremely difficult to and Drug Administration as part of a year- Lieu, who represents sections of Los clean, even with mechanical processing CALIFORNIA: A farm worker ties almond tree branches with strings as a pump- long investigation into “superbug” out- Angeles, introduced two bills Friday that equipment. Bodily fluids and other debris jack operates near the orchard in Shafter, Calif. A federal review says the US breaks tied to the devices. A previous report would tighten regulations of reusable med- can stay in the device’s joints and crevices Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect drinking water reserves by a Senate committee found 250 reports of ical devices that require cleaning. Among even after cleaning and disinfection. — AP from oilfield contamination. — AP

A woman fights Russian law on organ removal without consent

MOSCOW: When Elena Sablina’s daughter Russian lawmakers might debate it. Alina was killed in a car crash in Moscow two Still, that would only be a partial solution, years ago, she was devastated. One month lat- critics say, since Russia still lacks an organ dona- er, Sablina accidentally discovered from a foren- tion infrastructure, including a viable way for sic report that six of her 19-year-old daughter’s people to opt out. After her daughter’s accident organs, including her heart and kidneys, had in Moscow, Sablina and her husband flew from been removed for transplant. “I was shocked their home in the Ural Mountains city of that organs were taken from my child without Yekaterinburg to be with her at the hospital. my permission,” Sablina said. Yet all of that was The doctors told them to prepare for the worst. legal. Russian law explicitly allows doctors to After five days, Sablina said the doctors said take organs from deceased patients without they were too busy to talk, that she and her informing their families. husband could not see Alina that day and Sablina sued for damages in five Russian asked them to leave. The following morning, courts and has lost every challenge. In frustra- Sablina got a telephone call from a funeral tion, she recently filed a case with the European home informing her that her daughter had Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, contend- died. She inadvertently discovered the organ ing that the removal of her daughter’s organs removal as she reviewed a criminal case file violated several articles of Europe’s Human against the driver implicated in the fatal colli- Rights Convention. Sablina also hopes her sion. One doctor had removed her daughter’s daughter’s case will prompt a change in Russian heart while another took her kidneys. Doctors law. “(Doctors) just came with a briefcase and also cut out part of her aorta, her adrenal gland took what they wanted,” said Sablina, who said and a piece of her right lung. Sablina sued the she would not have agreed to the donation hospital and two other institutions involved. even if asked. “Who gave them the right?” Her lawyer, Anton Burkov, said Russian law More than a dozen countries in Europe, gives doctors a disturbing amount of discretion. including Russia, have a “presumed consent” “Every single act of organ removal is con- donation system, where, in an attempt to boost ducted without any permission from the rela- the number of available organs, the govern- tives,” he said. “Doctors can freely ignore the ment assumes people will be donors unless families since it is completely legal to harvest GAUHATI: Khushi, a white tigress, plays with her newborn cub at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India. Countries with they specifically opt out. Others, like England, organs in secrecy.” Burkov said they have wild tiger populations have agreed to do more to protect tiger habitats that are shrinking drastically because of defor- require people or their relatives to provide per- requested priority status with the European mission before anything can be taken. In some Court but that a judgment could still take two estation and urban sprawl, conservationists said. — AP countries with presumed consent, including to four years. A similar case filed by a Latvian Spain and Belgium, doctors still consult family mother resulted in a ruling against the country members before removing organs. But in and a modified law. The Russian ministry of Russia, doctors don’t always seek the family’s health did not respond to repeated requests for Top Republicans: Zika funding permission beforehand. comment on the case. Alexei Starchenko, chair- A recently proposed amendment, however, man of Russia’s National Patient Safety Agency, would require Russian doctors to inform a said every hospital that performs organ trans- patient’s relatives within 12 hours of their loved plants has its own waiting list, describing the likely - but timing uncertain one’s death of any intention to remove organs system as “corrupt” since there is little trans- or tissue, giving the family time to object. But parency to explain how organs get distributed, White House urged to free up Ebola money the amendment does not make it mandatory unlike the clear criteria used by most other for doctors to obtain the family’s consent Western countries. Russian lawmakers say the WASHINGTON: Top House Republicans said that something today,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., chair- and it is insufficient to support advanced research before taking organs. The proposal is still await- taking of organs without permission is partly they are increasingly likely to grant a portion of man of the House panel responsible for the Centers and development of vaccines and diagnostics ing approval and there is no timeline on when out of consideration for grieving families. — AP President Barack Obama’s $1.9 billion request to com- on Disease Control and Prevention and the National through clinical trials.” bat the Zika virus. It’s not clear how quickly Congress Institutes of Health. “But we do need to do something Lowey was echoing Health and Human Services may act, however, despite the political urgency and a in the foreseeable future, and I would think before the Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell, who told reporters last White House pressure campaign. While they have end of the fiscal year,” perhaps as an attachment to a week that without additional funding her agency succeeded in forcing the administration to divert must-pass stopgap funding bill that’s required to pre- might have to curtail mosquito control activities and almost $600 million in unspent Ebola funds to fight vent a government shutdown in October. might not be able to produce enough vaccine or Zika, Republicans have sat on the White House Researchers fear Zika causes microcephaly, a seri- develop better tests for Zika. Speaker Paul Ryan, R- request, demanding more information and pressur- ous birth defect in which a baby’s head is too small, Wis, said Wednesday that the House “will address this ing the administration to free up Ebola money that as well as posing other threats to the children of situation through the regular appropriations process Obama has promised to help poor nations combat pregnant women infected with it. Its spread in the US as the need arises, and our appropriators are looking future epidemics. has so far been limited, but the situation is sure to at how to do just that.” Failure to act is sure to mean But the White House says the budgeting maneu- worsen as temperatures warm and the mosquitos that the White House will ramp up its election-year ver is only a temporary solution and that more that transmit the virus flourish. Top House criticism of Republicans controlling Congress. money will be needed soon. Appropriations Appropriations Committee Democrat Nita Lowey of The prospect of Congress taking a seven-week Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky, told New York moved to attach the full $1.9 billion vacation this July and August - the height of the mos- reporters that “we’re prepared to try to do a supple- Obama request to an unrelated bill funding the quito season - without having acted on Zika could mental bill if it’s needed” and that action is likely Department of Veterans Affairs but encountered give Democrats a political opening. “I can’t in good “before the end of the fiscal year” on Oct 1. At a opposition from panel Republicans controlling the conscience and out of respect for the taxpayer sup- hearing later, he acknowledged for the first time panel. Rogers countered by muscling through an port a full request without proper information, with- that the panel is working on a supplemental spend- amendment to loosen remaining restrictions on the out justification,” Rogers said. Lowey promised to ride ing measure but that he wants more details to sup- use of Ebola money. herd on the administration to help get the plement the administration’s request, which he said “Instead of providing the funding needed to Republicans the information they’re demanding. “The is “almost a slush fund.” mount a robust response against the Zika virus, we administration is already moving ahead with the MOSCOW: Elena Sablina, mother of Alina Sablina in 2013, shows her daughter some- Another senior Republican said additional Zika have forced the administration to rob Peter to pay funds that were appropriated for Ebola,” Senate where in Moscow, Russia. When Elena Sablina’s daughter Alina was killed in a car money most likely wouldn’t come before September Paul,” Lowey said. “The redirected funds are nothing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday. crash in Moscow two years ago, she was devastated. One month later, Sablina acci- at the earliest. “We’re certainly fine probably through more than a temporary Band-Aid. It could run out in “And we’re anxious to talk to them any time they dentally discovered from a forensic report that six of her 19-year-old daughter’s the end of the fiscal year, so it’s not like we have to do the middle of summer - peak mosquito season - think there’s additional need.” — AP organs, including her heart and kidneys, had been removed for transplant. — AP North Korea restaurants: Like the country, ‘suspicious and in crisis’

JAKARTA: At a North Korean state-run North Korea, generating roughly $10 mil- dance routine, a North Korean concert was restaurant in the Indonesian capital lion a year, according to South Korean esti- being shown on a television, a South Jakarta earlier this week, the usual song mates. Some of the restaurants are report- Korean branded LG set. The waitresses, and dance dinner performance by the ed to have been suffering since harsh new who spoke limited Bahasa Indonesia, waitresses was cancelled, because there United Nations sanctions were announced declined to answer most questions. But were fewer than 10 customers. Some against Pyongyang in March following its asked who owned the restaurant, one of North Korean restaurants across Asia have recent nuclear and missile tests, although them said: “All North Koreans”. Asked if that closed down and demand is lacklustre at the restaurants were themselves not tar- meant the government, she nodded. others - like the country itself, the estab- geted in the UN resolution. South Korea lishments seem to be going through a cri- last month discouraged its citizens from Better in Beijing sis. Staff are suspicious of too many ques- eating at North Korean restaurants abroad. In Beijing, the Pinsanguo Restaurant, tions. There are about 130 North Korean Business was not good at the restau- formerly called the Pyongyang Rungrado, restaurants overseas, staffed and operated rant in Ningbo, and some residents said it appeared to be doing better. Its 20 tables in by workers from North Korea, most of had been shut months ago for renova- the main room were half-full on a weekday which remit revenue back to Pyongyang. tions. One of two North Korean restau- night and a short song and dance show Many are in China while there are others in rants in Jakarta has also been closed down was performed at dinner-time. A smaller Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam while another in Bangkok had a sign on room was empty. A meal for two, including and the Middle East. One, in the Chinese the door saying it was shut until April 20 two North Korean beers, North Korean kim- city of Ningbo, was in the news after the for renovations. The Pyongyang chi and barbecued meats, was priced at 450 North’s Red Cross Society identified it as Restaurant still open in Jakarta is in the yuan (about $70), which is expensive by the restaurant from where 13 staff mem- crowded Kelapa Gading area in the north Beijing standards. But asked how business bers left for South Korea last week. South of the city, wedged between offices, a was doing, a waitress said: “It’s not that Korea has not said where the 13 were bank and other eateries. good”. Many of the waitresses at the before entering the country, although “No photos,” said one of the waitresses, North Korean state-run restaurants over- media reports have said they defected via dressed in a pink and black uniform, when seas are chosen from a pool of graduates a Southeast Asian nation. a customer took out a camera. Tables were at the Pyongyang University of PYONGYANG: Vehicles are driven in Pyongyang, North Korea. Gas stations have been springing up all over Pyongyang called it a “hideous” abduc- separated by wooden screens, so guests Commerce, where they learn to cook, Pyongyang over the past few years, reflecting a major increase in traffic. But with gas prices going up, drivers in tion by agents from the South. The restau- couldn’t see each other, but there were sing, play instruments and dance. Loyalty Pyongyang are starting to feel some pain at the pump, which might not be good news for the isolated country’s rants are one of the few sources of hard few customers for dinner when a Reuters to the regime is a major consideration for shifting domestic economy. — AP currency for impoverished, sanctions-hit team visited. Instead of the song and being chosen to go overseas. — Reuters SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE India poachers kill rhino after royal couple visit

