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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 SHAWWAL 29, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaitis donate Samsung’s new With cheap spy Saudi female blood to jumbo phone tools, nations runner breaks mark invasion unlocks with ‘monitoring barriers in anniversary3 iris13 scanner everyone’27 Rio20 marathon Rights of Indian, other expat Min 34º workers guaranteed: Subaih Max 49º High Tide 10:40 Thousands of jobless Asians stranded in Saudi Arabia Low Tide 05:07 & 18:23 40 PAGES NO: 16951 150 FILS KUWAIT/MANILA: Kuwait is keen on safeguarding for- MPs slam petrol eign communities, namely Indian expatriates, who con- stitute the largest non-Kuwaiti community in the coun- hike, warn govt try, affirmed the minister of social affairs and labor. Hind Al-Sabeeh, also minister of state for planning affairs and By B Izzak development, said in a statement yesterday that the presence of a large number of Indians in the country KUWAIT: Lawmakers yesterday strongly lashed out at the indicates that their businesses are stable and their government for raising the prices of petrol, saying they will rights are safeguarded. not accept the hike and vowed to take measures. The criti- Kuwait, she added, has signed a protocol with the cism came after an urgent meeting called by Speaker Indian labor ministry, stipulating that it approves the Marzouq Al-Ghanem held at his office to discuss what the employment contract ahead of a worker’s entry into lawmakers described as a surprising government decision. Kuwait. She put the number of Indian workers in The meeting was attended by 14 MPs. MP Mohammad Tana Kuwait’s private sector at 549,196, adding that the num- called on all MPs to cut short their summer vacations in order ber of them who had lodged complaints requesting to hold an emergency meeting of the National Assembly, attainment of their rights between July 31, 2015 and which is now on a three-month summer recess. July 31, 2016 amounted to 4,223 only. A number of MPs blamed the government for violating Continued on Page 13 promises not to raise petrol prices and criticized it for mak- ing the raise while the Assembly was on summer vacation. Deputy Speaker Mubarak Al-Khrainej said MPs during the Mercury rising meeting reviewed steps that could be taken after the gov- ernment decided to increase the prices of petrol in a sur- KUWAIT: Kuwait’s temperature has reached an prising way and without consulting the Assembly. abnormal level of 50 degrees Celsius, according to Khrainej said the majority of lawmakers underscored that meteorologist Essa Ramadan at the Directorate the decision will negatively affect the lives of citizens and General of Civil Aviation. Ramadan told KUNA that expected it could have a negative financial impact on low- the northwest wind speed will increase with a and middle-income people. He said the government chance of dust in desert areas, adding that an breached a pledge it made in the Assembly that it will not increase in the height of waves yesterday was also raise the price of petrol unilaterally and before consulting the expected. Also, humidity levels will decrease, and it Assembly. Khrainej said the lawmakers will discuss at future is expected that temperatures will increase in meetings, which will be likely attended by the government, desert areas, Jahra and the suburbs of Kuwait City. alternative measures to compensate citizens for the increase KUWAIT: Young divers search for oysters containing pearls yesterday during the annual pearl diving season Ramadan added that humidity will return today and alleviate its negative impact. off the coast of Khairan, 100 km south of Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 5) Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Kuwait with Ambassador of the United States of America to Kuwait Douglas Silliman. Capital Market Authority (CMA) Nayef Al-Hajraf and CMA board members. —Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Capital Market Authority officials present annual report to Amir, Crown Prince, PM

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh year 2015-2016, while also providing details establishment, as well as broad-lines of meantime, His Highness the Crown Prince Al-Sabah hosted Director General of the Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His on the authority’s plans for the future. The future plans designed to promote the capi- received Minister of Public Works and Public Authority for Applied Education and Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf two meetings took place at Seif Palace yes- tal market, in line with CMA’s bylaws. Minister of State for National Assembly Training (PAAET) Dr Ahmad Saleh Al-Athari Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah separately terday. Hajraf and the CMA board members His Highness the Amir and His Highness Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair, as well as Minister of and his deputy for administrative and finan- received Chairman of the Board of later met with His Highness the Prime the Crown Prince also received Dr Education and Minister of Higher Education cial affairs Hajraf Al-Hajraf. Commissioners of Kuwait Capital Market Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Mohammad Al-Hashel, Governor of the Dr Bader Al-Essa. His Highness the Crown His Highness the Premier received Athari Authority (CMA) Nayef Al-Hajraf and board Al-Sabah, and presented to him the authori- Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK). Meanwhile, also received Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al- and Hajraf on the occasion of PAAET’s win- members. ty’s report for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. His His Highness the Amir received Douglas Saud Al-Sabah, and Engineer Abdulaziz ning the award as the top establishment The members presented to His Highness Highness the Prime Minister was briefed Silliman, the outgoing Ambassador of the Abdullatif Al-Ibrahim. that provides smart education in the Middle the Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince about the authority’s tasks, namely the United States of America to Kuwait, on the Separately, His Highness the Prime East, granted by the Dubai Distinctiveness the fifth CMA annual report for the fiscal achievements that have been made since its occasion of the end of his tenure. In the Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Institute in the Middle East. —KUNA

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah meets with Director General of the Public Authority for Applied His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Education and Training (PAAET) Dr Ahmad Saleh Al-Athari and his deputy meets with Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al-Saud Al-Sabah. meets with Engineer Abdulaziz Abdullatif Al-Ibrahim. for administrative and financial affairs Hajraf Al-Hajraf.

Capital of Islamic Culture events to promote state reputation: Minister Ambassadors meet chiefs KUWAIT: The events and activities of of the year-long celebrations. This also the ‘Kuwait Capital of Islamic Culture includes activities carried out in coordi- 2016’ are seeking to promote Kuwait’s nation with the Ministry of Justice and of Yemeni opposition reputation, both at home and overseas, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs during the said Minister of Information and Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled meets UN envoy Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al- SMEs Humoud Al-Sabah yesterday. In other news, Sheikh Salman said KUWAIT: Ambassadors of 18 states concerned with Sheikh Salman, who is also chairman that small and medium enterprises the aspired peace settlement for Yemen yesterday of the National Council for Culture, Arts constitute some of the main pillars for met delegations from Ansarullah and the People’s and Letters (NCCAL), made the state- economies, namely that of the State of Congress, on sideline of the Kuwait-hosted inter- ment after he presided over the fifth Kuwait, at the global level. The Ministry Yemeni consultations that got underway on April meeting of the committee tasked with of Information said in a statement 21st. During the meeting which was attended by the planning, supervision and coordi- released yesterday that Sheikh Salman the UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the two nation of the ‘Kuwait Capital of Islamic underlined the key role for such proj- sides discussed latest development in the concilia- Culture 2016’ celebrations. ects during a meeting with the Board tion process namely a proposal by Cheikh Ahmed The meeting reviewed a host of dis- Chairman of the National Fund for to work out a settlement. tinguished proposals and views for the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Cheikh Ahmed was set later yesterday to meet concluding event of the celebrations, Development, Dr Mohammad Al- with a delegation from the two opposition move- offered by the special consultation Zuhair, the Acting Director General of ments to follow up on the talks regarding the pro- committee, Sheikh Salman said. He the Kuwait Central Statistics Bureau posal, which had already been accepted by the urged fast efforts for the implementa- Mona Al-Daas and the executive man- Government delegation. The inter-Yemeni talks are tion of the celebrations agenda till the ager in the executive sector, Meshari Al- scheduled to conclude by August 7th. end of the year. Mahmoud. The minister said that they had also Minister Sheikh Salman, during the Developments followed up what was achieved of the meeting, examined tasks that have On Monday, First Deputy Prime Minister and recommendations of the fourth meet- been accomplished by a joint commit- Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad ing, regarding the coordination among tee tasked with scanning all economic Al-Sabah met with the Cheikh Ahmad at Bayan the state institutions, ministries and installations in the country as a prelude Palace to review the latest developments on the other bodies for the “Kuwait Capital of to devising plans for shoring up the ongoing Yemeni peace talks in Kuwait. The meet- KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Islamic Culture 2016” events and activi- national economy. The State of Kuwait ing was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Sabah meets with UN envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad in Kuwait on Monday. —KUNA Ambassador Khaled Al-Jarallah, Kuwait’s ties. devotes special attention to SMEs, and Ambassador to Yemen Fahad Al-Mai, Assistant Blueprint opposing party’s signing of the concord. Sheik Salman pointed to a MoU His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Foreign Minister for the Deputy Foreign Minister’s Speaking at a news conference at Kuwait “We are adamant about restoring peace to between the NCCAL and the gover- Ahmad Al-Sabah has launched a special Office Affairs Ambassador Ayham Al-Omar, International Airport, Mekhlafi called on Ansarullah Yemen, which explains why we have agreed to this norates for a host of activities, and fund to finance such projects, with aim Ambassador Salem Ghassab Al-Zamanan, Assistant and the People’s Congress party to sign the blue- UN agreement,” Al-Mekhlafi noted. He also added cooperation with the Ministry of of encouraging the youth launch pri- Foreign Minister for the Arab World Affairs print to substantiate how much they are serious that the government’s delegation encountered vari- Information to produce a documentary vate businesses. — KUNA Ambassador Aziz Al-Daihani, Deputy Assistant with respect of achieving peace and security in ous difficulties due to the opposing sides’ “capri- Foreign Minister for the Foreign Minister’s Bureau Yemen, as well as ending the war through arms cious” nature. Speaking on the future of these talks, Affairs Ambassador Saleh Al-Loghani, and a num- handover, withdrawal from the cities and reinstat- the Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister said “we have ber of senior officials at the foreign ministry. ing the State institutions. He further noted that the made progress towards finding a lasting solution to government’s delegation’s return to Kuwait to the conflict, “ he said. He also described the draft resume the peace consultations hinges on the accord as encompassing all political issues. — KUNA Departure The UN special envoy had stated earlier Monday that the Yemeni government delegation’s depar- ture from Kuwait after signing a UN draft peace Kuwait adherent to Israel’s boycott agreement “is not a departure from the peace talks.” Confirming that the delegation left Kuwait CAIRO: The State of Kuwait is among lead- Kuwaiti official revealed. The conference for Saudi Arabia after signing the agreement, ing Arab States that abide by principles for supports foreign and Arab groups that Ahmad asserted that that “the departure of the boycotting Israel, said a visiting Kuwaiti offi- advocate boycotting Israel, namely the Government of Yemen delegation from Kuwait is cial said yesterday. Waleed Al-Hammadi, the international Boycott, Divestment, and not a departure from the Peace Talks.” head of Israel’s boycott bureau at Kuwait Sanctions Movement (BDS), which has He said that “we agreed with the parties to keep Finance Ministry’s custom general direc- played a key global role for encouraging the the talks ongoing until we agree on next steps in torate, stressed on necessity of maintaining boycott. the coming days which shall be dedicated to inten- support for the Arab boycott officers. Kuwait acts to implement the boycott sive meetings with the Ansarallah-General People’s Speaking on sidelines of the 90th confer- seriously through coordination with the Congress delegation, as well as with concerned ence for officers of the Arab boycott offices, main Arab League Israel Boycott Bureau in members of the international community.” Hammadi said participants in the meeting Damascus. “We in Kuwait do not allow Israeli discussed “status of some foreign compa- commodities enter the Kuwaiti marker and Yemeni Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister nies that deal with Israel, or deal in products the people of the country support the boy- KUWAIT: Information and Youth Affairs Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al- Abdulmalek Al-Mekhlafi said earlier that the produces by the Israeli settlements.” cott,” he affirmed, noting that concerned Sabah meets with Board Chairman of the National Fund for Small and Medium Kuwait-hosted inter-Yemeni consultations have Israel is seeking to infiltrate Arab markets authorities often receive notifications about Enterprise (SME) Development Dr Mohammad Al-Zuhair. — KUNA neither been suspended or ended, affirming that with disguise of foreign companies, the sneaking commodities. — KUNA they would conclude as scheduled, on August 7th. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 LOCAL No countries exempted from applying for e-visa Ministry has right to approve, reject visa: Hashash

By Meshaal Al-Enezi is that they should not be hold- Hashash said the goal behind ers of temporary travel docu- this new e-service is to benefit KUWAIT: Director of Relations ments or laissez-passers of all from the tremendous develop- and Security Information at the types. ment in the technical field and Interior Ministry Brigadier Adel They also must not have any simplify procedures to serve citi- Al-Hashash told Kuwait Times security restrictions, and there zens and expats through the use that no countries are excluded should be no variations between of modern technology. He added from having their citizens apply the data on the visa and pass- that the visa holder must comply through the electronic visa sys- port, otherwise the visa will be with the laws in Kuwait and not tem, adding that the Interior cancelled and the holder will be exceed the stay period given to Ministry has the right to approve denied entry. He said the min- him in the visa to avoid legal or reject the visa. Hashash had istry is keen on providing all action. He said 52 nationalities said in a press conference this modern equipment for this sys- can get an instant visa, in addition KUWAIT: Senior military and security chiefs are pictured ahead of their meeting yes- week that the e-visa system is tem as part of its strategy to to residents of GCC countries. He terday. — KUNA functional at all land, sea and air develop its services. He said KD 3 said applications can be made outlets, adding that among the will be collected as fees at the through (www.moi.gov.kw), Kuwait senior security, military conditions applicants must meet border outlets. which is a safe and secure portal. Adel Al-Hashah chiefs hold coordination meeting

KUWAIT: Senior military and security chiefs zens. The ranking security and military offi- held a coordination meeting yesterday cers examined common plans, missions and aimed at mapping out an integrated strate- joint training programs as well as coordina- gy to enhance performance of personnel in tion mechanisms. Taking part in the coordi- the key international security and defense nation meeting were Kuwait Army Chief of sectors. Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Khaled The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a Al-Kheder, Interior Undersecretary statement that the joint meeting depicted Lieutenant General Suleiman Fahad Al- the joint and ongoing cooperation between Fahad, Chief of Staff Deputy Lieutenant the security and military establishments for General Abdullah Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah and serving the homeland security and the citi- other commanders. — KUNA Ministry prepares to apply 4,000 persons’ naturalization law

By A Saleh sons of known nationalities, in addition to children of Kuwaiti women. There are also KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry has begun those whose fathers and brothers were nat- KUWAIT: Kuwaitis donate blood, marking the Iraqi invasion’s anniversary. — KUNA preparations to apply the naturalization uralized but they were not included. law on more than 4,000 persons this year, Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry com- as it began gathering the names of those mitted Kuwaiti fathers to register their who are eligible for it. Sources said the newborn children in the nationality file Kuwait marks 26th anniversary of Interior Ministry is investigating the names within six months after birth, adding that of people who will probably be naturalized both the father and his child will be sent to and check their security backgrounds. The the forensics department for DNA tests. The invasion with blood donation drive list includes bedoons (stateless) who meet interior ministry wants to eradicate Kuwaiti the required conditions for naturalization, parents’ negligence towards the nationality KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) blood martyrs’ sacrifices and enhancing social solidari- the executed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, though their numbers are not clear. The files, and make sure about the status of bank launched yesterday a day-long blood dona- ty among citizens and expatriates. The bank invaded the country, wreaking havoc, inflicting sources added that the list includes per- newborns. tion campaign marking the 26th anniversary of plans to increase number of donors’ beds in casualties and causing miseries for scores of the blatant Iraqi invasion on the State of Kuwait, each health district from 20 to 40, Dr Awadhi Kuwaiti families. The State of Kuwait marks the in cooperation with the Ministry of Information. said, revealing that the donated blood bags, in occasion each year, recalling the bitter hard- Dr Hanan Al-Awadhi, the supervisor of med- 2015, reached 75,008. Yesterday marked the ships under occupation and the unified stances ical services and guidance at the blood bank, 26th anniversary of the Iraqi aggression that of the people of Kuwait in the face of the said that the campaign aims at recalling the happened on August 2nd, 1990, when troops of aggressors. —KUNA ‘Raising fuel prices has great impact in improving economy’ Helps rationalize consumption, diversify economy: Experts KUWAIT: The Cabinet’s recent decision to KUWAIT: This handout photo released by the Interior Ministry yesterday shows two people arrested on cable theft charges. raise diverse types of fuel prices, particularly the gasoline, has the greatest significance in positively impacting the country’s economy, experts said yesterday. The Government’s eco- nomic reform plan will eventually help diver- sify the country’s resources and release its reliance on a single source of income, they said. Head of Kuwait National Competitiveness Committee Dr Fahad Al- Rashid said that this decision is considered a step forward to improve the country’s budget deficit and encourage austerity to face eco- nomic challenges. Raising gas prices will reduce individuals’ high unconscious con- sumption of fuel; this consumption is rated the highest in the world, he pointed out. Meanwhile, Kuwait Accountants and A firefighter participates in extinguishing a blaze reported in Salmiya. Auditors Association chairman Ahmad Faris described the raise in gas prices as ‘accept- able’ in comparison to that in the GCC and Duo arrested on Arab countries. He added that the positive KUWAIT: Vehicles line up to be refueled at a gas station in Kuwait City on Monday. side of the Cabinet decision is that gas prices — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh will be reviewed every three months, reassur- cable theft charges ing that this raise will not be “permanent but changeable” in accordance to the fluctuations By Hanan Al-Saadoun the cables were stolen from Abdallah of oil prices. Housing top priority Port warehouse that belongs to a con- “It is a quick fix and a precautionary meas- KUWAIT: Jahra detectives stopped a tracted company. Both suspects were ure to improve the economy,” Faris pointed truck loaded with a large quantity of sent to concerned authorities. out, hoping that the Government would not for govt: Minister Abul rely on short-term solutions but rather utilize cables, and asked for the driver’s ID. The KUWAIT: The issue of housing is a top pri- ernment will stick to the plan to provide driver, an Egyptian man called Emad Fire extinguished. other investment tools to strengthen the ority for the government with measures some 120,000 housing units for citizens Barakat, told them the cables belong to Firemen put out a fire that broke out country’s financial situation. being devised to provide proper dwellings annually for the decade ahead. an Iranian man, who told him they are in a building under construction in to all citizens, said State Recently, the Minister his and he has papers proving it. Later, Salmiya before it spread. Salmiya fire Rationalizing subsidies Minister for Housing signed an agreement for the Iranian denied knowledge of the center, backup and Qurain fire center On Monday, the Cabinet approved recom- Affairs Yasser Abul yester- the construction of the cables, adding that the Egyptian man responded, and on arrival, they found mendations presented by the economic South Saad Al-Abdullah offered to sell them to him. The cables the fire was in wooden planks in the affairs committee with respect of a proposal day. In a forum late belong to the Ministry of basement of a building. No injuries were by the committee charged with revising vari- Monday discussing the city, considered to be the Communications, and officials there said reported. ous kinds of State subsidies, on setting fuel issue of housing, the min- first smart and environ- prices. ister said that solving the ment-friendly city in It approved the commission recommenda- housing problems will Kuwait. The city will tion and decided to begin “rationalizing subsi- have social and security spread over 59 square kilo- dies for gasoline in the country, as part of the benefits for citizens. meters to accommodate Government reform scheme where the fuel He stressed that the some 400,000 people. products’ prices will be restructured to be in current housing plan, set Regarding violations by harmony with the average rates in the other in motion by His Highness some construction compa- GCC states. “The new pricing policy will be in the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- nies in previous projects, effect as of September 1, 2016 in line with the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, minister Abul affirmed policies adopted in the GCC countries.” will not be affected by the State Minister for Housing that these companies were The new prices are as following: Octane-91: government’s policies to Affairs Yasser Abul banned from carrying out 85 fils per liter, Octane-95: 105 fpl, Ultra- rationalize spending. He construction on any new Premium: 165 fpl. The new prices have been added that requests submitted to the projects. set after examining global rates. Kuwait is the Public Authority for Housing Welfare Meanwhile, the minister touched on last GCC State to embark on “restructuring the (PAHW) had reached citizens who applied Kuwait’s major housing project of the city fuel prices,” however the new ones remain the on December 31, 2011. of South Mutla which will house a popula- lowest among the Council countries, as well Abul took the chance to thank the tion of 400,000 citizens with some 30,000 KUWAIT: Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem visited injured fireman First as globally. Moreover, the Cabinet has tasked National Assembly for coming out with housing units to be constructed. The con- Lieutenant Fahd Al-Mukaimi at Mubarak Hospital. Mukaimi was injured while fight- a special commission to re-examine the State legislations that enabled PAHW to work tract to start building infrastructure and ing a fire. Ghanem was received by Kuwait Fire Service Directorate officials, including subsidies and the fuel prices every three more smoothly in addressing the citizens’ roads in South Mutla city costs around KD Acting Director General Major General Khalid Al-Mikrad and Acting Director of months, to be in harmony with the global needs for housing, affirming that the gov- 288 million, said the minister. —KUNA Public Relations and Information Major Salman Al-Juaidi. — By Hanan Al-Saadoun rates. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Speaker receives Kuwait oil price US Dollar stable Turkish ambassador up to $38.02 pb against Dinar KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went up Monday by KUWAIT: The exchange rate of the US Al-Ghanim hosted on Tuesday Turkish Ambassador 61 cents to reach $38.02 per barrel after being at Dollar stabilized against the Kuwaiti Dinar Murad Tamir. The meeting was attended by the $37.41 pb the day before, said a statement by Kuwait at 0.301 yesterday, and the euro stabilized deputy speaker, Mubarak Al-Khurainej. Ghanem Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. In the US, at KD 0. 337 compared to Monday’s rates, also hosted Dr Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf, the price of the American crude was down Monday said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK). CBK Chairman of the Commissioners Board of the due to increasing fears over news regarding a surplus added that the Sterling pound dropped to Capital Markets Authority (CMA), and board mem- in US and OPEC production. Crude oil contracts 0.398 KD, while the Swiss Franc stabilized at bers. During the meeting, the speaker received a retreated to $40.57 per barrel last Friday at trading in 0.311 and the Japanese Yen remained at KD copy of the Authority’s fifth annual report for the New York Markets, settling on its lowest price since 0.002. — KUNA 2015-2016 fiscal year. — KUNA April 20th. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Date palm trees bear ripe fruits; a signal for the arrival of dates season in Kuwait. — KUNA photo Egyptian Minister welcomes Rashid, Sabry to discuss Arabic Connected Government Conference

CAIRO: Engineer Yasser ElKadi, the Egyptian port Arab countries’ efforts towards stability, Conference. ElKadi also prized the organizers’ The Arabic Connected Government The press conference will be led by His Minister of Communications and Information modernization, and growth. Rashid believes efforts and the topics that will be covered. Conference plans were thoroughly presented Excellency Eng. ElKadi; Dr Nasser Alqahtani, Technology met with Adnan Al-Rashid, that all means, including information technol- Specifically, he welcomed the private and pub- by Magdy Sabry. He expressed his gratitude Director General of ARADO; Yousef Khaled Al- Deputy Chairman of Federation of Arab ogy and e-government programs, should be lic sector collaboration during the event, rep- for the support offered by ElKadi, confirming Marzouq, General Manager of NoufEXPO, as Journalists, and Magdy Sabry, Executive used to achieve those goals. He confirmed resented by many Arab and global technology that the Ministry of Communications’ teams well as leaders of strategic supporting part- Manager of NoufEXPO Company of Kuwait. that we wanted to send a message of support vendors and organizations. are already working closely with the organiz- ners and media channels from Egypt, Kuwait, NoufEXPO and the Arab Administrative and solidarity by choosing Sharm El Sheikh as ElKadi hoped that we benefit from the ing committees. and other Arab countries. Development Organization (ARADO) have the venue. experiences of connected government imple- Sabry highlighted the steps organizers are By the end of the meeting, Rashid and joined efforts to organize the Arabic Meanwhile, Elkadi welcomed the conven- mentations in Arab and non-Arab countries. carrying out in preparation for the forthcom- Sabry thanked ElKadi for his hospitality and Connected Government Conference - Road to ing of the event, especially in Sharm El Sheikh. ElKadi believes that digital media is, particular- ing press conference due to be held shortly at support. Reciprocally, ElKadi reaffirmed his Sustainable Modernization, due to be held at He confirmed that all departments and ly, playing a significant role in spreading infor- the Arab League premises to officially support for the Conference, and sent his best Sharm El Sheikh from 12 - 14 December 2016. resources of the Ministry of Communications mation swiftly and clearly, thus boosting a cul- announce the Arabic Connected Government wishes to Kuwait, which has always stood by Rashid hoped that the Conference will sup- will be available to ensure the success of the tural exchange among nations. Conference. Egypt and its people.

CAIRO: Engineer Yasser ElKadi, the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology meets with Adnan Al-Rashid, Deputy Chairman of Federation of Arab Journalists, and Magdy Sabry, Executive Manager of NoufEXPO Company of Kuwait. AUB launches internal training program for university students In partnership with LoYAC Kuwait

KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (AUB) announced young people’s career development aspirations yesterday the launch of a new internal training as they reflect the true backbone of the coun- program for university students in partnership try’s sustainable development future. AUB con- with LoYAC Kuwait. The training program reflects tinues to roll out its social responsibility the bank’s intention to strengthen its social role approach by participating in similar programs.” across the educational sector and to develop “We are pleased with the partnership that professional skills of young people by encourag- has developed between AUB and LoYAC ing the development of practical skill sets. Kuwait. Our collaborative efforts in a number AUB welcomed seven university students as of activities have resulted in a positive out- well as new graduates for a training course which come. This particular training program is is to run for six weeks. Students are to be exposed expected to drive stronger results on the to a wide variety of topics that include an intro- young people’s choice of professional back- duction to Islamic banking, AUB’s different oper- ground which will ultimately help to support ating departments as well as developing stu- the wider Kuwaiti society in various practical dents’ skills in a number of banking specialties. and specialized fields,” added Amin. Apart from instruction in Islamic sharia prin- LoYAC is a nonprofit organization and was cipals the students will have the benefit of ses- established in 2002 as a proactive response sions covering their career opportunities amongst youth and to overcome violence by developing their abilities in effective communi- encouraging peace by providing them with cations through customer service techniques Throughout the duration of the program, control as well as human resources. Moreover, ence. Naqib Amin, AUB’s Human Resources opportunities for personal growth, experience and understanding the handling of customer students focus their training efforts across dif- trainees are also given hands-on training General Manager said, “AUB aims to strengthen of the joy of service and developing their over- issues. Furthermore, the course also includes ferent departments within the Bank that approach throughout AUB’s network of branch- its social support and reinforce its position all professional skills to qualify and enable training on various business IT platforms. include marketing, commercial services, quality es across Kuwait to gain more practical experi- within the local community, in an effort to drive them to join the workforce. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis sail on traditional dhows during the annual pearl diving season yesterday off the coast of the port city of Khairan, 100 kilometers (62miles) south of Kuwait City. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Young divers search for pearls in Khairan 28th annual trip concludes tomorrow

KUWAIT: Participants in the 28th annual expedition to commemorate traditional maritime arts. The youth then headed to diving locations at the anniversary of diving continued to dive at Al-Khairan yesterday. Al-Khairan yesterday. They were accompanied by media delegations Participants are committed to using the old traditional methods of div- from different newspapers and TV channels, as they closely followed the ing, following specified timing schedules in areas that have good divers’ activities. The annual expedition, set to conclude tomorrow, amount of pearls. On Monday, the organizing committee of the 28th includes 193 captains and divers aboard 13 ships provided by His Pearl Diving Trip held a ceremony where youth participants performed Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Kuwaiti men find pearls in shells that divers picked from the sea during the trip.

Kuwaiti divers search for shells containing pearls during the trip.

The pearls collected during the trip.

Divers perform traditional maritime arts during a ceremony held Monday evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Crime Al-Anbaa Report Those who Man who caused fatal Hawally accident caught offend Kuwaitis

KUWAIT: A person who caused the death of a Syrian By Madhi Al-Khamees woman and injured her two daughters in an accident reported last Friday was identified and arrested. The acci- dent took place in Hawally, and when police and para- do not know why some people use the provocative medics rushed to the site, they found the Syrian woman sentence ‘May Allah bestow His mercy on Saddam’ in dead and her two daughters critically injured. The suspect Ifront of Kuwaitis in case of any differences! Saddam who caused the accident had fled the scene at the time. did not commit criminal acts against Kuwaitis only, but Detectives were able to identify the Egyptian motorist, also against Iraqis before the Kuwaitis. The entire Gulf was who is being questioned over running the red light. his target and no country was spared by him. The Iraqi invasion’s anniversary reminds us about the amount of crimes and sins Saddam committed during his Skin damage life, and we do not exaggerate if we say that the plan to dismantle and destroy the Arab world began with the A female citizen who bought face cream online suf- entry of the first Iraqi tank into Kuwait in an unprecedent- fered burns that damaged her skin. The citizen saw ads ed historic event. Since then until now, we all are paying on Instagram, so she called and placed an order. A few days after using the creams, her face was burned. She went to Bayan police station to complain after the per- The Iraqi invasion’s anniversary reminds son who sold her the creams said “maybe they are not us about the amount of crimes and sins suitable for your skin.” Saddam committed during his life. Al-Anbaa

Harasser in custody dearly with all the repercussions and unhealed wounds over the years. Abu Halifa detectives arrested a Syrian man who slapped a Minister of Social Affairs and We should not be provoked by this remark, which its female citizen after she admonished him for harassing her. users aim at provoking us, because we know very well The woman complained to police, telling them she was that Saddam Hussein is a criminal according to all rules shopping when the young man harassed and beat her Labor inaugurates ‘Zain Lab’ and means, and history will not forget or forgive his acts. after she rejected his actions. Detectives who reviewed sur- It is a history full of tragedy, sadness and painful memo- veillance videos identified and arrested him. He said he As part of strategy towards people with special needs ries. Let us while we remember, take the lesson from the beat her because she hit him on the face in front of other past, and learn how to benefit from lessons. May Allah shoppers, and he could not stand the insult. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- bestow His mercy on our martyrs and those who sacri- munications company in Kuwait, ficed their souls for the sake of this country. — Translated by Kuwait Times announced the inauguration of ‘Zain Police offender arrested Lab’ in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor’s Career Rehabilitation Criminal detectives summoned a female citizen who Department. The social initiative, verbally abused a traffic policeman when he issued her sponsored by Zain, came as part of Crime a ticket for reckless driving. A video clip that circulated the company’s CSSR strategy towards on social media of a woman using foul language people with special needs. Report prompted detectives to work on the case, and they The inauguration ceremony wit- were able to arrest the woman. She said her actions nessed the attendance of HE the Foreign companies were because of the ticket. She was released after a Minister of Social Affairs and Labor complaint was lodged against her. and Minister of State for Planning and to develop islands Development Hind Al-Subaih, KUWAIT: A special government committee is currently Food theft Director General of the Public Authority of the Disabled Dr Tareq Al- studying opening the door for foreign investors to invest in Shatti, Deputy General Director of the five Kuwaiti islands by 100 percent, said Dr Khalid Al- A security source said that two restaurants in Ahmadi gov- Rehabilitation Services Division Majed Mahdi, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of ernorate filed two separate complaints about a person Al-Saleh, as well as a delegation of Planning and Development. The current plan is to carry out who called them and ordered food worth KD 25, but after Zain officials. Zain’s contribution projects valued between $120 billion and $150 billion, with he went to the restaurant to collect it, he escaped as soon came as part of the company’s projected revenue reaching 10 to 20 percent according to as it was placed in his car trunk without paying. Police Corporate Sustainability and Social preliminary studies, he added. — Al-Jarida arrested him and he was identified by restaurant employ- Responsibly strategy, especially ees. He said he wanted to entertain his friends and thought towards the special needs sector. The that the restaurants would not complain. company’s solid CSSR umbrella prima- empowering people with special ests of the community. New remand regulations rily focuses on the wellbeing of the needs to be more productive and It is worth noting that Zain recently KUWAIT: Attorney General Dherar Al-Asousi canceled Man hospitalized entire nation, and for this reason, Zain active members of the Kuwaiti society. provided the Ministry of Interior with has maintained its support of numer- The company constantly finds over 40 wheelchairs to be distributed a remand law passed by the parliament that was annulled in 2012, and order the Public Prosecution A citizen in his twenties was found in a pool of blood in ous initiatives that help make a differ- ways to shoulder initiatives that work to the ministry’s various departments ence in people’s everyday lives. towards enhancing the society’s wel- that witness large numbers of visitors members to enforce the new amendments to the law. Mangaf. Police and paramedics rushed to the area and According to the new regulations, a suspect can be found the man unconscious with a severe wound to ‘Zain Lab’, a fully equipped com- fare. Zain’s long-term cooperation on a daily basis. puter lab, offers people with special with the Ministry of Social Affairs and As a leading private sector compa- remanded for a maximum of three weeks in criminal his head. Police are waiting for him to recover and tell cases, and ten days in felony cases. The judge can them what happened. needs the needed equipment and Labor as well as other public entities ny, Zain assures its commitment to necessary training for them to explore springs from its belief in the impor- contribute and support the various order the suspect to be remanded for an extra 15 days job opportunities that suit their spe- tance of having a positive print in the social and economic needs of the in criminal cases and 10 in felony cases, as long as the total remand time does not exceed 80 days in criminal Cafe fight cific needs in both the public and pri- society by sponsoring and launching Kuwaiti society hand-in-hand with the vate sectors. The initiative also aims at initiatives that cater to various inter- public authorities. cases and 40 in felony cases. — Al-Qabas Five citizens engaged in a fight inside a cafe after one of them described the other as ‘Abu Ras,’ or one with a big 1980 census head. Several patrons at the cafe called police, who arrived to the scene and only found the one who was taunted as KUWAIT: A decision was made this week to form a govern- “Abu Ras” there. The man was taken to hospital for treat- ment team in order to summon stateless residents who pos- ment. The four others who escaped were charged with sess documents of the 1980 census or beyond that year. The beating and insult and are summoned. — Al-Rai team would discuss the possibility of legalizing those resi- dents’ status according to the official documents they provide, said security sources familiar with the news. — Al-Anbaa

Shrimps at KD 90 per basket

KUWAIT: Shrimp sold for KD 90 per basket Monday on the first day after the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources allowed fishing for shrimp in international waters, following a 7-month-long halt. Shrimp prices are expected to drop in the coming weeks, and especially after fishing in territorial waters Ooredoo kicks off its 2016 is allowed on September 1. — Al-Jarida summer internship program Kuwait, Bahrain trade electricity KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) plans this month to provide Bahrain’s power grid with 100 megawatts for two weeks, as part of an agreement that stipulates that Kuwait receives back the same amount of power at the beginning of September. The goal behind this operation is to pave the way to apply commercial trade between countries connected through the GCC power grid network, MEW Undersecretary Mohammad Bushehri said. Kuwait’s current excess of production, which reaches 15,500 megawatts a day compared to 13,310 megawatts that was the maximum daily consumption recorded this year, allows the state to go ahead with this agreement, Bushehri added. — Al-Rai

Capital Governor praises KFH Clinical waste incinerator leading role in assuming social responsibility KUWAIT: A Health Ministry insider said that building an incinerator for proper disposal of clinical waste in Kabad is expected to start this year, saying that work is KUWAIT: Governor of the Capital Governorate retired currently ongoing to place and award the KD 3.2 mil- Lieutenant General Thabet Al-Muhanna praised the role lion project’s tender. — Al-Rai shouldered by Kuwait Finance House (KFH) in assuming the social responsibility that serves in achieving the com- prehensive development in the country. In a special ceremony on the occasion of concluding the Ramadan program, the Governor had received at his office a delegation from KFH represented by the Public Relations team and honored the bank in recognition of its significant KUWAIT: In collaboration with students, Corporate Communications said: “As an organization we are keen social responsibility role and remarkable initiatives, mainly Manpower and Government division is handling the training of to organize this summer training for the “Feeding a Fasting Person” campaign and iftar cannon Restructuring Program (MGRP), one student, five students will get the university students on annual program, not to mention the huge number of voluntary, Ooredoo Kuwait, member of interna- their training at Ooredoo branches, basis as we strongly believe in the humanitarian and social activities and events. tional Ooredoo group has recently one student at B2B and two students important role youth play to form a The Governor’s recognition comprises an impetus for announced the kickoff of its annual at Human Resources and better future for our beloved country. KFH to go extra miles in achieving the social responsibility, summer internship program 2016. The Administration Services department. We believe that the private sector has while reassuring the bank’s leadership in this important program has recently commenced The internship program provides a huge responsibility towards this cat- field especially that KFH’s strategy coincides with the and will last for one full month, where students with the different abilities egory, responsibility to train them and efforts of boosting the economy, and achieving prosperity Ooredoo will be hosting and training and skills required in the world of provide them with job opportunities and development in the country. nine students. business such as working within a in order to utilize their skills and It is worth noting that KFH’s efforts in Ramadan rein- Students participating in the team, ways to develop creative think- knowledge.” forced its keenness to contribute in easing the suffering of internship program will be visiting ing, self-expression and best profes- This summer program comes in KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait announced low-income segments, while shouldering the social various departments within Ooredoo, sional way to service customers. line with the company’s corporate responsibility in all its categories, be it educational, envi- Nazeq Al-Shammas as the winner of the KD 150,000 get familiar with the different working Commenting on the annual sum- social responsibility strategy and con- Najma Account’s Grand Prize 2nd Quarter Raffle Draw, ronmental or health in an attempt to assure the impor- environments at each one. Certain mer internship program, Chief of sidered to be one of multiple initia- tance of social responsibility commitment, yet to reinforce which took place recently at the bank’s head office departments will be will be handling Human Resources and Administration tives aiming at supporting youth gen- under supervision of the Ministry of Commerce and the bank’s leadership position as a world leading Islamic the training for a particular number of Services Saleh Al-Houti at Ooredoo erally and graduates particularly. financial institution. Industry. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 Wildfires burn in 7 Western states, France lays to rest slain priest prompt evacuations Page 10 Page 8

COLUMBUS, OHIO: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event on Monday. —AP Trump suggests general election could be ‘rigged’ No immediate evidence

COLUMBUS, OHIO: Republican presidential hacked emails from the national party that the Republicans are watching closely or it’s A deal with the devil had been allowed to speak. She said she nominee Donald Trump has suggested that appeared to indicate a preference for going to be taken away from us.” In recent weeks, in an effort to woo is still too grief-stricken by her son’s he fears the general election “is going to be Clinton. Still, the former secretary of state Requests to Trump’s campaign for addi- angry Sanders supporters to his cam- death. rigged” - an unprecedented assertion by a received 3.7 million more votes than tional explanation were not returned. The paign, Trump has made the claim that Trump criticized the family in an inter- modern presidential candidate. Sanders nationwide and had established a statement could be an effort by Trump to the Democrats’ process was also rigged. view Sunday and again in a pair of tweets Trump’s extraordinary claim - one he did clear lead in delegates by March 1. lay the groundwork of an excuse if he goes Monday night, Trump said Sanders “made Monday morning. Asked on MSNBC not back up with any immediate evidence - on to lose the general election. But if he a deal with the devil,” and said of Clinton, Monday whether Trump should apolo- would, if it became more than just an off- Conspiracy theories were to be defeated in November and then “She’s the devil.” gize, Ghazala Khan said, “I don’t want to hand comment, seem to threaten the tradi- The celebrity businessman - who has publicly declare that the election results The Clinton campaign declined to hear anything from him and I don’t want tion of peacefully contested elections and been known to dabble in conspiracy theo- were bogus, his claim could yield unpre- comment about Trump’s remarks. to say anything to him.” But his running challenge the very essence of a fair demo- ries, including claims that President Barack dictable reactions from his supporters and The event in Ohio was Trump’s first mate, Mike Pence, quieted a campaign cratic process. Obama was not born in the United States fellow Republicans. campaign appearance since the onset of rally crowd Monday that booed a woman “I’m afraid the election is going to be and, more recently, that Sen. Ted Cruz’s Trump has not been shy about asserting his tussle with the parents of a slain who said she had a son who serves in the rigged, I have to be honest,” the Republican father was an associate of President John F. that the electoral process has been “rigged.” It Army veteran, but he did not address the U.S. Air Force and asked how he can toler- nominee told a town hall crowd in Kennedy’s assassin - also claimed that the became a frequent catchphrase of his during flap. He spoke for nearly an hour Monday ate what she called Trump’s disrespect of Columbus, Ohio on Monday. He added that Republican nomination would have been a low-water mark of his primary campaign in Columbus, but did not mention his American servicemen. he has been hearing “more and more” that stolen from him had he not won by signifi- this spring, when forces allied with Cruz criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Pence asked the Nevada crowd to qui- the election may not be contested fairly, cant margins. managed to pack state delegations with sup- Muslims whose son was killed in Iraq in et down, then said about the questioner: though he did not elaborate further. He then asserted that November’s gener- porters of the Texas senator. Trump also 2004. “That’s what freedom looks like. That’s Trump made the claim after first sug- al election may not be on the up-and-up. He asserted that the Republican Party had The Khans spoke out against Trump what freedom sounds like.” He continued: gesting that the Democrats had fixed their repeated the charge Monday night on Fox changed the delegate allocation in the and questioned his familiarity with the “Capt. Kahn is an American hero. We hon- primary system so Hillary Clinton could News Channel’s “Hannity,” saying: “November Florida primary to favor a native candidate, Constitution last week at the Democratic or him and his family ... we cherish his defeat Bernie Sanders. Trump has previous- 8th, we’d better be careful, because that like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, at Trump’s National Convention. Trump struck back family.” He added that Trump had great ly backed up that thought by pointing to election is going to be rigged. And I hope expense. by questioning whether Ghazala Khan respect for veterans. —AP

Italy would consider Turkey sends 2nd document US request to use their to US seeking cleric’s arrest base in Libya strikes ROME: Italy’s foreign minister says his govern- ment will evaluate any US request to allow use ANKARA: Turkey’s justice minister sent a organization and which runs schools, chari- said that if Gulen leaves the US for another with disciplinary issues, would be placed of a Sicilian air base in the campaign of airstrikes document to the United States yesterday ties and businesses internationally. In country, it would be with the full knowl- under the Defense Ministry’s supervision. against an Islamic State stronghold in Libya. seeking the arrest of cleric Fethullah Gulen, Turkey, nearly 70,000 people have been sus- edge of US authorities. “If he escapes then The government has already issued a Paolo Gentiloni said in comments on state tel- who lives in self-imposed exile in pended from their jobs on suspicion of the US would either have turned a blind eye decree introducing sweeping changes to evision yesterday that use of the Sigonella base Pennsylvania and whom Ankara accuses of being involved in the movement. “They or approved of it,” Bozdag said. the military, including giving the president would be considered “if requested” and instigating an attempted coup on July 15. requested certain information following our and prime minister the power to issue Parliament informed of any decision. He Bekir Bozdag sent a “second written doc- first letter; we provided answers to the Reforming the military direct orders to the force commanders. described as “positive” the airstrikes against IS ument” requesting Gulen’s arrest, the state- question ‘why is it urgent’,” Anadolu quoted Part of the crackdown against Gulen’s “These arrangements won’t weaken the militants in the Libyan city of Sirte which began run Anadolu news agency said. The minister Bozdag as telling reporters in parliament. network has focused on reforming the mili- Turkish Armed Forces, on the contrary they Monday. said the second letter explained why there “We wrote to them that there are serious tary, bringing it increasingly under civilian will strengthen them and prepare them to In February, Italy agreed to let armed US was an urgent need for the arrest. claims and statements that Fethullah Gulen command. About 18,000 people have been face all kinds of threats,” Yildirim said in an Ankara has demanded Gulen’s extradi- has a finger in the attempted coup. That is detained or arrested, most of them from the address to his ruling party legislators. “The drones take off from Sigonella but only to tion over the failed coup, which left 271 why he needs to be detained urgently. (We military, while authorities have said the Armed Forces will focus their energies on defend US forces targeting IS extremists. Italy people dead. Washington has asked for evi- wrote) that we have intelligence that he can purge of those suspected of links to Gulen their fundamental duty.” has stressed it won’t let Sigonella be used for dence of the cleric’s involvement, saying the escape to third countries,” Bozdag said. in the military will continue. Separately, authorities issued 98 new offensive purposes. Italy has insisted Libya must extradition process must take its course. “I hope that the United States decides in Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced detention warrants, including for military request any anti-IS airstrikes, which Libya’s UN- The Turkish government launched a Turkey’s favor, in line with democracy and plans yesterday to shut down two military doctors, a senior government official said, brokered unity government did in the case of sweeping crackdown on Gulen’s move- the rule of law, and returns this leader of a high courts - the administrative and appeals on condition of anonymity in line with Sirte. —AP ment, which it characterizes as a terrorist terror organization to Turkey.” The minister courts - and said military courts, which deal regulations. —AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 Russian strikes slow rebel assault in Syria’s Aleppo

