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MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 THULHIJA 26, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net No case BJP tightens Lufthansa pilots Sterling makes of Ebola grip on power threaten strike, a point as recorded with thumping train stoppage Reds win in Kuwait4 poll11 wins strands23 millions thriller20 at QPR Oil union condemns Saudi Max 39º Min 24º halt of Khafji production High Tide 09:07 & 22:20 MP questions oil minister • Some civil servants to get 25% raise Low Tide 03:27 & 16:07 40 PAGES NO: 16318 150 FILS By B Izzak and Agencies environmental reasons for ordering the halt to the environmental issues by 2017. Local media said the clo- Kandari also asked how many Kuwaiti employees might field’s 311,000 barrels per day output, Kuwaiti media sure could be the result of differences between the two be affected by the decision. KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti oil trade union yesterday con- reported. Media cited an internal memo issued by Helal countries over a small export facility in the nearby Al- Both countries have excess production capacity and demned the unilateral closure by Saudi Arabia of an off- saying that the level of harmful emissions from the Zour area where Kuwait has decided to locate a large are likely to make up any loss in output if the problem is shore oilfield jointly operated by the Gulf neighbors, call- operations far exceeded the allowed pollution percent- new refinery. not quickly resolved. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil ing on the government to intervene. Fadghoush Al-Ajmi, age. Khafji is part of the neutral zone between Kuwait Independent MP Faisal Al-Kandari meanwhile asked exporter, is pumping around 9.6 million bpd and has head of the workers union at Kuwait Gulf Oil Co (KGOC), and Saudi Arabia which is jointly operated by the two Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair to brief parliament about the just under 3.0 million bpd of extra capacity. Kuwait on urged ministers to take action to ensure that production nations and pumps around 700,000 bpd. The produc- reasons for halting production at Khafji and if Kuwait the other hand, has a production capacity of over 3.2 at the Khafji oilfield resumes so that it does not affect tion is shared equally between them. had been informed before production was stopped. million bpd and is pumping an average of 3.0 million dozens of Kuwaitis employed by the company. Al-Rai newspaper quoted unidentified Kuwaiti oil Kandari also asked Omair if OPEC member Kuwait will bpd. The two governments signed the neutral zone The head of operations at Khafji, Abdullah Helal, who sources as saying they were surprised by the decision as be able to make up for lost oil production and about agreement almost 50 years ago. represents Saudi national oil company Aramco, cited the two countries had an understanding to address financial losses expected to be incurred by the state. Continued on Page13 No extra day off for Hijri New Year

KUWAIT: The Hijri New Year holiday will an official holiday, the CSC said in a fall on Saturday (Oct 25), the Civil statement. It added that agencies and Service Commission (CSC) announced bodies of special work nature will deter- yesterday. All ministries, institutions and mine their holiday separately, taking government bodies will take that day as into account public interest. — KUNA HRW to Kuwait: Stop stripping citizenship KUWAIT: International advocacy group addition to 10 activists including leading Human Rights Watch called on Kuwait cleric Nabil Al-Awadhi. The rights group yesterday to stop targeting opponents said Awadhi, a naturalized citizen who through revoking their citizenship and to was stateless before 1998, was stripped reinstate withdrawn nationalities. Kuwait of his citizenship for “undermining the - where citizens have elected a parlia- country’s social or economic system” and ment for decades and which is tradition- for “undermining the country’s higher ally seen as one of the more tolerant Gulf interest or foreign security”. BAGHDAD: (From left) Mauritania’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Ould Teguedi, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled l-Sabah,A monarchies - was damaging its reputa- Also stripped of his nationality was Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari and Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi attend a press conference yesterday. — AFP tion with the practice, HRW said. “Kuwaiti Saad Al-Ajmi, spokesman of the Popular authorities should immedi- Action Movement, a nation- ately stop stripping nation- alist opposition group. Ajmi als of their citizenship saw his nationality revoked IS threat to Iraq and region: FM because they exercise free under an article in the law speech or other legitimate that allows withdrawing citi- BAGHDAD: The forces of the US-led coalition strik- Teguedi, whose country holds the current session ous outstanding files. He said that he would dis- human rights,” New