GUWAHATI: Poachers shot dead a rhinoceros at a there were 2,400 one-horned rhinos, currently list- wildlife park in northeast India hours after Britain’s ed as “vulnerable” by conservation groups, in Prince William and his wife Kate visited the sanctu- Kaziranga out of a global population of 3,300. ary, a wildlife official said Friday. Rangers found the During their visit to Kaziranga the Duke and dead rhino with its horn missing on Thursday-the Duchess of Cambridge met wildlife officials battling day the royal couple left the Kaziranga National to protect vulnerable rhinos from poachers, and fed Park in Assam state, home to two-thirds of the a rhino calf with a giant milk bottle. planet’s remaining one-horned rhinos. “Poachers William, the second-in-line to the British throne, used AK-47 assault rifles to kill the adult male rhino has repeatedly condemned illegal wildlife traffick- and after killing the pachyderm they took away its ing and has encouraged anti-poaching efforts. He is horn,” Subasish Das, a senior forest officer said. It a patron of the elephant conservation charity Tusk was the second rhino killing in the past four days. Trust. A spokesman for the royal couple said they Poachers killed an adult rhino on Monday before had been upset by the poaching. “The Duke and gouging out its horn, leaving it in a pool of blood. Duchess were angry to hear about the killing of this Kaziranga has fought a sustained battle against rhino during their visit,” British broadcaster ITV poachers who kill the rhinos for their horns, which quoted the spokesman as saying. “They hope their KAZIRANGA: Britain’s Prince William (center), Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess fetch huge prices in some Asian countries where time in Kaziranga encourages others to support the of Cambridge, feed baby elephants as a rhino calf looks on at the Centre for Wildlife they are used for medicines and jewelry. The park’s brave rangers that are protecting animals that are Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) at Panbari reserve forest in Kaziranga in the website said 27 rhinos were poached in 2014 and so important to the communities that surround the northeastern state of Assam. — AFP another 17 last year. A recent census estimated national park.” — AFP Latest battle to wipe out polio begins with vast vaccine switch Global vaccine switch a crucial step in polio endgame

LONDON: In a huge immunization effort in 150 nated and complex vaccine switch is crucial. Until through immunization. Scaling up IPV production countries, health teams will today launch what now, many countries have been using a shot that to meet the needs of the entire world takes years, they hope will be the final push against polio. protects against the three types of wild polio virus - he warns, and work must start now to avoid Stopping transmission of the contagious viral dis- type 1, type 2 and type 3 - but type 2 polio trans- potential supply concerns. ease that has infected millions is possible within mission has been stopped since 1999, meaning a year, experts say. And full, official, global eradi- immunizing against it now makes no sense. History of misses cation could be declared by the end of this In rare cases it also poses a risk that the weak- But prediction has never been easy in the fight decade. First, however, the vaccine that has suc- ened type 2 virus in the vaccine can seep into cir- to wipe out polio, and health authorities have cessfully fought polio for more than 30 years culation and cause “vaccine-derived” polio infec- missed targets along the way. The Global Polio needs to be switched for one that targets the last tions. So from April 17 to May 1, some 150 coun- Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988, originally few areas of risk. tries will engage in a synchronized switch to a biva- aimed to end all transmission of the disease by It won’t be easy, or cheap, but the World lent, or two-strain, vaccine that contains no type 2 2000. And while there has been a 99 percent Health Organization’s director of polio eradica- virus but targets types 1 and 3. It’s a massive reduction in cases worldwide since the GPEI tion, Michel Zaffran, says failure now - when there undertaking and a major step towards eradication, launch, fighting the last 1 percent of polio has have only been 12 cases worldwide this year, in says Zaffran. “We’re entering into uncharted territo- been far tougher than expected. In 2013, the GPEI Pakistan and Afghanistan - means the virus could ry. This has never been done before. But there’s no said the global fight against polio would require spread across borders again. Success would make going back now.” $5.5 billion in funding, and more will be needed polio only the second human disease to be eradi- That’s partly because polio vaccine manufac- beyond that to keep a lid on the disease. The virus, cated since smallpox was banished in 1980. turers - among them France’s Sanofi Pasteur - have which invades the nervous system and can cause “Taking our foot off the pedal now could mean moved production to the bivalent shot and would irreversible paralysis within hours, spreads rapidly polio will within a few years spread straight back find it tricky, costly, and time-consuming to among children, especially in unsanitary condi- into large parts of the world and create 100,000 reverse that move. Anil Dutta, a vaccine expert at tions in war-torn regions, refugee camps and areas or 200,000 cases,” Zaffran told Reuters. “The job British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which also where healthcare is limited. has not been done and will not be done until we makes polio shots, is looking beyond eradication In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two coun- YIWU: Visitors gather at Google booth during the 2016 China have fully eradicated the virus.” to 2019 or 2020, when all “live” oral polio vaccines tries where polio currently remains endemic, con- need to be discontinued. Then the world will flict and propaganda have hampered progress, and International Electronic Commerce Expo in Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang Vaccine complexities switch again, to “inactivated” polio vaccine, or IPV, in the past posed risks to others. The campaign to province. — AFP For the endgame in polio to succeed, a coordi- to further reduce any risk of causing disease eliminate polio in Pakistan is fraught with risk, with Islamist militants attacking health teams they Google Calendar accuse of being Western spies. A polio worker was shot and wounded in February and in January a suicide bomber killed 15 people outside a polio eradication centre in the city of Quetta. helps make the In 2011, a polio virus from Pakistan re-infected China, which had been polio free for more than a decade. In 2013, the disease re-emerged in Syria most of spare time after a 14-year absence, prompting the need for a vast and expensive regional emergency vaccina- SAN FRANCISCO: Google has made it People can add personal goals such tion campaign. And last year, cases of type 2 vac- tougher for people to hide behind as going for runs or getting to gyms, cine-derived polio posed new threats in Ukraine excuses when it comes to finding time and then Google calendar software and Mali. David Salisbury, an immunisation special- to hit the gym or learn new languages. analyzes schedules for optimal times ist and associate fellow at Britain’s Chatham House Google added “Goals” tools to free cal- to squeeze in activities, according to Centre on Global Health Security, says the last 1 endar applications tailored for smart- Ramnath. Calendar will automatically percent is a “very long tail” on a stubborn epidemic. phones powered by Apple or Android reschedule time for personal goals if “The original date for interruption of transmis- software, using artificial intelligence to conflicts arise, and is programmed to sion was 2000. The next target was 2014 and it’s let software figure out when one could automatically reschedule activities if currently 2016,” Salisbury told Reuters, adding fit in workouts or lessons. “Whether it’s users simply prefer to put them off. that even with case numbers as low as they are reading more books, learning a new The more people use the Goals feature now, “2016 may be optimistic”. Liam Donaldson, language or working out regularly, in Calendar, the better the software head of the Independent Monitoring Board of the achieving your goals can be really gets at picking times for personal GPEI, agrees that celebrating the expected extinc- hard,” Google product manager Jyoti objectives, according to Google. tion of polio virus “would not just be premature, it Ramnath said in a blog post. “That’s “Calendars should help you make the would be folly”. “Polio is still out there,” he told a why starting today, we’re introducing most of your time, not just be tools to meeting in London. “(It) has fought back with a Goals in Google Calendar.” track events,” Ramnath said. — AFP KARACHI: A Pakistani health worker administers polio drops to a child during a polio vaccina- vengeance at every stage of the game. And it’s tion campaign in Karachi. — AFP still fighting.” — Reuters WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 KFH Takes part in autism activities

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‘Masala Coffee’ live show in Kuwait

n order to commemorate its 13th anniversary event - “Krishna” - by the renowned film actress The band is earning phenomenal popularity celebrations, NAFO-Kuwait is organizing a live and danseuse Padmasree Shobana and her 16- worldwide with international touring, especially Iin concert by the one of the most sensational member team. Furthermore, in 2014, for the first in the middle-east through their breath taking music bands “Masala Coffee” - the band brewed time in Kuwait NAFO introduced the sensational shows staged in Dubai, Sharja and Abu Dhabi, out of relentless urge to create music of all gen- band “Thaikkudam Bridge” presenting a mega and also through more than 100 live shows res - topped with the sweetest nostalgia of musical event and in 2015 dance show staged in Indian metro cities during a span of Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam ingredients. The “Antaram” by actress Suhasini Maniratnam, and last two years. The unique songs of the band got music fiesta will be held on the evening of renowned danseuse Gopika Varma. Each of the popularized majorly through social media net- Friday, 13th May, 2016, at the American above breathtaking events were attended and working sites and have now grown to become International School, Maidan Hawally. witnessed by more than 1200 spectators. one of the most popular bands in India. In spite NAFO maintains an excellent track record of Contemporary dance-musical events of these of it not being specifically classified either under its past remarkable achievements that were type is being presented by NAFO, to spread the pop, rock or metal etc., it will be no wonder if the accomplished through sincere and authentic value of universal friendship, unity and harmony band makes its presence felt in Kuwait as an showcasing of unique and astounding public through music, art and culture. example of how the modern generation is influ- socio-cultural super events. For example, in year This time the exclusive plug-in live show will enced by music that is not of a specific genre 2011 & 2012, NAFO organized mega contempo- be performed by the astounded sensational but, music of class. A crowd of more than 1,500 rary dance-music fest “Sangamam” by world super band “Masala Coffee”, comprising of spectators is expected to attend and witness this renowned cultural fable ‘Soorya-Arts Society’ twelve artists from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangluru, most awaited unique musical extravaganza. and “Samagamam” classical dance-music fiesta Chennai and Kerala, having more than a million Event convener, V R Anil Kumar informed that ongratulations to Mr/Mrs Hamilton on the arrival of your new baby. May by renowned Mohiniyattom exponent Vineetha hits on YouTube. Several of them associating admission to the show will be strictly restricted God guide and protect Endia Mary as she grows to be a blessing to your Nedungadi, playback singers Vivekanandan and with legendary maestros in Indian Music, and through invitations/entry passes only. Cfamily. Greetings from friends and well-wishers. Rajalakshmi. are also popular stars in TV shows aired Asianet, In 2013, NAFO conducted a mega cultural Kappa Channel Mazhavil Manorama etc. IES celebrates 125th birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar

haratiya Vidya Bhavan (IES) paid homage to Dr B R Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution of India, by celebrat- Bing his 125th birth anniversary in a befitting way on April 14, 2016 on the school premises. The program was graced by the auspi- cious presence of the Chief Guest Sunil Jain, the Ambassador of India to Kuwait. The other notable personages present for the august event were the Chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Middle East, N K Ramachandran Menon, the Principal of IES, Vice Principals and the Supervisor Management. The magnificent event unfurled with the unveiling of the new name of the school library, Dr Ambedkar Library and the inscription of the preamble of the constitution of India at the entrance of the library by the Chief Guest. The other major events of the day com- menced auspiciously in the auditorium with the recitation of a verse from the Holy Quran which was followed by the rendition of the Kuwait National Anthem, and the Hindi prayer by the minstrels of the school choir. The lighting of the ceremonial lamp was conjointly per- formed by the chief guest, chairman, principal, vice principals and the librarians. The proud gathering was welcomed by the principal, T Premkumar. The floral bouquet of love and respect was extended to the Chief Guest and the principal thanked the ambassador for accept- ing the invitation though at a very short notice. While welcoming, the principal enlightened the gathering about the main purpose of cele- brating the 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr Ambedkar, and its relevance in the present time. The icing on the cake of the day was the patriotic song rendered by the school choir which left the audience spellbound. Lianna Maria Joseph of 8C delivered a speech on Dr Ambedkar and his contribu- tions to the country. The Chief Guest unveiled the portrait of Dr Ambedkar amidst thunderous applause, a glowing tribute to the Builder of the Modern India. It was indeed a learning environment for the students of grades seven and eight of IES, the key audience of the program, and they essentially imbibed the thoughts and principles of Dr Ambedkar, the First Indian to pursue a Doctorate degree in Economics. A wunderkind of IES, CBSE I stream Sambav Jain (Grade 7), brightened up the audience and won plaudits by reciting a poem on Dr Ambedkar. A classical dance performance by the budding artists of the primary section of IES further enlivened the audience. The multi- farious events added entertainment and luster to the whole program. The Chief Guest, Sunil Jain, while addressing the audience, expressed his delight and pride in being a part of such a celebration, and consid- ered it as a great opportunity to meet the young minds. He said that Dr Ambedkar, was the Epitome of Equality and Social Justice, who took the bull by its horns to be successful in his life. Jain stressed upon the challenges to be taken by the youth of the nation, and the key role they had to play to see their country in its best shape. He said, “Only mind can break all barriers in terms of speed.... speed of thinking is faster than the speed of sound.....As students of the com- ing generation you should overcome all the barriers with your deter- mined minds and thinking power”. N K Ramachandran Menon, the Chairman, Bhavans Middle East and the Principal, T Premkumar presented the Chief Guest a memento as a token of gratitude and respect of the Bhavans fraternity. Suresh V Balakrishnan the event coordinator and Vice Principal, CBSEi pro- posed the vote of thanks. Meenakshi Nayyar, the HoD of Social Science, was the emcee of the program. The 125th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Dr B R Ambedkar solemnly concluded with the recital of the Indian National Anthem. The day also marked the first celebra- tion in 2016, when Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has entered its 10th year of excellence in education in the Middle East. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

The Kuwait National Guard recently concluded an anti-riot training course held in cooperation with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge attended the event, which was held under the patronage of Lieutenant General Hesham Al-Refaie, Undersecretary of the Kuwait National Guard.

