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TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 THULQADA 13, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Workers of Kashmir hit by Islamic State Suarez gives Municipality deadly unrest recruits Barcelona project not paid on India have poor edge in for months5 Independence12 Day grasp14 of faith Super16 Cup Row over medical tests for Min 32º Kuwait visa in Philippines Max 49º High Tide 09:31 & 23:42 New system could impact deployment of Filipinos Low Tide 03:42 & 17:20 40 PAGES NO: 16964 150 FILS KUWAIT: A crisis is brewing in the Philippines over medical tests for Filipino workers coming to Kuwait. A new system, implemented on Aug 8, now limits the 80,000+ Filipino Rashidi returns to rousing welcome applicants seeking jobs in Kuwait to only seven medical clinics. The clinics are run by a private firm, Winston Q8 By Meshaal Al-Enezi Certification Solutions Inc, that is allegedly working in con- cert with the Kuwait Embassy in the Philippines. According KUWAIT: Kuwaiti shooter Abdullah Al-Turki Al-Rashidi, to its website www.winstonkw.com, the firm also “repre- who won the bronze medal in the men’s skeet event at the Rio Olympics, was welcomed at the airport yester- sents the Ministry of Health in Kuwait”. day after his arrival home. Rashidi bagged the bronze The plan has stirred controversy in Manila and led to medal days after the historic gold medal won by dou- calls for a government investigation into the matter. Critics ble trap shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani, who returned on allege the new system overrides Philippines’ sovereignty Sunday. Rashidi nailed 123 targets out of 125, taking with regards to Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) matters first place in the qualifiers among 32 shooters. He then and unfairly hikes up test fees for Filipinos planning to outshot two others to qualify for the bronze medal work in Kuwait. Medical tests and certifications will now shoot-off, and finally overpowered his Ukrainian chal- cost KD 55, triple the current regulated fees. lenger for the bronze. The new system is only applicable to Filipinos who are An emotional Rashidi said his win is dedicated to HH applying for jobs in Kuwait. It is not clear why Kuwait was the Amir, HH the Crown Prince and the Kuwait people. singled out as applicants to other GCC states can continue “I dedicate this medal to all Kuwaitis - Sunni, Shiite, using any GCC Accredited Medical Association (GAMCA) or Hadhar (urbanites) and Bedouin. If I could present my Department of Health (DOH) accredited clinic for the nec- soul for Kuwait, I would have done it, and if raising the essary medical tests. Kuwait flag meant laying down my life, I would have Filipino news site The Rappler noted that the new sys- done it too,” he said. The six-time Olympian quipped tem could impact deployment of Filipino personnel to that the medal in Brazil came 20 years late, wishing Kuwait. This would affect both workers and employers in Kuwait more achievements in the future. Kuwait and possibly create a slowdown in availability of Acting National Assembly Speaker Abdullah Al- Filipino workers here. The new system breaks the monop- Tameemi thanked the Shooting Sports Club for this oly held by GAMCA clinics in the Philippines that have also achievement, as well as the shooters who won the been criticized for failure to abide by the 2015 law that medals. State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh gives every Filipino migrant worker “the freedom to Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak said this achieve- choose any DOH-accredited or DOH-operated clinics to ment is a source of pride for Kuwait, and commended conduct their medical examinations”. the athletes’ efforts, especially Deehani and Rashidi, There has been controversy over health centers in other and wished Kuwait more achievements. He also labor-exporting countries too. In 2015, the Embassy of wished Kuwait all success in the future to lift the sus- Kuwait in New Delhi announced that the Kuwaiti authori- pension on its sporting activities, adding that Kuwait KUWAIT: Olympic bronze medalist Abdullah Al-Rashidi is welcomed by officials and well-wishers at Kuwait ties will henceforth accept medical reports only from will not bow to pressure. airport’s VIP lounge yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat GAMCA centers in India, replacing the services of Continued on Page 13 Khadamat Integrated Solutions Pvt Ltd. Continued on Page 13 51 to be stripped of nationality Children of divorcees, widows granted citizenship Dubai hands death sentence to child killer DUBAI: A Dubai court yesterday sentenced to death a Jordanian man convicted of raping and killing an eight-year-old boy in a crime that shocked public opinion in the United Arab Emirates, media report- ed. The Dubai court of first instance convicted 49- year-old Nidal Eisa Abdullah of kidnapping Obaida Sedqi from his father’s garage on May 20 before rap- KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah ing and killing the boy, the local Gulf News daily chairs the Cabinet’s weekly meeting yesterday.— KUNA RIO DE JANEIRO: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates after he won the men’s 100m final said. He was also ordered to pay 21,000 dirhams during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium ($5,700) to the victim’s parents, the newspaper said. KUWAIT: The interior minister, during the cants. In line with the graceful guidance on Sunday.— AFP Abdullah had admitted he raped and murdered Cabinet session yesterday, informed min- by HH the Amir to grant citizenship to the boy, also Jordanian, but denied kidnapping the isters about a recommendation by the children of Kuwaiti widows, divorcees, victim, the Dubai daily said. The defendant, who higher citizenship commission to strip 51 children and grandchildren of natural- became publicly referred to as “Obaida’s killer”, ‘Lightning’ strikes individuals of the Kuwaiti citizenship. ized persons, Sheikh Mohammad claimed that the boy “had willingly sat with him in Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad informed the Cabinet that it had been the car”, it added. According to Gulf News, Abdullah Al-Sabah, also deputy prime minister, given to a number of persons of this seg- thrice as Bolt wins is said to have “lured the eight-year-old to his car by presented the executives with the rec- ment. The move is in line with the offering to buy him a scooter” before having forced ommendation “due to fraud, false infor- Articles II and VII mentioned in the law of sex with the boy and then strangling him. mation and testimonies,” said Minister of citizenship, he noted. First gold for Bahrain But during one of the hearings, Abdullah told the State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Sheikh Mohammad announced on court that he had mental problems. “I was not con- Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- Thursday the Amir’s graceful instruction RIO DE JANEIRO: Usain Bolt roared into scious or awake and do not remember what hap- Sabah in a statement to KUNA following to grant citizenship to some 180 children Olympic history yesterday, capturing an pened that day,” the daily quoted him as saying. By the Cabinet’s weekly session. of Kuwaiti widows and divorcees and 120 unprecedented third consecutive 100m law, the death sentence will automatically be In turn, the ministers lauded the pan- children and grandchildren of natural- crown to confirm his place in the pan- appealed. el’s tasks to ensure that the Kuwaiti citi- ized citizens who have reached the legal theon of the greatest athletes the world Continued on Page 13 zenship is granted solely to eligible appli- age. — KUNA has ever seen. The 29-year-old Jamaican legend, competing in his final Olympics, powered over the line in 9.81sec, van- NYPD questions man in killing of imam quishing drug-tainted American rival Justin Gatlin who took silver with Andre NEW YORK: New York City police said yester- Islamic or ethnic identity. “Muslim community the street and took them to a hospital where De Grasse of Canada claiming bronze. day they were questioning a man about the members feel the double-homicide was a they were pronounced dead. Gatlin, who had been booed by the Rio fatal shooting of a Muslim cleric and his asso- hate crime, even though the NYPD has not “While we do not yet know the motivation crowd as he was introduced, crossed in ciate after prayers at a mosque in the borough labeled it as such,” said the International for the murders of Maulama Akonjee and 9.89sec with De Grasse just behind in 9.91. of Queens, an attack that many in their Action Center (IAC), which describes itself as Thara Uddin, we do know that our Muslim Bolt galloped away in celebration after Bangladeshi community insisted was a hate an anti-war and social justice advocacy group. communities are in the perpetual crosshairs a superb win, basking in the adulation of crime. The man was detained on unrelated cir- The emailed IAC statement announced an of bigotry,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio the stadium and even taking selfies with cumstances and has not been charged in the outdoor funeral yesterday for the two men in said in a statement. “Rest assured that our fans during his lap of honor. He then killings, a police spokesman said. Earlier, local the Ozone Park section of Queens, near the NYPD will bring this killer to justice.” Ozone delighted the fans with his traditional media, including NBC News and the New York site of the slayings. The victims, identified as Park, a diverse, largely working-class neigh- “lightning bolt” pose as reggae blasted Daily News, said the man was a suspect, citing Imam Maulana Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, borhood, is home to a growing number of out of the stadium sound system. “It was unnamed police sources. 64, appeared to have been targeted. The men, Muslims of Bangladeshi descent. brilliant. I didn’t go so fast but I’m so hap- Police have yet to establish a motive who wore religious garb, were shot a couple Millat Uddin, 57, an Ozone Park resident py I won. I told you guys I was going to do behind Saturday’s killings and have said there of blocks from the Al-Furqan Jame Mosque, not related to the one of the victims, said it,” Bolt said. was no evidence the men were targeted from where they had just left afternoon both men were born in Bangladesh. He said The victory left Bolt standing alone in Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet shows her gold because of their faith but nothing was being prayers. The gunman stalked them from he was close to Akonjee, describing him as a the 120-year history of sprinting in the medal during the ceremony for the ruled out. But residents and activists have behind and shot in the head at close range at “docile, calm” father of seven who was modern Olympic games. women’s 3,000m steeplechase final at demanded authorities treat the brazen day- about 1:50 pm (1750 GMT) on Saturday, beloved in the neighborhood. Continued on Page 13 the Olympic stadium yesterday. — AP light shooting as a crime linked to the men’s police said. Officers found them bleeding in Continued on Page 13 TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 LOCAL Amir’s $2 billion initiative for Africa draws further praise CAIRO: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah’s 2013 initiative for substantial aid for Africa totaling $2 billion has drawn further praise from senior Arab and African officials. Ambassador Zayed Al-Sabban, director of the Arab League’s department of Africa and Arab-African cooperation, described His Highness the Amir’s handsome initiative as unprecedented at the level of humanitarian aid as well as Arab-African partnership. He explained that $1 billion would be given in the form of soft loans to African states by Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Development (KFAED). Ambassador Al-Sabban was speak- ing on the fringes of a preparatory joint meeting to draft meets with Dr Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim Al-Fayez, Ambassador of the Kingdom with Vasile Sofineti, Ambassador of Romania to Kuwait. documents of the fourth Arab-African Summit, due in of Saudi Arabia to Kuwait. —Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Equatorial Guinea on November 23-24. Another sum, totaling $1 billion, part of the fund declared by His Highness the Amir at the third Arab-African summit hosted by the State of Kuwait in November 2013 with aim of boosting businesses and development in the African continent, will be used for infrastructural projects in the African countries, in addition to an annual award worth $1 million for research in the realm of sustainable development. The Arab League official added that His Highness the Amir’s initiative has given substantial boost to Arab-African cooperation, noting that funding had been one of the obstacles hampering common ventures. “The African brothers during the preparatory meeting for the Malabo summit lauded the achievements made by the State of Kuwait during the third summit,” he said. His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Meanwhile, the envoy of the African Union at the Arab League Ambassador Abdulhamid Bou Zaher echoed identi- Sabah meets with Vasile Sofineti, Ambassador of Romania to Kuwait. meets with Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Khaled Al-Jassar. cal views on the Kuwaiti initiative, noting it would certainly pave way for launching small enterprises in a number of African countries. He indicated in this context that the con- Amir meets ambassadors ferees in the preparatory meeting agreed on a number of projects in the sectors of commerce, investment, transporta- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Dr Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim Al-Fayez, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Kuwait, at tion and infrastructure, in addition to reaching consensus Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness also received Vasile Sofineti, the outgoing Ambassador of Romania to Kuwait, on the occasion of the end of his tenure. Meanwhile, His Highness “on the funding mechanism” for these ventures. Once these the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met Sofineti at Bayan Palace as well. Also yesterday, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- projects have been endorsed at the Malabo summit, “they Sabah received Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Khaled Al-Jassar. —KUNA will be ready for execution,” he added. —KUNA Kuwaiti leadership’s wisdom ended dispute with Iraq: Basra Governor

KUWAIT: Basra Governor Dr Majid Al- Nasrawi said yesterday that his visit to Kuwait aims to express appreciation of the efforts of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah to tackle issues between the two countries. “The wisdom of His Highness Sheikh Sabah and Iraq’s strive to strengthen ties with Kuwait brought an end to all disput- ed cases including borders and war com- pensations,” Nasrawi said in an exclusive interview. He noted that his meeting with His Highness the Amir, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Minister of Amiri KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Basra Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al- Governor Dr Majid Al-Nasrawi. Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday discussed KUWAIT: Basra Governor Dr Majid signing twin agreements between Basra Al-Nasrawi speaks during the exclu- and Kuwait’s Capital governorates. sive interview. —KUNA Interior minister affirms Nasrawi said the twin agreements are aimed at sharing experience and expert- modate 250 patients, noting that the proj- ise in different fields. Meanwhile, he ect is almost complete. The official hailed added that they also discussed providing the decision of His Highness the Amir to strong Kuwaiti-Iraqi ties facilitations to Iraqi businessmen and re-open Kuwait’s consulate in Basra, where merchants regarding entry and residency both sides celebrated the National Day of permits. Kuwait for the first time in years last KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad In that matter, he noted that Chairman February. Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah affirmed yesterday the strong Kuwaiti-Iraqi of Basra’s Chamber of Commerce and his Speaking of security conditions in ties on all levels. During his reception of Basra Governor Dr Majid Al- deputy will meet with officials of Kuwait Basra, the governor affirmed that it is safer Nasrawi, Sheikh Mohammad stressed the importance of security coopera- Chamber of Commerce and Industry to than other Iraqi cities, despite attempts by tion and information sharing between the two sides, according to a state- set a draft agenda for cooperation in the so-called Islamic State to create chaos. ment released by the Security Media Department at the Ministry of Interior. trade and business. The two sides also In the past three years, the terrorist group Meanwhile, Nasrawi said the visit aims to boost economic and security agreed on organizing a conference in was only able to target the province once, ties between Kuwait and Iraq. The meeting was attended by Governor of Kuwait to showcase investment opportu- said Nasrawi, adding that Basra is a vital the Capital Retired General Thabet Mohammad Al-Muhanna and Kuwaiti nities in Basra. The governorate’s officials economic city where most Iraqi ports are Consul to Basra Yousif Al-Sabbagh. are willing to facilitate investments for located, while the governorate also repre- Separately, Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malik Al- Kuwaiti companies, he added. sents 80 to 90 percent of Iraq’s exports. Sabah discussed with Nasrawi ways to facilitate the exchange of expertise The governor thanked His Highness the between both cities. The meeting tackled Kuwaiti-Iraqi ties and ways to bol- Surgery hospital Amir for co-patronizing the recent donors ster them, a statement by Farwaniya Governorate noted. Moreover, Sheikh As for Kuwaiti-funded projects in Basra, conference to support Iraq held in Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malik Al-Sabah Faisal Al-Humoud thanked the Iraqi official for an invitation to visit the Nasrawi pointed to the seven-story Kuwait Washington last July, where Kuwait presents a memento to Basra Governor Dr Majid Al-Nasrawi. southern Iraqi city, one he promised to accept soon. —KUNA surgery hospital with the capacity to acco- pledged $176 million in aid. —KUNA

Prices fall hindered development: OAPEC KUWAIT: Continuing drastic fall of oil prices has led to neg- ative impact on some development enterprises and added to financial burden in oil producing countries including those with membership in the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC). The year 2015 witnessed continuing suspension of some energy, infrastructural and service projects in the oil exporting countries including OAPEC member states, the organization said in the 42nd report of the secretary gener- al, issued on yesterday. This negative impact that spilled over to non-producing Arab countries prompted them to depend, largely, on remittances from the oil-producing states, in addition to aid and financial loans. The OAPEC states dealt with these challenges with vari- ous means; such as enacting legislations to liberalize fuel prices, lifting subsidies on petroleum by-products, hiking Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) officials are pictured during their meeting with Governor of Basra Dr Majid Al-Nasrawi. energy prices, adopting rationalizing policies, merging some petroleum companies, in addition to various other measures. The organization expressed hope that the Iraqi official seeks to lure Kuwaiti investments in Basra remaining months of the present year would witness glob- al economy recovery, prospected to lead to shoring up the KUWAIT: Governor of Iraq’s Basra city Dr Majid Al-Nasrawi oil-gas markets. —KUNA urged the Kuwaiti business sector to invest in the southern Iraqi city, given the bountiful opportunities in “Iraq’s econom- ic capital.” In a meeting with Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) officials, Nasrawi said that economic ties between the two Gulf nations have made headway, adding that both sides aim to further develop these relations. Moreover, he pinpointed the Iraqi town of Safwan as a hotbed of investment, given its proximity to Kuwait, adding that the town is one of the most politically stable areas of the country with plenty of opportunities to lure foreign investors. Meanwhile, he divulged about plans of holding an Iraqi investment conference in Kuwait with the aim of showcasing investment opportunities available in Basra. Speaking on commercial ties between Kuwait and Iraq, KCCI official Abdullah Al-Humaidi noted that relations date back to last century, as he underscored the need of a greater exchange of visits between the two countries for enhanced commercial ties. The meeting brought officials from across both nations’ economic and commercial spectrums to exam- KUWAIT: Governor of Iraq’s Basra city Dr Majid Al-Nasrawi meets Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and ine investment opportunities in the Iraqi city. —KUNA Industry (KCCI) officials. —KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 LOCAL Cabinet hails historic sporting feats in 2016 Rio Olympics Police praised for foiling drugs smuggling bid

KUWAIT: The Cabinet hailed a pair of Kuwaiti gle huge amounts of narcotics into the Helicopters deal athletes for their historic achievements in the country. The ministers were also briefed by the Deputy ongoing 2016 Olympic games held in the In a statement after the session, Minister of Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Sheikh Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Veteran shooter State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, about the recent visit Feheid Al-Deehani snagged the gold medal in Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah stated that the paid to the country by the French Defense the double-trap competition, while his com- Council of Ministers expressed satisfaction and Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, during which means KUWAIT: Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan met yesterday with patriot shooter Abdullah Al-Rashidi bagged admiration for the sincere efforts, exerted by of boosting military cooperation were discussed. the bronze in the skeet competition, sporting the personnel of the Ministry of Interior and Le Drian’s visit capped with inking a major deal US Embassy Press Attaché Heather Ward and Press and Media Specialist Rasha feats the Cabinet described as unprecedented. Kuwait General Administration of Customs in according to which Kuwait would buy up to 30 Budeiri to discuss areas of continued cooperation. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Moreover, the Cabinet also extolled the combating drugs, sparing the country such formidable military helicopters from Paris. performances of other national athletes deadly scourge and protecting the Kuwaiti Moreover, the executives were informed including Saud Habib, Khaled Al-Mudhaf, society of annihilating consequences. about a recommendation by the legal affairs Abdulrahman Al-Faihan, Ahmad Al-Afasi, The ministers were briefed by the Minister panel regarding the draft treaty with Tunisia for British company to Abdulaziz Al-Shatti, Fay Al-Issa and Abbas Qali. of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al- military cooperation, another proposed accord The Cabinet noted that these athletes over- Hamad Al-Sabah about the operation that with Switzerland on hosting citizens “without came insurmountable obstacles thrust upon resulted in seizing and confiscating 1.5 million consent” of relevant authorities. The Cabinet run Jaber Hospital them, proving that Kuwaitis can rise to the captagon pills, concealed in two tankers laden blessed the two bills and referred them to His occasion. with coal, affirming that the national security Highness the Amir, pending submission to the authorities are capable of confronting “anyone parliament. By A Saleh protective shelter. The hospital covers an Security achievement who may think of undermining security and The Cabinet tackled other various issues area of 220 meters squared with a con- During its weekly session held at Bayan safety of the people of Kuwait.” namely a recommendation to approve a draft KUWAIT: As part of moves towards imple- struction area reaching 725 meters Palace yesterday under the chairmanship The Cabinet prayed to His Almighty to safe- commercial accord with Malaysia, a MoU for menting the Cabinet’s decision to invest in squared. The minister said the hospital is of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh guard the “dear homeland and the people of sports cooperation with Iraq, a proposed and manage Jaber Hospital, talks are head- considered an integrated health center. Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Kuwait of such perils.” The Kuwaiti security accord for cooperation in agriculture with ing towards an agreement with a British It has five towers of patient rooms at a Cabinet expressed gratitude and apprecia- authorities have recently busted a wave of bids Albania and a fourth for custom cooperation company, as chances of American and height of nine floors and each tower can be tion for the interior and custom security to smuggle narcotics into the country that drew with Iran. They approved and referred to His French companies are fading. Sources said expanded in the future. He added that the personnel for foiling recent bids to smug- much alarm from the concerned authorities. Highness the Amir. —KUNA the Kuwait Investment Authority, Finance hospital has eight entrances, 150 elevators, Ministry, Fatwa and Legislation a catastrophe center which is considered Department and the Secretariat General of the first of its kind in Kuwait in addition to a the Supreme Planning Council, who were medical mall that is one kilometer long, asked by the Cabinet to study the proposal, containing various shops and resting areas have agreed on the British company and for patients and visitors. the final decision may be announced in Works to build the Jaber Hospital start- September. Jaber Hospital will be affiliated ed in 2009 as Kuwait looked to expand its to the Mubarak Al-Kabeer health zone. free-of-charge medical services provided to Jaber Hospital is considered the largest Kuwaiti citizens at its overcrowded public hospital in the Middle East with a total of hospitals that are accessed by both Kuwaiti 1,168 beds. The hospital also has three heli- and expatriate patients. The hospital is slat- pads, a parking lot with a 5,000 car capacity ed to open before the end of the year, the in addition to 50 ambulances. It also has a health ministry said earlier this year.

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Dr Hind Al-Subaih meets with National Fund for Small and Medium Enterprise Development officials. —KUNA Kuwait seeks to eliminate impediments to development projects: Minister

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Commerce and Industry, met with National Fund germane to an agreement signed with Kuwait and Minister of State for Planning and for Small and Medium Enterprise Development Petroleum Corporation (KPC) regarding impend- Development Dr Hind Al-Subaih studied vari- (SME) officials to examine ways to encourage ing development projects. She was also briefed ous strategies to eliminate any impediments youth to translate their ideas into special proj- on the works of the SME, which was formed in that could encumber development projects in ects, a statement by SME noted. April of 2013 with the task of ensuring an envi- the country. Moreover, SME’s Chairman Mohammad Al- ronment conducive to entrepreneurship, the KUWAIT: This file photo shows the Jaber Hospital under construction. —KUNA Subaih, who is also the Acting Minister of Zhair said that the meeting tackled future plans statement added. —KUNA Indian embassy celebrates 70th Independence Day Indian minister Singh to visit Kuwait

By Sajeev K Peter of around 70 domestic laborers who are housed currently in the embassy’s shelter. “The embassy KUWAIT: Braving the scorching summer heat, has the approval to send them back to India and thousands of Indians gathered at the Indian the process will be completed as soon as possible,” Embassy yesterday to celebrate India’s 70th he said. Independence Day. The celebrations got off to “In the next phase, the embassy wants to send solemn start with the unfurling of the national flag back all Indian illegal residents living in Kuwait. The by Ambassador Sunil Jain at 8:00 am followed by embassy is seeking help from Kuwait’s Ministry of the singing of the national anthem. Foreign Affairs in his regard,” Jain added. According The ambassador read out Indian President to one estimate, there are around 30,000 Indian ille- Pranab Kumar Mukherjee’s address to the nation gal residents currently living in Kuwait. Kuwait has NBK rewards on the occasion, tracing the growth and evolution about 900,000 Indian nationals, working as busi- of the world’s largest democracy over the last sev- nesspersons, doctors, engineers, chartered account- en decades after its independence in 1947. The highlighted several measures taken by the ants, technicians in the oil and gas sector, construc- Deehani $100,000 ambassador emphasized that relations between embassy for the welfare of the community. tion workers, nurses, domestic workers, etc. Kuwait and India have been historically close, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Gen The cultural programs included a musical per- warm and friendly. He commended the contribu- V K Singh is scheduled to visit Kuwait next month, formance by the Bohra community and singing of KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait Deehani’s achievement deserves tion of the Indian community in Kuwait’s socioeco- the ambassador stated, adding that the visit will patriotic songs by various Indian cultural associa- (NBK) presented Kuwait’s Olympic gold appreciation as it sets an example of nomic development. On this auspicious occasion, further strengthen bilateral relations between the tions in Kuwait. The presence of a large crowd rep- medalist Fehaid Al-Deehani $100,000 in the will to win and exerting all efforts he extended his warm greetings to the members two countries. Talking to journalists later, the resenting a cross-section of the largest expatriate cash, in appreciation of his historic win to achieve that goal, while at the of the ruling family and to all members of the ambassador informed that Kuwait’s Ministry of community in Kuwait reflected India’s rich ethnic, in the double trap event at the 2016 Rio same time raising Kuwait’s name in an Indian community in Kuwait. The ambassador Interior has extended approval for the repatriation linguistic, religious and cultural diversity. Olympics. international arena as significant as NBK Group CEO Essam Al-Saqer said the Olympics, he said. “I take this that the reward is “just a simple expres- opportunity to congratulate His sion of the bank’s appreciation of this Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- historic achievement by the Kuwaiti Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and His Champion, who won his first gold medal Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh and proved that Kuwaiti athletes are able Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on this his- to make such honorable achievements.” toric win,” Saqer concluded.

KUWAIT: Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain attends the embassy’s Independence Day celebration. —Photos by Joseph Shagra TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Green built Dollar stable Al-Aqsa Mosque against Dinar JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation KUWAIT: MP Mohammad Al-Barrak made a pro- KUWAIT: The US Dollar’s exchange rate (OIC) condemned yesterday recurring and danger- posal to build a ‘greenbelt’ around the South against the Kuwaiti Dinar was stable at ous attacks waged by the Israeli occupation forces Mutlaa City that is planned to be constructed 0.301 as well as the euro’s rate at KD 0.336, and radical settlers on the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque northwest of Jahra. The built would help block said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) yes- calling on the United Nations Security Council to sand from sweeping into the area, while it terday. The rate of the Sterling Pound sta- intervene immediately to stop the aggression. would include parks to serve residents of the bilized at KD 0.389 as well as the rate of Such attacks by the settlers have recently area, Barrak explained. South Al-Mutlaa City is the Swiss Franc stabilizing at KD 0.309. increased with aim of holding Talmudian prayers in considered the largest housing project in The rate of the Japanese Yen stood firm at the sacred mosque courtyards and hindering entry Kuwait with nearly 30,000 units. of the Muslim worshippers into the mosque, the KD 0.002. — KUNA OIC said in a statement. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Reflection of Kuwait City’s skyscrapers on the Hamra Tower’s facade in Sharq. — Photo by Joseph Shagra NCCAL’s gallery celebrates historical buildings

KUWAIT: Director of the NCCAL’s Museums and Antiquities Department Salman Boland attends the Kuwait’s historical buildings gallery. — KUNA

KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Art and Letters (NCCAL) recently held a gallery for Kuwait’s historical buildings as part of the its 11th Summer Cultural Festival. The gallery is part of the NCCAL’s policy, to promote aware- ness on the cultural significance of the build- ings, Director of the NCCAL’s Museums and Antiquities Department Salman Boland said. It displays replicas of heritage buildings, such as the Kuwait Gates, with explanatory data and photographs provided, he added. In addition, the event offers visitors a brief account of the restoration processes carried out by the NCCAL of the old buildings, for their splendor, and value in Kuwait’s history. Other replicas feature Beit Al-Badr, the Red Fort, the Sedu House, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Hospital, the Dixon Cultural Center. The Summer Festival, running as far as August 20, is organized annually with various events that help young people enhance their cultural, literary, artistic and scientific skills and abilities. — KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 LOCAL Kuwait makes no gains in innovation 77th out of 141 countries

KUWAIT: Kuwait showed no improvement at Kuwait ranked particularly poor in ease of all in its innovation standing according to the starting a business (120 out of 141 economies); rankings of 2016 Global Innovation Index (GII) Gross expenditure on research and develop- officially launched yesterday. The GII, produced ment as a percentage of GDP (107/141); Gross jointly by Cornell University, INSEAD and the capital formation (132/141) and Business World Intellectual Property Organization sophistication (132/141). The state did score a (WIPO) was launched yesterday at the United few so-called strengths including ease of pay- Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. ing taxes (11/141); Pupil-teacher ratio in sec- The index report measures the performance of ondary education (8/141); electricity output 128 countries and economies in the area of (1/141) and FDI net outflows (8/141). innovation which represents the majority of In the Gulf Cooperation Council, the United the global workforce and global GDP. Arab Emirates ranked first, followed by Saudi The 2016 index is based on 82 sub-indices Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, then Kuwait and Oman. which measure innovation through a variety of Kuwait earned an overall ranking of 77, the factors including human capital and research, same as its score for 2015. The top 10 coun- infrastructure, institutions, market sophistica- tries, in order of ranking, for 2016: Switzerland, tion, investments and business sophistication, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of knowledge and technology and creative out- America, Finland, Singapore, Ireland, Denmark, put. Netherlands and Germany.

KUWAIT: Pictures taken from the project’s site. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Major project workers not paid for months Company yet to receive down payment

By Nawara Fattahova The project is a parking lot consisting of six ments, and today we are entitled to four pay- floors that can accommodate 2,600 vehicles. It is ments of a total value of KD 1.4 million. The last KUWAIT: Workers, suppliers, subcontractors and owned by the Kuwait Municipality, which is in of these payments should have been paid in Oct other staff working on a vital project in Kuwait charge to pay for the project to the main con- 2015. We tried to resolve the problem peacefully City have not received their salaries since the tractor Eresco. Bayraktar claims that he has with the Municipality, but we didn’t reach any past few months. Some of them have left the already paid over KD 700,000 from his pocket result. So within two weeks, we are going to file project while others are trying to survive. This and has not received any of the four delayed a case at the court,” he said. case may affect the reputation of Kuwait and payments. After this experience, Bayraktar cannot rec- some companies may lose interest in executing “We only received the down payment of the ommend working with Kuwaiti institutions. projects in the state. contract - 10 percent of the project’s value - “When asked about my experience working “It is very sad to see the workers asking for which equals KD 483,000. The project should be here by the Turkish company that will be exe- their late salaries every day. I feel very embar- executed in 18 months, the first six for planning cuting the Kuwait airport project, I told them rassed when facing these employees daily, and and designing, and the other 12 for execution. everything about my problems with the the hardest situation was when one worker We started to work on the project according to municipality. I think such experiences will put came crying and wanted to kiss my feet to get the plan and are still working on it, yet we off foreign companies from executing projects his salary, as he has two children. I promised to haven’t received any payment,” explained in Kuwait. Also, I really feel sorry as this was an pay him soon, but I do not know how if our Bayraktar. important project in this location, which is problem is not solved,” Ertan Bayraktar, director According to him, the legal period to pay the notorious for a great shortage of parking of the subcontracting company of the project, first payment was till May 4, 2015. “Since the first spaces that our project would resolve,” he con- told Kuwait Times. eligible payment, we have not received any pay- cluded. Dead woman found in Jaber Al-Ahmad

By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: A woman was found dead outside a building under construction in Jaber Al-Ahmad yesterday. Paramedics and police rushed to the scene after receiving an emergency call reporting that a dead body was found wrapped in a blanket. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene, and the body was then taken to the coroner. An investigation was opened to identify the woman and reveal the circumstances behind her death.

Fake office The Relations and Security Information Department at the Interior Ministry said residency detectives busted an Ethiopian gang of 28 persons running a bogus domestic help office. The department received tips about their activi- ties of harboring absconding domestic helpers and making them work elsewhere. It said that the gang incited helpers to escape from their sponsors, then employed them with others. All those arrested were found reported absconding KUWAIT: This handout photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows people arrested inside a fake Homeowner and were sent to concerned authorities. domestic help office. warned to remove telecom tower 290 tires removed By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: The Jahra municipality emergency in Jahra clean-up team warned a house owner and asked him to remove a telecommunication tower on top of his house and gave him one week to do so. They KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality’s department of Public action against those who do not properly dispose of their pos- said the municipality will remove the tower, Cleanliness and Road Occupancy executed a clean-up cam- sessions and violate the rules. which was erected illegally, if he does not. paign in Al-Jahra where 290 used tires and 70 neglected cars The Director of the municipality of Al-Farwaniya, Saud Al- Surrounding houses’ owners asked the munici- were collected and properly disposed in Al-Naayem scrapyard Harbi, said that they have carried out several campaigns in pality to take action because the tower is dan- in a mere two weeks. Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh where they removed old neglected cars in gerous, and the municipality acted accordingly. The campaign will be active until the area is completely an effort to make the town more aesthetically pleasing. clean, said Engineer Mubarak Al-Buais, Director of the Harbi said that through this campaign, 46 neglected Municipality of Al-Jahra. This campaign was possible with the vehicles were removed and placed in Amghara scrapyard. Hospital fire help of different government bodies including the Public Harbi hoped there will be more of a collective effort to Smoke and odor at Razi Hospital prompted Authority for Industry and the Environment Public Authority clean-up the country, ultimately creating a healthier more officials to call the fire department. Industrial (EPA). Buais stressed that the municipality will take legal beautiful Kuwait. — KUNA Shuwaikh and Sulaibkhat fire centers respond- ed. There was no fire, and the smell was due to faulty wiring in the air-conditioning system. Technicians dealt with the problem. Separately, a fire broke out in the basement of a house in Andalus, and Sulaibkhat fire center responded. The fire was in car spare parts and paints store. It was put out without injuries.

Road project Farwaniya municipality emergency team removed obstacles in Andalus and Nahda near Fifth Ring Road to hand over the site to the min- istry of public works to develop the road. Boats, cars, trees, fences and gypsum are among the things removed. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 From the Arabic press Crime News Report in brief

Face-veiled 3% price increase in one year KUWAIT: Consumer prices increased by three percent last thief identified June compared to the same month last year, according to recent statistics released by the Central Statistical Bureau. KUWAIT: A security source said Farwaniya police have The highest increase came in accommodation (7.33 per- determined the identity of an Arab woman wearing a cent), followed by restaurants and hotels (4.05 percent), edu- veil who committed seven thefts as reported, but cation (3.48 percent) and furniture and maintenance (2.93 sources believe there may be more thefts that victims percent). Meanwhile, the highest monthly increase rate was did not report because of embarrassment. Farwaniya recorded in the restaurants and hotels sector (3.68 percent), police station investigator received a complaint from followed by accommodation (1.81 percent). —Al-Anbaa an Egyptian over sexual molestation and theft, who added the suspect is a beautiful woman. The source said the woman gets in lifts with expats, then when Egyptian manpower ‘irreplaceable’ the door closes, she removes her veil and rushes KUWAIT: Kuwait has no plans to stop the recruitment of towards the victim and kisses him along with other Egyptian manpower or reduce their numbers in Kuwait, acts, stealing his wallet in the process. When the door of Files Acting Director of the Public Authority for Manpower opens, she asks the victim to forget what happened. corruption Abdullah Al-Mutawtah said. “The Egyptian community The sources said several expats gave similar accounts. is the second largest expatriate community in Kuwait Detectives are in the process of arresting the woman. after the Indian community, and it is characterized by diversity as it includes university professors, doctors, engineers, accountants, technicians and construction Fatal accident workers,” he said. “They are irreplaceable in the Kuwaiti labor market, especially that many jobs in the country A citizen was killed and another was injured when depend primarily on Egyptian manpower.” —Al-Rai their vehicle flipped over in Kabd. Police and para- medics arrived at the scene and found a SUV Banking forgery flipped over on the side of the road with a female Al-Jarida citizen who was dead, and a man who suffered KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait urged local banks to fractures. He was taken to Adan Hospital, while the take necessary measures to combat hacking of bank woman’s body was recovered by the coroner. accounts by individuals using special devices to seize Al-Anbaa clients’ information. A ‘criminal organization’ was discov- ered, whose members use watches with built-in cameras Drug dealer caught and microphones to record banking card information and The ‘Zionist’ child pin codes, the Interior Ministry informed the Central Bank A citizen told Farwaniya Security Director Brigadier recently. No cases of forgery using similar methods have Saleh Al-Enezi that an Arab expat sells drugs to his son. been reported in Kuwait yet, but clients are urged to keep A police team went with the citizen’s son, who called By Saleh Al-Shayji an eye for potential suspects who might approach them while they are operating on ATMs. —Al-Rai the expat and asked for drugs, and they met near a will not face the killer of my brothers in a instilled our ideas and formulated their opinions, cooperative. The suspect was arrested during the game - it is more correct to face him on the stands and ideas and forced them to be like us, oth- exchange, and was sent to the Drug Control General “Igrounds of Jerusalem, and don’t consider erwise they will not be our children. Religious affiliations Department (DCGD). my mere sitting with him on the same table as nor- The same news item, in other details, described KUWAIT: Sharia College students have the lowest malization.” This talk is that of Tunisian child the other child who the Tunisian child withdrew sense of national belonging among all Kuwait Mohammad Hamida, 10, who withdrew from an from as a “Zionist”. So how can a child, who has not University students, according to a recent study car- Drunk man arrested international chess tournament when the draw led reached maturity yet, select a political stand and ried out by Education Basics Professor Dr Ali Watfa. The to him facing an Israeli child of the same age. take a political line among all various and different nature of studying at the faculty could lead to forming Jleeb Al-Shuyuikh police arrested a Nepalese man To start with, I declare that I do not believe such stances, views and ideologies?! Is it not possible religious affiliations for students, the study says, in an open sand yard in an abnormal condition. He talk can come from a 10-year-old child, who is pure this child may be an opponent of Zionism and adding that the university’s management is required had two large water bottles, two jerry cans and and innocent and not polluted with politics yet and member of a party that does not agree with to act against any sectarian practices that take place in three painting buckets. The man works as a has not entered its dark maze and hasn’t walked on Zionism?! campus. —Al-Qabas painter, and told police he cannot work unless he its polluted paths. I do not think that he withdrew We saw on social media a lecture by a Jewish gets drunk. voluntarily, but there is someone who formulated man who strongly opposes Israel more than Arabs his stand and gave him such talk. do, and rejected the crocodile tears of a Jewish Small projects If we believe the story with all its details, and woman as he described her, after saying that what Scam KUWAIT: Eighty percent of Kuwaiti youths’ small and medi- that this stand is truly coming out of this child, and Israel is doing with Palestinians is worse than what um projects fail due to procedures and lack of information A citizen was convinced by an Egyptian man to get into believe that he actually said thing them with opin- Nazis had done with Jews, though his father and that state departments are supposed to be provide them business with him, so he gave him KD 7,000 and waited ions, ideas and stands they did not choose for mother were killed by Nazis! Our children are a with, said Faris Al-Enezi, Director of the Small and Medium Enterprises at the Manpower and Government Restructuring for the project to start. But the Egyptian disappeared, so themselves, but we forced them to get it. We trust in our hands, and this is a heavy responsibility, snatched the freedom of thinking and the freedom and its holder does not have the right to mess with Program (MGRP). “Kuwaiti young men and women are the the citizen went to Fintas police station and lodged a com- of selecting stands from our children and we it as he wants. — Translated by Kuwait Times most motivated and innovative in the Gulf region, but they plaint. Detectives are investigating. —Al-Anbaa and Al-Rai are restricted by laws and legislations,” he said. —Al-Jarida

ABK’s 19th group of participants graduate from ‘ABK Academy’

KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) Learning and Development Unit in Hawally. and ABK is committed to supporting youth ing them onboard the ABK team and we these individuals, the Bank is able to build recently announced the graduation of its The training covered multiple areas in the who are interested in starting a career in hope to see more interest in Banking from on existing potential and talent, and better ABK Academy’s 19th group of participants. banking profession with a focus on cus- the banking industry. ABK Academy focuses Kuwait’s youth when it comes to choosing a identify the areas in the bank, in which they The Bank honored a total of 16 new tomer service. on developing employees skills and provid- career.” could put this positive energy to work and employees who successfully completed the Hamza Enki, General Manager of Human ing them with the proper guidance, training The ABK Academy was launched in 2009 excel. ABK will continue to play an active three week intensive course during a cere- Resources at ABK commented: “We are and best practice tools to ensure they have as an educational platform that focuses on role through the ABK Academy and through mony held on 11 August 2016 at ABK’s proud to see the 19th batch of graduates a solid foundation. We look forward to hav- training new employees. By engaging with opportunities that arise in the future.