York- zenship from anyone natu- ing positions of the Islamic State are mainly Arab, of the Arab League, and Secretary General of the cuss with Jaafari the exact date for the next com- based HRW said in a state- ralized by another country, said Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Arab League Nabil Al-Arabi. “We have been briefed mittee meeting. ment. They should “reinstate though he told Human Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- by the Iraqi officials on the challenges facing the Addressing the conference, Jaafari highlighted the citizenship of people Rights Watch that he has not Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday. He added that the ter- country and the details will be comprised in a that Baghdad did not ask for any Arab or foreign whose citizenship has been been naturalized by another rorist group poses a threat not only to Iraq, but the report to be submitted to the Arab foreign minis- troops on Iraqi soil. “Iraq only demanded arming its withdrawn on those country. whole region as well. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled ters on the visit’s outcome,” Sheikh Sabah Al- security forces and training them,” the Iraqi foreign grounds,” it added. A government statement made the statement in a press conference with his Khaled said. minister pointed out. Referring to bilateral ties, he In the past few months, last month said some of Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim Al-Jaafari following talks Developments in Iraq will feature high on the expressed readiness to activate the joint higher Kuwait revoked the citizenship of 33 peo- those who lost their citizenship had been by a visiting a Arab delegation led by the Kuwaiti agenda of the coming meeting of Arab foreign committee and keenness on promoting these rela- ple and most of their family members. naturalised on the basis of fake docu- minister with the Iraqi president, prime minister, ministers, he said, calling for offering more aid to tions. HRW said that at least three of the cases ments. Others had dual citizenship, which parliament speaker, foreign minister, finance minis- displaced Iraqis and halting financing to terrorists. Arabi called for a comprehensive ideological, appeared to be politically motivated. The is outlawed in Kuwait, and some had their ter and several other Iraqi officials. Kuwait is the Stringent control of borders is essential to prevent intellectual and economic confrontation with ter- state in July withdrew the citizenship of nationality revoked for security reasons, head of the current Arab Summit. terrorist from infiltrating into the country, he rorism and IS, not just through military power. the family of Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari the statement said. “The Kuwaiti authori- The talks focused on developments in Iraq and added. The Kuwaiti foreign minister referred to the “Combating terrorist ideology in the region will and shut down his satellite television sta- ties seem to think they can use the cover the “critical” conditions in the region amid implica- Jeddah conference held on Sept 11 to offer politi- take a long time, and it has to be comprehensive,” tion and newspaper. The decision to of the nationality law to target their crit- tions of terrorist acts. Not only does IS pose a cal support to the Iraqi government and the he told the conference, noting that the visit is on revoke his citizenship was based on ics and deter dissent,” said Nadim Houry, threat to Iraq, but to the whole region, Sheikh humanitarian aid provided to displaced Iraqis who behalf of all the Arab countries concerned with “undermining the social or economic sys- deputy Middle East director at HRW. “But Sabah Al-Khaled told the conference, referring to were forced to flee their homes in the face of ter- Iraq’s stability and welfare. The Arab League chief tem”, according to Human Rights Watch. Kuwait’s real message of official intimida- the visit as a sign of “support and solidarity” with rorist attacks. also said that countering challenges in Iraq is a His four children also became stateless tion has rung out loud and clear,” he said. Iraq, whose “security and stability is a pillar for the On bilateral ties, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said responsibility of the whole world. The outcome of under the law. “While Kuwait continues to strip people region’s stability”. the joint higher committee is due to meet by the the visit and conditions on the ground in Iraq will In August, Kuwait revoked the citizen- of citizenship for no good reason, its rep- The delegation includes Mauritanian Minister of end of the year, noting that the two countries be submitted to the next meeting of Arab foreign ship of a former Islamist opposition law- utation as a tolerant country will continue Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ahmed Ould managed over the past two years to resolve vari- ministers, Teguedi said. — KUNA maker and his brothers and sisters, in to nosedive,” Houry added. — Agencies Largest pills bust Fiercest fighting in days hits Kobane

