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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti security forces and emergency personnel gather outside the Shiite Al-Imam Al-Sadiq mosque after it was targeted by a suicide bombing during Friday prayers on June 26, 2015 in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Local FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Local Spotlight Ramadan Kareem No more Ramadan, a gate for success

beach tan By Zeinab Hassan Ashry

llah (swt) prescribed upon us fasting because He trol our desires, or overcome destructive thoughts, ideas, (swt) desires only ease for us. In Surat Al-Baqrah (2- and actions which might make our fast useless. A185): “Allah desires ease for you. He desires no hard- Do your best to continue with the religious practices ships for you. Do complete the fasting of the prescribed you earned in Ramadan all the year round. However, set By Muna Al-Fuzai days, so that you should magnify Allah for having guided reasonable practical goals for your self so that you will be you, and so that you may be thankful.” able to continue and will not stop after some time. The Allah (swt) only wants to help us through fasting, and prophet (pbuh) said: “The best of good deeds in the sight make it easy for us to reform ourselves in order to attain Allah (swt) is that which lasts even if it is little.” [email protected] true success, since due to our human weakness we can very easily be influenced by whatever is going on around Skills of self-control us; and can easily be caught up in wrong practices. Fasting is a training program to acquire the skills of self- errorism is affecting everyone’s lives today Human being is created with the ability to learn good control. In Ramadan we are not only training ourselves to everywhere and tourism seems to be at risk. things just like learning bad things. In fact, our character is endure hunger and thirst, and control our desires, but TEuropean tourism companies received thou- the product of what we learn and what we practice. We rather we are learning how to control and improve all sands of requests for cancellation of bookings to cannot attain success and improve ourselves unless we aspects of our lives. Tunisia for the month of July after the deadly learn how to control our life and practice only goods This self-control and discipline exercised in Ramadan things. That is why it is said that man is a creature of habit, provide an excellent beginning for every one of us to attack there, which claimed the lives of 38 of what he practices. reform his/her life. The one who is able to control himself tourists, mostly from Britain, in the tourist area of Allah (swt), out of His mercy, guided us to the guaran- during Ramadan is going to be able, with Allah Almighty’s El Kantaoui in Sousse. The tourism companies teed way for success in developing our character and our support, to take control of himself for the other eleven received cancellation requests for this summer strength so that we will be able to resist and refuse those months. Success is always with those people who are able despite an announcement by the Tunisian gov- things which may take us away from the light of the truth to control themselves. ernment to step up security measures at hotels to the darkness of falsehood. Take control of your life. Do not follow the example of and beaches. the unguided people who deviated to the point that they Tourism is a key source of income for many The way for success became mastered by their desires, may be to the point that countries and now it is at risk because a tourist This guaranteed way for success is the complete sub- they lost control over their life, to the point that their goes to a place where there is comfort and safety mission to Allah (swt) and continuous practices and train- desires destroyed them physically, emotionally, and spiri- and does not want to die at the hands of a crazy ing till good deeds become our second nature so that we tually. terrorist. But unfortunately, it seems this summer find no difficulties in doing them. many people will be prevented from enjoying the Developing the power to challenge within ourselves The importance of fasting Another invaluable lesson we learn from fasting beach and getting a tan. Fasting is one of the tools Allah (swt) gave us to achieve Ramadan is developing the power to challenge within our- The cancellation of bookings is surely unpleas- this success. Fasting Ramadan is an unmatched practical selves. Fasting Ramadan is an experience that breaks the ant for all. But this is a normal reaction. It may take program which Allah (swt) prescribed upon us to enable us normal routine of life. This is a training in adapting to vari- some time for people to forget and be ready to gain control over our life, to discipline ourselves, train ous conditions and circumstances in one’s life. Ramadan again to go back to their normal lives and favorite ourselves in good deeds to the point that good deeds makes us discover our full potential to change our life, to summer destinations. The biggest problem is of become our nature. get rid of our bad habits, and adopt to better habits easily. tourists who were planning to visit Tunisia on Fasting generates a spiritual state that leads to constant One can always say to him/her self with confidence that their own, because they cannot make a cancella- remembrance of Allah (swt), which in turn guides us to if I can fast and stand the pains of thirst and hunger, I can tion or get compensation. This is sad, because think and act correctly, and this produces proper conduct do anything else. If I can change during Ramadan and Tunisia - as I know it very well - is a beautiful and guidance for more goodness in this life and in the adapt to new routine so easily why I cannot do it in any country with great beaches, but we are all passing Hereafter. other time of the year. Our bad habits can no longer beat through a delicate and tough time because of The spiritual gains of fasting are endless and cannot be us. Ramadan should give us the power to fight them. easily achieved by any other way but fasting. That is why After fasting Ramadan, every one can say to him/her self international terrorism. Allah (swt) said in holy Quran: “Fasting is good for you if proudly that: “I shall no longer underestimate my potential The reality of the situation in several countries you only know”. and my spiritual power. No more “I cannot” phrases will in Asia and Africa makes them worrying destina- During fasting we develop a high level of spiritual be in my life; Ramadan turns them into “I can” phrases.” tions for tourists. No one wants to venture to pos- strength, patience, endurance, and tolerance that enable sible war zones and possibly get killed there. The us to meet other challenges of life with more determina- The true success situation of Egypt is nearly the same as Tunisia. tion and steadfastness. Thus Fasting Ramadan is the key for the true success. Egypt depends on tourism as a source of income, However, the true success is not measured by pleasures of but now this industry is facing a great danger and Growing in righteousness the life of this world, by its wealth and power. The true government statements do not seem to reduce The greatest benefit we achieve from fasting is to grow success is to be a winner in the eternal-life of the Hereafter. the hesitation and concern of tourists. in piety (Taqwa). Quran, emphasized that the main wis- Allah (swt) said in Surat Al-Imran (4:185): “He who will be The tourism sector in Egypt and its investments dom behind fasting the month of Ramadan is to grow in saved from the Fire (displaced a little far from it) and be are part of the infrastructure associated with local Taqwa. In Surat Al-Baqrah (2): “O you who believe! Fasting admitted to Paradise will indeed attain true success. Verily employment and many private sector companies, (in the month of Ramadan) is prescribed upon you as it was the life of this world is nothing but goods and chattels of prescribed upon those before you, so that you may attain deception.” so any damage to the industry means the loss of Taqwah (piety and righteousness)”. In order to attain true success take control of your life work and failure of businesses. Egypt is not facing Taqwah is the source of all virtues and success. Taqwah and make all your life and death for the sake of Allah as a war against domestic terrorism only, but also is achieved through striving hard to please Allah and Prophet Abraham (PBUH) was commanded to supplicate: has a problem with Libya and this is really unfor- accomplish as many good deeds in this life as you can. “Say: Truly, my prayers, my services of sacrifice, my life, and tunate, because Egypt has a legacy of tourism not Taqwa leads to nothing but success both in this life and in my death are all for Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. There only for foreigners, but all Arabs. the Hereafter. is no partners with him. This am I commanded, and I am There is a need for a rescue plan for all coun- the first of those who submit to His will (Moslems)” (Quran tries that rely on tourism to boost security meas- What Taqwa means :) ures in order to ensure the safety of all visitors. Taqwa means to build a shelter between yourself and Let us pray to Allah (swt) to shower Moslems all over the Otherwise, these countries will lose an important wrong practices, a shelter between yourself and your own world, men and women, the living and dead, with His sector and lots of money because official state- evils, a shelter between yourself and your weakness. This Endless Mercy, Blessings, and Forgiveness not only in ments will not change the facts. For example, the shelter of Taqwa would act as a protection for you from all Ramadan but all year round. sorts of evils in this life and against the punishment of ministry of tourism and municipalities need to • Zeinab Hassan Ashry is a Master of Computer Allah (swt) in the Hereafter. Engineering, University of waterloo, Ont. , Canada. She has cooperate with the chamber of commerce and been giving Islamic classes for English speaking women for the interior ministry to monitor tourist sites, set Developing our full Capacity in Worshipping Allah many years. tight security measures and invite delegates in The most important lesson we learn from fasting small groups to visit the country. Ramadan is to develop our full capacity in worshipping Tourists will not stop traveling to where they Allah (swt). We learn from Ramadan that it is not that hard Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and educational can enjoy swimming, beaches and tanning. This is to obey Allah (swt). It is not that hard to refrain from dis- hub for English-speaking Muslims in Kuwait. For more the best message that everyone can send to all obeying Allah (swt). It is not that hard to fast, offer night information, please call 25231015/6 or e-mail prayers, give charity, help others, watch our tongues, con- terror organizations. [email protected] or visit www.tiescenter.net. Local FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 A look at YouTube’s Music Insights tool Taylor Swift may not visit Kuwait any time soon

planned April 11 concert by US rapper Akon at a large precedent, making sure the concert gets watched is just as This is an artiste’s top countries or cities based on views of capacity venue, SIRBB Kuwait, was called off by authori- important. Enter YouTube Music Insights. Music Insights is a official and fan-uploaded videos since Sept 2014. For example, Aties apparently because of the artiste’s suggestive lyrics. recently launched tool by YouTube that helps artistes (or the top country for Taylor Swift is still the US, where she was While some agree that his songs are a “bad influence”, others organizers) identify which countries or cities they are most viewed 712 million times. Kuwait, on the other hand, ranks reacted by saying authorities simply succumbed to parliamen- popular in and which of their songs are most viewed, includ- 79th with 3 million views. What can this mean? While fans may tary pressures. ing aggregate views of an artiste’s song uploaded by both the clamor for Taylor to come to Kuwait, the response may come And so, most likely, the concert’s cancelation has been for- artiste and fans. after the US (712m), Philippines (165m), Turkey (64m), India ever etched to the event organizer’s “experience”. While Here are the features of Music Insights. (32m) and Saudi Arabia (18m). weighing in an artiste’s morals will expectedly now become a Top countries Top songs This is an artiste’s top tracks using the same parameters as “top countries”. While Taylor’s “Bad Blood” is currently popular with 204 million views; this song, Kendrick Lamar, and thou- sands of her close pals were not enough to displace her one- billion-views strong “Shake it off”.

Aggregated view counts This is the total number of views for an artiste, whether offi- cial or through fan uploads. YouTube sensation Psy has 1.7 bil- lion aggregate views because of “Gangnam Style”, but Taylor trampled him still, since she has two songs surpassing or near- ing the billion view mark - “Shake it off” and “Blank Space”. Interestingly, Taylor Swift has been viewed 3.6 billion times, which is exactly half the world’s total population.

Regrettably, if based on aggregate views, it is unlikely that Kuwait will be included in Taylor’s upcoming 1989 World Tour. But Kuwait Swifties can always show their love and press “play” to up their chances of seeing Taylor. Now, what about Akon? Well, there’s always Bangkok, London, and Sao Paulo. Surprisingly, he has a lot of views in Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia; but just like what hap- pened in Kuwait, it is unlikely that Akon will step on any stage there. Overall, Music Insights gives valuable information to artistes and organizers and a lot of interesting facts for music fans. However, artistes are still being added to the database. This is why searches for popular YouTube artistes - Kuwaiti Hamad Alammari and Moroccan Saad Lamjarred - returned no results. Hopefully, they will be added in the future. But will the 1436 - 2015 “MPs in the house” say “yeah”? 16. Where did the first group of Muslims migrate to before the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam) Hijrah to Madinah?

Habshah, Abyssinia, now called Ethiopia Egypt Syria Local FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Salmiya Public Park in darkness, no comfort rooms! By Ben Garcia Another complaint voiced by park goers are the restroom facilities. “We’ve been visiting this garden for several years ue to the impossibly hot summers in Kuwait, many chil- now with my wife; we used to come here from work before. dren and families do not venture outdoors until after the But for more than a year now or maybe two years now, they Dsun sets. But playing outdoors in the nighttime at local closed the toilets without giving any alternative; I thought parks and playgrounds requires light and sadly, this is not always they are going to be renovated, but it’s been closed for years available, especially in underserviced and unkept areas of Kuwait. and there’s no hint of any repair. What if there are call of In the Salmiya Public Garden Park (also known as Indian Park) few nature and some emergencies where we should go, peeing lights are working and the place is pitch dark after sundown, in the open is not really good idea, but there’s no alterna- especially in kids playground. This means that the park, located in tive,” said Alfonso, who said he walks in the park almost Block 10, Salmiya, is virtually useful for the thousands of families every day. and children that live near it and might want to use it for evening picnics, iftar gatherings, children play time, jogging, walking or Open spaces other outdoor activities in the evenings. The park has wide open spaces for jogging; it also has a fenced Cita, mother of two kids from India, used to visit the place for court for playing football and basketball. There are also several her kids entertainment but the dark playground is now scary, beautiful wood benches installed around and grasses are green a according to her. “I want this place because my kids really want to sign of pretty much-well-maintained surroundings. The entire run and play; we are visiting this place almost every day enjoying park is not dark at all, but some spots are but the playground for the outdoor weather but the kids corner is really dark, that’s the kids has been exposed to darkness since it was installed there two only complaint I have. The place is not dark in general, but the years back. children’s playground is really dark,” she pointed out. Every Thursday and Friday, the place is also crowded with fam- Not only the place is hard for kids, but since there are other ilies having outdoor picnics. There are groups or individuals using dark spots in the area, like the spots where trees are planted; the this place as a venue for small gatherings. Some also made place is also becoming notorious for some criminal elements hav- makeshift badminton play areas. ing bad intentions like robbing or snatching which they said have “I like it here because the buildings are quite far away from the taken place there in the past. The park has a length of 1.18 kilo- park, unlike other public gardens either they are in the Kuwaiti meters and is known place for jogging and family picnic. residential areas or pretty small in size,” a park goer said. “There are some dark places in the park because there are “Kids usually come out in the night because of the heat but if trees here; but that is okay because it’s a park and we need some you come in the dark playground its really dangerous. They might trees, but some criminals have taken to hiding sometimes in the encounter accidents or who knows there are bad people out bushes and you don’t really know their intentions. If the park is there. So I hope the municipality would really act fast and help well lit perhaps they’ll think twice before committing such crimi- this community,” another parent told this reporter. nal activities. Among anything else, I am particularly concerned In recent years, several parks and public spaces have been ren- about my kids, not only mine, but children playing here in gener- ovated all over Kuwait. The Salmiya Park though has not being al; they should be given due importance, they should be safe in touched as yet for this purpose. Al-Shaheed Park in Kuwait City Salmiya Park rest rooms has been closed for years but the park; at least better lighting will help,” Cita said. completed beautification and is now open to public. until now, no signs of renovation. Friday 03 July 2015 Local

KUWAIT: Bibi Al-Ayoub with the volunteers poses for a photo before the delivery of Iftar meals. Bibi Al-Ayoub — Photos by Joseph Shagra and Yasser Al-Zayyat arranging food. Ersem Al-Basma: Bringing smiles to people’s faces Bibi Al-Ayoub delivering iftar meals during Ramadan

By Faten Omar

he holy month of Ramadan is the month that makes people want to do more good deeds by helping the Tneedy and put smiles in poor people’s faces and that’s precisely what Bibi Al-Ayoub did in her volunteering campaign, “Ersem Al-Basma,” which fittingly means draw a smile.

Meals by hand Ayoub, an elementary school teacher for the Ministry of Education, provides iftar for fasting Muslims at Abu-Baker Al-Sedeeq mosque in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. “We make meals by our hands,” she said adding they are going to make 620 meals prepared by both female and male volunteers. Further, Ayoub said that the food they make is given to the needy everyday throughout the holy month of Ramadan.

Kuwaiti ‘Soup Kitchen’ With the place always full of children, as well as young and old people, the group starts their work at 1 pm every day cooking and preparing the food, starting from the sal- ads, till they finish the main meal at 5 pm. They then start packing the food and then deliver it. “We don’t buy the food,” Ayoub explained, “We pay the restaurant the price of the meals, and ask them not to make it, but to let us Ersem Al-Basma’s volunteers distribute Iftar meals for fasting Muslims at Abu-Baker Al-Sedeeq mosque in Jleeb Al- instead. Shuyoukh. Friday 03 July 2015

Ayoub revealed that this idea of a “Kuwaiti Soup Kitchen,” refrigerators and food preservatives,” said Ayoub. “I really do where they cook for poor people, started five years ago. “When not have time to go and search for sponsors since the main I saw how the Kuwaiti charities always do good deeds outside aim here is not to find sponsors, but to make the youth partici- Kuwait, I thought that I should do something inside Kuwait and pate in making good deeds for the community while helping make as many good deeds as I can with the help of young vol- people,” she added. unteers who help me with this project and teach them the joy of giving,” she said. How to reach Ersem Al-Basma Notably, Ayoub also helps and visits sick people in hospitals, Ayoub can be found on her Instagram account @bibialay- orphanages and nursing homes for the elderly and disabled. oub, or contacted through her WhatsApp number 99227111. Hessa Al-Mulla, one of the volunteers who has been partici- Only 50 persons will be accepted daily to participate in this pating with Ayoub in her many good works for a year, said, “I campaign. have been volunteering for almost a year, not just in the iftar campaign. On a regular day, we always make meals on Fridays and Saturdays for cleaners in the streets and people inside mosques. I never felt this great helping poor people, and I feel comfortable doing so, even if I do not have the time. I make time just to help them out.” Abdallah Al-Qattan, also a volunteer, makes sure that the meals are ready for the needy. “I have been volunteering for a year and six months now with Bibi who is like a mother to me. We enjoy doing this daily amazing work; it is like giving back the good deeds for Kuwait. I hope all people can go through this feeling of satisfaction,” he said.

Need for sponsors Ayoub shared some challenges of the campaign. “The chal- lenges that I face is that we do not have sponsors and some- times we are short of cash. At least, we would like to have for- Hessa Al-Mulla and Abdallah Al-Qattan. mal T-shirts for the campaign and to have a car equipped with Local FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Crime Report Ammunition boxes dumped in Rabiya; citizen arrested

KUWAIT: A citizen was recently arrested for dumping three boxes of ammunition in Rabiya, said security sources. Case papers indicate that Al-Rabiya security commander spotted someone getting rid of three boxes near a dumpster. On approaching, he drove off and later got out of the vehicle and continued running on foot. The suspect was arrested and the boxes were seized. A case was filed.

KUWAIT: The new Kuwait Airways plane Airbus A330 is being greeted with water cannons at a ceremony held late Wednesday. Maid escapes with money — KUNA A citizen living in Naeem, Jahra reported that her maid had escaped with KD 350 in cash and a golden bracelet. The lady provided the police with the maid’s personal information. A case was filed and further investigations KAC receives second are in progress.

Airbus A330 plane Kidnap attempt foiled An Asian woman reported to police that three unidentified people tried to kidnap her. The incident took place as the KUWAIT: The Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) announced yes- is expected comprise 22 planes by 2017. woman was returning after her work late at night in Fahaheel terday that it has received the second leased Airbus A330 plane. In February 2014, Kuwait Airways announced the lease of 12 when trio in a Japanese vehicle stopped by her. They asked her In a ceremony held on this occasion late Wednesday, KAC Airbus aircraft including 7 A320ceo and 5 A330-200s in addition to join them but she rejected the request. Even when she Chairwoman Al-Rasha Al-Roumi said the new plane, which will be to the purchase of 25 aircraft including 10 A350-900 and 15 rejected their offer to give her money, the trio stepped off and named Al-Fantas, takes the number of the KAC’s received leased A320neo Family aircraft marking the start of a major fleet renewal tried pulling her into the vehicle before they were scared off by Airbus planes up to nine, including two of the A330 model and plan. Kuwait Airways’ A330-200 plane accommodates a three- her screams. The woman provided the police the numbers of seven of the A320 model. class configuration of 17 full-sleeper first class modules, 30 very the suspects’ vehicle. A case was filed and further investiga- She added that the plane would start operation in a matter of high-comfort business and 165 latest standard economy seats, a tions are in progress. five days after completing required administrative procedures by combination that shows a clear attention to comfort and efficien- the Civil Aviation Authority. She noted that it will be used for cy detailed in the features that also include the latest European routes. Al-Roumi unveiled that the KAC is scheduled to Entertainment systems, and connectivity throughout the cabin. Four citizens arrested more three A330 Airbus planes before the end of the year. She The A330 is one of the most popular widebody aircraft ever Four citizens were recently arrested in Fintas with the also disclosed the KAC is studying a comprehensive maintenance and has to date won over 1,500 orders, with over 1,100 flying with possession of 17 packets of heroin, said security sources. and plane hangars project to accommodate the new fleet which some 110 operators worldwide. — KUNA

Escaped from hospital A Farwaniya police patrol recently arrested a citizen who had just escaped from the psychiatric hospital, said security sources. Case papers indicate that when the patrol spotted the man walking around in Farwaniya, he tried to run but was chased and stopped. Checking out on him, policemen found out that he was a citizen who officially registered as hospital- ized at the psychiatric diseases hospital and that a report had been made about his escape.

Fake passport An Asian was recently arrested at the Kuwait International Airport for trying to leave the country using a fake passport, said security sources. An official at the Passports control checked the passport and found it forged. He referred the suspect to airport security where he confessed that it was fake.

Cheating A citizen recently accused a Pakistani of fraudulence alleging that he had taken KD 3,000 from him and vanished. A case was filed.

500 social media Wanted man arrested A citizen who had been wanted for 12 cases was accounts closed fire in Hawally recently arrested in Maidan Hawally, said security sources. The suspect looked confused and tried to in six months By Hanan Al-Saadoun avoid when a police patrol approached him. On arresting and checking on him, the man was found KUWAIT: A fire broke out yesterday morning in a building on wanted. KUWAIT: The cybercrimes department announced that it had Beirut Street, Hawally, said security sources. Rushing to the scene, closed down 500 accounts on various social media networks Hawally firefighters found that the fire was on a second floor (Twitter and Instagram) over the last six months this year. apartment on the 7th floor building. The entire building was Sorcerers arrested In this regard, well-informed security sources explained that evacuated and the fire was controlled without any casualties. closed accounts had adapted radical extreme thoughts, promot- Two African sorcerers were recently arrested in Farwaniya, said security sources. The suspects were exposed when a woman ed organizations that accused others of being non-believers, pro- Wafra fire filed a complaint accusing them of fraud. Arresting the two moted pornography or sued to defame politicians, artists and Another fire broke out in a shack behind Wafra police station, suspects, detectives found out that they were also involved in activists. The sources explained that the networks’ administrators said security sources noting that on arriving on the scene, fire- many money laundering cases. The suspects were arrested had been contacted and notified that the account owners had men found out that the shack had been used as a room, store with the possession of some articles used for witchcraft and violated all accounts’ terms of use and that the concerned and a kitchen. The fire was brought under control without any $7,300 they had collected from women who used their servic- accounts had to be accordingly closed down. casualties. es to ‘bewitch’ certain men. L o c a l FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 IS weaves web of support in Gulf Concern grows about availability of Saudi bombers

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s security personnel and medical staff carry a man on a stretcher at the site of a suicide bombing that targeted the Al-Sadiq mosque during Friday prayers on June 26, 2015, in Kuwait City. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

KUWAIT/DUBAI: When a Saudi Arabian man to attack Shiites in smaller Gulf Arab states Kuwaiti officials are studying CCTV referred to the public prosecutor. The five, flew to Kuwait in the early hours of Friday to and so make good on a threat by Islamic footage of the Nuwaiseeb border post, it said, had confessed to receiving funding carry out the country’s worst militant attack, State to step up violence in the holy fasting where the vest was brought in from the from abroad for attacks on places of wor- a bomb vest, Kuwaiti-style Arab robes, a month of Ramadan. Officials worry this could kingdom. Responsibility was claimed within ship. place to prepare, and a car and driver to take be a model for future bombings in the ener- hours by the group’s “Wilayat of Najd” him to his target were all lined up for him. gy-rich Gulf states: A bomber drawn from branch, and a posthumous audio of Qabaa BOMBING PLOT The vest had been ferried across from Saudi Arabia’s large pool of radicalized followed shortly after. The Wilayat of Najd A senior lawyer, Mohammed Al-Humaidi, Saudi Arabia a few days before in a complex Islamists who flies or drives into a neighbor- had also claimed two bombings of Shiite said he understood a defense lawyer had not operation suggesting Islamic State now ing state-Gulf Arabs enjoy visa free travel Mosques in Saudi Arabia. yet been retained by those sent for public commands a capable network of militants, between their countries-and works with a Najd, the central and northern part of prosecution. Such a step would take some propagandists and sympathisers on the local cell. Saudi Arabia, is the heartland of the king- more days. Newspapers did not identify the Arabian peninsula, a security source said. dom’s ultra-conservative religious tradi- five but said they included people accused of Among those Fahd Suliman Abdul- ENCRYPTED MESSAGING tions and was also the birthplace of Qabaa. close involvement in the plot. Muhsen Al-Qabaa contacted when his Aimen Dean, a Saudi former Al-Qaeda An article about Qabaa, from Qassim Authorities said these included the driver overnight flight via Bahrain landed, one had insider who now runs a Gulf-based security region in Najd, published by the Saudi- of the Japanese-made car. State media a family tie to Islamic State and another links consultancy, said Islamic State’s cells posed owned daily Al-Hayat, paints a picture of a named him as Abdul-Rahman Sabah Aidan. to Al-Qaeda attacks in Kuwait a decade earli- “a more flexible threat” that would be harder college dropout and loner who took up mil- Aidan was subsequently found by police at a er, a security source and Kuwaiti media have to track down than those deployed by Al- itant causes. Qabaa attended demonstra- house whose owner, Mohammed Shukhair reported. Qaeda in its 2003-06 campaign. tions demanding the release of suspected Al-Enizi, had served a prison term for playing Hours later, CCTV cameras recorded the This was in part due to the spread of militants detained by state security-rare a role in an Al-Qaeda linked group, the Lions young man entering Imam Al-Sadiq mosque, encrypted messaging systems, enabling dis- public protests in the authoritarian king- of the Peninsula, active in the mid-2000s, his figure made portly by the bomb-laden persed groups of militants to be directed dom, it said in a report that could not Kuwaiti newspapers said. vest concealed beneath his robe. He paused from abroad, whereas Al-Qaeda in Saudi immediately be authenticated independ- Members of that group sought to attack briefly to examine the 2,000 Shiite Muslim Arabia in 2003-06 was centrally managed ently. US military bases in Kuwait and took part in men prostrated in prayer, then detonated and therefore easier to infiltrate, he said. Another participant at such gatherings shootings in Kuwait City in 2005 that killed the device. Friday’s bombing was one of three was Saleh Al-Qashami, a 20-year-old man nine Islamists and four security force mem- The timing of his entry, when few in the attacks on civilians on three continents that responsible for a suicide bombing that bers. Authorities have named the owner of mosque were in a position to ask intrusive day that drew worldwide condemnation - killed 21 in Qatif last month. Both men have the car used in the bombing as Jarrah Nimer questions of a stranger, was another sign of the others were in Tunisia and France-and relatives in Saudi prisons accused of terror- Mijbil Ghazi. A security source said Ghazi had the attention to detail of the cross-border happened almost a year to the day after ism and incitement, Al-Hayat said. a brother in Islamic State in Syria and investi- team, which also appears to have coordinat- Islamic State declared a caliphate. Qabaa made failed attempts to travel to gators were looking for any link that person ed propaganda around the attack. The Of the three, the Kuwait attack appears join militant groups in Iraq and Syria, might have to the bombing. One of the more killing of 27 people was Kuwait’s deadliest the one mostly clearly directed by the mili- according to one of his relatives who spoke prominent members of the Lions was Muhsin militant attack, and the most lethal in any of tant network, to judge by Islamic State’s to Al-Hayat. He did not have many friends Al Fadhli, who later became a leader of the the six Gulf Arab states since bombings in rapidity in asserting its role, and possibly by and used to spend a lot of hours in front of Khorasan group, which US officials have said Riyadh killed 35 at the start of an Al-Qaeda the connections of the individuals allegedly his computer, the newspaper reported. works with Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria. US campaign in Saudi Arabia in May 2003. involved. A source familiar with US investi- Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper reported officials have said they believe Fadhli survived The assault has raised concerns about the gations into the attack said Qabaa was seen on Tuesday that five people suspected of US air strikes on Al-Qaeda in Syria in number of young Saudi men willing to travel as a serious member of IS’ Saudi affiliate. involvement in the attack had been September 2014. — Reuters FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Iraq Christians Changing viewing 38 dead, more train to habits prompt 1k missing as capture homes jobs at BBC Philippine ferry from12 IS 13 capsizes17

CAIRO: A handout picture releasd by the Egyptian Army on its Facebook page on July 1, 2015 shows bodies of what it claims are jihadists wearing camouflage uniform lying on an open field after they were reportedly killed during clashes with Egyptian security forces. The Egyptian army claims the bodies belong to a group of assailants who were part of an attack against Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula on July 1. — AFP Egypt vows to wipe out ‘dens of terror’ Violence poses a major test for Al-Sisi