KUWAIT: Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met yesterday with the Assistant Undersecretary for Tourism at the Information Ministry Jassem Al-Habeeb, as well as Director of the Tourism Department KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) concluded the final stage of its summer training program, which offered courses Majida Behbehani. The two sides discussed cooperation as part of the gov- for school and university students as well as employees’ children aged between 15 and 20 years. ernorate’s planned long-term development project. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

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SHIMLA: Indian schoolchildren dressed in the national colors perform a routine during India Independence Day celebrations in Shimla yesterday. (Inset) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at the crowd after his address dur- ing the Independence Day function at the Red Fort monument in New Delhi. — AP Modi urges unity; India marks Independence Day Indian PM blasts Pakistan, Islamabad hits back

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra “The world will know about it and that’s sufficient station in Indian Kashmir’s summer capital, Muslim-majority region, where the Line of remarks directed at Pakistan overshadowed Modi took aim at supporters of “terrorism” in for me.” Modi referred to messages of support Srinagar, killing an officer and wounding 10 Control, or de facto border, runs roughly comments in his Independence Day address in his Independence Day speech yesterday, ratch- he had received from people in regions of police and paramilitary troops. Two militants where the guns fell silent in 1948. In a separate which he touted his government’s achieve- eting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding Pakistan, including the restive province of were killed in the ensuing shootout, police statement, Pakistan yesterday invited India for ments in rural electrification, financial inclu- direct mention of month-long protests in Baluchistan, drawing a rebuke from Islamabad said. The army also said it had foiled an infiltra- talks exclusively on the future of Jammu & sion and health provision. Indian-ruled Kashmir. Modi also pitched a which accused him of fomenting terrorism tion attempt from Pakistan into North Kashmir - India’s northernmost state. New He strongly backed the fight against infla- vision of national unity and progress in his there. Modi was “only trying to divert world Kashmir, killing three militants. Kashmir has Delhi has already ruled out such talks. Analysts tion, endorsing a 4 percent target, within a third annual address from the ramparts of the attention from the grim tragedy that has been witnessed violent protests since a July 8 said the sharp exchange marked an escalation range of 2 percentage points either way, Red Fort in Old Delhi that, at 94 minutes, was unfolding in the Indian Occupied Kashmir over encounter in which security forces eliminated in the long-running rivalry between the coun- agreed with Reserve Bank of India Governor the longest delivered by the 65-year-old leader. the past five weeks”, Pakistan’s foreign affairs a commander of Pakistan-based Islamist mili- tries. Raghuram Rajan. He barely mentioned his gov- Yet it was a broadside against Pakistan, the adviser Sartaj Aziz said in a statement. tant group Hizbul Mujahideen. Modi also referred to Pakistan-administered ernment’s latest, and arguably most significant arch-rival also born out of independence from Baluchistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, was the As of yesterday, at least 54 people had Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, through which reform: the passage of a key amendment that Britain and partition, that left the strongest scene of a suicide bombing on Aug. 8 that been killed and thousands hurt in clashes with some of a $46 billion, Chinese-backed trade clears the way for the introduction of a Goods impression in a speech that otherwise focused on killed more than 70 people and wounded at security forces. Modi met national party lead- corridor is expected to run, extending south and Services Tax (GST) next year. He said only his government’s achievements. “What kind of life least 100 more at a hospital. A Taliban faction ers on Friday to seek ways to end the worst through Baluchistan to the port of Gwadar on that the GST would “give strength” to the econ- is this, inspired by terrorism? What kind of govern- and Islamic State both claimed responsibility. unrest in Kashmir since 2010. Both India and the Arabian Sea. “Modi’s statement is meant as omy, while thanking opposition parties that, ment setup is it that is inspired by terrorism?” Pakistan rule Kashmir in part but claim it in much for Beijing as for Islamabad,” journalist after a drawn-out battle, had come on board to asked Modi, who delivered the open-air address Kashmir raids full. The nuclear-armed neighbors have fought Prashant Jha wrote in an opinion piece for pass the amendment unanimously through amid a security lockdown in the Indian capital. As Modi spoke, gunmen attacked a police two wars since independence over the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times. Modi’s both houses of parliament. — Reuters Jordan slams Israel after California wildfire radical Jews visit holy site destroys 4 homes Crews brace for heat AMMAN: Jordan yesterday condemned Israel Israel and extremist groups and their blatant extremist groups,” he said. “As the Custodian of for allowing radical Jews to visit Jerusalem’s attempts to change the status quo in Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, I LOWER LAKE: Flames racing through dry coastline that has burned 113 square miles Al-Aqsa mosque compound saying such Jerusalem,” in an interview published yestern- will continue my efforts to protect these brush destroyed at least four homes and since late July and destroyed nearly 60 action could spark a “religious war”. Jordan is day by the semi-official Addustour newspaper. places and stand up against all violations of forced more than 1,000 people to flee a homes. Californians braced for heat Sunday, the custodian of the Al-Aqsa mosque com- “We will persist in undertaking our religious their sanctity,” he said. Jews on Sunday were northern California lake community that was with high temperatures expected to soar 10 pound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and and historical responsibilities towards Al-Aqsa commemorating the religious day of mourn- evacuated in a devastating wildfire last year. degrees above normal in the southern part has repeatedly denounced “violations” of rules mosque.... which faces repeated violations by ing known as Tisha B’av. — AFP Authorities ordered about 1,200 residents to of the state. Some counties in far Northern at Islam’s third holiest site. Jews, who consider leave 500 homes as the blaze surged south California also were warned of gusty winds the compound their holiest site and call it of the town of Lower Lake. The wildfire and increased fire danger, officials said. Temple Mount, are allowed to visit but not to spread to more than 2 square miles by early In Lake County, the fire threatened the pray on the esplanade in order to avoid ten- Sunday, and crews faced hot weather and lit- houses of an additional 3,000 people in sions with Muslims who worship there. tle cloud cover as they tried to get a handle Hidden Valley Lake, a subdivision south of On Sunday, around 400 Jews entered the on the flames burning largely out of control. the blaze, and they have been told to stay compound to commemorate the destruction “The fire activity could change in a vigilant in case they need to evacuate, of two ancient temples but several who tried moment’s notice right now,” said Suzie Blankenship said. Danielle Colbeck, 36, saw to pray there were expelled by Israeli police Blankenship, a spokeswoman for the the flames from her home Saturday and while two were detained. Jordan’s Minister of California Department of Forestry and Fire decided to get out. She told the Press Islamic Affairs and Awqaf (religious property) Protection. Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa that she Wael Arabiyat denounced Israel for allowing Berlant said more evacuations were ordered loaded her car with her two cats and impor- “Zionist extremists” to enter and pray at the Sunday afternoon in the Copsey Creek subdi- tant papers and headed to a friend’s house. compound. “Pursuing such measures could vision, east of Lower Lake. More than 700 “When you see black smoke and flame spark a religious war in the region,” Arabiyat firefighters are battling the 2-square-mile from your driveway, you don’t want to take a warned, saying that granting permission to wildfire burning east and southeast of chance,” said Colbeck, who lost her rental radical Jews to enter and pray at Al-Aqsa was Highway 29 in Lake County, and many more home and all of her belongings in the mas- an act of “tyranny”. Arabiyat also denounced are expected to join the fight throughout the sive fire that evacuated Lower Lake last year. Israeli police for “arresting and beating” day, he said. That blaze killed four people and destroyed Muslim worshippers at the site. Israeli police The fire was throwing embers and spread- more than 1,300 homes. It was considered on Sunday said Muslims had gathered around ing rapidly because of parched conditions California’s third-most-destructive wildfire two Jews who were being expelled from the brought on by the state’s historic drought, after ravaging most of rural Lake County and compound and began yelling at them. officials said. Large, explosive fires have torn parts of Napa County about 90 miles north Police pushed them away and three through dried-out or hard-to-reach areas of San Francisco. A report issued this week JERUSALEM: Ultra-Orthodox Jews read lamentations outside one of the entrances to Al-Aqsa Muslims were lightly injured in the scuffle. across California this summer, including a concluded that faulty wiring in a hot tub mosque compound, during the annual Tisha B’Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, Jordan’s King Abdullah II also denounced stubborn blaze near the picturesque Big Sur ignited the 120-square-mile fire. — AP “repeated violations and transgressions by commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples some 2000 years ago. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 US nukes at Turkey air base at risk of seizure

WASHINGTON: Dozens of US nuclear yesterday’s report from the Stimson eliminate risk. In the event of a coup, we Andreasen, director for defense policy study. “We do not discuss the location of weapons stored at a Turkish air base near Center, a nonpartisan think tank working can’t say for certain that we would have and arms control on the White House strategic assets. The (Department of Syria are at risk of being captured by “ter- to promote peace. Incirlik is a vital base been able to maintain control,” she said. National Security Council staff from 1993 Defense) has taken appropriate steps to rorists or other hostile forces,” a for the US-led coalition fighting the to 2001, wrote in an opinion piece in the maintain the safety and security of our Washington think tank claimed Monday. Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with ‘Avoided disaster so far’ Los Angeles Times last week. personnel, their families, and our facilities, Critics have long been alarmed by the strategically located facility affording While the Pentagon does not discuss Kori Schake, a fellow at the California- and we will continue to do so,” it said in a America’s estimated stockpile of about 50 drones and warplanes fast access to IS where it stores nuclear assets, the bombs based Hoover Institution, noted in a writ- statement. The Incirlik concerns were nuclear bombs at Incirlik in southern targets. But the Pentagon in March are believed to be kept at Incirlik as a ten debate in the New York Times that highlighted as part of a broader paper Turkey, just 70 miles from the border with ordered families of US troops and civilian deterrent to Russia and to demonstrate “American nuclear forces cannot be used into the Pentagon’s nuclear moderniza- war-torn Syria. The issue took on fresh personnel stationed in southern Turkey to America’s commitment to NATO, the 28- without codes, making the weapons tion program, through which the United urgency last month following the quit the region due to security fears. member military alliance that includes impossible to set off without authoriza- States would spend hundreds of billions attempted coup in Turkey, in which the “From a security point of view, it’s a roll Turkey. The Incirlik nuke issue has been tion.” “The fact that nuclear weapons are of dollars to update its atomic arsenal. base’s Turkish commander was arrested of the dice to continue to have approxi- the subject of renewed debate in the stationed in Turkey does not make them The authors argue that a particular type on suspicion of complicity in the plot. mately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons United States since the coup attempt. vulnerable to capture and use, even if the of bomb-the B61 gravity bomb-should be “Whether the US could have main- stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey,” “While we’ve avoided disaster so far, we country were to turn hostile to the United immediately removed from Europe, tained control of the weapons in the report co-author Laicie Heeley said. have ample evidence that the security of States,” she argued. where 180 of the weapons are kept in event of a protracted civil conflict in “There are significant safeguards in place. US nuclear weapons stored in Turkey can The Pentagon declined to comment Belgium, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands Turkey is an unanswerable question,” said ... But safeguards are just that, they don’t change literally overnight,” Steve on questions arising from the Stimson and Turkey. — AFP

News Turkish police search in Brief

Saudi intercepts illegal Africans in the Red Sea Istanbul courthouses RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has stopped a boat carrying 31 ille- gal migrants, most of them Sudanese, from trying to reach the kingdom, the Border Guards force said yesterday. The guards have reported repeated interceptions of migrants in the Red Sea over the past two months. In the latest case More troops captured for coup attempt role a patrol “foiled an attempt by a group of 31 people from different nationalities to enter Saudi waters on a wooden ISTANBUL: Turkish police raided offices at der guards in Kilis province. There was a war- boat,” Border Guards spokesman Colonel Sahir Al-Harbi three Istanbul courthouses yesterday after rant for his detention. “Our initial assessment said. He said the group comprised 20 Sudanese, six detention warrants were issued for 173 judi- is that he was trying to reach PYD-controlled Nigerians and five Ethiopians. “They were coming from cial personnel as part of an investigation parts of northern Syria in an attempt to seek Sudanese shores,” he said, quoted by the official Saudi into last month’s failed coup attempt, the protection,” the official said. Ankara regards Press Agency. At least 339 illegal immigrants have been private Dogan news agency reported yester- the PYD, the main Syrian Kurdish party, as a intercepted by Saudi border guards off the coast since the day. More than 35,000 people have been terrorist group due to its links to the militant first half of June, according to figures cited by SPA. The vast detained, of whom 17,000 have been placed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has majority have been Sudanese, whose impoverished home- under formal arrest, and tens of thousands fought a three-decades-old insurgency land lies less than 300 kilometers from oil-rich Saudi more suspended since the July 15 putsch, against the Turkish state. “In recent weeks, Arabia. According to the United Nations, since 2014 more which authorities blame on US-based runaway coup plotters have been trying to than 10,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his fol- leave Turkey via routes traditionally used by from Africa to Europe, which is experiencing its worst lowers. President Tayyip Erdogan demands the PKK to smuggle militants and weapons migrant crisis since World War II. the United States extradite Gulen, and the in and out of the country,” he said. purge is straining relations with Western Separately, a senior intelligence officer allies who Turkish officials say appear more said operatives linked to Gulen have had an 3 killed in PKK bombing concerned by the crackdown than the failed active relationship with PKK militants. “In near Diyarbakir Turkey coup that killed 240 people. recent weeks, runaway operatives that suc- ISTANBUL: Two Turkish police officers and a child were Police were searching the offices of per- cessfully reached Iraq have been accompa- killed yesterday in a car bombing outside the south- sonnel facing detention at the main Istanbul nied by PKK elements on the ground,” the eastern city of Diyarbakir blamed on Kurdistan Palace of Justice in the Caglayan district and officer said. The officer said some Gulen- Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels, local officials said. The blast two other court houses on the European linked operatives have been offered safe hit a police control post on the highway leading south- side of the city, Dogan said. The agency said passage to Europe in return for information east from Diyarbakir to the city of Batman, the local police took some of those detained away about ongoing operations and working governor’s office said in a statement, adding that 25 from Caglayan for questioning at a police methods of the MIT intelligence service and people were wounded including five police officers. ISTANBUL: Police officers stand guard outside a courthouse building in Istanbul yes- station. The homes of those being detained the military. Television images showed the bombing had turned terday. — AP were also being searched, state-run Anadolu Two fugitive staff colonels accused of the three-storey police building to tangled rubble. Agency reported. In the crackdown since Putin might use their rapprochement to Turkey later this month. Gulen, who has involvement in the coup were detained in Locals were also inspecting the massive trench where the abortive coup, more than 76,000 civil exert pressure on Washington and the lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania the central Turkish city of Konya along with the ground had been blown out. The latest bombing servants, judges and security force members European Union and stir tensions within since 1999, denies any role and condemned one person helping to hide them, Anadolu came after at least eight people, mostly civilians, were have been suspended and nearly 5,000 dis- NATO. In keeping with Erdogan’s tough line the coup bid. But Turkish officials say his net- said. They were flown to Istanbul for ques- killed on Wednesday in two separate attacks blamed missed, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on on Gulen, Yildirim told local reporters there work of followers inside state institutions tioning. It said one of the officers was on PKK militants in Turkey’s southeast. Hundreds of Saturday. would be no compromise apart from “this masterminded the putsch when rogue sol- accused of commanding soldiers to open members of the Turkish security forces have been Western officials are concerned the chief terrorist coming to Turkey and being diers commandeered tanks, warplanes and fire on protesters on Istanbul’s Bosphorus killed by the PKK in attacks since the collapse of a two- purge will impact stability in the NATO prosecuted,” according to Anadolu agency. helicopters. In another arrest, a prosecutor bridge in Istanbul and the other of ordering year ceasefire in July last year. The PKK has kept up member and a key partner in their war on in eastern Turkey, who had been suspended a raid on the state broadcaster TRT on the attacks after the July 15 failed coup during which a Islamic State in neighboring Iraq and Syria. Militant routes under the coup investigation, was detained night of the coup. Turkey is also seeking rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Turkish officials say they are confronting an Turkish officials say they have handed as he tried to cross the border into Syria on more than 30 diplomats who fled to other Tayyip Erdogan from power. internal threat. Amid the rising tension with over documents to US officials concerning Sunday night, a Turkish government official countries after they were recalled to Ankara the West, Turkey has sought to normalize Gulen. Washington has been cautious, say- said. as part of the post-coup investigation. relations with Russia, sparking fears that ing it needs clear evidence and a US He said Ekrem Beyaztas, chief prosecutor Several military attaches are also on the run Saudi troops get war Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Department of Justice team is expected in in Erzurum province, was detained by bor- after refusing to return home. — Reuters bonus from the king RIYADH: Saudi soldiers on the front lines of the war in Yemen are getting a month’s extra salary from King Grant us EU visa freedom or abandon migrant deal: Turkey Salman, official media said. The handout comes after an escalation of the 17-month-old war following the suspen- BERLIN: Turkey could walk away from its authorities blame the failed putsch on US- looking at other options. “But it’s clear that we on social media showed. In a statement, sion of peace talks between Yemeni rebels and the interna- promise to stem the flow of illegal migrants based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his also need to cooperate with other partners Turkey’s foreign ministry said it was “regret- tionally recognized government. King Salman “has ordered to Europe if the European Union fails to grant followers. Amid rising tension with the West, on buying and selling weapon systems table” that an international airport at the paying a month’s salary to active participants at the front Turks visa-free travel to the bloc in October, Turkey has sought to normalise relations with because some NATO partners refuse to allow heart of Europe was used as “a tool ... in lines” of the Yemen operation, which began in March last Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a Russia, sparking fears in the West that us to sell air defence systems for example or spreading such irresponsible, twisted and year, the Saudi Press Agency reported late Sunday. “The German newspaper. His comments in Bild’s Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to exchange information,” he said. Over the inaccurate messages”. It said the publication order covers employees of the ministries of interior, Monday edition coincide with rising tension might use a rapprochement to exert pressure weekend, Turkey summoned Austria’s charge of such “slandering” news reports were defense, and the National Guard,” it said, without giving the between Ankara and the West following the on Washington and the EU and stir tensions d’affaires in Ankara over what it said it was an encouraged by recent comments from total cost of the bonus. It comes as the kingdom battles a July 15 failed coup attempt. Turkey is within NATO. “indecent report” about Turkey on a news Austrian politicians. Cavusoglu this month projected $87-billion (80-billion-euros) deficit in 2016 after incensed by what it sees as an insensitive Asked if Turkey would leave NATO, ticker at Vienna airport. referred to Austria as the “capital of radical oil revenues collapsed by more than half over the past two response from Western allies to the failed Cavusoglu told Bild that while Turkey “Turkey allows sex with children under the racism” after Austrian Chancellor Christian years. In April, Saudi Arabia announced its wide-ranging putsch in which 240 people, many of them remained one of the biggest supporters of age of 15,” read a headline on an electronic Kern suggested ending EU accession talks Vision 2030 plan to diversify the oil-dependent economy. civilians, were killed. Europe and the United the 28-nation Western alliance, it was also news ticker at the airport, images circulated with Turkey. — Reuters Dozens of Saudi troops have died along the border or on States have been worried by the crackdown the Yemeni battlefield since the kingdom launched coali- following the coup. Some Western govern- tion operations in Yemen. ments are concerned this could affect stabil- ity in the NATO member and suspect that Russian navy starts drills President Tayyip Erdogan is using the purges in the Mediterranean Sea as an excuse to quash dissent. Asked MOSCOW: Russia’s navy yesterday launched drills whether hundreds of thousands of refugees including artillery and missile fire in the eastern in Turkey would head to Europe if the EU did Mediterranean Sea, the defense ministry said. “A not grant Turks visa freedom from October, Russian navy attack group started tactical drills in the Cavusoglu told Bild: “I don’t want to talk east of the Mediterranean Sea,” the ministry said in a about the worst case scenario - talks with statement. “During the drills the ability of the navy’s the EU are continuing but it’s clear that we forces to deal with resolving crises of a terrorist nature either apply all treaties at the same time or will be tested,” it said. Russia has previously beefed up we put them all aside.” its naval forces in the area to support its bombing Visa-free access to the EU - the main campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar Al- reward for Ankara’s collaboration in choking Assad. Two of Russia’s newest Buyan-class corvettes off an influx of migrants into Europe - has will take part in the exercises along with vessels been subject to delays due to a dispute over already stationed permanently in the area, the ministry Turkish anti-terrorism legislation, as well as said. It said the gunboats are equipped with the latest Ankara’s crackdown. Brussels wants Turkey to long-range missile system which was used to bombard soften the anti-terrorism law, which Ankara Islamic State targets in Syria last year. The exercises are says it cannot change, given multiple security the latest in a series of manoeuvres conducted by threats which include Islamic State militants Moscow’s forces since relations with the West fell to in neighboring Syria and Kurdish militants in their lowest point since the Cold War over the conflict its mainly Kurdish southeast. in Ukraine. European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has said he does not see the EU granting Turks visa-free travel this year due to Ankara’s crackdown after the failed military Iraq MPs approve five new coup. Cavusoglu said treaties laid out that all ministers after long delay Turks would get visa freedom in October, BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament yesterday approved five new adding: “It can’t be that we implement every- ministers after months of delay and repeated setbacks to thing that is good for the EU but that Turkey Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s efforts to replace the cabi- gets nothing in return.” A spokesman for the net. Lawmakers signed off on Abadi’s nominees to head European Commission declined to comment the ministries of oil, transport, higher education, construc- on the interview directly but said the EU con- tion and housing, and water resources, but rejected the tinued to work together with Turkey in all nominee for trade minister, according to a televised record- areas of cooperation. Selim Yenel, Turkey’s ing of the session. The newly-approved ministers then took ambassador to the EU, said last week that the oath of office in front of parliament. The cabinet issue efforts were continuing to find a compromise has led to repeated turmoil in parliament this year, making with the EU on visa liberalization and he the legislature even less effective than usual at a time thought it would be possible to handle this in when the country faces a war against jihadists and an eco- 2016. Since the coup, more than 35,000 peo- BELGRADE: Serbian army soldiers and border police officers patrol near the border between Serbia and Bulgaria, not far from nomic crisis caused by slumping oil prices. Four of the five ple have been detained, of whom 17,000 the border crossing Vrska Cuka, some 250 km southeast of Belgrade, Serbia yesterday. Serbia has recently deployed joint new ministers were the same as had been approved by have been placed under formal arrest, and army and police patrols on its border with Bulgaria where migrants are crossing the border, mostly guided by people smug- lawmakers earlier in the year at a session that was later tens of thousands more suspended. Turkish glers. — AP scrapped by a court ruling that dealt a blow to Abadi. INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 In Dallas, police bear the burden of stark inequities DALLAS: Antoinette Brown begged, in her final The impact can be hard to see on some streets in to the cops.” Police Detective Chelsea Whitaker gets Philadelphia, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio and words, “somebody help me.” Then she was mauled to Fair Park. Retired nurse Jametter Daniels, 65, lives a close-up view of such failures daily. “We can be Houston, according to a 2015 study by the Urban death by a pack of wild dogs. The 52-year-old home- about 100 yards from the abandoned house where glorified social workers,” she said. She recalled inter- Institute, a Washington D.C.-based economic social less woman perished in the impoverished Dallas Antoinette Brown died. Police often see the black actions with two teenagers who constantly got into policy research organization. South Dallas makes up neighborhood of Fair Park, not far from gleaming and Latino residents of her neighborhood more as fights at school. One of them had not been eating. about 60 percent of the city’s area and 45 percent of downtown skyscrapers and some of America’s wealth- problems than people, she said, and tensions run Whitaker took her to grocery store to buy food. “I Dallas County’s population - yet accounts for just 15 iest neighborhoods. The gruesome attack in May high. “They are just as afraid of us as we are on had to take another girl to get sanitary napkins percent of the city’s property tax base, according to served as a grim reminder of stark inequities, even as them,” she said from her home, with bars on the because nobody ever taught her that,” Whitaker said the mayor’s office. Those numbers can be read in the region’s economy and population booms. The doors. “When the sun goes down, I am locked up of the 13-year-old. “She is angry and fighting all the two ways. Rawlings prefers to see the upside. stray dog problem is just one of many facing the and armed up.” time; of course, you would be angry.” “Southern Dallas is an investment opportunity and poorest neighborhoods of Dallas, which was labeled not a charity case,” he said. the “City of Hate” after the assassination of US presi- dent John F Kennedy here in 1963 and has since ‘Jobs with real dignity’ struggled through decades of urban blight. Repairing the economy of South Dallas may be Today, the mayor and others tout a host of police beyond the ability of one well-meaning mayor, said reforms and social programs, but they acknowledge Brianna Brown, Dallas County director for the Texas the overwhelming challenge in bridging a racial and Organizing Project, a nonprofit advocating for low- economic chasm with roots in the city’s segregated income communities. “There has been effort made past. Economic inequality in Dallas, among the most that is different from other administrations,” she said. severe in the U.S., has long underpinned friction “Whether that materializes into something that is between police and low-income residents here - ten- really tackling the problem - in a systemic way, with sions that have come into focus nationally in a policy solution - is a whole other question.” protests over excessive use of force. Under Rawlings, the city has sought to equalize At once such protest last month, the shooting of infrastructure spending - potholes, streetlights, pub- a dozen police officers, five of them fatally, brought a lic transportation - among rich and poor neighbor- softer national spotlight on Dallas. The officers were hoods. The administration has also pleaded with pri- killed by a deranged U.S. Army Reserve veteran, 25- vate employers to move into poorer areas, and set year-old Micah X. Johnson, who said he aimed to up a private investment fund called Impact Dallas avenge the shootings of black men by police nation- Capital that seeks to raise $100 million to spur wide. The Dallas department won praise for its han- investments. dling of the protest, before and after the bloodshed, Some current city efforts in low-income neigh- as well as a training effort credited with a drastic DALLAS: Dallas Police officers and volunteers help pick up notes, flowers, balloons and other items at borhoods - such as regulating payday lenders and reduction in officer-involved shootings - to one so a memorial at the Dallas police headquarters before a rain storm. — AP luring stores offering fresh, affordable food - are far this year, down from 23 in 2012. well-intentioned but difficult to execute, Brianna The city’s Democratic mayor, Mike Rawlings, drew The weight of poverty, racial strife and mental ill- In his office overlooking downtown, Rawlings - a Brown said. The depth of the problems, she said, attention to reforms including a plan, dubbed ness too often lands on the weary shoulders of rank- former Pizza Hut CEO who produced record sales - demand bolder reforms to the city’s education sys- GrowSouth, to expand educational, employment and and-file police officers, said Eugene O’Donnell, a pro- takes a corporate approach to documenting and fix- tem and its economy. “There should be jobs with social opportunities in eight communities, mostly fessor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in ing societal problems. He has charts showing real dignity,” she said. In Fair Park, where Antoinette south of downtown, but including Fair Park to the east. New York and a former police officer and prosecutor. improvements in areas such as housing where the Brown died of dog bites, leafy parks sit next to The goals include building low-cost housing and “What police have been forced to do in this country is property value of South Dallas has increased by garbage-strewn lots and unpaved roads. Keena pushing for hotels, shops and office buildings to move perform triage,” he said. In Dallas, that includes cor- about $1.5 billion since he took office in 2011 - and Davis, 32, said going to an affluent neighborhood into lower-income areas. There have been successes ralling potentially dangerous dogs, among other weaknesses in others, such as high unemployment nearby, Highland Park, felt like a different world. He and disappointments, Rawlings told Reuters in an duties that extend well beyond routine crime, Dallas rates in many neighborhoods. wants his 12-year-old son to make the jump. “There’s interview. “I am not going to bring world peace,” the Police Chief David Brown told reporters last month. Of urban areas with more than 250,000 residents, a ceiling on how high he can go, and I want him to mayor said. “I am trying to establish objectives that can “We have got a loose dog problem - let’s have the Dallas has the widest economic gap between its break it,” she said. “He doesn’t deserve this neighbor- be achieved in a relatively short amount of time.” cops chase loose dogs,” he said. “Schools fail? Give it richest and the poorest neighborhoods, followed by hood.”— Reuters Flood leaves thousands homeless in Louisiana 4 dead as floodwaters wreak havoc

BATON ROUGE: Robert and Gwen Arceneaux endured a sleepless night Sunday after noticing floodwater creeping into their home - in a neigh- borhood that had never seen water before. They gathered up their dogs and a few bags of belong- ings and fled out the back door, eventually wading through waist-deep water to a passing National Guard truck. Now safe at a movie studio-lot- turned-shelter their worries weren’t over, as they tried to get medication for Robert, who suffers from lung cancer. “We need to get somewhere safer,” Gwen said, as her dogs panted heavily under the hot sun. Across southern Louisiana Sunday, residents scram- bled to get to safety as rivers and creeks burst their banks, swollen from days of heavy rain that in some areas came close to two feet over a 48-hour period. In high-water vehicles, boats and helicop- ters, emergency crews hurried to rescue scores of south Louisiana residents as the governor warned that it was not over. MILWAUKEE: Police take a man to a hospital after he was shot in the neck as angry Pools of water LOUISIANA: A vehicle is submerged in floodwaters in Youngsville, La. Louisiana Gov John Bel crowds took to the streets for a second night to protest an officer-involved killing in From the air, homes in southwest Louisiana Milwaukee, Wisconsin. — AFP Edwards said that at least 7,000 people had been rescued so far. He declared a state of emer- looked more like little islands surrounded by flood- gency Saturday, calling the floods “unprecedented” and “historic.” — AP ed fields. Farmland was covered, streets descended Violence in Milwaukee into impassable pools of water, shopping centers church as of late afternoon Sunday. Water was In one dramatic rescue Saturday, two men on a were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking creeping up to the back of the sanctuary, and they boat pulled a woman from a car almost completely above the water. From the ground it was just as cat- didn’t have any food or water there. underwater, according to video by WAFB. The after police shooting astrophic. Drivers tried to navigate treacherous “Everybody is just tired and nervous and wanting woman, who’s not initially visible on camera, yells roads where the water lapped at the side or cov- to see what kind of damage they have to their home,” from inside the car: “Oh my god, I’m drowning.” One WASHINGTON: Protesters threw rocks and enforcement. Several police officers have ered the asphalt in a running stream. Abandoned Rachel said. Steele said the flooding that started of the rescuers, David Phung, jumps into the brown fired guns in a second night of violence in a been targeted and shot dead across the cars were pushed to the side of the road, lawn furni- Friday has damaged more than 1,000 homes in East water and pulls the woman to safety. She pleads tense neighborhood of Milwaukee following nation in recent weeks-including five in ture and children’s toys floating through the waters. Baton Rouge Parish, more than 1,000 homes in with Phung to get her dog, but he can’t find it. After the deadly police shooting of an armed Dallas-following an outcry over the deaths The low pressure system that wreaked such hav- Livingston Parish, and hundreds more in other areas, several seconds, Phung takes a deep breath, goes black man. Police in riot gear moved in on of unarmed African Americans at the hands oc moved into Texas, but the National Weather including St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes. Gov underwater and resurfaces - with the small dog. As the Sherman Park neighborhood in the mid- of police. Service warned that there’s still danger of fresh Edwards declared a state of emergency Saturday, of Sunday morning, some 5,050 people were stay- western city around 11:00 pm on Sunday to floods, as swollen rivers drain toward the Gulf of calling the floods “unprecedented” and “historic.” He ing in parish and Red Cross shelters, said disperse an angry crowd and restore order, ‘I lost my brother’ Mexico. Most of the rivers have crested, but several and his family were even forced to leave the Department of Children & Family Services Secretary eager to avoid a repeat of previous violence “I lost my brother. I can’t get him back. are still rising. Approximately 18,000 people have Governor’s Mansion when chest-high water filled the Marketa Garner Walters. Even more people were involving law enforcement that has shaken Never. Never. That’s pain. That’s real hurt,” been rescued from East Baton Rouge and Livingston basement and electricity was shut off. staying in private shelters like churches. — AP the nation. Officers at one point used an Smith’s younger sister Sherelle said in an Parishes, said Maj. Doug Cain. Those were two of the armored vehicle to rescue a shooting victim emotional plea during a vigil. “I can’t look hardest-hit areas. Louisiana Gov John Bel Edwards and rush the person to the hospital. my brother in the eye and say, ‘I love you.’ I called on people to refrain from going out to “sight- Trump lashes out A police officer was hospitalized to be didn’t even have a Facebook to tell my see” even as the weather gets better. treated for an injury after protesters threw a brother I love him.” The shooting began “This is a serious event. It is ongoing. It is not rock that broke the windshield of a squad when a car carrying Smith and another indi- over,” said the governor Sunday. Four people have at ‘crooked media’ car. An unspecified projectile was thrown at vidual was stopped by two police officers. been reported dead, said Devin George, the state another officer, who was protected by a hel- Smith and the other suspect fled on foot. registrar for vital records. The death toll rose WASHINGTON: Donald Trump, clearly angered by am not running against Crooked Hillary Clinton,” met, according to police. One squad car was Police then shot and killed Smith after he Sunday when a man’s body was found washed up news reports that he has grown depressed and the Republican presidential candidate said in a damaged by thrown bricks, rocks and glass failed to drop a gun, according to the on a riverbank in Tangipahoa Parish. Mike Steele, sullen over his fading presidential prospects, has speech late Saturday in Fairfield, Connecticut. “I’m bottles. “Officers continue to have rocks authorities. spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Homeland issued some of his sharpest attacks on the media. “I running against the crooked media.” thrown at them as they work to disburse Mayor Tom Barrett emphasized that Security and Emergency Preparedness, said there Trump seemed particularly upset with a New small, disorderly groups in area around Smith had been holding a semiautomatic was an overnight spike in flood rescues in the east- York Times article that quotes unnamed associates Sherman and Burleigh,” police said on handgun, which was clearly visible in a still ern part of Baton Rouge. Two nursing homes were of his as saying that in private “his mood is often Twitter, adding that armored vehicles were shot taken from the body camera of a being evacuated. sullen and erratic.” Republicans close to his cam- deployed to protect officers. police officer on scene. paign were quoted as saying he was “exhausted, Multiple arrests were made, it said with- “That still photo demonstrates, without Motorists stranded frustrated and still bewildered” by the political out giving further details. Some 125 mem- question, that he had a gun in his hand. Police rescued people from cars stranded on a process. The real estate tycoon returned to his bers of the Wisconsin National Guard were And I want our community to know that,” miles-long stretch of Interstate 12. One of those message on Sunday, tweeting: “My rallies are not activated and placed on standby early Barrett said. The unnamed officer who fired stranded motorists was Alex Cobb of Baton Rouge, covered properly by the media. They never discuss Sunday to prevent a repeat of the arson, on Smith was black, according to who spent the night on the interstate before being the real message and never show crowd size or rock-throwing and shootings that occurred Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn. rescued by a National Guard truck. She was on her enthusiasm.” Later, amid a flurry of further tweets the previous night. But they were not Fearing for his safety, he was now staying way to a bridal shower she was supposed to host on the subject, he added: “It is not ‘freedom of the called to the areas of the latest distur- with relatives out of town. The officer has Saturday when flooding closed off the highway. She press’ when newspapers and others are allowed to bances. Some locals reacted with shock at been placed on administrative leave, as is said she had food intended for the bridal shower say and write whatever they want even if it is com- the degree of violence. “I’ve lived here for standard in such situations. Barrett, plead- and a produce truck about a 1/4 mile up the road pletely false!” Trump has complained for months 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like ing for calm, warned that the city still faced shared its stock with drivers - giving out fruits and about media coverage. He has stripped a long list this in my life,” Dominic Lebourgeois told “a very volatile situation.” vegetables to people. Hundreds of people were of news organizations-including the New York The New York Times. “I think it’s crazy, it’s gathered at Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge, Times, BuzzFeed, Politico and The Washington ludicrous.” ‘Tremendous restraint’ some coming in by bus and others by helicopter. Post-of their credentials, and vowed that as presi- On Saturday, an angry crowd of at least “What you saw last night was tremen- Matthew and Rachel Fitzpatrick, from Brandon, dent he would make it easier to sue news outlets. 200 people took to the streets, torching at dous restraint by our police officers. Not a Mississippi, hopped off one of the choppers with “Trump is right that most of the media want him least six businesses, including a gas station single shot was fired” by police, Barrett said her grandparents. The couple had been visiting to lose,” wrote The Wall Street Journal editorial board and auto parts store that were destroyed, about Saturday’s outburst, which resulted in family in Baton Rouge when the flooding started. Sunday, noting that is “true of every Republican police said. Individuals attending the rally 17 arrests. One officer was taken to the hos- They found temporary refuge at Hebron Baptist presidential nominee. The difference is that Mr fired dozens of shots, apparently in the air. pital after being hit in the head by a brick SYDNEY: A runner dressed as US presidential Trump has made it so easy for the media and his Church but became trapped by floodwaters candidate Donald Trump takes part in the annu- Violence broke out following the fatal thrown through a squad car window. The Saturday night. People at the church used boats opponents.” The national news outlet recommend- shooting of a local man, Sylville Smith, 23. mayor said four officers had been taken to al City2Surf road race in Sydney. Local distance ed the Republican party “write off the nominee as and big trucks to rescue others and bring them to runner Harry Summers won Sydney’s biggest Even though Smith was said to be armed the hospital, but all had been released. A the church, where helicopters started picking them hopeless” if Trump fails to act more presidential by and had a lengthy police record, the shoot- 16-year-old girl was shot-possibly by a stray road race finishing ahead of more than 80,000 Labor Day, in which case it said Trump should “turn up and flying them to safety Sunday. Matthew, 29, participants in 42 minutes in sunny winter con- ing and its aftermath bore chilling echoes of bullet-and suffered non-life-threatening said between 250 and 300 people were still at the the nomination over to Mike Pence,” the Republican a series of violent incidents involving law injuries. — AFP ditions. — AFP candidate’s running mate. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Catholics rally at French shrine under shadow of terror

LOURDES: Thousands of Catholic pilgrims thronged half have rocked France, with the July 14 attack in the French shrine of Lourdes yesterday for Nice shattering months of relative peace after the Assumption celebrations held under tight security bloodshed in Paris in November. French Cardinal after the murder of a priest, the latest victim in a Philippe Barbarin dedicated his homily to his coun- series of jihadist attacks. The gathering at the sanc- try, which had been “rocked by so much suffering tuary in the foothills of the Pyrenees is the first since January 2015 (when a satirical magazine and a major Catholic event in France since priest Jacques Jewish grocery were attacked) and which was again Hamel was killed by two jihadists who stormed his cruelly hit last month.” church during mass on July 26 and slit his throat. Barbarin said his message was addressed to “all Groups from across Europe, the Middle East and the faithful”, including Jews and Muslims. Only Asia travelled to Lourdes for the occasion, one of around seven per cent of French Catholics regularly the biggest in the Christian calendar, marking the attend church according to a 2010 survey. Local ascent into Heaven of the Virgin Mary. “We’ve come church leaders have sought to rally the devout in to pray for peace in the world, which seems to be in the face of the recent attacks, asking them to “pray chaos,” said Piet Tarappa, an Indonesian business- for France”. They have also asked Catholics to visit a man who came from Jakarta with 35 other pilgrims church yesterday and light a candle for Hamel, and a bishop. Lionel Ambroise, a 29-year-old French whose teenage killers claimed allegiance to the engineer living in Brussels, said he had come to Islamic State group. “reflect on the world and France in particular, which Following the attack, Muslims joined Catholic is going through a crisis.” worshippers at services in several churches to show Security was extremely tight ahead for this year’s their solidarity. The 85-year-old priest’s murder in pilgrimage, which culminated yesterday with an Normandy came less than two weeks after a open-air mass at the spot where Mary is said to Tunisian-said by investigators to have become radi- have appeared to a shepherd girl in 1858. Soldiers calized by online jihadist videos-slammed a truck in fatigues with automatic rifles slung over their into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in Nice, shoulders watched over the ceremony and a heli- killing 85 people. copter flew overhead during the mass. In total, 500 security force members were deployed to protect Bucking tourism trend LOURDES: A nun walks past a French soldier patrolling inside the sanctuary of Notre Dame de the crowd of up to 25,000 pilgrims expected at the Despite calls for unity, racial tensions have sur- Lourdes as part of the Sentinelle military force security mission during the annual Catholic pilgrim- mass. Worshippers had their bags searched on entry faced in some areas, with a mass brawl erupting at age of Lourdes yesterday. — AFP to the site, where bomb disposal experts with snif- the weekend on the holiday island of Corsica- fer dogs were on standby. The streets around the reportedly over tourists snapping picture of local Instead, organizers noted a late surge in way of living.” Lourdes attracts around six million sanctuary were sealed off to traffic, to prevent an Muslim women wearing full-body swimsuits, or bookings by people apparently seeking solace in people a year, making it one of the biggest sites of attack using a vehicle after last month’s truck mas- burqinis. The attacks have also led to a slowdown in faith. “It’s important to show that life goes on,” Catholic pilgrimage in the world. The shrine is par- sacre in Nice. tourism. Several major public events have been can- said Matthieu Guignard, one of the pilgrimage ticularly popular with the sick and disabled, who celled over security concerns. But fears of mass can- coordinators. come to bathe in a spring in the cave where Saint ‘Pray for France’ cellations by pilgrims bound for Lourdes failed to “It’s not because a few fanatics try to sow fear Bernadette said she saw Mary, believing the water Three large-scale attacks over the past year and a materialize. that we should abandon our faith, our beliefs, our to have healing properties.—AFP Washington mulls long-term uranium exports to Belgium Suicide bombers plan to target nuclear plants

WASHINGTON: The US nuclear regulator is con- Bombers filmed researcher 1978, the United States has spent tens of millions sidering long-term shipments of weapons-grade Belgium has beefed up protections at nuclear of dollars trying to do so. Nearly 100 global uranium to a medical research reactor in securi- plants after being rocked with security problems research reactors have been shut down or con- ty-challenged Belgium, something critics say at the facilities for years. In 2014, an unknown verted to run on non-weapons grade uranium, would set back global anti-proliferation efforts. perpetrator drained turbine lubricant at the but more than 70 plants still use HEU or plan to. With a final decision still months away, the country’s Doel 4 reactor, shutting the power The application at the NRC, published this month Belgian Nuclear Research Center is seeking per- plant and causing $200 million in damages. This in the Federal Register, is open for public com- mission from the US Nuclear Regulatory year police said bombers who blew themselves ment until early September. The NRC said there Commission to receive 317 pounds of highly up in Brussels had secretly filmed movements of are no temporal restrictions on HEU shipments enriched uranium, or HEU, fuel in a series of the head of Belgium’s nuclear research program. and that it approves exports only to users with shipments over 10 years. Police said the bombers, who were part of coor- “adequate physical security measures.” It will likely The United States has supplied the reactor, dinated attacks on March 22 that killed 32 civil- rule in coming months after the Department of which produces radioisotopes for fighting can- ians, had planned to target Belgium’s nuclear Energy and State Department weigh in. The cer, with HEU for decades. But the long-term research facilities before changing their minds. Belgian center says the reactor supplies about 25 nature of the latest request is unprecedented; The Islamic State militant group claimed respon- percent of the world’s radioisotopes used in previous agreements have been for periods of sibility for the suicide bombings. detecting and treating cancers and more in peak one to three years. The Belgian research center Alan Kuperman, coordinator of the Nuclear demand periods. In the past, some reactors have has told US officials since at least 2005 that it is Proliferation Prevention Project at the University switched to safe fuels only after the NRC threat- on the verge of converting to low-enriched ura- of Texas, said if the NRC approves the application ened to cut off supply of HEU. But one American nium, or LEU, not suitable for bombs. it would undermine efforts to swiftly convert working on converting the Belgian reactor said its But there is no definitive date set for that reactors and signal that the United States is not special need for high-energy density fuel means change. “Now more than a decade has passed serious about retrieving HEU. “In the wake of the no suitable substitute has yet been found. The and they are asking for another 10 years - that recent terrorist threat to the Belgian site, we Belgians are asking for 10 years because “there’s seems to be a bit preposterous,” said Armando have a request for bomb-grade uranium that is no other fuel they can use at the moment,” said Travelli, who until 2005 headed the US Energy unprecedented in both duration and amount,” the source, who spoke on the condition of Department’s program to convert research reac- said Kuperman who has filed a brief with the anonymity, adding that contracts for HEU exports tors to safer uranium and bring bomb-grade ura- NRC calling for a hearing into the matter. shorter than 10 years “drive the costs way up.” The nium back to the United States. If the Belgian Belgian research center said in a statement it is reactor closes before the end of the 10 years, it Atoms for peace committed to using only low-enriched uranium could leave the center with an HEU supply over Former US President Dwight Eisenhower’s fuel in the reactor “as soon as a technical solution which the United States would have little con- Atoms For Peace program launched a wave of exists.” It has the same security procedures as the trol, he said. global research reactors using HEU in the 1950s, country’s nuclear power plants, with permanent but experts soon urged tightening controls. Since military protection, it added. —Reuters S African jailed MARIKANA, South Africa: A man hawks his wares among hundreds of shacks con- nected by dirt paths which house mineworkers, in Marikana, South Africa. — AP for kidnapping Workers still without homes as newborn baby S Africa marks mine shootings CAPE TOWN: A South African court yesterday jailed a woman for 10 years for kidnapping a newborn baby MARIKANA: Mine worker Mziseni Zotyatha Homes,” one promises. The miners walk dai- and raising her as her own, before an astonishing coin- lives in a neat, one-room metal shack with ly between the platinum mine, ringed by cidence reunited the girl with her biological family. The plastic sheeting stretched above his bed to razor wire, and their tiny houses pieced baby girl, named Zephany Nurse by her birth family, keep out the rain. He must go elsewhere for together from corrugated metal. was taken from her sleeping mother at a maternity running water and a toilet. “I can’t come For decades, workers once lived in ward at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1997. here with my wife and children and expect crowded, same-sex hostels that produced Her kidnapper, now 52, raised her for 17 years in a case them to live with me like this,” says some of the most determined opposition to that has attracted huge media interest in South Africa. Zotyatha, 34, a father of three who works at apartheid. Lonmin houses about 3,000 The girl’s real identity only came to light in February the Marikana platinum mine owned by the workers in renovated hostels, according to 2015, when her younger biological sister began attend- British firm Lonmin. “I work hard. I deserve Amnesty. But that still leaves thousands of ing high school and pupils pointed out her remarkable to stay in a better place.” workers without adequate housing. Some likeness to a final-year student. Eric Ntabazalila, Four years after South African police shot Marikana workers got tired of waiting for spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, said dead 34 striking Marikana miners driven to new homes and built their own. The two- prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence for the kid- fury by poor wages and living conditions, room metal shack of Ntutuzelo Vukani, 44, napper, who cannot be named to protect her victim’s Lonmin has failed to provide the homes it is held together with nails hammered identity. “She gets 10 years’ direct imprisonment. We SISCO, France: Photo shows the place where three cars has burned close by the creek. promised for several thousand workers, says through rusting bottle caps. The roof leaks. are happy with that,” said Ntabazalila. “You cannot go About 500 people participated in a rally in Bastia in a tense atmosphere after a vio- Amnesty International in a report published There’s an outdoor tap, a pit latrine toilet out and steal a child and expect that the society will lent brawl between members of Corsica and North African communities that left at yesterday. Instead, Lonmin has built just and electricity from an impromptu connec- accept that, or the courts will accept that, or the gener- least four wounded in Sisco. A minor girl who witnessed the confrontation explained three houses, says Amnesty. About 13,500 tion. Five people live there. al public will accept that,” he added. the fight happened after a group of oungstersy insulted tourists who were photo- employees “are still in need of formal Hundreds of homes in the community, graphing women bathing in burkini. — AFP accommodation,” Lonmin confirmed in an connected by dirt paths, are in similar ‘It’s wrong, it’s a crime’ Aug 1 letter to the rights group. shape. “We were promised homes, but The Nurse family had been living within a couple of Third French burqini ban Squalid housing settlements without things are still the same,” said Vukani in his kilometers of their kidnapped daughter, while cele- sewer systems or other basic services are a native Xhosa language. He said he came to brating her birthday every year and never giving up after clashes in Corsica problem for mine workers across South Marikana to escape poverty but did not suc- hope of finding her. Once their other daughter told her Africa, whose economy was built on the ceed. He wants a brick house with an indoor parents that another pupil at school looked just like mining industry and its black, often toilet and electricity, so he can live a “soft” her, they went to meet the older girl and immediately BASTIA: A mayor on the French island of break up the fight. Prosecutors in nearby migrant, labor. That such poor living condi- life. A government-appointed commission thought she could be their long-lost child. DNA tests Corsica yesterday became the third nation- Bastia said an inquiry had been opened to tions remain at the scene of the country’s of inquiry that investigated the Marikana confirmed she was indeed Zephany, leading to the wide to announce a ban on burqinis, after determine how the clashes broke out. Sisco deadliest strike in decades spotlights how shootings found that Lonmin had con- arrest of the woman who had claimed for nearly two the full-body Islamic swimsuit allegedly mayor Pierre-Ange Vivoni said burqinis little has improved since the 1994 end of tributed to the labor unrest by not address- decades to be her mother. Handing down the 10-year sparked violent clashes. The Riviera resorts would be banned in the area from Tuesday. apartheid, the system of racial discrimina- ing the housing shortage. sentence, a High Court judge in Cape Town said the of Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet have also The burqini issue has sparked huge con- tion. Lonmin is in breach of its legal agree- Amnesty International says the problem woman’s crime was premeditated and too serious not banned the garment from their beaches in troversy in France, with opponents saying ment with the South African government to remains acute. It says Lonmin promised in to warrant jail time, South Africa’s News24 said. recent weeks, at a highly sensitive time for the garment goes against French secular improve housing at the mine, says the 2006 to build 5,500 houses for workers but relations with France’s Muslim community principles, but anti-racism campaigners Amnesty report which asks why the govern- never did, building only three for show. Dad wants time to bond following a series of jihadist attacks. The saying that banning women from wearing ment hasn’t enforced the deal or revoked South Africa’s Department of Mineral Zephany, who is now pregnant, was raised under a new ban in the Corsican village of Sisco it amounts to discrimination. Islamic dress Lonmin’s mining license. Resources, which oversees such agree- different name and has shunned the media spotlight comes after a massive brawl on Saturday has long been a hot-button issue in France, “The challenges are huge,” a Lonmin ments, did not respond to a request for on the case. The teenager was sent to a place of safety between locals and families of North where the full-face veil is banned in public spokeswoman, Sue Vey, said in an email to comment to Amnesty’s findings. “The cata- after the kidnapper’s arrest. But she has opted to move African origin. places. The row comes as tensions run high The Associated Press. “This is not an under- strophic events of August 2012 should have back to the home where she lived before, and has not It is not entirely clear how the fight following several attacks in France claimed taking that any mining company can do been a decisive wake-up call to Lonmin that formed any bond with her biological family. Her bio- broke out, but one witness said it hap- by the Islamic State group, including last successfully on its own.” A small white cross it must address these truly appalling living logical father, Morne Nurse, welcomed the sentence, pened after tourists took pictures of month’s Nice massacre when a Tunisian on a rocky hill marks the site where the conditions,” said Deprose Muchena, saying he was looking forward to building a relation- women swimming in burqinis on the ploughed a truck into crowds celebrating striking Marikana miners were killed on Amnesty’s southern Africa regional director. ship with his daughter. “It’s actually made me tired, it’s Mediterranean island. Five people were Bastille Day, killing 85 people. France has Aug. 16, 2012. At a dusty bus stop nearby, “The company’s failure to improve employ- made me sick completely,” he said outside court. “I injured and three cars were burned as the been under a state of emergency since IS campaign posters from recent municipal ees’ housing is baffling and irresponsible in couldn’t sleep for nights. — AFP rival sides hurled stones and bottles. A hun- members killed 130 people in Paris in elections are starting to fade. “Spacious the extreme.” —AP dred police officers were mobilised to November. — AFP

INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

S Korean leader defends missile shield as residents shave heads

SEOUL: South Korea’s president yesterday defend- defiant Pyongyang doubled down with a series of ed the proposed deployment of a US anti-missile ballistic missile tests also banned by UN resolutions. system as an act of self-defense against North Tensions are expected to rise again when the Korea, as hundreds of residents shaved their heads South launches an annual joint military exercise in protest at the plan. Tensions have been running with the United States later this month. The high on the divided Korean peninsula since the planned missile shield has been condemned not North carried out its fourth nuclear test in January only by Pyongyang but also Beijing, which views and followed up with a series of missile tests. the deployment as a US move against its own South Korea responded last month by announc- national security interests and a threat to regional ing deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude stability. “The deployment of THAAD is an act of Area Defense (THAAD) system-a move which self-defence,” Park said in her speech, adding that sparked domestic protests as well as complaints her priority as president was to “protect the lives of from China. “I urge the North Korean government to our people from the reckless provocations of the immediately stop all provocations and threats tar- North”. THAAD has also hit domestic opposition, geting South Korea as well as the development of particularly from those living in the rural county of weapons of mass destruction,” said President Park Seongju where the first battery will be installed. Geun-Hye in a televised Liberation Day speech. Her Residents say the system’s powerful radar will comments came as both Koreas celebrated the pose health and environmental hazards and argue anniversary of the peninsula’s liberation from that its presence will make them a target. Yesterday, Japanese colonial rule in 1945. more than 900 Seongju residents had their heads Stressing that “true liberation” would involve shaved, a symbol of protest and determination. “We reunification of the peninsula, Park said that could need to show our determination in order to stop only happen by removing the fear of nuclear THAAD!” the protesters chanted as men and weapons, missiles and war. She also warned the women, some in tears, had their heads shaved at a North that all attempts to provoke and intimidate local park. Some opposition lawmakers have sided the South would be counter-productive. “The more with the residents and called for the deployment to efforts (the North) makes, the deeper the country’s be scrapped, a stance criticized by Park. “I believe isolation in the international community will be and that such a matter ... should not be the subject of a the bigger its economic problems will be,” she said. political fight,” she said. “If there is any other way to SEONGJU: Residents have their heads shaved during a rally to oppose a plan to deploy an advanced The North’s nuclear test in January resulted in a protect our people and the country, one should US missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, in Seongju, South substantial strengthening of UN sanctions, but a propose an alternative,” Park added. — AFP Korea yesterday. —AP Abe avoids Yasukuni Shrine News in Brief

25 die as a crowded as Japan marks WWII’s end bus crashes in Nepal KATHMANDU: A crowded bus veered off a road and plunged down a hillside in central Nepal yesterday, killing at least 25 people, a local official said. The bus was heading Japan, S Korea strike conciliatory note on war anniversary from Kathmandu to the town of Kavre, about 40 kilometers east of the capital, when it plummeted some 500 meters TOKYO: Tokyo and Seoul struck a concilia- aggression in Asia”. Park, however, stressed down a slope. “At least 25 people have died in the acci- tory note yesterday on the anniversary of the need to look forward in her nationally dent,” Bhim Kanta Sharma, the deputy district chief of the end of World War II, with South Korea’s televised speech in Seoul. “We should new- Kavre said. “Rescue workers are still recovering bodies but president calling for a “future-oriented” ly define relations with Japan to forge rain is making their work difficult. We cannot ascertain the relationship and Japan’s prime minister future-oriented ties,” she said. But her final toll right now.” Sharma said an army helicopter had denouncing the “horrors of war”. Prime remarks coincided with the visit by 10 law- airlifted 26 of the injured to Kathmandu for treatment and Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual donation makers to the Dokdo islets where they met another 13 were taken to hospital by ambulance. Accidents to a controversial Tokyo war shrine but South Korean security personnel based are relatively common on Nepal’s highways because of again avoided visiting it, in an apparent there. South Korea has long controlled the poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving, nod to China and South Korea. South islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) which and death tolls running into double figures are frequent. Korean President Park Geun-Hye, mean- are known in Japanese as Takeshima, but while, called for a “future-oriented” rela- Tokyo has never renounced its claim. tionship with Tokyo even as a group of “We absolutely cannot accept this,” top Thai soldiers killed Seoul lawmakers sparked official anger in government spokesman Yoshihide Suga in helicopter crash Japan by visiting islets claimed by both told reporters in Tokyo, calling it “extremely BANGKOK: Five soldiers including a regional army nations. regrettable”. Abe and Park are scheduled to commander have been killed in a helicopter crash in August 15 is an emotional date in both visit China early next month for a Group of northern Thailand, the military said yesterday, a day countries, remembered in Japan as the day 20 summit hosted by President Xi Jinping, after the chopper went missing in bad weather. The in 1945 when wartime Emperor Hirohito while Japan is due to host a trilateral lead- UH-72 helicopter lost contact on Sunday while return- announced the surrender. In South Korea it ers’ meeting later this year. Abe sent the ing from Pai district in the mountainous northwest is marked as the day Japan’s harsh 35-year offering to Yasukuni as president of the rul- where it had been conducting flood relief operations, occupation of the Korean peninsula came ing Liberal Democratic Party rather than as said junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree. The to an end. China, which was partially occu- prime minister in an apparent attempt to northwest has suffered flash floods caused by heavy pied by Japan from the early 1930s to lessen criticism. rainfall. Major General Nopporn Ruanchan, command- 1945, marks the end of the war on A total of 67 members of Japan’s parlia- er of the army’s 4th Infantry Division, was on board the September 3. A frequent flashpoint for ment - 59 from Abe’s ruling LDP-visited the helicopter along with two pilots and two technicians. nationalist tensions is Yasukuni Shrine, TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) bows to an altar beside Emperor shrine en masse in the morning. Tomomi All were killed in the crash, Winthai added. The heli- which honors millions of war dead includ- Akihito and Empress Michiko to give a speech during the official annual memorial Inada, Abe’s hawkish new defense minister copter came down near the city of Chiang Mai, close to ing senior military and political figures service for war victims in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP who has been a frequent visitor to Thailand’s highest peak-a region that is difficult to convicted of war crimes after the conflict’s intense. Separately, Abe and Emperor earnestly hope that the ravages of war will Yasukuni in past years, was on an official access. end. Abe visited in December 2013, spark- Akihito both reiterated Japan’s commit- never be repeated,” he said. visit to Djibouti. But two members of Abe’s ing fury in Beijing and Seoul and earning a ment to peace at an official ceremony to cabinet showed up at the shrine in the rare diplomatic rebuke from close ally the commemorate the war dead. “We shall ‘Extremely regrettable’ afternoon. “I don’t think the way a country United States.He has since refrained and never again repeat the horrors of war,” Abe China’s official Xinhua news agency in a commemorates people who died for their Harvard ‘tops’ Chinese reactions by China and South Korea to vis- said. Akihito expressed similar sentiments. commentary said Abe’s comments missed country should be a diplomatic issue,” ranking of universities its by cabinet ministers and lawmakers, “Reflecting on our past and bearing in the mark as he “failed again to offer a sin- Sanae Takaichi, internal affairs minister, SHANGHAI: Universities from mainland China broke into while still critical, have become less mind the feelings of deep remorse, I cere apology for the country’s wartime told reporters. — AFP the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time yesterday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year. China’s prestigious Tsinghua University was 58th, beating elite Peking University in 71st place, in Unexploded bombs extend the “Academic Ranking of World Universities” compiled by the independent Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. The Yemeni war’s deadly toll National University of Singapore also entered the top 100 for the first time, tying for 83rd, it said. For the top 10, HASN FAJ ATTAN: Screams rang In Yemen and in other conflict Stanford maintained second place but MIT dropped from out through the hilltop village out- zones, children have been known third to fifth, with the University of California at Berkeley side Yemen’s capital after 10-year- to stumble upon undetonated balls and the University of Cambridge each moving up one spot old Youssef Al-Salmi set off a bomb or mistake them for toys, resulting to take third and fourth. The Shanghai Ranking is consis- he had found in a field, perhaps in deaths long after the fighting has tently largely static at its top levels, and this year nine of thinking it was a toy. He became ended. The July 20 blast that killed the top 20 were in unchanged positions, and another nine the latest of several Yemeni civilians Youssef and wounded a 13-year-old moved by only one place. The biggest change was by to be killed by unexploded ord- friend took place inside Hasn Faj Britain’s Oxford University, which climbed three spots from nance from the country’s ongoing Attan village, which lies near a mili- 10th to seventh. civil war, which pits Saudi and US- tary base that housed a vast arse- backed government forces against nal. Shiite Houthi rebels. The conflict Saudi-led airstrikes on the base Unfounded reports trigger has killed more than 9,000 people, caused a series of powerful explo- panic at New York Airport displaced 2.4 million, and sions in April 2015, blanketing the NEW YORK: Unfounded reports of shots fired at New destroyed much of the already lim- skies over the rebel-held capital York’s main airport triggered scenes of panic, evacua- ited infrastructure in the Arab with thick black smoke and smash- tions and huge flight delays late Sunday. There was no world’s poorest country. ing the windows of high-rise build- immediate confirmation of injuries or arrests, but Port UN-backed peace talks held in ings. Several mud-brick houses in Authority (PAPD) police evacuated at least two termi- Kuwait collapsed earlier this month. Hasn Faj Attan were buried under a nals at John F Kennedy International Airport as a pre- Rights groups and UN agencies hail of rocks and explosives. More caution, and gave the all clear shortly after midnight. have expressed concern that even than 80 soldiers were killed, and at Spokesman Joe Pentangelo said Port Authority police KASHMIR: Indian paramilitary soldiers gather besides bloodstains on a street after a colleague if the fighting is brought to an end, least 12 villagers were wounded. had received an ultimately “unfounded” call about was killed in a gunfight in Srinagar yesterday. — AFP the country will still grapple with a Youssef’s father, Nasser Al-Salmi, shots fired. A ground stop was in place until 12:30 am brutal legacy of unexploded muni- said the warplanes came one after for “security” reasons, the Federal Aviation tions, including bombs dropped by another, raining missiles and Kashmir hit by deadly unrest Administration said. Around that time, New York Police Saudi-led warplanes in and around bombs over the entrance to the Department (NYPD) Special Operations Division Chief the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, and in base. Another villager, Ahmed SRINAGAR: A paramilitary police commander the region’s worst violence since 2010. Harry Wedin said all terminals had been “searched and the Houthis’ northern heartland. Garadi, who was struck in the head was shot dead in Kashmir’s main city while four In a separate gunfight yesterday, two mili- cleared.” “All affected terminals will resume operations They say most of the deaths to by a rock, recalled how “houses suspected separatist militants were killed in gun tants were killed near the Line of Control (LoC) - shortly. No shots were fired,” he added on Twitter. At date have been caused by the toppled and people screamed for battles yesterday as violence flared in the disput- the de facto border between India and Pakistan- Terminal 1, an AFP journalist was among passengers Saudi-led airstrikes, and blame the help.” ed Himalayan region on Indian Independence in the northern Uri sector, an Indian army stranded on a plane on the tarmac for an hour and a United States and Britain for sup- Yemen’s ill-equipped demining Day. The commander was critically injured in an spokesman said. S D Goswami said the militants half. plying weapons and providing agency began clearing work in ambush in Srinagar’s Nowhatta locality and later sneaked over onto the Indian side but were chal- logistical support for the bombings. April in the northern cities of Saada died in hospital while two militants were killed lenged by border guards who killed them in a Amnesty International said its and Hajja but had to stop after in a shootout which followed the attack, an offi- gunfight. Their bodies have been recovered. Army to question three researchers found thousands of three of its members were killed in cer of India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Kashmir has been divided between India and over Chibok schoolgirls unexploded munitions in northern an explosion, Amnesty said. Some said. “We have lost a commanding officer. Two Pakistan since the end of British colonial rule in LAGOS: Nigeria’s army said yesterday it wants to question Yemen following a 10-day tour of 40 trucks were sent to cart away militants were also killed in the ensuing gun- August 1947 but both claim the territory in full. three suspects, including a journalist, for allegedly conceal- the region earlier this year. “The explosives from in and around Hasn fight,” said Atul Karwal, the force’s inspector gen- It is the epicenter of a separatist insurgency, with ing information on the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. The lives and livelihoods of civilians, Faj Attan earlier this year. eral in the region. He said nine others were several rebel groups fighting Indian troops and announcement came just a day after Boko Haram released including young children, continue The UN’s de-mining coordinator injured after coming under fire during a patrol, police as they seek either independence or a a new video purportedly showing some of the more than to be on the line in Yemen,” said for Yemen, Ahmed Allawi, told The including two local policemen who were in a merger with Pakistan. 200 girls who were seized by Boko Haram in northeastern Lama Fakih, an adviser at Amnesty. Associated Press that up to 7,800 critical condition at a hospital. Separatist groups traditionally order citizens Nigeria in April 2014. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman “They cannot live in safety until pieces of unexploded munitions The officer could not immediately confirm to observe a shutdown on Independence Day to said local journalist Ahmad Salkida had been in contact contaminated areas in and around were retrieved from the area, the identities of the slain militants but said they protest Indian rule. The state’s first woman chief with Boko Haram, as had Ahmed Bolori and Aisha Wakil, their homes and fields are identi- including from Youssef’s village. were “non-locals”, usually a reference to Pakistani minister Mehbooba Mufti called on India and both activists familiar with the workings of the Islamist fied and cleared.” The mine-clearers missed the nationals. Authorities have imposed a curfew in Pakistan to make the LoC irrelevant to bring group. “There is no doubt that these individuals have links Amnesty said 16 Yemeni civil- small, metal ball that Youssef large parts of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim peace in the region. “I appeal to both countries with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them,” ians, including nine children, were picked up and then smashed with majority state, since July 9 during an upsurge in that this line dividing Kashmir should be made he said. “They must therefore come forward and tell us wounded or killed by cluster muni- a rock as his friends watched. The violence sparked by the killing of a top militant irrelevant,” Mufti told a thinly attended gathering where the group is keeping the Chibok girls and other tions between July 2015 and April boy survived on life support for commander called Burhan Wani in a gunfight at a sports stadium in Srinagar. She blamed the abducted persons to enable us to rescue them.” Usman 2016. Such munitions scatter small, five days, but the doctors could not with security forces. More than 50 civilians have Indian leadership for the current crisis in Kashmir said the military would work with other security agencies explosive balls across a wide area. save him. — AP been killed in clashes between protesters and and appealed to protesting youths to return to to bring in the suspects if they fail to turn themselves in. security forces, and thousands more injured in their schools and colleges. — AFP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

A man pilots a boat in front of the St John Kaneo Church on Lake Ohrid on Sunday. — AFP Jailed Egypt photographer says he’s been ‘forgotten’

CAIRO: Shouting to make himself heard from the soundproof glass knock on the door to see him before me. But it never happens.” dock during a break in his trial, Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Shawkan and his 738 co-defendants are accused of involvement in Abdel Shakour said he feels he has been “forgotten” in prison. Three the killings of policemen and resisting the authorities during the years ago, Abdel Shakour - known as Shawkan - had been covering the protest dispersal. If convicted, they will face the death penalty. “There police dispersal of an Islamist protest camp in Cairo when he was is no evidence against him. To the contrary, there is evidence proving arrested, and he has been in jail ever since. August 14, 2013 was the he was working as a freelance photographer,” said his lawyer Karim bloodiest day in Egypt’s modern history, and one of the deadliest in Abdel Rady. The photographer has won two awards this year, including the region since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. one from the Committee to Protect Journalists. “I wanted to be happy Hundreds of Islamists supporting ousted president Mohamed but I couldn’t. Give me my freedom and take the prize,” Shawkan said. Morsi, toppled by the military in July that year, were mowed down by He suffers from Hepatitis C, which is common in Egypt, and his family police in clashes. About 10 policemen were killed. Three years later, says he needs treatment that is not available in prison. thousands of Islamists remain in prison after a wide-ranging crack- Shawkan was detained as part of a crackdown against Egyptian down that has extended to leftists and even journalists like Shawkan. journalists, rights activists say. His co-defendant Abdullah Elshamy, a Shawkan had been photographing the carnage that day for the journalist with Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera, was Demotix photo agency when he was arrested. Three journalists, released and left the country after a long hunger strike. Rights groups including Sky News cameraman Michael Deane, were shot dead in say President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s government has tried to repress all the violence. opposition since the former army chief led the overthrow of Morsi. The photographer spent months in pre-trial detention before he Fears of restrictions on press freedoms heightened after the head of was put on trial along with hundreds of other defendants over the the Journalists’ Syndicate and two aides were put on trial for harboring protest. “I feel like I’ve been forgotten in prison,” Shawkan, 29, told an wanted men - including a reporter - in the union’s headquarters. They AFP reporter during a break at a recent court session, yelling through had been sought by police for alleged involvement in April protests the glass barrier to make himself heard. “I feel despair, and powerless. against a deal to give Saudi Arabia two islands. Time is flying by while I’m in jail.” He is imprisoned in a poorly ventilat- “It’s the worst era for someone to be a journalist in Egypt,” said ed cell which becomes scorching hot in summer. “My hope diminishes Sherif Mansour, with the New York-based Committee to Protect every day,” he said, adding that he missed being able to look at the sky. Journalists. Egypt provoked international condemnation when it Sitting on his bed back home, next to a framed picture of her son, arrested three Al-Jazeera reporters, including an Australian and a Shawkan’s mother Reda Mahrous said she has trouble getting to sleep. Canadian, in late 2013 and put them on trial. They were sentenced to CAIRO: Egyptian photographer Mahmoud Abdel Shakour, known as Shawkan, ges- “I feel oppression and injustice,” she said, wearing a green bracelet that jail terms but were later pardoned by Sisi after a lengthy international tures from inside a soundproof glass dock during his trial in the capital on Aug 9, her son made her in prison. “Every day I make his bed, and wait for a campaign, and have since left the country. — AFP 2016.— AFP

NYPD questions man in killing of imam ‘Lightning’ strikes thrice as Bolt wins Continued from Page 1 these young guys and still make the podium feels so Continued from Page 1 Surveillance footage showed the suspect following the good,” said Gatlin, who would have become the oldest victims. The shooting appeared to be the most violent No other athlete - man or woman - has ever won Olympic 100m champion in history had he won. “We Akonjee was carrying $1,000 in cash with him at the attack against local Muslim leaders in recent years, said three consecutive individual Olympic sprint titles. It also work 365 days a year to be here for nine seconds,” the time of the attack but the money was not taken, the Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for leaves Bolt on track to complete an incredible “triple- 2004 gold medalist added. New York Times reported, suggesting robbery may not the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil triple” of clinching 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles Meanwhile, Kenyan-born Ruth Jebet produced an have been a motive. rights and advocacy group. for a third consecutive Olympics. “Somebody said I can astonishing piece of front running to win Bahrain’s first Police released a sketch of a male suspect with dark CAIR has offered a $10,000 reward for information become immortal. Two more medals to go and I can sign Olympic gold when she claimed the women’s 3,000m hair, a beard, glasses, and of medium complexion. He leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter. off. Immortal,” Bolt added. steeplechase yesterday. Jebet timed an Asian record of appeared to be in his 30s or 40s. NBC reported the man Hooper said he could recall incidents in which an imam Bolt, the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion, had 8min 59.75sec, missing out on the world record by less being questioned matched the description. Witnesses was pushed, called names or otherwise harassed. already earned the right to be regarded as the great- than a second. Reigning world champion Hyvin Kiyeng saw the assailant, dressed in a dark shirt and blue “Things like that, but nothing of this nature, nothing est sprinter in the history of athletics after accumu- Jepkemoi of Kenya took silver in 9:07.12, with American shorts, fleeing with a gun in his hand, police said. where people were killed,” he said.— Reuters lating more golds on the track than anyone else. But Emma Coburn claiming bronze (9:07.63). “I’m happy to the Jamaican’s latest triumph erases any lingering be a gold medalist, it was my first attempt to have a doubts that he deserves to be ranked alongside the medal and I’m happy,” said Jebet. “Today it was too hot Dubai hands death sentence to child... likes of Muhammad Ali, Pele and Michael Jordan as for the athletes, it was not easy to run a good time but I the kind of once-in-a-generation athlete who tran- tried my best and the track is good. Yesterday I saw the Continued from Page 1 But the country in July last year put to death by a fir- scend their sports. new record in the 400m (by Wayde van Niekerk) and in ing squad an Emirati woman convicted of the jihadist- Bolt’s win - his 18th gold in Olympic and World the 10,000m also a new world record so I thought why inspired murder of a US school teacher in a shopping Championships since 2008 - averted what might have not a world record for me.” Although the law in the United Arab Emirates mall toilet. And in a case similar to that of “Obaida’s been a public relations disaster for the drug-tarnished Jebet said Bahraini team officials had been confident includes capital punishment, executions are rare in the killer”, Dubai in 2011 executed an Emirati man found world of track and field. A corruption scandal involving she could medal. “It’s the first gold medal for Bahrain,” Muslim Gulf country, where death sentences are typical- guilty of raping and murdering a four-year-old Pakistani the sport’s former rulers, who were accused of accepting she said. “They saw how I ran in the Diamond League ly commuted to life in prison. boy in a mosque.— AFP bribes to cover up positive drug tests, and an investiga- and how I did there, and they told me when I was com- tion which alleged an elaborate state-sponsored doping ing that ‘we’re sure of you, you’re going to have a medal’.” system in Russia have plunged track and field into the US champion Coburn set the early pace before Jebet, Rashidi returns to rousing welcome worst crisis in its history. who transferred her allegiance to Bahrain from her A gold medal for Gatlin on Sunday would have native Kenya in Feb 2013, surged with five laps to run of Continued from Page 1 Sports Humoud Flaiteh said this is an unprecedented made uncomfortable viewing for many - world athlet- the seven-and-a-half lap race. achievement by the Shooting Sport Club, as the club is ics chief Sebastian Coe among them - who have advo- As temperatures hit 35 degrees Celsius, her pace The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended working with a highly efficient system according to a plan immediately split the field, Jepkemoi and fellow Kenyan Kuwait in Oct 2015, accusing the government of interfer- backed by the authority. He said Kuwait will open a new cated that serial doping offenders should be banned ence in its national Olympic Committee. page with all international organizations after the elec- for life. But those fears were swept away by the smiling, Beatrice Chepkoech just about staying in touch, with Deputy Director General of the Public Authority for tions on Oct 22. laughing figure of Bolt, for so long the sport’s most Coburn in fourth. Jebet, the former world junior champi- charismatic showman. Gatlin, who has served two drug on who is the second-fastest woman ever and only the bans during his long career, made a powerful start to second to run the event in less than nine minutes, main- Row over medical tests for Kuwait visa... lead over the first 50 m. But as soon as Bolt’s head came tained her punishing pace as the bell rang for the final around the midpoint the American was in trouble and lap. Chepkoech fell off as Coburn moved up in her own Continued from Page 1 around the kingdom, where a medical test could be taken the defending champion surged home around a metre battle for silver with Jepkemoi. for a fee equivalent to KD 30. But that was changed, with clear of the field. Ahead of them, Jebet pushed for Russian Gulnara The fees for the tests also went up considerably.And in the number of certified clinics narrowed to only two, each Bolt later said he was dismayed by the reception giv- Galkina’s world record of 8:58.81, just failing in her quest 2104, the Kuwaiti government opened an investigation of which charges 600 Jordanian dinars (KD 230) per trans- en to Gatlin. “I was surprised by it - it was shocking the as she landed the Gulf state of Bahrain its first Olympic into the reasons why local authorities selected only two action. Sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity first time I heard booing in a stadium. However I just gold. Bahrain’s Morocco-born Rashid Ramzi was initially clinics each in Jordan and Egypt where workers can under- added that the investigation included Egypt, “where the focused on my job and got it done,” Bolt said. Gatlin awarded gold in the men’s 1500m at the 2008 Beijing go medical tests necessary to issue a Kuwaiti visa. In same thing happened three years ago and no action has meanwhile put a brave face on his defeat - the eighth Olympics, but he was stripped of that after testing posi- Jordan, Kuwait used to have an agreement with 10 clinics been taken since then”. (Kuwait Times report) out of nine meetings with Bolt. “At the age of 34, to race tive for doping. — Agencies TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 ANALYSIS

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urkish investigators call it the ultimate long game. In 1986, the Turkish military expelled dozens of cadets sus- Tpected of loyalty to a young Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen, seen as a potential threat to the country’s strict secular rule. Officials, a magazine reported at the time, said an alleged recruiter had told the students to work their way through the ranks and wait for instructions that would come in a few decades. Fast forward 30 years to July 15, when renegade officers staged a failed coup and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Gulen of orchestrating it. Gulen, now based in Pennsylvania, denies any involvement, but a rising tide of alle- gations challenges the moderate image promoted by his Islamist movement and casts it as a cover for secret designs on Turkish power that included efforts to infiltrate state institutions decades ago. In the 1970s, when Turkey was run by a military-backed, sec- IS recruits have poor grasp of faith ular government, the group seemed like a conventional reli- gious movement that attracted young, middle-class recruits through a successful network of schools and dormitories. By Aya Batrawy Mohammad-Aggad’s brother, 23-year-old Foued, returned German-language unit at Al-Azhar that tracks Islamic State Gulen, who had been associated with Islamic mysticism, pro- to Paris and was one of the three men who stormed the propaganda and statements, said the group spews superfi- moted a message of tolerance and charity along with Turkish he jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a Bataclan in a night of attacks Nov. 13 that killed 130 peo- cial notions about what is “halal and haram,” or what is per- patriotism. His group - known as Hizmet, Turkish for “service” - scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And ple. “My religious beliefs had nothing to do with my depar- missible and forbidden in Islam. He says the group’s propa- raised money through donations from individuals and busi- the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar ture,” Karim Mohammad-Aggad told the court, before ganda videos lionize IS fighters as masculine, strong mar- nesses. By the early 1990s, it was expanding into other coun- T somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be tries with a network of schools, burnishing an international rep- being sentenced to nine years in prison. “Islam was used to tyrs going to heaven for the sake of God - counter to utation as an advocate of interfaith harmony. overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly trap me like a wolf,” he said. Islamic laws that forbid terrorism, the murder of non-com- have hoped for better. At the height of Islamic State’s drive IS data shows Karim and his brother Foued were among batants in war, the imposition of Islam on non-Muslims and Suspicion for foot soldiers in 2013 and 2014, typical recruits included eight in the Strasbourg group listed as having “basic” other criminal activity. The movement’s benevolent message initially enabled its the group of Frenchmen who went bar-hopping with their knowledge of sharia. Expressing a common sentiment followers to dodge the harshest persecution of Turkey’s secular recruiter back home, the recent European convert who now shared by many Europeans of North African descent, Knowledge rulers. But as it grew in influence, the government began to hesitantly describes himself as gay, and two Britons who Mohammed-Aggad told the court he felt like an immigrant The recruits’ Shariah knowledge is important because view the movement with suspicion. Authorities alleged its ordered “The Koran for Dummies” and “Islam for Dummies” in Algeria and “a dirty Arab” in France. After just a few IS not only needs soldiers and suicide bombers, but supervisors - known as “brothers” - helped followers cheat on from Amazon to prepare for jihad abroad. Their intake months in Syria, he said he left IS because he was treated administrators and Shariah officials to oversee its local exams to land government jobs. Once they were in place, process complete, they were grouped in safe houses as a by the extremists as an “apostate” - someone who had courts and judges, who in turn promote IS ideology. It according to Hanefi Avci, a former national police chief who stream of Islamic State imams came in to indoctrinate them, renounced his religion. also matters because those who’ve claimed advanced investigated the group, they “acted in a coordinated effort to according to court testimony and interviews by The When pressed by the judge on his knowledge of knowledge in sharia on the IS entry documents were less promote and protect one another and eliminate opponents.” Associated Press. sharia and how the IS group implements it, Mohammad- likely to want to become suicide bombers, according to a The group enjoyed wide influence in schools, the news “I realized that I was in the wrong place when they Aggad, a former gas station attendant, appeared dumb- study by the US military’s Combating Terrorism Center, an media and police forces in an expanding power base, and began to ask me questions on these forms like ‘when you founded, saying repeatedly: “I don’t have the knowledge academic institution at the United States Military authorities began to crack down on pieces of the movement die, who should we call?’” said the 32-year-old European to answer the question.” One of his co-defendants, Academy. “If martyrdom is seen as the highest religious such as the 1986 purge of military cadets. Authorities point to recruit, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity for Radouane Taher, was also pressed by the judge on calling, then a reasonable expectation would be that the Gulen’s own words as evidence of his designs. In comments fear of reprisals. He said he thought he was joining a group whether beheadings carried out by the IS group con- people with the most knowledge about Islamic law recorded in the 1980s, Gulen referred to crackdowns on to fight President Bashar Assad and help Syrians, not the formed to Islamic law. He couldn’t say for sure, answer- (sharia) would desire to carry out these operations with Islamists in Syria and Egypt and told a group of followers to Islamic State. ing: “I don’t have the credentials.” greater frequency,” said the report. bide their time, saying: “You must move within the arteries of The European, whose boyish demeanor makes him the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centers.” appear far younger than his age, went to Syria in 2014. He Gulen, who later said those remarks were misinterpreted, said new recruits were shown IS propaganda videos on moved to the United States in the late 1990s while facing trial Islam, and the visiting imams repeatedly praised martyr- on charges of plotting to overthrow Turkey’s government. His dom. Far from home, unschooled in religion, having sev- movement continued to grow, and eventually helped to topple ered family ties and turned over electronic devices, most the staunchly secular leaders who had been so wary of it. In were in little position to judge. 2002 elections, Gulen’s followers supported the candidacy of An AP analysis of thousands of leaked Islamic State doc- the former Istanbul mayor, who himself had been jailed for sev- uments reveals most of its recruits from its earliest days eral months by secular authorities and won with the backing of came with only the most basic knowledge of Islam. A little a pious Muslim class that had been sidelined to decades. more than 3,000 of these documents included the recruit’s His name was Erdogan. Erdogan insists he put up with the knowledge of Shariah, the system that interprets into law Gulenists as a practical matter: He needed all the help he could verses from the Quran and “hadith” - the sayings and get to defeat the secularists. “We tolerated them for the sake of actions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). the widespread aid, education and solidarity activities - inside According to the documents, which were acquired by and outside of the country - that they seemed to be conduct- the Syrian opposition site Zaman al-Wasl and shared with ing,” he said this month. “We tolerated them because they said the AP, 70 percent of recruits were listed as having just ‘Allah’.” The military leadership remained unconvinced. Ilker “basic” knowledge of shariah - the lowest possible choice. Basbug, who was Turkey’s military chief from 2008 to 2010, said Around 24 percent were categorized as having an “interme- in a recent interview with CNN Turk television that he warned diate” knowledge, with just 5 percent considered advanced Erdogan about the threat from Gulen’s backers in the military, which had stopped purging suspected Islamists. “Today this students of Islam. Five recruits were listed as having memo- threat is to us, tomorrow it’s to you,” he says he told Erdogan. rized the Quran. According to Basbug, Erdogan responded: “My commander, The findings address one of the most troubling ques- you are exaggerating.” After he retired, Basbug was jailed on tions about IS recruitment in the United States and Europe: charges of plotting to overthrow the state, one of hundreds of Are disaffected people who understand Shariah more people associated with the old secular order who were target- prone to radicalization? Or are those with little knowledge ed by alleged Gulen sympathizers in the police and judiciary. of Islam more susceptible to the group’s radical ideas that Avci, the former national police chief who had written a book promote violence? The documents suggest the latter. The about the alleged threat from Gulen’s supporters, was also group preys on this religious ignorance, allowing extremists imprisoned. Erdogan initially supported some of the investiga- to impose a brand of Islam constructed to suit its goal of tions, but he eventually disowned them amid revelations of maximum territorial expansion and carnage as soon as forged evidence and other irregularities. recruits come under its sway. Islamic State’s most notorious new supporters appear to ‘Parallel State’ have an equally tenuous link with religion. Mohamed In this June 24, 2016 photo, a 32-year-old European, who joined the Islamic State group and was later Meanwhile, the Turkish leader’s alliance with Gulen was Lahouaiyej Bouhlel, who killed 85 people by plowing a accused of being gay and a spy, contemplates his new life after escaping from Syria. —AP unraveling as he sought to dismantle what he described as a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, was “parallel state” in the police and other institutions. In what described by family and neighbors as indifferent to religion, That’s where Amazon comes in. The trial of longtime However, despite the religious justification that IS uses Erdogan later described as an attempted coup, prosecutors volatile and prone to drinking sprees, with a bent for salsa friends Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, from the for suicide missions, “those with the most religious knowl- believed to be loyal to Gulen launched a high-profile corrup- dancing and a reported male lover. Unlike Omar Mateen, British city of Birmingham, revealed the 22-year-olds had edge within the organization itself are the least likely to tion probe in December 2013, embarrassing the government. the Orlando attacker, Bouhlel did not make a public decla- ordered “The Koran for Dummies” and “Islam for Dummies” volunteer to be suicide bombers,” the study found. Islamic Tensions rose further in 2014, when Erdogan switched from prime minister to president in a move seen by critics as a bid to ration of allegiance to Islamic State, much less prove he had books in preparation for their trip to join extremists in scholar Tariq Ramadan said a close look at the IS group’s amass even more power. —AP direct ties to extremists in the war zone. Still, the group was Syria. They were arrested on their return to Britain and con- top commanders shows that many had no religious cre- quick to claim both as foot soldiers. victed in 2014 of terrorism offenses. Patrick Skinner, a for- dentials but, instead, they once held senior positions under mer CIA case officer with extensive experience with Saddam Hussein’s secular Baathist government. All articles appearing on these ‘Smooth Talk’ Mideast extremist organizations, said some people claim Ramadan teaches Islamic Studies at Oxford and has writ- The AP analyzed the IS entry form documents of around allegiance to IS out of religious belief, but that most who ten numerous books on Islam and the integration of Muslims pages are the personal opinion of 4,030 foreign recruits who crossed into Syria when the join, including those from the West, are people “reaching in Europe. He says Muslim scholars must demonstrate that the writers. Kuwait Times takes no group was rapidly expanding and seizing territory in Iraq for a sense of belonging, a sense of notoriety, a sense of what IS teaches is wrong. “The people who are doing this are responsibility for views expressed and Syria in 2013 and 2014. At that time, the CIA estimated excitement”. not experiencing martyrdom, they are criminals. They are therein. Kuwait Times invites read- the extremist group had between 20,000 and 31,500 fight- “Religion is an afterthought,” said Skinner, who is also killing innocent people. Nothing in Islam, nothing ever can ers across Iraq and Syria. Among the documents were director of special projects at security consultancy the justify the killing of innocent people, never, ever.” ers to voice their opinions. Please forms for nine of 10 young men from the eastern French Soufan Group. Those who truly crave religious immersion The gay European recruit said he converted to Islam send submissions via email to: opin- city of Strasbourg, all recruited by a man named Mourad would go to Al-Azhar in Cairo, he added, referring to the because he was interested in the culture and it was easy. “It [email protected] or via snail Fares. One of them, Karim Mohammad-Aggad, described thousand-year-old seat of learning for Shariah and Quranic only required one prayer and no prior understanding of mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. barhopping in Germany with Fares. He told investigators studies. In its recent English language magazine Dabiq, Islam,” he said. “There was no hierarchy and it was all about that IS recruiters used “smooth talk” to persuade him. dedicated largely to bolstering its own Muslim credentials, living a good life.” As a convert with almost no knowledge The editor reserves the right to edit He’d traveled with his younger brother and friends to Islamic State dismissed Al-Azhar as part of an “approach to in Islam, he says he was easy prey. “People like me were any submission as necessary. Syria in late 2013. Two died in Syria, and within a few subdue Muslims through appeasement,” with the West. tricked into something that they didn’t understand. I never months, seven returned to France and were arrested. Mohammed Abdelfadel, an Islamic scholar who heads a meant to end up with IS.” —AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 SPORTS

Froome spearheads Iniesta to miss start Younis returns to top Team Sky’s squad of La Liga season five after double ton LONDON: Three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome will lead Team BARCELONA: Barcelona’s midfield maestro Andres Iniesta will be out for LONDON: Pakistan’s Younis Khan is back among the world’s top five bats- Sky’s line-up at the forthcoming Vuelta a Espana, the British outfit confirmed two weeks after sustaining a knee injury in Sunday’s 2-0 Spanish Super men following his commanding double century against England at The yesterday. Froome, who won a bronze medal in the men’s time-trial at the Rio Cup first leg win at Sevilla. The Barca captain was forced off in the 36th Oval. Younis returned to fifth position in the standings when the latest edi- Olympics, is bidding to become the first man to complete a Tour-Vuelta double minute following a late challenge from Sevilla defender Mariano, barely 10 tion of the International Cricket Council’s Test batting ranking published in the same year since France’s Bernard Hinault in 1978. The team is minutes after Jeremy Mathieu was substituted with a hamstring problem. yesterday after his 218, his sixth double century at this level, set up completed by Ian Boswell, Michal Golas, Pete Kennaugh, Barca said in a statement on Monday that Iniesta would be out for at least Pakistan’s 10-wicket win in the fourth Test at The Oval on Christian Knees, Michal Kwiatkowski, Mikel Landa, Salvatore two weeks, missing Wednesday’s Super Cup second leg plus the first two Sunday, a result which saw them draw the four-match series Puccio and Leo Konig. “It’s already been a great summer for La Liga games of the season at home to Real Betis on Saturday and at with England at 2-2. The 38-year-old veteran started the both myself and the team, but the Vuelta is another big chal- series in fifth position but dropped out of the top 10 follow- lenge for us,” Froome said in a Team Sky press release. “The Athletic Bilbao the following weekend. Mathieu is set for three weeks on ing a run of low scores before his Oval heroics. Australia tough course and stiff competition is bound to make for some the sidelines. New signing Lucas Digne, who made his debut when he aggressive racing. We’re going there with a strong group of replaced Mathieu on Sunday, could be line for a first competitive start on captain Steven Smith continues to head a list where guys who have a lot of experience with this race. “The Wednesday after joining from Paris St Germain. Denis Suarez is a possible England’s Joe Root and New Zealand’s Kane Williamson Vuelta is a race I really enjoy and where I guess you stand-in for Iniesta in the second leg with Sevilla although coach Luis are still second and third respectively. Meanwhile James could say I have unfinished business, so I’m looking Enrique may also choose to opt for new signing Andre Gomes or Rafinha Anderson, England’s all-time leading wicket-taker, remains forward to getting started.” — AFP who missed most of last season with a serious knee injury. — Reuters top of the Test bowling rankings. — AFP Betts’ 3 HRs, 8 RBIs carry Porcello, Red Sox over Arizona

