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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 RAMADAN 26, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaitis Gaza bloodshed Queen’s express deepens Gold Cup solidarity as airlines winner fails Emsak: 03:21 with Gaza shun Israel drug test Fajer: 03:31 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:30 Maghreb: 18:45 6 7 16 Eshaa: 20:14 Barrak, opposition figures Max 46º blast closure of Al-Youm Min 30º High Tide 09:20 & 23:42 Eight more citizenships to be revoked? Low Tide 03:33 & 17:23 40 PAGES NO: 16236 150 FILS By Staff Reporter and Agencies Ramadan Kareem KUWAIT: A number of opposition figures strongly con- Night of Decree demned the revoking of the licenses of Al-Youm satel- lite channel and Alam Al-Youm newspaper, saying the f one cannot draw spiritual benefit during this decision is political revenge against the owner. The gov- month (Ramadan), then in what other month can ernment action came just a day after the Cabinet Ihe find benefit? If one does not turn in repentance revoked the citizenship of Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari, to his Lord during this month, then at what other time one of the owners of the two media outlets known for will he do so? If one slackens from doing good deeds their support of the opposition, as well as former now, then when will he do them? You should hasten Islamist MP Abdullah Barghash, his two brothers and his to seize the opportunity in this month, before it is too sister. The information ministry said the licenses of the late! You should preserve your souls from the ways of two media were revoked because they lost some of the misery and destruction. conditions needed to operate. Under Kuwait law, the The blessed month is waning; its precious days and holder of media licenses must be a national. nights are approaching their end. So try to utilize the “A letter arrived from the Ministry of Information remaining period by doing good deeds and repenting revoking the license of the newspaper and the channel,” to Allah. All is well that ends well. So, you have to make said Abdelhamid Al-Daas, the editor-in-chief of Alam Al- your deeds at the end of this month as good as you Youm newspaper and a member of the board of Al- can. Two-thirds of the month of Ramadan is over and Youm television channel, adding that they have com- less than one-third, which is the best of all the three plied with the decision. parts, still remains. Exert your efforts during these ten But the opposition said the government’s actions in days by spending in charity, doing righteous deeds revoking the licenses or citizenship were politically- and offering optional night prayer, submitting your- motivated. Prominent opposition leader Musallam Al- selves to Allah, hoping for His good reward and seek- Barrak said the government based its decision on a lie, ing protection from His punishment. Allah Says (what and the real reason for both actions is to punish a citi- means): “And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) zen by the government. Barrak said the two media out- concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the lets are owned by a company which is owned by five invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. people, and if one of them loses any conditions, four So let them respond to Me (by obedience) and believe RIYADH: Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (right) meets Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- others remain, and accordingly the licenses should not in Me that they may be rightly guided.”[Quran 2: 186] Thani late Tuesday. The two leaders ‘discussed cooperation between the two countries, in addition to develop- have been withdrawn from a legal viewpoint. Continued on Page 15 ments... topped by the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories,’ SPA state news agency said. — AFP Continued on Page 15 THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 LOCAL

ARGANA draws smiles with girgean Food of Ramadan party for Bayt Abdullah’s kids Quaker Oats Chicken Corn Soup

Ingredients • 2 chicken breasts shredded or cut into small pieces • 2 tbsps. of olive oil • 3/4 cup of corn • 1 cup of creamed corn • 1/2 cup of Quaker Oats • 5 cups of chicken broth • 2 tbsps. of chopped green onion • 1 tbsp. of soya sauce • 1 tsp. of fresh ginger • 1 tsp. of fresh red chili • 1 tsp. of lemon zest • Salt and pepper to taste

KUWAIT: ARGANA Hotels and Resorts organ- responsibilities, which require constant search ARGANA Hotels and Resorts management Zabeeb also thanked ABC, Americana, Preparation ized a special ‘girgean’ party as a conclusion of for ways to actively participate in activities that makes sure to participate in social activities and Decatlon, and Fantasy World for their sponsor- • Heat oil and add chicken, stirring constantly until its summer camp, in which children from Bayt serve the society.” stay in touch with civil society establishments in ship. Movenpick Hotel and Resort Al-Bida hosts Abdullah were invited to participate at the “We made sure that children from Bayt order to provide support, as part of the compa- the event in a step that reflects the basic foun- tender. Movenpick Hotel and Resort Al-Bida. The event Abdullah are invited to our girgean festival this ny’s social responsibilities aimed at reinforcing dations that the hotel’s general strategy is based • Add fresh ginger, lemon zest and red chili, then was organized as part of the company’s social year, in order to share the joy of Ramadan with the concept of social communications. on. On that regard, Majid Jabr, General Manager, chicken broth. responsibility program, and to seize the oppor- them and draw the smile on their faces through “At ARGANA Hotels and Resorts, we took it said: “we are proud to support this humanitarian • Stir in Quaker Oats, corn, creamed corn, soy sauce, tunity that the holy month of Ramadan presents a memorable celebration,” Zabeeb said. upon ourselves to return the favor to our society initiative, which shows our constant support salt and pepper to taste. to boost ties with all social categories. Fatin “We also made sure that this year’s girgean by focusing on charitable and humanitarian and communication with the society.” Zabeeb, Social Activities Development atmosphere would be exceptional and efforts,” Zabeeb said. “Supporting Bayt Abdullah Several activities took place during the party • Cook until mixture boils and it thickens, finally add Manager, said: “ARGANA Hotels and Resorts is unprecedented,” she added. “We are proud of is a huge honor for us, and achieves our mes- including singing, games, and competitions, in green onion and serve it with garlic bread. proud of its efforts taken to translate the mean- the success that we have achieved, and always sage that calls for drawing the smile on chil- addition to distributing girgean to all children. ings of this holy month, and which reflect the aspire to the top and to provide best summer dren’s faces, as being one of the company’s company’s commitment towards its social camps for all children.” main value and goals.”

KJA hosts Ramadan ghabqa and girgean

KUWAIT: Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) hosted a Ramadan ghabqa and girgean at its premises in Shuwaikh recently. The event was attended by Kuwaiti artistes, dignitaries, officials and many children. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 LOCAL

Iranian embassy hosts iftar, marks Jerusalem Day

KUWAIT: Dr Ali Reza Enayati, the Ambassador of Iran to Kuwait, hosted an iftar banquet on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. Parliament members, ambassadors of Arab and Islamic countries, as well as political and social figures attended the event. Dr Enayati opened his speech by welcoming the attendants and then moved to commend the Palestinian eople’sp resistance against the Zionist aggression, and mark the Jerusalem Day which is held on July 25. Meanwhile, Fahad Al-Shulaimi, the head of the Gulf Forum for Security and Peace, called for establishing a fund to support Jerusalem and its residents, saying that the city needs $1 billion for health, housing and social proj- ects. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat MANSOORI

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in my view in my view Missed Mapping missiles opportunity? keeps city safer

By Abdellatif Al-Duaij By Linda Gradstein and Felice Friedson he national assemblies, regardless of their makeup city employee enters the underground bunker where most and the way they were elected, the 10 constituen- of this city’s municipal staff has been working for the past cies Assembly as well as the 25 constituencies Aweek. “We’ve just had a rocket land near the Carlsberg fac- T tory,” he says. “No word of any injuries.” Dr. Alan Marcus, the Chief Assembly, along with the current Assembly, so far forgot Security Resilience Officer for the city of Ashkelon, opens his laptop and legislation and interest in completing the democratic council pulls up a detailed plan of the city. A native Bostonian who has system and closing the loopholes the system had when lived here for more than 40 years, Marcus has developed GEARS,

it started, because of the weak political awareness in Al-Anbaa which stands for Geographic Emergency Analysis Response general, and democratic and constitutional weakness in System. Within seconds, Marcus can tell which house has been hit particular. Members of all assemblies resorted to exag- by incoming rockets, and whether there are elderly inhabitants or gerating supervision and inspection of the government, anyone with special needs who might require emergency servic- or interfering in the governmentís relation with its es. Marcus put the system together in 2006 when Israel’s war with Lebanon began. Since then, there have been three rounds of con- employees, which is a special relation, and is not the flict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip: 2008, 2012, and now. “It means concern of the national assemblies at all, through impos- we can get the right people in the right time to the right place,” ing increases or adjustments of salaries and allowances. Marcus told The Media Line. “For example, if I see [a rocket or mis- Because of this, necessary legislations were ignored, sile] falls near a house with Ethiopian immigrants, we can make and everyone was deliberate in not only keeping the sure to send a translator who knows Amharic to help.” political system without development but also they The 140,000 citizens of this bucolic beach-side city include were deliberate in halting democratic principles and Gaza 40,000 Russians and 5,000 Ethiopians as well as a handful of take the system backwards, not forward. French and English speakers. The town is in the middle of a build- The rights of naturalized citizen and their children, for ing boom with new luxury hotels and high-end apartments and malls. example, remained neglected without any help from During the present crisis, the Iron Dome anti-missile system anyone, and the same is with the Kuwaiti woman who has shot down at least 40 incoming rounds of the total of 70 that was deprived from voting since the start of the demo- have been fired at the city. Five rockets have landed inside the cratic era and was deprived of many of her rights as an kuwait digest municipal boundaries and the rest in open areas or the sea. A 16- equal citizen to the male citizen. The Kuwaiti woman still year-old boy from Ashkelon remains in critical condition after he does not have the right to naturalize her child, while the was hit by shrapnel in a rocket attack this week. Marcus says he male citizen alone has this right. The Kuwaiti woman Leave us alone! did not obey the orders for being caught outdoors in a rocket does not have the right to harbor her children in a state attack. The protocol calls for anyone outside to lie down on the ground and put his hands above his head. The teenager was residence, which is allocated to males only. By Ahmad Al-Sarraf standing up when he was hit. There are also many violations by sovereignty min- ou the Christians of Damascus, Yabrood and them gypsies, Jews and stones. Marcus says the casualties in Ashkelon would have been much istries, particularly the interior and information ones, as worse if the missiles that had been heading for Ashkelon had hit the interior ministry arrests, inspects and even jails with- Maaloula, get out of our homeland! You the Go, get out and take mercy with you, because, we, after Christians of Mosul, Nineveh and Baghdad, get out Nusra, ISIL, Qaeda and the rest of the Brotherhood gangs the city instead of being shot down by the Iron Dome system. out constitutional or legal grounds, while the informa- Y “The Iron Dome is a modern Israeli miracle,” he says. Despite the of our countries! You the Christians of Lebanon, get out of and their latest products are not in need of mercy nor tion ministry imposes suspensions, bans and revocations our mountains and valleys! You the Christians of Palestine sympathy. Blood will run, violence will spread, hearts will rocket attacks, many of the residents say that life is good here. The in the absence of laws that allows it to do so. and the peninsula, get out of our shores and soil! You all be slashed and livers will be eaten, tongues will be uproot- city is clean and the beach is gorgeous. The only drawback, some The past national assemblies had great opportunities get out from under our skin. All of you get out because ed, necks will be dislodged and knees will collapse and we say, is the location: just five miles north of the Gaza Strip. “The weather’s like Florida,” Nora Shepley, a painter who moved to impose the implementation of constitutional articles, we hate you and do not want you among us. Get out will go back to old medicine and herbal treatment, read- to Israel from the “Sunshine State” four years ago, told The Media but political weakness and backwardness led to having because we are bored of advancement of civilization, ing old books, and resort to sorcery in search of luck. openness, forgiveness, love, brotherhood, and coexis- You, our Christians, go and take with you all works and Line. “But there’s also free medical care (for all citizens) and a lot of most MPs take interest in trivial agendas and side issues, people speak English.” She and her companion, Gary Mandel, from and not look seriously into changing the democratic sys- tence! Get out so we can kill each other; get out because bodies of Jubran, Sarkoon Bolus, Badawi Al-Jabal, Anistas you do not belong to us and we do not belong to you. Al-Karmali, Yousuf Al-Sayegh, Saadi Al-Maleh, Toqla sons, Toronto, live in an apartment with a view of Ashkelon’s marina tem or even implementing the constitutional articles, Get out as we are bored of being the natives in Egypt, Al-Yaziji, Al-Bustani and Al-Akhtal Al-Sagheer. Also take where she paints large whimsical canvases. When there are rocket which everybody is moving towards protecting and Iraq, Syria and Palestine; get out so we do not feel with you your universities, hospitals, close your missionar- attacks, as there have been frequently over the past eight days, defending, as they claim. ashamed when our eyes meet yours that are asking about ies, even Mikhael Nuaima - we are not in need of him. Do they go inside to the apartment. Although there is no bomb shel- The current National Assembly has a golden opportu- what happened. not forget Mai Ziyada, Maalouf and Sarouf children, Ghali, ter inside the apartment, they go into a room without windows nity to look into the necessary democratic adjustments Get out and leave us with our tragedies, because you Zaidan, Al-Khazen, Bistros, Thabet, and Al-Sakakeeni chil- and wait until they hear the thud of the rocket or the boom of the Iron Dome system intercepting the rocket. and legislations that were neglected either deliberately have those who welcome you, and we will remain here, dren, because we do not belong to them and they do not away from you, your claims, your skills, your knowledge belong to us. They say they continue their daily life as normal, despite the or negligently by former assemblies. The government rockets, including frequently eating meals out. Some restaurants has a stronger opportunity to hit the opposition, rather and your experience. Get out and leave us with extrem- Yes, get away from us because we want to go back to ism and hatred. Get out because we are tired of bearing our deserts, because we miss our swords, soil and animals. have closed as tourism to the city has dried up, but some have liquidate all former ìrhetoricalî adversaries by approving your claims of civilization, because with your departure We are not in need for your civilization, nor your language remained open, including a new restaurant called Tacos, which and supporting efforts of developing the democratic we will have the time to finish it and wipe out its signs, and poetry contributions, because we have those who can actually serves burritos, Mandel said with a laugh. “As soon as we system and approve the rights of minorities and Kuwaiti as well as destroy the idols that were left by your grand- replace you among the groups of killers and blood-shed- change our routine, they’ve won,” Mandel told The Media Line. female citizens. This and not batons is the only express fathers. Get out because Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, ders. Get away from us you Christians with your culture, Another Canadian, Unchel Ben Yosef, takes a different approach. and just way to defeat the adversary. Palestine, Jordan, and northern Africa are not in need of because we replaced it with a grave-digging one! When he hears the siren, he jumps into his car and goes rocket- hunting. —The Media Line —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas you, nor of those who lived among us before you, be —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas

kuwait digest Rising extremism

By Shamlan Y Al-Essa rab moderate and centrist countries, that is arts with all their dimensions. So our countries Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Arab Gulf became natural cradles of extremism and terror- Acountries, face a new problem in rising ism. extremism, violence and terrorism among the Is it realistic to find pampered youth living in an youth of these countries, particularly after the oil-rich country that provide them with all means regretful events in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan of comfort, security and safety who prefer to go and others. The wanton Zionist attack against and fight in Syria, Iraq and Yemen? These youth Gaza, killing crimes, displacement and the believe that the Islamic State is the coming destruction of everything in Gaza places the mod- caliphate, and Arab and Gulf youth must go to erate Arab countries in an embarrassing situation help the Islamic action, while not realizing that towards their people and Arab public opinion, more than one million Iraqi and Syrian have who are angry because of the lack of Arab inter- moved away from this terrorist state in search of vention to rescue their brothers in Palestine. safety and security. The stands of moderate Arab countries are How can this dilemma be solved? Statistics. rejection of violence, killing and extremism from Official and non-official statistics point to the all religious jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda, ISIL, involvement of Moroccan youth in jihadist Nusra, Hezbollah and others, because these activity, as Moroccan interior minister told Al- groups carry extremist ideas and do not believe in Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper on July 16 that there dialogue, and the language of understanding and are 1,122 Moroccan jihadists in Syria. He esti- rationale, and all they are interested in is killing, mated the number of those who went from destruction and damaging Europe to fight in Syria all that is civilized or and Iraq between 1,500 humane. These expiatory How can this dilemma be and 2,000, and that more jihadists harmed Islam and than 200 jihadists were Muslims and distorted its solved? Statistics. Official killed there. Do Gulf coun- image all over the globe. tries have statistics and The question is how is it and non-official statistics numbers about the num- possible to deal with these point to the involvement of ber of jihadists in troubled Islamic groups? Especially Arab countries? The num- since Arab youths have Moroccan youth in jihadist bers published by the become the fuel of such activity, as Moroccan inte- Western press indicate the groups? Is it enough for presence of more than these countries to take the rior minister told Al-Sharq 20,000 Saudi jihadists and familiar stands by issuing 700 Kuwaitis in both Syria condemnation and rejec- Al-Awsat newspaper on and Iraq. tion statements, take pre- July 16 that there are 1,122 What is the future of cautionary security meas- our region if Iraq is divid- ures and direct imams in Moroccan jihadists in Syria. ed? And Al-Malikiís refusal mosques to take stands to leave the premiership? that reflect the civilized All reports indicate a civil image of Islam? Despite the moderation of these war in Iraq, and the start of a troubled stage, countries and its clear stands against terrorism not only in Iraq, but in the entire Arab world. and terrorists, a considerable section of these Neighboring non-Arab countries like Turkey, 26- Who was the first to first to introduce idolatry countriesí youth got involved in jihadist action in Iran and Israel have begun controlling our des- to the Arabian Peninsula? Syria, Iraq, Yemen and maybe Libya later. tiny. Turkey supports Kurdish independence and Why do not these youth comply with their gov- the Muslim Brotherhood; Iran supports Hamas ernmentsí views? There are many reasons, and revolutionaries in Gaza and has power and - Abu Khuza’ah Amr bin Lahi there is no room to mention them here, but it is influence in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and now possible to say that countries of the Arabian Gulf Palestine. As for Israelís continuation of its Yes No concentrated too much on the security dimension expansionist war, it means the end of the of terrorism and neglected the cultural dimension Palestinian state and peaceful solutions, and of fighting terrorism. We mean by the cultural having the entire region descend into a state of dimension like education, information, mosques, chaos and instability. and neglecting art, music, theater, cinema and —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 LOCAL UAE opens first of a kind Quran printing center

DUBAI: Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum inaugu- rated the Mohammad bin Rashid Quran Printing Centre, which is a first of its kind facility to provide copies of the Quran in all typescript, writing styles, and variant readings for all Muslim countries. The inauguration was on Tuesday evening, and the offi- cial UAE news agency (WAM) report on this development noted that the Annual capacity in the first phase is set to six million copies, and that this would go up to 16 million copies in later phases. The new Quran printing centre will print the ‘Khalifa bin Zayed Mus’haf’ (edition of the Holy Quran) and the ‘Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Mus’haf’, as well as other copies for all Islamic countries. The center uses the latest in the field and the highest standards of quality control are to be maintained through- out all stages of printing. A panel of experts from the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments would be involved in quality control as well as preventing unlicensed or un-supervised printing of the Holy Book.”The new Quran centre aims at promoting the teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah (the way of life of Muslims on the basis of teachings and practices of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and tolerance in order to achieve peace and co-existence among all races. It will benefit from the facilities of Masar Printing and Publishing in Dubai,” KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the Minister of Information and State Minister for Youth Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- WAM said. The setting up of the centre reflects the UAE’s Humoud Al-Sabah and several local Islamic scholars and icons at Seif Palace yesterday. Those received included Dr Mohammad Al-Tabtabaei, Dr Esam Al-Ghareeb, Dr strong interest in serving the Holy Quran and spreading Abdullatif Al-Senan, Dr Ahmad Al-Kous, Dr Mubarak Al-Hajeri, Dr Bassam Al-Shatti and Dr Sulaiman Marafi. Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al- the message of Islam worldwide, the report said. —KUNA Sabah was also present. —KUNA ‘Kan Rfeeji’ eyes Eid release

By Nawara Fattahova problem of the shortage of cinemas in Kuwait and the GCC region. We didn’t face KUWAIT: Kuwaiti movies are rarely made, any problems with censorship and no and productions here focus on theatre and scenes were cut. Kan Rfeeji will be shown television. Apart from one or two movies outside Kuwait after Eid, as we are plan- produced in the 1960s and a few during ning to screen it in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, the past few years, there have been no Manama and Doha. We are also discussing Kuwaiti films produced. But during this Eid with distributors in Cairo and Beirut. After Al-Fitr, a new Kuwait movie ‘Kan Rfeeji’ will the summer, it may also be shown in coun- be playing at the theaters. tries that are usually visited by Kuwaitis or Producers Lightbug Media Production have Kuwaiti students residing there,” held a press conference at the Kuwait added Burhama. Engineers Society on Monday. According Khalid Al-Brechi, one of the lead actors to the writer of the movie Yarob Burhama, in the movie, noted that this experience Kan Rfeeji (Was my friend), is a social dra- can compete with international movies in ma with some comedy. “This movie is a terms of attendance at theatres. “The humanitarian story discussing local issues. Kuwaiti movie discusses local issues, which This movie is my first production and I may not be interesting for people in the enjoyed working with the team. Cinema West, but we are representing Kuwait KUWAIT: The cast and crew of Kuwaiti movie ‘Kan Rfeeji’ are seen at a press confer- production in Kuwait is still in its infancy, internationally with our movies. I believe ence at the Kuwait Engineers Society on Monday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat so it’s difficult to work, especially since that more Kuwaiti movies will be produced there are no statistics about box office rev- in the future,” he stated. The idea of Kan Actor Faisal Al-Amiri said that this is his the director aims for, but this is also hap- enues. This is the reason behind having Rfeeji was formulated in 2002. “I had this first film, which is a challenge for him. pening with Egyptian movies, and this led only two or three producers in Kuwait, as movie in my scheduler since 12 years, and “Producing a narrative Kuwaiti movie was them to go for TV productions. Many of the rest are waiting for the results of this it was only produced this year. I hope that always a dream, which came true. I hope them came to the Gulf and we are working experience,” said Burhama during the con- people will like it, and I hope we will be that this unique experience will be suc- with them. I believe that in the future we ference. able to present more movies in the future,” cessful in all ways. I know that the rev- will be able to produce movies of interna- “Also, we would like to highlight the he added. enues of a movie are much less than what tional level and quality,” he pointed out. EQUATE sponsors Rijeemy Walkathon

KUWAIT: EQUATE Petrochemical Responsibility (CSR) Program, which is health and awareness activities for Company, Kuwait’s first private sector reflected in our sponsorship of the promoting a healthy lifestyle of regu- petrochemical company, sponsored a Rijeemy Walkathon as part of support- lar exercise, proper eating habits and walkathon organized by Rijeemy ing all relevant sustainability-based other relevant matters, such as Center at 360 Mall during the holy efforts throughout Kuwait.” EQUATE Initiative for a Healthy Society month of Ramadan. Commenting on Al-Benali noted, “EQUATE believes (Khaffif), EQUATE Awareness the sponsorship, EQUATE Vice that raising awareness about health Campaign for Hypertension (Stay President for Technical Services related issues is a key factor in sup- Normal) and EQUATE Awareness Mohammad Al-Benali said, “Health porting the overall sustainability of Campaign for Diabetes (Stay Normal and awareness issues are two main Kuwait. Throughout the years, 2), all of which in cooperation with rel- elements in EQUATE Corporate Social EQUATE has launched a number of evant organizations as part of our tagline ‘Partners in Success’ as it is also currently being applied with Rijeemy Center.” On the closing ceremony of Rijeemy Walkathon, EQUATE, repre- sented by Corporate Communications Leader Kholoud Al-Feeli, was recog- nized for this partnership by Undersecretary of State Ministry for Youth Affairs Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah and Chairman & Managing Director of The Scientific Center Kuwait (TKSC) Mijbil Al- Mutawa. Established in 1995, EQUATE is an international joint venture between Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), Boubyan Petrochemical Company (BPC) and Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC). Commencing pro- duction in 1997, EQUATE is the single operator of a fully integrated world- scale manufacturing facility produc- ing over 5 million tons annually of high-quality petrochemical products KUWAIT: (From left to right) Mijbil Al-Mutawa, Kholoud AlFeeli, and which are marketed throughout the Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. 213 receive medical treatment during Qiyam prayers

KUWAIT: The emergency medical ics in the Grand Mosque during the at the Grand Mosque, Jaber Al-Ali department at the Ministry of Health Qiyam prayers on the 24th and 25th Mosque, and the Belal bin Rabah announced that 213 worshipers night of Ramadan. The total number Mosque during the first five nights of received treatment at makeshift clin- of worshipers who received treatment the last 10 days of Ramadan was 393. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 LOCAL

Kuwait expresses solidarity with Gaza BRITISH EMBASSY ANNOUNCEMENT KUWAIT: Kuwaiti citizens and activists organized a gathering to express solidarity with Gaza, in response to several calls on social media. The event took New UK support for place on Tuesday night at the Irada Square. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat civilians caught up in Gaza violence KUWAIT: The UK will provide more than £5 million in emergency support including health care, clean water, blankets and cooking equipment to help tens of thou- sands of people affected by the violence in Gaza. This includes £2 million in new funding announced by Prime Minister David Cameron today for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) Flash Appeal. This will provide emergency assistance to more than 84,000 people who have been driven out of their homes. A further £3 million in funding will be brought for- ward to help the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) respond to the worsening situation and funding will also be reallocated to help rebuild UNR- WA schools that are being used as shelters. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said: “The escalation in violence has had a devastating impact on civilians. More than 500 Palestinians are now reported to have been killed with at least 83 children among the dead and more than 100,000 people have had to flee their homes. “This new support from the UK will provide lifesav- ing food, shelter and clean water to those in desper- ate need as a result of the fighting. “We must see an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire to prevent fur- ther civilian loss of life, followed by a return to peace- ful negotiations.” The UK government has said that all sides must adhere to International Humanitarian Law and humanitarian supplies must be allowed to reach peo- ple in need. The security of both Israelis and Palestinians remains paramount, but restrictions that damage the economy and prospects for ordinary people in Gaza must be eased. A prosperous and sta- ble Gaza is firmly in Israel’s security interests.

Gulf teen gang-raped in Salmiya flat

KUWAIT: A 17-year-old Gulf girl was raped by five men in a flat after finding him with two liquor bottles and several tablets sus- who then kicked her out on the street. The girl had got acquainted pected to be drugs. with a man a month earlier, who took her to a Salmiya flat. When they entered, she was surprised to see four men waiting for them. Sri Lankan found dead The man she knew took her to a room, had sex with her then The body of a Sri Lankan was found in the yard of a building in called his friends who took turns raping her and then they kicked Riqee. Police lifted fingerprints. Preliminary investigations with her out a few hours later. A motorist saw her and took her home. residents of the flat the Asian fell from to his death indicated he Her mother took her to the police station and reported what hap- was a thief who lost his balance and fell out of the window. The pened. Detectives are working on the case. prosecutor ordered those living in the flat - 3 Iranians, two Bangladeshis and an Egyptian - detained until investigations are Fake ads complete. —Al-Rai Believe it or not! Interior ministry flashers for sale! read an ad on social media, and police are working hard on identifying and arresting the person who posted it.

Smoker arrested A citizen was caught smoking in public during the day. He told police that he was traveling and that’s the reason he was not fast- ing. Police arrested the man and sent him to concerned authori- ties.

Druggies caught Two Syrians and a Jordanian expat were sent to criminal detec- tives after they were arrested with hashish. The three were spotted by a routine patrol in Salmiya, and they seemed to be confused, so they were searched and the drugs were found. Capital patrol arrested a citizen and sent him to authorities

156 kg of drugs busted at local beach Liquor smuggling By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Local authorities foiled a major drug smuggling attempt foiled operation in coordination with officers at the drugs and criminal information center at the Gulf Cooperation By Hanan Al-Saadoun Council. Police found a total of 141 kg of hashish and 15 kg of heroin hidden at a local beach after it arrived to Kuwait KUWAIT: Customs officials foiled an attempt to smuggle alcohol following a smuggling operation. in four containers which arrived at the Shuwaikh Port yesterday. Drug Control General Department officers launched A large number of liquor bottles were found hidden in secret investigations after receiving information about the smug- spaces in the ceilings of the containers which were coming from gling. An undercover agent was sent to a location where a Gulf states, according to a security source familiar with the investigations revealed that the drugs will be delivered. operation. Two Asian men were arrested at the location, and led police to the drugs. Investigations with the two persons Contraband confiscated revealed that they had entered Kuwait illegally. In other news, Ahmadi police arrested five people with pos- The duo said during questioning that they were session of 17 drug pills, 6 bags containing narcotic substances assigned by a drug smuggling gang to ‘store’ the drugs and 16 liquor bottles. The suspects, four Asians and one bedoon, before they were handed over to smuggling networks in were referred to the proper authorities for further action. The specified GCC countries. The Interior Ministry lauded the arrests happened during recent crackdowns at several areas in operation as a ‘huge success’ for the cooperation between the governorate. drug control departments in GCC states. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

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GAZA: A Palestinian man carries his father as he and others run to take cover during an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. — AP Bloodshed deepens, airlines shun Israel Diplomatic efforts pursued on many fronts

GAZA/JERUSALEM: Gaza fighting raged yesterday, displacing as a terrorist group. Hamas brushed off the U.S. diplomat’s attacks out of Gaza, including a foreign labourer hit yesterday. filling the air. Palestinian medics said two worshippers were thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as US appeal, saying it would not hold fire without making gains. The military says one of its soldiers is also missing and believes killed and 30 wounded in an attack on a mosque in the heart Secretary of State John Kerry said indirect truce talks between “Our interest and that of our people is that no agreement he might be dead. Hamas says it has captured him, but has not of the densely populated Zeitoun neighbourhood in eastern Israel and Hamas had made some progress. While pressing a should be made before the conditions of factions of resistance released a picture of him in their hands. Gaza City. In southern Abassan and Khuzaa villages, residents 15-day-old offensive, Israel scrambled to contain economic are met,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. Already hurt by mass tourist cancellations, Israel faced said they were besieged by Israeli snipers who wounded two damage from a halt of flights to Tel Aviv’s main airport by US Israel launched its offensive on July 8 to halt rocket salvoes increased economic pressure after the U.S. Federal Aviation Palestinians as they tried to emerge from hiding with white and European airlines spooked by the long-range rocket by Hamas and its allies, which have struggled under an Israeli- Administration (FAA) took the rare step on Tuesday of banning flags in hand. Israeli tanks fired shells near ambulances, dis- salvoes of Hamas and other Gaza Strip guerrillas. Adding to Egyptian economic blockade on Gaza and angered by a crack- flights to Tel Aviv for at least 24 hours. Many other foreign carri- couraging their approach to recover casualties, witnesses said. pressure on Israel, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights down on their supporters in the nearby occupied West Bank. ers, on heightened alert after a Malaysian airliner was shot In a move that could effectively turn Abbas into the main Navi Pillay said there was “a strong possibility” that it was com- After aerial and naval bombardment failed to quell the out- down over a combat zone in Ukraine last week, followed suit. Palestinian point person for any Gaza truce, his umbrella mitting war crimes in Gaza, where 668 Palestinians, mostly gunned guerrillas, Israel poured ground forces into the Gaza Israeli carriers continued to operate. The FAA action represent- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) yesterday formally sup- civilians, have died in the fighting. Israel denied the sugges- Strip last Thursday, looking to knock out Hamas’s rocket stores ed a public relations coup for Hamas, which is anxious to dent ported core conditions set by the Hamas-led fighters. These tion, stepping up the war of words and accusing Hamas of and destroy a vast, underground network of tunnels. “We are Israel’s global image. “The success of Hamas in closing Israeli demands include the release of hundreds of Hamas supporters using fellow Gazans as human shields. meeting resistance around the tunnels ... they are constantly airspace is a great victory for the resistance, and is the crown of recently arrested in the nearby West Bank and an end to the Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and was trying to attack us around and in the tunnels. That is the trend,” Israel’s failure,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has stymied the econ- due to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said statement. However, the Tel Aviv stock exchange and Shekel omy and made it near impossible for anyone to travel abroad. returning to Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza and has yesterday. were flat, with traders showing little immediate concern about Egypt has tried to get both sides to hold fire and then mediated with Islamist Hamas. “We have certainly made some the flight stoppages. negotiate terms for protracted calm in Gaza, which has been steps forward. There is still work to be done,” said Kerry, on one Military Losses Rise An Israeli official said Netanyahu had asked Kerry to help rocked by regular bouts of violence since Israel unilaterally of his most intensive regional visits since the peace negotia- Hamas and a smaller Gaza faction, Islamic Jihad, said they restore the U.S. flights. A U.S. official said the Obama adminis- pulled out of the territory in 2005. Hamas, which refuses to tions he had brokered between Netanyahu and Abbas broke killed several Israeli soldiers in two separate ambushes yester- tration would not “overrule the FAA” on a security precaution recognise Israel’s right to exist, balked at Cairo’s original, bare- down in April. “We are doing this for one simple reason. The day. Three Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting inside the Gaza but noted the ban would be reviewed after 24 hours. However, bones offer. The dispute was further complicated by distrust people in the Palestinian territories, the people in Israel, are all Strip yesterday, the army said, taking the total number of mili- US carrier Delta Air Lines said it would extend its suspension of between Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and living under the threat or reality of immediate violence. And tary deaths in the past six days to 32. “Today, three IDF soldiers flights yesterday, as did Germany’s Lufthansa and Air Berlin as Hamas. Egyptian sources said a unified Palestinian position this need to end for everybody.” were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip,” a statement said. It Polish airline LOT. could help achieve a deal. Unlike Hamas, Abbas and his Kerry has been working through Abbas, Egypt and other said two soldiers were also severely wounded in ongoing fight- Clouds of black smoke hung over Gaza, some 65-km south Western-backed PLO have pursued peacemaking with Israel regional proxies as the United States, like Israel, shuns Hamas ing in the coastal enclave. Three civilians have died in rocket of Ben Gurion, with the regular thud of artillery and tank shells for two decades.—Reuters

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi speaks in a nationally televised broadcast yesterday. — AP Sisi defends Egypt’s Gaza peace efforts

CAIRO: President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday defended Egypt’s role in trying to broker a Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas, which accuses him of proposing a ceasefire favourable to Israel. Unlike his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi whom he toppled and detained last year, ex-army chief Sisi has sought to isolate the militant Palestinian movement in the neighbour- ing Gaza Strip. The Cairo government worked to contain the cri- sis even before it escalated into a full-blown conflict on July 8 that has killed more than 650 Palestinians and at least 31 Israelis, Sisi said. “Egypt has sacrificed, for the Palestinian cause and the Palestinians, 100,000 martyrs,” he said in a televised address, referring to casualties in Egypt’s wars with Israel between 1948 and 1973, before Cairo signed a 1979 peace treaty. “So it is diffi- cult for anyone to engage in one-upmanship, not just regarding (our role) with the Palestinian brothers but also the Arab region,” he said in a speech to mark the 1952 military overthrow of the monarchy in Egypt. Since Morsi’s overthrow in July 2013, Egypt has been at odds with Turkey and Qatar, both of which back his Muslim Brotherhood and have been critical of Sisi’s stand on the Gaza conflict. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Sisi a “tyrant” who could not be trusted to mediate a truce, while Hamas demands a role for Ankara and Doha, which hosts its political leadership, in any truce negotiations.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Gaza church opens doors to war refugees

GAZA CITY: For the first time in years, taking refuge at a relative’s home, at a following an ambulance on foot. “There catatonic,” he told AFP. Archbishop Alexios stay,” said the archbishop, a Greek nation- Gaza City’s Greek Orthodox church is neighbour’s and then at a school run by were planes above us, things were on fire,” said the church would remain open to al who has lived for more than the past packed to overflowing, having offered the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency she said. “We were so afraid, we could those seeking shelter, decade in Gaza. “We try as much as we refuge to hundreds of Palestinians who (UNRWA). barely walk.” But the church compound is “Together, Christians and Muslims, are can to help, to give love, that’s it. This is fled their homes under Israeli bombard- UNRWA is now sheltering more than not immune to the bombardment that one family, the Palestinian nation, so we the most important, to give love for those ment. Around 600 people, mostly women 100,000 people in 69 schools, but their has killed more than 640 Palestinians try to help our people to have a place to who are in need.” —AFP and children, are sheltering in the church facilities are overcrowded and supplies since the July 8 launch of Israel’s compound in the old sector of Gaza City, running short. “At the UN school we onslaught aimed at halting cross-border after escaping the inferno of neighbour- found there were so many people, one of rocket fire. ing areas like Shejaiya. Saint Porphyrios top of each other,” Mbyat said. Eventually Archbishop Alexios said five or six church and a nearby mosque have they heard the church was accepting shells slammed into the area of the opened their doors in a show of inter- people. “At the church, they have protect- church and mosque on Monday evening faith solidarity, offering food, drink and ed us, welcomed us. We’ve felt a bit safer just as people prepared for iftar, the shelter to all Gazans, regardless of their here,” she said. evening meal which breaks the day-time religion. “A big number of women and fast during the Muslim holy month of kids, babies, they don’t have homes,” ‘Respect’ Ramadan. “It was a very bad situation, the Archbishop Alexios told AFP. “Many of Gaza’s Christians have dwindled in people were screaming, the ladies, the them, their houses are destroyed. Many number to around 1,500, most of them kids,” he said, adding that a kindergarten people have been injured or killed. So we Greek Orthodox, out of a predominantly run by the mosque and the church’s try to help these people.” Sunni Muslim population of 1.7 million. graveyard were damaged. Sabah Al-Mbyat is among those who The Christian community in Gaza City, like has taken refuge at the church after flee- their counterparts elsewhere in the ‘Give Love’ ing Shejaiya, where more than 70 people Middle East, has been shrinking due to Many of those sheltering at the church were killed on Sunday, many buried both conflict and unemployment. The are sick, with hygiene conditions increas- under the rubble of their homes. The east- ancient Mediterranean seafront city once ingly dire in neighbourhoods under fire. ern district of Gaza City was pummelled had a thriving Christian community, espe- Dr Hassan Ezzedine is volunteering in a by Israeli shelling, in one of the deadliest cially under British-mandated Palestine room at the church, handing out medi- days of the more than two-week conflict that ended in 1948 with the creation of cine and tending to the sick. “The cases between Israel and Hamas militants who the Jewish state. we’re seeing are mostly among children. control the coastal strip. The church is the Anwaar Jamal arrived at the church They have severe diarrhoea, respiratory GAZA CITY: Displaced Palestinians sleep on the floor inside Gaza City’s fourth place that Mbyat fled to, after first having fled Shejaiya in a terrifying ordeal issues, some are in shock and completely Greek Orthodox church yesterday. —AFP Iraqi presidential vote stalled, violence rages Rights group slams civilian deaths

BAGHDAD: Iraqi lawmakers yester- home to one of Shiite Islam’s most founded by Osama bin Laden. The The rebuke was a thinly veiled day postponed choosing a new important shrines. onslaught plunged Iraq into its attack on Sunni politicians he sees president for their ailing country Despite the billions of dollars worst crisis in years and exacerbated as sympathetic to the insurgent while air strikes, suicide car bombs poured into training and equipment ethno-sectarian tensions that had group, and to Kurds who used last and summary executions yielded by the United States during its sev- already claimed thousands of lives month’s security vacuum to seize their daily grim crop of bodies. en-year occupation, Iraq’s million- this year alone. Iraq’s Shiite prime disputed towns and oil fields they Parliament adjourned without even strong army intially disintegrated minister, Nouri Al-Maliki has cast long coveted. Deputies were gath- broaching the election of a new when IS fighters attacked on June 9 himself as a commander seeking to ered in parliament yesterday with head of state and agreed to meet and captured Mosul, the country’s preserve the country’s unity but crit- the election of a new president next again on Thursday, their last chance second city. Their advance stopped ics say his own brand of sectarian on their agenda but progress in to pick a new leader before the before they could reach Baghdad, politics is partly to blame. renewing the country’s fractious week-long Eid A-Fitr Muslim holi- but jihadist cells have continued to Many armed groups, religious government has been slow and day. A government air raid on the wreak havoc there with bomb and political leaders among Iraq’s halting. The lawmakers spent the NAJAF: Iraqis displaced from parts of the country which are now controlled jihadist-held town of Sharqat nearly by Sunni jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) receive aid from people of this 300 km northwest of Baghdad southern city on July 14, 2014. —AFP killed at least three women and a child, a senior army official told AFP. Police and medical sources in Najaf gains prominence the town said another four people were killed in the strike, which destroyed the municipality build- as Baghdad founders ing and a house in an area believed to shelter Islamic State (IS) fighters. NAJAF, Iraq: The holy Shiite city of Najaf has Call to Arms Civilians have been paying a heavy gained prominence as a centre of political and Najaf governorate, of which Najaf is the price for the government’s aerial military power since the start of a crisis that has capital city, in 2007 had an estimated popula- campaigns against the group, raised the spectre of Iraq breaking up along sec- tion of just 615,000, yet it has hosted at least which conquered large swathes of tarian and ethnic lines. Most of Iraq’s political 24,000 displaced people since the IS offensive Iraq’s west and north in a devastat- leaders say they want to preserve national unity, began. The Iraqi Red Crescent said their treat- ing offensive last month. According yet a Sunni jihadist offensive has seen influence ment had been “outstanding”. The city’s gold- to a report released by Human ebb from Baghdad and flow to Iraq’s north, en-domed Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest Rights Watch on Wednesday but where Kurds aim to form an independent state, in Shiite Islam, is distributing around 9,000 before the latest strike, at least 75 and to the southern city of Najaf, home to Shiite- meals a day to the needy, and not just to civilians have died in similar raids majority’s Iraq’s holiest shrines and most power- Shiites - some Sunnis are sheltering in the city, since June 6 in four cities, including ful clerics. too. Sharqat. While the central government has struggled Adding to the sense of the safety is the to respond to the Islamic State (IS) onslaught, mobilisation of thousands of Shiite volunteers ‘Awful Toll’ which began on June 9, Najaf has absorbed by a recent fatwa from Sistani calling for jihad “The government’s air strikes are thousands of Iraqis fleeing the violence, and its against IS, the first such edict in Iraq more than wreaking an awful toll on ordinary BAGHDAD: Shiite lawmaker Mohammad Taqi Al-Mawla speaks to the media yesterday. —AP clerics have rallied thousands of Shiite fighters to 90 years. Some 5,000 Shiite men have volun- residents,” HRW’s deputy Middle East bolster a flagging national army. “Thank God for teered to take up arms to protect the shrine director Joe Stork said in a state- attacks mostly targeting the police minority Sunni Arab community session discussing the 2014 nation- these noble people, these merciful people,” said and its environs alone, a prize target for Sunni ment. The New York-based watch- force. The toll of a suicide car bomb have sought to distance themselves al budget, almost eight months into Abu Hussein, 36, a Turkmen Shiite who has been extremists who consider Shiites heretics. dog was particularly critical of the blast against a police checkpoint from IS. But some also see the the year, and eventually adjourned housed in a prayer hall in Najaf along with 25 rel- Thousands more have gone to bolster a government’s targeting of hospitals guarding the entrance to Baghdad’s offensive as protecting the Sunni the session until Thursday. atives after fleeing fighting further north. “They national army that folded in the initial stages in militant-controlled areas and of mainly Shiite neighbourhood of community from persecution by Whoever succeeds the 80-year- gave us everything... rice, oil, meat, clothes, nap- of the IS offensive, which began in the north- the use of barrel bombs on the rebel Kadhimiyah on Tuesday rose to 32, Shiite-dominated security forces old Jalal Talabani, who returned last pies,” he said with tears in his eyes, describing ern city of Mosul before spreading to other city of Fallujah. Another govern- according to medical sources. and as their best chance to force week from 18 months of medical how he had sold his wife’s and sisters’ jewellery to northern and western provinces. “We’ve had so ment air strike yesterday damaged a Maliki from power. Maliki, speaking treatment in Germany to serve out raise money to move his family south. many applications, I’ve had to turn people hospital complex in the main IS hub ‘Dancing in Blood’ on state television, accused some his tenure on home soil, will have Wracked by violence stoked by political away. Where are we going to put them all?” of Mosul, causing no casualties, a Last month’s Sunni militant lawmakers of exploiting chaos in limited powers. But the person cho- instability, Baghdad is not high on the list of any said Sayed Shubr, 42, an expert in Chinese resident and a hospital worker told offensive led to the proclamation of Iraq for their own ends. The prob- sen could reveal what alliances Iraqi seeking safety, with many fleeing to medicine and former member of the Iraqi AFP. The bodies of eight soldiers and a “caliphate” straddling Iraq and lem, he said, was not IS, “but the were formed in the political horse- Kurdish-controlled areas or the relatively stable army who now trains new recruits. His compa- allied militiamen executed the day Syria by the Islamic State, once an politicians who play and dance in trading of the past weeks and give a Shiite south. Shortly after arriving in Najaf, Abu ny operates under the auspices of the national before were found just north of Al-Qaeda offshoot that now appears the blood and remains of Iraqis hint of who could become the next Hussein said he had received 50,000 dinars ($43) security forces and is entitled “In Service of Samarra, a Sunni-dominated city to have outgrown the network killed.” prime minister. —AFP per family member from a charity connected to Imam Hussein”, part of a wider volunteer Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Najaf-based group that also includes a “martyrdom” unit for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. the most dangerous missions. —AFP Jihadists organise tours in ‘caliphate’