BEIRUT: The Syrian regime’s key ally rebels had taken since Sunday,” he by regime forces and civilians living in in strikes there since July 16. Residents in weekends, though residents and rebels Russia launched heavy air strikes added. The strikes came despite an government-controlled parts of Aleppo east Aleppo have reported food short- in east Aleppo dismissed those reports overnight on the outskirts of divided appeal by US Secretary of State John runs through Ramussa. Its capture ages and rising prices since government as “lies.” Syria’s conflict has killed more Aleppo city, slowing a “last-chance” Kerry on Monday for Russia to “restrain” would both cut off government forces troops seized the last remaining road than 280,000 people and drawn in world assault by rebels seeking to break a gov- itself and its ally in Damascus from and open a new route into the city for into opposition-held districts on July 17. powers on both sides since it erupted in ernment siege. “offensive operations.” rebels. The Observatory said at least 30 March 2011. The assault began on Sunday and is Kerry said regime attacks had pre- civilians had also been killed since NGOs slam Aleppo ‘corridors’ Russia began an aerial campaign in intended to ease the encirclement of the vented the warring parties from meeting Sunday in opposition bombardment of Last week Russia announced the support of Damascus last September. On opposition-held east of Aleppo city, for negotiations on Monday, the target government-held southwestern districts opening of “humanitarian corridors” to Monday, Moscow announced one of its where an estimated 250,000 residents date set for the regime and opposition of Aleppo. “This battle is the last chance allow residents and surrendering fight- military helicopters had been shot down have been under a regime siege since forces to agree on the framework of a for rebels. If they lose, it will be difficult ers to flee the east for government-held over Idlib province, killing the five peo- July 17. The British-based Syrian political transition. for them to launch a new assault to territory. The announcement was met ple on board. Observatory for Human Rights described The Aleppo offensive groups fighters break the siege,” Abdel Rahman said. “For with skepticism by both residents and It was the single deadliest incident for it as the largest rebel attack in Aleppo from Fateh al-Sham Front, formerly Al- the regime also, it’s a question of life or some in the international community, Russia since its intervention began and since 2012, when fighting reached the Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, as well as death. They’ve been preparing for this and 35 NGOs in a statement on yester- brought its losses in the war to 18. There city and left it roughly divided between the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham and battle for months and it’ll be a tough day called the initiative “deeply flawed.” was no immediate claim of responsibility the opposition control in the east and other factions. The Observatory said 50 blow for its troops if they lose,” he added. The groups, including Save the for the incident, which occurred in an regime forces in the west. rebels and allied jihadists had been Elsewhere in Aleppo province, the Children and Oxfam, urged implementa- area controlled by a rebel alliance domi- But government troops backed by killed since the operation began on Observatory said at least 11 people, tion of a UN call for a weekly 48-hour nated by the Fateh al-Sham Front. Russia’s air force have put up a fierce Sunday, as well as dozens of regime including five children, were killed in air humanitarian pause in the city. But Yesterday, an area near where the defense, the monitor said. “The Russian troops. strikes believed to have been carried out Damascus and Moscow say some resi- helicopter went down was hit with a bar- raids didn’t stop all night on the front by Russian warplanes on the rebel-held dents and fighters have begun using the rel bomb attack that caused 24 people lines” there, said Observatory head Rami ‘Last chance for rebels’ town of Atareb. passages and Syrian state media report- to suffer breathing problems, the Abdel Rahman. “This has slowed the Its main target is the government- The town has been targeted multiple ed yesterday that “dozens of families” Observatory said. Residents said the offensive and allowed regime troops to held district of Ramussa, on the south- time in recent weeks. According to the had crossed from the east. attack had used chlorine gas, but the retake five of the eight positions that west outskirts of Aleppo. The route used Observatory, 76 people have been killed It reported similar crossings over the monitor could not confirm. —AFP Senate Republicans on the spot over Trump comments on Khan Just a taste of trials to come

WASHINGTON: The uproar over Donald Trump’s criticism of a bereaved Army family put vulnera- ble GOP senators in a tight spot, underscoring anew the political challenges created for Republicans by their newly minted presidential nominee. And with the general election cam- paign now squarely underway, the firestorm over Trump’s attacks on the Khan family is likely just a taste of trials to come as Republicans negotiate how closely to align with their volatile nominee. Senate Republicans running for re-election weighed in one after another Monday to con- demn Trump’s repeated attacks on the parents of slain US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, with for- mer prisoner of war Sen. John McCain of Arizona CARMEL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: A helicopter flies over a back burn on a ridge south leading the charge. And in an op-ed Tuesday, a west of Cachagua as firefighters battle a wildfire in east on Monday. —AP New York congressman became the first House Republican to announce that he would vote for Wildfires burn in 7 Western Democrat Hillary Clinton. McCain issued a lengthy statement insisting states, prompt evacuations that Trump has no right “to defame those who are the best among us” and pleading: “I hope LOS ANGELES: Wildfires are burning in been” with the Bitterroot National Forest, Americans understand that the remarks do not seven Western US states, from California’s spokesman Tod McKay said. Ravalli County represent the views of our Republican Party, its famed Big Sur region to tribal towns and Sheriff Chris Hoffman said he could not officers, or candidates.” hamlets near Reno, Nevada. More than a immediately provide details about the dozen homes were destroyed in Montana, number of homes or buildings destroyed. Hero in every sense of the word and evacuations were ordered in Nevada, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Trump’s DES MOINES, IOWA: In this July 15, 2016, file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks during the Oregon and Wyoming. Firefighters were Nevada comments “are not in line with my own beliefs National Governors Association meeting. —AP trying to stop a Washington blaze from About 800 firefighters were battling a about how the members of the military and reaching a thickly forested security zone at series of fires that had threatened a tribal their families should be treated.” Sen. Richard against Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was now.” Writing in the Syracuse Post-Standard, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. town and hamlets near Pyramid Lake, Burr of North Carolina said that “Captain Khan is killed in Iraq in 2004. Trump complained that GOP Rep. Richard Hanna said it’s not enough to north of Reno. The fire zone totaled about an American hero in every sense of the term and Khizr Khan was “viciously attacking” him by denounce Trump’s comments. “He is unfit to Here’s a look at some of the fires: 78 square miles Monday, said fire spokes- the Khans deserve our sincerest gratitude.” appearing on stage at last week’s Democratic serve our party and cannot lead this country.” California woman Jesse Bender. Yet as Democrats were quick to point out, National Convention holding up a copy of the The lawmaker, who has announced his retire- Higher humidity and lower tempera- Residents of about 30 homes in most of the Republicans criticizing Trump had Constitution, questioning whether Trump had ment, said that while he disagrees with Clinton tures on Monday helped firefighters battle Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs Ranch already declared their plans to vote for him for even read it and asserting the billionaire had on many issues, “I trust she can lead.” a destructive wildfire that has scorched were warned they would receive 30 min- president, and despite their collective outrage, sacrificed nothing. Trump has responded by Candidates have also wrestled with whether more than 63 square miles near the scenic utes notice to evacuate if necessary. About none of them withdrew their support. Several, insisting he had made sacrifices and questioning to appear alongside Trump when he campaigns Big Sur coast, while firefighters in Central 600 people were ordered out of the shore- including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate why Ghazala Khan did not speak on stage, which in their states. When Trump appeared Monday in California faced blistering heat as they line town of Sutcliffe over the weekend, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, avoided men- she later said was because she was too Columbus, Ohio, vulnerable GOP Sen. Rob worked to contain a blaze that burned rural and 200 were evacuated from beach areas. tioning the billionaire by name. “No matter what bereaved. Portman was not on-hand; aides said he was homes and forced hundreds of evacuations Flames destroyed six houses and mobile Trump has said or done - from shameful person- It’s just the latest Trump-created conundrum doing previously scheduled events related to near the small Fresno County town of homes, two vehicles and several out-build- al attacks to racist outbursts - John McCain has for Republican senators who need support from opioid legislation he has sponsored, although Prather. ings at historic Hardscrabble Ranch, blindly pledged to ‘support the nominee,” said Trump’s enthusiastic backers to win re-election, his schedule appeared to have him near-by. A layer of ocean air that arrived in the according to Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Max Croes, campaign manager for McCain’s but risk alienating moderate Republicans, inde- Grassley’s aides also cited scheduling conflicts as mountainous Big Sur region was credited officials. Democratic opponent, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, in pendents, minorities and women if they the reason Grassley did not attend Trump events for the better conditions in an area where a one typical response from a Democratic Senate embrace the GOP nominee too enthusiastically. in Iowa last week. Burr, on the other hand, joined fire that started July 22 has destroyed 57 Oregon campaign. “McCain’s window to take a princi- “There’s no question that Donald Trump is Trump on the campaign trail in Winston-Salem, homes and is threatening 2,000 more Eastern Oregon residents urged to evac- pled stand and abandon Trump has closed. making it very difficult for House and Senate North Carolina last week, and other campaigns, structures. A bulldozer operator working uate over the weekend because of a wild- There is no post-primary redemption for John candidates who are running on the ballot in including Rubio’s, have said they’re open to joint for the firefighting operation died in an fire were allowed to return home. About 20 McCain,” Croes added, in a reference to McCain’s November,” said Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist appearances with Trump. Trump is backed by all accident last week. It is 18 percent con- structures remained threatened by the fire Aug. 30 primary face-off against a tea party- and former spokesman for the National but two vulnerable GOP senators - Pat Toomey tained. east of the town of Pendleton, the Oregon backed conservative. Republican Senatorial Committee. “In an ideal of Pennsylvania, who is still in a “wait and see” The blaze near Prather has damaged Department of Forestry said. world we would have a candidate who would mode, and Mark Kirk of Illinois, who withdrew three homes just outside the Sierra The East Oregonian reports that “Viciously attacking” appropriately recognize his comments and apol- his endorsement after Trump’s attacks on a US National Forest, the California Department columns of smoke were rose Sunday after The furor surrounds Trump’s accusations ogize for them, but that’s not the situation right judge of Mexican heritage. —AP of Forestry and Fire Protection said. About the blaze scorched about 500 acres of grass 300 people are under evacuation orders. and timber along Interstate 84. It was 25 That fire started Saturday and by percent contained by Sunday evening. Iranian link in attempt to hack Syrian dissident Monday had grown to over 3 square miles with just 20 percent of it surrounded by Washington PARIS: Syrian opposition activist Lab, an interview with the couple University of Toronto. The group Shiraz. The evidence isn’t conclu- firefighters. A wildfire burning toward the Hanford Noura Al-Ameer was combing and conversations with outside has made a specialty of tracking sive but it “lets us think that we’re Just north of Los Angeles, a 65-square- nuclear reservation has scorched about through her emails late one night experts - raise the possibility that the hackers who’ve dogged Syria’s perhaps looking at a group that’s mile wildfire in wilderness just north of Los 273 square miles of brush and grass as it when a message caught her eye. Iran has gone beyond sending men opposition, which lead author John operating from Iran,” Scott-Railton Angeles was almost fully contained and spread from Yakima County into Benton The sender was “Assadcrimes” and and materiel to tip the scale in Scott-Railton said had turned into said. He cautioned that it wasn’t only active with isolated pockets of vegeta- County in south-central Washington. he promised information about Assad’s favor. “something of a petri dish for possible to say much about the tion burning within a fire lines. A man who The blaze, the largest of several wildfires Iranian meddling in the Middle The country’s hackers may have threat actors in the Middle East.” group’s potential sponsorship - refused to evacuate from a home was killed in central and eastern Washington, began East. But the email seemed odd. joined the fray as well. “It’s not a The report says those behind government or otherwise. and the fire also prompted the evacuation Saturday on the US Army’s Yakima Training Al-Ameer turned to her hus- shock,” said Al-Ameer, a 29-year-old the “Assadcrimes” website appear An outside expert who evaluat- of about 20,000 people. Center and quickly grew in size over the band, cybersecurity trainer Bahr who spent six months in Syrian to have inadvertently exposed their ed Citizen Lab’s report endorsed its weekend. Abdul Razzak, in their small, book- government detention before mov- site’s logs, showing evidence that work. The botched cyberespionage Idaho But fire lines set overnight and low cluttered home in the Turkish city ing to Turkey in 2013. “They’re its creators accessed it in part from attempt “is consistent with Iranian A southwest Idaho wildfire burning tim- winds Monday are helping to slow the fire’s of Gaziantep. “Have you heard of fighting our people on the ground. the Iranian internet space. The site activity we’ve previous observed, in ber in rugged terrain and pushed by winds progression, said Randall Rishe, a this group before?” Al-Ameer I think it’s normal for any side that itself briefly hosted a Farsi-lan- terms of operational security, social grew to 60 square miles Monday. spokesman with the US Bureau of Land asked. “No,” he said. “But let me fights you on the ground to fight guage email service, and a string of engineering, and technical sophis- Temperatures in the 90s, wind and low Management. Officials said Monday night check the email.” Abdul Razzak, a you on the internet.” data recovered from the malicious tication,” said John Hultquist, a humidity caused significant expansion on better mapping allowed them to deter- fellow at internet watchdog group Evidence of an Iranian link is code used to target Al-Ameer threat intelligence manager at net- Sunday. Firefighting aircraft were grounded mine the fire had burned significantly more Citizen Lab, quickly determined outlined in a 56-page report by appeared to refer to a developer work security company FireEye Inc., for about 45 minutes because of people fly- acreage than previously thought. About that the group was bogus. The Citizen Lab, based at the Munk who runs a malicious software site based in Milpitas, California. ing their drones in the area. 250 residences are at risk, officials also said email, sent on Oct. 3 last year, was School of Global Affairs at the registered in the Iranian city of The fire closed a section of State Monday night and the fire is 10 percent an electronic trap - one of hun- No comment from Iran Highway 21 between Idaho City and contained. The cause is being investigated. dreds of malicious messages that Calls to Iran’s Embassy in Paris Lowman and destroyed two outbuildings. The Department of Energy said Monday on have flown back and forth as rebels were not answered yesterday. The A firefighter suffered burns during the its website that Hanford work schedules grapple with the government of hackers in Al-Ameer’s case appear weekend when fuel spilled on his arm and were not immediately affected by the fire. Bashar Assad in Syria. This one had to have made some mistakes. But it ignited. been aimed at snaring Al-Ameer in Scott-Railton said those who target particular; the website registered Syria’s scattered opposition Wyoming by the hacker was in her name, activists are only as sophisticated Montana Firefighters made progress in their effort suggesting an attempt to steal her as they need to be. Many groups At least 14 homes were destroyed by a to contain several fires burning in western identity. operating in the area, including the fast-moving wildfire in the Bitterroot part of the state. An approximately 2- pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army, National Forest in western Montana, square-mile blaze that destroyed eight Jumping off point have used very simple tools and authorities said Monday. homes and prompted the evacuation of Al-Ameer is a well-known oppo- persistent trickery to repeatedly Ravalli County authorities ordered resi- about 140 others in southern Uinta County sition figure, and stealing her data compromise savvier targets. “Not dents of about 500 homes to leave the area was 25 percent contained. or her identity could have been the all hacking in a conflict looks like after the fire began Sunday afternoon Northwest of Dubois, a 21-square-mile jumping off point to attack other Stuxnet,” said Scott-Railton, refer- southwest of Hamilton. It had burned near- blaze was 40 percent surrounded and Syrians in and out of the country. ring to the complex computer bug ly 5.5 square miles by Monday night. some residents who evacuated seasonal As Abdul Razzak and his colleagues widely suspected of being “I’ve talked to homeowners who said we homes were allowed to return. In neighbor- tried to trace the hackers, they unleashed by the United States to had 200-foot flames coming off those trees. ing Bridger-Teton National Forest, a fire found a trail of digital clues leading sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. This thing really blew up, and I’ve never that has burned about 45 square miles was to Iran. Their story - detailed in a ISTANBUL: Bahr Abdul Razzak, 29, and his wife Noura Al-Ameer, 29, “What this shows is how powerful seen anything like it in the years that I’ve 81 percent contained.—AP report issued Tuesday by Citizen show a phone with the email on Monday. —AP social engineering is.” — AP ACCESS over 10,000 top jobs daily NETWORK with professional peers SHARE leading career content

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LONDON: Death threats, a brick through a linked to Labor’s internal woes. and “decent” man, has condemned the With Corbyn the favorite to win when Leadership contender Smith has warned window and one lawmaker even installing “I’m upgrading my home security, my abuse and urged members and support- the result is announced on Sept. 24, the that on its current path, the party risks a panic room in her office; less than a year office security, there is going to be a panic ers to “act with calm and treat each other party faces a struggle to re-unite. Party being “consigned to history”. after Britain’s Labor elected socialist Jeremy room in my office. I have to carry around a with respect and dignity”. donor Assem Allam is reported to have “I feel horrified that we are such a low Corbyn leader on a promise of ‘kinder poli- thing that I can press so the police can The 67-year-old says he has also offered rebels funding to defect and form ebb, horrified that we are where we are, tics’ the party is mired in civil war. find me,” Labor lawmaker Jess Phillips told received death threats. But many of his a new party or movement. While Labor that this party could be split,” he told a ral- The brutal infighting threatens Labor’s Reuters. “I’ve had people putting my face lawmakers say they do not think he is not lawmakers say they are focused on saving ly in London last month. “If we split, the 116-year existence and risks leaving on (a picture of) somebody with an arrow doing enough to match his words with the party rather than splitting, they also forces of darkness, the forces of the radical Britain without a strong opposition party through their heart, a spear in their side. action. Eagle told the Daily Telegraph acknowledge it will be difficult. “There are right will flood into the gap that we leave. for years to come, just as the government I’ve had people wishing that I was dead ... newspaper that Corbyn had created a massive wounds to heal ... Unless some- And in many parts of Britain we would be goes about negotiating the country’s exit all to protect Corbyn.” permissive environment where abuse is thing is done, something directly hap- out of power for a long, long time.” from the European Union. Britain’s June Angela Eagle, who triggered the lead- tolerated. pens, then I just can’t see how I could Historical precedents for a new party 23 EU referendum brought simmering ership contest by challenging Corbyn but “Jeremy, this is being done in your stay,” said Phillips. don’t bode well, said Steven Fielding, pro- tensions within Labor to the boil, resulting has now pulled out to boost Smith’s name,” 44 female Labor lawmakers wrote Sherriff agrees, saying there will need fessor of political history at the University in a leadership challenge. chances, has been advised by police not in a letter to Corbyn, asking him to do to be mediation. “I am not saying we can’t of Nottingham, predicting any split would On one side are hundreds of thou- to hold open drop-in sessions with her more to tackle the behavior of those come back from this and I desperately only involve a small number of lawmakers sands of vocal grassroots loyalists who are constituents due to safety risks. A brick involved. “The culture of hatred and divi- hope there isn’t a split ... I want to try and rather than a wholesale walk out. fiercely protective of Corbyn’s left-wing was thrown through a window at her sion that is being sown does not benefit bridge the divide that definitely exists. It Most are more likely to bide their time principles. On the other are most Labor office in Wallasey, north west England, she anybody.” will be really hard,” she said. and either wait until Corbyn loses an elec- lawmakers, who say he did not do enough has said, and police have arrested and Paula Sherriff, the lawmaker who tion, or launch another leadership bid to prevent Brexit and is not a capable bailed a 44-year-old man on suspicion of organized the letter, told Reuters she had Long, hard struggle when a rival has had more time to leader. Corbyn now faces leadership rival making threats to kill after an email was seen a significant increase in abuse since Corbyn has tapped into an appetite for become established, he said. Owen Smith in a contest so divisive it sent to the lawmaker. Corbyn’s leadership was challenged, and change, winning support among disillu- An ICM poll last month gave Prime could ultimately lead to the party splitting Eagle, who is gay, has also faced homo- the majority of it was coming from peo- sioned young voters and socialists who Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives a 16- if he is re-elected leader, as the bookmak- phobic slurs. Others have experienced anti- ple who identified themselves as sup- had drifted away from the party during point lead over Labor, who on 27 percent ers expect. Semitism, and some have said members of porting him. two decades battling for the political cen- support were at their lowest in that series The debate has become so poisonous Corbyn-supporting grassroots movement Sherriff said comments like those from tre ground. But critics say the leader, who since 2009. “Labor has been divided for that most local party meetings have been Momentum have been intimidating staff finance spokesman John McDonnell to a has described Labor as a social move- such a period that you just write off the suspended and Labor lawmakers say they and constituents outside their offices. A rally in July that those plotting against his ment, cannot win an election due in 2020. next general election even under Owen have faced abuse ranging from rape spokesman for Momentum said the party ally Corbyn were “useless”, were encourag- Some say his supporters are not even Smith ... he has had the backing of the threats to vandalized cars. While most of must settle its disputes democratically ing abuse. “It is just so divisive and they interested in doing so. parliamentary Labor Party but then what the abuse happens online, the June killing “without abuse, intimidation or coups”. need to take some responsibility for some “Democracy gives power to people, will Momentum do?,” said Fielding. of lawmaker Jo Cox on her way to a public of the behavior that has come as a result ‘Winning’ is the small bit that matters to “In any scenario it is going to be a long, meeting in her electoral district means Culture of hatred of that,” she said. “Is there any wonder that political elites who want to keep power hard struggle, and before it gets better I colleagues are not taking any chances. Corbyn, a pacifist whose dissenting some of the activists are going out and themselves,” Momentum Chair Jon think it will get worse for the Labor Party Her murder is not however thought to be colleagues have described him as a “nice” doing the same to us on Twitter?” Lansman said on Twitter in July. ... It is not a pretty prospect.” —Reuters France lays to rest slain priest Thousands attend

ROUEN, FRANCE: Thousands gath- darity after the grisly attack, with ‘Unjustly convicted’ Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel ered at Rouen cathedral in northern the visitors paying a moving trib- “Father Hamel’s death was similar Kermiche had pledged allegiance to France yesterday for the funeral of ute to Hamel and denouncing radi- to that of Christ, unjustly convicted the Islamic State group and both Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year- cal Islam. and put to death,” the diocese said. were shot dead by police after a old priest who was murdered by As on Sunday, security was tight, Rouen Archbishop Dominique tense hostage drama in which a two jihadists last week. Some 2,000 with police closely checking Lebrun will celebrate the mass, with worshipper was left seriously mourners were expected to pack mourners’ bags and backpacks. The Marseille Archbishop Georges wounded. Three other hostages the soaring Gothic sanctuary, with church attack came less than two Pontier, who heads the French escaped unharmed. The man who hundreds more watching the cere- weeks after another attacker Catholic Church, also attending. was stabbed in the neck and chest, mony on a giant screen outside. ploughed a 19-tonne truck into a French Interior Minister Bernard an octogenarian like Hamel, was A section of pews was set aside massive crowd celebrating Bastille Cazeneuve, whose portfolio also thought to be well enough to MADRID: Spain’s interim Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gives a press confer- attend Tuesday’s funeral mass. ence at the Spanish parliament yesterday after a meeting with Leader of The attack stunned France’s reli- Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) on forming a government in a bid to unblock gious communities, sparking fears of tensions in a country with a pop- seven months of political paralysis after a second round of inconclusive ulation of some five million Muslims. elections. —AFP Pope Francis spoke out Monday, saying Islam could not be equated with terrorism. “It’s not true and it’s Spain risks third elections, PM not correct (to say) Islam is terror- ism,” he said, defending his decision warns as deadlock continues not to name Islam when condemn- ing the brutal murder. MADRID: Spain’s acting Prime Minister but fell short of an absolute majority, win- “If I have to talk about Islamic vio- Mariano Rajoy warned yesterday that the ning 137 seats out of 350. lence, I have to talk about Christian country may have to hold a third round of He has since been tasked by the king to violence. Every day in the newspa- elections, after his Socialist rival refused form a coalition or minority government, pers, I see violence in Italy, someone to back his efforts to form a coalition gov- which he would have to push through a kills his girlfriend, another kills his ernment. parliamentary vote of confidence. But mother-in-law, and these are bap- “If Mr Sanchez (Socialist party chief) Pedro Sanchez, whose Socialist party came tised Catholics.” continues to say no, we will go to repeat second in June elections with 85 seats and elections,” Rajoy, who is attempting to who has the power to block Rajoy, refuses Radical mosques shuttered form a coalition or minority government to back him. “We are not going to back The series of jihadist attacks in following inconclusive June elections, told something we want to change ... the left France have raised tough questions reporters. will not back the right,” Sanchez told about security failures, but also Spain has been without a fully function- reporters after meeting Rajoy. about the foreign funding of many ing government for more than seven However Sanchez appeared to leave mosques. Cazeneuve said Monday months, leaving it in political limbo at a the door open for the possibility that the that authorities have shut down sensitive time as it needs to take urgent party would abstain in a vote of confi- around 20 mosques and prayer halls steps to reduce its deficit as well as address dence, saying that the leadership com- considered to be preaching radical a growing separatist movement in the mittee would have the ultimate say in ROUEN, FRANCE: Pallbearers carry the coffin of the priest Jacques Hamel as they enter in Islam since December. Catalonia region. whether the grouping changes its pos- Rouen’s cathedral yesterday. —AFP “There is no place ... in France for The blockage started after elections on ture or not. those who call for and incite hatred December 20 failed to give any party an Several high-ranking members of the in prayer halls or in mosques,” the absolute parliamentary majority, as upstart Socialist party, including former prime for residents of Saint-Etienne-du- Day in the Riviera city of Nice, includes inter-faith relations, is lead- minister said. Petitjean’s 30-year-old groupings Ciudadanos and Podemos minister Felipe Gonzalez, have pushed for Rouvray, the nearby industrial town killing 84 people and wounding ing the political delegation to the cousin was charged Sunday with shook up Spain’s long-established two- an abstention to end the political paralysis. where the two jihadists, both 19, slit more than 300 others. mass. Hamel is to be buried in a cer- “criminal association in connection party system. Rajoy is due to meet Albert Rivera, the Hamel’s throat while he was cele- As mourners gathered at the emony attended only by close fami- with terrorism”. Efforts to forge a coalition were subse- chief of centre-right upstart Ciudadanos, brating mass in an attack that cathedral, Hamel’s coffin stood ly members, at a location that has Media reports say Petitjean and quently unsuccessful as rival parties were today. Rivera has said his party would be shocked the country as well as the before the altar, draped with a white not been revealed. Kermiche met through the encrypt- unable to overcome their differences, willing to abstain in the vote of confidence, Catholic Church. cloth as is customary at the burial of The frail octogenarian became the ed messaging app Telegram. In a prompting repeat elections in June with a but with just 32 seats, that would not be Along with churches across a priest. A stole, a priest’s vestment latest victim of terror in France when separate case Sunday, 20-year-old similar result. Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP), in enough to push Rajoy’s government pro- France, the 11th-century cathedral resembling a narrow shawl that the two jihadists stormed his church Jean-Philippe J. was charged with power since 2011, won the June 26 vote posal through. —AFP had on Sunday opened its doors to symbolises the passion of Christ, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray last trying to travel to Syria with Muslims wishing to show their soli- was draped over a giant cross. Tuesday and slit his throat at the altar. Petitjean last month. —AFP France mends fences with Ukraine launches hunger Tripoli over troop presence PARIS: France yesterday reaffirmed its supports forces that are loyal to a parlia- strike over political inaction “full support” for Libya’s unity govern- ment and government based in the ment, seeking to mend fences after the country’s east that are refusing to recog- interim leader demanded an explana- nize and cede power to the UN-backed KIEV: Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian ser- to start initiating the handover of people,” she cessation of fighting in Ukraine’s eastern terri- tion for the presence of French troops in administration. vicewoman-turned-lawmaker who spent two said in a news briefing. “But the children of tory and a pull-back of heavy weapons from the east of the conflict-ridden country. Ayrault “reaffirmed France’s wish to years in a Russian jail, announced a new Petro Oleksiyovych (Poroshenko) aren’t in the front line, have also not yet been fulfilled, Fayez Al-Sarraj, head of the reinforce its cooperation with this hunger strike yesterday to speed up the captivity, while he spits on your children,” she raising concerns the ceasefire agreement Government of National Accord (GNA), (Tripoli-based) government in all release of other Ukrainian prisoners-of-war, said, addressing the parents of Ukrainian pris- could collapse. had last Monday told French ambassa- domains, starting with security and the accusing Ukraine’s president of ignoring their oners. Poroshenko and other politicians had not dor Antoine Sivan that their presence fight against terrorism,” the ministry said plight. She called on relatives of those still in cap- done enough to end the fighting, Savchenko was a “violation of international cus- in a statement. The French prime minis- Savchenko’s return from Russia in May via tivity to protest outside government and said. “Not one chocolate factory has been toms” and “unacceptable interference”. ter also “hailed the decision of the He was speaking a few days after Libyan authorities to appeal for interna- a prisoner swap was a PR coup for President presidential buildings in Kiev on Aug. 8. turned into a bullet factory,” she said, refer- France’s President Francois Hollande tional aid, which led notably to Petro Poroshenko. But her membership of a Savchenko, who spent much of her time in ring to Poroshenko’s confectionery business. confirmed that his country had soldiers American air strikes on terrorist targets main opposition party and vocal criticism of Russian jail on hunger strike, said she would Savchenko, a helicopter navigator, was in Libya, after three French troops were in (eastern) Sirte,” the statement said. key policies threaten to make her a thorn in hold a new strike until progress is made on captured by pro-Russian rebels while volun- killed there during an intelligence-gath- US warplanes carried out their first his side. the prisoner exchange. teering with a ground unit in eastern Ukraine ering mission. air strikes on positions of the Islamic She has been campaigning for the release Releasing prisoners-of-war is one of the and handed over to Russia on accusations of French Prime Minister Jean-Marc State group in Sirte on Monday at the via prisoner swap of the around 25 terms of the 12-point Minsk peace deal, involvement in the deaths of two Russian Ayrault spoke to Sarraj by telephone to request of the GNA. Forces loyal to the Ukrainians still held by Russia or pro-Russian which was brokered between Ukraine and journalists. Her defiance at Russian authority “renew the full support of France to the GNA have been fighting to retake Sirte separatists in eastern Ukraine, but said the Russia-backed separatists in February 2015 while in captivity earned her a hero’s wel- national unity government acting to uni- from the Islamic State group after the Ukrainian authorities were not committed to with the aim of ending a conflict which has come when she returned to Ukraine and she fy Libya and restore its institutions,” the jihadists overran the city — 450 kilo- securing their freedom. “I suggested concrete killed over 9,400 since April 2014. has said she could run for president at some French foreign ministry said yesterday. meters east of the capital-in June last actions to the president of Ukraine - we need Other conditions, including a complete stage. —Reuters France recognises the GNA, but also year. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 S Korea’s Park gets personal in US missile system row SEOUL: President Park Geun-Hye yester- growing threat posed by North Korea’s basic defensive steps like deploying ing an earlier assassination attempt on to prevent internal division and conflict,” day evoked memories of her parents’ advancing nuclear weapons and ballistic THAAD, how can we protect the country her father by a North Korean sympathiz- she added. assassination as she hit back at opposi- missile program. Protesting Seongju resi- and the people?” she said in remarks er. Park Geun-Hye never married or had Tensions on the divided Korean tion to the planned deployment of an dents have alleged that the system’s posted on her official website. “I have lost children and once proclaimed herself peninsula have been running high since advanced US anti-missile system in South powerful radar poses health and environ- my parents in the most excruciatingly wedded to the nation and its welfare. Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear Korea. The defence ministry announced mental hazards, while opposition law- painful way. My only remaining calling is While promising to listen to the com- test in January, followed by a series of last month that the Terminal High makers have been less than supportive to safeguard the country and people plaints of the Seongju residents, the pres- ballistic missile tests. North Korea has Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, of the move. from various threats,” she added. ident warned against listening to threatened to take “physical action” will be installed in Seongju-a rural county At a cabinet meeting Park voiced frus- Park’s father, the former president and “strange and groundless rumors rather against the THAAD deployment, saying about 200 kilometers southeast of Seoul- tration at the objections to what she military strongman Park Chung-Hee, was than scientific evidence” about the any South Korean ports and airfields by the end of next year. insisted was an “unchangeable” decision shot dead by his own intelligence chief in THAAD deployment. “I ask the political hosting US military “hardware” would The decision was predicated on the to deploy the system. “If we cannot take 1979. Her mother was killed in 1974 dur- circle to gather their wisdom and efforts become a target. — AFP Australians in Scottish Highlands in limbo as visa deadline passes EDINBURGH: An Australian family facing “They simply don’t know if there will be a deportation from the Scottish Highlands after knock on the door at some point and they will a change in visa rules are now in limbo, wait- be removed,” Ian Blackford, the lawmaker for ing to hear from the British government Dingwall where the Brains live, told Reuters. whether they will be given more time to meet “If that is the route they (Britain’s interior visa requirements. ministry) want to go down, well, we just don’t Gregg and Kathryn Brain, who moved to know, we’re in their hands,” he said, adding Scotland in 2011 with their son Lachlan, are that he had yet to receive a reply to two letters hoping for a job offer or a new extension to sent to British Immigration Minister Robert their visa after the last one expired at midnight Goodwill’s office in the last 24 hours. on Monday. Lachlan Brain, 7, has learnt the ancient Their case has attracted a huge outpouring Scottish language Gaelic and Scotland’s First of sympathy in Scotland, where Kathryn Brain Minister Nicola Sturgeon made a personal was previously given permission to study and appeal to the interior ministry in London on the then work as part of a now defunct British gov- family’s behalf in May. The Brains argue that ernment-backed scheme to shore up the their predicament is unfair because the rules Highlands’ ageing and shrinking population. were changed after their arrival. — Reuters PNG court orders Australia to present an asylum seeker resettlement plan SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea’s Supreme cessing to camps on Manus Island in Court yesterday ordered Australia to pres- Papua New Guinea or on Nauru in the ent a resettlement plan for nearly 900 South Pacific. They are never eligible to INDIA: In this Sunday, July 31, 2016, file photo, a flood affected family moves on a banana raft past a fishing net in Morigaon district, east of asylum seekers held in what it says is an be resettled in Australia. Gauhati, northeastern Assam state. — AP illegal detention centre on Manus island- The Papua New Guinea government a move detainees fear will further delay has said it plans to close the Manus cen- their release. tre after the Supreme Court ruling, raising India monsoon rains kills 96 The Supreme Court ruled more than the question where will the detainees be three months ago that the detention cen- resettled. Many in Papua New Guinea do tre, used to house asylum seekers trying not want the asylum seekers in their com- Govt providing relief camps to reach Australia, was illegal. The centre munity. The asylum seekers come from was approved by the Papua New Guinea across the Middle East and Asia predomi- The death toll in flooding Park, said Pramilla Rani Brahma, the state’s forest of people stranded for several hours before res- government and is funded by Australia. nately, with Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan GAUHATI, INDIA: from heavy monsoon rains in India has climbed and environment minister. “Most of the rhinos cuers cleared the way, the Press Trust of India The court order is the latest delay in accounting for the bulk. Some have been past 90, with about a million people taking shel- killed are calves, separated from their mothers news agency said. determining the future of the detainees held in detention for several years. ter in government-run relief camps, officials said during the massive flooding,” Brahma said. In Bihar state, around 260,000 flood victims and human rights groups say tensions are Lawyers for the 898 Manus island yesterday. Incessant downpours have damaged The park had 1.5-meter-high (5-foot-high) were taking shelter in more than 400 relief rising in the detention centre, which has a detainees have asked the Supreme Court swaths of land, uprooted trees and snapped floodwaters in some places, forcing many of the camps set up by the state government. At least history of violent protests and self harm for compensation of 1,500 kina ($462.75) telephone cables in dozens of districts in the park’s animals, also including wild elephants, 400 medical camps have been set up as well to by detainees. “The level of frustration on for every day they were held illegally. states of Bihar in the east, Assam in the remote wild buffaloes and boars, to cross a highway to aid people who have spent several nights out- Manus Island is as high as it has ever The Supreme Court said it would call northeast and Himachal Pradesh in the north. move to higher ground. doors after their homes were submerged by rain been,” said Ian Rintoul, an Australian on Australia to provide a representative A total of 96 people have been killed in the The heavy monsoon rains have come after waters. In Assam, where floodwaters started refugee advocate who was on Manus on Thursday to provide details on a reset- flooding in the three states over the past week, two straight years of drought in India. On receding on yesterday, some 3.8 million people Island last week. “The court action, while tlement plan. according to state officials. At least 17 rare one- Monday, landslides and heavy rains blocked have been affected by the floods, according to a glimmer of hope, is frustrating them as “The court has embarked on this horned rhinos have been killed due to the flood- highways leading to Tibet and Manali, a tourist state authorities. More than 700,000 have taken there has been no action despite deten- process on issue of resettlement. That is a ing of vast tracts of Assam’s Kaziranga National resort in Himachal Pradesh state, with hundreds shelter in 770 relief camps. — AP tion being found to be unlawful.” matter for the two governments, what we Under Australia’s hard-line immigra- want is for them to be released,” said Ben tion policy, anyone intercepted trying to Lomai, a lawyer for some of the detainees, reach the country by boat is sent for pro- told Reuters yesterday. — Reuters Briton in gun incident could die in US prison

LONDON: A British man detained in the United States for allegedly trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Donald Trump rally is suffer- ing from severe mental illness and risks dying in prison, his mother said on yesterday. Michael Sandford, 20, is due to face trial in Nevada on Aug. 22. He has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and one felony count of impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business. His mother, Lynne Sandford, told a news con- ference in London that her son, who has been diagnosed in the past with autism, depression and other mental health conditions, had been on suicide watch in a Nevada prison for the past three weeks. She portrayed her son as a compas- sionate, child-like man who enjoyed watching “Peppa Pig”, a British children’s television pro- gram, and who was bewildered and frightened by his incarceration. She said her son had attempted to take his own life when he was 14 years old and was suffering from anorexia. Michael Sandford was arrested after an inci- PARIS: This file photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows British Ambassador to France dent at a Trump rally at the Treasure Island hotel LONDON: Lynne Sandford, the mother of British man Michael Sandford who was arrested in Julian King (R) holding, along with French deputies and government members, a in Las Vegas on June 18, and later told an investi- Las Vegas after attempting to snatch a policeman’s gun at a rally held by US Republican moment of silence for slain British Labor party MP Joe Cox during the questions to gator he wanted to kill the Republican presiden- Presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaks at a press conference yesterday. — AFP the government session at the French National Assembly. — AFP tial candidate, according to US court papers. He has not been charged with attempted murder. “I accept that Michael has tried to do a British EU Commission bad thing but he is mentally ill and is not a bad or Sexual abuse plagues female dangerous person,” said his mother, adding that workers on India’s sugarcane fields nominee to head she had last spoken to him on the phone on Sunday. “He kept breaking down and sobbing on MUMBAI: Every year after the monsoon, district. “There is no human rights violation the phone, saying ‘please, please, I just want to Gouri Bhiwde and her husband joined tens of worse than having to remove your uterus so response to terrorism come home’. He’s very remorseful ... He’s just in a thousands of workers migrating to the west you can enter an informal economy that does really bad way,” she said. Sandford has launched a of India’s Maharashtra state to cut sugarcane. not care for you,” said Bhatnagar. BRUSSELS: Britain’s nominee for the efficient and interoperable information campaign to have her son repatriated to Britain Every year, Bhiwde and other female laborers However, a spokesman for the sugar facto- European Commission will be put in charge exchange systems.” so he could be treated in a secure medical facili- were sexually assaulted by supervisors and ries’ cooperative denied that women are of crafting a response to terrorism and pro- London, which has in the past pushed for ty. She has raised 19,600 pounds ($25,950) landowners, she said. abused. “We have not heard of any such moting intelligence-sharing, Commission greater EU cooperation on security matters, through the crowd-funding website Crowd After one difficult pregnancy, Bhiwde’s instances,” said Sriramji Shete, a vice chairman President Jean-Claude Juncker said, a tough welcomed the announcement. “Security is a Justice to pay for legal and other expenses. husband and his family took her to a doctor, of the Maharashtra State Co-operative Sugar role amid a spate of attacks in western vital issue for all Member States and co- She said a British consular official who had who advised her to have a hysterectomy to Factories Federation. “If they are unhappy Europe. Former British Prime Minister David operation across the EU can help to better visited her son in prison had reported that he prevent any further complications. “The doc- with the wages or the conditions, why would Cameron nominated Julian King - Britain’s protect us all from the range of threats we was shackled and handcuffed. “It’s not clear that tor said, ‘let’s take it out’,” Bhiwde said by tele- they keep coming back?” he told the ambassador to France - as the country’s rep- face,” a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Michael actually understands what he has done,” phone from her village in Beed district. “He Thomson Reuters Foundation. resentative at the European Commission to Theresa May said in a statement. King’s said Saimo Chahal, the family’s British lawyer, said, it’ll only cause trouble.” Female workers India is the world’s second-largest sugar replace Jonathan Hill, who resigned after appointment must now be endorsed by the speaking alongside Lynne Sandford. “Because of in western Maharashtra’s sugarcane fields producer. In Maharashtra, India’s top produc- Britons voted on June 23 to leave the bloc. European Parliament. Juncker interviewed his Asperger’s, OCD (obsessive compulsive disor- routinely face abuse and rape by landlords ing state, about 500,000 rural poor migrate to The Commission, the executive branch King on July 11, and the British diplomat is der) and other psychological conditions there is and middlemen who enslave them through Beed, Solapur, Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara of the European Union, said King’s Security expected to appear in front of the EU legisla- a question mark over whether he’s fit to plead debt bondage, activists say. districts every year to cut sugarcane. The Union portfolio would include setting up a ture in early autumn. and to undergo the trial process in the States,” They said women are often forced by their workers are hired as couples. Most are in debt European response to terrorism, organized King has served in Brussels before, she said. Chahal said she was working to provide families to undergo sterilization or a hysterec- bondage, receiving about 50,000 to 60,000 crime and cybercrime. notably as chief-of-staff to two previous the public defenders’ office in Nevada with inde- tomy so they do not get pregnant from the rupees ($745 to $895) from a middleman as In his appointment letter, Juncker said British commissioners, Peter Mandelson pendent evidence of Michael Sandford’s mental repeated abuse, and can work without a an advance against working for six to eight he would like King to improve information and Catherine Ashton in 2008-09. He has illness. She expected the trial to be postponed by break. “It is an unimaginable violation,” said months. At the end of that period, the work- and intelligence sharing, “including through also been ambassador to Ireland, the EU at least 56 days initially to allow time for that. She Nirja Bhatnagar, regional manager at ers are often told they still owe money, and initiatives to upgrade Europol’s European state with possibly the most to lose from hoped a trial would not happen and that ActionAid in Mumbai, which has surveyed that they must return the next season, Counter-Terrorism Centre into a stronger Brexit. He took up his post in Paris five Sandford would be repatriated to Britain as part dozens of female sugarcane cutters in Beed activists say. — Reuters structure and through the development of months ago. — Reuters of a plea bargain agreement. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 INTERNATIONAL Atheists urge Australians ‘don’t be Jedi’ for census

SYDNEY: Atheists are urging Australians and two other Jedi masters. “‘Jedi’ and on the census.” reporting phenomenon that gained is kinda getting a bit old”. Australian not to describe themselves as “Jedi” in other joke religions are not placed in the The joke arose years ago when an speed internationally,” the Australian statisticians could instead follow the upcoming census, warning that ‘No Religion’ category but in ‘Not email campaign wrongly claimed that if Bureau of Statistics said in 2013, adding Britain’s example. In the 2001 England doing so in homage to “Star Wars” makes Defined’. This makes Australia seem 8,000 people put themselves down as that New Zealand, Canada, England and and Wales census, 390,000 people, or the country appear more religious than more religious than it really is.” Jedi it would have to be officially recog- Wales subsequently reported large Jedi 0.7 percent of the population, entered it really is. Foundation president Kylie Sturgess nized as a religion. At the 2001 contingents. their religion as “Jedi” but they were Ahead of the August 9 five-year cen- said she was encouraging people “to be Australian census, more than 70,500 Jedi numbers dropped in the 2006 included among the atheists. Or they sus, the Atheist Foundation of Australia counted as what they are”. “Our attitude people listed their faith as “Jedi knight” Australian census to 58,053 but could embrace non-traditional move- has requested citizens mark themselves is, well here’s an opportunity to have a or something similar, which would indi- bounced back five years later to ments as New Zealand did in 2015 down as having “no religion” if they do say on the census; pop down what you cate the country had nearly as many 64,390. Sturgess admits that she has when it recognized pastafarians-who not consider themselves tied to a faith. are,” she told AFP. “Maybe ‘no religion’ believers in the “Force” as it had mem- put down Jedi as a “bit of a laugh” in wear colanders on their heads, revere “If old religious men in robes do not rep- suits you, maybe you are someone who bers of the Salvation Army. the past. “But the fact is that the ABS pirates and believe the world was cre- resent you... don’t mark yourself as ‘Jedi’,” has drifted away from the church. “But “Whether or not people took the just doesn’t count it, they consider it ated by a giant deity made of spaghet- says a campaign poster featuring Yoda unfortunately ‘Jedi’ is just not an option claim seriously, it was the start of a ‘not defined’,” she said, adding “the joke ti. —AFP Chinese rights activist gets suspended sentence First publicly acknowledged hearing