BOSTON: Mookie Betts hit three home runs and eighth inning and New York won consecutive drove in a career-best eight runs, joining Hall of games for the first time in more than a month, Famer Ted Williams as the only Red Sox players in beating San Diego. Alexei Ramirez slapped a over 100 years with a pair of three-homer games one-out single over first base on Matz’s 105th in a season and powering Boston over the and final pitch in 96 degree heat. Wilmer Flores Arizona Diamondbacks 16-2 on Sunday. Betts and Neil Walker homered for the Mets. matched David Ortiz for the club lead with 26 Struggling to stay close in the wild-card race, the homers. Dustin Pedroia had five hits and Jackie defending NL champions (59-58) hadn’t strung Bradley Jr. hit a two-run homer for Boston. Rick together two wins since July 6-7 against Miami Porcello (16-3) became the first Red Sox pitcher and Washington. Matz (9-8) won for only the sec- in 70 years to open a season 12-0 at ond time in nine decisions over his past 14 starts. Fenway Park as Boston completed a three- The rookie left-hander, a hometown favorite who game sweep of Arizona. Zack Greinke (11-4) was grew up about 50 miles from Citi Field, struck out chased in the second inning. Betts had two eight and walked two. The only Mets pitcher to chances to hit a record-tying fourth homer, but throw a no-hitter was Johan Santana in June lined out to right and then grounded out in the 2012 against St. Louis. Flores and Walker con- eighth. The crowd chanted ‘Let’s Go Mookie!’ nected for solo shots off Clayton Richard (0-2). before his final at-bat. Betts’ other three-homer game came against Baltimore on May 31. RAYS 12, YANKEES 3 Michael Bourn homered for Arizona. Corey Dickerson hit a three-run homer off Luis Severino, Evan Longoria added a three-run CARDINALS 6, CUBS 4 double against Luis Cessa to cap a six-run fourth Stephen Piscotty hit a three-run homer, inning and Tampa Bay past New York Yankees, Brandon Moss had solo shot one out later and St. which started eight players 26 years old or Louis used a five-run eighth inning to beat younger for the first time in 49 years. Longoria Chicago. Piscotty hit his 17th homer off setup had an RBI double in the first and singled in the man Hector Rondon (2-3), who entered with a 3- seventh, finishing the three-game series 7 for 11 1 lead in his first appearance since Aug. 2 follow- with six RBIs. His 74 hits and 47 RBIs top visiting ing a triceps injury. After pinch-hitter Kolten players at new Yankee Stadium. Logan Forsythe Wong and Greg Garcia singled, Piscotty lofted a hit a second-inning solo shot and Dickerson’s shot to deep left-center field that put the homer, which stopped a 0-for 17 slide, put the Cardinals ahead 4-3. Moss added his 21st homer, Rays ahead 5-1. Nick Franklin had a three-run then Randal Grichuk doubled in a run off Travis homer off Cessa in a four-run seventh. Jake Wood. The Cardinals split a four-game series with Odorizzi (7-5) won his fourth straight decision, major league-leading Chicago. The Cubs have allowing five hits in six innings. He held the lost two straight following an 11-game winning Yankees hitless for 6 1/3 innings on May 29 and streak. Matt Bowman (2-4) got three outs in the led 1-0, then allowed Starlin Castro’s two-run seventh in relief of Mike Leake for the win. Seung homer. On another hot and steamy afternoon at Hwan Oh got the final five outs, including three Yankee Stadium, Baby Bombers Aaron Judge and strikeouts in the ninth, for his 11th save. Gary Sanchez hit home runs. Judge became only the second player to homer for the Yankees in his PIRATES 11, DODGERS 3 first two big league games, lining an opposite- Josh Harrison and Adam Frazier each had four field drive over the right-field scoreboard to join BOSTON: Boston Red Sox’s Brock Holt pops out in front of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Tuffy Gosewisch during the third inning of a hits, Sean Rodriguez homered and had four RBIs Joe Lefebvre (May 1980). Severino (1-8) allowed baseball game, Sunday, in Boston. — AP and Pittsburgh spoiled Brett Anderson’s return for seven runs and eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. Rizzo said results of an MRI on Harper’s neck came victory in nine games. Adam Lind homered, Nori red, doubled and drove in all three Reds runs. Los Angeles with a five-run first inning. Rodriguez back “clean.” Roark (13-6) allowed one run over Aoki had three singles and Shawn O’Malley Wily Peralta (5-8) allowed one run on four hits had a three-run homer and Jordy Mercer a two- BLUE JAYS 9, ASTROS 2 seven innings, while the Nationals tagged Braves added two hits and scored twice. The Mariners over six innings to earn his first win since June run shot in the first to chase Anderson (0-1) from Troy Tulowitzki and Russell Martin hit back-to- starter Tyrell Jenkins (2-3). moved within 5 1/2 games of AL West-leading 11. Rookie Cody Reed (0-7) was tagged for six his first start since last October. Anderson back home runs, Marcus Stroman pitched 6 1-3 Texas. Wade LeBlanc (2-0) gave up three runs runs on five hits and three walks before being returned from back surgery and left after one innings to win for the first time in four starts and INDIANS 5, ANGELS 4 over six innings to earn his second win since pulled after Braun’s home run in the second. inning with a mild left wrist sprain. Jung Ho Kang Toronto beat Houston. Edwin Encarnacion hit his Abraham Almonte singled home the go-ahead being acquired from Toronto in June. Zach Neal Braun homered later off reliever Keyvius added a solo homer during a four-run ninth to 33rd home run, a solo blast off Luke Gregerson, run in the sixth inning and Cleveland sent Los (2-2) was the loser. Oakland’s Khris Davis hit his Sampson. help Pittsburgh win for the fifth time in seven to help the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the Angeles to its 10th straight loss, 5-4 Sunday. The third home run in three days. He became the first games against the Dodgers this season. Rookie eighth time in 10 meetings with the Astros. AL Central-leading Indians completed a four- A’s player with at least 30 homers since Brandon ROYALS 11, TWINS 4 Chad Kuhl (3-0) won his third consecutive start, Encarnacion and Baltimore’s Mark Trumbo are game sweep. The Angels went 0-9 on their trip Moss hit 30 in 2013. Ryon Healy and Brett Eibner Paulo Orlando and Lorenzo Cain each had four and are mired in their worst skid since an 11-game also homered for the A’s. hits and three RBIs and Kansas City Royals won a losing streak in 1999. Angels slugger Albert Pujols road series for the first time since late June, beat- MLB results/standings was ejected by plate umpire Clint Fagan after BREWERS 7, REDS 3 ing Minnesota. Orlando homered, tripled and being called out on strikes in the eighth. Mike Ryan Braun hit two homers, doubled and scored three times. Cain matched his career high Tampa Bay 12, NY Yankees 3; Toronto 9, Houston 2; Miami 5, Chicago White Sox 4; Cleveland Trout was given the day off, ending his consecu- drove in six runs Sunday in Milwaukee’s victory for hits in a game. Edinson Volquez (9-10) threw 5, LA Angels 4; NY Mets 5, San Diego 1; Boston 16, Arizona 2; Washington 9, Atlanta 1; tive games played streak at 178. Trevor Bauer (9-5) over Cincinnati. Braun hit a two-run double in six solid innings to snap his five-game winless Philadelphia 7, Colorado 6; Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 3; Kansas City 11, Minnesota 4; Detroit 7, gave up home runs to Ji-Man Choi and Geovany the first inning, a three-run homer in the second streak. Chris Young pitched three scoreless Texas 0; Baltimore 8, San Francisco 7; Seattle 8, Oakland 4; Pittsburgh 11, LA Dodgers 3; St. Soto, but got through six innings for his second and his 22nd home run in the fourth. It was innings for his first save. Orlando hit a three-run Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 4. straight win. Andrew Miller pitched two scoreless Braun’s fourth multihomer game of the season homer off Hector Santiago (10-7) in the fourth, American League National League innings while Cody Allen worked the ninth for his and the 26th of his career. He is hitting .381 (32 capping a six-run inning. Orlando is hitting .368 Eastern Division Eastern Division 22nd save. Jered Weaver (8-10) allowed five runs for 84) with nine home runs and 21 RBIs in 23 (39 for 106) since the All-Star break. Brian Dozier W L PCT GB Washington 69 47 .595 - and 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings. Jason Kipnis hit his games since the All-Star break. Joey Votto home- hit his 26th home run for Minnesota. — AP Toronto 67 51 .568 - Miami 61 56 .521 8.5 20th homer for Cleveland. Baltimore 66 51 .564 0.5 NY Mets 59 58 .504 10.5 Boston 64 52 .552 2 Philadelphia 56 63 .471 14.5 TIGERS 7, RANGERS 0 Favourites NZ brace NY Yankees 60 57 .513 6.5 Atlanta 44 74 .373 26 Michael Fulmer pitched a four-hitter in Detroit’s second straight shutout of Texas, and Tampa Bay 47 69 .405 19 Central Division Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez homered for for vengeful opponents Central Division Chicago Cubs 73 43 .629 - Cleveland 67 48 .583 - the Tigers. Fulmer (10-3) became the first Detroit St. Louis 62 56 .525 12 World champions New Zealand parts in the competition would be delighted Detroit 63 54 .538 5 rookie to throw a shutout since Justin Verlander CAPE TOWN: must battle the loss of some of the game’s to have and Cheika irked the New Zealand Kansas City 57 60 .487 11 Pittsburgh 59 56 .513 13.5 10 years ago. The 23-year-old right-hander retired greats and a desire for revenge from their coach last week when he suggested this Chicago WSox 56 61 .479 12 Milwaukee 52 64 .448 21 16 of the last 17 hitters he faced as the Tigers kept opponents as they prepare for the start of the would be a difficult poser for Hansen. Minnesota 47 71 .398 21.5 Cincinnati 48 68 .414 25 the AL West-leading Rangers scoreless over the Rugby Championship this weekend. But even “It’s good of the Australian coach to start Western Division Western Division final 21 innings of the three-game series. in the face of change and some adversity, the picking our team,” a testy Hanson told Texas 69 50 .580 - San Francisco 66 51 .564 - Ian Kinsler added a solo shot against A.J. All Blacks remain favourites to regain the title reporters when his side arrived in Sydney on Seattle 62 54 .534 5.5 LA Dodgers 65 52 .556 1 Griffin (5-2) after striking out his first three times they lost to Australia last year after and Sunday. “I’d say he’s got enough problems of Houston 61 57 .517 7.5 Colorado 56 62 .475 10.5 against the Texas right-hander. Miguel Cabrera impressive first hit-out of their revamped side his own, probably. But we’ll pick ours and he Oakland 52 66 .441 16.5 San Diego 50 67 .427 16 hit his team-leading 27th homer in the ninth. with a 3-0 series win over Wales in June. New can pick his and he’ll have a lot to say, no LA Angels 49 68 .419 19 Arizona 48 69 410 18 Victor Martinez started the scoring with a two- Zealand travel to Sydney to face Australia on doubt.” Australia’s loss to England has seen a run shot in the fourth, and J.D. Martinez hit his Saturday for what promises to be a feisty cavalry call from Cheika as they face their 100th career homer to knock out Griffin and give meeting of old foes, before South Africa host longest losing streak in 11 years. Defeat holding the Dodgers to two runs and six hits over tied for the most in the majors. Tulowitzki went 3 the Tigers a 6-0 lead in the seventh. six innings. Joc Pederson hit his second homer in for 4 with three RBIs. He hit an RBI single in the Argentina later in Nelspruit. against New Zealand on Saturday would be a two games for the Dodgers. They have lost three first, singled and scored in the fourth, and home- New Zealand defeated Australia 34-17 in last fifth in a row, their worst run since they lost PHILLIES 7, ROCKIES 6 year’s World Cup final and there has been seven tests in succession in 2005. of their last four, but remain one game back of San red in the fifth, his 20th. Martin followed with a Jimmy Paredes singled, doubled, homered Francisco in the NL West. first-pitch blast off Mike Fiers (8-6). It was the sev- plenty of chatter since between coach Steve The Toulon pair of Matt Giteau and Drew and drove in three runs and Philadelphia held on Hansen and counterpart Michael Cheika after Mitchell, as well as Bordeaux’s Adam Ashley- enth time this season Toronto has hit consecu- to complete a three-game sweep of Colorado. ORIOLES 8, GIANTS 7 tive home runs. Stroman (9-5) allowed two runs - the Wallabies suffered a humiliating 3-0 loss to Cooper and Will Genia from Stade Francais Cesar Hernandez extended his on-base streak England in June. It is likely, therefore, the All have 352 test caps between them and will Jonathan Schoop hit a three-run homer in the one earned - and five hits. Jason Castro hom- to 21 games with a fourth-inning walk and had an ninth inning and Baltimore overcame a six-run nered for the Astros. American League batting Blacks will face a vengeful, hurting Australia, bolster the decision-making significantly. RBI single. The Phillies have won four straight who have brought back a number of their South Africa had a wobble in the home series deficit to hand struggling San Francisco another leader Jose Altuve went 0 for 4 and failed to games. Charlie Blackmon homered twice and dou- deflating loss. Matt Wieters tripled and had a reach safely for the first time in 44 road games. overseas-based, experienced players to bol- with an injury-depleted Ireland in June, claim- bled for the Rockies. Blackmon finished the series ster the squad that competed against ing a 2-1 success in unconvincing fashion. career-best five hits to help the Orioles win for with five home runs, and he is batting .548 with the third time in four games. Baltimore trails NATIONALS 9, BRAVES 1 England. They are still finding their feet under new eight homers and 14 RBIs in his last nine games. In contrast, Hansen is rebuilding following coach Allister Coetzee, who is trying to gradu- Toronto by a half-game in the AL East. Schoop Bryce Harper hit an RBI double in his return to The Rockies have lost three in a row and seven of homered off Santiago Casilla (2-4) with two outs the lineup, Tanner Roark won his fourth straight the retirement of players who have become ally move the side away from the forward- eight. Jeanmar Gomez gave up two runs but got synonymous with All Black jersey over the dominated style of play that has characterised after Manny Machado singled and Mark Trumbo start and Washington topped Atlanta. Anthony Gerardo Parra to pop out to center for the final out walked. Baltimore trailed 7-1 after six innings, Rendon homered and drove in four runs. Chris past decade in influential captain Richie the team. “Lots of other international sides with the tying run on third base for his 31st save in McCaw, Dan Carter, Keven Mealamu, Ma’a understand that they have to match South but got two runs in each of the seventh and Heisey added a solo home run. Harper had missed 34 chances. Severino Gonzalez (1-2) gave up one eighth innings. Brad Brach (7-1) pitched a score- five straight games with a neck injury. The reign- Nonu and Conrad Smith. The recent Super Africa’s physicality and we’ve got to be a bit run on two hits in two innings in relief of starter Rugby competition, won by the Wellington smarter and more accurate now,” Coetzee told less eighth inning for Baltimore. The Giants led ing NL MVP was set to sit out another, too, and Adam Morgan, who was injured in the fourth the NL West by 6 1/2 games at the All-Star break wasn’t in the original lineup - the Nationals issued Hurricanes, was a great indicator of the depth Barbarians News recently. “I believe in a bal- inning. Tyler Chatwood (10-8) was the loser. of New Zealand rugby though and Hansen’s anced style of play. We don’t want to go all- but have gone 9-18 since. a revised lineup 90 minutes before the scheduled biggest decision may be over who to pick at out attack and neglect our forward style, our start and Harper was in right field. Harper doubled MARINERS 8, ATHLETICS 4 flyhalf between Beauden Barrett and Aaron dominance at set-piece and the maul, but we METS 5, PADRES 1 in the first inning, finished 1 for 3 with a walk and Kyle Seager doubled twice and drove in four Cruden. It’s a problem his coaching counter- want to be more effective.” — Reuters Steven Matz carried a no-hit bid into the scored twice, a day after general manager Mike runs to help Seattle beat Oakland for its eighth TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 SPORTS Ex-Premier League player dies after being shot with Taser

TELFORD: A former Premier League foot- death after becoming satisfied that the man’s condition deteriorated as he also played for Ipswich, Wednesday and Atkinson,” the second-tier club said in a baller has died, three of his former clubs Atkinson was the man who died. was being taken to hospital and he went Manchester City in England, and had statement. “Dalian undoubtedly provid- said yesterday, following reports he was England’s Football Association said it into cardiac arrest. spells with Real Socieded in Spain, ed real memorable moments during his shot with a Taser by police. Dalian was “saddened to hear of the passing” of “Despite the efforts of the crew and Fenerbahce in Turkey and also in South time in claret and blue.” Atkinson died around 90 minutes after a Atkinson, who represented England’s ‘B’ hospital staff, it was not possible to save Korea. He represented England’s ‘B’ team. Wednesday said Atkinson was “widely Taser was used on him by police officers, team. Forensic officers were at the prop- him and he was confirmed dead at hospi- Atkinson was most famous for a scor- regarded as one of the most exciting Britain’s Press Association reported. Local erty in question in Telford on Monday tal, shortly after arrival.” The incident has ing a goal for Villa against Wimbledon in football talents to emerge during the police said in a statement that officers and the road remained cordoned off. been referred to the Independent Police October 1992, when he ran from inside mid-1980s to early 1990s.” In an era when had been called to an address in central Police said a man received medical atten- Complaints Commission. his own half, evaded a number of English players seldom played abroad, England amid concerns “for the safety of tion after officers used a Taser when they The IPCC currently is investigating the attempted challenges before chipping Atkinson scored 12 goals in 29 league an individual.” arrived in the early hours of yesterday. death of another British person, former the ball over the goalkeeper and into the games during one season with Real Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and “An ambulance was dispatched and soldier Spencer Beynon, in June follow- net. It was voted as goal of the season in Sociedad, before returning to England to Ipswich all paid their respects to upon arrival found a man who had been ing the use of a Taser by police. Atkinson the 1992-93 Premier League. play for Villa. He scored 10 goals in 21 Atkinson in posts on their websites. Tasered,” said the West Midlands scored 20 Premier League goals during “Aston Villa is saddened to hear of the league games for Istanbul-based Wednesday confirmed the 48-year-old’s Ambulance Service, which added that his time at Aston Villa from 1991-95. He death of our former striker Dalian Fenerbahce after leaving Villa. — AP Smith, Marsh tons give Australia slender lead

COLOMBO: Centuries from Steve Smith his own bowling. And if you have got the and Shaun Marsh raised Australian hopes old man throwing like that, then yougsters of avoiding a whitewash in the final Test have no excuses.” Herath got good support against Sri Lanka yesterday before the visi- from the medium-pacer Suranga Lakmal, tors were pegged back by their bogeyman who struck with the second new ball in the Rangana Herath. second session to get the wicket of Marsh Smith and Marsh compiled a record 246 and break the dangerous partnership. runs for the second wicket, putting Marsh, who had hit his 19th boundary Australia on track for a decisive lead in off the previous delivery, was bowled on reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 355, 130 after he chopped Lakmal’s good- before Herath put the brakes on with a six length delivery onto his stumps. Ausralian wicket haul. Australia were eventually all skipper Smith, who hit 10 fours and a six out for 379, a lead which was cut to just during his 119-run knock, departed after two by close of play as Sri Lanka reached 22 being stumped off Herath, with the third at stumps, albeit with the loss of opener umpire ruling in favour of the bowler in a Dilruwan Perera who was lbw to Mitchell close decision. Starc for eight. Dimuth Karunaratne was unbeaten on eight, alongside Kaushal Silva MARATHON STAND who has so far made six at the Sinhalese The marathon partnership between Sports Club ground in the final match of Smith and Marsh was the highest second- the series. Australia are trailing 0-2. wicket stand between the two countries. “Pretty evenly balanced at the moment, “It was hard work for sure. Really enjoyed really important that we can get a few early today. Had a big partnership with the cap- wickets in the first session tomorrow and tain and obviously I am really happy,” Marsh keep them to as low a total as possible,” said. The pair ensured that Australia did Shaun Marsh said at the close-of-play press not lose a wicket in the first session as the conference. Herath-who took a hat-trick in visitors took lunch on 235 for one. the last Test and 10 wickets in the first Marsh, who was drafted into the match of the series-again brought the Australia side because of his long experi- hosts back into contention by taking six for ence of Asian conditions, survived a 81. The 38-year-old ran through the dropped catch on 67 early in the morning SEVILLE: Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, left, celebrates with teammates after scoring the first goal during the Spanish Super Cup first leg soccer Australian tail despite struggling with a against Herath but soon took control. match, against Sevilla, at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain, Sunday. — AP groin injury that he picked up while batting He brought up his hundred with an for Sri Lanka. “He just shows so much guts inside edge off Dilruwan Perera that went and fight. And for an older guy to show for a boundary and celebrated by hugging Suarez gives Barcelona that, it just ignites the fight within the his skipper at the other end. younger group,” said Sri Lankan coach Smith, who resumed the day on 61, Graham Ford. reached his 15th Test century to improve “The example that he sets makes the on his previous best of 55 in the series. edge in Spanish Super cup coach and leadership’s job all the much Mitchell Marsh, who registered his second easier. “He takes on the quicks and after his Test half-century, contributed a useful 53 to nasty incident comes on to bowl and help Australia surpass Sri Lanka’s first MADRID: Luis Suarez insisted the Spanish Super ence. “This team knows how to sacrifice and defence his low strike was saved well by goal- makes a couple of brilliant diving stops off innings score. — AFP Cup is not Barcelona’s yet after helping his team compete, because we want all the titles and keeper Sergio Rico. At the other end Jorge shoot down Sevilla 2-0 to give them a comfort- we’ve ended up with a magnificent result. “We Sampaoli’s team worked their way into the game able lead after Sunday’s first leg of the final. played a good game, as much defensively as in but despite plenty of possession in dangerous The Uruguayan opened the scoring early in attack, and in the second half we were able to areas, they couldn’t worry Claudio Bravo. the second half, making amends for two earlier connect with the forwards and open the scoring. Luis Suarez spurned another good chance at misses, before Munir El Haddadi sealed the win I am very happy with everything.” the start of the second half when Rico saved his when he ran on to a Lionel Messi through-ball The coach sprang a surprise with his selec- flicked effort, but it was third time lucky for the and fired home. tion, picking Jeremy Mathieu at left-back and Uruguayan. Denis Suarez lofted a neat ball into Having been beaten 4-0 by Athletic Bilbao in Arda Turan at left-wing in place of the absent the area and Turan chested it home for the for- the first leg of last year’s final, Barcelona were Neymar, with all four summer signings left out. ward to finish with aplomb. determined to improve on that showing, setting Sergi Roberto was also chosen out of position at Messi should have doubled the lead themselves up nicely for the return at Camp Nou right-back, ahead of Aleix Vidal. moments later, but Rico made a fine stop from on August 17. his dinked effort, after good work by Turan and “This is not decided,” Suarez told Spanish tele- THIRD TIME LUCKY Suarez carved the Argentine an opening. vision after the game. “In the second half we However, by the 35th minute both Lucas Eventually substitute Munir put the game played very well. It’s important to win away from Digne and Denis Suarez had to be brought on and probably the tie to bed sliding the ball past home against an opponent as good as Sevilla.” for their official debuts, with Mathieu and Rico with the outside of his left boot after Messi He was not impressed with some of the home Andres Iniesta injuring their hamstring and knee fed through an inviting pass. supporters who shouted insults at him from the respectively. It was evident that neither team were as fit as stands at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan. Iniesta was making his 594th appearance for they would have liked, with Sevilla energy levels Suarez added: “They can keep talking, I’m Barcelona, taking over from Carles Puyol as the falling away in the second half, no doubt as a going to do my thing, which is to play football. player with the second most appearances for the result of playing 120 minutes in a heartbreaking It’s not a problem, we are the protagonists, not club, behind Xavi Hernandez, but it was ended last gasp 3-2 defeat Real Madrid in the UEFA them.” Luis Enrique was thrilled with the per- prematurely after a fierce challenge by Gabriel Super Cup earlier in the week. formance, which puts his team halfway towards Mercado. The first period saw few chances creat- Now Sampaoli needs to pick them up ahead the first trophy of the season. ed, although the best of them fell to Luis Suarez of the second leg on Wednesday, where a monu- “We continue with the same ambition as in the sixth minute. Sergio Busquets played him mental effort will be required if they are to over- always,” he said in his post-game press confer- in and after spinning masterfully away from the turn the deficit. — AFP Zlatan Ibrahimovic treads in Cantona’s Man Utd footsteps

LONDON: It is very early days in Zlatan stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed drop deep from his number nine role and allow Ibrahimovic’s Manchester United career, but the everything as though he were asking: ‘I’m Cantona. Rooney to take his place at the tip of the attack. Both Swedish striker’s initial successes have already How big are you? Are you big enough for me?’” players were on target at the Vitality Stadium, evoked memories of Old Trafford legend Eric Rooney putting United 2-0 up before Ibrahimovic Cantona. Cantona made an extraordinary impact BREAKFAST PEP TALKS opened his Premier League account with a low shot when he arrived from Leeds United in November Ibrahimovic’s arrival at United has been described from 25 yards. Ibrahimovic is also having an impact 1992, inspiring Alex Ferguson’s team to end the in comparable terms, with captain Wayne Rooney behind the scenes. Ferguson has often spoken club’s 26-year wait for the English title. and midfield team-mate Morgan Schneiderlin both about how Cantona’s dedication on the training United have not fallen anywhere near as low in speaking about his “aura”. On the pitch, Ibrahimovic ground inspired a young generation of United play- the three years since Ferguson retired in 2013, but has made an assured start with two goals in two ers including David Beckham and Paul Scholes to after the gloom of David Moyes and Louis van games. At Bournemouth he showed a willingness to raise their game. — AFP Gaal’s managerial tenures, Ibrahimovic has given COLOMBO: Australia’s Steve Smith celebrates scoring a century during the third day of them a major lift. “For the next two seasons I think their third test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. — AP he can be phenomenal for the team and the Premier League,” said United manager Jose Mourinho after Ibrahimovic scored in Sunday’s 3-1 SCOREBOARD win at Bournemouth. “Eric Cantona was here at the best moment in his career. This guy (Ibrahimovic) is more than a COLOMBO: Scoreboard at stumps on the third day of the third and final Test between player.” Ibrahimovic began the season by scoring in Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo yesterday: the Community Shield, heading home an 83rd- Sri Lanka 1st innings 355 (D. Chandimal Marsh), 3-275 (Smith), 4-283 minute winner as FA Cup winners United overcame 132, D. de Silva 129; M. Starc (Henriques), 5-316 (Voges), 6-353 (Nevill), Leicester City. Cantona also decided a Community 5-63, N. Lyon 3-110) 7-367 (M. Marsh), 8-376 (Lyon), 9-377 Shield, netting a hat-trick in a 4-3 win over (Hazlewood), 10-379 (Holland). Liverpool in August 1992, but he was playing for Australia 1st innings Bowling: Perera 44-4-129-2, de Silva 7-0- league champions Leeds. He joined Manchester D. Warner c Kusal Perera b de Silva 11 27-1, Herath 38.1-11-81-6, United in a shock move three months later. S. Marsh b Lakmal 130 Sandakan 19-0-70-0, Lakmal 13-0-54-1, Winning the league in his first season gave S. Smith st Kusal Perera b Herath 119 Mathews 4-1-5-0. Cantona a third straight national title, following A. Voges lbw b Herath 22 Sri Lanka 2nd innings previous successes with Marseille and Leeds. He M. Henriques st Kusal Perera b Herath 4 D. Perera lbw b Starc 8 would go on to win a further three with United, M. Marsh c Mendis b Herath 53 D. Karunaratne not out 8 plus two FA Cups. Ibrahimovic, 34, hopes to win a P. Nevill lbw b Dilruwan Perera 14 K. Silva not out 6 fifth consecutive title, after four with Paris Saint- M. Starc not out 9 Extras 0 Germain, and 12th in total (the two he won at N. Lyon c Mendis b Dilruwan Perera 3 Total (1 wicket; 5 overs) 22 Juventus having been revoked due to the J. Hazlewood b Herath 0 Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Perera) Calciopoli referee-rigging scandal). As much as his J. Holland c Mathews b Herath 1 Bowling: Starc 3-0-19-1, Lyon 2-0-3-0 title-winning know-how, Ibrahimovic was signed LILLE: This file photo taken on June 26, 2016 shows Germany’s forward Lukas Podolski cele- Extras (b4, lb9) 13 To bat: K. Perera, K. Mendis, A. Mathews, from PSG to inject some panache and self-belief brating at the end of the Euro 2016 round of 16 football match between Germany and Slovakia Total (all out, 125.1 overs) 379 D. Chandimal, D. de Silva, R. Herath, L. into a United changing room that had lost the self- at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille on June 26, 2016. The 31-year-old Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Warner), 2-267 (S. Sandakan, S. Lakmal. assurance of the Ferguson era. Discussing forward, who became World champion with his team in 2014, announced on August 15, 2016 Cantona’s arrival, Ferguson said: “He swaggered in, that he will retire from the German national football team. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 SPORTS

Russia files Rio ban appeal

MOSCOW: Russia’s Paralympic Committee yesterday announced it has filed an appeal against the decision to ban the country from the Rio Paralympic Games over evidence of state-sponsored doping. A statement by the committee said that it had “sent an appeal on August 15 to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)”. A hearing has been set for August 21 in Rio and a final ruling was expected August 22, it said. Russia’s drug-tarnished reputation suffered another blow when the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced this month it was suspending the country over evidence of state involvement in a doping cover-up scheme published in a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren. Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko slammed the ban as “beyond belief”, vowing that the country BEIJING: This file photo taken on August 28, 2015 shows Russia’s Darya Klishina competing in the final of the women’s long jumpthletics a event at the 2015 IAAF World would contest the decision in court. Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing on August 28, 2015. The world sports tribunal yesterday overturned a last-minute IAAF ban on long-jumper The IPC said its decision to bar Russia on August 7 Darya Klishina taking part in the Rio Olympics. — AFP was unanimous and there was support from member bodies including the British Paralympic Association. IPC president Philip Craven said this month that Russia’s “thirst for glory at all costs has severely dam- aged the integrity and image of all sport”. Tribunal lets Klishina “Their ‘medals over morals’ attitude disgusts me,” he said. The president of Russia’s Paralympic Committee, Vladimir Lukin, insisted last week that the committee had done all it could to tackle doping and Moscow had fulfilled all its obligations. back into Rio Games Russia continues to deny the findings of the McLaren report including the involvement of the sports ministry and the Russian secret service in doping fraud at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. on, to resume her campaign for the hearing that “certain of the athlete’s samples McLaren had told the IAAF about the sample McLaren is due to release more definitive conclu- women’s long-jump competition which has been subject to tampering and manipula- bottles which reportedly had scratch marks sions from his investigation by the end of September starts today. Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly tion,” according to the tribunal’s statement. on them. Speaking to Moscow’s Interfax news that could reignite the debate over Russia’s scandal-rid- ATHLETICS Mutko welcomed the decision, saying “you agency Sports Minister Mutko said justice had den anti-doping programme. cannot punish her for what she did not do.” ‘PROVOCATIVE MOMENTS’ been done. Russia narrowly escaped a blanket ban from the Rio The appeal was the latest fallout from the Media reports have said two bottles of “This decision proves that justice can be Olympics last month when the International Olympic inquiry by Canadian lawyer Richard Klishina’s urine samples had been tampered fair,” he said. He told R-Sport news agency that Committee (IOC) left it up to international sports federa- RIO DE JANEIRO: The world sports tribunal tions to determine which Russians were eligible to com- yesterday overturned a last-minute IAAF ban McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency with and one of the samples contained two he regretted that international sports authori- pete while granting itself a final say. on long-jumper Darya Klishina taking part in which accused Russia of mass “state-spon- different kinds of DNA. ties had “played with her nerves.” McLaren’s The Paralympics, held every four years for athletes the Rio Olympics. sored” doping. The CAS said it was McLaren The CAS panel decided however that report released in July said the Russian sports with disabilities, has taken place in various forms since Klishina, 25, was the only Russian accept- who provided the “new factual elements” despite McLaren’s new information, Klishina ministry and secret service found a way to 1948 but has grown in importance over the past 20 ed for the Olympic track and field but the about Klishina which led the International “complied with the relevant criteria (to com- open tamper-proof bottles to switch samples. years. Nearly 4,300 athletes from 164 countries took part sport’s world body suspended her on Friday Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) pete at Rio) because of her permanent resi- Russia had seized on the new ban on Klishina in the 2012 London Paralympic Games. The 2016 Rio after new information on her doping record to revoke her Rio eligibility. dence outside Russia.” to reinforce its claim that it is the target of a Paralympics next month will see athletes with disabili- emerged. The IAAF doping board rejected 67 ath- It added that Klishina “established that she campaign. Earlier Mutko, who is barred from ties compete in 23 disciplines over 11 days. — AFP After a day of hearings, the Court of letes entered by Russia but accepted Klishina, was subject to fully compliant drug-testing Rio because of the doping controversy, called Arbitration (CAS) announced that Klishina’s who is based in Florida, because she lived in- and out-of-competition outside of Russia” the IAAF ban “inhuman”. appeal had succeeded and she “remained abroad and had been through regular inter- from 2014 onwards. Klishina had insisted in a “It’s possible that this won’t be the last eligible to compete in the Olympic Games national doping checks after a cutoff period statement after the ban was announced that provocation,” Mutko told Russian press in Rio.” The decision came just in time for starting January 1, 2014. she is “clean”. Her lawyers have argued that no agency TASS. “Some provocative moments Klishina, a former European indoor champi- The doping review board told the CAS evidence had been presented, only that are premeditated.” — AFP Rose captures first golf gold in 112 years

closed with a bogey to take the silver on 270, one stroke ahead of US bronze medal- ist Matt Kuchar.“I have no regrets. I did as GOLF well as I could,” Stenson said. “I battled pret- ty well. It was going to come down to who finished better at the end. “To be an RIO DE JANEIRO: Britain’s Justin Rose was RIO DE JANEIRO: India’s Ravinder Khatri (yellow) wres- Olympic medalist is something special. It listening to “God Save The Queen” and was the gift of a lifetime coming here.” tles with Hungary’s Viktor Lorincz in their men’s 85kg watching the Union Jack rise into the sky greco-roman round of 16 match yesterday, during the Sunday while still trying to fully appreciate TOURNAMENT AND A CARNIVAL wrestling event of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the the historic Olympic gold medal around his Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP An event dimmed by the decisions of neck. The 36-year-old Englishman had out- more than 20 players to stay away, includ- dueled Sweden’s Henrik Stenson in a ten- ing world number one Jason Day of India despairs sion-packed Rio final-round thriller Sunday Australia and the entire world top four, pro- to capture the first Olympic golf title in 112 vided plenty of excitement and spectacular years and was in the midst of a dream shotmaking as the gold hung on a knife’s over Rio flops made real while on the podium. edge all day. “It felt like a cross between a “That was a really surreal moment,” Rose golf tournament and a carnival,” Rose said. said. “It’s a moment we’ve seen in other NEW DELHI: India despaired yesterday at a weekend of “It was unique, incredible.” sports. It felt very different to any other RIO DE JANEIRO: Britain’s Justin Rose celebrates his victory in the men’s individual failures by its main medal hopefuls in Rio as commentators A sellout crowd of 12,000 included peo- tournament. “Obviously when the national stroke play final day at the Olympic Golf course during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games warned that the Olympics’ ultimate under-achievers could ple wanting to take photographs, a golf no- anthem goes up, it’s a very profound in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. — AFP return home from Brazil completely empty-handed. no, and anxious to pick up the ball until moment. It’s a very proud moment when his birdie attempt eight feet past the hole, spot by firing a 63, matching the Olympic Following a string of disappointments in the first week instructed to leave it be. “Hopefully we’ve you are able to share this moment with then missed his comeback putt and made record set in round one by Australian of competition, sports fans had been banking on India’s shown Brazil what golf is about,” Rose said. people back home.” bogey. Seconds later, Rose tapped in for Marcus Fraser. Neither would have been an tennis, badminton and hockey stars to lift the mood and Just a month after fifth-ranked Stenson Rose pitched the ball 18 inches from the gold, raised his right fist into the air and Olympian had their top-four compatriots restore some national pride in time for Monday’s won his first major title at last month’s cup on the par-5 18th hole and sank the then used it to tap the Team GB logo on his attended. Independence Day celebrations. British Open in a final-day battle with birdie putt to beat Stenson by two strokes shirt over his heart. “I wanted to let go a lit- “To get the bronze medal around my But those hopes were crushed during a string of below- American Phil Mickelson, he found himself for the greatest triumph of his life. tle bit, maybe display how much it meant. I neck is such a thrill,” Kuchar said. “The over- par performances on Sunday afternoon, before the final locked in a similar fight with 12th-ranked “Oh my God. That felt better than any- had been holding it in all day,” Rose said. whelming sense of pride is just remark- blow came in the evening when gymnast Dipa Karmakar Rose. Deadlocked at 18, Stenson was shy thing I’ve ever won. It was the best tourna- “This is just a dream come true. To come able.” Rose toasted his late father Ken, his just missed out on a medal by finishing fourth in the of the green with his approach while Rose ment I’ve ever done,” Rose said. “Coming up out of it with a medal is incredible. To come first golf coach, and emotionally recalled women’s vault. After reminding readers that the last time was left of the green with bunkers with that last pitch when I needed it was out of it with gold is unbelievable.” them watching past Olympics together. India departed an Olympics empty-handed was at the between, the gold fight down to a pitch magical.” Rose fired a closing four-under “If he was here and had a son who was 1992 games in Barcelona, the Times of India lamented that and putt contest. par 67 to finish 72 holes on 16-under 268. KUCHAR MATCHES OLYMPIC MARK an Olympic gold medalist, he would proba- “a repeat, sadly, is on the cards”. Stenson’s ball hit the green and spun Stenson, whose poor chip left him a near- Kuchar, ranked 20th, emerged from a bly say, ‘What a great accomplishment,’” The First Post website meanwhile called day nine of the back from the cup, 22 feet away. Rose hit impossible putt to stay level with Rose, host of contenders to take the last podium Rose said. — AFP competition “the most dismal one for India so far”, under- his amazing wedge shot and Stenson ran scoring the sense of letdown in the world’s second most populous nation. One of the biggest disappointments was the defeat of Saina Nehwal, the poster girl of Indian sport, who crashed out of the badminton competition by losing Will Brazil take up golf after Games? to a player 56 places below her in the world rankings. The experienced mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and RIO DE JANEIRO: Many Brazilians who says the Brazilian Golf Confederation. equipment falling for several years, and is Phil Pacsi, Bridgestone’s vice president Rohan Bopanna then missed out on a bronze by being out- lined the fairways at the weekend to In a country facing economic hardship looking to emerging countries like Brazil of sports marketing, said 3,000 people classed by Lucia Hradecka and Radek Stepanek of the watch the first Olympic golf tournament and a minimum wage equal to $275 a to find growth. dropped by for the golf activities and that Czech Republic in the third-place playoff following an earli- in a century say the sport’s growth in month, even the practice course will be a To appeal to occasional golfers and about 60 percent of them were Brazilians. er defeat to the United States. South America’s largest country is no stretch for many Brazilians. Then there is beginners, course designer Gil Hanse “We want to try to build the exposure hole-in-one. the pricy equipment. “Even $8-$10 for a included the small practice course. On the of golf and help this course be successful,” INSULT TO INJURY They took curious delight in walking local, that is a lot of money and they could main layout, he opted for large greens and Pacsi said. Many Brazilian spectators And adding insult to injury, the men’s hockey team- among some of the world’s top players, spend that money somewhere else and open fairways. Paulo Pacheco, president of seemed skeptical. Rodrigo Braga, 42, which once dominated the Olympics and has won a total but doubted golf would take off. “In golf go to beaches and have even more fun,” the Brazilian Golf Confederation, said picked up golf in South Africa and tried to of eight golds-was beaten in the quarter-finals by Belgium you need a lot of patience. Brazilians said 16-year-old Taichi Fukai, a Sao Paulo Brazil aimed to overtake Argentina to keep up the hobby in Rio by buying clubs. in a performance the Hindustan Times described as “dis- aren’t patient. We are more fiery,” said Lena resident who was roaming the course with become the top golfing nation in South “I’m a golf addict but I keep my clubs in mal” and “lacklustre”. Even the country’s shooters, who Salgado, one of the few Brazilians to have his family on Sunday to see the gold America in the next 10 years. Brasilia because golf in Rio is just too secured medals at the last three Olympics, were off target played the game. medal winner, Justin Rose. Brazil has only 123 courses, less than expensive,” he explained as he camped and failed to gain a place on the podium in any of the disci- The new course, carved out of natural Fukai, who started playing golf last half of the 319 in Argentina which has a out at the first tee to watch top players plines. In a series of tweets over the weekend, Prime park in the southwest of Rio de Janeiro, year at a private golf club at Sao Paulo, is third of Brazil’s population, according to a like Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and Minister Narendra Modi insisted Indians should be proud will become a public facility after the one of only 20,000 golfers in Brazil, a 2015 report by the R&A, the British Open American Rickie Fowler. of their compatriots in Brazil while adding that people had Games, a legacy for promoting the sport country of 200 million people. Argentina organiser. Golf’s biggest market, the Refael Silva, a doctor who lives in Rio, to learn how to deal with adversity. in Brazil. has 100,000 golfers. United States, has 15,373 courses. was following the tournament’s lone “I urge all athletes who have their games remaining to Brazilian fans say the main issue, Bridgestone Corp, the Japanese tyre Brazilian player, Adilson de Silva, on the give their best & play with determination, not get bur- though, will be cost. The green fees will be GOLFING NATION company that also makes golf balls and ninth hole on Saturday. dened by what the result will be”, said the prime minister. set at $80 for Brazilians and between $200 The world’s golf industry, which has clubs, is an Olympic sponsor and set up a What did he think? “The course is very “India is phenomenally proud of all our athletes in Rio & and $250 for tourists, with golfers charged suffered since the 2008 global financial mini-golf course and golf demonstration nice but I think the sport is boring,” he said their hardwork that got them there. Victory & setbacks are $8-$10 to play a four-hole practice course, crisis, has seen sales of golf apparel and zone at the course. with a laugh. — Reuters all a part of life.” — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 SPORTS Hungary beat Brazil 10-6 to clinch spot in q-finals

WATER POLO

RIO DE JANEIRO: Hungary goaltender Viktor Nagy held his fingers to his lips, and the crowd responded with a loud round of WEIGHTLIFTING boos. Brazil was looking to win Group A in the Olympic men’s water polo tournament. Australia was hoping to sneak into the quar- Draw of gold brings terfinals. Nagy had other ideas. Nagy made 12 saves, and Hungary beat tainted lifters back Brazil 10-6 on Sunday to remain the only unbeaten team in the competition. “That’s to Olympic battle his standard. When he is in good form, he is the best goalie in the world,” Hungary driver RIO DE JANEIRO: Eight weightlifters who pre- Daniel Varga said. “I think in the last three viously served doping bans have won medals games if he shows this performance we got at Rio, while others have been sent home for a chance to win (the) Olympic Games.” failed tests, highlighting again the scandal- Hungary improved to 2-0-3 for a Group plagued sport’s battle with drugs. A-best seven points. Spain played to a 9-9 Gold medallists Nijat Rahimov of draw with Montenegro earlier in the day Kazakhstan, Iran’s Sohrab Moradi and Sukanya and topped Group B with seven points. Srisurat of Thailand all spent two years banned Hungary and Montenegro will face off in from the sport after testing positive for illegal Tuesday’s quarterfinals, and Spain will play substances. world champion Serbia. Greece takes on Italy, and Brazil meets Croatia in the most Another four weightlifters caught doping intriguing matchup of the next round. Brazil earlier in their careers have claimed bronze coach Ratko Rudic guided Croatia to gold at RIO DE JANEIRO: Hungary’s Norbert Hosnyanszky shoots and scores against Brazil during men’s water polo preliminary round medals in Brazil, as has one silver medallist. the 2012 London Games. match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. — AP Four athletes, including a Polish Olympic “It’s not important who it will be in the waved to friends and family in the stands in going to take off tomorrow, go home, spend together a strong finish, despite playing champion, were withdrawn from the competi- quarterfinal,” Rudic said. “Here all the teams what might have been the final Olympic all day at the beach first and then go home, without Alex Roelse, Alex Bowen and assis- tion for testing positive. are really strong, and we know very well all appearance for the American mainstays. and finish my professional career here in tant coach Jack Kocur due to a trio of sus- Thirteen golds have been awarded, with two the teams.” Nagy, drawing the ire of the rau- Brazil. I’ll be back in two weeks, and then I’ll pensions coming out of Friday’s 8-5 loss to still to come. “People do cheat,” said American cous crowd with his animated intensity, PROUD decide what I’m going to do in the future.” Montenegro. Moses made six saves while weightlifter Kendrick Farris. “Hopefully, they’ll helped Hungary get off to a fast start with Australia bounced back nicely from its Smith, a four-time Olympian, would only playing most of the second half in relief of continue to do the work they’re doing and his focused performance in net. Gustavo 10-8 loss to Serbia on Friday, posting its say it was the last game of this tournament, McQuin Baron, the likely starter for Tokyo. we’ll get more athletes competing clean,” he Guimaraes’ penalty shot with 2:04 left in the highest scoring game of the tournament. It but sounded as if he felt this was it. “I’m really “It’s unfortunate how the tournament added, referring to governing body the second was Brazil’s first goal, but it was 5-1 also was the most goals allowed by Greece, glad we went out on a win,” the 33-year-old ended up,” Moses said. “But I know that we International Weightlifting Federation. Hungary at the break. which had already secured a spot in the Smith said. “I think it’s great for the young gave it our all and I look forward to the Weightlifting has long been afflicted by dop- Australia was eliminated with Hungary’s quarterfinals. guys to go on a win so that I think that bright future of this young team.” Also ing scandals and the IWF has undertaken a major win. It finished ninth, followed by the “I’m very proud of the boys today,” they’re going to have a great chance in 2020.” Sunday, France beat Croatia 9-8 for its first crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs. It United States, France and Japan. Rhys Howden said. “We came out and gave it victory of the Olympics, and Serbia surged has led the way on anti-doping measures that Howden and John Cotterill each scored everything we had.” Moses, a three-time STRONG FINISH to a 12-8 victory over Japan. are now being adopted by other sports, such as three goals to help Australia beat Greece 12- Olympian who turned 39 on Saturday, said it Azevedo, Moses and Smith helped the Serbia trailed 5-2 after one, but Filip publicly naming athletes after their initial “A” 7 in their final group game, and the United was his last game, but Smith and Azevedo US win silver in Beijing, but the team fin- Filipovic scored four of his six goals in the were non-committal. Azevedo scored twice ished eighth in London in 2012 and then second half as the world champions rallied sample tests positive. The IWF banned Russia and States beat Italy 10-7 in its final game in Rio de Janeiro. against Italy and finished with five goals in his flopped in Rio. It lost three of its first four for their second straight victory. “We started Bulgaria, both traditional powerhouses, from US captain Tony Azevedo, goaltender fifth Olympics, a record for USA Water Polo. games to lose out on any chance of match- bad and we suffered a lot in the first 15 min- competing in weightlifting at the Rio Olympics Merrill Moses and defender Jesse Smith “Right now I’m just pretty depressed,” said ing its performance from four years ago. utes,” Serbia driver Andrija Prlainovic said, for repeated doping offences. were pulled with nine seconds left and Azevedo, who turns 35 in November. “I’m But the Americans managed to put “but again we managed to win.” — AP It punished North Korea, Romania, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Moldova as well by reducing their allocation of lifters. The IWF had also wanted to bar Belarus and China top table Kazakhstan over high-profile drugs scandals but the International Olympic Committee was unable to complete retesting of samples from again as Robles the Beijing and London Games in time. Kazakhstan and Belarus have been free to com- pete at the 31st Olympiad and have picked up ends long US wait four and two medals respectively, although there is absolutely no evidence of foul play. “We are doing everything in our power to Meng, 27. Hou thought she had recovered sufficiently in a pre-Games training camp in change the mentalities of some countries that Sao Paulo but China’s head coach of the might be more affected (by doping) than oth- women’s team, Wang Guoxin, made the ers,” an IWF spokesperson told AFP. A WEIGHTLIFTING change. His decision was influenced, he weightlifter has yet to fail a doping test after said, by the absence of Tatiana Kashirina of competing in Rio, but two brothers from RIO DE JANEIRO: China ensured top place Russia, the world record holder who beat Poland, a Taiwanese athlete and a Cypriot were Meng in the past two IWF World prevented from taking part after failing drugs in the weightlifting medals table for the fifth successive Olympic Games when Championships. She was excluded when tests before their competition started. Meng Suping won her nation’s fifth gold on the entire Russian team was banned from Adrian Zielinski, a 2012 Olympic champion, Sunday. Rio for state-sponsored doping. The ban tested positive for the anabolic steroid nan- Sarah Robles, in third place in the +75kg, was not confirmed until the week before drolone just three days after his brother won the first weightlifting medal for the the Games started. Tomasz suffered the same fate, Poland’s anti- United States since 2000. Meng had to Kashirina’s world record total of 348kg is doping committee said on Friday. make her last clean and jerk of 177kg to way beyond the winning total in Rio. “It’s a The Zielinskis, who trained for the Olympics RIO DE JANEIRO: Germany’s Florian Fuchs celebrates his team’s third goal during the pity she was not here,” said Meng. “She is a men’s quarterfinal field hockey Germany vs New Zealand match of the Rio 2016 edge out Kim Kuk Hyang of North Korea, individually, outside the Polish federation very strong competitor.” Olympics Games at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. — AFP who lifted more than 300kg for the first framework, had both been due to compete in time. Meng did it and justified her last- Both Robles, 28, and Kim have served the 94kg competition the next day and denied minute selection for the Rio team. two-year doping bans. Kim’s total 306kg any wrongdoing. Germans win epic in field Meng occasionally looked shaky, missing was 1kg behind Meng. She was in tears Earlier in the week, Taiwan’s former her first snatch and her first clean and jerk, afterwards and said, “I am happy to win sil- weightlifting world record holder Lin Tzu-chi hockey, Dutch crush Aussies but did enough. “I was at home in China ver but also sad that it was not gold.” was suspended and withdrawn from the training hard when I heard I had been At 143kg Robles was 20kg or more heav- women’s 63kg category after a routine dope feeling they would score a goal or we con- selected,” she said. ier than her rivals and turned that to her test “detected an abnormal reaction.” cede one.” Australia pulled its goalie with “It was a personal challenge for me and I advantage to become the first American on the weightlifting podium since Tara Nott Cypriot lifter Antonis Martasides was report- nine minutes remaining to try and create know there was a lot of weight on me, but it chances, at least, but to no avail, and the won at Sydney 2000. “This means a lot, to edly sent home on the eve of the Games after was my duty to perform well for my country FIELD HOCKEY end came to a run of six straight medals at be on the podium and give exposure to our after testing positive for a banned substance and I did it. “I was a bit nervous on my first Olympics that began at the 1992 Barcelona lift but I stabilised. I didn’t think about how sport at a time when it’s already growing,” following an out-of-competition test in July in Games. It was also the end of the line for said Robles. RIO DE JANEIRO: Gold-medal favorite much I had to lift, I just followed my coach’s Athens. greats Jamie Dwyer and Mark Knowles, the Australia will not medal in Olympic men’s directions and the end result was pretty “It’s good not just for me, but for women last active 2004 gold medalists. field hockey for the first time in 28 years good.” Meng’s gold takes China’s weightlift- of size, for women who want to get up off ‘HATERS’ the couch and do something different.” Her after being beaten by the Netherlands 4-0 DISSAPPOINTED ing tally to 28 in the five Games this century. Kazakhstan’s Rahimov, who was represent- two-year ban, she said, was the result of in the quarterfinals on Sunday. “It’s a performance that we will be bit- They have never won fewer than five in a ing Azerbaijan when was caught doping, won unknowingly taking an over-the-counter And Germany scored twice in the last 41 terly disappointed (about),” Knowles said. single Games since women’s contests were gold in the men’s 77kg on Thursday just over a supplement that contained a banned sub- seconds to beat New Zealand 3-2 and keep “Splattering, spluttering, we couldn’t get added to the schedule in 2000. year after returning from his ban in June 2015. stance. Life was hard for Robles. She lost alive its bid for a third straight Olympic any really flow (in the competition), and Their total in Rio is five golds and two sil- Iranian Moradi insisted his gold in the men’s gold medal. Meanwhile, Argentina and today we just played against an amazing vers with one lifter yet to compete - Zhe her funding, took three or four menial jobs, 94kg on Saturday had not been diminished by Belgium were breathing rarefied air when Dutch team. Take nothing away, that was Yang in the men’s 105kg on Monday. No kept training and strove to return. “I know his two-year suspension for testing positive for they reached the medal rounds. It’s exceptional hockey to be on the other end other team can overtake them. I’m a good and honest person and if I put the painkiller methadone, insisting he’d always Argentina’s first time in the semifinals in 11 of.” New Zealand had never beaten A knee injury to the 48kg favourite Hou hard work in I would be able to reach my been “100 percent” clean. Olympics, and Belgium last played for a Germany in a major event, but opened the Zhihui prompted the decision to call for goals.” — Reuters Thailand’s Sukanya said her 58kg Olympic medal in 1928. The semifinals today see the scoring through Hugo Inglis’ brilliant solo gold was redemption for her two-year ban, Netherlands play Belgium, and Germany score, New Zealand’s only goal-shot of the which ended in May 2013. She claimed she had face Argentina. The Kookaburras were the first half. The Black Sticks survived some never knowingly taken the anabolic steroid most feared team in the field, and not just hairy moments to make it 2-0 against the found in her system. for taking the Champions Trophy and run of play with 12 minutes to go through Silver medallist Kim Kuk-Hyang of North Sultan Azlan Shah Cup this year. But the No. Shea McAleese off a penalty corner. Korea and bronze medallists Farkhad Kharki of 2-ranked Dutch were out for payback for But Germany never gave up. Moritz Kazakhstan, Romania’s Gabriel Sincraian, being crushed 6-1 in the final of their home Furste put a penalty corner shot through Lithuanian Aurimas Didzbalis and American World Cup in 2014, and redemption began the goalkeeper’s legs with 4 1/2 minutes Sarah Robles also spent 24 months out of the after just 49 seconds in Rio de Janeiro. left, and hit in a second with 41 seconds to Billy Bakker’s reverse hit in an go. The Germans erupted like they’d won, sport for testing positive for banned sub- unchecked run across the circle caught the stances. Retesting of samples from Beijing and and a shootout was on the cards. Australian defense too narrow, and set the But New Zealand tried to work a penalty London recently unearthed at least 20 positive tone. Bakker turned provider just before corner, Nick Wilson was yellow-carded for results in weightlifting, including Kazakhstan’s halftime when he stepped and leaped over wasting time, and Germany launched an double Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin. three sticks up the middle before finding attack. Timur Oruz carried down the right Several lifters are waiting to be upgraded to Bob de Voogd, who swept in near the left wing and threaded a pass between five medal status after those who failed drugs tests post. After halftime, Valentin Verga perfect- Kiwis. Florian Fuchs dived to connect with are stripped of their podium finishes from the ly met Jeroen Hertzberger’s cross for 3-0, the middle of his stick and score as the past two Games. then Mink van der Weerden, whose 11- clock went 0:00. Didzbalis, the 94kg Rio bronze medallist, told match Olympic scoring streak ended on There was also late drama as Argentina reporters he was hurt by continued questions Friday, started a new streak during a run of defeated Spain 2-1 on a Juan Gilardi penal- over the legitimacy of weightlifting results. penalty corners, capping the Netherlands’ ty stroke just 87 seconds from fulltime. “There have always been people who under- biggest win over Australia in a major event Gonzalo Peillat’s penalty corner shot stand this sport and those who don’t. There are in 14 years. had been saved by the stick of Spain’s always haters but I cannot do anything about it. “On everything we had an answer today. Miguel Delas in the goalmouth. Argentina’s It’s just the way it is,” he said. — AFP That’s the biggest compliment we can get Lucas Vila was first to push back the RIO DE JANEIRO: Gold medal winner Meng Suping, of China, competes in the as a team,” Netherlands captain Robert van rebound, which Delas deliberately stopped women’s 75kg weightlifting event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, der Horst said. “We didn’t have one time a with his right foot. — AP Brazil, Sunday. — AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 SPORTS USA goes 5-0 as Klay Thompson dumps slump