CAIRO: Egypt vowed yesterday to crush an esca- terror.” The White House condemned the rocket-propelled grenades at a police station in tants attacked checkpoints, killing 15 soldiers. lating insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula after unprecedented wave of attacks, which came Sheikh Zuweid after mining its exits to block In January, a rocket and car bomb attack on a Islamic State group jihadists killed dozens in two days after state prosecutor Hisham Barakat reinforcements, a police colonel said. military base, police headquarters and residen- their most spectacular assault yet in the strife- was assassinated in a Cairo car bombing, the “For hours the terrorists moved freely in the tial complex for troops and police killed at least plagued region. The violence poses a major test most senior government official killed in the streets which they had mined,” Ayman Mohsen, 24 people, most of them soldiers. The attacks for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the former jihadist insurgency. “The United States stands a resident from Sheikh Zweid who witnessed have come despite stringent security measures army chief who has pledged to wipe out the mil- resolutely with Egypt amidst the spate of terror- Wednesday’s clashes, told AFP. “They fired rock- in the Sinai, including a night-time curfew and itants. ist attacks ...and will continue to assist Egypt in ets and bullets at the army camp in Zuhour and the creation of a buffer zone along the Gaza bor- The military deployed F-16 warplanes on addressing these threats to its security,” the US the Sheikh Zuweid police station.” “This is war,” der. Analysts said the army lacked expertise in Wednesday to bomb IS fighters who battled National Security Council said. Egyptian state- a senior military officer told AFP. “It’s unprece- fighting the insurgents. “It’s not putting in the security forces on the streets of the North Sinai owned newspapers rallied around the army. dented, in the number of terrorists involved and right units. The groups need to be chased by town of Sheikh Zuweid after launching a sur- “Victory or martyrdom,” said a front-page head- the type of weapons they are using.” The Islamic Special Forces and what the army is doing is that prise dawn blitz on army checkpoints. The mili- line in Al-Ghomuriya. “Revenge,” said a headline State group said its jihadists surrounded the it is deploying regiments. Sending F-16s does tary said 17 soldiers and 100 militants had been in Al-Akhbar. The military spokesman posted police station after launching attacks on 15 not work,” said Professor Mathieu Guidere, a killed. Medical and security officials said at least photographs on his Facebook page of militants checkpoints and security installations using sev- specialist on jihadist groups at France’s 70 people, mostly soldiers, had died along with killed in the fighting. eral suicide car bombers and rockets. University of Toulouse. Egypt responded to the dozens of jihadists. The reason for the discrep- growing insurgency on Wednesday by passing ancy in the tolls was unclear. ‘Terrorists moved freely’ ‘Army lacks expertise’ controversial anti-terror law and requesting the “The armed forces are leading a vicious war The Sinai attacks were the most brazen in Troops regularly come under attack in the appeals process be shortened, in measures it against terrorism,” the military said in a state- their scope since jihadists launched an insur- Sinai, where jihadists have killed hundreds of said would “achieve swift justice and revenge ment. “We have the will and determination to gency in 2013 after the army, under Sisi’s com- policemen and soldiers since Morsi’s overthrow. for our martyrs”. Sisi has vowed to toughen laws root out this black terrorism,” it added. “We will mand, overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Wednesday’s attack was similar to a series of and suggested fast-track executions following not stop until Sinai is cleansed of all the dens of Morsi. Militants took over rooftops and fired ambushes on April 2 in which dozens of mili- the state prosecutor’s assassination.—AFP International11 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Iran wages media onslaught against Saudi’s Yemen war DUBAI: Cut off from Yemen and its allies there by a Saudi-led mili- tary campaign, Iran has intensified a media counter-offensive against Riyadh, accusing its regional rival of inflicting catastrophic suffering while presenting itself as a blameless peacemaker. Iranian state media have given blanket coverage in Arabic, Farsi and English to the three-month-old war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and Sunni Arab allies have been bombing the Iranian-allied Houthi faction for over three months. The violence has killed more than 2,800 people, displaced one million and left more than 21 million people or 80 percent of the population in need of some form of humanitarian aid and or pro- tection, the United Nations says. In its latest broadside, the hardline Fars news agency on Wednesday released a video clip showing the face of Saudi King Salman morphing into that of Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi dictator loathed in Tehran as its enemy in a 1980-88 war, interspersed with scenes of crying Yemeni children. Another tactic was a state-sponsored cartoon contest about the Yemen war-even as an Iranian court sentenced an activist to more than 12 years in jail on charges including drawing cartoons of Iranian lawmakers. One entry showed a Saudi fighter jet delivering bloodied Yemenis into the hands of jihadists, while the winner depicted the Islamic profession of faith being erased from the Saudi flag as bombs rained down. “Iran’s political win comes from the ability to present itself as a potential peacemaker, rather than the ability actually to secure a deal on the ground,” Julien Barnes- Dacey, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said. BENGHAZI: In this photo taken March 3, 2015, a tank stands amongst damaged buildings. — AP ‘Allies are sinking’ “The Iranians don’t have much to lose and a lot to gain from the ongoing conflict and the sense that the Saudis and their allies Benghazi: Where Libya uprising are sinking into a deeper quagmire.” Saudi Arabia and its partners aim to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi from his exile in the Saudi capital Riyadh, saying they are defending Yemeni sover- began - now a shattered city eignty against the sudden rise to power of the Houthi militia over the past nine months. Divided country still locked in political struggle Riyadh has found it hard going: the kingdom has held back BENGHAZI: The old courthouse in central archives and department buildings have been backdrop of gunshots and ambulance sirens from committing ground troops and has yet to find a powerful Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and the hollowed-out, occupied in turn by militiamen that fill the night. In May, more than 27 civil- enough Yemeni ally to beat back the determined Houthis on land. birthplace of the uprising against Moammar who put snipers on rooftops and turned the ians were killed, including 12 members of one But the coalition does appear to have shut down the possibility of Gadhafi, is a shelled-out ruin - a testimony to campus into a warzone. family who were preparing for a wedding par- Iran sending material help to the Houthis: It has taken control of the destruction and chaos that permeate this The last destruction - albeit not on this scale ty when a rocket hit their house. The groom Yemen’s air space and waters and prevented Iranian attempts to North African country four years after the civil - that city elders remember was during World and five children were among the dead. The ship and fly in aid. Now, making a virtue of necessity, Iran is hitting war that ousted the longtime dictator. War II, when Benghazi was captured by the city’s residents also fear abductions at the back on the airwaves. The building is steeped in symbolism. It was British. But the city was quickly rebuilt after the hands of militiamen from the Shura Council of “The Iranian strategy has changed partly because of a change here that the rallying cry first came against war, in part thanks to the country’s new-found Benghazi Revolutionaries, an umbrella group of circumstances... (The embargo) prevents them from supporting Gadhafi’s 42-year rule. It was here that pro- oil wealth. Now charred and wrecked cars, piles of hard-line militias that includes Ansar Al- the Saleh-Houthi alliance in an overt way,” Ayham Kamel, Middle democracy protesters and rebels first raised the of twisted metal and debris act as front-line Shariah, which the US blames for the East director at the Eurasia Group consultancy, said. The Houthis tri-colored Libyan flag, replacing Gadhafi’s demarcations between warring factions. In September 2012 attack on the US Consulate are allied with army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah green banner. Now, the courthouse is ruin and many neighborhoods, Libyan soldiers have in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Saleh, who stepped down as part of a Gulf-backed political transi- rubble, like much of the rest of Benghazi. Today, blown up entire buildings to clear snipers’ nests Stevens and three other Americans. tion following a 2011 uprising. Libya is bitterly divided between an elected par- or in search of underground tunnels used for liament and government that are cornered in smuggling weapons. All-out war Political ties the country’s east, with little power on the Schools have closed, few hospitals remain Benghazi’s descent into all-out war started Iran has long quietly cultivated political ties with the Houthis ground, and an Islamist militia-backed govern- open, and wheat and fuel shortages force resi- in May 2014, when Libyan renegade Gen and diplomats suspect this expanded into paramilitary training ment in the west. Hundreds of militias are dents to line up for hours every day outside Khalifa Hifter, once Gadhafi’s army chief who and supplies in recent years. Iran denies providing material sup- aligned with either side or on their own, bat- bakeries and gas stations. Many neighborhoods later joined the opposition, launched an port to the group. Tehran has sought to turn the embargo to its tling for power and turf. have been emptied out by fleeing residents, offensive against the militias blamed for a advantage, sending a series of aid shipments that were forcefully The UN-backed talks between rival factions only to be looted and torched by marauding series of assassinations of the city’s army offi- turned away by the coalition-a move Tehran vigorously publicized. have not yet managed to strike a power-shar- militias. cers, policemen, judges, and journalists. He In April, for example, coalition jets bombed the runway of Yemen’s ing deal. Meanwhile, Libya’s Islamic State affili- More than a fifth of Benghazi’s 630,000- soon formally joined ranks with Libya’s elect- main airport to prevent an Iranian cargo plane from landing, after ate is fighting on different fronts, losing ground strong population has been forced out of ed government and since then, Hifter’s forces the pilots ignored orders to turn around. The following month, an in its eastern stronghold of Darna while their homes. Those with money fled abroad. have taken back parts of Benghazi. The fight- Iranian cargo ship set sail for a Houthi-controlled port under mili- expanding along the country’s central northern The rest sought refuge in other Libyan towns ing has split many Benghazi families, with rel- tary escort, nearly provoking a showdown with coalition forces coastline. For Benghazi, the past year was the and cities, or crowded into Benghazi’s atives, even brothers, often joining opposite planning to inspect the ship. worst. Near-daily street fighting has pitted mili- makeshift camps and schools turned into camps. The vessel ultimately did not test the blockade, offloading its tias made up of a myriad of Al-Qaeda-linked shelters. The overall number of displaced One of Saed Abdel-Hadi’s sons joined cargo in Djibouti for delivery by the United Nations before return- militants, Islamic State extremists and former within Libya has almost doubled from an esti- Libya’s Islamic State affiliate after returning ing to Iran. Iranian diplomats have cast Tehran as a peacemaker, anti-Gadhafi rebels against soldiers loyal to the mated 230,000 last September to more than from Syria and was killed in clashes. Another putting forward peace plans and decrying “external meddling” internationally recognized government and 434,000 amid escalating fighting this year, son joined the army, which is battling IS mili- from the United Nations to the Islamic Organisation Conference. their militia allies. according to the latest UN report. tants. “When my other son joined the army, “They are trying to turn on its head the narrative that Iran is always Benghazi resident Hamid Al-Idrissi says he the extremists threatened to kill me,” he said, the one destabilising the region,” Barnes-Dacey said. For their part, Destroyed landmarks and his family fled their war-torn Gawarsha adding that he fled with rest of the family and the Saudis have tried to portray their Yemen campaign as lawful, as Once known for its mix of architectural neighborhood under heavy shelling. His now lives in a friend’s garage. Even those with being undertaken in Yemen’s own interests, and as a turning point styles left behind by Arab, Ottoman and Italian extended family had a total of 45 houses only a distant connection to Islamic militias or in what Riyadh sees as unchecked Iranian expansionism in Arab rule, this city - shaped like a crescent moon, there, built on a vast swath of land owned by the army are targeted in retaliatory attacks. countries. hugging the Mediterranean Sea on one side his late grandfather, he said. “Houses were One of Muftah Al-Shagaubi’s cousins joined Saudi Arabia points to the widespread international recogni- and sheltered by the Green Mountain on the first looted, then burned down. We lost every- an extremist group a while ago. Months later, tion of Hadi’s presidency and a UN Security Council resolution other - has lost the flair of times past. Many thing,” Al-Idrissi told The Associated Press as al-Shagaubi lost his home as did 20 of his rela- demanding the Houthis withdraw from occupied areas, surrender landmarks have been destroyed, including he and his relatives huddled inside a school tives when Hifter’s forces looted, burned and weapons and restore the exiled government. — Reuters much of the Old City, with its Moorish arches turned into a shelter. blew up the buildings so they could never and Italian facades. The Benghazi University, its Civilians still in the city live against the come back, he said.—AP International FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Iraq Christians train to capture homes from IS ‘We want to fight everywhere’

BAGHDAD: With wooden crosses around their necks and others tattooed on their arms, several dozen Iraqi Christians are training to recapture their homes overrun by the Islamic State jihadist group. A year ago, IS launched a fierce offensive in northern Iraq, quickly capturing second city Mosul, with its large Christian minority, and Christian- populated areas in the surrounding Nineveh province. Residents were given the choice of converting to Islam, paying a tax to continue practicing their faith, or death. Thousands fled, but some want to fight back, and are now training at a military base near the Baghdad airport. They have Shiite Muslim fighters instructing them on how to use their Kalashnikov assault rifles and on the basics of combat maneuvers’, but they are vocal in their Christianity on parade, chanting Ya Mariam (O Mary) in cadence as they march in a salute to the mother of Jesus. “We heard that the Christians had an opportunity for jihad (holy war), and we all came and volunteered,” said 17-year-old Chaldean Christian Frank Samir. “Our children are dying; our Christian families were displaced. How do we ourselves accept that people say the Christians are not fighting? On the contrary, we want to fight everywhere,” he said. Samir is from Baghdad, but most of the Christians in the “Ketaeb Babylon” unit are from Mosul. The IS assault was the latest in a long series of disasters for Iraqi Christians, who have repeatedly been attacked by jihadists since the 2003 overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein, pushing hun- dreds of thousands to flee abroad.

Two weeks of training “I did not hesitate to volunteer with my brothers to fight BAGHDAD: Iraqi Christian volunteer fighters from Baghdad and the northern embattled Mosul governorate, attend a training session at a base. — AFP Daesh,” said Fares Issa, 38, using an Arabic acronym for IS. “I will continue fighting (them) until the liberation of Mosul and their expulsion from all the areas of Iraq,” said Issa, who sold cars in Mosul before the conflict began. Both Christian and Muslim religious symbols are displayed at No breakthrough at the training area. These include a large cross affixed to a concrete blast wall and banners reading “God is greatest” and “There is no god but God,” the first part of the Muslim Iran’s nuclear talks testament of faith. The training courses-of which this is the ninth-last only two weeks. But this is far too little time to turn new recruits VIENNA: World powers negotiating a cles, and we are working on removing and progress of the peaceful nuclear into competent fighters able to face the battle-hardened deal with Iran to curb its nuclear ambi- these,” said German Foreign Minister industry as well as the unconditional lift- jihadists, many of whom have years of experience fighting tions were grappling for a breakthrough Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “Whether ing of the unjust and illegal sanctions in Iraq and neighboring Syria. “The main aim of forming as last-ditch talks dragged into a sixth everyone’s will and courage will be will be seen as positive,” said our forces is the liberation of Mosul,” said Rayan Al-Kaldani, day yesterday. With the diplomatic drive enough at the end of the day is a ques- Shamkhani, quoted by the Iranian news playing out both in Vienna and Tehran, tion that we can’t answer yet.” agency IRNA. Kerry was also expected to the secretary general of Ketaeb Babylon. ministers held a flurry of meetings as the lock horns again later with his Iranian “We took part in the operations to liberate the city of clock ticked down to a new July 7 dead- ‘Not there yet’ counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, Tikrit and other operations, including Baiji, in Salaheddin line. UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Iran rejects allegations that it has while EU foreign policy chief Federica province,” he said, referring to major battles north of Amano held talks in Tehran with the been seeking to develop nuclear arms, Mogherini arrived back in Vienna. Baghdad. According to Kaldani, the Christians fight under chairman of Iran’s Supreme National and has resisted moves to give the “We are not there yet, but we are the command of Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandis, one of the top Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, and International Atomic Energy Agency moving forward so it’s going rather commanders in the “Popular Mobilization” forces, an was due to meet President Hassan (IAEA) unparalleled access to sensitive well,” Mogherini said. Asked by journal- umbrella organization mainly made up of Shiite fighters. Rouhani later in the day. military sites to verify its claims. ists waiting outside the elegant Coburg “I don’t think we are at any kind of Amano’s visit to Tehran at Iran’s invita- Palace where the talks are being held if Close-quarters combat breakthrough moment yet,” British tion is aimed at jump-starting a stalled he was confident of a deal, Zarif replied Baghdad turned to the Popular Mobilization forces, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said international probe. from the balcony of his room: “I have to which are dominated by Iranian-backed Shiite militias, as he arrived in the Austrian capital to “Any deal which ensures the pursuit be hopeful.”—AFP after the security forces suffered a series of disastrous join US Secretary of State John Kerry. But defeats by IS last year. According to another Ketaeb Hammond stressed: “The work goes on. You’re going to see over the next few Babylon commander, who declined to be named, there are days ministers coming and ministers “hundreds of Christian fighters located now in various going to maintain the momentum of areas of Salaheddin... in addition to others responsible for these discussions.” The P5+1 powers-the protecting churches in Baghdad province.” United States, Russia, China, Britain, Recruitment of other volunteers to “fight the Daesh ter- France and Germany-are seeking to rorist organization” is continuing, he said. A man who gave finalize a long-sought accord which will his name as Hajji Ali, a leader of one of the Shiite units put a nuclear bomb beyond Iran’s reach, overseeing the training, said it “focuses on close-quarters in return for lifting biting sanctions combat, unconventional warfare and war inside the cities.” against the Islamic republic. “Their eyes are on Mosul and the areas occupied by It would end a 13-year standoff over Daesh,” Hajji Ali said of the Christian fighters. The volun- Iran’s suspect nuclear program and teers say Mosul is the main goal, but their fight is not limit- draw the curtain on almost two years of ed to that city. Mosul “is our first aim,” said 16-year-old intense negotiations which resumed in Raymoun Salwan, who was displaced from the city. But “I earnest after Rouhani came to power in will continue to fight terrorism wherever it goes in Iraq and August 2013. “It is clear that we are not VIENNA: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif talks to media from the balcony there yet. There are small and big obsta- every place,” he said. — AFP of the Palais Coburg Hotel, venue of the nuclear talks. — AFP International13 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Changing viewing habits prompt 1k jobs at BBC Online viewing threatens funding

LONDON: The BBC said yesterday it is cut- result,” saving £50 million, the broadcaster freezes to the license fee. As part of the cuts, including 2,000 in November 2011 ting more than 1,000 jobs as part of a long- said in a statement. The latest annual 2010 settlement, the BBC agreed to take — later revised down to 580 — and 415 term savings program, made more urgent report from July 2014 put the total BBC over funding of the World Service from last year. In 2012, the corporation also by a shift to online viewing that threatens staff at 16,672, up from 16,534 the previous the Foreign Office, adding further pres- sold its iconic Television Centre building, its funding. The public service broadcaster year but down from 17,242 two years sure on its budget. In an attempt to cut home to television and radio programs is funded by the license fee, an annual levy before that. A BBC spokeswoman could costs, it has carried out a round of job since 1960, for £200 million. — AFP imposed on all British households with a not say how many of these losses would be television, which raised £3.72 billion ($5.79 redundancies, or in which departments the billion, 5.24 billion Euros) in the 2013/14 axe would fall heaviest. Full details are due financial year. But the number of people later this year. paying this fee is declining faster than expected because more and more people Political pressure are ditching their TVs to watch programs “A simpler, leaner, BBC is the right thing online. Only 50 percent of viewers aged 16 to do and it can also help us meet the to 24 watch live TV, according to new fig- financial challenges we face,” said BBC ures from broadcasting regulator Ofcom. director general Tony Hall. “We’ve already Instead, they prefer online services such significantly cut the costs of running the as Netflix and “catch-up” services provided BBC, but in times of very tough choices we by broadcasters such as the BBC’s iPlayer need to focus on what really matters-deliv- and Channel 4’s All4, which allow them to ering outstanding programs and content watch their favorite programs whenever for all our audiences.” Even without chang- they want. Such changing habits were cit- ing viewing habits, the BBC’s funding has ed by the BBC Trust earlier this week in its been squeezed as part of Prime Minister decision to approve the closure of the David Cameron’s drive to reduce public youth TV channel BBC Three and move it spending. In 2010, the government froze entirely online. the license fee until 2017, and there are “As more people use iPlayer, mobiles indications it could be reduced as part of a and online catch-up, the number of house- new funding deal to be agreed next year. holds owning televisions is falling,” the BBC Culture minister John Whittingdale has said in a statement yesterday. “The license said the license fee is a “regressive” tax fee income in 2016/17 is now forecast to be and last year said it was “unsustainable” in £150 million less than it was expected to be the long term. The broadcasting workers’ in 2011.” In response, it proposes merging union Bectu, which has in the past staged some departments, cutting up to three lay- strikes over the BBC job cuts, said it would ers of management in some areas, and examine the detail of the latest “simplifying” support services such as mar- announcement. Last month, it launched a keting, finance, human resources and IT. campaign entitled “BBC: Love it or Lose LONDON: In this file picture, a man walks past an ‘anti-cuts’ placard outside the BBC “More than 1,000 posts will be lost as a It!” which argues against further cuts or White City Media Village.— AFP International14 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Military dogs find new purpose in meth wars INDIANAPOLIS: Five retired military dogs guard facilities, detect drugs and explo- either placed for adoption or repurposed arresting the criminals. You have these that spent years working in war zones are sives, and search for people or items. as domestic working dogs for police agen- labs out there that blow up, are environ- putting their noses to new uses by help- Historically, many were euthanized or left cies and security companies. Indiana led mental hazards, have a huge cleanup left ing police in the US combat methamphet- behind once their deployments ended. the nation for meth incidents in 2014 with behind.” amine and other drugs. The dogs are That has changed, in large part due to a 1,470, according to Drug Enforcement The dogs placed through the grant being deployed to departments in 2000 law signed by President Bill Clinton Administration statistics. include Axel, a 5-year-old German shep- Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska and that requires the Department of Defense “No other drug is more labor intensive herd that spent three years in Afghanistan Georgia as part of a venture that organiz- to report annually the number of military for law enforcement than battling meth,” as a search and narcotics dog. Axel’s han- ers say gives police a resource they could- working dogs that are adopted, trans- said Paul Hemings, US general manager of dler, Officer Matthew Hickey, said Axel n’t otherwise afford and provides the ferred to law enforcement or euthanized. Westport Pharmaceuticals in St Louis, recently found marijuana and cocaine that dogs a new mission. Many of the retiring dogs return to which offers grants to acquire the dogs resulted in three arrests during an The US military has used dogs since training facilities where they’re assessed and train them to work with their new Indianapolis Metropolitan Police the Revolutionary War, enlisting them to for health and behavioral issues and then handlers. “You’re not just going in and Department drug investigation. — AP

Macy’s and Costa Rica dump defiant Trump NEW YORK: Macy’s became the latest company to sever ties with Donald Trump, and Costa Rica decided to pull out of his Miss Universe competition following the mogul’s controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants. The move by Macy’s comes on the heels of announcements by Univision and NBC to cut relations with Trump after the voluble billionaire offended many Latinos during his speech announcing his presidential campaign in June. “Macy’s is a company that stands for diversity and inclusion,” the department store said. “We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form. “In light of statements made by Donald Trump, which are incon- sistent with Macy’s values, we have decided to discontinue our business relationship with Mr Trump and will phase-out the Trump menswear collection, which has been sold at Macy’s since 2004.” Trump, 69, identi- fies as a Republican and has supported Republican candidates in the past. But in his speech he did not explicitly say if he was running for the party’s nomination or as an independent. “When Mexico sends its peo- ple, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said June 16. He added: “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bring- ing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Latino advocates lambasted Trump’s comments as irresponsible and bigoted. An online petition from the progressive group MoveOn had called on Macy’s to “dump Trump” for his “unpleasant, nasty, and GREELEYVILLE: A charred Bible page is seen outside Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal church. — AP despicable behavior.” The petition has drawn more than 730,000 signa- tures. The Macy’s Trump line includes cufflinks and money clips, in addi- tion to pinstripe suits and French Cuff shirts. Macy’s website lists 88 Church fires common, but items under the line, most of which were on sale Wednesday. Stands by statements Costa Rica also joined a number of Latino countries who have pulled arson not always the case their support for Trump’s Miss Universe pageant. Teletica, the organizer of the Miss Costa Rica competition, said Wednesday that Trump’s Investigators still haven’t ruled out any causes remarks were “xenophobic and offensive” and the winner of the GREELEYVILLE: As investigators probe the comparisons impossible. Ahrens, an analyst for the fire protection nation’s pageant will not go on to Miss Universe. On Tuesday, Bogota cause of a fire that destroyed a rural South association. “We don’t know all the causes of canceled its candidacy to host the Miss Universe show and Mexico with- Carolina black church rebuilt after the Ku Faulty heating all the fires that have gone on this week. But drew from the contest, which is popular in Latin America. Klux Klan torched it 20 years ago, statistics Yet if the six church fires around the if the church arsons had not Trump, who has stood by his statements on Mexican immigrants, show church fires are not unusual, and that Southeast were all that occurred in recent happened so soon after the tragedy in accused his former business partners of pandering to special interests. “I the vast majority in recent years were not days, it would prove a relatively safe period Charleston, that horrible incident, would it have decided to terminate my relationship with Macy’s because of the intentionally set. Of the blazes that occurred for houses of worship. An average of roughly have gotten the same level of attention?” pressure being put on them by outside sources,” Trump said. “Both at houses of worship dozens of times a week 31 congregations burned every week from Macy’s and NBC totally caved at the first sight of potential difficulty with across the nation, about 84 percent were not 2007 through 2011, according to a 2013 esti- Racial motives special interest groups who are nothing more than professional agita- intentionally set and many arsons are proba- mate by the National Fire Protection Some attacks on black congregations tors, who are not looking out for the people they purport to represent, bly not hate crimes, the data shows. Association. The association based its esti- defy simple racial motives. For example, a but only for themselves.” Trump also said he was “never satisfied” with Local and federal investigators said mate on data collected by the US Fire taskforce formed by then-President Bill the Macy’s deal because the shirts and ties are made in China.— AFP Wednesday that they haven’t ruled out any Administration and supplemented with sur- Clinton found that 63 percent of the people potential cause for the fire at the Mount Zion vey results. arrested for bombing or burning black African Methodist Episcopal Church. The fire Arson was relatively rare. Just 16 percent churches in the late 1990s were white. But 37 happened late Tuesday as thunderstorms of the blazes estimated at religious and percent were black. The motives of the with frequent lightning rolled over funeral homes were intentionally set during attackers varied widely, according to a task- Greeleyville, a small town about 50 miles the five-year period. That means arsonists set force report from 2000. Some suspects were north of Charleston. But a federal official, fire to roughly five religious structures every vandals or pyromaniacs. Others were trying who spoke on the condition of anonymity week. Those figures do not break out pre- to cover up crimes such as burglary or finan- because he was not authorized to discuss the dominantly white congregations from black cial theft. Others just held grudges. case publicly, told The Associated Press that congregations. Kitchen equipment and The Rev. John Taylor, who is in his ninth preliminary indications show the fire was not faulty heating or electrical systems were year as the pastor of Mount Zion, said when the result of arson. more likely to burn a church than an arsonist. he heard of the fire, he immediately recalled The fire was reported about 8:30 pm White supremacists in the South have the blaze two decades ago. “Of course we Tuesday and happened as federal authorities burned black churches over the years as a thought about it. We wouldn’t be human if have been investigating a series of fires at political terrorism tactic. Coming after the we didn’t,” he said Wednesday as he stood in black churches in several Southern states. So slayings of nine people June 17 at a historic the hot sun outside the charred shell of the far, there is no indication the fires are related. black church in Charleston, the recent fires church. But as to the cause of the most No one keeps an up-to-date tally of every attracted scrutiny from police and the gener- recent fire, he said, “I really thought it proba- church fire in the United States, making exact al public.”Perception matters,” said Marty bly was a lightning strike.”— AP Donald Trump International15 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Wildfires blister Alaska with higher frequency

ANCHORAGE: Alaska residents endure the nation’s harshest winters for the reward of beautiful summer days with sunshine that lingers until midnight. But increasingly, large wildfires have marred the pristine outdoors, filling the skies with black smoke and forcing people who live near forests to flee for safety. A study released Wednesday reinforces a trend revealed by state records, showing that wildfires have been blistering Alaska with greater frequency and intensity. The findings have left forest managers and climate scientists to try to explain why and pre- dict what’s next. “Fire seasons seem to be starting earlier and lasting longer,” said Tim Mowry, a state Division of Forestry spokesman. A common factor associated with the increase - which doesn’t bode well for 2015 or beyond - is warm weather, even if experts don’t explicitly blame climate change. Temperatures climbed 20 degrees above normal to the mid-80s last week in Anchorage, currently situated between a pair of active blazes that have charred dozens of homes and buildings.