BEIRUT: Known for kidnapping, public stonings, lashings Tunisia faces dilemma in and executions, the Islamic State (IS) is now expanding into tourism, taking jihadists on honeymoon and civilians to visit anti-jihadist campaign other parts of its “caliphate”. Running twice-weekly tours from Syria’s Raqa to Iraq’s Anbar, IS’ buses fly the group’s TUNIS: Tunisia has hit back at a deadly jihadist Reject ‘Red Line’ black flag and play jihadist songs throughout the journey. attack on troops by closing mosques and media “The country is going through a very difficult One of the first clients was Chechen jihadist Abu Abdel outlets seen as sympathetic to extremists, raising time and politicians are under pressure,” said Rahman Al-Shishani, aged 26, who took his new Syrian wife fears of a return to the censorship of the old Rachida Ennaifer of Tunisia’s audiovisual regulatory on honeymoon, according to activist Hadi Salameh. “Just regime. In the wake of a July 16 attack which left 15 body HAICA. “But the fight against terrorism after they got married, he took her to Anbar. These jihadists soldiers dead in Mount Chaambi near the Algerian should not be arbitrary or populist. If we want a are very romantic,” Salameh joked. But the two weren’t able border, the authorities have laid down a “red line” state of law, we must respect the law,” she told AFP, to sit together, because “women sit in the back, and men at against criticism of the army and police. The gov- pointing to the dilemma faced by authorities. the front. The bus driver plays jihadist songs all through the ernment announced the immediate closure of Ennaifer said the government’s decision to close a ride, and the IS black flag flies over the bus.” mosques which had fallen out of the control of the pirate radio and a television station was not taken IS proclaimed a “caliphate” last month straddling Iraq and religious affairs ministry. It has also decided to shut in consultation with HAICA, contrary to what the Syria. According to a rebel from eastern Syria, the tours start- down unlicensed media outlets which had “turned authorities said. ed operating immediately afterwards. It firmly controls large into platforms for takfiris and jihad,” referring to The head of Tunisia’s journalists’ union, the swathes of northern and eastern Syria, the Iraq-Syria border, apostasy charges against fellow Muslims. SNJT, Neji Bghouri, told AFP that he rejected “any and parts of northern and western Iraq. The group is respon- Hailed as the poster boy of the Arab Spring - red line”. “What does this expression mean? If in sible for a number of atrocities, including mass kidnappings the wave of uprisings that swept the region from the future a journalist wants to carry out an investi- and killings, stonings and crucifixions. Salameh said the 2011 - the authoritarian regime of Tunisia’s long- gation into corruption in the police or army, what group’s tour buses “start their journey in Tal Abyad (on Syria’s time president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled will happen?” he asked. He proposed “self-regula- Turkish border) and end in Iraq’s Anbar. You can get off wher- in a popular uprising that year. But now with a tion” of the media, something which he admitted ever you want, and you don’t need a passport to cross the growing challenge from jihadists, long repressed would need time because Tunisia’s free media was border.” The activist, who lives in Raqa and uses a pseudonym under Ben Ali, the government is facing a double in its infancy. His union last week hosted a meet- to avoid retribution from IS, told AFP via the Internet the RAWAH, Iraq: A sign is posted at a checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State group, captured challenge. The authorities are working to restore ing of several media outlets to develop a “charter” company is for profit. “Of course it’s not free. The price varies, from the Iraqi Army, at the main entrance of this town 281 km northwest of Baghdad on the “prestige” and “authority” of a state weakened on how to cover terrorism-linked events. depending on how far you go on the bus,” Salameh said. Tuesday. Arabic text reads “Islamic State, the Emirate of Anbar, City of Rawah.” —AP by the 2011 revolution. On the religious front, the closure of “outlaw” They also aim to curb the Islamist rhetoric mosques has also divided opinion in the North Armed Escorts armed, but vehicles carrying armed escorts accompany the Raqa city, said “tour buses run twice a week, on Wednesday which has found an outlet in a media landscape African nation. “The decision ... is wrong because Syrian rebel Abu Quteiba Al-Okaidi, who is from the bor- bus,” he added. and Sunday. It works like any bus company would, except that has exploded over the past three years, with it’s going to increase popular support for the ter- der province of Deir Ezzor, said most of those who use the IS has its roots in Iraq, but spread into Syria in late spring that it treats areas under IS control in Iraq and Syria as one many broadcasters operating unlicenced. Rights rorists,” said Mohamed Ben Salem, a senior official buses are foreign jihadists. “Most of them are foreigners. last year. It gradually took over Raqa city in northern Syria, state”. He also said the bus company is “popular” among groups are warning against curbs on liberties that in the moderate Islamist movement Ennahda, the They communicate in English, and wear the Afghan-style and transformed it into its bastion. In June, IS spearheaded a those with relatives in Iraq. “Many people living in this area were hard-won after years of Ben Ali’s dictatorship, main party in parliament. “Change the imams clothing preferred by jihadists,” Okaidi told AFP by tele- lightning offensive in Iraq that saw large swathes of the (northern Syria through western Iraq) have tribal ties stretch- urging a balance between anti-terror measures operating outside the law, that’s the solution,” he phone. “There is a translator on the bus, who explains to north and west of the country fall from Iraqi government ing across the border. So they use these buses to visit their and freedom of information. said. —AFP them where they are going. The men on the bus are not hands. Abu Ibrahim Al-Raqawi, another activist living in families,” said Abu Ibrahim. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL UN rights chief condemns Israeli war crimes

GENEVA: Israel’s military actions in the Palestinian territories. “Israel is in the democracy defending itself,” he added. tions of international human rights law Gaza Strip could amount to war crimes, process of committing hideous crimes,” and international humanitarian law”. The UN rights chief Navi Pillay said yester- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al- ‘Not Our Enemies’ aim, it said, was to “establish the facts day while also condemning indiscrimi- Maliki told the session. He said residen- Manor vowed that Israel would and circumstances of such violations and nate rocket attacks by Palestinian mili- tial areas had been flattened, with “destroy” Hamas’ military infrastructure. of the crimes perpetrated and to identify tants Hamas. “There seems to be a 2,500 houses destroyed and medical “However, the Gaza residents are not our those responsible, to make recommen- strong possibility that international law centres targeted. “What Israel is doing enemies. Israel is fully committed to dations, in particular, on accountability has been violated, in a manner that is a crime against humanity,” he said. international law,” he said. He blamed measures, all with a view to avoiding and could amount to war crimes,” Pillay told The meeting was called by Arab Hamas for the situation facing Gaza resi- ending impunity and ensuring that an emergency session on Israel’s Gaza nations and fellow members of the dents. “Israel deeply rejects any civilian those responsible are held accountable, offensive at the UN Human Rights Organization of the Islamic Conference. losses caused by its operation, and has and on ways and means to protect civil- Council, citing attacks that have killed Israel’s UN ambassador, Eviator already started investigating itself. We do ians against any further assaults”. Palestinian civilians, including children. Manor, hit back. “Their Pavlovian not confront the Salvation Army but a It also called for the “immediate She said Israelis also had a right to live instinct demands they react against brutal terrorist organisation,” he said. The International Protection for the without constant fear of rocket attacks. Israel, in order to divert attention from council was set to vote on a resolution Palestinian people” and requested that “Once again, the principles of distinc- their own human rights violation,” he lodged by the Palestinians - which have Switzerland, as guardian of the Geneva tion and precaution are clearly not told the council. “Hamas is committing observer status at the UN - condemning Conventions governing conduct in war- being observed during such indiscrimi- war crimes when it fires rockets indis- “the widespread, systematic and gross fare, organise an urgent conference on nate attacks on civilian areas by Hamas criminately at Israel towns and villages. violations of human rights and funda- the situation in the region. The Gaza and other armed Palestinian groups,” Hamas is protecting its launching sites mental freedoms” since Israel launched offensive, which marks the worst she said. with the civilian residents of Gaza. its offensive last month. Israeli-Palestinian violence since two The council - which is the United Another war crime,” he said. “And this The resolution also called on the spikes in conflict in 2009 and 2012, has Nations’ top human rights forum - was council sits in judgement of Israel? council to “urgently dispatch an inde- already claimed the lives of 639 poised to call for an international There can be no moral symmetry pendent, international commission of Palestinians, most of them civilians, and inquiry into Israel’s offensive in the between a terrorist aggressor and a inquiry” tasked with probing “all viola- 31 Israelis. —AFP Navi Pillay Shabab kill famed Bombs in north Nigeria’s Somali singer, MP Kaduna kill at least 82 MOGADISHU: Somali lawmaker and prominent Warsame was one of only around 30 female singer-songwriter Saado Ali Warsame was shot MPs in parliament. The Shabab have intensified dead yesterday in the capital Mogadishu in the attacks during the ongoing Muslim holy month of latest attack by Shabab insurgents against the Ramadan, and Musab said the Islamists would Mass targeting of civilians surging government, police continue to “kill all the other MPs and government and witnesses said. officials, whenever we get the opportunity.” KADUNA, Nigeria: Two bomb blasts in the with 14 wounded. Police sometimes give lower eastern Borno state. They killed more than 2,000 The shooting, with Witnesses said the gunmen had trailed the north Nigerian city of Kaduna killed at least 82 casualty tolls than workers on the scene. A civilians during the first half of this year, Human gunmen spraying lawmaker in car before attacking. “I saw the gun- people yesterday, officials said, in attacks that Reuters reporter saw blood and body parts scat- Rights Watch (HRW) estimated a week ago. The her car with bullets men driving in a car following the MP, then they bore the hallmarks of violent Islamist group tered on the Alkali Road in the city centre. The Islamists sacked the northeast town of Damboa before escaping, is opened fire... she died instantly and the gunmen Boko Haram. A suicide bomber targeting a mod- military used pick-up trucks to cordon off the and surrounding villages over the weekend, the latest in a string then escaped,” said Abdukadir Ali, a witness. “The erate Muslim cleric killed at least 32 of the cler- area. Sirens wailed as fire engines raced to the killing at least 50 people. The rebellion has been of shootings or dead body of the lawmaker and her driver were ic’s congregation on a busy commercial road. scene. An angry crowd started throwing stones in the international spotlight since Boko Haram bombings target- left in a pool of blood.” Warsame was famous for Shortly after, a second bomb blast killed 50 peo- at police, who responded by dispersing them fighters kidnapped more than 200 girls from a ing government her songs in the 1970s, when she sang about ple in the crowded Kawo market yesterday, a with tear gas. Some followers had come from school in the northeastern village of Chibok on officials. Witnesses political and social justice in opposition to the local Red Cross worker on the scene, who Senegal, Chad and Niger to see the popular April 14th. President Goodluck Jonathan met Saado Ali Warsame said armed men hardline rule of then dictator Siad Barre before he declined to be named, told Reuters. Thousands sheikh. parents of the abducted girls, and some other ambushed was toppled in 1991, an event that triggered the were gathered for prayers with Sheikh Dahiru girls who had escaped, for the first time on Warsame’s car as it was travelling in the south of all-out civil war in Somalia that still drags on today. Bauchi in Murtala Muhammed square, and when Boko Haram Suspected Tuesday. the capital, killing her and her driver. “Lawmaker The singer spent several years in exile in the his convoy pulled up, the bomber lunged at him There was no immediate claim of responsibility Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau last Saado Ali Warsame was killed with her driver,” United States during Somalia’s worst years of before being stopped by his private security, wit- for either blast, but Islamist militant group Boko week claimed responsibility for two explosions police officer Mohamed Hassan said. fighting. “As a singer, songwriter, poet and parlia- nesses and police said. “The attack was targeted Haram has been staging attacks, especially with on June 25 at a fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria’s Warsame is the fourth Somali lawmaker to be mentarian, Warsame exemplified all the best qual- at the sheikh. No arrest has been made yet,” said explosives, outside its northeastern heartlands in commercial hub, that killed at least two peo- killed since the start of the year. Somalia’s Al-Qaeda- ities of Somali culture and tradition,” the US State police commissioner Shehu Umar. the past three months. Since launching an insur- ple. A military offensive since May last year linked Shabab, who threatened earlier this year to Department said in a statement. “This attack is yet The bomb did not injure Bauchi, several wit- gency in 2009, the militants have often attacked that was meant to dismantle their hold on the kill the country’s MPs “one by one”, claimed responsi- another example of Al-Shabab’s disrespect for the nesses told Reuters. Mustafa Sani, a volunteer clerics, like Bauchi, who take issue with their northeast has caused the militants to react in bility for the attack. “She was killed because she was principles of peace, justice and compassion that for Bauchi’s mosque evacuating bodies, said Salafist ideology. If Boko Haram is responsible for two ways: brutal attacks on civilians in the an MP - all the lawmakers are sentenced to death Somalis everywhere are commemorating during there were 32 confirmed dead so far. Wednesday’s attack, it underscores the risks mod- region have surged dramatically, and efforts to until they leave parliament,” Shabab spokesman the holy month of Ramadan,” it added. UN envoy “Somebody with a bomb vest ... was blocked. erate clerics take speaking out against it. strike out in areas far from the rebels’ strong- Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. “Whether she was Nicholas Kay condemned the killing of Warsame, He detonated the bomb along with the person The insurgents, who are fighting to carve out holds have resumed. A blast in the central city singing or not is not our business.” saying her “loss will be felt across Somalia.” —AFP that tried to block him,” Umar said, adding that an Islamic state in Nigeria, have repeatedly tar- of Jos, 170 km east of Kaduna, killed 118 peo- police had only been able to confirm 25 dead, geted civilians this year, mostly in remote north- ple in May. —Reuters NYPD tactics clash with moves to mend relations

NEW YORK: When Bill Bratton repeatedly reaffirmed as a cornerstone Constitution and accept a federal mon- returned in January for a second stint of policing policy in this administration,” itor’s oversight. He also hired Bratton, as New York City’s police commissioner, Donna Lieberman, the executive direc- who has also done stints leading the he often invoked two priorities - to tor of the New York Civil Liberties police departments in Los Angeles and mend relations with black and Latino Union, said. “That’s troubling.” Boston, to help mend the breach. citizens and to keep serious crime Although the city posts weekly sum- Bratton, a media-friendly 66-year-old down with the same methods he used maries of arrests for murders and other who still speaks with a Boston accent, in the 1990s. Just months into the job, serious felonies, data for minor misde- received acclaim for some of the inno- those two missions appear to have meanors was not immediately avail- vations he introduced in New York clashed violently in the death of Eric able. In the videos recorded by when he was police chief from 1994 to Garner outside a Staten Island beauty bystanders, Garner - who weighed 350 1996 at a time when the crime rate was parlor last Thursday after police placed lbs and suffered from asthma and sleep dramatically higher. They included the him in a chokehold. The events have apnea - can be seen arguing with a CompStat computerized crime-track- been watched by thousands on two small group of police officers trying to ing system that allowed officers to videos taken at the scene and circulat- arrest him. Then comes the chokehold, anticipate hot spots. ed widely online. a forbidden maneuver in the city’s Bratton promised to reform relations police department since 1993. Garner Practices Seen as Alienating between police and citizens, particular- ends up on the ground, struggling Civil rights groups and local leaders, ly the black and Hispanic young men against the officer’s grip. He repeatedly among others, say they will be watch- who were stopped and frisked in the says he cannot breathe, his voice ing the city’s response to see whether street in disproportionately large num- sounding panicked. He goes limp. the mayor and police commissioner bers, a practice that a federal judge There is no evidence he received really mean what they promised, and ruled was unconstitutional last August. any medical intervention beyond a whether Bratton’s two priorities are compatible. “While we’re delighted that stop-and-frisk numbers appear to continue to be down,” Lieberman said, “we hope that ‘broken windows’ polic- ing does not replace stop and frisk as an overused and alienating policing practices that is more hurtful than helpful.” Bratton has said he wants officers to go after graffiti writers and the squads of young men who dance acrobatically through the city’s subway trains before asking for money. Lieberman and oth- ers worry that if more offenses prompt arrests - rather than warnings or issu- ing of on-the-spot fines - there will be more chances of incidents that inflame relations with the community. “The fundamental problem is that the police are trained to see non-compliance as NEW YORK: A mourner places a candle on Tuesday at a memorial for escalation,” said Vince Warren, the exec- Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died while being arrested by utive director of the Center for New York City police. —AP Constitutional Rights. “It can turn into a potentially very deadly interaction very And, in a reprise of a tactic he believes check of his pulse before he is hefted quickly.” served the city well in the 1990s, he onto a stretcher at least seven minutes Still, even some of the fiercest critics wanted his officers to not overlook low- after he lost consciousness. He is soon of the Bloomberg administration’s level offenses and “quality of life” declared dead. Police say his heart police tactics, including Lieberman and crimes, believing that what is often stopped beating in the ambulance. The Warren, have tentatively welcomed the referred to as “broken windows” polic- city’s medical examiner has not yet response so far by de Blasio - who ing in turn kept more serious crimes in ruled on the cause of his death. New called Garner’s death “a tragedy” - and check. York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Bratton. The police department’s inter- But critics of New York police tactics Democrat, was elected last November nal affairs bureau and the Staten Island say that the arrest and death of Garner, in part because voters liked his staunch district attorney are investigating 43, have exposed a tension between criticism of stop-and-frisk policing. The Garner’s death. Bratton has placed two those two missions that needs to be tactic had been used widely by the of the officers on desk duty while their resolved. Garner, who was black and police when Ray Kelly ran the force role is investigated, a move that was previously worked in gardening and during the administration of Michael excoriated as a “political” knee-jerk maintenance for the city’s parks depart- Bloomberg, the previous mayor. reaction by the officers’ union. Four ment, was suspected of selling untaxed De Blasio said the tactic had divided emergency response workers who cigarettes, a relatively minor misde- the city. His administration would drop went to the scene were removed from meanor. “The concern we have is that Bloomberg’s appeal of the federal rul- emergency call duty by the fire depart- Eric Garner is a casualty of the ‘broken ing that the police department’s prac- ment and have been suspended with- windows’ policing practices that are tices had been in breach of the U.S. out pay by their hospital. —Reuters INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

Commonwealth Games forces truce in Scotland’s UK debate

GLASGOW: As the Commonwealth Games kicked off in Minister Salmond, whose election forced the referendum. intention of hijacking the Games”. “We’re not going to be who gave his name as Mr Allan, said it was “unlikely the Glasgow yesterday, the chief protagonists in Scotland’s “We’ll have plenty of time when the Games are over... going outside venues handing out posters,” she said at Games will affect the vote”, a view shared by Glasgow taxi independence debate called an unofficial ceasefire, as to get back into the thick of the referendum debate,” he the local “Yes Scotland” office, surrounded by empty tea driver Sulta Ali, who plans to vote “Yes”. voters said they would not be swayed by attempts to told journalists. mugs and a pile of campaign leaflets. “I think everybody has made their opinion up already,” exploit the event for political ends. Scotland goes to the But even as he was laying down arms, Salmond issued suggested Craig King, 26. A recent poll in the Scottish polls on September 18 to decide whether to end its 307- one last jibe towards London, noting that the £575 mil- Polls tighten Express newspaper showed that 80 percent of voters year-long membership of the United Kingdom, and the lion ($981 million, 729 million euro) Games had come in Polls have consistently put the “No” camp, which wanted politics to be kept away from the Games, while campaign for independence reportedly hopes a success- on budget, in contrast to other recent events “in locations opposes independence, ahead of its “Yes” rival, but most an overwhelming 88 percent said the event would not ful Games will boost their cause. not too far from here”. However, the combative SNP chief also show that the gap is closing with many voters still affect their vote. Scotland’s pro-independence First Minister Alex accepted that the London 2012 Olympics had “set a very undecided. Pro-independence campaigner Paul Bassett called the Salmond received sharp criticism last year for brandish- high bar”. Glasgow City Council chief Gordon Matheson, Some forecast that a successful Games, on and off the Commonwealth Games “great”, but “not vital” to their ing the Scottish flag directly behind pro-union British who is opposed to independence, told AFP that exploit- track, could give Scots the confidence to go it alone, and strategy. “In fact, we have to steer around it,” he told AFP Prime Minister David Cameron’s head when Andy Murray ing the Games for political ends “would be a stupid thing that Glasgow, once the “second city of the British empire”, at Yes Scotland’s Kelvin base. MSP White also doubted the won at Wimbledon last year-not least from the Scottish to try”. “These are Glasgow’s Games and no-one’s going could set the scene for a break-up of the United Kingdom Games’ influence on the vote. However she suggested tennis hero himself. Perhaps mindful of that criticism, to hijack them,” insisted Matheson from his office in the itself. “I simply don’t see that,” said city leader Matheson. the “Yes” camp may indirectly benefit from the perceived Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Salmond on Tuesday city’s imposing council chambers. “People will take an “It will be a huge success, but when making a historic, no- negativity of the campaign run by Better Together, the revealed he had issued himself a “self-denying ordinance” exceptionally dim view.” go-back decision, that will be made on issues such as pro-union group comprising the Scottish Labour, during the Games, which run until August 3. Sandra White, a Glasgow-based member of the jobs, the economy, pensions and currency. “The Games Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. “Anything “We’ve got 10 days here and we’re going to concen- devolved Scottish parliament (MSP) and a pro-indepen- have nothing to do with it.” positive will help the ‘Yes’ campaign,” she told AFP, shortly trate on presenting Scotland to the world,” said First dence campaigner, also told AFP that her team “has no One pub-goer and “no” voter from nearby Motherwell, before going out to post leaflets. — AFP

Five children dead in France minibus tragedy

LILLE: Five children aged 12 to 14 and way. Three other passengers-two children their driver were killed when the minibus and an adult accompanying them-were they were travelling in crashed headlong injured but are not in critical condition, and into an incoming truck, a local prosecutor the driver of the truck escaped largely said yesterday, revising an earlier toll. unhurt. “Five children died... three girls and two “Was it a moment of inattention, was boys,” Alex Perrin told AFP, adding that their there some commotion inside the vehicle? 29-year-old driver had also perished in the We don’t know,” Perrin told reporters late accident on Tuesday afternoon near on Tuesday. Courteranges village in central France. He said a probe into the accident would Perrin had previously said that four chil- seek to determine the exact cause of the dren were killed, as was the driver and crash, adding that the road was well main- another 20-year-old man, but he told AFP tained, and visibility and the weather at the he had got the latter victim’s age wrong. time were good. The children were returning home from The accident is one of the most serious a trip to the Lac d’Orient, a huge artificial involving children since 1982, when 53 lake, when the minibus they were in sud- people-including 44 children-died when denly veered to the left on a country road their bus caught fire after it collided with and crashed into a truck coming the other several vehicles on a motorway. — AFP

KHARKIV: Ukrainian soldiers carry a coffin with the remains of a victim of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash to a military plane during a ceremony at the airport of Kharkiv, Ukraine, yesterday. The first plane carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 left eastern Ukraine for the Netherlands following a sombre ceremony. — AFP First MH17 bodies arrive in bereft Netherlands Flags of 11 nations that lost citizens fly at half mast

EINDHOVEN: The first bodies from flight MH17 route from Eindhoven to Hilversum were closed completing the repatriation of bodies and the arrived in the Netherlands yesterday almost a for the long convoy of hearses to pass. A minute’s investigation. The rebels controlling the crash site week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as the silence was observed nationwide, during which released the first bodies and handed over two conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airlin- no flights landed or took off at Amsterdam black boxes to Malaysian officials only after LERWICK: British Prime Minister David Cameron aboard the fishing boat, Radiant Star in er’s crash site. Schiphol airport, from where the doomed Boeing intense international pressure. Lerwick, Shetland Islands yesterday. — AFP Uniformed Dutch military personnel solemnly 777 took off on Thursday. The black boxes have been delivered to Britain hoisted 40 wooden coffins from two planes and US intelligence officials have said they believe for expert analysis, including whether they might placed them in individual hearses at Eindhoven rebels mistakenly shot down the plane that was have been tampered with. Italy arrests five over airport in the south of the country in a powerfully flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with a sombre ceremony, as a trumpeter played the Last surface-to-air missile. DNA samples taken migrant ‘massacre’ at sea Post and a large crowd of the bereaved watched. Violence erupted again Wednesday in the zone Rutte has warned it could take months for the Church bells rang throughout the country as the of the crash, as the International Committee of bodies to be identified, although some are ROME: Italian police have arrested five wanted to return to Tunisia. planes touched down in a much-delayed return the Red Cross said it considered Ukraine to be in a expected to be returned to families soon. Dutch migrants accused of the grisly murder of scores Witnesses reportedly claimed that, in the for the first as-yet unidentified remains of the 298 state of civil war, and warned both sides to abide police have been visiting the bereaved for coun- of fellow would-be refugees when fighting chaos, many people were stabbed, while others people killed in the disaster, most of them Dutch. by the Geneva Conventions on conduct in con- selling but also to retrieve DNA samples such as broke out on a boat making the treacherous were thrown overboard in a bid to keep the ves- In a dramatic new development in the conflict flict. from hairbrushes, details of tattoos and finger- crossing to Europe, local media reported. sel afloat. hampering the recovery and investigation effort, Ukraine said it appeared that missiles that shot prints, as well as medical and dental records, to Italian and Maltese naval crews last Saturday Messina’s chief of police estimated that 50 of Kiev said a missile fired from Russia-accused by the down two Ukrainian fighter jets in the volatile help with the identification. discovered 30 bodies-including that of a baby- the migrants were thrown overboard, and West of provoking the MH17 disaster-took down east were fired from Russia. A truce has been declared by rival sides around of passengers who had apparently been over- around 60 were stabbed and then thrown into two of its warplanes in the rebel-controlled area. “According to preliminary information, the the impact site, but international investigators come by heat and engine fumes after being the sea. The Netherlands has been united in grief and rockets were launched from Russian territory,” still face massive obstacles. Dutch officials con- locked in the hold of a boat carrying over 560 The five men arrested were said to be a 21- growing anger because of delays in getting bod- Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council firmed receipt of only 200 of the 298 victims’ bod- mostly-Syrian migrants, according to the year-old Syrian, two Moroccans aged 21 and 25, ies home and over the way pro-Russian sepa- said. A spokesman for the self-proclaimed ies. Monitors say more remains are left at the vast reports. a Palestinian of 25 and a Saudi aged 32. ratists have treated the crash site, bodies and per- Donetsk People’s Republic told AFP its fighters site, littered with poignant fragments from hun- And police in the Sicilian port of Messina, Three of the men tried to escape, according sonal possessions. The planes left from Kharkiv in shot down the two aircraft. dreds of destroyed lives. where the survivors were brought, were said to to the Italian media, and had bus tickets for Ukraine, where the remains were carried on board Both pilots managed to parachute out of the Kiev said the Netherlands and other countries believe a further 110 people had been thrown Milan in northern Italy in their pockets. by army cadets before a small party of officials. Su-25 jets, which the security council said were that lost citizens are proposing to send police to into the ocean by their fellow passengers on the The three Tunisian traffickers, who apparent- flying at an altitude of 5,200 metres. It said the secure the area, amid concerns vital evidence has horror crossing from Tunisia. ly did nothing to stop the massacre, were also 1,000 bereaved planes came down close to the village of been tampered with. Survivors told police grim details of how a arrested by the police on Monday. Around 1,000 bereaved relatives of the 193 Dmytrivka, some 45 kilometres (25 miles) south- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday journey to a better life turned into a nightmare Dutch dead, King Willem-Alexander and Queen east of the MH17 crash site towards the Russian pledged to “do everything” to influence the sepa- for many onboard. They described what they ‘Unbearable burden’ Maxima, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and represen- border. ratists and ensure a full probe into the crash. witnessed on the boat as a massacre, police told The gruesome tale is the latest tragedy to tatives of the other nations that lost citizens on Putin is staring down fresh European sanctions media. According to the witnesses, migrants emerge from the decks of a relentless barrage the flight met the planes. Unrecovered bodies just a week after the latest set was unveiled over locked in the hold panicked as air ran out, of migrant boats seeking to reach Europe. The bodies are to be transferred under police Experts and world leaders have expressed con- its role in the Ukraine crisis, which has chilled forced the door and stormed the bridge. In the last week more than 1,700 migrants escort to a military base at Hilversum, southeast cern that not all remains have been recovered East-West tensions to the lowest point in years. The boat began to founder, and fighting were rescued in Italian territorial waters, the of Amsterdam, where forensics experts will identi- from the sprawling impact site in rebel-held terri- And Ukrainian government troops are pushing erupted between two groups of passengers on navy said, many of them women and children. fy them. Flags of the 11 nations that lost citizens tory. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans on with their offensive to wrest control of east the bridge-one that wanted to brave the high In early July, over 2,000 were plucked from the in the crash flew at half mast at the airport. and his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop will Ukraine’s industrial heartland from the pro- seas and continue the voyage, and another that sea on only one weekend.—AFP Motorways along the 100-kilometre (65-mile) travel together to Ukraine today for talks about Moscow separatists. — AFP Italy’s cruise ship wreck begins final voyage

GIGLIO ISLAND: Italy’s once-luxurious Costa Concordia cruise The biggest Italian passenger ship ever built-the length of sparking a panicky evacuation and, ultimately, dozens of liner embarked on its last voyage yesterday, as tug boats ‘We can finally go our way’ three football fields-the Concordia boasted four swimming deaths. Surviving passengers who returned to the Tuscan began towing it from island wreck site to scrapyard grave in On the evening of January 13, 2012, the 4,229 passengers pools, tennis courts, 13 bars, a cinema and a casino. island of Giglio for the final farewell, said they are ready to put one of the biggest salvage operations in maritime history. from 70 countries were settling into the first night of their The crash tore a massive gash in its hull and it veered the nightmarish experience behind them. Sunshine streamed down on the Mediterranean bay where cruise when their luxury liner struck a rocky outcrop off Giglio. sharply as the water poured in, eventually keeling over and “We hope that what we’ve kept inside us will depart when hundreds of onlookers watched as the final cable attaching the boat departs. And that as it goes on its way, we can finally ship to shore was cut, finally severing ties between the island go on ours,” Anne Decre of the French Survivors’ Collective of Giglio and the ship two and a half years after its capsize told AFP, clutching the hand of friend Nicole Servel whose claimed 32 lives. husband died in the disaster. “We’ve done it! She’s off!” shouted salvage specialists in hard hats who popped champagne bottles and sprayed the A billion-euro operation crowd, while tourists cheered and church bells rang out as the In what ship owner Costa Crociere estimates is a billion- ship was pulled away. “Today, Giglio is once again ours,” a local euro salvage operation-excluding the cost of its ultimate dis- man, visibly relieved to see the back of the Concordia, told posal-the Costa Concordia is being towed by Dutch- and AFP. The rusting liner, roughly twice the size of the Titanic and Vanuatu-flagged boats, while the flotilla carries divers, engi- now hoisted afloat by massive air chambers, will be tugged to neers, a medical team and environmental experts with it. the port of Genoa in northwest Italy, where it will be disman- Sensors attached to the sides of the ship will monitor for tled and scrapped. possible cracks in the crippled hull, while underwater cameras The massive operation-including a 17-man crew aboard will watch for debris washing out of the vessel amid fears toxic the Concordia, a dozen accompanying vessels, and two giant waste could spill into the sea. tug boats pulling the wreckage at a speed of just two knots Objects floating free such as suitcases, clothes and furni- (3.7 kilometres, 2.3 miles) per hour-is expected to reach Genoa ture will be caught in a huge net while infrared sensors will be in four days, weather permitting. used to detect possible oil leaks at night. Sloane, whose 20- “This is a big day for Giglio but we’ll only be able to relax year career as salvage master has taken him to six continents once it reaches Genoa”, Nick Sloane, the South African salvage and two warzones, has called the Costa Concordia the master in charge of the operation, said. “biggest challenge” and said he is ready to “wave goodbye to ISOLA DEL GIGLIO: The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship is towed away in front of the harbour of Isola del Franklin Fitzgerald, 35, an industrial diver from Texas, called Giglio”. At a press conference here on Wednesday, Italian Giglio, after it was refloated using air tanks attached to its sides, yesterday off Giglio Island. The ship’s final jour- his work on the Concordia “one of the proudest moments of Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti hailed Sloane as “our ney for scrapping in the port of Genoa in northwest Italy is set to take four days. — AFP my career. It’s a very happy day for all of us,” he told AFP. champion”.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

School head arrested in India after girl, 6, raped

NEW DELHI: The head of a school in south- from a previous job for “inappropriate” ern India where a 6-year-old girl was raped behavior with female students. Police said earlier this month was arrested yesterday and that the girl was recovering from the attack. charged with hindering the investigation and Over the weekend, parents and relatives of negligence, police said. children who attend the school in Bangalore, M.N. Reddi, the top police official in India’s technology hub, shouted slogans Bangalore city, told reporters that Rustom against the school’s administration and Kerawalla, the chairman of VIBGYOR High demanded that police act swiftly against school, was charged with negligence for fail- those involved in the assault, which was ing to ensure the student’s safety. Reddi gave reported only last week. no details on how Kerawalla hindered the India’s rampant misogyny and sexual vio- investigation into the July 2 assault that hap- lence against women have often been pened when the girl left her classroom to go ignored, but public anger boiled over after to the restroom. Kerawalla made no state- the 2012 fatal gang rape of a young woman ment to media as he was being led away by on a moving bus in the heart of the Indian police. capital. Earlier this week police arrested the The nationwide outcry led the federal gov- school’s skating instructor and charged him ernment to rush legislation doubling prison with attacking the child. The instructor had terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalizing been teaching at the school since 2011, and voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of Reddi said the school performed no back- women. The law also makes it a crime for offi- ground check while hiring him. News reports cers to refuse to open cases when complaints BANGALORE: Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, or All Indian Student Council, shout slogans during a have said that the instructor had been fired are made. — AP protest against the rape of a six-year-old student, in Bangalore, India, yesterday. — AP

India MP ‘force-feeds’ Afghanistan criticizes Muslim fasting worker Pakistan, policeman killed NEW DELHI: India’s parliament erupt- the supervisor’s mouth as a crowd ed in anger yesterday after television gathered. Vichare said he was not try- footage showed a hardline Hindu ing to break the supervisor’s religious German defense minister in Afghanistan nationalist lawmaker apparently try- fast. Instead he was trying to demon- KABUL: The Afghan intelligence ing to force-feed a Muslim man dur- strate that the chapatis being served service accused Pakistan yesterday ing the fasting month of Ramadan. were too hard. of stoking instability in the country Opposition Congress MPs launched “This was only a protest against the by backing militants who stage raucous protests in the parliament, quality of food and other arrange- attacks in Afghanistan. saying the lawmaker had violated the ments at the Maharashtra Sadan Spokesman Hasib Sediqi of the man’s religious beliefs by aggressively (guest house) where all the important National Directorate for Security trying to shove a chapati or piece of dignitaries come and stay,” Vichare charged that recent attacks in bread in his mouth. told Headlines Today news channel. Afghanistan were planned in Pakistan, allegedly with the support “It is absolutely reprehensible and “The canteen management here is of the Pakistani military’s Inter- should be condemned in the in a bad state. The chapatis they made Services Intelligence agency, or ISI. strongest possible manner,” Congress didn’t even break, the quality of veg- Pakistan has denied such accusa- party spokesman Manish Tewari later etables and pulses is bad.” “Making tions in the past. Sediqi offered no told reporters. this a religious issue doesn’t make evidence for his claims. He alleged The lawmaker is from the hardline sense,” he said. that Pakistan’s military campaign Hindu nationalist outfit Shiv Sena, a The catering company’s general against militants in the Waziristan border region had made no key ally of Prime Minister Narendra manager said the supervisor had been progress because the ISI had Modi’s party which swept to power at “deeply pained and hurt” over the warned the area’s Haqqani militants May elections. incident as “religious sentiments are ahead of launching the campaign. The incident is likely to fan concern attached”. The manager said the law- The Haqqani network is an al-Qaeda among Muslims and other religious makers had marched into the dining affiliated Taleban group active in Afghanistan and based in Pakistan’s MAZAR-I-SHARIF: German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, second right, walks on the tarmac to minorities over Modi’s Hindu national- hall last week flanked by television board a helicopter at Camp Marmal outside Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, yesteday. — AP ist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gov- crews and threw kitchen items North Waziristan region. “The main Haqqani leadership ernment. The footage, aired on around. strikes in the same area. The accusa- ing ahead of a full pull out of all trip to Afghanistan since she took has been transferred from North tions came as a suicide bomber combat forces at the end of the year. over the job in 2013, reiterated national television, showed a group of “They also issued physical threats Waziristan two weeks before the killed one policeman and wounded A bilateral security agreement Germany’s stance that it would Shiv Sena lawmakers confronting a to the kitchen and service staff while operation started, using 150 differ- three in Afghanistan’s northern between the United States and move ahead with its plans to draw catering supervisor last Thursday in using highly objectionable language,” ent kinds of vehicles with their Kunduz province. Afghanistan, and another to follow down its forces in the country. New Delhi. the manager said in an email to a weapons and ammunitions by the Police spokesman Sarwar with NATO, has been delayed until a “For us the basic rule still applies: The lawmakers were complaining Maharashtra government official, direct order of Pakistani intelligence Hussaini said the bomber, who was new president is elected. Election We went into Afghanistan as an about the quality of food offered at a which was obtained by the Indian service,” Sediqi said, saying that they on foot, targeted the Chardara official are now auditing the results alliance and we will leave as an moved to Pakistan’s Kurram Agency guest house for officials from the state Express newspaper. police district chief in Kunduz city. of a second round of voting alliance,” she said, the dpa news - where there is no ongoing military “Our message to Pakistan is that between former finance minister agency reported. of Maharashtra, where Shiv Sena is Shiv Sena, which has a history of operation. friendship with Afghanistan will Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and former Germany is leaving some 800 sol- based. intimidation and creating unrest Seddiqi said the Pakistani mili- have political and security benefits,” foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. diers in the country, however, to be The footage showed lawmaker against minorities, won 18 seats at the tary operation had so far not result- Sediqi added. If signed, the US and its allies will part of the planned training mission. Rajan Baburao Vichare attempting election and is now the sixth biggest ed in the arrest or killing of any Violence has been growing in leave a small force of trainers and “The most important thing now is several times to push the bread into party in parliament. — AFP major insurgent leader and that the recent months as US-led foreign advisers. German Defense Minister together to protect the successes only deaths were from US drone forces have been steadily withdraw- Ursula von der Leyen, on her second we have achieved,” she said. — AP Pakistani, Indian top diplomats to meet ISLAMABADL: The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India are set to meet in Islamabad next month in the neighbour- ing countries’ latest attempt at improving ties. The proposed meeting, announced by Pakistan’s foreign office yesterday, comes after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi following the Hindu hardliner’s inauguration in May. “Indian foreign secretary Sujatha Singh spoke to her Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry over the tele- phone this afternoon and... it was agreed that the two for- eign secretaries would meet in Islamabad on August 25 to carry forward the dialogue process,” the ministry said in a statement. “In keeping with the vision of the two Prime Ministers to improve and establish good neighbourly relations, the for- eign secretaries agreed that the dialogue process between the two countries should be result-oriented,” it added. Bilateral relations broke down after attacks by Pakistani gunmen on India’s commercial hub Mumbai in 2008, in which 166 people were killed, though relations have recov- ered slightly since then. An unresolved territorial dispute over Kashmir in the Himalayan region is also a source of ongoing tension, while Pakistan accuses India of fomenting a separatist insurgency in its southwestern province of Baluchistan. Trade between the two countries is presently around $2.5 billion, with Indian exports accounting for the majority. Pakistani business leaders believe greater trade would be a major boon to their stuttering economy-though according to reports the all-powerful military is against such a move. The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947, as well as a smaller conflict in 1999 when Modi’s party was last in office at the national level and Sharif was in power during a previ- ous stint as premier. — AFP