Spa Aquatonic invites you to design your own wellness day program

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MC Catering began 2016 tant addition to the selection of cer- MMC Catering earned this inter- by acquiring the ISO 22000 tificates that we have previously national certificate for applying MCertificate in Food Safety earned. The certificate received, internationally approved quality Management Systems, achieving reasserts the management’s com- standards, in addition to the food yet another success to add to its list mitment to following quality and safety concept that the company of accomplishments, and reassert- safety standards, as well as the lat- adopts in all of its products. This cer- ing the commitment to its cus- est management standards at all of tificate serves as evidence to the tomers towards maintaining con- its facilities. Acquiring the certificate safety of the company’s products, sumer safety. came after the company’s central and the high-standard products it Commenting on this achieve- kitchen passed all audits in order to offers to its customers. ment, Mishari Al-Roudhan, MMC meet the international standards “Receiving this international cer- owner, said: “The Company has suc- matching with the ISO 22000 inter- tificate is an indication to the high- cessfully passed yet another test. national standard specifications for performance experiences and This achievement is dedicated to all food safety.” advanced capabilities that MCC our company employees for the “The food safety management Catering enjoys in this field, and to great job they have done over the certificate is considered one of the reassert the company’s position and past few years.” highest standards for ensuring the active role in the food sector,” he Meanwhile, President Alexander safety of food products from natu- added. Bitass said: “Acquiring the ISO 22000 ral, chemical and biological risks,” certificate is considered an impor- Bitass added. p32.qxp_Layout 1 4/16/16 9:17 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