Heating up a blaze Warm weather in early summer has a strong correlation with the number of square miles that eventually burn, climate expert Scott Rupp said. But it’s too soon to blame global warming. “We don’t have that understanding or the data that allows us to make those relationship connections,” Rupp said. Still, climate models predict heat-trapping, greenhouse gasses will lead to warmer Alaska summers. “They’re all consistently trending up,” Rupp said. Records on Alaska wildfires date to 1939 and show that three of the worst fire seasons have come in the last 12 years, includ- ing 2004, when more than 10,000 square miles - about 6.5 mil- lion acres, or the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined - went up in flames. Hundreds of fires are dotting the state even INDIANAPOLIS: First Church of Cannabis Founder Bill Levin lights candles on the alter during the church’s now, including growing blaze of about 1 square mile near the first service. — AP Yukon River village of Nulato. Thick smoke has made air evacua- tions impossible, forcing some in the small Athabascan Alaska Native community to evacuate by boat, 36 miles to the nearest Congregants, protesters gather town. Another fire in the state’s interior has led a dog sled racing champion to evacuate his animals along with some of the peo- ple in the remote community of Eureka. Musher Brent Sass post- at Indiana Church of Cannabis ed on his kennel’s verified Facebook account that he was “preparing the homestead for the worst but hoping for the Test of Indiana’s new religious objections law best.” The blazes come as a new study from Climate Central, a group of scientists and journalists who research climate change, INDIANAPOLIS: More than 100 people pretend, folks.” Most of the congre- down, said he is not worried about the indicates that the number of large Alaska wildfires have nearly packed a pot-smoking Indianapolis gants followed suit, pretending to pass church’s presence in the neighborhood doubled in the 1990s and 2000s compared to the ‘50s and ‘60s. church for a music-filled service with- joints and puff from them. and has spoken to Levin, a self- The analysis wasn’t a cause-and-effect study, but it notes Alaska out their illegal sacrament Wednesday, About two dozen police officers employed carpenter and concert pro- has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the country days after authorities threatened kept watch over the church, but no moter with distinctive spiky, white hair. over the last 60 years. arrests if the congregation lit up during arrests were made during the two-hour “I don’t necessarily subscribe to his reli- the rites. service that included lively performanc- gious beliefs, but I don’t care what they Forest ecology Participants in the inaugural service es of funk and reggae songs. The music do as long as they don’t tear up the So far this season, more than 500 square miles have been of the First Church of Cannabis, formed brought the congregation to its feet neighborhood,” East said. scorched, drawing in dozens of crews. Nearly 1,100 people were as a test of Indiana’s new religious several times inside the small chapel in Levin founded the First Church of called in, including elite Hotshot crews that battle flames on the objections law, had planned to cele- a residential area on Indianapolis’ south Cannabis on March 26 - the same day front lines, to fight the fires burning near homes north and south- brate by smoking marijuana. But side. Gov. Mike Pence signed Indiana’s reli- west of Anchorage. Rupp, a University of Alaska Fairbanks profes- church founder Bill Levin decided to Several church members stood gious objections measure into law. The sor and principal investigator for the US Geological Survey’s keep pot out of the first service to before the flock during the service to IRS granted the church tax-exempt sta- Alaska Climate Science Center, who researches and projects for- ensure that he can test that law in civil give testimonials about how marijua- tus in May. Levin said the church has est ecology, said Alaska’s forests and tundra have evolved to burn court and not on criminal grounds. na’s medicinal qualities had alleviated more than 1,000 members and is built with high intensity. Issues arise, Rupp said, when communities Marijuana is illegal in Indiana, but or cured their ailments, with one “on the cornerstone of love, compas- spring up in the middle of forests. “That’s when we have prob- Levin plans to defend the congrega- woman declaring, “Thank God for pot.” sion and good health” and isn’t just a lems like we’ve seen over the past week,” he said. tion’s pot smoking during religious cer- The church’s interior includes a painted place for its members to get high. On June 14, a fire ignited about 40 miles north of Anchorage emonies under the new law, which version of Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Indiana’s law sparked protests and and burned 55 homes. A day later, flames kicked up 60 miles took effect Wednesday. It prohibits any Chapel fresco depicting God’s hand boycott threats this spring amid con- southwest of the state’s largest city and went on to burn 10 government actions that would “sub- reaching out to man - although God cerns it could provide a legal defense buildings. The forest floor - filled with spruce needles and leaves stantially burden” a person’s ability to offers mankind a big joint in First to discriminate against gays, lesbians - dries out and provides fuel for fires, especially if snow disap- follow his or her religious beliefs. Levin, Church of Cannabis’ version. and others. Lawmakers later revised pears early, as has been happening lately. So when a blaze starts who calls himself the church’s “Grand the law to address those concerns. from an untended campfire or a lightning strike, “these fires can Poobah,” noted during the service that ‘Religious freedom’ The law was modeled after the extend for a very long period of time,” Rupp said. “That tends to Indianapolis’ police chief and the local During the service, about 40 neigh- Religious Freedom Restoration Act be the pattern we see in these big fire years, where we’re burn- prosecutor warned last week that bors and members of a nearby that Congress passed in 1993 in ing multiple millions of acres.” church members could face arrest if Christian church stood across the street response to a 1990 US Supreme Court To combat the flames, crews have been deploying earlier they smoked pot during the service. holding protest signs, including one decision that said laws otherwise and maintaining their focus on populated areas. Smokejumpers, that read: “Religious freedom does not neutral toward religion are not for example, have been getting ready in April rather than May ‘Thank God for pot’ mean freedom to commit crimes.” “I unconstitutional just because they for several years. This season, nearly 500 fires have blackened “If we weren’t intimidated this don’t know what they’re thinking. It’s may infringe on the religious beliefs tundra and forest lands. Close to half are still blazing. “This is the would be the sacrament box, folks - this not legal here and I pray that it doesn’t of some people. In that ruling, the kind of behavior that we would expect,” said Todd Sanford, lead is the box we keep our sacrament in,” become legal,” Church of Acts member high court held in an Oregon case author of the Climate Central study. He notes that warmer tem- the 59-year-old said, holding up a small Marva Tillman said of First Church of involving Indian rituals that there was peratures coincide with more wildfires, “and unfortunately it’s wooden box that a fellow church mem- Cannabis’ plans to use marijuana as a no constitutional right to take the likely to continue into the future.” — AP ber presented to him. “Unfortunately, key part of its doctrine. hallucinogenic drug peyote as a reli- there’s no sacrament in it today, so just Daniel East, who lives two houses gious practice.—AP International16 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Activists hail Indian court’s rape ruling

NEW DELHI: Women’s rights activists in India hailed yesterday a Supreme Court ruling rejecting judge-ordered mediation between rapists and their victims, a legal move they said was common in the conservative country. The Supreme Court issued the warning after a public outcry over a judge’s deci- sion to grant a convicted rapist bail to allow him to try to negotiate with his victim in the hope of marriage. The Supreme Court said judges should steer away from ordering mediation which would not only be a “spectacular error” but a blow to the dignity of women. “These are offences which suffocate the breath of life and sully the reputation” of women, Justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant said in their written judgment on Wednesday. “The conception of compromise, under no circumstances, can be thought of in a case of rape or attempt to rape.” Ranjana Kumari, one of India’s leading women activists, applauded the ruling, saying judges in lower courts often sug- gested mediation as a means of dispute resolution rather than meting out justice. “Any mediation between rapists and the survivor is illegal. We welcome it and hope the lower courts abide by the ruling,” Kumari told AFP. Lawyer and activist Vrinda Grower said the ruling was unambiguous and a warn- ing to lower courts that tried to use mediation in future. The Supreme Court’s ruling comes after a Madras High Court judge advised a rapist, who he gave interim bail to, to mediate with his victim who was 15 at the time of the attack and had given birth to a child. Women having children out of wedlock is taboo in many parts of India where marriages are often arranged between families. The Supreme Court’s ruling was made while upholding an appeal against a different High Court’s decision to set free another rapist by changing the offence to assault. The court made the decision on suggestions the criminal was planning KABUL: In this Tuesday, March 24, 2015 photo, Afghan women carry the coffin of Farkhunda, who was beaten to to reach a settlement with his victim’s family in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. Sexual violence remains a major death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran, in downtown, during her burial ceremony.— AP problem in India more than two years after the fatal gang rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012 unleashed public outrage about the treatment of women. India’s notoriously Afghan court cancels death slow legal system takes years to dispense justice, even for crimes such as rape and murder, with many victims forced to sentences in woman killing withdraw their cases or reach a settlement.— AFP ‘Court bowed to religious establishment’ 8 killed as train KABUL: An Afghan court has over- mines the credibility of the sen- eight others were sentenced to 16 turned the death sentences for four tences,” said Shukria Barakzai, a law- years in prison. Of 19 policemen falls into canal men convicted of taking part in the maker and women’s rights advocate. charged with dereliction of duty, mob killing of a woman outside a “Farkhunda’s case does not just eight were acquitted due to lack of WAZIRABAD: At least 8 people including a senior Kabul shrine, a judge said yesterday. belong to her family anymore, it evidence, and 11 were sentenced to army officer were killed yesterday when a train car- Three of the men convicted of the belongs to all the people of one year in prison. Last month, the rying soldiers and military hardware fell into a canal murder of Farkhunda Malikzada in Afghanistan who need assurance that Appeals Court upheld a decision to in Pakistan following the partial collapse of a March were instead given 20-year they can have confidence in the law, release 37 defendants ahead of their bridge, officials said. The accident occurred near the sentences, and the fourth was sen- in the rule of law.” appeals. eastern town of Wazirabad in the country’s most tenced to 10 years, said Appeals Court Human rights activist Ramin populous province Punjab as it headed to the garri- Judge Abdul Nasir Murid. False accusations Anwari said the government had giv- son town of Kharian. The ruling was made in a closed- The mob killing led to calls for en in to conservative clerics, many of A statement issued by the military said four car- door hearing on Wednesday and first reform of the judicial system - long whom had said the attack would have riages derailed as the train crossed Chanawan reported by the independent Tolo TV. plagued by corruption, partisanship been justified if Malikzada had dese- Bridge. Military spokesman Asim Bajwa tweeted Tolo said the court acquitted the ped- and incompetence - and stronger pro- crated a Quran. “If these people are that eight bodies, including “Lieutenant Colonel dler at the shrine who allegedly incit- tection for women from violence. sentenced to death in a case that Amir”, the commander of a unit, had so far been ed the mob by falsely accusing After the peddler at the Shah-Du appears to hinge on the burning of a recovered while a further four people were missing. Malikzada of burning a Quran. Word Shamshira shrine falsely accused Quran, then people will think twice in A rescue mission involving rubber dinghies, heli- copters and divers was launched, live TV footage of the court’s decision outraged her Malikzada of burning a Quran, a mob the future about taking such actions showed. family, which has no legal representa- attacked her as police watched. After against people who act against reli- Rauf Tahir, a spokesman for the railways ministry tion in the case and had not been punching, kicking and beating her gion-in which case rule of law will confirmed the incident, adding that the injured directly informed of the change in with wooden planks, the crowd threw have won. They don’t want that,” he were taken to a military hospital in the nearby city sentencing. her from a roof, ran over her with a car said. While Rula Ghani, the wife of of Gujranwala. Pakistan inherited thousands of “The verdict of 20 years means and crushed her with a block of con- President Ashraf Ghani, has said that miles of track and trains from the former colonial freedom, it means they will be crete. They then set her body alight the case highlights the violence at the power, Britain, but the railways have seen decades released. We want the earlier decision on the bank of the Kabul River. A heart of Afghan society after more of decline due to corruption, mismanagement and for the death penalty,” Malikzada’s makeshift shrine with a green flag of than three decades of war, the gov- under-investment. brother Najibullah, 37, told The martyrdom was erected at the spot on ernment has largely remained silent. In May, seven people including the ambassadors Associated Press. Lawmakers and the riverbank where her body was Najibullah said quashing the death of Norway and the Philippines were killed after a activists also criticized the decision, dumped. The attack was filmed by sentences “is the decision of Pakistani military helicopter crashed on its way to saying the court had bowed to the many in the mob, and the footage Afghanistan’s corrupt judicial system.” the country’s mountainous north where the diplo- conservative religious establishment widely distributed on social media. At He said he still had faith in the gov- mats were set to inspect tourism projects. The and failed to uphold the rule of law. the murder trial, the four men were ernment, but said that “if justice does- Indonesian ambassador later succumbed to his “This is against the constitution. The found guilty and sentenced to death. n’t happen then we will leave the injuries after being flown to a hospital in courts should be open to the public, Charges against 18 men were judgment to the Afghan nation and to Singapore. — AFP and this closed-door hearing under- dropped for lack of evidence, and the whole world.” — AP International17 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Khmer Rouge leaders begin appeal hearings

PHNOM PENH: Two former Khmer Rouge leaders began appeal hear- ings yesterday against landmark convictions for crimes against humani- tythatsawthemhandedlifesentencesbyCambodia’sUN-backedcourt last year. “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, were the first top leaders to be jailed from aregime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians from 1975- 1979.Buttheirlawyersquicklyappealed,accusingthecourtofastringof errors and the judges of failing to remain impartial due to their personal experiencesundertheregime.

Agrarianutopia ThepairsatincourtyesterdaywhenNuonChea’slawyerscalledupon theirfirstwitness,as300peoplewatchedtheproceedingsfromthepub- licgallery.SaoVan,formerlyalocalKhmerRougechief,describedadiffer- ent picture of life under the communist rulers who dismantled modern society in their quest for an agrarian utopia and wiped out nearly a quar- ter of Cambodia’s population through starvation or execution at forced labor camps. He said that by 1977 there were sufficient food rations for everyone in his sub-district in southern Kandal province as the Khmer Rougeestablished“collectivecooperationandcommunaldining”. “Therewasnoinstructionforthecadretostarvepeople.Infact,itwas onthecontrary.Ifanycadrefailedtoresolvelivelihoodissuesintheirarea then they were subject to disciplinary action,” the 74-year-old said. But under subsequent questioning from the prosecution Sao Van admitted he only knew what happened in his area. “I do not know whether the KhmerRougekilledpeople,”hetoldthecourt. Nuon Chea, wearing his trademark sunglasses, left the court around ORMOC CITY: Rescuers help passengers from a capsized ferry boat center on Leyte Island.— AFP photos an hour after proceedings began to watch the hearing remotely from a holding cell, with his lawyers saying he had back pain. The tribunal, knownastheExtraordinaryChambersintheCourtsofCambodia(ECCC), 38 dead, more missing as isacomplexhybridcourtontheoutskirtsofPhnomPenhcombiningele- ments of international and domestic law. It was set up following an agreement between Cambodia and the United Nations to prosecute seniorKhmerRougeleaders“mostresponsible”fortheregime’scrimes. Philippine ferry capsizes

Denialofsoldierkillings Country’s string of maritime tragedies continues The complex case against Chea and Khieu Samphan was split into a series of smaller trials in 2011 for reasons including their advanced age MANILA: A ferry loaded with nearly 200 and the large number of accusations. Their convictions in August fol- people capsized off a central Philippine port lowed a two-year trial focused on the forced evacuation of around two yesterday, officials said, killing at least 38 million Cambodians from Phnom Penh into rural labour camps and the people in the latest of the country’s long murders of hundreds of soldiers from the government the regime oust- string of maritime tragedies. Up to 33 people ed at one of several execution sites. Yesterday Sao Van said he attended are missing after the 33-tonne, wooden- meetings with senior regime officials and had heard “no order to harm hulled Kim Nirvana tipped over shortly after soldiers” from the previous administration. Nuon Chea and Khieu setting sail from Ormoc city at midday, the Samphan are also undergoing a second trial for genocide centered on coast guard said. the killing of ethnic Vietnamese and Muslim minorities, forced marriage Vegetable trader Reynante Manza, 45, andrape. cried as he recounted how the 33-tonne ves- In its historic debut trial, the UN-backed court in 2010 sentenced for- sel suddenly rolled to one side as it reversed mer Tuol Sleng prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, to 30 years in course shortly after backing out of the pier of prison-later increased on appeal to life-for overseeing the deaths of Ormoc, pulling down his wife and many oth- 15,000people.“BrotherNumberOne”PolPotwholedthebrutalregime ers under the water. died in 1998 without ever facing justice. In March, the court charged “It rolled while attempting to turn around threemoreformerKhmerRougememberswithcrimesagainsthumani- swiftly. I am alive because I jumped over- ty,ignoringwarningsbystrongmanCambodianpremierHunSen-amid- board as soon as it happened,” Manza told ranking regime cadre before he defected-that further prosecutions reporters. Just a small section of the boat’s riskedreignitingconflict.Thecourtwillhearfromafurthertwowitnesses, underbelly, surrounded by rescue boats, was includinganotherKhmerRougeofficial,requestedbyNuonChea’slegal visible above water by late afternoon, teamduringhearingsscheduledoverthenexttwoweeks.Accordingtoa according to an AFP photographer. It A survivor of a passenger ferry that capsized in rough waters cries after arriv- tribunal document, appeal judgments are expected during the first bobbed above the waves a mere 200 meters ing at the pier. quarterof2016.—AFP from the shore, journalists on the scene said, much closer than the one-kilometer esti- Accident still a mystery least 53 survivors were brought to the hospi- mate made by local disaster officials earlier. The vessel was carrying 173 passengers tal while more than two dozen others Rescuers pulled 118 survivors from the and 16 crew members, and was licensed to walked home. sea and continue to scour the deep waters carry up to 200 people, Tolibao said. Many of Poorly maintained, loosely regulated where the accident happened, said the passengers were traders bringing farm ferries are the backbone of maritime travel Philippine National Red Cross chief Richard produce and other merchandise to the in the sprawling archipelago. This has led Gordon told AFP. Gordon put the toll at 38 Camotes island grouping, whose residents to frequent accidents that have claimed dead and 33 missing, citing the latest figures rely mostly on fishing, Tolibao added. The hundreds of lives in recent years, including from rescuers on the scene. “Some clung on authorities were puzzled how the accident the world’s worst peacetime maritime dis- to the hull of the overturned vessel, while had happened in relatively calm waters, after aster in 1987 when the Dona Paz ferry col- some were rescued while swimming toward initial reports of choppy seas, and discount- lided with an oil tanker, leaving more than the shore,” Ciriaco Tolibao, an official from ed speculation that it was overloaded. 4,300 dead. the city’s disaster risk reduction and man- “There wasn’t any storm or any gale. We’re Ormoc and the rest of Leyte island was agement office, told AFP. A distraught male trying to find out (why it happened),” ravaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan which survivor wept openly as crew members clad Philippine Coast Guard spokesman struck in November 2013, leaving more in blue brought him ashore, as others, look- Commander Armand Balilo told AFP. than 7,350 people dead or missing across ing shaken, recounted their ordeal to rescue He said the boat’s outriggers apparently the central Philippines. A 1991 flash flood PHNOM PENH: This handout photo taken and released by officials. A nearby row of soaked survivors broke in the accident, and added it was pos- also killed around 6,000 people in Ormoc in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia squatted on the pier awaiting attention, sible the crew had committed a navigational one of the country’s deadliest natural disas- (ECCC) yesterday shows former Khmer Rouge head of while medical workers placed the injured error. The Kim Nirvana was on its normal ters. The disaster-plagued Philippines is hit state Khieu Samphan wearing translation headphones in onto stretchers and relatives of the missing route to the islands, which sit about an by about 20 typhoons and storms each the courtroom at the ECCC. —AFP screamed and cried nearby. hour’s sail from Ormoc city. Tolibao said at year, many of them deadly. —AFP International FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Australia praises UN Barrier reef decision SYDNEYL: Australia yesterday hailed a United Nations deci- sion to keep the Great Barrier Reef off its endangered list as “tremendous”, but activists warned more must be done to improve the marine park’s health. The world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem, which has had World Heritage Site status since 1981, has been under increasing threat from climate change, farming run-off, development and the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. “This is a tremendous decision,” Environment Minister Greg Hunt told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from Germany, where UNESCO made its decision late Wednesday, adding that Canberra had “clearly heard the concerns of the World Heritage Committee”. Ahead of the decision, UNESCO commended Australia’s recent efforts on working to ban the dumping of dredge spoil in the marine park, to limit port development and improve water quality. “What we have got now is unanimous and overwhelming support for the reef, support for what Australia’s doing,” said Hunt. He added that more than Aus$2.0 billion (US$1.53 bil- lion) had been committed to protect the reef over the next decade. The decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will see the reef-a major tourist attraction off the Queensland coast-remain under sur- veillance but not listed as endangered. Putting it on the “in danger” list would have been a huge embarrassment for Australia with the World Heritage Committee able to develop and adopt a program for correc- tive measures. Australia is now required to report back to the MEDAN: A soldier walks past coffins prepared for the victims of the military plane crash. — AP UN on its progress on implementing its “Reef 2050” plan by December 1, 2016. The plan outlines the government’s vision on continuing to improve the health of the reef over succes- sive decades. Crashed Indonesian plane may ‘On probation’ have suffered engine problem Queensland state’s Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, who trav- elled with Hunt to the UNESCO meeting in Bonn, said: “We know that the real work starts now. “We have a strong suite of Propeller ‘abnormality’ indicates an engine stalled plans and commitments and they all need to be implemented to ensure that we can come back to... report positively.” Trad MEDAN: The aging Indonesian military were involved. Supriatna said the early Indonesia’s last C-130 crash was in 2009, praised the efforts of civil society groups and environmental transport plane that crashed into a resi- findings of the investigation suggest a when about 100 people were killed. The activists in calling attention to the reef’s condition, which was dential neighborhood of Medan killing propeller was “feathered” by the pilot, plane crashed into a row of houses as it described as “poor” in an August 2014 Australian government 141 people had a propeller “abnormali- using a technical term to describe a was attempting to land at an air base in report. Conservation group WWF said the UN announcement ty” that indicates an engine stalled, the high-angle position for the blades that East Java province. was a “powerful decision that places Australia on probation air force chief said yesterday. Air Marshal reduces the tendency of the plane to At the time, there were calls for a big- over the health of the Great Barrier Reef”. Agus Supriatna told reporters the fact swing in the direction of the failed ger military budget to replace aging “The (World Heritage) Committee must continue to play that the plane turned rightward after engine. planes. The C-130 that crashed Tuesday this crucial role holding the Australian and Queensland gov- takeoff and was flying at a lower than was carrying many more passengers ernments to account and ensuring that promises are translat- normal speed also suggests an engine Aging air force planes than the military first reported. Initially, ed into real action and improvements in the health of the failure. Before crashing shortly after take- “If there was feathering that means the air force said there were 12 crew reef,” WWF-Australia chief executive Dermot O’Gorman said. off on Tuesday, the C-130 Hercules hit a the engine was dead,” he said. members on the 51-year-old plane and Greenpeace warned that the reef, which runs along Australia’s 35-meter radio antenna, he said. “By hit- Indonesian military planes are not did not mention passengers. It then resources-rich northeast coast, would not be fully protected ting the antenna, I imagine it certainly equipped with black box flight repeatedly raised the number of people unless the country drops all expansion plans for coal and port affected the plane,” Supriatna said. recorders, according to air force opera- on board, indicating confusion about developments in the area. The search for bodies ended tions commander Agus Dwi Putranto. In how many people had boarded and “Until the plans for the massive coal mine and port expan- Wednesday. The plane was carrying 122 response to the disaster, President Joko alighted during a journey covering sev- sion are dropped, it’s impossible to take Australia’s claims that people and the impact also killed people “Jokowi” Widodo has ordered a review of eral cities. On the doomed leg of the they are protecting the reef seriously,” said Greenpeace on the ground. The wreckage of the aging air force planes and other military flight, the plane was leaving Medan in Australia Pacific’s political adviser Jess Panegyres. plane has been removed from the neigh- hardware. Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s main islands, “The government’s Reef 2050 plan... has effectively carved borhood in Indonesia’s third largest city Indonesia’s military spending is equal for the remote Natuna island chain. out a space for massive coal mines and port expansion that and two nearby roads have been to 0.8 percent of GDP, according to the Relatives of some victims said they had will create a highway for coal ships straight through the reef.” reopened. The smell of jet fuel still World Bank, about half that of its neigh- paid for their flights, violating rules that Australia last year gave the green light to a Aus$16.5 billion lingers around the crash site. bors Malaysia and Thailand. The cash restrict air force flights to military person- mine development by India’s Adani Group near the Great Air force spokesman Dwi Badarmanto crunch for Indonesia’s armed forces is nel and their families. Supriatna said if evi- Barrier Reef. It also approved a coal port expansion for Adani said it has grounded other B-type C-130 compounded by the vast area of an dence is produced, stern action would be at Abbot Point on the reef’s coast subject to environmental Hercules planes pending the investiga- archipelago nation made up 17,000 taken against anyone who facilitated civil- conditions. — AFP tion. He didn’t say how many planes islands and spanning three time zones. ians joining the flight. — AP Bangladesh police arrest ‘top Al-qaeda militant’ DHAKA: Bangladesh police said yesterday “During the raids we arrested 12 mili- ern district of) Bogra for training,” he said, saying it wanted to revive jihadist activity. they had arrested 12 suspected militants tants including Maolana Mainul Islam who adding that the group was financed by Bangladesh, home to the world’s fourth including the local head of Al-Qaeda’s is the chief coordinator of AQIS in individuals from Saudi Arabia and United largest Muslim population, has not been hit branch in the region, foiling an attack Bangladesh,” RAB’s Alam told AFP. Al- Arab Emirates. AQIS has claimed responsi- by a major militant attack since 2006. planned for the end of the Islamic holy Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) bility for the murder of several secular blog- Although the country has in recent years month of Ramadan. The Rapid Action had been planning an unspecified attack in gers in Bangladesh this year, including the witnessed a rise in support for a hardline Battalion (RAB) also seized explosives and the Muslim-majority nation after Eid-Al Fitr, hacking to death of Bangladeshi-born US Islamist political group, experts say there is other bomb-making materials during raids which celebrates the end of Ramadan, citizen Avijit Roy in Dhaka in February. little appetite for religious extremism in the on Wednesday on the militants’ hideouts in Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, the Last September, Al-Qaeda released a country. There are also no known cases of the capital Dhaka, spokesman Major most senior RAB spokesman, told reporters. video announcing the establishment of a Bangladeshis joining the Islamic State Maksudul Alam said. “They’ve selected a madrassa in (the north- branch on the Indian subcontinent, AQIS, group. — AFP FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 JULY FRIDAY, www.kuwaittimes.net

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A Palestinian girl stands with a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, at a mosque on the 14th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City.—AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 ‘Terminator Genisys,’ ‘Magic Mike XXL’ to battle holdovers for top spot

Eminem performs onstage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. — AP Colbert interviews Eminem on Michigan local TV tephen Colbert has temporarily taken over a local TV Actress Emilia Clarke and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger pose with a model of a “Terminator” from their show in Michigan in an episode that featured rapper new film “Terminator Genisys” during the premiere of the movie at the Lotte World Mall in Seoul, South SEminem. Colbert hosted “Only in Monroe,” which airs in Korea, yesterday. — AP the community of about 21,000 people. He talked with Detroit native Eminem in a lengthy segment, calling him by his given rnold Schwarzenegger vehicle locations, while Warner Bros.’ “Magic Mike numbers similar to those of the two new name, Marshall Mathers. Colbert also chatted with the show’s “Terminator Genisys” and XXL” is predicted to finish in the mid-to- wide releases, racking up as much as $50 regular hosts, challenging one to a nail-painting race. The AChanning Tatum starrer “Magic high 40s at 3,355 sites, with one tracker million over five days. “Jurassic World” Detroit Free Press reports the 41-minute episode was filmed Mike XXL” are set to go toe-to-toe this suggesting “Mike” would finish under $40 surpassed the $500 million domestic Tuesday. weekend, with both new movies expect- million. Besides Tatum, the R-rated “Magic mark on Sunday and added $14 million in It premiered at midnight Wednesday and was later posted ed to hit at least $40 million at the five- Mike XXL” stars Joe Manganiello, Matt the next two days. “Inside Out” crossed on YouTube. Program director Lance Sottile tells the newspa- day holiday weekend box office, accord- Bomer, Kevin Nash and Andie MacDowell. $200 million on Tuesday. per they were “really happy” Colbert could fill in for the regu- ing to early forecasts on Wednesday. First The story centers on a road trip to Myrtle “Terminator Genisys” carries a hefty lar hosts. Colbert is stepping into CBS’ late-night slot long estimates showed both films finishing Beach, S.C., site of a stripper convention. $155 million pricetag for Paramount occupied by David Letterman after hosting “The Colbert their opening days Wednesday in the $9.5 The original “Magic Mike” was a sur- Pictures and Skydance Prods. Jai Report” on Comedy Central. — AP million to $10 million range. The prise success, opening with $39 million Courtney, Jason Clarke and Emilia Clarke Wednesday estimates included Tuesday- on its first weekend on its way to a $113 also star in a story set in the year 2029 night preview showings, with “Magic million total in the US. The sequel has a amid a war against machines and a frac- Mike XXL” taking in $2.4 million, edging 59% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, tured timeline due to time travel. The film out “Terminator Genisys” with $2.3 million compared with 26% for “Terminator represents something of a test as to at 2,527 locations. Genisys.” The fourth frame of Universal’s whether Schwarzenegger still has signifi- The top end of five-day forecasts for “Jurassic World” and the third weekend of cant star power in the wake of poor per- Paramount-Skydance’s “Terminator Disney’s “Inside Out” will also present a formances by “Escape Plan” (2013) and Genisys” has been $55 million at 3,600 challenge. Both pictures could pull in “Sabotage” (2014). — Reuters ‘Ant-Man’ Paul Rudd gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame File photo shows Jazz Soul singer Amy Winehouse, from England, performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in t’s a big honor for “Ant-Man.” Paul received star No. 2,554 on Hollywood Arganda del Rey, on the outskirts of Madrid. — AP Rudd, who plays the incredible shrink- Boulevard. City News Service says Rudd Iing hero in the upcoming Marvel film, joked that millions of people will be able got a star Wednesday on the Hollywood to see his star and ask the same question Amy Winehouse documentary Walk of Fame. Rudd, who’s also appeared he did when he read the names on the wins raves but angers family in a string of Judd Apatow movies, sidewalk stars as a kid: “Who’s that?” — AP