TIANJIN, CHINA: A Chinese court issued a sus- him as saying they organized popular rallies dur- denounced by the authorities as interference in pended three-year prison sentence to a human ing controversial human rights cases to draw the legal process. rights activist charged with subversion of state international attention and undermine the Many wives of the detained activists say they power after a brief trial yesterday, the first publicly Chinese state - remarks that echoed previous gov- and their retained lawyers have been denied acknowledged hearing in a secrecy-shrouded year- ernment accusations toward the group. access to the detainees for more than a year, long case involving hundreds of rights activists. Xinhua said the court was told that Zhai, 55, receiving only occasional updates by word of The official Xinhua News Agency said a court in and the three others “conspired and plotted to mouth, while some family members seeking infor- the northern city of Tianjin issued the sentence to subvert state power,” and “established a systematic mation have been briefly detained themselves. Zhai Yanmin, who was arrested in July last year as ideology, method and steps to achieve it.” part of a nationwide government campaign In a video from the trial shown on state televi- “It’s unfair, it’s too unfair” against legal activists. About 300 lawyers and sion and posted on government websites, Zhai Zhai’s wife, Liu Ermin, was taken into custody activists were initially seized and questioned read a statement saying he accepted all the on Sunday night and returned late Monday to her BANGKOK: Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan (2nd R) stands with other before most were released. charges against him, was “extremely regretful” of Beijing home, where she said she is effectively movement leaders as he speaks to the press before reporting to police at held under house arrest by security agents outside the Crime Suppression Division yesterday. —AFP her door. “It’s unfair, it’s too unfair,” she said in a text message upon learning of Zhai’s verdict. She said she intends to appeal the verdict but Call for UN to condemn does not know how to reach his government- appointed lawyer, whose identity has not been disclosed to relatives or in state media reports. Philippine drug killings Zhai’s three-year sentence was suspended for Over 300 anti-narcotics and We will only be trading drug addiction four years, meaning he will not go to prison but MANILA: human rights groups from around the with another more malevolent kind of will have to live under considerable restrictions and supervision. He also will lose all political world yesterday called for the United addiction. This is the compulsion for rights for the same period, making him ineligible Nations to condemn Philippine President more killing,” said the senator, a former to run for local councils or other offices. He can Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs that has justice minister who also headed the be sent to prison to serve his sentence if he dis- already killed hundreds of people. nation’s human rights body. obeys the rules set for his release during the four- The appeal, directed to the De Lima said police were summarily year period. International Narcotics Control Board killing even innocent people, using the A three-year sentence is the minimum for peo- (INCB) and the United Nations Office on anti-drug campaign as an excuse. Since ple convicted of subversion, which carries a maxi- Drugs and Crime (UNODC), came as an assuming the presidency on June 30, mum sentence of life in prison. “It is an unprece- influential Philippine senator called for Duterte has promised to protect police dentedly light sentence ... almost a symbolic pun- an investigation into the killings of sus- and soldiers from sanctions for killing ishment,” said Beijing political commentator pected drug pushers that Duterte has criminals and even urged ordinary citi- Zhang Lifan. endorsed. zens and communist rebels to join in the That may be a deliberate move by the ruling Senator Leila de Lima and the foreign bloodshed. Communist Party, which permits no political oppo- organizations cited reports of police While his campaign has been widely sition, to demonstrate that those who cooperate killing hundreds of people since Duterte popular in the impoverished Philippines, can be treated leniently, while harsh penalties won May elections largely on a platform more groups have begun criticizing await those who refuse, Zhang said. “The point is to wage a bloody war on drugs. “Instead Duterte, with De Lima calling for a con- not whether you committed any crime, but of ensuring the protection and rights of gressional probe into the killings. But the whether you obeyed or not,” Zhang said. people who use drugs... President president has dismissed human rights TIANJIN, CHINA: In this image from video released yesterday by China’s CCTV and The trial also fits a pattern established under Duterte has called for them to be killed,” concerns while police have insisted that made available via AP Video, Zhai Yanmin wears a white shirt is escorted by police- the administration of President Xi Jinping to use men as he arrives the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court in northern China’s more sophisticated legal means to attack per- said the statement from groups such as they only acted in self-defense. Tianjin Municipality. —AP ceived opponents as it maintains pressure on the Australian Drug Foundation and In June, even UN Secretary-General activists and non-governmental organizations. Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. “Instead Ban Ki-moon condemned Duterte’s Zhai’s case is the first of four expected to be his actions and would not appeal his sentence. Police cordoned off the Tianjin No. 2 of ensuring the rights of people suspect- apparent support of extra-judicial heard this week. Prosecutors announced in July Zhai said he would urge others not to be used Intermediate People’s Court on yesterday, one day ed of committing drug-related crimes... killings. Police figures showed that as of they would try a lawyer, Zhou Shifeng of the by “hostile foreign forces” and domestic oppor- after protesters flanked by foreign diplomats the President has called for them to be Tuesday, 402 drug suspects had been Beijing law firm Fengrui that worked extensively tunists, or be blinded by “so-called democracy, demanded more information about the cases. The executed on the spot.” killed a month into Duterte’s presidency. on human rights cases, and three activists who human rights and justice.” “I hope the court will trial was attended by five foreign media outlets The statement called on the INCB and The figure does not include those worked with the firm, including Zhai. More than a give me an opportunity to correct my mistakes invited by the court and other observers, accord- the UNODC to condemn the killings and slain by suspected vigilantes. The coun- dozen others remain jailed, their legal status and start life anew,” Zhai said, standing in the ing to Xinhua, in an apparent attempt to address “demand an end to the atrocities.” De try’s top broadcaster, ABS-CBN, reported uncertain. defendant’s box and flanked by two bailiffs. criticism from the activists’ supporters about a Lima, in a speech before Senate, also that 603 people had been killed since The court permitted Hong Kong journalists to near-total lack of transparency surrounding the lashed out at the killings. “We cannot Duterte was elected, with 211 murdered Pushing the wall attend the session, although foreign diplomats cases. wage the war against drugs with blood. by unidentified gunmen. —AFP Xinhua said Zhai confessed in court that the were barred. Zhai and his fellow activists worked It isn’t clear whether Zhai will be allowed to group of lawyers, citizens and petitioners who alone or in affiliation with law firms to gather evi- immediately return home. A lawyer and legal believed in “pushing the wall” - a Chinese expres- dence of government abuses and lead clients and assistant who were recently released have been sion for overthrowing the government - methodi- the disgruntled in protesting outside courts and videoed apparently recanting their actions, but cally hyped politically sensitive cases. It quoted government offices. Their actions were harshly their whereabouts remain unknown. —AP Japan warns China over territorial aggression

TOKYO: Beijing risks triggering ner” and its actions “include dan- coercive changes to the status lished an air defense identifica- unintended conflict with Asian gerous acts that could cause unin- quo into a fait accompli”. And it tion zone in the East China Sea in rivals through its aggressive tended consequences,” Tokyo said again called on Beijing to abide 2013, demanding all aircraft sub- stance in maritime disputes, in a defense white paper. Beijing by the ruling of the tribunal, mit flight plans when traversing Japan warned yesterday in an is under pressure to respect a UN- which China has denounced as a the zone which covers islands dis- annual security assessment. backed tribunal’s finding last fraud. puted with Tokyo and also China’s sweeping claims over month that there is no legal basis Japan also expressed concern claimed by Taipei. the strategic South China Sea, for its ambitions over the over increased activity in the East US Defense Secretary Ashton where it has built a series of artifi- resource-rich South China Sea China Sea, where the two coun- Carter said in February that China’s cial islands capable of supporting where the Philippines, Vietnam, tries have competing claims over military presence in the South military operations despite over- Malaysia and others also lay a group of small uninhabited China Sea was increasing the risk of lapping claims from other claims. islets called the Senkaku in Japan “miscalculation or conflict”. nations, have stoked international The white paper said China and the Diaoyu in China. Washington regularly sends war- alarm. was “poised to fulfill its unilateral “Recently, China has been intensi- ships into the area to assert the The region’s superpower “con- demands without compromise” fying activities near the Senkaku right to freedom of navigation. And MANILA: 64-year-old Minifredo Lastrollo arranges flowers along a street in Manila, tinues to act in an assertive man- including efforts “to turn these Islands, such as its military aircraft in an emerging flashpoint, tensions Philippines, yesterday. Lastrollo earns 300 pesos (about $6) per arrangement. —AP flying southward closer to the have spiked over Indonesia’s islands,” it said. Natuna Islands in the South China In the year to March 2016, Sea, where Chinese and Japan’s air force scrambled jets Indonesian boats have clashed. US man acquitted after 571 times against Chinese planes President Joko Widodo visited flying near Japanese airspace, an the Natunas on a warship in June 5 years in Philippine jail increase of 107 from the previous with his cabinet to send a message year, it added. that Jakarta is serious about MANILA: An American man jailed in the Filipino fiancee, had been detained since defending the remote archipelago. Philippines for more than five years was April 7, 2011. Campanella has said that her ‘Irresponsible remarks’ Japan’s white paper also high- freed yesterday after being acquitted of son was wrongly accused of rape by the China’s official Xinhua news lighted concerns over North rape. A court in metropolitan Manila woman after he filed a case against her for agency, in a report from Tokyo, Korea’s nuclear program, saying it cleared Scott McMahon, of Seattle, after allegedly traumatizing his young son. blasted the white paper, accusing was possible it has “achieved the finding no clear evidence that he commit- The woman, the wife of McMahon’s Japan of “making irresponsible miniaturization of nuclear ted rape, as a Filipino woman alleged, a friend, had allegedly burst into McMahon’s remarks on China’s national weapons and has developed court official said on condition of home with police, shouting as she looked defense and China’s normal and nuclear warheads”. anonymity because he was not authorized for her estranged husband. The incident legal maritime activities in the Since carrying out a fourth to talk to reporters. allegedly traumatized the son. East and South China Seas”. nuclear test in January, North A jail officer, Omar Surigao, said that “We are so thrilled that this part of the Last month the two countries Korea has claimed it miniaturized after the acquittal, McMahon was released nightmare is over and that Scott will not be were at loggerheads over accusa- a nuclear warhead to fit on a mis- from the Muntinlupa City jail in metropoli- spending another day in prison,” tions Japanese warplanes locked sile and successfully tested an tan Manila. He said McMahon’s mother, McMahon’s sister, Jennifer, said in a video TOKYO: Tokyo’s new governor Yuriko Koike gestures as she their fire control radar onto engine designed for an inter-con- Shelley Campanella, was among those posted on Facebook, calling the rape accu- addresses staff of the Tokyo Metropolitan government Chinese aircraft. Beijing sparked tinental ballistic missile that could present when McMahon was released. sation “retaliation” by the woman for the yesterday. —AFP alarm after it unilaterally estab- reach the US mainland. —AFP McMahon, who has two children with his case McMahon had filed against her. —AP NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016

The pack rides during the first stage of the 38th edition of ‘La Vuelta a Burgos’ (Tour of Burgos), a 158 km ride from Sasamon ot Melgar de Fernamental, in Burgos province of Spain yesterday. — AFP MPs slam petrol hike, warn govt Samsung announces Galaxy Continued from Page 1 silent and will press for alternatives to compensate them which are satisfactory to all parties. MP Khalil Abul said MP Saadoun Hammad criticized the government for that the decision was supposed to have been part of a Note 7, new Gear VR headset rushing the decision and taking it without consulting the package of economic reforms, but it was issued as a Assembly as it had pledged. He said that the decision is standalone one. MP Ali Al-Khamees said the meeting sent strange because the government is targeting people’s a message to the government that the Assembly is Jumbo phone unlocks with iris scanner pockets while forgetting other available sources like tax- against the hike, adding that more meetings will be held ing state-owned plots in Shuwaikh. “The government also to find adequate solutions. The Cabinet on Monday decid- NEW YORK: You’ll be able to unlock Samsung’s new comes out that day, for $350. As phones mature and forgot to tax merchants and is taxing people,” he charged. ed to hike petrol prices by over 83 percent from the start phone by just looking at it. The Galaxy Note 7 will come innovation slows, VR has been one area in which gadget MP Awdah Al-Awdah said lawmakers will not remain of September. with an iris scanner, which matches patterns in your eyes makers try to entice consumers. with what was detected by your phone during setup. It As with past Note phones, the Note 7 comes with a offers an alternative to fingerprint ID, which doesn’t stylus. It expands on a feature that lets you magnify text Rights of Indian, other expat workers... work well when fingers are wet. Of course, the four-digit and images by hovering the pen over it. With the pen, passcode will still work. “We challenged our engineers to people will have ways to easily create and share GIF ani- Continued from Page 1 payment of wages. design a security system that’s convenient and safe at mations. The Note 7 also expands on a feature to give In Manila, Migrante coordinator Gilbert Saludo - who the same time,” said Justin Denison, a senior vice presi- sensitive files an additional layer of security. You’ll be The ministry’s public relations units, based in all of the returned from Saudi Arabia last month after two years dent for product strategy at Samsung. “It took five years asked for an iris scan, fingerprint or passcode to access country’s governorates, are ready all the time to receive working there - said as many as 20,000 Filipinos could be to perfect, but it only takes a glance to unlock your documents you place in a Secure Folder. This way, if laborers’ protests. Moreover, the local authorities have affected. Saludo said that while Manila had extended phone.” you’re handing the phone to friends to browse pictures, compelled employers to allocate financial guarantees for financial aid to them so far, it was not clear how long this Samsung isn’t first, though. Microsoft’s Lumia 950 you’re not inadvertently giving them access to confiden- all employees, to be used for compensating an employee could last. The labor problem appeared likely to worsen, phones had it. Beyond that, the updates in the Note 7 tial work documents. In previous phones, Samsung’s if he has not been paid. In line with the state policy of pro- he added. “It will get much worse because so much of are mostly enhancements, such as a stronger glass Private Mode merely hid files and worked only with tecting expatriates, namely laborers, a shelter has been the income of Saudi Arabia comes from oil... so their screen and more storage - 64 gigabytes, or double what selected apps. Samsung says Secure Folder stores sensi- set up for those in need for help. A number of female budget for infrastructure and other projects will not be Samsung usually offers, plus a slot to add more. The tive documents and even entire apps in a separate, Indian workers had taken refuge in the shelter, and met and more people will be affected,” Saludo told AFP. Note 7 comes with a better camera - but it’s the same secure location. — AP departed the country after being paid all pending sums. The Philippine Labor Department said Labor Secretary one that the smaller Galaxy S7 phones got in March, The assurance came after New Delhi said it was work- Silvestre Bello had visited Saudi Arabia last month to save for interface enhancements to access settings and ing to feed more than 10,000 Indian laborers stranded in address the problem but would not elaborate. switch between the front and rear cameras more easily. the Saudi Arabia and Kuwait with no wages after losing Pakistan said 8,520 of its nationals in Saudi Arabia Samsung had lost its mojo after Apple matched the their jobs, in what Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj called had not been receiving their salaries for several company on size with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in 2014, a “food crisis”. “Large number of Indians have lost their months. A foreign ministry statement said that “most of but thanks to the popularity of the S7, Samsung just jobs in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The employers have not the workers want to leave these companies but only reported its best quarterly financial results in two years. paid wages (and) closed down their factories,” Swaraj after settling their dues”. The Pakistan embassy had set The new Note 7 phone comes weeks before Apple is said late on Saturday. “As a result our brothers and sisters up special centers and a fund to provide aid, food, expected to announce new models. Samsung typically in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are facing extreme hardship. medicine and shelter. “The (Pakistani) embassy has fur- releases its regular-size phones in the spring and jumbo While the situation in Kuwait is manageable, matters are ther informed that the Saudi King has issued a decree phones in August. This time, Samsung has just one large much worse in Saudi Arabia,” she added. for urgent payment of dues to workers by the con- model, which stays at 5.7 inches. It will have curved Activists and officials yesterday said thousands of job- cerned companies,” the office of the prime minister edges - a well -liked feature limited to a special “Edge” less Filipinos and Pakistanis are also stranded and desti- said. “We stand by our hardworking workers who are model before. The Note 7 will be available in the US tute in Saudi Arabia after the plunge in oil prices sparked away from their homeland to earn a living for their starting Aug 19. Prices haven’t been announced. construction layoffs. Some Filipinos are forced to beg or families. They are our strength and pride. We will help Samsung is also releasing an updated virtual-reality sift through garbage to survive after going unpaid for them out in all possible ways,” Prime Minister Nawaz headset - with a dedicated home button, a wider field of NEW YORK: Justin Denison, senior vice president of months, said Garry Martinez, chairman of the Migrante Sharif said in a statement. view and a black interior to improve viewing. The new product strategy at Samsung, speaks during a launch group which works for the millions of Filipino overseas The Indian consulate in Jeddah has been provid- Gear VR will be available Aug 19 for $100. A previously event for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 at the workers worldwide. “Some of them have nothing to eat ing free food for its nationals since their plight announced 360-degree camera called Gear 360 also Hammerstein Ballroom yesterday. — AFP and have to go through the garbage for food,” said came to light last week but repatriation has been Martinez. complicated by restrictive labor regulations. Swaraj India said Monday it was negotiating with Saudi cited a Saudi requirement that workers provide a authorities to repatriate thousands of its own nationals no-objection certificate from their employers Mercury rising after they lost their jobs, leaving them with no money to before they can leave the country. In Manila the Continued from Page 1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) return home. Indians are among millions of poor Asians Migrante officials also said Filipinos could not leave in the United States, some areas in Kuwait and Iraq working in the Gulf states, where human rights groups because they lacked proper permits or were still evening and will continue until the weekend, especially in reached the highest temperatures this area has witnessed say many suffer exploitation and abuses including non- awaiting months of back pay. — Agencies the coastal suburbs and in marine areas. According to the in 137 years, in the months of June and July. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 ANALYSIS

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hina ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing’s domi- nance of Uber Technologies in the China market Cmay provide a playbook for regional rivals to fend off the biggest US ride-hailing company, especially in Southeast Asia and India. The two companies on Monday confirmed the sale of Uber China to its bigger rival, ending a two-year, money-losing effort to break into one of the world’s toughest markets. Uber leaves with around a one-fifth stake in Didi, but will give up control of its China operations. Didi had a head start and maintained the lead on Uber with a strategy that other rivals may emulate, analysts and investors said. Didi counts two of the most powerful, best capital- ized Chinese Internet companies as backers; has tight connections with local government; made an ally of Trump can’t let go of perceived slights local taxi drivers and expanded into services such as buses that Uber ignored; and exploited its knowledge By Julie Pace awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart after his death in attacked” by Khizr Khan. Trump’s unwillingness to let the of local culture and consumers. Uber and Didi declined 2004. Khan said that if Trump were president and enacted matter subside sparked outrage Monday from a chorus of to comment. Among those closely watching Didi’s or Donald Trump, it’s become a familiar pattern. The his proposed temporary ban on foreign Muslims coming to Republicans. Arizona Sen John McCain, a former prisoner acquisition is Grab, the dominant Southeast Asia ride- Republican nominee can’t let go of a perceived slight, the US, a position Trump has backed away from in recent of war, said Trump did not have “unfettered license to hailing start-up that competes with Uber in countries Fno matter the potential damage to his presidential weeks, his son would have defame those who are the best among us”. including Singapore and Vietnam. Grab says it has 95 campaign or political reputation. Trump spent the days never been allowed Rep Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a com- percent market share in third-party taxi-hailing services, after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a US into the coun- petitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended while its private-car business has about half of the district court judge’s Mexican heritage. The morning after try. He also when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of Southeast Asian market. accepting the Republican nomination at the party’s con- ques- our brave soldiers who were lost in that war”. Missouri “Our investor and global partner Didi has effectively vention, Trump re-litigated months-old grievances with tioned Sen Roy Blunt said the Khans “deserve to be heard and won the battle for market share dominance in China,” primary rival Ted Cruz. Now, he’s sparring with an American respected”. “My advice to Donald Trump has been Grab CEO Anthony Tan wrote in an Aug. 1 memo to Muslim family whose son was killed in Iraq. and will continue to be to focus on jobs and nation- staff seen by Reuters. “We have seen that when the Republican leaders have urged Trump to drop his al security and stop responding to every criticism local champion stays true to their beliefs and strengths attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at last whether it’s from a grieving family or Hillary they can prevail,” he wrote. Grab and Didi formed an week’s Democratic convention and harshly criticized the Clinton,” Blunt said in a statement. alliance with India ride-service start-up Ola and US GOP nominee. It’s not just the optics of picking a fight with However, none of the Republican lawmakers pulled operator Lyft last year, and the Asian companies oper- a military family that has GOP officials eager for Trump to back their support of Trump’s White House campaign. In ate in what could be the next battlegrounds for Uber, move on, but the timing of his attacks: Election Day is just his first rally after a weekend of controversy, Trump spoke said Jeremy Carlson, principal analyst in autonomous three months away. at length and took several questions at an event Monday in driving and mobility at IHS Markit. Those who have worked with Trump say that in private Columbus, Ohio - never once mentioning the Khans. But “Grab knows very well what Didi is doing in China meetings, he can often appear amenable to putting a con- when asked about Khizr Khan on Fox News Channel’s and is replicating that,” such as offering transit options troversy aside. But the businessman can quickly be drawn “Hannity”, Trump responded, “I guess it’s part of my life.” beyond personal car services, said Hans Tung, manag- back in by an interview, especially if he believes he’s “His son died 12 years ago,” Trump added. “If I were presi- ing partner at GGV Capital, which has invested in both already answered the question, or if he grows irritated by dent, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have Grab and Didi. Grab also has powerful regional backers commentary on cable television. “It’s just who he is,” said been in the war, if I was president back then.” that include Japan’s SoftBank Corp, sovereign wealth Stuart Jolly, a former campaign staffer and current political whether Trump backers attending the Ohio rally dismissed the fund China Investment Corp and an arm of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings. director for the pro-Trump Great America PAC. Trump had issue, underscoring how the businessman was able to sur- Others who have worked with Trump say the only way ever read the vive numerous such firestorms in the GOP primaries. “I Didi’s Road Map to ensure he moves on is to wait for him to tire of an issue constitution. think the Democrats laid a trap for him,” said Tom Because China is a unique market - in population, or get drawn into another matter. Newt Gingrich, the for- Trump responded by McClanahan, a 54-year-old from Johnston, Ohio. “I think regulatory complexity and concerns about foreign mer House speaker who has advised Trump, said the candi- implying Ghazala Khan’s they knew what they were doing when they asked that ownership of big companies - some lessons learned date’s inability to back away from a political land mine religion preventing her family to speak at the convention. They knew he’d there may not transfer to other regions. Still, Didi made “makes him vulnerable”. “His whole experience up until from speaking at the con- respond.” Dale Brown, a maintenance supervisor from moves that may serve as a guide for other Uber com- running for office was in a very combative New York media vention, though she Grove City, Ohio, whose son is in the Navy, said Democrats petitors on its way to building a juggernaut that gives market,” Gingrich said. “He’s been doing it now for over 30 later said talking were blowing Trump’s comments out of proportion and customers more than 14 million rides each day. “It’s an years. It’s a very deeply held habit.” publicly about her had “politicized this by asking that family to speak.” But the encouraging sign for local competitors that they can, in Khizr Kahn delivered an emotional address at last late son was still too dif- real test for Trump isn’t the opinion of the loyal supporters fact, compete and that local strategies are required for week’s Democratic convention, with his wife standing by ficult. On Monday, who attend his rallies. It’s the broader general election local markets,” said Dane Anderson, a vice president at his side. The Pakistan-born Khan told the story of his son, Trump tweeted that audience, a far more diverse group still weighing Trump’s research firm Forrester. “For Southeast Asia, the key US Army Capt Humayun Khan, who was posthumously he was being “viciously readiness for the White House. — AP message they can take away is that they can compete with Uber and that Uber will have to prioritise as well.” Didi consolidated local competition, forming from a merger of China’s top two ride-hailing firms, and it had Nepali workers leave vulnerable families behind the backing of Internet companies Alibaba and Tencent. Those connections enabled Didi customers to hail a ride and pay for it through Alipay, Alibaba’s pay- By Rina Chandran she said. “Migration is increasing the economic and social bans, unscrupulous recruiters just use unregulated chan- ment system, and social media platform WeChat, vulnerability of the country: people left behind are nels,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, head of Human Rights owned by Tencent. “Didi had a much bigger presence or Nabin Lama, leaving Nepal after his annual home exposed to the harsh economic realities, and it makes Watch for South Asia. Instead, Nepal should monitor on China social media,” said David Chao, general part- leave to return to his construction job in Saudi Arabia them take greater risks, like trusting a trafficker or a kidney recruitment agencies, engage with host countries to ner at DCM Ventures, which invests in China. is not easy. What makes the journey bearable - even tout,” she said. enforce worker rights and ensure embassies provide emer- Uber eventually got backing from Chinese conglom- F enjoyable - is the can of beer he can drink on the flight gency shelters and assistance, she said. erate Baidu , but by that time Didi had overtaken it. from Kathmandu. As soon as the seatbelt sign dinged off Zero Cost A spokesman for the labor ministry said Nepal aims to “Uber joined the party a little too late,” Chao said. Didi on a flight to Mumbai - from where he and a couple of More than 3.8 million permits to work abroad were sign labor agreements with Saudi Arabia and Malaysia to also started its business focused on taxi-hailing, allow- hundred other Nepalis would take a connecting flight to issued in the decade to 2015, representing about 14 per- improve workers’ rights, similar to those already agreed ing it to overtake Uber China in its number of drivers, Jeddah - Lama rose to look for the stewardess. “Beer,” he cent of the current population, according to Nepal’s labor with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and South since Uber relied on privately owned cars in China, bellowed, waving to her as she made her way down the ministry. This does not include the hundreds of thousands Korea. “These agreements ensure the rights of our workers, where vehicle ownership has historically been low. Didi aisle with a tray of fruit juice and water. crossing the border into India, where they do not require a minimum pay and other benefits and are effective to pro- has expanded to buses, chauffeurs and other services. “It’s a tough life there. But at least we can earn some- permit. Nepal is forecast by the World Bank to have tect their interests,” Shiva Raj Sedai said. Other companies have played up their local knowl- thing and help our family,” said Lama, 24, one hand on his received about $6.6 billion in remittances in 2015. But the edge. Ola recently acquired a local payments service passport, a white sticker across its green cover identifying a journey to an overseas job is fraught with challenges and Quake Effect Qarth, with connections to Indian banks, to expand the Nepali recruitment agency and his job. “But we can’t drink usually leaves workers deep in debt. The absence of working-age men was felt deeply in the ways passengers can pay. Uber has been criticized for there. So we have a beer on the flight. It feels good,” he said Recruitment agencies that facilitate procuring a job and days and weeks following twin earthquakes in Nepal last launching in China in early 2014 without fully under- with a grin. Lama comes from one of the world’s poorest a work permit often charge 200,000 to 500,000 rupees year which killed about 9,000 people, and damaged or standing the local culture, business dynamics and con- sumers, such as its focus on private cars. “Uber was trying countries. Ongoing political instability since a decade-long ($1,860 to$4,660) per worker. That is several times the aver- destroyed more than 900,000 houses. Women tending to to import some of those ideas that might have worked civil conflict ended in 2006 has discouraged investment, age income of about $730. Fear of losing their job and not children and elderly relatives were often not in a position well in other markets and adapt and move that stuff and hampered growth and curbed job creation in Nepal, forc- being able to pay back the money - usually borrowed from to go to relief camps, claim compensation, or rebuild their apply it to China,” said IHS Markit’s Carlson. — Reuters ing hundreds of thousands to migrate overseas for work. moneylenders, often underwritten by the family home, or homes quickly, said Lily Thapa, founder of Women for Most go to the Middle East, Malaysia and India, from from selling land - forces workers to tolerate harsh working Human Rights in Kathmandu. “Women whose husbands where they send remittances which make up almost 30 conditions and low wages. are working overseas are vulnerable and helpless, particu- percent of Nepal’s annual gross domestic product, accord- “Migration is important - most workers do well, earn a larly during disasters,” Thapa said. “There were many ing to the labor ministry. Most migrants are in low-paid, living, support their families,” Baruah told the Thomson instances of sexual violence after the quakes directed at All articles appearing on these unskilled jobs in construction, or work as security guards Reuters Foundation. “But the very first journey of migration such women,” she said. pages are the personal opinion of and domestic helpers. Many face labor abuses including leads to indebtedness. And they are bonded to their Teaching skills and creating jobs at home will be key to long hours, unsafe conditions and withholding of their employers because of the huge burden of debt,” she said. keeping emigration in check, Baruah said. The govern- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no wages and passports, say activists. Many are trafficked, The Nepali government introduced a “zero-cost” migration ment also needs to prepare for the return of these workers responsibility for views expressed tricked into doing jobs that they did not sign up for, or policy last year, which makes the employer and recruiter in the event of an economic downturn or anti-migrant under conditions and wages far worse than they were responsible for costs. But the law is applied unevenly. laws in the host countries. There is already a slow trickle therein. Kuwait Times invites read- promised. After female domestic workers in the Gulf countries from the Middle East and Malaysia as jobs dry up because ers to voice their opinions. Please Their families are not that much better off. Elderly par- complained of abuse, Nepal in 2012 banned women below of lower oil prices. More than 10,000 Indians in Saudi ents, as well as young women and children left behind in the age of 30 from going there as domestic helps. But Arabia who have been laid off are facing a “food crisis”, send submissions via email to: opin- remote villages are themselves vulnerable to traffickers many women produced fake papers to say they were older Indian officials have said. “Imagine if the 1,500-1,700 men [email protected] or via snail and racketeers, and struggle with everyday hardship. than 30, or were hired for other jobs. Nepal has since low- who leave each day from the Kathmandu airport start “There are hardly any young men left behind in some dis- ered the age limit to 26 years. In June Nepal banned its coming back,” Baruah said. “Imagine what will happen mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. tricts,” said Nandita Baruah, deputy country representative nationals from working in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and when they come back to a country where there are no The editor reserves the right to edit at Asia Foundation, an international development organi- Syria after 13 Nepali security guards were killed by a sui- jobs.” For Lama and his friends drinking beer on the flight, sation, in Kathmandu. Families left behind may be duped cide bomber in Kabul. These measures to protect workers that is a distant prospect for now. “I have a contract for any submission as necessary. into sending their children with traffickers posing as aid have had limited success. “We know that when labor-send- one year,” he said. “After that, I will have to find another job workers, or even selling their kidneys in India for money, ing countries try to protect their citizens through such somewhere.” — Reuters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 SPORTS

Wales reject Hull Premier League clubs’ Guardiola faces biggest approach for Coleman transfer spending £500m challenge in England LONDON: Hull’s attempt to hire Chris Coleman as their new manager was scup- LONDON: Premier League clubs have already splashed out LONDON: The Premier League will offer a tougher challenge to Manchester pered yesterday when the Football Association of Wales rejected an approach from £475 million ($631 million, 562 million euros) since the City manager Pep Guardiola despite his success in the La Liga and the Premier League club. Coleman has emerged as Hull’s top choice to replace Steve transfer window reopened in July, according to business Bundesliga, Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp said. Guardiola, who succeed Bruce, who surprisingly quit the KC Stadium last month despite leading the Tigers to analysts Deloitte. Bolstered by the increased revenue from Manuel Pellegrini as City coach after spending three years as Bayern Munich promotion from the Championship last season. Wales boss Coleman bolstered his the Premier League’s new £5.1 billion television deals, the boss, won 14 trophies at Barca before leading Bayern to three straight reputation by masterminding his country’s surprise run to the Euro 2016 semi-finals. 20 top-flight teams have been throwing money at a host of Bundesliga titles and two German Cups before his move to England. “The But Hull will have to look elsewhere for a new manager after the Welsh FA confirmed new signings and Deloitte say the spending could shatter competition makes it really interesting. Winning the title in England is the they wouldn’t let Coleman leave prior to the start of the 2018 World Cup qualifying the £1 billion mark for the first time in the pre-season win- biggest challenge of them all,” Klopp told British media. “If you are three campaign. “The Football Association of Wales can confirm that it dow. The current figure of £475 million is slightly less than times in a row Spanish champions, three times in a row Bundesliga champi- has received an official approach from Hull City FC for the servic- the £515 million spent by Premier League teams at the ons, then you think okay, let’s try something else. If you are looking for the es of manager Chris Coleman,” said a statement on the official same stage in 2015, which led to an eventual £870 million biggest challenge, then you need to go to England.” City FAW website. “Following discussions amongst leading figures outlay in the whole window. Leroy Sane’s £37 million move have boosted their squad by adding five players to their within the association the approach has been rejected.” Hull to Manchester City is not included in the figures as it was ranks, including wingers Leroy Sane and Nolito and have also been linked with former Watford and West Ham boss only confirmed yesterday. And the spending figure would German midfielder Ilkay Guendogan after the club stum- Gianfranco Zola, who was sacked by Qatari club Al-Arabi in rise significantly if Manchester United complete their bled to a fourth-place finish last season. “It’s not easy in June. Former Manchester United assistant manager Mike reported world record £100 million move for Juventus mid- Germany. If you want to be in front of Bayern Munich, you Phelan is currently in caretaker charge, with the Tigers’ squad fielder Paul Pogba. Chelsea, linked with a £65 million deal have to win all the other games and then a minimum of having headed to Austria on Tuesday for pre-season friendlies for Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, could also add to the ris- one against Bayern. They don’t lose,” the former Borussia against Caykur Rizespor and Torino. ing transfer total. —AFP Dortmund boss added.—Reuters

PANJSHIR: In this Sunday, July 17, 2016 photo, three foreign tourists kayak along the Panjshir River in Panjshir province, north of capital Kabul, Afghanistan. In Excited children and bemused police lined the banks of the fast- flowing river on a recent sunny morning to watch a group of Europeans in brightly colored kayaks navigate the PANJSHIR: In this Sunday, July 17, 2016 photo, three foreign tourists kayak along the Panjshir River in Panjshir white water as a drone-mounted camera followed their progress like a manic mosquito. — AP province, north of capital Kabul, Afghanistan.— AP Afghan’s extreme geography attracts extreme sports

PANJSHIR: On a recent sunny morning in “It’s extreme geography that attracts the river here looked very good, so we Pakistan and China. of the guys we have seen are very fit and northern Afghanistan, excited children and extreme sportsmen, not the fact that the wanted to come.” It is also the home of the so-called Lion strong. And they are used to swimming in bemused policemen lined the banks of a place is at war,” he told The Associated Press His friend Rea-Dickins was similarly of Panjshir, Ahmad Shah Massoud, a military this river, which is very powerful,” Strong fast-flowing river to watch a group of as he dragged his kayak out of the water fol- enthusiastic, comparing Panjshir to the best leader who earned his moniker fighting said. Strength and comfort in the water are Europeans in multicolored kayaks navigate lowing an invigorating three-hour paddle places he’s kayaked in northern Europe, Soviet forces and the Taliban and whose both good starting points for learning how the white water. A drone-mounted camera down the Panjshir River. India and Pakistan. “In terms of white water, legendary status was cemented when he to stay afloat, and have fun, in a kayak. also followed the kayakers’ progress, His three friends - Brit Joe Rea-Dickins, this is as good as anywhere in the world,” he was killed by al-Qaeda sympathizers on While it might be many years before the buzzing and hovering above them like a Scot James Smith and Austrian Kristof said. One of the joys of the sport, he said, is September 9, 2001 - two days before the emergence of Afghan kayaking clubs, mosquito. Stursa - are also recent graduates in their that “it takes you to pretty interesting 9/11 attacks that sparked the US invasion Strong and his group are hoping that their The boys, who were on their way to early 20s and amateur kayakers who met places, it gives you purpose, you can be in a and the Afghan war. visit will lay the foundations for others to school, squealed and raced along the rocks through their love of the sport. They funded beautiful environment for weeks, you go off follow and discover the beauty and power as they watched the unusual spectacle - no the trip to Afghanistan themselves, flying to beaten tracks and stay where you end up KAYAKING WORKSHOP of the Panjshir River. kayakers had ever come to the peaceful Kabul with their kayaks and then employing and you meet with local people.” The country’s chief executive, Abdullah “We have paddled the river so we can tell Panjshir Valley, some 140 kilometers (95 a local travel agent to help them transport Panjshir is considered one of the safest Abdullah, is also from Panjshir. His face other people the river is good and that miles) north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. their kit, organize permission from security regions of Afghanistan. The roads are closed beams from massive billboards alongside when we were here, the political situation But according to Callum Strong, a Scot services to travel and move safely through to outsiders, who must register with securi- the portraits of Massoud and local jihadi and security was good,” he said. “If that pre- who recently graduated with a geology dangerous areas. ty forces and explain the reason for their vis- leaders. Panjshir is a province that takes its vails, then kayaking can grow here, and you degree from Edinburgh University, it to gain access. Many people come to war heroes seriously. might see more international teams come Panjshir River offers some of the best JOYS OF THE SPORT enjoy the peace, as well as the pristine envi- It could soon take kayaking seriously, here to do this river.” kayaking in the world. Together with three Then they spent 10 days paddling the ronment and the famous produce, includ- too, if the efforts of the four enthusiasts find Mohammad Zahir, a member of the friends, he spends all his spare time and length of the Panjshir River and introducing ing yoghurt, honey and lamb kebabs. traction here. After a week of paddling, the Panjshir football team, was most excited by money travelling the globe in search of the local community to the sport. “Before I Panjshir is also famous for precious stones - four set up a kayaking workshop to teach the possibility that kayaking could take him the best white water. Panjshir looked came here, I was worried as the only news especially rubies and emeralds- and as a interested locals. The Panjshir football team abroad. “I would love to reach the level of promising on the map - that Afghanistan you hear from Afghanistan is bad news,” smuggling route for millions of dollars’ showed up to give it a try, arriving straight our friends who are here from other coun- is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was Strong said. “But I believe most places you worth of lapis lazuli, a blue stone largely from training in their bright green-and- tries, so I could travel to other places for not going to deter them. go in the world, most people are good - and unique to Afghanistan, mostly destined for white kit. “They are very good learners, a lot kayaking,” he said. —AP

Fading Ferrari face summer of introspection Golf amateur Tiffany HOCKENHEIM: Ferrari head into Formula od we have to think and to react.” One’s annual break facing a tall order to Ferrari started the year strongly, chal- turn things around in time for the second lenging for the win in the season-opener hopes to sparkle half of a season that promised much but in Australia. But a serious title-tilt never has so far delivered little. materialised and as the season has worn Formula One’s most successful team on even the podiums, of which Ferrari HONG KONG: Golf’s Olympic return has been States, where she trains. “When I was younger the Olympics as an amateur is already a difficult went into the season with ambitions of scored eight in the first nine races, have hit by a host of withdrawals but for Hong Kong there was not much opportunity for me to prac- thing. I just want to learn through the Games,” challenging dominant Mercedes for race dried up. The sudden departure of the amateur Tiffany Chan, reaching the Rio Games is tise in real ranges. This is my weakness so I need she said with a wide smile. wins and the championship, after team’s highly regarded technical director a dream come true. to work harder,” she said. Chan will face the After university, Chan is planning to turn pro- rebounding from their first winless cam- James Allison in the build up to Sunday’s The 22-year-old booked her ticket by finish- world’s best in Rio, including Lydia Ko from New fessional and embark on a career which she paign in more than two decades with race has only caused more upheaval and ing 56th in the Olympic rankings, giving her the Zealand and South Korea’s Park In-Bee. She hopes will promote the sport in Hong Kong. “Not three wins last year. The Italian squad, could deal their campaign a further blow. chance to compete against the leading lights of hopes to finish in the top 40, but said her main many people play golf in Hong Kong... (but) usu- revitalised by new management and the Red Bull, meanwhile, have taken giant the women’s game. aim was just to “learn” from the professionals ally when there is an outstanding player then arrival of four-time champion Sebastian strides forward. The Milton Keynes-based “I myself am really honoured to play in the around her. “There are 57 professionals. To enter the sport could get a big boost,” she said. — AFP Vettel, was the only team to break outfit overturned what was a 37-point Olympics as it is the highest stage any athletes Mercedes’ stranglehold on the top of the deficit into a 14-point advantage in the could get to,” Chan told AFP in Hong Kong. The podium in 2015. space of just four races with a double- university student is one of three amateurs to But they head into the summer break, podium on Sunday, when the best Ferrari qualify for Rio, which will feature 60-strong just past the halfway stage of a record could manage was a fifth and sixth. men’s and women’s competitions as golf returns 21-race season, still without a win and “We were just not fast enough,” said to the Games after a 112-year absence. having dropped to third in the standings Kimi Raikkonen, who won Ferrari’s last Top men’s players like Jordan Spieth and Rory behind rivals Red Bull following Sunday’s world championship in 2007. “Everybody McIlroy have pulled out, with some citing con- German Grand Prix. can see where we finished and it’s obvi- cerns over the mosquito-borne Zika virus which “I have to say that they improved ously a bit painful for all of us. But this is can cause birth defects if it infects pregnant quite well,” team principal Maurizio how it is right now and we just have to women. But few of the women golfers have Arrivabene told reporters following the work hard and improve.” Ferrari’s hopes voiced such concerns, and Chan said dropping race in Hockenheim. “It doesn’t mean we are now pinned on a return to form in out never even crossed her mind. are going to surrender. During this peri- the second half. “I have no plans to set up a family now so I Arrivabene identified the team’s strug- am not too worried, and I think it’s a must to gle to add crucial aerodynamic down- take part since I was given the chance,” she said. force to their car since May’s Spanish Chan first encountered golf when her father, a Grand Prix as the reason for their slide. building contractor, took her to a public range in But even though the team knows what a suburb of densely populated Hong Kong when to fix, according to the Italian, they face she was six. Unlike many Asian families who the challenge of balancing development spend big on their children’s golf careers, Chan of this year’s car with shifting focus onto said her parents had no ambitions for her to their challenger for 2017 when the sport become a top player. “It was more a family is set for sweeping rule changes. “I think hang-out on weekends. We just paid HK$6 dol- the last couple of races have been harsh lars ($0.77) per hour to play at a bay,” she said. and tough for us but very, very useful,” Later, Chan was talent-spotted by officials of Vettel said. “It’s not that easy to change Hong Kong’s junior golfer development pro- overnight but there is a plan and I think gramme, who sent her to compete in youth the second half should be stronger in events overseas. With limited access to the Kimi Raikkonen that regard.” — Reuters financial hub’s expensive golf clubs, she earned a scholarship to attend university in the United Tiffany Chan WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 SPORTS

Saudi princess appointed to oversee women’s sports sector

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet appoint- of the kingdom’s federation that over- In a decree in May, King Salman Princess Reema, whose father Prince reported that a court in the Eastern ed a prominent princess to head a new sees sports and stadiums are male-only. ordered the General Presidency for Youth Bandar bin Sultan served as Saudi Province has approved the appointment department for women under the king- Even so, the kingdom is sending four Welfare to be renamed the General ambassador to Washington for more of the country’s first female commercial dom’s General Authority for Sports in a female athletes to the Olympic games in Authority for Sports. The former body than two decades until 2005, is a gradu- arbitrator. It marks the first time a move that could signal greater female Rio, marking the second time that Saudi had sponsored cultural and sports activi- ate of George Washington University woman has been appointed to such a access to sports. women will participate in the Olympics. ties for youth. with a degree specializing in museum post. There are no female judges in Saudi The announcement, made after the The General Authority for Sports’ website In April last year, the king sacked the studies, Islamic art and architecture. In Arabia and only a handful of women weekly Cabinet session Monday evening, lists no details about its activities or mis- most senior woman in government, Nora the kingdom, she is widely known for have been granted licenses to practice offered no details about Princess Reema sion. A separate government portal al-Fayez, from her post as deputy educa- having served as chief executive officer law. Arab News reported that lawyer bint Bandar’s role. Physical education is shows the agency is responsible for issu- tion minister for girls. Shunned by reli- of the upscale Harvey Nichols depart- Shaimaa Sadeq al-Jibran’s appointment not on the curriculum for Saudi girls in ing licenses to establish new sports cen- gious ultraconservatives, she was strong- ment store in the capital, Riyadh, which was challenged because she is a woman, public schools and ultraconservative ters and handles youth registration in ly pushing to try to get physical educa- was among the first retailers to hire but that the Administrative Appeals clerics shun women’s exercise as sports. The sports authority could not be tion on the curriculum for girls in public women as sales clerks. Court ultimately gave its approval. — AP “immodest.” Women’s teams are not part immediately reached for comment. schools. Also this week, Saudi newspapers Misbah wants Pakistan to pull down England ‘pillars’

BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul- Haq believes knocking down England “pillars” Alastair Cook and Joe Root holds the key to his side’s hopes of winning the third Test at Edgbaston. England levelled the four-match series at 1-1 last time out at Old Trafford. Between them, England captain Cook and vice- captain Root made 506 runs for just twice out at Old Trafford in a second Test the hosts won by the huge margin of 330 runs. But you have to go back to May 2015 for the last time another specialist England batsman made a Test hundred-discarded opener Adam Lyth’s 107 against New Zealand at Headingley. “In every team there are key players and at the moment those two are in really good form,” said Misbah of Cook and Root at Edgbaston on Tuesday. “If you really have to put pressure on the opposition, it’s important to get their main players out because those are the two pillars of their batting. “Psychologically, that can also give you an advantage and damage the oppo- sition if you can get them early, because other (members of the England) batting line-up are struggling at the moment. “That’s really important for us to just get them (Cook and Root) early and put them (England) under pressure.” James Vince has yet to make a fifty in his seven career Test innings this season and left- BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan’s cricket captain Misbah ul-Haq speaks during a press conference at hander Gary Ballance is also searching for a big Edgbaston, Birmingham England yesterday. Pakistan will play England in their third test of score following his surprise recall for Pakistan’s their 4 match series starting today. — AP AB de Villiers 75-run win in the series opener at Lord’s. Today’s match will be the 500th Test played want international cricket back in Pakistan, just “Throughout my time as captain there’s in England. By contrast, Pakistan have been to help our youngsters and just to help cricket De Villiers ruled out of always been something up for discussion and unable to play international cricket at home in Pakistan. at the moment it’s the middle order,” said Cook. since an armed attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus “It’s really difficult for the Pakistan Cricket “Until the guys get good scores consistently in Lahore in 2009 made the country a ‘no-go Board and it can really hurt them financially New Zealand test series that will be the case but they’re very good play- area’ for major foreign sides. also. “You can see wherever the World Cups are, ers and they got picked because of outstanding Pakistan have since established a temporary or international events, the whole scenario CAPE TOWN: Skipper AB de Villiers has 10 months, while Dale Steyn has also been form for their counties. ‘home’ in the UAE but Misbah said there was no changes, it’s like a fever in that country for that been ruled out of South Africa’s two-test included after recovering from the shoul- Turning to number four Vince, opening bats- substitute for playing in front of your own fans. sport. That’s what we have been really miss- home series against New Zealand this der and groin problems that plagued him man Cook added: “I like the way he plays. He’s “It can really hurt your overall development as ing.” month with an injured elbow and Faf du in the Proteas’ last two test series against got a couple of starts and the way he handled a cricketing nation (not playing at home)”, the Asked if he felt it was safe for rival Test teams Plessis will take over the captaincy. India and England. the whole situation in a different format in the 42-year-old veteran skipper explained. “Your to tour Pakistan now, Misbah replied: “That (the Fast bowler Morne Morkel has also been All-rounder Wayne Parnell is the only United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a good indicator youth can really be inspired if you are playing security situation) has been improving a lot. sidelined, with a bulging disc in his back, member of the 15-man squad who did not of how he can handle the pressure. He needs internationally back at home. Obviously, you “The Pakistan government, the army, every- Cricket South Africa said in a statement play in the most recent test series against that score for his confidence and to get you can build more infrastructure. “It’s one area body is really working hard on that. Hopefully, yesterday. De Villiers will be out for six to the English at the start of the year. guys (the press) off his back.” where you can say we are really unlucky and we it will be better in the coming future.” —AFP eight weeks, it said. The first test will be played in Durban “I’m naturally disappointed to miss the from Aug. 19-23 and the second in Pretoria, test series against New Zealand, particular- starting just four days later. ly because I have not missed a test match through injury since my debut in 2004,” De Squad: Villiers was quoted as saying. Faf du Plessis (captain), Kyle Abbott, “However, with an exciting summer of Hashim Amla, Temba Bavuma, Stephen cricket ahead, it is obviously sensible to Cook, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Dean give my elbow time to heal properly.” Elgar, Chris Morris, Wayne Parnell, Vernon Seamer Vernon Philander makes a Philander, Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada, Dale return to the test squad for the first time in Steyn, Stiaan van Zyl. — Reuters Father may not go with Woakes

BIRMINGHAM: England all-rounder Chris ents) drive all over the UK. “He’s a little bit Woakes hopes his current good form will claustrophobic, so flying has always been a last long enough to persuade his father to no-no. He doesn’t get in lifts and things like conquer his fear of flying. that (either).” Woakes would be delighted if The Warwickshire all-rounder heads into his father saw him in action in Australia, but Wednesday’s third Test at his Edgbaston thinks it unlikely. “I don’t think I would (be home ground in arguably the best form of able to persuade him) — unless he went on his career. His father, Roger, saw his son a boat,” Woakes added. take 11 wickets in England’s 75-run defeat “I’m sure he’d love to, but don’t think in the first Test at Lord’s and is set to be he’d be able to. I’m sure he’ll be happy sat among the crowd when the hosts look to on his sofa watching it on TV with a cup of go 2-1 up in the four-match series at tea. “(But) don’t get me wrong-I’ll ask the Edgbaston following their 330-run win in question if I’m in the Ashes squad.” the second Test at Old Trafford. Woakes’s Test debut at The Oval at the But travelling overseas is a different sto- conclusion the 2013 Ashes also presented ry for Roger Woakes, although son Chris his father with a problem.. hopes that might change if he is selected “He always gets the stairs,” Woakes for England’s 2017/18 tour of Australia. explained. “I booked them a hotel by the “They (my parents) follow me as much river, and they put him on the 17th floor. as possible, (but) not overseas-my dad has “He was in his late 60s then, so he had to MANCHESTER: England’s Ben Stokes, centre, holds is leg after a delivery and before going off injured during day four of the second test against never flown at all,” said Woakes at an event get moved-but they couldn’t do it until the Pakistan at Old Trafford, Manchester England. — AP staged by series sponsors Investec. next day, so he was walking up and down “He’s never left the country, but (my par- 17 floors. He was knackered.” — AFP England recall Finn for S Lanka’s Pradeep third Pakistan Test doubtful for test BIRMINGHAM: England have recalled fast seamers plus Ali. 120 wickets and has a knack of taking wickets,” COLOMBO: Sri Lanka suffered another by 106 runs to take a 1-0 lead against the bowler Steven Finn for the third Test against England also had the option of selecting said Cook of Finn. Middlesex paceman Finn took injury setback ahead of the second test world’s top-ranked side in the longest for- Pakistan at Edgbaston, captain Alastair Cook said Nottinghamshire quick Jake Ball, who made his a Test-best six for 79 against Australia at against Australia in Galle with seamer mat. The victory was a welcome one for yesterday. Test debut in Pakistan’s 75-run win in the series Edgbaston last year “He has good memories Nuwan Pradeep suffering a hamstring Sri Lanka, who lost their two previous test Finn, who has taken 120 wickets in 33 Tests at opener at Lord’s — Finn’s first wicketless Test. here of last year,” said Cook. “He hasn’t quite strain during practice, a cricket board offi- series in New Zealand and England. The an average of under 30 apiece, is set to replace Finn and Ball made way for James Anderson, been at his best this year-there have been a few cial said yesterday. right-arm bowler, who took two wickets the injured Ben Stokes. All-rounder Stokes has England’s all-time leading wicket-taker, and factors in that, (but) physically he’s now better Angelo Mathews’ side are reeling from in the first innings of the series opener, been ruled out after damaging his calf in Stokes at Old Trafford. “Finny is coming in for Ben and has had a couple of things sorted out in the injuries to their fast bowlers with suffered the injury during training on England’s 330-run win in the second Test at Old Stokes, and as we were,” Cook told reporters at last week. Dhammika Prasad and Dushmantha Monday. “He has a slight hamstring strain Trafford that levelled the four-match series at 1- Edgbaston yesterday. “We all saw the other day down at Middlesex, Chameera ruled out of the three-match on his right leg. His fitness will be 1. Cook said there was still a slim chance “Unless the pitch changes a lot from what I playing Essex, that his pace is back up again.” series, while Suranga Lakmal was also assessed tomorrow (Wednesday) morn- England could play two spinners, by giving a saw yesterday (Monday) — we still have the Cook added: “You could have argued for Jake, absent from the opening test at Pallekele ing,” Sri Lanka team manager Charith home debut to leg-break bowler Adil Rashid in right to change-we’ll be going with the four and telling him was a tough call, but we’ve gone due to an ankle complaint. Senanayake told Reuters. “He could be support of off-spinner Moeen Ali, if there was a seamers and one spinner,” opening batsman for a guy who has a very good Test record-giving Another paceman, Shaminda Eranga, doubtful but we haven’t taken a decision marked change in pitch conditions between Cook added. him another go.” England team: Alastair Cook was recently suspended for an illegal yet.” Sri Lanka fielded three frontline spin- Tuesday and Wednesday’s toss at Edgbaston. “It was a tough call - as I found out at two (capt), Alex Hales, Joe Root, James Vince, Gary action. The 29-year-old Pradeep, who has ners at Pallekele and were always likely to But with rain falling from grey skies above o’clock (0100 GMT) this morning when I was Ballance, Jonny Bairstow (wkt), Moeen Ali, Chris played 21 tests, was the lone frontline load their attack with slow bowlers for the Edgbaston on Tuesday, Cook indicated that wide awake thinking about it. “We’ve gone for a Woakes, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James paceman at Pallekele, which the hosts won second test. — Reuters England would likely go in with an attack of four guy who’s got a proven Test record, who’s taken Anderson. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 3, 2016 SPORTS Schalke sign Chelsea’s Baba on loan

BERLIN: Schalke 04 has signed Ghana coach and he told me that I would prob- Bundesliga games, plus 24 matches in Champions League. “I already know Markus from my time international left-back Abdul Rahman ably not to play very often in his system,” Germany’s second tier. He worked with He was part of the Ghana side that at Augsburg, we get along really well Baba on loan from Chelsea for the com- explained Baba on the Schalke website. Schalke’s head coach Markus Weinzierl reached the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and he has a lot of confidence in me, ing season, both clubs confirmed yester- “I want to be on the pitch, so I told while at Augsburg. final, when his side lost to Ivory Coast on which is an important thing for any play- day. Last season, Baba made 23 appear- the management in London that I want- “Abdul is a strong attacking left back, penalties. Having already trained with er.” The defender is relishing his return to ances for Chelsea, 19 of them starts, ed to transfer. “I found a very good club one who I have a lot of faith in. his new team-mates, Baba says he has Germany’s top flight when Schalke play including his debut in the Champions in the form of Schalke 04 and I’m sure He will fit in well here, because of his quickly found his feet in Gelsenkirchen. their first game of the season at League, but has been sent on loan by that I have made the right decision.” excellent attitude,” said Weinzierl. Baba “The lads have warmly welcomed me. Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday August new Blues boss Antonio Conte to The 22-year-old spent the 2014/15 signed a five-year contract with Chelsea I have enjoyed my time with the squad 27. “Long balls are used a lot more often Schalke, who finished fifth in Germany’s season with Augsburg, knows his way in 2015 and has made a total of 15 so far. I noticed from the very first train- in the Premier League,” said Baba. “A lot top flight last season. around German football after a stint Premier League appearances for the ing session that Schalke have a strong more value is placed on the technical “I spoke with the new Chelsea head with Greuther Fuerth and has played 51 Blues, featuring four times in the team with a lot of quality,” said Baba. aspects of the game in Germany.” — AFP Bayern open door to Schweinsteiger return

BERLIN: Bastian Schweinsteiger has years left on his United contract. been told there could be a place for him “No respect!” tweeted his brother back at Bayern Munich in the wake of his Tobias Schweinsteiger, a former second fall from grace at Manchester United. division player and youth team coach at Schweinsteiger turned 32 on Monday, Bayern. His reported annual wage bill of the same day his locker in United’s first- £7.5 million ($9.9m, 8.8m euros) might team dressing room was cleared out and put off any potential employer. he was ordered to train with the reserves The defensive midfielder has been by new United boss Jose Mourinho. linked to AC Milan and Inter Milan, as He is one of nine players told they are well as Paris Saint-Germain, while any free to go on loan by Mourinho and are Major League Soccer club would be not in the United boss’ plans. delighted by the profile boost his arrival Schweinsteiger announced his interna- in the USA would bring. tional retirement last week after 12 years, And Schweinsteiger is too young to 24 goals and 120 appearances in the retire, according to his ex-Germany and famous white shirt. Bayern team-mate Oliver Kahn. “I’m sure At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he that with all his experience, Basti can still enhanced his reputation as his battling be the leader of a top team. He is defi- display in Germany’s midfield helped nitely too young and too strong to retire,” beat Argentina in the final. Kahn wrote on his Facebook page. After winning eight Bundesliga titles Schweinsteiger, who married tennis with Bayern, as well as the German Cup player Ana Ivanovic last month, is weigh- seven times and the 2013 Champions ing up his options. Rummenigge says he League, he moved to Old Trafford in does not expect Schweinsteiger to strug- 2015. But his star has fallen after an gle to find a new employer and it seems injury-ravaged season in Manchester he has a future with Bayern when he which yielded only 31 appearances, and hangs up his boots for good. Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz “It’s important to bind players who Rummenigge says the door is open for deserve it to the club,” Bayern captain WEST BANK: Players of Hebron’s Ahly al-Khalil football club celebrate with the trophy after beating Gaza’s Khan Yunis during the second leg of him to return. “Should he speak at some Philipp Lahm told magazine Sport Bild. their Palestinian Cup final yesterday in the West Bank city of Hebron. The winner of the match between teams from the Gaza Strip and the West point about a desire to return, then we “Basti knows everyone and everything Bank, will be qualified for next season’s AFC Cup, Asia’s premier club football tournament. The match ended 1-1 and al-Ahli qualified for the will discuss it with him,” Rummenigge here, he would be predestined to work in Asian Cup. — AFP told magazine Sport Bild. the team.” The imminent return of France’s Paul Bayern have a history of finding jobs Pogba to Old Trafford, and his own for their chosen sons and Rummenigge demotion, means Schweinsteiger’s days has already said they will “discuss the Brazil hoping to end in Manchester look numbered with two matter in due course”. — AFP US women’s gold rush Coach Bauza plans to woo RIO DE JANEIRO: A dominant United States away from Rio in the Amazonian jungle. Cristiane. Brazil face a tough start at Rio’s Messi back for Argentina team face stiff competition from hosts Brazil for Co-captain Becky Sauerbrunn admitted pre- Olympic stadium on Wednesday against China, a fifth Olympic gold medal in six games when vious success makes the Americans heavy who qualified at the expense of 2012 silver the women’s football tournament kicks off Rio favourites to claim gold once more in the final at medallists Japan and reached the World Cup BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s new coach in the first week of September. “There 2016 today. Rio’s iconic Maracana stadium on August 19. quarter-finals in Canada last year. Edgardo Bauza has set his mind to woo- isn’t much time. My first squad won’t The States’ quest for a fourth consecutive “We always look for that next challenge Eccentric French coach Bruno Bini has aided ing Lionel Messi back from international have many changes but I want to talk gold begins against New Zealand in Belo because we constantly want to achieve that next the continued rise of women’s football in China retirement as he ponders his squad for with five or six of the leading players,” Horizonte with both men’s and women’s tourna- level of greatness,” she told US Soccer’s website. and caused a stir on the eve of the tournament next month’s South American 2018 Bauza said, no doubt referring to the ments spread across six cities which hosted the “People expect us to win, we know what it actu- by claiming that “Chinese women work harder World Cup qualifiers. Bauza was named likes of Javier Mascherano, Angel Di 2014 World Cup. ally takes to win and that comes with a different and they complain much less,” than the French on Monday to replace Gerardo Martino, Maria and Gonzalo Higuain. The world champions are without all-time level of accountability and sacrifice.” side he led to the 2011 World Cup semi-finals. who resigned a month ago after steering He also opened the door for Carlos leading international goalscorer Abby Wambach Brazil have never won a football gold medal Chinese hopes will depend much on star Messi’s side to two successive Copa Tevez, overlooked by Martino since a at a major tournament for the first time in over a at the Olympics and although the women’s side striker Wang Shanshan and she backed Bini’s America finals which ended in penalty World Cup qualifier against Paraguay in decade after she retired following the World Cup won’t have the same pressure and expectation unconventional methods. “Each day, he tells us shootout defeats to Chile. Asuncion last October where he won his last year. as their male counterparts, there is belief they something new. He usually encourages us with a The more recent of those results in the 76th cap. “I’m thinking of Tevez as I am However, unlike the men’s Olympic tourna- can go one better than extra-time defeats to the motto, a poem,” Wang told FIFA.com. Copa America Centenario in the United about other players ... Tevez is a player ment, there are no age restrictions on the play- USA in the finals at the 2004 and 2008 games. “With his guidance the team unity is getting States in June led to Messi deciding to good enough for the national team,” ers that can be selected so the USA’s English Five-time World Player of the Year Marta better and the spirit is going up.” All 12 teams are coach Jill Ellis can call upon World Player of the spearheads a Brazilian side that also contains in action yesterday as World Cup quarter-finalists quit the team. It was his fourth defeat in Bauza said. Year Carli Lloyd, as well as the experienced veteran defender Formiga, who will compete in Canada and Australia face off in Sao Paulo. a major final with Argentina. Bauza, a former central defender, Megan Rapinoe and star striker Alex Morgan. her sixth Olympics. “Although people say we Two-time world champions Germany take on “I’m optimistic about Messi,” Bauza rejected a tag as a defensive coach, say- The USA are in need of a fast start as they face don’t have to go and win the gold, for me, as Zimbabwe in the other game in Group F. The top said. “I hope the chat with him will help ing: “I’m one of those who think that all a huge clash with France on August 6 and end someone who has played at other Olympics, two sides and two best third-placed teams from for him to carry on in the national team. (the team) have to defend. Football the opening stage of their campaign against won two silvers and come close to the gold, I the three groups will progress to the quarter- “I want to explain to Messi what my today is like that. Colombia in Manaus, nearly 3,000 kilometres think we are obliged to win it,” said striker finals. —AFP (tactical) idea is. The least of my worries “You can defend in your opponents’ is his position on the pitch,” Bauza was half if the pressure is high (up the field) quoted as saying in the Argentine daily but it’s easier when you have players of La Nacion on Tuesday. “There’s no need the quality of the Argentina team. The to convince Messi of anything, the plan is options they offer you are many.” City confirm signing of to talk about football,” said Bauza, speak- Argentina are third in the 10-nation ing in Brazil where he has coached Sao South American World Cup qualifying Paulo for eight months. group with 11 points from six matches, Bauza, who quit his job with Sao Paulo two points behind leading pair Uruguay Leroy Sane from Schalke to accept the Argentina vacancy and will and Ecuador. The top four teams after sign his contract in Buenos Aires on 18 matches go through to the Russia LONDON: Germany winger Leroy Sane has 2016 semi-finals. Guardiola is confident his new hard for the team and scores goals, too. He also Friday, has only a couple of weeks to finals while the fifth-placed team goes signed a five-year deal for Manchester City, both recruit, who scored eight goals in 33 Bundesliga has a very positive attitude and will fit in well decide on his squad for qualifiers at into an intercontinental playoff for one the Premier League side and his now former games last season, is tailor-made for the unique with our squad. “At 20, he is still developing as a home to Uruguay and away to Venezuela more berth. —Reuters Bundesliga club Schalke 04 confirmed yesterday. demands of the Premier League. player but he is already a member of the City tweeted a picture of Sane signing a con- “He is a special talent, and an exciting player German national side and I think he will be a fan- tract, which is reportedly worth £37m (43m that I think our supporters will enjoy watching,” tastic asset to our club.” Sane’s arrival in euros), plus add-ons, after he completed the Guardiola said. “He has great technical ability, is Manchester continues former Bayern Munich medical examination in Manchester on Monday. comfortable on the ball and there is much to boss Guardiola’s rebuilding of the City squad fol- The 20-year-old said the prospect of playing admire about the way he plays football. “He is lowing the signings of Nolito, Ilkay Gundogan under new City boss Pep Guardiola had helped fast, enjoys creating chances for others, works and Oleksandr Zinchenko. -—AFP persuade him to move to Eastlands. “One of the reasons I decided to join City was Pep Guardiola; he convinced me to come here and that I can continue to progress,” Sane told City’s website. “I know I will learn a lot under him and now I can take the next step in my career. “I followed Pep at Barcelona and at Bayern where he achieved a lot and worked really well with young players. “I think he can make me a more complete player. I think I will need a bit of time to start with because it’s another league and there’s a different style of play but I think I can adapt very quickly.” If the £37m fee is confirmed, it will make Sane the most expensive German signing of all time. “We have given the green light for the transfer. Those in charge of Manchester City behaved professionally at all times. There were difficult, but fair discussions,” said Schalke’s director of sport Christian Heidel. Sane is a rising star in the Germany squad and has already posed for pic- tures with City fans in Manchester. The reported transfer figure seems astronom- ical given that Sane has made just 47 Bundesliga appearances, scoring 11 goals and creating sev- BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Football Federation (AFA) acting president Armando en more, since his debut in Germany’s top flight Perez (2nd-R), speaks during a press conference at the AFA’s headquarters in Buenos in April 2014. The fleet-footed forward made the MAINZ: This is a Friday, Feb 12, 2016 file photo of Schalke’s Leroy Sane during a German Aires. Argentina have named coach Edgardo Bauza to run the national team, media last of his four international appearances for the Bundesliga soccer match between FSV Mainz 05 and FC Schalke 04 in Mainz, Germany. reports said Monday, as the nation seeks to regain its football prowess and convince world champions as a late replacement in last Manchester City took its offseason spending close to $100 million under new coach Pep superstar Lionel Messi to return. — AFP month’s 2-0 defeat to hosts France in the Euro Guardiola by signing Germany winger Leroy Sane from Schalke yesterday. —AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 SPORTS Benitez stays en garde to fight for favelas

CARACAS: Venezuelan fencer Alejandra appearance at an Olympics, told reporters in medallist, whose fencing career has spanned fighting for the less fortunate members of her Benitez balances the demands of her sport Rio. “My work in Venezuela is based right there. more than two decades, said she could not community. with her charity work in the favelas of Caracas For me it’s neither dangerous nor complicated, contemplate abandoning her sport, despite “I always liked politics because there is even and a career in politics, yet the 36-year-old has I work the whole time in Venezuelan favelas being urged to do so by the people around more combat than fencing,” she said. no intention of slowing down after this and there are no problems if I help people. her. “Everyone tells me that I’m old, that I’m “I had been for five years a deputy of the month’s Rio Olympics. “My foundation promotes our sport as we already 36 and I should retire from fencing, but Venezuelan congress, the National Assembly, The sabre specialist and former Venezuela organise fencing exhibitions for the kids of the I don’t feel old and I want to go on competing,” and I worked on changing the law of sports in sports minister is instead determined to inspire favelas... We also bring clothes and food. she added. “I’ve been 21 years in the world of Venezuela. After this, Maduro called me to be the next generation of fencers through her “The sport is always good for the kids and fencing competitions but I haven’t had enough the minister of sport. work with the underprivileged in the violent the people who live in those conditions. I want yet.” Benitez, who served as Venezuela’s first- “Even before getting into politics I had shanty towns of the country’s capital. them to look at all the good life that fencing ever female sports minister under President always tried to help my community and the “My first home was in Caracas’s favelas,” can bring them.” Nicolas Maduro in 2013, indicated she would children of Caracas, and the persons who are Benitez, who is making her fourth consecutive The 2015 Pan American championship silver also like to stay involved in politics and keep detained in prison.” —Reuters

STOCKHOLM: In this Aug 24, 2013, file photo, Gwen Jorgensen, of the United States, carries the American flag as she wins the ITUWorld Triathlon elite race for women in Stockholm, Sweden. -—AP American Gwen Jorgensen big favorite in women’s triathlon

NEW YORK: Gwen Jorgensen, the first “But I came to the realization at a relatively that’s something that I like about the sport, ed in races that were closer to her training to Sweden’s failed attempt to have the Court American to win back-to-back world triathlon young age, in high school, that I would never you go into the triathlon and you have no idea base in Victoria-Gasteiz, Spain. “I have one goal of Arbitration for Sport rule the women’s titles, could have been an accountant. She go to the Olympics in swimming. I just wasn’t what could happen on race day and you have this year and that is the Rio Olympics on Aug. triathlon a dead heat. CAS said the photo gave up on her Olympic dream as a teenager good enough. I wasn’t making any national to be prepared for anything, which I think real- 20,” Jorgensen declared. Other things to know finish ruling was a “field of play” decision by when she realized she couldn’t swim fast teams. I wasn’t even making junior national ly makes it a hard race,” Jorgensen said. about triathlon at the Rio Games. the International Triathlon Union and could- enough and decided she’d go to college. teams. “So, I just thought I would never be an Throw in the massive hype, crowds and n’t be challenged. She spent three years on the swim team at Olympian. And then when the USA Triathlon logistics at the Olympics and it’s even more SPEED BUMP That left Lisa Norden with a silver medal Wisconsin, where she was an All-American and approached me, one of the first things they unpredictable. “Every race is different and the The 1,500-meter swim, a 24.9-mile bike ride and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland with the Big Ten track champion, and would parlay her said was, ‘You could be an Olympian.’ And I Olympics are more different,” said Jorgensen, and a 6.2-mile run on Copa Cabana Beach fea- gold. Spirig and Norden finished side by side master’s degree and CPA into a job at Ernst & was shocked. I basically laughed at them. I who is a heavy favorite in the women’s race tures a challenging hill that’s sure to slow the and were given the same time at the end of Young upon graduation. said, ‘No, I tried than when I was younger and I Aug. 20 at Copa Cabana Beach, where the competitors and could tucker them out. the race, but officials ruled Spirig crossed Then she got a call from Barb Lindquist, at basically don’t have what it takes.” men’s race will be held Aug. 18. Jorgensen, “The course is really good. It’s tough,” said the tape first. one time the world’s top-ranked triathlete and She gave it a shot in 2010 and realized who’s from Waukesha, Wisconsin, has 17 Jorgensen, who qualified for Rio by winning a former Olympian. She told Jorgensen that Lindquist was right, she was a natural and her career wins and 21 medals on the ITU World the triathlon test event on Aug. 2 on the THE REST she, too, could be a world-class triathlete if she Olympic dream was back - even if triathlon as Triathlon Series circuit. The sport’s two-time course. “There’s a big hill on the bike and I Sarah True and Katie Zaferes join took up biking and dedicated herself to the a sport wasn’t that familiar to her. But she was defending world champion, she had an think that makes it an honest course and Jorgensen on the US team, which is by far the sport. Jorgensen thought back to her child- hooked in no time and a few years later quali- unprecedented unbeaten streak stretching everyone is going to be tired. It’s going to be best in the world. Americans Greg Billington, hood dreams of being the next Amy Van fied for the London Games, where she was a from May 2014 to April 2016 that produced a interesting to see how quickly you run after ... Ben Kanute and Joe Maloy are longshots in Dyken or Brooke Bennett. “I was glued to the favorite. That’s where the wheel came off. dozen consecutive first-place finishes. To that really hard bike ride.” the men’s race, where Spain sports the TV when they had Olympic trials on like they A flat tire doomed her to a 38th-place finish ensure maximum energy and optimal condi- world’s top triathletes in Mario Mola and have now. It was just something that I really and fed her fire to make amends in Rio de tion for Brazil, Jorgensen eased up on her ALL TIED UP Fernando Alarza, currently 1-2 in the ITU loved,” Jorgensen said. Janeiro. “Every race is completely different and competition schedule this year and participat- A photo finish at the London Games led World Triathlon Series rankings. — AP IOC slams anti-doping body as Games loom

RIO DE JANEIRO: International Olympic letes,” Werthein told the meeting. Israeli member Representatives for Morozov and Lobintsev told Committee chief Thomas Bach yesterday demand- Alex Gilady meanwhile added: “I think it is not the Russian news agencies that both had been ed a sweeping overhaul of the World Anti-Doping reputation of the IOC which must be restored, but informed they would be allowed to swim in Rio. Agency (WADA) yesterday as Russian appeals the reputation of WADA.” WADA president Craig “I can confirm that Lobintsev and Morozov are against bans mounted just three days from the Reedie, who had called for a blanket ban on Russia, being allowed to compete in the Games,” opening of the Rio Games. is to address the meeting today. Lobintsev’s agent, Andrei Mitkov, told the Interfax Bach rejected the “nuclear option” of ordering a Russia’s representative, Alexander Zhukov, sug- news agency. complete ban on Russian athletes over accusations gested foreign governments had put pressure on In a separate drugs controversy, British cyclist of widespread state-organised doping. Two swim- the IOC to ban Russia. “We are witnessing direct Lizzie Armitstead has been cleared to race in the mers could be told yesterday whether their interference of politics in sport; an attempt to influ- Olympics after winning an appeal against an anti- demand to be allowed to compete has been suc- ence decision making process for political means. doping rule violation. cessful. The integrity of the Olympic family is all under Armitstead faced a four-year ban after UK Anti- In a strongly-worded speech to the IOC, Bach attack,” Zhukov said. Doping found she had missed three tests in a 12- LONDON: This is a Sunday, July 29, 2012, file photo of Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead called for WADA to be subjected to a thorough month period. But CAS ruled the procedures sur- holds the silver medal as she celebrates during the medal ceremony in the Women’s review, laying bare a growing rift between Olympic LEGAL IMBROGLIO rounding her first whereabouts failure in 2015 had Road Cycling race at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. —AP chiefs and the body responsible for leading the The feud between the IOC and WADA came as not been followed correctly. global fight against doping. the legal imbroglio triggered by the Russian scan- Armitstead is seen as one of the favourites to “Recent developments have shown that we dal continued to dog the build-up to the games. win gold in Sunday’s cycling race and is the reign- Armitstead wins appeal need a full review of the WADA anti-doping sys- The Court of Arbitration for Sport was expected to ing world champion. “I have always been and will tem,” Bach said. “The IOC is calling for a more issue a ruling later Tuesday over whether Russian always be a clean athlete and have been vocal in against doping violations robust and efficient anti-doping system. This swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev my anti-doping stance throughout my career,” she requires clear responsibilities, more transparency, would be able to compete. said in a statement. — AFP more independence and better worldwide har- LONDON: British cyclist Lizzie Armitstead her statement. The 27-year-old Armitstead monisation.” A bombshell report by Canadian won an appeal against an anti-doping viola- won a silver medal in the road race at the lawyer Richard McLaren for WADA released last tion, clearing the world road race champion London Games in 2012 and is one of the month accused Russia of organising state-backed to compete at the Olympics in Rio de favorites in Rio. She won gold at the road doping with the sports ministry using secret servic- Janeiro. Armitstead missed three doping world championships in the United States es to evade drug testers and cover-up positive tests tests in a 12-month period, triggering a in September. stretching back years. charge by U.K. Anti-Doping, a provisional Armitstead’s first missed test came at a suspension and the possibility of a two-year World Cup event in Sweden. The second NO ‘NUCLEAR OPTION’ ban. She appealed to the Court of was an administrative failure on Oct. 5 and Bach and the IOC came under fire after resisting Arbitration for Sport, and a statement the third was a missed test on June 9 fol- calls to ban Russia completely from Rio. The IOC released on Armitstead’s behalf on Monday lowing “an emergency change of plans due ordered individul federations to decide which said the first missed test - from August 2015 to a serious illness within her family.” She Russians should be banned. - was declared void by CAS because UKAD’s was charged by UKAD with three where- At least 117 competitors on a 387 Russian doping control officer had failed to follow abouts failures on July 11. Olympic Committee entry list have been excluded. procedure. On Tuesday, UKAD confirmed Sapstead said Armitstead “chose not to Bach said the “nuclear option” of a blanket ban was the ruling by CAS. “We respect the outcome challenge the first and second unacceptable. “The result is death and devastation. of the CAS hearing,” said UKAD chief execu- Whereabouts Failures at the time they were This is not what the Olympic movement stands for,” tive Nicole Sapstead, who added that the asserted against her.” “At the CAS hearing, Bach told delegates who voted overwhelming. body was awaiting the written decision on Ms. Armitstead raised a defense in relation Members voted overwhelmingly in favor of a why the violation was not upheld. to the first Whereabouts Failure, which was resolution backing the IOC’s decision not to Armitstead said she has “always been accepted by the Panel,” Sapstead said. impose a blanket ban on Russia’s athletes. Several and will always be a clean athlete and have Armitstead did not dispute the last two delegates blasted WADA. Argentine IOC member been vocal in my anti-doping stance faults at CAS. UKAD has a policy of not pub- Gerardo Werthein accused WADA of “grand-stand- RIO DE JANEIRO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive member and current presi- throughout my career.” “I am pleased that licly disclosing provisional suspensions, or ing.” “At times WADA has seemed to be more inter- dent of the World Anti-Doping Agency Britain’s Sir Craig Reedie (R) watches the attendees as CAS has accepted my position, having pro- details of cases, until an anti-doping rule ested in publicity and self-promotion rather than IOC executive member China’s Yu Zaiqing raises his hand during a confidence vote during the vided detailed information demonstrating violation has deemed to have been com- doing its job as a regulator, acting with transparen- 129th International Olympic Committee session, in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, ahead of the Rio the situation around my strikes,” she said in mitted. —AP cy, and looking after the best interest of clean ath- 2016 Olympic Games. —AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 SPORTS

4 Kenyan-born runners join Army, represent US at Rio

FORT CARSON: Kenyan-born runner Hillary College before joining the Army in May 2015 as three coaches making the trip for the Rio Bor won’t be content with just wearing the red, a motor transportation operator. He qualified Olympics and Paralympics. white and blue at the Olympics. He’s willing to in the 10,000 meters at trials. A number bolstered by the Kenyan-raised protect his new country, too. Kipchirchir is from Eldoret, Kenya, and was runners. “It’s a pretty humbling moment to The sergeant in the US Army heads to Rio an All-American at Oklahoma State University. think that somebody would want to leave their this month while his unit - which includes his He enlisted in June 2014 as a financial man- country and come to yours and do so to the older brother - is already deployed to agement technician. He’s going in the 10,000. degree in which they would die for something Afghanistan. Bor stayed behind this time, but it Bor, a 3,000-meter steeplechase runner, arrived they haven’t even been a part of yet,” said could be his turn soon. That’s the reality for Bor from Eldoret as a teenager, running for Iowa Army Capt. Matthew Hickey, who supervises and three other runners of Kenyan descent State and entering the military in July 2013. the program. “WCAP provides a lot to the U.S. who’ve taken a unique path to the Olympics He’s one of three Bor brothers in the Army - the Army - we help train soldiers, help make more through enlisting in the Army, earning U.S. citi- other two following his lead. ready and resilient troops. zenship, training with the military branch’s Chelimo became a standout at University of “However, if all hell broke loose, everybody World Class Athlete Program and making Team North Carolina-Greensboro, before joining in in the US Army is a soldier first and expected to USA. They understand the risks. They’ve May 2014. He balances his time between train- go deploy and defend the country.” Bor was pledged allegiance to America - as soldiers to ing and his duties as a water treatment special- nearly sent to Afghanistan in February, when defend and now as runners hoping to bring ist. “If you have a contract with a big shoe com- his unit needed either him or his brother to go. home an Olympic medal. “I might be told pany, that’s predictable - you know what’s His older brother, Julius, instantly volun- BEIJING: This file picture taken on August 25, 2015 shows China’s Wang Jianan tomorrow, ‘Hey, pack your things, we’re going to happen,” Chelimo explained. “With teered. “It takes courage for someone to raise celebrating after winning the bronze medal in the final of the men’s long jump deploying.’ I can’t say, ‘I have the Olympics the Army, you don’t know.” their hand and say, ‘I’m going to fight for my athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” coming up,’ said Army specialist Paul Chelimo, National Stadium in Beijing. China are sending their largest team to an overseas who’s from Iten, Kenya, and earned a spot in WORLD CLASS country.’ It’s something I admire,” Hillary Bor said. “He knew I had a chance to make the Olympics, but forecasters predict the 416 athletes will fail to match the country’s the 5,000 meters at US Trials in July. “Whatever All four are part of the Army’s World Class greatest medal haul. — AFP happens from now to the Olympics, into the Athlete Program, which formally began in 1997 team.” Growing up, Bor preferred soccer over future, I’m here to follow the orders.” and is designed to give soldier-athletes the running, which he didn’t really even take seri- Simply the Army way of life for specialists support necessary to compete at the highest ously until after high school when his uncle, China sending biggest Leonard Korir and Shadrack Kipchirchir, levels. The program - headquartered in Fort Barnaba Korir, a standout at Iowa State, enticed Chelimo and Bor. Korir hails from Iten, Kenya, Carson, Colorado - includes a variety of sports, him to come to America and give college run- and was a two-time NCAA champion at Iona with more than a dozen soldier-athletes and ning a try. team but hopes limited Bor followed his uncle’s lead to Ames, Iowa, and in no time unlocked a talent for the stee- BEIJING: China are sending their largest by China’s selectors for the 2012 Olympics plechase, a 3,000-meter race around the track team to an overseas Olympics, but forecast- singles. Ma finally won a global singles title at that includes jumping over barriers and into ers predict the 416 athletes will fail to match his fifth world championships last year, after water. Bor became a four-time All-American at the country’s greatest medal haul. a career that has raised questions about his Iowa State. After graduation, his running Eight years after leading the world with mental resilience in showpiece finals. career seemed to hit a road block. So he took 100 medals at Beijing 2008, China are an assistant teaching position in New Mexico expected to win 89 medals in Rio de GOLDEN HAT-TRICK BID before joining the Army not so much as a path Janeiro, according to a study from Lin Dan, the 32-year-old badminton gold Dartmouth College. medallist in 2008 and 2012, looks to com- to Olympics - he didn’t know about WCAP - but Of those, 38 are predicted to be gold, plete a golden hat-trick in his fourth and simply because, “I wanted to be American,” he behind an expected US tally of 48, said almost certainly final Olympics. said. Later, his two older brothers followed his Camila Gonzales of Dartmouth’s Tuck School He will probably have to defeat his eter- lead - Julius joining him at Fort Carson and of Business. In traditional strengths such as nal rival Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who is Emmanuel at Fort Bliss, Texas. Bor’s running table tennis, badminton, weightlifting, back atop the world rankings after returning career was rekindled through a timed two-mile shooting, gymnastics and diving, ageing or from a doping ban last year. run that’s required for soldiers. injured stars and fiercer competition have Lin beat Lee in both the Beijing and He finished in roughly 10 minutes. dampened expectations. Fans are pinning London Olympic finals but is in Rio drawn to “Everyone was like, ‘You should compete for their hopes on figures such as Ma Long, the meet him in the semi-final, with world num- the Army team,’” Bor said. Not as simple as that, world’s top-ranked table tennis player, and ber two Chen Long seeded to face Lin in though. First, he had to earn his place in WCAP controversial star swimmer Sun Yang. The what would be an all-China final. China have by running a qualifying time. It took him nearly towering 1.98m Sun, 24, will be the most won the men’s gymnastics team golds at three years - and stepping up his training recognisable member of China’s team after both the last two Games, but will face a largely on his own - to earn inclusion. winning the 400m and 1500m freestyle at Japan line-up who won the world champi- A typical day for him went like this: Rise at London 2012, but his current form is largely onships last year. In golf, Feng Shanshan and dawn for training runs with an off-base coach, unknown after he missed the national cham- Lin Xiyu have strong medal hopes for the return to perform his Army tasks and train pionships in April with a foot injury. His women while Wu Ashun and Li Haotong, again at night. In May, Bor ran the necessary biggest challenger could be Italy’s Gregorio who have both won on the European Tour in time to earn a spot in WCAP. And in July, he fin- Paltrinieri, 21, who registered the second 2016, will fancy their chances of getting on ished second at trials to secure his place in Rio. fastest swim in history-just three seconds the men’s podium. On the track, the men’s COLORADO: In this July 19, 2016 photo, Kenyan-born U.S. Army Sgt. Hillary Bor sits in the gym Fittingly, Bor’s first message was to his behind Sun’s 2012 world record — when 4x100m team, who won silver at the 2015 inside the US Army’s World Class Athlete Program, at Fort Carson Army Base, outside Colorado brother in Afghanistan. “This is not only for my winning the European Championship 1500m World Championships in Beijing, aim to Springs, Colo. Bor and three other runners of Kenyan descent have taken a unique path to the brother, but for my whole unit,” Bor said. “It’s this year. Ma, who has dominated the ping- become the first Chinese team to reach the Olympics through enlisting in the Army, earning US citizenship, training with the military for every soldier that’s deployed now.” —AP pong rankings, was controversially omitted Olympic sprint relay final.—AFP branch’s World Class Athlete Program and making Team USA. —AP Afghan’s extreme American Gwen geography attracts Jorgensen big extreme sports favorite in women’s triathlon

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ST PETERSBURG: Brad Miller #13 of the Tampa Bay Rays makes the throw to second base for the out on Cheslor Cuthbert of the Kansas City Royals to start off the double play by Lorenzo Cain to end the top of the sixth inning of a game on August 1, 2016 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. — AFP Duffy has 16 Ks in 8 innings, Royals beat Rays

ST PETERSBURG: Danny Duffy pitched eight innings of Jose Berrios (2-1) retired 15 straight after a three-run first Chris Devenski pitched 4 1/3 perfect innings after enter- surgery and Boston beat James Paxton and Seattle. one-hit ball and had a franchise-record 16 strikeouts to inning. The rookie right-hander, recalled from Triple-A ing the game in the ninth. Paxton held Boston to a run and four hits over eight lead the Kansas City Royals to a 3-0 win over the Tampa Rochester before the game, allowed four hits in six innings before Betts hit his 22nd homer off closer Steve Bay Rays on Monday night. Duffy (7-1) flirted with the innings. Salazar (11-4) lost for the first time since May 22. YANKEES 6, METS 5, 10 INNINGS Cishek (2-6), who blew a three-run lead in the ninth Royals’ first no-hitter in nearly 25 years before giving up a Starlin Castro hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and inning Sunday against Chicago. Kimbrel made his first line-drive double to Desmond Jennings leading off the CUBS 5, MARLINS 0 the Yankees hardly resembled a team resigned to fading appearance since having surgery to repair a medial Tampa Bay eighth. Jennings came off the disabled list Kyle Hendricks allowed just seven hits in his second away after selling off their stars at the trade deadline, ral- meniscus tear in his left knee. Junichi Tazawa (2-1) got Monday after missing all of July with a strained hamstring. career shutout, providing Chicago’s bullpen a needed lying past the Mets in their Subway Series opener. Didi the win with a scoreless eighth after Eduardo Rodriguez strained hamstring. Kendrys Morales’ 18th home run, a breather. After a wild, 12-inning win a night earlier in Gregorius hit a tying single with two outs in the eighth held Seattle to a run and three hits over 6 1/3 innings. towering shot over the center field wall off Rays starter which manager Joe Maddon used 22 players, Hendricks and new closer Dellin Betances worked out of a major Chris Archer (5-15), got the Royals on the scoreboard in (10-7) threw 123 pitches and lowered his ERA to 2.22, jam for his first save this season. Hours after trading slug- NATIONALS 14, DIAMODNBACKS 1 the seventh. Kelvin Herrera pitched the ninth for his sec- third-best in the majors. He allowed three walks and ger Carlos Beltran and pitcher Ivan Nova before the non- Anthony Rendon drove in three runs, Daniel Murphy ond save. Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain drove in runs struck out five. Anthony Rizzo finished a home run shy of waiver deadline, the Yankees snapped a four-game slide. went 3 for 3 and Stephen Strasburg got his major league- in the eighth for the Royals, who won for only the second the cycle and reached base five times, and Addison Wilmer Flores and rookie Matt Reynolds homered for the leading 15th win. Strasburg (15-1) allowed a run and three time in 10 games. Russell had a two-run single in the first off wild Marlins skidding Mets, who lost their fifth in six games as fans in hits in six innings, striking out six and walking two. He also starter Adam Conley (7-6). the sellout crowd of 42,125 traded chants throughout had three hits and an RBI. Arizona starter Archie Bradley TWINS 12, INDIANS 5 the night following a hectic afternoon at Citi Field. (4-7) gave up eight runs and 12 hits in 3 1/3 innings. Rookie Max Kepler had three two-run homers and six ASTROS 2, BLUE JAYS 1, 14 INNINGS Castro’s RBI came off Seth Lugo (0-1). Adam Warren (1-0) RBIs, leading Minnesota over Cleveland. The German-born Carlos Correa hit an RBI double in the 14th inning off got his first win since returning to the Yankees. Earlier in PADRES 7, BREWERS 3 Kepler homered off All-Star Danny Salazar in the first and Scott Feldman hours after Feldman was traded from the day, the defending NL champions completed deals to Yangervis Solarte drove in two runs, Travis Jankowski third innings and hit another off Cody Anderson in the Houston to Toronto. Jose Altuve, who homered earlier in land All-Star outfielder Jay Bruce and reacquire lefty Jon had three hits and two walks and San Diego beat sixth. Kepler became the first Twin to homer three times the game, opened the 14th with a single to shallow left Niese. Milwaukee. Carlos Villanueva (2-2) pitched 2 2/3 innings in in a game since Justin Morneau in 2007. He also had a sin- field off Feldman (5-4), and Correa followed with his hit off relief of starter Jarred Cosart, allowing two runs and two gle. Joe Mauer was 4 for 4 and homered in the eighth off the fence in right-center field. It gave Houston its ninth RED SOX 2, MARINERS 1 hits. Villanueva was the first of four Padres relievers. Andrew Miller, who was making his first appearance with walkoff win this season, and 14th with its last at-bat. Mookie Betts homered to lead off the ninth inning, Milwaukee’s Jimmy Nelson (6-10) exited with four innings Cleveland after being acquired Sunday from the Yankees. Michael Feliz (7-1) pitched a perfect 14th inning after Craig Kimbrel got his 18th save in his return from knee pitched and eight hits allowed. — AP