14:30 Dialogue 12:38 Mythbusters Spaces 21:00 Hot In Cleveland 15:00 News Update 13:23 Through The Wormhole 01:50 Top Tables, Top Cities 21:30 Breaking In 15:15 China 24 With Morgan Freeman 02:15 Sara’s New Nordic Kitchen 22:00 It’s Always Sunny In 16:00 News Update 14:10 How The Earth Works 02:40 Tom’s Istanbul Delight Philadelphia 00:15 Dracula 2000 16:15 Global Business 14:57 Food Factory 03:05 Glamour Puds 22:30 The Big C 01:55 Order Of The Black Eagle 17:00 News Update 15:20 Food Factory 03:30 Glamour Puds 23:00 Web Therapy 03:30 Assassination Tango 17:15 World InSight 15:44 Moon Machines 03:55 David Rocco’s Dolce India 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 05:25 True Heart 18:00 Asia Today 16:31 Nyc: Inside Out 04:20 Maximum Foodie 06:55 Bound For Glory 18:30 Culture Express 17:18 How The Earth Works 04:45 Maximum Foodie 09:20 Apache 19:00 News Update 18:05 Mythbusters 05:10 East Bites West 10:50 Separate Tables 19:30 The Heat 18:50 Secret Space Escapes 05:35 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 12:30 The Beast Of Hollow 20:00 Africa Live 19:40 Moon Machines 06:00 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 00:00 Once Upon A Time Mountain 21:00 Global Business 20:25 Through The Wormhole 06:25 Carnival Eats 01:00 Marvel’s Agents Of 13:50 Big Screen 21:30 Dialogue With Morgan Freeman 06:50 George Clarke’s Amazing S.H.I.E.L.D. 14:05 Death Rides A Horse 22:00 News Update 21:15 How The Earth Works Spaces 02:00 The Flash 16:00 The Beautiful Country 22:15 China 24 22:00 Secret Space Escapes 07:40 Top Tables, Top Cities 03:00 DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow 18:00 Saved! 23:00 News Update 22:45 Moon Machines 08:05 Sara’s New Nordic Kitchen 04:00 Good Morning America 19:30 The Crocodile Hunter: 23:15 World InSight 23:35 Mythbusters 08:30 Tom’s Istanbul Delight 06:00 Once Upon A Time Collision Course 08:55 Glamour Puds 07:00 24 21:00 Breaking Bad 09:20 Glamour Puds 08:00 Prison Break 09:45 David Rocco’s Dolce India 09:00 The Voice 10:10 Maximum Foodie 11:00 24 10:35 Maximum Foodie 12:00 Prison Break 11:00 East Bites West 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:25 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 00:00 Violetta 14:00 Live Good Morning America 00:45 Mountain Monsters 11:50 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 16:00 Marvel’s Agents Of 00:00 Japan Remembers 00:45 The Hive 12:15 Carnival Eats 01:40 Australia Doesn’t Just Want 00:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A S.H.I.E.L.D. To Kill You 00:30 Access: Middle East 12:40 George Clarke’s Amazing 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:00 U.S. Squawk Alley Teenage Witch Spaces 02:35 Tanked 01:15 Sabrina Secrets Of A 18:00 Prison Break 03:25 Mutant Planet 02:00 Asia Squawk Box 13:35 Top Tables, Top Cities 19:00 The Voice 05:00 Asia Street Signs Teenage Witch 14:00 Sara’s New Nordic Kitchen 04:15 Gator Boys 01:40 Hank Zipzer 20:00 The Flash 05:02 Treehouse Masters 07:00 Capital Connection 14:30 Tom’s Istanbul Delight 21:00 Blindspot 08:00 Squawk Box Europe 02:05 Binny And The Ghost 14:55 Glamour Puds 05:49 Australia Doesn’t Just Want 02:30 Violetta 22:00 Empire To Kill You 11:00 Europe Street Signs 15:25 Glamour Puds 23:00 Mr. Robot 12:00 Worldwide Exchange 03:15 The Hive 15:50 David Rocco’s Dolce India 06:36 Swamp Brothers 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 07:00 Swamp Brothers 13:00 U.S. Squawk Box 16:20 Maximum Foodie 16:00 Squawk On The Street Teenage Witch 16:45 Maximum Foodie 07:25 My Cat From Hell 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 08:15 Australia Doesn’t Just Want 18:00 U.S. Squawk Alley 17:15 East Bites West 19:00 Fast Money: Half Time Teenage Witch 17:40 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour To Kill You 04:10 Hank Zipzer 09:10 Treehouse Masters Report 18:10 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 00:00 Tomorrow You’re Gone 20:00 U.S. Power Lunch 04:35 Binny And The Ghost 18:35 Carnival Eats 10:05 Tanked 05:00 Violetta 02:00 Don’t Look Back 11:00 My Cat From Hell 22:00 U.S. Closing Bell 19:05 Glamour Puds 04:00 The Prince 05:45 The Hive 19:30 Glamour Puds 11:55 Bondi Vet 05:50 Mouk 06:00 R.I.P.D. 12:25 Bondi Vet 20:00 David Rocco’s Dolce India 08:00 Northmen: A Viking Saga 06:00 Lolirock 20:25 Maximum Foodie 12:50 Australia Doesn’t Just Want 06:25 Sofia The First 10:00 The Prince To Kill You 20:50 Maximum Foodie 12:00 Dying Of The Light 06:50 Gravity Falls 21:15 East Bites West 13:45 Gator Boys 07:15 Miraculous Tales Of 14:00 R.I.P.D. 14:40 Treehouse Masters 21:40 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 16:00 Breakdown Ladybug And Cat Noir 22:05 Lee Chan’s World Food Tour 15:35 Tanked 07:40 Jessie 18:00 I Am Legend 16:30 Mutant Planet 00:00 I Escaped My Killer 22:30 Carnival Eats 20:00 Biker Boyz 08:05 Shake It Up 22:55 George Clarke’s Amazing 17:25 River Monsters 01:00 The Haunting Of... 08:30 Shake It Up 22:00 Waist Deep 18:20 Ten Deadliest Snakes With 02:00 The Haunting Of... Spaces 08:55 Hannah Montana 23:45 Top Tables, Top Cities Nigel Marven 03:00 Cursed: The Bell Witch 09:20 Hannah Montana 19:15 Tanked 04:00 I Escaped My Killer 09:45 Girl Meets World 20:10 Animal Cops South Africa 05:00 The Haunting Of... 10:10 Girl Meets World 21:05 Treehouse Masters 06:00 Martina Cole’s Lady Killers 10:35 A.N.T. Farm 22:00 Ten Deadliest Snakes With 07:00 Britain’s Biggest Heists 11:00 A.N.T. Farm 00:00 The World’s End Nigel Marven 08:00 Crime Stories 02:00 The Devil Wears Prada 11:25 Jessie 00:20 Deadly Instincts 22:55 Gator Boys 09:00 Surveillance Oz 11:50 Jessie 04:00 Bottle Rocket 23:50 River Monsters 09:30 Private Crimes 01:10 Wild 24 06:00 Sweet Home Alabama 12:15 Whisker Haven Tales With 02:00 Monster Fish 10:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder The Palace Pets 08:00 Happy Gilmore Casebook 02:50 Africa’s Creative Killers 10:00 Bottle Rocket 12:20 Miraculous Tales Of 03:45 I, Predator 11:00 After The First 48 Ladybug And Cat Noir 12:00 The Devil Wears Prada 12:00 The FBI Files 04:40 Cameramen Who Dare 14:00 Encino Man 12:45 Fish Hooks 05:35 Africa’s Creative Killers 13:00 I Killed My BFF 13:10 Austin & Ally 16:00 Happy Gilmore 00:10 Eastenders 14:00 Crime Stories 06:30 I, Predator 18:00 Down To Earth 00:40 New Tricks 13:35 Austin & Ally THE WORLD’S END ON OSN MOVIES HD COMEDY 07:25 Caught In The Act 15:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder 14:00 Liv And Maddie 20:00 Deliver Us From Eva 01:35 New Tricks Casebook 08:20 Cameramen Who Dare 22:00 Mad Dog And Glory 02:30 Silent Witness 14:25 Cars Toons 09:15 Race Of Life 16:00 Britain’s Biggest Heists 14:30 Liv And Maddie 14:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 20:00 Keeping Up With The 07:30 Murdoch Mysteries 03:25 Doctors 17:00 After The First 48 09:40 Race Of Life 04:00 Eastenders 14:55 Dog With A Blog 15:10 Miles From Tomorrow Kardashians 08:25 Murdoch Mysteries 10:10 America’s National Parks 18:00 The FBI Files 15:20 Dog With A Blog 15:35 Jake And The Never Land 21:00 Dash Dolls 09:20 Keep It In The Family 04:30 Doctor Who 19:00 I Killed My BFF 11:05 Animals Gone Wild 05:15 Father Brown 15:45 Miraculous Tales Of Pirates 22:00 E! News 10:15 The Chase: Celebrity 12:00 Monster Fish 20:00 Crime Stories Ladybug And Cat Noir 16:00 Sofia The First 23:00 WAGs Specials 06:00 Doctors 21:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder 12:55 Africa’s Creative Killers 06:30 Doctors 16:10 Violetta 16:25 Jungle Cubs 11:05 Eggheads 13:50 I, Predator Casebook 17:00 The Next Step 16:50 Aladdin 11:35 Royalty Close Up 00:45 Rent 07:00 Eastenders 22:00 50 Ways To Kill Your Lover 14:45 Caught In The Act 03:00 What Maisie Knew 07:30 Stella 17:25 Alex And Co 17:15 Gummi Bears 12:30 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 15:40 Man-Eater Of The Congo 23:00 My Crazy Ex 17:50 Dog With A Blog 17:40 Goldie & Bear 13:25 Emmerdale 04:45 Mandela: Long Walk To 08:20 The Paradise 16:35 Race Of Life Freedom 09:15 Doctor Who 18:15 Best Friends Whenever 18:05 Miles From Tomorrow 13:50 Eggheads 17:00 Race Of Life 18:40 Gravity Falls 18:30 Sofia The First 14:20 Coronation Street 07:15 Merchants Of Doubt 10:05 Doctors 17:30 America’s National Parks 09:00 Powder 10:40 Eastenders 19:05 Evermoor Chronciles 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 00:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 14:45 Keep It In The Family 18:25 Animals Gone Wild 19:30 Violetta Pirates 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 15:35 Prince Philip: The Plot To 11:00 Mandela: Long Walk To 11:10 Father Brown 19:20 Caught In The Act Freedom 12:00 Stella 20:20 The Next Step 19:30 Miles From Tomorrow 01:00 Chopped Make A King 20:10 Man-Eater Of The Congo 20:45 Good Luck Charlie 20:00 Goldie & Bear 02:00 Cutthroat Kitchen 16:30 Black Work 13:30 Odeio O Dia Dos 12:45 The Paradise 21:00 Race Of Life Namorados 13:45 Doctor Who 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 20:30 Sofia The First 03:00 Man Fire Food 17:25 The Jonathan Ross Show 21:25 Race Of Life 00:20 Fast N’ Loud 15:15 Veronica Guerin 14:35 Doctors 21:35 H2O 21:00 Jungle Cubs 03:30 Man Fire Food 18:20 Emmerdale 21:50 America’s National Parks 01:10 You Have Been Warned 17:00 Powder 15:05 Eastenders 22:00 Binny And The Ghost 21:25 Aladdin 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 18:45 Coach Trip 22:40 Animals Gone Wild 02:00 Troy 19:00 Capital 15:35 Stella 22:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A 21:50 Gummi Bears 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 19:10 Coronation Street 23:30 Monster Fish 02:50 Superhuman Science 21:00 Rosewater 16:25 Dickensian Teenage Witch 22:20 Lilo And Stitch 05:00 Iron Chef America 19:35 Prince Philip: The Plot To 03:15 Superhuman Science 23:00 Enemy 17:10 Doctor Who 22:50 Sabrina Secrets Of A 22:50 Zou 06:00 Chopped Make A King 03:40 Extreme Collectors 18:00 Doctors Teenage Witch 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 07:00 Man Fire Food 20:30 Black Work 04:05 Storage Wars Canada 18:30 Eastenders 23:10 Hank Zipzer 23:20 Calimero 07:30 Man Fire Food 21:25 The Jonathan Ross Show 04:30 Auction Hunters 19:05 Death In Paradise 23:35 Binny And The Ghost 23:35 Zou 08:00 Chopped 22:20 Coronation Street 05:00 How Do They Do It? 20:00 Holby City 23:50 Loopdidoo 09:00 Barefoot Contessa: Back To 22:50 Emmerdale 05:30 Fifth Gear Basics 23:15 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 01:00 The Selfish Giant 06:00 Outback Truckers 09:30 Barefoot Contessa: Back To 00:30 Hot In Cleveland 03:00 Pitch Perfect 2 06:50 Wheeler Dealers Basics 01:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 05:00 Beast Of The Bering Sea 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 10:00 The Kitchen Wilmore 07:00 So Undercover 08:30 Extreme Collectors 11:00 Anna Olson: Bake 01:30 It’s Always Sunny In 09:00 Drumline: A New Beat 00:05 Art Attack Philadelphia 08:55 Storage Wars Canada 06:00 Boyster 11:30 Anna Olson: Bake 11:00 From Up On Poppy Hill 00:00 Charlie Rose 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 02:00 The Big C 09:20 Auction Hunters 06:10 Super Matrak 12:00 Chopped 12:45 Miss Julie 01:00 Bloomberg West 00:45 Calimero 02:30 Web Therapy 09:45 How Do They Do It? 06:35 Super Matrak 13:00 The Pioneer Woman 15:00 Believe 02:00 First Up With Angie Lau 01:00 Zou 00:10 Brain Games 03:00 The Carmichael Show 10:10 Fifth Gear 07:00 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 13:30 The Pioneer Woman 17:00 Pixels 03:00 First Up With Angie Lau 01:15 Loopdidoo 01:00 Cesar Millan: Doggie 03:30 Living With Fran 10:35 You Have Been Warned 07:25 K.C. Undercover 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 19:00 Mortdecai 04:00 Trending Business 01:30 Art Attack Nightmares 04:00 Two And A Half Men 11:25 Troy 07:50 Supa Strikas 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 21:00 The Devil You Know 05:00 Trending Business 01:55 Henry Hugglemonster 02:00 Supercar Megabuild 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 12:15 The Carbonaro Effect 08:15 Annedroids 15:00 Man Fire Food 23:00 Men, Women & Children 06:00 Asia Edge 02:05 Calimero 02:55 Access 360 World Heritage Jimmy Fallon 12:40 Superhuman Science 08:40 Lab Rats 15:30 Man Fire Food 07:00 Bloomberg West 02:20 Zou 03:50 Brain Games 05:30 Suburgatory 13:05 Extreme Collectors 09:10 Kirby Buckets 16:00 Chopped 04:45 24 Hours In A&E 06:00 The Bernie Mac Show 09:35 Guardians Of The Galaxy 17:00 The Kitchen 05:40 Filthy Riches 06:30 Your Family Or Mine 10:00 Rocket Monkeys 18:00 Anna Olson: Bake 06:35 Megastructures 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 10:25 Ultimate Spider-Man Web 18:30 Anna Olson: Bake 07:30 Cesar To The Rescue 08:00 Two And A Half Men 03:30 Top 14 Highlights Warriors 19:00 Chopped 08:25 Building Wild 08:30 Suburgatory 04:00 Inside The PGA Tour 10:50 Boyster 20:00 Iron Chef America 09:20 24 Hours In A&E 09:00 The Carmichael Show 04:30 Live NHL 11:20 Boyster 21:00 Private Chef 10:15 Supercar Megabuild 09:30 The Last Man On Earth 07:30 Golfing World 11:45 Pair Of Kings 21:30 Private Chef 11:10 The Yard 10:00 Playing House 08:30 Premier League Darts 12:10 Pair Of Kings 22:00 Valerie’s Home Cooking 12:05 Dirty Rotten Survival 10:30 Your Family Or Mine 12:00 European Tour Weekly 12:35 Lab Rats 22:30 Valerie’s Home Cooking 13:00 Building Wild 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 12:30 Golfing World 13:00 Lab Rats 23:00 Kitchen Casino 14:00 Cesar To The Rescue Jimmy Fallon 13:30 Live PGA European Tour 13:30 Phineas And Ferb 15:00 Mega Factories 12:00 The Bernie Mac Show 15:30 Inside The PGA Tour 13:55 Phineas And Ferb 16:00 Supercar Megabuild 12:30 Two And A Half Men 16:00 European Tour Weekly 14:20 Kickin’ It 17:00 The Yard 13:00 Suburgatory 16:30 NRL Full Time 14:45 Kickin’ It 18:00 Dirty Rotten Survival 13:30 Your Family Or Mine 17:00 Inside The PGA Tour 15:10 Guardians Of The Galaxy 19:00 Mine Kings 14:00 Living With Fran 17:30 Live PGA European Tour 15:15 Rocket Monkeys 20:00 Supercar Megabuild 14:30 The Last Man On Earth 20:30 HSBC World Rugby Sevens 15:40 Guardians Of The Galaxy 20:50 The Yard 15:00 Playing House Highlights 16:05 Star vs The Forces Of Evil 00:20 Shipping Wars 21:40 Dirty Rotten Survival 15:30 Hot In Cleveland 21:00 Live Premier League Darts 16:30 Kirby Buckets 00:45 Shipping Wars 22:30 Mega Factories 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 16:55 Gamers Guide To Pretty 01:10 Ice Road Truckers 23:20 Filthy Riches Wilmore Much Everything 02:00 Ice Road Truckers 16:30 The Bernie Mac Show 17:25 K.C. Undercover 02:50 Ax Men 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 17:50 Supa Strikas 03:40 American Restoration 18:00 Community 00:00 Welsh Open Snooker 18:15 Lab Rats 04:05 American Restoration 18:30 Living With Fran 01:30 Inside The PGA Tour 18:40 K.C. Undercover 04:30 Pawn Stars 19:30 Playing House 19:05 Cars Toons 02:00 Trans World Sport 05:00 Lost Worlds 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 19:10 Annedroids 03:00 Live NHL 06:00 Mountain Men 00:10 Dream Cruises Jimmy Fallon 19:35 Phineas And Ferb 01:00 George Clarke’s Amazing 06:00 NRL Full Time 06:50 Swamp People 06:30 European Tour Weekly 20:00 Kirby Buckets 07:40 Ax Men 20:25 Gamers Guide To Pretty 08:30 Shipping Wars 07:00 Welsh Open Snooker BREAKDOWN ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION Much Everything 08:55 American Restoration 08:30 Gillette World Sport 20:55 K.C. Undercover 09:20 American Restoration 09:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 08:00 Countdown 13:30 Storage Wars Canada 21:20 Pickle And Peanut 09:45 Banger Boys 10:00 Golfing World 02:30 Loopdidoo 21:45 Lab Rats 09:00 Countdown 13:55 Auction Hunters 02:45 Art Attack 10:35 Counting Cars 11:00 Super Rugby Highlights 09:30 On The Move 14:20 Outback Truckers 22:10 Mighty Med 11:00 Counting Cars 11:30 Super Rugby Highlights 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 22:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 10:00 On The Move 15:10 Wheeler Dealers 03:20 Calimero 11:25 Lost Worlds 12:20 NRL Full Time 11:00 The Pulse 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 23:00 Programmes Start At 12:15 American Pickers 03:35 Zou 6:00am KSA 12:47 Live NRL Premiership 12:00 Bloomberg Surveillance 16:50 Fifth Gear 03:45 Loopdidoo 13:05 Storage Wars 15:00 Gillette World Sport 13:00 Bloomberg Surveillance 17:15 How Do They Do It? 04:00 Art Attack 13:30 Storage Wars 15:30 WWE Vintage 14:00 Bloomberg Go 17:40 Salvage Hunters 13:55 Fifth Gear 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 16:30 WWE Raw 15:00 Bloomberg Go 18:30 Redwood Kings 04:35 Calimero 14:45 Shipping Wars 16:00 Bloomberg Go 19:20 Catching Monsters 15:10 Shipping Wars 19:00 WWE NXT 04:50 Zou 20:00 WWE Smackdown 17:00 Bloomberg Markets 20:10 Storage Wars Canada 05:00 Loopdidoo 15:35 Shipping Wars 18:00 Bloomberg Markets: 20:35 Auction Hunters 05:15 Art Attack 16:00 Mountain Men 22:00 Live PGA Tour European Close 21:00 Salvage Hunters 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 00:00 Keeping Up With The 16:50 Swamp People 19:00 Bloomberg Markets 21:50 Redwood Kings 05:50 Calimero Kardashians 17:40 Ice Road Truckers 20:00 Bloomberg Markets 22:40 Ed Stafford: Into The 06:00 Zou 00:55 The Grace Helbig Show 18:30 Lost Worlds Unknown 01:25 Keeping Up With The 19:20 American Pickers 21:00 Bloomberg Markets 06:20 Loopdidoo 00:00 The Weber Cup 22:00 Bloomberg Markets Kardashians 20:10 Pawn Stars 06:35 Art Attack 01:00 Ping Pong World 23:00 What’d You Miss? 07:00 The Hive 02:20 E! 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You may want to spend the morning in getting your own personal business Puttering around in the garage, a workroom or an art room may be where out of the way. You pay bills, write letters and perhaps, make a list to guide your interests are focused today. You may be inventing or creating all sorts of useful you. You could find a lucky break where finances are concerned. A paycheck or a bonus things. A friend who is starting a new business may want to sell you something. This could check is soon arriving and you are pleased at the way your financial accounts are progress- put you in an awkward position if you do not want to buy. Sometimes being truthful is ing. Pulling yourself out of old patterns may be difficult, but your hard work shows great the only way to go! Otherwise you will be running away from this person all weekend improvement. This could also mean better money managing, no smoking or less fat in long. You are lucky in money today. There will be invitations from friends to enjoy their fel- your food, etc. There are opportunities to have an adventure this evening. You may enjoy lowship. If there are emotional wounds between you and a loved one, there will be an performing at a comedy club-really! You will be discovering that you have a wealth of tal- opportunity to repair those wounds. You would not want to miss the wonderfully close ents just waiting to be seen! times you and your loved one can enjoy.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Tremendous personal insight may come to you today. Any situation that Your friends and family will notice your positive frame of mind. You will seemed foggy or clouded in the past will become more clear and understandable now. enjoy doing creative things with others today. A wreath on the door or a new mailbox may This could come from reading a biography, attending a lecture, composing a poem or just be a fun project this weekend. You need to express your creative side, and even if all you looking through a photograph album. This is a period of transformation for you and if you do is prepare a special dinner, it will make you feel more excited about you and your abili- accept the change, you can move into positive new directions. Today you think about ties. In-depth discussions and probing conversations find you at your mental best. There what you have versus what you really want. If they are not one and the same, you may fig- are many answers you have received but have not yet heard-listen. Focus your insights on ure out how to make them the same. Doubts fade into the background and reserve is discovery and not self-criticism. Your analytical abilities are at a high point. A loved one will more and more a thing of the past. It is time for breaking out of a shell and letting yourself enjoy your attempts at cooking a special meal this evening. Romance is quite possible be known. Your destiny awaits you. tonight. Relax to music.