n “Amy,” performers as diverse as Yasiin Bey and Tony Bennett sing the praises of the late Amy Winehouse, and the documentary Ihelps reclaim the talented, troubled singer as a musician, rather than a mess. Critics love it - but it has left her family hurt and angry. The singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, has branded the film inaccu- rate and misleading. He claims director Asif Kapadia depicts the fami- ly as doing too little to help the singer overcome addiction. “They have selectively edited what I said to suggest that me and my family were against her getting any kind of treatment,” Mitch Winehouse told The Associated Press. “We took her dozens of times to detox and rehab over the years.” Amy Winehouse died at 27 of accidental alcohol poisoning in July Paul Rudd is 2011, after a battle with drink and drugs that played out in front of honored with a the cameras and on tabloid front pages. Kapadia, the British director star on the of the acclaimed Formula 1 documentary “Senna,” defends his film as Actors Michael Douglas, left, and Hollywood Walk a rounded portrait of the artist, built from more than 100 interviews Paul Rudd attend a ceremony hon- of Fame. with people who knew Winehouse. —AP oring Rudd with a star. — AP photos Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Obama gives nod to Black Keys, and maybe a White House invite arage rockers The Black Keys may have won Gthemselves an invitation to play the White House after President Barack Obama declared himself a fan of the duo. While answering ques- tions Wednesday on Twitter, Obama was asked about his music selections and replied he was listening to The Black Keys’ 2011 hit “Lonely Boy” and clas- sic hip-hop duo Outkast’s track “Liberation.” The Black Keys replied Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, online by asking if they could Nominee for Best Rock Performance, arrive on the red car- use Air Force One for their pet for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in shows, to which Obama made this February 8, 2015, file photo. — AFP his own offer. “It’s not mine; just a loaner,” Obama said of mer Patrick Carney-are origi- of expectations. A White the presidential plane. “Maybe nally from Akron, Ohio and House gig is not out of the you can come play at the have built a strong fan base question. Obama last month White House sometime over the past decade with welcomed hundreds of guests Rolling Stones announce instead?” Intentionally or not, hard-edged but blues-rooted to a concert by Prince and Obama praised The Black Keys guitar rock. Obama’s other Stevie Wonder, according to on the same day that he flew- musical selection may carry a attendees. The White House traveling memorabilia exhibit via Air Force One-to Nashville, larger message, as Outkast’s did not reveal any details where the duo is based. The “Liberation” is a call to “shake about that concert, saying Black Keys-consisting of front- that load off” and overcome that it was a private event ild horses won’t be able to keep “We’ve been thinking about it for quite a man Dan Auerbach and drum- hatred as well as the burden paid by Obama. — AFP Rolling Stones fans from the long time but wanted it to be just right and Wband’s first major museum exhibit. on a large scale just like planning our tour- The Stones announced Wednesday that ing concert productions,” Mick Jagger said they’ll be displaying treasures from their 50 in a statement. “I think right now it’s an years of performing together beginning at interesting time to do it.” “While this is London’s Saatchi Gallery in April 2016. In about the Rolling Stones, it’s not necessarily classic Stones fashion, they’ve named the just about the members of the band,” Keith exhibit “Exhibitionism.” The exhibit’s web- Richards said in a statement. “It’s also about becomes site promises “over five hundred Rolling all the paraphernalia and technology associ- Rihanna Stones important and unseen artifacts from ated with a band, like as well as the instru- the band’s personal archives ... embracing ments that have passed through our hands recording industry’s all aspects of art & design, film, video, over the years, that will make the exhibition fashion, performance, rare sound archives really interesting.” “Exhibitionism” will visit and, of course, at the heart of it, the Stones’ 11 additional cities across the world after its top digital singles artist musical heritage.” London debut. — Reuters Prince pulls music from most rammy-winning R&B online streaming services singer Rihanna is the Gfirst artist to surpass op icon Prince has returned to Twitter as he pro- more than 100 million cumula- opened a new chapter motes his “Hit and Run” tour tive digital singles, the Pin his fraught relation- in which he announces shows Recording Industry Association ship with the Internet as he with little advance notice. of America said on Wednesday. suddenly pulled his music Streaming-which offers on- Rihanna, 27, topped the list of from most streaming services. demand, unlimited music-has artists with the most digital sin- A message that appeared on been controversial among gle awards, coming in ahead of sector-leader Spotify said that numerous artists who believe Taylor Swift and Katy Perry in Prince’s publisher “has asked that they are not sufficiently the second and third places all streaming services to compensated. But Prince’s remove his catalog.” “We move comes barely a day respectively. The recording have cooperated with the after Apple launched a new industry’s digital single certifi- request, and hope to bring streaming platform that has cations count download sales his music back as soon as led some holdouts to turn and on-demand streams in the possible,” it said. The sole around. United States. streaming service that still Pop superstar Taylor Swift “She has not only surpassed carried the “Purple Rain” leg- Prince presents an award agreed to stream her block- RIAA’s one-hundred million end’s music as of yesterday at the 57th Annual buster album “1989” only on mark, but also is the first artist was Tidal, which was re- Grammy Awards in Los Apple Music after the compa- to do so. It’s an historic feat launched this year by rap Angeles in this February ny stepped up compensation and a testament to an extraor- mogul Jay Z. 8, 2015, file photo. — AFP to artists in response to her dinary career,” Cary Sherman, Tidal has tried with mixed enthusiast of online music complaints. Hard rock icons the association’s chairman and success to win audiences but in 2010 declared that the AC/DC on Tuesday also CEO, said in a statement. through exclusive content. It Internet was “completely joined myriad streaming plat- Rihanna has won eight streamed much of a peace over” and released an album forms after long refusing. Grammy awards and has seven concert held by Prince in May only as a CD insert to several Remaining artists who resist studio albums to her name. in Baltimore in the wake of European newspapers. streaming include the copy- Her songs “We Found Love,” the death of an African The famously eccentric right holders of The Beatles “Stay” and “Only Girl (In The American man in police cus- and country giant Garth singer last year abruptly left World)” are among her top- tody. Prince was an early Brooks. — AFP Rihanna speaks at the BET Awards at the Microsoft social media, but recently selling singles. — Reuters Theater on Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Los Angeles. — AP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

This photo provided by courtesy of Still Rolling Productions shows, Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall, left, This photo provided by Still Rolling Productions shows, Robin Smith, and Ron ‘Stray Dog’ Hall, and Alicia Soriano Hall, in a scene from the documentary film, ‘Stray Dog,’ directed by Debra in a scene from the documentary film, ‘Stray Dog’. Granik. — AP photos A biker named ‘Stray Dog’ postpones Granik’s Ozarks exit ebra Granik met Ron “Stray Dog” Hall at a biker church in ly understated, patiently observational film about a so-called was also necessary for Granik (who’s currently making a docu- the Ozarks. Granik, a 52-year-old filmmaker from New “ordinary” person - far from the follow-up project most seek after mentary about life after incarceration) to win over a community DYork, was in the Missouri Mountains to make “Winter’s an Oscar-nominated hit. “A lot of things my truest soul is attracted extremely wary of outsiders. “I ain’t trying to knock nobody, but Bone,” the 2010 indie drama that catapulted Jennifer Lawrence to to have no commercial value,” says Granik, whose other projects I’ll tell you, brother, folks with cameras in Vietnam were not our stardom and earned four Oscar nominations, including best pic- (an HBO pilot, a Baltimore urban drama) didn’t materialize. “What friends,” says Hall. “They filmed a lot of bad stuff about us. The ture. The man seated next to Granik - burly, bearded, tattooed do you do with a filmmaker like me in terms of the business news was very slanted to one side. We did a lot of humanitarian and kind-eyed - caught her attention. “His tattoo struck me really world?” The profound simplicity of “Stray Dog” lies in Hall’s things over there, but these were never filmed or talked about, hard. I hadn’t seen that word on someone’s body in a really long rough-hewn compassion and an open-mindedness that would just the blood and the guts.” time: the word ‘Vietnam,’” Granik says. “A dump truck of ques- surprise many, were they to motor past him on the highway. In a tions just cascaded on me in that pew.” Granik, looking for local country that has already begun forgetting more recent wars, Hall Raw portrait authenticity to her film, ran after Hall and cast him as Thump is still haunted by Vietnam and bound in brotherhood to fellow Yet Hall loves the movie Granik made. “It’s real. It’s just the way Milton, the backwoods patriarch of “Winter’s Bone.” Hall, a veterans. it is,” he says. “There’s no mask on it.” There’s sadness and pain in Vietnam veteran in his 60s, was skeptical but resolved it would be His sensitivity comes through in scenes with friends and “Stray Dog,” a raw portrait of American heartland poverty. But, for “pretty neat” for his kids to see him in a movie. strangers, alike, at home and on the road with other bikers visit- all his demons and struggle, there’s nothing impoverished about “I didn’t know she was looking for a drug dealer at the time,” ing the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. But he’s also Hall’s life. “All these things that people worry about .... it don’t he chuckles, “but it worked out.” It’s a good story that could have engaged in the present, learning Spanish to better communicate mean nothin’” says Hall. “My uncle used to say, ‘You got a bad easily ended there, with Granik returning to East Coast with his wife, Alicia, tearing up while talking to a therapist or case of “I-wants.’” I’ll tell you, man, the luckiest people in the moviemaking and Hall back to the RV park he ran. But it didn’t. dolling out Viagra to his pals. “He was someone who had felt a lot world are the folks who learn to be happy with what they got.” When shooting wrapped, Granik stopped by Hall’s home and was of fierce things throughout his lifetime and his willingness to con- The assumption-shattering anthropology went both ways, too, as taken by the scrappy, neighborly existence he and others in the sider another perspective or point of view - it wasn’t that that was Hall and his friends learned about Granik, the Jewish Cambridge, park were eking out. “He also left this cliffhanger. He was like, ‘I endearing to me, it was extremely attractive to me and also hope- Mass.-native in their midst. Hall also came to New York last fall think I’ve just fell in love with this Mexican woman,’” says Granik. ful,” says Granik. “Ron was going to be this complicated ball of when “Stray Dog” premiered at the New York Film Festival, and “We got back to New York and I’m like, ‘Gosh, all I really want to themes.” was surprised to like the place and the people. He even got a foot know right now is what’s happening with Ron and his girlfriend.’” Granik and Hall, who spoke individually by phone, are, as massage in Chinatown. — AP Granik says, “canyons apart” culturally. But Hall came to trust her: No commercial value “She’s real people,” he says. Granik spent more than two years Granik resolved to make a documentary about Hall. The movie, shooting the movie. “You ever see the movie ‘The Never Ending titled “Stray Dog,” opens Friday in limited release. It’s an exquisite- Story’?” says Hall. “That kind of comes to mind.” Hall’s vouching Rupert Everett receives CineMerit Award at Munich Film Festival

upert Everett was lauded at the Munich Film Festival on come from Germany. “This funding has been the foundation Wednesday, when he received the CineMerit Award for out- upon which I have slowly managed to build a European co-pro- Rstanding contribution to cinema. Glenn O’Brien, a former duction,” he said. member of Andy Warhol’s Factory and the first editor-in-chief of Interview magazine, which featured Everett on its cover when he Four languages was a teenager, acted as laudator. O’Brien said: “(Everett) rede- “Like most people in the UK, I am passionate about Europe...,” fined what it is to be a leading man. Part of that is he proved that he added, to loud laughter and applause from the audience, as you don’t need to be straight to be emotionally unavailable, and the UK government is in the process of trying to dilute its com- that it is important to do the roles that formulate your idea of mitment to the European Union. “And I feel I can create a truly yourself and do them in your own way.” European film. My movie stars actors from the UK, France, Italy After he received his award, Everett said: “I feel terribly proud and Germany. It speaks naturally in four languages, and is about a to be here tonight, but also I feel very unworthy, because even character whose life and death were one of the great punctuation though in some ways one deserves an award just for surviving 35 points between the 19th and the 20th centuries. So I hope that years in show business, I really don’t feel I’ve done enough yet to when it comes out I will finally merit the award you have given merit this fantastic award. However, as Elizabeth Taylor once said, me tonight.” —Reuters ‘I haven’t finished with you yet.” Everett explained that he is preparing to direct his first film, “The Happy Prince,” about the final years of Oscar Wilde, for which he wrote the screenplay and takes the leading role. Shooting will take place just outside In this July 1, 2015 picture British actor Rupertin Everett Munich next year, and much of the initial funding for the film has holds his CineMerit award in hand in Munich, Germany. — AP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Kid-friendly crafts for the Fourth of July

long with parades, picnics and fireworks, Hats off to America Fourth of July fun for kids can include Asome holiday-themed crafts. “The Fourth Supplies: is such a great crafting holiday for kids,” says 18-ounce disposable cups Mary Giles, deputy editor of FamilyFun maga- Assorted craft supplies, such as pom-poms, zine. “They can decorate their bikes or make silly pipe cleaners and ribbon hats and noisemakers for the local parade, then Card stock help create decorations and games for a back- Glue, such as glue dots or tacky glue yard barbecue with friends.” Transparent tape Some simple, kid-friendly crafts for Independence Day: Assembly: 1. Get “FamilyFun’s” template for hat brims or Fourth of July pom-pom draw your own on card stock. Cut out. These giant, glittery pom-poms are like safe Attach plastic cup to hat brim using tape. sparklers. “Metallics are so hot right now that 2. Decorate plastic cup with pipe cleaners, adding either silver or gold to your palette is pom-poms and/or ribbon. striking,” says Hannah Milman, the magazine’s 3. To keep hats on heads, cut 18-inch lengths Creativity comes into play in finding unused objects like these baskets integrated into a gar- executive editorial director of crafts. “We love of elastic beading cord and knot the ends. den near Langley, Wash. — AP photos creating fringed tassels, pom-poms and gar- Use duct tape to secure the ends, just below lands.” the knots, to the inside of the cups. Landscape accessories can Watermelon crafts Kids can help carve edible centerpieces. add personality to the garden Supplies: lowers are the face of a garden, providing flavor to hobby greenhouses, she said. “Put up a One small watermelon color and texture. But a few well-placed pergola and string it with vines and flowers. Add Assorted berries Flandscape accessories can give it character a fountain or garden seat.” Large, star-shaped cookie cutter and a dash of personality. Accessories can range Homemade landscaping objects are becom- Paring knife from water fixtures, like ponds and streams, to ing fashionable again, said Leonard Perry, an Metal spoon outdoor furniture and appliances, fountains to extension professor with the University of statuary, miniature fairy gardens to antiques. Vermont. “Making your own accessories may be Assembly: Give it some thought, however. “There’s some a great way to save money, a fun craft hobby or 1. Press the cookie cutter into the watermelon, wonderful stuff out there (to collect) and it’s family activity,” Perry said. “Making colorful then cut along the lines with a paring knife awfully tempting, but you have to be really care- pavers (stepping stones), either with inlaid and remove the shape. ful not to overdo it,” said Linda Engstrom, a land- objects, designs or leaf impressions, is a great 2. Scoop the watermelon out with the spoon scape designer from Portland, Oregon. activity to involve children.” Creativity also and fill with assorted berries. She advises putting no more than two or comes into play finding unusual objects from 3. For added fun, cut assorted melon into a three items in one area. “It gets too cluttered and flea markets, garage sales or your basement, and variety of shapes using cookie cutters and the eye doesn’t know where to go,” she said. figuring out how to incorporate them into a gar- melon ballers. Mix with summer berries. “You need some negative space.” Many of those den. Straw-spangled wreath items also can be high-maintenance. And land- Landscape accessories can be functional as scape accessories should fit the architectural well as attractive. Consider low-voltage lighting Supplies: style of the home, Engstrom said. “I had a client that enhances safety along walks and drives, and Template downloaded from magazine web- once who had a Tudor house but who wanted a home security. “Up-lighting” tree trunks or creat- site Japanese garden. That wasn’t such a great idea, ing a lighting “wash” along the side of a home Card stock but I was able to give her a Japanese-style gar- can add focus and drama, Perry said. “Use lights Paper straws, striped red/white and den semi-enclosed in the backyard, and it wasn’t to highlight fountains, plants and containers in blue/white jarring,” she said. full bloom so they can be enjoyed in the Corrugated cardboard Engstrom doesn’t like the trend toward elab- evening, too,” he said. Tastes vary, of course, This photo provided by courtesy of Tacky glue orate outdoor living rooms with weather-proof Perry notes. “What is tacky to some may appear FamilyFun magazine shows a homemade Glue stick furniture. “I can’t picture leaving that stuff out to be a thing of beauty to that gardener or straw-spangled wreath. there in wet or snowy winters,” she said. “It’s homeowner,” he said.— AP Assembly: quite a chore to keep it looking nice when 1. Download the round template printed on placed outside.” Accessories can be used to card stock - or handprint your own “Happy screen unsightly utility sheds or add some visual Supplies: Fourth of July” message. Cut out the circle Various shades of red, white and blue 30-by- and trace it twice on corrugated cardboard. 20-inch tissue paper sheets Cut out both circles. Mylar paper 2. Make several rings of tacky glue on one Scissors or fringe cutters cardboard circle and attach striped paper 1/4-inch wooden dowel straws, alternating red/white and Double-sided tape blue/white straws, leaving 2 inches of space Card stock in the center. 3. Thread a 1-inch straw piece onto a long Assembly length of fishing line or string, and knot the 1. Fold a sheet of tissue paper into thirds verti- ends. Attach the straw piece with tacky glue cally. Cut one edge to get three stacked to the center of the cardboard circle. Add strips, then fringe them using scissors or rings of glue over the straws and gently fringe cutter. Repeat with two more sheets press on the other cardboard circle. of tissue paper. 4. Let the glue dry. With a glue stick, attach the 2. Cut a strip of Mylar paper to match tissue- card stock center. paper segments; fringe. 5. Trim the straws to different lengths. Hang 3. Layer fringed segments together. Roll up on with the fishing line. — AP end of dowel, applying tape repeatedly along unfringed edge of tissue paper as you roll. 4. Cut a cone of card stock. Wrap around base A metal parrot provides some greenhouse color while an antique wheelchair serves as the set- of pom-pom; tape to secure. ting for some rainy day reading near Langley. FRIDAY 03 JULY, 2015

JapaneseSimple 30-minute recipes

ring the Japanese bento box home with these delicious and simple Japanese recipes. Perfect for the home cook who wants Japanese food at home without draining the wallet. From the ever popular Yakisoba to the traditional Spicy Tuna, this collec- Btion of Japanese recipes will have you enjoying authentic and oishii (meaning: yummy!) Japanese dishes, quickly and conve- niently! Spicy tuna bowl

Ingredients 1/2 cup Spicy Tuna - full recipe behind this link. 1 cup cooked rice of your choice - sushi rice or brown rice is fine. 2 tbsp. rice vinegar Soy sauce (optional)

Preparation Cook the rice and mix in the rice vinegar. Place rice in a deep, wide bowl. Add the spicy tuna on top of the rice and then add your choice of toppings. Add soy sauce if you desire. FRIDAY 03 JULY, 2015 Yakisoba Japanese Fried Noodles

Ingredients 1/2 onion 1 carrot 4 cabbage leaves 2 Tbsp oil Fresh ground black pepper 1 package Yakisoba Noodles Seasonings included in the yakisoba package Shredded Nori (dried seaweed) Kewpie Mayonnaise

Preparation Cut vegetables and meat. Heat oil in large pan on medium high heat and cook the protein (meat/seafood) Add onion, carrots, cabbage and cook until they’re soft. While cooking the vegetables, remove yakisoba noodles from the package and run under hot water to separate the noodles. Lower the heat to medium and add the black pepper, noodles, and yakisoba sauce. Mix all the ingredients together, making sure not to burn the ingredients in the pan. Serve on a plate and top noodles with shredded nori and Kewpie Mayonnaise. Serve hot!

Ingredients 2 servings dry buckwheat noodles 4 pieces shrimp tempura 1/4 bunch fresh spinach 1 green onion Shichimi pepper (seven herb pepper), avail- able in oriental store Seasonings for soup 1/3 cup Mizkan Soup Base 2 1/4 cup water

Preparations Wash spinach, parboil in hot water for a few minutes, drain, rinse and cut into 1 1/2 inch lengths. Set aside. In a pot, combine water and Mizkan Soup Base and bring to boil. In a separate pot, boil buckwheat noodles until done. Drain and rinse in plenty of cold water. Place cooked noodles into two bowls then pour hot sauce over the noodles. Top the soup with Shrimp tempura, spinach, finely chopped green onion, and shichimi pepper to taste. (www.lifehack.com) Salmon Shioyaki

Ingredients 4 salmon fillets, with skin, scaled, deboned 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preparation Dry the salmon fillets with paper towels. Rub sea salt on both sides of fil- lets, then wrap the salmon loosely with paper towel and let it sit in the refrigerator for about an hour. After an hour, heat pan to medium to medium high heat and coat bottom of pan with vegetable oil. Test the pan temperature by touching the very edge of the fillet to the pan. If it sizzles, the pan is ready! Arrange the fillets in the pan, skin side down. Remember to lay it away from you so you don’t splash any oil on your- self. Cook for about 5 minutes. Carefully urn fillets over and cook about 3 minutess more. Serve immediately with steamed rice and a wedge of lemon. Tempura Soba FRIDAY 03 JULY, 2015

ne of the most famous lines uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s murder-powered cyborg is “I’ll be Oback.” And on July 1, the T-800 will once again be true to his word when “Terminator: Genisys” hits theaters. The fifth “Terminator” movie aims to robo-punch you right in the nos- talgia center, much like “Jurassic World” did, with its twisty, time-travel story that pays homage to the franchise’s first two films (while completely, and wisely, ignoring the existence of meh entries “Rise of the Machines” and “Salvation.”) To pre- pare you for another trip to the land of Skynet, here are all the things you need to know about “Genisys,” which picks up where James Cameron’s original 1984 film left off.

1. It’s a Reboot...ish After “Batman Begins,” the word “reboot” became the hottest phrase in Hollywood. And “Terminator: Genisys” is the latest product of that craze. Jason Clarke plays John Connor, a character essayed, in various points in the franchise, by Edward Furlong (in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”), Nick Stahl in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” Thomas Dekker in the “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” television series and Christian Bale in “Terminator: Salvation.” Emilia Clarke, from “Game of Thrones,” plays Sarah Connor, a character most famously played by Linda Hamilton on the big screen, and then later by Lena Headey on the small screen in “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Jai Courtney plays Kyle Reese, played by Michael Biehn in “Terminator” and in a deleted scene from “T2.” Most puzzling, South Korean dreamboat Lee Byung-hun plays the T-1000, a character origi- nally portrayed by Robert Patrick in “T2.” But Schwarzenegger remains, as a variation on his original Terminator character. So yes, all your favorite characters from the series have been recast with younger models. But, like all things in the “Terminator” universe, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

2. It’s also a remake Significant chunks of the film’s first act are comprised of recreated scenes and sequences from the first film, with iconic elements from the second film also added in. It’s basically a 2015 remix of key moments from the 1984 film; in fact, the film largely plays out like a very expensive “mad lib” to all things “T1” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” This includes Kyle Reese and the Terminator returning from the war-torn future to the comparatively war-free 1984 (full of cold blue lighting and that sequence where Reese, fresh from his naked trip through time, steals a hobo’s pants.) It also includes a variation on the T-1000 mall battle from “T2.” These sequences have some wrinkles and some 5 Things you additions/embellishments, but some of them are virtually shot-for-shot recreations from those earlier movies. What gives these scenes an extra trippy quality is that a photo-real, CG version of the 1984 model is used, and it battles an older need to know version of itself (affectionately nicknamed “Pops”). Eagle-eyed “Terminator” fanatics will have a lot of fun looking at what the filmmakers recreated. There is, of course, a reason for all of this Xeroxing, and it has to do with the twisty, “timey wimey” before you see nature of the “Terminator” franchise.

3. There’s a reasonable explanation for why Arnold is old At one point, Reese brings up the fact that “Pops,” the Terminator model sent back to a time when Sarah Connor was a little girl, is, you know, old. (“But not obsolete,” as Pops reminds us throughout the film.) The explanation presented for why is, narratively, well- founded: Since the Terminator is a metallic robot endoskele- ton wrapped in living human tissue, the outer tissue actually ages. So the fact that the actor is older is actually justifiable. What’s more, Pops shows up in 2017 with silver hair. The “rules” in the “Terminator” universe are always sort of hard to pin down (particularly in this most recent installment) but this is one thing that does make sense. (Super-nerdy “Terminator” fans will remember that the flesh outside of Arnold’s original robot actually decayed, like a corpse. Remember the landlord who banged on his door wondering what had died in there?) Apparently, this model knows how to heal a lot better. FRIDAY 03 JULY, 2015

4. The fewer trailers you watch, the better off you’ll be When “T2” came out in 1991, all the advertising did a great job of hiding the fact that Arnold was John and Sarah’s protec- tor this time around. Audiences didn’t realize it until more than 30 minutes into the movie, when they brainsplode’d over seeing the T-800 duking it out with the T-1000 to save young JC. The marketing for “Genisys” threw all that preservation of plot twists out the window, with the late-in-the-marketing cycle reveal that a certain hero from the post-apocalyptic future becomes the most sophisticated Terminator ever made. This plot detail has been thoroughly ruined (it’s even on the poster!), so you’re enjoyment of the film will be greatly impacted by how little you now about this twist before buy- ing a ticket. If you have already watched the trailers for the movie, that’s not exactly a deal-breaker; though it still sucks not to have that collective gasp felt more 24 years ago when “T2” was released.

5. The Terminator Will Be Back (Duh) “Genisys” pulls a Marvel by adding a mid-credits tag that briefly sets up a potential sequel, just as the film’s climatic scenes pave the way for a future where, for the first time in over three decades, Sarah Connor is free to choose her own fate. The effectiveness of these scenes aside, it’s up to the almighty Box Office Dollar to determine if Arnuld and Friends will get a sixth-quel. But based on the warmly nostalgic response to “Jurassic World,” turning that once-dormant fran- chise into a money-minting machine, it’s safe to say that “Genisys” will enjoy a solid opening weekend. Moreover, the narrative manages to set up new timelines for our characters, both old and new, to play in. (And the film’s reliance on multi- ple time-jumps also serves a tool future storylines will likely use if given the greenlight.) The mantra of the “Terminator” franchise has always been that there is no fate save for that which we make for ourselves. This despite the fact that, no matter how many times the machines are defeated, Reese, Sarah, John and Pops always find themselves doomed to repeat a different version of simi- lar “save the future” events. With “Genisys,” the timeline gets even more complicated and intensified. And while Sarah may finally be in charge of where her life goes, the future of her franchise is all in the hands of the movie-going public. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Incredible Chinese cities you’ve never heard of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are China’s glamour triplets. Everybody knows them, every- Harbin body wants to see them (and hopefully snap a selfie). And yeah, they’re pretty fantastic. But did you know that China is home to an incredible 600+ cities, more than 160 of which have populations greater than a million? Though lit- tle-visited by foreigners, many of these cities boast their own fasci- nating atmospheres, histories and cultural attractions. We’re certain- ly not saying to skip the Forbidden City or Hong Kong’s Peak, but why n the far northeastern province of Heilongjiang, Harbin turns and the Kremlin, all carved from blocks of ice and illuminated not take a tip from experienced its bitter coldness (winter temperatures can be as low as - with disco-esque neon green and pink spotlights. At any time China travelers and try out these I40C) into an attraction. Each January and February the city of year you can explore the city’s unique Russian and Jewish hosts the International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, with heritage. In the 1920s, Harbin was home to some 20,000 Jews, under-the-radar cities too? fantastical ice sculptures of famous world monuments on dis- the largest such community in East Asia. Today you can still vis- play. Past highlights include a life-size Forbidden City, a sphinx it the old synagogue, now a museum. Travel

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Hangzhou

hough the name may not ring a bell misty emerald hills over Hangzhou Bay, bike and take a spin around the shores, The city’s bike hire scheme is one of the Tfor most Western travellers, this east it’s famed for its West Lake, whose wil- stopping to watch impromptu opera world’s best and the streets are relatively coast city has been inspiring poetic vers- low-lined banks and ancient pagodas performances or lunch on vinegar- bike-friendly, so take advantage - this is a es for thousands of years. Set amid the make for an endless photo op. Rent a spiked lake carp, a Hangzhou specialty. rarity in China.

Qingdao

any foreigners’ only familiarity with this eastern China Governor’s House Museum is one of the best examples. Mcity comes from having downed a pint of Tsingtao, the Winding stone alleys and multicultural street markets make oft-exported local beer. What few know is that Qingdao’s for happy afternoons of aimless wandering. Hopheads can famed brew is the result of the city’s unique German her- tour the Tsingtao Brewery, now a modern building featur- itage. A German colony in the early 20th century, Qingdao ing exhibits on the city’s German past. And yes, there are still bears photogenic traces of the era - the art nouveau free samples.

ust across the border from Hong Kong, this tiful shopping malls. But Shenzhen’s got much Jmegacity of 15 million is New China at its more than that. We love the kitsch-tastic finest and most frenetic. A sleepy farm town Window of the World, a theme park featuring Shenzhen just a few decades ago, Shenzhen has explod- miniature versions of hundreds of global land- ed into the center of Southern China’s manu- marks, including a 1/3 scale Eiffel Tower. For facturing, technology and financial industries, more highbrow pleasures, the warehouses- drawing young people from all over the coun- turned-galleries of OCT Loft showcase some of try. Many Hong Kongers come to Shenzhen for China’s best up-and-coming contemporary its cut-rate tailors, cheap nail salons and boun- artists. Travel Xining On the edge of the Tibetan plateau, this city of 2.2Desert million has one of China’s most interesting cultural mixes. More than 37 ethnic groups callSafari Xining home, including sub- FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 stantialGot a populations little bit longer of Hui to spend(ethnic in Chinese Qatar? Muslims),For a total Tibetanschange ofand pace, Mongolic-speaking a dune-bashing drive Tu people. into the Check desert outmight the besuperb just theTibetan thing. Culture Once andyou’re Medicine strapped Museum, firmly in featuringthe seat ofa 618-metre-longa 4x4, you’re at theThangka driver’s (Tibetan mercy, sacredhurtling scroll),up and the down world’s steep longest.dunes with The sand Dongguan spraying againstGreat Mosquethe windows can attract - it’s adrenalineup to 50,000 pumping worshippers stuff. forSurvive its Fridaythat, andprayers, the reward and is is worth a photo-op a visit in for one a strollof the arounddesert’s the most grounds. scenic Then, viewpoints of course, - if you’rethere’s lucky, the foodjust -as sample the sun Tibetan is setting. momos If you have(dumplings) time, ask andthe yak driver butter to include tea, halal a stop favourites at the inland like lambsea kebabs,and squint and over local-style at the chilli-Saudi lacedborder hotpot. on the other side.