Saudi female runner breaks Kuwait loses Swiss barriers in Rio marathon court challenge RIO DE JANEIRO: Pioneer Saudi sportswoman Sarah al- The Californian with Saudi-US nationality has never against IOC ban Attar has already raced at the Olympics, but now her run under three hours in four attempts on the Boston RIO DE JANEIRO: Kuwait has lost its Swiss court campaign will become a marathon as she uses the Rio marathon, but can no doubt expect a similar acclaim in case against an International Olympic Committee Games to break down barriers in the conservative king- Rio. (IOC) ban that will see the nation’s athletes com- dom. pete under the Olympic flag at the Rio Olympics, a Attar turned heads in the head-to-toe outfit she CONSERVATIVE DRESS source with direct knowledge of the decision said patched together with her mother to race in the 800 Taking part in sport is not easy for Saudi women and yesterday. The source told Reuters the Civil Court of metres at the 2012 London Games, where she was one finding women to go to the London Olympics was a the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland rejected Kuwait’s of the first Saudi women Olympians. challenge. Someone knew of the half-Saudi girl in case against the IOC, notifying the parties earlier This time Attar, now 23, will take on the gruelling 42 California who liked running and so an invitation was yesterday. kilometer (26 mile) marathon race in Rio, where four made. Kuwait and the IOC have been at loggerheads Saudi women will take part. The women and seven “My mom and I pieced together an outfit: a long- over a new sports law that the Olympic body says Saudi men arrived in Rio on Monday, but were kept sleeve shirt, full-length running tights, and a head cover will undermine the autonomy of sport in the coun- away from prying media. we found online,” Attar told Marie-Claire magazine. “I try. Kuwait argues it will strengthen the independ- Gender divisions are so sensitive that the Saudi was proud to wear the uniform and liked that wearing ence of sports bodies. The court decision means Olympic Committee website did not name the women the appropriate dress connected me to Saudi girls who Kuwait’s nine athletes eligible to compete at the Rio who will represent the country. Along with Attar, they want to run and have to be covered while they do it.” Games in shooting, fencing and swimming, will do are judoka Wujud Fahmi, fencer Lubna al-Omair and Since London, Attar has become a sponsored athlete so as neutral athletes and will march into the 100m runner Cariman Abu al-Jadail. training with elite women runners in Mammoth Lakes, Maracana stadium under the Olympic flag at None qualified directly for their competition, but will California. Attar and her family have also noticed Friday’s opening ceremony. take part with special invitations from the International change in Saudi Arabia since the London Games. The court also ordered Kuwait and its Public Olympic Committee. Attar has no regrets and no doubts Her father, Amer Attar, told the Washington Post how LONDON: This file photo taken on Aug 8, 2012 shows Saudi Arabia’s Sarah Al-Attar (right) competing in the Authority for Sport (PAS) to pay the IOC about about running in London and Rio. “I was going for the on a 2011 visit, when his daughter wanted to go on a 10,000 euros ($11,229.00) in fees and expenses. women in Saudi Arabia, for all the young girls to have run, he gave her a boyish “cap and warmup pants” and women’s 800m heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games in the capital. — AFP Kuwait has the right to appeal to the Swiss Federal someone in the Olympics representing them, giving drove beside her. court within 30 days of the decision. The ban, which Arabian official the conservative kingdom could jointly them a picture of something they could one day strive Last year, he saw men and women running together was imposed in October, means the country’s host the Olympics with neighbouring Bahrain, holding for,” she said in a recent article for the Like The Wind run- in Jeddah. “I even saw a guy with his, I think, looked like Olympic Committee, and consequently its athletes, men’s and women’s events in separate states. ners’ magazine. his wife, and they were holding hands and running are also not eligible for any funding from the IOC President Thomas Bach said “a commitment to ‘non- Attar finished last in her 800 metres heat in London, together. And she was wearing the abaya, and she was for the duration of the suspension and cannot take discrimination’ will be mandatory for all countries hop- more than half a minute behind her nearest rival. She covered up, but they were actually running.” part in any IOC-linked event. — Reuters still got a standing ovation when she crossed the line. Still, the IOC has rejected a suggestion by a Saudi ing to bid for the Olympics in the future”.— AFP Foiled coup costs Turkey economy 90 billion euro Page 22

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FRANKFURT: A pigeon flies away from a bridge in front of the towers of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany. —AP Stressed times for Europe’s banks Bank stocks across Europe fail sharply

LONDON: The results of recent stress tests of Europe’s biggest ing their cash at the European Central Bank. their propensity and ability to lend. Given Italy’s position as edged the fragility of the banking system and introduced banks should have reassured investors that the sector can The ECB has in recent months been reducing its so-called the euro-zone’s third-largest economy, any major financial some modest reforms and legal changes, it may find it difficult withstand another crisis. A slump in share prices across the deposit rate further below zero in the hope that banks opt to problems that put in doubt the state’s own finances would to push the banks to shore up their finances given the new EU industry since the findings’ publication on Friday suggests lend money rather than place it at the ECB. That rate is now create a new crisis for the currency bloc that could outweigh rules and the potential impact on savers. That’s even more many have yet to be convinced. Yesterday, bank stocks across minus 0.4 percent and many economists think it could be cut those of the past few years, notably in Greece. MPS, Italy’s unappetizing for the government as it prepares for a referen- Europe - even those that were effectively given a clean bill of further in coming months as the ECB tries to encourage lend- third-biggest lender, sought to get ahead of its poor result in dum on political reforms and a possible election soon after. health by the European Banking Authority’s tests - fell sharply ing. “Skepticism that the EBA bank stress tests painted a far the stress tests with a plan to offload a large chunk of its As a result, the banks could just continue to stumble on, for the second day running and weighed heavily on the wider too rosy picture of the health of Europe’s banks while paying soured loans at a certain discount and a 5 billion euro ($5.6 bil- further hobbling an economy that’s barely grown in years. market indexes. no account of the current negative rate environment nor for lion) capital increase. “The real turning point for Italian banks will be when markets The falls aren’t just confined to Italy, where concerns over that matter the fiscal health of Portuguese and Greek banks,” The money injection from private sources avoids a poten- acknowledge that the stock of bad debts, also helped by the the health of the banking sector have been the most acute. Hewson said. tially painful bailout for the Italian bank that under new EU recent government initiatives, is on a downward trend and the Britain’s Barclays PLC was down 3 percent while Germany’s No banks from Portugal or Greece were assessed in the rules would have imposed losses on creditors like bondhold- banking system back in supporting the real economy,” said Commerzbank slid 6.4 percent and Italy’s UniCredit fell another stress tests. And they are two countries still struggling with ers, many of which are small savers in Italy. Though welcome, Nicola Nobile, senior euro-zone economist at Oxford 5.1 percent. As a result, the main indexes in Europe were high debts and low growth, a backdrop that makes their MPS’ cash call has stoked expectations that other banks may Economics. sharply lower, with Germany’s DAX down 1.4 percent and banks susceptible to a new financial or economic crisis. have to do something similar and that has contributed to the Bank stocks have been under pressure for months, some France’s CAC-40 falling 1.6 percent. Throughout Europe’s debt crisis, it was clear that problems in wave of selling in stock markets this year, notably of Italian more so than others. That was evident in the news that It’s difficult to pin down a single reason why European one country can easily spill over to another. One country that banks. “It’s likely that the weakness in Italian banks in particu- Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse have been dropped from the banking stocks have taken such a battering this week. After all, saw a number of its banks assessed Friday was Italy. Italian lar may be down to renewed fears that more recaps are Stoxx 50 index of leading European shares after their free-float Friday’s stress tests into Europe’s 51 biggest banks showed banks have been worn down by some 360 billion euros ($400 needed in the sector,” said Jim Reid a senior analyst at market capitalization - outstanding shares that are traded that only Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, or MPS, was billion) in loans that won’t be paid back in full as a result of Deutsche Bank. times price - fell below limits set by the index rules. The two severely underfunded. Michael Hewson, chief market analyst years of crisis and subdued growth that’s made it difficult for A related concern is that Italy’s banks won’t address their stocks fell further yesterday as their departure from the index at CMC Markets in London, says the tests’ findings failed to firms and households to service their debts. problems, partly because of the country’s legal system, which means that funds that track top indexes readjust their invest- address many of the concerns investors have about the state The scale of the non-performing loans stands a little below makes foreclosure agreements far lengthier than elsewhere in ments. Deutsche Bank was down a further 3.6 percent, while of Europe’s banks, including the rising costs they face for park- 20 percent of the banks’ total loan stock, a level that weighs on Europe. And though the Italian government has acknowl- Credit Suisse slumped 5.6 percent. —AP

Weak oil and global bourses Lufthansa warns European pull down Gulf; Egypt rises terror creating turbulence MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Weak oil prices and global equity were also very weak. Qatar outper- markets pulled down stocks in the Gulf formed, falling only 0.3 percent because German new car sales drop yesterday, with some Saudi Arabian of a 1.3 percent rise by Qatar National petrochemical shares and banks falling Bank, the market’s biggest lender, to FRANKFURT: German flag carrier 2015, falling to 429 million euros. profits in 2016 after a compromise with official data showed yesterday. Almost sharply, but Egypt edged up on the back 154.50 riyals, its highest close since last Lufthansa warned yesterday that “horrific” Lufthansa said it expected full-year earn- cabin crew union UFO, which held the 279,000 new cars took to the road in of its currency’s firmness in the unofficial November. But Vodafone Qatar, the most terror attacks in Europe were having a ings stripping out costs for the year to longest strike in the airline’s history in July 2016, down 3.9 percent compared market. The Saudi index sank 1.2 percent heavily traded stock, dropped 1.6 per- “tangible impact” on business, with sec- come in below the previous year’s. November 2015, Menne said. Lufthansa with the same month last year, the fed- as petrochemical giant Saudi Basic cent to 11.32 riyals after QNB Financial ond-quarter profits down 17 percent. Net Menne noted that the group had not had already said last month that the jit- eral transport authority KBA said. It was Industries fell 1.5 percent and Saudi cut the stock to an ‘underperform’ rating, profits between April and June came in at benefited from the same one-off boosts tery atmosphere in Europe was hitting its the first drop in new registrations after British Bank lost 2.7 percent. lowering its target price to 8.10 riyals 437 million euros ($488 million), the group several months of growth. Over the sev- But major retailer Jarir Marketing, from 9.30. said, slightly below analysts’ expectations, en months to July as a whole, new car which had dropped 18 percent from its Egypt’s index rose 0.6 percent as the who had forecast a figure of 443 million registrations increased 5.4 percent com- June peak because of Saudi Arabia’s eco- Egyptian pound continued strengthen- euros.”Horrific terror attacks are making pared with 2015’s figures at just over nomic slowdown, rebounded 2.5 per- ing on the black market, suggesting people feel unsafe,” chief executive Carsten two million. cent. Dubai’s index dropped 1.3 percent short-term capital outflows may have Spohr said in a conference call with Most German carmakers-which as Emaar Properties lost 1.6 percent, eased or even halted on a net basis. reporters yesterday. accounted for 64 percent of all registra- almost erasing its gain of the previous Sentiment towards the pound has “Because of repeated terror attacks in tions-saw falling numbers of new registra- day after posting strong second-quarter improved somewhat since last week’s Europe and political and economic uncer- tions in July. Volkswagen, the biggest earnings. Strong earnings from Abu news that Egypt is negotiating an tainty, advance bookings, especially on German brand, continues to feel the Dhabi’s Aldar Properties failed to boost International Monetary Fund loan, long-haul flights to Europe, have fallen sig- BARCELONA: Photo shows an airplane of the German airline effects of a diesel emissions scandal with that market, where the main index although a devaluation of the official nificantly,” finance director Simone Menne Lufthansa landing at Barcelona’s airport in El Prat de registrations down 12.6 percent. Diesel dropped 1.6 percent. exchange rate is still widely expected. said. The weak profits came despite the Llobregat. —AFP vehicles overall saw a drop of 7.3 percent Aldar fell 2.1 percent after reporting a Oriental Weavers Carpet Co jumped 8.0 lower oil price, which resulted in a fuel cost in new registrations. Meanwhile just 785 9.7 percent rise in second-quarter net percent after reporting a second-quarter boon of 597 million euros. For the full first in the second quarter this year as in 2015, business and considered “a complete fully electric cars were registered in July, profit to 657.4 million dirhams ($179 mil- net profit of 178 million Egyptian pounds half from January to June, Lufthansa’s rev- when the group sold shares and enjoyed recovery as not likely anymore.” almost 20 percent fewer than the same lion), beating SICO Bahrain’s forecast of ($20.05 million), up from 124 million enue slid 2.0 percent to 15 billion euros. lower pension provisions due to changes Meanwhile, new car registrations in month last year-despite a recently-intro- 384.1 million. Abu Dhabi banking shares pounds a year earlier. —Reuters Net profits took a 55 percent blow com- in interest rates. But the group can look Germany, a key indicator of consumer duced government program of cash pared with the figure for the first half of forward to a “positive effect” on operating demand, suffered a sharp drop in July, incentives for buyers. —Agencies WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 BUSINESS S Korea suspends sales of most Volkswagen models VW mulls challenge, says penalty is ‘most severe’ SEOUL: South Korea yesterday suspended sales vehicles the automaker had sold in the country consider requesting an “injunction of execution”. of most Volkswagen AG models in a fresh blow since 2007, the environment ministry said. It also could take legal action against the govern- to the German automaker as it struggles to over- While South Korea is a relatively small market ment’s decision “if this will help recover our com- come the global repercussions of its emissions- for Volkswagen, it is a major market for its luxury pany’s business reputation and benefit our con- test cheating scandal and rebuild its tattered marques Audi and Bentley and one of the sumers, dealers and other partners,” it added. image. The government revoked certification for fastest-growing markets for all brands. It could Volkswagen voluntarily halted sales of most of its 80 model variants of VW, Audi and Bentley vehi- take more than three months for the affected models in South Korea from July 25, ahead of the cles, and fined Volkswagen 17.8 billion won brands to be back on showroom floors, officials government’s decision. ($16.06 million) for allegedly forging documents said. “It usually takes three months for vehicle The company reported a 12 percent drop in on emissions or noise-level tests. certification, but this may take longer for quarterly profit at its main passenger car division The move could slam the brakes on sales for Volkswagen, as we will take thorough steps,” last week, showing the challenges it still faces Europe’s biggest automaker in the Asian market, environment ministry director Hong Dong-gon since admitting in September to using software where its local unit had more than tripled rev- told reporters. Any delay in recalls previously to falsify pollution tests on some diesel cars. In enue to 2.82 trillion won over the past five years ordered over emissions test manipulation could addition to billions of dollars in costs related to before becoming mired in the emissions scandal. be met with an order for VW to exchange those the scandal, it is also tangled in legal action in Volkswagen described the ruling as “most severe” vehicles for other models, Hong added. the United States, Germany, South Korea and and said it would consider a legal challenge. In elsewhere. South Korea has taken a particularly all, 209,000 VW vehicles have been de-certified Legal action tough line, with prosecutors raiding in South Korea, mainly over emissions-related In a letter to customers posted on its South Volkswagen’s Seoul offices and arresting an exec- problems, since November - or 68 percent of the Korean homepage, Volkswagen said it would utive in June.— Reuters Coup costs Turkey economy $100 bn

ISTANBUL: The foiled coup attempt seeking to unseat the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cost the Turkish economy 300 billion lira ($100 billion/90 billion euro), the trade minister was quoted as saying yes- terday. Customs and Commerce Minister Bulent Tufenkci was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper the heavy price tag may even go up but insisted that Turkey’s economic fundamentals were solid. “Warplanes, helicop- ters, weapons, bombs, buildings: 300 billion lira. Maybe I am underestimating a bit,” he said, referring to the heavy destruction on the night of the coup. “It might go up even more,” he said. But the minister warned that the entire picture should be seen in a medi- um-term context even if some investors had been put off in the short-term. “The putschists made Turkey seem like a third world country,” he fumed. “They (investors) are not coming after the images revealed tanks were deployed on the streets, parliament was bombed,” he said, adding that some foreign orders had been cancelled in the wake of the coup. But Tufenkci said despite all this Turkey had managed to control the situation. “Had the coup taken place in another country, markets would not have opened earlier than in a week,” he said. The coup took place on Friday July 15 but financial markets in Turkey opened as normal after the weekend. “The interest rates didn’t rise extraor- dinarily. The stock exchange’s losses have been limited. There’s no need to revise growth or export figures. The nation has stood firm.” The government has suspended annual leave of public sector personnel in the wake of the coup attempt, blamed by the government on sup- porters of US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. This measure has affected the tourism industry, already hit by foreigners staying away over security fears after a spate of attacks as well as a crisis with Russia. “Because of a ban on annual leave, one million (tourism) reservations had been cancelled,” the minister said. The number of foreigners visiting Turkey dropped over 40 percent in June to its lowest level this year but there is optimism the Russians will come back after Ankara mended fences with Moscow. “From now on tourism will ISTANBUL: A woman looks at to her mobile phone on a street near the Galata Tower, also rally,” said Tufenkci. — AFP illuminated in Turkish flag colors at Galata district in Istanbul. — AFP ABK enhances online bill payment services

KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) announced last month the launch of its new online bill pay- ment service, which is aimed to expand their con- sumers’ online experiences, providing users with easy bill payment options and enabling the pur- chasing of US iTunes gift cards through eahli.com, offering instant usage of the digitally generated code with only a few clicks. The update to its online payment service currently runs a temporary pro- motion that includes a 10% cash back benefit for online banking consumers paying their bills to three of Kuwait’s telecommunication providers namely: Ooredoo, Zain, and VIVA. This benefit, as well as many other benefits aim to reflect on the newly introduced ‘Simpler Banking’ strategy, offering customers more con- venience, security, and speed when paying bills and purchasing US iTunes cards. ABK’s newly implemented online banking service is designed to help customers expand their banking and finan- cial experiences on the web with a variety of online services and benefits ultimately adding to the cus- tomer’s overall experience.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 231.480 Malaysian Ringgit 75.855 Indian Rupee 0.004346 0.004735 Turkish lira 101.610 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.930 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Swiss Franc 314.500 Thai Bhat 9.675 Japanese Yen 0.002878 0.003058 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 229.480 Turkish Lira 101.390 Kenyan Shilling 0.003110 0.003110 Japanese Yen 2.960 US Dollar Buying 301.350 Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 Indian Rupees 4.529 Malaysian Ringgit 0.072187 0.078187 Pakistani Rupees 2.890 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002851 0.003021 Srilankan Rupees 2.078 20 Gram 271.550 Pakistan Rupee 0.002719 0.003009 Nepali Rupees 2.818 10 Gram 138.700 Philippine Peso 0.006317 0.006617 CURRENCY BUY SELL Singapore Dollar 226.290 5 Gram 70.190 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Hongkong Dollar 38.998 Europe Singapore Dollar 0.220621 0.230621 Bangladesh Taka 3.857 British Pound 0.393722 0.408722 South African Rand 0.015785 0.024285 Philippine Peso 6.444 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004495 0.016495 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001655 0.002235 Thai Baht 8.738 Danish Krone 0.041365 0.046365 Taiwan 0.009299 0.009479 Euro 0.032150 0.0341150 Thai Baht 0.008372 0.008922 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Norwegian Krone 0.031870 0.037070 US Dollar 302.650 Romanian Leu 0.086745 0.086745 Saudi Riyal 80.723 Arab Qatari Riyal 83.152 Canadian Dollar 232.415 Slovakia 0.009007 0.019007 Bahraini Dinar 0.795553 0.804053 ani Riyal 786.253 Sterling Pound 401.085 Swedish Krona 0.031320 0.036320 Bahraini Dinar 803.910 Euro 339.245 Swiss Franc 0.305256 0.316256 Egyptian Pound 0.025234 0.030352 UAE Dirham 82.416 Swiss Frank 294.580 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Bahrain Dinar 800.075 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 82.630 Australasia Jordanian Dinar 0.422358 0.431358 Egyptian Pound - Cash 30.750 Qatari Riyals 83.840 Australian Dollar 0.221624 0.233624 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.462 Saudi Riyals 81.430 New Zealand Dollar 0.211948 0.221448 Lebanese Pound 0.000146 0.000246 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.215 Jordanian Dinar 426.460 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019264 0.043264 Egyptian Pound 33.985 America Tunisian Dinar 137.680 Nigerian Naira 0.001246 0.001881 Jordanian Dinar 427.150 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.076 Canadian Dollar 0.226401 0.235401 Omani Riyal 0.779035 0.784715 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.017 Indian Rupees 4.531 Georgina Lari 0.136578 0.136578 Qatar Riyal 0.082250 0.083700 Syrian Lira 2.0157 Pakistani Rupees 2.882 US Dollars 0.298300 0.303000 Morocco Dirham 31.516 Bangladesh Taka 3.851 US Dollars Mint 0.298800 0.30300 Saudi Riyal 0.079553 0.080853 Philippines Pesso 6.435 Syrian Pound 0.001281 0.001501 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 159.500 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.134032 0.142032 US Dollar Transfer 302.550 Japanese Yen 3.915 Bangladesh Taka 0.003384 0.003968 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Euro 339.760 Syrian Pound 2.400 Chinese Yuan 0.044074 0.047574 UAE Dirhams 0.080907 0.082607 Sterling Pound 401.030 Nepalese Rupees 3.815 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036916 0.039666 Yemeni Riyal 0.001367 0.001447 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 BUSINESS English home ownership falls to 30-year low

LONDON: The widely-held English dream of buying decades.” Property ownership has become some- your own home is under threat as rising costs have thing of a British national obsession since the pushed ownership to the lowest level for 30 years, a 1980s, when then prime minister Margaret new study revealed yesterday. More and more peo- Thatcher allowed social housing tenants to buy ple are now forced to rent in the private sector, their homes from the state at a reduced rate. The which is more expensive than a mortgage and can government’s English Housing Survey report last often be insecure, the Resolution Foundation said. month found that only one in ten renters said they Research by the think tank found home owner- preferred their current situation to buying-most ship in England fell to 63.8 percent in February, a were simply priced out. level last seen in 1986 and down from a peak of Ministers have sought to help first-time buyers 70.8 percent in 2003. It is now lower than any other with a scheme that effectively lends them money country in western Europe barring Germany, foun- for a deposit. Interest rates are also at a record low. dation analyst Stephen Clarke said, with affordabili- But the percentage of people renting in the private ty cited as the biggest barrier. The average first- sector-as opposed to the low-cost social sector-is time buyer paid just under £30,000 for their new up from 11 percent in 2003 to 19 percent in 2015. home in 1986, compared to £150,000 ($198,500, Private rent accounts on average 30 percent of 177,000 euros) now-and earnings have failed to income, while mortgages account for 23 percent, keep pace. the foundation says. A study last month by Deloitte “This matters not just because of the frustration found Britain has the least affordable housing in LONDON: To Let signs stand next to a properties in west London yesterday. A new study it brings for those unable to buy, but because of its Europe. Britons need to save almost 11 years to buy has found that the proportion of people owning their homes in England has fallen to its impact on living standards too,” Clarke wrote in a a new apartment, compared to 3.3 years in lowest level in thirty years and that soaring prices have forced millions to abandon the blog posting. “Housing costs have accounted for an Germany and six to eight years in Ireland, Italy, dream of home ownership, with parts of northern and central England becoming increas- increasing share of household income over recent Hungary, France and Poland.— AFP ingly unaffordable. — AP News in brief Euro hits 5-week high Nestle to invest $43 million in Philippines MANILA: Swiss food giant Nestle said yesterday it would Broadly negative tone for dollar continues spend two billion pesos ($43 million) in the Philippines on a plant to produce a key ingredient for its Milo beverage. LONDON: The euro rose above $1.12 for the first time in as 95.384 last week when it posted its biggest fall in stimulate growth at all. Crucially, the Bank of Japan last Nestle Philippines chairman Jacques Reber said the plant, more than a month yesterday while a cut in Australian three months. Against the yen the dollar eased 0.6 per- week looked far from ready to weigh in and support the due to be completed in October 2017, would produce a interest rates failed to weaken the Australian dollar as cent to 101.76 yen. It was down 0.3 percent at $1.1191 government program with a crushing new round of yen malt extract currently imported from Singapore. the fallout of poor GDP data continued to weigh on its per euro, having traded as weak as $1.1208 per euro. printing - reflected in a rise in Japanese bond yields in Eventually the new plant will provide the local supply, pos- US equivalent. The yen hit its strongest in three weeks, Weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data on the past few days. “There’s quite a lot of skepticism in the sibly using Philippine-grown cassava which in turn will pushing past 102 yen per dollar for the first time since Monday added to a new bout of gloom over global market as to whether this fiscal pacakge can change help Filipino farmers, Nestle said in a statement. Nestle early July after Japan’s cabinet approved a package of growth and nerves over the fate of banks in Europe were anything,” Tan said. “Japan has already tried this a num- already has five plants in the Philippines and has invested spending including 13.5 trillion yen in new fiscal meas- also high on the agenda as German banking shares fell. ber of times and everyone knows it’s not really as big as almost 14 billion pesos in the country over the last five ures. Futures markets now price in less than a 40 percent the headline figure suggests.” years, the company said. The dollar has been sold steadily since surprisingly chance of a rise in official US interest rates by December If the Australian central bank had been looking for its weak US second-quarter growth numbers last week, and and the currency world’s biggest banking player, Citi, own boost to exports by cutting interest rates and weak- dealers said even some improvement in US bond yields said the largest flows in the past week had been into the ening the Aussie, it looked plain out of luck. After some UAE’s Aldar Properties overnight had failed to turn that around. “Basically the euro and out of the dollar. In theory, worsened growth initial losses after the Reserve Bank cut rates by a quarter refinancing 1.8 bn dhs dollar is just being sold,” said Alvin Tan, a strategist with prospects should strengthen expectations of yet looser point, the Australian currency was up 0.4 percent on the ABU DHABI: Aldar Properties, the largest real estate Societe Generale in London. “We have had a moderate monetary policy in Europe and Japan and hence bode ill day at $0.7561. “The market had already priced in the firm in Abu Dhabi, has agreed with banks to refinance dollar uptrend until the end of last week, but the combi- for the yen and the euro. cut, so adverse moves against the pair were limited,” said loans worth 1.8 billion dirhams ($490.4 million) with nation of the dovish Fed (US Federal Reserve) and sur- But while fiscal stimulus should also carry with it the Tobias Davis, head of corporate treasury sales at Western longer maturities, its chief financial officer said yester- prisingly weak second quarter numbers have caused risk of inflation and rising domestic share prices - factors Union in London. “I’m sure the RBA was hoping for a day. In February, Aldar said it planned to extend the some profit taking.” The dollar index against a basket of that should weaken the yen - yesterday’s moves look like stronger reaction, aiming to keep the country’s exports lifespan of its 6 billion dirhams of total debt, which six major currencies stood at 95.466, having fallen as low an expression of doubts in markets that it will manage to competitive.”— Reuters includes a $750 million sukuk issue. Out of the 6 billion dirhams, bank loans constitute 3.2 billion dirhams, of which 1.8 billion dirhams is now being refinanced, Greg Fewer said. “This achieves a major objective for us German’s Commerzbank this year to extend the duration of our loans and at attractive terms for five, seven and ten years on a bullet warns of falling profits basis,” he said. Under a bullet loan, the amount bor- rowed is repaid at the end of the term. The 1.8 billion FRANKFURT: Germany’s second largest and we see the bank well on its return to dirhams of loans being refinanced were to mature at bank Commerzbank warned yesterday that normality,” they went on. Until now, the different points between December 2016 and 2018. its profits in 2016 would be lower than the firm had set a target of a slight increase in previous year. “The interest rate environ- profits over 2015’s 1.05 billion euros ($1.2 ment and persistent customer caution in billion) - although it had been sending sig- Pfizer beats Wall Street’s view of the geopolitical uncertainties will nals since early May that it might not forecasts despite big drop continue to weigh on income despite achieve its ambition. Commerzbank’s NEW YORK: Higher expenses offset a big jump in sales growth,” the bank said in its second-quarter income last year allowed it to pay share- from an acquisition, as Pfizer Inc’s second-quarter profit report. holders their first dividend since the 2008 plunged 23 percent. The biggest US drugmaker still beat Commerzbank has also been forced to financial crisis. Wall Street’s expectations. Pfizer yesterday reported net set aside more cash to cover non-repay- Shares in the bank plunged more than income of $2.02 billion, or 33 cents per share, down from ment of loans, with “ongoing difficult ship- eight percent in early trading on the $2.63 billion, or 42 cents per share, in 2015’s second quar- ping markets”-where it has many borrow- Frankfurt stock exchange, before recovering ter. The New York-based company said earnings, adjusted ers-an important factor as global trade somewhat to post a 7.9 percent drop by mid- for non-recurring costs and costs related to mergers and slows. The warning comes a week after pre- morning. Investors had already been wary of acquisitions, came to 64 cents per share. The average esti- liminary second-quarter results showed the stock on Monday after results from mate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment that the bank’s profits had slumped by European Banking Authority stress tests almost a third compared with a year ago. A released Friday evening showed it trailing Research was for earnings of 62 cents per share. The mak- MUNICH: The logo of the German car manufacturer BMW is photographed at a BMWi er of Viagra and the Prevnar 13 vaccine against pneumonia reduction in profit forecasts was “no big among 51 of the euro-zone’s largest financial Vision Future Interaction concept car in Munich, Germany. German automaker BMW surprise given the challenging market envi- institutions. Commerzbank emerged from and other infections posted revenue of $13.15 billion in released its second-quarter earnings yesterday. — AP the period, up 11 percent from a year earlier. Three ana- ronment,” analysts at Equinet wrote. the “adverse” 2018 scenario run by the reg- lysts surveyed by Zacks expected $13 billion. Sales were But while low profitability remains a ulator with a core capital ratio of 7.4 per- boosted by last year’s acquisition of sterile injectable drug- BMW powers through second problem, “Commerzbank has successfully cent-well below the average of 9.4 percent maker Hospira, as well as rising sales in emerging markets restructured its business in recent years across the banks tested. — AFP such as China and India. quarter towards record year

FRANKFURT: A favorable world auto mar- analysts suggested that performance could ket helped German carmaker BMW to post fade in the second half of the year as the Egypt studies 8 state-owned profits 11 percent higher in the second firm faces increased costs. Unit sales across companies for IPO or share quarter than the same period last year, BMW’s three car brands-BMW, Mini, and CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Investment will assess eight results released yesterday showed. The Rolls Royce-hit 605,534 between April and state-owned petroleum companies for their suitability Munich-based firm said that it had made June, a 5.7 percent increase on the same for a possible listing on the Egyptian Stock Exchange or 1.95 billion euros ($2.2 billion) of profit on period in 2015. That brought underlying, or share issuances, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said 25 billion euros of revenue. operating, profit to 2.7 billion euros-eight yesterday. The Egyptian presidency announced in Fuelled by strong results, BMW has “the percent higher than the same period in January that Egypt would soon offer shares of “success- financial headroom we need to pursue our 2015. Most of BMW’s growth came from ful” state-owned companies and banks on the local work on future technologies such as elec- Europe and Asia, with unit sales up 11.2 bourse - its first public offering of government-owned tric mobility and automated driving,” chair- percent and 7.3 percent. But unit sales in firms since 2005, when it offered shares in Telecom man Harald Krueger said. “We forecast the Americas declined overall by 8 percent, Egypt, AMOC, and Sidi Kerir. “We sent the names of slight increases, and hence new record fig- with a double-digit drop of 10.2 percent in eight petroleum companies to the Ministry of ures, for sales volume and profit before tax the important USA market. Growth was Investment last week to be studied, paving the way to in 2016,” Krueger went on. BMW outdid largely driven by increased orders for flag- issuing some of their shares on the bourse or increas- predictions from analysts surveyed by ship models such as the BMW 7 series. The ing their capital,” El Molla said in a phone interview Factset, who had been expecting profits of firm also said that electric models account- with Reuters. “Among the names we are studying are 1.69 billion euros. ed for a larger proportion of vehicles sold. Middle East Oil Refinery (MIDOR) and the Egyptian Welcoming the results as “solid”, analysts Customers in the Netherlands and Sweden Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO), and we at DZ bank pointed to BMW’s higher-than were particularly keen, with electric cars are considering a capital increase for companies expected profitability on car sales as a key accounting for double-digit proportions of Alexandria Mineral Oils Co (AMOC), MIDOR, and Misr factor making it a “top pick” among BMW car sales in June in the two Western FRANKFURT: Photo shows the logo of German bank Commerzbank in front of the Fertilizers Production Company (MOPCO).” German carmakers. But Deutsche Bank European nations. — AFP company’s headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. — AFP UK’s Direct Line profit beats own consensus, shares jump

LONDON: Direct Line Insurance sum of the loss, commission and cent after dividends. Solvency II dic- Group, Britain’s largest motor insurer, expense ratios - from continuing tates the amount of capital an EU said its first-half profit was hurt by operations was 89.6 percent. A num- insurer must hold to reduce the risk lower investment gains and the new ber below 100 percent indicates a of insolvency. The lower the ratio, the Flood Re levy, but beat its own con- profit. Direct Line retained its forecast greater the chances of a company sensus estimates. Shares in the com- to achieve a full-year combined oper- defaulting on its obligations. pany jumped 7.8 percent to their ating ratio from continuing opera- Direct Line said gross written pre- highest since May 10 and recorded tions between 93 percent and 95 per- miums from ongoing operations rose the biggest daily percentage gain cent, adding that if current trends 3.9 percent to 1.61 billion pounds in ever. Direct Line, whose brands continued, the ratio reported would the period, with a 2.5 percent rise in include Churchill, Green Flag and be towards the lower end of the motor in-force policies. It was “busi- Privilege, said operating profit fell 5 guidance. ness as usual” for day-to-day opera- percent to 316.9 million pounds The company reported a levy of 24 tions after Brexit, the insurer said, as ($418.2 million) for the six months million pounds from the Flood Re it was a UK-based business that ended June 30, but was well above a scheme, which was set up by the underwrites risks within the country. company supplied consensus esti- British government and industry to Direct Line said, however, that it was mate of 263 million pounds. cut insurance costs for homes in too early to quantify the impact on Direct Line also said it would pay a flood-risk areas after severe flooding the wider economy, including asset MUMBAI: Indian media representatives and railway workers gather near train coaches from Spanish manufacturer special dividend of 10 pence per in recent years. On the new European prices. Shares in the company were Talgo after their arrival at the Mumbai Central train terminal yesterday. The carriages arrived from country’s capi- share and an interim dividend of 4.9 capital rules for insurers that came in up 7.5 percent at 381.9 pence at 0849 tal New Delhi as a part of test run between the two cities. — AFP pence per share. The company said January 2016, Direct Line said its GMT, making them the top gainers its combined operating ratio - the Solvency II capital ratio was 184 per- on the FTSE 100 Index. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 BUSINESS Stocks dip on banks, oil, Japan stimulus woe European shares hit two-week lows LONDON: European stocks fell to two-week said the two banks would be dropped from of 1.50 percent, as expected. Hong Kong trad- thing. Japan has already tried this a number of costs in the bloc, rose 2.2 basis points to minus lows yesterday, dragged down by banks, while Europe’s STOXX Europe 50 index from next ing was suspended as Typhoon Nida shut down times and everyone knows it’s not really as big 0.13 percent. The dollar held near three-year the yen rose against the dollar and government Monday. Germany’s Commerzbank shares most of the financial hub. Sliding oil prices and as the headline figure suggests,” said Alvin Tan, lows after soft US economic data on Monday bonds sold off after Japan’s cabinet approved a reached a record low, down more than 8 per- the stronger yen pushed Tokyo’s Nikkei index a strategist at Societe Generale. undermined the case for an early rate increase fiscal stimulus package to revive the flagging cent after it warned its earnings would fall this down 1.5 percent. “What was exciting over the past month was by the Federal Reserve. The dollar index against economy. Oil fell again, with US crude dipping year because of customer caution and negative The yen rose to its strongest in three weeks the potential for monetary policy to act in coor- a basket of six major currencies fell 0.3 percent. It below $40 a barrel as a supply glut weighed on official interest rates. at 101.60 per dollar after Japanese Prime dination with the fiscal measures and we were recorded its biggest decline in three months last prices. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell Italy’s Monte dei Paschi fell 6 percent and Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved yester- definitely disappointed on that front last week. week and has since struggled to recover. The 1.4 percent, hurt by a 3 percent fall to three- UniCredit 4 percent. MSCI’s broadest index of day 13.5 trillion yen ($132.04 billion) in fiscal Coordination still seems a good way off.” Australian dollar fell as low as $0.75 after the RBA week lows in banks. Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.4 steps as part of efforts to revive Japan’s econo- Japanese government bonds suffered their decision, then recovered to trade up 0.3 percent They extended Monday’s losses after percent, after the S&P 500 ended Monday 0.1 my. Last week, the Bank of Japan announced worst sell-off in more than three years on fears at $0.7560. Australian shares were 0.6 percent Europe-wide stress tests on 51 European percent lower, despite reaching an intraday further easing steps, which disappointed the BOJ would slow its bond-buying. That had a lower. US crude oil futures slipped back below lenders cast doubts on the health of the sector. record high. Australian shares fell 0.8 percent investors who had hoped for more. “There’s knock-on effect in the euro zone, where govern- $40 a barrel. They fell to their lowest level since Credit Suisse fell 5.6 percent and Deutsche after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut its main quite a lot of skepticism in the market as to ment bond yields rose across the board. German April on Monday on worries that a global oil glut Bank 3.2 percent after index provider STOXX interest rate by 25 basis points to a record low whether this fiscal package can change any- 10-year yields, the benchmark for borrowing is undercutting prices.— Reuters

TOKYO: A man looks at an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo. —AP Gold hits $1,360 Platinum hits fresh 14-month high LONDON: Gold rose yesterday as European on interest rate increases due to lingering shares fell 1 percent and the dollar hit its risks to the US economy, New York Fed lowest in over a month versus the euro, President William Dudley said on Monday, after last week’s soft US growth data dent- appearing to signal the chance of a hike by ed expectations for a near-term interest the end of the year was fading. A 28 per- rate hike. Platinum group metals continued cent rise in gold prices this year has largely to shine, with platinum reaching its highest been driven by a retreat in expectations since May 2015 and palladium holding near that the Fed will soon hike US rates again, the previous session’s 14-month peak. Spot after lifting them for the first time in nearly gold was up 0.5 percent at $1,360.40 an a decade in December. Holdings of the ounce at 1205 GMT, while US gold futures world’s largest gold-backed exchange-trad- for December delivery were up $7.50 an ed fund, SPDR Gold Shares, rose 5.9 tons on ounce at $1,367.10. “We had that poor US Monday, its biggest one-day inflow since second-quarter GDP number which came late June. out on Friday, and that seems to have given “While speculative financial investors gold a bit of a leg-up,” Societe Generale are clearly withdrawing from gold, ETF analyst Robin Bhar. investors are remaining loyal,” “That basically pushes back the likeli- Commerzbank said in a note. “They bought hood of the next Fed rate increase, possibly 8.4 tons of gold yesterday, which was the now into 2017.” Gold is highly sensitive to highest daily inflow in three weeks and the US interest rates, which lift the opportunity fourth consecutive daily inflow.” Among cost of holding non-yielding bullion, while other precious metals, platinum was 1 per- boosting the dollar, in which it is priced. cent higher at $1,168.25 an ounce yester- European stocks fell to two-week lows yes- day, after touching a more than 14-month terday, dragged down by banks, while the high of $1,171.80 earlier in the day. euro rose above $1.12 for the first time in Palladium was 0.5 percent higher at more than a month. The dollar has been $716.75 an ounce, after hitting a 13-month sold steadily since surprisingly weak US high of $722.70 in the previous session. second-quarter growth numbers last week. Silver was up 1.4 percent at $20.68 an The Federal Reserve should be cautious ounce. — Reuters Oil edges higher

LONDON: Oil edged higher yesterday after weigh on markets and that as a result, falling by up to 10 percent in just one refiners were likely to reduce orders for week, but investors remained concerned new crude feedstocks, affecting demand about oversupply weighing on prices. for oil. “Weaker crude throughput at Global benchmark Brent crude was trading refineries will lower crude demand,” BMI up 49 cents at $42.63 a barrel at 1031 GMT. Research said. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude Financial oil traders have taken note of was up 38 cents at $40.44 a barrel, after the glut, with speculators taking on large briefly dipping below $40. “There is much volumes of bets that would profit from talk about the product glut replacing the lower prices, known as shorts. “I see a oil glut, and this is a worrisome indicator strong build in shorts. for crude demand,” said Frank Klumpp, oil They are starting to reach excessive analyst at Stuttgart-based Landesbank levels,” said Hans van Cleef, ABN AMRO Baden-Wuerttemberg. senior energy economist. US commercial Global fuel inventories are brimming as crude inventories are expected to show a refineries have churned out huge volumes weekly fall after last week’s unexpected of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel but the sup- rise in stocks broke a nine-week draw- ply glut has diminished profit margins and down, according to a Reuters poll. demand has been unable to keep up with Gasoline and distillate inventories are supply. Analysts said high crude and prod- also expected to have fallen, the poll indi- uct production levels would continue to cated. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 Mitsubishi scandal probe finds unrealistic goals, conflicts

TOKYO: A group of lawyers asked by concerned only with its own performance. lems were made public, Nissan Mitsubishi Motors Corp to investigate “There was utterly no consciousness announced it was taking a 34 percent mileage cheating at the Japanese that the company must work as one to stake in Mitsubishi to help its turn- automaker found a divided company that make and sell cars,” the panel’s 37-page around. The scandal surfaced after Nissan, had set unrealistic goals, to which report said. which sold Mitsubishi minicars under its employees simply couldn’t say, “No.” The The government earlier found own brand, did its own tests and pointed Tokyo-based automaker acknowledged in Mitsubishi had overstated mileage on its out inconsistencies in data. April it had systematically falsified mileage vehicles by up to 16 percent. Mitsubishi Mitsubishi has said it didn’t lie about data on its eK wagon and eK Space mini- Motors, which makes the Outlander mileage on models sold overseas. The cars, also produced for Nissan Motor Co. sport-utility vehicle and the i-MiEV elec- company is offering a cash rebate to cus- The investigative panel said yesterday tric car, struggled for years to win back tomers in Japan who bought the vehicles such data falsifying went on for 25 years, consumer trust after an auto defects for which it had reported inflated and the wrongdoing was systematic, scandal in the early 2000s over cover-ups mileage, to make up for the extra gas. extensive and escalated with time. The of problems such as failing brakes, faulty Mitsubishi Chairman Osamu Masuko, probe, which included interviews with clutches and fuel tanks prone to falling who helped engineer the Nissan deal, more than 150 people, found the compa- off dating back to the 1970s. reiterated an apology and promised the ny lacked a system for checking on the Panel members, speaking at a news company will penalize managers found team assigned to improve mileage. The conference at the company’s Tokyo head- responsible for the cheating. “We hope company said employees did not feel quarters, acknowledged their recommen- this will mark a new beginning for us as a compelled to respect the law or fix the dations might not be followed, just as TOKYO: Vehicles are reflected in the mirror of the headquarters of Japan’s auto manufacturer,” he told reporters after the wrongdoing and each department was with past scandals. Shortly after the prob- maker Mitsubishi Motors in Tokyo. — AFP panel’s findings were released. — AP Australia cuts interest rate to a record low 1.5 percent Economists forecast further cuts ahead

SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank dropped most countries is struggling to kickstart interest rates to a new record low yesterday inflation, with oil prices subdued and glob- after a recent run of soft inflation readings, al trade tepid. Wages growth has also with some economists forecasting further remained soft, while “labor market indica- cuts ahead. The 25 basis point cut to 1.5 tors continue to be somewhat mixed but percent means the Reserve Bank of are consistent with a modest pace of Australia (RBA) has slashed rates by 300 expansion in employment in the near basis points since November 2011 to sup- term”, Stevens said. “It’s not that they’ve got port the economy as it transitions towards a newly bearish view of the economy or non-resources growth after a mining that inflation was materially different from investment boom. “The board judged that their expectations, it was more that they prospects for sustainable growth in the cut rates back in May and felt that they had economy, with inflation returning to target room to do it further this month,” National over time, would be improved by easing Australia Bank senior economist David de monetary policy at this meeting,” bank gov- Garis said. ernor Glenn Stevens said in a statement. The rate cut is expected to take some The decision follows official figures last time to feed through to possibly pushing month showing that consumer prices fell up consumer prices, with the RBA’s own to a 17-year annual low of 1.0 percent in forecasts in May expecting inflation to only April-June, well off the RBA’s inflation target lift towards the target band in late 2017 or of 2.0-3.0 percent. Treasurer Scott Morrison in 2018. “We think that (low inflation) is denied that the cut was a sign of a strug- going to persist for a while and we think gling economy, saying that Australia was that, on balance, the next few inflation posting 3.1 percent growth, while Stevens prints are going to drive the RBA into more said it was unlikely to overheat the housing action, most likely in the first-half of next market. The majority of economists had year,” JP Morgan senior economist Ben TOKYO: Shoppers walk next to a clothing shop in Tokyo. Japan’s Cabinet has approved a fresh economic stimulus package worth more than 28 forecast that the RBA, an inflation-targeting Jarman said. trillion yen ($275 billion) to help revive the country’s stalling growth. — AP central bank, would cut interest rates, with Leading Australian economist, Bill Evans 20 out of 25 surveyed by Bloomberg News of Westpac Bank, said the RBA was expect- predicting the move. The Australian dollar ed to sit on the sidelines and observe the Japanese govt approves fell 0.4 percent to 75.09 US cents at 2.33pm next few growth and inflation readings in Sydney (0430 GMT), according to before acting again, with uncertainty Bloomberg. about the global economic environment also a key factor. “For us the real issue will $130 billion fiscal steps More cuts expected be the environment in 2017 when the Commenting on the global economy, housing cycle will be in reverse; jobs Stevens noted that the underlying pace of growth may have cooled; global growth, growth in Australia’s largest trading partner particularly in this region, will have slowed BOJ denies curbing stimulus China “appears to be moderating”. Australia further; and Australia’s interest rates may has been growing more strongly than most still be attractive to international investors,” of the world’s advanced economies but like Evans said in a note. — AFP TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Concerted action 2 post of Abe’s ruling party in tandem with a cab- cabinet approved 13.5 trillion yen ($132 billion) He spoke after meeting Finance Minister Taro inet reshuffle on Wednesday underscores Abe’s in fiscal measures yesterday even as the central Aso to discuss Abe’s stimulus package. Kuroda shift toward his “second arrow” of fiscal policy bank fought market speculation that it is prepar- and Aso stressed the importance of concerted amid concerns monetary easing is reaching its ing to put the brakes on monetary stimulus for government and BOJ efforts to defeat deflation. limits. Precisely how the spending will be the world’s third-biggest economy. Yesterday morning, Abe said “We compiled financed is unclear, although the government is The government’s package includes 7.5 trillion today a strong economic package draft aimed at considering issuing construction bonds when yen in spending by the national and local govern- carrying out investment for the future.” “With this compiling a supplementary budget later this ments, and earmarks 6 trillion yen from the Fiscal package, we’ll proceed to not just stimulate year. The stress on fiscal steps is raising doubts Investment and Loan Program, which is not demand but also achieve sustainable economic about Japan’s ability to fix its already massive included in the government’s general budget. growth led by private demand.” The package’s debt. The government estimates the stimulus But even before the announcement, headline figure is 28.1 trillion yen, but it includes would push up real gross domestic product by Japanese government bonds saw their worst public-private partnerships and other amounts around 1.3 percent in the near term. sell-off in more than three years as investors that are not direct government outlays and thus The package will be implemented over sever- feared the Bank of Japan may ratchet back the might not give an immediate boost to growth. al years, officials added. SMBC Nikko Securities pace of its aggressive government bond buying. Abe last month ordered his government to expects the package will push up real GDP The BOJ disappointed markets on Friday by craft a stimulus plan to revive an economy growth by just 0.4 percentage point in the year keeping bond purchases steady, defying expec- dogged by weak consumption, despite three ending March 2017 and 0.04 percentage point tations it would hoover up more, and made years of his “Abenomics” mix of extremely accom- the next one. When public works spending and traders even more nervous after announcing it modative monetary policy, flexible spending and cash payouts fade late in the fiscal year ending would re-evaluate policies in September. structural reform promises. The BOJ’s review has March 2018, Japan “will likely face a fiscal cliff,” Governor Haruhiko Kuroda declined to com- spooked investors, who are unsure how BOJ poli- said Koya Miyamae, senior economist at SMBC ment on the spike in JGB yields but said the cy might change. The price of 10-year JGB futures Nikko Securities. “To prevent a fiscal cliff, the planned review will not lead the BOJ to weaken closed down 0.91 point on Tuesday to 151.33, government will likely repeat large-scale stimu- its stimulus. “I don’t think that would happen,” and has dropped 2.47 points in the last three ses- lus. Considering that a general election must be Kuroda told reporters, when asked whether the sions - the biggest three-day fall since May 2013. held by late 2018, direct government spending promised “comprehensive review” might lead to The expected appointment of Toshihiro Nikai, an would become larger, which could further delay reduced BOJ stimulus. advocate of big public works spending, to the No Japan’s fiscal consolidation goal.”— Reuters SYDNEY: A shopper looks at clothes in a store in Sydney. Australia’s central bank cut interest rates to a new record-low yesterday in a widely expected decision after a recent run of soft inflation readings. — AFP Myanmar tourism boom set Sri Lanka withdraws freehold land offer to Chinese company to bring 7.5m visitors a year

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said yesterday it during a visit to Colombo. Beijing has YANGON: Myanmar is hoping to lure 7.5 million the standards of more traveler-friendly countries leg in the Buddhist-majority country, while was withdrawing permission for a been accused of seeking to develop facil- tourists a year by 2019, an official said yesterday, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. There have authorities are struggling to prevent the surging Chinese company to buy the freehold to ities around the Indian Ocean in a “string as the impoverished former junta-ruled nation also been a number of incidents where tourist visitor numbers from damaging the vast Bagan 20 hectares of land being reclaimed of pearls” strategy to counter the rise of emerges as one of Southeast Asia’s hot destina- behavior has clashed with Myanmar’s conserva- temple site. Myanmar travel groups are also under a $1.4 billion port project after rival India and secure its own economic tions. Travel to the once-cloistered country used tive culture. A Spanish tourist was deported last hoping to attract wealthier package tours to India objected. Instead it will grant the interests. to be reserved for the well-heeled and intrepid, month for sporting a tattoo of the Buddha on his provide year-round jobs. — AFP state-owned construction company a 99- But Senaratne said the government prepared to endure the travails of a country year lease on the land next to the port in had decided to go ahead with the proj- under military rule with patchy electricity and Colombo, under a new agreement. “India ect under new terms. Colombo would set limited communications. had a big concern about giving freehold up an offshore banking centre to com- But foreign tourists have flocked in since the land to China near the Colombo harbor,” pete with Dubai and Singapore, he said. country began opening up in 2011, with a government spokesman Rajitha The reclamation represents the biggest- celebrities such as pop stars Beyonce and Jay Z Senaratne told reporters. ever single foreign investment in Sri helping to popularize the message that the “We have amended the agreement. Lanka. It will add 269 hectares (672 acres) country is open for visitors. There will be no freehold land but it will of real estate in the congested capital, This year Myanmar is on track to welcome 5.5 be on a 99-year lease.” The government which has a population of over 650,000. million tourists, nearly a million more than 2015, had put the project on hold pending a Once completed, the Chinese will have Tint Thwin, director-general of Ministry of Hotels review of all the big-ticket agreements 108 hectares (266 acres) on a 99-year and Tourism said. “We hope the number will signed under the previous administra- lease for commercial development. grow to 7.5 million tourists per year within three tion of Mahinda Rajapakse. The former Earlier, 20 hectares of that was to be on a years,” he said on the sidelines of a major tourism president relied heavily on Chinese freehold basis. conference in Yangon. investment to rebuild the country’s infra- Under the agreement, the Sri Lankan “We will try to find new destinations for structure after the end of the island’s government will get 62 hectares (153 tourists to visit and we will also support commu- decades-long ethnic war in May 2009, a acres) and the rest will be public parks nity-based tourism,” he said in an effort to raise move which some say alienated India. and access roads. China, the largest sin- incomes in one of Asia’s poorest countries. In The Chinese-funded port was also gle lender to Sri Lanka, secured contracts comparison, neighboring Thailand-a regional controversial among environmentalists. to build roads, railways and ports under tourism behemoth-received 30 million visitors Senaratne said the developers had Rajapakse, who is under investigation last year, offering a tantalizing glimpse of the agreed to drop a proposed Formula One over allegations of corruption during his riches to be made. Curiosity in Myanmar’s cul- track and increase public park space, and decade in power. The administration of ture and natural beauty has surged in recent environmental safeguards would be put President Maithripala Sirisena says the years in lockstep with the rollback of most inter- in place. The project is being funded by terms negotiated by the previous gov- national sanctions and the ascension of Aung China Communications Construction ernment were unfavorable. But it has still San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party to power. But YANGON: Visitors and devotees tour Myanmar’s landmark Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Myanmar Company and was launched by Chinese decided to go ahead with many of the challenges remain. is hoping to lure 7.5 million tourists a year by 2019, an official said yesterday, as the impoverished President Xi Jinping in September 2014 Chinese-funded projects. — AFP Hotels are expensive and often do not meet former junta-ruled nation emerges as one of Southeast Asia’s hot destinations. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 BUSINESS Burgan Bank Group reports net income of KD 17.1 m KUWAIT: Burgan Bank Group the end of June 30, 2016. Majed Essa Al despite the sale of Jordan Kuwait Bank confidence in our capabilities and our announced yesterday its earnings for the Ajeel, Chairman of Burgan Bank Group and amid such volatilities. The leading regulators; the Central Bank of Kuwait, second quarter and first half results for said: “Burgan Bank Group continues to indicators are pointing north.” comment- for their support. I would also like to the financial year 2016. Burgan Bank navigate smartly amid the evident high ed Al-Ajeel. “We started 2016 which can thank our executive management team Group reported net income of KD 17.1 economic and geopolitical volatilities be classified as not ordinary year in for their leadership and the excellent million for the second quarter hence thanks to the risk-savvy model we have terms of volatility with a prudent out- execution of the corporate strategy, and KD31.4 million for the first half of 2016. managed to build through the previous look. Nevertheless, we have managed to to our staff for their continued support Earnings per share for the first half of the years and the prudent actions that were report good set of results in the first and commitment.” concluded Al Ajeel. financial year 2016 stood at 12.8 Fils. taken by the management.” quarter with net income of KD14.3 mil- The consolidated financials encom- Burgan Bank Group continues to register “The first six months of 2016 reported lion despite taking KD5 million in pre- pass the results of the Group’s opera- consistent growth in its leading indica- net income of KD 31.4 million also cautionary reserves. And once again, we tions in Kuwait, and its share from its tors manifested by a solid growth in bal- reflects solid performance when normal- report in the second quarter a good set regional subsidiaries, namely Burgan ance sheet and improved asset quality. ized for a like-to-like comparison (elimi- of results with net income of KD17.1 mil- Bank - Turkey, Gulf Bank Algeria, Bank of Loans and advances grew by 8% nating non-repetitive items) especially lion reflecting 20% growth from the first Baghdad, Tunis International Bank. reaching KD 4.3 billion while customers after the sale of Jordan Kuwait Bank for quarter despite also taking KD5 million Burgan Bank Group has one of the deposits grew by 5% reaching 4.1 billion. more efficient allocation of capital and in precautionary reserves. Majed Essa Al Ajeel, Chairman of largest regional branch networks with Non-performing Assets ratio net of col- for continuous growth. Therefore, The true solid performance is allow- Burgan Bank Group more than 180 branches across Kuwait, lateral drops to 1% with coverage ratio Normalized net income mirrors 23% ing us to take almost 17% of our earn- drop” Added Ajeel. “On behalf of the Turkey, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Lebanon and net of collaterals reaching 443%. Basel 3 growth from the first half of 2015. A very ings as precautionary reserves and out board, I take this opportunity to thank representative offices in Dubai-United Capital Adequacy Ratio stands at 16% at solid true performance and growth of prudence amid such economic back- our customers and shareholders for their Arab Emirates. US consumer spending exits Q2 with strong momentum Core PCE price index edges up 0.1%

WASHINGTON: US consumer spending rose more than expected in June as households bought a range of goods and services, suggesting con- sumption will likely remain strong after surging in the second quarter. Despite healthy consumer spending yesterday’s report from the Commerce Department showed inflation still muted. This could see a cautious Federal Reserve keeping interest rates at current low levels for a while. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity, TOKYO: A man looks at vehicles displayed in front of the headquarters of Japan’s increased 0.4 percent in June after a similar gain auto maker Honda Motor in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP in May. Economists polled by Reuters had fore- cast consumer spending advancing 0.3 percent. Honda’s profit dented When adjusted for inflation, consumer spending rose 0.3 percent after climbing 0.2 percent in May. The dollar trimmed losses against the euro Airbag crisis impact fades and yen after the data. Prices for US government debt also pared losses, while US stock futures were trading lower. TOKYO: Honda yesterday said quarterly swiped by the scandal at Takata, which is The June data was included in last week’s sec- net profit slipped from a year ago, despite facing lawsuits, investigations and huge ond-quarter gross domestic product report, the fading impact of an exploding airbag compensation costs over a defect that can which showed that consumer spending rose at a crisis at supplier Takata. The Japanese send metal and plastic shrapnel from the 4.2 percent annual rate, the fastest in nearly two automaker blamed an income tax increase airbag’s inflator canister hurtling toward years. That jump accounted for almost all of the for its net profit in the April-June quarter drivers and passengers when an airbag is economy’s 1.2 percent growth pace during the slipping 6.1 percent to 174.6 billion yen deployed. period. While the second quarter’s robust pace ($1.7 billion). However, the bottom line fig- At least 13 people have died in acci- of consumer spending will probably not be sus- CHICAGO: Consumers hold shopping bags as they walk along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, ure still beat market expectations owing to dents linked to the problems and scores tained, economists are optimistic that spending Illinois. — AFP stronger sales in the United States and more have been injured, while the crisis has will remain solid, underpinned by steadily June the core PCE increased 1.6 percent. It has cent, but outlays on long-lasting manufactured China, the world’s biggest vehicle market. sparked the recall of some 100 million increasing wages as the labor market tightens, risen by the same margin since March. The core goods such as automobiles fell 0.3 percent. Honda also said operating profit rose airbags worldwide. The crisis has dragged as well as rising house and stock market prices. PCE is the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation Spending increased despite personal income ris- 11.5 percent as cost cuts helped offset a ral- on profits at Honda, which is Takata’s There was little sign of inflation in June. The measure and is running below the US central ing only 0.2 percent in June after a similar gain ly in the yen-which takes a bite out of biggest airbag customer. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price bank’s 2 percent target. in May. Wages and salaries advanced 0.3 percent exporters’ profits-and temporary produc- The Civic sedan maker cited the parts index, excluding the volatile food and energy Consumer spending in June was lifted by a after rising 0.2 percent in May. With spending tion shutdowns at factories in southern scandal for a nearly 33 percent plunge in components, rose 0.1 percent in June after a 0.2 0.7 percent rise in purchases of non-durable outpacing income, savings fell to $732 billion, Japan. The region was hit by two strong fiscal year to March net profit. Analysts said percent gain in May. In the 12 months through goods. Spending on services increased 0.5 per- the lowest level since March 2015. — Reuters earthquakes in April that left 49 dead and it may not be out of the woods yet. “Honda caused widespread damage. Some of the is expecting a recovery this fiscal year, but country’s biggest firms, including Honda the future of the Takata recall issue is still and rival Toyota, were hit by factory out- uncertain,” said Shigeru Matsumura, analyst ages in the wake of the disaster. Last week, at SMBC Friend Research Center. “Quality Kuwait budget keeps Japan’s number-two automaker Nissan control costs remain Honda’s top concern.” blamed the yen’s surge and struggles in its Honda, also a major motorcycle producer, home market for the first decline in April- expects net profit in the current fiscal year June net profit in four years. to March 2017 to rise 13.2 percent to 390 spending unchanged Toyota reports quarterly results this billion yen. Revenue is forecast to fall 5.8 week. Japan’s automakers have been side- percent to 13.8 trillion yen. — AFP Etihad Airways’ dreamliner NBK Economic Update launches Shanghai services KUWAIT: The National Assembly recently approved the budget for the ABU DHABI: A state-of-the-art Etihad Airways through a dedicated premium check-in facility fiscal year 2016/17 (FY16/17) with an Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner touched down in into the luxury of an exclusive Business Class official deficit projection of KD 8.7bil- Shanghai yesterday from Abu Dhabi on its first Lounge, while a new flagship First Class Lounge lion, or 26% of GDP. The deficit, before flight into China. The new Dreamliner features & Spa opened at the end of May for first class the mandatory transfer to the Future the airline’s next-generation business and guests and eligible Etihad Airways Partners Generations Fund (FGF), is likely to be economy class cabins, and will operate with (EAP) Platinum Frequent Flyers. significantly smaller as the price of oil 299 seats, 28 in Business class and 271 in econ- On the aircraft, the Business Studios offer for the fiscal year is expected to average omy, representing a 14 per cent capacity direct aisle access, a fully-flat bed of up to 80.5 above the $35 per barrel assumed in increase on the route. inches long, and an increase of 20 per cent in the budget. We estimate a deficit of Flight EY862 from Abu Dhabi departed at personal space. Upholstered in the finest 13% of GDP, comparable to last year’s. 10.25pm yesterday from the Middle East arriv- Poltrona Frau leather, the Business Studio is The persistent budget deficit, a ing in Shanghai at 11.10am today. The inaugu- equipped with an in-seat massage and pneu- result of sustained low oil prices, will ral flight from Shanghai (EY867) will depart matic cushion control system which enables be partly financed by sovereign bond again on 3 August at 00.30am, arriving back in guests to adjust the firmness and comfort of issuance; it has also triggered much Abu Dhabi at 6.15am the same day. To mark their seat. Each Business Studio has an 18-inch needed fiscal and structural reform. The government budget projects a the event, guests were presented with com- personal touch-screen TV with noise-can- third consecutive year of revenue memorative certificates in Chinese and celling headsets. decline due to lower oil prices. Total English, featuring Shanghai’s iconic landmark, Business guests also have access to three revenues are seen 16% lower in the Oriental Pearl Tower. choices of main course on the menu, with a FY16/17, at KD 10.2 billion. While the Peter Baumgartner, Chief Executive Officer dine-on-demand option for travelers who wish budget assumes slightly higher oil of Etihad Airways, said: “Since launching flights to choose when to eat. Each business guest also production of 2.8 million barrels per allocated for the year and included in with KD 2.25 billion worth of projects ing the first four months of FY16/17. between Shanghai and Abu Dhabi four years receives a customized Etihad Airways LUXE day, oil revenues are seen declining on miscellaneous expenditures & trans- awarded during the first half of 2016. The ministry plans to borrow a further ago, we have experienced first-hand the huge amenity kit, inspired by some of the iconic cities a lower oil price assumption of $35 per fers. As a result, total on-budget capi- Another KD 8.4 billion could be award- KD 3 billion from international mar- growth of China’s outbound tourism market on the airline’s extensive global network. barrel, compared to last year’s $45. tal spending is expected to rise by ed before the end of the year. kets, in instruments denominated in and enjoyed strong demand from both busi- Passengers on board have access to a dedicated With oil prices currently hovering 2.7% to KD 3.3 billion, according to The National Assembly approved foreign currency. The rest of the ness and leisure travelers.” “The decision to food and beverage manager, a multi-national around $40 per barrel, we expect oil earlier announcements of the draft financing part of the budget deficit by deficit will be financed by withdrawals upgrade to the Boeing 787 reflects the impor- crew and the airline’s well known Flying revenues to be around 35-40% higher budget. The bulk of government raising KD 5 billion in local and inter- from the General Reserve Fund (GRF). tance of Shanghai and China to the airline. Nannies, who provide assistance to parents than official projections, and to be development plan projects are off- national bonds and sukuk during In March 2016, the government Shanghai is a modern metropolis and a global travelling with young children. mostly unchanged from the year budget and their spending pace is FY16/17. Finance Minister Anas Al- approved a reform plan in an effort to economic, financial, trading and shipping cen- For inflight entertainment, Etihad Airways before. Meanwhile, non-oil revenues picking up. Those include projects in Saleh said that the ministry will bor- reduce the fiscal deficit and address tre, which underlines its importance within currently operates the latest Panasonic eX3 IFE are budgeted at KD 1.6 billion, up 11% the oil sector and public-private part- row KD 2 billion through dinar other imbalances in the economy in Etihad Airways’ global network and supports system on its flagship fleet of Boeing 787s and from the previous year, though they nerships (PPP). According to MEED issuances in the local market. The the medium term. The plan includes the introduction of the new aircraft.” Airbus A380s. Guests can also enjoy mobile remain a small share of total revenues. Projects, the pace of awards of govern- ministry already raised KD 900 million significant cuts in subsidies, and the Baumgartner continued: “The new Boeing 787 connectivity, access to onboard Wi-Fi and sev- Government spending is projected to ment projects has remained healthy, in government bonds and sukuk dur- introduction of a corporate income services will help to support the increasing en satellite channels of live TV on many aircraft. decline only slightly, on the heels of a tax and a value added tax (VAT). In a demand for outbound tourism from Shanghai For economy passengers, the airline’s Smart year which saw overall spending cut first step, the National Assembly (NA) and its surrounding cities in Eastern China. The Seats provide enhanced comfort with a unique by over 17%. approved increases in electricity tariffs to take effect in September 2017; additional capacity will enable more Chinese ‘fixed wing’ headrest, adjustable lumbar sup- Allocated expenditures in the electricity and water subsidies cur- business and leisure travelers to enjoy seam- port, a seat width of approximately 19 inches budget were reduced by 1.5% to KD 18.9 billion, though the two largest rently eat up over half the subsidy bill. less one-stop connections over the Abu Dhabi and an 11.1” personal TV monitor on each seat. While the step was a historic move, hub to over 40 destinations across the Gulf The aircraft has been designed for optimum chapters, wages and salaries and mis- cellaneous & transfers, are to grow by the NA approved a watered down ver- region, Europe, Africa and South America.” long-haul travel with enhancements including sion of the cuts which should still save China has recently surpassed the USA as humidity controls while air pressure levels are 2.7% and 1.5%, respectively. Expenditures on goods and services the budget around 1% of GDP. the biggest business travel market in the set to ensure a smoother flight allowing guests The government is also looking to world, according to the Global Business Travel to arrive feeling fresher on arrival. and projects, maintenance and land purchases are set to decline by 14% introduce new taxes to boost nonoil Association, representing US$291.2 billion Shanghai is the seventh destination in the revenues, though not before 2019. spending on business travel in 2015. The world to be served by Etihad Airways’ B787-9 and 13%, respectively. Overall government capital spend- The government has proposed a 10% Dreamliner will assist Etihad Airways’ growing Dreamliner aircraft with the aircraft also ing is expected to maintain healthy corporate income tax on local and for- reputation amongst the business community deployed to Perth, Brisbane, Singapore, levels despite the lower oil price envi- eign companies. The new tax is in China, with the aircraft specifically catering Washington DC, Zurich and D¸sseldorf. Etihad ronment. While the budget allocates expected to replace existing taxes on to the long-haul business market. Airways first launched a five-times-a-week KD 2.2 billion in projects, maintenance corporate earnings in a measure that The airline’s world-renowned guest experi- two-class Airbus A330-200 services to & land purchases and transportation & will broaden the tax base. Authorities ence begins well before departure and lasts Shanghai in March 2012. With a further 62 equipment, 8.4% lower than the previ- are also preparing to introduce a 5% long after arrival. For example, its chauffeur Boeing 787 Dreamliners scheduled for delivery ous year and the lowest level in six VAT in conjunction with other GCC service is available in over 30 cities globally over the next few years, the aircraft will years, the figure does not include countries. Both measures will require including Beijing and Shanghai. At Terminal 3 become the mainstay of Etihad Airways’ long- around KD 1 billion in additional on- legislation and already appear to be in Abu Dhabi International Airport, guests pass haul fleet. budget development plan projects behind schedule. technology WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 Snapping up cheap spy tools, states ‘monitoring everyone’

LIMA: It was a national scandal. Peru’s ‘Pinpoint New Targets of Interest’ licly about the matter. played recordings of him in intercept- then-vice president accused two Since the early 2000s, Verint and top Like the United States, most coun- ed phone conversations and showed domestic intelligence agents of staking competitor Nice Systems have sold tries require court orders to use the him emails he had sent. He spoke to her out. Then, a top congressman mass surveillance products to the technology. But where rule of law is the AP on condition he not be identi- blamed the spy agency for a break-in at secret police in Uzbekistan, according weak, abuse is not uncommon. The fied, saying he fears for his life. Joseph his office. News stories showed the to extensive research by Mari Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Bakosoro, a former South Sudanese agency had collected data on hundreds Bastashevski for Privacy International. Tobago saw a government fall after a state governor who was also held of influential Peruvians. Yet after last She found the companies also sold wiretapping scandal involving Verint- without charge for four months, said year’s outrage, which forced out the such systems to neighboring supplied equipment. In 2009, a total of his interrogators played for him a prime minister and froze its intelligence- Kazakhstan, also a tightly governed 53 people, including politicians and voicemail that had been left on his gathering, the spy service went ahead nation. Israeli technicians from both journalists, were illegally monitored, cellphone. They claimed it was evi- with a $22 million program capable of companies have rotated in and out of according to a former senior security dence he backed rebels. snooping on thousands of Peruvians at Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, for tech official who asked not to be named for Bakosoro said the voicemail proved HOUSTON: In this Oct 8, 2015, file photo, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly a time. Peru - a top cocaine-producing support and maintenance, Bastashevski fear of reprisal. The Verint equipment only that he was being bugged. His speaks during a preview of the new international concourse at Houston nation - joined the ranks of world gov- found. Nice Systems sold its surveil- remains operative, though now a court interrogators didn’t hide that. “They Hobby Airport. —AP ernments that have added commercial lance business to Israeli defense heavy- order is needed to use it. told me they are monitoring me,” he spyware to their arsenals. weight Elbit Systems last year. One piece of the Verint product mix said. “They are monitoring my phone, Ouster of Southwest CEO The purchase from Israeli-American That equipment has let Uzbek secret that Trinidad and Tobago bought is and they are monitoring everyone, so company Verint Systems, chronicled in police quickly locate and arrest people Vantage Broadway. A promotional whatever we say on the telephone, documents obtained by AP, offers a rare, who discuss sensitive information on brochure published by Israel’s defense they are monitoring.” sought after IT breakdown behind-the-scenes look into how easy it the phone or via email, dissidents say. ministry for a 2014 trade show in India is for a country to purchase and install “The authorities’ main weapon is peo- describes it as data-analysis and pat- ‘Who Will Guard the Guards?’ DALLAS: Two major unions at Southwest The outage briefly caused Southwest off-the-shelf surveillance equipment. The ple’s fear,” said Tulkin Karayev, a Sweden- tern-seeking software. It pairs with a Three years after Peru acquired the Airlines are demanding that the carrier to delay all departures and hold planes software allows governments to inter- based exile. “Freedom of speech, free- product called Reliant to “intercept, filter Verint package, it’s not yet up and run- replace its CEO because of the technology at their gates. Passengers couldn’t check cept voice calls, text messages and dom of expression - all this is banned.” and analyze huge volumes of Internet, ning, Carlos Basombrio, the incoming outage that caused the airline to cancel or in for flights electronically, and cus- emails. Except for blacklisted nations like Asked by the AP whether Nice Systems’ voice and satellite communication.” The interior minister said just before taking delay thousands of flights in July. tomers couldn’t book new flights. The Syria and North Korea, there is little to sales had enabled political repression, package Peru bought includes both office last week. “When it becomes Technology experts are questioning outage lasted about 12 hours, but stop governments that routinely violate Elbit spokeswoman Dalia Rosen would Reliant and Vantage, documents show. operative, it will be used against organ- whether Southwest fell short in designing Southwest said that it canceled 2,300 basic rights from obtaining the same so- not comment. “We follow the leading The little regulation that exists in the ized crime (in coordination) with and testing its computer systems. A top flights - 12 percent of its schedule - over called “lawful intercept” tools that have standards of corporate governance and commercial mass-surveillance trade falls judges and prosecutors.” Located in a Southwest executive told AP on Monday five days as it struggled to recover. been sold to Western police and spy focus on ethical behavior in our busi- under a non-binding international arms three-story building next to the coun- that the July 20 outage will cost the airline Southwest did not say how many flights agencies. People tracked by the technol- ness dealings,” she said. export-control regime called the try’s DINI spy agency, Pisco sits on a “into the tens of millions” of dollars - a were delayed during that period, but ogy have been beaten, jailed and tor- Over the past two decades, Wassenaar Arrangement. In December Lima military base off-limits to the huge increase in the original estimate of tracking service FlightStats put the num- tured, according to human rights groups. Uzbekistan has “imprisoned thousands 2013, it was amended to add monitor- public. It can track 5,000 individual tar- between $5 million and $10 million. ber at more than 8,000. Targets identified by the AP include to enforce repressive rule,” Human ing products like Reliant and Vantage gets and simultaneously record the a blogger in the repressive Central Asian Rights Watch reported last year. The and “attack-ware” that breaks into smart- communications of 300 people, The company will recover many Independent experts in information republic of Uzbekistan, opposition bookings that were lost while its website technology said the outage was probably activists in the war-ravaged African was down, said Robert Jordan, more complex than a single failed router. nation of South Sudan, and politicians Southwest’s executive vice president Routers connect networks and help sec- and reporters in oil-rich Trinidad and and chief commercial officer. But it will tions communicate with each other, and Tobago in the Caribbean. “The status lose money from a “couple hundred networks are designed to avoid so-called quo is completely unacceptable,” said thousand people” whose flights were single points of failure. “You can’t blame Marietje Schaake, a European Union canceled and from refunds to stranded the router. The router triggered a chain lawmaker pushing for greater oversight. passengers, he said. Jordan said the out- reaction that should not have happened,” “The fact that this market is almost com- age was the worst he could recall in his said Doron Pinhas, chief technology officer pletely unregulated is very disturbing.” 28 years at Southwest, the nation’s of Continuity Software Inc. He said it was The Verint documents that AP fourth-biggest airline. It has become a likely that Southwest didn’t test its system obtained in Peru, including training rallying point for unions who believe adequately to see what would happen manuals, contracts, invoices and emails, they deserve raises while Southwest when that part failed. offer more detail than previously avail- Airlines Co. earns record profits. Lev Lesokhin, executive vice president able on the inner workings of a highly The pilots’ union said that its board vot- of Cast, a software-analysis company, said secretive industry. “There is just so little ed 20-0 to ask that Chairman and CEO Southwest’s explanation “doesn’t add up”. reliable data on this,” said Edin Gary Kelly and Chief Operating Officer “When you have an outage like this that Omanovic, a researcher at Privacy Mike Van de Ven be removed. Union lasts as long as this one did and takes as International, a London-based advocacy President Jon Weaks said the company long to put back on track, that’s typically a group. “These commercial tools are being used in a strategic and offensive had focused too much on controlling costs software issue,” which is much more com- way in much the same way that military and buying back its own shares and not plex, he said. Jordan, the Southwest execu- tools are used.” enough to upgrade “critically outdated IT tive vice president, said that a Cisco router, The scope and sophistication infrastructure and flight operations”. The one of about 2,000 in the airline’s network, revealed in the Peru documents approx- leader of the mechanics’ union, Louie Key, failed “in a very abnormal way.” The router imates, on a small scale, US and British said the outage was the “final straw” on did not send messages to other parts of surveillance programs catalogued in top of unsettled contract negotiations and the network or connect with backup sys- 2013 by former National Security HERZLIYA, Israel: This July 28, 2016 photo shows the Verint offices. other disappointments. tems, he said. Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Southwest’s senior vice president of Jordan said Southwest’s routers are That trove showed how the US govern- labor relations, Randy Babbitt, said union designed to last seven years but are ment collected the phone records of demands were just part of the contract- replaced more frequently. He said the air- millions of Americans, few suspected of bargaining process. “Their maneuvering is line’s network had plenty of redundancies crimes. Even after some reforms, there is not about our leaders. It’s not about ‘IT built in, but that the company was still still much to be done in the US and infrastructure,’” Randy Babbitt said in a studying the outage. Oversight of com- abroad to rein in Big Brother, privacy statement released by the company. “This puter systems “is primarily done by advocates say. is about the union’s approach to contract Southwest Airlines now,” Jordan said, “and Reached at Verint’s corporate head- discussions and its attempt to gain lever- as we transition to a new data center over quarters in Melville, New York, an assis- age in negotiations.” Southwest officials the next year, that will change” and mostly tant to CEO Dan Bodner said the com- blamed a faulty router for a July 20 outage be handled by contractors. The decision to pany would have no comment. “We typ- that briefly grounded all flights. Southwest contract out much of the data center work ically don’t comment to reporters,” said Barbara Costa. Verint and its main com- struggled for several more days with was made long before last month’s out- petitors hail from nations with well- unusually high cancelations and delays. age, he said. —AP funded spy agencies, including the United States, Israel, Britain and Germany, and have operated with limit- Hackers accessed Telegram ed oversight. With more than $1 billion in yearly sales, Verint is a major, long- messaging accounts in Iran time player in an industry whose secre- cy makes its size difficult to quantify. Verint Systems Ltd., the subsidiary that SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON: Iranian ery” emails. “If you have a strong Telegram pass- sold the surveillance package to Peru, is hackers have compromised more than a dozen word and your recovery email is secure, there’s based in Herzliya, Israel, outside Tel Aviv. accounts on the Telegram instant messaging nothing an attacker can do,” said Markus Ra, the In regulatory filings, the parent cor- service and identified the phone numbers of 15 spokesman. Iranian officials were not available poration boasts upward of 10,000 cus- million Iranian users, the largest known breach to comment. Iran has in the past denied gov- tomers in more than 180 countries, of the encrypted communications system, ernment links to hacking. including most of the world’s largest cyber researchers told Reuters. The attacks, companies and US law-enforcement LIMA, Peru: Pedestrians talk on their cellphones on Monday. —AP photos which took place this year and have not been Rocket Kitten agencies. The company says its prod- previously reported, jeopardized the communi- The Telegram hackers, the researchers said, ucts help businesses run better and price of dissent is arbitrary detention, phones and computers and turns them according to agency documents, with cations of activists, journalists and other people belonged to a group known as Rocket Kitten, “make the world a safer place”. In 2007, forced labor and torture, the group said. into listening posts. The United States eight listening rooms and parabolic in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is which used Persian-language references in Verint provided Mexico with a US-fund- A report submitted to the UN by three has not ratified the amendment; the antennae affixed outside to capture used by some 20 million people, said independ- their code and carried out “a common pattern ed, $3 million surveillance platform rights groups deemed torture by the federal Commerce Department pro- satellite downlinks. ent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and of spearphishing campaigns reflecting the aimed at fighting drug cartels. secret police systematic, unpunished posed rules that raised objections in Control of Pisco was shifted to the Amnesty International technologist Claudio interests and activities of the Iranian security Surveillance sales account for about and encouraged. Silicon Valley. Israel says it is complying, national police after the spying scandal Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian apparatus”. Anderson and Guarnieri declined to a third of its business. However, the Three years ago, metal worker and the European Union ratified the that crippled the intelligence agency. hacking groups for three years. comment on whether the hackers were company discloses little about those Kudrat Rasulov reached out to Karayev update. But Schaake, the EU lawmaker, Verint sent Israeli personnel to train Telegram promotes itself as an ultra secure employed by the Iranian government. Other products, which it says collect and parse from Uzbekistan via Facebook seeking said its 28 member states act independ- Peruvian operators, adding eight instant messaging system because all data is cyber experts have said Rocket Kitten’s attacks massive data sets to “detect, investigate advice on how he could help promote ently and “technologies continue to be months of instruction at the host gov- encrypted from start to finish, known in the were similar to ones attributed to Iran’s power- and neutralize threats”. It also does not free expression in his country. The exile exported to countries that are known ernment’s request, records show. One industry as end-to-end encryption. A number ful Revolutionary Guards. identify its law enforcement and intelli- said he suggested that Rasulov, now 46, human rights violators.” major eavesdropping tool has, howev- of other messaging services, including The researchers said the Telegram victims gence agency clients, but the AP inde- write critical commentary on local Surveillance technology from Israel, er, been active in Peru since October. It Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp, say they have similar included political activists involved in reformist pendently confirmed through inter- media reports. Rasulov’s weekly reports meanwhile, is being used in South can physically track any phone in real capabilities. Headquartered in Berlin, Telegram movements and opposition organizations. views and documents that it has sales in were then published online under a Sudan, where a 2 1/2-year-old civil war time using geolocation. Under a July says it has 100 million active subscribers and is They declined to name the targets, citing con- countries including Australia, Brazil, the pseudonym. Rasulov thought he was has claimed tens of thousands of lives, 2015 decree, police can locate phones widely used in the Middle East, including by the cerns for their safety. “We see instances in United States, Mexico, Colombia and being careful. He created a new email a panel of UN experts reported in without a court order, but would need Islamic State militant group, as well as in Central which people ... are targeted prior to their Switzerland. account for every article he sent, and January. UN and human rights groups one to listen in. and Southeast Asia, and Latin America. arrest,” Anderson said. “We see a continuous About half of Verint’s surveillance the two men discussed the articles over say the government deploys it to track Government officials wouldn’t offer Telegram’s vulnerability, according to alignment across these actions.” The dealings are in the developing world, Skype. But after six months, Rasulov was down, jail and torture dissidents and details on what software was being Anderson and Guarnieri, lies in its use of SMS researchers said they also found evidence that said analyst Jeff Kessler of Imperial arrested. He is serving an 8-year-prison journalists. The ability of South Sudan’s used to track cellphones. But two text messages to activate new devices. When the hackers took advantage of a programming Capital in New York. The Peru installa- sentence for subversion. intelligence agency “to identify and months before the decree, DINI officials users want to log on to Telegram from a new interface built into Telegram to identify at least tion - known as Pisco, a nod to the local Karayev believes Rasulov was illegally apprehend individuals has said payment had been authorized for a phone, the company sends them authorization 15 million Iranian phone numbers with brandy - illustrates how the private sur- undone by surveillance, and Human been significantly enhanced” through Verint geolocation product called codes via SMS, which can be intercepted by the Telegram accounts registered to them, as well veillance industry has piggybacked on Rights Watch agreed. The court’s sen- the acquisition of “additional commu- SkyLock. That software enables phone- phone company and shared with the hackers, as the associated user IDs. That information multibillion-dollar government research tence found he was convicted based in nications interception equipment from tracking within the country, and a pre- the researchers said. Armed with the codes, the could provide a map of the Iranian user base in the West. Many security experts who part on his Skype communications and Israel,” the UN experts wrote. mium version can pinpoint any mobile hackers can add new devices to a person’s that could be useful for future attacks and honed their skills in Israel’s military have contact with Karayev, the group said in They did not name the suppliers, phone in most countries. All four Telegram account, enabling them to read chat investigations, they said. gone to work in the private sector, effec- a report. “They were reading Skype. and a government spokesman Peruvian phone companies agreed to histories as well as new messages. “We have “A systematic de-anonymization and classifi- tively putting their tech chops at the They were listening to his phone calls. declined to discuss the issue. While cooperate on geolocation, signing a over a dozen cases in which Telegram accounts cation of people who employ encryption tools service of less sophisticated nations for That’s the way they build their cases,” there is no direct evidence that Verint is pact with the government the details of have been compromised, through ways that (of some sort, at least) for an entire nation” has a fraction of the cost. said Steve Swerdlow, the report’s a supplier, an AP reporter confirmed which were not disclosed. sound like basically coordination with the cell- never been exposed before, Guarnieri said. Ra Like spy tools wielded by larger author. the names of two company employees Civil libertarians consider warrant- phone company,” Anderson said in an interview. said Telegram has blocked similar “mapping” nations, Pisco lets officials “intercept and In Colombia, Verint has racked up on a flight in May from Ethiopia to the less geolocation a dangerous invasion Telegram’s reliance on SMS verification attempts in the past and was trying to improve monitor” satellite networks that carry millions in sales. As recently as 2015, US South Sudanese capital of Juba. Typing of privacy, especially in a nation with makes it vulnerable in any country where cell- its detection and blocking strategies. Cyber voice and data traffic, potentially put- customs officials funded maintenance on a laptop, one was working on a pervasive public corruption. Peru’s phone companies are owned or heavily influ- experts say Iranian hackers have become ting private communications of millions for a wiretapping system, according to presentation that named the three incoming congress is dominated by enced by the government, the researchers said. increasingly sophisticated, able to adapt to of Peruvians at risk. A software manual government contracts. Nearly a decade telecoms that operate in the country. Fuerza Popular, a party associated with A spokesman for Telegram said customers can evolving social media habits. Rocket Kitten’s tar- offers step-by-step instructions on how ago, its products were abused by offi- Verint did not respond to questions imprisoned former President Alberto defend against such attacks by not just relying gets included members of the Saudi royal fami- to intercept those communications with cials who were later sacked for illegal about whether it supplied surveillance Fujimori. He ran one of the most corrupt on SMS verification. Telegram allows - though it ly, Israeli nuclear scientists, NATO officials and Verint equipment: Connect to a satellite, eavesdropping, senior police and prose- technology to South Sudan. Latin American regimes in recent histo- does not require - customers to create pass- Iranian dissidents, US-Israeli security firm Check identify the callers, then “open a voice cutors told the AP at the time, speaking An activist jailed for four months in ry. In July 2015, the Verint surveillance words, which can be reset with so-called “recov- Point said last November. —Reuters product” - their jargon for a phone call. on condition of anonymity because Juba said his interrogators spoke platform got caught in the chaos of Next on the flow chart: “Voice is heard.” they were not authorized to speak pub- openly about tapping his phone, Peruvian politics. —AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE UK court rules health service can fund HIV prevention drug