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

You will happily find that your financial capabilities are more solvent now. It You have certainly been involved in lots of activities lately. You may decide is to your best advantage to continue to save and have your finances divided into good that this is the day to stay home and relax. Fortunately, you have chosen a risk investments. If you need advice along this line, plan to make an appointment next day that a relative calls or comes by to visit. This is someone you have not heard from in a week to learn or find the best ways to invest. This afternoon is a good time for surrounding very long time. You may enjoy your family more than usual this weekend. You may find ACROSS 3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. yourself with friends and young people and for having a good time. You enjoy support yourself reflecting on your own youth or some event in the past. The creative writer in you 1. An anxiety disorder characterized by chron- 4. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. from those around you. You also may set aside some time to enjoy one of your hobbies may wish you had logged a few funny moments as you visit with family this evening. Why ic free-floating anxiety and such symp- 5. A motorboat with an open deck or a half today. Perhaps gardening is a good stress-relief for you. Gardening involves creating and not start a memory jar-go back later and write your stories from the little pieces of paper toms as tension or sweating or trembling deck. caring for a living thing-a work of art in its own right. Hobbies are a wonderful way to elim- upon which you write down prophetic or funny antidotes you put in this jar. There is a chance to have a special time with someone you love this evening. of light-headedness or irritability etc that 6. The eleventh month of the civil year. inate frustration and enjoy your own, personal, creative talents. has lasted for more than six months. 7. Hawthorn of southern United States bear- 4. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong ing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in or evil or injurious. jellies or preserves. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 12. A self-funded retirement plan that allows 8. On or toward the lee. Whether you are male or female, the family chores can become quite you to contribute a limited yearly sum 9. An early Christian church designed like a You may have difficulty feeling upbeat. Perhaps this restful day will be most toward your retirement. Roman basilica. tedious and boring. Cooperation in redistributing domestic responsibilities among family members builds a strong family unit. An occasional change of chores allows a little variety. beneficial-you have been overloaded with work lately. Take a walk outside and enjoy your 15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially day off away from work-it’s okay to be moody occasionally-for a little while. A family mem- 10. Being five more than fifty. Emotional security, a sense of belonging and nurturing are felt instinctively now. in Turkey). ber plans a special event and asks for your help. A friendship grows closer as a result of all 11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. Relationships are capable of transformation in positive ways. This is a time of real inner the times you share your thoughts and feelings. A feeling of being at peace in your life is 16. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or 12. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. growth through other people. You could also be most persuasive with others and helpful printed cotton. comforting and you are appreciative. You may express your appreciation to those around 13. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped in getting someone else’s plans off the ground. You appear most charming this evening you. In your spare time this afternoon you may continue to teach yourself some music or a 17. An enclosed space. cucumbers and spices. and may enjoy being entertained by young people. Patience is a good thing to practice musical instrument. If another member of your family or a friend plays an instrument, it 18. Soviet physicist who worked on low tem- 14. A town and port in northwestern Israel in tonight; results are peaceful. may be fun to play together. perature physics (1908-1968). the eastern Mediterranean. 19. An affirmative. 20. (informal usage) A general feeling of bore- 21. A constellation in the southern hemi- dom and dissatisfaction. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) sphere near Telescopium and Norma. 25. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a 22. Half the width of an em. semiconducting metalloid (resembling You may have a hard time being clearheaded this morning. Thoughts and 23. A person who is entitled by law or by the ideas that come to you just now may be misleading. An early morning walk may help. Take You and a loved one could begin this day with an early morning bicycle silicon) used in transistors. ride. You find yourself visiting and communicating with your friends most of the day. The some time with your chores and with your errands this morning in order to save yourself a terms of a will to inherit the estate of 27. Committee formed by a special-interest overall attitude of everyone is good and you are in a mood to communicate with anyone. trip back home or the need to start over with your efforts. You enjoy your day and encour- another. group to raise money for their favorite A vision received during a dream or daydream can predict the future, so take some time to 24. A narrow thin strip of wood used as back- age others to become involved in some cleaning chores; whistle while you work. An ani- unravel its meaning. You may find yourself in long conversations about dreams and what political candidates. mal gets your close attention this afternoon. Your right hemisphere gets a workout this ing for plaster or to make latticework. 28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety. they might mean to you. A friend who is involved in an interesting area of metaphysics evening as your friends may coax you to improvise in some fun activity. Everyone is laugh- may bring you along to a fun class or gathering; you gain insight and may return for more. 26. An accountant certified by the state. 30. Someone who cuts and delivers ice. ing! Someone new and romantic comes into your life. Ask questions; learn about likes and 29. Resembling or similar. A local community activity brings new friends to you. General good feelings and a sense of 31. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken dislikes, favorite childhood memories, etc. support and harmony make this a happy time. 32. A common large finch of Eurasia. in southeastern Asia. 35. South American wood sorrel cultivated for 33. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in its edible tubers. 1922). Virgo (August 23-September 22) 37. (informal) Of the highest quality. 34. A short film and commentary about cur- Pisces (February 19-March 20) 38. Unusually short. rent events. Most of this morning is spent in shopping duties and chores. This after- 42. Spread or daub over. You have certainly earned a vacation but if you will not be taking a vaca- 36. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear. noon could be spent in writing or some other creative project. This is a time for imagina- tion soon, you will probably be planning for one in the near future. You may 45. The compass point midway between east 39. The post at the top or bottom of a flight of tion and creativity when it comes to ideas and thinking. This is coupled with the ability to remember and talk about past vacations and events in order to help you find the common and southeast. put your thoughts into the way you have of charming and captivating. Writing poetry or a thread for the new plans. Through the end of the spring months, you will find the days are stairs. short story, or just planning the events for next week, keeps you quite busy. Young people 46. At full speed. 40. A person who makes use of a thing. a little easier to maneuver through-people in general just seem happier. A backyard bar- 48. Cooked in hot water. enjoy your attention. You reflect the feelings of those around you and these young people becue may attract the neighbors this afternoon. Perhaps they can cook their favorite meal 41. English monk and scholar (672-735). are full of positive energy. Later today you may want to discuss some ideas you have for to go with the barbecue ribs you cook. This is a good time for surrounding yourself with 51. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central 43. Letters and packages that are transported changes around the house-especially with a drawing or picture. This is a good time to and South America. friends and young people and for having a good time. Quick answers, great wit and a sur- by aircraft. plan your push toward these changes. plus of insights and solutions are easy to find. 52. Angular distance above the horizon (espe- 44. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the cially of a celestial object). United States) known for her dramatic 53. Genus of North American herbs. intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977). Word Search 54. An associate degree in nursing. Yesterday Solution 47. A light springing movement upwards or 56. An organic compound that contains a forwards. hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom 49. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand. which in turn is doubly bonded to anoth- 50. A program under which employees regu- er carbon atom. larly accumulate shares and may ulti- 58. A federal agency established to coordinate mately assume control of the company. programs aimed at reducing pollution 55. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by and protecting the environment. sailors to hold their clothing and other 62. Type genus of the Anhimidae. gear. 65. Material consisting of seed coverings and 57. A corporation authorized by Congress to small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. provide a secondary market for residen- 68. A loose cloak with a hood. tial mortgages. 70. A radioactive element of the actinide 59. Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed series. metal pieces that are used (along with a 71. Jordan's port. ball) to play the game of jacks. 72. A defensive missile designed to shoot 60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a down incoming intercontinental ballistic skewer usually with vegetables. missiles. 61. Jordan's port. 73. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday 63. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agricul- commemorating the rededication of the ture and patron of scribes and schools. Temple of Jerusalem. 64. A member of the Siouan people formerly 76. Extremely pleasing. living in the Missouri river valley in NE 77. 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CBS and Big Ticket claim an agent was paid $17 million ‘for doing nothing’ ig Ticket Television and CBS said in a court fil- ing that talent agency Rebel Entertainment BPartners was paid $17 million in package fees “for doing nothing” for the TV series “Judge Judy,” and didn’t even represent star Judy Sheindlin. Rebel Entertainment Partners filed suit against Big Ticket and CBS last month, claiming that it has not received contractually obligated payments for “Judge Judy” since 2010, because the show is los- ing money due to Sheindlin’s annual salary of as much as $47 million. Rebel, led by Richard Lawrence, is a successor agency to Abrams- Rubaloff & Lawrence. In their response to the complaint, CBS and Big Ticket claim that Lawrence pitched a Judge Judy project to syndicators, but did not disclose that he did not represent Sheindlin. He did represent the producers, Sandi Spreckman and Kaye Switzer, who had interested Sheindlin in doing a show. According to the response, Big Ticket entered into a packaging agreement with Lawrence’s agency ARL to pay 3% of the final production budget of each episode and 5% of Big Ticket’s “defined proceeds” from the project. Their response claims that Lawrence “intended to conceal the fact that he did not actually repre- sent Judge Sheindlin, and was motivated to con- ceal the true nature of the extent of his representa- tion of the project as a ‘package’ in order to extract an unjustified commission for ‘packaging services’ from Big Ticket.” CBS and Big Ticket contend that Lawrence and his agency continued to collect Families sue after US sperm commissions long after Spreckman and Switzer were terminated. “Judge Sheindlin, her producers and crew have worked for 20 years in producing a successful syn- dicated program,” CBS and Big Ticket said. “Lawrence has never been on the set of the pro- bank ‘used psychotic convict’ gram in 20 years, nor has he had any communica- tion with his talent.” hree Canadian families are suing a sperm bank and its based in the US state of Georgia, and Ontario’s Outreach who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, narcissistic per- Sheindlin renewed her deal with CBS in 2013 distributor alleging they were given sperm from a con- Health Services misled them. The plaintiffs are seeking $11.7 sonality disorder, drug-induced psychotic disorder and signifi- and signed an extension in 2015. Rebel Tvicted felon diagnosed with multiple mental disorders- million in damages. None of the allegations have been proven cant grandiose delusions. Entertainment Partners claimed in its suit, filed in but told he was a genius. in court. He had been jailed for burglary and other crimes and Los Angeles Superior Court, that in “the six-month At least 36 women in Britain, Canada and the United States They allege the companies fabricated the donor’s IQ, and dropped out of university 20 years ago, although he eventu- accounting period after Scheindlin’s pay raise ... are believed to have been inseminated with the donor’s said the man was extremely healthy and working towards a ally returned and last year graduated with a bachelor’s defendants reported net profits of negative sperm over the past decade, resulting in pregnancies. “It’s hor- PhD in neuroscience engineering. The families-who each had degree. According to the claim, the companies continued to $3,195,217.” The suit also claims that “in the six- rifying,” lawyer James Fireman told AFP Friday. “These couples one child using the man’s sperm-learned his true identity only sell his sperm even after being informed of the discrepancies month accounting period prior to Scheindlin’s pay were seeking assistance to build a family and were very vul- when Xytex inadvertently included his contact information in in 2014. — AFP raise, the show reported net profits of $3,572,195, nerable, they put their faith in the (cryobank) industry, and an email to them. of which 5% ($178,609) was paid to Rebel.” this happens.” A quick Internet search and a subsequent investigation The suit called Sheindlin’s salary “grossly incon- In a claim filed this week, the families allege Xytex Corp., revealed the donor was actually a 39-year-old Georgia man sistent with customary practice in the television industry.”Sheindlin is not named as a plaintiff in the suit, but last month she called the lawsuit “laugh- able.” Rebel, which is seeking undisclosed dam- ages, claims that “Judge Judy” has grossed $1.7 bil- Seattle compost lion since it premiered in 1996, and that Rebel received regular payments for the show until 2010. James Curry and Benjamin O. Aigboboh of Sheppard Mullin represented Big Ticket and CBS. ordinance rotten Attorneys Bryan Freedman and Jordan Sussman are representing Rebel. Freedman has represented Seattle ordinance that bars people Washington Supreme Court in which Port Variety’s parent company PMC in multiple legal from throwing their coffee grounds, Townsend police searched a man’s garbage matters. The response to the lawsuit was first Apizza scraps and other potential com- for evidence that he was selling drugs after reported by Deadline Hollywood. — Reuters post into their trash cans is being challenged the trash was placed on a curb. by critics who say the liberal city is turning The court ruled police needed a warrant garbage collectors into trash investigators. to search the rubbish, even if it was in plain A group of homeowners has sued the city view near the sidewalk. Blevins also present- over the tactic, claiming it violates privacy ed an affidavit from someone claiming they protections provided by the state were tagged for compost violations twice Constitution. The rule that went into effect when their trash had been secured in black early last year requires trash collectors to tag plastic bags, suggesting collectors opened garbage cans that contain more than 10 per- the bags to search for compost. cent compostable material with educational Seder said garbage collectors are not information. police and they’re not looking for criminal The tactic is projected to divert as much as evidence. The ordinance is a good faith effort 38,000 tons of extra food waste from a landfill to bring people up to speed on the benefits every year. Several other cities have passed of composting, he said. similar food waste laws, including Vancouver, Collectors are not supposed to open B.C., San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. garbage bags or root around in open bags, Tad Seder, a lawyer for Seattle, said during but they are permitted to report flagrant vio- a court hearing Friday on the lawsuit that lations of the ordinance, he added. “If you garbage collectors are simply glancing at the have half of your garbage can filled with pizza trash to see if there is any obvious compost. crusts, they’re going to put a tag on it,” he They already look for dangerous items and a said. host of other banned materials such as paint The city initially intended to fine violators cans, he said. However, Ethan W. Blevins, an a dollar for each offense - a tactic that has attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, con- been indefinitely delayed, according to Andy tends the ordinance requires collectors to Ryan, a spokesman for Seattle Public Utilities. make a deeper dive into the private waste of Blevins hopes Judge Beth M. Andrus will Seattleites. invalidate the law entirely. She is expected to The case is about “whether the city of rule before April 30. — AP Television Judge Judy Sheindlin, whom this case Seattle can engage in widespread and fre- centers around quent inspections of residents’ garbage cans SEATTLE: David Morales, a garbage driver with Recology, dumps a garbage container for without a warrant,” Blevins said. He cited a Seattle Public Utilities on Friday. — AP case that was argued in front of the Kiwi Pastafarians the first to legally tie noodly knot he Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster held the as a pirate ship at the South Island town of Akaroa, with ‘Serious about beliefs’ world’s first legally recognized marriage in New Zealand guests dressed in costume. Ricketts, a filmmaker who dis- Not all are happy with the decision, including professor Tyesterday, with the offbeat movement hailing it as a covered pastafarianism while making a documentary about Peter Lineham, a religious history specialist at New Zealand’s milestone toward acceptance as a real religion. religion, said he knew some people may not take the mar- Massey University. “I am not at all convinced there’s a genuine Church adherents call themselves pastafarians, wear colan- riage seriously. statement of values (in the church),” he told Fairfax New ders on their heads, revere pirates and believe the world was “That’s kind of what attracted us to it,” he told AFP. “We Zealand when the original decision was handed down. created by a giant deity made of spaghetti. were never planning to get married and have a conventional “I know some people who think The Force is rather more But while they have a love of pasta-based puns and cele- wedding but this allowed us to do it in a way that we’re com- meaningful than a spaghetti monster,” he added, saying FSM brate holidays such as “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, followers insist fortable... our families are 100 percent behind us.” was essentially a satirical body that mocked religion. Martyn their religion is no joke. New Zealand officials agree, giving disputed the view and said a strong belief system under- Wellington-based pastafarian Karen Martyn the legal right to Prophet and hammock enthusiast pinned FSM. conduct marriages last month after ruling the church was Pastafarianism first appeared in a 2005 open letter written “We are anti-discrimination on any basis for any reason and based on genuine philosophical convictions. by Bobby Henderson to the Kansas Board of Education in we truly believe there should be a complete separation of Martyn conducted her inaugural wedding as an ordained protest over its decision to teach intelligent design in schools. church and state,” she said.”We believe in challenging our- “ministeroni” yesterday, when Toby Ricketts and Marianna Henderson, 36, a self-described “hammock enthusiast” and selves and other religions and challenging cultural supersti- Young became the first couple in the world to “tie the noodly computer nerd from Oregon, is regarded as the prophet of the tions... we’re very serious about our beliefs.” knot” in a legally recognized ceremony.”It’s a formal recogni- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM). She said there was a major distinction between a joke tion that we are a church and that’s just great,” she told AFP He argued that believing a pasta god made the universe church and a church that can take a joke and laugh at itself, ahead of the ceremony. was as no less valid than intelligent design, a form of creation- such as the FSM.”Laughter is the best medicine and it makes She said many more weddings were planned, including ism promoted by Christian fundamentalists, as both theories life much better and maximises our happiness,” she said. “We same-sex unions, which were legalized in New Zealand in had no scientific merit. embrace that to the fullest extent.” — AFP 2013. “I’ve had people from Russia, from Germany, from Since then it has gained popularity and Henderson’s web- Denmark, from all over contacting me and wanting me to site venganza.org details member activities ranging from pub- marry them in the church because of our non-discriminatory lic parades to campaigns for the right to wear colanders on WELLINGTON: Karen Martyn from the Church of the Flying philosophy. “We will marry any consenting legal adults who driving license photographs. “New Zealand is one of the few Spaghetti Monster poses in her pirate outfit that she wore at meet the legal requirement.” places that has formally recognized us,” he told AFP via email. the church’s first legally recognized wedding yesterday. — AFP The wedding took place on a charter vessel decorated lifestyle SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