Xiamen

Lantern-lit alleys, red-roofed colonial buildings and luscious subtropical gardens make this affluent Fujian port city one of China’s most charming. Your first order of business: hop on a boat for the five-minute ride across the har- bor to Gulang Yu, the jewel in Xiamen’s crown. This tiny island was once a designated ‘International Foreign Settlement,’ and today operates as a sort of European cultural theme park. Its streets are lined with colonial villas, piano music tinkles from speakers, and cafes will serve you an Earl Grey while you recline on an antique settee. Back on the mainland, take a stroll around the classically beautiful campus of Xiamen University, funded with money from the many Fujianese who made their fortunes abroad. (www.lonelyplanet.com) Leisure FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

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09:45 How It’s Made 16:00 Jessie 03:00 Man Fire Food 18:20 Big Star’s Little Star Jimmy Fallon 10:10 How Do They Do It? 16:30 Jessie 03:30 Man Fire Food 19:10 Coronation Street 05:30 My Name Is Earl 10:35 King Of Thrones 17:00 Little Mermaid 3: Ariel’s New 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:35 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute 06:00 My Boys 11:25 Insane Pools: Off The Deep Beginning 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Makeover 06:30 The Nightly Show With Larry End 18:15 Dog With A Blog 05:00 Chopped 20:30 Who’s Doing The Dishes? Wilmore 00:20 Eastenders 12:15 Tanked 18:40 Liv And Maddie 06:00 Iron Chef America 21:25 Come Date With Me Australia 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 00:50 Rev. 13:05 The Liquidator 19:05 Liv And Maddie 07:00 Man Fire Food 21:50 Come Date With Me Australia 08:00 Til Death 01:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 13:30 Extreme Collectors 19:30 Lolirock 07:30 Man Fire Food 22:20 Coronation Street 08:30 My Name Is Earl 02:15 Single Father 13:55 Auction Kings 19:55 Hank Zipzer 08:00 Chopped 22:50 Emmerdale 09:00 Galavant 03:10 Spooks 14:20 Railroad Alaska 20:20 Binny And The Ghost 09:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 23:15 Emmerdale 09:30 Two And A Half Men 04:05 Lark Rise To Candleford 15:10 Overhaulin’ 2012 20:45 Good Luck Charlie Basics 23:45 Big Star’s Little Star 10:00 Community 05:00 The Green Balloon Club 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 09:30 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 10:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 05:25 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 16:50 How It’s Made 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place Basics Wilmore 05:45 Show Me Show Me 17:15 How Do They Do It? 22:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:00 The Kitchen 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 06:10 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 17:40 Bear Grylls: Breaking Point 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 11:00 The Big Eat... Jimmy Fallon 06:30 The Green Balloon Club 18:30 Fast N’ Loud Witch 11:30 The Big Eat... 12:00 My Boys 06:55 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 19:20 Misfit Garage 22:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 12:00 Chopped 12:30 Hot In Cleveland 07:15 The Weakest Link 20:10 Extreme Collectors Witch 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 13:00 My Name Is Earl 08:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 20:35 Auction Kings 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 13:30 Men At Work 08:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 21:00 Fast N’ Loud 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 14:00 The Goldbergs 09:00 Doctors 21:50 Misfit Garage 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 01:00 Finding The Lost Da Vinci 14:30 Two And A Half Men 09:30 Eastenders 15:00 Man Fire Food 02:00 Hard Time 15:00 Community 10:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 15:30 Man Fire Food 03:00 Close Quarter Battle 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 10:55 Breaking Pointe 16:00 Chopped 03:30 Close Quarter Battle Stewart 11:35 The Weakest Link 17:00 The Kitchen 04:00 The Border 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 12:20 Last Of The Summer Wine 00:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 18:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 05:00 Crowd Control Wilmore 12:50 Last Of The Summer Wine 00:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On Basics 05:30 Crowd Control 16:30 My Boys 13:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 00:55 Extreme Close-Up 18:30 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 06:00 Going Deep With David Rees 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 14:15 Breaking Pointe 00:00 Violetta 01:25 Keeping Up With The Basics 06:30 Going Deep With David Rees 18:00 Galavant 14:55 Last Of The Summer Wine 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage Kardashians 19:00 Chopped 07:00 One Ocean 18:30 New Girl 15:25 Last Of The Summer Wine Witch 02:20 E! 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09:45 How It’s Made 16:00 Jessie 03:00 Man Fire Food 18:20 Big Star’s Little Star Jimmy Fallon 10:10 How Do They Do It? 16:30 Jessie 03:30 Man Fire Food 19:10 Coronation Street 05:30 My Name Is Earl 10:35 King Of Thrones 17:00 Little Mermaid 3: Ariel’s New 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:35 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute 06:00 My Boys 11:25 Insane Pools: Off The Deep Beginning 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Makeover 06:30 The Nightly Show With Larry End 18:15 Dog With A Blog 05:00 Chopped 20:30 Who’s Doing The Dishes? 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16:00 The Numbers Station 18:00 Double Take 20:00 Crimson Tide 22:00 Absolute Killers

00:00 Sniper: Legacy-PG15 02:00 Stash House-PG15 04:00 500 mph Storm-PG15 06:00 The Numbers Station-PG15 08:00 Beast Of The Bering Sea- PG15 10:00 500 mph Storm-PG15 12:00 Marvel’s Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow-PG 14:00 The Numbers Station-PG15 16:00 Double Take-PG15 18:00 Crimson Tide-PG15 20:00 Absolute Killers-PG15 22:00 World War Z-PG15

00:00 AmeriQua 02:00 Life 04:00 She-Devil 06:00 Admission 08:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 10:00 The Simpsons Movie 12:00 Admission 14:00 Life 16:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 18:00 A Valentine’s Date 20:00 Liar, Liar 22:00 Svengali

01:00 The Bag Man-PG15 SNIPER- LEGACY ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 03:00 How I Live Now-PG15 05:00 The Railway Man-PG15 07:00 One Chance-PG15 11:45 Blackie And Kanuto 15:35 Little People, Big World 08:10 Ben 10 09:00 Stand Off-PG15 13:15 Otto Is A Rhino 16:00 Bling It On 08:55 Ninjago: Masters Of 11:00 Blancanieves-PG15 14:45 Dinosaur Island 16:00 Little People, Big World Spinjitzu 13:00 The Railway Man-PG15 16:15 Space Dogs 16:25 Little People, Big World 09:15 Regular Show 15:00 My Last Day Without You 18:00 The Little Rascals Save The 00:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 25 16:50 Brides Of Beverly Hills 09:27 Regular Show 17:00 Stand Off-PG15 Day 07:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 26 16:50 Little People, Big World 09:40 The Amazing World Of 19:00 Grace Of Monaco-PG15 20:00 Dixie And The Zombie 07:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 00:45 Oprah Presents: Master Class 17:15 Brides Of Beverly Hills Gumball 21:00 Pawn-PG15 Rebellion Middlesex v Sussex 01:35 Extreme Cheapskates 17:15 Something Borrowed, 10:00 Uncle Grandpa 23:00 I Will Follow You Into The Dark 22:00 Dinosaur Island 21:00 Caribbean Premier League 02:00 90 Days To Wed Something New 10:12 Uncle Grandpa 23:30 Space Dogs H/L: Jamaica v St Kitts 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress 17:40 Sister Wives 10:25 Total Drama: Pahkitew 22:00 Caribbean Premier League 03:15 Extreme Cheapskates 17:40 Something Borrowed, Island H/L: St Lucia v Barbados 03:15 Something Borrowed, Something New 10:45 Total Drama: Pahkitew 23:00 Live Caribbean Premier Something New 18:05 Your Style In His Hands Island League : Guyana v St Kitts 03:40 Ballroom Blitz 18:30 Oprah Presents: Master Class 11:10 Adventure Time 03:40 Extreme Cheapskates 18:55 Cake Boss 11:20 Adventure Time 01:30 Stalingrad 00:00 American Warships-PG15 04:05 Craft Wars 19:20 Kate Plus 8 11:30 Adventure Time 03:45 The Sapphires 02:00 Appleseed: Alpha-PG15 04:30 Cake Boss 19:20 Your Style In His Hands 05:30 Battle Of The Year 12:40 Regular Show 04:00 The Colony-PG15 05:00 Craft Wars 20:10 Leah Remini: It’s All Relative 07:30 Corpse Bride 13:25 Clarence 06:00 Epic-PG 05:00 Little People, Big World 20:10 Sister Wives 09:30 Quiz Show 13:45 Uncle Grandpa 08:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film- 05:30 Extreme Couponing 20:35 Leah Remini: It’s All Relative 12:00 The Great Gatsby 00:00 Ultimate Wheels 14:10 Grojband PG15 06:00 18 Kids And Counting 21:00 Kate Plus 8 14:30 Maladies 01:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 14:30 Grojband 10:00 Appleseed: Alpha-PG15 06:00 Say Yes To The Dress 21:00 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 16:30 Quiz Show 02:00 Counting Cars 14:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 11:45 Pacific Rim-PG15 06:25 Cake Boss 21:50 Oprah’s Next Chapter 19:00 The Secret Life Of Bees 02:30 Counting Cars 15:15 Ben 10: Omniverse 14:00 Cloverfield-PG15 06:25 Hoarding: Buried Alive 21:50 Sister Wives 21:00 Eternal Sunshine Of The 03:00 Ultimate Wheels 15:40 Ninjago: Masters Of 16:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film- 06:50 Cake Boss 22:40 Extreme Cheapskates Spotless Mind 04:00 Pawn Stars Spinjitzu PG15 07:15 Cake Boss 22:40 Extreme Couponing 23:00 Hateship Loveship 04:30 Pawn Stars 16:00 Total Drama: Pahkitew 18:00 Labor Day-PG15 07:15 Hoarding: Buried Alive 23:05 90 Days To Wed 05:00 Counting Cars Island 20:00 Trespass-PG15 07:40 Cake Boss 23:05 Mob Wives 05:30 Counting Cars 16:25 Steven Universe 22:00 The Purge-PG15 08:05 Ultimate Shopper 23:55 90 Days To Wed 06:00 American Restoration 16:36 Steven Universe 08:05 World’s Worst Mum 23:55 Mob Wives 06:30 American Restoration 16:45 Teen Titans Go! 08:55 Ultimate Shopper 07:00 Counting Cars 08:55 World’s Worst Mum 17:10 The Amazing World Of 08:00 Counting Cars 01:00 Oculus-PG15 09:45 Cake Boss Gumball 08:30 Counting Cars 03:00 Dawn Rider-PG15 02:30 Super League 09:45 Toddlers & Tiaras 17:30 Regular Show 09:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 05:00 In My Dreams-PG15 05:30 European Tour Weekly 10:10 Cake Boss 18:15 Adventure Time 10:00 American Pickers 07:00 Escape From Planet Earth-PG 10:35 Sister Wives 18:40 Johnny Test 07:00 Golfing World 11:00 Pawn Stars 09:00 When The Game Stands Tall- 10:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 19:25 Clarence 08:00 ICC Cricket 360 11:30 Pawn Stars PG15 11:25 18 Kids And Counting 19:45 Uncle Grandpa 08:30 Web.com Tour 12:00 Storage Wars 03:20 Total Drama: Pahkitew 11:00 Rio 2-FAM 11:25 Something Borrowed, 19:57 Uncle Grandpa 11:30 Live PGA European Tour 12:30 Storage Wars Island 12:45 Mud-PG15 Something New 20:10 Teen Titans Go! 13:00 Counting Cars 03:42 Total Drama: Pahkitew 15:00 Captain America: The Winter 16:00 European Tour Weekly 11:50 18 Kids And Counting 20:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 13:30 Counting Cars Island Soldier-PG15 16:30 Live PGA European Tour 11:50 Something Borrowed, 21:17 Ben 10: Omniverse 14:00 Shipping Wars 04:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 17:15 When The Game Stands Tall- 20:00 ICC Cricket 360 Something New 21:40 Adventure Time 14:30 Shipping Wars Spinjitzu PG15 20:30 Live Cricket - Natwest T20 12:15 18 Kids And Counting 21:51 Adventure Time 15:00 American Pickers 04:28 Ninjago: Masters Of 19:15 Rio 2-FAM 12:15 Something Borrowed, 16:00 American Restoration Spinjitzu 22:02 Adventure Time 21:00 Billy Elliot The Musical-PG15 Something New 16:30 American Restoration 04:50 Teen Titans Go! 22:13 Adventure Time 12:40 18 Kids And Counting 17:00 Storage Wars 05:00 Teen Titans Go! 22:25 Johnny Test 12:40 Something Borrowed, 17:30 Storage Wars 05:10 Grojband 23:10 Regular Show Something New 18:00 Pawn Stars 05:35 Grojband 23:55 Total Drama: Revenge Of 01:30 PGA European Tour 13:05 18 Kids And Counting 18:30 Pawn Stars The Island 07:00 Volvo Ocean Race Highlights 13:05 Something Borrowed, 06:00 Regular Show 19:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 00:20 Total Drama: Revenge Of 07:30 World Rugby Something New 06:40 Uncle Grandpa 20:00 Counting Cars The Island 00:45 Ghatothkach - Master Of Magic 13:30 Oprah’s Next Chapter 06:50 Uncle Grandpa 08:00 PGA Tour 20:30 Counting Cars 00:40 Grojband 02:30 Otto Is A Rhino 13:30 Say Yes To The Dress: The Big 07:00 Adventure Time 12:45 Live NRL Premiership 21:00 Storage Wars 01:05 Grojband 04:15 Worms Day (Specials) 07:11 Adventure Time 19:00 WWE Bottomline 21:30 Storage Wars 01:25 Teen Titans Go! 06:00 Earth To Echo 14:20 Oprah Presents: Master Class 07:25 Steven Universe 20:00 WWE Superstars 22:00 Shipping Wars 01:50 Regular Show 08:00 Krazzy Planet 14:20 Oprah’s Next Chapter 07:35 Steven Universe 22:30 Shipping Wars 02:35 Johnny Test 10:00 The Little Rascals Save The 21:00 WWE Main Event 15:10 Craft Wars 07:45 The Amazing World Of 23:00 Storage Wars Day 23:00 Live PGA Tour 15:10 Little People, Big World Gumball TV listings FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

16:00 The Numbers Station 18:00 Double Take 20:00 Crimson Tide 22:00 Absolute Killers

00:00 Sniper: Legacy-PG15 02:00 Stash House-PG15 04:00 500 mph Storm-PG15 06:00 The Numbers Station-PG15 08:00 Beast Of The Bering Sea- PG15 10:00 500 mph Storm-PG15 12:00 Marvel’s Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow-PG 14:00 The Numbers Station-PG15 16:00 Double Take-PG15 18:00 Crimson Tide-PG15 20:00 Absolute Killers-PG15 22:00 World War Z-PG15

00:00 AmeriQua 02:00 Life 04:00 She-Devil 06:00 Admission 08:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 10:00 The Simpsons Movie 12:00 Admission 14:00 Life 16:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 18:00 A Valentine’s Date 20:00 Liar, Liar 22:00 Svengali

01:00 The Bag Man-PG15 SNIPER- LEGACY ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 03:00 How I Live Now-PG15 05:00 The Railway Man-PG15 07:00 One Chance-PG15 11:45 Blackie And Kanuto 15:35 Little People, Big World 08:10 Ben 10 09:00 Stand Off-PG15 13:15 Otto Is A Rhino 16:00 Bling It On 08:55 Ninjago: Masters Of 11:00 Blancanieves-PG15 14:45 Dinosaur Island 16:00 Little People, Big World Spinjitzu 13:00 The Railway Man-PG15 16:15 Space Dogs 16:25 Little People, Big World 09:15 Regular Show 15:00 My Last Day Without You 18:00 The Little Rascals Save The 00:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 25 16:50 Brides Of Beverly Hills 09:27 Regular Show 17:00 Stand Off-PG15 Day 07:00 ICC Cricket 360, Episode 26 16:50 Little People, Big World 09:40 The Amazing World Of 19:00 Grace Of Monaco-PG15 20:00 Dixie And The Zombie 07:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 00:45 Oprah Presents: Master Class 17:15 Brides Of Beverly Hills Gumball 21:00 Pawn-PG15 Rebellion Middlesex v Sussex 01:35 Extreme Cheapskates 17:15 Something Borrowed, 10:00 Uncle Grandpa 23:00 I Will Follow You Into The Dark 22:00 Dinosaur Island 21:00 Caribbean Premier League 02:00 90 Days To Wed Something New 10:12 Uncle Grandpa 23:30 Space Dogs H/L: Jamaica v St Kitts 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress 17:40 Sister Wives 10:25 Total Drama: Pahkitew 22:00 Caribbean Premier League 03:15 Extreme Cheapskates 17:40 Something Borrowed, Island H/L: St Lucia v Barbados 03:15 Something Borrowed, Something New 10:45 Total Drama: Pahkitew 23:00 Live Caribbean Premier Something New 18:05 Your Style In His Hands Island League : Guyana v St Kitts 03:40 Ballroom Blitz 18:30 Oprah Presents: Master Class 11:10 Adventure Time 03:40 Extreme Cheapskates 18:55 Cake Boss 11:20 Adventure Time 01:30 Stalingrad 00:00 American Warships-PG15 04:05 Craft Wars 19:20 Kate Plus 8 11:30 Adventure Time 03:45 The Sapphires 02:00 Appleseed: Alpha-PG15 04:30 Cake Boss 19:20 Your Style In His Hands 05:30 Battle Of The Year 12:40 Regular Show 04:00 The Colony-PG15 05:00 Craft Wars 20:10 Leah Remini: It’s All Relative 07:30 Corpse Bride 13:25 Clarence 06:00 Epic-PG 05:00 Little People, Big World 20:10 Sister Wives 09:30 Quiz Show 13:45 Uncle Grandpa 08:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film- 05:30 Extreme Couponing 20:35 Leah Remini: It’s All Relative 12:00 The Great Gatsby 00:00 Ultimate Wheels 14:10 Grojband PG15 06:00 18 Kids And Counting 21:00 Kate Plus 8 14:30 Maladies 01:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 14:30 Grojband 10:00 Appleseed: Alpha-PG15 06:00 Say Yes To The Dress 21:00 Oprah: Where Are They Now? 16:30 Quiz Show 02:00 Counting Cars 14:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 11:45 Pacific Rim-PG15 06:25 Cake Boss 21:50 Oprah’s Next Chapter 19:00 The Secret Life Of Bees 02:30 Counting Cars 15:15 Ben 10: Omniverse 14:00 Cloverfield-PG15 06:25 Hoarding: Buried Alive 21:50 Sister Wives 21:00 Eternal Sunshine Of The 03:00 Ultimate Wheels 15:40 Ninjago: Masters Of 16:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film- 06:50 Cake Boss 22:40 Extreme Cheapskates Spotless Mind 04:00 Pawn Stars Spinjitzu PG15 07:15 Cake Boss 22:40 Extreme Couponing 23:00 Hateship Loveship 04:30 Pawn Stars 16:00 Total Drama: Pahkitew 18:00 Labor Day-PG15 07:15 Hoarding: Buried Alive 23:05 90 Days To Wed 05:00 Counting Cars Island 20:00 Trespass-PG15 07:40 Cake Boss 23:05 Mob Wives 05:30 Counting Cars 16:25 Steven Universe 22:00 The Purge-PG15 08:05 Ultimate Shopper 23:55 90 Days To Wed 06:00 American Restoration 16:36 Steven Universe 08:05 World’s Worst Mum 23:55 Mob Wives 06:30 American Restoration 16:45 Teen Titans Go! 08:55 Ultimate Shopper 07:00 Counting Cars 08:55 World’s Worst Mum 17:10 The Amazing World Of 08:00 Counting Cars 01:00 Oculus-PG15 09:45 Cake Boss Gumball 08:30 Counting Cars 03:00 Dawn Rider-PG15 02:30 Super League 09:45 Toddlers & Tiaras 17:30 Regular Show 09:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 05:00 In My Dreams-PG15 05:30 European Tour Weekly 10:10 Cake Boss 18:15 Adventure Time 10:00 American Pickers 07:00 Escape From Planet Earth-PG 10:35 Sister Wives 18:40 Johnny Test 07:00 Golfing World 11:00 Pawn Stars 09:00 When The Game Stands Tall- 10:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 19:25 Clarence 08:00 ICC Cricket 360 11:30 Pawn Stars PG15 11:25 18 Kids And Counting 19:45 Uncle Grandpa 08:30 Web.com Tour 12:00 Storage Wars 03:20 Total Drama: Pahkitew 11:00 Rio 2-FAM 11:25 Something Borrowed, 19:57 Uncle Grandpa 11:30 Live PGA European Tour 12:30 Storage Wars Island 12:45 Mud-PG15 Something New 20:10 Teen Titans Go! 13:00 Counting Cars 03:42 Total Drama: Pahkitew 15:00 Captain America: The Winter 16:00 European Tour Weekly 11:50 18 Kids And Counting 20:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 13:30 Counting Cars Island Soldier-PG15 16:30 Live PGA European Tour 11:50 Something Borrowed, 21:17 Ben 10: Omniverse 14:00 Shipping Wars 04:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 17:15 When The Game Stands Tall- 20:00 ICC Cricket 360 Something New 21:40 Adventure Time 14:30 Shipping Wars Spinjitzu PG15 20:30 Live Cricket - Natwest T20 12:15 18 Kids And Counting 21:51 Adventure Time 15:00 American Pickers 04:28 Ninjago: Masters Of 19:15 Rio 2-FAM 12:15 Something Borrowed, 16:00 American Restoration Spinjitzu 22:02 Adventure Time 21:00 Billy Elliot The Musical-PG15 Something New 16:30 American Restoration 04:50 Teen Titans Go! 22:13 Adventure Time 12:40 18 Kids And Counting 17:00 Storage Wars 05:00 Teen Titans Go! 22:25 Johnny Test 12:40 Something Borrowed, 17:30 Storage Wars 05:10 Grojband 23:10 Regular Show Something New 18:00 Pawn Stars 05:35 Grojband 23:55 Total Drama: Revenge Of 01:30 PGA European Tour 13:05 18 Kids And Counting 18:30 Pawn Stars The Island 07:00 Volvo Ocean Race Highlights 13:05 Something Borrowed, 06:00 Regular Show 19:00 Alaska Off-Road Warriors 00:20 Total Drama: Revenge Of 07:30 World Rugby Something New 06:40 Uncle Grandpa 20:00 Counting Cars The Island 00:45 Ghatothkach - Master Of Magic 13:30 Oprah’s Next Chapter 06:50 Uncle Grandpa 08:00 PGA Tour 20:30 Counting Cars 00:40 Grojband 02:30 Otto Is A Rhino 13:30 Say Yes To The Dress: The Big 07:00 Adventure Time 12:45 Live NRL Premiership 21:00 Storage Wars 01:05 Grojband 04:15 Worms Day (Specials) 07:11 Adventure Time 19:00 WWE Bottomline 21:30 Storage Wars 01:25 Teen Titans Go! 06:00 Earth To Echo 14:20 Oprah Presents: Master Class 07:25 Steven Universe 20:00 WWE Superstars 22:00 Shipping Wars 01:50 Regular Show 08:00 Krazzy Planet 14:20 Oprah’s Next Chapter 07:35 Steven Universe 22:30 Shipping Wars 02:35 Johnny Test 10:00 The Little Rascals Save The 21:00 WWE Main Event 15:10 Craft Wars 07:45 The Amazing World Of 23:00 Storage Wars Day 23:00 Live PGA Tour 15:10 Little People, Big World Gumball Stars FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

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NASHVILLE: Fresh off a Supreme Court vic- opponents highlighted what they say is bad tory, President Barack Obama said about it. “The latest Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that he’s “feeling pretty good” won’t change Obamacare’s multitude of about the state of his health care law and broken promises, including the one that pleaded for bipartisan cooperation on ways resulted in millions of Americans losing the to make it work even better. Obama said he coverage they had and wanted to keep,” wants to refocus the debate on improving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- health care quality, expanding access and Ky., said Wednesday. “And the ruling won’t eliminating waste now that the high court change the skyrocketing costs in premiums, has upheld a key element of the Affordable deductibles, and co-pays that have hit the Care Act. middle class so hard over the last few years.” “I’m feeling pretty good about how Obama surrounded himself Wednesday health care is going,” Obama said before he with two women who shared their health removed his suit jacket and answered ques- care stories in letters to him. Accompanying tions about health care from Tennesseans the president aboard the Air Force One flight seated at tables in an elementary school was Natoma Canfield, an Ohio cancer sur- cafeteria. Obama’s choice to visit Tennessee vivor who wrote in 2009 about being forced was deliberate. The state’s Republican gov- to drop her health insurance after she could ernor, Bill Haslam, tried to expand Medicaid no longer afford the monthly premium. under the health care law to cover more than 200,000 state residents only to be ‘President who cares’ stymied by state legislators of his own party. After arriving in Tennessee, Obama made Obama argued to his audience - and dur- room in his limousine for Kelly Bryant, of ing a Twitter question-and-answer session Nashville, who wrote about finding afford- immediately after the event - that health able insurance under the law to treat her care coverage rates could be vastly breast cancer. He picked her up on the way improved if more governors and lawmakers NASHVILLE: President Barack Obama speaks at Taylor Stratton Elementary School to the event, even holding an umbrella to would accept the federal government’s offer Wednesday about the Affordable Care Act. The president said he wants to refocus on shield her from a pounding rain. “I never of billions of dollars of federal money to pay improving health care quality, expanding access and rooting out waste now that the imagined in my wildest dreams that anyone to expand Medicaid to cover millions more Supreme Court has upheld a key element of his health care law.— AP would read it, let alone him,” Bryant said to low-income Americans in their states. introduce the president. “I am living proof of About 20 states, most of them led by but said more work was needed to “make a president who listens and cares about the Republican governors and including some Major victory health care in America even better.” In American people.” heavily populated places like Florida and The Supreme Court handed Obama a Nashville, he talked about making sure peo- Asked about the lack of Medicaid expan- Texas, have refused to expand Medicaid. major victory on health care last week when ple know about the law’s benefits, including sion in Tennessee, Obama lamented the pol- Obama has accused them of losing sight of it upheld federal financial aid to millions of free preventive care, help for seniors on pre- itics he said are at play and urged lawmakers what’s good for their constituents. “I think low- and middle-income Americans to help scription medication and prohibitions on to find a “uniquely Tennessee solution.” “It is because of politics not all states have taken pay for insurance premiums regardless of insurers denying coverage based on a prior unfortunate that getting this thing done got advantage of the options that are out where they live. Obama declared immedi- illness. so political,” he said. “Washington is kind of there,” he said. “Our hope is that more of ately after the ruling that the law is “here to While Obama talked up what he says is a crazy place. But that doesn’t mean every them do.” stay.” He cited progress under its provisions good about the law, the law’s Republican place has got to be crazy.” — AP HEALTH FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Process for memory formation revealed