URFA, Turkey: The fiercest fighting in days at Kuwait airport shook the Syrian border town of Kobane By Hanan Al-Saadoun Saif added that the seized pills were the overnight as Islamic State fighters attacked largest number of psychotropic pills drug Kurdish defenders with mortars and car bombs, KUWAIT: Kuwait International Airport’s cus- smugglers had ever attempted smuggling sources in the town and a monitoring group toms yesterday seized 3 million Captagon through the airport. He also noted that the said yesterday. Islamic State, which controls pills arriving from Lebanon with a total esti- pills had been hidden in secret compart- much of Syria and Iraq, fired 44 mortars at mated value of KD 6 million, said the airport ments inside large ovens imported from Kurdish parts of the town on Saturday and customs director Khaled Al-Saif. Lebanon. some of the shells fell inside nearby Turkey, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said four more mortars were fired yesterday. The month-long battle for Kobane has ebbed and flowed. A week ago, Kurds said the town would soon fall. The United States and its coalition partners then stepped up air strikes on Islamic State, which wants to take Kobane in order to strengthen its position in northern Syria. The coalition has been bombing Islamic KOBANE, Syria: An image grab taken from a video yesterday allegedly shows IS militants State targets in Iraq since August and extended taking shooting positions in this town on the Syria-Turkey border. — AFP the campaign to Syria in September after seen as an important test for US President 2011. Islamic State, a group that espouses a rigid Barack Obama’s campaign against the Islamists. “We had the most intense clashes in days, interpretation of Islam and initially fought NATO member Turkey, whose forces are ranged perhaps a week, last night. (Islamic State) Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, made along the border overlooking Kobane, is reluc- attacked from three different sides including huge territorial gains. tant to intervene. It insists the allies should also the municipality building and the market place,” KUWAIT: Packets of Captagon pills are removed from a secret compartment in Raids on Islamic State around Kobane have confront Assad to end Syria’s civil war, which said Abdulrahman Gok, a journalist in Kobane. an oven at Kuwait airport. been stepped up, with the fate of the town has killed close to 200,000 people since March Continued on Page13 MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

His Highness the Amir and HH the Crown Prince at Seif Palace yesterday. —KUNA photos HH Sheikh Sabah with the National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. Amir receives Crown Prince, officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Abdulaziz Al-Adsani, who present- Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber ed reports about the bureau’s revi- Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace sion of the State budgets and final and Minister of Defense Sheikh yesterday HH the Crown Prince accounts of the 2013-2014 fiscal Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber year. of Information and Minister of Al-Sabah. HH the Amir also Also yesterday, HH Sheikh State for Youth Affairs Sheikh received National Assembly Nawaf received Al-Ghanem, HH Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak and Al- Al-Sabah and Minister of State for and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Adasani at Seif Palace. HH the Cabinet Affairs and Acting Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Crown Prince also received Interior Minister of Justice Sheikh Sabah. He also received Chairman Minister and Acting Minister of Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- of the State Audit Bureau Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah. — KUNA KUWAIT: HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah with Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. GCC meeting in Kuwait vital

KUWAIT: Saudi Minister Education Prince Khaled Al-Faisal has affirmed sig- nificance of the 23rd Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) education ministers’ meeting, due in Kuwait on October 21-22, particular- ly for “unifying the educa- tional process” among the council member states. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Education, in a statement Prince Khaled Al-Faisal issued yesterday, quoted the Saudi minister as saying that the planned conference would be an opportunity “to press ahead with specific strategies aimed at adopting educational issues and tack- ling latest topics in the sector.” Prince Khaled indicated the need to stay abreast of lat- est technological innovations while preserving genuine values of the GCC communities, while executing the process to revamp the key sector. He underlined importance of inter-GCC cooperation at this level, using all resources “for building a Gulf homeland with realistic immediate and future plans to enhance the GCC citizens’ intelligence.”