BASKETBALL

RIO DE JANEIRO: NBA marksman Klay Thompson shook off his Rio slump to net 30 points but the USA laboured again to defeat France Sunday as Olympic basket- RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio Olympics medals table on Sunday ball heads for the knockout rounds. The (gold, silver, bronze, total): 100-97 victory means the two-time defend- Gold Silver Bronze Total ing gold medallists have won their group at United States 26 21 22 69 5-0 but must wait until Monday to learn Britain 15 16 7 38 their quarter-final opponent. China 15 13 17 45 Russia 9 11 10 30 Australia, meanwhile, beat Venezuela Germany 8 5 4 17 81-56 to finish second in Group A at 4-1 France 7 8 7 22 and thereby avoid the USA in the medal- Italy 7 8 6 21 round brackets. After close calls against Japan 7 4 15 26 Australia and Serbia, the heavily favoured Australia 6 7 9 22 South Korea 6 3 5 14 Americans had their hands full again Hungary 5 3 4 12 despite France resting star guard Tony Netherlands 4 2 3 9 Parker for the medal rounds. Spain 3 0 2 5 France was down just 55-46 at halftime New Zealand 2 6 0 8 as they found ways to penetrate the Canada 2 2 9 13 American defensive press. “I think we just Kazakhstan 2 2 4 8 Colombia 2 2 0 4 let up a little bit (defensively) and you can’t Switzerland 2 1 2 5 let up in this kind of tournament,” said Belgium 2 1 1 4 Thompson. Thailand 2 1 1 4 One of the NBA’s top shooters, Croatia 2 1 0 3 Thompson hit only 15 percent of his shots Iran 2 0 1 3 before Sunday. But the Golden State Jamaica 2 0 1 3 South Africa 1 5 1 7 Warriors guard buried five three-pointers in Sweden 1 4 1 6 a brief third-quarter span for a 16-point Denmark 1 3 3 7 USA lead. North Korea 1 3 2 6 “I don’t care if I shoot 10 percent the rest Brazil 1 2 3 6 of the tournament. If we get the gold Belarus 1 2 1 4 Kenya 1 2 0 3 medal, that’s all that really matters,” said Cuba 1 1 3 5 Klay, who finished 9-for-16 from the field. Poland 1 1 2 4 Romania 1 1 2 4 BIG PLAYS Slovenia 1 1 1 3 Parker’s replacement Thomas Heurtel Argentina 1 1 0 2 helped keep France in it, scoring nine of his Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Vietnam 1 1 0 2 18 points down the stretch, but Les Bleus Czech Republic 1 0 5 6 ran out of time as the Americans came up Uzbekistan 1 0 4 5 with big plays late. Ethiopia 1 0 3 4 They included a Kevin Durant alley-oop Taiwan 1 0 2 3 dunk off a Kyrie Irving pass thrown as the IOA* 1 0 1 2 Cleveland Cavaliers guard sprawled to the Greece 1 0 1 2 Fiji 1 0 0 1 floor. Defence has been a USA worry as Kosovo 1 0 0 1 they seek a widely expected third straight Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 gold. Pressuring opponents, they came into Singapore 1 0 0 1 the France game averaging 18.8 turnovers Ukraine 0 3 1 4 forced and 24.8 points off turnovers per Azerbaijan 0 2 0 2 Indonesia 0 2 0 2 game, both tournament bests. But in their Lithuania 0 1 2 3 last two contests, Australia and Serbia kept Georgia 0 1 1 2 finding ways to score, and threatened to Mongolia 0 1 1 2 win. Coach Mike Krzyzewski cited Bahrain 0 1 0 1 Thompson’s play as a sign that his squad Grenada 0 1 0 1 was warming up offensively, calling it “a Ireland 0 1 0 1 Malaysia 0 1 0 1 huge plus.” Philippines 0 1 0 1 “But obviously we are going to have to Turkey 0 1 0 1 play better defensively,” he said. “Coach K” Venezuela 0 1 0 1 admits the newly-assembled US team is RIO DE JANEIRO: An overview shows USA’s guard Klay Thompson (bottom) go to the basket despite France’s power forward Boris Norway 0 0 3 3 still getting acclimatized to international Diaw during a Men’s round Group A basketball match between USA and France at the Carioca Arena 1 in Rio de Janeiro on Egypt 0 0 2 2 basketball, where top teams use constant Sunday during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. — AFP Israel 0 0 2 2 Estonia 0 0 1 1 movement to work deep into a possession you can’t get complacent,” Thompson said Group B wins Monday to stay alive. the final, if they get that far. Serbia defeat- Kyrghyzstan 0 0 1 1 for better shots. Other teams are likely to of France. The USA has not lost an Olympic Australia easily handled Venezuela, icing ed winless China 94-60 to grab the last Portugal 0 0 1 1 exploit that in the knock-out phases start- game since Athens 2004, or internationally the contest with a 10-0 fourth-period run Group A spot. In Group B, Argentina and Tunisia 0 0 1 1 ing Wednesday. for a decade. on a pair of three-pointers from guard Chris Lithuania, both 3-1, have advanced but will UAE 0 0 1 1 *Independent Olympic Athletes “We got complacent on defence, and In the quarters, they will face either Goulding, who led all scorers with 22. seek wins to decide who wins the group teams like this that move a lot off the ball, Spain, Croatia or Brazil, who all seek final The Aussies will thus avoid the USA until and avoids the USA’s bracket. — AFP Schooling mobbed on return to Singapore

posed for a few. Hundreds packed Singapore’s Thank you guys.” Schooling, who attends the Changi Airport as the 21-year-old Schooling University of Texas, will spend four days cele- returned from Rio de Janeiro with an Olympic brating in events in Singapore, including an gold medal around his neck yesterday. He beat open-top parade. SWIMMING his idol in the 100-meter butterfly to deliver the Sim Siew Png arrived at the airport seven first ever Olympic gold medal for the city-state hours early in the hopes of seeing his hero. “I SINGAPORE: It was a photo taken with Michael of 5.54 million. wanted to see the golden boy,” the 17-year-old Phelps that inspired Joseph Schooling to “Definitely the highlight of my life,” he told Sim said as he clutched a pair of red swimming Olympic gold. So when he was mobbed by fans the crowd. “Thank you everyone for coming. trunks that he hoped to get autographed. on his return to Singapore, he made sure he This (gold) is not for me. This is for everyone. “Watching the moment live on television left me excited and happy. My family was screaming.” Sim was recalling Saturday’s showdown in Rio where Schooling built a big lead and won in an Olympic record of 50.39 seconds. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, South RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s Marta juggles the ball during a practice session a day before Africa’s Chad le Chlos and Laszlo Cseh of the women’s Olympic semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Sweden, in Rio de Hungary shared a three-way tie for silver. Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. — AP Schooling’s father, Colin, did not travel to Rio but said he’d dreamed of the Singapore anthem Brazil’s women desperate being sung in the Olympic stadium. “They did it this time,” he said. “That made my day. “I got a feeling that Michael gave him some to taste Maracana magic words of praises. I’m glad my son also showed I’ve got to be there to see what it’s like.” The respect. That goes well with me,” he said. “Now 23-year-old, whose burgeoning talents have we have to aim for the world record.” Schooling seen her sign for Barcelona’s women’s team in spent more than an hour thanking his support- June, is loving the support so normally ers Monday, signing autographs and posing for FOOTBALL reserved for Brazil’s men, who are also in semi- photos with fans as people screamed and chant- final action at the Maracana against Honduras ed his name. RIO DE JANEIRO: Already buoyed by the on Wednesday. “The guys always get to play in Schooling was just a 13-year-old kid in 2008 pursuit of landing a first gold medal in the front of 50 or 60,000 people, but we don’t. when Phelps showed up to train at his club in sport for football-mad Brazil, the hosts’ Here, we’re getting those crowds everywhere Singapore ahead of the Beijing Olympics. While women will be inspired by the rare chance to and now we’ve got the Maracana, where other kids rushed at Phelps wanting photos, play at the iconic Maracana in their Olympics there’s going to be even more.” Schooling was frozen. semi-final with Sweden today. Having lived Unlike the men, who struggled under the He couldn’t believe his swimming idol was in for so long in the shadow of their male coun- weight of expectation in 0-0 draws against front of him. Eventually, he mustered the terparts, the Canarinha are loving their time South Africa and Iraq to open the Games and courage to ask for a picture, too. “A lot of this is in the limelight with a nation enthralled by in crumbling 7-1 to Germany at the World because of Michael,” Schooling said after his vic- their emotional run to the last four. Cup on home soil two years ago, Alves tory. “He’s the reason why I want to be a better A heart-stopping 7-6 penalty shootout believes the unprecedented support is only swimmer.” Schooling is already inspiring young win over Australia left five-time World Player serving to inspire her teammates. The Singaporeans. “I came to support him because of the Year Marta in tears of relief after her women could even have the honour of beat- he’s friendly, approachable and very nice to little missed spot-kick looked to have sealed ing the men to Brazil’s first ever football gold children,” Judy Eng said, recounting how her Brazil’s fate. Instead, goalkeeper Barbara with the women’s final at the 78,000 capacity nine-year-old son was on the receiving end of made two brilliant stops to set up a semi-final Maracana on Friday, 24 hours before the one such swimming pep talk. against Sweden, who also ended the USA’s men’s showpiece. “The fans and the country Not only is Schooling a good role model, he’s bid for a fourth straight gold on penalties in are motivating us so much. We’re working SINGAPORE: Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling is surrounded by media and people on also a little wealthier now too. By winning his the quarter-finals. “I never thought I could hard because the fans are infusing us with all his arrival at the Singapore Changi Airport in Singapore yesterday. Schooling won gold medal country’s first Olympic gold, Schooling earned a play at the Maracana,” striker Andressa Alves this energy,” added Alves. “We’ve got a lot of in the men’s 100-meter butterfly and made history by winning the country’s first gold medal at bonus of $1 million Singapore dollars or nearly told FIFA.com. “The Maracana is the symbol of people behind us and that makes all the dif- the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AP US$750,000. —AP Brazilian football. Zico, Ronaldo, everybody... ference. — AFP Smith, Marsh tons Tribunal lets give Australia Klishina back slender lead into Rio Games

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RIO DE JANEIRO: South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk, left, competes in the men’s 400-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. — AP Van Niekerk smashes 400m world record

one many thought might never be broken. “I believed it who gave up the 400 metres because he did not like sage for anyone who suggested his remarkable was possible,” the 24-year-old said. “I am just glad things the training, told reporters. progress in the last four years was down to doping. went my way tonight. “I’m still a bit amazed, I still have “I told him in Jamaica ‘my coach said you’re probably “I know I’m not, so what else can I say on that?” he to pinch myself with what just happened.” Van Niekerk’s the only guy right now other than me who can break said. Twice Olympic 400 metres champion Johnson was ATHLETICS achievement was all the more remarkable for the fact this 400m world record’. “I’m really happy for him, I’m dumbfounded bythe quality of Van Niekerk’s run. that he ran in lane eight, the outside lane where it is really proud of him.” Van Niekerk, who also won the “Van Niekerk is so young, what else can he do? Can RIO DE JANEIRO: Win or lose, Usain Bolt was always impossible to see any of your rivals. world title last year, said he was just happy to be at his he go under 43 seconds? It is something I thought I going to dominate the Olympic headlines on Sunday “I don’t think any athlete wants to be in lane eight first Olympics alongside the likes of Bolt, who he could do, but never did,” the American said. “Usain Bolt but Wayde van Niekerk offered his embattled sport but I figured it (has) advantages as well as disadvan- described as the “king of the sprints”. will be retiring soon, this could be the next star.” some hope for the future beyond the Jamaican’s retire- tages,” he said. “I’m just really grateful that I’m part of this genera- When asked how fast he could run, Van Niekerk’s ment with a stunning world record on the Rio track. “You have the perfect opportunity to go out as if you tion of athletics, just keeping the sport alive,” he said. reply would have been music to the ears of the Twenty minutes before Bolt won his third successive are in training and go as hard as you can.” Van Niekerk “I use these guys as inspiration and motivation but International Association of Athletics Federation 100 metres title, the South African ran at an unrelenting has been training with Bolt’s team this year and the I’ve now got a chance to build my own legacy, my own (IAAF), who have been unable to shift the cloud of a pace to clinch the gold medal and break Michael Jamaican, who has said he will retire after the world journey and story, hopefully I can inspire other South doping scandal that has overshadowed the sport for Johnson’s 17-year-old 400 metres record in a time of championships in London next year, ran over to con- Africans and athletes around the world to go out and the last year. “Achieving what I did just now, the sky’s 43.03 seconds. It was the oldest standing men’s sprint gratulate him after finishing the 100 metres. do their thing.” Van Niekerk watched the last Olympics the limit,” he said. “There’s no way I’m going to limit record - Bolt owns the 100 and 200 metres marks, - and “When he got the world record I was like, wow!” Bolt, at home on television but had a straightforward mes- myself.” — Reuters Wlodarczyk shatters world Murray retains record for hammer gold Olympic title was pushed all the way by an impres- sive Del Potro, who was roared on by hundreds of passionate Argentine fans. ATHLETICS TENNIS TREMENDOUSLY TIRED RIO DE JANEIRO: Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk RIO DE JANEIRO: Britain’s Andy Del Potro had blown open the tour- underlined her absolute dominance of the Murray beat Argentina’s Juan Martin nament by beating top seed Novak women’s hammer by throwing a world record del Potro 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 in a com- Djokovic in the first round and then 82.29 metres to win the Rio Olympic gold by pelling Olympic tennis final on Sunday edged Rafa Nadal in a three-hour an incredible 554 centimetres yesterday. to become the first player to win two semi-final contest but the exploits had The only woman to have thrown the ham- men’s singles gold medals. left him exhausted. Against Murray, he mer further than 80 metres, the 31-year-old The world number two and his said he was dizzy and felt close to world champion had already broken the Argentine opponent shared a long passing out. Olympic record with a second throw of 80.40 hug at the net, with both man trying “I left the last of my toenails on the when she entered the ring for the third time. to hold back the tears, after a punish- court,” said Del Potro, whose ranking Whipping the hammer around her body ing, see-sawing, four-hour contest has slipped to 141 after a series of eight times before launching it into the sunny played out in front of a boisterous wrist injuries over the past six years. morning sky, Wlodarczyk was screaming in crowd at the Olympic Tennis Centre. “I was tremendously tired. It was delight before the ball even pitched on the Murray’s consistency proved deci- the crowd that made me keep run- grass of the infield, well beyond the 80 metre sive. He was able to wear down Del ning.” tape. It was far enough to better the mark of Potro’s weaker backhand and fre- The 2009 US Open champion, 81.08 she set in Cetniewo in Poland this quently drew the fatigued Argentine whose route to the final included month, as was her fifth throw of 81.74. into the net with deftly placed drop being stuck in an Olympic village ele- “Competition of my life,” she told Poland’s shots as the contest wore on. vator for 40 minutes before his first TVP. “After the first round I knew that I would Del Potro served for the fourth set round win, claimed his second get the gold medal and after the second one I at 5-4 but Murray broke the Argentine Olympic medal after a bronze at the went for it all. Massacre. in consecutive games to claim the 2012 London Games. “I think that no one made such a surprise match, his 18th straight victory follow- His blistering forehand produced during Olympics. I was close to beating the RIO DE JANEIRO: Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk celebrates after winning the gold medal after ing his second Wimbledon title in July. several winners but said he had no record for the second time. I didn’t want to setting a new world record in the women’s hammer throw final during the athletics competi- The 29-year-old Scot, winner of complaints about the final result, cred- hold back. tions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yester- three grand slams, called the Rio iting Murray for playing “smarter” ten- “I thought, this is that day. It was worth giv- day. Left is China’s silver medal winner Zhang Wenxiu. — AP encounter “one of the hardest match- nis at crucial moments. ing it a go, because you never know if it’s gural women’s hammer at the Sydney but the Russian was unable to defend her title es I’ve had to play for a big title.” “There Murray said he might seek a third going to happen again - parents in the stands, Olympics in 2000 before dying at the age of in Rio after being banned for doping for the were so many ups and downs in the title at the Tokyo Games in 2020, but fans cheering ... I think I’m the happiest 26 of a pulmonary embolism while training. second time in her career earlier this year. match... this has been much harder acknowledged that his best playing woman in the world right now.” “Everyone thought I’d win the gold medal,” China’s Zhang Wenxiu threw 76.75 to add a than London,” he told reporters in ref- days might be behind him by then. Unbeaten since June 2014, Wlodarczyk said Wlodarczyk. “But the best thing for me is silver medal to the bronze she won on home erence to his gold medal win four Japan’s Kei Nishikori, who will still now owns the 11 best throws of all time. Her the world record, because I talked a lot about soil at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Former years ago. be in his prime at his home Olympics, winning margin was by far the largest in the it. “I didn’t fail the fans, I didn’t fail Poland so world junior champion Sophie Hitchon was The Scot, Britain’s flag-bearer at the secured a bronze medal in Rio by history of the women’s event. that’s just great. It’s time to celebrate.” third with a British record 74.54 from her final opening ceremony in Rio, had been a beating Nadal 6-2 6-7(1) 6-3 on She was the second Pole to win the title Wlodarczyk finished runner-up to Tatyana throw to claim a first medal for her country in hot favourite to retain his title but he Sunday. — Reuters after Kamila Skolimowska, who won the inau- Lysenko at the London Games four years ago the women’s hammer. — Reuters Private sector credit drops, but growth maintains pace Page 22

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SIRJAN: Iranian women look at a spices stall at the old bazaar yesterday in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan. —AFP OPEC deal remains a tough task Saudi comments suggest Riyadh wants supply deal

DUBAI/LONDON: OPEC will probably revive achieve oil market stability, adding that the Tehran argues it needs to regain market years - much above the current 3.6 million Its output currently hovers near an all- talks on freezing oil output levels when it door is still open for more discussions on out- share lost during years of Western sanctions, bpd and pre-sanction levels of 3.8-4.0 million time high of 10.85 and Russian officials meets non-OPEC nations next month as top put freeze, if needed. which have been only softened in January. bpd. But since the collapse of freeze talks in expect it to edge up further next year. And exporter Saudi Arabia appears to want high- Saudi Arabia, together with Russia and the Over the past few months, Iran, OPEC’s third April, Iran is no longer the only obstacle to even Saudi Arabia itself has raised its output er prices, according to OPEC sources, United States a rival for the position of the biggest producer, has boosted output close to the deal. Iraq, OPEC’s second largest produc- to record levels in July, which Falih has although Iran, Iraq and Russia present obsta- world’s top oil producer, boosted output to pre-sanctions levels and has repeatedly sig- er, which in April was saying it would support explained was due to rising seasonal domes- cles to a deal. 10.67 million barrels per day in July from 10.2 nalled it has no plans to join the freeze initia- the deal, has since agreed with oil majors on tic demand and customers asking for more Riyadh sharply raised expectations for a million in January, when the freeze idea first tive. new contract terms to develop its massive oil worldwide. global production deal between on Thursday emerged. Since 2014, Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s de “I do not see any real chance,” a source fields, which will allow output to rise further These increases arise as countries which when Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih said facto leader, has been raising output to drive familiar with Iranian oil thinking said on next year by up to 350,000 bpd. usually do not join any global actions such as Saudi Arabia will work with OPEC and non- higher cost producers out of the market and Saturday in reference to the prospect of a Nigeria and Libya could present further North American producers are expected to OPEC members to help stabilise oil markets. win back share from rivals such as the United freeze deal in September. complicating factors, delegates said. Nigeria’s add more barrels. The International Energy “The comments by the Saudi energy minister States, where output soared on the back of the OPEC members will meet on the sidelines output hit its lowest in over two decades this Agency expects non-OPEC output to rise by give a opositive indication that they are willing high oil price of the past decade. of the International Energy Forum (IEF), which year due to attacks on oil sites and Libya is 300,000 bpd next year after a decline of to go for a freeze deal but the question As a result, oil prices collapsed to $27 per groups producers and consumers, in Algeria pumping a fraction of the pre-conflict level - 900,000 bpd in 2015 as North American out- remains: on what level?” said an OPEC source barrel in January from as high as $115 in mid- on Sept 26-28. “However, if prices go down raising the question of what level they should put stabilises. Hence, persuading countries from a key Middle Eastern producer. 2014, capping output of the United States further, some OPEC members will try to send limit supplies at. such as Iran, Iraq and Russia to return to out- “Will the freeze be at January levels? And but also hitting hard Saudi Arabia’s budget positive signals to the market to keep prices at While Nigeria supported April’s freeze ini- put controls will be a difficult task for Riyadh what about Iran? And then there is Nigeria, and resulting in a record fiscal deficit for least at current levels,” the source added. tiative, Libya declined to join the talks. Russia, but a worst option would be to raise expecta- which has lost a lot of production since Riyadh. A previous attempt to freeze output which back in April was ready to freeze pro- tions of a deal that doesn’t happen, like in January,” the source added. Only days after at January levels to support prices collapsed IRAQ OUTPUT GAINS duction in the first coordinated action with April. Falih’s remarks, Energy Minister Alexander in April after Saudi Arabia said it wanted all Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said in OPEC since 2001, also signalled it was no “No agreement will collapse the mar- Novak was quoted as saying Russia is consult- producers, including regional rival Iran, to parliament last week he wanted to take the longer very keen on a dialogue and would ket, and OPEC,” said the first OPEC ing with Saudi Arabia and other producers to join the initiative. country’s output to 4.6 million bpd within 5 continue boosting output. source. —Reuters China working on growth initiative for G20 summit KAMCO revenue reaches BEIJING: China will propose a joint initiative because individual economies face differ- to revive weak global growth at next month’s ent conditions and need to take actions KD 3.9 million in H1 2016 meeting of leaders of Group of 20 major tailored to their own needs. economies amid rising protectionist senti- The proposal will stress “inclusive growth” KUWAIT: KAMCO Investment Company yesterday report- cent, since inception. The Fund distributed USD 10 cents established a robust reputation for solidity, characterized ment in the United States and Europe, offi- to spread economic benefits widely and ed its financial results for the first half ended June 30, per unit for the second quarter, with total distribution to by its prudent, conservative investment philosophy which cials said yesterday. shore up support for free trade, said a 2016. The company recorded a net investors reaching 2 percent during the year. has consistently commanded the goodwill of a wide Speaking at a news conference, a senior deputy finance minister, Zhu Guangyao. He profit of KD 724,000 with earnings- Commenting on the results, Faisal Mansour Sarkhou, patron-base. Chinese diplomat made clear Beijing wants said governments should be on “high alert” per-share (EPS) of 3.04 fils in H1 CEO of KAMCO, said, “2016 has been so far a challenging KAMCO’s main activities are Investments and Asset the Sept. 4-5 meeting to avoid political to “anti-globalization” sentiments. “If the 2016, compared to a net profit of year with high oil price volatility that declined to levels Management. Its Investments Division specializes in dif- issues such as its territorial disputes with its people cannot feel the benefits, then this KD 145,000 with EPS of 0.61 fils not seen over the past 14 years. This had a direct impact ferent sorts of investments, financial and advisory servic- neighbors in the South China Sea. The meet- sort of development cannot truly improve during the same period in 2015. on capital markets and the GCC markets which remain es, and investment research which tracks the latest direc- ing in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou people’s lives, and people will have mixed Revenue stood at KD 3.9 million largely oil dependent economies. Furthermore, uncertain- tions and trends across regional and local economies as comes as an unusually weak global econom- feelings about such development,” he said. against KD 3.1 million during the ties related to BREXIT and its impact on the gulf well as equity markets. ic recovery is helping to fuel the popularity A deputy foreign minister, Li Baoding, same period in 2015. economies as well as the geopolitical situation further With regards to the Asset Management Division, its of US and European political movements made clear China wants to avoid sensitive Faisal Mansour Fee Income reached KD 3.8 mil- added to market pressure. Despite these challenges, we at activities concentrate on providing customized portfolio that advocate protection for local industries. diplomatic issues. Sarkhou lion, a jump of 58 percent from KD KAMCO were able to grow operationally with our commit- management, access to IPOs, and local and international Details of Beijing’s proposal still are being The consensus among members is to 2.4 million achieved in H1 2015. ment to provide our clients with prudent and innovative fund management in addition to maximizing returns, mit- worked out but will include reforms aimed at “focus on economic development and not KAMCO maintained its leadership position in publicly products and services, continuing to position ourselves as igating risks, and maintaining capital appreciation for indi- strengthening the global financial system be distracted by other parties,” Li said when announced debt market issuances in Kuwait - acting as the preferred Asset Management and Investment vidual and institutional clients. All of the above operate and promoting technological innovation, asked about territorial disputes in the South JLM in capital boosting Tier 2 issuances from Burgan Bank, Banking provider.” within the spirit of transparency and exclusivity with the said the Chinese finance and foreign affairs China Sea. “The Hangzhou summit must Gulf Bank and Kuveyt Turk. Established in 1998 with the mission to significantly client’s best interests at heart. officials. focus on economic issues,” said Li. “This is On the Asset Management side, despite continued alter the local and regional investment landscape, KAMCO The company will further aggressively build upon its They gave no indication it might what people want to talk about most at the decline in regional equity markets, assets under manage- is a premier investment company based in Kuwait. A sub- core competencies to offer MENA-wide investment man- include an economic stimulus. Some summit.” Li gave similar responses to ques- ment stood at KD 3.3 billion with new money raised in sidiary of United Gulf Bank (UGB). KAMCO was listed on agement consultancy and services, backed by its proven investors have expected such a measure tions about China’s resolute opposition to funds and client portfolios. KAMCO Real Estate Yield Fund, the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) in 2003. track-record in stringent risk mitigation, investment prod- but officials at two previous G20 gather- South Korea’s deployment of a US missile KAMCO’s flagship product in the real estate space, was After many years of conducting business in Kuwait’s uct innovation, and a cautious investment approach ings this year said the timing was wrong, defense system. —AP able to increase its size by 195 percent, returning 7.4 per- dynamic investment industry, KAMCO has successfully towards local, regional and international capital markets. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 BUSINESS News in brief

ENOC to raise capacity of Jebel Ali refinery DOHA: State-run Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) plans to increase capacity at its Jebel Ali oil refinery to 210,000 bar- rels per day, state news agency WAM reported yesterday. “ENOC announced plans to expand its Jebel Ali refinery to increase production by 50 percent. Production will reach 210 thousand barrels per day,” WAM said on its Twitter account. ENOC also plans to expand its Falcon pipeline project by adding a new 19-kilometre pipe extension to supply Dubai’s Al-Maktoum airport with jet fuel, WAM said.

Investcorp acquires UK cybersecurity firm Nebulas DUBAI: Bahrain-based private equity investor Investcorp said yesterday it had acquired Nebulas Solutions, a British cyberse- curity services firm. It did not disclose the value of the acquisi- tion, but said Nebulas would be combined with Investcorp- owned SecureLink Group, which provides cybersecurity servic- es in Benelux and Nordic countries, and the combined compa- ny targeted revenue of 235 million euros ($263 mln) in 2016. Investcorp reported a 45 percent drop in second-half net profit last week. However, it also said it aimed to more than double its assets under management in the next five to seven years from the current level of $10.8 billion, and said it had sold British snack foods maker Tyrrells to Texas-based Amplify Snack Brands for an enterprise value of 300 million pounds ($387 million).

Egypt’s unemployment rate dips to 12.5% in Q2 CAIRO: Egypt’s unemployment rate dipped to 12.5 per- cent in the second quarter, state statistics agency CAP- Private sector credit drops, MAS said yesterday, but joblessness among the coun- try’s youth remains at critical levels. Unemployment stood at 12.7 percent in both the previous three months and the year-earlier quarter. The actual rate is higher than the reported one, analysts believe, reflecting the but growth maintains pace difficulty of gathering data in a country where the infor- mal economy is large and the social security system inefficient. The number of Egyptians unemployed stood at 3.6 million, down 61,000 from a quarter earlier, CAP- NBK ECONOMIC REPORT MAS said. The size of the workforce rose 2.9 percent year on year to 25 million. Egypt’s economy has strug- KUWAIT: Private sector credit declined in April, though The largest declines were in all remaining components increase was the largest since August 2011 and pushed gled since 2011, when an uprising - partly driven by growth maintained a healthy pace. Total credit was down of credit. This was off by KD 170 million, with growth slow- growth up to 24 percent y/y. Over the last twelve months, anger about the lack of job prospects for young by KD 156 million during the month as growth slowed to ing to 6.4 percent y/y. A large part of the April weakness government deposits have helped shore-up weakness in Egyptians - toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. 7.7 percent year-on-year (y/y). The decline was dominated was in lending for the purchase of securities which private deposits, rising by KD 1.2 billion, while private by a drop in credit for securities purchases, but other sec- declined by KD 171 million. Still, credit to business sectors deposits were up by KD 0.7 billion. tors were also off. Meanwhile, private deposits saw a large excluding securities lending was flat during the month, Banking system liquidity saw a slight decline in April but UAE’s NBAD group decrease on the heels of two consecutive months of large with growth retreating to 5.1 percent y/y. Industry, con- maintained a healthy level following two months of strong CEO steps down gains, though this was more than offset by a sizeable struction, and oil & gas all saw declines. The few business gains. Bank reserves (i.e. cash, deposits with the CBK and DUBAI: National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), the emirate’s increase in government deposits. sectors to see gains were the real estate sector and trade. CBK bonds) declined by KD 179 million to KD 6.1 billion or largest lender by assets, said yesterday that Alex Thursby Household debt growth was weaker than usual but con- Private sector deposits were down in April, though this 10.3 percent of total bank assets (Chart 4). CBK foreign had stepped down as group chief executive after three tinued to register double-digit growth from a year ago. follows two months of strong gains. Private deposits reserves were mostly steady, rising by a small KD 32 million years in the position. Abhijit Choudhury, the bank’s chief Installment and consumer loans rose by KD 44 million, with dropped by KD 361 million, with money supply (M2) to KD 9.3 billion or 11.6 months of imports. risk officer, has been appointed acting chief executive, growth slowing to 11.5 percent y/y. Installment loan growth slipping to 2.0 percent y/y; narrower money supply Interest rates declined in April as domestic liquidity con- NBAD said. Choudhury will lead the bank until its planned growth, which continued to dominate, moderated to 13.5 (M1) growth edged up to 0.8 percent y/y. Declines in pri- ditions improved. The 3-month Kuwait interbank offered merger with First Gulf Bank is complete, the statement percent y/y. Consumer loans (car, etc.) declined on the vate deposits were across the board, with KD time, KD sight rate (Kibor) dropped 10 basis points (bps) to 1.61 percent said. The merger of the two Abu Dhabi-based banks, rec- month and registered a 1.4 percent y/y contraction. and foreign currency deposits all seeing declines during in April. Rates continued to ease in May and June, but have ommended by the boards of the two lenders last month, is Nonbank financial companies returned to seeing net the month. since been relatively steady. The 3-month Kibor stood at expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017. decreases in credit in April, after two months of gains. 1.56 percent in early August. Customer deposit rates also Khalifa Sultan Al-Suwaidi, currently a member of NBAD’s Despite the KD 31 million drop, the sector appeared to be Government deposits appeared to ease, though moves were more limited. While board of directors, will take on the new position of manag- close to ending more than five years of deleveraging, with A relatively large rise in government deposits more than the average rate paid on a 3-month time deposit was ing director to support the bank in the integration indebtedness declining by a mere 0.4 percent y/y. offset the drop in private deposits. The KD 436 million unchanged, the 1-week rate was down by a small 1.4 bps. process until the merger is completed. Oil rises on talk of Qatar CB offers bonds in producer action first riyal sale this year DUBAI: Qatar’s central bank is low oil and gas prices have cut much appetite banks would have LONDON: Oil prices rose yesterday to to achieve market stability. prices. Iran is edging out Russia in a offering 3 billion riyals ($825 mil- flows of new petrodollars into the for this week’s bond offer, which their highest in nearly a month, with Still, analysts were skeptical that fight to supply crude oil to Poland, lion) of government bonds in its banking system this year, pushing the central bank might be conduct- benchmark Brent crude trading more the market could maintain its while its crude exports to South Korea first domestic bond sale this year, money rates up sharply and caus- ing as a way to gauge conditions in than 10 percent above the start of strength, particularly as the excess of jumped nearly four-fold in July from suggesting liquidity conditions are ing the central bank to cancel sev- the banking system. August, as speculation intensified supply that has dogged producers for the previous year. easing in a banking system pres- eral monthly sales of short-term Qatar’s government raised $9 about potential producer action to sup- the past two years showed little sign “The (OPEC) meeting is unlikely to sured by low oil and gas prices. A bills. Since June, however, money billion in an international bond port prices in an oversupplied market. of quickly abating. yield anything because OPEC are central bank official said results of rates have come off their highs, issue in late May, and there are Brent crude oil futures rose to a high “In our view a renewed price correc- caught in a squeeze,” David Hufton of the offer would be known today. If with the three-month interbank signs that authorities may have for the month of $47.67 a barrel on tion cannot be ruled out if market par- oil brokers PVM wrote yesterday. “On Monday before dipping back to $47.17 ticipants start focusing on the supply the supply side it is their own increase it succeeds, it would be the bank’s offered rate quoted at 1.54 percent provided at least some of this mon- per barrel at 1230 GMT, up 20 cents side again, for the latest drilling activity in production that is prolonging the first such issue since it sold 6.5 bil- yesterday, down from June’s multi- ey to Qatari banks to ease liquidity from their last settlement, and more figures in the US cast doubts that the price depression but if they freeze or lion riyals of conventional bonds year peak of 1.77 percent though pressures. Government deposits at than 11 percent above the last close in oversupply is really being eroded,” restrain production to lift prices they and sukuk last November, accord- still up sharply from 1.13 percent 12 commercial banks in Qatar rose July. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Commerzbank analyst Carsten Fritsch will stimulate competing non-OPEC ing to bank data. months ago. sharply to 68.0 billion riyals in June, crude futures rose to a high of $45.15 a said in a note. Baker Hughes data supply and lose market share.” The new offer comprises 1.5 bil- The central bank has helped to their highest level in more than a barrel before dipping to $44.69 a barrel, released on Friday showed the number On the demand side, the world’s lion riyals of three-year bonds at a improve liquidity in recent months year, from 57.0 billion riyals in May, still up 20 cents from their last close. of rigs operating in the US rose by 15 three biggest economies - the United fixed rate of 2.25 percent, 1 billion by reducing the size of its Treasury according to the latest central bank WTI has gained more than 7 percent in last week to 396. While far from the States, China and Japan - all published riyals of five-year debt at 2.75 per- bill issuance, a senior banking data. August. over 1,600 in operation in 2014 before downbeat economic data between cent, 250 million riyals of seven- industry source said. “Liquidity has Deposits by local banks at the On Monday, Russian Energy Minister the price rout, it has steadily risen from Friday and Monday. The countries are year debt at 3.25 percent and 250 gradually got better in the past six central bank jumped to 14.5 billion Alexander Novak bolstered hopes that a low of just 316 in late May as US pro- also among three of the world’s five million riyals of 10-year debt at 3.75 weeks, though it is still tight. The riyals in June, the highest since July oil producing nations could take action ducers adjusted to lower prices. biggest crude consumers and traders percent, according to an offer doc- cost of deposits hasn’t come down,” 2015, from 3.7 billion riyals in May, to stabilize prices, telling a Saudi news- Doubts also abounded over the said slower economic growth in those ument seen by Reuters. a Qatari commercial banker said. suggesting banks now have more paper that his country was consulting chances of OPEC putting aside a mar- countries could start weighing on Plunging state revenues due to He added that it was not clear how spare cash on hand. —Reuters with Saudi Arabia and other producers ket share battle in order to prop up crude markets. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Sterling Pound 395.280 Malaysian Ringgit 76.065 Indian Rupee 0.004325 0.004714 Canadian dollar 230.690 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.880 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Turkish lira 101.990 Thai Bhat 9.680 Japanese Yen 0.002903 0.003083 CURRENCY BUY SELL Swiss Franc 309.870 ASIAN COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 102.445 Kenyan Shilling 0.002974 0.002974 Australian Dollar 232.630 Japanese Yen 2.961 Korean Won 0.000266 0.000281 US Dollar Buying 301.700 Indian Rupees 4.527 Bahrain Exchange Company Malaysian Ringgit 0.072212 0.078215 Pakistani Rupees 2.897 Nepalese Rupee 0.002852 0.003022 GOLD Srilankan Rupees 2.083 Pakistan Rupee 0.002713 0.003003 20 Gram 268.840 Nepali Rupees 2.837 CURRENCY BUY SELL Philippine Peso 0.006334 0.006634 10 Gram 137.340 Singapore Dollar 225.620 Europe Sierra Leone 0.000052 0.000058 5 Gram 69.510 Hongkong Dollar 39.054 British Pound 0.388422 0.403422 Singapore Dollar 0.220173 0.230173 Bangladesh Taka 3.862 Czech Korune 0.004456 0.016456 South African Rand 0.016564 0.025064 Philippine Peso 6.465 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Danish Krone 0.041250 0.046250 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001658 0.002236 Thai Baht 8.698 Euro 0.0331658 0.0340658 Taiwan 0.009595 0.009775 Norwegian Krone 0.032041 0.037241 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Thai Baht 0.008360 0.008910 Romanian Leu 0.075480 0.075480 GCC COUNTRIES US Dollar 302.750 Slovakia 0.009011 0.019011 Saudi Riyal 80.816 Canadian Dollr 233.925 Arab Swedish Krona 0.031470 0.036470 Qatari Riyal 83.249 Sterling Pound 392.315 Bahraini Dinar 0.795818 0.804318 Swiss Franc 0.302116 0.313116 ani Riyal 787.162 Euro 338.905 Egyptian Pound 0.025243 0.030361 Turkish Lira 0.097203 0.107503 Bahraini Dinar 804.840 Swiss Frank 296.105 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 UAE Dirham 82.512 Bahrain Dinar 800.340 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Australasia UAE Dirhams 82.655 Jordanian Dinar 0.422500 0.431500 Australian Dollar 0.224446 0.236446 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyals 83.870 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 New Zealand Dollar 0.211779 0.221279 Egyptian Pound - Cash 34.498 Saudi Riyals 81.455 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 29.990 Jordanian Dinar 426.600 America Moroccan Dirhams 0.019602 0.043602 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.217 Egyptian Pound 33.995 Nigerian Naira 0.001247 0.001882 Tunisian Dinar 137.370 Canadian Dollar 0.226052 0.235052 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.083 Omani Riyal 0.779294 0.784974 Jordanian Dinar 427.640 Georgina Lari 0.136623 0.136623 Indian Rupees 4.521 Qatar Riyal 0.082278 0.083728 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.019 US Dollars 0.298400 0.303100 Pakistani Rupees 2.887 Saudi Riyal 0.079580 0.080880 Syrian Lira 2.0160 US Dollars Mint 0.298900 0.303100 Bangladesh Taka 3.852 Syrian Pound 0.001282 0.001502 Morocco Dirham 31.389 Philippines Pesso 6.476 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.134078 0.142078 Cyprus pound 159.569 Bangladesh Taka 0.003386 0.003970 Turkish Lira 0.097203 0.107503 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 3.980 Chinese Yuan 0.044020 0.047520 UAE Dirhams 0.080934 0.082634 US Dollar Transfer 302.900 Syrian Pound 2.405 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036912 0.039662 Yemeni Riyal 0.001367 0.001447 Euro 337.280 Nepalese Rupees 3.825 BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Gulf markets diverge as Saudi bank shares weigh

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS

DUBAI: Stock markets in Dubai, Qatar and percent with main support from large-cap bank that it had reached preliminary agreement on a Egypt climbed to multi-month highs yesterday shares. National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Union three-year, $12 billion loan from the but Saudi Arabia was dragged lower by bank- National Bank each added 1.2 percent. Qatar’s International Monetary Fund. GB Auto, which ing shares vulnerable to economic pressures index recouped early losses to close 0.7 percent rose 1.6 percent on Sunday after posting strong due to low oil prices. Dubai’s index rose 1.0 per- higher at a fresh nine-month peak of 11,128 second-quarter earnings, dropped 2.4 percent cent to end at 3,602 points, just below techni- points as most bluechips gained. Islamic lender yesterday. cal resistance at its April peak of 3,605 points, Masraf Al-Rayan added 1.5 percent and Ooredoo In Saudi Arabia, the index failed to hold as trading volume more than doubled from climbed 2.5 percent. onto early gains and closed 0.3 percent lower as Sunday, a positive technical signal. Any break of The index is now up 6.6 percent year-to- banking shares weighed on the bourse; heavy- resistance would point up to the October peak date as international funds have flowed into weight National Commercial Bank fell 0.5 per- of 3,740 points. Qatari equities. But some shares, such as Qatar cent. Some analysts are concerned about the Emaar Properties added 1.4 percent to 7.44 National Bank, which edged down 0.2 percent to financial difficulties of major construction firm dirhams, taking its gains over the last week to 158.00 riyals on Monday, are now considered Saudi Oger, which could pressure suppliers 7.8 percent. The stock confirmed a break of fairly valued. According to Thomson Reuters around the sector and the banks which lend to resistance on the October peak of 7.01 dirhams, data, the mean target price of 10 analysts for them; financial website Maaal quoted unnamed triggering a major reverse head & shoulders pat- QNB is 158.71 riyals. economists as saying 300 billion riyals ($80 bil- tern formed by the highs and lows since August lion) of debt could be vulnerable. 2015 and pointing up in the very long term to EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA Investors are also concerned by the pres- around 9.75 dirhams. Cairo’s main index rose 1.2 percent to a 14- sures on liquidity at banks due to low oil prices. The Gulf’s only listed exchange, Dubai month closing high of 8,454 points. Arabian After King Salman on Sunday ordered a month’s Financial Market , gained 3.8 percent in its heavi- Cement jumped 4.1 percent in unusually heavy extra pay for Saudi military and security person- est trade since May 3. But builder Drake & Scull, trade. The stock is owned to a large degree by nel actively involved in military operations in the most heavily traded stock, dropped 3.7 per- international funds including Morgan Stanley Yemen, the central bank issued a statement yes- cent after reporting a second-quarter net loss Investment Management and Ashburton. terday saying this would not compromise the attributable to owners of the parent of 207.6 mil- Commercial International Bank, another banking system in any way. lion dirhams ($56.6 million), versus a profit of stock favored by foreign investors, rose 3.2 per- But the petrochemical sector was resilient 10.3 million dirhams a year earlier. EFG Hermes cent, taking its gains over the last week to 5.2 after this week’s rise in oil prices, with the sub- had forecast a quarterly loss of 11.4 million percent. The market’s index has advanced 2.0 index adding 0.2 percent as Brent oil futures dirhams. In Abu Dhabi, the index climbed 0.7 percent since Egypt announced on Thursday traded over $47 a barrel. — Reuters Japan economy stalls in Q2, casts doubts on Abe’s policies Weak external demand shaves GDP growth