LONDON: Britain’s state-funded health serv- duty to fund pre-exposure prophylaxis, or authorities say they have no money.” mates it would cost between 10 and 20 mil- “would clearly affect the likelihood that their ice is responsible for paying for an HIV-pre- PrEP, a daily treatment that greatly reduces The judge ruled that the health service lion pounds ($13 million and $26 million) a drug could be commissioned.” Some have vention drug that has been called a “game the risk of becoming infected with HIV. “erred in deciding that it has no power or year to make it available to those at high HIV argued that the drug might encourage high- changer” in the fight against AIDS, a court The National Health Service argued that it duty” to commission the treatment. “The risk, including people with HIV-positive part- risk, unprotected sexual behavior, but it has ruled yesterday. The health service said it “does not have the legal power to commis- power of NHS England includes commission- ners and those who have frequent sex with- been endorsed by the US Centers for Disease would appeal, which means the drug — sion PrEP,” because preventative public health ing for preventative purposes, and this out condoms. The health service said it would Control and the World Health Organization. which advocates say can prevent infection in measures are the responsibility of local gov- includes for HIV-related drugs,” Green said. appeal Tuesday’s ruling, but in the meantime Dr. Michael Brady, medical director of people at high risk of contracting HIV— is still ernment. Judge Nicholas Green said there The NHS — which supplies free or subsi- would also review the case for PrEP, and AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, said some way from becoming widely available in was a strong case for preventative treatment, dized prescription drugs to all Britons — would ask drug company Gilead — which the drug was a “game changer” that would Britain. The National AIDS Trust charity “but one governmental body says it has no could still decline to prescribe the drug if it markets the drug under the name Truvada — “significantly increase the momentum in our argued that health authorities have an ethical power to provide the service and local decides it is not good value for money. It esti- to lower its asking price. The NHS said that fight against the virus.” — AP China’s ‘mosquito factory’ aims to wipe out Zika, other diseases

GUANGZHOU: Every week, scientists in year and Zika has become a concern for southern China release 3 million bacteria- athletes at this year’s Olympic Games, infected mosquitoes on a 3 km (two-mile) which open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. long island in a bid to wipe out diseases Some athletes, including the top four such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika. ranked male golfers, have declined to take The scientists inject mosquito eggs with part. An outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil wolbachia bacteria in a laboratory, then last year has spread through the Americas release infected male mosquitoes on the and beyond, with China confirming its first island on the outskirts of the city of case in February. Guangzhou. The bacteria, which occurs US health officials have concluded that naturally in about 28 percent of wild mos- Zika infections in pregnant women can quitoes, causes infected males to sterilize cause microcephaly, a birth defect marked the females they mate with. by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems in babies. The World Health Organization has said there is strong scientific consensus that Zika can also cause Guillain-Barre, a rare neurologi- cal syndrome that causes temporary paral- ysis in adults. Sun Yat-sen’s Xi said that several coun- tries had expressed interest in his experi- ments, especially Brazil and Mexico. In the laboratory, mosquito eggs are collected from breeding cages containing 5,000 females and 1,600 males and injected with the wolbachia bacteria. Xi’s facility has the capacity to breed up to five million mosqui- toes a week. While a female mosquito that acquires wolbachia by mating is sterile, one that is ST PETERSBURG: Florida Gov Rick Scott addresses the media during a round-table discussion about the Zika virus in St Petersburg, Fla, Monday. infected by injection will produce wol- FLORIDA: This 2006 file photo provided The CDC issued an advisory, Monday, that says pregnant women should not travel to the so-called Zika “transmission area” in Florida and preg- bachia-infected offspring. Dengue, yellow by the Centers for Disease Control and nant women who live there should take steps to prevent mosquito bites. The advisory comes after 10 new infections of the Zika virus were fever and Zika are also suppressed in wol- Prevention shows a female Aedes aegyp- reported in the same Miami neighborhood likely transmitted by local mosquitoes. — AP bachia-injected females, making it harder ti mosquito in the process of acquiring a for the diseases to be transmitted to blood meal from a human host. The humans. Xi set up his 3,500 square metre Aedes aegypti mosquito is behind the Zika outbreak prompts travel (38,000 sq ft) “mosquito factory” in 2012 large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin and releases the males into two residential America and the Caribbean. — AP areas on the outskirts of Guangzhou. warning for area of Miami “The aim is trying to suppress the mos- Xi said the mosquito population on the quito density below the threshold which island has been reduced by more than 90 can cause disease transmission,” said percent. One villager on the island, 66 year- MIAMI: In a highly unusual travel warning, extremely small skulls. The global outbreak has women who are pregnant are doing that. I don’t Zhiyong Xi, who is director of the Sun Yat- old Liang Jintian, who has lived there for six health officials advised pregnant women to led to more than 1,800 serious defects. think they’re sitting around waiting for the CDC sen University Centre of Vector Control for decades, said the study was so effective he avoid a part of Miami where mosquitoes are to split hairs and fine-tune it to a specific area.” Tropical Diseases and pioneered the idea. didn’t have to sleep with a mosquito net any apparently transmitting Zika directly to humans. VIRUS IN BLOOD AND URINE CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said the nar- “There are hot spots,” Xi said. “This tech- longer. “We used to have a lot of mosquitoes Health officials last Friday announced that The virus can linger in the blood and urine for rowly drawn warning was dictated by science nology can be used at the beginning to tar- in the past. Back then some people were mosquitoes have apparently started spreading weeks and has been found in sperm for months. and not by any concern for Florida’s crucial get the hot spots ... it will dramatically worried that if mosquitoes were released Zika on the US mainland, citing four cases they As a result, the CDC said men and women who tourism industry. He said it was based on the reduce disease transmission.” Mosquito- here, we would get even more mosquitoes,” strongly believe were caused by bites. Ten more have recently been in the affected area should nation’s ability to contain previous outbreaks of borne diseases are responsible for more he said. “We have a lot less mosquitoes now cases were announced Monday, even though wait at least eight weeks before trying to con- other diseases carried by the same mosquito. than one million deaths worldwide every compared to the past.” — Ruters Florida authorities have yet to find any mosqui- ceive a child. And men who have had symptoms “There wouldn’t be a technical or scientific toes actually carrying the virus. of Zika should wait at least six months, the CDC basis to give a broader recommendation,” Of the 14 people infected, two are women said. The travel warning covers an area of about Frieden said. Speaking yesterday morning on and 12 are men. Eight patients showed symp- one square mile in Wynwood to the east of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Frieden said offi- toms of Zika, which can include fever, rash, joint Interstate 95 and south of I-195. It’s large cials were finding it hard to eradicate the mos- pain and red eyes. The others had no symptoms. enough, health officials said, to provide a buffer quito in the affected area. The disease is often so mild that most people around the suspected hot zone. The tropical “It could be that the mosquitoes there are don’t know they are infected. All 14 cases are mosquito that spreads Zika travels less than 200 resistant to the insecticide being used,” he said, thought to have occurred in Miami’s Wynwood yards in its lifetime. adding that it could take weeks for federal and arts district, a trendy, fast-gentrifying neighbor- Dr. Peter Hotez, a tropical medicine expert at state officials to figure that out. hood of warehouses, art galleries, restaurants the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, said the He also said mosquito control is difficult in and boutiques. Rosemary LeBranch was doing CDC should be more cautious and expand the that neighborhood. “This is an unusual neigh- laundry in Wynwood when health officials came travel advisory to all of Miami-Dade County. “If borhood, or an emerging neighborhood,” to her house a few days ago and took urine sam- you’re pregnant or think you might be pregnant, Frieden said. “It’s mixed use. It has industrial, ples from her, her daughter and her father. Her avoid travel to Miami, and possibly elsewhere in business and residential and that makes mosqui- father, Gabriel Jean, tested positive for Zika, she South Florida,” he said. “I’m guessing most to control very complex.” — AP said Monday. He had already spoken with a doctor and was advised to wear long shirts and pants outdoors. Going to the Rio Olympics? “He said nothing hurts; he doesn’t have any pain. He doesn’t feel anything,” she said. More than Some health risks to consider 1,650 cases of Zika have been reported in US states. Nearly all have been the result of travel to NEW YORK: Traveling to the Olympics? Don’t let nesses, including chikungunya, which has been a Zika-stricken country or sex with someone illnesses meddle with your fun. spreading in Brazil and other parts of South HOLMDEL: Dr Wayne Aldredge, president of the American Academy of who was infected abroad, but now more than a Roughly half a million people from around America in the last few years. It has some of the Periodontology, sits for a photo at his office in Holmdel, N.J. Aldredge acknowledges dozen people have been infected in the US. the world are expected to travel to the Olympics same symptoms as Zika, but the joint pain is the weak scientific evidence and the brief duration of many studies on flossing, but Florida health officials said they have tested in Rio de Janeiro. And while Zika is in the spot- often debilitating and can give people a says that the impact of floss might be clearer if researchers focused on patients at more than 200 people in Miami-Dade and light, there are other bugs and health problems stooped appearance - the name chikungunya the highest risk of gum disease, such as diabetics and smokers. — AP Broward counties since early July. An emergency that Olympic athletes and spectators should comes from a word meaning “to become con- response team from the Centers for Disease keep in mind. What’s the biggest threat? Health torted.” Like Zika, there is no vaccine or cure for Medical benefits of Control and Prevention will help Florida authori- experts say the most likely cause of death or it. There are vaccines or medicines for other ties investigate the outbreak, collect samples serious harm to travelers everywhere is injuries mosquito-borne diseases seen in Brazil, includ- and control mosquitoes. from car accident, falls, crime or other mishaps. ing yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria. dental floss unproven But that’s not what’s on the minds of people Those aren’t considered much of a threat for AGGRESSIVE STRATEGIES headed to the Olympics, said Dr. Nicholas Van Olympic visitors, though. HOLMDEL: It’s one of the most universal rec- demonstrate that flossing is generally effec- Scott asked for a CDC emergency team to Sickels, associate director of Tulane University’s ommendations in all of public health: Floss tive in plaque removal,” said one review con- help Florida combat Zika, which has been travel medicine clinic in New Orleans. WHAT ELSE COULD MAKE ME SICK? daily to prevent gum disease and cavities. ducted last year. Another 2015 review cites sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean in “Zika is what brings them in the door,” Van If a traveler to the Olympics gets sick, it’s Except there’s little proof that flossing works. “inconsistent/weak evidence” for flossing and recent months and now may be gaining a long- Sickels said of recent clinic visitors. A look at most likely from drinking water or eating under- Still, the federal government, dental a “lack of efficacy.” dreaded foothold in the US. The White House those health problems, and what athletes and cooked or unclean food, said Dr. Martin Cetron organizations and manufacturers of floss One study review in 2011 did credit floss said a team will be sent quickly. travelers can do about them. of the US Centers for Disease Control and have pushed the practice for decades. with a slight reduction in gum inflammation - “We will continue to keep our residents and Prevention. Food should be peeled, boiled or Dentists provide samples to their patients; which can sometimes develop over time into visitors safe utilizing constant surveillance and HOW BIG A THREAT IS ZIKA? cooked. Avoid food from street vendors, and the American Dental Association insists on its full-fledged gum disease. However, the aggressive strategies, such as increased mosqui- The risk of getting sick from Zika is low, espe- fruits and vegetables that have not been thor- website that, “Flossing is an essential part of reviewers ranked the evidence as “very unreli- to spraying, that have allowed our state to fight cially compared to other illnesses that a visitor oughly washed, experts suggest. Drink bottled taking care of your teeth and gums.” able.” A commentary in a dental magazine similar viruses,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said in a to Rio might suffer. It’s winter in Brazil; a time water or beverages. And maybe pack some The federal government has recommend- stated that any benefit would be so minute it statement Monday. when mosquitoes that spread the virus are at a medicine for diarrhea, Cetron said. Some swim- ed flossing since 1979, first in a surgeon gen- might not be noticed by users. Government health officials warned pregnant low ebb. But for mothers-to-be, the stakes are ming areas in Rio are contaminated with eral’s report and later in the Dietary The two leading professional groups - the women Monday to avoid the Zika-stricken part very high because an infection during pregnan- sewage, and the CDC advises avoiding swallow- Guidelines for Americans issued every five American Dental Association and the of Miami and told couples who have been cy can cause serious birth defects. That’s why ing mouthfuls of water and staying away from years. The guidelines must be based on scien- American Academy of Periodontology, for there recently to put off having children for at pregnant women have been told to stay away. beaches with warning signs. tific evidence, under the law. specialists in gum disease and implants - cit- least two months, after the number of people Last year, the Associated Press asked the ed other studies as proof of their claims that feared infected through mosquito bites in the BUT HOW CAN I AVOID ZIKA? ANYTHING ELSE? departments of Health and Human Services flossing prevents buildup of gunk known as U.S. climbed to 14. The virus is mainly spread by tropical mos- It’s flu season in the Southern Hemisphere, and Agriculture for their evidence, and fol- plaque, early gum inflammation called gin- The CDC also said expectant mothers should quitoes, though it also can be transmitted so expect that people in Rio may be sneezing or lowed up with written requests under the givitis, and tooth decay. However, most of get tested for the virus if they have visited the through sex. Travelers can protect themselves coughing and spreading flu germs. Flu and oth- Freedom of Information Act. these studies used outdated methods or test- neighborhood since mid-June. Jordan Davison from mosquito bites by, among other things, er respiratory illnesses are probably the second When the federal government issued its ed few people. Some lasted only two weeks, and Melissa Felix work for a cruise line and were wearing long sleeves and long pants and using most common thing travelers to the Olympics latest dietary guidelines this year, the flossing far too brief for a cavity or dental disease to enjoying their day off Monday looking at insect repellents. Also, stay in places with air will get, Cetron said. Wash your hands and drink recommendation had been removed, without develop. One tested 25 people after only a Wynwood’s spray-painted murals. conditioning or that use window and door lots of uncontaminated fluids, experts say. notice. In a letter to the AP, the government single use of floss. Such research, like the “It’s not like a big thing, right?” the 25-year- screens, the CDC suggests. acknowledged the effectiveness of flossing reviewed studies, focused on warning signs old Davidson said. “It’s kind of freaky. There’s so had never been researched, as required. like bleeding and inflammation, barely deal- WHAT IF I GET SICK IN BRAZIL? much going on we didn’t know, didn’t really WILL I KNOW IF I’M INFECTED? Eu me sinto doente. That’s Portuguese for “I The AP looked at the most rigorous ing with gum disease or cavities. think about it. ... I might wear bug spray going research conducted over the past decade, Wayne Aldredge, president of the peri- You might not. Most infected people do not feel sick.” Talk to a doctor or nurse if you feel very forward.” get sick, and those that do usually experience ill, especially if you have a fever, the CDC focusing on 25 studies that generally com- odontists’ group, acknowledged the weak sci- CDC officials said they could not remember pared the use of a toothbrush with the com- entific evidence and the brief duration of only mild symptoms, like fever, rash, red eyes, advised. The CDC website has information another time in the 70-year history of the dis- joint pain, that ends within a week. But some about finding medical care while abroad and bination of toothbrushes and floss. The find- many studies. In an interview at his private ease fighting agency when it told members of ings? The evidence for flossing is “weak, very practice in New Jersey, he said that the impact infected adults have developed a paralyzing also offers some health terms in Portuguese. the public not to travel someplace in the US. condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome. Officials do not expect a lot of Olympic travelers unreliable,” of “very low” quality, and carries “a of floss might be clearer if researchers focused Zika infections in pregnant women can cause moderate to large potential for bias.” on patients at the highest risk of gum disease, The same mosquito spreads other tropical ill- to take Zika home with them. — AP severe brain-related birth defects, including “The majority of available studies fail to such as diabetics and smokers. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

MUMBAI: In this Feb. 21, 2016 photo, Indian Dawoodi Bohra women walk past others shopping for clothes in a Bohra neighborhood in Mumbai, India. The Dawoodi Bohras are an affluent trading community of about a million MUMBAI: In this June 29, 2016 photo, Indian Muslim woman Shagufta Sayyd, right, sits along with her mother people concentrated mostly in Mumbai, but also seen across the United States and Europe. The community has a Shama as they listen to Khawtoon Shiekh, an activist of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, or the Indian Muslim longstanding tradition of circumcising girls, known as khatna, going back to their roots in Yemen and its proximi- Women’s Movement, at their office in Mumbai, India. — AP Photos ty to northern and northeastern Africa, where the practice is deeply entrenched. Battle within Indian Muslim sect on circumcising girls

MUMBAI: When Bilqis talks about hav- was pulled up and her legs and arms Syedna Muffadal Saifuddin said at a thinking “one social milestone passed. ing circumcised her daughter, she goes held down. A sharp pain followed. She recent gathering in Mumbai. “Men have One responsibility dealt with.” back and forth on how she feels - some- came home in tears. to do it, and even women have to do it.” Sameena, now 22, is a graduate stu- times within the same sentence. Activists say the two cannot be com- dent at an Ivy League school in America. The slender 50-year-old doctor No laws pared, because there is enough scientific She has not had sex, which is not unusu- defends what is widely known as female She did not understand what had evidence to show that male circumcision al for women her age in India. But like her genital mutilation within her small, pros- happened until her 30s, when she read has health benefits. mother, she talks about it without the perous Shia Muslim sect in India, saying about female genital mutilation. India As the Dawoodi Bohras have traveled coyness or shyness of most young Indian it’s a mild version that amounts to “just a has no laws banning female circumci- the world, they have taken the closely women. Sameena is gradually coming to little nick. No harm done.” Yet she also sion, and Ranalvi says the letters she has held ritual of circumcision with them. terms with the knowledge that she was acknowledges regret and guilt at put- sent to Dawoodi Bohra leaders have Alefiya, a 34-year-old social worker in the circumcised at age 7. “It’s a very clear ting her daughter through a practice the been ignored. The Dawoodi Bohras are United States, remembers the khatna memory,” she says. “I remember thinking, United Nations calls a violation of girls’ an affluent trading community of about being done by her grandmother’s sister why is this woman coming to me?” rights. “It’s really nothing, it changes a million people concentrated mostly in in a cold basement in New York. It was There was no discussion or explana- nothing,” repeats Bilqis, who asks to be Mumbai, but also seen across the United awkward and painful, she says. tion of what had happened. Sameena anonymous except for her religious States and Europe. In the winding lanes Alefiya, who asked for her full name says it didn’t hurt, but the memory name because of the personal nature of of a Bohra neighborhood, observant not to be used for privacy, objects as makes her uncomfortable, although she the subject. But she adds: “I have no men are distinguished by white and much to the message sent as to the act can’t say exactly why. doubt in my mind that it is not helpful. ... gold embroidered caps and beards. itself. Older Dawoodi women call the cli- The next time it came up was when If I had a young daughter now there’s no Women wear a long, colorful tunic down toris “haraam ki boti” or sinful flesh - the she was 15 or 16, with other Dawoodi way I would have her circumcised.” to their ankles, and a scarf over their hair. flesh that can lead a woman astray. Bohra girls at school. “Ask your mom,” The struggle within Bilqis and her The Bohras are known for their liberal they said. She did. Her mother told her it Dawoodi Bohra community reflects a attitude toward the education of Horrible, disgusting was something done in their communi- growing debate over the best way to women. Yet the community is also tight- “It’s horrible, it’s disgusting, that ty. Then, spurred in part by the increas- address a custom that is proving stub- ly controlled by an entirely male clergy, these completely natural experiences ing discussion around khatna in her bornly hard to eradicate. At least 200 with headquarters in upscale Malabar are made to feel dirty,” she says. “The community, Sameena began research- million girls and women alive today have Hill in southern Mumbai. Here, alongside guilt of sexuality is always on our heads. ing circumcision of Bohra women. First undergone some form of female genital the homes of Bollywood stars and bil- ... I’m not angry at my mother. I’m angry there was denial. cutting, according to the United Nations lionaire business tycoons, sits the at the men who make these rules.” “How can they do this? We’re educat- - 70 million more than in 2014 because sprawling Saifee Mahal, the home of the Bilqis, dressed in slim pants and a ed women,” she remembers thinking.C of increases in both population and religious head known as the Syedna. sleeveless blouse, comes across as the And then anger. She says many Bohras reporting. And the U.N. predicts the When they reach puberty, Bohra boys epitome of the modern Indian woman. are misled to believe that Islam con- number of victims will increase signifi- and girls take an oath of loyalty to the She lives in a swanky high-rise apart- dones the procedure, when no other cantly over the next 15 years because of Syedna, and he has a say in almost every ment building with views of manicured NEW DELHI: In this Feb. 16, 2016 photo, Masooma Ranalvi, an activist who Muslim community in India practices population growth. aspect of their lives, including marriage gardens, a luxury in a city of matchbox broke the silence around female genital mutilation in her Dawoodi Bohra female circumcision. Faced with this prospect, experts in and funerals. From Mumbai to New York, homes. And she talks openly about her community last year with a series of online petitions that sought to ban it, “Who the hell are you to control any- the respected international Journal of medical professionals receive the sex life, breaking a taboo that runs deep speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in New Delhi, India. one’s sexuality?” she says. “I was very, Medical Ethics in February proposed Syedna’s blessings to perform circumci- in Indian culture. Ranalvi remembers when she was seven, her grandmother promised her very pissed off.” She confronted her permitting small female genital cuts that sion for girls, known as khatna. The pro- She grew up in an observant Bohra candy and ice cream. Instead, she was taken to a dingy room in a back alley mother, and told her she would never do “uphold cultural and religious traditions cedure goes back to the community’s family in central India, the only girl where Khatna, circumcision of girls, was performed on her. such a thing to her own daughter. She without sacrificing the health and well- roots in Yemen and its proximity to among 10 brothers and cousins. Her harmful nor traumatic for her, she says, She tells her female patients that cir- accused her mother of hypocrisy. Yet her being of girls and young women.” But northern and northeastern Africa, where father wanted them all to get a good and has not hurt her sex life. cumcision has no benefits and potential anger is with the community rather than this approach is already carried out in the practice is deeply entrenched. education. It was almost drilled into her As a doctor, however, she knows that risks. Yet by the time they talk to her, her mother; both women describe their the Bohra community and is proving Circumcision has become a battle- that she had to become a doctor. the circumcision of a little girl - some- with their mothers or mothers-in-law, relationship as very close. highly controversial. ground for the two Bohra men vying for It was a childhood more liberal than times by midwives and older Bohra they’ve usually made up their minds to They agree that the custom should “They always say it’s just a nick and a succession, the half-brother and the son most girls in India can dream of. Her women in the community - can be trau- go forward. be abolished but differ on how. Bilqis touch, but there are incidents where of the former Syedna. The half-brother father never forced her to dress or matic. She remembers a time when a fears that the few vocal activists speak- things have gone horribly wrong,” says says it is time to end the practice. The behave a certain way. Her mother was a child came to her after being cut too No discussion or explanation ing out may only drive it deeper under- Masooma Ranalvi, who broke the silence son, whom most Dawoodi Bohras accept much more silent presence, but she nev- deep, requiring blood vessels to be cau- Fifteen years ago, she felt the same ground. But Sameena does not want around female genital mutilation in her as their new leader, says the tradition er pushed her daughter toward tradi- terized. She does not have religious way. There was no nail-biting self-doubt slow and silent change - she wants the community last year with a series of must continue and notes that Bohra tional female roles either. Bilqis did not sanction to actually perform circumci- or anxious buildup. She says she acted religious leadership to come out against online petitions that sought to ban it. men are also circumcised. He declined to set foot in the kitchen. sions. But in the past she has given cer- out of a sense of religious obligation. the practice. “It’s not going to end by not Ranalvi remembers when she was 7, comment, but laid out some of his views “When I got married, I could barely tificates of circumcision to non-Bohra Bilqis told her daughter Sameena she talking about it. You have to keep bring- her grandmother promised her candy in an earlier speech. “Our community is boil an egg or make tea,” she says. She women who wanted to marry men in would get a small injection. A nurse ing it up as something that should not and ice cream. Instead, she was taken to very pure compared to other people, was circumcised as a child, but has only her community, even though many had snipped off a tiny bit of skin. The girl did be done,” she says. “That’s the only way a dingy room in a back alley. Her dress and it’s our duty to keep it that way,” the faintest memory of it. It was neither never had the procedure. not cry, Bilqis says. She remembers to tackle it.” — AP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016

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t was an awesome night on Friday at the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait (NECK) premises in Kuwait City as Christians from different denomina- tions gather for the ‘All Nations Night’. The power-packed program featured lots of activities including praise worship, bible teaching and other cultural displays. Different nationalities presented their songs in differentlanguages. There were Christian representatives from US, Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, ISierra Leone, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ivory Coast, India, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Togo, Kenya, Egypt and The Philippines. The event was organized by the Life Abundant International Fountain Church (LAIF). WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 information

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22:40 So You Think You’d Survive? Weather 12:30 The Goldbergs 23:30 Fast N’ Loud 10:15 Science Of Stupid 13:00 Community 00:20 Kindig Customs 10:40 Science Of Stupid 13:30 Breaking In 01:10 Diamond River Hunters 11:10 Cesar To The Rescue 14:00 Black-Ish 02:00 Venom Hunters 12:05 Mega Factories 14:30 The Grinder 03:35 Spooks 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 02:50 So You Think You’d Survive? 03:20 Calimero 13:00 Alaska Fish Wars 15:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 04:30 Doctors 14:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 15:30 Galavant 05:05 The Musketeers 03:35 Zou 03:45 Loopdidoo 15:00 Engineering Connections 16:00 Last Man Standing 06:00 Doctors 16:00 Science Of Stupid 16:30 George Lopez 06:30 Doctors 04:00 Art Attack 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 16:30 Science Of Stupid 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 07:00 Holby City 17:00 Cesar To The Rescue 18:00 The Simpsons 08:00 Death In Paradise 04:35 Calimero 04:50 Zou 18:00 Mega Factories 18:30 Black-Ish 08:55 Call The Midwife 03:00 Discovery ID 19:00 Engineering Connections 19:00 Young & Hungry 09:45 The Musketeers 09:00 Discovery ID 05:00 Loopdidoo 05:15 Art Attack 20:00 Science Of Stupid 19:30 Young & Hungry 10:40 Doctors 15:00 Discovery ID 20:25 Science Of Stupid 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 11:10 Doctors 21:00 Discovery ID 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 05:50 Calimero 20:50 Cesar To The Rescue Jimmy Fallon 11:40 Death In Paradise Discovery Science HD 21:40 Mega Factories 21:00 Galavant 12:35 Call The Midwife 03:00 Mega World 06:00 Zou 06:20 Loopdidoo 22:30 Engineering Connections 21:30 Last Man Standing 13:20 The Musketeers 03:48 Mythbusters 23:20 Explorer 22:00 You’re The Worst 14:15 Doctors 04:36 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 06:35 Art Attack 07:00 The Hive 00:10 Science Of Stupid 22:30 Bordertown 14:45 Doctors 05:00 Prank Science 00:35 Science Of Stupid 23:00 Web Therapy 15:20 Death In Paradise 05:24 Through The Wormhole With 07:10 Zou 07:25 Loopdidoo 01:00 Cesar To The Rescue 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 16:15 Call The Midwife Morgan Freeman 02:00 Mega Factories 00:30 Galavant 17:05 The Musketeers 06:12 How Do They Do It? 07:40 Jungle Cubs 08:05 Sofia The First 02:55 Engineering Connections 01:00 Last Man Standing 18:00 Doctors 06:36 Food Factory 01:30 You’re The Worst 18:30 Eastenders 07:00 How Do They Do It? 08:30 Miles From Tomorrow 08:40 PJ Masks 02:00 Bordertown 19:05 Death In Paradise 07:26 Mythbusters 02:30 Web Therapy 20:00 New Tricks 08:14 Through The Wormhole With 09:10 Doc McStuffins 21:00 New Tricks Morgan Freeman 09:40 Doc McStuffins 09:55 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 21:55 Ripper Street 09:02 Mega World 03:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 22:50 Spooks 09:50 How Do They Do It? 10:00 Sofia The First 10:30 Sofia The First 03:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 23:45 Doctors 10:14 Food Factory 03:48 Henry Danger 00:15 Eastenders 10:38 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 11:00 The Lion Guard 11:30 Jake And The Never Land 04:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 04:00 Armored 00:45 New Tricks 11:02 Magic Of Science 04:36 The Haunted Hathaways 06:00 Ladder 49 01:40 New Tricks 11:26 Mythbusters Pirates 12:00 Jake And The Never Land 05:00 Max & Shred 08:00 Robot Overlords 02:35 Ripper Street 12:14 Through The Wormhole With 05:24 Henry Danger 10:00 Jesse Stone: Lost In Morgan Freeman Pirates 12:30 Gummi Bears 05:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Paradise 13:02 How Do They Do It? 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 12:00 Armored 13:26 Food Factory 13:00 Sofia The First 13:30 Doc McStuffins 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 14:00 Ladder 49 13:50 Mega World 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 16:00 Unstoppable 14:38 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 14:00 The Lion Guard 14:30 Aladdin 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:00 Robot Overlords 15:02 Magic Of Science 07:48 Winx Club 20:00 Edge Of Tomorrow 03:00 Nathan For You 15:26 Mythbusters 14:55 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 08:12 Harvey Beaks 22:00 Four Brothers 03:25 Nathan For You 16:14 Through The Wormhole With 08:36 Breadwinners 00:00 Act Of Valor 03:50 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 15:05 Goldie & Bear 15:30 Miles From Tomorrow 09:00 Get Blake 02:00 Backdraft 04:15 Ridiculousness 17:02 Mega World 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 04:40 Disorderly Conduct: Video 17:50 Mythbusters 16:00 Doc McStuffins 16:25 Doc McStuffins 09:48 Henry Danger On Patrol 18:40 Through The Wormhole With 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 05:30 Tosh.0 Morgan Freeman 16:55 Sofia The First 17:25 Sofia The First 10:36 The Haunted Hathaways 05:55 Tosh.0 19:30 Freaks Of Nature 11:00 Winx Club 06:20 Lip Sync Battle 19:55 Freaks Of Nature 17:50 The Lion Guard 18:15 Jake And The Never Land 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 04:00 Father Of The Bride 06:50 Lip Sync Battle 20:20 How Do They Do It? 11:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 07:15 Catch A Contractor 20:45 Food Factory Pirates 06:00 Chef 18:45 Jake And The Neverland 12:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 08:00 Grosse Pointe Blank 08:05 Disorderly Conduct: Video 21:10 Mega Engineering 12:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles On Patrol 22:00 Freaks Of Nature Pirates 10:00 Father Of The Bride 19:00 PJ Masks 13:00 Breadwinners 12:00 Cas & Dylan 08:55 Nathan For You 22:25 Freaks Of Nature 13:24 The Loud House 09:20 Nathan For You 22:50 Through The Wormhole With 19:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 14:00 Father Of The Bride Part II 20:00 Doc McStuffins 13:48 Harvey Beaks 16:00 Grosse Pointe Blank 09:45 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 14:12 Rabbids Invasion 10:10 Ridiculousness 23:40 Mythbusters 20:30 Sofia The First 18:00 Julie And Julia 21:00 PJ Masks 14:36 Henry Danger 20:00 Laggies 10:35 Key And Peele 00:30 How Do They Do It? 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 11:00 Workaholics 00:55 Food Factory 21:30 Aladdin 22:00 A Night At The Roxbury 22:00 Jungle Cubs 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 00:00 Hits 11:25 Catch A Contractor 01:20 Freaks Of Nature 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 12:15 Nathan For You 01:45 Freaks Of Nature 22:25 Gummi Bears 02:00 Julie And Julia 22:50 Zou 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:40 Nathan For You 02:10 Through The Wormhole With 16:36 The Loud House 13:05 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 23:20 Calimero 17:00 Sanjay And Craig 13:30 Ridiculousness 17:24 Harvey Beaks 13:55 Disorderly Conduct: Video 23:35 Zou 23:50 Loopdidoo LAGGIES ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 17:48 Breadwinners On Patrol 18:12 Henry Danger 14:45 Lip Sync Battle 00:05 Art Attack 07:20 Keeping Up With The 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 03:00 First Kid 15:10 Lip Sync Battle 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster Kardashians 19:00 100 Things To Do Before 05:00 My Girl 2 15:35 Catch A Contractor 00:45 Calimero 08:20 Keeping Up With The High School 07:00 Penguins Of Madagascar 16:30 Nathan For You 01:00 Zou Kardashians 19:24 Game Shakers 09:00 Mars Needs Moms 16:55 Nathan For You 01:15 Loopdidoo 09:15 Keeping Up With The 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 11:00 A Bug’s Life 17:20 Workaholics 01:30 Art Attack Kardashians 03:40 In Search Of Aliens 03:45 Wild 24 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 13:00 101 Dalmatians 17:50 Ridiculousness 03:15 The Hive 02:00 Calimero 10:15 Keeping Up With The 04:30 Ancient Aliens 04:40 America’s National Parks 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15:00 Pocahontas 18:15 Ridiculousness 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 02:15 Zou Kardashians 05:20 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 05:35 Mother Croc 21:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 17:00 Race To Witch Mountain 18:39 Key And Peele Teenage Witch 02:30 Loopdidoo 11:10 Keeping Up With The 06:10 Ancient Discoveries 06:30 Extreme Animal Babies 21:24 Breadwinners 19:00 Homeward Bound: The 19:03 Workaholics 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 02:45 Art Attack Kardashians 07:00 World War II: Lost Films 07:25 Wild 24 21:48 Breadwinners Incredible Journey 19:27 Tattoo Disasters Teenage Witch 12:05 Keeping Up With The 08:00 Ancient Discoveries 08:20 America’s National Parks 22:12 Sanjay And Craig 21:00 High School Musical 3: 19:50 Tattoo Disasters 04:10 Hank Zipzer Kardashians 09:00 The Universe 09:15 Wild Yellowstone: She Wolf 22:36 Sanjay And Craig Senior Year 20:13 Lip Sync Battle 04:35 Binny And The Ghost 13:05 EJ NYC 10:00 In Search Of Aliens 10:10 Ultimate Animal Countdown 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 23:00 Pocahontas 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor 05:00 Violetta 14:05 EJ NYC 11:00 Ancient Aliens 11:05 Man V. 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Monster 02:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 07:30 Blackfish 20:00 Ancient Discoveries 19:20 World’s Deadliest Animals 09:00 Paradise 21:00 The Universe 20:10 America’s National Parks 11:00 Parkland 22:00 Vietnam: Lost Films 21:00 Wild Kalahari 13:00 Fast Girls 23:00 WWI: The First Modern War 21:50 Predator Fails 15:00 Little Man Tate 00:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 22:40 Man V. 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Undercover 06:50 Disney Mickey Mouse Kardashians 19:20 American Pickers 23:30 The Daily Show With Trevor 07:50 Supa Strikas Noah 06:55 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 19:00 E! News 20:10 Pawn Stars 08:15 Phineas And Ferb 20:00 Botched 00:00 Tosh.0 And Cat Noir 08:40 Camp Lakebottom 20:35 Pawn Stars 00:25 Lip Sync Battle 07:20 Dog With A Blog 21:00 Botched 21:00 Counting Cars: Best Of 09:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 22:00 Famously Single 01:15 Underground With Dave 07:45 Dog With A Blog 09:10 Gravity Falls 21:25 Car Hunters Attell 23:00 E! 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` CHANGE OF NAME KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY I, Mukil Arasan, holder of Indian Passport No. (28/07/2016 TO 03/08/2016) G9180281, resident at No: 19, R.O.B. main street, Hall SHARQIA-1 Special Show “THE LEGEND OF TARZAN” 7:30 PM FINDING DORY 3:00 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 11:45 AM FANAR-2 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 10:00 PM FINDING DORY 5:15 PM Garden, Royepettai, THE CONJURING 2 2:00 PM SUBMERGED 11:30 AM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:30 AM FINDING DORY 7:30 PM Chennai - 14, India. Have KANGAR HOBINA 4:45 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 1:30 PM LAMMA SHOFTAK (When I Saw You) 10:00 PM changed my name from KANGAR HOBINA 7:00 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 3:45 PM AVENUES-1 THE CONJURING 2 12:15 AM Mukil Arasan in future, I will THE CONJURING 2 9:15 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 6:00 PM FINDING DORY 11:45 AM be known as Abdul THE CONJURING 2 12:05 AM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -3D 8:15 PM KANGAR HOBINA 2:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 Rahman. (C 5197) THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 10:30 PM DISHOOM -HINDI 4:15 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 12:30 PM SHARQIA-2 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:45 AM KANGAR HOBINA 7:00 PM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 2:45 PM I have THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 1:00 PM KANGAR HOBINA 9:15 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 5:00 PM changed my name as KANGAR HOBINA 1:30 PM FANAR-3 KANGAR HOBINA 11:30 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 7:15 PM Uppalapati Subbarayudu ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3:30 PM FINDING DORY 12:15 PM THE CONJURING 2 9:30 PM Raju, instead of Uppalapati THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 5:45 PM SUBMERGED 2:30 PM AVENUES-2 THE CONJURING 2 12:15 AM Subbarayudu. Any objec- ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 8:00 PM SUBMERGED 4:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN -3D-4DX 12:30 PM AL-KOUT.2 tions please contact below THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 10:15 PM FINDING DORY 6:45 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: 3:00 PM address: Uppalapati THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:30 AM SULTAN- HINDI 9:00 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN -3D-4DX 5:30 PM JASON BOURNE 12:15 PM JASON BOURNE 2:45 PM Subbaraydu Raju, S/o SUBMERGED 12:15 AM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -3D-4DX 8:00 PM Uppalapati Chengalraju, SHARQIA-3 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN -3D-4DX 10:30 PM JASON BOURNE 5:15 PM JASON BOURNE 7:45 PM D/No: 3/74, Passport No: JASON BOURNE 12:15 PM FANAR-4 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN -3D-4DX 1:00 AM ABU SHANAB 10:15 PM JASON BOURNE 2:45 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 12:00 PM G3449557, JASON BOURNE 12:30 AM FINDING DORY 5:15 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2:15 PM AVENUES-3 Gangarajupuram (VI), JASON BOURNE 7:30 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 4:45 PM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 11:45 AM AL-KOUT.3 Raghavarajupuram (P.O), Rly ABU SHANAB 10:00 PM THE CONJURING 2 7:00 PM THE CONJURING 2 2:00 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:45 PM Kodur (M), Kadapa (Dst), JASON BOURNE 12:15 AM THE CONJURING 2 9:45 PM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 4:45 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 3:00 PM Andhra Pradesh, India. THE CONJURING 2 12:30 AM THE CONJURING 2 7:00 PM FINDING DORY -3D 5:15 PM (C 5196) MUHALAB-1 THE CONJURING 2 9:45 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 7:30 PM 2-8-2016 JASON BOURNE 12:15 PM FANAR-5 THE CONJURING 2 12:30 AM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 9:45 PM JASON BOURNE 3:00 PM JASON BOURNE 11:30 AM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:05 AM JASON BOURNE 5:30 PM JASON BOURNE 2:00 PM AVENUES-4 ABU SHANAB 8:00 PM JASON BOURNE 4:30 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 11:30 AM AL-KOUT.4 SITUATION WANTED JASON BOURNE 10:15 PM JASON BOURNE 7:00 PM JASON BOURNE 1:45 PM SUBMERGED 12:15 PM JASON BOURNE 12:45 AM JASON BOURNE 9:30 PM FINDING DORY 4:30 PM SUBMERGED 2:15 PM Finance Professional: A JASON BOURNE 12:05 AM ABU SHANAB 6:45 PM SUBMERGED 4:15 PM well-qualified (MBA, CPA), MUHALAB-2 ABU SHANAB 9:15 PM KANGAR HOBINA 6:15 PM Indian Finance Professional MARINA-1 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 11:30 AM NO MON KANGAR HOBINA 8:15 PM is looking for a change in FINDING DORY 2:00 PM JASON BOURNE 12:30 PM Special Show “THE CONJURING 2” 9:00 PM SUBMERGED 10:45 PM FINDING DORY 4:15 PM JASON BOURNE 3:00 PM MON SUBMERGED 12:45 AM job. 12 years of experience THE CONJURING 2 6:30 PM FINDING DORY 5:30 PM JASON BOURNE 11:45 PM in Investment Banking, Real THE CONJURING 2 9:30 PM JASON BOURNE 7:45 PM BAIRAQ-1 Estate & FMCG in the mid- THE CONJURING 2 12:30 AM JASON BOURNE 10:15 PM 360 º- 1 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 12:00 PM dle level position in Kuwait. JASON BOURNE 12:45 AM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 12:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 2:15 PM Excellent communicator MUHALAB-3 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 3:00 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -3D 4:30 PM and adaptable. Please call THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 12:30 PM MARINA-2 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 5:30 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -3D 6:45 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 9:00 PM 65094498. ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2:45 PM THE CONJURING 2 11:30 AM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 8:00 PM 1-8-2016 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 5:15 PM FINDING DORY 2:15 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN-3D 10:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 11:30 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 7:30 PM THE CONJURING 2 4:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 1:00 AM BAIRAQ-2 THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 9:45 PM ABU SHANAB 7:15 PM KANGAR HOBINA 12:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:05 AM THE CONJURING 2 9:30 PM 360º- 2 PRAYER TIMINGS ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2:45 PM THE CONJURING 2 12:15 AM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 11:45 AM FINDING DORY 5:00 PM FANAR-1 NOW YOU SEE ME 2 2:15 PM Fajr: 03:41 MARINA-3 KANGAR HOBINA 7:15 PM THE CONJURING 2 12:15 PM SULTAN- HINDI 5:00 PM ABU SHANAB 9:30 PM Shorook 05:09 KANGAR HOBINA 3:00 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 12:45 PM SULTAN- HINDI 8:15 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 11:45 PM KANGAR HOBINA 5:00 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 3:00 PM NOW YOU SEE ME 2 11:30 PM Duhr: 11:54 ABU SHANAB 7:15 PM ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 5:15 PM BAIRAQ-3 Asr: 15:30 KANGAR HOBINA 9:30 PM THE LEGEND OF TARZAN 7:30 PM 360 º- 3 JASON BOURNE 1:00 PM Maghrib: 18:39 ABU SHANAB 11:45 PM NO FRI FINDING DORY 12:45 PM KANGAR HOBINA 1:30 PM Isha: 20:07

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2016

CROSSWORD 1331 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) There are new ideas with regard to education and job possibilities. These Situations and people you thought you could rely on may test your prob- are issues that you are very prone to want to talk about, especially today. Today a friend lem-solving abilities. Talk things over, find out what is really happening and then you or relative may be returning to the education circle. Issues may need to be resolved should be able to bring a difficult situation around to a positive ending. A feeling that regarding your own education. Do not hesitate to get outside information or profes- things will work out correctly if left alone can be particularly misleading. Plans, decisions sional opinion if you think further education is right for you. Your mind is full of practical and problems prove easy to solve and may even turn lucky today. You feel successful and ideas, especially related to your job or skills. You enjoy working with your mind and can able to contend with difficulties. Good advice from a guide or older person may be in the usually find a solution to even the worst problems. Your skills in this regard make you forecast-a good day. You make your way now by using practical vision and common an expert at solving problems and you set good examples for others. Ideas of unidenti- sense. This could be some kind of high-water mark for your career, recognition, etc. You fied flying objects gain your attention this evening, perhaps time travel. may find that you enjoy your job or the responsibility it entails.