Legislative integration Separately, officials of fatwa and legislation depart- ments in GCC member states are convening in Kuwait to discuss proposals to expand cooperation with a view to reaching full legal and legislative integration. “The meeting of the standing committee of the GCC fat- wa and legislation departments aim to materialize GCC leaders’ vision of achieving full integration among member states in all domains as a prelude to unity,” Head of Kuwait’s Fatwa and Legislation Department Salah Al-Musaad told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth meeting of the GCC standing committee, which kicked off yesterday. He pointed out that the two-day meeting tackles a wide-array of issues relevant to the efforts exerted to unify legal and legislative terminology and procedures in the GCC states to pave the way for legislative integration. The meeting’s agenda also features issues of protecting cultural property and human heritage, compiling a book on all uni- fied GCC agreements and laws and preparing a glossary for GCC legal and legislative terminology. A workshop on laws writing and revision was held yes- terday on the sideline of the main meeting, while heads of fatwa and legislation departments are set to convene today to thoroughly discuss and approve the proposed res- olutions and recommendations. For her part, Undersecretary of Jurisprudence Section at Kuwait Fatwa and Legislation Department and Head of Kuwait’s Delegation to the GCC standing committee meet- ing Hoda Al-Shaygi said that the meeting seeks to strengthening cooperation among GCC legal bodies. It also aims to coordinate and unify the GCC stances at regional and international legal events, she said. — KUNA KAFCO forecast 100% profits rise

KUWAIT: Kuwait Aviation Fueling Company (KAFCO) predicts a 100 percent rise of profits in the current fiscal year, General Manager Ahmad Al-Mudhef announced yesterday. Its sales of aviation fuel, in the second quarter of the 2014- 2015 fiscal year, amounted to approximately 221.875 million liters compared to 194.313 million of the same period of time in 2013, with an increase of 27.562 million liters. KAFCO is projected to post record earning, during the pres- ent fiscal year, with forecast positive impact on its net profits, also predicted to jump 100 percent to reach KD 10 million, in contrast to KD five million earned the previous year, the gen- eral manager told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). These positive results are due to the staff rigorous efforts, their abidance by the set plans, he said, indicating that the diligent and hard work had prompted the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) to grant it the grand award. Mudhef added that the internationally-renowned award was granted to KAFCO in appreciation for its good and sustainable safety and professional standards and measures. KAFCO was formed on 1st July 1963, but its expansion started in the early 1970’s. —KUNA MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 LOCAL Manta Dive opens first Mideast center in Kuwait Taking diving training to another level

By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: Kuwait became the first country in the Middle East for the launch of Manta Dive, which brings international expertise to diving in the state. The launch ceremony took place on Saturday at the Movenpick Hotel and Resort Al- Bidaa. Manta Dive is introducing a new level of diving education and takes diving training to The participants on the trip another level. The company is introducing inter- national diving learning and opportunities offered by RAID and Stuart Cove Dive Bahamas Ooredoo organizes trip to enthusiasts in Kuwait. Manta Dive Kuwait CEO Alharith Al-Ateeqi said that Manta Dive is proud to bring two of the to Paris Saint-Germain world’s most famous diving enterprises to Kuwait. “We are very delighted to provide such KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait announced the a community-focused company, we at expertise to Kuwait. Many people here are pas- names of the participants in an all-paid trip Ooredoo care about enabling young peo- sionate about diving and are looking for educa- to Pairs Saint-Germain’s football club in ple and