TOKYO: Japan’s economic growth ground to a halt in April-June as weak exports and shaky SIRJAN: Iranians shop at the old bazaar yesterday in the southern Iranian city of domestic demand prompted companies to cut Sirjan. —AFP spending, putting fresh pressure on premier Shinzo Abe to come up with policies that will produce more sustainable growth. The weak Gold firm on lower dollar, reading underscores the challenges policymak- ers face in ending two decades of crippling eyes on US rate hike signals deflation, as an initial boost from Abe’s stimulus programs, dubbed “Abenomics”, appears to be quickly fading. Gold rose yesterday as the dol- a basket of currencies, European equities LONDON: The world’s third-largest economy expanded lar edged lower after sluggish US retail rose and US Treasury 10-year yields hov- by an annualized 0.2 percent in the second quar- sales data lowered expectations of a US ered around a two-week low hit on Friday. ter, less than the 0.7 percent increase markets interest rate increase this year. A lower dollar makes gold cheaper for oth- had expected and a sharp slowdown from a Data on Friday showed US retail sales er currency holders, while the fall in returns revised 2.0 percent increase in January-March, were unexpectedly flat in July, signalling a from US bonds is seen as positive for the Cabinet Office data showed yesterday. “Overall it moderation in consumer spending. Spot metal, which pays no interest. Higher looks like the economy is stagnating. Consumer gold was up 0.3 percent at $1,339.87 an shares, however, signal increased investor spending is weak, and the reason is low wage ounce by 1138 GMT. The metal rose as risk appetite. gains. There is a lot of uncertainty about overseas much as 1.3 percent after the data on High on the US calendar this week are economies, and this is holding back capital Friday, before giving up gains. inflation figures for July and minutes of the expenditure,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior econo- US gold was up 0.1 percent at $1,345.10 last Federal Reserve meeting which might mist at Mizuho Securities. “The government has an ounce. Spot gold remained within reach offer more clues on the chance of an inter- already announced a big stimulus package, so of a more than two-year high of $1,374.91 est rate hike by year end. the next question is how the Bank of Japan will hit last month as investors sought refuge Summer holidays in the Northern hemi- respond after its comprehensive policy review, TOKYO: People cross a street in Tokyo. Japan’s economy grew at a slower than forecast 0.2 per- from volatility across financial markets fol- sphere are keeping gold in check, with which is sure to lead to a delay in its price target.” cent annual rate in the April-June quarter, as the recovery was sapped by weaker exports and lowing Britain’s vote to leave the European trading thin and range-bound, MKS PAMP business investment, the government said yesterday. —AP Union. Group said in a note. “We don’t expect to “We have Fed minutes coming out in move too far outside of the $1,330-$1,360 HOUSING INVESTMENT BOOMS quarters and underscoring the pain that stub- lion) in fiscal measures, hoping it would help the On a quarter-on-quarter basis, gross domes- the middle of the week, which is likely to range over the short term,” it said. bornly weak global demand is inflicting on the economy deflect external headwinds and sus- tic product showed no growth in April-June, tell us what the Fed’s thinking is going into Speculators cut their net long positions in export-reliant economy. tain a moderate recovery. But the plan will take compared with market expectations for a 0.2 the second half of the year, when it proba- COMEX gold and silver futures and options “The breakdown of the data shows that gains time to pay dividends and sceptics say there is percent rise. Private consumption, which bly going to come under pressure to raise in the week to Aug. 9, Commodity Futures in consumer spending lacked strength and not enough new spending. The BOJ also expand- accounts for roughly 60 percent of GDP, rose 0.2 rates,” Mitsubishi Corp strategist Jonathan Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed exports fell a lot,” Finance Minister Taro Aso told ed stimulus last month via a modest increase in percent, slowing from a 0.7 percent increase in Butler said. “In general the negative rate on Friday. Holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the reporters, adding the government will pursue purchases of risky assets, and it remains under the previous quarter. environment, particularly in the euro zone world’s largest gold-backed exchange-trad- structural reforms to address low potential pressure to do more in September, when it con- Capital expenditure declined 0.4 percent and Japan, is going to keep gold well bid ed fund, fell 1.22 percent to 960.45 tons on growth. In a glimmer of hope, housing invest- ducts a thorough assessment of the effects of its after a 0.7 percent drop in the first quarter, sug- and even though we may be seeing some Friday from Thursday. ment jumped 5.0 percent, the fastest rise since stimulus program. With prices still sliding despite gesting that uncertainty over the global eco- tempering of gold’s gains by the pretty Silver was up 0.9 percent at $19.87 an 2011, due in part to the BOJ’s ultra-loose mone- three years of massive asset buying, the Bank of nomic outlook and weak domestic markets are strong equity market performance right ounce. Platinum was up 0.5 percent at tary policy that has pushed down mortgage Japan’s policy review could put up for debate its keeping firms from boosting spending. Overseas now, that is going to come into question as $1,123.60 and palladium rose 0.4 percent rates, a Cabinet Office official told reporters. target for expanding base money, sources say, demand shaved 0.3 percentage point off GDP, the Fed looks to raise rates.” to $686.46. Both hit their lowest in more Abe’s cabinet this month announced an eco- which could mark an overhaul of its existing poli- subtracting from growth for the first time in four The dollar was down 0.1 percent against than two weeks on Friday. — Reuters nomic package with 13.5 trillion yen ($133 bil- cy framework. — Reuters Oil talks with Saudi developing: Russia

DUBAI: Russia, the world’s top oil producer, is consult- ing with Saudi Arabia and other producers to achieve oil market stability, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said, adding that the door is still open for more discus- sions on freezing output levels if needed. In an interview published yesterday Novak also told Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that a com- plete return of market stability is only likely in 2017. “With regard to the cooperation with Saudi Arabia, the dialogue between our two countries is developing in a tangible way, whether in the framework of a multi-par- ty structure or on a bilateral level,” Novak was quoted as saying. “We are cooperating in the framework of consulta- tions regarding the oil market with OPEC countries and producers from outside the organisation, and are determined to continue dialogue to achieve market stability,” he said. “We are ready to achieve the widest possible level of coordination... and put in place joint measures to achieve oil market stability, with the con- dition that these measures will not be for a limited period of time.” Novak’s comments come only days after Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said his country would work with OPEC and non-OPEC members to help stabilise oil markets. An informal meeting of major producing countries is scheduled in Algeria late next month. Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet on the sidelines of the International Energy Forum (IEF), which groups producers and consumers, in Algeria from Sept. 26-28. Oil prices extended gains after Falih’s remarks on Thursday, which indicated that Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest producer, is worried that oil prices could fall towards $40 per barrel or lower due to oversupply. Talks on a global oil production level freeze col- lapsed in April. OPEC member Iran has been the main opponent of a freeze as it looks to raise its output to levels seen before the imposition of now-ended Western sanctions. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 BUSINESS China shares hit 7-month high; Europe rises

LONDON: World shares set up camp at one-year weaker-than-expected July data. “The big com- 0.2 percent. It has climbed 14 percent since June US trading and Spanish yields were com- last Federal Reserve meeting which might peaks yesterday as a rally in Chinese stocks placency is back again in some sense. It is all a when Britain’s vote to leave the European Union fortably under 1 percent at 0.92 percent offer more clues on the chance of an inter- helped offset news that Japan’s economic bit easy,” said SEB investment management head unleashed a new wave of global policy stimulus, having falling over 60 bps in the last couple est rate hike by year end. growth had ground to a halt in the last quarter, of global asset allocation Hans Peterson. led by aggressive action from the Bank of of months. There are also five separate Fed speakers while oil prices extended their latest rally. Wall “Luckily we went quite long of risk after Brexit England. The plunge in returns on bonds has on the docket this week. US retail sales Street looked set to add fractionally to last and now we have taken a bit off ... Technically All this easing has pushed rich-world bond made equities look more attractive in com- growth was unexpectedly flat in July as week’s string of all-time highs while London, one should note that volatility is extremely low yields dramatically lower and driven investors to parison. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all consumers cut back on buying clothes and Frankfurt and Paris were up 0.2-0.4 percent as and that is usually a reason to be on your toes.” seek higher returns in longer-term debt and in made record closing highs last week for the other goods, while the producer price healthcare and energy stocks kept them buoy- The need for further policy action in Japan emerging markets. Yields on British 10-year gilts first time since 1999. Emerging market index fell 0.4 percent in July, the biggest ant in Europe. was underlined by its subdued second-quarter have more than halved to all-time lows of 53 stocks have surged by almost a third since drop in nearly a year. China stood out in Asia as the blue-chip economic reading, leaving the Nikkei down 0.3 basis points (bps), having been up at 1.39 per- mid-January. “The broader earnings trend The European Central Bank releases CSI300 Index jumped 3.3 percent to a seven- percent. cent just before the Brexit vote. That has pulled has shown some further improvement in minutes of its last meeting on Thursday, month high amid speculation more stimulus MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares down rates right across Europe. German Bunds Asia but we believe it is really a surge in for- and should strike a dovish tone. Investors would be forthcoming from Beijing after a raft of outside Japan recouped early losses to edge up were at a deeply subzero -0.16 percent ahead of eign buying that has pushed markets high- have recently lengthened the odds on any er,” say analysts at Nomura in a note. Fed hike this year, with futures implying “While a continued switch in flows from around a 46 percent chance of a move in developed markets to emerging is some- December. thing we expect on a medium-term basis, That in turn has weakened the bullish the recent pace has been very rapid and case for the US dollar and dragged it down sentiment levels are elevated. In the near- against the euro, yen and a range of emerg- term we now recommend positioning for a ing market currencies. The dollar was last at pause.” 100.99 yen and not far from important sup- port around 100.80. The euro was nudging PARSING THE FED higher at $1.1171 having held in a $1.1050 High on the US calendar this week are to $1.1230 range for the last couple of inflation figures for July and minutes of the weeks. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Hedge funds add bullish positions in oil market Short-covering rally starts amid caution

LONDON: Hedge funds increased their bullish tioning than during the previous weeks, when and other oil exporters seemingly talking up the long positions in crude oil by the most for over hedge funds added an average of 35 million bar- possibility of an output agreement at informal two months in the week ending on Aug.9. rels of short positions per week. And in Brent, talks next month. In official comments published Hedge funds and other money managers boost- hedge funds cut short positions by 19 million on Saturday, after leaking on Thursday, Saudi ed net long positions in the three major Brent barrels, the largest one-week reduction since Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih noted “the large and WTI futures and options contracts by the January. short positioning in the market” which has equivalent of 48 million barrels. The increase in “caused the oil price to undershoot”. net long positions was the largest since the mid- TURNING BULLISH Al-Falih described current prices as “unsus- dle of May and comes after hedge funds cut net With short covering creating a strong bid in tainable” and said oil prices would have to rise long positions by a total of 309 million barrels the market, other fund managers raced to add from current levels to reverse the decline in between May 17 and Aug. 2. fresh long positions to profit from the expected investment. He reiterated that Saudi Arabia was Takaud to host first Middle East Hedge fund managers seem to have reacted rally in prices. Hedge funds added an extra 19 watching the market closely and was ready to to the prospect of a short-covering rally after million barrels of long positions in WTI and 11 take action to help rebalance the market in pensions conference in Bahrain short positions reached exceptionally high levels million barrels of long positions in Brent, accord- cooperation with OPEC and major non-OPEC (“Oil short-selling cycle may be at or near a turn- ing to data published by regulators and producers. Al-Falih specifically noted the minis- MANAMA: Under the patronage of the citizens; the corporate sector providing a ing point”, Reuters, Aug 10). Hedge funds had exchanges. The rise in combined Brent and WTI terial meeting in Algeria next month would pro- Central Bank of Bahrain, TAKAUD, the spe- second layer of workplace pension savings previously amassed short positions in Brent and long positions was the largest one-week vide an informal opportunity to discuss the mar- cialist provider of savings, investment and to employees; and individuals themselves WTI totalling 374 million barrels, the third- increase since the middle of May. ket situation “including any possible action that pension solutions for the MENA region, is providing a third layer of personal savings largest short position on record and only 19 mil- The short-selling cycle that lasted from May may be required to stabilise the market”. While bringing together government and finan- to augment their standard of living in lion barrels below the maximum short position 31 until Aug 2 now appears to have turned. Both the comments were no different to previous cial services industry leaders concerned retirement. Not only is this three-pillar pen- ever recorded. Brent and WTI prices have increased by more statements made by Saudi officials over the last with the development of a robust pension sion format in line with the World Bank’s The scale of short positions made a rally high- than $5 per barrel, around 13 percent, since Aug. 12 months, their timing and carefully scripted provision for citizens and expatriate work- recommendations for an integrated pen- ly likely once prices stopped falling and funds 2, as hedge funds have scaled back short posi- nature have been interpreted as a deliberate ers throughout the region. The inaugural sion infrastructure, but it also ensures a started close some positions to lock in previous tions and started to turn more bullish. attempt to influence prices. By hinting at the Middle East Pensions Conference will be more secure and sustainable pension plan- profits. In the week between Aug. 2 and Aug. 9, possibility of an output agreement, the minis- held in Bahrain at the Four Seasons Hotel ning for individuals. hedge funds continued to add an extra 1.5 mil- VERBAL INTERVENTION ter’s verbal intervention has added to the short- on October 18, 2016. While GCC countries are already highly lion barrels of short positions in NYMEX WTI. But The short-covering rally has been accelerated term risk of holding short positions and fuelled developed with respect to government that was a much smaller increase in short posi- by carefully timed comments from Saudi Arabia the rally. — Reuters pension benefits for citizens, the inaugural pensions conference will address current challenges, and the advantages of enhanc- ing pension savings benefits provided by corporations. Studies by several global employee benefits specialists show that pension benefits are highly effective in pro- moting employee retention and loyalty; hence enhancing productivity levels. The conference will examine the bene- fits of factoring in a pension benefit to the employee value proposition. It will also look at the existing expertise, systems, spe- cialist firms, products and collaborations that could potentially build a home-grown solution that expands the regional pension industry and address local needs. Development of the pension sector is critical for more than individuals. TAKAUD estimates that pension assets in the GCC can reach a value of $1.9 trillion if retire- ment savings among individuals and cor- Takaud CEO Luc Metivier porations grow to the average levels now seen in other countries. While such growth The Conference is expected to attract a would benefit people living and working in large number of delegates from govern- the region, it also represents an outstand- ment pension administrations, pension ing opportunity for the regional financial funds, asset management firms, actuaries, services industry. TAKAUD’s Chief Executive law firms, custodians, trust providers and Officer, Luc Metivier said, “The prospect of a financial services professionals. It is also of secure retirement is essential to the well- interest to executives and senior specialists being of individuals and families. To devel- in human resources, compensation and op a culture supportive of retirement sav- benefits and staff running employee sav- ings, we need concerted actions by the ings schemes. government, corporate and financial serv- The goal of the conference is to raise ices sectors. With appropriate regulatory awareness and initiate action to bring the and statutory standards, technology sys- A worker rakes hay at a farm on a warm spring day in Kinderhook, NY. —AP Middle East to the standard of developed tems and options for asset diversification, countries, with pensions encompassing this region can match international stan- three sectors: the government sector pro- dards and provide exceptional security to viding the first layer of pension provision to our valued workforce.” Bubble risk as ‘tourist’ investors UK firms cautious on jobs, house flood into emerging market debt

prices down after Brexit vote LONDON: Double-digit returns in emerging initial guidance. Orders amounted to a hefty yield and are comparable with US invest- market corporate debt have spurred a record $4.5 billion. Seasoned investors may point to ment-grade,” Bantis said. LONDON: British employers have turned planned to invest more. “While many busi- buying spree, forcing yields to 13-month lows International Monetary Fund warnings last Tight supply, an added factor in the rally, more cautious about hiring and the price nesses are treating the immediate post- and raising the risk that an external shock, week of corporate defaults in China, where 14 could also change soon because both emerg- of homes for sale fell by the most since late Brexit period as ‘business as usual’ and hir- potentially from the US or Chinese economies, percent of debt is estimated to be from firms ing market companies and sovereigns face “a 2015, according to surveys that added to ing intentions overall still remain positive, might produce a dramatic exit. Dollar debt whose profits are less than the interest they wall of maturity” as the huge debt volumes signs the economy has stumbled since the there are signs that some organizations, issued by firms from riskier and less developed pay on loans. raised during the boom times come due for Brexit referendum. particularly in the private sector, are countries has been among the year’s best per- “A lazy approach to corporate debt, seen as repayment. About $1.6 trillion falls due in the But shoppers seem to have brushed off preparing to batten down the hatches,” forming assets, yielding more than 11 percent, a nice spread pick-up over the sovereign, is a coming five years. Added to that, new bonds the shock of the June vote to leave the CIPD acting chief economist Ian Brinkley according to JPMorgan’s emerging market (EM) dangerous investment strategy,” BNP Paribas have been scarce this year, with gross issuance European Union, another survey showed, said. Also yesterday, property website corporate debt index, the CEMBI Broad. Investment Partners deputy-head of emerging not seen exceeding $220 billion, JPMorgan suggesting consumer spending will soften Rightmove said asking prices of homes for The average yield has fallen 150 basis points debt, JC Sambor, said. But some argue that says, down from $239 billion last year and $372 the hit. Many economists believe Britain is sale in England and Wales fell in August by (bps) this year to about 5.2 percent, dropping against the backdrop of developed bonds, billion in 2014. heading for a recession followed by years the most since November, as post-Brexit more than both EM sovereign debt and devel- bumper yields on a sector with an average BBB- This is exacerbated by companies rolling of slow growth because of uncertainty uncertainty added to the usual summer oped-country corporate debt yields, which minus investment grade rating can hardly be over debt and buying back bonds. As a result, about its future trading relationship with lull. The biggest drop was in London, have been falling due to Western central bank considered a bubble. net issuance may total just $102 billion this the EU. where asking prices fell by 2.6 percent bond-buying schemes. Also, fears about the sector’s indebted- year, JPMorgan estimates. However, Aviva Earlier this month, the Bank of England from July. But there were fresh signs that Investment-grade US corporate debt yields ness are overblown, Commerzbank corpo- Investors’ deputy head of emerging market cut interest rates and took other measures Britain’s consumers, who helped propel average 3.3 percent, equivalent sterling- rate debt strategist Apostolos Bantis said. He debt, Aaron Grehan, whose firm has nearly to soften the impact of Brexit, which it the economy between 2013 and this year, denominated bonds yield 1.8 percent while estimates emerging companies’ ratio of debt $415 billion in assets under management, sees believes will push up the unemployment were taking the referendum result in their euro-denominated equivalents are even lower. to EBITDA - earnings before interest, depreci- no risk of a bubble and says that crossover rate sharply. One of yesterday’s surveys stride. The number of shoppers on high In the past six weeks, investors have pumped a ation and amortisation - at 2.5-3.0 percent investors’ appetite should encourage more showed the proportion of employers streets rose slightly in July compared with $18 billion into emerging debt funds, a record on average, is a similar level to US invest- issuance. expecting to increase staffing over the a year ago, retail data firm Springboard run, Bank of America Merrill Lynch data shows. ment grade firms and half that of junk-rated “The spread tightening we have experi- next three months dropped from 40 per- and the British Retail Consortium said. Last A significant part of this will have flowed into US issuers. “Fundamentally, emerging market enced is likely to trigger greater issuance versus cent before the vote to 36 percent after it. week, a separate BRC survey showed corporate bonds, analysts say. corporates are in better shape than US high- expectations,” he said. — Reuters The CIPD, a human resources group, and spending in shops rose in July at the Investors attribute much of this exuberance staffing firm Adecco Group UK & Ireland, fastest pace in six months, despite a to funds that do not normally invest in emerg- also said one in five employers expected to plunge in consumer confidence. Official ing markets, “tourists” or “cross-over” investors, reduce investment in training and skills as retail sales figures for July are due on who have ventured in solely for yield. Thailand growth dips a result of Brexit, which will push up the Thursday, giving one of the first compre- PineBridge Investments’ emerging corpo- cost of imports because of the fall in the hensive signals of how the economy is far- rate debt analyst John Bates, whose firm has value of the pound. Seven percent ing after the vote. — Reuters nearly $81 billion of assets under management, in second quarter sees this factor as a risk. Developments, such as a change in US interest rate expectations or BANGKOK: Thailand’s economic growth trend will be compounded if political instabili- concerns over the Chinese economy, can put slowed in the three months to June, new fig- ty continues. such investors to flight, because unlike dedicat- ures released yesterday showed, days after a Last week nearly a dozen bombs exploded ed EM debt managers they are less used to the string of bomb and arson attacks struck the in popular tourist resorts in the country’s sector’s volatility, he said. “These are tourists country’s crucial tourism sector. High house- south, killing four and wounding scores more, with very fat pockets. hold debt, weakening exports, slumping for- including European tourists. Typically EM is a small allocation within a eign investment and low consumer confi- No one has claimed responsibility for the big pension fund or asset allocator, so if you dence have cramped growth in what for years bombing spree which hit a sector that makes get a big fund dipping into that pool, and then was Southeast Asia’s flagship economy. up around 10 percent of the economy. “There removing that money there could be some A military junta seized power in 2014 is a significant risk that the bombings prove very severe repercussions,” Bates said. EM cor- vowing to end years of political instability to be the start of a new violent phase of porate bond markets may be seeing an “invest- and kickstart the lacklustre economy. Thailand’s long-running political conflict,” ment balloon effect”, he said. “This hunt for Thailand’s growth has since picked up slight- Krystal Tan, an economist at Capital yields is driving spreads tighter, and it is pretty ly, mainly off the back of ramped-up govern- Economics said. indiscriminate, and even heavier the further ment spending and continued tourist “The big picture is that concerns about down the credit spectrum you go.” arrivals. But it remains comparatively low political stability will persist until Thailand is But for global investors, saddled with more compared to its neighbours. able to find a lasting solution to the deep than $10 trillion of negative-yielding devel- Figures released by the National Economic political divide between the urban elite and oped markets bonds, the average 340 basis- and Social Development Board showed sec- the poorer rural population,” she added. The point premium the CEMBI pays over US ond quarter GDP growth was up slightly at 3.5 kingdom has been beset by a decade of Treasuries may be too much of a lure. Single B- percent year on year. political turmoil which began when the mili- rated emerging firms - carrying so-called junk But the seasonally adjusted quarter-on- tary toppled prime minister Thaksin credit ratings - have garnered returns of more quarter growth was 0.8 percent, a slight dip Shinawatra in 2006. than 20 percent year-to-date, according to the from one percent in the first quarter. Years of competing streets protests, short- CEMBI Broad’s high-yield subset. In a briefing note, Captial Economics said lived governments and outbreaks of violence Bates cited the example of Indian renew- Thailand already faces strong headwinds from have followed, culminating in another coup in TOKYO: People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo. ables firm Greenko, which this month sold a global growth concerns and the country’s 2014 that toppled the administration of European shares were mostly higher yesterday, tracking gains in Asia, as investors single-B rated $500 million 7-year bond with a waning export competitiveness, adding that Thaksin’s sister Yingluck. — AFP awaited the release of US housing, inflation and manufacturing data this week. — AP 4.875 percent yield, half a percent tighter than TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 business

The new C-Class Coupé Seduction of the heart and mind

KUWAIT: A R Albisher and Z A Alkazemi measuring 60 millimetres longer than its pred- elbow room and headroom on all seats. driver to customise the vehicle settings to per- Vibrant infotainment experience Company, the authorized general distributor of ecessor between the firewall and front axle. A sonal preferences. The new multimedia generation offers intu- Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait, has announced the high beltline and frameless doors with free- Fascinating individual highlights itive controls with animations and visual arrival of the new C-Class Coupé to its show- standing exterior mirrors underscore the The AMG Line, available as standard in the Lighter, stiffer and stronger effects. Frontbass ensures a listening experi- room. Athletic and sporty, the vivid, sensuous sporty character. GCC, further underlines the dynamism of the Intelligent lightweight construction with a ence almost on a par with a concert hall, design of the new Coupé cuts a fine figure on One particular highlight is the long drawn- Coupé. It differs by virtue of exterior features higher proportion of aluminium helps make enhanced by the Burmester sound system the road and embodies modern luxury. At the out dropping line typical of a Coupé, and the such as special bumpers and sills featuring the Coupé lighter than its predecessor. Light- which comes as standard in the GCC same time, its interior elevates beauty and style suspension which is 15 millimetres lower than AMG body styling, a diamond radiator grille alloy components include the wings, bonnet (Mercedes-AMG C63 / C63 S Coupe). The to a sporty level. that of the Saloon, underscoring the Coupé’s with pins in chrome and 18-inch AMG light- and boot lid. At the same time, the body is now Frontbass system uses the space within the A dynamically configured chassis with sporty disposition. alloy wheels. Interior highlights of the AMG much stiffer and stronger thanks to the use of cross-member and side member in the body optional air suspension forms the basis for a Line include sportily exclusive touches such as high-strength materials, which has a positive structure as a resonance chamber for the bass high level of suspension comfort, low road roar Interior: Generous, dynamic, exquisite upholstery in ARTICO man-made effect on not only driving dynamics and noise speakers. and tyre vibration, agile handling, and driving The interior is a statement of the Mercedes- leather/DINAMICA microfibre in black with con- levels but also crash safety. The navigation system displays its contents pleasure. Lightweight construction to reduce Benz design philosophy of sensual purity, com- trasting topstitching, a multifunction sports The Coupé therefore follows a Mercedes- interactively and features an animated com- weight, excellent aerodynamics and high-per- bining emotion with intelligence. Although it steering wheel with flat bottom and AMG Benz tradition in not only meeting all current pass and “Drive Show” with information for formance, efficient engines likewise play their exudes athletic and youthful charm, it has sports pedals. The trim in open-pore black ash, national and international laws, but also all rat- passengers, similar to the on-screen presenta- part. A host of assistance systems provides safe- grown in maturity. Driver and passengers enjoy combined with aluminium in the dashboard ing requirements as well as the more stringent tions aboard airliners. ty of the very highest calibre. With its high-class an ambience that leans toward the interior of and the doors, emphasise the look. internal Mercedes-Benz safety requirements, COMAND Online provides a larger display appeal and generous interior, the new C-Class the C-Class Saloon yet raises it to a new, sporty The Coupé can optionally be equipped with which are based on what actually happens in with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels, offers fast Coupé sets new standards in its segment. level. Flowing forms characterise the centre AIRMATIC air suspension on the front and rear real-life accidents. hard-disc navigation and the LINGUATRONIC “Anticipation has been high for the new C- console as well as the door and rear side pan- axle. Electronic controlling and continuously voice control system. The basic Audio 20 sys- Class Coupe, a sure favourite among car enthu- elling, which smoothly merge into one another adjustable damping on the front and rear axle Driving safely, reducing stress tem as well as Audio 20 CD and COMAND siasts who value power, performance and style to emphasise the Coupé character. The individ- ensures outstanding road roar and tyre vibra- There is a host of safety and assistance sys- Online all offer basic telephony as standard, equally,” said Michael Ruehle, Chief Executive ually combined trim elements underscore the tion characteristics in any situation. AIRMATIC tems based on the Mercedes-Benz Intelligent which links up a mobile phone to the vehicle Officer at A R Albisher and Z A Alkazemi sporty character of the interior. A seating sys- also features all-round self-levelling for excel- Drive concept to choose from on board. via a standardised Bluetooth interface. Company. “Larger than its predecessor, the new tem including integral sports seats designed lent ride comfort even with the vehicle loaded. ATTENTION ASSIST with adjustable sensitivity, The Mercedes-AMG Coupé C 63 delivers the model offers more space and even more specifically for the Coupé offers sporty comfort, which can warn the driver of inattentiveness hallmark AMG “Driving Performance” with a uncompromising driving dynamics and econo- while an automatic belt extender also offers You determine the driving characteristics and drowsiness, is included as standard. 4.0-litre twin-turbo eight-cylinder engine rated my, and we are confident it will be well received convenience. Drivers can choose the character of their Further standard equipment includes COLLI- at 350 kW/476 hp (375 kW/510 hp in the C 63 here in Kuwait.” With an 80 millimetre longer wheelbase, Coupé at the push of a button: sporty, com- SION PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS Assist. Apart S). It is characterised by two turbochargers As the sportiest variant of the C-Class, the the C-Class Coupé is 95 millimetres longer and fortable or consumption-optimised. To this from a visual proximity warning and an addi- positioned not on the outside of the cylinder Coupé displays its driving enjoyment-oriented 40 millimetres wider than the predecessor. The end, the driver can select one of five driving tional audible collision warning, it includes banks, but inside the cylinder “V”. The key character in an emotive and formally distinct increased vehicle volume above all creates modes using the DYNAMIC SELECT switch: Adaptive Brake, which can help prevent colli- advantages of this design are compact dimen- design. Its sporty front section features the more spaciousness for the driver and front “ECO”, “Comfort”, “Sport”, “Sport +” and sions by boosting the brake pressure commen- sions; optimal throttle response and low diamond radiator grille and long bonnet, passenger. There is more shoulder room, “Individual”. Selecting “Individual” allows the surate with the situation. exhaust emissions. Burgan Bank announces AUB announces winners of winners of Yawmi account Al-Hassad Saving program

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yes- 2. ABDULAZIZ MEJBEL SALEM NASER entitling one lucky customer to win KD KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank held its Almulla, Mohamed Abdulla Alhajrei, Islamic Saving” from Ahli United Bank terday the names of the lucky winners 3. MAJID HILAL ABDULHUSSEIN Al 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi weekly draw of Al-Hassad Islamic Abdullah Eid Ahmed, Salem offers a weekly grand prize worth KD of its Yawmi account draw, each taking TAMEEMI Account offers Daily and quarterly Saving program on August 10, 2016. Mohammad Sulaiman, Fayezah S 25,000/-in addition to 25 weekly prizes home a prize of KD 5,000. 4. ALI YOUSEF FAISAL AL ABBAS Draws, the Quarterly Draw requires cus- This program offers the biggest prize Khadhair, Ali Mohammad Albloushi, worth a total of KD 25,000 distributed The lucky winners for the daily draws 5. DAWOUD MOHAMMAD AHMED ALI tomers to maintain a minimum amount amount to the largest number of win- Shuwaireb Fahad Alajmi, Aminah to 25 prizes, KD 1,000 for each winner. took home a cash-prize of KD 5,000 In addition to the daily draw, Burgan of KD 500 in their account for 2 months ners. The prize program succeeded in Husain Abdulla, Qutaybah Faisal In addition, prizes of Al-Hassad each, and they are: Bank also offers a Quarterly Draw with prior to draw date. Additionally, every becoming the first prize account in Abdulrahman, Nada Hasan Alsadeq, Islamic saving program from Ahli 1. KATABJIWALA SALMA SAIFUDDIN more chances to win higher rewards, KD 10 in the account, will entitle cus- Kuwait compliant with the Islamic Shorouq Ali Ahmed, Nayef Mashaan United Bank offer 4 quarterly grand tomers to one chance of winning. If the Shari’a principles. The program has account balance is KD 500 and above, been developed to fulfil the needs of the account holder will be qualified for the Bank customers and increase their both the quarterly and daily draws. opportunities in winning sizeable and Burgan Bank encourages everyone attractive prizes in addition to enjoy- to open a Yawmi account and/or ing the latest banking advantages that increase their deposit to maximize their Ahli United Bank provides. chances to becoming a winner. The On this occasion, the bank issued more customers deposit, the higher the the following press release: Al-Hassad chances they receive of winning. Islamic Saving program offers the For more information on opening a highest amounts of prizes which Yawmi account or about the new quar- amount to KD 3.4 million per year. This terly draw, customers are urged to visit program also offers 26 weekly prizes, Almutairi Sabah Mohammad Ali prizes announced in quarterly draws. their nearest Burgan Bank branch and with the highest number of weekly Alnejadah, Shaha Nahar Mesfer, Each is a “Salary for Life” prize which is receive all the details, or simply call the winners. The Islamic Hassad Saving Humoud Musallam Alameerah, Najma worth KD 250,000. bank’s Call Center at 1804080 where Account may be opened by the lowest Yousef Hassan, Ahmad Yousef In general, Ahli United Bank contin- customer service representatives will be amount to open an account, which is Mohammad, Saleem Abdulla ues to offer innovative tools and delighted to assist with any questions KD 100. Alsaleem, Qasim Gul Hassan, Aesha A means to meet the needs of its cus- on the Yawmi account or any of the The winner of the weekly grand Rahman A Ghaffar, Batool Mohd tomers to match the Bank’s long histo- bank’s products and services. prize in the amount of KD 25,000 is: Hasan, Aahra Ali Juma, Husain Ahmed ry of distinctive services which extend Customers can also log on to Burgan Abdulla Yusuf Almuataz. Ebrahim, Jimmy Kanjarappillil Joseph, over 74 years during which the Bank Bank’s www.burgan.com for further The winners of the KD 1,000 prize Mohamed Ali Abdulnabi. managed to take the lead among local information. each: Mohammad Abdulrahman The Prize program of “Al-Hassad banks. technology TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, IHG hit by malware

NEW YORK: A data breach at 20 US The malware was discovered in early the IHG Intercontinental in Tampa, ment. Representatives from the other from other parts of its computer network. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts to mid-June on payment systems used at Florida, Daly said. hotel groups did not respond to requests Among the properties affected were for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and restaurants, bars, spas, lobby shops and for comment. HEI said outside experts Starwood’s Westin hotels in Minneapolis; Intercontinental may have divulged pay- other facilities at the properties, Chris 20 hotels affected investigated the breach and determined Pasadena, California; Philadelphia; ment card data from tens of thousands of Daly, a spokesman for HEI, said in emails The malware affected 12 Starwood that hackers might have stolen customer Snowmass, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; food, drink and other transactions, HEI and phone calls. hotels, six Marriott International Inc prop- names, account numbers, payment card and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Also affected said on Sunday. The number of customers affected is erties, one Hyatt hotel and one expiration dates and verification codes. were Starwood properties in Arlington, The breach follows similar attacks at difficult to calculate because they InterContinental Hotels Group PLC hotel. The hackers did not appear to have Virginia; Manchester Village, Vermont; San Hyatt Hotels Corp and Starwood Hotels & might have used their cards multiple It was active from March 1, 2015 to June gained PIN codes, since those are not col- Francisco; Miami; and Nashville, Resorts Worldwide Inc in recent months. times, Daly said. About 8,000 transac- 21, 2016, with 14 of the hotels affected lected by its system, it added. Tennessee. The Marriott properties affect- Norwalk, Connecticut-based HEI, which is tions occurred during the affected peri- after Dec. 2, 2015, HEI said on its website The company has informed federal ed were in Boca Raton, Florida; Dallas-Fort privately held, said malware designed to col- od at the Hyatt Centric Santa Barbara on Friday. authorities and has installed a new pay- Worth, Texas; Chicago; San Diego, lect card data was found on HEI’s systems. hotel in California, and about 12,800 at Marriott and IHG declined to com- ment processing system that is separate California; and Minneapolis. —Reuters Tesla removes ‘autopilot’ from China website after Beijing crash

SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO: that translates as ‘self-assisted driv- week that Tesla said it downloaded by Reuters said China sales staff Tesla removed the word “autopilot” ing’ is used. data from the Beijing car and con- took their hands off the wheel while and a Chinese term for “self-dri- firmed it was in autopilot mode at demonstrating the function. Under ving” from its China website after a Additional training the time of the crash, although the Chinese law, drivers are required to driver in Beijing who crashed in Tesla China staff have addition- driver was not detected to have keep two hands on the wheel at all “autopilot” mode complained that ally undergone training in his hands on the wheel. times. The crash is another hiccup the car maker overplayed the func- response to the Aug. 2 crash to re- The spokeswoman for the US for Tesla in the Chinese auto market, tion’s capability and misled buyers. emphasize that employees must automaker issued a statement say- the world’s largest, after it initially The Tesla driver crashed earlier always keep two hands on the ing that the system was not self- struggled with distribution and this month while on a Beijing com- wheel when demonstrating the driving but merely assistive and charging issues. Various Chinese muter highway after the car failed autopilot function, according to a that drivers were responsible for government ministries did not to avoid a vehicle parked on the Tesla employee who was not always maintaining control of the respond to requests for comment left side, partially in the roadway, authorized to speak to the media. vehicle. on the Tesla crash and self-driving damaging both cars but causing Reuters was first to report last Other Tesla drivers interviewed policies.—Reuters no injuries. It was the first known such crash in China, though it fol- BERLIN: Omar Alshafai (L) and Ghaith Zamrik pose for a picture after an AFP lows a fatal accident in Florida interview in Mitte (Center) district, on August 11, 2016. —AFP earlier this year that put pressure on the auto executives and regu- lators to tighten rules for auto- Syrian refugees invent app for mated driving. “At Tesla we are continuously Germany’s bureaucracy maze making improvements, including to translations,” a Tesla spokes- woman said in an emailed state- BERLIN: Interminable queues, impenetrable body who comes new to Germany, with the ment to Reuters. “We’ve been in the paperwork, unpronounceable German words- bureaucratic system,” Zamrik said. process of addressing any discrep- the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe’s top The team started work in February and by ancies across languages for many economy can be daunting but now there’s an early June had a successful demonstration at weeks. Timing had nothing to do app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian Berlin’s Startup Europe Summit. Anne Kjaer with current events or articles.” refugees. Riechert, the CEO and co-founder of ReDI, not- References to autopilot and the It’s called Bureaucrazy, after the often ed Germany had an estimated 43,000 unfilled term “zidong jiashi”, which most lit- Kafkaesque process of getting housing, health jobs in the IT sector and that refugees repre- erally translates as self-driving care and a bank account, not to mention seek- sented untapped potential. although also means autopilot, ing asylum. The team is made up of six budding The Bureaucrazy team “had no previous were taken off the webpage for programmers from Berlin’s ReDI School of experience in any kind of coding but of course the Model S sedan by late Sunday, Digital Integration, a non-profit organisation they are what I would call extreme users when according to a comparison with an that trains refugees in coding and entrepre- it comes to mobile technology because the archived version of page. Both neurship. smartphone has really been a lifeline for many terms previously appeared several Its first class started in February with 42 stu- of them while fleeing” including as a tool for times on the site. Instead a phrase NEW YORK: Tesla S model being charged at a Tesla charging station. —AFP dents, of whom 35 were awarded diplomas in navigation and reconnecting with family on June. “I was shocked by the long waits in line the migrant trail, she said. and when I first arrived, I waited two weeks for a While Alshafai is a trained electrical engi- paper called ‘Kostenuebernahme’-it’s a permis- neer, he had initially been hired at luxury car- In violence-racked Venezuela, sion for staying in an apartment or hotel” at maker Mercedes-Benz as an intern on the fac- state expense, said one of the developers, 30- tory floor. year-old Omar Alshafai. Now ReDI is working with established com- Pokemon Go as protest “Also when I signed the paper-it was in panies like Mercedes to place qualified asylum German-we didn’t know what we were signing,” seekers in their innovation departments. “I firm- said Alshafai, who came from Damascus in April ly believe it is more profitable for everybody in CARACAS: When Cristian Fragoza takes to the streets of from the collapse in crude prices over the past two years. Pokemon politics 2015. The thicket of red tape facing Germany’s the long term when we can support newcom- Caracas hunting the virtual monsters of Pokemon Go, he Amid the crisis, Pokemon Go online communities have But the Pokemon monsters are unwelcome guests as refugees was highlighted last month by a ers like Omar to help develop ideas for knows the risks he’s running are real-his cell phone, and emerged, urging players to “catch them safely.” “Your far as one important Venezuelan is concerned: embattled Chinese backpacker who made global head- Mercedes’ future digital retail spaces instead of maybe even his life. But the 18-year-old philosophy student phone, and especially your life, are worth more than a President Nicolas Maduro, who has blamed the game for lines after he accidentally signed an application having him work on the assembly line,” she said. says playing the augmented reality game is a form of Pokemon,” says one message. “Our primary mission was to causing a “culture of violence.” During a weekly TV address for asylum when he lost his wallet. He was only protest against the violent crime that has made Venezuela launch a safety campaign,” said Luis Vargas, a 30-year-old last month, the socialist leader called Pokemon Go an able to sort out the mistake and retrieve his ‘Not the only ones’ one of the most dangerous countries in the world. “We’re salesman and owner of the Twitter account example of the problems with capitalism. passport after spending 12 days in a refugee A recent study by the Bertelsmann the resistance against the criminals,” said Fragoza, who’s @PokemonGo_Vzla. “It creates virtual realities, all related to arms, to vio- shelter. Foundation found that the number of jobs cre- gotten hooked on the wildly popular game since it arrived To reduce the risk, players play in groups, in high-traffic lence, to death,” he said. The politics of Pokemon got even ated by companies started by migrants shot up in Venezuela on August 3. areas or ones with a police presence, he told AFP. Carlos messier when a lawmaker from the opposition-which German tongue-twisters by more than one-third to 1.3 million between He proudly shows off one of his favorite Pokemon Reina, 22, has launched a similar account, controls congress and is trying to force Maduro from pow- Alshafai’s teammate Ghaith Zamrik, a 19- 2005 and 2014, while the number of entrepre- catches: a Bulbasaur, a green reptilian creature, which he @PokemonGo_Ccs. He agreed players need to be careful, er — posted a picture on Twitter of a Pokemon he cap- year-old from the war-ravaged Syrian capital, neurs with foreign roots rose by one-quarter to captured at the edge of a neighborhood called 23 de but said they “manage to get by.” His mother even joins tured in the legislature while waiting for a session to start. arrived in Berlin last Christmas Day. Just two 709,000. Enero, considered one of the most dangerous in the him on occasion. “Sometimes she takes my phone and “Some people are catching these creatures not just in the months later, he was enrolled at the ReDI Alshafai and Zamrik said that beyond Venezuelan capital. It takes guts to play the game in a coun- starts playing herself,” he said with a laugh. “This thing is street but at their workplaces, and are shameless enough school. “At the first session we were doing some launching a business venture, they wanted to try that registered 17,778 homicides last year. With a homi- pretty fun. It’s healthy entertainment in a country like ours,” to say so,” said Maduro’s right-hand man, Diosdado brainstorming-we were discussing what prob- show that with a bit of hard work and ingenu- cide rate of 62 per 100,000 inhabitants, Venezuela is the said his mom, Leida Castillo. Cabello. —AFP lems we had and how technology could solve ity, refugees could more than pull their weight third-most murderous country in the world, behind gang- these problems,” he said. “We had two main in German society. “Lots of refugees actually are plagued Honduras and El Salvador, according to the United issues, the first was the language and the other doing something but not all of them get media Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. was bureaucracy because we couldn’t under- coverage so I think we’re not the only ones,” Fragoza said he hunts his Pokemon cautiously. “I go two stand it, how the system works here.” Zamrik said. blocks away, in a neighborhood where they’ve known me But while the market was flooded with Bureaucrazy has captured the attention of since I was a kid, and then I come back,” he said as he translation apps, the team saw a potentially the German media just weeks after a series of perched over his cell phone playing outside a Caracas huge audience for technology that could offer brutal assaults committed by refugees in the shopping center with a group of friends he met online. “Not downloads of required documents, map the south of the country, two of which were everyone dares to take out their cell phone in public to locations of relevant offices and address fre- claimed by the Islamic State group. play,” said Alejandra Salazar, 22 — who has to play on bor- quently asked questions. The news revived fears that Germany had rowed phones, since hers was recently stolen. She was not The pair howled in mock pain as they recalled made a grave mistake in letting in nearly 1.1 playing Pokemon Go at the time. the German tongue-twisters necessary to open million asylum seekers last year, sending doors, with “Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s approval rating Your Pokemon or your life (proof that you don’t own rent for a previous flat) plunging. Around 500 people in Venezuela were killed between among the most devilish. Zamrik said he was heartened in the wake October 2015 and March 2016 for refusing to hand over Even Germans they asked for help were of the attacks to see Merkel defend her wel- their cell phones during a robbery, according to watchdog often bewildered by the jargon of official corre- coming stance and repeat her “We can do this” group Alto al Crimen (Stop Crime). The violence is being spondence, making their app a potential god- rallying cry. “It gives me back the feeling when I fueled by a brutal economic crisis that is causing severe CARACAS: A man plays Pokemon Go game on his phone inside the Venezuelan send for more than just asylum seekers. “We’re left Syria, why I thought that I might choose shortages of food, medicine and basic goods. Venezuela, hoping to also help all the migrants, or any- Germany to stay in,” he said. —AFP the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, is reeling National Assembly on July 28, 2016. —AFP Can Singapore’s labor crunch spark a robot revolution?