KABUL: Afghan women chant slogans during a demon- stration against the war in Gaza, in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. Israeli troops battled Hamas militants yes- terday near a southern Gaza Strip town as dozens of Palestinian families trapped by the fighting scrambled to flee the area. — AP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 Philippine army warned against ‘meddling’ as coup rumours swirl

MANILA: Philippine soldiers should keep clear of poli- that as members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, meddle (but) concentrate on our mission.” Aquino has become politically vulnerable to his oppo- tics, the military’s new chief said yesterday, as rumours we should remain professional and non-partisan,” mili- Aquino, the only son of the country’s democracy nents who have mobilised street protests ahead of his of a possible coup swirled in the capital after the tary chief Lieutenant-General Pio Gregorio Catapang icon, former president Corazon Aquino, is facing the State of the Nation Address before a joint session of Supreme Court declared President Benigno Aquino’s told troops at an air base in Pampanga province, north biggest challenge to his four-year rule after his populari- Congress next week. economic stimulus fund illegal. of Manila. “The DAP (Disbursement Acceleration ty ratings dropped to the lowest levels last month. “You cannot discount the range of possible scenarios The 120,000-member armed forces has a history of Programme) has become a political issue. We should His Disbursement Allocation Programme was a 145- in which the plotters would resort to extra-constitution- coups and attempted coups. Last month, rumours allow the democratic process to take its course and let billion-peso ($3.34-billion) fund to boost public spend- al measures,” said Ramon Casiple, executive director of sprang up of a plot against the Aquino administration the judicial, the executive and legislative branches of ing, but some of the money went to allies in Congress in the Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms, an inde- because of the fund scandal. “We should be reminded government deal with this,” he said. “We should not violation of the constitution, the Supreme Court ruled. pendent advocacy group. — Reuters S Korea ferry fugitive hid behind cabin wall SUNCHEON/INCHEON: South Korea’s most 830 million won ($810,800) and $160,000, wanted man, whose heavily decomposed tagged with numbers 4 and 5, prosecutors body was found in an orchard last month, said, suggesting more cash may have been had evaded arrest by hiding behind an stashed elsewhere. upstairs wall of a wooden cabin, with suitcas- It was not clear how, or when, the health- es of cash at hand, prosecutors said yesterday. obsessed Yoo travelled the two kilometres to The body of Yoo Byung-un, 73, wanted in where his body was found nearly three weeks connection with the sinking of a ferry in April, later between orchard saplings, clad in an was only identified this week, more than a expensive winter coat and beside a bag con- month after he was found lying next to a taining the alcohol bottles, a change of copy of a book he had written, empty bottles clothes and a pack of plums. of alcohol nearby, ending the country’s There was also the book, “Greater Love has biggest and most dramatic manhunt. No One Than This”, written in 1995 while Yoo “We did all we could to find Yoo and are was serving four years in prison for fraud, and devastated we couldn’t find him alive,” Kim an empty bottle of a shark-liver-oil health Hoe-jong, a senior prosecutor, told a media tonic, made by a Yoo family company. briefing in Incheon, the city west of Seoul where the ferry began its last voyage. ‘Police Were Chasing A Ghost’ For two months, wanted posters offering a Prosecutors say Yoo had been helped dur- reward for Yoo’s capture faded under the ing his flight by a network of members of the summer sun or disintegrated in the rain while church he co-founded, now called the thousands of police combed the country Evangelical Baptist Church. The church has looking for a man who co-founded a church, denied the allegations. held an exhibition of photographs at the The ferry disaster triggered outrage across Louvre in Paris and did jail time for fraud. the country - especially when video footage On June 12, the same day farmer Park emerged of crew members abandoning ship Yoon-seok found Yoo’s body in his plum while the children stayed in their cabins as orchard, thousands of police and prosecutors instructed. were busy raiding Yoo’s sprawling religious The Sewol’s 15 surviving crew members, compound 215 km away, going as far as including the captain, are on trial on charges searching for tunnels with mechanical dig- ranging from negligence to homicide. gers. Yoo headed the family that owned the Wanted on charges of embezzlement, company that operated the Sewol, a ferry negligence and tax evasion, Yoo had man- that capsized on April 16 on a journey to the aged to elude the country’s largest manhunt JAKARTA: President elect Joko Widodo (C) greets supporters to celebrate his victory in Indonesia’s election in Jakarta yesterday. The ex-general holiday island of Jeju, killing about 300 peo- in what had become a political headache for who lost Indonesia’s presidential election to Joko Widodo will challenge the result in court, his campaign team said yesterday, a move that ple, most of them schoolchildren, and trigger- President Park Geun-hye, whose government could spell weeks of uncertainty for the world’s third-biggest democracy. — AFP ing an outpouring of grief across the country. came under heavy criticism for its handling of the disaster. On Tuesday, Suncheon’s police Kitchen-Sink Drama chief said the body in the orchard had been Prabowo to challenge At the modest but well-appointed, two- identified with DNA and fingerprint evidence storey cabin on the outskirts of Suncheon as Yoo. He was sacked the same day over his where Yoo had holed up, its entrance cor- handling of the case. doned off by police tape, plates and other Authorities had offered a reward equiva- election result in court tableware could still be seen piled up beside lent to nearly half a million dollars for infor- the kitchen sink. Bags of clothes lay on the mation leading to Yoo’s arrest and detained floor next to a washing machine, and bibles several family members. Prosecutors said and a calendar still open to the month of May they were still pursuing his son, Yoo Dae- Indonesia court likely to issue ruling on August 21 were visible through a window. Police raided gyun, and would try to seek out the late patri- the cabin, called “Memory in Wood”, on May arch’s wealth. 25 but failed to find the multi-millionaire, “We thought since he had money, he must JAKARTA: The ex-general who lost Indonesia’s test the result and said a challenge would be est and most divisive election since the downfall who had hidden behind a wooden wall. have been eating well in a warm place,” said a presidential election to Joko Widodo will chal- filed within three days. of Suharto in 1998. When they returned last month, acting on 74-year-old who lives near the plum orchard lenge the result in court, his campaign team said He said the challenge would be directed at A Constitutional Court official said that if testimony given by an assistant, police found and gave her name only as Ji. “Police didn’t yesterday, a move that could spell weeks of the election commission, which Prabowo has Prabowo’s team filed the appeal by Friday, then two suitcases that between them contained know they were chasing a ghost.” — Reuters uncertainty for the world’s third-biggest democ- accused of mishandling the vote, adding his side hearings would begin on August 6 and a ruling racy. Widodo, the reform-minded governor of considered 21 million votes to be in dispute. would be delivered on August 21. New constitution gives Thai Jakarta seen as a break from the autocratic era of Prabowo’s brother Hashim Djojohadikusumo, There have been concerns about the court’s dictator Suharto, was named the winner Tuesday a wealthy businessman who has provided finan- impartiality after its former chief justice was after results showed he resoundingly defeated cial backing for the campaign, added: “We are jailed for life last month for accepting bribes in junta sweeping powers his only rival Prabowo Subianto. looking for justice... we are expecting some fair- return for favourable rulings in local election dis- BANGKOK: Thailand’s new temporary consti- “Personally, I don’t see that Gen. Prayuth Before the result was announced, Prabowo- ness.” He also urged foreign leaders not to con- putes. tution allows the leader of the ruling junta to lacks any qualifications. At this period, it’s like who was a senior general in the years of authori- gratulate Widodo, as “the legal process has not However analysts believe the institution will become interim prime minister and gives the he’s already working as the prime minister,” tarian rule and has been dogged by human ended yet”. US Secretary of State John Kerry and be desperate to appear clean following the scan- military government sweeping powers in the Paiboon said. “In the past few months, Gen. rights abuse allegations-angrily announced he Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott are dal. The court would also be unlikely to shift run-up to a planned October 2015 election, a Prayuth has been doing the job thoroughly, was withdrawing from the election process. among those who have already sent congratula- such a large number of votes from one candi- senior army official said yesterday. chairing every meeting by himself and running Prabowo, who had earlier claimed victory in tions. date to another, said Yohanes Sulaiman, an ana- The document adopted Tuesday is the first every ministry smoothly.” the July 9 election, accused his opponent of lyst from the Indonesian Defence University. step toward restoring electoral democracy in Wissanu said that even though the consti- cheating in the vote count. Members of his cam- Widodo unperturbed Despite Prabowo’s claims of cheating, Thailand, two months after the army took tution allows Prayuth to become prime minis- paign team indicated Tuesday he would not Widodo seemed unperturbed by his rival’s observers in the world’s most populous Muslim- power in a coup, but the junta will continue to ter, it will be up to the National Legislative challenge the result in the Constitutional Court, challenge and returned to his duties as the majority nation have said the the poll was large- hold substantial power even after an interim Assembly to choose the interim premier. The as had been widely expected, because he was Jakarta governor at city hall on Wednesday. He ly free and fair. Widodo’s victory capped a mete- Cabinet and legislature take office in junta previously said the interim government no longer a participant in the election. will not be inaugurated as president until oric rise for the former furniture exporter who September. The new 48-article charter also lays would work until a general election is held by But in a surprise announcement yesterday, a October. was born in a riverbank slum, and won legions of out the process by which a new permanent October 2015. The new charter’s Article 44 spokesman for Prabowo insisted that he had not He said preparations for his new job were “in fans with his common touch during his time as constitution will be drafted and adopted. gives Prayuth, as junta chief, the power “to withdrawn from the whole election process, progress” and a special office to help with the Jakarta governor. Although the interim charter is supposed order, suspend or do any actions he sees nec- only the vote count-meaning he could still con- transition had already been set up. It was welcomed by investors yesterday, with to pave the way for civilian rule, it gives the essary for the benefits of the reforms, the unity test the result and planned to do so. Newspapers welcomed his victory, with the Jakarta’s benchmark stock index up 0.4 percent junta - officially called the National Council for and reconciliation of people in the country, or Analysts do not expect a court challenge to major Indonesian-language paper, Kompas, in the afternoon after rising almost one percent Peace and Order - what amounts to supreme to prevent, suspend or suppress any actions succeed given the size of Widodo’s victory-he showing a photo of a grinning Widodo along- in morning trade. power over political developments. It also that will destroy the peace and order, the won by six percentage points or about 8.4 mil- side his running mate Jusuf Kalla, under the Prabowo, who won support with his fiery legalizes all actions the junta has taken since national security and monarchy, the country’s lion votes-but it nevertheless signals weeks of headline: “It’s time to move together”. nationalistic rhetoric, has admitted ordering the the coup, as well as the takeover itself. economy or the country’s governance, no mat- uncertainty, as the court will likely issue a ruling The words were from Widodo’s victory speech abduction of democracy activists in the Suharto While the charter gives the military rulers ter if such actions are taking place in or outside on August 21. Prabowo team spokesman delivered late Tuesday, in which he urged era and was formerly married one of the dicta- almost supreme authority over politics, the kingdom.” It declares that such actions are Tantowi Yahya announced the decision to con- Indonesia to unite following the country’s tight- tor’s daughters. — AFP Wissanu Krea-ngam, a legal adviser to the jun- automatically legal. The constitution’s clauses ta, said Wednesday that the military would have raised concerns among critics about the handle only peacekeeping and security mat- enormous powers granted to the junta chief. ters, even though the interim constitution “This gives the power for the NCPO to com- Typhoon weakens after clearly gives it the final word on all important mit any actions that might contradict or even issues. “There are not any provisions in the go beyond the power given under this consti- interim charter that give the power for the tution,” said Ekachai Chainuvati, a law lecturer landing in southeast China NCPO to oust the Cabinet or the prime minis- at Bangkok’s Siam University. “It states explicit- ter, as people alleged,” Wissanu told reporters. ly that he can perform any actions, such as BEIJING: Typhoon Matmo churned ashore in “The NCPO will only exist to share the burdens reshuffling civil servants, drafting any laws or southeastern China yesterday and was down- of the Cabinet on security matters and peace- even punishing people judicially.” graded to a tropical storm, while the death toll keeping, so that the Cabinet can run the coun- Abhisit Vejjajiva, the leader of the Democrat from last week’s more powerful Typhoon try without getting distracted with other prob- Party, which is normally aligned with the Rammasun rose further. lems that could arise.” According to deputy establishment and the military, called for the After passing across Taiwan overnight army commander Gen. Paiboon Kumchaya, junta leader to quickly clarify how he will exer- Tuesday, Matmo made landfall in China’s heavily junta leader and army commander in chief cise the power under the constitution’s Article populated province of Fujian. The country’s Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha can serve as interim 44, in order to “prevent conflict or chaos that weather agency said it had gusts of 108 kilome- prime minister under the new rules. could arise.” —AP ters (67 miles) per hour and was moving at 20 kph (12 mph). The province’s flood control headquarters said nearly 300,000 people had been evacuated by yesterday afternoon. Authorities in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai, had ordered fishing boats to return to port and stepped up patrols to watch for breaks in coastal and river embank- ments, the official Xinhua News Agency said.The typhoon weakened after dumping heavy rain on Taiwan, where it injured five people and knocked out power to 31,505 homes, according to the island’s Central News Agency. Matmo was forecast to turn north and pass over areas west of Shanghai, China’s biggest business center, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.Rains of up to 300 millimeters (12 TAIPEI: A city maintenance crew member removes fallen trees from a main road as Typhoon inches) were forecast in Shanghai and areas as Matmo passes by Taipei, Taiwan, yesterday. The eye of Typhoon Matmo made landfall in east- far north as Jiangsu province, Xinhua said, citing ern Taiwan early yesterday bringing with it heavy rains and winds with gusts over 140 kilome- the country’s weather agency. Farther south on ters (85 miles) per hour. — AP the mainland, communities in Guangdong death toll from Rammasun by 10 to 56 and said mph), was the strongest typhoon to hit China in BANGKOK: Secretary-General of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) province and on Hainan Island were clearing another 20 people were missing. That raised the four decades. It destroyed 40,000 houses, Gen. Paiboon Koomchaya, who is also in charge of legal and justice affairs, pauses away debris left by Rammasun, which hit China total number of deaths from Rammasun in the knocked out power and water supplies and during a news conference at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. on Friday. Philippines, China and Vietnam to 161. caused 38 billion yuan ($6 billion) in economic Thailand adopted a temporary constitution on Tuesday, taking its first step toward The Ministry of Civil Affairs raised China’s Rammasun, with winds of up to 216 kph (130 losses, the ministry said. — AP the slow return of electoral democracy after two months of military rule. — AP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 A kiss, a prayer: The last hours of MH17’s victims

KUALA LUMPUR: In a bedroom in a townhouse near Amsterdam, Miguel Panduwinata reached out for his mother. “Mama, may I hug you?” Samira Calehr wrapped her arms around her 11-year-old son, who’d been oddly agitated for days, peppering her with ques- tions about death, about his soul, about God. The next morning, she would drop Miguel and his big brother Shaka at the airport so they could catch Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the first leg of their journey to Bali to visit their grandmother. Her normally cheerful, well-traveled boy should have been excited. His silver suitcase sat in the living room, ready to go. Jetskiing and surfing in paradise awaited. But something was off. A day earlier, while playing soccer, Miguel had burst out: “How would you choose to die? What would happen to my body if I was buried? Would I not feel anything because our souls go back to God?” And now, the night before his big trip, Miguel refused to release his mother from his grasp. He’s just going to miss me, Calehr told herself. So she stretched out beside him and held him all night. It was 11 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16. Miguel, Shaka and the 296 other people aboard Flight 17 had around 15 hours left to live. The Boeing 777 tasked with shepherding its passengers In this undated photo released by The Calehr family, This June 16, 2014 family photo released by Ross This Nov. 27, 2010 file photo released by the Ayley fam- from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, held the promise of Miguel Panduwinata, right, poses with his mother Samira Campbell, shows Sue Campbell, left, Ross Campbell, ily, shows Rob Ayley, left, with wife Sharlene Ayley pose beginnings and endings for many on board: the thrill of a new Calehr. Miguel and his brother Shaka Panduwinata were Albert Rizk, second from right, and Maree Rizk, right, for a photo on their wedding day in Nelson, New adventure or dream vacation for some, and the comfort of going killed aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight17. while they are on holiday in Florence, Italy. Zealand. Rob Ayley died in the downed Malaysia back home for others. Airlines Flight 17. — AP photos It was love and a fresh start that had lured Willem It would be their last kiss. seen the world’s greatest Rottweilers, we have established con- Grootscholten aboard. The burly, 53-year-old divorced former sol- For 29-year-old New Zealander Rob Ayley, Flight 17 marked tacts, and made life-long friends, but now I’m just ready to come year-old Gunawan would - as always - be the star. dier from the Netherlands - a gentle giant of a man - had sold his both the end of a month-long European trip and the start of a home. I hope all is well, if we don’t talk before hand, I will see you Gunawan was the light and laughter of her clan. The fifth of house and was moving to Bali to build a new life with his darling new career. on Saturday. Lots of Love Rob” six children, the bubbly, music-loving girl had wanted to see the Christine, a guesthouse owner. He’d met her by chance on a trip Life hadn’t always been easy for Ayley. Diagnosed with Flight attendant Sanjid Singh was looking forward to getting world outside her sleepy rural village. After high school, she to the Indonesian island last year. Christine, who like many Asperger’s syndrome as a teen, he’d struggled to understand home, too. He hadn’t originally been scheduled for Flight 17, but moved to Japan to sing and drum in a band. There, she met Budy, Indonesians has only one name, had heard through a friend that others’ emotions. At 16, he dropped out of school and hopped he wanted to get back to Malaysia a day early to visit his parents a fellow band member. They toured Europe together, playing some guy had fallen off a cliff and hurt his back. She told her from job to job - fast food, horticulture, cheese-making. He flitted in northern Penang state. So he asked a colleague to switch music and eventually falling in love. They married and settled in friend to take him to a traditional healer she knew. The next day, between obsessions, from cars to drumming and eventually, to shifts. the Netherlands, where she gave birth to Daryll and Sheryll, now Grootscholten called Christine to thank her. Rottweilers, after his parents bought him a puppy. Only five months ago, a similar last-minute switch had saved 19 and 14. Gunawan took up office work, and sent money to her They connected over coffee. Grootscholten had to return to Along the way, he fell in love with a woman named Sharlene. his family. His wife, also a flight attendant, had agreed to swap family in the Philippines. Budy worked as a supervisor at Malaysia the Netherlands, where he was working as a bouncer at a pot- They married and had two sons, Seth and Taylor. Fatherhood assignments with a colleague who wanted to be on board Airlines in Amsterdam. selling cafe. But the two stayed in touch online, and their relation- changed him; he was determined to provide for his family. He Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The plane vanished en route to Gunawan flew back occasionally to the family’s neighbor- ship blossomed. On New Year’s Eve, he surprised her by showing enrolled in college to study chemical engineering and decided to Beijing. hood, called “Heaven,” in the town of Pagbilao, outside Manila. At up at her doorstep. He stayed three weeks. turn his Rottweiler fixation into a profit by becoming a breeder. The near-miss rattled Singh’s parents, who fretted about the reunions, she belted out songs by Norah Jones and Diana Ross. The father of Christine’s two children, 14-year-old Dustin and That dream prompted Ayley to book a trip to Europe with his pair continuing to fly. But Singh was pragmatic. “If I am fated to When neighbors heard the music, they knew she was in town. 8-year-old Stephanie, had died six years ago, and they quickly friend Bill Patterson, a kennel owner. Ayley’s goal: to look at die, I will die,” he said. “You have to accept it.” This year, the couple and their two children were flying to bonded with Grootscholten, calling him “Daddy.” The four stayed Rottweilers and hopefully bring back breeding dogs to New On Wednesday, he called his mother and told her the good Pagbilao, and Daryll was bringing his DJ equipment. They’d in touch online. Almost every day, they shared meals via Skype Zealand. news - he’d nabbed a spot on Flight 17 and would be there on planned to leave earlier, but a typhoon was lashing the by placing their iPads on their tables during dinner for Christine’s The duo spent a month driving all over Europe, visiting ken- Friday. Take care of yourself, he told his mother. After they hung Philippines, so they delayed their trip until it subsided. By chance, family and lunch for Grootscholten. nels and grabbing a coffee, beer or meal with the owners. They up, she said a prayer for Singh, the way she always did. they nabbed seats on Flight 17. Albert and Maree Rizk weren’t In May, Grootscholten returned to Bali to celebrate Christine’s delighted in speeding along the German autobahns in the small Family was also the reason Irene Gunawan had booked a seat supposed to be on that flight either.—AP birthday and told her he wanted to spend the rest of his life Peugeot they’d rented. on Flight 17. She was headed to an annual family reunion in the Every year, the fun-loving 50-somethings from Melbourne, beside her. She drove him to the airport on June 3 and kissed him Finally, it was time to come home. On Wednesday night, Ayley Philippines: a major event held at a resort that would include Australia, went on a month-long vacation with friends. They had goodbye. sent his mother an email: “It’s been a long, long journey. We’ve specially-designed shirts, drinking, singing and dancing. And 53- hopscotched the globe, from Thailand to Fiji to Europe.—AP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 ANALYSIS

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he opening of Saudi Arabia’s bourse to international investors may double the amount of foreign money Tflowing into the Gulf’s securities markets, making it more attractive to invest in the region but also bringing new risks. Not only Saudi Arabia but other Gulf markets are likely to lure more foreign funds after Tuesday’s announcement that the Saudi bourse will open to direct investment by for- eign institutions in the first half of 2015. That is because the size of the Saudi market, the Arab world’s biggest, means the Gulf will at a stroke become a much bigger and more diverse destination for international funds. The Saudi bourse has a capitalisation of about $550 bil- lion, roughly the same as all other Gulf Arab markets com- In int’l flight, volatile conflicts abound bined, and it accounts for approximately two-thirds of the region’s stock trading turnover. Limited liquidity has long By Aya Batrawy 33,000 feet (10,000 m) above rebel-held battlefields in eastern military helicopter this year originated in Libya, according to the been a complaint of foreign investors about the region; that Ukraine. All 298 people aboard were killed. Some 50 to 60 coun- report. Libyan weapons were also found in Somalia, the Central will now improve. Just as important is the fact that Saudi n Libya, militias armed with shoulder-launched missiles are bat- tries around the world possess radar-guided high-altitude mis- African Republic and in parts of Nigeria where the militant group Arabia offers a range of companies which the rest of the Gulf tling for control of the country’s main airport. In Africa, the entire sile systems like the one that shot down the Boeing 777, accord- Boko Haram operates. can’t match. They include giants such as petrochemical con- ISahel region is awash with weapons that include portable air ing to John Pike, director of military information website The Nigerian army has been unable to guard its ammunition, glomerate Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) but also firms defense systems leftover from the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. GlobalSecurity.org. and Boko Haram regularly attacks military camps, including a in fast-growing sectors such as retailing, health care and food Then there’s Syria’s civil war, in which thousands of soldiers have A much smaller weapon that poses a more immediate threat main air force base in the east and the Maiduguri International production that are directly exposed to the region’s rapid defected and set up new battalions that have shot down military are the hundreds of thousands of portable missile systems in cir- Airport in December. Nigeria is not on any of the FAA’s lists for population growth. helicopters and jets. And in Iraq, the al-Qaida breakaway group that culation called MANPADS, which can strike targets flying as high prohibited or potentially hazardous countries. However, there Leading Saudi firms in these fields include retailer Jarir has taken huge swaths of territory seized weapons depots all along as 15,000 feet, Pike and others said. High-altitude missiles are are concerns that Boko Haram militants may have acquired earli- Marketing, food producer Savola Group and hospital man- the way. much more expensive than MANPADS, much larger and require er versions of the Russian SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles that can agement firm Dallah Healthcare, all private firms. Other Gulf The world is pockmarked with volatile hot spots stretching greater technical expertise. “You can train someone to use a hit low-flying aircraft within about three miles. In 1998, rebels in markets generally lack such listed firms and are heavily tilted from West Africa to Central Asia - a wide arc where commercial MANPAD in a good afternoon,” said Peter Pham, director of the Congo used a shoulder-fired SA-7 missile to shoot down a jetlin- toward real estate, banking and state-run enterprises. There flights and airline passengers could potentially be at risk from Michael S. Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. er carrying 40 civilians. There were no survivors. A decade earlier, are also risks, which is why the Saudis delayed implementing ground-based weapons. Although counter-terrorism and Countries on the FAA’s prohibited list that likely possess the Afghan guerrillas shot down a Soviet-built passenger jet, killing their reform for years. The entry of foreign money could weapons experts say the skies are largely safe, the downing of kind of missile that brought down the Malaysian jet are North all 29 people aboard. Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. destabilise markets, partly by encouraging local investors to Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 illustrates the dangers inherent in any Korea, Israel and Ethiopia, Pike said. But those countries have Mohammad Zahir Azimi said there have not been any incidents bid stock prices up to unsustainable levels ahead of time. flight over unstable territory where sophisticated weapons might armies that are in control of their arsenal. The FAA has another to suggest insurgents there possess high-altitude missile tech- It will also expose markets to global instability in a way be available to militants. list of places that it says pose a threat to US aircraft, including nology. that the region has not experienced before. Previously, US On Tuesday, those risks were underscored by the US Federal Mali, Congo, Kenya, Yemen, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Syria, Iran Many international commercial flights continue to fly normal- interest rate increases or emerging market crashes meant lit- Aviation Administration, which told American airlines they were and Afghanistan. Of those places, Pike said, only Iran, Egypt and ly over militant-held areas in western and northern Iraq. A mili- tle to Gulf investors; now, those events could trigger mass prohibited from flying to the Tel Aviv airport in Israel for at least Syria possess sophisticated air defense technology, with Libya in tary intelligence official told AP that the Islamic State group and pullouts of money by foreigners. Overall, however, the Gulf 24 hours following the explosion of a rocket fired from Hamas- question. “The notion that a complex system like this could fall other Sunni militants who have overran Iraqi military bases do looks likely to enjoy a “halo effect” from the opening of Saudi ruled Gaza in the latest war between Palestinians and the Jewish into the hands of irregular forces, who could turn around and not have access to sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons. The offi- Arabia. As more foreign institutions find it worthwhile to state. It renewed its ban on American flights to Tel Aviv for start using it, well, the world that doesn’t work that way,” Pike cial spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not establish operations in the region, money will spill over into another 24 hours yesterday, citing the “potentially hazardous sit- said. “It’s just too complicated.” authorized to speak to the media. many of its markets. “Markets such as the UAE and Qatar will uation” in Israel and Gaza. The FAA has also prohibited flights in A $40 million US program to buy up loose missiles after the With so many armed conflicts across the world, it is unrealistic benefit from the additional investor interest in the region Libya, northern Ethiopia, North Korea and the eastern Ukraine fall of Libya’s Gaddafi helped secure just 5,000 of about 20,000 to expect airliners to avoid all these places, said Brian Jenkins of and the spillover effect from investor flows,” said Salah Crimea region, and prohibited flights below a certain altitude in such weapons. A report released in March by a United Nations the Rand Corporation think tank. “If there were to be a rule that Shamma, co-head of regional equities at big US asset man- Iraq and Somalia. panel of experts found that MANPADS from Libya have reached simply said commercial airlines cannot or should not fly over any ager Franklin Templeton. “We believe the region is taking the The Malaysia Airlines jet was destroyed last week by a sophis- four conflict zones, including Chad and Mali. A MANPAD that mil- country where there’s an ongoing conflict,” he said, “we would be right steps in establishing itself as a single, identifiable subset ticated surface-to-air missile as the plane cruised at an altitude of itants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula used to shoot down an Egyptian removing a huge amount of territory”. —AP within the general emerging-market universe - like Latin America, southeast Asia or emerging Europe.”

Indexes Israel, Hamas battle over public opinion Much will depend on decisions by major equity index By Tia Goldenberg under threat from Hamas attacks. other side - apparently trying to intimidate helped unify Gazans behind it and stoke providers such as MSCI on whether to include Saudi Arabia The videos range from raw footage taken Israelis and show its own population it is strik- protests against Israel in cities around the in the benchmarks used by many fund managers. There is eyond the boom of Israeli airstrikes and from a warplane’s cockpit, to high-gloss pro- ing back against the Israeli pounding of Gaza. world. “We were able to confront their media room for disappointment; Riyadh, which has not yet detailed the stream of rockets fired from Gaza, ductions with jazzy graphics. The other main Its video, with a suspenseful musical score, machine and to win the battle in most cases,” the rules covering its reform, will have to balance its desire to Israel and Hamas are also battling to theme in them aims to show Israel is trying not shows Hamas navy commandos training. said Mushir Al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman. But keep control of its top firms in local hands with the need to B control the message emanating from this lat- to hit civilians but Hamas is putting them in Armed men in full scuba gear are seen weav- there are limits to the effect of media cam- satisfy MSCI’s requirements that minimum amounts of stock est Israeli-Palestinian conflagration. Using danger. One picture posted on the military’s ing through murky green waters, emerging at paigns. There’s little sign that Israel’s efforts to are made available for foreign investment. videos, Twitter, text messages, leaflets and Twitter feed was a schematic drawing purport- the water’s surface and opening fire. In other turn Gazans against Hamas have had any suc- In the past, many up-and-coming bourses have started phone calls, both sides have attempted to ing to demonstrate how Hamas tunnels are videos, Hamas has sought to boast about its cess, with Palestinians unsurprisingly blaming out in “frontier market” indexes, before being upgraded to direct the tone of the fighting - for their own built intentionally underneath Gazan homes. capabilities. Its videos have shown compila- Israel for the shelling demolishing homes, “emerging markets” as they open up further. That path looks public, their opponent’s population and for a difficult for Saudi Arabia, however, because it is so big; global audience. Propaganda and psychologi- adding it to MSCI’s frontier index would leave it and Kuwait cal warfare are nothing new in battle, but combined accounting for well over half of the entire index. technology and social media have exponen- For that reason, some fund managers think Saudi Arabia will tially increased the ability of each side to pen- move directly to the emerging market index. etrate their intended audiences. About $1.3 trillion of assets under management are Each side has sought to tip the moral scale benchmarked to that index globally. Fund managers think in its favor with an international audience. Saudi Arabia might get a weighting of up to 4 percent, which Israel has tried to make its case that it is would be equivalent to $52 billion. There would be addition- defending its citizens from unprovoked al inflows from funds using other benchmarks or no fixed attacks but taking steps to avoid killing civil- benchmarks at all. There is some concern that in the initial ians on the other side. Hamas has appealed phase, Saudi Arabia could end up sucking funds from other to the world by pointing to the high civilian Gulf markets. Investors in Qatari petrochemical firm death toll from Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding, for example, may move Israel and Hamas are each addressing the oth- money to the more liquid shares of SABIC. The smallest Gulf er’s populations as well. stock markets, particularly Bahrain and Oman, may find it Israel has pushed the message to impossible to compete for attention with the Saudi Palestinians in Gaza that the territory’s Hamas leviathan. Most fund managers, however, think a majority of rulers are to blame for the bloodshed that’s Gulf markets will benefit. being wreaked. In phone calls that the mili- Asha Mehta, lead portfolio manager for frontier market tary makes to Gazans to tell them to evacuate equity strategy at US-based Acadian Asset Management, their homes before a strike, the recorded predicted the region would develop a shared pool of foreign script in Arabic also tells them that Hamas is money that dipped into a range of markets. “Other Gulf using them as human shields. Hamas, in turn, countries will benefit from bigger inflows into Gulf funds,” has sent text messages directly to Israelis, she said, adding that markets in the region had distinct warning them that the group will continue fir- investment themes so foreigners would want to remain ing rockets at them until its demands - like the exposed to a range of them. —Reuters In this July 20, 2014 photo, protestors gather in front of the White House in Washington during a demonstration end of the long-stifling blockade of the tiny Gaza Strip - are met. “This is a war over public against Israel’s military attacks in the Gaza Strip. —AP opinion,” said Yuval Dror, an expert in digital In the most sensational offering, Israel tions of rockets whizzing toward Israel. Some sometimes killing entire families, in pursuit of All articles appearing on these communications. “It’s an inseparable part of released video game-like footage of what the of its videos are in Hebrew, aiming to intimi- a Hamas militant target. pages are the personal opinion of battle in the modern age.” military says is an attempt by Hamas militants date Israelis. Israelis, meanwhile, hardly seem intimidat- Israel says it launched the war on July 8 in to swim from Gaza to Israel to infiltrate and Hamas has sent Israelis personal text mes- ed by Hamas into pushing for an end to the the writers. Kuwait Times takes no response to heavy rocket fire out of Hamas- carry out attacks. The video, which has gar- sages, warning that they will continue to Israeli campaign against the group. Hamas responsibility for views expressed controlled Gaza. By mid-day yesterday, at least nered more than a million views on YouTube, strike until its conditions for a ceasefire are messages in Hebrew have become the butt of therein. Kuwait Times invites read- 657 Palestinians and 31 Israelis were reported shows the suspected militants creeping onto met, and boasting that “we have forced you to Israeli jokes online, with one Israeli offering to have been killed in the fighting, which the beach, scampering on sand dunes, and hide in shelters like mice”. Hamas warned grammar tips for a Hebrew tweet on the feed ers to voice their opinions. Please escalated last week with the start of a ground then one by one getting picked off by blasts Israelis on its website that it would strike Tel of Hamas’ military wing. And despite attempts send submissions via email to: opin- offensive. The war over hearts and minds that of Israeli fire. The military says four militants Aviv at precisely 9 pm in the early days of the to sway world opinion, Israelis know that con- [email protected] or via snail has accompanied it has been just as dramatic. were killed in the incident. The message was fighting. In the end, Tel Avivis fled toward tinuing images of dead civilians will under- Israel’s military has been at the forefront of that Hamas is not just relying on rudimentary shelters when the sirens went off several min- mine support. “Public opinion has a certain mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. trying to mold the message. Its spokesper- rockets but is actively trying to attack inside utes past nine and three rockets were inter- patience limit,” said Avital Leibovich, a former The editor reserves the right to edit son’s office has posted more than 40 videos Israel. cepted over the city by the Iron Dome missile Israeli military spokeswoman. “There is a cer- any submission as necessary. online since the conflict began, an onslaught Hamas quickly countered with its own defense system. tain point where legitimacy begins to be of footage aimed at portraying its citizens as video, presenting the same message from the Hamas claims its media campaign has undermined by difficult images.” —AP NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

German pianist Stefan Aaron hovers above Munich’s Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in southern Germany yesterday. Aaron is seated in front of his piano on an aluminum structure that is reminiscent of a flying carpet and attached to a helicopter. The appearance is the fourth stop on his ‘Orange Piano Tour’ that will take him and his orange piano at exceptional locations around the world. — AFP Young Islamic State robs Qaeda of militant prestige

DUBAI: In hiding, targeted by drone strikes and unable forces in Syria, confident such violence is part of a himself a “caliph” or head of state, fell out with Al-Qaeda friends in South Asia, sentiment appears mixed. The to land a blow in the West, Al-Qaeda’s ageing leaders broader war with the West advocated by bin Laden, in 2013 over its expansion into Syria, where his follow- Afghan Taleban, which gave bin Laden sanctuary in the are losing a power struggle with ultra-radical young mil- killed by US troops in 2011. The generational divide ers have carried out beheadings, crucifixions, and mass 1990s, posted a message urging Muslims to avoid itants in Iraq and Syria who see themselves as the true opening up in radical Islamist ranks threatens to topple executions. Saudi dissident Saad Al-Faqih told Reuters extremism and remain united, a message apparently successors to Osama bin Laden. The shadowy network Al-Qaeda from its primacy in trans national militancy, a that the declaration of a caliphate was not as important aimed at the Islamic State. Privately, some Taleban com- that targeted the West and its Arab allies for almost a stunning loss of prestige for a group whose hijacked for the militants’ prestige as the lightening military manders told Reuters they did not want to anger Al- generation is increasingly seen as stale, tired and inef- plane attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York’s advance that preceded it, beginning with the capture of Qaeda, who they considered a long-time ally in the fectual on the hardcore jihadi social media forums and World Trade Center, Washington and Pennsylvania. Mosul on June 10. “The declaration is a very loud noise, fight against NATO troops in the region. But some Twitter accounts that incubate potential militant The Islamic State, known as the Islamic State of Iraq but not as effective as the success in conquering vast Taleban commanders were enthusiastic about ISIL. One recruits. and the Levant (ISIL) until the June 29 declaration of the areas of Iraq,” he said. “That conquest has had a huge militant in his thirties said “dozens of my colleagues Western officials insist the network is still a top caliphate, has galvanized young followers by carving psychological effect in the whole region,” the exiled dis- from here are with them”. threat, in part because turmoil in Arab states gives it out swathes of territory in Iraq in a rapid advance last sident said. The buzz around the Islamic State is reflected not scope to organise: Its affiliates in Syria and Yemen month. US intelligence agencies estimate around 7,000 No Al-Qaeda affiliate has officially endorsed the only by the flood of recruits it has attracted in Syria and include experienced guerrillas and expert bomb mak- of the 23,000 violent extremists operating in neighbour- Islamic State, and scholars sympathetic to Al-Qaeda Iraq. It is also seen in a propaganda war waged online ers. But many young Islamists who were of school age ing Syria are foreign fighters, mostly from Europe. have denounced it, pointing to what they see as ISIL’s by scholars supporting and opposing the Islamic State. at the time of the Sept 11 2001 attacks on the United Diplomats in the region say many of these foreigners willingness to use violence in turf disputes with Al- Cole Bunzel, a doctoral student at Princeton University, States now look for inspiration not to Al-Qaeda, whose are fighting for the Islamic State, which also deploys Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. But their disapproval is cold wrote that Islamic State’s most effective voice was a leader, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, is in his mid-60s, but to a them Iraq. comfort for Al-Qaeda. The caliphate, analysts say, was Bahraini cleric, Turki Al-Bin’ali, who he said was just 29 Sunni Muslim group styling itself a caliphate. declared with potential recruits in mind, not to win years old. He “represents the assured spirit of a younger Supporters of the so-called Islamic State admire its Jihadi Bastion kudos from leading scholars. generation of jihadis ready and willing to break with an sectarian attacks on Shi’ites in Iraq and government The group, whose leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi calls For many, ISIL’s creation of a jihadi bastion spanning established cadre of jihadi intellectuals and carve their western Iraq and eastern Syria, and the slick online pres- own path.” ence that publicises it, compare favourably with Al- Night of Decree Qaeda’s failure for almost a decade to land a big attack Al-Qaeda’s Silence ‘Not Wise’ in the West. The contrast is not lost on Islamists such as High profile spats have highlighted the generational Continued from Page 1 A person may supplicate Allah for himself, his parents, Abdul Majeed Al-Heetari, a Yemeni cleric who split. Bin’ali is a former follower of Abu Mohammed Al- children, relatives and all those who are dear to him from reproached Al-Qaeda in a message on his Twitter and Maqdisi, a Jordanian scholar and influential jihadist Our Lord descends each night to the sky of the earth among the Muslims. Prolong the qiyaam (standing) after Facebook pages on July 15. Noting Al-Qaeda leaders thinker. When the two men fell out over Maqdisi’s when the final third of the night remains. He offers His rising from rukoo’ (genuflection) and the jalsah (sitting) were in hiding in Asia, he asked: “Who is worthier and denunciation of the Islamic state, Maqdisi suggested slaves out of His generosity, saying: “Who is saying a after rising from sajdah (prostration), so that you may stronger in the shariah (Islamic law) and worthy of obe- young ultra-radical scholars like Bin’ali were disrespect- prayer to Me, that I may answer it? Who is asking some- maintain an equilibrium among all the positions of salaah. dience: a secret organization whose people and leader- ing their elders. “Take heed of seniority,” Maqdisi warned thing of Me, that I may give it to him? Who is asking for- The standing after the rising from rukoo’ (genuflection) is ship are on the run, or a clear regime and a state that is the young preachers, accusing them of “wanting to giveness of Me, that I may forgive him?” (Bukhari & a stance of praising Allah, so utter many greetings, praises empowered on the ground with people and reasons?” stand upon the shoulders of our best and brightest and Muslim) and extolments of Allah in it. The sitting position that is then discredit their intellects.” Earlier Bin’ali had attrib- In the last ten days of Ramadan, there is Laylat Al-Qadr between the two sajdahs (prostrations) is a stance of sup- ‘Fantasy World’ uted another elderly militant’s criticism of the Islamic (the Night of Decree) in which every precise matter of wis- plicating Allah for forgiveness, so ask Allah’s forgiveness Raising the rhetorical temperature, he said Al-Qaeda State to “confusion” likely caused by age. Some counter- dom is made distinct and all events of the coming year therein. sought an Islamic State in a “fantasy world”, even as its terrorism officials worry that Al-Qaeda’s affiliates may are decreed. It is on this night that angels descend from You may start your qiyaam (the optional night prayers) leaders languished in “deserts, wastelands, mountain- redouble efforts to stage a spectacular attack in the the heavens and blessings become abundant. Whoever with two short Rak’ahs, because Shaytaan (Satan) ties tops, and valleys”. Even among Al-Qaeda’s closest West to try to salvage their reputation. — Reuters prays its nights, believing in it, and hoping for its reward three knots at the back of your head when you sleep, and from Allah, Allah will forgive all his previous sins. Whoever he seals each of them saying, ‘You have a long night misses this night and deprives himself of its good; he is to ahead, so sleep.’ If you wake up and remember Allah, a blame. knot is untied. If you purify yourself then another knot is Allah did not specify its order among the ten nights so undone and if you pray, the third one also gets unknotted. that people may exert their utmost efforts during all ten If any one of you goes to the mosque and the prayer days in worship, performing optional night prayer, recit- has commenced, he should join the congregation with ing the Holy Quran and doing righteous deeds. This is also the Imaam rather than praying two rak’ahs ahead of the a means of distinction between those who are active in congregation, as joining the congregation takes priority in devotion and those who are not. If Laylat Al-Qadr were this case. identified, many people would have limited themselves to Some people leave a gap in the first line, so that the devotion on that night only, neglecting other nights. muezzin (person calling for prayer), or one who recites There would also be no criteria for evaluation between Quran, may fill it after the commencement of prayer. This is the hardworking people and the lazy ones. not in line with the Prophet’s (PBUH) sunnah, since filling the So, seek the reward of Laylat Al-Qadr by doing good gaps in the ranks of worshippers and settling the rows is an deeds consistently and sincerely. Ask Allah for a share of obligation. After the establishment of prayer, the muezzin or His reward and to protect you from coming out of the reciter may stand at the place where the row of the wor- Ramadan empty-handed. If you hear or recite a Quranic shippers ends. verse that mentions His mercy, ask Allah to provide you Allah Says (what means): “Indeed, We sent it (ie the from His bounties. When you hear or recite a Quranic Quran) down in the Night of Decree. And what can make verse that contains a warning, ask Allah’s protection from you know what is the Night of Decree? The Night of Decree His punishment. Utter glorifications of Allah many times is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit in your rukoo’ (genuflection) and make many supplica- (ie Gabriel) descend therein by permission of their Lord for tions in your sajdah (prostration), as a Muslim is nearest to every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn.” Allah when he is in prostration. [Quran 97: 1-5] — Islamweb Barrak, opposition figures... Continued from Page 1 period to hand over their documents and IDs, otherwise authorities will go to their homes to claim them. Therefore, the actions taken by the information min- Constitution expert Dr Mohammad Al-Feeli said that istry is not based on the law but “a political decision to decisions to revoke citizenships cannot be challenged. punish Ahmad Jabr for his national positions”. “The law makes issues pertaining with Kuwaiti citizenship Lawyer Fawaz Al-Jadaei said the action of the out of the judiciary’s jurisdiction,” said Feeli, a constitution Information Ministry is illegal because an Amiri decree law professor at Kuwait University. Another KU law pro- revoking citizenship the owner of the two media outlets fessor, former opposition MP Dr Obaid Al-Wasmi, called has not been issued, and accordingly it is not implement- the government’s decision ‘politically motivated’, adding ed. Former opposition MP Adel Al-Damkhi said the that the state exacted revenge against its political foes, actions indicate the existence of a true police state. But and accused the government of violating the concept of National Assembly deputy speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej separation of authorities. welcomed the government actions and said that the Pro-democracy activist Nasser Al-Abdaly told Reuters government does not need prior approval from the the government was relying on rarely used laws to target National Assembly because these are sovereign deci- “some of those who oppose the policies of the govern- sions. ment”. He said Barghash’s citizenship was revoked under Meanwhile. the Interior Ministry has referred a list to a law that forbids Kuwaitis from dual citizenship, while the Cabinet containing the names of eight more Kuwaitis Jabr was targeted under a law that requires naturalised with a recommendation to revoke their citizenships, a Kuwaitis to avoid committing any crime for 20 years. He local daily reported yesterday quoting a government said authorities had accused Jabr of working against source. The Cabinet is expected to study the list in its first Kuwait’s security and stability. session after the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, likely on Aug 4, 2014. In another development, National Assembly Speaker Meanwhile, the source who spoke to Al-Qabas on the Marzouq Al-Ghanem sent a letter to the leaders of par- condition of anonymity revealed that the Kuwaitis whose liaments of permanent members of the United Nations citizenships were revoked will automatically lose all privi- Security Council in addition to other countries urging leges that Kuwait grants to citizens, including the govern- them to exert pressure on their governments to stop ment housing, healthcare, education, public sector jobs the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Ghanem, who and commercial licenses. But they do not face imminent sent the letters in the capacity of the chairman of the expulsion. Arab Parliamentarians Union, said the aggressions These people and their families will be given a period committed by Israel against Palestinians amount to to leave houses that belong to the Public Authority for “war crimes”. He said that the Israeli air, ground and sea Housing Welfare, the source added. Their names will also aggressions have killed hundreds of Palestinians, be blacklisted so that they would be unable to use their wounded thousands and forced tens of thousands to Kuwaiti passports to leave Kuwait, and will be given a flee their homes. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 SPORTS