help them grow and reach their tion opportunities to grow within their field of France. The trip includes 13 participants potential. Paris Saint-Germain is one of the passion. Manta Dive brings the famous RAID from different universities and local sports- rising European football clubs, witnessing a International and Stuart Cove Dive Bahamas for clubs as well as media figures. Taking off on growing fan base in Kuwait and around the their well-known reputation in diving around the the 24th of October, the participants will region.” world,” he noted. spend four days in Paris, during which they Ooredoo extends its gratitude to all The launch ceremony was attended by the will attend a football game at the PSG’s are- organizations that helped in managing the Deputy Head of Mission and Consul at the na Parc de Princes. competition based on which the partici- Australian Embassy in Kuwait Patricia Lewis, MP Ooredoo Kuwait General Manager and pants were selected, including Kuwait Khalil Al-Saleh, Recreational Training Director of CEO Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al- University, the American University of KUWAIT: Alharith Al-Ateeqi (third from left) with the diving companies’ officials. RAID International Mark McCrum, Director of —Photo by Joseph Shagra Thani met with the participants on Kuwait, the Australian College in Kuwait, Al- Business and Marketing at RAID International Thursday at the Ooredoo Kuwait headquar- Arabi Sports Club and Al-Salmiya Sports Terrence Cummins and Business Owner of Stuart ters in Kuwait City to congratulate them on Club. Ooredoo Telecommunication Group combined and presented with the very latest Cove has worked or coordinated film projects Cove Dive Bahamas Stuart Cove, as well as VIP technology to provide unmatched quality con- for many James Bond films, including “For Your being selected for the trip. Joining the par- announced in 2012 that it will be the offi- guests and invitees. ticipants will be sports radio host Manaf cial sponsor of Paris Saint-Germain football trol scuba diver training. Stuart Cove Dive Eyes Only”, “Never Say Never Again” and “The Ashkanani, Social Media influencer Omar club until the end of the 2018 season. Bahamas is Nassau’s premier attraction featuring World is not Enough”. Other major film projects Advanced model water-based activities. Cove is a pioneer not only include “Flipper” and “Into the Blue”, plus hun- Al-Othman and the magazine of youth and Together, Ooredoo and Paris Saint-Germain RAID International is the most advanced students StudentTalk. are continuously working on launching within the Bahamas Dive Industry, but a signifi- dreds of TV projects such as being featured for training model in the world today. RAID training cant force within Hollywood, having made the 10 years-running on Discovery Channel’s Shark Commenting on the trip, Ooredoo youth-related initiatives spreading across is a culmination of years of experience gained in Kuwait CEO said: “Football is a passion that the countries in which Ooredoo operates. “Hollywood’s 100 Most Influential People” list Week. Manta Dive announced that it will open its the scuba training industry and assimilation of twice for his work in many blockbuster movies first branch in Qatar in February next year within brings together thousands of people from The programs include workshops and train- the best skill development from across the board different communities, especially youth. As ing courses on nutrition, fitness, and sports. and TV programs. its plan to expand across the Middle East. KFAED, Nicaragua, sign Women’s success $30 million loan agreement impediments in cultures: Anjeri KUWAIT: Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic President Daniel Ortega received the Fund’s Development (KFAED) signed yesterday a $30 Deputy Director General Ghanim Al- KUWAIT: During her participation in the 2nd Gulf million loan agreement with Nicaragua; the Ghunaiman, accompanied by a visiting dele- Cooperation Council (GCC) Businesswomen’s Forum first of its kind, to rehabilitate a specialized gation to the country. held in Bahrain on Oct 15-16, General Manager of hospital in the city of Chinandega, some 134 Senior Nicaraguan officials, spearheaded Leaders Group