SINGAPORE: Sherine Toh says her best days at a childlike voice. Navigating its way through cus- But he says the lack of manpower is a new work are when none of the 600-or-so staff at tomers, it delivers the dirty dishes to the kitchen. operating reality businesses now need to accept. Singapore’s Tung Lok Restaurants quits, though While tech powerhouses such as Japan, the “It’s a bit of ‘let’s see who blinks first’. As far as the such days are rare. US and Germany invest billions in robotics to government is concerned, we can’t go back on The Chinese restaurant group is one of the compete commercially in the emerging sector, this policy,” Khaw said. thousands of businesses struggling with a labor Singapore’s robots push is driven by a much Service robots can be found in Singapore - in crunch caused by foreign worker curbs, that more urgent need: the survival of some labor- hospitals and restaurants, as waiters or cleaners - threaten the city-state’s already feeble growth strapped small and medium sized businesses but are less ubiquitous than might be expected rates. “It has gotten much more tougher com- may depend on them. for the aggressively tech-oriented economy. pared to the old days, five years back,” said Toh, James Xia, director at Unitech Mechatronics, who has at least 20 vacancies to fill at any one Shortages and struggles which built the busboy robot Chilli Padi uses, sees time as head of human resources. The group In the food and beverage industry, 90 percent export potential in his product but says develop- closed some outlets because of the shortage. of the businesses face the shortage and about a ment outlays mean commercialization is slow. The city’s restaurants, hotels and retailers third are “really struggling,” according to its lob- Xia thinks more upfront government grants, have become the biggest casualties of the by group. “There is an increasing number of rather than the current post-project reimburse- labour crunch since Singapore accelerated businesses that are up for sale,” said Lim Rui ments, could accelerate development. Another restrictions on foreign workers in 2011 as politi- Shan, executive director at the Restaurant firm, Aitech Robotics and Automation, has cal disquiet about immigration grew. But its Association of Singapore, which represents developed a tea-lady robot that delivers food highly-educated locals largely shun the late 2,200 outlets. “Some of them just shut down.” and drinks throughout a seven-storey building hours and unglamorous work. To encourage adoption, Singapore this year to workers in their offices. To address the constraints, Singapore is push- announced plans to spend S$450 million ($333 But the company’s business development ing businesses to look to non-human solutions million) over three years to fund robot develop- manager, Eric Lee, says orders are slow and does- for their human resource challenges, including ment and deployment. Andrew Khaw, Infocomm n’t expect to make any money on the showcase greater use of automation and robotics. Development Authority’s senior director of pro- robot. Weak capital expenditure amid the global At Chilli Padi Nonya Cafe near a leafy universi- ductivity growth through information and com- economic slowdown has made it difficult for a SINGAPORE: A robot collects dishes to be cleaned at Chilli Padi Nonya Cafe ty enclave, a tray-wielding robot roams the munications technology, admits the take-up of virtuous robot development cycle to rev up in on July 6, 2016. —AFP eatery, offering to collect plates from patrons in robots is slower than he would like. Singapore. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE New Jersey proposal expands infertility coverage to lesbians

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY: A federal law- diagnosis, and she has incurred nearly left for comment. Meanwhile, some infertility treatment. It defines infertility non-cancerous endometriosis, and her suit brought by a New Jersey lesbian $25,000 in out-of-pocket medical state lawmakers plan to advance legisla- as the result of a failure to conceive after doctor determined she required infertili- couple who want to have a baby may expenses. But she and Marianne Krupa tion to change the law when legislators two years of unprotected sex for women ty treatment. But she was denied cover- mean insurance coverage for women say in their lawsuit that they are pursu- return from break in September. The younger than 35 or after one year for age of the treatment because she failed who currently don’t meet the state’s def- ing the case as a civil rights issue - “the proposal would revise the definition of those older than 35. to meet the law’s definition of infertile, inition of infertile. right of all New Jersey women who infertility to include lesbians, women Fifteen states have laws requiring the suit says. Her insurer eventually Erin Krupa was denied insurance cov- dream of becoming mothers to access without partners and those who have insurers to offer coverage for infertility agreed to offer coverage based on a erage for infertility treatments essential- the reproductive health care they need protected sex. treatment and diagnosis, according to letter from the couple’s doctor, despite ly because she failed to show she could- to realize that dream on an equal basis.” “The law needs to be changed,” said the National Conference of State not being legally required to do so, the n’t get pregnant by having sex with a Senate Majority Leader Loretta Legislatures. Maryland and California suit says. man. New Jersey law for insurance pur- The plaintiffs Weinberg, a Democrat and the bill’s have changed their laws to require cov- Both Sen. Nia Gill and Assemblyman poses defines infertility as the result of Two other women have joined them sponsor in the Senate. “It’s just time to erage for same-sex couples. Crag Coughlin, who chair committees failure to conceive after a certain period as plaintiffs in the case, filed Aug. 1 push this to the forefront.” According to the lawsuit, the Krupas overseeing the legislation in their of unprotected sex. against state Banking and Insurance New Jersey’s law currently requires moved to New Jersey in 2011 from respective chambers, said they expect Krupa’s insurer eventually agreed to Commissioner Richard Badolato. His most insurers to cover expenses North Carolina and decided to start a the bill will get a hearing and likely be the coverage, based on her doctor’s spokesman did not return a message deemed medically necessary as part of family. Erin Krupa was diagnosed with put to a vote. —AP Water everywhere, Louisiana residents struggle for dry land

WALKER, LOUISINA: Barbara Manuel saw a from going out to “sightsee” even as the flicker of sun and that gave her hope that weather gets better. “This is a serious event. the worst of the horrific flooding to hit It is ongoing. It is not over,” the governor southern Louisiana was over. But then the said Sunday. Four people have been report- skies ripped open, the lights in her house ed dead, said Devin George, the state regis- started to flicker and with three feet of trar for vital records, earlier Sunday. Later water outside threatening to come in and Sunday, a woman’s body was recovered by two young kids to care for, she knew it was divers from inside a flooded vehicle in East time to get out. Baton Rouge Parish, appearing to raise the “I’ve never seen anything like this death toll to five. before,” Manuel said, speaking on the side of the road as she was about to get in a Victims’ views National Guard vehicle. The 41-year-old is Authorities worked throughout Sunday one of more than 20,000 people rescued to rescue people from cars stranded on a from their homes as of Sunday as rain- miles-long stretch of Interstate 12 until the swollen rivers flooded their banks and governor said on Twitter late in the day that wreaked havoc across southern Louisiana. everyone had been rescued. One of those She was worried about her mother who stranded motorists was Alex Cobb of Baton lives just up the road. High waters made Rouge, who spent Saturday night on the the trip impassable and cellphone prob- interstate before being rescued by a lems made it difficult to reach her. But National Guard truck. She was on her way Manuel’s two children - a 5-year -old to a bridal shower she was supposed to daughter and 8-year-old son - were fine. “As host Saturday when flooding closed off the long as my kids are safe, that’s all that mat- highway. She said she had food intended MANITOBA, CANADA: This July 2016 photo provided by Explore.org shows the view of a beluga whale from a webcam gathered in the Churchill ters,” she said. for the bridal shower and a produce truck River in the Hudson Bay. —AP Across southern Louisiana Sunday, resi- up the road shared its stock with drivers - dents scrambled to get to safety as rivers giving out fruits and vegetables to people. and creeks burst their banks, swollen from Hundreds of people were gathered at Webcam whale research buoyed days of heavy rain that in some areas Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge, some came close to two feet over a 48-hour coming in by bus and others by helicopter. period. More than 10,000 people were in Matthew and Rachel Fitzpatrick, from shelters Sunday, according to Louisiana Brandon, Mississippi, hopped off one of the by viewers around the world Gov. John Bel Edwards. In high-water vehi- choppers with her grandparents. The cou- cles, boats and helicopters, emergency ple had been visiting family in Baton Rouge crews hurried to rescue scores of south when the flooding started. They found Whales blow bubbles at lens Louisiana residents as the governor temporary refuge at Hebron Baptist Church warned it was not over. but became trapped by floodwaters HELENA, MONTANA: The underwater webcam long-term effect on the rest of the population, tagged male or female and uploaded to a data- From the air, homes in southwest Saturday night. People at the church used attached to Hayley Shephard’s boat captures such as the case with the population in Alaska’s base that will help identify individual whales and Louisiana looked more like little islands sur- boats and big trucks to rescue others and what at first appear to be green glowing orbs as Cook Inlet, which is struggling as compared to their locations. rounded by flooded fields. Farmland was bring them to the church, where helicop- she motors through an estuary in remote the healthy Hudson Bay population? “As far as I Operators switched on the cameras July 15 covered, streets descended into impassable ters started picking them up and flying Canada. Then the orbs come into focus, reveal- know, there’s no other investigation of beluga and have since averaged about 2,500 viewers a pools of water, shopping centers were them to safety Sunday. ing some of the more than 3,000 beluga whales from under the water on this scale,” Petersen day, according to Explore.org spokesman Mike inundated with only roofs of cars peeking Matthew, 29, said between 250 and 300 that gather in the waters in and around Hudson said. “A lot of the stuff that’s been done before is Gasbara. above the water. people were still at the church as of late Bay each summer. from observers on top of the water. It doesn’t The researchers hope that after this season afternoon Sunday. “Everybody is just tired The white whales, which resemble oversized really give us a good sense - belugas don’t spend ends in August, they will have a catalog of indi- Catastrophic and nervous and wanting to see what kind dolphins, nuzzle and clown for the camera. They a lot of time on top of the water.” vidual whales that can be tracked in subsequent From the ground it was just as cata- of damage they have to their home,” Rachel feel the lens with their teeth and blow bubbles Explore.org and Polar Bears International years, along with the locations where different strophic. Drivers tried to navigate treacher- said. The evacuees included Gov. Edwards at it. Sometimes they swim upside down for a have used similar crowdsourcing technology to groups are gathering to find if any patterns ous roads where the water lapped at the and his family, who were forced to leave better view. That’s what Stephen Petersen, head monitor polar bears’ annual migration in Hudson emerge. Understanding the beluga whales is side or covered the asphalt in a running the Governor’s Mansion when chest-high of conservation and research for Winnipeg’s Bay. Researchers hope years of viewers taking important because their ecosystem soon may be stream. Abandoned cars were pushed to water filled the basement and electricity Assiniboine Park Zoo, and his wife, biologist Meg snapshots will provide them with images that altered with the effects of climate change, the side of the road, lawn furniture and was shut off. Hainstock, are looking for. Only when the whales can help assess the bears’ health and reproduc- Gasbara said. Less Arctic ice could bring threats children’s toys floating through the waters. In one dramatic rescue Saturday, two turn upside down can the researchers determine tive rates. to the beluga in the form of killer whales and The low pressure system that wreaked men on a boat pulled a woman from a car their sex, which they need as they study the ani- Other scientists are increasingly using crowd- increased boat traffic and pollution, he said. “I such havoc moved into Texas, but the almost completely underwater, according mals’ social structure and behavior. sourcing to raise money for research or perform think because we’re right at the beginning of National Weather Service warned that to video by WAFB. The woman, who’s not tasks that would be too costly or time-consum- this, any information that we get on social struc- there’s still danger of fresh floods, as initially visible on camera, yells from inside Viewers are helping too ing to be performed by a team of researchers. ture is going to be informative for other loca- swollen rivers drain toward the Gulf of the car: “Oh my god, I’m drowning.” The webcam’s viewers across the globe are One of the most well-known projects is by the tions,” Petersen said. Mexico. Rivers in the Baton Rouge area One of the rescuers, David Phung, jumps helping, too. Its creators - Bozeman, Montana- SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, Back on the surface in Canada’s Hudson Bay, have started to fall, but still remained into the brown water and pulls the woman based Polar Bears International and Explore.org, whose software has been downloaded by mil- ghostlike humps emerge as more whales are above flood stage setting record levels over to safety. She pleads with Phung to get her a project of the Annenberg Foundation - includ- lions of users and allows researchers to use the drawn to Shepherd’s 10-foot inflatable boat. She the weekend, the National Weather Service dog, but he can’t find it. After several sec- ed a “snapshot” feature that allows viewers to data-processing power of those computers in pilots the vessel slowly around the estuary for said yesterday. “The rivers and streams onds, Phung takes a deep breath, goes take still shots of the feed. Petersen and the institute’s search for alien life in space. four hours a day over the short northern sum- north of Interstate 12 have crested and underwater and resurfaces - with the small Hainstock hope the result will be a trove of pho- “In general, there is a growing interest in mer, sometimes narrating her observations to have started to drop, while those south of dog. tographs of individual whales that will help using citizen science projects to raise awareness web viewers. “It’s important to know that we ulti- the interstate continue to rise,” them catalog the population as they try to and support scientific research,” said Krista mately are visitors and we are in their territory,” Meteoroloest Mike Efferson said. Other effects from the flooding: answer questions about the animals’ behavior. Wright, executive director of Polar Bears Shepherd said. “Them approaching the boat, fol- The Comite River just east of Baton A hospital in Baton Rouge - Ochsner For example, why do certain whales of a simi- International. lowing the boat - it’s all their doing. We don’t Rouge on Monday morning dropped near- Medical Center in Baton Rouge’s O’Neal lar age and sex consistently gather at certain For the beluga whale project, Petersen said need to run up to them and ride along.” ly 2 feet from the 34.2-feet level over the campus - has evacuated about 40 patients times or locations? What function do Hudson viewers are instructed on how to identify males Occasionally, one of the whales will slap the weekend. Flood stage is 20 feet. The Amite and is expected to evacuate another 10 to Bay’s estuaries serve for these animals? Do belu- from females, and are then asked to take snap- water with its tail and soak her. “Sometimes I feel River at Denham Springs was at 43.5 feet 15. Severe weather damaged AT&T ga whales have a matriarchal social structure? shots when the whales flip over and their sex is like they’ve adopted me into their pod,” Monday after reaching 46.2 feet. Flood Wireless’s equipment and halted service for Do certain whale groups’ low numbers have a in view of the camera. The photographs are Shephard said. —AP stage is 29 feet. “The area around Baton some customers in the Baton Rouge area. Rouge could see up to a half-inch of rain Amtrak is busing customers from Jackson, Monday, with a 40 to 50 percent chance in Mississippi, to New Orleans instead of using 20 million toilets built the forecast,” Efferson said. the train. The federal government declared a Rescuers have taken out hundreds of in two years: Indian PM major disaster in the state, specifically in pets as they go door-to-door searching for the parishes of Tangipahoa, St. Helena, East people. The head of the Mississippi NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister end the spread of disease and ill- Baton Rouge and Livingston. Gov. Edwards Emergency Management Agency says 56 Narendra Modi said yesterday that nesses such as diarrhea. said President Barack Obama called him people remain in a shelter because their his government had built more Last year’s speech saw Modi set and said the people of southern Louisiana homes are flooded. Kunzelman reported than 20 million toilets and a 1,000-day deadline for every vil- were in his thoughts and prayers and that from Baton Rouge and Santana reported brought electricity to thousands of lage in India to get electricity, urg- the federal government would be a solid from New Orleans. Janet McConnaughey villages as he delivered an ing state governments responsible partner. and Bill Fuller in New Orleans contributed Independence Day report card. for power to ensure every commu- Edwards also called on people to refrain to this report. —AP From the ramparts of Delhi’s nity is finally linked to the national 17th-century Red Fort, Modi grid. “We’re nearing 70 years of vowed that his administration was independence and these poor vil- on track to meet its pledge of pro- lages were forced to live in the viding power and toilets to every 18th century all this while, but we household across the world’s sec- promised to make the ond most populous nation. impossible possible,” Modi said, Modi drew praise in his first dressed in a crisp white half- August 15 speech in 2014 as he sleeved kurta and traditional tackled often taboo issues such as headgear “Today I am proud to say sexual violence and a lack of toi- that even though we haven’t even lets, promising to build one for completed half of those 1,000 every household within four years. days yet, we have already brought “Today I can say that in such short electricity to 10,000 of those time, more than 20 million toilets 18,000 villages.” have been built in India’s villages Government figures released and more than 70,000 are free of last year showed more than 300 open defecation,” Modi said to million people in India-the world’s loud applause. fastest-growing major economy- Open defecation has long been still had no access to electricity. a major health and sanitation Per-capita electricity consumption problem in India, where almost is barely one third of the global 594 million people-nearly half the average. In a lengthy speech, Modi population-defecate in the open, said he had striven to streamline according to UNICEF. Modi has India’s regulatory regime, includ- stressed the need to clean up ing income tax filing and passport NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, arrives at the India since storming to power in applications, while extolling the rampart of the historical Red Fort to address the nation on 2014 and has repeatedly urged economic growth rate since he WALKER, LOUISIANA: People arrive to be evacuated by members of the Louisiana Independence Day yesterday. —AP every household to have a toilet to came to power. —AFP Army National Guard after heavy rains inundating the region on Sunday. —AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 FEATURES

Inside an Olympian’s testosterone ordeal treatment or quit

RIO DE JANEIRO: The young athlete, now competing at the Rio Games, always considered herself to be a girl just like the others, a girl who loved to run. Then the govern- ing body of track and field told her she was different, so different that her track career could be over. Marked “confidential” and signed “best sporting regards,” the let- ter outlined a choice for the athlete: Open herself up to a panel of medical experts who could recommend sur- gery or chemical treatment to reduce her testosterone levels, or stop competing. She had fallen foul of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ rules aimed at providing a fair playing field for women by keeping out athletes with high testosterone, a naturally occurring strength-building hormone. Writing to the man who ran track and field in the ath- lete’s country, the IAAF’s medical director at the time explained that blood and urine tests detected testos- terone levels that were “abnormally high” for a woman. The suspected cause, wrote Dr. Gabriel Dolle, wasn’t doping but another hot-button issue in athletics that is likely to flare in this final week of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics: hyperandrogenism. Had the athlete not been a runner, she might never have known of her condition. It was flagged by the IAAF’s tests that look for banned drugs. She was stunned and uncomprehending when told that her testosterone pointed to hyperandrogenism, her then-coach told The Associated Press. “She couldn’t understand. It was shock,” the coach said. “I said, ‘You’re not alone. There are others.’” Thus started a months-long process of medical scrutiny, trips to foreign clinics for batteries of tests, and potentially life-changing choices shrouded in medical secrecy that makes it hard to investigate the IAAF’s treat- ment of hyperandrogenic women. The AP will not name the athlete, the country she is CHINA: An abandoned workers’ dormitory is seen next to a coal mine in an area where land is sinking in Yongdingzhuang village of Datong on August 1, 2016.—‚AFP competing for or give details, including racing achieve- ments, that could help identify her. In messages with the AP, she said she is focusing on competition and that her story is “personal and private.” The IAAF letter and the exclusive AP interview with Towns sink after her former coach, who was intimately involved in her eventual decision to agree to testosterone-curbing treatment, shed unprecedented light on the inner work- ings of the IAAF process that at least 14 women have gone through. mines close in China Another athlete has become the unwilling face of this complex and excruciatingly sensitive issue. Caster Semenya will race in Rio and likely win gold in the 800 meters. Believed to be hyperandrogenic, outed as physi- Fighting a losing battle ologically different without her consent when she won the world championship 800 in 2009, the South African’s HELIN, CHINA: Deep in the coal heartlands of northern According to official data, coal mining had already said. Together with the neighboring city of Luliang, it plans dominance has again pushed to the fore divisive ques- Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a los- caused as many 26,000 geological disasters by the end of to relocate as many as 230,000 people over 2014-2017. tions about whether allowing women to compete with ing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles: patching 2014, and as much as 10,000 square kilometers of land has Little of the money to move communities and restore testosterone levels far above the female norm is fair and up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in sinkholes caused been affected, an area the size of Gambia in Africa, accord- the land is coming from the miners themselves, although whether the hormone’s attributed performance- by decades of coal mining. ing to some estimates. that was supposed to be the plan in the beginning. enhancing effects are significantly greater than other Around 100 pits in Helin - buried in the hilly rural out- China’s land ministry said last month it would spend 75 Miners are required to pay “subsidence fees” to pay for natural gifts, like height for basketball players or big feet skirts of the city of Xiaoyi - have been exhausted, and clut- billion yuan ($11.27 billion) over the next five years to the cleanup when their mines close. The Datong Coal for swimmers. Semenya first races Wednesday. —AP tered hamlets totter precariously on the brittle slopes of restore mined land and treat mining waste nationwide. The Industry Group , the only state miner to give breakdowns, mines. But while local authorities have begun evacuating growing environmental bill comes at a time when China’s paid just 1.4 million yuan in those fees from January to hundreds of thousands of residents most at risk elsewhere stricken coal sector faces mounting debts, falling demand March this year, or 0.04 percent of its total costs, according in Shanxi province, Helin’s situation - though serious - isn’t and a long-term decline in prices after the boom turned to its quarterly report. yet considered a priority. into a bust. “We haven’t been told to leave yet, but when the gov- Solar solutions ernment gives us the order, we’ll be happy to go,” said Boon to burden Jiang Jian, a legislator from Shandong province, said Wang Junqi, who lives in a one-room tenement with his The coal sector, as with other basic industries in China Beijing needed to draw up detailed measures to determine family. “It isn’t safe here and the people who have a bit of such as steel, is now saddled with overcapacity estimated how much mining firms should pay. Many of the worst-hit money have already gone. It’s scary, but what can we do?” at around 2 billion tons a year, as demand growth slows sites have been long abandoned, making it harder to Mines that burrowed under villages and towns during and the country promotes cleaner forms of energy. China decide who is responsible, she noted, so Beijing also need- China’s three-decade coal boom have left the authorities planned to close around 1,000 collieries this year alone, ed to set up dedicated funds to help pay remediation with the need to evacuate hundreds of communities in many of them in residential areas such as Helin, as it cuts costs, including treatment and disposal of mine waste. danger of sinking. Shanxi province alone plans to move coal’s share of total energy consumption to 62 percent by To help with the clean-up, China is encouraging devel- 655,000 residents by the end of next year from unsafe old 2020. During the boom years, as prices and profits soared, opers to turn abandoned mining sites into wind and solar mining regions, with the cost of relocation estimated at miners were encouraged to dig further and deeper, power projects. Solar accounted for just 0.6 percent of 15.8 billion yuan ($2.37 billion). The Shanxi government encroaching upon residential areas and farmland. While China’s overall electricity generation from January to June, estimates coal mining has cost the province 77 billion yuan large state-run firms would often relocate entire villages, and wind was a mere 3.6 percent. in “environmental economic losses”. smaller private miners, chasing quick profits, simply dug One solar demonstration project has been completed in under and around communities. With mining tax revenues the eastern outskirts of Datong, also in Shanxi, on ground Geological disasters surging, local governments were reluctant to impose damaged from mining and not suitable for farming. The Mine-induced subsidence is not unique to China, but its stricter controls on the industry. area was once a prosperous coal region with more than problems dwarf those of other countries. A notice board at The industry helped pay for construction binges like 1,000 mines, but extraction stopped after the collapse in a deserted Communist Party building in an abandoned vil- one in Xiaoyi, where Helin is located, topping up local gov- prices, and the local economy cratered. RIO DE JANEIRO: India’s Dutee Chand crosses the lage not far from Helin gives an idea of the scale of the dis- ernment tax coffers and bestowing the city centre with “Before we got here this piece of land wasn’t suitable for line in a women’s 100-meter first round heat during aster. It lists 19 geological “disaster zones” spread across 23 rows of largely unoccupied luxury apartment blocks. any kind of planting, but now at least some of it can be the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer villages, 55 landslides, 950 cracks in the ground and 808 What was once a boon for governments has now turned used,” said He Xin, project manager with the United Olympics at the Olympic stadium on Friday. —AP incidents of mine subsidence-all in an area of just 13.25 into a burden: Xiaoyi has already spent more than 6 billion Photovoltaics Group , which owns and operates a 100- square kilometers (5 sq miles). yuan ($901.31 million) to treat subsidence, the government megawatt solar farm at the site. —Reuters WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

Kuwait Royal Enfield Club commemorates the 70th Indian Independence Day

uwait Royal Enfield Club Kuwait landmark recognized global- The riders then moved along the (KREC) was formed in ly. The group included Mr. Victor Arabian Gulf Street towards Salmiya KJanuary 2016 and is a group Winsent (IO Centre), Mr. Vinu Nair where a group of Indian cricketers of multi-national Royal Enfield (KAICO), Mr. Youseff ‘joe’ Al-Sadi where enthusiastically playing even motor bike owners hailing from (Equate Petrochemical Co.), Mr. in this scorching summer heat. The Kuwait, India, Russia, Jordan, Roosewel Parial (KAICO), Mr. prestigious cap of Kuwait Royal Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal. Mohammed Amanulla (Country Enfield Club was distributed to all KREC organized the “Indian Club Fitness FTX), Mr. Zohrab the cricketers including Mr. Justin Independence Ride” on Friday, 12th Tashejan (Carrefour), Mr. Saleem Antony, Mr. Joby Jose, Mr. Shibu August, 2016 to commemorate the Hyder (Jashanmal), Mr. Fakhri George Adoor, Mr. Shine, Mr. 70th Independence Day of India. Ibrahim ( Interior Design Philson, Mr. Sumesh, Mr. Abin and The Royal Enfield riders assembled Consultants) and Mr. Sajan Mr. Pradeep. The cricketers invited by 6.a.m on the seaside opposite to Ramachandran (Capago Mena) and the KREC members to join them for the Indian Embassy in Kuwait. they had a discussion on motorcy- matches in future. Many of them Following self-introduction by all cle safety and future ride plans. Vice disclosed their passion for the the attendees, KREC President Dr. President Mr. Abdulkarim AlSayegh Royal Enfield but were unknown Kiran Gopinathan addressed the emphasized and thanked the Indian that the legendary Indian motor- gathering on the aim, route, and community on their substantial role bike is very much available in mission of ride. in shaping Kuwait to its present Kuwait. Following photo session After clicking photos of the bikes high medical, industrial and con- with the cricketers, the riders con- and the riders with the Indian struction standards. Photo session voyed through the streets in Embassy as the background, the continued against the backdrop of Salmiya Block 10 and finally con- group rode towards the Kuwait Kuwait Towers with the riders hold- cluded at Udupi restaurant for a tra- Towers, which is the most famous ing Indian flags of various sizes. ditional Indian breakfast.

Greetings LuLu Hypermarket receives ISO .Hassan Irfan, My Prince Turns 2, certification for food safety management MGod Bless You & May you have Prosperous Future Ahead. Best uLu Hypermarket, the leading hypermarket 14 August. A large crowd of shoppers and well- agement and its commitment to ensure that its Wishes & Love from Abbu, chain in the region, recently obtained the ISO wishers were on hand to witness the function. various outlets have the ability to control food 22000-2005 certification in food safety man- This is a significant achievement for LuLu safety hazards and to provide consumers with Ammi, Papa, Mama, L agement its four outlets in Kuwait at Al Rai, Hypermarket as it becomes the first hypermarket foods that are of the best and safest quality. Aunties, Uncle & Cousin Qurain, Dajeej and Salmiya. in Kuwait to be awarded this accreditation. The The certification further demonstrates the Brothers Abdullah, Management from SGS Kuwait, part of the brand has consistently undertaken all measures hypermarket’s compliance with all regulatory Osama, Ali, Umar, Mohsin, multinational SGS Group which is the world’s lead- needed to ensure the highest standards in the requirements regarding food safety and efficient Talha, & Sisters Fatima, ing company for inspection, verification, testing sourcing, storage, display and sale of their prod- handling of food, and underlines the brand’s sup- Ayesha, Meeqat, Aamina. and certification, handed over the ISO certificate ucts. port for strong quality control in the food sector Photo by: Ali Omar to the higher management of LuLu Hypermarket, The ISO 22000-2005 accreditation reiterates the and the implementation of exemplary food man- during a ceremony organized at its Al Rai outlet on hypermarket’s high standards in food safety man- agement systems for the food industry. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 information

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17:40 Mythbusters Jimmy Fallon 18:30 World’s Top 5 05:30 Community 19:20 The Island With Bear Grylls 06:00 George Lopez 20:10 Storage Hunters UK 06:30 Breaking In 20:35 Dallas Car Sharks 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 03:20 Mad Dogs 03:50 Russia’s Mystery Files 08:00 The Goldbergs 21:00 Mythbusters 03:20 Calimero 04:05 Doctors 04:45 Richard Hammond’s Wildest 08:30 Community 04:35 Doctors 21:50 World’s Top 5 03:35 Zou 03:45 Loopdidoo Weather 09:00 The Simpsons 05:05 The Musketeers 22:40 Wheels That Fail 04:00 Art Attack 05:40 Life On Mars: The Amazing 09:30 The Grinder 06:00 Doctors 23:05 Wheels That Fail 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster Rovers 10:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 06:30 Doctors 23:30 Fast N’ Loud 10:30 Breaking In 07:00 Holby City 04:35 Calimero 06:35 Engineering Connections 00:20 Kindig Customs 04:50 Zou 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 07:55 Death In Paradise 07:30 Ultimate Survival Alaska Jimmy Fallon 08:45 Call The Midwife 01:10 Mythbusters 05:00 Loopdidoo 08:25 Alaska Fish Wars 05:15 Art Attack 12:00 George Lopez 09:40 The Musketeers 02:00 World’s Top 5 09:20 Richard Hammond’s Wildest 02:50 Wheels That Fail 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 12:30 The Goldbergs 10:35 Doctors Weather 13:00 Community 11:05 Doctors 05:50 Calimero 06:00 Zou 10:15 Science Of Stupid 13:30 Breaking In 11:35 Death In Paradise 10:40 Science Of Stupid 14:00 Black-Ish 12:30 Call The Midwife 06:20 Loopdidoo 06:35 Art Attack 11:10 Cesar To The Rescue 14:30 The Grinder 13:20 The Musketeers 15:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 14:15 Doctors 07:00 The Hive 12:05 Mega Factories 03:00 Mega World 07:10 Zou 13:00 4 Babies A Second 15:30 Fresh Off The Boat 14:45 Doctors 16:00 Grandfathered 15:15 Death In Paradise 03:48 Smash Lab 07:25 Loopdidoo 14:00 Laverstoke Mill 04:36 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 07:40 Jungle Cubs 16:30 George Lopez 16:10 Call The Midwife 15:00 Engineering Connections 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 17:05 The Musketeers 05:00 Prank Science 08:05 Sofia The First 16:00 Science Of Stupid 08:30 Miles From Tomorrow 18:00 The Simpsons 18:00 Doctors 05:24 How The Universe Works 16:30 Science Of Stupid 06:12 How Do They Do It? 08:40 PJ Masks 18:30 Black-Ish 18:30 Eastenders 17:00 Megastructures 19:00 Young & Hungry 19:05 Death In Paradise 06:36 Food Factory 09:10 Doc McStuffins 07:00 How Do They Do It? 09:40 Doc McStuffins 18:00 Mega Factories 19:30 Young & Hungry 20:00 New Tricks 19:00 Engineering Connections 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 21:00 New Tricks 07:26 Smash Lab 09:55 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 08:14 How The Universe Works 10:00 Sofia The First 20:00 Science Of Stupid Jimmy Fallon 21:55 Ripper Street 21:00 Fresh Off The Boat 22:50 Mad Dogs 09:02 Mega World 10:30 Sofia The First 20:25 Science Of Stupid 09:50 How Do They Do It? 11:00 The Lion Guard 20:50 Megastructures 21:30 Grandfathered 23:40 Doctors 22:00 You’re The Worst 00:10 Eastenders 10:14 Food Factory 11:30 Jake And The Never Land 21:40 Mega Factories 10:38 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow Pirates 22:30 Bordertown 00:40 New Tricks 22:30 Engineering Connections 23:00 The Brink 01:30 New Tricks 11:02 Magic Of Science 12:00 Jake And The Never Land 23:20 Life On Mars: The Amazing Pirates 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 02:25 Ripper Street 11:26 Smash Lab Rovers 12:14 How The Universe Works 12:30 Gummi Bears 00:30 Fresh Off The Boat 00:10 Science Of Stupid 13:02 How Do They Do It? 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17:50 The Lion Guard 05:00 Max & Shred 10:00 Age Of Dinosaurs 05:55 Tosh.0 20:45 Food Factory 18:15 Jake And The Never Land 05:24 Henry Danger 12:00 Robot Overlords 06:20 Lip Sync Battle 21:10 Mega Engineering Pirates 05:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 14:00 Armored 06:50 Lip Sync Battle 22:00 Freaks Of Nature 18:45 Jake And The Never Land 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 15:45 Swelter 07:15 Catch A Contractor 22:25 Freaks Of Nature Pirates 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 17:30 The Hobbit: The Battle Of 08:05 Ridiculousness 22:50 How The Universe Works 19:00 PJ Masks 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Five Armies 08:30 Ridiculousness 23:40 Smash Lab 19:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 20:00 The Man With The Iron Fists 08:55 Nathan For You 00:30 How Do They Do It? 20:00 Doc McStuffins 07:48 Winx Club 22:00 Dracula Untold 20:30 Sofia The First 23:45 Ironclad: Battle For Blood 09:20 Nathan For You 00:55 Food Factory 08:12 Harvey Beaks 01:20 Freaks Of Nature 21:00 PJ Masks 01:45 Backdraft 09:45 Impractical Jokers UK 08:36 Breadwinners 01:45 Freaks Of Nature 21:30 Aladdin 09:00 Get Blake 10:10 Impractical Jokers UK 02:10 How The Universe Works 22:00 Jungle Cubs 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 10:35 Key And Peele 22:25 Gummi Bears 09:48 Henry Danger 11:00 Workaholics 22:50 Zou 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 11:25 Catch A Contractor 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 10:36 The Haunted Hathaways 04:00 Bubble Boy 12:15 Nathan For You 23:20 Calimero 11:00 Winx Club 06:00 Hope Springs 12:40 Nathan For You 23:35 Zou 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants BLENDED ON OSN MOVIES HD COMEDY 08:00 Blended 13:05 Impractical Jokers UK 23:50 Loopdidoo 11:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 10:00 Bubble Boy 13:30 Impractical Jokers UK 00:05 Art Attack 12:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:00 Bottle Rocket 13:55 Ridiculousness 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 07:20 Keeping Up With The 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 18:45 Emmerdale 12:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 14:00 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To 00:45 Calimero Kardashians 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 19:10 Coronation Street 13:00 Breadwinners 14:20 Ridiculousness 03:15 The Hive The Galaxy 01:00 Zou 08:20 Keeping Up With The 19:35 Chopping Block 13:24 The Loud House 14:45 Lip Sync Battle 23:00 Iron Chef America 16:00 Blended 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 01:15 Loopdidoo Kardashians 20:30 Midsomer Murders 13:48 Harvey Beaks 15:10 Lip Sync Battle 00:00 Chopped 18:00 Bringing Down The House Teenage Witch 01:30 Art Attack 09:15 Keeping Up With The 22:20 Coronation Street 14:12 Rabbids Invasion 15:35 Catch A Contractor 01:00 Kitchen Inferno 20:00 Hits 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 02:00 Calimero Kardashians 22:50 Emmerdale 14:36 Henry Danger 16:30 Nathan For You 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 22:00 Talladega Nights Teenage Witch 02:15 Zou 10:15 Keeping Up With The 23:15 Emmerdale 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 16:55 Nathan For You 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 00:00 Ted 04:10 Hank Zipzer 02:30 Loopdidoo Kardashians 23:40 Murdoch Mysteries 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 17:25 Workaholics 11:10 Keeping Up With The 00:35 Emmerdale 02:00 Hits 04:35 Binny And The Ghost 02:45 Art Attack 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 17:50 Impractical Jokers UK Kardashians 01:00 Emmerdale 05:00 Violetta 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:15 Impractical Jokers UK 12:05 Keeping Up With The 01:30 Emmerdale 16:36 The Loud House 05:45 The Hive 18:39 Key And Peele Kardashians 02:00 Coronation Street 17:00 Sanjay And Craig 19:03 Workaholics 05:50 Mouk 13:05 EJ NYC 02:30 Murdoch Mysteries 17:24 Harvey Beaks 19:27 Tattoo Disasters 06:00 Hank Zipzer 14:05 EJ NYC 17:48 Breadwinners 03:00 Ernest Goes To Camp 19:50 Tattoo Disasters 06:25 Jessie 06:00 Boyster 15:00 Just Jillian 03:40 In Search Of Aliens 18:12 Henry Danger 05:00 The Princess Diaries 2: 04:30 Ancient Aliens 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Royal Engagement 05:20 Ancient Aliens 19:00 100 Things To Do Before 07:00 Garfield’s Fun Fest 06:10 Ancient Discoveries High School 09:00 American Girl: Isabelle 07:00 World War II: Lost Films 03:45 World’s Deadliest Animals 19:24 Game Shakers Dances Into The Spotlight 08:00 Ancient Discoveries 04:40 America’s National Parks 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 11:00 The Country Bears 09:00 The Universe 05:35 Built For The Kill 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 13:00 Pocahontas 10:00 In Search Of Aliens 06:30 Extreme Animal Babies 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15:00 Mostly Ghostly: Have You 11:00 Ancient Aliens 07:25 World’s Deadliest Animals 21:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Met My Ghoulfriend 12:00 Ancient Aliens 08:20 America’s National Parks 21:24 Breadwinners 17:00 The Boxtrolls 13:00 World War II: Lost Films 21:48 Breadwinners 19:00 Hook 09:15 Wild Kalahari 21:30 Camp Nowhere 14:00 Ancient Discoveries 22:12 Sanjay And Craig 10:10 Predator Fails 22:36 Sanjay And Craig 23:15 Mostly Ghostly: Have You 15:00 The Universe 11:05 Man V. 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CROSSWORD 1344 STAR TRACK

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

Your energy at this time is toward getting down to work and really getting a Emotional considerations may block or oppose how you proceed with a lot accomplished. This could mean progress in the workplace as well as project or plan. Listen carefully to what higher-ups are saying. You could have trouble progress in accomplishing your personal goals. All of this should go rather smoothly. Your with authorities, due to a tendency to assert your own ambitions against the realities of drive in life is expressing your responsibility-your trustworthiness. You are able to find the situation. Your career is central to everything you do so this would be a good time to yourself in others, in relationships, rather than alone-a mirror or clear pool. You can be weigh all the options before making a quick decision. You may discover new ways of peaceful, calm and undisturbed. You are a genius at bringing out others and getting them working with traditional materials. You could be most persuasive with others. Your ideas to perform-you are a born strategist. You may be able to enjoy your own life situation or will receive quite a lot of attention and you may need to back up your words. This evening feel especially kind toward a friend or loved one. Someone visiting you in your home this you may decide to help a friend reach beyond that comfort zone of complacence and try evening may compliment you on your tastes or belongings. something new. You encourage positive outcomes.

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

Secrets, taboos and mysteries appeal to you. Learning about people is an You shine when it comes to practical matters or those involving work and exciting adventure for you. You wear your heart on your sleeve and your emotional life is career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authority and can always manage an open book for all to read. Others sense an interest in their welfare when they meet you. to get the most out of any skill or ability you have. You like work and career. There are fami- Your instinctive need at this time is to get down to basics and find the perfect path along ly income and family security issues on your mind this afternoon. This is a great time to which to make your dreams come true. If you put as much energy into your personal rela- reflect and understand your own situation, just how you feel about yourself and the ways tionships as you do your business relationships and adventures, all sorts of communica- in which you are achieving your goals. The feelings of your loved one may be very clear. tion, education and growth will be possible. You may enjoy getting away from routine this Budget issues can receive progress through the help of your loved one this evening. evening and doing something completely different. Poetry, art, music or a movie could Positive results are bound to happen! You endear those you love to you with your sooth- prove most enjoyable. ing words of encouragement.