Beckham visits United Philippine anger as game LeBron James humbled with NBA players cancelled LOS ANGELES: Former Manchester United star David Beckham visited his former by fans in Hong Kong English club Tuesday on the eve of new Dutch manager Louis Van Gaal’s debut MANILA: Organisers of a visit by NBA stars to the basketball-mad match against another of Beckham’s clubs. Philippines have apologised and offered refunds after an exhibition HONG KONG: LeBron James was honored by the appearance of hundreds of fans Beckham, on holiday in the town where he once played for Major League game was abruptly cancelled. who clutched his jersey or held up life-size cutouts of his face at a store in Hong Kong Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy, stopped by United’s pre-season training camp to vis- Tycoon Manny Pangilinan, whose company sponsored the sched- yesterday. The crowd chanted “LBJ” as he entered the store to meet with a small it some former teammates, including assistant manager Ryan Giggs. uled match Tuesday night between a visiting NBA contingent and the group of shoe-collecting “sneakerheads.” United will open a pre-season tour Wednesday at the Rose Bowl against the national team, issued a profuse apology amid growing anger at the He said it was “very humbling” to know he was an inspiration for fans in the former Galaxy with the English Premier League side booking matches against Roma, cancellation. “We wish to apologise to our Filipino basketball fans for British colony. “I’m miles and miles and miles, thousands of miles away from home, Inter Milan and Real Madrid in a US tour. Van Gaal said Tuesday he was pleased the sudden and disappointing turn of events... we ourselves are and to know that you can inspire someone in a whole other country, it means a lot with the focus on his new players in training sessions. extremely disappointed by this unexpected development,” he said in a me,” he said. Later, he ran a clinic before 1,500 fans packed around a court in “Training has been fantastic,” Van Gaal said. “You may think statement. The NBA team, including the Houston Rockets’ James Kowloon, then showed off some moves. James kicked off his Nike- every new trainer or coach would say that, but it’s true. Harden, the San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard of the sponsored five-day trip on Monday in Beijing. He is travelling to They seem anxious to do what I and my assistants say. Portland Trailblazers and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors, were Taiwan on Thursday and Friday. LeBron James has sent cupcakes to “Their focus is at a top level and I am very happy with supposed to play “five on five” games with the national team, Gilas neighbors of his home in Akron to apologize for the ruckus caused what I have seen in the first three days of training here.” Pilipinas, on Tuesday and Wednesday. by the announcement of his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers two United are far from peak fitness while the Galaxy are in But on Tuesday night, before a large crowd-some of whom had weeks ago. Cavaliers fans and journalists converged on the NBA mid-season form given the US league season began in paid as much as 23,300 pesos ($530)— it was abruptly announced star’s home to await his July 11 decision on whether he would come March. “I expect a very organized, tactical, aggressive that the players would instead just engage in practice drills. back to northeast Ohio or stay with the Miami Heat. team in attack, who want to press the ball,” Van Gaal said As boos and shouts of “Give us back our money!” echoed through A commotion ensued, and police were called to direct traffic. the stadium, organisers told the crowd they would be offering refunds of the Galaxy. “They are already in their season but To make amends, the LeBron James Family Foundation sent a while reminding them that the event, co-sponsored by Philippine we have only had three days. —AFP note of apology accompanied by a dozen cupcakes to neigh- Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), was for charity. —AFP bors on Tuesday, according to multiple media outlets. —AP McKenzie sticks with familiar squad for Rugby Championship

SYDNEY: Ewen McKenzie yesterday named a acknowledged the weight of expectation. 32-man Australian squad for the upcoming “For us, it’s no secret that our desire to win Rugby Championship with few surprises, back the Bledisloe Cup grows every year, but sticking with the group that is enjoying a sev- if our attention isn’t focused on the right en-match winning streak. areas during our preparations then it will be It includes 25 players who earned at least easy to get caught looking too far ahead,” he one Test cap during the recent 3-0 series win said. The Australian squad, captained by over France, and five others who were squad Michael Hooper, includes Fiji-born flyer Henry members. Speight-the only uncapped member of the McKenzie said the familiarity would be an group-who will be eligible to represent asset. “We’ve come a long way as a group Australia from September 11. over the past 12 months and the consistency Two other players who were unavailable we’re now applying across selections, high- for the France series in June due to injury-Ben performance behaviours and our playing Alexander and Joe Tomane-have also been included. Players not selected this time round due to injury include, among others, Stephen Moore (knee), David Pocock (knee), scrumhalf Will Genia (ankle) and flyhalf Quade Cooper (shoulder). After opening its Rugby Championship campaign against New Zealand in Sydney, Australia plays the All Blacks again on August 23 in Auckland, South Africa on September 6 and 27 and Argentina on September 13 and October 4.

Australia squad: Props: Ben Alexander (Brumbies), Pek Cowan (Western Force), Sekope Kepu (Waratahs), Scott Sio (Brumbies), James Slipper (Reds). Hookers: Nathan Charles (Western Force), James Hanson (Reds), Tatafu Polota-Nau (Waratahs). Locks: Sam Carter (Brumbies), James Horwill (Reds), Rob Simmons (Reds), LONDON: In this file picture taken on June 20, 2013, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II with her horse, Estimate, in the winner’s enclosure after it won Ewen McKenzie Will Skelton (Waratahs). the Gold Cup on the third day of Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London. Estimate, which lifted the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013 and came style is a positive sign that we are heading in Back-rowers: Scott Fardy (Brumbies), Scott second in this year’s edition, has tested positive for morphine, a banned substance. — AFP the right direction,” he said. Higginbotham (Rebels), Matt Hodgson “The challenge for us now is to continue (Western Force), Michael Hooper (Waratahs), this consistency.” Australia face New Zealand Ben McCalman (Western Force), Wycliff Palu Queen’s Gold Cup in their opening Bledisloe Cup Test match on (Waratahs). August 16 in Sydney, and McKenzie has Scrum-halves: Luke Burgess (Rebels), Nick warned the Wallabies will have to lift to beat Phipps (Waratahs), Nic White (Brumbies). the all-conquering All Blacks. Fly-halves: Kurtley Beale (Waratahs), “We understand a great deal of attention Bernard Foley (Waratahs). Centres: Tevita winner fails drug test going into the match will be around the All Kuridrani (Brumbies), Christian Leali’ifano Blacks and their motivation to create a new (Brumbies), Matt Toomua (Brumbies). piece of history by winning a world-record 18 Back-three: Adam Ashley-Cooper consecutive games,” he said. (Waratahs), Henry Speight (Brumbies), ‘Five horses, under the care of various trainers affected’ It has been 12 years since the Wallabies Israel Folau (Waratahs), Rob Horne last held the Bledisloe Cup, the symbol of (Waratahs), Pat McCabe (Brumbies), Joe LONDON: A horse owned by Britain’s Queen feed company involved to discover how the prod- Under the rules of English racing, Estimate will trans-Tasman supremacy, and McKenzie Tomane (Brumbies). — AFP Elizabeth II which won one of England’s most pres- uct may have become contaminated prior to deliv- not be stripped of her 2013 Gold Cup victory but tigious races has failed a drugs test, Buckingham ery to his stables. “As the BHA investigates this mat- she could be deprived of second place in this year’s Palace announced Tuesday. ter, including potential links between the different edition if officials decide there has been an Estimate, which lifted the Gold Cup at Royal cases, Sir Michael continues to offer his full co- infringement. Ascot in 2013 and came second in this year’s edi- operation. “There will be no further comment until Long known as the ‘Sport of Kings’, racing’s con- tion, has tested positive for morphine, a banned the BHA announces its considered findings. “Her nections to royalty date back centuries. It was substance. A statement issued by the Queen’s rac- Majesty has been informed of the situation.” Queen Anne in 1711 who first saw the potential for ing advisor said initial indications were the positive Morphine is banned by the BHA because it can a racecourse at Ascot, south-west of London. Whilst test had resulted from the “consumption of a con- be used to numb pain. Even though morphine is out riding near Windsor Castle-to this day an offi- taminated feed product”. not deemed to be a performance-enhancing drug, cial royal residence-she came upon an area of open The Queen, renowned for a love and knowledge trainer and qualified vet James Given, speaking on heath that looked, in her words, “ideal for horses to of horse racing which dates back to the 88-year-old Sunday before Estimate was revealed to have failed gallop at full stretch”. monarch’s childhood, cheered on Estimate, saddled a test, said it was right it remained banned. The Gold Cup, a flat race for ‘staying’ horses by top trainer Michael Stoute, when the now five- “You are not allowed to use prohibited sub- aged four or older run over a distance of two miles year-old filly won at Ascot last year. stances and if you open the door just an inch then and four furlongs (4,023 metres), was first run in A statement by John Warren, the Queen’s it will be kicked open and abused, as we saw last 1807. Major race victories for the Queen have bloodstock and racing advisor, said: “On Thursday year with anabolic steroids,” he told the At The become increasingly rare in recent decades. July 17 the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) Races television channel. For example, Estimate was the first horse owned announced that a number of post-race samples, Estimate made sporting history for the Queen by the Queen to win an elite Group One race in obtained from recent race meetings, had been in 2013 when she became the first reigning Britain since Dunfermline won the Oaks and the St found to indicate the presence of morphine, which monarch to own a Gold Cup-winning horse. Leger, two of England’s five annual ‘Classics’, in is a prohibited substance on race days. 1977. Overseas royals from wealthy oil-rich states “Five horses, under the care of various trainers, Special thrill in the Middle East, such as Dubai ruler Sheikh were affected. “I can confirm that one of those An often reserved figure in public, the Queen Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Saudi KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait sponsored a futsal tournament organized horses was Estimate, the five year-old filly trained was seen smiling as Estimate crossed the winning Arabia’s Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, as well as the by the labor union at the Finance Ministry on the occasion of Ramadan. The matches by Sir Michael Stoute and owned by The Queen. line first. Immediately after Estimate’s victory, Ireland-based Coolmore set-up, have all become took place at the Nasser Sports Club, and were attended by top ministry officials led “Initial indications are that the positive test result- Stoute said: “It’s a special thrill to win this race for huge players in English racing after spending mil- by minister Anas Al-Saleh. The photo shows minister Saleh handing the champi- ed from the consumption of a contaminated feed the Queen and it will have given her enormous lions of pounds on extensive bloodstock and train- onship trophy to the winning team. product. “Sir Michael is working closely with the pleasure-she really loves this game.” ing operations. — AFP

Zanetti, Nesta visit Rodan, as two teams advance to semis

KUWAIT: International Bank of Kuwait booked its ticket to Meanwhile, Lily White moved to the semifinal as well welcomed former Argentina international Javier Zanetti the tournament. The two expressed happiness for visiting the semifinal in the 35th annual Rodan Futsal Tournament after a crushing 8 - 1 defeat of Holiday Inn during the 34th and former Italian international Alessandro Nesta, who Kuwait for the first time, and for the opportunity to com- after a 1-0 defeat of the Kuwait Credit Bank. day of competition. The Rodan tournament organizers were invited to participate in an exhibition match during municate with their fans in the country. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 SPORTS Jets eliminating paper season tickets

EAST RUTHERFORD: The New York Jets are doing points increase significantly, right through the home thing out of the ordinary - and their loyalty is reward- games has come to define their lives.” away with paper tickets for season ticket holders and season finale. Program participants will manage their ed.” The Jets’ long-term plan is to expand the program With no appearances in a Super Bowl since 1969, offering those fans a rewards plan for showing up reg- accounts (tickets, points and rewards) through a sepa- beyond game day to include other events and tie-ins the loyalty of those ticket holders can’t be questioned. ularly and behaving properly. rate portal. Program participation is free. with sponsors. Should a season ticket holder relinquish his seat or The high-end rewards include Super Bowl tickets The program is not based on spending money for Extra points will not be accumulated for attending seats for a game, the fan attending can join the and a trip to a road game on the team plane. Other food or souvenirs, but on showing up, sharing what preseason games, which traditionally do not attract rewards program and set up a separate account, NFL clubs, such as the Broncos and Chiefs, already Rabinowitz calls a “sense of community” and comport- full houses and often are attended by fans who are not Rabinowitz said. have gone to paperless access control systems. But as ing oneself properly at games. There will be bonus season ticket holders. Rabinowitz said the Jets dis- Season ticket holders still can forward and resell Seth Rabinowitz, the Jets’ vice president of marketing points for fans’ involvement with the team’s local cussed that issue, but for 2014 there will be no sepa- their tickets online. As for those attractive rewards and fan engagement said Tuesday: “Certainly we are broadcast partners, too. rate segment of the program directed at the exhibi- such as the Super Bowl trip or attending an away the first to do this much.” While they don’t reward spending habits, the Jets tions. Jets season tickets are nearly sold out each sea- game with the team or sitting in the owner’s suite, That begins with a simpler way to enter MetLife will provide point bonuses at the beginning of the son. Longtime fans - the Jets have a few who have had they will be part of a rewards auction site. Other prizes Stadium. Season ticket holders will use wallet-sized year for seat locations: 1,000 points for the higher-lev- season tickets dating to the AFL’s Titans, and many with a set value, such as an autograph session, will be smart cards that are loaded for 2014. No more paper el; 4,000 points for PSL holders; and 5,000 points for more from their years at Shea Stadium - will be recog- available through a rewards marketplace simply by that can get torn, wet or chewed up by the dog. The club seat holders. nized in the program. They will receive extra bonus redeeming bonus points. program also will provide incentives for the season “We want to get better at tailoring what we give points for their loyalty, and the team plans to honor “We are saying that we want you there and will ticket holders to keep coming, with bonus points them,” Rabinowitz said. “They don’t accept one size fits them at a game this season. reward you for coming, for cheering your lungs out,” accumulating throughout a season. Once a fan has all, nor should they. The message is to come to the “They wear it like a badge of honor,” Rabinowitz Rabinowitz said. “Hopefully, these rewards are like been to seven of the 10 home games, the rewards games and be a good fan - they don’t have to do any- said of those fans. “In many cases, attending these pennies from heaven.” — AP Orioles win 4-2 to maintain AL East lead Cubs beat Padres to snap five-game losing streak

ANAHEIM: Miguel Gonzalez took a two-hit was ejected in the seventh after hitting Justin shutout into the eighth inning, Jonathan Turner with a pitch after Jamey Wright Schoop homered, and J.J. Hardy hit two RBI plunked Pirates star Andrew McCutchen. doubles to lead Baltimore past the Los Beckett allowed four runs in 3 2-3 innings, Angeles Angels. Gonzalez (5-5) allowed two three coming on solo home runs by Walker, runs and three hits in 7 2-3 innings, including Davis and Polanco. a two-run homer in the eighth by All-Star MVP Mike Trout. Cubs 6, Padres 0 Tommy Hunter retired Albert Pujols on a Anthony Rizzo hit two home runs, and grounder for the final out of the eighth, and Kyle Hendricks pitched seven innings in his Zach Britton pitched a perfect ninth for his return from the minor leagues, as the 18th save in 21 chances. Gonzalez was Chicago Cubs beat San Diego to snap a five- recalled from Triple-A Norfolk, where he was game losing streak. Rizzo staked Hendricks to optioned on July 11. a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Four innings lat- Angels left-hander Hector Santiago er, rookie Arismendy Alcantara and Rizzo hit matched zeroes with Gonzalez through five back-to-back homers off Blaine Boyer for a 5- innings, allowing just two hits before rookie 0 lead. Rizzo became the first National Mike Morin (2-3) took over in the sixth. League player to reach 25 homers this sea- son, his career high. Emilio Bonifacio, Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 3 Wellington Castillo and Justin Ruggiano had J.A. Happ pitched six shutout innings for two hits apiece for the Cubs. Recalled from his first victory in three starts, Dioner Navarro Triple-A Iowa earlier Tuesday, Hendricks (1-0) and Jose Reyes homered, and the Toronto made short work of an anemic Padres lineup Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on that entered the game with a total of 29 Tuesday night. home runs and 103 RBIs. In his second start of Reyes and Navarro both connected in the the season, he allowed five hits and threw sixth inning as the Blue Jays rebounded from only 83 pitches. Eric Stults (3-12) took his Monday’s 14-1 defeat to snap Boston’s five- ninth loss in 10 decisions. game winning streak. Reyes and Melky Cabrera both had three hits and two RBIs. Indians 8, Twins 2 Cabrera has 14 multi-hit games in his past 30. Carlos Santana homered among his sea- David Ortiz hit a solo homer in the eighth, son high-tying four hits and Danny Salazar his third homer in two games and the 36th at won in his first start in more than two months Rogers Centre, matching Alex Rodriguez for as Cleveland topped Minnesota. the most by a visiting player. Happ (8-5) Cleveland won for the fourth time in six allowed seven hits in six innings to win for games since the All-Star break. Minnesota the first time since June 26. Brett Cecil got has lost four of five. the final out for his fourth save in five Salazar (2-4) gave up one run and six hits chances. in five innings. Indians closer Cody Allen Jake Peavy (1-9) lost for the ninth time in struck out pinch-hitter Chris Parmelee with a 15 starts and hasn’t won since beating runner on third in a tworun game in the Toronto on April 25. He allowed five runs and eighth inning before Cleveland scored four eight hits in 6 1-3 innings. times in the ninth. Twins rookie starter Yohan OAKLAND: L.J. Hoes #0 of the Houston Astros hits a home run against the Oakland Athletics during the twelfth inning at O.co Coliseum on Pino (1-3) allowed four runs and seven hits in Tuesday in Oakland, California. The Houston Astros defeated the Oakland Athletics 3-2 in 12 innings. — AFP Marlins 6, Braves 5 6 1-3 innings. Minnesota’s Brian Dozier had Rays 7, Cardinals 2 lead. Brooks Brown (0-1) gave up LaRoche’s The Giants (56-44) improved to 8-2 in Jacob Turner allowed two runs in his bid three hits, including his career-high 19th Jake Odorizzi allowed two runs over 5 2-3 13th homer. Craig Stammen (1-4) pitched a extra-inning games and 6-0 on the road. The for a permanent return to Miami’s rotation home run in the seventh inning. innings, and Yunel Escobar highlighted a five- scoreless inning to get the win. Rafael Soriano Phillies (43-57) fell to 6-7. and the Marlins knocked Mike Minor out of run fifth inning with a two-run double to lead earned his 23rd save. the game early in their win over Atlanta. Brewers 4, Reds 3 Tampa Bay over St. Louis. Mets 3, Mariners 1 Donovan Solano had a career-high four Jonathan Lucroy homered leading off the It was the Rays’ season-high sixth straight Diamondbacks 5, Tigers 4 Jacob deGrom allowed five hits and a run hits and reached on a walk as Miami took its bottom of the ninth inning to give Milwaukee win. They have outscored the opposition 36- Aaron Hill drove in three runs and made a in seven impressive innings, Lucas Duda hit a second straight win over Atlanta. Christian a win over Cincinnati. 11 during the run. Evan Longoria added a solo game-ending diving stop, Miguel Montero hit mammoth home run, and the New York Mets Yelich had two hits and scored three runs. It was Lucroy’s second homer of the game homer in the ninth for Tampa Bay. a two-run single in the eighth inning, and topped Seattle to break a three-game losing St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright, making his Arizona rallied for a win over Detroit. streak. DeGrom (4-5) walked one and struck first appearance since starting for the NL in Trailing 3-2 in the eighth, Detroit went out seven to improve to 4-1 with a 1.59 ERA the All-Star game, gave up six runs, four ahead on Torii Hunter’s two-run single up the over his last six starts. earned, in 4 2-3 innings. Wainwright (12-5) middle off Brad Ziegler. Eury De la Rosa (2-0) Travis d’Arnaud drove in a run with a triple was trying to become the first 13-game win- got the final two outs in the inning, and off Erasmo Ramirez (1-5), who was recalled ner in the NL. He walked four and hit a batter Arizona rallied when Phil Coke (1-2) walked from Triple-A Tacoma for the start, and scored in his second-shortest outing of the season. two in the bottom half after being hit by a line on Ruben Tejada’s soft single in the second Matt Carpenter and Matt Holliday hit solo drive. The Diamondbacks loaded the bases on inning.Duda hit his 15th home run, a 446-foot home runs for the Cardinals. a two-out walk, and Montero singled up the drive off the second deck scoreboard in right middle off Ian Krol. field in the eighth. Jeurys Familia worked an Yankees 2, Rangers 1, 14 Innings David Peralta tied a team record with two easy eighth, and Jenrry Mejia earned up the Chase Headley hit a game-winning single triples. Addison Reed worked around a walk save - his 12th in 14 chances.Endy Chavez led in the 14th inning of his Yankees debut to in the ninth for his 24th save. off the bottom of the first with a single then give New York a victory over Texas. deGrom retired the next 11 batters. Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig’s franchise Giants 9, Phillies 6, 14 Innings record for doubles, and the Yankees won an Brandon Crawford hit a bases-clearing Astros 3, Athletics 2, 12 Innings unlikely pitching duel after both rookie double to break a 14th-inning stalemate, and L.J. Hoes homered with one out in the top starters entered with a 5.10 ERA. Tim Lincecum earned his first career save as of the 12th, and Houston beat Oakland for its J.P. Arencibia snapped a scoreless tie with a San Francisco beat Philadelphia. first win in four tries at the Coliseum this year. leadoff homer in the 13th against New York Crawford snapped a 2-for-22 skid with his The Astros also earned their first three- reliever David Huff, but the Yankees respond- two-out hit off the wall in left-center field and game winning streak against the A’s in fran- ed with Brett Gardner’s leadoff double and finished with four RBIs. Buster Posey, who chise history. Hoes connected off Fernando Jacoby Ellsbury’s tying single off closer doubled and scored in the 14th, sent the Abad (2-4). The baseball-leading A’s (61-38) Joakim Soria in the bottom half. game into extras with a solo homer in the missed several chances to move a season- Brian Roberts doubled with one out in the ninth off Jonathan Papelbon, who blew his high 25 games over .500. 14th off Nick Tepesch (3-6), who threw 99 third save. George Kontos (3-0) earned the Pinch-hitter John Jaso hit a two-out single pitches over 4 1-3 innings during Sunday’s win for the second straight night. Lincecum, in the 11th and Jed Lowrie drew a walk from CHICAGO: Nori Aoki #23 of the Kansas City Royals bats in the 6th inning against the start in Toronto. Headley looped a single to San Francisco’s ninth pitcher, got the final two Jose Veras, who was replaced by Darin Downs Chicago White Sox US Cellular Field on Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois. — AFP left-center to score Roberts. outs for the save. Jeff Manship (1-2) surren- (2-1). Chad Qualls finished for his 11th save in Headley was acquired from San Diego in a dered four runs and lost. 13 opportunities. — AP trade before the game. Jeff Francis (1-1) Turner (3-6), making his first start since and 11th of the season. It was his second worked a scoreless inning to win his Yankees June 11, gave up four hits in five innings. He career walkoff homer, both against the Reds. debut in a game that took 4 hours, 51 min- MLB results/standings loaded the bases but allowed only one run in His first was last season off closer Aroldis utes. the first inning. The other run he gave up Chapman and this one was off Sam LeCure. came on Justin Upton’s third-inning homer. Francisco Rodriguez (4-3) pitched the Nationals 7, Rockies 4 Pittsburgh 12, LA Dodgers 7; Toronto 7, Boston 3; Miami 6, Atlanta 5; Chicago Cubs 6, San Steve Cishek pitched around Chris ninth to earn the victory. Cincinnati, 0-5 since Adam LaRoche hit a tiebreaking home run Diego 0; Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 1; Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 3; Cleveland 8, Johnson’s leadoff single in the ninth to earn the All-Star break, brought in LeCure (1-2) to in the seventh, Anthony Rendon had three Minnesota 2; Tampa Bay 7, St. Louis 2. his 23rd save. Minor (3-6) was rocked in his pitch the ninth. His outing lasted just three hits, and Washington rallied to beat Colorado. shortest start of the season, giving up six pitches as Lucroy hit a 1-1 offering inside the It was the Nationals fourth straight win, and American League National League runs on 10 hits and two walks in three-plus left field foul pole. they increased their NL East lead to two Eastern Division Eastern Division innings. He allowed six runs for the second games over Atlanta. W L PCT GB Washington 55 43 .561 - straight start. Royals 7, White Sox 1 Ian Desmond followed Monday’s 5-for-5 Baltimore 55 44 .556 - Atlanta 54 46 .540 2 Mike Moustakas homered twice, Bruce performance with hits in his first two at-bats NY Yankees 51 48 .515 4 Miami 47 52 .475 8.5 Pirates 12, Dodgers 7 Chen pitched five effective innings, and for Washington. He was hit by a pitch in the Toronto 52 49 .515 4 NY Mets 47 53 .470 9 Gregory Polanco got out of a slump with a Kansas City snapped a four-game losing sixth to reach base safely in eight consecutive Tampa Bay 48 53 .475 8 Philadelphia 43 57 .430 13 solo home run and a tiebreaking two-run sin- streak by beating the Chicago White Sox. plate appearances. The streak ended when he Boston 47 53 .470 8.5 Central Division gle, lifting Pittsburgh over the Los Angeles Moustakas, who has 12 homers this sea- struck out in the seventh. Central Division Milwaukee 56 45 .554 - Dodgers. Neil Walker went 2 for 4 with his son, went 3 for 5 with three RBIs. The Royals Nolan Arenado and Corey Dickerson Detroit 55 42 .567 - St. Louis 54 46 .540 1.5 Cleveland 51 49 .510 5.5 15th homer and three RBIs. Ike Davis had entered the game with a major league-worst homered for the Rockies, who have lost seven Pittsburgh 53 47 .530 2.5 three hits, including his sixth home run. 55 homers and had managed a total of six Kansas City 49 50 .495 7 straight and remain tied with Texas for the Cincinnati 51 49 .510 4.5 Vance Worley (3-1) overcame shaky defense runs during the skid. Chen (2-2) allowed one Chicago White Sox 48 53 .475 9 worst record in the majors. Before the game Chicago Cubs 41 57 .418 13.5 behind him to win for the first time in nearly run and five hits in five innings. the Rockies placed shortstop Troy Tulowitzki Minnesota 45 54 .455 11 a month. Adrian Gonzalez smacked his 15th Adam Dunn went 2 for 4 with a solo Western Division Western Division on the disabled list with a left hip flexor strain San Francisco 56 44 .560 - homer and finished with three RBIs for the homer for the White Sox, who had won three and recalled left-hander Yohan Flande, who Oakland 61 38 .616 - Dodgers. Paul Maholm (1-5) took the loss of four. Chicago starter Scott Carroll (4-6) LA Angels 59 40 .596 2 LA Dodgers 56 46 .549 1 started the game. Arizona 44 57 .436 12.5 after replacing ineffective starter Josh allowed five runs and 11 hits in five-plus Flande started well before faltering in the Seattle 53 47 .530 8.5 Beckett, who struggled in his return from a innings. The Royals broke the game open Houston 42 58 .420 19.5 San Diego 43 56 .434 12.5 sixth. He allowed four runs and five hits and Colorado 40 60 .400 16 hip injury. Pittsburgh reliever Justin Wilson with a four-run sixth inning. walked two in 5 1-3 innings. He left with a 4-2 Texas 40 60 .400 21.5 THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 SPORTS CEO: Rivers to quit Clippers if Sterling stays

LOS ANGELES: The interim CEO of the Los Angeles an objection by an NBA lawyer who said it would be ate the death spiral,” Parson said. The discussion of Resorts in Las Vegas are cold about whether they Clippers testified Tuesday that coach Doc Rivers told an invasion of privacy. The judge upheld the objec- Clippers players and coaches is new territory for the will continue, as are other companies including Kia him he will quit if Donald Sterling remains the own- tion. Rivers has said he had heard from other trial that has mostly explored the dealings between Motors Corp. er of the team. CEO Richard Parsons made the state- Clippers business employees that they didn’t think the Sterlings. It wasn’t immediately clear what effect “We have a bunch of sponsors sitting at the edge ment at a trial to determine whether Sterling’s wife they would be able to work for Sterling under the the new information might have on the narrow of the pool and they don’t want to go in if the Shelly Sterling can sell the team for $2 billion to for- circumstances. Parsons is a former chief executive at question under consideration of whether Shelly Sterlings are there,” Parsons said. mer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Time Warner and Citigroup who took over leader- Sterling can sell the team under the family trust. Parsons also said he doesn’t believe that anyone The NBA has tried to force out Donald Sterling ship of the Clippers in May during the media blitz Messages left for team officials seeking comment will offer as much money for the team as Ballmer. since soon after racist statements emerged on surrounding the banishment of Sterling. from Rivers weren’t immediately returned. The high-stakes financial fight centers on recordings in April. “Doc is troubled by this maybe Under questioning by Ballmer’s lawyer, Parsons Parsons, who is considered an expert in the man- whether Shelly Sterling was authorized to make a moreso than anybody else,” Parsons said on the wit- said the departure of Rivers would begin “a death agement of major corporations, said he was certain deal with Ballmer on behalf of the Sterling Family ness stand about Rivers, who is black. “If Mr. Sterling spiral” for the Clippers. that sponsors would pull out and season ticket Trust. While she was negotiating, Donald Sterling continues as owner, he does not want to continue “If Doc were to leave, that would be a disaster,” holders would demand their money back if Donald revoked the trust, a move designed to rescind his as coach.” Parsons said he fears there would also be Parsons said. “Doc is the father figure, the one who Sterling remains as owner.”If your coach leaves, if signed agreement for the sale of the Clippers, which an exodus of key players, including team captain leads. He’s the coach. He’s the grown-up. He is able your players don’t want to play with you, what do he bought for just $12 million.He announced from Chris Paul, who also is black and heads the NBA to connect with people and earn their trust. The you have?” Parsons asked. “If your sponsors leave the witness stand earlier in the trial that he would players union. Parsons was about to give an account team believes in him and loves him. and the fans leave, it’s going to spiral down and never sell the team and would be suing the NBA for of his conversations with Paul but was stopped by “If he were to leave, that is only going to acceler- down.” He said key sponsors such as Mandalay Bay the rest of his life. — AP Mountains jersey tactic helps Majka to second stage win Nibali extends overall lead by 49sec to 5:26

SAINT-LARY-SOULAN: Rafal Majka won his sec- ond stage of the 2014 Tour de France yesterday and also extended his lead in the King of the Mountains standings. And the 24-year-old Pole revealed that it was his team manager Bjarne Riis’s tactical nous that helped him both win the tough 124.5km Pyrenean stage and hold onto the polka- dot jersey. Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez had started the day just a point behind Majka in the mountains classification but picked up 24 points to Majka’s 10 over the first three first category climbs. But the 35-year-old was nowhere to be seen when Majka crossed the line at Saint-Lary at the end of the final hors category ascent. “Bjarne told me not to go for the King of the Mountain points (on the first three climbs), he said ‘wait, wait, wait, you’ll get double points at the fin- ish’,” said Majka. Majka picked up 50 points for fin- ishing first with Rodriguez coming over the line in 31st place, meaning the Pole now leads Vincenzo Nibali, the yellow jersey wearer, by 31 points. Nibali extended his overall lead by 49sec to 5:26 ahead of Alejandro Valverde. French veteran Jean- Christophe Peraud was the big mover amongst the leading six, closing to just 8sec of Thibaut Pinot in third place as he finished alongside Nibali. On Tuesday morning Peraud was sixth overall and more than a minute behind his teammate Bardet in third. But the 37-year-old has steadily climbed the standings and with one mountain stage left on Thursday-in which the epic Tourmalet and Hautacam mountains will be climbed-Peraud is in a good position to finish on the podium. SAINT-GAUDENS: Poland’s Rafal Majka wearing the best climber’s polka dot jersey celebrates as he crosses the COLOMBO: South African cricketer Wayne Parnell delivers a ball dur- He is a better timetriallist than any of those finish line at the end of the 124.5 km seventeenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race ing a practice session at Sri Lanka’s R. Premadasa International Cricket competing for a top three finish. Just as he did in yesterday between Saint-Gaudens and Saint-Lary Pla d’Adet, southwestern France. — AFP Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka and South Africa start a sec- the second of the two Alpine stages, Peraud ond Test match at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC) in Colombo to gain time on my main rivals. It was a very tough his wheel. But when the Pole went a third time he proved the only rider capable of holding onto today. — AFP day so I’m very satisfied with how it went.” Even so, got clear and gradually chased down Visconti. The Nibali’s wheel when the Italian accelerated on the Nibali refused to pop the champagne corks just pair rode together for a while before Majka final climb. “I’m very happy with my form: hanging yet. “It’s true that Valverde lost some time today attacked and the Italian, who finished second on South Africa mull onto Nibali in the third week! I had the good for- but he’s going well. There’s still another tough day the stage, could not respond. tune of having him as a point of reference. He tomorrow and then we’ve also got a 54km timetrial Nibali gobbled up the stragglers from the extra pace option worked with me and I thank him for that,” said the before I can weigh up where I am.” breakaway group and crossed the line third, with AG2R rider, who was ninth at the Tour in 2011. A series of different breakaway groups through- Peraud fourth. Valverde showed his experience by Peraud spent a lot of time just tagged onto Nibali’s out the day eventually ended up with a 14-strong hanging in when he was dropped by an accelera- COLOMBO: South Africa, on the verge of a rare series win in Sri Lanka, are con- back wheel but the Italian said that didn’t bother sidering playing an extra fast bowler on the Singhalese SC track which is not as one at the foot of the final climb. Four men got tion from Pinot, that was followed by Bardet and him as he put time into Valverde and Pinot. “For me conducive to spin as the one in Galle. away before Giovanni Visconti, who like Nibali is American Tejay Van Garderen. But Valverde let two South Africa played leg-spinner Imran Tahir and the off-spin of JP Duminy in it was important to gain some seconds. (Peraud) is Sicilian, took off on his own. Majka had accelerated teammates pace him back up to the young trio and the first test which they won by 153 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match quite far behind (6:08) so he’s not a danger to me,” a couple of times out of the bunch but Rodriguez he even gained 5sec on them with a little burst just series. “I think it’s unlikely we’re going to go with two frontline spinners in this said the 29-year-old Astana leader. “I was looking refused to work with him and just settled behind before the line. — AFP test, Galle was probably the ideal venue if we were going to go down that route,” captain Hashim Amla told reporters ahead of today’s second match. “Traditionally it doesn’t turn as much as early here. “Over the last few years in this team the fast bowlers have managed to do the job wherever we’ve been Pakistan board to approve in the world. “In some ways it doesn’t come as a big surprise that Dale (Steyn), Morne (Morkel) and Vern (Vernon Philander) have done it everywhere in the world. “Coming to this venue, I haven’t had a look at the wicket as yet today, but I’ll see what kind of team we’ll have to go to get the best results,” he said. Amla new constitution hoped his fast bowlers who did the bulk of the bowling at Galle had enough time to recover.“It was a physically demanding test. From a recovery perspec- tive, we’ve tried to give the guys time to get their bodies in the best nick possi- KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board is set next five times since May over an electoral dispute. be a citizen of Pakistan and have a clean criminal ble, especially the fast bowlers, whose workload was quite considerable. week to adopt a new constitution intended to make According to the new constitution, the holder of the record. A PCB chairman will be elected for a three- “We’ve tried to manage the quick turnaround, South Africa have not won a the appointment of its chairman more democratic post-which was previously filled by the government year tenure but can be voted out by the board. He test series in Sri Lanka since 2003 under the leadership of Kepler Wessels. “I and weaken political influence. of the day-will now be elected from a ten-member may be re-elected once. don’t think that record is playing on our minds what’s more in our minds is The changes come as the board prepares to hold a Board of Governors. The International Cricket Council had warned playing good cricket over the next five days,” Amla said. fresh election to end a long-running power struggle Observers say the move will weaken the influence member countries of sanctions unless they ended “We tried to basically forget what happened in the last test and we man- for the top job. “The amended constitution is of the national prime minister because he will only government interference in the sport by June 2013. aged to play really good cricket there and come up with a victory. “From a team approved by the Supreme Court and is a truly demo- nominate two of the board’s ten members. Sethi has But the body later backed down on the warning, perspective we’re addressing this game as if we’re coming in on a clean slate.” cratic document and will guarantee an end to the announced he would not contest the election but saying it was not viable in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa are likely to retain Quinton de Kock as wicketkeeper after he came uncertainty in the PCB,” acting chairman Najam Sethi would remain part of the board. Bangladesh where governments have a major say in into the team in Galle because AB de Villiers was struggling with a hamstring said Tuesday. The post of PCB chairman has changed The new chairman must hold a bachelors degree, cricketing matters. — AFP injury. — Reuters New zealand spinner’s action deemed illegal

WELLINGTON: New Zealand part-time spinner Kane Williamson has been banned from bowl- ing after biomechanical tests confirmed his action is illegal, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said yesterday. Williamson was reported following New Zealand’s 10-wicket defeat in the second Test in the West Indies and ordered by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to undergo independent testing on his delivery. The tests, conducted by Cardiff Metropolitan University, confirmed that his elbow extension when bowling exceeded the 15 degrees of flex permitted under ICC regula- tions, NZC said. The 23-year-old, who will con- tinue in his primary role as a batsman, said he was determined to work on his action and pass the biomechanical tests so he could once again bowl for the Black Caps. “(I) will concentrate on changing whatever’s necessary to return to the bowling crease,” he COLOMBO: Sri Lankan cricketer Dinesh Chandimal walks to the field said. “Clearly, the onus is on me to satisfy asses- during a practice session at the R. Premadasa International Cricket sors as to the legality of my action, and I’m Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka and South Africa play a sec- aware I have some hard work in front of me to ond Test match at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC) in Colombo achieve that goal.” — AFP KAZAN: Members of Russia’s team take a selfie with their gold medals after winning the gold medal dur- today. — AFP ing the women’s team epee event at the 2014 World Fencing Championships in Kazan, yesterday. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 SPORTS