WASHINGTON: With a little help from also enabled the researchers to pinpoint new associations between people and added, noting the researchers were able Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Aniston and Josh individual neurons that encoded memo- places. The individual neuron that earlier to record the activity of “one lonely cell in Brolin - or at least photos of them - scien- ries. The subjects were shown about 100 had responded to Brolin’s image, for a multitude of billions of neurons in the tists have gained a new understanding of pictures of celebrities including Halle example, immediately began responding brain.” how memories of everyday events are Berry, Julia Roberts, Tiger Woods, Aniston, to the Eiffel Tower as well. Neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga of formed in the brain. Researchers said on Eastwood and Brolin and places including “This study goes into the heart of the the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at Wednesday a study involving people with the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa neural code underlying one of the most Britain’s University of Leicester said the find- electrodes implanted in their brains has and White House. fundamental aspects of human cognition ings could be important for helping people shown that individual neurons in a region The researchers identified individual and memory, namely the formation of with neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s. called the medial temporal lobe play a neurons that fired to a specific person, like associations,” said neurosurgeon Dr Itzhak “In order to understand and treat such central role in swiftly forming these mem- Brolin, but not to a place, like the Eiffel Fried of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical pathologies it is always good to understand ories. Tower, and created composite images of Center and the Geffen School of Medicine how the normal brain process of forming The study involved 14 people with the person at that place. The subjects then at the University of California, Los Angeles. and encoding new memories works to then severe epilepsy. They had electrodes were shown the composite images and “The astonishing finding was that this try to understand what may go wrong in implanted to identify the brain location the researchers tracked the activity of indi- basic code is so explicit at the level of indi- the pathology and how to potentially treat where their seizures arose. The devices vidual neurons as the patients processed vidual neurons in the human brain,” Fried it,” Quiroga said. — Reuters Fears 11k Australian Study: Polar bears could feel dental patients exposed to HIV climate change sting by 2025 SYDNEY: Up to 11,000 Australian dental patients Imminent danger from greenhouse gas emissions were urged to see their doctors yesterday over fears they may have been exposed to HIV and ANCHORAGE: About a third of the Decreased distribution Rebecca Noblin, Alaska director for hepatitis due to hygiene breaches at clinics in world’s polar bears could be in immi- The USGS didn’t predict specific the Center for Biological Diversity. Sydney. New South Wales Health said 12 dentists nent danger from greenhouse gas number declines and instead project- “There are other steps we can take to from four surgeries were accused of poor clean- emissions in as soon as a decade, a US ed whether a population would see a slow the decline of polar bears, but in ing and equipment sterilization practices and government report shows. The US decreased or a greatly decreased pop- the long run, the only way to save ulation. “That’s not to say that we’ll polar bears in the Arctic is to reduce advised patients to get blood tests for HIV as well Geological Survey, the Interior lose polar bears completely out of the greenhouse gas emissions.” as Hepatitis A, B and C as a precaution. Department’s research arm, said updated scientific models don’t bode area, but we think that they’ll be at a The Center for Biological Diversity While NSW Health director of health protec- greatly decreased distribution than originally petitioned for polar bears tion Jeremy McAnulty said no cases had been well for polar bear populations across the world, especially in Alaska, the what they currently are,” Atwood said. to be listed as threatened under the found so far and the risk of transmission was low, Polar bears in Canada and Endangered Species Act. In 2008, the only state in the nation with the white there was concern about people who had under- Greenland also could see dramatic species became the first to be listed bears. gone invasive procedures. “It’s important to population drops by 2050. Bears in because of global warming. This sto- The report released this week is stress we have no evidence of infection at this the high Canadian Arctic fared the ry has been corrected to show the part of the US Fish and Wildlife point, that no transmission has occurred,” he best in the two scientific models. They name of the organization that peti- Service’s recovery plan for the polar said. “But the experts have been concerned in saw a “greatly decreased” population tioned for polar bears to be listed as bear. It is expected to be published light of the reports of the problems with infec- only under the worst-case scenario. threatened is the Center for yesterday in the Federal Register. tion control at these facilities, that a risk is there. “Polar bears are in big trouble,” said Biological Diversity.— AP Greenhouse gases are blamed for the “We are hopeful there won’t be transmissions climate warming that’s reducing the and the risk is thought to be low but it’s best for polar bear’s summer sea ice habitat. people to know their status because there are The effects of diminished sea ice will treatments available for infections.” The worry is lead to population declines through- that instruments may not have been properly out the century. Scientists saw no cleaned and sterilized, risking the transmission of rebound in population numbers in the blood-borne diseases into the gums. projections that stretched to the year The scare was sparked by a complaint about 2100. one of the practices in November last year and The scientific models attempted to subsequent investigations revealed “significant” predict the effects on polar bear pop- safety breaches at the clinic and others, said ulations under two scenarios: one in Shane Fryer of the Dental Council of NSW. which greenhouse gas emissions sta- “Audits showed that there were some problems bilized, and the other in which they with the cleaning, sterilization and storage of continued unabated. Under either instruments in that it was not being done in com- scenario, the bears in the Alaska, pliance with the guidelines of the dental board of Russia and Norway group - with an Australia,” he said. estimated population of about 8,500 - “I want to assure the public that there are would start to be affected in either stringent guidelines in place in relation to infec- 2025 or 2030, said lead author Todd tion control, that dental practitioners must Atwood, an Alaska-based USGS adhere to. “Failure to do so will result in discipli- research wildlife biologist. nary action and possible deregistration.” So far He said the main reason is this part six dentists have been suspended and another six of the Arctic has suffered some of the have had conditions placed on their licenses. One most dramatic declines in summer sea of those suspended, Robert Starkenburg, admit- ice. Polar bears feed primarily on seals and use sea ice for feeding, mating ted to the Sydney Daily Telegraph he had been and giving birth. When the sea ice “behind the times” but said he had adopted new retreats in the summer, polar bears protocols since being investigated. “I don’t infect are forced to land. A study earlier this my patients but I didn’t have a spick and span year found the land-based food would office like the new guys,” said the 75-year-old. not help a polar bear adapt to the loss “But I’m spikko now.”He also accused NSW Health of sea ice. The Office of Naval of holding a “kangaroo court” against him, the Research said the past eight years MANITOBA: In this Nov 6, 2007, file photo, a polar bear mother and her Telegraph reported. —AFP have had the eight lowest amounts of two cubs are seen in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay summer sea ice on record. near Churchill. — AP Business

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ATHENS: A man walks past a “one euro” store in central Athens yesterday. Greece’s left-wing government “may very well” resign if a referendum this weekend on bailout conditions results in a ‘Yes’ vote, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said in a radio interview yesterday.—AFP Greek govt ‘may resign’ if it loses referendum European chiefs warn as post-vote situation looks unclear

ATHENS: Greece’s radical left government said Such a result would plunge Greece and the Greek people are being treated with contempt. Exasperation yesterday it may resign if it fails to win a referen- euro-zone “into the unknown,” French President But Tsipras has made the situation so much The prospect of a new Greek government dum that could decide the country’s financial Francois Hollande said on an African visit. worse, it’s his fault the banks are closed,” said would bolster the country’s EU partners who say future. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Ordinary Greeks are divided over which way to shop assistant Suzanna Alizoti. Tsipras’s call for a they are exasperated with Tsipras’s behavior. said the government “may very well” quit if the vote and even what the referendum is about. ‘No’ has split the ruling coalition, with members European Parliament chief Martin Schulz, told public went against it in Sunday’s plebiscite and Would a ‘No’ sought by the government prevent of partner party Independent Greeks rebelling. the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse voted for more austerity in return for interna- yet more grinding austerity? Or, as EU leaders One of its lawmakers, Constantin that Tsipras’s changing tack so often “is really tir- tional bailout funds. warn, would it send the country crashing out of Damavolitis, was expelled from the coalition ing and a lot of people have had enough.” “We are on a war footing” to ensure the the euro? benches for calling for a ‘Yes’ vote. “The day So far, the Greek crisis has had relatively little rushed referendum happens on time, Varoufakis after the referendum, we will be united,” Tsipras impact on the markets, suggesting contagion added in the radio interview. The world’s finan- Divisions promised in a quick briefing to journalists after from a possible Greek departure from the euro- cial markets and Greece’s creditors-the The Greek government led by Prime Minister meeting Independent Greeks party chief Panos zone-a “Grexit”-will be contained. “Markets European Commission, European Central Bank Alexis Tsipras believes rejecting the bailout con- Kammenos, who is defense minister. seem to be of the opinion that post-referendum, (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are ditions would strengthen its hand in negotia- But Varoufakis said in his interview with some agreement will be reached,” Con Williams, stepping back after days of dizzying drama to tions with creditors. Orange posters urging a Australian public radio network ABC that a ‘Yes’ an agricultural economist at ANZ Bank New watch the outcome. But European chiefs ‘No’ vote line Athens streets, the word ‘OXI’ (no result could see the government handing over Zealand, wrote in a client note, according to warned the situation was deteriorating and in Greek) stamped in large black letters. to a caretaker administration. “Yes, we may very Bloomberg News. what could emerge after the vote remained But support for the ‘No’ camp has sharply slid well do that. But we will do this in the spirit of unclear. this week as Greeks struggled under capital con- cooperation with whoever takes over from us,” No quick solution “The situation is only getting worse, due to trols reducing ATM withdrawals to 60 euros he said. Analysts, including Carsten Brzeski, chief the Greek government’s behavior,” said Jeroen ($67) a day. The government’s failure Tuesday In any case, he told Bloomberg TV in a sepa- economist at ING-DiBa bank, said the eurozone Dijsselbloem, Dutch finance minister and head to make a 1.5-billion-euro loan repayment to the rate interview, he “will not” continue to serve as would likely not let Greece fall even in the event of the Eurogroup of euro-zone finance ministers. IMF has also focused minds. Athens is now in finance minister in that event. “We really desper- of a ‘No’ vote. “The inconvenient truth on the “In case of a ‘No’, Greece’s situation will danger of failing in arrears to the ECB if it also ately want to stay in the euro even if we are criti- Greek referendum is that neither a ‘Yes’ nor a become exceptionally difficult,” he told Dutch fails to pay 3.5 billion euros on July 20. cal of the institutional framework of the euro,” ‘No’ vote will quickly lead to a solution,” he lawmakers. “I was going to vote ‘No’ because I think the Varoufakis said. wrote.—AFP Business38 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Egypt slides on security fears; Gulf mixed MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Egyptian stocks fell yesterday because of security Egypt rose 1.4 percent after the telecommunications minister 72.50 riyals, ending a bull run that began with its listing at 50 worries after bloody clashes with militants in Sinai. Gulf mar- said the company was expected to acquire a long-delayed 4G riyals last Thursday. Dubai’s index edged down 0.1 percent as kets were mixed as the Greek debt crisis and soft oil prices mobile licence next year. The central bank resumed depreci- Amlak Finance slipped 5.0 percent. However, construction were offset by the bargain hunting of local retail investors on ating the Egyptian pound yesterday for the first time in five firm Drake & Scull surged 11.5 percent in its heaviest trade dips. Reopening after a two-day holiday, Egypt’s share market months, letting it drop 1.3 percent. since October after saying it had raised its limit for ownership dropped 0.7 percent to 8,315 points. It has been falling for a Currency depreciation may please foreign institutional by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nationals to 100 percent month, heading for a test of technical support at its May low investors who believe the pound is overvalued and needs to from 49 percent. GCC nationals owned 57 percent on of 8,261 points. find a sustainable level. Non-Arab foreigners were net buyers Wednesday. The army said on Wednesday that more than 100 mili- of Egyptian stocks by a large margin yesterday Thursday Abu Dhabi’s benchmark share index gained 0.6 percent as tants and 17 soldiers were killed after simultaneous assaults while local investors were sellers, exchange data showed. telecommunications operator Etisalat climbed 1.5 percent, on military checkpoints in North Sinai. Islamic State claimed rebounding after a week-long decline. Abu Dhabi National responsibility for the attacks. This followed the assassination Saudi, Dubai Energy Co dropped 5.4 percent in thin trade after the compa- of Egypt’s top public prosecutor in a car bomb attack in Cairo Elsewhere, the Saudi stock index rose 0.4 percent. ny said in a brief statement that it was “not engaged in merg- on Monday. Although investors have been willing to tolerate PetroRabigh climbed 2.2 percent after saying it would pay a er discussions with any government or other entity”. sporadic militant violence in Egypt over the last year, some cash dividend of 0.5 riyal per share for 2014. It is the first time The stock had risen 5.7 percent on Wednesday after worry that this week’s events mark an escalation. that PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and sources told Reuters that Abu Dhabi might merge the com- “The Egyptian army has so far failed to reverse the Sinai Sumitomo Chemical, is paying a dividend since at least 2010, pany into another state-owned business to make its debts insurgency, raising the likelihood of it spilling over into main- according to Thomson Reuters data. Takween closed up 1.2 more manageable and try to turn around its performance. land Egypt,” consultancy IHS said in a report. percent at 81.50 riyals, well off its intra-day high of 88.25 riyals, Qatar’s market edged up 0.6 percent as Qatar National Financial firm EFG Hermes fell 1 percent and real estate in unusually heavy trade. On Wednesday it had soared 9.2 Bank, which had lost 2.1 percent on Wednesday, rebound- developer Talat Mostafa lost 1.3 percent. However, Telecom percent. Saudi Ground Services pulled back 2.5 percent to ed 1.1 percent.—Reuters Saudi economy accelerates Ethiopia scrambles to meet property demand in capital in Q1, may not be sustained ADDIS ABABA: A property boom in Ethiopia’s capital is putting pressure on the government to keep homes affordable for some of Africa’s poor- Kingdom coping with low energy prices est people who also live in one of its fastest-growing economies. Smart flats and hotels in mirror-glass buildings rise up in areas of Addis Ababa DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s economy accelerated in as Saudi Arabia ramped up production to gain bank, which acts as a sovereign wealth fund. where shacks once stood. A new metro snakes through a city where an the first quarter of 2015, showing the world’s global market share. It had shrunk 0.7 percent This cannot continue indefinitely-the central emerging middle class is snapping up new homes, but waiting lists for top oil exporter can cope with low energy in the fourth quarter. bank’s net foreign assets have dropped $65 bil- cheap state-built apartments grow. prices, but growth may slow as the government The private sector expanded 3.3 percent, lion since August to $672 billion in May. The This is a challenge for the government whose huge, state-led invest- faces pressure to rein in spending. Gross slowing from 4.7 percent but staying robust as government may issue bonds, but economists ments in infrastructure have sucked in financing from heavily regulated domestic product, adjusted for inflation, grew the retail and construction industries boomed. also expect it to become more cautious about banks, driving up economic growth but leaving little capital to spur on 2.4 percent from a year earlier in the first quar- Monica Malik, chief economist at Abu Dhabi spending. Malik predicted the government private developers who could help meet the shortfall in housing. ter, against a revised 1.6 percent in the fourth Commercial Bank, said other recent data and a would “rationalize” spending next year, contin- “This house and flat business is booming. If I had enough money, I quarter of 2014, the state statistics department bullish mood in the private sector suggested uing core economic development projects but would buy more,” said businessman Seife Tefera, who bought a flat for said on Thursday. The figures indicated Saudi first-quarter growth might well be revised high- trying to ease the burden by attracting private 1.7 million birr ($83,000), paid for in two cash instalments. Arabia had offset the impact of oil’s 50 percent er. Nevertheless, the kingdom may find it hard- funding. “Next year will probably see weaker Paying that kind of sum is only possible for a tiny portion of the pop- plunge since mid-2014 with a combination of er to sustain growth in coming quarters if oil growth,” Malik said. “We’re unlikely to have the ulation of Ethiopia, a country that was ravaged by communist purges in heavy state spending and a strong private sec- prices stay below $70 a barrel. same growth in current government spending the 1970s and famine in the 1980s. The economy may boast double-dig- tor. “Today’s data add to the evidence that Cheap oil has created a state budget deficit as this year.” it growth now, but average income per capita in the nation of 96 million Saudi Arabia’s economy has weathered the which the International Monetary Fund projects Tuvey predicted GDP growth would slow to people is still about $470 a year, below the Sub-Saharan African average. storm created by lower oil prices relatively well at 20 percent of GDP this year, equivalent to around 1.5 percent late this year and early next. Across Africa, rising wealth and an expanding middle class have so far,” wrote Jason Tuvey, Middle East econo- roughly $150 billion. There are already some signs of spending fuelled demand for new homes as well as stoking property prices. But mist at London-based Capital Economics. So far, the government has financed its cutbacks; state oil giant Saudi Aramco has there are few parallels to Ethiopia’s state interventionist approach and its “There are no signs that the economy is col- spending- including lavish handouts such as a curtailed some projects, while a plan to build control over how banks lend their money. lapsing, as some had feared.” The oil sector, two-month bonus payment for state employ- 11 soccer stadiums around the country has “The main challenge in Ethiopia is financing,” said Rateneh Fassil, which accounts for about 40 percent of the ees to mark the accession of King Salman-by largely been shelved, sources told Reuters last who markets homes for upscale developer Noah Real Estate, blaming economy, grew 1.8 percent in the first quarter drawing down foreign reserves at the central month. —Reuters part of the real estate boom on people hunting for investments when bank deposits offer poor returns. “It’s not just about owning a home, in some ways it is a hedge against inflation.”

Finding Financing Ethiopia’s banking system is dominated by state-owned institutions. There are about 16 private banks, but they are required to invest the equivalent of 27 percent of their loan portfolio in low-yielding state development bonds. The bonds have contributed to building a new national rail network, hydro-electric dams and roads to remote regions, lifting growth fore- casts to 10 percent in the 2015/2016 fiscal year. But there are few funds left to develop a mortgage market, so private real estate developers struggle to raise financing for new projects. The homes they can build target cash buyers, demanding sums most of those in the capital can only imagine. “We can’t think for a minute that we can afford private housing,” said Sergut Adamu, 34, a hotel worker earning about 1,400 birr ($68) a month. “We would have to win the lottery.” The government has prom- ised to step in. It has embarked on one of Africa’s biggest state housing projects, building about 32,000 units per year since 2006 and creating a national savings scheme that offers subsidised mortgages to the poor- est. But that still falls far short of demand. A the end of 2013, the last year for which official figures were available, about 900,000 people were on a waiting list for a flat in Addis Ababa, whose population is set to more than double to 8.1 million by 2040. The state’s next five-year “Growth and Transformation Plan” starting NEW DELHI: Indian laborers carry a box of computer equipment as they walk through an electronics market in New this month foresees a five-fold increase in house building, said Tadesse Delhi. Some of India’s biggest industrialists have pledged billions of dollars to back Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gebregiorgis, acting head of housing development in the Urban ambitious plan to provide Internet connection for all. — AFP Development Ministry. — Reuters B u39 s i n e s s FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Argentina recalls its financial turmoil, advises Greece BUENOS AIRES: As Argentines closely Its situation was further worsened but it is necessary” to avoid a political and banks froze deposits and barri- watch the financial turmoil in Greece Tuesday when it failed to repay a $1.8 conflict, Lavagna told The Associated caded behind sheet metal as thou- recalling their own worst crisis 14 billion debt to the International Press. “Democracy is worth more than sands of protesters unsuccessfully years ago, the architect of the South Monetary Fund, the first developed markets.” Lavagna who was economy tried to withdraw their savings. American country’s recovery has a country to do so. Former Argentine minister in 2002-05, led Argentina’s Lavagna said the demonstrations in message for the European nation: Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna is recovery from the 2002 recession, Greece “are way more peaceful” than Renegotiate your debt. Greece is in a credited with playing a key role in his considered by many the worst in the in Argentina, where at least 27 people financial limbo now that its bailout country’s recovery after its $100 bil- country’s history, and spearheaded its died in protests and looting in program has expired, cutting it off lion debt default in 2001. He said 2005 debt restructuring. December 2001 as the economy from vital financing and pushing it Tuesday that a “strong restructuring” Argentina’s financial collapse was unraveled. He said that at the time, one step closer to leaving the euro. of its debt is the way to help Greece so bad that one of every five Argentina also lacked international The country has put limits on cash come out of its crisis and avoid con- Argentines was out of work. The support and didn’t have the obliga- withdrawals in order to keep banks flict within the European Union. peso, which had been tied to the dol- tions of an economic union like the from collapsing. “It’s not the definitive condition ... lar, lost nearly 70 percent of its value, European Union. —AP

ECB worries about Greece as source of market volatility FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank worries about the wrangling over a debt deal with crisis-hit Greece as a source of financial market volatility, said minutes of a past meeting released yesterday. At the same time, the ECB’s governing council believes its contested bond purchase program is bearing fruit, although it was too early to declare it a success just yet. “Prevailing geopolitical risks and continued uncer- tainty about the outcome of negotiations between one euro area government and its official creditors were also seen as likely sources of market uncertainty and volatili- ty,” according to the minutes of the ECB governing council’s meeting on June 2-3 released yesterday. Nevertheless, “there was broad agreement among members that the monetary accommodation provided by all the ECB’s monetary policy measures was bearing fruit,” the minutes revealed. The effects of those measures were “gradually work- ing their way through to the economy, thereby con- tributing to the recovery, the pick-up in inflation and improvements in money and credit growth,” the min- utes said. “The view was widely shared that it was, nonetheless, too early to declare them a success,” they continued. Fishermen stand aboard a boat which did not go to sea at a fishing port in Thailand’s southern province of In March, the ECB embarked on a program of so- Pattani yesterday. — AFP called quantitative easing or QE, a massive 1.14-trillion- euro ($1.3-trillion) sovereign bond purchase scheme aimed at bringing inflation across the euro-zone back up to levels consistent with healthy economic growth. Thai crackdown on illegal Under the QE program, the ECB aims to buy 60 billion euros of bonds per month until September 2016. Just three months in, top ECB officials are convinced fishing threatens industry that the purchases are having the desired effect and inflation rates in countries such as Germany and France are gradually moving upwards. 5,000 fishing boats stop operations Nevertheless, QE has its critics, not least the head of BANGKOK: Around 5,000 Thai fishing The Thai Overseas Fisheries been battered by a series of fishing the German central bank or Bundesbank, Jens boats have stopped operating out of Association, said “more than 5,000 ves- abuse allegations from prominent Weidmann, who fear it will lessen pressure on govern- fear they will be prosecuted over new sels” had stopped operations due to rights groups including ships using ments to get their economies and finances in order. And rules, a fisheries body said yesterday, as the lack of a permit or the correct slave and child labour as well as accu- given its early success, there is some speculation that authorities crackdown to avoid a equipment. sations of human smuggling. Since the the program’s opponents on the ECB governing council European Union ban on fish products. Those caught fishing while flouting US downgraded the kingdom to its could argue for an early roll-back as the euro-zone The belated clampdown on illegal new rules face a fine of up to 100,000 lowest ranking on human trafficking recovery picks up speed. fishing, which comes in response to a baht (US$3,000) and a year in jail, he last year, a designation that can trigger But the success of the QE program depended on it “yellow card” issued by Brussels over said. “A lot of fish markets have no sanctions, Bangkok has been desperate being implemented fully and it was too early to consider inadequate fisheries monitoring, con- catch today. In one more week there to rebuild its reputation, laying out “tapering” the purchases just yet, the governing council trols and punishment, is threatening to will be no more fish to sell. Factories new measures to clean up the industry. agreed. The purchases “were only in the third month,” paralyze the world’s third largest are affected already, they don’t have On Tuesday authorities arrested two the minutes noted. “Moreover, the economic recovery seafood producer. In April Brussels raw materials (for processing),” Aphisit Thai men on human trafficking charges, remained moderate and it still faced headwinds and warned that a “red card” and eventual told AFP, saying some workers had accusing them of being “ring leaders” remained subject to risks and vulnerabilities. “Against import ban would follow, costing already been laid off. in the illegal procurement of workers in this background, members widely agreed that it was Thailand $1 billion in European sales, if “Around 20,000 migrant workers Samut Sakhon, Thailand’s biggest fish- essential to it failed to improve within six months. may lose their jobs,” he added, saying ing hub, and sending them to work on maintain a steady course of monetary policy, looking The ruling junta has responded with a that the government ought to buy an Indonesian island. through short-term economic and financial market series of new regulations, with fisher- back fishermen’s boats if it wasn’t pre- According to the latest figures pro- developments,” the minutes said. “This included leaving men now required to register boats pared to issue them with permits so vided by a Thai Navy official on the key ECB interest rates unchanged in line with the with authorities and acquire permits that they “can look for new jobs”. Wednesday, 27,886 trawlers have regis- governing council’s forward guidance and firmly imple- under revised standards, including Thailand’s vital fisheries industry is tered under the government’s new menting the non-standard monetary policy measures installing equipment such as tracking propped up by workers from Myanmar scheme with more than 12,000 trawlers adopted,” the governing council concluded. —AFP devices. and Cambodia. still unregistered. There have so far Aphisit Techanitisawad, president of In recent years Thailand’s image has been no arrests for illegal fishing.—AFP Business40 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Japan takes Brazil to WTO over taxes

GENEVA: Japan launched a complaint against Brazil at the World Trade Organization yesterday to challenge charges and taxes that it says illegally favour Brazilian-made goods over foreign competition, the WTO said in a statement. Japan says Brazil imposes a higher tax burden on importers and provides export-contingent subsidies, affecting sales of Japanese cars, semiconductors, smartphones, software and other hi-tech and automation products, the WTO said. Under WTO rules, Brazil has 60 days to settle the complaint. After that Japan could ask the Organization to adjudicate. Japan said some of the Brazilian measures had existed for years but had “markedly strengthened in recent years”, the WTO said. Few details of the Japanese complaint were immediately available, but it appeared similar to a dispute launched by the European Union in December 2013, which is currently being litigated. A senior Brazilian official told Reuters in December that Brazil’s policies were justified because it needed “to defend the rights of all emerging countries to implement their own industrial policies”. Japan asked to be a third party observer in that case, since it had significant economic interests, with Brazil importing $7.7 billion of Japanese goods in 2012. That fell to $5.9 billion in 2014. In the early 2000s, Japan accounted for more than 5 percent of Brazilian imports. That dropped to 2.6 percent in 2014. — Reuters

NEW YORK: Sophia Lewis (left) with PSEG Long Island, speaks to an attendee about employment opportunities during a job fair at Citi Field in New York. US employers likely hired at another strong pace in June, a sign that the job market is Southeast Asia plans nearing full health.—AP fund to help migrants KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian nations proposed yester- US employers add 223k day setting up a fund to tackle illegal migration, in one of the first coordinated actions after thousands of “boat people” arrived on the region’s shores, but rights groups dismissed the jobs; rate falls to 5.3% offers as mere tokens. And representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) who met in Kuala Lumpur gave no updates on efforts to rescue hundreds believed still stranded at sea. Job market moving close to full health More than 4,000 migrants have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh since Thailand WASHINGTON: US employers added a The job gains show that employers are consumer confidence index reached launched a crackdown on people-smuggling gangs in May. solid 223,000 jobs in June, and the unem- increasingly confident that their cus- 101.4, matching March’s figure for the The United Nations estimates 1,200 people are still at sea, ployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, a seven- tomer demand will keep growing. Their second-highest level since the recession. most of them Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from year low. The numbers reflect a job mar- willingness to hire in anticipation of That’s good news for auto dealers and Myanmar. ket moving close to full health and raise greater demand marks a shift from earlier real estate agents. Auto sales jumped to Some ASEAN members pledged monetary support for expectations that the Federal Reserve will in the economic recovery, when many nearly a 10 year high in May. The National sheltering migrants after Malaysia said it alone should not be start raising interest rates as early as businesses tended to hire only when Automobile Dealers Association forecasts burdened with the problem. “I proposed, although not all September. essential. that sales will top 17 million this year for ASEAN officials have agreed, a minimum of $100,000,” said The Labor Department said yesterday A survey of purchasing executives at the first time since 2001. And home sales Malaysian Home Minister Zahid Hamidi. that the unemployment rate dropped manufacturing firms released this week are running at an eight-year high and Singapore’s Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, from 5.5 percent in May. The rate fell found that factories reported a scant rise boosting construction. Permits to build Masagos Zulkifli, said the island nation pledged $200,000. But mostly because many people out of work in orders in June but ramped up hiring homes jumped 11.8 percent in May to the the sums were dismissed as insufficient by rights groups. gave up on their job searches and were anyway. Americans are finally spending highest level since 2007. Most econo- “The money may not even last a month, depending on no longer counted as unemployed. Other more after boosting their savings earlier mists now expect economic growth to what they use it for,” Sunai Phasuk, Thailand researcher at details in the report were less encourag- this year, in part because they’re growing reach an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the Human Rights Watch, told Reuters. Commenting on the miss- ing: The percentage of Americans work- more confident about the economy. The April-June quarter and 3 percent in the ing boat people, an official with the Malaysian Maritime ing or looking for work fell to a 38-year Conference Board said Tuesday that its second half of the year. —AP Enforcement Agency, Ahmad Pozi Abdul Kahar, said “they low. Average hourly pay was flat. And might be turning back to their own country”. employers added 60,000 fewer jobs in He did not elaborate but many boats are believed to be April and May than the government had drifting freely after being abandoned by the traffickers. previously estimated. German new car Myanmar has said that very few of the migrants in the boat For the first five months of 2015, crisis were Myanmar nationals. Most of Myanmar’s 1.1 million monthly job growth averaged 217,000, a sales up in June Rohingya are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions in healthy streak that has been steadily the western state of Rakhine. Almost 140,000 were displaced absorbing the unemployed as well as BERLIN: New car registrations in ket remains on track. For the whole in deadly clashes with majority Buddhists in Rakhine in 2012. part-time workers looking for more Germany, a key measure of demand of 2015, we’re projecting a 2.0-per- They are denied citizenship and have long complained of hours. in one of the most important sectors cent increase in new registrations to That job growth has raised econo- state-sanctioned discrimination. of Europe’s top economy, rose 3.1 million,” Wissmann said. mists’ expectations that the Fed will soon “Not all (boat migrants) come from Myanmar Rohingya, strongly in June, data showed yes- A total 511,100 cars rolled off boost the key short-term rate it controls only one third,” said Zahid, adding that “the rest come from terday. A total of 313,600 new cars German production lines last in September or, if not, in December. The Bangladesh and other small states near the Bay of Bengal”. were registered last month, a jump month, an increase of 12 percent Fed has kept that rate at a record low ASEAN’s reluctance to call out its member Myanmar on the of 13 percent compared with the year-on-year, VDA said. During the near zero for 61/2 years to support the refugee crisis is seen as another step backwards in resolving figure for the same month last year, six months to June, output was economy. A Fed rate hike would lead to the crisis. “ASEAN states need to step up an admit that one of the VDA automobile industry feder- steady at 2.917 million vehicles. higher rates for mortgages, auto loans the member states, Myanmar, is one of the root causes of the ation said in a statement. The number of new cars exported and other borrowing. Strong hiring has crisis,” said Sunai. That pushed the number for the increased by 17 percent in June endured this year despite a miserable “Failure to address the root causes will lead to a situa- first half of the year up by five per- alone and edged up by one per- winter, which helped cause the economy tion that no matter how much ASEAN makes donations, it cent to 1.619 million vehicles, VDA cent in the six-month period, VDA to contract 0.2 percent at an annual rate will never be able to match up with the gravity of the calculated. “The German auto mar- added. —AFP problem”. —Reuters in the January-March quarter. Business FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Even with a bailout, Greece faces debt crisis PARIS: Write down, write off, restructure, Economist Charles Wyplosz said that from Greece’s debt, acknowledging they’ll never get not need to be booked as both France and reprofile...whatever term you choose, if Greece Greece’s first bailout in 2010, the bailout pro- the money back. Germany go to the polls in 2017. doesn’t completely default on its debt, its credi- gram “should have started with a reduction in Tsipras’s government had earlier called for tors will have to address the issue of its massive debt. Now in 2015 it is even more necessary Restructuring-lite? such a solution, but the euro-zone refused to debt. Sunday’s referendum is being framed by and urgent.” For him, not to have attacked A ‘Yes’ vote opens the way to a variety of make promises until Athens had signed up to many as being about whether or not Greece Greece’s debt from the start was “a fundamen- options for dealing with Greece’s debt. One is reforms. But European Commission chief Jean- stays in the euro-zone, but debt is the underly- tal error” by the creditors. Moreover, Greece’s to continue with a similar policy that creditors Claude Juncker pledged this week that a ing issue. debt load has increased, as austerity caused a have insisted Greece pursue these past years: restructuring-lite could be agreed later this year At over 300 billion euros ($330 billion), slump that wiped a quarter off national output run budget surpluses to repay debt. But the if Greeks vote ‘Yes’ in the referendum. Greece’s debt represents some 180 percent of and the bailout took the form of loans, not amount of the required surpluses could be Restructure or ‘eternal penance’ GDP-nearly two years’ economic output. As grants. Greece’s debt has shot up from 130 reduced to ensure Greece’s economy grows, as The restructuring proposals that Tsipras part of its bailout Greece has slashed spending, percent of GDP in 2010 to 180 percent now, would the level of debt that Greece has to pay- made last month fell flat, although they bor- pensions and wages while hiking taxes to gen- even though private-sector debt was written a “reprofiling.”Reprofiling debt is extending the dered on being heavy rather than lite. Greece erate funds. But at a severe economic and down under a restructuring worth more than maturity, thus lowering the amount that needs suggested a major portion of its debt be con- social cost: a quarter of the economy was 100 billion euros in 2012. If Greeks vote ‘No’ on to be repaid every year, especially if interest verted into perpetual bonds-essentially it wiped out in a five-year recession, unemploy- Sunday and there is no temporary assistance rates are cut as well. would only pay interest, but this is politically ment more than doubled to 25.6 percent and forthcoming, Athens will have to keep banks As official creditors now hold 80 percent of unpalatable as it is a tacit recognition the capi- pensions and benefits were roughly halved closed and may default on more payments. Greece’s debt, they can make a big impact on tal may never be repaid. between 2010 and 2014. The government would be under intense its payments with such a “restructuring-lite”. In Another Greek suggestion was growth- The radical left Syriza party rode to power in pressure to reintroduce the drachma or some fact the EU has already cut the interest rates linked bonds under which it would only repay January elections on an anti-austerity temporary currency to pay wages. But the cur- and extended the maturity on its Greek debt, in amounts tied to how much its economy groundswell. Its desire to let up on austerity, rency would likely quickly drop in value, mak- and in 2012 it held out the prospect of doing so expands. A more substantial restructuring combined with Greece’s now poorer economic ing Greece’s euro-denominated debt impossi- again. involves creditors taking a “haircut” on the perspectives, means that the country’s debt is ble to pay, forcing Athens to default. Politically, restructuring-lite is relatively amount of capital they get paid back-in effect no longer sustainable, if it ever was before. This would force creditors to write off attractive in that losses on Greek loans would accepting a loss. —AFP We can’t print drachmas, says Greece’s FM