Fashion

Actress Sharon Stone, ‘Working model’ Naomi Campbell and singer Mary J. Blige. Mary J. Blige performing during the show. Givenchy Designer Riccardo Tisci and Legendary Supermodel Kate Moss. The 4th Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala in Sao Paulo

riday night was all about dancing below the equator as amfAR Sharon Stone conducted a live auction that included MoÎt & Chandon Tisci, Izabel Goulart, Francisco Costa, and Candice Swanepoel, who hosted their fourth annual Inspiration Gala in Sao Paulo at the champagne and the opportunity to sit in the brand’s box at the 2015 witnessed a bidding war break out over private boxing lessons with Fhome of Dinho Diniz. Naomi Campbell acted as the evening’s French Open. UFC champion Anderson Silva. host, presenting honorees Nizan Guanaes and Donata Meirelles with Kate Moss, dressed in a bold red frock with tassel detail from Saint Finally, as the evening came to a close, Mary J. Blige took to the the Humanitarian Award. Laurent, served an ace when she announced that she would sign the stage to sing and celebrate everyone’s efforts in raising $2.7 million But the real fun started when amfAR global fundraising chairman winning bidder’s bottle of bubbly. Taking in the action were Riccardo with a rousing performance of her hit “No More Drama.”

Models showcasing Monique Lhuillier’s Spring Summer 2017 Bridal Collection.

NEW YORK CITY: Designer Reem Acra greets the audience after presenting her Bridal

Bridal Spring Summer 2017 Spring/Summer 2017 Runway Show at her Showroom on Friday. — AFP lifestyle SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