Germany were always Photo of the day well organized: Dunga

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil looked forward by head Jose Maria Marin with 73-year-old looking back Tuesday in deciding to give for- Marco Polo Del Nero is capable of clearing mer World Cup-winning skipper Dunga a out the stables effectively. second bite at coaching the Selecao. Having won the chance to return to a job Calls for deep reform he lost four years earlier after a quarter-final “Given the way the CBF structures are loss to the Netherlands, Dunga’s mantra of things are very difficult,” he observed follow- organize first, then entertain may not be the ing a meeting with Rousseff herself. way most Brazilians look at the ‘beautiful’ Bom Senso’s calls for deep reform have game. But the ageing suits in charge of the been loud and constant for months and are Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) have not related to Brazil’s World Cup failure decreed that reform and emerging from the which ended in their ignominious record wreckage of their trouncing by Germany is a semi-final 7-1 loss to Germany. job for an experienced pragmatist-not a rev- Brazil’s secretary for football and defense olutionary. of fan rights Antonio Jose Carvalho do Though it is the likes of Pele, Garrincha, Nascimento Filho insisted there would be no Ronaldo, Ronaldinho-and Neymar-who star let-up after Monday’s meeting with Bom in most fans’ dreams as they fret over which Senso. “This is not electoral opportunism, it reformist path to take to the future, Dunga is patriotism. The 7-1 surprised us, but the says he has no time, and no need, to don deficiencies of Brazilian football (in general) rose-tinted spectacles. do not surprise us,” he said. Promising to engage better with the Dunga wants to forge a unit rather than press than he did first time round between rely on individuals-he left a then teenaged 2006 and 2010, he said that however much Neymar off his 2010 squad despite earning football evolves certain truisms cannot be Pele’s ire for the decision. controverted. “Every coach begins by organ- Tuesday he said he will “revamping all the izing things from the back,” he bluntly bases” with a staff under new technical coor- asserted. dinator Gilmar Rinaldi, a friend from the “Germany were always organized,” he 1994 squad. The 50-year-old, whose football added, the clear implication being that is a experience encompasses Italy, Germany and first building block for success-not fancy Japan as well as Brazil, says he has changed footwork 40 metres out. for the better since his first spell, when That thinking was behind the decision, under-20 coach Rogerio Lourenco com- announced by outgoing CBF president Jose plained there was no contact. Maria Marin at CBF headquarters in Rio, to “You know me-I person doesn’t easily choose a man they know well, who won 91 alter his principles regarding ethics and caps as well as overseeing 60 matches in work. “But I know I have to change in terms charge thereafter — 42 won for six lost. of my contacts with you journalists,” said Brazil’s authorities want to reform the Dunga, promising in future to be more mel- game without going down the path of cata- low in yellow. clysmic change even if many aspects of the “First time out I focused too much on domestic game are in disarray with clubs pitch matters... My fault.” Targeting early suc- Alex Sorgente performs at the Vans Bondi Bowl-A-Rama at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on February 22nd, 2014. —www.redbull- racking up huge debts while regular bouts cess at next year’s Copa America in Chile, contentpool.com of hooliganism persist. Dunga has three evident advantages as he President Dilma Rousseff, conscious of embarks on his quest to deliver in Russia the importance and high visibility of the 2018 the sixth World Cup which proved so football debate as she targets re-election in elusive on home soil this month. October, is already in contact with the Bom He has an unexpected opportunity now Man United ‘ready to Senso (Common Sense) collective of players to learn from his past spell in charge and looking to overhaul the game’s structures. readily admits he must see the media as a Bom Senso was swift to send advance potential ally, not automatic enemy. good luck greetings via spokesman Ruy Above all, assuming he is still at the helm break transfer records’ Bueno Neto to Dunga overnight Monday come 2018, he will have the huge advantage while making clear that outside the CBF of not having to meet overblown home hierarchy there is demand for deep reform. expectations-a double-edged sword which LONDON: Manchester United are prepared nificant amounts of money in the transfer players in recent weeks, including Germany “There is no need to repeat that our Germany seized to cut a Brazil psychologi- to break transfer records in order to give new market.”United are rebuilding under Van Gaal centre-back Mats Hummels, Belgium defend- leaders are well behind when it comes to cally unable to cope with the emotions and manager Louis van Gaal the players he wants, after a dismal 2013-14 season and Woodward er Thomas Vermaelen, and the Dutch trio of the modern game...I wish him (Dunga) the injury loss of Neymar to ribbons. The according to executive vice-chairman Ed says that in the context, the club will have no Daley Blind, Stefan de Vrij and Kevin luck,” said Neto, who clearly doubts that a process starts with a September 5 friendly Woodward. qualms about sanctioning big-money sign- Strootman. CBF about to replace current 82-year-old meeting with Colombia in Miami. — AFP The English giants have already spent over ings. Woodward endured a trying first close-sea- £50 million ($85 million, 63 million euros) on “Whether it’s a record or not doesn’t really son last year, when United missed out on a England left-back Luke Shaw and Spanish resonate with us,” he added, in comments succession of major targets, and he admits he midfielder Ander Herrera, and Woodward says reported by the British media on Wednesday. still needs to prove his worth to the club’s that they are ready to spend even more. “What resonates is a top, top elite player supporters. “You gain credibility through Some of United’s European rivals have that the manager wants that is going to be a experience and through time,” said the former spent big recently. Real Madrid on Tuesday star for Manchester United. We are in a very investment banker. “You can’t expect credibili- signed James Rodriguez from Monaco for a strong financial position. We can make big ty from day one and I wouldn’t ask that of the fee of around £63 million ($107.4m), while signings. fans. You keep learning on the job and I’ll con- Barcelona paid Liverpool around £75 million “I get pointed in the direction of a target tinue to learn for a long period of time. ($127.8m) for Luis Suarez. Asked if United that the manager wants and there is an “I don’t mind reading (criticism), because were able to pay a similar amount for a player, assessment of what that might cost and I’ll it’s extremely important for me to listen to the Woodward said: “It is in our capabilities. The negotiate hard to do the best I can on the fans. Criticism can change into positive com- club are not afraid of doing that-spending sig- trade.” United have been linked with a host of ments over a period of time.” — AFP Champions League games moved away from Donetsk

KIEV: Shakhtar Donetsk will shift their head- hosted matches during the European champi- could fix it in the future. I mean Lviv, in particu- quarters to Kiev and play their Champions onship in 2012. lar. Because we are planning to hold our domes- League and domestic games in the western city Shakhtar opened the new season with a 2-0 tic and Champions league games here.î of Lviv to escape from Ukraineís strife-torn east, win at rivals Dynamo Kiev in the Super Cup Palkin said the club was still working on per- CEO Sergei Palkin confirmed. game in Lviv on Tuesday. suading the five Brazilians and one Argentine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk also announced yes- The conflict, which was brought into sharp who have refused to play in Ukraine. AUCKLAND: Mohamed Diame (L) of English Premier League side West Ham United terday that UEFA had ordered the first leg of focus by the downing of a Malaysian Airlines ìWe are in the persuasion phase saying fights for possession with Alex Gorrin (R) of Wellington Phoenix during their football their Champions League third qualifying round flight near Donetsk last week, has rocked the Ukraine is safe enough to play and live in,î he match at Eden Park in Auckland yesterday. — AFP tie against Danish side FC Copenhagen to be club, with six of its players refusing to return to said. ìIt is our primary task now as many of them played in Kiev. the country. Shakhtar, who represent the pro- are scared. I hope to get this sorted out. If not, Ukrainian champions Shakhtar were forced to Russian region of Donbass, face a challenge to we have the other mechanisms to deal with it.î German lawmakers move from Donetsk, a major industrial city in the win support in western Ukraine. UEFA had said last week that matches in East which has become a stronghold of pro- Palkin agreed Shakhtar did not have the same Dnipropetrovsk, some 220 miles (354 km) from raise doubts about Russia Russian separatists who are fighting army forces level of support in the stands in Lviv, located Kiev, would be allowed to go ahead. controlled by the government. more than a thousand kilometres from Donetsk, However, following the Malaysian Airlines dis- Offered a choice of four venues by European as their rivals Dynamo during the season-opener aster, the Danish Football Association and FC hosting World Cup soccer governing body UEFA, Shakhtar chose to on Tuesday. ìLet us be honest, there was not 50- Copenhagen had called for their qualifier on July play their games at Lviv Arena, a stadium that 50 support in the stands,î he said. ìBut I think we 30 to be moved to a neutral venue. — Reuters BERLIN: Several senior politicians in Hesse agreed with Fuchs. “If (Russian German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s rul- President Vladimir) Putin doesn’t actively ing conservative party raised the possi- cooperate on clearing up the plane bility yesterday of stripping Russia of its crash, the soccer World Cup in Russia in right to host the 2018 soccer World Cup 2018 is unimaginable”, Peter Beuth told after the downing of a passenger plane Germany’s top-selling daily Bild. over Ukraine. Stephan Mayer, a member of Bavaria’s Western countries have blamed pro- conservative Christian Social Union Russian separatists battling Kiev’s forces (CSU), also said withdrawing the World in eastern Ukraine for the downing of Cup from Russia “should not be taboo”. the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July Germany’s DFB football association 17 in which 298 people were killed. was not immediately available to com- The European Union has threatened ment yesterday on the politicians’ com- to impose harsher economic sanctions ments. on Russia, though on Tuesday ministers Germany won this year’s World Cup delayed action for a few days. Taking tournament in Brazil. The Malaysian away Russia’s right to hold the soccer plane had been flying from Amsterdam tournament may have significantly to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down stronger impact than more economic near Donetsk, a stronghold of pro- sanctions, said Michael Fuchs, deputy Russian rebels. In the Netherlands, where head of the conservative bloc in the many of the passengers came from, the German parliament. Dutch football association said on “FIFA football association should think Wednesday it was too early to review about whether Moscow is an appropriate Russia’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup. host if it can’t even guarantee safe air- “The Dutch football association is ways,” Fuchs told Handelsblatt Online, aware that a future World Cup in Russia adding that Germany and France could stirs great emotion among all football take over the tournament if needed. fans and relatives in the Netherlands,” it Economic sanctions would be difficult said in a statement. “The association to implement due to Russia’s long bor- believes it is more appropriate to conduct ders, which are too porous to effectively a discussion over a future World Cup in seal off imports, Fuchs said. German Russia at a later moment, once the inves- trade associations have said new EU tigation into the disaster has been com- sanctions could hurt business between pleted.” England’s Football Association Russia and Germany, Europe’s biggest chairman also said on Tuesday it was pre- economy. mature to talk of moving the World Cup LVIV: Dario Srna of Shakhtar Donetsk lifts up Ukraine’s soccer Super Cup after their victory against Dynamo Kiev at Lviv Arena in Lviv, Ukraine, The interior minister of the state of from Russia. — Reuters Tuesday. — AP McKenzie sticks Mountains jersey with familiar tactic helps squad for Rugby Majka to second Championship stage win

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GLASGOW: Indian fans wave their national flag and cheer as they wait for the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. (Inset) A young boy with the flag of Scotland painted on his face smiles for the camera as he waits with his family for the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. — AP Bolt, Farah, Wiggins to add Commonwealth sparkle

GLASGOW: Sporting household names running as part of the Jamaican 4x100m Ann Fraser-Pryce also only competing in the combined with a desire to return to the Glasgow. such as Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and Bradley relay team as he missed his national cham- 4x100m relay, Trinidad and Tobago’s track at the Rio 2016 Olympics, means Australia are expected to dominate in the Wiggins will add some welcome sparkle to pionships which served as the selection Michelle-Lee Ahye is the strong favourite for Wiggins has been fully focused on the velo- pool with 100m freestyle world champions the 20th Commonwealth Games that get meeting for the Commonwealth Games due the women’s 100m as she is yet to be beat- drome in recent months. James Magnussen and Cate Campbell both under way in Glasgow yesterday. to injury. en this year. He had initially been mulling over a com- taking part. The biggest ever multi-sport event to Bolt said he didn’t want to take the place The heptathlon has been stripped of its bined programme of track and road, with South Africa will also be well represented take place in Scotland will see more than of any athlete who had qualified for an indi- two outstanding stars, firstly Jessica Ennis the team pursuit, individual pursuit, time- at the Tollcross Park Aquatics Centre by 4,000 athletes from 71 nations, 53 of which vidual event, but would be available for due to the recent birth of her first child and trial and road race all options for him. Olympic and world champions Chad le Clos make up the Commonwealth of Nations - selection as part of the relay team. then English teammate Katarina Johnson- But he will only contest the team pursuit and Cameron van der Burgh. the rest made up of British overseas territo- “I have received lots of requests, invita- Thompson through injury. in Glasgow, in a bid to prevent spreading The diving event will take place in the ries or dependencies, take part in 17 sports tions and messages of support from my fans Away from track and field, the Tour de himself too thinly. Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, over 11 days, with 261 medals up for grabs. in Scotland who are looking forward to a France’s loss with be the Commonwealth “The plan was to come in and do pretty which held events at the two editions of the With the background of a September 18 great event,” he said. Games’ gain as Wiggins will represent much most of the events, (but) with hind- Games held in the Scottish capital in 1970 referendum on Scottish independence, the Double world and Olympic champion England in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome in sight, I thought just focus on the Olympic and 1986, with England’s Tom Daley the star Games will officially be opened by Queen Farah is confident of being fit to run both the 4,000m team pursuit on Thursday. event rather than try to be too greedy,” attraction. Elizabeth II at a lavish ceremony in Celtic the 5,000m and 10,000m despite pulling Wiggins said. And there will also be a world class field Park later Wednesday that will enjoy an esti- out of the Diamond League event in Meares target Fellow Olympic champions Jason Kenny, on show in the rugby sevens event at Ibrox mated television audience of one billion Glasgow due to abdominal pains. Wiggins has become a global star since Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell will also line on July 26 and 27. viewers. Kenya’s world 800m record holder David he last competed at the Commonwealth up for England. Seven of the top eight ranked teams in Attention will then turn to the action Rudisha will be hotly tipped in the two-lap Games in 2002, with four Olympic gold Anna Meares will be hoping to defend the world will be competing, but two-time itself with Bolt, arguably world sport’s race but will not have it his own way given medals and victory in the 2012 Tour de the three Commonwealth golds she won Commonwealth Games silver medallists Fiji biggest star, looking to add Commonwealth the electric form of Botswana’s Nijel Amos, France making him arguably the most four years ago in New Delhi and can surpass will not be present as their suspension from gold to his six Olympic and eight World who recently beat the Kenyan into fifth in recognisable face in his sport. Kathy Watt as Australia’s most decorated the Games over military coup in 2006 was Championship gold medals. Monaco. But the controversial decision by Team Commonwealth Games cyclist of all time by lifted after the draw for the event had However, the 27-year-old will only be With two-time Olympic champion Shelly- Sky to stand him down from this year’s Tour, claiming at least two more medals in already taken place. — AFP Brownlee brothers bet on sibling rivalry for medals GLASGOW: The Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonathan, are bet- and everything’s gone as well as I could have hoped.” ting on an intense sibling rivalry in their drive for a top-of-the- Fresh from high-altitude training in St Moritz, Brownlee said podium finish in the triathlon at the Commonwealth Games the siblings’ joint podium showing under pressure at the London today. Olympics could hold them in good stead for action in Scotland. The Leeds-based siblings, their own harshest critics who often “It’s not unfamiliar, London was very good practice for that,” he work together in races, are the hot favourites over the Olympic said. “I don’t think I’m ever going to experience pressure like that distance course that begins with a 1.5km swim over two laps of again so after that everything feels easier. Strathclyde Loch before a 40km cycle and a 10km run. “We will go into it as favourites and I quite like that position.” Alistair Brownlee will be out to add Commonwealth gold to his Triathlon is returning to the Commonwealth Games programme Olympic gold won in London in 2012, with triumphs in the World for the first time since Melbourne 2006, having made its debut at Triathlon Series in 2011 and 2013 sandwiching that victory. Manchester 2002 when Canadian duo Carol Montgomery and Brownlee senior warmed up for the Glasgow Games with vic- Simon Whitfield won women’s and men’s gold. tory in the Triathlon World Series event in Hamburg earlier this While the men’s event is headlined as a battle of the month, winning ahead of France’s Vincent Luis and Jonny Brownlees, the women’s individual race promises to have several Brownlee, in third. contenders vying for gold. “This season has been about the Commonwealth Games for New Zealand’s Andrea Hewitt claimed bronze the last time the me, so I’m happy that I’m fit now,” Alistair Brownlee said after his triathlon took place at the Games and she also holds a silver from win in Germany following an injury-disrupted season in which he the 2011 World Triathlon Series and bronzes from the 2009 and also managed to claim the European title. 2012 editions. “It’s a tough course,” Brownlee told British media of the She will likely be up against England’s Jodie Stimpson, a silver Strathclyde Triathlon Course southeast of Glasgow. medal winner in the World Triathlon Series in 2013. “There’s nothing particularly hard on it but nothing easy either. Saturday sees the triathletes back in action, albeit in the sprint It’ll be a really tough, honest race I think. That’s the kind of race I distance mixed team relay, an event that makes its Games debut. EUGENE: Anezka Drahotova of the Czech Republic poses in front of the clock after setting a new junior world record in the like to do so I’m looking forward to it. Teams featuring two men and two women will each swim one women’s 10,000m race walk during day two of the IAAF World Junior Championships at Hayward Field yesterdayin Eugene, “I can’t complain about my shape at all. I’ve done some of the 250m lap of the loch before embarking on a 6km cycle and a Oregon. — AFP best training I’ve done in a long time so I’m really happy about it 1.6km run. — AFP India outsources chores as servant culture shifts Page 22

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SHANGHAI: Two cleaners have a rest on a bench at the Bund before the Huangpu River and the skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai yesterday. Chinese growth accelerated to a forecast-beating 7.5 percent in the sec- ond quarter, official data showed as government stimulus provided a much-needed boost to the world’s second-largest economy. — AFP Burgan Bank Group net income for H1 2014 up by 19.4% to reach KD33.3m Bank continues to record solid, consistent performance

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank Group announced 18.3 percent to reach 20 fils compared to the support of the international opera- executive management team for their yesterday its first half results for the finan- an EPS of 16.9 fils reported in 2013. tions to generate resilient streams of leadership and the excellent execution of cial year 2014. Burgan Bank Group report- Majed Essa Al-Ajeel, Chairman of income. Burgan Bank Group’s international the corporate strategy, and to our staff for ed net income of KD33.3 million for the Burgan Bank Group said: “Once again, our operations continue to register a year - on their continued support and commit- first half of the financial year 2014 reflect- focus and prudent approach at optimizing - year profitability and consist 48.2 percent ment,” concluded Al-Ajeel. ing 19.4 percent growth from the same the group’s operating performance to of the Group’s revenues reflecting the The consolidated financials encompass period in 2013. Compared to the same yield higher underlying returns despite soundness of the diversification strategy the results of the Group’s operations in period last year, Burgan Bank Group con- the hazy economic scene and volatile into high growth markets,” added Al-Ajeel. Kuwait, and its share from its regional sub- tinues to demonstrate solid and consistent regional operating environment is paying “Our asset quality is on comfortable lev- sidiaries, namely Jordan Kuwait Bank, performance, Operating income up to off. els, the Non-Performing Assets (net of col- Burgan Bank - Turkey, Gulf Bank Algeria, reach KD 130.5 million from KD 127 mil- The solid performance keeps in laterals) to gross facilities ratio stands at Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International Bank, lion while Operating Profits before provi- enabling us to build extra precautionary 1.9 and our coverage (net of collateral) in which Burgan Bank owns a majority sions reached KD 72.7 million from KD and counter cyclical reserves, a step that is stands at 230 percent,” continued Al-Ajeel. stake in. Burgan Bank Group has one of 71.2 million. Total Assets grew by 4.6 per- highly encouraged and welcomed by the “On behalf of the board, I take this the largest regional branch networks with cent to reach KD7.5 billion and total equi- Central Bank of Kuwait. opportunity to thank our customers and more than 231 branches across Kuwait, ty grew by 9.8 percent to reach KD 680.7 “Our Balance sheet continues to be shareholders for their confidence in our Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Majed Essa Al-Ajeel, million. Earnings Per share (EPS) grew by strong and healthy and allowing us with capabilities. I would also like to thank our Lebanon and Palestine. Chairman of Burgan Bank Group Jazeera Airways Group Jet eyes profit by 2017 announces H1 2014 results with boost from Etihad NEW DELHI: Jet Airways, India’s sec- have been haemorrhaging money KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways Group yesterday customers.” exclusivity, starting with exclusive check-in lines, ond-biggest carrier, forecast yester- but analysts say the sector has a announced financial and operational results for the The dedicated gates, which are equipped with business lounge access, up to 60 kilograms in free day a return to profit in three years brighter future longer-term thanks to first half of 2014, reporting an operating revenue of two state-of-the-art bridges, are strong product dif- baggage allowance, and an exclusive on-board cab- through cost-cuts, route-sharing a fast-growing growing middle class. KD29.3 million, and a net profit of KD4.9 million. ferentiators and enabled Jazeera Airways to offer a in. The airline’s Economy Class offers travelers free with new partner Etihad Airways and India’s carriers lost a total $1.3 bil- better, easier, and more streamlined boarding expe- baggage allowance of 40 kilograms and free on- restructuring of hefty debt. The pub- lion in the financial year to March, Q2 2014 Highlights rience for customers. Today, Jazeera Airways passen- board meals with a changing menu every month. licly traded airline, which has not the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation Operating Revenue: KD15.5 million, down 3.7% gers are the only passengers in Kuwait who have Jazeera Airways is based in Kuwait and serves 20 posted an annual profit since 2007, consultancy calculates. Jet’s net loss from Q2’13 access to booking with their mobile phone, check- popular destinations in the Middle East from Kuwait has been struggling in an overcrowd- in the last financial year widened dra- Operating profit: KD3.6 million, down 27.9% from ing-in online or in person using the airport kiosk, comprising high-demand business, leisure, family, ed market beset by cut-throat fare matically to 41.3 billion rupees from Q2’13 boarding through exclusive gates and state-of-the- and weekend destinations such as Dubai, Bahrain, wars, high fuel costs and shoddy a 7.8-billion loss the previous year, as Net profit: KD2.8 million, down 28.3% from Q2’13 art bridges, and fly on brand new aircraft. Beirut, Alexandria, Amman, Istanbul, Sharm El Hard assets of KD165 million Sheikh, Assiut, Luxor, Mashhad, Sohag, Jeddah, infrastructure. “The game plan is in it cleaned up its balance sheet and Equity improved by KD7 million since Q2 2013 H1 2014 Business Highlights Riyadh, Cairo and Al Najaf. place, it’s now about delivery,” Jet took a one-off charge on its low-cost In the first half of the year, Jazeera Airways Airways’ new chief executive Cramer carrier Jetlite. Etihad’s Jet stake H1 2014 Highlights upgraded its Istanbul route by operating to and Ball told reporters in New Delhi. enables it to compete with regional Operating Revenue: KD29.3 million, down 4.9% from the city’s primary airport, Istanbul Ataturk “It’s a three-year plan — 2015 we rivals such as Qatar Airways and from H1’13 Airport (IST), with five flights a week, instead of fly- will reduce losses, 2016 we will con- Emirates which transport a large slice Operating profit: KD6.4 million, down 32.5% from ing to Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (SAW), to solidate and 2017 we’ll have prof- of Indian passenger traffic to the Gulf H1’13 which the airline has served since 2008. The move to itability,” he said. Ball was speaking at and beyond. Net profit: KD4.9 million, down 34.7% from H1’13 Istanbul Ataturk Airport bolstered the route by offer- the airline’s first news conference Etihad’s purchase of a minority Jazeera Airways Group Chairman, Marwan ing customers better flight schedules to an airport with Etihad since stake in Jet came after the govern- Boodai, said, “The Group’s performance in the year’s that is at the heart of the city. India cleared in May the fast-grow- ment relaxed foreign ownership rules first two quarters continues to be in line with our The airline also increased flights to Al-Maktoum projections, and though the earnings were lower International Airport at Dubai World Central (DWC) ing Abu Dhabi airline’s purchase of a to allow overseas carriers to buy up than last year’s exceptional results due to external to daily flights, as of May 1t, 2014. The service com- 24-percent stake in the Indian carrier to 49 percent of local airlines. factors such as a 10% rise in fuel cost and flight re- plemented daily flights to Dubai International for 21 billion rupees ($330 million). Jet’s hopes of returning to profit routing due to regional unrest, the earnings were Airport (DXB). Jet’s shares jumped over five percent come as Indian skies are set to the second highest earnings in the company’s histo- Jazeera Airways Group is a Kuwait Stock on the turnaround plan before become more congested with ry.” Exchange-listed company with a fleet of 15 A320s, retreating slightly to trade up four Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons due Boodai added, “This year is shaping up to be through its wholly-owned leasing-arm Sahaab percent at 266.35 rupees. Ball, an to launch a new carrier within the another milestone year for the Group. In the last six Aircraft Leasing. Sahaab has assets placed with Australian, said Jet was already prof- next few months. Asia’s biggest months, the Group received a brand new Airbus Virgin America, SriLankan Airlines, Flynas, TAP itable on international routes which budget carrier AirAsia launched an A320 from the manufacturer, and leased two aircraft Portugal and Jazeera Airways. contribute 43 percent of revenues, a Indian carrier in June. Ball said Jet to TAP Portugal, its first customer in Europe. Jazeera Airways (the airline) operates seven figure he projected would rise to 63 would look at disposing of some Furthermore, in June, Jazeera Airways launched four Airbus A320s with a two-class cabin comprising a exclusive and dedicated gates, making it the only Business Class and an Economy Class. Business Class percent by 2015. All major Indian air- planes to rationalize its fleet to airline in Kuwait with gates that are exclusive to its travelers get both an upgraded experience and lines, except leading carrier IndiGo, staunch losses. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 BUSINESS

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Commercial Bank of Qatar net profit dips DOHA: Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) , the Gulf Arab state’s second-largest lender by assets, suffered a 3 percent decline in second-quarter net profit, Reuters calculations based on half- year figures from the bank showed yesterday. The bank earned a net 502.6 million riyals ($138.1 million) in the three months to June 30, compared with 518.2 million in the same period last year, Reuters calculated. Analysts had on average forecast a quarterly profit of 512.8 mil- lion, according to a Reuters poll. CBQ said in a bourse filing it had made a net 1.05 billion riyals in the first six months of 2014, up 3 percent on the same period last year. It gave no quarterly breakdown so Reuters calculated the figure using financial statements.

Majid Al-Futtaim H1 revenues jump 14% DUBAI: Dubai-based shopping mall developer Majid Al-Futtaim (MAF) reported a 14 percent increase in first-half revenues yesterday, citing growing earnings across its business units. The firm, which owns and operates the Carrefour franchise in the Middle East, made 12.8 billion dirhams ($3.5 billion) in the six months to June 30, it said in a statement. Earnings before inter- MUMBAI: India’s door to door pick-up and delivery service ‘Get My Peon’ operations manager Gayatri Bhuta (left) speaks to staffmembers at their office in Mumbai. Hired est, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBIT- help still plays a huge role in hierarchical Indian society, with those who can afford it employing maids, cooks, drivers and nannies, as well as “peons” at work — still an DA) from recurring operations rose 13 percent acceptable term in India for office boys and runners. —AFP year-on-year to 1.8 billion dirhams in the same time period. MAF, builder of Dubai’s indoor ski slope, said it recorded growth across its three India outsources chores business units. Sales at its retail operations grew by 15 percent to 10.5 billion dirhams, while its properties business yielded 1.9 billion dirhams of revenue, up 10 percent year-on-year. Its ventures as servant culture shifts unit, which comprises leisure and entertainment assets, posted revenue of 506 million dirhams, up 21 percent on the corresponding period of 2013. In March, the company said it planned to Hired help still plays a huge role in India invest 275 million dirhams over the next two MUMBAI: Need someone to pay your bills full-time, often poorly paid, servants. senior executive) finds his own person,” said in urban India. But those looking for cheap, years on building a mall as part of a bigger plan and pick up your shopping, take an elderly Dharker, also mentioning the various taxi full-time labor often find themselves disap- to invest 3 billion dirhams in Dubai before the relative to hospital or deliver 26 presents to Less manpower firms that offer drivers for hire by the day, in pointed, said Vikas Singh, who runs domes- emirate hosts the 2020 World Expo. your girlfriend on her 26th birthday? “The availability of manpower is going a country where public transport options tic help provider Deliseva.com, based in These are just some of the requests down,” said Bhavin Shah, who runs dehy- remain limited. American cab-hailing Mumbai. Lithuania to adopt received by Mumbai start-up “Get My drated meals company Satvita Foods and smartphone app Uber has recently entered “We have householders coming in and euro currency in Jan Peon”, one of the new Indian companies regularly uses Get My Peon for deliveries the Indian market, positioning itself as an saying a maid is working for us for 3,000 to BRUSSELS: The European Union is giving offering to do your chores and errands in a after previously employing his own runner. alternative to full-time chauffeurs by adver- 4,000 rupees ($50-67) a month, give us Lithuania the green light to adopt the euro cur- country traditionally reliant on full-time “Getting the right kind of people is tough, tising as “everyone’s private driver”. Get My another for that same price,” said Singh, rency starting next year. Ministers from the 28- servants. Hired help still plays a huge role they occupy real estate, a lot of things are Peon has meanwhile tied up with several whose firm sticks to a minimum wage of nation bloc yesterday cleared the final legal hur- in hierarchical Indian society, with those required for full-time staff and you’ve got other start-ups offering to take care of 7,200 rupees a month for eight-hour days. dle for Lithuania to become the 19th member of who can afford it employing maids, cooks, to keep track of them all the time,” he said. household chores, including laundry serv- Singh said many cooks and maids on their the currency zone encompassing some 330 mil- drivers and nannies, as well as “peons” or “The more you can outsource, the better ice Chamak Direct, professional cleaners books, often migrants from rural areas, lion people. The country had been given prelimi- servants at work-still an acceptable term in it is.” Having your own staff still appears to Hammer and Mop and home repairs firm would work for a few hours at three or four nary approval in June. Lithuanian Prime Minister India for office boys and runners. But some be something of a status symbol-some of Travtus Workforce. different households, whereas traditionally are increasingly opting to outsource their Get My Peon’s users prefer their clients not “I don’t think middle-class people in they tended to take up a live-in job with Algirdas Butkevicius said adopting the euro will daily tasks rather than depend on in-house to know they are using the service instead (Indian) cities have ever held a drill in their one family. Others are choosing to aban- strengthen the Baltic nation’s economy. Alluding staff. Get My Peon, set up in 2012, now has of a personal servant. life. They’re so used to having people do it don domestic service altogether as the to the tensions with Russia over Ukraine, he about 800 clients on its books, from chief “That happens a lot,” said Ahirwar, who for them,” said Travtus founder Tripty Arya. growing economy throws up a range of added deeper integration with western Europe executives to housewives. employs a team of about 10 runners. As She said working with one’s hands was still new jobs, rather than work in an industry “means greater security as well.” Lithuania’s Baltic “People have stopped doing things the well as being assigned errands, they can be considered a “lower grade job” in India, still mired with tales of exploitation and neighbors, Estonia and Latvia, are already mem- old-fashioned way. The labor costs for full- hired for a day to help with certain tasks at where even do-it-yourself enthusiasts abuse. Neelam Ashok Kapadne, a 25-year- bers of the euro. All three countries achieved time staff are very high,” said Bharat home or in the office. struggle to find time for such tasks on top old living in northeast Mumbai, worked as independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Ahirwar, the 29-year-old founder of Get My Anil Dharker, a Mumbai columnist who of commuting to work in traffic-clogged a maid to support her family after her The euro is just emerging from years of financial Peon, which charges 200 rupees ($3) for a writes on social issues, agreed that most cities. father died, but later found a job in a shop- stress following debt problems in a number of one-way errand. Indian companies now want fewer employ- ping mall and is now at college studying countries. While India’s urban middle-class is grow- ees on their books and therefore fewer lia- Home help in demand commerce. “Even though we live in slums, ing and looking for affordable help, new bilities, with a declining number enlisting With a growing number of nuclear fami- hardly any of the girls in my neighborhood Deyaar Q2 net profit avenues are opening for poorer workers full-time chauffeurs for their senior execu- lies in which both parents go out to work, want to work as house maids. They want to more than doubles who earlier were more likely to settle as tives. “They give an allowance and he (the help in the home remains in high demand study, housework is tough,” she said. —AFP DUBAI: Dubai-based property developer Deyaar said yesterday its second-quarter net profit more than doubled, buoyed by the launch of its hotel Outsourcer Capita to hit 8% revenue growth apartment project. Deyaar made a quarterly con- solidated net profit of 62.5 million dirhams ($17 LONDON: Britain’s Capita expects a buoyant Reuters after Wednesday’s results announce- nies have outsourced work to cut costs in the record 5.7 billion pounds. million) compared with 27.3 million dirhams in outsourcing market to keep the company on ment sent the company’s shares nearly 4 per- face of tighter budgets. It has also avoided the the corresponding period in 2013. SICO Bahrain track to hit its full-year revenue target, it said cent higher, making Capita the biggest gainer scandals over the private provision of public Pitch win rate had estimated the company would make a first- after announcing a 16 percent rise in first-half on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index. Parker, who services that have damaged rivals G4S and Capita said its pipeline typically reflects the quarter profit of 36.5 million dirhams. In April, profit. The company is targeting organic rev- took over from industry veteran Paul Pindar in Serco. Founded 30 years ago, the company has health of the outsourcing market and can be a the developer launched sales of hotel apart- enue growth of 8 percent. The consensus fore- March, said Capita had achieved strong trading grown rapidly over the past 15 years from a useful indicator of its potential growth. The ments at its project “The Atria” in the Business cast in a Thomson Reuters poll of 15 analysts since the second half of 2012 and that the out- local authority contractor that now operates in company’s win rate on big pitches during the Bay area, which neighbors the emirate’s most was for full-year revenue of 4.33 billion pounds look remains buoyant after its 1.3 billion 11 different markets across Britain. first half of the year was above 66 percent. The popular area of Downtown Dubai, housing the ($7.38 billion), which would represent a 12.5 pounds of major contract wins in the first half Pretax profit rose 16 percent to 238 mil- company has also spent 240 million pounds on world’s largest tower Burj Khalifa. percent increase on the company’s 2013 rev- of this year. Capita, one of the sector’s market lion pounds in the first half and the group’s acquisitions this year and Parker said it could enue. “We are confident it’s going to be at least leaders in Britain, has benefited as central and bid pipeline - representing potential orders spend an additional 100 million pounds if the 8 percent,” Chief Executive Andy Parker told local government and private sector compa- from new business pitches - stood at a right opportunities arise.—Reuters

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Boeing posted net profit of $1.65 billion for the April- Retail Banks takes the lead in 2014 mid-year results June quarter, up from $1.09 billion in the year-ago quarter. Core earnings per share rose 45 percent to $2.42, soundly KUWAIT: Service Hero yesterday are not getting the service they desire par- Car Sales and Clothes, replacing the previ- Each industry category was measured beating analyst estimates of $2.01. Boeing said it delivered announced the mid-year results of its 2014 ticularly in the Mobile Operator industry ous leaders; CafÈ and Casual Dining. across up to eight service dimensions, 181 jetliners in the second quarter, an increase of 7.1 percent online Customer Satisfaction Index, which which has a very large negative gap. Categories that scored lowest were Fast which are reliability, speed, product quali- from 169 aircraft a year earlier amid solid demand from air- indicated a dip in satisfaction at 1 percent For industry categories, results showed Food, Electronics, Private Hospitals and ty, staff quality, value for money, location, lines. The Chicago-based company raised its 2014 full-year since the second half of last year, but an highest satisfaction for Retail Banks, New Mobile Operators. call center and website quality. These forecast to core earnings per share between $7.90 and $8.10, average growth of 1 percent since 2011. For dimensions are assessed on a ‘before and from $7.15 to $7.35, citing in part its “positive market out- the first time since the Service Hero index after experience’ basis to evaluate the dif- look.” started, Retails Banks take the lead ousting ference between customer expectations of “Strong operating performance across our production entrenched service leaders such as Casual service and actual satisfaction with the programs and services businesses drove revenue and earn- Dining and Cafes, followed by New Car service. In terms of actual satisfaction ings-per-share growth and healthy operating cash flow,” said Sales. The Service Hero assessment, which is Website, Reliability and Staff are the high- Boeing’s chairman and chief executive Jim McNerney in a based 100 percent on customers’ assess- est scoring, where companies are falling statement. “With 783 new commercial airplane orders to date ments of services, collected a total of 7,710 below expectations the most is in: Value this year and significant contracts in the quarter for military surveys, of which 5,712 were validated after for money, Speed, and Call Center. Results aircraft and satellites, our backlog remains large and diverse.” conducting a rigorous validation process. showed that most service dimensions During the second quarter, the commercial aircraft division Based on the 5,712 validated assess- decreased since last year with Location booked 264 net orders, bringing the orders backlog to 5,200 ments, respondents were as follows: 39 per- declining the most. airplanes, valued at a record $377 billion, the company said. cent Kuwaiti, 39 percent Arab and 57 per- Service Hero continues to collect cus- Boeing said it expected to deliver between 715 and 725 cent aged 18-39, with the sample represent- tomer assessments throughout the year jetliners this year. Revenues at the world’s largest aerospace ing both genders and a 95 percent confi- and is the only national customer satisfac- company rose one percent to $22.05 billion. The commercial dence level that the error margin is +/- 3 tion index in the Arab world. It has been aircraft division scored a 5.0 percent rise in revenues, to percent. running since 2010 and has collected over $14.30 billion. Revenues at the smaller defense, space and From a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the 55,000 consumer assessments. security division fell 5.4 percent to $7.75 billion, reflecting highest score, results showed that the high- Service Hero adheres to ESOMAR princi- lower US defense spending in the wake of budget cuts. The est satisfaction continues to be among ples (the European Society of Opinion and second-quarter results included a $272 million after-tax Arabs and females aged 40-49, where each Market Research) and is an official partner charge to reflect additional work on the KC-46A Tanker pro- scored 7.93 and 8.03 respectively. The low- with the American Customer Satisfaction gram for the US Air Force, and a total of $524 million in tax est satisfaction was found among non - Index. It is overseen by an independent benefits. Investors welcomed the financial results. Dow com- Arabs, males and customers above 60 years Advisory Council comprising the American ponent Boeing shares were up 0.2 percent at $129.97 in pre- of age, which scored 7.70, 7.78 and 7.27 University of Kuwait, Gulf University of market trade. respectively. Science and Technology, the Australian Boeing said it repurchased 11.4 million shares for $1.5 bil- Overall Satisfaction stands at 7.84 on a College of Kuwait and Kuwait Maastricht lion during the second quarter and raised its dividend pay- scale of 1 to 10 and the gap between what Business School as its academic sponsors, ments by about 50 percent. It expects to spend the remaining customers expect and what they actually and other prominent professionals from $6.8 billion in the current share buyback program over the received in service stands at a negative 0.46 leading organizations to ensure its credi- next two years. —AFP points suggesting that consumers in Kuwait bility, neutrality and integrity. BoE eyes wage puzzle as it mulls when to raise rates