ATHENS: With speculation swirling that Greece might be forced out of the euro and have to print its own money after a weekend referendum, its finance minister yesterday said the country no longer had the presses to make drachmas. “We don’t have the capacity,” Yanis Varoufakis told Australian pub- lic radio network ABC. In 2000, the year before Greece joined the euro-zone, “one of the things we had to do was get rid of all our printing presses” as part of the bloc’s assertion that “this monetary union is irreversible,” he said. “We smashed the printing presses-we have no printing presses,” Varoufakis said. Greece’s government last week called the rush referendum for this coming Sunday. It says the consultation is narrowly about whether the country should accept harsh austerity measures in return for a bailout from international creditors that expired on Tuesday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Varoufakis are call- ing for a ‘No’ vote. But leading euro-zone nations Germany, France and Italy say the plebiscite is really about whether Greek citizens want to keep the euro or not. — AFP Lagarde says Greece talks still need ATHENS: A pedestrian looks at a poster depicting German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble and reading “5 years he ‘more adulthood’ drinks your blood, tell him NO”, ahead of a controversial bailout referendum, yesterday. — AFP

WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said yesterday that talks Young Greeks flee abroad between Greece and its creditors still would benefit from “a bit more adulthood.” In an interview with CNN, she said the country’s default as financial crisis deepens on its IMF debt Tuesday was “clearly not a good develop- ment,” as it prevents the Fund from providing any more financing to the country. She said to move ahead, and ATHENS: What does the future look like for young people in cri- even in Poland,” he said. At first he had only planned to spend benefit from more support from official creditors, Greece sis-hit Greece, where years of hardship and sky-high unemploy- two or three years in Norway, but now believes he’ll stay longer- needs to undertake more structural reforms as required ment were followed this week by bank closures? The answer: self- though he admits “I really miss my friends and family, and most of under the EU-IMF programs of the past five years. “There imposed exile. “I don’t see a future in Greece,” sighs Dani Iordake. all the Greek sun and Greek food”. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are structural reforms, fiscal adjustments to make sure the The 21-year-old, who proudly sports self-styled tattoos on his and his radical left Syriza party were elected on the promise to country is on a sustainable path,” she told CNN. arms, was forced to drop out of university to help his mother pay help those worst hit by years of austerity, but instead have been The member countries of the IMF “would like to see the the bills. forced to impose capital controls and close banks. situation resolved (and) uncertainty waived,’ she said. “It’s a beautiful country... (but) I couldn’t imagine living here “They are also very keen that this matter be resolved in an and struggling every day,” he said. With youth unemployment at ‘Situation is awful’ even-handed fashion, and they really do not see the rea- nearly 50 percent and a breakdown in negotiations with Greece’s Friends Marilena and Josie, 22 and 33, catch up over a beer son why there would be a special case or a special treat- international creditors heralding further financial woes, many of and falafel sandwich, which they eat on a bench in the street ment” for the country. “Whether you look at Ireland or Iordake’s contemporaries are packing their bags. Over 200,000 while they discuss their future. As a massage therapist, Josie can- Portugal in the euro-zone, or whether you look at other Greeks have quit the country since the financial crisis began in not find full-time work and has been forced in the past to take countries on other continents, these situations happen, 2010, according to a Endeavor Greece, a local chapter of an entre- baby-sitting and cleaning jobs to make ends meet. countries have to take hard measures.” preneurial promotional group. They have been driven away by a “Before the crisis, I was paid 1,300 euros ($1,440) net. Today, She said she is sensitive to the needs of Greece’s peo- dearth of jobs, pitiful wages, endemic corruption and lack of meri- I don’t get even half that, gross.” Her boyfriend, a Syrian ple. Even as creditors are demanding stronger tax collec- tocracy. refugee she met while volunteering for a migrants association, tion in Greece, “they have to be paid particular by those Thirty-two year old Christos Pennos left in 2013 because of a is currently in the Netherlands and she’s thinking of going to who are the wealthiest.” “On the other hand, clearly there scarcity of opportunities in the scientific field, and managed to live with him. Marilena may also pack up and head to Germany, has to be a social safety net gradually put in place” for the snap up a post as a university researcher in Norway. “My brother where her brother lives. He signed up with the military there most vulnerable people. —AFP lives in Spain, my best friend in Germany. I have a lot of friends in and earns a 2,000-euro salary, with practically no expenses to Britain, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and pay, she said. —AFP Sports42 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Indians overwhelm Tampa Bay Rays 8-1

ST PETERSBURG: Carlos Carrasco came their offensive output. Chen (4-4) allowed within one strike of throwing the two runs, four hits and a walk over eight Cleveland Indians’ first no-hitter since innings to win his third straight decision. 1981 on Wednesday night, giving up an The Taiwanese left-hander is 5-0 with a RBI single to Joey Butler over leaping sec- 1.80 ERA lifetime against the Rangers. ond baseman Jason Kipnis’ glove in an 8-1 Zach Britton struck out the side in the victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. For the ninth for his 23rd save. Nick Martinez (5-5) third straight night, the Indians took a per- gave up four runs, three earned, and sev- fect game into the sixth inning against the en hits in 6 2/3 innings. He has lost three Rays. This time, Carrasco retired the first straight starts. 19 batters before walking Butler with one out in the seventh. Washington’s Max Brewers 9, Phillies 5 Scherzer lost his perfect game with one Adam Lind homered, Scooter Gennett strike to go on June 20 but finished with a doubled twice, tripled and drove in three no-hitter, the second in the major leagues runs and hot-hitting Milwaukee won its this season. season-best fourth straight game. Ryan Carrasco walked Astrubal Cabrera Braun and Aramis Ramirez each doubled leading off the ninth, then hit pinch-hitter and had two RBIs for Milwaukee. Gerardo Brandon Guyer with a pitch. Grady Parra and Kyle Lohse had three hits Sizemore, also pinch hitting, grounded apiece for the Brewers, who had a season- into a force play and Kevin Kiermaier high 17 hits. Maikel Franco had a three struck out to bring Butler to the plate with doubles and two RBIs for Philadelphia, a crowd of 11,394 at Tropicana Field on its which lost its sixth in the last seven to fall feet. Butler lined an 0-2 pitch over Kipnis, to 27-53. The Phillies have the worst who jumped high in the air to make an record in baseball. Lohse (5-9) allowed attempt at the ball and fell flat to the four runs on nine hits in 6 1/3 innings ground as the line drive landed cleanly in with four strikeouts and two walks. Aaron the outfield. Carrasco smiled, clapped into Harang (4-11) lost his eighth straight his glove several times and pointed at the game in his worst outing of the season. second baseman in appreciation of his Harang gave up eight runs on a career- effort. ST LOUIS: Matt Carpenter #13 of the St Louis Cardinals dives for a line drive in the sixth inning high 14 hits in five innings. against the Chicago White Sox as umpire Lance Barksdale #23 dodges the ball during an inter- Astros 6, Royals 5 Reds 4, Twins 1 Jose Altuve had three hits and scored league game at Busch Stadium on July 1, 2015.— AFP Johnny Cueto made his best start yet the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning since returning from a sore elbow, allow- to help Houston complete a three-game Wednesday. Quintana (4-7) allowed a run of the game was delayed 2 hours, 9 min- hit ball into the sixth inning, Garrett Jones ing four hits in eight innings, and sweep of Kansas City. The game was tied in six innings with eight strikeouts to win utes by rain. homered and New York snapped its Cincinnati beat Minnesota to take the at 5 in the seventh when Kelvin Herrera (1- for the first time in four starts. Cabrera three-game skid with a victory over Los interleague series. The game started 12 2) plunked Altuve on the forearm. Altuve homered in the sixth to give the White Blue Jays 11, Red Sox 2 Angeles. Chase Headley and Didi hours after the Twins’ 8-5 win on stole second and reached third on a line- Sox the lead. Tyler Flowers also homered. Justin Smoak homered from both Gregorius had run-scoring singles for the Tuesday night following a long weather out. He put Houston on top when he beat There were 2 hours, 19 minutes in delays. sides of the plate, Mark Buehrle won his Yankees, who had lost seven of 10 before delay. Minnesota played several rested the tag at the plate on a fielder’s choice by John Lackey (6-5) allowed two runs in sev- fourth straight decision and Toronto end- salvaging the finale of their seven-game backups in the quick turnaround, with Chris Carter. The play was reviewed and en innings with six strikeouts and two ed Boston’s winning streak at three. Jose road trip. Mike Trout homered for the Torii Hunter among those out of the upheld. The Astros trailed early before tak- walks. Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Josh Angels, whose four-game winning streak lineup. Cincinnati took two of three in ing a 5-3 lead after a four-run fifth inning. Donaldson all connected and Jose Reyes ended while their front office was in the series. Cueto (5-5) pitched into the A two-run triple by Jarrod Dyson off Josh Cubs 2, Mets 0, 11 Innings had four hits as the Blue Jays scored more upheaval. The Angels announced general eighth inning for the first time in six Fields tied it in the seventh before Altuve Starlin Castro legged out a run-scoring runs than they had in their previous four manager Jerry Dipoto’s resignation dur- starts since he returned from an scored the go-ahead run. Luke Gregerson infield single in the 11th inning, and the games combined, giving a Canada Day ing the game, replacing him with former inflamed right elbow. He struck out (3-1) pitched a perfect ninth for the win. Chicago Cubs blanked punchless New crowd of 45,392 plenty to cheer about. GM Bill Stoneman. Dipoto apparently quit eight, walked one and gave up an RBI Carter and Marwin Gonzalez hit solo York for its second consecutive shutout at Buehrle (9-4) allowed one run and four due to conflicts with manager Mike groundout to Eddie Rosario. Aroldis homers for Houston and Evan Gattis Citi Field. Jon Lester returned to form with hits in seven innings. He hasn’t lost since Scioscia, who has denied any problems. Chapman retired the side in the ninth for drove in two runs. seven sharp innings, and the Cubs over- May 23 against Seattle. Encarnacion hit a Los Angeles (41-38) failed to move five his 16th save in 17 chances. came a major baserunning blunder to three-run homer off Rick Porcello in the games above .500 for the first time this Dodgers 4, Diamondbacks 3 score twice in the 11th. Miguel Montero first and Smoak added a two-run drive season. Mariners 7, Padres 0 Kike Hernandez had three hits, includ- added an RBI single and Chicago won its into the second deck in right. Bautista Taijuan Walker pitched one-hit ball for ing a triple and a double, and Brett eighth straight against the Mets, including snapped an 0 for 25 slump with a two-run Pirates 9, Tigers 3 six innings, Robinson Cano and Nelson Anderson pitched seven strong innings the first six of seven meetings this season. shot in the second, the 16th home run Neil Walker homered twice, including Cruz homered and Seattle beat punchless for his third straight victory as Los Angeles The staggering Mets botched a suicide allowed by Porcello this season. Porcello a two-run shot in a five-run third, and San Diego. Cano had four hits and drove defeated Arizona. The NL West-leading squeeze in the eighth and a double-play (4-9) allowed seven runs and seven hits in Pittsburgh beat Detroit. Walker also drove in three runs. Cruz connected for his 20th Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks for the ball in the 11th during their latest flop at two innings, his shortest start of the sea- in the winning run in Tuesday night’s 14- homer on his 35th birthday. Walker (7-6) ninth time in the past 10 meetings and the plate. After neither team was able to son. He’s 0-7 with a 8.18 ERA in eight inning win - a game that ended early combined with four relievers on a three- recorded their first winning road trip of score for 10 innings, the Cubs broke starts since beating Seattle on May 16. Wednesday morning. The Pirates finished hitter for Seattle’s second straight shutout the season with a 6-4 mark in the 10- through against Carlos Torres (2-4). Jason with 21 hits, their most since May 13, of San Diego. The Padres have been game swing to Chicago, Miami and Motte (6-1) fanned two in a hitless inning Marlins 6, Giants 5 2004 in Colorado. AJ Burnett (7-3) got the blanked 13 times this year. Walker struck Arizona. Anderson (5-4) stranded six run- and Justin Grimm threw a called third Justin Bour hit a three-run homer with easy win, giving up two runs on seven out seven and walked none. James ners and allowed one run and seven hits, strike past Kevin Plawecki with runners at no outs in the ninth inning, and Miami hits in seven innings. He struck out four Shields (7-3) failed for the fifth time to get striking out seven and walking two. The the corners for his first major league save. overcame three errors and a flurry of dou- and didn’t walk a batter. Alfredo Simon his eighth victory. He’s lost three straight Diamondbacks’ run came on Aaron Hill’s ble-play grounders to rally past San (7-5) took the loss, allowing six runs on a starts. home run in the sixth. Hernandez ripped a Braves 4, Nationals 1 Francisco. The Marlins squandered a 3-1 career-high 15 hits in 5 2-3 innings. The leadoff triple to start the game and scored AJ Pierzynski and Juan Uribe hit back- lead and tied a franchise record by hitting 15 hits were the most allowed by a Tigers Athletics 4, Rockies 1 on Howie Kendrick’s sacrifice fly.Robbie to-back homers in a four-run fourth inning into five double plays. But they came back starter since Scott Sanders allowed 16 on Billy Butler hit his first triple in nearly Ray (2-4) took the loss after allowing four and Atlanta beat Washington to end a in the ninth against Santiago Casilla (4-2), April 14, 1998. three years and also singled, Jesse Hahn runs and seven hits with six strikeouts and streak of nine straight losses in the season who blew a save for the fourth time in 24 pitched six solid innings and Oakland two walks in six innings. series. Rookie Matt Wisler allowed one hit chances. The Marlins trailed 5-3 to start Orioles 4, Rangers 2 beat Colorado. Hahn (6-6) improved to 4- in 5 1-3 scoreless innings to make up for a the ninth when Christian Yelich led off JJ Hardy hit a tiebreaking two-run 1 over his last six starts after giving up one White Sox 7, Cardinals 1. loss to the Nationals in his last start. Wisler with a single. Adeiny Hechavarria singled, homer in the seventh inning to back an run on four hits. He walked two and Melky Cabrera homered to back a had a run-scoring single in the big fourth and Bour pulled a 1-0 pitch over the fence effective pitching performance by Wei- struck out six. Tyler Clippard retired the strong outing from Jose Quintana, and inning, his first career hit. Wisler (2-1) over- in right field for his eighth homer and first Yin Chen and carry Baltimore past Texas. final four hitters for his 14th save. Butler, the White Sox pulled away late in a game came five walks in his rematch against career walk-off homer. Steve Cishek (2-5) Jimmy Paredes homered and had two Josh Reddick, Mark Canha and Eric interrupted by three rain delays to beat Nationals’ right-hander Doug Fister (3-4), pitched a scoreless ninth for Miami, which RBIs for the Orioles, who yielded eight Sogard drove in runs as the A’s won the the Cardianls and complete a two-game who allowed four runs in six innings. won despite being out-hit 14-8. home runs in losing the first two games series. Billy Burns added two hits and sweep. The Cardinals were 0 for 16 with Pierzynski hit a two-run homer to right of the series. The Rangers went deep scored twice. Chad Bettis (4-3) allowed runners in scoring position in the series, field off Fister before Uribe followed with Yankees 3, Angels 1 twice more - solo shots by Shin-Soo Choo three runs on seven hits and four walks in including seven hitless at-bats his shot over the wall in center. The start Nathan Eovaldi pitched scoreless, five- and Ryan Rua - but that was the extent of 5 2-3 innings.—AP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

Cycling: Degenkolb ready to take responsibility from absent Kittel

UTRECHT: Paris-Roubaix winner John much risk,” said Guiberteau. ist, capable of a fast burst to the line but also Paris-Roubaix in April, Gent-Wevelgem last Degenkolb claims he is feeling no more pres- “He really had to be in super form, espe- with the strength to get over short climbs year and nine Vuelta a Espana stages since sure ahead of the Tour de France now that his cially this year with the course, which is very that tend to spit sprinters out the back of the 2012, but he has yet to win a Tour stage- Giant-Alpecin team have dropped sprint king tough for sprinters. We believed he had a peloton. “Marcel is not here so I have more something he hopes to rectify this month. Marcel Kittel. The last two years, burly good training camp and then he came back responsibility to be the lead sprinter in the “Basically, the general goal is to win a German Kittel won four stages in each Tour, before the Sierra Nevada camp and then flat stages. I’m probably not the biggest stage. The goal hasn’t changed but if there’s including both the first and last. The entire went to the Elenco Tour and we said we’ll see. favorite in these kind of sprints, that’s not my the possibility to go for the green jersey, defi- Giant team was built around bringing him to “But there you go, he was coming back but best quality, but with a great team behind me nitely I will try it and will not leave chances on the sprint finishes on flat stages with the best not quickly enough-he needed another and a lead out that gives me an advantage the ground.” And Degenkolb, 26, already has possible lead-out train-and Kittel rarely failed month.” It means Degenkolb will be the main over other riders, I see great chances to com- certain stages in mind such as stage six from to deliver the final punch to the line. man for the German outfit not only in the flat pete in flat sprints,” said Degenkolb, although Abbeville to Le Havre with its three fourth But the 27-year-old has been suffering stages where they would normally have been he admitted he hadn’t expected this oppor- category climbs and slight uphill finish. from illness this year and only really started planning to set up Kittel for the bunch sprint, tunity. “There are these stages where you maybe his season in May, at which point he was but also on those intermediate or rolling “It was in the end of course a surprise (that have to survive a climb before the finish line always struggling for form to be fit to make stages in which the lead peloton that reaches Kittel was dropped). I trained a lot with him and be there in a reduced group of 30, 40 or the Tour start. Giant coach Christian the line tends to be reduced. and was a long time with him together. I saw 50 riders. I think that would be the chances Guiberteau said the Tour has just come a his progression and knew it would be really where I have the best qualities to win a stage, touch too early for Kittel. “We knew it wasn’t Classics specialist tight for the Tour, but still it was a surprise but also flat stages are not bad for us with ideal because he had to catch up. We had all That’s the kind of stage that ideally suits because it’s a big step to make a decision like Koen de Kort, Ramon Sinkeldam, Albert the team around him to give him confidence Degenkolb who is not a pure out-and-out this.” Degenkolb may have won some presti- Timmer and Roy Curvers. We have a very but in the end we decided there was too sprinter but rather a one-day classics special- gious races such as Milan-San Remo in March, experienced team.”— AFP

F1 - Hamilton seeks to halt charging Rosberg

SILVERSTONE: World champion Lewis Hamilton is seeking a return to his most dominant form on home soil this weekend when he bids to beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the British Grand Prix. The 30-year-old Englishman has only a 10- points advantage over the German following Rosberg’s victory at the Austrian Grand Prix and knows he needs to regain his earlier supremacy to repeat his triumph in last year’s race. “I don’t feel like I ever really reached my peak in Austria,” said Hamilton. “It wasn’t the smoothest of weekends for me, so to come away with second place wasn’t a disaster in the circumstances. “Silverstone, though... that’s different. I can’t describe the feeling I had last year, lifting that trophy again in front of a sea of fans on pit straight, after so many years, and after a tough start to the weekend too. “It’s something that will always stay with me and nothing less than the same again will do. I’m lucky enough to have fans all around the world, but winning in front of your home crowd is something else. “We have a fantastic car this year, even better than in 2014 and it should suit this track. I’ll be going all out to make the most of it.” Rosberg’s triumph at the Red Bull Ring was his third in four races and confirmed the momentum that has recharged his title challenge after a season-opening peri- od in which he was swept aside by Hamilton.”My week in Austria could not have come together much better,” said Rosberg. “Apart from a mistake in qualifying, I felt right on top of things from the start and it was great to get another win. UTRECHT: Spain’s Alberto Contador (3rd right) speaks with Slovakia’s Peter Sagan (2nd right), as they take part in a “With the extra day in the car testing on Wednesday, also, training session with others riders of Russia’s Tinkoff-Saxo cycling team yesterday in Utrecht, The Netherlands, two days helping the team prepare for Silverstone, I feel ready to go full before the start of the 102nd edition of the Tour de France cycling race. — AFP attack at a circuit I really enjoy. It should suit our car nicely with the focus on down-force and we learned some useful things dur- ing the test.”I’m sure we’ll be strong once again. The crowds are A Tour for everyone really incredible at this race and it’s always a great atmosphere. Of course, I know they have their favorite, but hopefully we can have a good fight and keep the fans on their feet.” UTRECHT: In recent years a lot of focus on would begin in a handful of mountain ish of the Fleche Wallonne, one of three As the Mercedes duo head towards the ninth round of the 19- cycling and in particular the Tour de France stages in which a powerful team would ride Ardennes Classics. The punchers will be out race season amid temperatures soaring towards 35 degrees has been about how things have changed at a leg-burning tempo until their leader in force on that day, as well as stages six to Celsius, their duel has left many observers calling for changes - or in a new cleaner era. While no-one believes attacked on the final climb, decimating the Le Havre and eight to the Mur de Bretagne, doping has been completely eradicated, so competition. which have similar short, sharp climbs to a Ferrari revival-to add drama to the championship and the sport. to a large extent it has at least been Prudhomme has created a Tour route in the finish. Two major surveys of Formula One fans and supporters - one car- reduced and what remains is perhaps less which no two days are alike and therefore ried out by the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (PGDA) — resulted effective. The worry now is about hard-to- no two challenges equal-although there Mini Paris-Roubaix in calls for a return to refueling and a ‘tyre war’, but neither detect micro-doping rather than the game- are still appetising titbits both for sprinters Before then you have stage four with its received much support from paddock insiders. —AFP changing blood-doping brought on by EPO and climbers. Right from the off, there will seven cobbled sections totaling 13.4km and blood transfusions. The effect on the be a complete examination of a rider’s making it a mini Paris-Roubaix, which peloton has not gone unnoticed with the cycling capabilities, and indeed intelli- should catch the attention of the cobbled winning gaps, particularly on high moun- gence. The race begins with a short individ- classics specialists. By the time the peloton tain stages, greatly reduced. It has changed ual timetrial before a team race against the reaches the first mountain stage 10, there slightly the way riders race but there is also clock on stage nine, but again relatively will have already been several opportuni- another thing responsible for that-the short at 28km-no rider should lose the Tour ties not only for the favorites to put time course. because either he or his team are weak at into each other, but also for other riders to These last few years, Tour organizers timetrialling. perhaps stoke interest in the race by also Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) and Stage two is flat and ideal for a sprint being involved in the business end. Stage Tour director Christian Prudhomme in par- finish but there is the possibility of cross- 10 finishes with an hors category climb at ticular, have gone to great efforts to create winds coming off the North Sea and caus- the end of a lumpy but relatively gentle exciting, unpredictable stages. Gone are ing splits in the peloton, meaning everyone stage. It’s followed by a far more brutal the days when the Tour would amble will be fighting for a place near the front, mountain stage with six categorized climbs through the first 10 days to two weeks of driving up the pace, increasing the tension but a long descent off the hors category MONTREAL: Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain rounds the carbon-copy flat stages with a breakaway and provoking probable crashes. Stage Col du Tourmalet before a short third cate- Senna corner on his way to winning the Canadian Grand followed by a chase and usually a bunch three ends on the short brutal climb called gory climb to the finish, favoring either a Prix in Montreal. — AP sprint finish. Until finally the true race the Mur (wall) du Huy which is also the fin- breakaway or a specialist descender. —AFP Sports44 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 New Zealand gears up for ‘brutal’ Super 15 final

WELLINGTON: The Wellington Hurricanes- Super Rugby match. “It’s going to be a real part.” The last two teams standing were the give them too much space and they will make Otago Highlanders Super 15 final tomorrow “is brutal game,” said Hansen, whose finals’ expe- best-performing attacking sides in the regular the most of that with their running, offloading going to be brutal” and could damage New rience as assistant coach of the champion season with the Hurricanes heading the try- and continuity play. So we need to be able to Zealand’s World Cup strength, according to All Canterbury Crusaders in 2000 fuels his trepida- scoring list with 62, one more than the shut that all down,” said McLeod. The Blacks coach Steve Hansen. But he admits he tion about the risk of injury to key All Blacks Highlanders. Hurricanes, meanwhile, are sweating on the fit- wouldn’t have it any other way with southern ahead of the World Cup beginning in ness of Ardie Savea, a central figure in their hemisphere club rugby supremacy at stake. September. Hurricanes threats attacking drive, who is suffering from a leg The Hurricanes, with 12 current All Blacks in “Whilst I’m excited about it being two New But championships are often won on injury and has been bracketed with Callum their squad, compared to five with the Zealand teams, there is a little bit of holding defense where the ‘Canes were second best to Gibbins for the seven jersey. The winner will Highlanders, have been installed as favorites your breath because you don’t want any of the ACT Brumbies side in the regular season, be the eighth franchise to wear the Super by the pragmatists for the sold-out game in those young men to get injured-or anyone for but the Highlanders had the worst defensive Rugby crown in the 20-year history of the tour- Wellington. that matter-but not the 17 because they are record of the top six qualifiers. The nament and the fourth from New Zealand fol- Rugby romantics, however, are backing the earmarked to come in and play some of these Highlanders have since conceded only three lowing the Canterbury Crusaders (seven cham- Highlanders who field a band of rugby nobod- Test matches that we’ve got to play before we tries as they outsmarted Waikato Chiefs and pionships), the Auckland Blues (three) and ies with a never-say-die attitude. In what will go to the World Cup. “But watching the two NSW Waratahs in the playoffs. Defense coach Waikato Chiefs (two). Three Australian sides be an emotional encounter-neither side has teams play, it’s going to be brutal. “There’s no Scott McLeod said they had a “big day” on have claimed the title-the ACT Brumbies (two), previously won the title-several senior players, way you can expect anyone to hold back. You Tuesday working on a strategy to counter the the NSW Waratahs (one) and Queensland Reds including Hurricanes figureheads Conrad can’t. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Hurricanes. (one). The Northern Bulls (three) are the only Smith and Ma’a Nonu, will be playing their last both teams. The emotion of it will play a big “They’ve got threats across the park. You winners from South Africa.— AFP