Features

Cannes Critics Week joins forces with Leica to spotlight Short Films ritics’ Week has enlisted a new backer, Leica, the cen- tenary German camera manufacturer, to support Cemerging talent whose shorts are competing at the Cannes sidebar. As part of the sponsorship, Leica will give a prize for the best short film. The award will comprise a 4000 Euros grant to help a director make his or her first feature- length film. “For Leica it made sense to ally with Critics’ Week because it’s a decently-sized section that is highly committed to finding and nurturing great new talent,” said Tommaso Vergallo, rep of film products at Leica. Leica will also give each director a camera so that they’ll have the opportunity to shoot a portrait of the festival, added Vergallo. Critics Week, meanwhile, will invite high-profile cine- matographers to participate in daily luncheons at its priva- tized beach. The alliance with Leica underscores Critics’ Week’s recent efforts to turn the spotlight on short films, as seen with the Next Step program. Now in its second edi- tion, Next Step is a five-day workshop organized in collabo- ration with the TorinoFilmLab dedicated to helping the 10 directors who are presenting their shorts at Critics’ Week to develop their feature debut. Andrea Arnold, Francois Ozon, Gaspar Noe, Justin Kurzel (“Macbeth”), Claire Burger and Marie Amachoukeli (“Party Girl”) are among the filmmakers who were revealed at Critics’ Week after showing their short film, said Remi Bonhomme, general coordinator at Critics’ Week. The sec- ond edition of Next Step, which was hosted in December, NEW YORK CITY: Comedian Chris Rock and director, producer, screenwriter and composer J.J. Abrams chat at the Tribeca Film Festival. showed Cecile Ducrocq whose short “La contre allee” won this year’s Cesar (France’s Oscar equivalent). J.J. Abrams talks TV Show ideas with Chris Rock at Tribeca Film Festival half-hour drama created by J.J. Abrams and starring ‘Star Wars,’” Abrams joked back. The writer-director-producer woman played by Daisy Ridley in “The Force Awakens.” “Rey’s Chris Rock? That was just one of the topics of conversa- then recalled how his early screenplay work on films including parents are not in Episode VII, so I can’t possibly in this Ation to come up in a far-ranging public discussion “Regarding Henry” led eventually to “Felicity,” the WB series moment tell you who they are,” he said to the young audience between Abrams and Rock at the Tribeca Film Festival, during with Keri Russell that established him as a wunderkind TV cre- member who asked him point -blank to throw him a bone. which Abrams also apologized for overdoing it on the lens ator. He said that “Alias,” his spy series with Jennifer Garner, “But this is all I will say: It is something that Rey thinks about flares, revealed his personal conception of God and refused to grew out of an idea he had during the early days of “Felicity.” too.” Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Chairman of the answer a pre-teen in the audience who asked him who Rey’s Related J.J. Abrams Producing Greg Grunberg’s Graphic Other tidbits to come up in the discussion included the Supervisory Board of Leica Camera. parents are. Novel Adaptation “When you don’t have a bad guy of some fact that Abrams is a fan of the Duplass brothers-he noted Speaking with an easy rapport at an event that was part of sort, episode two is really hard to come up with,” he said of their involvement in both “Transparent” and “Togetherness,” the Tribeca Talks series of public conversations, the two spit- “Felicity.” “Because first of all, the show took place in college, two series he admires-and would love to work someday with Ducrocq’s first feature project is “Love on the Beach,” an balled an idea for a TV show when Rock asked Abrams what so it was like, ‘Ooh, she got a B!’ We were trying to figure out Meryl Streep or Tribeca festival co-founder Robert DeNiro. anthropology-themed romantic comedy turning on a vol- he should be doing in television. what the story was, and I remember we were on episode five Rock, meanwhile, would wants to direct Denzel Washington in unteer engineer who finds himself living with the sexually- Abrams shot back, “If I nail it, will you do it with me?” “Sure,” or something, pulling our hair out, and I said in the writer’s a comedy. hyperactive Dowayos people somewhere in the Rock agreed. “I’m probably a single-camera show,” he added. room, ‘If Felicity were a spy, I’d know how to write the show.’” “You can be in it too,” Abrams suggested. “Oh, I’m in it,” Senegalese savannah. Other directors who participated in “My skill set is multi-camera, but what’s gonna keep me inter- When the discussion moved on to cinema, Abrams Rock responded. “Kevin Hart ain’t in it, I’ll tell you that.” The the second Nexstep workshop included Germany’s Patrick ested, keep me intrigued, in doing 50-whatever shows is prob- acknowledged that the fanbases for “Star Wars” and “Star Trek,” evening also, unexpectedly, touched on Abrams’ feeling about Vollrath, Sweden’s Isabella Carbonell, Brazil’s Joao Paulo ably single camera.” the two franchises he has been involved in rebooting, “are big- God, in the wake of a question from a “Star Wars” super-fan Miranda, Indonesia’s Lucky Kuswandi, France’s Yann Related John Krasinski Circle J.J. Abrams’ ‘God Particle’ ger than all of us.” “Could you direct ‘Fantastic Four?’” Rock (dressed in a Darth Vader-like black cape) about the Force and Delattre, the US’s Sonejuhi Sinha, Romania’s Andrei Abrams noted, “Usually when I do story meetings, it’s with less asked. “I love the Fantastic Four, and they keep f-ing it up.” the filmmaker’s own spiritual ideas. Cretulescu, Italy’s Fulvio Risuleo and China’s Hu Wei. than 1,200 people,” before extolling the virtues of his favorite Soon thereafter, Rock wondered aloud about the lens flares “In all honesty, I don’t know if I believe in God,” he admit- Last year, Next Step also included panels with music TV show of all time, “The Twilight Zone,” which was a rare half- that became Abrams’ signature on the “Star Trek” films-and ted. “But I do know that when my mother, who passed away a composers to encourage directors to incorporate that hour drama. So he’s thinking Rock would be good in that for- earned him his fair share of mockery. few years ago, was sick, I did find myself connecting with, talk- aspect into their projects’ creative development, pointed mat. “A ‘Louie’ show, a ‘Louie’ kind of thing, that would be “I’m over that,” he promises. “For a period of time, on ‘Star ing to, thinking about things in a way that I never had before. out Bonhomme, who helps Critics’ Week’s artistic director amazing for you,” he said. Trek,’ there was this idea we had that the future was so bright It’s a funny thing, because what George Lucas did so brilliantly Charles Tesson make the selection. “I’m down,” Rock answered. Rock, who had previously that it just couldn’t be contained. I overdid it, then I went fur- was he told a story ... that was about a spiritual connection Critics’ Week gathered a solid team of experts and con- worked with Abrams on the movie parody segments on this ther, and then on the second ‘Star Trek’ movie I went nuts. We that we all have.” sultants to counsel filmmakers attending the last work- year’s Oscar telecast, kicked off the Tribeca conversation by all make mistakes. Mine were with light. We literally had flash- He went on, “There’s something about the notion of all shop. These included Antonio Piazza and Fabio asking about Abram’s childhood love of film. The director of lights. The flares weren’t put in in post. We had these flash- of us being connected, every living thing, that is profound Grassadonia, the directors of “Salvo,” Julien Lilti, the helmer “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Star Trek” recalled decid- lights and we aimed them right at the lens.” and beautiful and resonant and somewhat true. I don’t of “Hippocrate,” Didar Domehri, producer at Full House ing he wanted to be a movie director at age eight, following a Abrams and Rock also discussed the process of working think, when I was talking to myself in my head, that anyone (“Bang Gang”), Laure Caillol, acquisition/co-production/dis- visit to Universal Studios. on “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” and incorporating the char- was listening, but I know that there is something that con- tribution exec at Haut et Court (“The Returned,” “The acters from the initial “Star Wars” trilogy into the new charac- nects us. There has to be. I love what George did in that Lobster”), Thomas Pibarot, head of acquisition at Le Pacte Abram’s beginnings ters and storylines Abrams and his team had brought to the regard.”— Reuters (“Timbuktu”), Juliette Schrameck, head of sales and acquisi- A year or two after that, Abrams’ father became a film pro- table. “We knew this movie was a bridge,” he said. tion at MK2.—Reuters ducer himself, prompting Rock to crack, “What job did you get Speaking of one of those new characters, Abrams refused that you didn’t deserve? There’s gotta be one.” “I want to say to give out any clues as to the parentage of Rey, the young Michelle Pfeiffer and others join Jennifer Lawrence in Aronofsky’s movie omhnall Gleeson, his brother Brian Gleeson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Ed Harris are in talks to join DJennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem in Paramount’s untitled domestic drama. Darren Aronofsky is on board to direct from his own script, which centers on a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home and disrupt their tranquil existence. Aronofsky and his partners at Protozoa Pictures, Scott Franklin and Ari Handel are pro- ducing. The studio is planning to star production in June. Domnhall Gleeson is best known for appearing as Bill Weasley in the final two “Harry Potter” films and as the villainous General Hux in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The Irish actor also appeared in three other notable 2015 releases-”Ex Machina,” “The Revenant” and Actors Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in the previous film they worked together on ‘Central Intelligence’. “Brooklyn”-and has joined Netflix’s “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” about the founding of National Lampoon. Pfeiffer starred with Robert De Niro in Luc Besson’s 2013 crime thriller “The Family,” with the duo portraying a mafia couple in a witness protection program. Brian Gleeson’s highest-profile role came in “Snow Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson White and the Huntsman.” Paradigm reps the Gleesons. Pfeiffer is repped by CAA, Management 360 and Hirsch Wallerstein. The news was first reported by The circling ‘Jumanji’ reimagining Hollywood Reporter. — Reuters

ony is getting closer to rebooting a Robin Williams classic prove difficult. The pair showed great chemistry after co-host- year-old boy who becomes trapped in a board game in 1969 with two of the busiest actors in town. Sources tell ing the MTV Movie Awards, and with anticipation high for their and is released 26 years later. SVariety Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are in early talks upcoming New Line action comedy “Central Intelligence,” Sony While the original was heavy on action elements, Williams’ to star in Sony’s “Jumanji,” a new adaptation of Chris Van sees this as the perfect opportunity to pair the two up again comedic talents helped deliver the light-hearted family adven- Allsburg’s original 1981 adventure book. for a tentpole. ture pic the studio wanted. Hart has demonstrated his physical Schedules are still being worked out, as both Johnson and Jake Kasdan is on board to direct with the pic set to bow on comedy abilities in films like “Ride Along.” Hart has already had Hart have heavy production loads ahead, but insiders say July 28, 2017. Sony-based Matt Tolmach is producing the proj- a busy 2016 with “Ride Along 2” bringing in $91 million at the things are moving toward a deal. Johnson has an opening this ect with William Teitler. Ted Field, Mike Weber and Van Allsburg domestic box office. His stand-up comedy pic “Kevin Hart: fall with his New Line pic “Rampage” possibly shifting to 2017. will executive produce. Principal photography is expected to What Now?” bows Oct. 14 and he is also voicing a character in The plan would be to shoot “Jumanji” before the third season start this August in Honolulu, HI. Illumination’s “The Secret Life of Pets.” of his HBO series “Ballers.” Johnson will also shoot “Fast 8” this The reboot’s script has been written by Scott Rosenberg Hart is repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Schreck summer, reprising his role of Agent Hobbs. and Jeff Pinkner, based on a draft by the original writers, Chris Rose Dapello and Adams. Johnson is repped by WME, manager Hart is expected to shoot “The Intouchables” remake for McKenna and Erik Sommers. The 1995 “Jumanji” movie starred Dany Garcia, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown. — Reuters Weinstein this summer opposite Bryan Cranston, and accord- Williams, Kirsten Dunst, David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Legendary Actress Michelle Pfeiffer. ing to sources, working out this part of the schedule could Jonathan Hyde and Bebe Neuwirth. The story centers on a 12- lifestyle SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

Features ‘The Missing’ Writers Harry and Jack Williams Unveil Thriller ‘Liar’

n the European Co-production Forum of next week’s Series Mania, a festival in Paris dedicat- Ied to TV drama, a new project will be present- ed from brothers Harry and Jack Williams, the writers of child-abduction thriller “The Missing.” The six-part miniseries “Liar,” which will be presented in Paris by distributor All3Media Intl. It will shoot in the fall in Bath, West England. The story centers on schoolteacher Laura, who is asked on a date by Andrew, the handsome sin- gle father of a child in her class. She’s initially reluctant as she’s only just broken up with her Actor Courtney B. Vance and his wife Actress Angela Basset. boyfriend. But to her surprise, she and Andrew have a great evening. He ends up coming back to her place to call a taxi. Cut to the next morn- ing. Laura is lying in bed, a hollow look in her Courtney B. Vance Joins Tom eyes. She goes to her sister’s house-to tell her that she has been raped. Andrew doesn’t deny that he and Laura slept Cruise in ‘The Mummy’ Reboot together, but he furiously denies that it was rape. As the series unfolds, we start to question ot on the heels of his critically and will produce alongside Morgan and whether Laura’s account of what happened is to acclaimed performance as Johnnie Sean Daniel. be believed or if she’s deliberately targeting an HCochran in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Jon Spaihts is penning the script. Plot innocent man. Simpson,” Courtney B. Vance has joined the details are vague other than the fact that “Liar” is a “compelling and deeply emotional cast of “The Mummy” for Universal Pictures- the pic will be set in the present day, unlike thriller.” “It is a timely and frightening dissection the first film in the studio’s new production the previous three installments starring of the politics of consent, the burden of proof endeavor that will expand and unify a net- Brendan Fraser. Universal Executive VP of and the destructive power of social justice,” Brothers and Writers Harry and Jack Williams. work of classic monster movies. Production Jon Mone and VP of All3Media states. described it as “a hard-charging, unfailingly sus- anticipated French premiere and the second Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis and Sofia Development Jay Polidoro will oversee the The miniseries is the first full production from penseful mystery.” It was nominated for an season is filming in Brussels. Jack and Harry have Boutella also star, in the film, which is set to project for the studio. Vance is represented the Williams brothers’ production company, Two Emmy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. made a genuine impact on the British drama bow on June 9, 2017. Vance will play a by Gersh, Lighthouse Entertainment and Brothers Pictures, which was established in 2012. Alongside the drama output are comedies scene, and we at All3Media Intl. are delighted to colonel in the pic. The studio tapped Alex attorney Darrell Miller of Fox Rothschild. “The Missing,” which made a big impact on the “Fried” and “Tripped.” Further dramas are in be presenting Two Brothers to the European co- Kurtzman and Chris Morgan last summer to Deadline Hollywood first reported the British drama scene, is now filming its second development. “This year’s Series Mania sees us production community,” Rachel Glaister, exec VP help develop a monster universe with news. — Reuters season in Brussels. The show, which they pro- launching Two Brothers’ first full production in press and marketing says. — Reuters rebooted versions of the studio’s classic duced with New Pictures, aired on the BBC in the ‘Liar’ to the international co-production market, films. Kurtzman is also on board to direct, UK and Starz in the US The Wall Street Journal at a time when ‘The Missing’ is receiving its much

MIAMI: Palace Nursing & Rehab Center.