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

Someone that serves you, such as a dentist, accountant, housekeeper, etc., You can be a real moving force in the lives of others now. You are a natural may be due for a change. Some change in location, physical wellbeing or some other group leader or trainer. Your vitality and drive are communicated to all that change has occurred to make you rethink your relationship with those that serve you. Be are around you. You may find yourself taking charge, organizing and managing important observant and take your time, the attention you give to this matter will be most useful to business transactions. This puts you in a boss type of position and you love being the boss ACROSS DOWN you in the future. You make your home situation more pleasant with plans to revise and this day. Careful-your enthusiasm is so strong that it can sometimes be a little too much, 1. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring 1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of update. Perhaps a new maintenance person or the purchase of new and better tools is in making others uncomfortable. You put a lot of effort into those around you and also into your surroundings and home environment. You may feel like being different this evening. on the sea or ships. Iran. order. A sale or purchase of real estate could bring you much gain. Perhaps this evening is a good time to take notes of the pros and cons regarding a concern of yours and ask opin- You may never have been to a tractor pull, grand ole opry, shooting match or boxing 4. Shepherd's purse. 2. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or ion from those who will benefit from your decision. match, but one of these may interest you now. 12. (used especially of commodities) In the effort. natural unprocessed condition. 3. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar. 15. An ugly evil-looking old woman. 4. Being one hundred more than two hundred. 16. A clergyman ministering to some institu- 5. According to the Old Testament he was a Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) tion. pagan king of Israel and husband of You will find this a productive workday. You have a lot of ideas that are 17. The United Nations agency concerned with Jezebel (9th century BC). important for group discussions. Be careful in how you choose your words-you may be Positive self-esteem is a necessity this month. You seem more interested in selected to make a presentation of your ideas in front of a board meeting. This option the emotional communication between business friends and love partners now. It is very the interests of labor. 6. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter important for you to know how you come across to others. Taking a great amount of work becomes enticing as you put together an outline for a video presentation. Your manage- 18. The residue that remains when something and milk and nuts. home all the time will damage your home life. Pace yourself and say no to the extra work ment and directional abilities are in high focus and others sense your carry-through abili- when you feel you are reaching your limits. This is a rewarding day and you may come to is burned. 7. (often followed by `of') A large number or ties. You could come up with new solutions or inventions. There are penetrating insights 19. Of or relating to Canada or its people. amount or extent. some understanding with a co-worker about something that was confusing in the past. into your own inner workings-what is hidden or going on behind the scenes. This insight This is a good time to get things done, just do not forget to pace yourself. This evening is a 20. Gone by. 8. Late time of life. is also good for planning and setting goals. Creativity, when it comes to inspiring and good time to relax and enjoy your loved ones. There is a determination to be open and 21. A collection of objects laid on top of each 9. Set down according to a plan. encouraging others, is positive and productive. positive in a difficult relationship. other. 10. act between parties with a view to recon- 23. Botfly larva. ciling differences. 24. (biology) Belonging to or active during the 11. Declare invalid. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) day. 12. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or You are dynamic and expressive in thought and speech. Today you are 26. Tag the base runner to get him out. happiness. able to use your expressive ways. You will make a big hit, particularly if you are performing, Creating a work manual may be in order for those that follow you. When you are on vacation or gone for other reasons, your responsible act to provide information 28. The corporate executive responsible for the 13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly whether it is acting or presenting ideas to others. Your techniques are honed to perfection to others is important. An orientation guideline or study guide will also come under the and you are often called upon to guide, teach or perform for others. A lecture today will operations of the firm. aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true same sort of energies that are present at this time. You quickly eliminate the nonessentials 29. Resembling or containing slate. stems and roots and leaves. display your strong views and encourage your students or new workers to put forth their and gain the attention of higher-ups in most positive ways. It is always good to be a self- best efforts. Philosophy or religion are subjects that often occupy your mind. You have starter; as long as you do not take too many things upon yourself. This afternoon is a good 30. Being one hundred more than three hun- 14. Having a fluffy character or appearance. thought of being a radio personality and may decide to audition for a spot just to see what dred. 22. A person to whom money is paid. time for surrounding yourself with friends and young people and for having a good time. it would take to polish your style. A social gathering with relatives and friends is possible Big heart, big love, you are seldom petty. Given to grand gestures and dramatic scenes, 32. Not only so, but. 25. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped the remainder of this afternoon. you love independence and greatness in all forms-smile. 34. A Mid-Atlantic state. cucumbers and spices. 35. A river in north central Switzerland that 27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent runs northeast into the Rhine. metallic element. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 37. A small cake leavened with yeast. 31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh. You may be surprised by your feelings or your ability to act and get things 39. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting 33. In bed. You or your company may be involved in lectures or conventions, etc. done today. This is a time for new accomplishments, during which insights and break- Connections with people on a grand scale play a big part in your life at this of a row of strong cilia whose bases are 36. Taking place over public roads. throughs in organization and determination are in order. There is a need for change in fused. 38. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the time and for some time to come. Entertaining, catering, education, law, advertising, travel, some areas of your life or work. New ideas and methods become clear. You will find your- philosophy or religion may be a part of this process. Understanding a co-worker or some- 43. The cardinal number that is the sum of four genus Acacia. self ready, willing and able to put into practice any changes. Outer circumstances and the one around you today may occupy too much of your free time-careful. Learning what and one. 40. Remove from memory or existence. flow of events make it easy for you to make clear decisions, see the road ahead and move makes people tick is educational and insightful; you find the experience of understanding forward. Things seem to fall in place and progress is easy. With your love of life and travel, people very satisfying. This afternoon you may find yourself with your friends, perhaps a 45. Someone who is morally reprehensible. 41. The basic unit of money in Nigeria. you would make a great travel guide for others. You treat the entire world as your home 48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 42. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mytholo- dinner out or a class in some form of art. You may find different approaches to the arts, and if you wanted, people would pay for your ideas on travel. theater or sports. Luck is in your corner this evening. Arabia or North Africa. gy. 49. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali 2.75 pounds. earth group. Word Search Yesterday Solution 50. A public promotion of some product or 46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made service. from aba cloth. 52. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning. 47. The occurrence of a change for the worse. 53. A quantity of no importance. 51. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a 57. A member of a Dravidian people living in gale). Pakistan. 54. (usually followed by `to') Having the neces- 60. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader sary means or skill or know-how or on the Trojan side of the Trojan War. authority to do something. 62. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan 55. A midwestern state in north central United sleeves. States in the Great Lakes region. 65. A Chadic language spoken in Chad. 56. A light informal meal. 66. With energy unrestored. 58. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel. 68. A dry scab formed on the skin following a 59. 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Tourists walk on the seafront in Portoroz, Slovenia. — AP photos Melania Trump’s Slovenia has become a tourist hotspot

hen Melanija Knavs drove after her official biography had her grad- around Ljubljana in a fluffy skirt uating from the Ljubljana university. Rok Won a metallic blue Vespa with Bogataj, who knew her when they stud- her boyfriend in the late 1980s, the ied at the Faculty of Architecture, said Slovenian capital was a sleepy town that she regularly attended lectures but did offered little excitement to rare visitors. not graduate. “I had an impression that Over the past two decades since she left she had serious ambitions to finish her her native Slovenia, became a model studies, but one day she simply disap- known as Melania Knauss and married peared. We heard that she decided to American billionaire Donald Trump, become a fashion model and that she Ljubljana has turned from a gray and went to Milano,” Bogataj said. drab place with almost no nightlife, into For tourists, Ljubljana is the perfect A limousine is parked in front of a casino in Portoroz, Slovenia. a lively and picturesque city filled with jumping-off point for daily trips to other restaurants, cafes and nightclubs packed attractions. The city is the eco-friendly with foreigners. European Green Capital for 2016, and it’s The heart of the city has been closed located in central Slovenia. The country, to traffic, though, so Mrs Trump would which has 2 million people, offers an no longer be able to ride by scooter to abundance of contrasting landscapes her favorite cafe, then called the Horse’s and cultures and is proud of being the Tail, near Tromostovje - the charming only country in the world with the word stone triple bridge in the heart of the city “love” in its name. More than 2.4 million Souvenirs are offered for sale in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia. decorated with small dragon-like statues. tourists visited in 2014, according to She would also hardly recognize the ren- international arrivals statistics cited by ovated downtown since she last visited. the World Bank, more than triple the The city is dominated by a majestic cas- number who visited in 1995. tle on a hill by the river Ljubljana that splits the town into two. At night, the Big break castle is lit bright green, the city’s tradi- One must-see destination northwest tional color. A boat cruise along the river of Ljubljana is Lake Bled where emerald- reveals spectacular architecture while green waters create a spectacular land- street artists play music and perform for scape, with a lush, tiny island and a visitors. church tower peeking out of evergreens The city’s center on the banks of the surrounded by the rocky Julian Alps. It river offers romantic dining and other was at lakeside Grand Hotel Toplice in excellent culinary offerings, including an Bled where Mrs Trump introduced open kitchen on Fridays when chefs pre- Donald Trump to her parents during Tourists and residents walk over Tromostovje bridges in downtown pare international dishes on makeshift their brief visit to Slovenia in July 2002, Ljubljana, Slovenia. stands that serve as an open-air market two years before they engaged. It is the other days of the week. Slovenia, believed that it was the last time that the which has become one of Europe’s former model visited her native country. hottest nature destinations after splitting Not far from Bled are the seaside from Yugoslavia in 1991, is privileged to towns of Piran, called the Venice of have both an opening onto the Adriatic Slovenia because of the colorful Venetian A church is seen on the shore of Lake Bled, northern Slovenia. Sea as well as chunks of the Alps. It is gothic mansions, and Portoroz, a French- also known for tasty wines and food spe- Riviera style resort with luxurious hotels cialties such as Kranjska klobasa, a juicy lining along a sandy beach. It was in pork sausage, or struklji, a traditional Portoroz in 1992 where Mrs Trump got a Slovene pastry with various fillings. big break in her modeling career when Slovenia’s women magazine Jana staged Map of the world its “Look of the Year” contest. She took Slovenia has often been confused in the second place that gave her the invi- the past with another small central tation to cast for an international model- European state, Slovakia. But since ing agency in Milan. “Melania was one of Donald Trump joined the presidential the girls who participated at the event,” race in the US, his wife and potential first said Jana’s editor Bernarda Jeklin. “I lady have come into public limelight, wouldn’t say that Melania was outstand- along with the country where she was ing. She was quiet, introverted. But what born and raised. “Whatever you think of I remember were her dangerous, tiger- Melania, she put Slovenia on the map of like green eyes.”—AP the world,” said Janez Bosnjak, a Ljubljana resident. Born in the hilly industrial town of Sevnica in 1970 when Slovenia was part of Communist Tourists and residents walk across Tromostovje bridges in downtown Yugoslavia, Mrs Trump’s early life has Ljubljana, Slovenia. come under media scrutiny - especially Padlocks left by couples hang at a bridge in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia. A Lange & Sohne’s three luminous models fluorescent in the northern lights uroras rank among our planet’s most awe- How luminous displays work The lunar disc is made of glass. First, the glass sur- inspiring natural phenomena: Fluorescent light Watches with luminous displays need a light face is coated with a patented process. Then 1164 stars Acloaks the nocturnal darkness with mysterious source that charges the luminous compound applied and the moon are cut out with a laser beam. The lumi- green veils. With three of its most spectacular models, to the display elements and allows them to glow. nous compound behind the lunar disc makes the A Lange & Sohne embarked on a journey to Iceland Thanks to the semi-transparent black-tinted dial and moon and the stars shine. The large moon-phase dis- for a first-hand encounter with one of mother nature’s an ingenious mechanism, the displays of the ‘Grand play occupies a prominent position on the main dial. most fascinating extravaganzas. Breathtaking impres- Lange 1 Moon Phase’ “Lumen” and of the other A Once properly set, it only needs to be corrected by sions between light and darkness in primeval natural Lange & Sohne “Lumen” models can be permanently one day every 122.6 years. surroundings. charged with light energy. The interplay of opposites culminates in perfection Why the northern lights are green with the northern lights in the Arctic sky above The displays of the ‘Grand Lange The rare natural phenomenon can be observed in Iceland. For A Lange & Sohne’s three luminous models, 1 Moon Phase’ ‘Lumen’ the polar region merely during a few days between this is the ideal setting to showcase the spectacular The dial is made of blackened silver with generous September and March. Complex physical processes contrast between light and darkness. The trio of fasci- apertures and a semi-transparent black-tinted sap- create the polychrome auroras in the upper strata of nating light virtuosos that accompanied the Nordic phire-crystal glass wafer. The special coating applied the earth’s atmosphere. The green light, to which our expedition earlier this year included the ‘Grand Lange to the glass blocks most of the visible light but not the eyes are particularly receptive, occurs at an altitude of 1 Moon Phase’ “Lumen”, which was first presented in UV spectra that “charge” the luminous pigments on about 100 kilometers. Here, oxygen atoms collide with January 2016. In addition to the ZEITWERK “Luminous” the outsize date mechanism and cause them to glow the electrically charged particles of the solar winds. and the ‘Grand Lange 1’ “Lumen”, it is the third A Lange in the dark. The tens cross is coated with a white lumi- These collisions emit light with a wavelength of 557.7 & Sohne model with a semi-transparent sapphire-crys- nous compound and printed with black numerals. nanometers, which the human eye perceives as green. tal dial. Its light-permeable coating allows the numer- Conversely, the units disc, also featuring black numer- als to absorb a sufficient amount of light energy to als, is made of transparent glass and rotates in front of uniformly glow in the dark for several hours. the luminous background of the date aperture. lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

GOSSIP Kim saving her MET Gala gowns for her daughter

im Kardashian West has saved “all” of her MET Gala and I’m like, ‘Yes, you can,’ and she’ll say, ‘Okay, I’m going focused and has even corrected people who comment on gowns for her daughter North. The 35-year-old to go eat my vegetables, but I’ll be back and be big.’” And her ensemble. The ‘Selfish’ author explained: “Someone K‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star has admit- the television personality has revealed she has been sav- said to her the other day-she was wearing a little slip ted she is keeping hold of “everything” she owns so her ing her clothes for her child even before she had her two dress and a choker - and they said, ‘Oh, you look so cool,’ three-year-old daughter can adorn the same garments children, and cried when she had to throw out any of her and she’s like, ‘I’m not cool. I look pretty. This is a pretty when she is older and hopes her child will wear the belongings, including her designer red sole platforms, dress. It’s not cool.’ So she’s very into things having to be Balmain dress to her end of year prom. Speaking to PEO- when her spouse asked her to. She explained: “He [Kanye] pretty colors or pretty jewelry.” PLE about her child’s future wardrobe, the mother of two - sent a stylist over years ago and said, ‘You’ve got to clean who also has eight-month-old son Saint with her rapper out your closet this is embarrassing,’ “I saved them husband Kanye west - said: “All my Met dresses. Maybe [Louboutin shoes] all for my daughter, before I even had a she’ll want to wear one to prom. “Everything I have is for daughter, so one day she could see. I wanted to just keep her, and she’ll look at it and say, ‘Can I wear that one day,’ those memories.” Meanwhile, North is very fashion Kylie Jenner Walken spent gets a manicure Christmas every week with Bond he 19-year-old brunette beauty - who rose to fame on reality TV show ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ along- hristopher Walken once spent Christmas with Tside her sisters, Kendall Jenner, Kim Kardashian West, James Bond. The actor played villain Max Zorin Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian - says her Cin 007 film ‘A View to a Kill’ - released in 1985 - ‘momager’ Kris Jenner taught her that it is very important to opposite Sir Roger Moore and the cast had to shoot beautify your nails because people always notice your hands scenes over the festive period in Switzerland. Moore when they meet you. Speaking to People Style, Kylie said: “I get has a home in the European country and generously my nails done every week. My mom always drilled it in my invited Walken and other cast members to spend the head to have nice, pretty nails. It’s just really important to her. holiday with him and his family, an experience the Anytime she meets someone, she’ll look at your fingernails. I American screen icon will never forget. In an inter- never cared when I was younger and I hated getting my nails view with Metro newspaper, he said: “Roger Moore is done. It just took up my play time. But she likes pretty nails, so a wonderful man. We were shooting over Christmas that’s where I got my nail obsession.” Kylie used to spend hours and he invited me to his home in Switzerland. It was painting her own nails and loved experimenting with different James Bond and the villain hanging out together designs. She added: “I used to spend so much time doing the over Christmas.” Walken and Bond actor Moore craziest artwork.” Kylie - who is back with her on/off boyfriend starred in the movie with Grace Jones - who por- Tyga - has built up her own successful beauty brand Kylie trayed Zorin’s lover and henchwoman. The ‘Deer Cosmetics over the past two years with Lip Kits proving to be Hunter’ actor admits he and Grace developed a close extremely popular. The brunette beauty launched a friendship during filming, which took place in SinfulColors nail polish collaboration with King Kylie Collection London, England, French capital Paris, Iceland and this year and also the Trend Matters range which features 27 the US as well as Switzerland. Although he hasn’t matte shades such as Taupe Is Chic and Konstellation. caught up with Grace for a little while he still consid- ers her a good pal. Walken, 73, said: “I haven’t seen Grace for a while but I was very fond of her. We spent a lot of time together; the shoot was five months and Christina Applegate I got to know her very well.” does the school run in her pyjamas he ‘Bad Moms’ actress - who has five-year-old Sadie with husband Martyn LeNoble - doesn’t worry about always Tbeing well groomed when she leaves the house because she isn’t bothered about what people think of her. She said: “I don’t care what anyone thinks of me, in the sense of I go pick up my daughter in pyjamas and dirty hair that I haven’t washed up in seven days. “I haven’t had a proper pedicure or manicure in about a year and a half, so I’m really not that guy who cares if people are judging me as a parent or a human.” The 44-year-old actress only likes to take on one job a year so she can be at home for her daughter as much as possible. She said: “I’m going back to being a mom. I consider myself a stay-at-home mom. “I Tom and Giovanna do like, a job a year to pay some bills and a little voiceover or something or an endorsement - trying to find work that doesn’t take me away from my kid. “So, right now, we’re just gearing up Fletcher’s sons for kindergarten. We’re going from a little teeny hippie pre- school to 600 kids in a public school.” Christina loves spending time with her “goofy” little girl. She told Britain’s HELLO! maga- growing up fast zine: “When I was my daughter’s age I was incredibly shy. I was shy up until I ended ‘Married... With Children’. I started getting om and Giovanna Fletcher’s sons are growing goofy in my 30s. But she’s got all that now. “And I realize she’s up at “frightening speed”. The McFly singer such a goof with her weird accents and stories and mannerisms. Tand his novelist wife can’t believe the time has “She was polishing my toenails the other day and we put on already come for eldest child Buzz, two, to move to meditation music because we pretend it’s a spa and there’s a a “big boy bed” and for four-month-old Buddy to video of her sitting there and someone asks what she’s doing. move out of their room and into the nursery. “She look at the camera and goes, in a Russian accent, ‘I’m doing Giovanna revealed: “The moment your baby moves spa treatment, OK? Go on Go on.’ And then she started painting.” from your bedroom into the nursery is pretty monu- mental, and this week we were not only faced with Buddy doing just that, but also with Buzz moving from the nursery into his new bedroom with his Rimes almost had McConaughey had brand new big boy bed (it’s shaped like a tent and is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen). “It was a clear reminder that our boys, my two babies, are growing up at frightening speed. In many ways it feels like breakdown like Spears wonderful Olympics we’ve only just brought Buddy home, yet it’s also eAnn Rimes says she almost had a a similar low point. LeAnn explained: “I’ve atthew McConaughey had a “won- where there was the Brazilians versus the odd to look back at old videos with Buzz on holiday breakdown similar to Britney Spears. been in those shoes too, and know those derful experience” at the Olympics. Americans. I came out on top of those. “I was or around the house and not have that smiling LThe ‘How Do I Live’ singer “totally experiences. The shaving the head thing? I MThe 46-year-old actor has just in the American cheering section with all the (occasionally wailing) bambino with us. “Time is understands” why the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker was totally understand it. “I didn’t go there, but I returned to the US after a week in Rio de other American swimmers, so when a moving forward. I would’ve loved to have delayed pushed to the brink in 2007-2008 - when definitely had the feeling of it I’m sure at Janeiro, Brazil, and he and his wife, Camila Brazilian was in the race, she made sure to get addressing the matter a little longer, but the fact she caused concern with antics such as some point.” However, LeAnn is delighted Alves, made sure they got to see as much of out of that section to go hang out with the Buddy had started to pull himself up on the side of shaving her head and refusing to return that Britney has managed to put those the sporting spectacle as they possibly could. Brazilians.” The Oscar-winning actor returned the Snuzpod (undeniable attempts of escaping) her sons Sean Preston, now 10, and Jayden, times behind her and make a successful He said: “I was there for one week and it feels to the US for the premiere of his new movie, showed us it was clearly time for things to change.” now nine, to their father Kevin Federline - comeback. Speaking to the Metro newspa- like I saw enough to be there for a month. “My stop-motion animated adventure ‘Kubo and Giovanna admitted the transition has been much as her own stardom almost brought her to per she said: “I look at her and think it’s wife and I jammed in as much as we could. the Two Strings’ - which also features Charlize easier than she expected, and she and her husband really amazing what she’s overcome. It’s From the beach, Copa Cabana, back to the Theron, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara and are relishing having their own space back. She con- nice to see someone come out the other Olympic Village and back again 10 times.” But George Takei - and Matthew admitted he was tinued in her blog for HELLO! Online: “My biggest side and be successful again.” Like Britney, the ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ star admitted attracted to the project because he’d never surprise has been the ease of it all (so far... Touch LeAnn began her career at a young age, he and his Brazilian spouse - who have chil- made a movie that was suitable for his chil- wood!). Buzz is just in love with his new bed (as are releasing her first single at the age of just dren Levi, eight, Vida, six, and Livingston, dren to see. He said: “I kept getting asked by we all) and Buddy is in awe of his new surroundings. 13, and she regrets the fact she “didn’t have three, together - ended up cheering on the friends, ‘What films have you done that your There’s still time for it to fall to pot and chaos to a childhood” as she has struggled to find events from separate areas when they saw kids love the most?’ and I said, ‘They haven’t erupt, but as the moment me and Tom are reveling her own identity. She said: “I really didn’t their home countries face off in different dis- been able to watch any yet.’ “So that was part ciplines. Matthew told ‘Entertainment of the reason I was looking for something to in the fact we can get ready for bed with the light have a childhood. Parts of me still needed Tonight’: “They kinda buzzsawed us [in the do with an animated character.” on and without creeping around in fear of waking to develop and grow into this woman I am. up the baby.” And though the 31-year-old writer’s beach volleyball], they won that one pretty “You could never figure out who you were cleanly. “Then we had some swimming events “heart aches” from being separated from her sons, because there were so many other opin- she is refusing to give in to her urge to visit them in ions. I don’t recommend it to anyone, let’s the night as she is treasuring having quality time put it that way.” However, the ‘Story’ singer - with her husband so much. She said: “My heart who is married to Eddie Cibrian - doesn’t aches at night when I think of my boys across the have any regrets as her experiences have hallway. Even though I know they’re both sleeping made her the person she is today. She soundly, I want to go into their rooms and hug explained: “I wouldn’t be where I am and I them - cover their faces with kisses to show them wouldn’t be able to speak on the many how much I love them... But I won’t. Because now I things and write what I’ve written. “I’ve can read a book in bed, pee with the bathroom gone through the anger and now I’m on door open or actually have a conversation with my the other side.” husband while we’re getting ready for bed. Aaaaah... (Still miss you boys!!)” TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES Adele: I won’t sing at Super Bowl; File photo shows Adele onstage at the show ‘not about music’ Brit Awards 2016 at the 02 ultiple Grammy Award-winning singer “First of all, I’m not doing the Super Bowl,” maybe next time.” Performers at previous half- Arena in Adele says she turned down an offer to Adele says from the stage in a video posted on time shows have included Beyonce, Madonna, London. — AP Mperform at the 2017 Super Bowl half- Twitter. “I mean, come on, that show is not about the Rolling Stones and Prince. — AP time show. The British singer told an audience music. And I don’t really - I can’t dance or any- Saturday at her Los Angeles concert that she was thing like that. They were very kind, they did ask asked to perform at the event. me, but I did say no.” She adds: “I’m sorry, but

Stellan Skarsgard proud of his sons for being ‘good humans’ wedish actor Stellan Skarsgard feels his sons are talent- ed actors, but it’s more important to him that they’re S“nice people.” While promoting the US release of “In Order of Disappearance,” the 65-year-old actor spoke proud- ly that Alexander, Bill, Valter and Gustaf have gracefully han- dled the challenge of following in his footsteps while being “good humans.” That’s paramount to Skarsgard, whose film credits also include “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Avengers” and “Good Will Hunting.” “If I would hear that my kids misbehaved and treated people badly on the set that would be much more upsetting than if their films bombed or they got humiliated because of a bad performance,” Skarsgard said. According to Skarsgard, his method of parenting has been about letting them find their way. “I haven’t encouraged them, I haven’t discouraged them,” he said. “My philosophy is that from the age of 16 they In this June 29, 1962 file photo, President John F Kennedy, center, and first lady In this Jan 20, 1961 file photo, President John F Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline are on their own. What I hadn’t managed doing in their Jacqueline Kennedy chat with Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the White House lawn in Kennedy are seated as they attend one of five inaugural balls in Washington, DC. upbringing up until then, then it’s too late.” Washington, DC. — AP photos New film explores Jacqueline Kennedy’s hand in JFK’s legacy ow much of John F Kennedy’s public persona was “JFK: Fact and Fable,” which premieres Friday on there are artists in the White House.” The film’s tagline privately molded by his wife, Jacqueline? Quite a CuriosityStream, a nonfiction streaming platform, also sounds audacious - “The JFK we remember is the one Hbit, according to a new documentary, “JFK: Fact and explores how she set to work preserving and orchestrating Jackie created” - but it covers ground well-documented by In this Sept 1, 2014 file photo, actor Stellan Skarsgard Fable.” The film examines the role she played in reshaping the 35th president’s legacy within days of his assassination the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in poses during the photo call for the movie the modern presidency by popularizing the Camelot in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. Boston. ‘Nymphomaniac Vol II’ at 71st edition of the Venice image. One little-known factoid: Jackie O was behind the Step one was her insistence that JFK’s funeral replicate It’s the latest in an ever-expanding JFK filmography, Film Festival in Venice, Italy.— AP modern look of Air Force One. She persuaded the govern- America’s farewell to Abraham Lincoln - a dictate that underscoring the enduring spell the Kennedys still cast 53 ment to paint “United States of America” on the plane. The seemed designed to forever link the two slain presidents in years after his death. “President Kennedy rises above poli- Something rubbed off on them because four of his eight stylish first lady, who died in 1994, also redecorated the the nation’s conscience. The film combines archive footage tics in a way not all presidents do,” says Rachel Flor, spokes- children have found a way to make a living in front of the Oval Office, giving it an elegant yet homey new feel by and stills of JFK and his young family with commentary by woman for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. “In a camera. Alexander recently starred in “The Legend of Tarzan.” adding couches and easy chairs and unsealing the fire- historian and author Thurston Clarke and Larry Sabato, a time when politics are so divisive today, people are looking Bill was in “Allegiant” and will star in the “Divergent” televi- place. Kennedy biographer who directs the University of Virginia’s for inspiration and refuge. He really continues to resonate sion series. Then there’s Gustaf, who appears in the “Vikings” And she created the manicured Rose Garden on the Center for Politics. The shift in first families from Dwight with people today.” — AP television series, and Valter, who has a few movies and a tele- grounds of the White House as it’s known today. “Jackie and Mamie Eisenhower to JFK and Jackie was nothing vision series under his belt. The elder Skarsgard, a veteran of Kennedy is responsible for creating the Kennedy legacy,” short of seismic. more than 125 films, has found a way to balance family and says Noah Morowitz, the film’s executive producer. She “You had the Eisenhowers, who didn’t care about food. career. “I love my work, I need to work. It is fantastic and I devoted much of her life, he says, to “making him into the Their clothes were nothing special,” Clarke says in a narra- have a lot of fun doing it, but life is more important, in gener- great president he so badly wanted to be.” “While she’s long tion for the documentary. “Mamie played cards and had al. I don’t work that much. —AP been regarded as a cultural and style trendsetter, her his- ladies over for bridge. Suddenly you’ve got the Kennedys torical influence actually runs far deeper,” Morowitz says. coming in, and there’s Champagne, there’s a French chef, ‘Hell or High Water’ is the best movie of the Summer, but is there an audience for it? ell or High Water” is the movie that a lot of people say It helps-as it did Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the they’ve been waiting for this summer: the answer to Dangerous dreams Sundance Kid”-that his pin-up looks are shrouded in a droopy “Hthe sequeled-out, stuck-in-a-rut, been-there, seen- When you bust into a bank and shout obscenities and wave mustache and too many days of not shaving. He seems like a real- those-awesome-FX, megaplex-formula blues. This one, despite guns around, that’s a pretty out-there thing to do (it’s a thing that deal s-kicker, the kind of small-town hellion who lives in dive bars some familiar elements (it’s about bank robbers, and one of the people do in the movies), but Toby and Tanner, in the midst of all and diners and casinos, getting by on his looks and charm (telling- characters is a shrewd and wily detective), isn’t something you’ve that “Get your f-in’ face down on the floor!” bravura, only steal ly, the film doesn’t spend one moment explaining his divorce, seen before. It’s an original: bold and sharp, enthralling and true, a small bills out of the front registers, so the money can’t be traced. because it doesn’t have to-the answer is all in Pine’s presence). But movie loaded with action that’s never just an “action movie,” full of The idea, at least in Toby’s mind, is that the only victim of these Pine also does one of the trickiest things an actor can do, going hairpin twists and turns that are as organic as they are exciting. crimes is going to be the bank. They’re not going to hurt anyone right back to early Brando: He communicates a lifetime of quiet The picture has a pair of performances at its center that are physically, and they’re not going to rip off individuals. Yes, it’s pain, the kind that slashes away at you from deep down, without inspired enough to haunt you: Chris Pine and Ben Foster as armed robbery, but the movie says, quite compellingly, “Admit it, if ever enunciating it. Ben Foster, who has always been great, makes good/bad brothers who team up to rob a series of small-town you felt like you had nothing and were doing this as the only pos- Tanner a pinpoint scoundrel, destined for no good (except that he bank branches in West Texas, but with a motive so down-to-earth sible way to secure your family’s future, the plan might start to dislikes himself so much that he’s willing to go right off a cliff in and compelling that the audience whispers to itself, “If I were in seem...compelling.” That’s the way movies work: They cut through terms of what he’ll sacrifice), but the news here is Pine, who gives their shoes, would I do the same thing?” The fact that we’re the conventional morality most of us live with every day to tap a fantastic performance. encouraged to honestly ask that question lends everything that into our most dangerous dreams. Movies like this are reality-based happens in “Hell or High Water” a different kind of urgency than fantasies. Amazingly precise what we’re used to. The film crackles with the intensity of fates The beauty of Chris Pine’s simmering, implosive, tinged-with- The reason “Hell or High Water” is the very 2016 version of a that don’t feel very far removed from our own. desperation performance is that he becomes a representative of 1970s movie is that even though it transcends being a genre film, All of which makes “Hell or High Water” a contemporary ver- all of our ambivalence. He communicates a desire to get that it respects how much audiences today crave genre elements. The sion of that sacred exotic thing: a “1970s movie.” (I put the phrase money coupled with a quiet, foreboding awareness that in a bet- tersely witty and layered script, by Taylor Sheridan (“Sicario”), is full in quotes because I don’t generally like to use it; I tend to bristle at ter world, this isn’t the way he would be doing it. Pine, in the “Star of lines to savor, and the British director David Mackenzie stages it Australian filmmaker and Tropfest board member, George reducing a revolutionary period of art to, you know, a brand con- Trek” films, has always led with his snarky swagger (it’s a compli- in a way that’s amazingly precise, yet that breathes with an under- Miller (second right) and New Zealand actor and Tropfest cept.) When we talk about the great movies of the ‘70s, the kind ment, in my book, to say that he genuinely does seem like a chip standing of how these men’s lives emerge right out of the expan- judge, Sam Neill (left) pose for photos with Australian that people say they wish they could see more of today, a handful off the old Shatner mystique), but away from that blockbuster siveness of the landscape. The movie, despite all the Stetsons in it, actors Brenton Thwaites (right) and Tess Haubrich (second of classic titles always spring to mind. It’s worth remembering, zone, in dramas like “People Like Us” and “Z for Zachariah,” he has isn’t a Western, but it captures how the cowboy mentality is alive left) at Parramatta Park in Sydney’s west yesterday. though, that in the years from 1970-75, what we think of as the been a more uncertain presence. Here, for the first time, he’s in full and kicking-in Toby and Tanner’s choices, in every civilian we see Tropfest, the world’s biggest short film festival founded in a New Hollywood wasn’t just defined by “M*A*S*H,” “The Godfather,” command as both movie star and actor. who carries a gun. (They all do.) Sydney cafe in 1993 and now attracts 60,000 people, is “American Graffiti,” “The French Connection,” “Cabaret,” “Mean The plotting of the crimes is immensely clever and satisfying moving to Parramatta Park in western Sydney as part of a Streets,” “Chinatown,” “The Godfather Part II,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” on that amoral level that crime movies have always operated on, three-year financial deal after it closed late last year due to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and a handful of other head- and Jeff Bridges’ performance as Marcus, the aging Texas Ranger financial problems and was cancelled just weeks before it line masterpieces. There were also a great many movies that were who can just about sniff out what these boys are up to because was due to be held. — AFP rough-hewn and audacious and vital and existed more along the he’s got the same animal instinct, is a testament to what an actor outlaw fringes-like “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” or “Panic in like Bridges can do when you give him dialogue that’s this coiled Needle Park” or “The Great Minnesota Northfield Raid.” Movies that with cynical delight. Bridges’ closing gesture is sublime, a cocked- audiences had to discover. index-finger-in-the-air goodbye that, in the language of West Texan, speaks volumes. ‘South Park’ game Series of crimes What all of this adds up to is that “Hell or High Water” is a crack- The way into movies like that-the only way-is our intense con- erjack piece of entertainment. It reaches back to the primal art- maker invents nection to the characters, and that’s how “Hell or High Water” laced-with-kicks design of “Bonnie and Clyde,” which also put us works. Early on, when Pine and Foster ride up to a bank branch in on the side of bank robbers whose desperate panache made their fart-smelling VR system their crime-spree jalopy at 8:00 a.m., wearing ski masks, and ter- spree seem somehow justified, until of course it didn’t. (They also rorize the first two employees into the bank, and get away by had a crusty Texas Ranger on their tail.) Yet “Hell or High Water” he creators of an upcoming “South Park” video zooming through dusty streets as cops with wailing sirens speed also connects up to the most downbeat undercurrents of life in game have developed a stinky spin on virtual reali- off in the other direction, we can feel our pulses quickening America today. Tty. Ubisoft unveiled plans Friday for a VR mask that (always a good thing), and we think we’re watching a film about That’s what gives the movie its ‘70s flavor. It’s about poverty will pump fart smells into gamers’ nostrils as they play wild-boy criminals. One of them, Foster’s Tanner, does walk on the and insecurity, the gnaw of financial desperation, and the feel- the game “South Park: The Fractured But Whole.” The sys- wild side-he’s an ex-con sociopath with a feral gleam, who views ing that there’s no way out of it. Is that entertainment...or, to use tem called the Nosulus Rift won’t be available for sale. It crime as a kick. But he doesn’t represent the film’s point of view. another word I recoil from, is it “depressing”? (“Depressing” is a was designed for use at live events, such as the Penny That’s why “Hell or High Water,” charged and suspenseful as it marketing-brand concept too. A negative one. It’s Hollywood’s Arcade Expo and Gamescom. is, isn’t a thriller. Its vision is aligned with Pine’s Toby, who has view of the anti-blockbuster.) The appearance of “Hell or High The latest “South Park” game casts players as the planned out this series of crimes, even though-intriguingly-he is Water” on the movie landscape in the last half of summer casts gassy new kid in town and lampoons superhero culture. not a criminal. He’s a moody screw-up with valiant instincts, and one thing into high relief: If people want to see movies like the Ubisoft senior producer Jason Schroeder says the tech- he has about one week to scrape together 50 grand to pay off the kind they made back in the ‘70s, then they have to be willing to nology is “the most immersive way” for players to experi- mortgage on his family’s ranch. If he misses the deadline, they’ll see movies that reflect their lives, and to realize that those ence the character’s superpower. The 20th season of the lose the property. What he and Tanner know, and no else does, is movies-just like our fantasy-fueled blockbusters-can be great animated adult series is set to premiere Sept 14 on that oil has been discovered on the land. (Toby has an ex-wife and escapes too. — Reuters Comedy Central.—AP two sons, and this is going to be their ticket out of financial des- peration.) lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

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In this photograph president ECO Adventure Club (EAC) Nazir Ahmad gives tips to President ECO Adventure Club (EAC) Nazir Ahmad gives tips to climbers during a training Nazir Ahmad briefs climbers during a training session at climbers during a training session at Shahdara on the outskirts of Islamabad. session at Shahdara on the outskirts of Islamabad. Shahdara on the outskirts of Islamabad. — AFP photos Pakistan rock climbers scale new heights

dozen young men and women stand before a rock face on the outskirts of Islamabad, challenging and cheer- Aing each other on as they take turns scrambling up the limestone in front of curious onlookers. The country has long been a magnet for mountaineers, drawn by the grandeur of regions like Gilgit-Baltistan, where three of the world’s great- est mountain ranges-the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas-collide. Highlights include the savage K2, the world’s second highest peak at 8,611 meters but often deemed a more challenging climb than the highest, Mount Everest. But despite the tales of glory from professionals, usually from the mountainous north, the sport of climbing has never been particularly popular in the rest of the country. Until now: Climbing enthusiasts such as Nazir Ahmed, who runs the Eco Adventure Club in Islamabad, which organized the day at the climbing wall for its young members, say there is growing interest in rock and mountain climbing. “People are attracted to climbing because they are active on social media, they see it on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and get impressed, it’s a good sign,” Ahmed, from the magnificent Hunza valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, says. He ECO Adventure Club (EAC) member Alvina Islam climbs a rock face during a training says his club now has 500 members who gather every week- session. end in the Margallas, the foothills of the Himalayas, which run along the edge of Islamabad-up from 20 when they started four years ago. Wearing T-shirts and tracksuit bot- toms-some are even bare foot-the climbers opt for routes based on their skill level, while their instructor handles the rope and offers guidance. Most are themselves from Gilgit-Baltistan, a vanguard of dedicated adherents on a mission to spread their love of mountain climbing among the people of the lowlands. And it seems to be working. Many locals start by taking it up as a hobby, before channeling their energies into organized com- petition. Adnan Ali Shah, a sociology student at the Quaid-e- Azam University who won a sports scholarship told AFP: “I rep- resented my university twice in inter-university climbing championships and won gold and silver medals.” Climbing will for the first time be included as an Olympic sport in Tokyo in 2020, potentially giving Pakistan-which sent a team of only seven people to the current Games in Rio-a tantalizing new medal route.

Rapid rise Jamshed Khan, a tall 29-year-old with a piercing green gaze, helped to found the first club in Islamabad with funding from a German NGO in 2007. Its walls stretch 40 feet high with various difficulty levels. The more testing gradients slope Member Kareem Shah climbs a rock face during a training session at Shahdara. backwards, forcing a climber to fight hard not to slip. In addi- tion to the wall, he and the group “discovered rock (faces) and established routes in the Margallas,” he said. Not every city is blessed with natural hill and rock faces that allow for climbing, A young ECO Adventure so in 2013 Khan set up a new club and wall in a Lahore park. who make it possible for celebrated foreign climbers to scale Club (EAC) member is He said most of the people coming to the park in Lahore were peaks and win glory but remain relatively anonymous them- being helped to climb dur- children aged between six to fourteen. “When we started selves. Now the Alpine Club of Pakistan is organizing joint ing a training session. holding competitions there were hardly 10-12 people but ventures with foreign expeditions where local members also now hundreds participate.” participate. In these joint expeditions, the foreign climbers Around 20 similar clubs have since appeared up and down are charged only 50 percent of the regular fee but are asked to the country. Unlike many other sports, climbing is not divided arrange logistics, such as travel and supplies, for local mem- by gender, allowing women to scale new heights in a country bers in return. where they have not traditionally been given the same levels “The aim behind these expeditions is to encourage local of opportunities. For some, their inspiration comes from climbers and reduce the cost for them,” Manzoor Hussain, Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest. president of Alpine Club of Pakistan told AFP. The initiative “When a girl from a far-flung area like Gilgit becomes the first may even give Pakistani climbers the chance to go interna- Pakistani to scale Mount Everest that’s a big deal,” said Sania tional, he said, such as to attend one of around 30 moun- Aziz, a student of clinical psychology who hopes to follow in taineering events around the world. “With this new approach Baig’s footsteps. we will be able to send our climbing teams abroad to partici- pate in competitions,” he said, citing places like Europe- Going pro though after the peaks of Pakistan, even the Alps may seem While rock climbing makes headway throughout the coun- like a mere uphill climb. — AFP try, more Pakistanis are taking up mountaineering-a far broad- er challenge that can include ice climbing, navigation and sur- ECO Adventure Club (EAC) member Sania Aziz climbs a rock face during a training vival skills-as a profession too. Locals from Pakistan’s northern session. regions have long taken jobs as low paid high altitude porters, Blueberries and cream ice pops are refreshing summer treat

hese days there’s never a time when we can’t sugar syrup rather than granulated sugar because to a bowl. In a medium bowl with electric beaters, find blueberries at the supermarket. But sum- the latter doesn’t dissolve well in a cold liquid. To beat the cream until it forms soft peaks, add the Tmertime is the season for the homegrown vari- avoid having to make the sugar syrup - an extra step remaining 1/2 teaspoon sugar and the vanilla and eties. They’re abundant right now and can be used in - I’ve called for superfine sugar, which dissolves easily beat again just enough to incorporate the sugar and all kinds of recipes. One of my favorites is blueberries because it’s so fine. If you don’t have superfine at vanilla. and vanilla ice cream - it’s sweet and tart and creamy hand, measure out 1/4 cup minus 1 1/2 tablespoons Gently pour the whipped cream on top of the all at once - so I thought I’d team blueberries and of granulated sugar and blend it in the blender until blueberry puree and with just a few stokes, fold the heavy cream in frozen pop form for Blueberries and fine. Set aside 1/2 teaspoon for the cream, then add cream into the puree to form streaks. You don’t want Cream Ice Pops. Blueberries can vary wildly in flavor the blueberries and lemon juice and rock on with the the cream to combine with the puree, you want the and texture, even when they’re in season and locally recipe. two to remain as separate as possible. Spoon the grown. They can be very sweet or tart, large and soft, mixture into ice pop molds leaving a 1/2-inch gap at or small and crunchy. Occasionally, they can also be Blueberries and cream ice pops the top and freeze them solid before serving (about sort of bland. But even a bland berry can be pointed Start to finish: 8 hours 20 minutes (20 active) 8 hours). up with a few ingredients. 1 pint blueberries (about 2 cups), picked over and Servings: Makes 4 to 6 pops, depending on the All blueberries, bland or flavorful, benefit from rinsed size of your ice pop molds. sugar and lemon, which balance out the berries’ nat- 1/4 cup plus 1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar or to Nutrition information per serving for 4 pops: 132 ural sweetness and acidity. There are fixed amounts taste calories; 68 calories from fat; 8 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 of each in this recipe, but you should taste the 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice or to taste g trans fats); 27 mg cholesterol; 8 mg sodium; 16 g berries and adjust accordingly. If they’re extra-sweet, 1/2 cup heavy cream carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 14 g sugar; 1 g protein. — AP add more lemon and less sugar. If they’re extra-tart, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract increase the sugar and decrease the acid. Then taste In a blender combine the blueberries with 1/4 them again after you’ve pureed the berries and cup of the sugar and the lemon juice; blend until the adjust accordingly. Fruit pop recipes usually call for mixture is very finely pureed and transfer the puree Photo shows blueberry and cream ice pops in New York. — AP lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

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Dani tribeswomen participate in the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province.

Dani tribespeople participate in the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province. Dani tribal children participate in the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province. Papuan tribe preserves ancient rite of mummification radling the centuries-old remains of his mum- Indonesia’s more populated centers. The ancient mified ancestor, tribe leader Eli Mabel lays Dani tribes in Indonesia’s half of the island of New Cbare an ancient tradition that has all but van- Guinea were cut off from the outside world until ished among the Dani people in the Papuan central well into the 20th century. Their homeland in the highlands. The tiny, blackened, shrunken figure he Baliem Valley was isolated by steep, rugged valleys carries was Agat Mamete Mabel, the chieftain that and dense highland forest. Today, the region ruled over this remote village in Indonesian Papua remains one of the poorest in Indonesia. Many some 250 years ago. Honored upon death with a tribes rely on tourism, their unique customs, tradi- custom reserved only for important elders and local tional dress and rituals attracting visitors to their heroes among the Dani people-he was embalmed remote villages.—AFP and preserved with smoke and animal oil. Nine generations on and his descendent Eli Mabel is the current chieftain in Wogi village — an isolated hamlet outside Wamena that can be reached only by hiking and canoe. He said the exact age of Agat Mamete Mabel was not known, but told AFP this ancestor was the last of the village to receive such a funeral. Once common among his forebears, the ritual method of smoke embalming was no longer practiced, he explained. Christian Tribe chief Eli Mabel holding the mummified remains of missionaries and Muslim preachers encouraged the his ancestor, Agat Mamete Mabel. tribespeople to bury the corpses, and the tradition A Dani tribesman plays a ‘pikon’ traditional musical instrument during has faded as the centuries drifted by. But Mabel is the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, determined to retain the ancient rites and rituals for Papua Province. future generations. “We must protect our culture, including the cere- monies for the mummy, the way we treat it, and maintain and fire for it,” the Dani tribesman told AFP. The mummy, decorated with pig tusks slung around the torso, a feathered headpiece, and traditional penis gourd rests in a hut known as a “honai”. This wide domed, thatch-roofed hut is tended year round by a select few villagers who keep a fire burn- ing to ensure the corpse remains dry and preserved. The duty of caring for the mummy often falls to Mabel, he said. He spends many nights sleeping alone in the honai, ensuring no harm befalls his ancestor. Eventually, the duty of caring for the mummy will be passed to others, he said. Mabel hopes his own children will bear some responsibility for keeping their customs alive, but worries they are far away. “I have told them they must take care of the mummy at some point in their lives,” Mabel said of his four An Indonesian soldier from the 756th battalion ‘Jayawijaya’ participates children, some living in far-off provinces in A Dani tribeswoman participates in the 27th annual in the opening dance of the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district. district in Wamena, Papua Province.

A mummy of the Dani tribe, Agat Mamete Mabel, being displayed in the village of Wogi in Wamena.

This photo shows tribe chief Eli Mabel (center) holding the mummified remains of his A mummy of the Dani tribe, Agat Mamete Mabel, inside a traditional house or ‘honai’ in ancestor, Agat Mamete Mabel, in the village of Wogi in Wamena, the long-isolated home the village of Wogi in Wamena. of the Dani tribe high in the Papuan central highlands. — AFP photos

A Dani tribesman participates in the 27th annual Baliem Markus Mabel paddling a canoe near Wogi village near Wamena, the long-isolated home of Indonesian soldiers from the 756th battalion ‘Jayawijaya’ participate in the opening dance of Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province. the Dani tribe high in the Papuan central highlands. the 27th annual Baliem Valley Festival in Walesi district in Wamena, Papua Province. Papuan tribe preserves ancient rite of mummification

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An Iranian carpet vendor poses outside his shop at the old bazaar in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan. — AFP Tunisia: The new North African home of ice hockey? ith its beaches and year-round sun, Tunisia is not the evening we’d be playing”. But for the players, despite the obsta- most obvious home for the winter sport of ice hockey. cles, playing means reconnecting with their Tunisian roots. “Today WBut one man is quite determined to make it happen. Two I’m proud to say I’m Tunisian,” says 26-year-old Nathan years ago, Ihab Ayed quit his job in finance in the French capital to Benmessaoud, who lives in France. Franco-Tunisian player Mehdi realize his dream of creating the North African country’s first ice Belhassen, 30, is just as enthusiastic after the team’s victory in hockey team. Ayed had dreamt of a Tunisian team to play the Morocco. “It was a beautiful adventure and I hope the beginning game internationally ever since he first learned at the age of five of a great story,” he says. Ayed hopes that the Tunisian Ice Hockey how to hit a black rubber puck on ice. “It took me six years, from Association-which is registered in France-can now become a legal 2006 to 2012, to bring together 40 players from around the world,” entity in the North African country. This file photo taken on June 14, 2014 shows players of the Tunisian says the 36-year-old Franco-Tunisian. national ice hockey team getting ready for the first ice hockey match of “I combed ice hockey websites. I’d randomly type in Sami, Olympic ice rink the Tunisian national hockey team, at an ice rink in Courbevoie, northwest Mohammad-Arabic names” to see whether any Tunisians came The dream, he says, is to see Tunisia become “an affiliated of Paris, against the French team, the Coqs de Courbevoie (Roosters of up, he says. With the help of social media and tips from friends, he member of the International Ice Hockey Federation” with its own Courbevoie). — AFP photos cobbled together a team of amateurs and professionals, all of Olympic ice rink. “The sport won’t be able to exist in Tunisia if we whom have at least one Tunisian parent. In 2014, the first ice hock- don’t have an ice rink... with the official dimensions,” Ayed says. ey team from the birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings The ministry of sports and youth has said the project is feasible played-and lost-its first game outside Paris. But on July 30 this and that it would waste no time in initiating procedures to turn year, the Carthage Eagles won for the first time in Morocco and the association into a federation. And the minister has also said even went on to become champions of the Africa Ice Hockey Cup. the Carthage Eagles are great for the image of the country, which is still reeling after two major jihadist attacks on tourists last year. No easy feat But the Eagles’ success also comes as Tunisia’s government is The unlikely competition-in which they faced off against teams about to change. from Egypt, Morocco and Algeria-may not be recognized interna- Prime minister-designate Youssef Chahed began talks last tionally, but their win sparked the interest of Tunisia’s authorities. It week aimed at putting together a unity government to tackle was no easy feat. All of the team’s members paid for their own major economic and security challenges. Ayed is still optimistic flights to Morocco, and money from sponsors covered accommo- about the future, however. “Our ambition is for Tunisia to become dation and team kit. And the team’s players-largely from France, renowned worldwide for ice hockey and for it to be able to send a but also from Belgium, Finland, Sweden and even Canada-cannot team each year to the world championships.” “There can be even train together. “Each player trains with his own club,” Ayed changes of cabinet or president, but our goal is clear. We know Tunisian national Ice Hockey team cap- says. where we’re headed.” —AFP tain Amine Fahem poses with the tro- Before the games in Morocco, “we’d do a quick warm-up to see phy during a press conference on what the ice rink was like on Monday morning, and on Monday August 11, 2016 in the capital Tunis.

Ihab Ayed (center), President of the Tunisian Ice Hockey Association (‘Association Tunisienne de Hockey sur Glace’), posing with members of the Tunisian national hockey team.

Players of the Tunisian national ice hockey team preparing themselves Players from Tunisa’s national Ice Hockey team,(from left) Mehdi Belhassen, Vincent Elbaze, This file photo taken on June 14, 2014 shows a player of the Tunisian before the first ice hockey match of the Tunisian national hockey team. Nathan Benmessaoud, Amine el-Fahem, Ihab Fahem and James Hedhli pose with the trophy national ice hockey team (center) vying for the puck against a player of during a press conference on August 11, 2016 in the capital Tunis. the French ‘Coqs of Courbevoie’ team.