Company Nabila Al-Anjeri reviewed the kilometers northwest of the capital Managua. by President Ortega, commended the agree- basic needs for GCC women to succeed and prove reli- “This is the first loan agreement to ment as a step to further already distin- able in boosting their countries’ economies. Anjeri also Nicaragua since the establishment of diplo- guished relations between the two friendly underlined that the main impediments of GCC women’s matic relations in 1989,” Kuwait’s Ambassador countries, Ambassador Hayat noted. Bilateral success is in beliefs and culture rather than in laws and to the United Mexican States and non-resi- relations between Kuwait and Nicaragua have regulations. She also noted that GCC women had the dent to Nicaragua Sameeh Hayat said in a recently flourished, with the Latin country five basic potentials to achieve success in business - statement. opening an embassy and assigning an capital, ambition, the spirit of challenge, qualifications Nabila Al-Anjeri (fourth from left) with the participants. He made the remark after Nicaraguan ambassador in Kuwait City last year.—KUNA and taking up a suitable career. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 LOCAL No Ebola case recorded in Kuwait: Minister Stringent measures at borders

TUNIS: Kuwait is Ebola-free as no single case of tries of the region. Crime the virus has been recorded in the country, Strict anti-Ebola precautions have been taken Crime Report Minister of Health Ali Saad Al-Obaidi told KUNA in Kuwait, through collaboration among relevant Report yesterday. state bodies, especially the ministries of health Obaidi made the statement on the sidelines of and interior, at the behest of His Highness the the 61st session of the World Health Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Fugitive drives Organization’s Regional Committee for the Eastern the Minister said. off in police car Mediterranean that opened in Tunisia yesterday. This is done through the application of strin- KUWAIT: A security source said Hawally traffic officers stopped a Ebola outbreak will feature high on the WHO gent measures at border outlets, as well as the rel- person at a checkpoint who seemed to be nervous, and when they ministerial event, amid a range of important evant international health recommendations, he searched his car, they found an AK-47. When they checked his ID, health issues representing priorities for the coun- added. —KUNA Ali Al-Obaidi they found he is a wanted citizen, so they confiscated the weapon and placed the man in the backseat without searching him, then headed to the criminal detectives building. The source said that while driving to the criminal detectives building, they heard a Ministry sources deny intentions weapon being primed, so they stopped quickly and got out of the car to avoid being killed. The suspect then fired at the back window to reopen Syrian embassy and got out of it, got behind the wheel and drove off. The police car was later found in Rumaithiya. Detectives are investigating. KUWAIT: Official sources at the Foreign Ministry refuted fore allegedly demanded reopening Syrian embassies a news story published in foreign newspapers about so that they could coordinate with Syrian security Kuwait’s, Italy’s and Tunisia’s intentions to reopen Syrian forces to prevent this flow. The Syrian source also told ‘Wild party’ embassies. “This topic has not been discussed at all,” the newspaper that Italy had good relations with the Vice police arrested 23 cross-dressers and homosexu- stressed the sources. Notably, according to the pub- Syrian regime and Hezbollah and that its request fully als during a ‘wild party’ in a chalet south of the coun- lished story quoting a Syrian media source, Tunis and complies with these relations. However, observers try, as some suspects attempted to escape into the Kuwait were facing problems with growing numbers of stressed that the story was fake and totally made up for sea. A security source said vice detectives learnt about their citizens who have been flocking to IS, and there- propaganda. —Al-Anbaa the party and obtained a warrant to raid the chalet where the party was being held. The arrestees were taken to criminal detectives for further action.