101-year-old Florida woman A screen shot from the ‘Jungle Book’ Movie. gets second chance at prom ‘Jungle Book’ Swinging to 101-year-old Florida woman is get- for about 75 seniors at the Palace Nursing ting a second chance at prom. & Rehab. Nursing home staff will vote for AEleanor Bessin says she attended her a prom king and queen during Thursday’s prom on a boat in Boston with a man she prom. Resident Sadie Gilbert, 86, says she Huge $87 Million Opening had been planning to marry. However, he was never invited to her high school went off to serve in World War II, and when prom but will now get the chance to lowing past forecasts, Disney’s “The Jungle lion budget, is the latest in Disney’s lucrative re- with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score. he returned, he developed cancer and died. attend. — AP Book” is dominating the US box office with imagining of classic stories. “Cinderella” took in The fourth weekend of “Batman v Superman: She still carries his picture. Ban impressive $87 million opening week- $67.9 million on its debut weekend last year en Dawn of Justice” and Melissa McCarthy’s “The Student government leaders from TER- end at 4,028 sites, yesterday’s estimates showed. route to a $201.2 million domestic total and a Boss” are both fading fast in a battle for third RA High School are setting up the dance “The Jungle Book” will notch the third-highest $542.7 million global haul. “Maleficent” opened place. Warner Bros.’ costly superhero tentpole is opening weekend of 2016 after “Batman v two years ago with $69.4 million on its way to a sliding about 60% to $9.4 million at 3,505 loca- Superman” at $166 million and “Deadpool” at $241.4 million domestic cume and $758.5 million tions to finish behind “The Boss,” which dropped $132.4 million-and far ahead of Disney’s worldwide. 59% to $9.7 million at 3,495. “Zootopia” with $75 million, which had been the “The Jungle Book” is based on the 19th “Batman v Superman” will finish the weekend top end of projections a few days ago. Century Rudyard Kipling stories about Mowgli, an with about $311 million in the US-with more than The family-friendly tentpole, directed by Jon abandoned human boy who becomes friends half of that taken in during its opening weekend. Favreau, soared to a robust $32.4 million opening with jungle animals after being raised by wolves. It crossed the $500 million mark internationally Beyonce day Friday. The live action-CG hybrid has been Favreau’s film includes Bill Murray voicing Baloo on Wednesday. embraced by critics, earning a 95% Rotten the bear, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera the panther, Lionsgate’s debut of its thriller “Criminal” is Tomatoes score, and by audiences with an A+ Scarlett Johansson as Kaa the snake and Lupita projected to open softly in the $5.7 million range Teases CinemaScore for the under 18 and over 50 demo- Nyong’o as the mother wolf Raksha. Newcomer at 2,683 locations-well below recent forecasts in graphics, along with an A rating for the under 25 Neel Sethi stars as Mowgli. the $7 million to $9 million area. Kevin Costner and over 25 groups. MGM-New Line’s comedy sequel “Barber Shop: stars as a death row inmate who’s implanted with Mysterious “The Jungle Book” also has a shot at becoming The Next Cut” should also generate solid business a dead CIA agent’s memories to complete an the second-best April launch of all time if it can in its opening weekend with about $20 million at unfinished assignment. — Reuters top 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” 2,661 sites. Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, ‘Lemonade’ at $95 million. “Furious 7” set the April mark last Common, Regina Hall and Nicki Minaj star in the year with $147.1 million, while 2011’s”Fast Five” is third installment of the franchise, with MGM over- the third-highest grosser in April with $86 million. seeing production and Warner Bros. handling “The Jungle Book,” which carries a $175 mil- distribution. Critics have shown strong support

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eyonce and HBO teased a myste- Beyonce is no stranger to surprise rious “world premiere event” reveals. She launched her Ivy Park Stream: How to Bcalled “Lemonade” yesterday. The clothing line two days ago, and it’s singer and cabler posted a cryptic been two months since she debuted a video on their sites and social media surprise first single and music video, Watch Online platforms about the airdate April 23, 9 “Formation,” from her upcoming album p.m. ET. No further details were provid- ahead of her Super Bowl halftime per- ot in the desert this weekend? That’s ed and HBO did not immediately formance. She also announced a world ok-you can avoid the long lines and respond to a request for comment. tour, which will kick off on April 27 in Npricey tickets by watching a free live The brief clip shows Beyonce-sport- Miami. She’s expected to release a new stream of the Coachella Music and Arts ing blonde braids and a fur coat-lean- album later this year, but has not Festival on YouTube. This year’s headliners ing against the hood of a car while she revealed a date. are Guns N’ Roses, LCD Soundsystem and whispers “What am I gonna do love, She released her last album, Calvin Harris. Other performers include Ice what am I gonna do,” with the phrase Beyonce, as a surprise in 2013. HBO Cube, Sia, Major Lazer and A$AP Rocky. The “gonna do” echoing. Rumors have aired the 2014 special “On the Run Tour: two-weekend, three-day festival takes place swirled over the last few months that Beyonce and Jay Z,” as well as the 2013 April 15-17 and April 22-24 in Indio, “Project Lemonade” is an album-film. documentary “Beyonce: Life Is but a California. — Reuters The songstress started posting lemon- Dream.”— Reuters themed photos on Instagram six months ago.

A photo showing last year’s Coachella festival. CBS and Big Ticket claim an agent was paid $17 million ‘for doing nothing’

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Models wait at the paddock during qualifying for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yesterday. — AFP Titanic anniversary: How the tragedy hit Hollywood and Broadway pril 15 marks the anniversary of the sinking of the contributed to the emotional power of the film. and restaurants in the past week; the audiences who opted line that the Titanic was being towed into Halifax.” During Titanic, which ended its maiden voyage disastrously Like most of the other film and TV depictions, to attend the theater were glum, while various musical and the show, one of the men in her theater party stepped out Ain 1912. There have been many depictions of the Cameron’s film concentrated on the events from the comedy shows “had an air of funeral services.” for a drink and then “With almost unpardonable stupidity, sinking, including the 1953 Fox film “Titanic” and the 1958 onboard perspective. Few people write about the effect on The ship hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14; three brought the young woman information about the proba- “A Night to Remember.” For many, the definitive version the rest of the population. And Variety Archives show that hours later, it split in half and sank; of the 2,224 passengers, ble fate of her brother. ... She promptly dropped into a was James Cameron’s 1997 “Titanic,” the 11-time Oscar win- it had a profound effect on people, similar to such events 1,500 were killed. News traveled more slowly in those days, dead faint, almost precipitating a panic in the music hall.” ner with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. as 9/11 or the Paris terrorist attacks last November. After and on the evening of April 15, people in New York pro- At the Cohan Theatre that evening, some audience Among the many dramatizations was a 1943 German the sinking, the White Star line sent out a report saying the ceeded as usual. members stepped outside during intermission of “The Wall propaganda film (sometimes referred to as “Nazi Titanic”), ship had survived the iceberg and that everyone was fine. Street Girl” and saw news bulletins posted outside the which combined fictional characters with the real-life When the public learned the truth, they were shaken and Related Film Review: Titanic (1997) Times building. They returned and spread the word to the events. That set the pattern for most subsequent depic- depressed. Variety reported that the unnamed sister of Benjamin rest of the audience, “with an almost dead silence fastening tions, including the 1953 edition (directed by Jean On April 20, 1912, a Variety story was headlined Guggenheim went to the Winter Garden that evening: “She itself upon the remainder of the performance.” Negulesco, and starring Clifton Webb and Barbara “Paralyzing Titanic Terror Casts Pall Over Theatres.” The arti- had been assured in the afternoon that everything was all Otherwise, humans did the same things that they Stanwyck). When the British 1958 “Night to Remember” cle said that attendance had dropped steeply at theaters right, following the false report sent out by the White Star always do in the wake of a calamity: Some panicked, some opened, it was an eye-opener, since the filmmakers tried to help and some tried to make a fast buck. Variety emphasized realism, aiming for a documentary feel and reported that within the first two weeks after the sinking, basing much of the action on facts they learned from actu- nearly 50 American vaudeville acts cancelled their engage- al survivors. ments in Britain, declining to cross the Atlantic. Tourists That film, directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring were also spooked: “Cancellations commenced to flood the Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Lightoller, still steamship agencies. It is expected that ocean travel will be remains the favorite of many Titaniacs. While its realism very light this season.” was impressive, the film missed out on one detail: The boat Meanwhile, plucky people worked to make things bet- was shown sinking in one piece. There had been conflict- ter. The Women’s Titanic Memorial Society raised $10,000 ing reports from traumatized eyewitnesses, so generally for the survivors; in Boston, The Actors’ Fund Benefit prom- filmmakers stuck with the theory that the Titanic ended ised that 25% of proceeds from all shows on May 4 would intact. However, when the remains of the ship were discov- be given to the Titanic Fund, which resulted in across-the- ered in 1985, divers found that the ship had indeed split in board sellout business. half, a detail that was crucial to Cameron’s version. And of course scam artists tried to make money. In When his film was in production in Mexico, the media Philadelphia, the Police Department warned all theater reported breathlessly on every new detail of its budget managers they would be breaking the law if they showed increases and its delays in completion. Variety had a reels of fake footage pretending to depict the sinking of “Titanic Watch” logo on its stories, a clear indication that the Titanic, the rescue of survivors “and other scenes these reports were going to be an ongoing feature for attending the recent calamity.” Law enforcement in other many months. Finally the film opened on Dec. 19, 1997, cities similarly tried to squash this deception. and while critical reaction was mixed, every reviewer made And while the public went into mourning in April, they mention of the budget, which was estimated at a record- recovered quickly. On May 25, A British producer breaking $200 million. announced that a staging of the Titanic disaster, “with all Nobody predicted that the film would break records in realistic details,” would debut in a Gloucester vaudeville every other area. It was the first film to pass $1 billion at show. And in Chicago, a spectacle called “The Sinking of the box office. It tied the Oscar record with 14 nominations the Titanic” opened at White City Park, replacing a re - and 11 wins. The soundtrack and theme song (“My Heart enactment of the Battle of Manila. — Reuters Will Go On”) were mega-hits. It was the first DVD to sell 1 million copies. Though there is no data to prove it, the film probably increased the sale of Kleenex as well. People responded to the central love story, but the re- creation of the Titanic-and the breakthrough visual effects- The real Titanic beginning its failed journey in April 15, 1912.