LONDON: Bank of England officials expected path of costs, particularly more assured, and that BoE staff esti- discussed in July whether there was a wages, in assessing inflationary pres- mated GDP had grown 0.9 percent in case for an early rate rise to cool sures,” the minutes said. the past three months - similar to the Britain’s economy, but were held back Data released after the MPC met first three months of the year. But in part by strikingly low wage growth showed that annual wage growth fell there were tentative signs the econo- and signs of weakness abroad. The to a five-year low of 0.3 percent in the my was starting to slow going into the nine members of the Monetary Policy three months to May, though tax second half of the year, as well as Committee were unanimous when changes have muddied the data. weakness in the United States and the they voted to keep interest rates on Many people in the financial markets euro zone. hold at their July 9-10 meeting, as expect interest rates to rise before the “News about the central outlook for forecast by a Reuters poll. end of the year, and most economists the global economy had been to the Sterling fell and British govern- polled by Reuters forecast a rate rise downside over the month, and upside ment bonds underperformed German before March. risks to activity seemed to have dimin- debt after the release of the minutes, BoE Governor Mark Carney said ished somewhat,” the BoE said. which offered little to bolster expecta- last week that he did not know exactly The number of mortgages tions among many in the market that when interest rates would start to rise approved fell to an 11-month low in a rate rise will come later this year. The for the first time since 2007, as it May, though figures yesterday from Bank also said there were signs, most hinged on economic data. But he reit- the British Bankers’ Association - clearly in the housing market, that erated that the pace of rate rises which cover a subset of lenders - Britain’s growth - which has been the would gradual - views that were showed a rise in June. Some policy- fastest among the world’s big rich shared more widely in the minutes. makers did see more of a case for a economies - would slow a bit in the rate rise. For them, uncertainties second half of 2014. More dovish? about the amount of slack in the Much of the MPC’s discussion cen- David Tinsley, an economist at BNP economy meant it was better to focus tered on the confusing picture from Paribas who expects rates to rise this on the rapid rate at which it was being HANOI: Motorcyclists ride past the first Starbucks coffee shop in Hanoi after it opened yesterday. The US Britain’s labor market, which has seen year, said an early move had become used up. They also cited private sector coffee chain entered the Vietnamese market on July 2013 with its first store in Ho Chi Minh City. —AFP rapid job creation and the highest slightly less likely due to recent eco- surveys which report much faster ever number of people in work, but nomic developments and the min- wage growth than the official data. also some of the slowest wage growth utes. “I thought they were a fairly “A rise in Bank Rate at a time when Starbucks seeks to expand in years. Policymakers were unsure if dovish set of minutes,” he said. “The the economy was growing strongly this reflected a slightly longer than discussion on (absent) pay growth ... would facilitate a more gradual path normal lag between unemployment would be an argument at face value thereafter and would allow the in cafe-clogged Vietnam falling and wages starting to rise, or if for delaying tightening.” Committee to evaluate the sensitivity the economy and employment had The minutes did not include an of households, firms and financial HANOI: With more coffee shops per economy,” he added. For some of these traditional cafes, more scope to grow before consumer estimate for how much slack the MPC markets to changes in interest rates,” square mile than probably anywhere on Vietnam’s economy, however, has lost Starbucks is no rival. “I don’t see this as price inflation rose. thought was in the economy. the minutes said. earth, opening a cafe in Vietnam’s capital some of its edge. Once seen as Asia’s next competition in that way that big fish eat The minutes raised the possibility In May the BoE estimated it at 1.0- But other policymakers thought could be a bit of a gamble. This week, US emerging market daring, Vietnam is now all the small fish,” said Nguyen Van Tinh, that the MPC might focus more on 1.5 percent of gross domestic prod- this could be dangerous at a time coffee chain Starbucks is opening three mired in bad debt, inefficiency and weak 54, who runs a streetside coffee shop that wage growth in future. “Given the uct, but incoming deputy governor when there were signs of weakness of them. Vietnam’s entrenched coffee cul- retail spending that rose 12.6 percent in grew from the mobile coffee stall his contradictory signals from employ- Minouche Shafik told legislators at a in the global economy and British ture means Starbucks is delving deeper 2013, its slowest growth in four years. A grandfather started in 1926. ment and wages, uncertainty about confirmation hearing that she wages were lagging behind inflation, into what could be one of its most chal- stream of bankruptcies since 2011 con- Starbucks network - 11 outlets so far the degree of slack had risen on the thought it could be revised down in and an unexpected rate rise could lenging markets yet. The brew is sold tinues, with 18,000 closures and 50,000 in two cities - is also dwarfed by Highland month and ... an argument could be August’s forecast update. The MPC have an outsize impact on the recov- cheaply in the simple cafes that line businesses suspending trade in the first Coffee, which has 50 outlets in five cities, made for putting more stress on the said economic growth was becoming ery. —Reuters almost every city street, or in the more five months of this year, according to offi- and Trung Nguyen, which claims 13 bil- sophisticated outlets run by local chains cial data. Many small firms are denied lion cups of its coffee have been con- Trung Nguyen and Highland Coffee, in loans, squeezing credit growth at 3.5 per- sumed worldwide since its start-up in which the Philippines’ Jollibee Foods cent in the first half of 2014, well short of 1996. Corp has a stake. the central bank’s 12-14 percent target for Trung Nguyen, owned by a local busi- NY Fed found serious problems Jeff Hansberry, president of Starbucks the year. And while the middle class is nessman, also has outlets outside China and Asia-Pacific, said on Wednesday expanding, times are hard for most Vietnam and exports to 60 countries. at Deutsche Bank’s US arms Starbucks was seeking growth in Vietnam Vietnamese, adding to Starbucks’ chal- Vietnamese consume roughly two mil- by offering “meaningful service” with “pas- lenges. lion bags of coffee a year and the FRANKFURT: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Wider problems sion and care”. He, however, side-stepped Southeast Asian nation is the world’s sec- has found serious problems in Deutsche Bank’s US Germany’s largest bank has been in US regulators’ questions on the company’s ambitions for Cheap coffee ond-largest coffee exporter. operations, including shoddy financial reporting, crosshairs for some time over a host of issues, includ- Vietnam, and how exactly it intended to Starbucks prices range from 55,000 On opening day, queues extended weak technology and inadequate auditing and ing investigations emanating from the financial crisis compete. The three Starbucks Hanoi cafes dong ($2.59) for a black coffee - about out of the door of Hanoi’s first Starbucks. oversight, a person close to the matter told Reuters. and criticism that it is too thinly cushioned against add to the eight that have been open half the average daily wage - to 85,000 Some Vietnamese, however, said they In a letter to the German lender’s executives last potential losses. A US Senate committee this week since February 2013 in the economic hub, dong ($4) for an Asian Dolce Latte. These preferred to keep their coffee simple, December, a senior official with the New York Fed accused Deutsche, along with rival Barclays, of help- Ho Chi Minh City. prices are slightly higher, or the same as, and cheap. “Newcomers like Starbucks described financial reports produced by some of ing hedge fund clients to avoid taxes and is also “We’ve been thoughtful and careful offerings from Highland Coffee and make the coffee scene more interesting, the bank’s US divisions as “low quality, inaccurate under investigation by US authorities over alleged about our entry into this important mar- Trung Nguyen. By comparison, the thou- but I prefer to sit by the street and drink ket,” Hansberry told reporters after a rib- sands of streetside cafes in Hanoi offer Vietnamese coffee,” said Nguyen Duc and unreliable”, said the source, who is familiar with sanctions violations. With the threat of fines and set- bon-cutting ceremony at a Starbucks shoe-shines, free wi-fi and traditional Minh, a recent university graduate. the letter. tlement costs looming, as well as European banking cafe in downtown Hanoi. “We intend to drip-filtered iced coffee for just 10,000- “These places are down to earth and The New York Fed, as the US central bank’s eyes stress tests this year, Germany’s largest lender raised grow with this exciting and dynamic 15,000 dong (47-71 US cents). they really suit my wallet.” —Reuters and ears on Wall Street, directly supervises the 8.5 billion euros in additional capital last month to biggest US and foreign banks, partly through embed- strengthen its balance sheet. ded regulators who go to work each day inside the Deutsche’s capital strength had been under the Australian inflation gives banks. “The size and breadth of errors strongly sug- spotlight since the vice-chairman of regulator Federal gest that the firm’s entire US regulatory reporting Deposit Insurance Corp, Thomas Hoenig, described structure requires wide-ranging remedial action,” the the bank as “horribly undercapitalised” in an interview RBA room to keep rates low letter, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, said. with Reuters last year. The bank, like other foreign Deutsche Bank shares lost 1.8 percent in early trad- lenders, will come under closer scrutiny by the US SYDNEY: Australian inflation came in at 0.5 percent in the three ary monetary policy.” The inflation levels were driven by a rise in ing, the biggest decliners on both Germany’s blue- Federal Reserve from 2016 and be required to retain months to June, official figures showed yesterday, giving the health insurance, cigarette prices, new housing, furniture and chip index and among the European banking sector, thicker capital cushions to absorb potential losses and country’s central bank room to keep interest rates at a record-low international travel. on fears that US regulators could take action against hold easy-to-sell assets so they can quickly raise cash to support the economy. The consumer price index (CPI) had lifted Moving in the opposition direction were petrol prices, domes- in a potential new crisis. 0.6 percent in the previous quarter, the Australian Bureau of tic travel and telecommunication equipment and services costs. the bank. “This seems to be a prelude for more trou- Statistics (ABS) said. Underlying or core inflation, which strips out volatile items and is ble in the United States, making investors nervous,” The foreign lenders will also be included in the The latest figures took the annual rate of inflation to 3.0 per- more closely watched by the Reserve Bank, rose 0.7 percent for a Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Dirk Becker said. “There’s a Fed’s stress tests of banks’ resilience to economic cent, up from 2.9 percent in the year to March, but within the year-on-year rate of 2.8 percent. lot of bashing of foreign banks to this, as the US tries shocks. The Dec. 11 letter from the New York Fed to Reserve Bank of Australia’s target range of 2.0-3.0 percent. The to squeeze fines out of them.” Deutsche Bank said the bank had made “no progress” Australian dollar, which was trading at 93.93 US cents Tuesday, Retail numbers Deutsche Bank said it is investing 1 billion euros at fixing previously identified problems and ordered slipped briefly before surging to 94.35 US cents. Barclays’ chief economist for Australia Kieran Davies said the ($1.35 billion) to upgrade its internal systems, includ- senior Deutsche executives to ensure steps were tak- The ABS data was in line with market expectations of an figures were broadly similar to the RBA’s forecasts and its focus ing the quality of its reporting, with about 1,300 peo- en to fix the problems. increase of 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter and 3.0 percent over now turns to June retail sales numbers, which come out next ple working on the improvements. It also said the bank might have to restate some of the year. “We view today’s outcome, and the inflation outlook month. “We have been working diligently to further the financial data it has submitted to regulators. The more broadly, as neutral for monetary policy,” ANZ’s senior econo- “The retail sales number will be important because we’ve had strengthen our systems and controls and are commit- New York Fed as well as the European Central Bank mist Riki Polygenis said. weakness there recently and we had that big drop in consumer ted to being best in class,” a Deutsche Bank spokes- and German financial watchdog Bafin declined to “It does not appear weak enough to justify a rate cut. Equally, confidence from the budget, although the weekly consumer con- woman said. comment. —Reuters it implies little urgency for the RBA to wind back very expansion- fidence numbers have shown a rebound,” Davies told AFP. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 BUSINESS Brent firm above $107; dollar strong

LONDON: Brent crude steadied above Sommer, senior oil analyst at Axpo fears that further sanctions on Russia days” after the government reached a Stocks are expected to have declined by $107 a barrel yesterday as a stronger Trading in Dietikon, Switzerland. Brent could damage the euro-zone economy. deal with protesting security guards. 2.8 million barrels in the week to July 18, dollar and weak demand offset threats crude for September delivery was up 7 A stronger dollar tends to weigh on Traders were also monitoring fighting according to a Reuters survey. Domestic to supplies from oil-producing regions. cents to $107.40 a barrel by 0938 GMT, commodities priced in the greenback as in the Gaza strip yesterday, as diplomats crude stocks fell by 7.5 million barrels The European Union threatened Russia after slipping 35 cents in the previous it makes them more expensive for hold- seek to secure a ceasefire. Top US and the previous week in their biggest draw- with harsher sanctions on Tuesday after session. US crude for September delivery ers of other currencies. In Libya, oil pro- United Nations diplomats are seeking down since January reflecting a sharp the downing of the Malaysian airliner in was 20 cents lower at $102.19 a barrel. duction fell to around 450,000 barrels talks on halting the fighting that has increase in refinery activity. Ukraine, straining the EU’s relationship US crude’s discount to Brent was per day (bpd), a drop of nearly 20 per- claimed more than 600 lives. Industry group the American with the world’s second-largest oil $5.21, close to a three-month low as cent, with escalating violence threaten- Petroleum Institute (API) said on Tuesday exporter. traders waited for U.S. government oil ing a hard-won deal to restore oil US EIA Data that US crude inventories fell 555,000 “When the US and the EU impose stock data yesterday. The euro slipped to exports. Energy traders will focus their atten- barrels last week to 374.7 million, with more sanctions on Russia, that will an 8-month low against the dollar on The OPEC country’s exports could tion on the weekly crude oil inventory stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery impact the mid-term production profile diverging interest rate outlooks for the increase, however, with the Brega oil report from the US Energy Information point of the US crude contract, down 1.4 of the Russian oil industry,” said Andy United States and euro-zone and with port expected to be operating in a “few Administration (EIA) due at 1430 GMT. million barrels. — Reuters

NEW YORK: Global stocks mostly rose yesterday, bolstered by solid US earnings and home sales as tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine eased. —AP Stocks bolstered by US earnings, home sales

SEOUL: Global stocks mostly rose yester- the company’s future after saying its profit day, bolstered by solid US earnings and excluding items related to the absorption home sales as tensions between Russia and of Nokia was higher than forecasts. the West over Ukraine eased. Europe mar- US home resale numbers also bol- kets opened with moderate gains. Britain’s stered sentiment. Sales of previously FTSE 100 gained 0.2 percent to 6,806.46 owned homes rose 2.6 percent in June, a and Germany’s DAX added 0.4 percent to third straight monthly gain and the highest 9,771.38. France’s CAC 40 also advanced 0.4 level in eight months. The report from the percent to 4,386.53. National Association of Realtors provided Futures augured a tentative advance on the evidence that housing is regaining lost Wall Street. S&P 500 and Dow Jones futures momentum. each inched up 0.1 percent. Markets have “A combination of US earnings opti- been roiled the past week by heightened mism, positive US economic data and a tensions between Russia and the West after slight downgrade to Russia risk has ignited a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over markets today,” Stan Shamu, a market an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by strategist at IG, said in a commentary. pro-Russia separatists, killing all 298 people Earlier in Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng on board. The tensions eased Tuesday after finished 0.8 percent higher at 23,971.87 the separatists released a train packed with and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.6 per- bodies and handed over the aircraft’s black cent to 5,576.70 helped by the brisk output boxes. The focus of investors was returning report by mining giant BHP Billiton. Stocks to earnings, with hundreds of US compa- in mainland China and Southeast Asia also nies set to report quarterly results this closed higher. But Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 shed week. Many of the US earnings reports 0.1 percent to 15,328.56 and South Korea’s have been positive so far, easing jitters that Kospi was steady at 2,028.32. stock prices have climbed too high in the Indonesian stocks surged about 1 per- past several months. cent in early trading after the official vote After US markets closed on Tuesday, two count showed Joko Widodo the clear win- tech giants boosted investor sentiment ner of a bitterly contested presidential elec- with their better-than-expected earnings tion. Late in the day, the index was up 0.2 reports. Apple Inc reported a 12 percent percent after Widodo’s rival, former general increase in its quarterly profit, exceeding Prabowo Subianto, said he would chal- analysts’ estimate. The company said its lenge the result in court, alleging massive iPhone shipments rose 13 percent over a fraud. Election observers found the vote to year earlier, showing consumers still be generally fair and free. snapped up its devices even as the next In energy markets, US benchmark crude version will likely to come out this fall. for September delivery was down 23 cents Media reports have said Apple’s to $102.16 a barrel in electronic trading on Taiwanese contractors are ramping up pro- the New York Mercantile Exchange. The duction of its next iPhone models which contract slipped 47 cents to $102.39 on are expected to feature a bigger screen Tuesday. The euro edged up to $1.3467 than their predecessors. from $1.3466. The dollar fell to 101.33 yen Microsoft’s CEO painted a rosy vision for from 101.47 yen.—AP Gold firms as buoyant stocks ease tensions

LONDON: Gold steadied yesterday after the rose on Wednesday on the back of strong previous day’s drop, supported by simmer- earnings despite investors’ concerns over ing conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East, the possibility of fresh European Union but under pressure from buoyancy in stock sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine markets after positive US data and corpo- crisis. rate earnings. Sluggish physical demand in German bond yields dipped back Asia in the seasonally quiet summer period towards record lows however, with conflicts is also weakening support for any price rally. in Ukraine and the Middle East supporting Other than seasonality, the possibility of a demand for safe-haven government bonds. further drop in prices due to an improving US economic outlook and stronger dollar is Trigger required also keeping buyers away, dealers said. From a technical perspective, gold prices Spot gold was at $1,307.10 an ounce by will need another trigger to extend gains 0950 GMT, little changed from $1,307.00 after climbing 8.5 percent this year, accord- late on Tuesday. US gold futures for August ing to analysts who study past price pat- delivery were up $2.10 an ounce at terns to determine the future direction of $1,308.40. trade. “Although momentum tools are “Bullion slipped lower alongside the VIX pointing higher within what is an ongoing volatility index as risk sentiment improved bullish trend..., the yellow metal is required and equities gained,” Andrey Kryuchenkov, to break above resistance at $1,325.17, the an analyst at VTB Capital, said. “This sug- 62 percent retracement of this month’s set- gests that last week’s safe-haven buying back,” UBS said in a note yesterday. had run out of steam, being the key driver “This should be the trigger for a move lately. higher to next resistance at $1,345.46, the “With little physical appetite at this July 10 high, and then over the longer term point, we could take a little more downside to $1,392.22, the March extreme. Any down- to $1,290/93 and consolidate some more,” side from here should find support at he said. “Little has changed on the funda- $1,292.35, last week’s low.” Among other pre- mental front as far as Asian consumer cious metals, silver was up 0.3 percent at demand is concerned, with much-muted $20.95 an ounce. Spot platinum was up 0.1 activity in both India and China this week.” percent at $1,481.90 an ounce, while spot Spot gold has traded within its narrowest palladium was flat at $870.22 an ounce. Data monthly range in nearly five years so far in released on Tuesday showed that palladium July. Prices have struggled to make signifi- shipments from number one producer Russia cant headway in the face of rising equity to Switzerland, a major refining and trading markets, which have diverted some invest- hub, dropped in June after rising sharply in ment interest from gold. European stocks the previous two months.— Reuters BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 No dream job: Khartoum’s walking department store Serving a captive market of motorists

KHARTOUM: The Sudanese man with an armful of try to squeeze as much as they can from unwary very hard under the hot sun, and dangerous amid battery-powered wall clocks pushes one through customers. The cheap-looking black plastic flash- the traffic. Our colleagues have often been struck the taxi’s open window. His head follows. “For you, a light eventually sold for 10 pounds, down from 25 and injured,” Hussein said, offering fresh limes for good price,” he tells the passenger. “How many dol- which the seller initially asked from the taxi driver. sale. Newcomer Essam Ali, 15, is already aware of lars?” he asks expectantly, hoping for an offer. “Their prices are better than at another market,” those dangers, having arrived three months ago On the other side of the car, the taxi driver nego- agrees Hassan Mubarak, who is stuck in traffic and from Gezira after the death of his father. NBK Group CEO Isam Al-Sager Ali Fardan tiates with a vendor selling cheap flashlights. The confesses to having occasionally bought from the Business is better during Ramadan than other Merchants of McNimir Street are always at your young men walking between the rows of cars. months, Ali says, but his income of 50-75 pounds a NBK Bahrain reports net profit service-a walking department store serving a cap- “Sometimes it’s just a small thing so there’s no day doesn’t leave much after he pays for food and tive market of motorists stuck in gridlock on one of need to go to a shop,” he says. Street shopping is lodging. of $74.1million for H1 2014 central Khartoum’s busiest roads. convenient, but Mubarak and other motorists com- “Before Ramadan I hawked drinking water and Without leaving their cars, drivers can buy the plain over the poor quality of the goods. now I’m selling tissues. I know from the veterans of KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait - Bahrain (NBK said that the Bank has been able to achieve latest newspapers, glasses to read them with, and Mohammed, selling the vegetable chopper, says this business that by the end of Ramadan I have to Bahrain), the subsidiary of NBK Group in Bahrain, strong results despite the difficulties in the local tissues to wipe the ink from their hands afterwards. vendors get their inventory free of charge from reg- change to other items like children’s clothes and reported a net profit of $74.1 million (BHD 27.9 and regional markets. “We have consistently The vendors’ amusing and seasonally changing ular markets in downtown Khartoum or its twin city, decorations” for the Eid Al-Fitr festival, Ali says. Islam million) for the first half of 2014 compared with focused on our core business and ways to diver- range of goods includes electric haircutters, weigh- Omdurman. After making a sale, they pay the mar- Hassan, 17, selling prayer mats, has a similar story. $53.9 million (BHD 20.3 million) for the same sify sources of income. NBK Bahrain benefits ing scales, and a complete set of fishing gear which, ket traders and keep a premium for themselves. He dropped out of school to help his four younger period of last year, a growth of 38 percent year- from the support of NBK Group to enhance its one eager seller assures, is perfect for use in the Nile brothers while their father is ill. “I’m not satisfied over-year (y-o-y). presence in the Bahraini market and develop River just straight ahead at the end of McNimir. On the run with this job. My dream is to go back to school. But NBK Bahrain’s total assets increased by 19 new products to serve our corporate and con- A broad selection of kitchenware ranges from The system puts the vendors at risk of losing that seems impossible,” he says. This is the tragedy percent year-to-date to $9.235 billion at the end sumer customers.” pink plastic baskets to silver mixing bowls, from money if their unsold merchandise is seized by law of the Merchants of McNimir, says Susan Bashir, a of June 2014 compared with $7.745 billion at NBK has been present in Bahrain since 1977 drinking glasses to vegetable chopping devices. enforcers cracking down on the street trade. “We motorist who rarely buys from them because the the end of December 2013. Shareholders’ Equity and enjoys strong and historical relationships Toy aeroplanes are held aloft, hoping to catch have to run fast because those goods aren’t ours,” goods are of low quality. “What makes me sad increased by 14 percent to $851.1 million com- with the major Bahraini and international com- the eyes of children or their parents. Street vending, says Omar Hussein, 19, of North Kordofan state. about them is that they’re young and should be in pared with $745.6 million at the end of panies. NBK Group has the widest banking pres- widespread in Africa, reflects a troubled Sudanese He has spent a year and a half on McNimir. “It’s school. They are a lost resource,” she says. — AFP December 2013. ence with around 170 branches worldwide. economy that saw youth unemployment reach NBK Group Chief Executive Officer Isam Al- NBK’s international presence spans many of the around 34 percent in 2011, according to govern- Sager said “NBK Bahrain continues its solid per- world’s leading financial centers including ment estimates cited in a March report by the UN formance despite the challenging operating London, Paris, Geneva, New York and Singapore, Development Program. environment. The Bank’s strong results affirm as well as China (Shanghai). Meanwhile, regional “Almost half the population of Sudan live in the success of NBK Group’s regional expansion coverage extends to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, poverty,” UNDP said, adding that since South Sudan strategy that is built on a culture of prudence Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and separated three years ago with most of the north’s and strict risk management practices.” Turkey. NBK continues to collectively enjoy the oil production, Sudan has become poorer. “We are proceeding steadily and successfully highest ratings in the Middle East from the three The Khartoum street vendors, some of them in strengthening our position regionally. NBK’s international rating agencies; Moody’s, Fitch teenagers, say that dodging cars and law enforce- strategic expansion is a main pillar on which we Ratings and Standard and Poor’s. The Bank’s rat- ment officers in temperatures near 40 degrees will build future growth. We expect our interna- ings are supported by its high capitalization, Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) is not the life they dreamed tional branches will continue contributing posi- prudent lending policies, and its disciplined of. “I have no choice,” says Magdi Mohammed, 23. tively to the Group’s profitability and adding val- approach to risk management, in addition to its “My high school marks weren’t good enough for ue to the growth in our business,” Al-Sager highly recognized and very stable management university and I couldn’t find a job.” added. Ali Fardan, NBK Bahrain General Manager team. Mohammed, the son of a farmer, hails from Gezira state, south of Khartoum, where years of under-investment and other factors have led to EBRD says can’t approve new decay of the agricultural infrastructure, according to investment projects in Russia analysts. LONDON: The European Bank for guidance to the EBRD management that, for Good days, bad days Reconstruction and Development said yester- the time being, they will be unable to approve Now Mohammed plies the four lanes of McNimir day that its board had given “clear guidance” it new investment projects in the Russian Street, hawking green plastic vegetable slicers. would not approve new investments in Russia, Federation,” the bank said in a statement yes- On a bad day, he earns nothing. A good one can traditionally its biggest recipient. terday. The move is likely to have a consider- bring him up to 100 pounds (about $10.75 at the The EBRD said last week that it would con- able impact in Russia. widely used black market rate), and he says busi- sult all of its shareholders on the implications of Last year the London-based EBRD lent ness has picked up during the Muslim holy month the European Union’s call for it and the Moscow 1.8 billion euros ($2.5 billion) while the of Ramadan, which began on June 29. European Investment Bank (EIB) to suspend EIB pledged more than 1 billion euros. In the first “I think that’s because people aren’t able to go to new lending in Russia, a response to Moscow’s six months of 2014, Russia accounted for 19 per the market while they are fasting,” Mohammed says. KHARTOUM: A Sudanese street vendor sells soap to motorists stuck in gridlock on one of cen- support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. cent of the bank’s investments. During this peri- “Our prices are also lower than the market,” he adds, tral Khartoum’s busiest road in the Sudanese capital. The Merchants of McNimir Street are “A majority of the Board of Directors of the od, investments in all the countries of operations an incentive for buyers struggling with inflation always at your service — a walking department store serving a captive market of motorists EBRD, including all EU member states and sev- were a record 3.6 billion euros, the statement that rose to 45 percent in June. stuck in gridlock on one of central Khartoum’s busiest roads. — AFP eral non-EU shareholders, have given clear added.—Reuters Lower prices may be the rule but street vendors BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 KIPCO announces 20% rise in H1 net profit

KUWAIT: KIPCO - the Kuwait Projects Company - has announced a net profit of KD 21.7 million ($77 million) in the first six months of 2014, an increase of 20 per cent on the KD 18.1 million ($63.4 million) profit reported for the same peri- od last year. In the second quarter (the three months ended 30 June, 2014) KIPCO made a net profit of KD 11.4 million ($40.5 million), an increase of 20 per cent on the KD 9.5 million ($33.3 million) profit reported in the same peri- od of 2013. KIPCO’s earnings per share in the first half of 2014 increased 21 per cent to 15.27 fils ($5.4 cents) compared to 12.66 fils ($4.4 cents) in the same period last year. KIPCO’s total revenue for the first six months of 2014 increased by 18 per cent to KD 289 mil- lion ($1.03 billion) compared to the KD 244 mil- lion ($855 million) for the first half of 2013. The company also saw a 22 per cent rise in operating profit before provisions for the first half of 2014 to KD 78 million ($277 million) from the KD 64 million ($224 million) reported in the first half of 2013. KIPCO’s consolidated assets increased in the first half of 2014, to KD 9.1 bil- lion ($32.3 billion) from KD 8.6 billion ($ 30.5 bil- lion) at year end 2013. Masaud Hayat, KIPCO’s Toyota and Lexus Hybrid Chief Executive Officer - Banking, said the com- pany’s first half results showed that it is on course to maintain its target of double-digit rev- enue growth in 2014: “In our Shafafiyah Investors’ Forum, which was held in March, we ‘Loved around the World’ expected our core businesses to continue achieving double-digit profit growth in 2014. Following our first quarter - where we saw signif- The use of hybrid vehicles worldwide is spreading icant growth across all sectors - these first half results continue to meet our expectations. Our financial services and media segments have The rapidly growing concerns over the need to reduce car- the Hybrid customers tend to be refined, free spirited, suc- Prius. The latest million-unit milestone was achieved in the delivered 18 percent and 35 percent respective bon emissions coupled with highly volatile oil prices have cessful. The potential influence of celebrity hybrid drivers in fastest time yet for Toyota, taking just nine months. Toyota increases in revenue in the first half of the year, forced the global automobile players to invest massive inspiring consumers to use hybrid vehicles has been hybrid vehicles have been tremendously well received by while our real estate operations have reported a amounts into the development of advanced and better incredible. Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Charles, Robin consumers. 12 percent rise in revenue for the same period. alternative fuel vehicles over recent years. The concept of Williams, Tom Hanks are few of the popular celebrities who Toyota hybrid vehicles achieve a balance between envi- hybrids has emerged as the most viable solution gaining were early adopters of hybrid. ronmental performance and driving experience as an envi- considerable attention among industry players. This trend With six models and a decade of proven technology ronment-friendly vehicle and a passenger vehicle. is clearly visible from the fact that hybrid car sales world- behind, Lexus hybrid offer more than a promise for tomor- Launched in 1997, the Prius was the world’s first mass-pro- wide showed a positive growth and are expected to touch row. Lexus hybrids are the most fuel efficient in the indus- duced hybrid vehicle. It was the birth of a visionary new a compounded annual growth rate of around 21 percent try unlike other vehicles that have followed its footsteps. vehicle featuring a completely new kind of drive system during 2013-2017. Lexus introduced the world’s first luxury hybrid nearly a that combines a gas/petrol engine and an electric motor. Besides their great fuel consumption and environmental decade ago. Now with more than 85 percent of all luxury Launched in 2003, the 2nd generation Prius featured a dra- friendliness, hybrid vehicles have a unique progressive hybrid on the road and almost six generations of hybrid matically more enjoyable driving experience. Launched in image. Also, in countries where there is communication technology know-how, the new generation of Lexus 2009, 90 percent of the vehicle’s system was newly redevel- between owners of hybrid vehicles, there is an exchange of hybrids is set to push the category forward once again. oped for the 3rd generation Prius and a reduction gear information on things such as driving with even better fuel Cumulative global sales of Toyota hybrid vehicles topped adopted. This hybrid system has been introduced in various consumption. In this way, it is not just owning a hybrid that the 6 million unit mark in 2014. The first million-units took models such as Avalon, Camry, Rav4 other than the Prius matters - it’s finding additional ways of having fun. Most of nine years and nine months from the release of the first and Toyota will continue augmenting its product lineup. Masaud Hayat

Al Mulla International New BMW X4 Sports Activity Coupe Exchange launches its to expand BMW’s X model range new improved website KUWAIT: Al-Mulla International Exchange Company DUBAI: Fifteen years ago the automotive landscape changed coupe character of the X4 particularly effectively. The stand- or Head-Up Display, which projects all important driving informa- launched its new and improved website with a more distin- when BMW introduced the Sports Activity Vehicle with the alone design of the BMW X4 is further reinforced by the fresh tion and the assistance systems displays into the driver’s field of guished and elaborate design, to represent the new face of launch of the X5 in 1999. What started as a single model has interpretation of the signature swage line running along the view. What’s more, the latest-generation Navigation System the company in line with its development and marketing spawned an entire X range comprising the BMW X1, X3, X5, X5 sides of models. 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NEW YORK: Internet titan Google tried the service, the company reports having its Play online shop and set out to bol- devices powered by Apple or Google- found success. last year to buy streaming music service 10 million subscribers to an ad-free ster its offering with the recent purchase backed Android software. Songza fea- Apple in May bought Beats Music and Spotify but backed off for reasons option. In a letter filed late last year with of startup Songza. Songza is a free tures that have resonated with users will Beats Electronics in a deal worth $3 bil- including a whopping price tag, the Wall regulators at the US Securities and online streaming music service that rec- be woven into Google Play Music and lion to bolster its position in the hotly Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The Exchange Commission, California-based ommends tunes based on what people YouTube where possible, the California- contested online music sector. Apple Journal cited an unnamed source as say- Google said that it planned on spending might be in the mood to hear. Financial based technology titan said in a post at executives said Tuesday that the Beats ing that Sweden-based Spotify was ask- $20 billion to $30 billion acquiring com- terms of the deal disclosed early in July its Google+ social network. buy should be completed by the end of ing for more than $10 billion despite panies or technology abroad. Google were not disclosed, but unconfirmed September. Beats reportedly has several being valued about $4 billion in its latest also revealed that it had recently looked online reports valued the deal at around Apple snaps up Beats hundred thousand paying subscribers. round of equity funding. into buying a foreign company, which it $15 million. Songza suggests playlists New York-based Songza has been The move is expected to help the iPhone, Spotify is the worldís leading service did not name, for from $4 billion to $5 based on where people are and what likened to Spotify-rival Pandora, which iPad and iPod makeróa pioneer in digital for streaming music on the Internet, billion but that the deal did not work out. they are doing, such as starting a day at has a leading ad-supported streaming music with its wildly popular iTunes plat- claiming 40 million users in 56 countries home; grinding away at an office, or out music model. Google, Amazon and Apple formóramp up its efforts to counter the as of May. While the bulk of Spotify users Mood music exercising. have music services that compete in a successful models of streaming services opt for advertising support versions of Google has its own music service at It has applications tailored for mobile market where Pandora and Spotify have like Pandora, Spotify and others. — AFP

REVIEW Amazon Fire offers new ways to use smartphones

By Anick Jesdanun to. I got frustrated when the swivels didn’t work; turned out my motion was too slow. NEW YORK: What I find fascinating about And in testing out the gestures, I somehow Amazon’s Fire phone isn’t the gizmos such placed separate orders for a $109 camera as the 3-D imagery or the camera scanner and a $150 hard drive accessory, thanks to a that helps you get more information about one-click shopping feature. It took an hour products. Rather, I like that Amazon is think- to notice the first errant order. Fortunately, I ing a lot about how phones ought to work. was able to cancel both in time. The iPhone and its Android smartphone Firefly: A side button launches the rivals are so much alike that companies Firefly scanning app, which recognizes bar have been suing each other for stealing codes, business cards and various products. ideas. The Fire phone uses Android, but Firefly also recognizes sound, including Amazon has modified it to the point that it’s songs and scenes in movies and TV shows. barely recognizable. Once there’s a match, you can swivel the That means the phone offers new ways phone to buy an item through Amazon, add to navigate, discover and, of course, shop - a phone number to your contacts app or all enabled by new features from the learn more about a movie through world’s largest online retailer. That doesn’t Amazon’s IMDb. I found only four non- mean everyone should rush out to get a Amazon apps that have enabled Firefly. So Fire phone. Many apps available for after scanning the movie poster for iPhones, Android and even Windows “Stranger by the Lake,” I could launch the phones aren’t available for the Fire yet. Flixster app for more information, but I Some features didn’t work as well as I antici- couldn’t go directly to Netflix because that pated. I couldn’t use the Fire’s Siri-like voice app hasn’t enabled the feature yet. Firefly is search to get weather or directions, for more comprehensive and reliable than oth- HIALEAH: In this photo, a sales person pulls out an iPhone 5s for a customer during the opening day of sales of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C, in instance. And when I used Amazon’s Maps er scanning apps I’ve tried. I was surprised it Hialeah, Fla. — AP app to get directions to the US Capitol, I got managed to identify the model of the land- the town of Capitol, Montana. Talk about line phone on my desk. For magazines, it getting lost. identified specific issues, not just the title. Amazon may fix some of these issues by But there are still mistakes, such as my lap- Apple profit up as the time the phone ships Thursday, and top’s keyboard being identified as head- other fixes will likely come through future phone amplifiers. software updates, but consider that it took Mayday help: Introduced with the Amazon’s tablet computer two years to Kindle Fire HDX tablets last fall, Mayday pro- China sales increase become a strong contender to Apple’s iPad. vides live technical support around the The Fire has a 13-megapixel camera and a clock. The tech adviser who appears on screen that measures 4.7 inches diagonally, your phone can hear you, see your screen a comfortable size for one-handed use. and draw marks to show you where to press Analysts expect two new iPhone versions this fall It’s available in the US through AT&T or swipe. This feature works well on the starting at $200 with a two-year contract tablet, but as helpful as the advisers try to SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc posted a smaller- severe competition. “We have a really good run- Many expect Apple to make a play for the and $650 without one. That’s on par with be, they are still getting used to the phone. than-expected 6 percent rise in quarterly rev- way in front of us with China Mobile,” Maestri wearable device market with a smart watch, other high-end phones, plus you get dou- One directed me to Apple’s support forums enue on Tuesday, but revenue surged 28 per- said, referring to Apple’s main carrier partner in dubbed iWatch. Analysts also expect the com- ble the storage and a free year of Amazon’s to figure out how to transfer iPhone con- cent in greater China despite stiff competition the world’s No. 2 economy. “Given our numbers pany to introduce two iPhone versions this fall, Prime membership with Fire. Still, tacts even though Amazon’s website had in its third-largest market. It sold 35.2 million in China, it would seem their success is coming including a 5.5-inch model that thrusts Apple Amazon.com Inc. has typically undercut step-by-step instructions. The advisers are iPhones in the June quarter, a rise of about 13 from other Android devices.” into the market for larger-sized phones that rivals on just about anything else sold on also learning how to guide you on tilting or percent that was in line with analysts’ projec- rival Samsung helped popularize. The iPhone this planet. Price parity could make it tough swiveling. Once these are worked out, tions, helped by a strong performance in an TAPERING maker, which derives most of its business from for Amazon to compete in a crowded though, it should reduce requests for help Asian market considered crucial to Apple’s Apple iPhone sales tail off in the quarters the high-end device, reported sales of $37.4 bil- smartphone market, despite these features: you get from tech-challenged friends. longer-term growth prospects. Chief Executive before a new smartphone launch, as potential lion in its fiscal third quarter ended June, falling Dynamic Perspective: Using four The carousel: Most phones have home Tim Cook told analysts on a conference call that buyers hold off. Maestri said the company had short of Wall Street’s expectations for about infrared cameras, the phone gauges where pages filled with icons to various apps. The Apple’s Chinese performance was “honestly sur- taken the usual lull into account in its projec- $38 billion. Sales of iPads, which like smart- your head is and redraws images on the Fire shows just one at a time, based on prising.” Unit iPhone sales iPhones jumped tions for the September quarter. Despite a sur- phones are coming under growing pressure screen continually so they appear 3-D. what you’ve recently done. Swipe left or about 48 percent and Mac computer sales rose prisingly robust Chinese market, Apple contin- from Android rivals, at 13.3 million fell a little Beyond aesthetics, the technology lets you right to get the others. These icons do more 39 percent in the June quarter, Chief Financial ues to struggle in the more saturated, devel- short of analysts’ projections for more than 14 tilt the phone slightly for more information, than take you to apps. Some are for specific Officer Luca Maestri said in an interview. oped regions of the United States and Europe, million. such as Yelp ratings on nearby restaurants. If content, such as a recent book or video. Lower-cost phones sold there by up-and- its two largest markets. Gross margin, however, was better than the information is covering up, say, a street Some app icons also preview content coming rivals such as Xiaomi appeared to be It forecast revenue of $37 billion to $40 bil- expected at 39.4 percent, up from 36.9 percent name on a map, just tilt it away. underneath, so you can delete an email or grabbing market share mainly from other com- lion this quarter, weak compared with Wall a year ago, primarily due to cheaper product With tilts, you can scroll down as you see a news headline without opening the panies that rely on Google’s Android software, Street’s outlook for $40 billion or more. But costs. Net income jumped 12.2 percent to $7.75 read news articles or switch between the app. Apps for various Amazon services, he added. This month, Samsung Electronics Co whether Apple can again produce a revolution- billion, or $1.28 per share. That beat expecta- front and back of dresses when shopping. such as e-books, audiobooks, music and Ltd estimated April-June operating profit far ary new product, something it has not done tions for $1.23 and was its best quarterly growth You can control game characters without video, have been designed to work with below most analysts’ forecasts, as its Galaxy S5 since the iPad in 2010, remains the central ques- in EPS in seven quarters. Apple shares slipped touching the screen. Swivel the phone as the carousel, so watching one movie will sold more slowly than expected in the face of tion for investors. 0.8 percent to $94 after-hours. — Reuters though you’re turning a doorknob to unveil give you recommendations for others. The a menu of options or supplemental infor- Fire is a good start at offering a fresh mation such as song lyrics. Developers of approach to smartphones. More outside Ultra high definition TVs non-Amazon apps will have to enable the apps will need to take advantage of the boost LG Display profit feature, so with eBay’s shopping app, you innovations for the phone to be useful still need to swipe to see the other side of a beyond people who already use Amazon SEOUL: LG Display Co said profit for the makers betting that a quadrupling of dress. The gestures also take getting used services extensively. — AP April-June quarter more than doubled the resolution of high-definition TVs will as a stronger won reduced the value of convince consumers to upgrade. its foreign debt and the World Cup Consumer interest in UHD TV sets, boosted demand for ultra-high-defini- also known as “4K,” is positive for panel tion TVs. The South Korean display panel makers especially because those maker said Wednesday its net income advanced TV sets tend to come in big reached 256 billion won ($250 million), sizes, featuring screens larger than 40 compared with 105 billion won a year inches. LG said a slight decline in panel earlier. Operating fell, however, showing prices during the second quarter was that most of the net profit improvement offset by selling more panels. The com- came from the debt revaluation. pany was also helped by the rise of Analysts polled by FactSet, a finan- South Korean won, which reduced the cial data provider, expected profit of 114 size of its foreign currency denominat- billion won. The panel supplier for Apple ed debt. Overall sales, however, fell 9 Inc said higher demand for UHD TVs percent to 5.6 trillion won. Operating during the World Cup increased panel profit plunged 55 percent to 163 bil- shipments. LG Display’s parent compa- lion won, slightly lower than analysts’ SEOUL: In this photo, an employee of the company demonstrates an ny, LG Electronics Inc., is among the TV forecast. — AP 18-inch flexible display. — AP Oops! EPA goes off topic, tweets about Kardashian

WASHINGTON: The Environmental done by an intern. pollution gave an obscure EPA office a surge Protection Agency’s fight to clean up water The government’s tweet was removed in popularity. Kardashian’s lavish wedding to pollution got a splash of pop culture within hours from the @EPAwater account, Kanye West made international headlines, Tuesday, thanks to an Internet flub involving but not before a tweet from the account of and her show “Keeping up with the reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The verified Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., the 88-year-old Kardashians” has been popular on the E! net- Twitter account for the EPA’s Office of Water co-author of the Clean Water Act, poked fun work for nine seasons. The agency took the mistakenly published a message Monday by asking what a Kardashian is. Dingell’s mistake in jest. On Tuesday, the EPA account night about an online game, “Kim account on Tuesday tweeted: “Staff has now thanked Kardashian for its 15 minutes of Kardashian: Hollywood,” in which players informed me of what a Kardashian is. I’m fame. “Whoops . our bad. Sorry about tweet,” walk red carpets, attend photo shoots and only left with more questions.” the message read. “Upside - more attention get dolled up like a Kardashian. An agency The brief intersection between a celebrity for the Office of Water (water.epa.gov), SEATTLE: This file photo shows the app that links to shopping on Amazon.com on the spokeswoman said the off-topic tweet was and the federal agency in charge of tackling thanks @KimKardashian.” - AP new Amazon Fire Phone. — AP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Using nicotine patch during pregnancy tied to higher ADHD risk

NEW YORK: Smoking during pregnancy Danish databases on more than 80,000 Having a mother who smoked during Yoko Nomura, who studies central nerv- smoking increases risk, and this doesn’t has been linked to a higher chance of the children born between 1996 and 2002. pregnancy seemed to be a stronger pre- ous system development at The City help us learn more about that,” she said. child having attention-deficit/hyperactivi- Mothers were interviewed while preg- dictor of ADHD risk than having a father University of New York’s Queens College. Parents reporting their own smoking ty disorder (ADHD), and a new study sug- nant and asked if they currently smoked, who smoked. Mothers who used nicotine habits may not be very reliable, given the gests women who use nicotine replace- used nicotine replacement products replacement products had children with The risk of ADHD social pressure to quit during pregnancy, ment products may also have children including gum, patches or sprays or had an increased risk of ADHD similar to the “We can’t say the nicotine patch is use- she noted. with an elevated risk. That doesn’t neces- quit smoking before pregnancy without increase associated with smoking. At this less because birth weight is so associated “We have a long way to go before we sarily mean that nicotine causes ADHD, nicotine replacement. They also reported point, it is too soon to estimate how with many different illnesses,” Nomura can even conclude anything,” Nomura the authors note. whether their husbands were current important nicotine exposure might be for told Reuters Health. She was not part of said. “The best advice will at this point For instance, it could be that women smokers. ADHD risk, Obel said. the new study. For most people, the risk probably be to try to stop smoking with- dependent on nicotine are more likely to The researchers then followed the chil- Mothers who had quit smoking and of ADHD is very small to begin with, she out use of nicotine replacement and have ADHD symptoms themselves, said dren through 2011 and noted hospital those who used nicotine replacement said. As of 2011, 11 percent of US kids preferably before getting pregnant,” Obel senior author Dr Carsten Obel, from diagnoses of ADHD or use of medication products both tended to have babies ages four to 17 had been diagnosed with said. “If this is not possible nicotine Aarhus University in Denmark. The chil- for the disorder. Roughly two percent of with higher, healthier birth weights than ADHD, according to the Centers for replacement is, based on the birth weight dren of women who use nicotine replace- children in the study were diagnosed current smokers, he noted. Smoking dur- Disease Control and Prevention. results, preferable in comparison with ment products to quit smoking may be at with ADHD. Compared to children with ing pregnancy is known to be associated Many factors can influence the risk of continuing to smoke.” For women who risk of ADHD because of genes or their nonsmoking parents, kids with two with a lower birth weight for the baby. ADHD, and most of the important predic- struggle to quit, even just cutting down family environment, he told Reuters smoking parents were 83 percent more “The nicotine patch doesn’t decrease tors are genetic, Nomura said. “In order to on the number of cigarettes per day is a Health by email. For the new study, the likely to develop ADHD, according to birth weight, which has been used as a prevent the non-genetic component of step in the right direction, Nomura researchers analyzed information from results published in Pediatrics. target measure for a long, long time,” said ADHD, we need to understand how said.—Reuters