Hurricanes concentrate Love stays, Chandler moves, on basics to end drought

WELLINGTON: The Wellington Hurricanes will adhere to dollars fly in NBA free agency their clinically efficient game plan and not allow the death of Jerry Collins or impending departure of three NEW YORK: Kevin Love has unfinished busi- guard Danny Green, who got $45 million speculation Love might bolt after one sea- stalwarts to form an emotional barrier as they seek to ness in Cleveland and Tyson Chandler will for four years. son in Cleveland, though he had said end 20 years of frustration tomorrow. The Hurricanes be conducting his in Phoenix. The first full Aldridge was among the top big men repeatedly he planned to stay. He said he host an improving Otago Highlanders outfit tomorrow in day of NBA free agency featured skyrocket- available when the market opened early had been in contact recently with manage- the first all-New Zealand Super Rugby final since the ing salaries and a flurry of moves, though no Wednesday morning, considered by many ment and his teammates, alluding to “Fog Final” in 2006, when the Wellington-based side lost decision yet from LaMarcus Aldridge. the best one who might consider moving. spending time poolside with LeBron James. to the Canterbury Crusaders. Unable to match that Players and teams agreed to more than $1 The Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan was another “Yeah, of course I’ve heard the free agency potential in an inconsistent period since, Chris Boyd’s billion worth of deals. Love made his choice top big man on that list. There had been rumors,” Love wrote. — AP side have this season shaken off the tag as a team with a quickly, opting to stay with the Cavaliers on million dollar backline but lacking steel, particularly a five-year deal that could be worth more when put under pressure. than $110 million. He revealed his decision That ability to handle stressful situations was no more in a piece in The Players’ Tribune. evident than in the last month, following the June 5 “We have unfinished business and now death of former loose forward Collins in a car crash in it’s time to get back to work,” Love wrote. France. The team found out about Collins’ demise an Jimmy Butler and Mike Dunleavy also hour before their regular season clash with the stayed put in Chicago for around $115 mil- Highlanders in Napier and proceeded to post a 56-20 lion combined, Goran Dragic is remaining thrashing of the visitors. They then beat the Waikato in Miami and Paul Millsap will stick with Chiefs in their season finale in an away game in their for- Atlanta. But Paul Pierce and plenty other mer feeder province of Taranaki and also looked utterly players were on the move with salaries clinical in their 29-9 victory over the ACT Brumbies in the soaring ahead of next year’s new TV con- semi-final last week. tracts that might make Wednesday’s action Hurricanes stalwarts Conrad Smith, Ma’a Nonu and seem tame next summer. “I LUV that the Jeremy Thrush are among six players leaving the team players are bank rolling, capitalize and seize after the final and while the side was aware of the signifi- the moment,” Hall of Fame guard and TNT cance of hosting their first final at a sold-out Wellington analyst Reggie Miller wrote on Twitter. Regional Stadium, sentimentality will have no role to “Trust me the owners and the league are play in the match. “There is no emotional button in this making money, so should you.” game,” Boyd told reporters yesterday. “We need to keep Chandler will get his in Phoenix, taking clear minds and to stick to a process,” he added of the $52 million over four years to leave Dallas, approach that has served them so well this season. “How while Atlanta’s DeMarre Carroll agreed to a could the emotion not take care of itself when there are deal with Toronto for $60 million over four 35,000 people at the Cake Tin and it’s game on?” years. Pierce then left Washington to Galvanised cast-offs reunite with former Boston coach Doc The Highlanders, who were beaten by the Crusaders Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers on a in their only other appearance in the final in 1999, have $10 million contract. Terms of all the deals also exceeded pre-season expectations just by making were confirmed to The Associated Press by the final. The Dunedin-based side has been cobbled people with knowledge of the details. They together by cast-offs, other side’s second stringers or in were granted anonymity because contracts the case of All Blacks Malakai Fekitoa and Waisake can only be agreed to during the first week Naholo, players who were simply discarded before they of free agency. They can’t be signed until had a chance to prove their credentials. July 9, after next season’s salary cap is set. That mentality has helped galvanize the team, some- Millsap was rewarded for his strong play thing which the coaches looked for when they recruited in Atlanta with a three-year deal worth their squad. “We select people on character and hard about $59 million, as the Hawks made sure work and that’s what you’ve seen from this side this not to lose both starting forwards after year,” assistant coach Scott McLeod said. The Carroll’s departure. Aldridge was busy Highlanders may have been beaten twice by the meeting with teams for a second straight Hurricanes this season but easily dispatched two-time day while he decides whether to leave champions the Chiefs and last year’s winners the NSW Portland. His representatives wrote on Waratahs in the playoffs and were not being taken light- Twitter on Wednesday afternoon that he ly. “They are worthy finalists,” Boyd said. “From the last had made no decisions, even following CALIFORNIA: In this file photo, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers dribbles time we played them they have secured top-six with vic- reports that the Lakers had been eliminat- pass under pressure from Carlos Boozer of the Los Angeles Lakers during their tory over the Blues and beaten the Chiefs and Waratahs. ed. The Spurs were among the teams hop- NBA game at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Love announced “In my mind that makes them completely worthy final- ing to land him and were making moves to July 1, 2015 he will return to the Cleveland Cavaliers next season - the 26-year- ists.”— Reuters entice him. They dealt Tiago Splitter to old power forward reportedly agreeing to a five-year deal worth $110 million Atlanta to clear cap space and re-signed to remain in Cleveland.—AFP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 45 Ex-NFL star tackles overgrown field for football camp

HIGHLAND PARK: The weeds and wild grass rose well above Reggie McKenzie’s knees as the former NFL star walked the field bearing his name in the small Detroit enclave of Highland Park. With two weeks until the start of the youth football camp he’s been running for four decades, the city-owned field had yet to be mowed - and something had to be done. McKenzie, who starred on the gridiron at Highland Park High School and the University of Michigan before spending 13 years in the NFL, said he spent about $700 to make the field usable in time for the 3-day camp for several dozen teens and pre-teens. “If I gotta get it cut to have my program, well, I got to get it cut,” said McKenzie, whose camp counts NFL players as alumni. Highland Park has more pressing needs. The 3-square-mile city, the birthplace of Henry Ford’s assembly line, is among the poor- est communities in the US Drowning in millions of dollars in water debt to Detroit, it was determined last year to be in a finan- cial emergency. It is among several Michigan cities struggling to pay off mountains of debt while providing basic city services. Highland Park recreation director Michael Drain said public works crews typically cut the grass every week and a half and showed up after McKenzie had the field mowed. “They are really short-staffed, and there are so many vacant lots in the city and they have to get to those,” Drain said. Highland Park rose and fell with Detroit’s auto industry. By 1919, half the cars in the world were Model Ts, many of them built in Highland Park. Business leaders lived in spacious homes on tree- lined streets. But the population has dwindled from about 35,000 in 1970 to about 10,400 in 2013. With only 160 students returning next fall, the school district shuttered its only high school. McKenzie, 64, said he understands Highland Park’s troubles. But he added: “Sometimes people make things seem that they are harder than they really are.” “You’ve got to want to,” he said. “It’s just like football. You’ve TORONTO: In this file photo, Toronto Maple Leafs’ Phil Kessel (second from left) skates past Winnipeg Jets’ Toby got to want to play. When I need the grass cut, I get it cut. Does it Enstrom (second from right) and Maple Leafs teammates during overtime NHL hockey action in Toronto. — AP bother me? Yeah, that they kind of let it run down. You don’t get mad. You just go and do something about it.” The field is still far from manicured. The former press box is likely beyond saving. Birds nest in the broken plywood flooring, sharing the two-story Kessel’s trade to Penguins cinderblock building with the occasional homeless person. Basketball courts are overgrown with cracked hardtop. But that highlights NHL free agency didn’t stop this year’s camp participants. “Everybody’s out here working,” said 14-year-old Baron Sholar. “Lot of sweat going on. Little kids working out. I like it.” DETROIT: On the first day of NHL free Conditional draft picks are also with San Jose comes a day after the Sharks The camp’s alumni include former NFL players, including agency, a blockbuster trade stole the spot- involved. Kessel has 247 goals and 273 acquired Martin Jones to be their starting Pittsburgh Steeler Jerome Bettis, Green Bay Packer Gilbert Brown light. The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired assists in nine seasons between Boston goaltender as general manager Doug and Pepper Johnson, who played for several teams. McKenzie, a high-scoring winger Phil Kessel from and Toronto, including 25 goals and 36 Wilson has made a strong play to fix a member of Buffalo’s famed “Electric Company” offensive line, fin- Toronto on Wednesday in the biggest assists for the Maple Leafs in 2014-15. “He leaky defense that led to the franchise ished his playing career in Seattle and later worked in the team’s move of the day, while a handful of promi- was always the guy, he was a guy that was missing the playoffs for the first time since front office. He now runs an industrial materials business and a nent defenseman found new homes in blamed when things weren’t going well, 2003. foundation focused on education and sports for young people, free agency. Mike Green signed a multi- and he doesn’t have to be the guy here,” “We feel good we got these two pieces both of which bear his name. He also wants to make sure kids year deal with Detroit, Andrej Sekera Pittsburgh general manager Jim off our checklist,” Wilson said. “Now it have something more than what he did as a youth. “Whenever signed a $33 million, six-year contract with Rutherford said. “We have a bunch of allows us to look at some other things and we got a little piece of grass when we were growing up, we Edmonton, Paul Martin inked a $19.4 mil- them, and so I believe that he’s going to fit explore. But we don’t feel like there’s any would go play tackle. Back then, it wasn’t a whole lot of grass,” he lion, four-year deal with San Jose and in very well.” Kessel’s presence will provide rush. These two pieces needed to be said. “Football was fun and that’s why I still do the football Francois Beauchemin got a three-year deal Crosby and Malkin with a capable scorer addressed. They have been and we’ll go camp.”— AP with Colorado. still in his prime. Injuries devastated forward from here.” Despite losing Other notable players to sign with Pittsburgh’s depth last season. Richards and Brandon Saad, the teams on a busy opening day of free The Penguins struggled to score goals Blackhawks were able to lock up one of Walsh Jennings sets sight agency were right wing Justin Williams to for long stretches and fell to the New York the players they got in the seven-player a two-year, $6.5 million contract with Rangers in five games in the opening deal that sent Saad to Columbus on on fourth straight gold Washington; forward Michael Frolik, who round of the playoffs. With fewer top Tuesday. Forward Artem Anisimov agreed BERLIN: Kerri Walsh Jennings is eyeing her fourth consecutive got a $21.5 million, five-year deal from players hitting the market as unrestricted to a $22.75 million, five-year contract Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro next year but the American Calgary; forward Matt Beleskey, who got a free agents, the busiest action was on the extension Wednesday with Chicago. beach volleyball champion will have to complete this remarkable $19 million, five-year deal from Boston; blue line, where a handful of teams made The 27-year-old Anisimov had seven feat with a new partner. The 36-year-old mother of three won gold forward Blake Comeau, who signed a some big upgrades. Green gives the Red goals and 20 assists in 52 games for the at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics alongside three-year deal with the Avalanche; and Wings a quarterback for their power play Blue Jackets last season. The contract Misty Mae-Treanor in a partnership hailed as “the best beach vol- forward Daniel Winnik, who signed a two- after posting 10 goals, 35 assists and 17 extension begins with the 2016-17 season. leyball team of all time.” She is now bidding to join the exclusive year contract with Toronto. Williams won power-play points last season with “It’s a really good team, like really good club of athletes who have won four consecutive Olympic golds in the Conn Smythe Trophy as Stanley Cup Washington. Green is one of the most talented players,” Anisimov said. “They the same individual event, this time with April Ross who she beat MVP with the Kings last year. offensively skilled defensemen in the play the game so well. The past six years, for gold in 2012. That exclusive club of four straight Olympic golds A pair of players who helped Chicago league and has registered 113 goals and three Stanley Cups, it’s really good. I’m so far includes just two athletes-Americans Al Oerter and Carl Lewis win the Stanley Cup left as free agents 247 assists in 10 seasons with the Capitals. really excited to join this team.” Among — who achieved this feat in discus and long jump respectively at with Brad Richards signing a one-year deal Richards, who had 12 goals and 25 the busier teams Wednesday were the four consecutive Games. in Detroit and Antoine Vermette going assists for Stanley Cup champion Chicago Nashville Predators, who re-signed for- “I don’t like to speculate, because anything can happen, but I back to Arizona four months after being last season, also gives the Red Wings ward Mike Ribeiro to a two-year, $7 million will say that April (Ross) and I are going to the Olympics to win and traded to the Blackhawks. But the biggest another scoring threat. “It’s a great day for contract, signed free agent defenseman we are doing everything we can to set ourselves up for success,” move was clearly the one that teamed up the Red Wings today,” general manager Barret Jackman and forward Cody Walsh Jennings told Reuters in an interview. “The level of play for Kessel with former MVPs Sidney Crosby Ken Holland said. “I think we’ve added two Hodgson, and acquired forward Max beach volleyball for men and women is insanely high. There are no and Evgeni Malkin in Pittsburgh. The players today that provide some really Reinhart in a trade with Calgary for a con- easy matches. In order to win this gold medal, April and I need to Penguins sent forward prospect Kasperi important ingredients we were looking ditional fourth-round draft pick. be extraordinary and that’s what we plan to do.” Extraordinary is an Kapanen, forward Nick Spaling, defense- for.” The Oilers and Sharks both filled voids In other news, Carolina officially apt word used to describe the athlete, who was pregnant during man Scott Harrington and a 2016 third- on defense with their deals with Sekera bought out forward Alexander Semin’s her Olympic gold run at the London 2012 Games. For Rio she has round pick to the Maple Leafs for Kessel, and Martin. Sekera had three goals and 20 contract. The Hurricanes owe Semin $14 teamed up with Ross and Walsh Jennings said the change was a forward Tyler Biggs and defenseman Tim assists over 73 games with Carolina and million over the next six years and he is “challenge” and they were both working on it every day.—Reuters Erixon. Los Angeles last season. Martin’s signing now a free agent. —AP Sports46 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 White still not right at Wimbledon

Hot-for-Wimbledon, Venus nears ‘Serena showdown’

LONDON: Venus Williams is no longer the player she once was, on account of the passage of time and the day-to-day ups and downs of an energy-sapping condition. At age 35, 21 years removed from her first professional tournament, Williams still possesses a dangerous serve, along with the muscle memory that comes with seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon. And so while it is her younger sister Serena who is ranked No 1, has 20 major titles and owns a 23- match Grand Slam winning streak as of Wednesday, the elder Williams is still in the draw at the All England Club, too - and the siblings are closing in on what would be their 26th all-in- the-family matchup on tour. “She probably comes back here and, you know, I think, she almost feels like this is home,” said David Witt, Venus’ coach. “When you have confidence, you have everything. That’s with any sport. And I guess when she gets here, it’s a confidence thing.” On the hottest day on record in Wimbledon history, with the temperature topping 95 degrees (35 degrees Celsius) - and a terrific day for American women - both Williams sisters won second-round matches: 16th-seeded Venus beat 95th-ranked Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 7-6 (5), 6-4, while top-seeded Serena defeated 93rd-ranked Timea Babos of Hungary 6-4, 6-1. Two more wins, and the siblings will meet in the fourth round. WIMBLEDON: Chairman Philip Brook (left) and Britain’s Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall meet Czech Republic’s Tomas “She poses a big threat for me,” Serena said about Venus. Berdych (2nd right) and Britain’s Johanna Konta (right) on the Players’ Lawn during a visit on day four of the 2015 They pulled out of doubles on Tuesday, citing “soreness” for Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in south west London. — AFP Serena, who wants to focus on her pursuit of a fourth consec- LONDON: Wimbledon’s famously strict or cream. I was like, man, if you wash insurance executive Justin Sands in utive Grand Slam title. Four other women from the US won dress code, which requires competitors your whites too many times, they will 2008, she walked down the aisle in Wednesday, including two real surprises: 158th-ranked quali- to appear head-to-toe in white playing be illegal. Better be washing it in cold black. “I actually wore a black dress. fier Bethanie Mattek-Sands eliminated No. 7 Ana Ivanovic, the gear, has come under renewed fire for water. When I went shopping for it, they want- 2009 French Open champion, 6-3, 6-4; and 47th-ranked CoCo being “ridiculous” and “excessive”. Even “I had a little mesh on my shirt today ed me to try some stuff on, and I said, Vandeweghe, the niece of former NBA player and executive Roger Federer, the seven-time champi- (in Wednesday’s win over Ana Ivanovic). Look, I’m not going to wear anything Kiki, beat No. 11 Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (5), 6-4. on and a lifelong admirer of the All I have like I think one legal pair of shorts white, off-white, cream, light pink, I Also advancing: No. 21 Madison Keys, who finished off a England Club’s traditions, has ramped that is on rotation hopefully in cold said, so just don’t even hand me those,” match suspended because of darkness at 2-all in the third set up his criticism of the rule which water. One skirt I think that’s legal.” she recalled. “They’re like, Well, we have a night earlier, and Sloane Stephens. A pair of US men moved demands predominantly white outfits. Mattek-Sands, 30, would never be one this black evening gown. I’m like, on, too: No 17 John Isner and 105th-ranked wild-card entry “I love Wimbledon but they’ve gone too to settle for the ordinary when it comes Perfect. First one I tried and got that Denis Kudla, who followed up his victory over No 28 Pablo far now. The rules have become ridicu- to fashion choice. When she married one.”— AFP Cuevas by getting past 18-year-old Alexander Zverev. “A few lously strict,” said the Swiss legend. It is years ago, I was being asked, ‘What happened to U.S.A. ten- the second time in two seasons that nis?’ And I said, ‘Well, it comes and goes.’ I think there were a Federer has hit out at the rule which Rufus the hawk rules lot of younger players coming that showed promise,” the 30- calls for “suitable tennis attire that is year-old Mattek-Sands said. “Sure enough, I think we have a almost entirely white”. really strong contingent of American players and it’s really “We’re all white. White, white, full-on the Wimbledon skies good to see.” white. I think it’s very strict,” Federer said She is halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam in doubles 12 months ago. “My personal opinion, I LONDON: Male tennis players from the happen if Rufus spots a pigeon and is with Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic. Serena, mean- think it’s too strict. If you look at the pic- United States are almost as rare as hen’s feeling a big peckish. “We haven’t while, is halfway there in singles, and so far this week has a tures of Edberg, Becker, there was some teeth at Wimbledon this year, but a evolved a hawk to catch things for our pair of straight-set victories after playing five three-setters at colors, you know, but it was ‘all white’.” hawk native to North and South America own purposes-we’re just utilizing its nat- the French Open. After dismissing Babos on Centre Court - The color code at Wimbledon is often definitely rules the roost when it comes ural abilities,” he said. where a small electrical fire in a mechanical room set off controversial. Last year Caroline to clearing the championship courts of Rufus has become something of an alarms once play was done for the day - Serena was able to Wozniacki said reports that officials pigeons. Every morning at dawn, a avian star at Wimbledon, his picture tak- settle in front of a TV to watch Venus finish off Putintseva. “I would check the color of women’s Harris hawk named Rufus, with his dis- en by countless photographers and tele- always root for Venus,” Serena said. “She’s been through a lot underwear as “a little creepy”. This week, tinctive yellow-hued beak, patrols the vision crews. He even has his own in her career. She’s really playing well.” So far at Wimbledon, Canadian poster girl Eugenie Bouchard skies over the tennis complex in south- Twitter account @RufusTheHawk. As a that is certainly true, including a 6-0, 6-0 victory in the first fell foul of the rules after wearing a black west London. The hawk’s job is to scare family that makes its living from falcon- round. Against Putintseva, Venus’ 29 winners included seven bra. Flamboyant American player the living daylights out of the pigeons ry, the Davises are delighted that one of aces, and she reached 122 mph (197 kph) on a serve in the Bethanie Mattek-Sands said she sup- who not so many years ago occasionally this year’s big literary hit books is “H Is final game. ported Federer’s complaints. “I didn’t interrupted play as they strolled around for Hawk”, British writer Helen Venus last won the grass-court Grand Slam tournament in even get married in white,” she said. the courts, searching for food and doing Macdonald’s tale of how she trained a 2008; three years later, she announced that she has Sjogren’s Mattek-Sands once appeared on what pigeons do. For Rufus, pigeons are goshawk as a form of therapy to help her syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can cause joint pain Wimbledon Centre Court wearing a coat food, though the bird’s handlers and deal with the death of her father. “It’s and fatigue. Her nearly 2-hour match Wednesday was the last made of tennis balls and has also taken trainers, Wayne Davis, his wife Donna absolutely fantastic,” Donna Davis said of on Court 3, and wrapped up at about 9 pm, by which point it to a court with warpaint beneath her and their daughter Imogen, do their Macdonald’s book this week as she and was much cooler than earlier. The Met Office, Britain’s official eyes. She claims a Nike-designed white best to keep Rufus’s appetite balanced Imogen loaded Rufus into the car after weather service, said the temperature reached 35.7 degrees playing bra was judged to be unsuitable so the hawk will scare the pigeons but his morning patrol. “I just thought she Celsius (about 96 degrees Fahrenheit) at its closest observa- at Wimbledon because it had a yellow not eat them. really captured the sense of training a tion site, about 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) high- stripe. “I think it’s gotten a little exces- That is part of the art of falconry as it goshawk, it is so difficult.” Having start- er than the previous tournament record, set in 1976. sive. It was funny, because I was actually has been practiced for more than 2,000 ed bird training, with kestrels, at the age Spectators fanned themselves in the stands and used Googling some players like when John years, said Wayne Davis, although he of 10, Davis does not recommend fal- everything from hats to umbrellas to towels for shade. A ball McEnroe played, Arthur Ashe, they had cannot guarantee that Rufus will not conry to anyone who thinks it would be boy collapsed during Isner’s match and was taken away on a color everywhere,” said Mattek-Sands occasionally go for the kill. “Thousands nice to have a hawk along with the fami- stretcher. One player, No. 27 Bernard Tomic of Australia, said who makes a mini-statement by of years of evolution have dictated that’s ly dog or cat. He particularly sympa- he felt dizzy during his victory. Others, including Mattek appearing on court with knee-high what he should do,” Davis said, speaking thizes with Macdonald, whom he met at Sands, wrapped towels filled with ice around their necks dur- white socks. “I feel it’s actually gotten over the phone from the family home in a falconry conference in Dubai last year, ing changeovers.— AP stricter. You can’t even wear off-white Northamptonshire, about what could for her travails. —Reuters Sports FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Japan set up US rematch England ‘heartbroken’ after World Cup defeat

EDMONTON: Holders Japan swiped a Mark Sampson as she walked off the field, dramatic 2-1 victory over England thanks the Lionesses stunned, shocked and cry- to an injury-time own-goal by defender ing at the heartbreaking final turn. “It’s OK Laura Bassett on Wednesday, setting up a to cry. They left everything on the field,” Women’s World Cup final rematch Sampson said. against the United States. The Asian Sampson was especially proud of champions, who defeated the Americans Bassett, whose heroics helped England to on penalty kicks in the 2011 champi- the brink of the championship match. onship match, take on the two-time win- “Laura Bassett has epitomized this ners on Sunday in Vancouver after the US England team this tournament,” he said. women beat Germany 2-0 in a Tuesday “She has been courageous, strong... she semi-final at Montreal. kept this team together. She didn’t England and Japan looked to be deserve that. She’ll be remembered as a heading for extra time deadlocked after hero.” But Japan coach Norio Sasaki saw captain Aya Miyama scored a penalty on the goal more as one created by the good 33 minutes only for Fara Williams to level work of his players rather than an English for England five minutes before the break, error. “Own goal, it was not really an own also from a penalty kick. But two minutes goal because we created the situation into injury time, Bassett sent the ball into because we had a really strong counter her own net to end England’s dream run attack and (Yuki) Ogimi was there and to their first World Cup semi-final. Bassett, that’s why she (Bassett) was forced to do 31, was in tears after the final whistle and what she did,” he said. “Nahomi had to be consoled by England coach Kawasumi and Yuki Ogimi were the ones who created this goal. In the end we were the ones who were able to obtain such a dramatic goal.”

Lionesses roaring As with the first semi-final which was marked by a penalty missed by Germany EDMONTON: Jill Scott #8 of England challenges Aya Sameshima #5 of Japan during the 2015 FIFA and one scored by the Americans, Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 Semi Final match between Japan and England at Commonwealth Wednesday’s game was also one of Stadium on July 1, 2015. — AFP penalties early before the late drama before 31,467 spectators in Edmonton’s in a tackle which started outside the box. threatening on 66 minutes. Sasakai that ball went over the line but our first Commonwealth Stadium. England were Miyama stepped up and, taking her time brought on Mana Iwabuchi 20 minutes point of call is look after you own. “Laura the only team to defeat Japan at with a stuttering run, slotted the penalty from time and the electric Bayern Munich is one of us, she’s one of our team, we get Germany 2011, winning 2-0 in the group in as Karen Bardsley dived the wrong way forward proved a real danger. She around her, we console her, we let her cry stage during the Nadeshiko’s charge to in the England goal. But eight minutes lat- whipped in a cross after 77 minuets but and we tell her how proud we are of her their maiden world crown. And the er, England were back level after captain Mizuho Sakaguchi’s header went wide. because without her we wouldn’t be in Lionesses had come out roaring with Steph Houghton fell easily in the box fol- this semi-final.” Sunday’s championship Jodie Taylor having the first shot at goal lowing little contact by Japan forward ‘What a tough one’ match will be a third clash for a major title after just one minute when she fired from Ogimi. With the clock ticking down, Japan between Japan and the United States. In 25 yards but sent just wide of Ayumi Williams rifled the penalty into goal made one final break down the right the 2011 final in Frankfurt, Japan won on EDMONTON: England’s Laura Kaihori in the Japanese goal. past Kaihori to equalize for the sixth- flank and Bassett’s stretch to cut out a penalities but the Americans went on to Bassett sheds tears after the Japan dominated possession for the ranked English. Toni Duggan rattled the cross only served to turn the ball into her take Olympic gold in 2012 by beating team’s 2-1 loss to Japan in a FIFA first half hour and finally got the break- crossbar just after the hour mark, and sec- own goal off the underside of the bar. Japan in the final. England now prepare Women’s World Cup soccer tour- through on a penalty, awarded when onds later a diving Kaihori did well to “What a tough one, what a tough one to to meet former two-time winners nament on Wednesday, July 1, Claire Rafferty brought down Saori punch clear substitute Ellen White’s curl- take,” said Sampson. “Every single mem- Germany in Saturday’s third-place playoff 2015. — AP Ariyoshi, who was charging towards goal, ing goalward shot, with Jill Scott also ber of our group was devastated when match in Edmonton.— AFP Liberia host international US seeks extradition game as Ebola ban lifted of seven FIFA officials

JOHANNESBURG: International football returns to pensions reportedly deflated morale and finding GENEVA: The United States has demanded the vice presidents. Costa Rican Eduardo Li was sup- Liberia this weekend when they host Guinea in a replacements delayed the departure of the team extradition of seven FIFA officials detained in May posed to join the FIFA executive committee in May. 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier from Monrovia, forcing the first leg in Bamako to be setting off what could become a prolonged legal There was also Brazilian football federation chief Jose after the lifting of an Ebola-induced ban. The 13- postponed 24 hours. Amadou Camara bagged a battle over the handling of the major corruption Maria Marin, Nicaraguan Julio Rocha and Costas month suspension was scrapped in May by African first-half brace for Guinea and after Allison Dweh case. Swiss authorities said yesterday that the US Takkas, a Briton who worked for the Cayman islands football governing body CAF and Guinea will be the halved the deficit, Ibrahim Sory Sankhon restored embassy in Bern had sent an extradition request the federation and Rafael Esquivel, president of the first foreign side to play in Monrovia since that deci- the two-goal advantage. Liberia are traditionally day before. The seven were detained in a dawn raid Venezuelan Football Federation. sion. Liberia defeated Lesotho at home in May last poor at overtaking arrears and their best chance of on a Zurich hotel on May 27 as a FIFA congress was year in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. survival may be to win 2-0 and squeeze through on about to start. FIFA leader Sepp Blatter was reelected Prolonged battle But as the epidemic spread-leading to a World the away-goal rule. to a new term at the congress but amid a storm of All are accused by US authorities of involve- Health Organization-estimated death toll of 11,207 - Zimbabwe take a 2-0 lead and a 100 percent controversy over parallel US and Swiss investiga- ment in more than $150 million of bribes given for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were prevented away record of six victories in three previous quali- tions, he announced four days later that he would marketing deals for football tournaments in North from hosting international football. The bans on fying competitions to the Comoros. However, the stand down. Blatter has not been accused by either and South America. The seven are among 14 peo- Sierra Leone and Guinea remain and after being island nation will draw hope from restricting the inquiry and again strongly denied involvement in ple-officials and sports marketing company execu- declared Ebola-free two months ago, Liberia suf- hot favorites to a one-goal advantage in Harare corruption in a German media interview released tives-that US authorities have charged. Four others fered a setback this week with a fresh outbreak. until Tatenda Mudewe scored a minute from time. Wednesday. have already made deals with US prosecutors. While the ban was in force, Liberian national teams Midfielders Ronald Chitiyo and Wisdom Mutasa The US legal authorities had until July 3 to make Zurich police will now question the seven officials and clubs staged matches at neutral venues or for- and strikers Thomas Chideu and Evans Rusike miss their request and a Swiss federal justice office state- again and they will have 14 days to respond to the feited home advantage. Coach James Debbah will the return match after being invited for trials out- ment said the embassy action was “within the time- extradition request, the federal justice office said. appreciate playing at home as his team must over- side the country. “It will be challenging working frame set down in the bilateral extradition treaty” Experts said the battle over their extradition could come a 3-1 first-leg deficit in the competition for with new players,” admitted coach Callisto between the two countries. The seven officials-all take more than a year with hearings running home-based footballers. Pasuwa, “because developing combinations takes from South and North America-have all indicated alongside the election for a new FIFA president. Liberian media blamed the Guinea defeat on time. “We dare not underrate the Comoros, who they will fight extradition. The seven held include FIFA declined to comment on the extradition eight players being kicked out of the squad for boast well-built footballers and are dangerous Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands and Eugenio request. “This is a matter for the relevant authori- allegedly sneaking out of a training camp. The sus- from set pieces.”—AFP Figueredo from Uruguay, who are both former FIFA ties,” said a spokesperson.— AFP FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 JULY FRIDAY, www.kuwaittimes.net

EDMONTON: England’s Toni Duggan wipes away a tear after her squad’s 2- 1 loss to Japan in the FIFA Women’s World Cup semi-finals at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada on July 1, 2015. — AFP Page 47