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

You are a solid supporter of others, especially when one can easily see This is a long dreamy time when you find it easy to lose yourself in one that they are on the right path. You will help if called upon to do so, but you may have flight of fancy or another. This could be dangerous if you did not have con- trouble staying focused. Future plans with a loved one may continue to flood your trol over your rational thinking. You may want to take on some form of exercise before mind. Sometimes the whole joy of an experience is in the looking forward. It might be a eating at the noon hour today. This will help you get rid of the stress that you may occa- smart thing if you were to allow yourself some time for work. Once you begin some sionally find in your day. A light lunch is preferable today. You may become interested in some political or civic activity this afternoon. You are particularly sensitive to beauty and problem solving in the workplace, others had better step aside. You have a stick-to- this afternoon favors buying art objects or other things of beauty. Purchases today are itiveness that always finds you in the thick of things. This is a time to investigate ways in likely to be a good investment over the long run. Take time to play with young people this which to better your working position. It could be a good time to take risks and dare to evening. A possible project for the family comes to your attention. be a little unconventional. A positive evening is in the forecast.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) A surge of independence, a need for freedom and an interest in trying new Your goals stand in stark contrast to the goals of others now and an adjust- and different things may take hold this morning. Because you are able to ment must be made. There is a need for compromise, for coming to an understanding. This is a time of decision, when small changes can have big effects later. 3. Someone who plies a trade. handle difficulties more easily than in the past, you may have strong desires for some new ACROSS kind of involvement. Careful-just when we think there are no more lions in the jungle, one Make the right choice and you have benefits; the wrong one or no choice at all does you 1. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters 4. A port city in southwestern Iran. may appear. In other words, go humbly through the next few days and enjoy the quiet no favors. This is a good day for practical ideas and planning about your work or vocation. after injection of a radiopaque dye. 5. A tricycle (usually propelled by ped- times as creative times. You have a lot of energy to pour into anything you want to You may receive some recognition or special attention regarding your particular skills and 4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer. alling). accomplish. Your increased self-confidence should bring you in touch with some rather abilities. You will be appreciative in all the appropriate places but quite frankly, you itch to 12. A flat wing-shaped process or wing- 6. Any place of complete bliss and delight interesting people and possibilities. Concentrate on securing business contacts. A new travel and may even have a family or friends meeting this evening to make some deci- like part of an organism. and peace. allergy or dental care program may be something for which you need to be attentive. sions on what a vacation might entail. 16. The framework of a bed. 7. A substance produced by the hypothal- 17. A river in north central Switzerland amus that is capable of accelerating the that runs northeast into the Rhine. secretion of a given hormone by the Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. Surveying instrument consisting of anterior pituitary gland. the upper movable part of a theodolite 8. A strong emotion. Fate sends opportunity your way, especially if you listen to your instincts Goals and security needs are a focus in your life at this time and they tend to including the telescope and its attach- 9. A hard gray lustrous metallic element and give your natural sense of curiosity a free rein. Travel and education can be at odds. Striking a rational but caring balance between setting goals and ments. that is highly corrosion-resistant. help uncover some of the answers that will give you the power or advantage you seek-do keeping within certain boundaries may take some consideration on your part. If you are 20. Inability to walk. not cut yourself off from such experiences. Mass communications can be financially planning a through-hike on the appalachian trail or any other adventure, packing for safe- 10. Not based on fact. rewarding in some ways-think about advertising, broadcasting, publishing, etc. Decisive ty is the first consideration. Now is the time to act and decide; failure to do so can upset 22. Expressing earnest entreaty. 11. The month following January and pre- action is the main order of this business day. This could have to do with how you respond delicate psychological, physical and emotional balances. A clear-minded insight into your 25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. ceding March. to change and maintain your independence. A change of residence may be necessary in own plans and methods is available to you. Your efforts in any matter will be received 26. Covered with paving material. 12. An associate degree in applied sci- order to take advantage of new career opportunities. Your originality and eccentricity are with favor, especially by those at a distance. This may mean you will be learning and tak- 27. The supreme commander of a fleet. ence. strong ingredients for your success now. ing on new experiences that will add to your evolution. 30. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 13. Set down according to a plan. 31. Any of various edible seeds of plants 14. An Arabic speaking person who lives of the family Leguminosae. in Arabia or North Africa. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 32. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agri- 19. Any of various hard resins from trees A relative or friend may have some career choices to make at this time. You The energies today indicate that you are bold enough to take the reins at culture and patron of scribes and schools. of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the may not be able to give direction but you can encourage and boost this most any desk. You find it easy to turn difficult situations into positive end results. 35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. genus Agathis. person’s self-esteem. In your own profession you will jump to the needs of many. There Everything points to your taking charge and directing the day successfully for yourself 38. Be idle. could be a hidden link that will highlight your point of view and gain the results that you 21. A genus of tropical American plants and for those around you. You are a good teacher and leader and should feel a great deal 39. According to the Old Testament he want regarding discussions in a meeting this afternoon. You will exhibit your abilities to be have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy of support for some new method or technique you have in mind. You are outgoing, over- candid and direct-saving the emotions for study at a later time. Remember to use your was a pagan king of Israel and husband of compound fruits composed of the fruits flowing and very generous so stop wondering why people flock around you to gain your mind and not your emotions. Your ambitions go hand in hand with communication and Jezebel (9th century BC). attention. Politics could be considered this birth year; you could make a positive differ- of several flowers (such as pineapples). using the mind and the two should never be far apart. A family discussion relates to mov- 40. A castrated tomcat. ence for many people. There could be some healing, especially for young people-you 23. The vertical triangular wall between ing, residence, domesticity, the possibility of a major purchase. 44. Of or relating to the stomach and the sloping ends of gable roof. love to listen to the sound of young voices. Make a wish! intestines. 24. Affect with wonder. 45. The largest island of the central 28. A special loved one. Ryukyu Islands. 29. The syllable naming the sixth (subme- Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 49. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory diant) note of a major or minor scale in Your ambition and drive are strong. You are able to use good sense and drug (trade name Relafen). solmization. Ideas and communications are topics of interest this morning. Getting the facts and making sure that people get your message straight can make all the difference make all the right decisions. There could be a change of job or an advancement of some 50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 33. Capital and largest city of Iraq. 52. The capital of Morocco. in the world. Through reading material or a television interview there may be some high- sort within the workplace. This is a time to get ahead by taking action. Fresh insight comes 34. The state of existing and being local- to you through some news media source, giving you a whole new perspective. If you 54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. level differences of opinion or outlook regarding fundamental religious or philosophical ized in space. beliefs. This may have you pondering, or questioning some of your very personal ideas enjoy listening to ideas and reports from strange sources, it would be better to discuss the 55. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) 36. Found pleasant or attractive. and beliefs. Someone you love may be highly emotional this afternoon. It might be a content among your non-working friends. This should prove to be a nice day that just that was responsible for research into 37. A promontory in northern Morocco good idea to suggest a physical checkup and find some vitamin therapy. You and your flows along. 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Diverge from the expected. 65. A chronic inflammatory collagen dis- 51. (physics and chemistry) The smallest ease affecting connective tissue (skin or component of an element having the joints). chemical properties of the element. 66. An inclined surface or roadway that 53. An active and efficient cause. moves traffic from one level to another. 56. A hard medicated paste made of lard 68. Agency of the United States govern- or oil mixed with wax or resin. ment charged with mediating disputes between management and labor. 58. With mature or developed appear- 71. Cause to go crazy. ance. 72. A state in northwestern North 60. Large swift fly the female of which America. sucks blood of various animals. 73. Land received by fee tail v 1. 63. An amino acid that is found in the 75. A loose sleeveless outer garment central nervous system. made from aba cloth. 64. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian 76. Capable of being attained or accom- mythology. plished. 67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and 79. A beverage made by steeping tea the Ivory Coast. leaves in water. 69. The right to take another's property if 80. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). an obligation is not discharged. 81. Bottom-livers having large eyes with 70. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. metallic green luster. 74. (meaning literally `born') Used to indi- 82. The compass point midway between cate the maiden or family name of a mar- northeast and east. ried woman. 77. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur. DOWN 1. Not elegant or graceful in expression. 78. A light strong brittle gray toxic biva- 2. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877- lent metallic element. 1923).

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Photo provided by Dale Sievert shows moss growing in a pot in Sievert’s gar- This undated photo provided by Dale Sievert shows moss growing in a small Moss growing in the snow in Sievert’s garden in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. den in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. private garden in Japan. Moss can be a versatile and beautiful addition to any garden

Paul Moore, who owned a garden center remove weeds and grass, provide moisture in Tennessee for over 30 years, can’t and keep it clear of debris; don’t let leaves Jcount the number of times people asked and sticks pile up. You can also move it him how to kill moss. He and other experts, around to where you want it: Mosses don’t however, say moss deserves more respect, as grow from seed, but they do spread from any a versatile and beautiful addition to any gar- part of the plant. “They can grow from a leaf den. “It’s stunning in the winter when every- or a stem or rhizoid,” says Martin. “Just cut thing else is dormant and dull. It’s like a little them up or tear them up.” emerald island,” says Moore, who’s got an You can also buy moss to plant. Martin entire moss lawn. “It changes with atmos- sells many species online from her moss nurs- pheric conditions - it’s ever-changing.” And it ery. “I have mats that roll out like a green car- looks better than his grass lawn did in pet,” she says. “They’re great for people who Nashville’s hot dry summers, he says. don’t have patience.” Moss will go dormant if Moss provides a variety of shapes and tex- it’s not watered, but uses less water than tures, and can work in everything from a con- most other garden plants. Unlike them, it has tainer to a whole lawn, like Moore’s. “Mosses no roots. The root-like structures you see offer year-round green,” says Annie Martin, when you pull up a clump of moss are called author of “The Magical World of Moss rhizoids. “Their only purpose is to hold it to Gardening” (Timber Press, 2016). It thrives in a the surface,” says Martin. Since moss takes in surprising range of climates; she once har- water and nutrients through its leaves instead vested some moss off a hot tin roof in June of through roots, several light waterings are and found it to be a species that also grows in better than a long drench. This also means Antarctica. that planting is easy: You don’t need to dig Some lessons on how to garden with moss holes or improve soil. can be found in Japan, where it is more val- This undated photo provided by J Paul Moore shows part of his moss yard in Nashville, “You can use nutrient-poor soil where ued. Dale Sievert has created Japanese-style Tenn. nothing else will grow and do nothing to gardens at his home in Waukesha, Wisconsin, prep it in advance except clear the debris and for public gardens in Wisconsin and start small. One possibility: Instead of using what Moore did when he decided to give up away,” Martin says. Another advantage: Moss Chicago. But this type of formal garden with mulch, plant moss to cover the ground under trying to grow grass in an area where it doesn’t need fertilizer or pesticides. The same great expanses of moss wasn’t actually what a perennial that’s bare at the bottom and big- refused to thrive. Within two or three years, substances that keep moss from freezing in he found most interesting when he visited ger on top. Or start even smaller: in a flower- the moss had covered about 5,000 square winter also taste bad to insects. But to its Japan. Rather, it was how often moss was pot. Sievert has about 300 containers planted feet. “The first thing people ask is, can you fans, moss’ best feature is its unique charm. used in private gardens along city streets, in with moss, where they thrive even in the walk on it? What does it feel like on your bare “When you talk about moss to anybody, they front of businesses and homes - just a couple Wisconsin winter. feet?” he says. “I say, ‘Take your shoes off!’” smile. It’s like the plant equivalent of a teddy square feet in a planter, or the space between Although heavy traffic will wear it down, and bear,” says Moore. “It conjures up elves in the This undated photo provided by Dale Sievert shows moss a sidewalk and a building. ‘Take your shoes off’ you wouldn’t want kids or dogs roughhous- forest.” — AP growing in a small private garden, on rock below tree, in “That’s how they garden with moss, in Another way to start is to encourage moss ing on it, moss actually likes to be walked on. Japan. — AP photos these little tiny spots,” he says. So, he says, where it’s already growing in your yard. That’s If you want to encourage moss to spread,

Kanye West hints at possible collaboration with Drake anye West has teased the possibility of collaborating on an album with Drake. The hip-hop superstars Kappeared together during a performance at OVO Fest in Drake’s native Toronto on Monday. At one point dur- ing the show, video shows West asking the crowd if they were “ready for this album” before pointing toward Drake as he entered the stage. Both Drake and West have mentioned the possibility of working with one another previously. The rappers also appeared together during a concert in West’s hometown of Chicago last week. — AP Kanye West and Drake

This file photo taken on April 27, 2009 shows actor Michael Douglas arriving with his son Kesha drops sex abuse lawsuit Cameron Douglas for the world premiere of ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. — AFP against Dr Luke to focus on music Michael Douglas’s son op star Kesha has dropped her sexual judge of Kesha’s bid to extricate herself from abuse lawsuit in California against record her recording contract sparked an emotional Pproducer Dr Luke, saying she wants to #FreeKesha campaign on social media that leaves prison after 7 years focus on getting back to her music. The “Tik earned support from leading stars such as Tok” singer, who has not released an album for Taylor Swift, Adele and Lady Gaga. Kesha is he eldest son of actor Michael Douglas to prison, according to the New York Post’s four years, will continue her fight in the New appealing the New York ruling and in April she has been released from prison after gossip section “Page Six.” York courts to get out of a multi-album record- released her first single in three years. Last Tserving seven years for drug trafficking, The Oscar-winning actor visited his son in ing deal with Sony Music and Dr Luke, her week, she started a US tour. and is now in a halfway house in New York, US prison regularly. He criticized the US penal attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said in a statement. On Monday she thanked fans for their sup- media reported on Monday. Cameron system when accepting an Emmy Award for “Kesha has dismissed her California action port. “My fight continues. I need to get my Douglas, 37, was sentenced in 2010 to five playing the role of the pianist Liberace in the without prejudice while she pursues her music out,” she wrote on her Instagram years in prison for possession and sale of TV movie “Behind the Candelabra” in 2013. “At appeal and other legal claims in the New York account. “I have so much to say. This lawsuit is methamphetamine. His sentence was extend- first I was certainly disappointed with my son, courts,” he said. “Kesha is focused on getting so heavy on my once free spirit, and I can only ed by two years in solitary confinement after but I’ve reached a point now where I’m dis- back to work and has delivered 28 new songs pray to one day feel that happiness again.” Dr he admitted smuggling drugs into the appointed with the system,” he said. “If you to the record label.” Luke’s attorney, Christine Lepera, said in a prison. Cameron, Michael Douglas’s son with happen to have a slip, they punish you. In my The 29-year old singer filed a lawsuit in statement the accusations against him were his first wife Diandra Luker, was originally set son’s case, he has spent almost two years in California in 2014 accusing Dr Luke, one of the “false and meritless” and that Kesha’s decision to be released in 2018 but is currently living solitary confinement.” The actor’s representa- music industry’s most successful producers, of to dismiss the sex abuse claims in California at a rehabilitation center in New York, EOnline tives did not immediately respond to a rape and emotional abuse during the early came “because she has no chance of winning and ABC News reported. Cameron Douglas request for comment from AFP. — AFP stages of her career. Dr Luke, whose real name them.” — Reuters now plans to write a tell-all book describing is Lukasz Gottwald, has repeatedly denied the his life as heir to one of the most respected claims and has countersued for defamation. In this file photo, Kesha appears on stage at the Billboard Hollywood dynasties and how drugs led him But the denial earlier this year by a New York Music Awards in Las Vegas. — AP Winfrey picks Whitehead novel for book club

prah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson “The Underground Railroad” was scheduled to come out in such as “The Intuitionist” and “John Henry Days,” and a finalist swore out loud - while on a plane - when he learned his book Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” a historical novel September, but after learning of Winfrey’s decision, Doubleday for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle had joined Winfrey’s pantheon of favorites. “I was in high school Othat imagines the network of safe houses and passages moved up the release date to Tuesday and more than doubled award. In “The Underground Railroad,” his sixth novel, he when her show became national,” he said. “She was an ambassa- that helped slaves escape to free territory is an actual train. the announced first printing, from 75,000 to 200,000. An interview imagines that the network of safe houses and passages that dor from black America and, obviously, a huge presence.” Winfrey told The Associated Press during a recent telephone inter- with Whitehead appears in the September issue of Winfrey’s mag- enabled slaves to reach free territory is an actual train. The Winfrey started her club in 1996 with Jacquelyn Mitchard’s “The view that she knew from the first sentence that she would want to azine, “O,” which comes out next week. Winfrey’s website, book was already highly anticipated, with the trade publica- Deep End of the Ocean,” and laughs as she recalls her early share her passion with her audience, an impulse she has relied on Oprah.com, will include a reading guide and Winfrey’s comments, tion Kirkus Reviews calling it “startlingly original” and praising doubts that you could use a television show to talk about a nov- with uncommon success for 20 years. “I was blown away by it,” and “Underground Railroad” will be featured on the social media Whitehead for examining “race mythology and history with el. Her choices would sell hundreds of thousands of copies, and Winfrey said. “‘Blown away’ is an often-used expression, but with site Goodreads (Goodreads.com/OprahsBookClub). rousing audacity and razor-sharp ingenuity.” Winfrey said the sometimes millions, but Winfrey originally saw the club as an this book it was to the point of sometimes putting it down and novel was so vivid she double-checked her history books to extension of what she did in person, when she handed out saying, ‘I can’t read anymore. I don’t want to turn the page. I want National Book Critics Circle award make sure the rail system didn’t exist. copies of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” to passers-by near to know what happens, but I don’t want to know what happens.’” Whitehead, 46, is the author of highly regarded novels During a recent telephone interview, Whitehead said that he where her program was taped in Chicago.—AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016

GOSSIP Justin Bieber has taunted Taylor Swift on Instagram he 22-year-old singer posted a picture of you need someone new to try and bury like Katy said: “We do that a lot. “[My kids] are addicted to himself on a video call with Taylor’s ex [Perry] ETC but I’m not that guy, sorry. I won’t it, they’re constantly talking about it, and I’m TCalvin Harris and Kanye West, who she is allow it. Please focus on the positive aspects of like, ‘Well you know what, it’s summer we have embroiled in a public feud with, and captioned YOUR life because you’ve earned a great one. nothing to do today, let’s go Britney is not the the image: “Taylor swift what up (sic).” Both God bless everyone have a beautiful day.” Kanye only star to become obsessed with the game, Calvin and Kanye are smiling in the picture and has recently been involved in a huge public spat Justin Bieber recently joined dozens of other no doubt all three had plenty to talk about. with Taylor over his controversial single ‘Famous’, people in New York’s Central Park as they His Taylor, 26, reportedly was not impressed with after she claimed she didn’t give him permission manager Scooter Braun posted a video of Justin Justin’s on/off relationship with her best pal to sing about her. However, his wife Kim as he ran into a huge swarm of people and Selena Gomez, 24, from 2011 to 2014 and it has Kardashian West decided to leak a series of everyone could be heard yelling about the rare been claimed that she urged Selena to dump videos on Snapchat which featured the rapper Gyarados creature as they tried to capture him. him. And Calvin, 32, would have had plenty to on the phone to Taylor discussing the controver- Scooter wrote: “This is amazing. @justinbieber say after his bitter break-up with Taylor in May sial lyrics and she appeared to give it the go- and @alfredoflores in nyc. He finished the post and her subsequent new relationship with Tom ahead. However, his wife Kim Kardashian West with lots of crying laughing emojis. John Mayer Hiddleston. He also recently slammed his former decided to leak a series of videos on Snapchat recently spent $99.99 for 14,500 PokeCoins, lover in a lengthy Twitter rant after it emerged which featured the rapper on the phone to while Tyga was Budapest airport. And Lily Allen she had secretly written his song ‘This Is What Taylor discussing the controversial lyrics and she revealed how she had become obsessed with it You Came For’, blasting her and her team for appeared to give it the go-ahead. The 34-year- and had even been hunting for them at the “going out of their way to try and make ME look old singer revealed her sons Jayden, nine, and Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in bad at this stage.” He added: “I figure if you’re Preston, 10, have gotten her into the hugely Hollywood. Lily has been sharing her new pas- happy in your new relationship you should focus popular mobile augmented reality game and sion with her fans on her Twitter page, The on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down they now play it together all the time. Speaking mum-of-two said the game was “pure escapism”. for something to do. “I know you’re off tour and on ‘Rove and Sam’ on Australia’s 2DayFM, she Adele was torn between Jonas brothers try not to two outfits for Glastonbury date the same women oe and Nick Jonas check in with each think there are times, if you’re around your other to make sure they don’t date the siblings too much, that they drive you crazy. performance Jsame women. Between them the famous But Nick and I get along, we like spending siblings have dated some of the world’s most time with each other, although I like to take dele was torn between two outfits for her per- beautiful women, including Kate Hudson, Lily control of the interior decorating stuff. I’m formance at Glastonbury festival. The annual Collins, Olivia Culpo, Demi Lovato and Gigi actually really glad that he’s let me take the Amusic extravaganza just 48 hours before gracing Hadid but Joe says they never date the same reins on that.” However, Joe is having a blast the Pyramid stage at the annual music extravaganza, women because they run it by the other with his new DNCE bandmates and revealed which saw her headline on June 25. Speaking about brother first. Speaking to hashtag Legend how he and Cole Whittle once got left behind styling the power house for her 90 minute gig, the cre- magazine, Joe, 26, said: “We’re pretty support- in Toronto after partying with a cheerleading ative director of the luxury French fashion house, Clare ive of each other. There might be a rare occa- squad. He said: “Me and Cole have had a pret- Waight Keller, said: “[I] fitted the dresses on her on the sion where we’ve got to make sure, ‘Hey, you ty crazy night one or two times where we Thursday before. I was at her house and she was going haven’t dated this person, have you?’” And he stayed up all night. Once we were in Toronto, between two looks, before deciding that [the one she hasn’t ruled out the possibility of the pair partying and hanging out with a cheerlead- wore] was ‘more Glastonbury.’ “When she had the dresses reuniting with older brother Kevin, 28, to ing squad, and we got left behind by our tour on she twirled around asking us what we thought. She’s reform The Jonas Brothers band. He said: bus, which was pretty amazing. So, five in the so cool, such a big personality, I love her.” And the creative “One day it will make sense to do something morning, the tour bus just took off without mastermind has revealed the designer label’s bohemian together again but, right now, we’re still us. We were literally at the border back to the vibe is perfect for festivals, and was what Adele most focused on our individual careers and that’s United States. We were just sitting on the wanted to channel in her black maxi embroidered dress what’s really important to us.” Nick, 23, and street in the freezing cold in the middle of at Glastonbury. She explained to the Telegraph.co.uk: Joe recently moved in together and while December waiting. We called the bus driver “There’s always been that bohemia spirit. You can be who they are both on the road a great deal with and he was like, ‘What do you mean? I already you want to be for that weekend and do things that you their individual music careers, Joe loves get- left. You weren’t there on time.’ The bus even- wouldn’t normally do. “The history of festivals is about ting to spend time with Nick when he can. tually came back for us, but it took about an this very sense of spontaneity and sense of freedom. I He said: “It’s pretty awesome. You know, I hour. We were drunk and happy enough to think the fact that there have been so many English would say it’s nice because we are both so just hang out and Cole kept pointing at the designers has [also] seeped in a bit to the culture [of the busy that we’re never at home at the same CN Tower and calling it the space noodle.” house]. There’s a feeling that these long flow-y dresses time. We can actually enjoy our space and not which might be worn for evening dress for some people, feel crowded, which I think is really nice. I can also be something you can fly around a festival in.” Meanwhile, the mother of one - who has son Angelo with her partner Simon Konecki - has revealed playing at Glastonbury was “the best moment of my life”. Speaking previously, the ‘Hello’ hitmaker said: “Oh my God, this is Will Smith refused to let the best moment of my life. Glastonbury means the world to me, I’m not even lying. “I have always wanted to do this but I’ve been too scared.” Margot Robbie tattoo him Price and Hayler to he 26-year-old actress showed up on thing that was really interesting: He said it’s the set of ‘Suicide Squad’ with a tat- not a movie of good versus evil, it’s a movie Ttoo gun and offered to ink her co- of bad versus evil, and this is one of the renew their wedding vows stars, including Will, 47, and Cara baddest casts in the whole damn world Delevingne, 23, but he was not impressed. right here.” ‘Suicide Squad’ follows the atie Price and Kieran Hayler will prised of her daughter Princess, nine, He told Entertainment Tonight: “I’m a group of incarcerated baddies as they are renew their wedding vows. The son Junior, 11, and four of their friends - grown-ass man. Margot comes bounding assembled to form a special black ops team Kcouple have got their marriage to guide the novice riders as they take into work with all of her 24-year-old glory to carry out a highly dangerous mission for back on track after Kieran was caught on the elitist world of pony clubs. And like, ‘Guys! Guys! I got a tattoo gun! I got a a secret US government agency. The world cheating with two of Katie’s close pals Kieran admitted his and 38-year-old tattoo gun! We’re all getting tattoos!’ I was premiere took place in New York City on and after Katie dressed up in a wedding Katie’s son Jett, who turns three later like, ‘No, we’re not.’” And Margot admits her Monday and the Warner Bros. Pictures dress during filming for her new reality this month, is already an experienced tattoo skills leave a lot to be desired. She movie hits cinemas on August 5. TV show, ‘Katie Price’s Pony Club’, Kieran rider. He said: “Jett already is! He has his said: “Picture what a four-year-old would admitted a vow renewal ceremony is on own pony, he’s on lead reigns, and he draw and stick it on your fridge. That’s kind the cards. In a Q & A with Tony Cowell loves the horses, and insists on feeding of one of my tattoos. “I tattooed Cara’s toes for TLC, he said: “Do you really think that them every night. He’s going to follow and she tattooed mine as well,” Meanwhile, would be the end of mine and Kate’s in his mum’s footsteps definitely!” ‘Katie Will revealed what he loves most about vow renewal? I can imagine there will Price’s Pony Club’ airs on Thursdays from ‘Suicide Squad’ is that it is a celebration of be another in the distant future! You August 18, at 9pm on TLC. “diversity” because of the eclectic cast and know she loves a wedding dress, and characters. He said: “What I love about she’s not scared to say so. Even when we working with this group, it’s a rainbow. It’s were filming she was on ‘Loose Women’ all races, creeds and colours. It’s the diversi- in a wedding dress, she just loves it! It’s ty that this country is supposed to be probably quite nice for some of the oth- about.” Praising director David Ayer’s work er husbands to see their wives back in on the project, he added: “I’ve made a lot of Wedding dresses, I’m sure it’s a lovely movies, and some of them you can’t even thing as a woman. Kieran also revealed count as movies. David Ayer said some- that while he initially found taking part in a reality TV show “strange”, he would be willing to work on another if Katie wanted him to. He said: “For me, I have never done it before so it was very German heavy metal festival bans bags amid security fears strange to have a camera put in your face for a lot of the time, but I was more eavy metal fans planning to attend this public events across Germany since a suicide to take in waist packs, and larger bags are still than happy to, everyone knows it’s what year’s Wacken Open Air festival in bomber blew himself up outside a music festival allowed at camping sites nearby. The Aug 4-6 fes- Kate loves and it’s what she does best. HGermany might want to travel light. in Ansbach last month, injuring 15 people. tival , held in a small village northwest of For me, it was more whether or not we Organizers say rucksacks and bags are banned Wacken spokeswoman Anna Lorenz said yester- Hamburg, is expected to draw 75,000 people this would get private time alone and with from the main festival grounds this year for secu- day that checking rucksacks would slow security year. The over 120 acts include Iron Maiden, the kids; and we were given that. I rity reasons. Safety concerns have increased at checks too much. But festival-goers will be able Saxon and Blind Guardian. couldn’t fault it. It was perfect. “Look whatever Kate wants to do, I will do, I’m her husband and that’s part of my role.” Former stripper Kieran, 29, also admit- ted he doesn’t miss his grueling work- outs to maintain the perfect physique. He said: “I had to have an amazing body, that’s what the women paid for. “Now I am happy at home and comfortable, I don’t want to go the gym six times a week and have an immaculate diet. I’m so happy now I can eat whatever I want.’ “I’m not in bad shape. But I’m happier now spending time with the kids - I don’t want to be stuck in the gym!” The new six-part series will follow Katie as she creates her own horse school - com- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 lifestyle

GOSSIP Zayn Malik on why he left One Direction

ayn Malik has more “freedom” to wear what he wants given the freedom to be able to wear whatever I want and ing in the moment. I try to keep my phone for calls.” since leaving One Direction. The 23-year-old singer that’s made it more interesting. More creative. I can say I Meanwhile the ‘PillowTalk’ hitmaker - who is currently dat- Zsongwriter has admitted he is able to wear “whatev- want to wear metal arms and it’ll happen.” And the dark ing supermodel Gigi Hadid and have allegedly moved in to er” now he has embarked on a solo music career, which haired hunk has revealed he does not like to use social a Los Angeles home together - has revealed the pair are allows him to be more “creative” and experimental with his media and refrains from using his phone to take selfies. He compatible because their career paths are similar. He said: ensemble and have a say in what garments he wants to explained: “As much as social networking is a big thing “She’s super intelligent, I think that’s why it works so well. wear. Speaking to Elle magazine about how his style has now, there’s something to be said about having something And we do the same type of job so we get that with each changed since he ditched his fellow band members, real, if I had a choice I would take the camera off everyone’s other. “I have a lot of respect for women because of them. including Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and iPhone and make sure we didn’t have Twitter or Facebook. They are so strong, powerful and do everything them- Niall Horan, he said: “Since leaving One Direction I’ve been It affects art form. There’s something to be said about liv- selves.”

Ellie Kemper has given birth he 36-year-old actress and her husband Michael Koman - who got married four years ago after a few Tyears of dating - recently welcomed their first child together, PEOPLE reports. No other details have been revealed. Ellie announced her pregnancy during a taping of ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ in April, but up until that point had kept her bump and exciting news under wraps. She told the host: “I have big news, I’m preg- nant!” before pointing towards her pretty floral dress. The funnyman immediately leaned over and said, “Hi baby” Kylie’s limited edition birthday before gifting her with a pot of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Ellie kept her pregnancy hidden from her co-stars while shoot- ing ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ but did confide in pro- ducer Tina Fey as soon as she found out. She said: “We had collection already is sold out a table read, and my character is supposed to be on a rollercoaster ... “It was still very early on, but I felt like a ylie Jenner’s birthday make-up collection sold out in bronze coloured eyeliner and gel liner called Kyliner, mini pregnant lady on a rollercoaster was not ideal so I had to five minutes. The 18-year-old beauty mogul - who matte lip kits featuring her popular glosses Dolce, Exposed, tell my boss, Tina Fey. She knows every secret. I told her Klaunched a limited edition Kylie Cosmetics make-up Candy, KoKo, Kristen, and her new maroon limited edition before I told my mom.” After telling Tina, the pair decided collection to mark her 19th birthday on Monday has shade Leo, as well as new lip gloss Poppin’. And the to conceal her pregnancy by telling everyone on set she revealed the recent addition to her line sold out in under ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star - who turns 19 on had suffered a back injury so couldn’t go on the roller- 10 minutes. The brunette beauty shared the news on her August 10 - has revealed the launch of the new products coaster - but Ellie found the lie harder to pull off than she Snapchat as she counted down to the live unveil on her e- saw her website attract the largest amount of customers expected. She admitted: “I could not act like I had a back store. She said: “ Oh my god we just 150,000 thousand peo- “ever”. She said: “I think this is the most we have ever had. injury. “I’m an actress, presumably. It was so [hard]. ple on my site with one minute to go. “180,000 people on This is crazy. “I want to cry!! Thank u guys so much!!” Someone asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ and words escaped me. the site “Oh my god 200,000 people and we haven’t been However, the television personality has admitted she will I’m like, ‘I sprained my spine.’ You can’t sprain your spine! up for one minute. “300,000 people are on my site right be restocking her company over the next 10 days. She You can’t do that! “I kept forgetting I had [a back injury] so I now. In five minutes and 300,000 people are on my site.” said: “We have a good amount of quantity so don’t get kept doing things someone with a back injury can’t do. And the brunette beauty took a still shot of just a black upset if we sell out, I will be restocking within the next 10 They’d say ‘Lunch!’ and I’d like leap up and do cartwheels to screen, with the caption: “Wow thank u guys ... everything days.” catering. You’re not supposed to do that!” else is sold out (sic).” The teen entrepreneur’s new release included two cream eye shadows infused with gold, dark Horan slams Zac Efron: I can’t date ac Efron says he will never be able to date anyone. than the positives. He added to The Times newspaper: “I fan for taking The ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ star doesn’t think lost my mind because of the internet. I’d read 30 positive Zhe will ever go on a “dictionary definition” date with a things and one bad thing, then I’d focus on that bad thing. girl as it would take a very long time to “dispel whatever It drove me crazy.” Meanwhile, Zac previously revealed he people think” about him. He said: “Dating is something I’ll used to Google himself every morning. He said: “What I photo of him never be able to do. As in the dictionary definition of dat- found is structure. That led me to a balance of opposites. ing, because one way or another I’ve impacted that per- You get out of life what you put in. “There was a moment son’s life and they’ll soon see it. A date has to be very long when my morning routine was, like, get up and Google sleeping to dispel whatever people think about me.” However, that’s yourself. But that stopped, dramatically and instantly, not to say Zac hasn’t tried the more modern methods of probably three years ago. I saw that viewing yourself iall Horan has slammed a fan for taking a dating, including signing up to the dating app Tinder, but through other people’s pictures is not living your own life. picture of him while he was asleep on a claims he was rejected because nobody believed it was “I wasn’t really being myself. A lot of my hobbies had gone plane. The One Direction singer was flying N actually him. He said: “Amazingly, when I signed up for out the window. I couldn’t skateboard or surf for fear of from London to Chicago to see his friend Ellie Tinder, nobody swiped me! They thought it was fake. That being followed. Crossing the line of fear is what leads to Goulding perform at the Lollapalooza music festi- never happened. Aha-ha.” And the 28-year-old actor also greatness.” val, when he met the fan, who snapped a picture of admitted he “lost his mind” because of the internet as he him sleeping after he declined a selfie. The fan would focus on the negative things people said rather shared the picture on social media and wrote: “And to sum up the perfect European adventure, I sat directly next to Niall from One Direction for 9 hours on my flight home from London last night. He was sick and asked for no selfies, but here is a pic I snapped when he was sleeping lol he was so Fergie jokes that Kim and Kanye’s friendly. “Talked about Ireland, LSE, lolla and more. Not a British Duke...But an Irish popstar will do. Thanks for treating me so well Europe! (sic).” Niall, 22, was furious when he found out about the pic- feud with Swift is a publicity ture and shared the post on Twitter with the words, “I think this thing is unreal. I mean if you can’t sleep ergie hopes Kim Kardashian West and It’s just my humour and I was trying to deflect on a plane without people taking photos of her husband Kanye West can find a way the drama, if you will. I don’t know, maybe it you,what can u do (sic).” Meanwhile, Simon Cowell Fto “make up” with Taylor Swift. The 41- was wishful thinking. But I mean, I’ve just recently hinted that Niall is set to announce a solo year-old singer recently got embroiled in the known them all a really long time, and I hope deal with Sony soon. Simon - who guided Niall and drama following Kim’s decision to leak a they find a way to make up.” Kim recently his One Direction bandmates to fame after discov- recorded conversation between her rap starred in Fergie’s racy video for her new sin- ering them on the UK version of ‘X Factor’ - show- superstar spouse and Taylor which confirmed gle ‘M.I.L.F. $’ along with other lingerie-clad ered praise on the singer and revealed that a big she knew about his controversial song hot moms Chrissy Teigen, Alessandra ‘Famous’ - which features lyrics where he calls Ambrosio, Ciara, Gemma Ward, Tara Lynn, announcement is coming. He said: “I think they’re the ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker a bitch and says Devon Aoki, Angela Lindvall, Isabeli Fontana, all gonna do great. Niall is the most loyal. We are they might have sex - before he released it. Amber Valletta and Natasha Poly. Fergie - who expecting to announce something soon with him. Leto brings Fallon Fergie made a throwaway comment that it has two-year-old son Axl with husband Josh I’ve always known he’s loyal.” Singer John Newman could all just be a big publicity stunt, a theory Duhamel - admits mother-of-two Kim, 35, also revealed that he has been working on new she insists was just a joke, but she genuinely was a “trouper” on set to pose in high heels material with Niall. He said: “I was having a text hopes the trio can become friends again for hours on end and was happy to be back and forth with Niall Horan the other night a gift from The Joker because likes all of them, In an interview with drenched in milk. The Black Eyed Peas star about some ideas, which is cool.” ared Leto presented Jimmy Fallon with box, Jimmy yelled again and said: “Oh no! UK radio station Capital, she said: “Oh my spilled: “Oh Kim was such a trouper. She was a live snake on the ‘Tonight’ show on Snake, get down! Joker... Snake! Get down. gosh, the other day I was doing this interview so professional. She worked long hours. I Monday. The 44-year-old actor refused Oh no, no, no, no no...” He then quickly and I was completely joking and I said some- don’t know how she stood on those 7-inch J thing about, ‘Oh maybe it’s all part of a plan, heels, whatever those were, 17-inch heels ... I to break character while filming ‘Suicide backed away from his desk as the serpent that they’re gonna be at the MTV Awards and don’t know.” Fergie was speaking on Roman Squad’ as The Joker and bombarded his co- got free of the box, and urged his guest to perform together,’ you know, whatever. I was Kemp on Capital which is broadcast Monday stars with gifts including a dead pig, live rescue it and move it away. Jared picked up just completely joking, it was just like a ran- to Thursday 7pm-10pm and on Sundays from rat, used condoms and bullets, and took the snake and held it out towards the talk dom thought. It’s, like, exploded as if this was 9am to 12pm. — Bang Showbiz things a step further by terrifying the talk show host, who ran away and implored the my conspiracy theory - no, I was just joking. show host while promoting the upcoming 30 Seconds to Mars frontman to “please movie. He stepped out on stage clutching a put it in the box”. Jimmy finally admitted: gift-wrapped box and said: “The Joker is a “Thank you Jared, that’s very, very nice big giver of gifts, and he was thinking of [but] I’m afraid of snakes a little bit.” Jared you and wanted to pass on this gift espe- then handed Jimmy a note, supposedly cially for you.” Jimmy apprehensively took from his alter ego. The presenter read: the box and said: “I’ve read about things “Dear sweet Jimmy, enjoy my snake, it’s and I’ve heard about things, I heard the long and skinny and easy to take.” As Jared Joker gave people rats and things before... put the snake back in the box, Jimmy This is a gift from the Joker? That’s very admitted he was thankful not to have been nice.” The presenter struggled to open the one of the cast members of the movie on box but once he got the lid off he the receiving end of his other gruesome screamed and recoiled. He said: “It’s real! gifts. He said: “I’m so glad I saw the movie Dude, what is this? He got me a snake!” As and didn’t have to act in it with you.” the tiny reptile slowly inched out of the lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016

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An ethnic Tibetan model wears a traditional costume and fine jewelry during a fashion show at a local government An ethnic Tibetan model wears a traditional costume and fine jewelry during a fashion show at a local government sponsored festival in Yushu, in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai. The festival held since the 1990s lasts for sponsored festival in Yushu. around five days. It was suspended for several years following a 2010 earthquake in Yushu which killed some 2,700 peo- ple. — AFP photos Traditional Costume and Jewelry festival in Yushu

An ethnic Tibetan model wears a traditional costume and fine jewelry dur- ing a fashion show at a local government sponsored festival in Yushu.

Ethnic Tibetan models wear traditional costumes and fine jewelry during a fashion show at a local government sponsored festival in Yushu. An ethnic Tibetan woman wears a traditional belt at a local government sponsored festival in Yushu.

Ethnic Tibetan models wear traditional costumes and fine jewelry during a An ethnic Tibetan man wears traditional boots. An ethnic Tibetan man wears a traditional costume and jewelry. fashion show at a local government sponsored festival in Yushu.

An ethnic Tibetan man wears a traditional costume and a ring. An ethnic Tibetan man wears a traditional costume and a dagger. An ethnic Tibetan woman poses for a photo. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016

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An ethnic Tibetan model wears a traditional costume and An ethnic Tibetan model wears a traditional costume and An ethnic Tibetan woman poses for a photo as she wears a An ethnic Tibetan woman wears a traditional costume. fine jewelry. fine jewelry. traditional ear ring.

An ethnic Tibetan woman wears a traditional hat.

An ethnic Tibetan boy wears a traditional head band. An ethnic Tibetan woman poses for a photo as she wears a traditional costume and jewelry.

An ethnic Tibetan woman wears a traditional costume and An ethnic Tibetan man wears a traditional costume and Ethnic Tibetan models wear traditional costumes and fine jewelry. fine jewelry. jewelry.

ICONIC ropes in Varun Dhawan as the brand ambassador CONIC, the youngest fashion destination from the stable of retail conglomerate Landmark Group has signed a two year Iendorsement deal with Bollywood’s shining young star Varun Dhawan. Extremely popular with women for his fresh looks and boy next door image and with men for his chiseled body and style statements Varun has managed to win hearts in a short span of his career. Riding high on the release of Dishoom, Varun talking on his association with ICONIC, said, “The Middle East is a huge supporter of Bollywood and I have received immense love when it comes to my movies. An asso- ciation with ICONIC, a trendy fashion destination stems from my passion for fashion coupled with a keen sense to stay in the hearts of the Arab world for a long time to come.” Raza Beig, CEO, Splash and ICONIC, said “An achiever at a very young age, we at ICONIC are proud to partner with the hot and charismatic Varun Dhawan. Both Varun and ICONIC are rapidly growing brand names in their own spaces and Tissot welcomes its lady ambassadors on the Tour de France hence a perfect fit for each other. Varun is a contemporary fashion icon with a clean, classic and current style and ICONIC s official timekeeper, Tissot was delighted to wel- Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France and Bernard offers a similar kind of fashion for its discerning audience. come its ambassadors Deepika Padukone and Liu Yi Hinault, five time Tour de France Champion before heading With the Region being at the forefront of fashion and AFei on the Tour de France to celebrate the final stage to the finish line. ICONIC being a local retailer we work with the most suited tal- in Paris. They were able to bear witness to one of the most This magnificent and idyllic venue presented the perfect ent, which essentially puts us firmly on the global fashion important moments of the Tour as the riders went passed setting to receive such personalities. Tissot and its ambassa- scene,” further added Raza. The first campaign featuring Varun the mythical Arc de Triumph and passed on Les Champs- dors shared a wonderful time while witnessing the charm of Dhawan with a leggy model will release across the GCC on Elysees to finally reach the last finish line. the Tour de France, which is the amazing scenery it presents September 1. ICONIC is located at The Avenues, The Mall, Level The leading Indian actress, who just received an award at to the world along the way. It is a time that they will remem- 1, Salam Mall -Salmiya and Sama Mall- Fintas. the IIFA (International Indian Film Academy), and the very ber, as it goes down in history with the crowning of the talented Chinese Actress and Singer, Liu Yi Fei, were wel- 2016 Tour de France Champion following 21 rough stages comed by Francois Thiebaud, President of Tissot at the Tour timed by Tissot. de France Village of Chantilly, with the likes of Christian German heavy metal festival bans bags amid security fears

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Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou shows one of his designs, during a fitting session. Palestinian women try on dresses designed by Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou. Palestinian designer for rich and famous pops up in W Bank

ami Kashou’s designs are worn by his unique style of dresses, including one resem- it.” A single Rami Kashou dress can cost several Hollywood stars and royalty but for the bling a bouquet of flowers with a pink and red thousand dollars, a sum impossible to imagine Rpast few days he has been back home in collar, which he said was inspired by a trip to for the vast majority of Palestinians, where the the occupied West Bank rather than London, Puerto Rico. The garments, including a magenta unemployment rate is around 27 percent and Paris or New York. As on most days, Yasser Arafat cocktail dress designed for supermodel Heidi one in five of those in work makes less than Square in central Ramallah was crowded with Klum, feature a range of exquisite fabrics such as $380 a month. Does the designer who has made pedestrians, taxis with screaming horns and fruit chiffon, georgette, lame and silk. it big in America really see opportunities in the sellers lugging their goods on carts. But tucked behind a nondescript door another world beck- oned: one of burgundy walls and floor-length Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou helps a Paestinian woman to try on mirrors, as Kashou hosted a three-day pop-up one of his designs. fashion shop. A handful of women of all ages browsed the elegant designs, occasionally trying on clothes under the watchful eyes of Kashou, who rushed to dispense fashion advice when needed. The US-based fashion designer has a list of celebrity clients including Hollywood actress Jessica Alba, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Queen Rania of Jordan. But Kashou, who is 40 and was born in Jerusalem, has now made copies for Palestinian women of his creations that they would otherwise only see in magazines. He left for the United States in 1996 and now lives in New York. “I was away for a long time,” the beard- ed, shaven-headed Kashou, dressed in black, told AFP in the store. “I usually come to visit my family, (but) this is the first time I brought my designs here.”

Project Runway Kashou shot to fame in 2008 when he appeared on the fourth season of the “Project Runway” reality television. He reached the finals, Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou helps a Palestinian woman to try on coming second to Christian Siriano, who one of his designs. designed the dress worn by US First Lady Michelle Obama as she addressed the Democratic National Convention last week. Palestinian women and their daughters choose dresses designed by designer Rami Kashou. Kashou said the show opened doors for him in Suha Hussein, 32, inspected herself in the Palestinian territories? “There is an important America and elsewhere. “I benefited a lot. It was mirror as she tried on a sleek black Moroccan- market here,” he said. “It is extremely important a big advert, especially for me as a Palestinian style dress with beads engraved around the to study the market to know the customers and designer,” he said. “And the Arab world became neck, based on an original made for Queen their needs.” “And it is wedding season, women aware of me.” He is now developing his brand in Rania. “I feel proud because we have such a tal- here want glamour.”—AFP Arab countries. ent and he is still interested in returning to his In Ramallah, the Palestinian political capital in country,” she said. Turning to the dress, she the Israeli-occupied West Bank, he showed off smiled: “I hope it isn’t too expensive, so I can buy

Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou helps a Palestinian woman to try on one of his designs.

Rami Kashou helps a Palestinian woman to try on one of his designs. Palestinian American fashion designer Rami Kashou smiles as a Palestinian woman chooses one of his designs.