Exercise may slow physical and mental decline after menopause NEW YORK: Women who exercise regular- moderate to vigorous exercise which ly after menopause tend to maintain their showed more was progressively better.” physical strength and mental acuity longer Current guidelines call for older adults to than those who don’t, according to a new get the equivalent of 30 minutes of moder- review of past studies that found exercise ate exercise five times per week. But doc- that gets the heart rate up is best. “We tors might consider “prescribing” more found that all the studies showed that intense exercise to older women, the physical activity was associated with authors suggest. decreased rates of cognitive decline and “Based on our findings we feel this that even becoming active in later life as should be 30 to 45 minutes of moderate to opposed to a lifetime of physical activity vigorous activity at least five times per still lowered the risk compared to those week for midlife and older women,” who were inactive,” said Debra Anderson. Anderson said. Previously, older women Anderson worked on the study at the have been encouraged to keep their exer- Institute of Health and Biomedical cise moderate, but now it seems very Innovation of the Queensland University of important that women exercise to a point Technology in Kelvin Grove, Australia. She where they cannot finish a sentence while and her team reviewed 21 studies pub- exercising and breathe hard and sweat, she lished between 2009 and 2014 assessing said. exercise or leisure time physical activity “I would encourage someone who has among women ages 65 and older. Ten were not exercised at this intensity before to see randomized controlled trials, the most rig- a general practitioner for a referral to an orous kind of study, in which women were accredited exercise physiologist to talk with randomly assigned to different exercise them on how to build up to this level,” she programs or to no program. added. The idea that breaking a sweat Some studies involved structured group helps the brain is not new, said Selena exercise programs aimed at hitting certain Bartlett, a neuroscientist at Queensland heart rates and energy expenditures while University of Technology. She was not others involved balance and strength train- involved in the new study, but collaborates ing programs or yoga classes. Higher physi- with Anderson on activity and cognition cal activity levels were always linked to research. It’s not clear exactly how exercise slower physical decline and better fitness. helps the brain, Bartlett told Reuters Exercise generally seemed to preserve Health. “One thing we absolutely know is it NEW YORK: Carolyn Allen, left, a 69-year-old widow who has suffered two strokes, is shown with roommate Marcia Rosenfeld, who owns the brain health, too, although the studies did- builds muscle and strengthens the skeletal apartment in Brooklyn where Allen lives.—AP photos n’t agree on the strength of that associa- frame, and also brings oxygen and blood tion. Some concluded that a woman’s brain flow to the brain,” she said. Keeping active function at age 50 largely predicted her helps make aging easier for everyone, not Seniors use roommate mental faculties at ages 60 and 70, while just postmenopausal women, Bartlett said, others found that mental decline was but that group might derive particular ben- strongly linked to being sedentary, the efit. Estrogen levels decrease during agencies to cut costs authors write in Maturitas. menopause, and the hormone has a role in “We found that moderate to vigorous preserving brain cells and forming new NEW YORK: It’s not exactly “The Golden Girls,” exercise is better than mild and gentle memories. “Especially for postmenopausal but for Marcia Rosenfeld, it’ll do. Rosenfeld is exercise,” Anderson told Reuters Health in women, the intensity matters for brain and among thousands of aging Americans taking an email. “There was a dose response in body health,” Bartlett said.— Reuters part in home-sharing programs around the country that allow seniors to stay in their homes and save money while getting some much- Pedaling solutions to needed companionship. “It’s a wonderful arrangement,” said the white-haired Rosenfeld, Dar es Salaam’s woes who when asked her age will only say she’s a senior citizen. “The way the rents are these days, DAR ES SALAAM: Fatma rides on the shoul- make cities more livable and also save lives. I couldn’t stay here without it.” der of the road, her infant daughter secured Mbuya has been organizing the event since She shares her two-bedroom, $1,000-a- to her back with a length of brightly colored 2006, and is passionate about the benefits of month Brooklyn apartment with Carolyn Allen, a kanga fabric. Arms outstretched, she grasps cycling not only for the health of individuals, 69-year-old widow who has suffered two strokes the handles that function as pedals and but also for the health of cities. and no longer wants to live alone. rotates the chain around a gear, propelling It is not only drivers who need to be mind- Agencies who put such seniors together say herself through Dar es Salaam’s heavy traffic. ful of cyclists, but also city planners and high- the need appears to be growing as baby On roads that claim upwards of 10,000 lives way engineers, he says. “They have to plan boomers age and struggle to deal with foreclo- every year, people who cannot walk take on including people and people who cycle - not sures, property taxes and rising rents. The typical the traffic in hand-pedaled tricycles. “If I don’t only for cars and buildings.” The city’s planned situation involves an elderly woman, widowed use my bike, it would be very hard for my solution to the jams is a new infrastructure or divorced, who has a house or an apartment family to survive,” she says. The roads are not scheme called the Dar Rapid Transit Project. with extra room and needs help with the just dangerous for those with disabilities. Scheduled for completion in 2015, the project upkeep. With five million inhabitants, Tanzania’s com- will rehabilitate 21 kilometers (13 miles) of “Our seniors want to remain part of the com- mercial and administrative capital is growing trunk road to introduce a speedy bus system. munity they were raised in, where they worked beyond the capacity of its infrastructure. and went to church,” said Jackie Grossman, Trucks, buses and private vehicles share Coping with mega-city status director of the home-sharing program at Open to post notices in neighborhood weeklies or almost life-altering,” Dunn said. “People are the road with mini-buses known as daladalas, “We are working very hard to keep up with Communities in the Chicago suburbs. “They online and worry about who will respond. telling us they’re happier, sleeping better, eating which are sometimes so crammed that pas- the pace, to design an intensive master plan don’t want to be just with other seniors. Maybe “Craigslist can be very scary, especially for better. ... If I could sell you a drug that did that, sengers have to disembark through rear win- with Dar es Salaam,” says Jerry William Silaa, they love their garden, their tool shed, and they women,” said Connie Skillingstad, president of you’d pay a lot of money.” Grossman said many dows. Battered motorcycles and auto rick- the mayor of Illala Municipal Council, which would have to give that up if they move into Golden Girl Homes Inc. in Robbinsdale, long-lasting friendships develop, “and for others shaws negotiate the space between cars, includes the city centre. Sporting a helmet senior housing.” Minnesota, which refers women to housing there’s just mutual respect and that’s fine, too.” speeding along sidewalks and darting into and reflector vest at the Cycle Caravan, he At the New York Foundation for Senior resources including home-sharing. “They’d Rosenfeld and Allen, who have been room- opposing traffic to gain a few extra meters. says the plans also include dedicated bike Citizens, where applicants have tripled since rather go through a respectable organization.” mates for three years, both said they feel more Vendors form a slow procession between the lanes. “We are trying to make the city live 2008, the average boarder pays about $700 a like business associates than longtime friends cars, selling everything from fire extinguish- another 100 years to come because with this month. The same average holds at the HIP ‘The bathtub incident’ like TV’s “Golden Girls,” but they gabbed like sis- ers to cowboy hats and self-help books. growth we are going to reach a population of Housing program in San Mateo, California, but it In the past, program directors say, many of ters and giggled about the apparent highlight of “Most people spend up to 43 days a year 15 million people and go to mega-city criteria is about $500 at the St Ambrose Housing Aid the people offering space were willing to take their time together: “The bathtub incident.” stuck in their car,” says Mejah Mbuya, the by the year 2025.” Center in Baltimore. household help - grocery shopping, houseclean- Allen, who gets around with the help of a founder of UWABA, Dar es Salaam’s cycling Dar es Salaam, along with other rapidly Agencies handle the background checks and ing, repair work - in lieu or some or all of the walker, had slipped in the bathtub and gotten advocacy group. “I’m talking about people urbanizing cities in east Africa, must follow other screening and consider various lifestyle rent. Recently, though, more people have insist- stuck, with one leg wedged awkwardly behind who are spending two hours to go to work the smart cities model and become more sus- criteria - smoking, pets, disposable income - in ed on dollars rather than services. “In the last five her. She tried and tried but couldn’t get up. “If I and two hours to go back home.” On these tainable and innovative, the mayor says. making matches. When a match is made the years, we’ve really seen more people looking for was living alone I might have been there for gridlocked streets, cyclists are trying to lay Other government responses to urban sprawl new roommates sign an agreement covering financial aid rather than barter,” said Kirby Dunn, days,” she said. But Rosenfeld was home, and claim to a piece of the road. have included a recent ban on semi-formal chores, overnight visitors, telephone use, etc. executive director of Homeshare Vermont in although she’s too petite to extract Allen from During the annual Cycle Caravan, more modes of public transportation, like motorcy- Not all agencies limit applicants to seniors. In Burlington. the tub, she was able to call 911 - and provide a than 400 people took to the streets to advo- cles and autorickshaws, in the town centre. the New York program, only one of the two peo- Companionship is an important side benefit. towel for Allen to cover herself when rescuers cate for cyclists’ rights and to encourage poli- But this has failed to alleviate congestion in ple has to be 60 or older. The agencies’ services “Independence is great but isolation as we age is arrived. “Thank God Marcia was there,” Allen cymakers to recognize that bike lanes help the busy area.—AFP mean people who want a roommate don’t have a growing concern, so companionship can be said.—AP Sierra Leone’s chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus FREETOWN: The head doctor fighting the countries. Khan, a Sierra Leonean virologist view, showing no signs of ill health at the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone credited with treating more than 100 Ebola time. “Health workers are prone to the dis- has himself caught the disease, the govern- victims, has been transferred to a treatment ease because we are the first port of call for ment said. The 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan, ward run by medical charity Medecins Sans somebody who is sickened by disease. Even hailed as a “national hero” by the health min- Frontieres, according to the statement with the full protective clothing you put on, istry, was leading the fight to control an out- released late on Tuesday by the president’s you are at risk.” break that has killed 206 people in the West office. Three days ago, three nurses working in African country. Ebola kills up to 90 percent Health Minister Miatta Kargbo called the same Ebola treatment centre alongside of those infected and there is no cure or vac- Khan a national hero and said she would “do Khan died from the disease. The Ebola out- cine. Across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, anything and everything in my power to break started in Guinea’s remote southeast more than 600 people have died from the ill- ensure he survives”. Khan told Reuters in late in February and has since spread across the ness, according to the World Health June that he was worried about contracting region. Symptoms of the highly infectious DAR ES SALAAM : A file picture taken on April 27, 2014 shows a man transporting Organisation, placing great strain on the Ebola. “I am afraid for my life, I must say, disease are diarrhea, vomiting and internal charcoal down Sokoine Drive along the harbor front in downtown Dar es health systems of some of Africa’s poorest because I cherish my life,” he said in an inter- and external bleeding.—Reuters Salaam.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Bill Clinton: MH17 attackers sought a divided world

Organ donation: Knowledge, attitudes, and barriers in Kuwait By Zainab AI-Mesailekh period between November 1993 to which was designed to assess the demo- December 2010, of which 278 were from graphics, knowledge, attitude, and will- he first successful transplant was of brain death cases, and 397 from relatives, ingness toward organ donation, and bar- a cornea in 1905 in the Czech and 361 from non-relative living donors. riers of organ donation. TRepublic. Since then, transplanta- This makes the total number of kidneys The data were collected from 630 par- tion of organs has become the treatment transplant procedures in Kuwait to be ticipants. Of them, 68.3% knew about of choice for many conditions. 1,596 procedures from the initiation of organ donation, with a significantly high- Unfortunately, because of the increasing the program in Kuwait in February 1979 er knowledge level among females and organ shortage, many people with end- to January 2011. people with bachelor’s degree or a high- stage organ failure are dying while on In order to take a positive role in er educational level. The overall accept- waiting lists for surgery. In 2011, 112,631 improving the current trend of organ ance of organ donation, both after death solid organs were reported to be trans- donation in Kuwait, a group of 6medical and during life, was 73.2% and 59.4% ported globally, making a 5.4% increase students from Kuwait Faculty of respectively among the study subjects. over the year 2010. Still less than 10% of Medicine, Kuwait University, under the Acceptance of organ donation was not the global needs are met with the avail- guidance of Professor Amal Mitra, took affected by socio-demographic factors of able donors (Global observatory on an initiative to evaluate the knowledge the study participants; however, their donation and transplantation, 2013). In and attitudes of people regarding organ willingness to donate organs was higher the United States, The number of living donation, and to identify the perceived among people with bachelor’s degree or donors is declining; for instance, there barriers of organ donation in the popula- a higher educational level. Among sever- was 6.3% drop in the number of living tion in December 2013. al others, the most perceived barriers donors between 2006 and 2007. The The study also attempted to identify preventing people from donating their trend in decreased number of organ the several socio-cultural factors that organs were: fear of the operation itself donations is similar worldwide, and may influence attitudes of the public in (76%), fear of the consequent health MELBOURNE: Protestors raise placards as former US president Bill Clinton speaks at the International AIDS Kuwait is not an exception. Actually, Kuwait towards organ donation, and to complications after organ donation Conference at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC).—AFP according to the recent reports from compare it to similar studies conducted (72.2%), and lack of knowledge (66.9%). Kuwait transplant society, in Kuwait, the in the United States, Qatar and Saudi MELBOURNE: Former US president Bill against death.” The former president was briefly interrupted by about two rate of organ donation is relatively low Arabia. The students visited 27 co-opera- Conclusion Clinton called yesterday for strength in called on the world’s response to be dozen activists who held up banners with only 6 deceased donors per one mil- tives and private supermarkets which As has been noted, the study identi- responding to the loss of flight MH17, strong, and not be sapped by any demanding he help push through a lion persons. were randomly selected form a list of all fied demographic factors predicting declaring those who had downed the argument that the loss of lives was “Robin Hood” tax on financial transac- Between year 1996 and 2,012 there supermarkets in Kuwait covering all six knowledge and attitudes regarding plane-and provided the means to do so- unintended. US intelligence officials tions to help fund the war on AIDS. were only 447 donations of kidneys, liver, Kuwaiti govemorates. For the data collec- organ donation. Several other studies sided with a brutal vision of the world. have said evidence showed pro- The former president looked back pancreas, and heart. A medical team in tion, the general public attending the showed that while the public accepts Speaking at the world AIDS conference Russian separatists in Ukraine to 2002, when “barely 100,000” badly- AlHamad Al-Essa Organ Transplant cooperatives and private supermarkets organ transplantation, they are usually in Melbourne, Clinton said it “matters launched the missile, possibly target- infected people in poor African and Center in Kuwait has conducted 1,036 were asked to answer a self-administered not overly enthusiastic about organ not” if the Malaysia Airlines plane had ing MH17 by mistake. Clinton said he Asian countries had grabbed the drug kidney transplant procedures from the questionnaire consisting of 34 questions donation. Awareness of this paradox of been shot down by mistake, and the had been moved by seeing a state- lifeline. Today, the global total stands public perception may actually facilitate loss of 298 lives was unintended. ment to the UN Security Council by at nearly 13 million but as many as 28 organ donation campaigns. Additionally, And he paid tribute to the six AIDS Dutch Foreign Minister Frans million are in need, according to the campaigners who died aboard the Timmermans, who spoke of lives torn World Health Organisation’s criteria for this particular study found that the fear flight. Addressing a hall packed with apart and who bitterly condemned eligibility, he said. “An AIDS-free gener- of the operation itself, health complica- scientists, policymakers and grassroots delays in recovering the bodies. “It ation is within our reach,” said Clinton. tions, and lack of knowledge are major activists, Clinton singled out Dutch matters not that the murder was barriers to the processes of organ dona- researcher Joep Lange, praising him meant to be committed against other More funds, greater efficiency tion. for tireless work in bringing life-saving people,” Clinton said. “I hope that all of But this could only be achieved Thus, public health campaigns and drugs to millions of people infected by our countries who value freedom and through greater funding and smarter educational programs regarding organ HIV. “He and the five other colleagues honour will look at the statement ways to use it, he argued. Funding for donation must address the areas of defi- we lost lived lives which are overpow- made yesterday by the Dutch foreign AIDS in low- and middle-income coun- ciencies and potential barriers to over- ering in their contribution to a shared minister before they give in to the tries stood at $19.1 billion (14.01 bil- come the shortage of organ donation. future,” Clinton said. temptation to say, ‘Well, maybe we lion euros) last year, from $5 billion in Inclusion of organ donation information “Those who shot them down and should weaken our resolve to make a 2003. Beneath this surge, though, the in school and university curriculum, as who provided the means to do so rep- strong stand because after all they did- figures show that domestic funding suggested in the study results, may also resent the other side in our struggle to n’t mean to shoot ‘this’ plane down’.” sources are increasing but western increase the number of organ donation. define the terms of our interdepend- Clinton, a veteran campaigner in donations are slowing, he said. “We’re In other words, this study results can help ence: the open hand against the the fight against AIDS, set up a foun- going to have to raise all the money in planning how to improve the rate of clenched fist, inclusive politics and dation in 2001 that has negotiated we can and we’re going to have to donation in Kuwait by directing effort economics versus division and domi- huge cuts in prices in antiretroviral spend what we have as efficiently as towards the right place. nance, cooperation against control, life drugs for poor countries. His speech possible.”—AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

IDF celebrates Ghabqa 2014

he Indian Doctors Forum (IDF) successful- Medical Association and other KMA officials, by Dr Amir Ahmed (former IDF president). He The majestic presence of Sheikha Sherhrzad off their hectic schedules in order to be a part ly celebrated their GHABQA 2014 on July Kuwaiti doctors from the Ministry of Health, strongly emphasized the importance of fasting added a luminous grace to the evening with of this auspicious Ghabqa 2014. He also T15, 2014, at the Barraka Ballroom of the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait Institute of Medical during the holy month of Ramadan and receiv- her fine words of wisdom with reference to the thanked all the Kuwaiti and Indian business- Crowne Plaza Hotel amidst a galaxy of royal Specialization, eminent Kuwaiti and Indian ing its various rewards. Speaking on the occa- Holy month of Ramadan and acknowledging men present for all the support and assistance affiliates, Kuwaiti dignitaries and Indian guests. businessmen and government officials and sion, Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain appreciat- the historic Indo-Kuwait friendship. The inter- rendered towards various IDF activities. He The evening commenced at around IDF members and their families. ed the various community welfare activities active session began on an informative begin- acknowledged the sponsors of the event, par- 10.15pm when the anchor Dr C Ambalavanan During his address, he expressed his rendered by IDF. He expressed his happiness at ning by Dr SalahaTaqi (Head of Anesthesia and ticularly Al-Mulla Exchange Company, who (Cultural Secretary - IDF) requested all to stand immense gratitude to all the attending Kuwaiti the presence of large number of Kuwaitis at ICU at Jahra Hospital) who highlighted the have committed their support for the third in honor of the Kuwaiti and Indian national guests. Dr Vinod Grover stated that ‘Ghabqa’, is the event, which reflected the acceptance, love benefits of Ramadan and fasting. Other emi- consecutive year. He expressed his gratitude to anthems. This was followed by recitation of a local tradition celebrated by certain GCC and respect they had for IDF. nent individuals who shared their views and all technical staff, media personalities and staff verses from the holy Quran by master Hafiz countries in the month of Ramadan after thoughts were Dr Mustafa Moosawi (Director, of the Crowne Plaza Hotel for making the event Abdulrehman (son of IDF member Dr taraweeh prayers, which helps to foster strong Appreciation Organ Transplant Center) and Dr Jamal Al a grand success. Immediately after the vote of Rahmatullah Galsulkar). ties amongst families and friends. IDF was This was then followed by a message from Kandari (Consultant Ophthalmologist at Ibn thanks, Dr Jaganath R C, announced the prizes The presidential and welcome addresses proud to have adopted this wonderful tradi- the guest of honor, Dr Mohammed Al-Mutairi, Sina Hospital) who spoke on the occasion with of the fancy dress competition conducted for were delivered by IDF President Dr. Vinod tion of the locals as a mark of respect and President - Kuwait Medical Association (KMA), kind words of grace and appreciation. IDF children and judged by Abha Raina, Dr Grover wherein he welcomed Chief Guest Sunil brotherhood between Kuwaitis and Indians wherein he lauded the efforts taken by IDF in Dr Vivek Wani, (Vice President IDF) delivered Sadhana Narang and Dr Pooja Chodankar. The Jain and Gargi Jain and other officials of the and also to express our love, gratitude and soli- carrying out all its activities. He praised the vast the vote of thanks, where he thanked all the event concluded with a sumptuous dinner. Indian embassy, the guest of honor Dr darity to the wonderful people of Kuwait.” appreciation, IDF has earned and garnered in Kuwaiti dignitaries and guests, for having After the dinner on their way out, each and Mohammed Al-Mutairi, President - Kuwait The Ramadan message was then delivered the Kuwaiti community. come in such large numbers and taking time every guest were gifted with lovely girgiyans. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

Holiday Inn Kuwait visits KACCH Al-Amiri s part of its corporate social responsibility and its continuous intention to spread the love and joy during the holy month of Ramadan, Holiday Inn Kuwait - Salmiya chose to draw priceless smiles on the faces of little children that have strug- gled through part or most of their lives suffering from different types of illnesses. The event was held in the Amiri Hospital - KACCH in Kuwait City. Holiday Inn Kuwait arranged for an entertaining program for the children to enjoy. Laughter Aand joy filled the room with their gorgeous smiley faces as their favorite cartoon character entered their room and handed themtheir gifts and candies alongside a memorable photo. Holiday Inn Kuwait - Salmiya Hotel has always been known for being a responsible business, always considering the Kuwaiti community in many different means.

Eid Al-Fitr at the Crowne Plaza n an effort to add sparkle and joy Centre, which boasts of state - of - able for your selection at the Rib Eye to the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr in the - art technology in equipments is Steak house. Persian cuisine in all its IKuwait, Crowne Plaza Kuwait has open 24 hours of the day to help our royalty is served you at the Shabestan taken magnanimous steps to make guests stay healthy and fit. Spa Iranian restaurant, India brings you its this Eid a memorable event for its Aquatonic offers you relaxing original Indian dishes at Jamawar guests. Welcoming residents and moments helping you rejuvenate Indian restaurant and Japan’s finest guests alike, the hotel has opened its and making your stay a memorable dishes are all yours at the Sakura doors to all people visiting Kuwait to one. Our guests are special to us and Japanese restaurant. Savor the feel of choose from our special packages. we provide them special amities in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon at The lavish rooms with all modern the rooms this Eid. the Ayam Zaman Lebanese restaurant amenities make Crowne Plaza Kuwait Enjoy an appetizing tour around or treat yourself to elegant pastries your home away from home this EId. the world with the eight specialty with the delicious Parisian tea at the The guests who take advantage of restaurants of Crowne Plaza Kuwait Fauchon Salon de The. this special gift also benefit from the this Eid Al-Fitr. Tantalize your taste With all the options available to one other leisure facilities of the hotel, buds with flavors from the world and all, Crowne Plaza Kuwait remains which are designed to take care of around with the exotic dishes that the unchallenged and preferred desti- every need of our clients. Enjoy a await you at Al-Ahmadi International nation this Eid for all its privileged cus- breakfast for 2 persons at the Al- Buffet, while the treasures of the seas tomers. This Hotel is owned by Al- Ahmadi International Buffet restau- come to your table at the Al-Noukhaza Houda Hotels and Tourism Company rant, where children under 4 years Seafood restaurant and original steaks and operated under license from eat free. The Edge 24 Hour Fitness char - grilled to perfection are avail- InterContinental Hotels Group. Multiple entry 5-year, 1-year business visas

he Indian embassy has been issuing long-term visas of 5-year and 1-year validity to all Kuwaiti Tnationals and expatriates residing in Kuwait. In addition, 6-month tourist visas and 1-year medical visas are also issued to those interested. Visas are granted on the same working day. Those wishing to obtain 5-year or 1-year business visas may contact the Indian embassy after filling the visa form on-line at: www.indianvisaon- line.gov.in, two photographs with white background and payable visa fee. For more details please contact Embassy at 22530600 and 22530612. TIES Center 2nd blood donation campaign annual Eid ith the slogan, ‘Blood saves life, save blood starts with Tamu Samaj Kuwait’, the prominent non-resi- open house Wdent Nepali Association from Nepal, held its 2ND Blood Donation Campaign at Central Blood Bank, Jabriya amily and friends are invited for our annual Eid (Kuwait) on 27th June, 2014. 2ND blood donation campaign by TMK aimed to build a Open House. Why not conclude this great culture of voluntary blood donation. Over the last few years Fmonth by celebrating with us? Enjoy a tradi- this event was organized with blood donors highlighting the tional Arabian buffet dinner, Arabic calligraphy, unique life saving role. Tamu Samaj Kuwait was highly hon- Henna, a cultural presentation, a bouncy castle, don- ored by the presence of Bishal Bhaittarai, first secretary and key rides, and more!! Shuhada Area - Block 4, Street acting ambassador of Nepal (Kuwait) and by Dr Rania Ibrahim (The representative of Central Blood Bank) as chief guest. 413, Villa 67 - Kuwait Thursday July 31 @ 5-8pm To It turned out to be great event by the dignified attendance register, phone: 25231015. of local dignitaries from Nepali community and their family members. Also our fellow donors from (India, Pakistan and Embassy of Brazil Srilanka) joined the campaign. Raju Gurung, secretary of TSK, opened the campaign. n the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr Welcome speech was delivered by Khop Gurung, the presi- Holidays, the Embassy will be dent of TSK. 103 people participated with 93 male donors and Oclosed from Sunday, July 27th to 10 female donors. Tons of thanks to our sponsor Bahrain Thursday, July 31st and will resume Exchange Kuwait (BEC). duties on Sunday, August 3rd, 2014. TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

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Istanbul 03:30 THY 1465 Istanbul 05:00 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 3:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 7:30 PM JZR 555 Alexandria 04:10 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 5:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 9:45 PM JZR 560 Sohag 05:35 THY 770 Istanbul 04:35 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 8:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:05 AM DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 THY 765 Istanbul 06:00 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 JAI 575 Abu Dhabi/Kochi 06:30 A LONG WAY DOWN (DIG) 10:15 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) IRA 673 Ahwaz 06:20 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:15 AM BAW 157 London 06:35 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:00 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 & 06/08/2014) FANAR-4 JZR 503 Luxor 07:40 IRA 672 Ahwaz 07:20 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 11:30 AM JZR 268 Beirut 07:35 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 SHARQIA-2 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:45 PM KAC 302 Mumbai 07:50 KAC 537 Sohag 08:00 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:50 BAW 156 London 08:25 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 11:15 AM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 4:00 PM QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 6:15 PM SVA 512 Riyadh 07:55 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:55 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:00 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 3:45 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:30 PM KAC 352 Kochi 08:05 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 6:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:45 PM KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:00 AM KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:30 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:35 ABY 125 Sharjah 08:50 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:55 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:55 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:45 AM IRA 667 Esfahan 09:00 IRA 668 Mashhad 10:00 NO SUN+TUE+WED(03, 05 & 06/08/2014) FANAR-5 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:30 KAC 561 Amman 10:15 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:15 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 11:00 AM QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 FDB 056 Dubai 10:20 SHARQIA-3 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 2:15 PM GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 KAC 101 London/New York 10:25 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 11:00 AM THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 4:15 PM MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 TBZ 5483 Mashhad 11:00 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 A LONG WAY DOWN (DIG) 2:15 PM KICK (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM FDB 8051 Dubai 11:15 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 4:15 PM KICK (DIG) (HINDI) 9:30 PM QTR 8646 Doha 11:15 KAC 501 Beirut 11:40 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:45 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 7:30 PM THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 12:30 AM JZR 561 Sohag 12:00 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 9:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) SYR 341 Damascus 12:05 FDB 8052 Dubai 11:55 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 1:00 AM Last Day of Ramadan, No Show before 9.00 pm UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 TBZ 5484 Mashhad 12:10 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 & 06/08/2014) On Friday & 1st day of Eid no show before 1.30 pm MSR 579 Sohag 13:05 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 Last Day of Ramadan, No Show before 9.00 pm THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 QTR 8646 Doha 12:45 FDB 057 Dubai 13:30 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 On Friday & 1st day of Eid no show before 1.30 pm MARINA-1 KAC 672 Dubai 13:40 SYR 342 Damascus 13:05 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 12:15 PM KAC 538 Sohag 13:40 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 QTR 1078 Doha 13:45 JZR 124 Bahrain 13:30 MUHALAB-1 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 2:15 PM GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 MSR 580 Sohag 13:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:45 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 4:15 PM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 3:30 PM THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 6:15 PM KNE 472 Jeddah 14:40 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 JZR 269 Beirut 14:55 FDB 058 Dubai 14:10 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 5:45 PM A LONG WAY DOWN (DIG) 8:30 PM KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 A LONG WAY DOWN (DIG) 8:30 PM KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:30 PM KNE 460 Riyadh 15:05 KAC 741 Dammam 14:35 SYR 1287 Damascus 15:15 QTR 1079 Doha 14:55 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 10:30 PM THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 12:45 AM FDB 8053 Dubai 15:25 KAC 673 Dubai 15:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:45 AM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) KAC 562 Amman 15:30 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 & 06/08/2014) ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 JZR 242 Amman 15:15 MPH 093 Amsterdam 15:40 KAC 617 Doha 15:30 MARINA-2 OMA 645 Muscat 15:50 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:35 MUHALAB-2 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 11:00 AM KAC 118 New York 16:00 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 11:15 AM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:15 PM QTR 1072 Doha 16:15 KNE 481 Taif 15:50 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (DIG) 2:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 3:30 PM NIA 251 Alexandria 16:20 SVA 505 Jeddah 16:00 RJA 640 Amman 16:20 FDB 8054 Dubai 16:05 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 4:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 5:45 PM FDB 051 Dubai 16:25 SYR 1288 Damascus 16:15 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 6:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 8:00 PM JZR 125 Bahrain 16:25 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 NO MON+TUE ( 28 & 29/07/2014) SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:15 PM UAE 857 Dubai 16:45 KAC 613 Bahrain 16:35 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:45 OMA 646 Muscat 16:35 KICK (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:30 AM SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 MON+TUE ( 28 & 29/07/2014) NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) UAL 982 IAD 17:25 MPH 093 Dubai/SIN 17:10 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 9:45 PM KAC 742 Dammam 17:35 QTR 1073 Doha 17:20 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 12:05 AM MARINA-3 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 RJA 641 Amman 17:20 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG-3D) 12:00 PM KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 17:45 NIA 252 Alexandria 17:20 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 JZR 538 Cairo 17:40 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG-3D) 3:00 PM JZR 483 Istanbul 17:55 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:45 MUHALAB-3 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 6:15 PM TAR 328 Tunis/Dubai 18:05 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 KAC 542 Cairo 18:15 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (DIG-3D) 11:00 AM TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG-3D) 9:00 PM QTR 1080 Doha 18:25 UAE 858 Dubai 18:25 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 1:00 PM DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:15 AM KAC 786 Jeddah 18:30 JZR 156 Dubai 18:35 KAC 104 London 18:45 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:40 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 3:15 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) FDB 063 Dubai 18:45 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 5:30 PM Last Day of Ramadan, No Show before 9.00 pm AXB 393 Kozhikode 18:55 TAR 328 Tunis 18:55 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 7:45 PM On Friday & 1st day of Eid no show before 1.30 pm KAC 618 Doha 19:00 QTR 1081 Doha 19:25 ABY 129 Sharjah 19:00 FDB 064 Dubai 19:25 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 10:00 PM GFA 217 Bahrain 19:00 KAC 287 Dhaka 19:30 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:15 AM AVENUES-1 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 ABY 120 Sharjah 19:40 KAC 502 Beirut 19:20 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:45 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 1:00 PM KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 AXB 394 Kozhikode 19:55 Last Day of Ramadan, No Show before 9.00 pm KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 3:15 PM KAC 614 Bahrain 19:35 KAC 363 Colombo 20:05 On Friday & 1st day of Eid no show before 1.30 pm KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 5:30 PM JAI 572 Mumbai 19:35 JAI 571 Mumbai 20:35 OMA 647 Muscat 19:55 FDB 062 Dubai 20:45 KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 7:45 PM FDB 061 Dubai 20:05 KAC 331 Trivandrum 20:50 FANAR-1 KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 10:00 PM DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:15 OMA 648 Muscat 20:55 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 12:15 PM KAN RAFEEJI DIG) Kuwaiti Film) 12:30 AM ABY 121 Sharjah 20:20 ABY 122 Sharjah 21:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 3:00 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) JZR 189 Dubai 20:25 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:30 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 A LONG WAY DOWN (DIG) 5:45 PM JZR 243 Amman 20:50 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 KAN RAFEEJI (Kuwaiti Film) 7:45 PM AVENUES-2 KLM 417 Amsterdam 20:55 MSR 619 Alexandria 21:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (DIG) 10:00 PM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 12:15 PM KNE 480 Taif 21:00 KAC 543 Cairo 21:30 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 KAN RAFEEJI (DIG) (Kuwaiti Film) 12:45 AM PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 2:15 PM UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 KLM 417 Dammam/Amsterdam 21:55 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 4:15 PM QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 KNE 461 Riyadh 21:55 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 6:15 PM GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 FANAR-2 KICK (DIG) (HINDI) 8:15 PM FDB 059 Dubai 22:10 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 11:15 PM ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 KAC 381 Delhi 22:30 TAMMY (DIG) 11:15 AM AIC 981 Chennai/Hyderabad/Ahmedabad 22:25 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 1:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) UAL 981 Bahrain 22:40 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:40 TAMMY (DIG) 4:45 PM MEA 408 Beirut 22:50 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 JZR 157 Dubai 22:55 FDB 060 Dubai 22:50 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 6:45 PM AVENUES-3 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:10 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 TAMMY (DIG) 10:00 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 11:30 AM BON 102 Sarajevo 23:15 KAC 203 Lahore 23:10 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:35 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (DIG) 12:15 AM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 2:00 PM MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:40 NO SUN+TUE+WED( 03, 05 &06/08/2014) SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 4:30 PM THY 772 Istanbul 23:45 MEA 409 Beirut 23:50 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 7:00 PM FANAR-3 SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 9:30 PM DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE(DIG) 11:00 AM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 12:05 AM stars34 THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

CROSSWORD 618 STAR TRACK

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

In-depth discussions and probing conversations find you at your men- Financial ties to other people are highlighted today. You may have bor- tal best this afternoon. There are subjects you love to talk about and rowed money and are now ready to return the favor, or the other way you may finally have found a new friend that loves to listen. Your investigative abili- around. Connections with people on a grand scale would be easy to find. This may mean a ties are at a high point and problems are easily solved-especially the technical ones. wedding or baby is about to widen the family unit. Education, advertising and travel could It could be that you and this new friend of yours could make an attempt to write a play a part in this as well and you will find yourself traveling so that you can be a part of play together or film a short movie, etc. Create a fictitious product and sell it on film the wedding or the birth. Law and philosophy and/or religion have much potential to with all your heart. You could enter your film to a company that needs new adver- impact your lifestyle. You love a social life-friends and relationships play a major role in tisement ideas and you will gain quite a bit; perhaps a new job. This is a great time to your makeup. Your taste in art and appreciation in general are heightened. Perhaps while work on personal or team projects. This may also mean a sports game is in order this you are away from the home you will find a good art investment. evening.

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

You are fair-minded and aboveboard, always direct and honest in Early this morning a family member may have to come and look for you in thought. Directing or guiding others today, you are able to keep the flow of energy the garden. In order to have beautiful plants it takes cultivation, water and in a forward movement without too many stops and starts. You manage to come up nutrients. Later today you may find yourself in charge, or partly in charge, of the purchase with things to keep everyone out of trouble. You are more interested in eternal of some business equipment. If you are in business for yourself and are looking to pur- thoughts and broad landscapes than in minute details. You always manage to get chase a copier, computer, car or camera consider visiting the library to look at comparisons the picture right away. Farsighted, you have a wandering mind that loves to travel and gain suggestions that will save you many miles and the gas it takes to run to those dif- and are at home with the bare bones of truth. Your presence has a way of easing ferent stores. Make sure you get a second opinion if you are spending family money. This is things; helping those around you to let go of any differences and stand behind what a good time to reorganize in your office, home or vehicle. Think about putting that budget unites us all. Your afternoon is less stressful and the evening romantic-who could ask in effect; you will have the money you need for a special trip this fall. for anything more?

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

Gathering and exchanging information becomes a more important part of The exchange of ideas becomes a focal point in a family gathering today. your life just now. This may not take place in the form of gossip, but in the This may be the way you and your family choose to run a meeting when any form of education. There could be some research necessary today that will find you in a one person is making decisions that touch others. Hopefully, by teaching these considera- ACROSS nature deities worshipped by ancient library or bookstore. Law, politics, education, travel and religion are some of the areas tions, everyone gains. This may even mean that music, chores, food or finances will be a 1. Dwell (archaic). Semitic peoples. where thoughts are organized. Big ideas that affect your career, status and reputation are topic of discussion, instead of tolerated. You are constantly learning, knowing a little about 5. Formed or conceived by the imagination. 2. A small island. likely at this time. Daring to be different gets you noticed and could get you ahead in ways a lot of things, staying in touch and on top of the latest developments: these things satisfy a need for mental stimulation. This is a time of much mental energy and initiative, perhaps 12. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a 3. Temporary living quarters. you never expected this afternoon. It could even land you in hot water if you are not dis- creet. A high-tech or idealistic approach sets you apart. Neighbors or siblings have a big with an element of conflict tossed in for good measure. You may find yourself very pleased surface. 4. Romanian violinist and composer (1881- impact on your goals. This is a mentally and socially active period. at the way this day has progressed. Tonight is for relaxation. 15. The seventh month of the Hindu calen- 1955). dar. 5. A prediction about how something (as 16. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross the weather) will develop. section tapering towards a pyramidal top. 6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. An extension at the end and at right from aba cloth. Working at an art fair or flea market is fun and profitable. During the noon angles to the main building. 7. A colorless odorless gaseous element A clear-minded insight into your own plans and methods is available to you break you may see an old friend. A walking encyclopedia with a yen to know today. This is a good time to share your dreams with others, all of them tak- 18. The mathematics of generalized arith- that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. a little bit about everything and everyone, you may find yourself prying, perhaps too ing a little time to talk about just where they want their lives to take them. This afternoon metical operations. 8. A ball of yarn or cord or thread. much; easy does it. Talking, writing, keeping a finger on the pulse of all that’s happening you will put your mind to work and take care of any details that you may have-mental dis- 20. A member of the Siouan people former- 9. Being one more than one. make this is a time of curiosity and social as well as intellectual growth. Such things are cipline should come easily. You are at your mental best. Problems and obstacles that have ends in themselves, rather than means to any other ends. A rewarding afternoon brings ly inhabiting the Black Hills of western 10. Confined to and understandable by seemed difficult before now should find easy explanations under your keen examination. new opportunities your way. This could mean that you are secure in a new marriage or This evening you may enjoy the company of friends and neighbors. Others may find you South Dakota. only an enlightened inner circle. home or you have helped someone else to be secure. You are feeling like a bit of celebra- especially witty and eccentric. A loved one is upset for reasons other than what he or she 22. A tenant who holds a lease. 11. 10 grams. tion tonight. A loved one or a close friend will be happy to join in with you. says-do not take things too personal-patience. 25. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 12. The state prevailing during the absence 26. Tropical American tree producing cacao of war. beans. 13. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. Property that is leased or rented out or who defeated Thor in a wrestling match. Personal issues are solved easily today. Taking care of family is a major Lots of people, lots of good food and a pleasant atmosphere may mean you let. 14. Showing or causing joy and pleasure. theme where your emotional orientation is concerned. You crave organiza- are on vacation, have friends or family visiting with you or you are in a dining room with 30. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt. 19. A man who is the lover of a girl or tion and practicality and you want to get things accomplished. You are willing, however, lots of activity around you. You may be at a lecture or conference today as there are to stop whenever necessary to help a young or elderly person become better focused. 33. Acute lung injury characterized by young woman. speeches, conversations and important words just set out for all to hear. Now your desire Being successful in life is easy for you-you have a built-in sense of how to solve problems. coughing and rales. 21. A girl or young woman who is unmar- is to learn what you need to learn and enjoy the feelings that come by being stimulated to Even if you are not working, that professional attitude is carried out with everything you research and become further educated. It is time to share your talents by becoming pub- 36. The last (12th) month of the year. ried. attempt to accomplish or produce. 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Lee helps a film Weird Al says ‘Mandatory student face his past hen a film student decided to “Independent Lens” series. Monroe, 33, said Fun’ will be his last album revisit his criminal teenage past, the Houston robbery arose out of his mis- Whe found a powerful ally in film- guided desire to help his financially strug- maker Spike Lee. Lee was among Darius gling family any way he could. He’d been eird Al Yankovic is done making any more Clark Monroe’s professors at New York an honor student and a good son until albums -but not music. The famed parody University’s film school when Monroe then, he and his mother said during a panel singer, who just released his 14th album, revealed to him that he had committed a about the film produced by Lee. What les- W “Mandatory Fun,” appeared on “Larry King Now” on bank robbery when he was 16 and had sons might others draw from the project? Monday, and said he’ll most likely only be releasing gone to prison. Monroe wanted to examine The importance of getting an education to single songs from now on. “I think that from now on his actions and how they affected his family help overcome the stigma of a prison I’m going to be releasing singles. Now with digital and the victims. Lee didn’t lend his support record was one cited by Monroe. Another, distribution, I can just get it out there,” Yankovic said lightly to the project. “I think of my name which he termed universal: “You cannot during the interview (above). “I think that’s the way very highly and I would not attach my allow one choice to ruin the rest of your for me to be timely, from now on. The album, as a name to any film if I did not think it was up life.” format, has served me well, but it just feels like I to my high standards,” Lee told a TV critics’ shouldn’t have to wait until I have 12 songs to put meeting Tuesday. The result, seven years in out something.” The album format, however, might the making, is “Evolution of a Criminal,” actually be serving him better than ever After which will air in January as part of PBS’ releasing eight singles in eight straight days, “Mandatory Fun” may land no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which would be a first for the comedian. Billboard will reveal the new chart on Wednesday. Yankovic, who has also worked in film and televi- sion, may also be heading to Broadway soon. “I’ve gotten some offers to do some writing for some possible Broadway musicals,” Yankovic said. “There’s different things I can do with my kind of sensibility and do the same type of comedy but branch out.”

Ferrell and McKay producing remake of ‘Manimal’ immy Miller’s Mosaic and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions have partnered to Jproduce a remake of 1980s short-lived crime series “Manimal,” McKay revealed on Tuesday. The original series starred Simon MacCorkindale as Dr Jonathan Chase, a man Steve Carell who had the ability to transform into any animal, and used to produce his ability to help police solve crimes. The new film, from Sony Pictures Animation, will unsurprisingly have comedic elements in addition to action, and will feature heavy spe- Brooklyn Family Robinson cial effects as well as animated elements. Miller, Ferrell and McKay previously teamed up to produce “The Other Guys,” teve Carell is to produce and appear in new “Step Brothers” and “Talladega Nights.” The producers will Disney film ‘Brooklyn Family Robinson’. The now search for a director for “Manimal.” Scomedian, who is best known for his star- ring roles in ‘Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy’ and comedy series ‘The Office’, is to ‘different’ produce the project with Charlie Hartsock and New Fantastic Four Vance DeGeneres, his partners at Carousel Productions. The Hollywood Reporter says that the trio are to work in partnership with Disney’s from other superhero movies David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of he new ‘Fantastic Four’ will be “different from also the writing talent behind the acclaimed ‘X- Mandeville Films. Hoberman and Lieberman were other comic book films”. Scriptwriter Simon Men: Days of Future Past’ - as well as its 2016 fol- responsible for producing ‘Muppets Most TKinberg has promised the ambitious reboot low-up ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ - but fans shouldn’t Wanted’, which starred British comedian Ricky of the superhero franchise will be unlike anything expect an ‘Avengers’-style crossover between the Gervais and hit cinema screens earlier this year. fans have seen in previous movies in the genre, two series. The scribe explained: “I would love to Meanwhile, the script is being penned by David such as ‘The Avengers’ and the ‘X-Men’ films. He see the X-Men and Fantastic Four team up if only Reynolds, who was nominated for an Oscar for told Latino-Review.com: “We are hopefully going because I’m a fan and certainly it’s something co-writing the 2003 classic ‘Finding Nemo’. The to be refining the way the people see the we’ve thought about and talked about. “The chal- eagerly-awaited film is to be based around an ‘Fantastic Four’ movies. There are so many things lenge is that they essentially live in different uni- original idea by Reynolds, Hartsock and we are doing different from the previous film and verses. In the ‘X-Men’ world of the movies, we nev- Degeneres. And while specific details of the proj- so many things different from other comic books er hear them talk about a famous super team ect are few and far between, it is known that the films.” The Josh Trank-directed movie will be a called the Fantastic Four and in the ‘Fantastic Four’ film will centre on Carell’s character - the patriarch stark departure from the critically mauled 2005 movie, they are fantastic because they are the of the family - and his move from life in the city to and 2007 ‘Fantastic Four’ films which starred only ones of their kind, meaning there aren’t other an island. ‘Brooklyn Family Robinson’ will see Jessica Alba and Chris Evans. The new take will people with super powers on the streets. “So giv- Carell return to Disney following his role in star Kate Mara as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, en that they exist in these different domains or ‘Alexander and Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Miles Teller as Reed Richards/Mr Fantastic, Michael dimensions there are some inherent challenges.” Bad Day’, which is to be released in October. B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm/The Thing. Kinberg is Cooper had never Beyonce and Jay Z to bring met Diesel ‘On The Run’ tour to UK eyonce and Jay Z want to bring their ‘On The Run’ event.” News of the additional tour date follows on from radley Cooper had never met his confessed his energy on set often got him into tour to the UK. The superstar and her rapper hus- weeks of speculation that the couple’s marriage is in crisis. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ co-star until trouble with the crew, who were worried about Bband - who kicked off their tour at the Sun Life Beyonce, 32 and Jay Z, 44 - who have a two-year-old Bthey appeared together on a talk show their budget. The ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ actor said: “I Stadium in Miami Gardens last month - are said to be plan- daughter, Blue Ivy, together - were previously said to be to promote the finished film. The 39-year-old was truly playing every day. I had a laser gun ning to add a final UK date to their schedule which is cur- only seeing one another on stage by travelling separately actor provides the voice for Rocket the racoon and a spaceship ... a mask! It was funny, I would rently set to end with a two-night stint at the Stade de and staying in different hotel rooms. A source said: “They in the upcoming sci-fi adventure while Vin shoot this gun, this blaster, and over and over France in Paris, this September. It is believed the perform- might be sharing a stage, but while on tour they’ll live Diesel voiced the character Groot, and he’s again they kept yelling, ‘Cut’. Because, on the ance will take place in London in Autumn with tickets for practically separate lives. “Tensions between them are admitted they never met while making the day, during the take, I was going [makes toy the surprise show becoming available just weeks before worse than ever, meaning they will be travelling between movie. Appearing with his other co-stars - Zoe gun noises]. I was like, ‘Come on, that felt really the event. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Jay Z and venues independently, staying in different hotel suites and Saldana, Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista - on good to me’. “And they were like, ‘That just cost Beyonce will play a stadium in Britain, probably in London, even having separate entourages. “They’ll also have indi- ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, Cooper said: “Yeah we just us a hundred and fifty thousand dollars! Stop before the autumn. “It needs to be a stadium because of vidual dressing rooms, so the only times they’ll be togeth- met ... For real, for the first time.” Meanwhile, with making the noise with your mouth’.” the scale of the production. “It could be the case that there er will be while they’re performing.”-Bang Showbiz Chris Pratt - who takes on the lead role of pilot will be just weeks between tickets going on sale and the Peter Quill in the James Gunn directed project - lifestyle THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 GOSSIP Ian Watkins’ appeal denied ormer Lostprophets singer Ian judge told him: “I am satisfied that you Watkins has had his jail term are a deeply corrupting influence, you Fappeal refused. The shamed star are highly manipulative, you are a sexu- was jailed for 29 years last December, al predator, you are dangerous.”The with another six years on license, after public and, in particular, young females being found guilty of a number of child need protection from you.” Watkins was sex offences, and after claiming that his told that he would have to serve at least sentence was “too harsh”, judges at two-thirds of his custodial sentence Cardiff Crown Court have now decided before he could even be considered for he didn’t have sufficient grounds to release by the Parole board. His barris- appeal, Sky News reports. The singer ter insisted her client wasn’t given had originally insisted he was innocent enough discount for pleading guilty, of offences including the attempted saying: “This case causes a very disturb- rape of an 11-month-old child, posses- ing reaction for anyone who has any- sion of child-abuse videos - some of thing to do with it ... But by pleading which he made himself - and encourag- guilty my client averted the need for a ing a fan to abuse her own child. most distressing and unpleasant trial for However, he changed his plea at the last all those concerned, especially a jury. “I minute, averting the need for a trial, and am not trying to minimize the gravity of later complained he hadn’t realized his these offenses, just simply make the guilty plea would indeed make him observation that a sense of proportion “look guilty”. At his original trial, the needs to be maintained.” Jonas felt ‘trapped’ in the Jonas Brothers

ick Jonas’ new song tures Sean Penn’s daughter Dylan ‘Chains’ describes how he and will be a departure from the Nfelt trapped in the Jonas Jonas Brothers. Friends of Nick Brothers. The 21-year-old singer have also claimed he found the La Roux and his brothers Kevin, 26, and Jonas Brothers a “burden” and Joe, 24, disbanded their squeaky now finally “feels free”. The pal clean band last year and with his said: “Nick has spent years experi- blasted by ex-bandmate new solo single, Nick details his encing a burden that’s hard to unhappiness at how they were explain. He’s not blaming anyone perceived but friends now say he for it; it’s just what fame does to en Langmaid has appeared to slam his former La Roux bandmate. no longer “care what people think people, especially at a young age. The songwriter parted ways with Elly Jackson during the recording of him. A source told the New “Different people respond in dif- Bof new album ‘Trouble in Paradise’ and after she criticised Kanye York Post newspaper’s Page Six ferent ways?- some do drugs and West in an interview at the weekend, he seems to have taken the rapper’s column: “‘Chains’ is a metaphor act out, but his response was to side. He first tweeted the ‘Bound 2’ star to say “Love you man”. He then for what he has been feeling all conform to what he thought peo- retweeted a number of posts from Kanye and also comments from other these years.”He feels free now for ple wanted him to be. Remember, people about La Roux, including one which read: “La Roux, nobody knows the first time in his life. He’s mak- he was a 13 year-old kid when he her.” He then gave a withering response when asked what instruments ing music he believes in. He’s done saying sorry for became famous. For example: He thought that Elly had played on the album, as she is credited with many on the sleeve everything and trying to be perfect. He’s just going when he slept in a hotel room on tour, people notes. He replied: “er, triangle I think. (sic)” Ben later claimed Ian Sherwin, to be himself; if people like him, great, if not, he’s would talk bad about him if he didn’t make his own who wrote three tracks on ‘Trouble in Paradise’ and has become Elly’s clos- done giving “ The steamy video for the song fea- bed. So he made it.” est working partner, was the reason he left La Roux. He slammed: “The guy’s an idiot. He’s the reason I left. “The dude’s a poacher. He couldn’t write a nursery rhyme.” Elly recently claimed she and Ben went their sepa- rate ways because she became a “different person” after touring their Calvin Harris debut album in America. She said recently: “It was always going to be dif- ficult because we’d had a long time away from each other when I was on tour. “We weren’t really that connected and I’d realized what kind of per- former I wanted to be onstage, which led to me finding my first record concentrating on restricting. I came back home and I felt like a different person.” his own music Clancy Lagerfeld to stars in ‘Shave or be made into Style’ campaign bbey Clancy has starred in Macmillan Cancer’s a Barbie doll new campaign shot by Rankin. The model - Awho is married to former England footballer arl Lagerfeld has been made into Peter Crouch - posed for the famed photographer to a Barbie doll. The legendary fash- mark the launch of the charity’s new ‘Shave or Style’ Kion designer - who stands as cre- fundraising campaign. The campaign - which also fea- ative director of Chanel and the Italian tures photographs of singer Nina Nesbitt and presen- fashion house Fendi - has had the limited alvin Harris is taking a break from writing for other ter Gethin Jones - hopes to encourage the public to edition toy crafted in his image to cele- artists to concentrate on his own music. The DJ - who change their own hairstyle and make a donation to the brate Barbie’s 55th birthday this year. Chas worked with stars including Ellie Goulding, cause by presenting shots of celebrities like they’ve The doll will be launched in autumn by Cheryl Cole and Chris Brown - wants to focus on his own never seen them before. Abbey, 28, said: “When American toy giant Mattel - as part of career and plans to finish his new album before he helps Macmillan asked what style I wanted to trial for the their collector series - and will be dressed out anyone else. He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It’s Rankin Shave or Style shoot, I knew I wanted to try in the 80-year-old’s signature tailored very rarely that I have to deal with it face-to-face. Usually, something really different that people wouldn’t imme- black jacket, white high-collar shirt, black it’s not really a case of turning them down, it’s the case of diately recognize as ‘me’. “I’ve always had long, blonde jeans, necktie, black ankle boots and fin- I’ve got too much on. Do you know what I mean? “It’s a hair so in the end I went for a short punky look! It was gerless gloves, reports WWD. Global vice serious thing. I’ve got to finish my album, I have to take so much fun to experiment and trial a new style for the president of Barbie product design, Kim care of me before I take care of anyone else.” And one per- day.” Rankin, whose real name is John Rankin Waddell, Culmone, said: “It’s not everyday that son Calvin has no desire to help is his ex-girlfriend Rita Ora explained: “The Shave or Style shoot for Macmillan Barbie dresses like the world’s most as it was recently claimed their split has has left plans for really gave me the chance to challenge what people famous fashion designer.” Details sur- her new album in chaos. Rita, 23, recorded a number of expect from Abbey, Nina and Gethin. It was great fun rounding the price and distribution of songs with her former beau - including hit single ‘I Will but it’s important to remember that at the end of the the iconic figurine will be released at a Never Let You Down’ - but he’s now said that she cannot shoot, all three left as they arrived, yet for those affect- later date, although Mattel previously release any more of the tunes they made together. A ed by cancer - long standing changes to appearance created a Barbie in honor of HervÈ LÈger source previously said: “Rita’s album has hit a bit of a road such as hair loss are a day to day reality. “Shave or Style by Max Azria which retailed at $150. block after Calvin pulled all the songs he had worked on encourages people to try something different in order Meanwhile, Karl’s pet cat, Choupette, was for the project before they split. “He’d made a lot of songs to recognize that changes to your appearance affect recently announced as the face of a Shu for her but they’re now likely to go to other artists.” It’s not only how you look, but also how you feel.” To take Uemura cosmetics campaign. The snow- been reported that the pair made at least a dozen tracks part in the campaign and stand proudly alongside white Siamese kitty will front a holiday together, which were to represent the bulk of the eagerly- those affected by cancer facing physical changes, makeup collection for the Japanese awaited record. The source added: “Calvin wants a clean Macmillan is asking people to either brave a shave, or brand - entitled ‘Shupette by Karl break, personally and professionally. He’s already given her trial a style, and share photos of their new do on social Lagerfeld’ - which will also be released in one massive hit so doesn’t feel her owes her. “He doesn’t media. Participants are also asked to text STYLE to autumn this year. want to be linked to her, especially now she’s in a new rela- 70550 to give £3 to the cause. tionship with Rich Hilfiger.” Mirren follows military-style fitness plan Adams admires Max Mara

elen Mirren follows a military-style fitness regime. The my Adams is a huge fan of Max this team they had an inspiration board, ‘Calendar Girls’ actress has revealed the secret to keeping in Mara. The ‘American Hustle’ actress they knew the mood they wanted and Hshape aged 68 is sticking to the Royal Canadian Air Force’s A- who was unveiled as the face of what they were looking for and communi- exercise plan which was devised by a doctor in the 1950s. Helen the Italian fashion group’s latest collection cated it to me as an actress. “So even insists the routine - which takes just 12 minutes and includes push- of accessories yesterday has admired the though I accomplished something as a ups, sit-ups, running on the spot and arm circling to work all the mus- brand for years and described their col- model, I still left like an actress bringing a cle groups - helps her to get fit in just a couple of weeks. She told laboration as “wonderful”. She told Access character to the photo shoot. “They were Hello! magazine: “I do a thing that leads me into exercise. It is the Hollywood: “It’s very fun. It’s a brand that I wonderful about that.” The President of Royal Canadian Air Force exercise plan. “It is 12 minutes and they have have followed for many years, I’ve been a the group’s public relations and commu- charts you follow... Each day, you have to do the exercises within the big admirer and wearer of it, so I think it is nications, Giorgio Guidotti, believes 12 minutes and until you can, you can’t move up. “It is the exercise I wonderful. “It feels very natural and seam- including successful Hollywood stars in have done off and on my whole life. It just very gently gets you fit. less.” The stunning brunette - who was their ad campaigns has given Max Mara a Two weeks of doing that and you think, ‘Yeah, I could go to the gym photographed by Mario Sorrenti and is new “timeless” image. He told WWD: now’.” Helen - who is a self-confessed ‘yo-yo dieter’ - revealed that her pictured in the campaign carrying Max “Jennifer Garner was the first celebrity we weight constantly fluctuates by 10lb and is returning to the plan after Mara’s ‘Signature Bag’ and wearing the worked with [on the accessories cam- finding herself at the upper end of her ideal weight range. She season’s new eyewear - has replaced fel- paigns] and the feedback we received was explained: (I’m) at the top end of those 10lb and I have got to get low actress Jennifer Garner as face of the excellent both in terms of sell-in and sell- back to the bottom end’. Despite her intense fitness regime, the Oscar popular brand. The 39-year-old star is out, and in terms of credibility. “This new winner also admitted that she no longer feels comfortable wearing a grateful to the team behind the shoot for step is a sign of continuity. The claim is bikini. She said: “I am beyond the bikini-wearing age, really. I wouldn’t treating her as an actress, which helped the same, ‘Timeless is now.’ These are normally wear one. I’ve always looked awful in a bikini, even when I her to feel comfortable on set. She timeless actresses, not associated to a was young.” explained: “Well what was wonderful with scoop of the moment.” — Bang Showbiz lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014

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Picture taken on July 25, 2011 shows workers rolling out the red carpet in front of the festival house on the ‘Green Hill’ prior to the Bayreuth music festi- Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, great-granddaughters of German composer val in Bayreuth, southern Germany. — AFP photos Richard Wagner and current managers of the Bayreuth music festival, during a state reception in Bayreuth, southern Germany. Clouds over Wagner’s Green Hill at famed Bayreuth Festival he curtain goes up on the Bayreuth Festival on Friday, straight away. In fact, there were still some unsold tickets for ics and audiences alike. And the current production of And the Festspielhaus theatre built to Wagner’s own but observers say the prestigious month-long summer one of the performances of the sprawling four-opera “Ring” “Tannhaeuser” by Sebastian Baumgarten-chosen for this year’s designs was clad in scaffolding to prevent crumbling brickwork Tmusic fest dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner cycle next week. opening night-has been almost unanimously vilified ever since from falling and injuring passers-by. That work is also expected could be losing some of its shine. Detractors say that under its it first premiered in 2011. In an interview in this week’s Der to take many years to complete. Compounding such image current management-Wagner’s great-granddaughters Unpopular choice of directors Spiegel magazine, Castorf accused Katharina and Eva of treat- problems was an announcement earlier this month that Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, who took over in Critics point the finger at the artistic choices made by ing him like an “idiot” and ruling over the festival with an Chancellor Angela Merkel-an ardent Wagnerian and hitherto 2009 — the festival is on its way downhill. Fans of the late Katharina and Eva. Last year, for example, for Wagner’s atmosphere of fear and intimidation familiar from communist faithful visitor to the festival-will not be attending the glitzy German composer already joke that the best Wagner singers Bicentenary, the self-styled enfant terrible of German theatre, East Germany where he grew up. opening gala for the first time in 10 years. can be heard anywhere but in Bayreuth. But the perceived Frank Castorf, was picked to direct a brand-new production of Castorf even hinted at a possible legal battle, saying he had A “diary clash” is the official reason for her absence and festi- drop in artistic standards may now be starting to hit ticket the “Ring”. Hired for the project at very short notice after the taken the prominent left-wing politician and lawyer, Gregor val spokesman Peter Emmerich insists Merkel will turn up later sales-unheard of for a festival which has always prided itself on original director, filmmaker Wim Wenders, pulled out, Castorf Gysi, as an advisor. It remains to be seen whether Katharina in the season. The Bayreuth Festival opens on Friday and runs being sold out and having a waiting list for tickets stretching to with his punkish, anarchic aesthetic was bound to raise hackles will be able to turn the festival’s fortunes around once she until August 28, with a total 30 performances in all of seven dif- 10 years and more. among ultra-conservative Bayreuthers. And when he took his assumes sole control of the festival next year while Eva retires. ferent operas, “Tannhaeuser”, “The Flying Dutchman”, The highbrow daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung this curtain call at the premiere last year, he was met with more Merkel absent “Lohengrin” and the “Ring” comprising “Rhinegold”, “The week complained the festival is suffering from “artistic arte- than 15 minutes of booing, whistling and jeering for his Bayreuth’s showing for last year’s Wagner Bicentenary was Valkyrie”, “Siegfried” and “Twilight of the Gods.”— AFP riosclerosis” and was “about as exciting as stale beer”. Ever since bizarre, surreal reading setting the action in faraway places also widely criticized. The composer’s villa Wahnfried, home to Wagner’s grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland relaunched the such as Baku, Azerbaijan, and featuring prostitutes, gangsters, the Richard Wagner Museum and Archive, was effectively event after World War II, tickets to Bayreuth have been the Kalashnikov rifles and copulating crocodiles. reduced to a building site for repairs. The town’s world-famous hardest to come by in the world of opera and classical music. But their choices of directors before that have proven simi- Margravial Opera House, a baroque jewel listed as a UNESCO But this year, when a contingent of seats was made available larly unpopular. Katharina’s own recent production of “The World Heritage site, has also been closed indefinitely for reno- directly on the Internet for the first time, they did not sell out Mastersingers of Nuremberg”, for example, was panned by crit- vation. Beetles devour George Harrison tribute tree tree planted in a Los Angeles park in memory Los Angeles prior to his death in 2001. A plaque at the of the late George Harrison of the Beatles has base of the tree read: “In memory of a great humani- Abeen killed by beetles, a city councilor said tarian who touched the world as an artist, a musician Tuesday. Tom LaBonge, whose district includes Griffith and a gardener.” Park, told AFP that the Japanese black pine tree, “He died in the City of Angels, and he went straight planted about 12 years ago, would be replaced at a to the angels,” said LaBonge, who underscored community planting that is due to take place in Harrison’s charity work including the landmark November. It had grown to 12 feet (nearly four Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. This year marks the meters) in height, but succumbed to bark beetles 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ concert debut in the thriving in the vast and popular inner-city park amid United States. Ringo Starr performed in Los Angeles one of California’s worst droughts in years. with his All-Star Band last weekend. He’ll be followed “A number of trees in Griffith Park has been hit by on August 10 by Paul McCartney. — AFP this beetle,” LaBonge said. The tree stood about 300 yards (meters) from the Griffith Observatory, made This photo released by courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics shows, Colin Firth, left, as famous in the knife-fighting scene in the 1955 cult Stanley and Emma Stone as Sophie, in a scene from the film, ‘Magic in the Moonlight,’ movie “Rebel Without A Cause” starring the late James directed by Woody Allen. — AP Dean. Harrison, the Beatles’ lead guitarist as well as a chart-topping solo artist and avid gardener, lived in George Harrison Review: Allen casts a Peaches Geldof’s death limp spell in ‘Magic’ was drugs-related, coroner rules oody Allen’s late period has been sure Crawford and the lithe, charming he death of Peaches Geldof, the daugh- Twitter post was a photograph of herself and defined by a quality you wouldn’t Sophie across a vivid, widescreen backdrop ter of musician and Band Aid founder Yates together. Whave expected from the man who of cars, clothes and coastline. Crawford, TBob Geldof, was drugs-related, a coro- Peaches Geldof had been a regular on the produced the inspired chaos of “Bananas” whose fiancee hasn’t joined him on the ner ruled yesterday. The 25-year-old socialite London society scene, but gave up her party- or the Fellini-esque carnival of “Stardust trip, is both supremely confident in his real- died at her family home in Kent, southest ing lifestyle after becoming a mother. At the Memories”: tidiness. For years now, Allen’s istic worldview (Nietzsche, he says, England in April while alone with one of her time of her death she was a columnist for films have been light farces (“Midnight in resolved “the God problem rather convinc- two young sons. In May, forensic tests found Mother & Baby magazine. In her last piece, Paris,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) or neatly ingly”) and abundantly unhappy. heroin in her system and puncture wounds under the headline “Being a mum is the best structured parables (“Match Point,” “Blue Audiences will surely see where the film is on her arms. thing in my life”, she wrote she was “happier Jasmine”). They breeze in innocuously in going as it sets up a quite rigidly explored Detective Chief Inspector Paul than ever”. — Reuters the summer, promising pleasant entertain- dichotomy between blithe believing and Fotheringham, who gave evidence at an ment and not much more. scientific certainty. inquest in Gravesend, Kent, yesterday said in “Like drinking lemonade” is how Allen It’s an argument for illusion in our lives, Adele a statement that drugs equipment had been has described his escapist aims for his no matter how fraudulent; for love, no mat- found near the body. He said Geldof had movies. His “Magic in the Moonlight,” a ter how illogical. “Magic in the Moonlight” recently stopped taking heroin after an addic- Peaches Geldof romantic comedy bathed in the sunset is a disbeliever’s earnest plea to believe. tion of several years, although witnesses sus- glow of the French Riviera and starring two These are, of course, ideas Allen has long British singer Adele pected that she had started taking drugs of the more effervescent faces in movies - explored, and “Magic in the Moonlight” again in February. A search of the house had Colin Firth and Emma Stone - is, no doubt, often feels like the kind of tidy New Yorker wins damages revealed a bag containing 61 percent pure sweetly sugary - if ultimately flat - stuff. humor story the filmmaker might pen. heroin, more than double the averge purity of The film begins in 1928 Berlin with the Even with bright performances and lively street heroin. chaotic backstage life of a haughty, chemistry between Stone and Firth, the over photos of son Investigations into who supplied the hero- grouchy Chinese illusionist, Wei Ling Soo, movie is stale with the fixed rhythm of the in were continuing, he said, although there played by the magician Stanley Crawford written word, not alive to its images, ritish singer Adele has accepted a five-figure sum had been no arrests so far. Forensic scientist (Firth). It’s a promising start: Here is Firth, in despite the rich setting. (A quick aside: Is it in damages on behalf of her two-year-old son Emma Harris, who had been involved in regal, oriental garb and long mustache, dis- possible to not have good on-screen chem- Bfrom a paparazzi agency that took photos of his examining the body, said: “Tolerance to hero- paraging autographs as “for mental defec- istry with Stone? From Ryan Gosling to “milestone moments”, her lawyers said yesterday. Adele, in ... appears to be lost fairly rapidly when tives.” More of this, and “Magic in the Spider-Man, she bewitches everyone.) 26, and her partner Simon Konecki had brought legal users cease to use the drug, and deaths com- Moonlight” could have been a very funny Allen is in complete control of the film, action against Corbis Images UK, arguing that it had no monly occur in people who have previously movie. But Wei Ling Soo doesn’t again per- both its comic pacing and its philosophical right to intrude upon everyday family occasions such as been tolerant and have returned to using form, and instead the rest of the film feels quandary. But perhaps that’s the problem: their son Angelo Adkins’ first trip to play group. heroin.” oddly missing the jokes it seems built to Like Crawford, “Magic in the Moonlight” In a statement read out at the High Court, their Geldof’s body was found by her husband convey. Crawford - a self-described “rational needs to be less in control of itself. The film lawyer Jenny Afia said that Adele “accepts and even of two years, Thomas Cohen, in a spare bed- man” who believes in his art, not in actual doesn’t believe in magic enough. “Magic in embraces her public profile” and acknowledges how the room of their home in Wrotham, Kent on the magic - sets off to the South of France to the Moonlight,” a Sony Pictures Classics public and press helped make her an international star. afternoon of Monday, April 7. Police, who at unmask a medium, Sophie Baker (Stone), release, is rated R by the Motion Picture “But she is emphatic that her two-year-old son Angelo is first treated her death as “non-suspicious but gaining renown for her prescient “mental Association of America for “a brief sugges- not, and must never be, ‘public property’,” said Afia. “It is unexplained”, later said there was no evi- impressions.” tive comment, and smoking throughout.” a matter of profound sadness that many of his milestone dence to suggest anyone else was involved or Running time: 100 minutes. Two and a half moments, such as his first family outing and his first trip that Geldof had intended to take her own life. A distrust dance stars out of four. — AP to play group, were photographed and published world- The coroner at yesterday’s inquest ruled They meet at the sumptuous Cote wide expressly against his family’s wishes.”—AFP that the death was drugs-related, a Kent d’Azur home of the Catledge family, whose police spokeswoman said. Geldof’s death rich bachelor Brice (Hamish Linklater) evoked memories of that of her mother, tele- swoons unapologetically for Sophie. A vision presenter Paula Yates, who died of a dance of distrust begins between the cock- heroin overdose aged 41 in 2000. Geldof’s last lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 FEATURES

Three couture creations by fashion designers Simone Cange, Couture drawings by French designer Christian Dior are displayed A dress by Hermes is displayed at the Palais Galliera in Paris as 1950sJeanne Lanvin andelegance Rose Valois are displayed. at the Palais Galliera in Paris. part of an exhibition. celebrated in Paris fashion exhibit

(From left) Three couture creations by fashion designers Balenciaga, Christian Dior and Pierre Cardin are displayed on July 10, 2014 at the Palais Galliera in Paris, as part of an exhibition on French fashion between 1947 and 1957. Elle magazine covers are displayed on July 10, 2014 at the Palais Galliera in Paris as part of an exhibition. — AFP photos inched at the waist, with soft rounded resonance with other couturiers”, according to Swirling skirts shoulders and a swirling skirt, Christian Olivier Saillard, co-curator of the exhibition at “Clients used to change their clothes three CDior’s famous “Bonbon” dress today Paris’s Galliera museum of fashion. or four times a day,” Saillard said. The cocktail appears the epitome of modesty and restraint. For a decade from 1947, haute couture was dress, which was to become a symbol of the But in 1947 — after years of clothing coupons dominated by a small group of male designers decade, was the 1950s’ answer to the early and wartime austerity-this simple dusty-pink whose wasp-waisted dresses implied a return evening dress. First appearing after the war, this wool dress with a brown belt was nothing short to the corset and the aesthetics of the type of dress disappeared in the early 1960s of scandalous. The French fashion designer had Edwardian era. “It’s very elegant but it can also with the arrival of ready-to-wear. Combining been yearning for a return to a more feminine give the idea of a woman who is trapped by “elegance with practicality”, a 1950s edition of silhouette to replace what he called post-war the mysteries of her seduction,” Saillard said. Vogue advised that it could be worn as “early as “soldier women with a boxer’s build”. 8pm for dinner, going out to a restaurant or the The hourglass-shaped “Bonbon” or “Sweetie” ‘New Look’ theatre”. A bolero or coat could be used “to cov- dress-one of more than 100 haute couture out- Such supremely feminine clothes were too er bare shoulders until it becomes acceptable fits that have just gone on display at a new much for Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who consid- to reveal them”, it added. exhibition in Paris-fitted the bill perfectly. ered them unmodern and not suitable for liber- Examples in the exhibition include Pierre Dubbed the “New Look” by Harper’s Bazaar ated, working women. Rebelling against this Balmain’s strapless “Clorinde” dress in ivory silk magazine, this return to feminine curves was an stylistic domination, she engineered a come- chiffon and metal thread embroidery and immediate hit although the amount of fabric back at the age of 71. Her 1954 collection Multiple couture creations are displayed at the Palais Galliera. Balenciaga’s pink taffeta “Baby doll” dress. The Dior’s new designs required caused outrage. expressed the desire of women who had disappearance of the cocktail dress mirrored the During the war years, dresses were typically worked their way through two world wars for Cristobal Balenciaga, Jacques Fath, Jacques haute couture was still bafflingly complex. demise of many of the old haute couture hous- made from just three yards (meters) of material. style teamed with comfort and practicality. Heim and Hubert de Givenchy. “The 1950s was Clothes were divided up into categories such as es. Pierre Cardin, one of the earliest believers in By contrast, one of Dior’s new evening dresses Its simple, straight suits and dresses with the last major period of elegance and the swan- day suits, travel suits, classic suits, two-piece ready-to-wear, was in 1959 expelled from Paris’s required no less than 25 yards of taffeta. Dior echoes of her pre-war designs were at first song of haute couture with the advent of day suits, travel coats, everyday coats, lunch association of haute couturiers for launching a himself attributed the huge success of the snubbed by critics, then acclaimed. “Fashion in ready-to-wear,” Saillard said. dresses, day dresses and formal day dresses. For ready-to-wear collection. But times were chang- “Bonbon” dress not just to its being “pretty” but France 1947 - 1957” celebrates the last glory Although the fashion world was on the brink evening, there was yet more subtle variety with ing. Ready-to-wear was an unstoppable force also to its price tag-it sold for much less than it days of haute couture, an exclusive, labour- of changes that would ultimately make stylish early evening dresses, eating out dresses, din- and Cardin was later readmitted. Of the 106 cost to make because of a pricing error. The intensive type of fashion design through cele- clothes available to everyone, it was a time ner dresses, dancing dresses, cabaret dresses haute couture fashion houses that existed in style was highly influential and “found great brated outfits by designers such as Dior, Chanel, when the wardrobe of women able to afford and evening dresses. 1946, only 36 were still there in 1958. — AFP Finding elephants and fancy food on Namibia safari

efore setting out on a game drive across Across Namibia, conservancies employ hun- UNESCO World Heritage site near Damaraland ruggedly beautiful northwest Namibia, we dreds and also funnel money into everything Camp called Twyfelfontein. Btold the safari camp managers we were from anti-poaching programs to schools. The The artists depicted animals still found in the happy to take sandwiches. We were intent on World Wildlife Fund lauds Namibia as the first region, along with others like penguins that they finding the notoriously elusive desert elephant, African country to enshrine protecting the envi- must have spotted after spending weeks and we didn’t want to waste time returning to ronment in its constitution and says “conservan- trekking to the Atlantic coast in search of salt. camp to eat. “Lunch in the bush?’” food and bev- cies have contributed to strengthening indige- Other drawings show fantastical half-human, erage manager Alfonzo Langbooi queried with nous communities.” Damaraland’s 3,522-square- half-beast creatures, evidence of ancient man’s an enthusiasm we did not immediately under- kilometer (1,360-square-mile) Torra Conservancy, spiritual life. The San also left maps. A guide at stand. where the safari camp is located, is credited with Twyfelfontein tells us concentric circles carved in We did find the elephants. After all, looking curbing rife poaching of elephant and rhino. the stone show the location of water holes long for wildlife - rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, Resiliency is part of the Namibian spirit. since run dry. Twyfelfontein means doubtful hyenas, giraffes, mountain zebras, antelopes, Damaraland is home to a community with roots fountain, a reference to the inconstancy of a local baboons - is the main reason to come here. The among people forcibly removed from neighbor- water source. sight of an ostrich galloping across the semi- ing South Africa in the 1970s apartheid era. They Even plants must be ingenious to survive. desert will charm even those who don’t consider One succulent found only here, the welwitschia, themselves birders. But we soon learned that a withstands harsh temperatures, sustains itself on long game drive didn’t mean resorting to sack nothing more than fog and dew and can live up lunches. As our truck bounced along a dry to 1,500 years. The humble plant has just two riverbed and rounded a bend, we found broad leaves close to the ground that can grow Langbooi and staff beaming mischievously by a several yards (meters). Scientists believe the wel- table set with glass, linen and silver. Another witschia has changed little since the Jurassic Elephants roaming in Torra Conservancy in Namibia. — AP photos table offered a buffet including an artfully pre- Period. Animals also have adapted in unique sented salad and, warming over a gas burner, ways. One tiny beetle has long hind legs for chicken schnitzel. crouching at an angle so drops of dew roll into It was a spirit we’d come to associate with its mouth. Damaraland Camp, where we found staff who At the other end of the size chart, the desert weren’t just employees, but owners who took elephant has larger feet and longer legs than pride and delight in their enterprise. Damaraland other African elephants, to go long distances for opened as Namibia recovered from the lengthy Photo shows etchings left by the nomadic food and water. We were told they’d be hard to war that led to independence in 1990. It was San people at Twyfelfontein, a national find, but got lucky, seeing one large group among the first projects in what the government monument in Namibia. before and another after our sumptuous lunch. calls the Communal Conservancy Tourism Sector, Damaraland calls itself a camp. But don’t designed to give locals a stake in conservation found themselves in an inhospitable landscape think Girl Scouts. Its 10 spacious chalets have and development. The Damaraland community of valleys carved by prehistoric lava flows - arid adobe as well as canvass walls, thatched roofs, formed a joint venture with Wilderness Safaris, and carpeted with red rock. Torra, the name of luxurious bathrooms and even more luxurious which operates in several southern African coun- the conservancy, means red rock. views from private porches. The camp’s common tries, to own and run Damaraland Camp. area has a bar, pool and campfire circle. During Maggie Vries, a local who rose from waitress Chilly nights Namibia’s winter, which coincides with the to top manager at Damaraland, says her staff is And yet humans have lived here for thou- northern hemisphere summer, the sun warms “proud that they’re in the conservancy, proud sands of years, leaving signs literally carved in the pool enough for hearty afternoon swims, that they’re in their homeland, all these things the red stones. Hundreds of ancient etchings left and campfires welcome visitors for stargazing on lead to the sense of ownership.” by the nomadic San people are preserved at a A landscape view of Torra Conservancy in Namibia. chilly nights. — AP 1950s elegance celebrated in Paris fashion exhibit

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A giant puppet Grandmother is seen lying in a bed in St Georges Hall in Liverpool, north west England yesterday ahead of a production by French theatre company Royal de Luxe. The puppets, which visited the city in 2012, return to roam the streets of the city in a three day performance based around memories of August 1914, marking 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War.—AFP

US man claims Africa land, makes daughter a ‘princess’ Teen craft nights athers often see their daughters as Heaton envisions an oasis of low-carbon- royalty. But a few months ago, footprint agriculture funded by dona- Fwhen Emily Heaton said she want- tions earned through an eventual ed to be a princess, her father Jeremiah KickStarter campaign, and even from boost creativity, family ties quickly found her a kingdom. Many little supportive foreign governments. girls would have been satisfied with the few months ago, I launched a diaboli- work, knitting and upcycling used furniture wooden turrets and ramparts of the cas- Is it legit? cal plan to entice my teenage daugh- did. “They’ll just sit with me and do whatever tle in the community playground of rural But can one man establish a kingdom Aters to spend more time with me, and craft they’re working on. I have weird daugh- Abingdon, Virginia, where the Heatons on foreign soil? Edward Swaine, a profes- to semi-shelter them from the maddening ters who like to be with me,” Lenz says with a live. But Jeremiah was thinking bigger. sor of law at George Washington world. I started a Friday Crafting Night for my laugh. Last month, he planted a flag in a tiny University Law School in Washington, two girls and their friends. Brad Sachs, a psy- Four teens attended my first crafting night parcel of uninhabited land on the border says there could be problems. “At a basic chologist who works with adolescents and last spring to glitter cheap papier-machÈ box- between Egypt and Sudan on June 16th, level, he has to be correct in asserting families, calls family crafting “a lovely es. Since then, we’ve hosted several crafting Emily’s seventh birthday. The Kingdom of that this is unclaimed land... That’s not metaphor for what parents need to do at this nights. Lenz suggests introducing teenagers North Sudan was born. “With a child you obvious to me that he’s correct,” Swaine point in child development. “We can’t abdi- to Pinterest, the online “pinning” site for inspi- don’t want to ever tell them they can’t be said. “Beyond that, he has to establish cate our authority; they still need us. On the rational ideas and images, and taking them something they desire to be, and at age effective occupation of this land beyond other hand, we can’t craft them. We need to shopping for supplies. My crafting nights six, her frame of reference for the world simply planting a flag or showing up and supply them with the materials and the fumbled along until daughters Hope Clarke, was to be a princess,” Heaton told AFP. taking a selfie.” Heaton says he is moving capacity to craft themselves.” 16, and Grace Clarke, 15, found Pinterest. “So I told her that she could be.” towards that goal, with office space in Teenagers want to spend time with us - on Now they craft on their own and bring ideas Heaton started researching unas- downtown Washington and a phone their terms, says Sachs, of Columbia, to crafting night. signed territory that he could claim as a number already set up. He believes that Maryland. For crafting nights, that means Recently, they wanted to make fake cup- kingdom. At first, the search was futile. recognition is a real possibility. they pick the friends, the food and the crafts; I cakes by piping white caulk onto squatty Faux cupcakes crafted by teenagers in “Initially I looked at the Antarctic conti- “I think that once the Egyptian and pull it all together and step back (but stick mason jars and decorating them with glitter Arvada, Colo, that are a teen-approved craft nent, which doesn’t have a population... Sudanese governments realize that we’re around - I’m here to connect and get crafty, and faux gemstones. They also chose to make found on Pinterest which involves piping but due to the Antarctic Treaty, there are going to be a positive force for change in too). Teenagers also want (and need) to build “Thought Bubbles” - glue-soaked yarn white caulk atop squatty mason jars and no new claims that are allowed to be the area... they will realize that it’s benefi- independence and identities separate from wrapped around balloons that create airy decorating with glitter and faux gemstones. made,” he explained. So, his Internet cial to recognize the Kingdom of [North] their families, but our society places too yarn orbs for hanging (after the balloons are research eventually pointed him in the Sudan,” he said, adding he hoped to soon much emphasis on that and not enough on popped). Both projects were found on direction of Bir Tawil, a few hundred enter talks with the two countries. The their need to connect, says Sachs, author of Pinterest, the “bubbles” pinned by the youth- square kilometers (miles) of uninhabited Egyptian and Sudanese embassies in “The Good Enough Teen: How to Raise ful clothing store Free People. Bottom line: desert nestled between Egypt and Washington did not respond to AFP Adolescents with Love and Acceptance Teenagers will craft with you if a project Sudan, long neglected in stalled border requests for comment. Even if Heaton’s (Despite How Impossible They Can Be)” instills a sense of achievement and pride. negotiations. claim doesn’t quite stand up to legal (HarperCollins, 2005). “Being able to say, ‘I made it,’ especially after a It wasn’t long before Heaton was on a scrutiny, Swaine says there might at least “Of course you don’t want to suffocate friend asks about an item - I think that’s a real plane to Africa. “I didn’t see the pyramids, be some consolation for Emily. them, but you also want to help them find inspiration,” says Lenz. I didn’t see Luxor, I did not see “I think any little girl who declares her- ways to be with adults in healthy ways,” he My daughter Hope likes to make things for Alexandria. It was specifically to go to the self to be a princess is such, and that’s says. Crafting nights are just one way. Hiking, her bedroom. “I like to be creative,” she says. “I border area and make the claim on Bir strictly speaking as a matter of interna- playing games, sitting around a campfire - like crafting and talking and listening to Tawil. I’m probably one of the few people tional law,” he said, tongue firmly in there are plenty of activities that foster family music with my friends.” Sachs notes that who’ve been to Egypt and not seen the cheek. How much this will mean for closeness. I opened crafting nights to my teenagers spend a lot of time studying for pyramids!” he said. Heaton says the Emily in the future is up for debate, but at high-school girls’ friends - female and male - school and college-entrance exams - not to whole expedition cost under $3,000, and least she seems to have received some to gin up interest. mention keeping up on phones and other Emily says she has big plans for ‘her’ terri- kudos for it at school. Her friends think Deanna Kaylor Lenz, of Overland Park, screens - and relatively little time developing tory. “We’re going to help kids in Africa her recent ascension to the rank of royal- Kansas, says her daughters are hooked on their imaginations. “We underestimate the that don’t have food. We’re going to build ty is “cool,” Emily says.—AFP crafting just with her. Years ago, she intro- redemptive power of the creative spirit while In this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo, cell a garden as big as our land,” she says. duced Sydney, now 20, and Elyssa, 14, to raising children,” says Sachs, but it has “ines- phones, mixed with the evening’s supplies, scrapbooking. It didn’t take, but sewing, timable value for their development.”—AP were rarely touched at a crafting party for painting, photography, jewelry making, bead- teenagers in Arvada, Colo.—AP photos

Seven-year-old Emily Heaton poses next to the flag of the territory between Egypt Photo shows Hope Clarke, 16, left, as she wraps yarn soaked in craft Colorful orbs-made from glue-soaked yarn wrapped around bal- and Sudan her father claimed for her at her home in Abingdon, Virginia, on July glue around a balloon while Hadley Hagemann, 16, works on a giant loons-hang in a tree in Arvada, Colo. 19, 2014.—AFP tissue pom-pom at a crafting night hosted at Clarke’s house.