Family row “You either divorce our sister, or we will kill you!” is what the broth- ers and their friends told their in-law who had differences with their sister who went to her parents’ home for help. According to lawyer Hawraa Habib, a misunderstanding took place between her client and his wife, prompting the woman to go to her family’s No injuries in house and ask for divorce. Her husband refused as the dispute can be resolved and he still wants her as his wife. Habib said that the Shuwaikh blaze husband received a call from his brother-in-law telling him that they want to resolve the problem and agreed to meet at his house, but a group of the brother’s friends came with him, so the hus- By Hanan Al-Saadoun band refused to go with them and said that the meeting should be at his home. The brothers then punched him on the head with KUWAIT: Shuwaikh Industrial Area, security sources, said brass knuckles and he had to be taken to hospital for treatment. that a large blaze broke out in a boat factory that included fiberglass and other marine equipment. The sources added that the fire devoured the 1,000 sq m factory. Patient injured Firemen from Shuwaikh Industrial Area, Shuhada and backup teams took part in fighting the fire and preventing The escape of a sick person from Farwaniya Hospital it from spreading to adjacent buildings. Except for a fire- ended with his injury after he stole a taxi which flipped man who was stressed by the heat, no other causalities over during a chase between the cabbie and the thief. A were reported. security source said that a citizen, 24, escaped from Farwaniya Hospital while under the influence of liquor. He stopped a taxi and asked its driver to take him to Multiple arrests Doha, but the driver refused, so a fight ensued between the two. The citizen then took the taxi and escaped in it, As part of the ongoing inspection campaigns to track while the taxi driver chased him with another person down and arrest outlaws and traffic violators, Mubarak until the car flipped over. The source said the cabbie Al-Kabeer recently launched an inspection campaign caught the drunk man and an ambulance was called that resulted in arresting three people wanted for and took him back to Farwaniya Hospital. KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Guard reviewed its emergency plan in preparation for the rain season. A crimes, 18 wanted for felonies, 20 residency law viola- briefing held yesterday on that regard was attended by Ministry of Public Works officials and technical staff. tors, 65 for not carrying any identification, 18 marginal laborers and 14 peddlers and dealt with 8 fights. The campaign also resulted in filing 221 traffic citations, IS info requested impounding 4 vehicles and investigating 108 accidents. KUWAIT: Following several meetings held between both countries, Saudi In a similar campaign in Ahmadi, security forces Arabia recently asked Kuwait to provide it with all information available to separately arrested 8 Asians with 80 liquor bottles in Kuwaiti security forces about IS, said security sources, noting that the Fintas, Mahboula and Mangaf. They arrested a citizen most recent meeting was during the Saudi intelligence deputy chief’s visit with drugs in Egaila, two others with drugs in to Kuwait. Security sources added that the visit aimed at exchanging Mahboula and filed 19 traffic citations, impounded 19 information about IS and that both countries have raised the level of vehicles whose drivers had been driving recklessly, security coordination to fight IS on the ground. Notably, the Saudi intelli- arrested 15 wanted people and 11 for not carrying any gence deputy chief Prince Abdul Aziz bin Bader Al-Saud had conferred identification. with Deputy PM, Minister of Interior and acting Minster of Awqaf Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled during his recent visit to Kuwait. —Al-Rai

KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Shin Boonam hosted a reception recently on the occa- sion of his countryís National Foundation Day and Armed Force Day. Government officials, diplomats and other dignitaries attended the event at Regency Hotel. —Photos by Joseph Shagra MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

In Brief Unstable weather Antiviolence campaign Unsafe regulators KUWAIT: Kuwait is expected to witness unstable KUWAIT: The government launched a national KUWAIT: The Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC) weather in the upcoming few days with chances of awareness campaign against violence and fights informed the Ministry of Commerce and Industry thunder and dust storms. Active south and south in public places, with the main goal of introduc- (MCI) to pull counterfeit pressure regulators for easterly winds are expected to raise dust and cause ing fundamental ideological changes to the soci- cooking gas cylinders that are sold in the local mar- low visibility in some areas, while dust starts to ety. The campaign comes as part of a national ket. Pressure regulators that do not match safety subside tomorrow afternoon, said Kuwait plan that is being carried out in cooperation with conditions adopted in Kuwait were discovered dur- Meteorological Department official Dr Hussein Al- 14 state departments, said Abdurrahman Al- ing recent tours carried out by KOTC inspectors. Sarraf. He added that the winds would then shift to Mutairi, Acting Assistant Undersecretary for KOTC is the only body authorized to import and sell north westerly and notable drop in temperature Development and Planning at the Ministry of pressure regulators for home use. — Al-Watan would be felt. — KUNA Youth Affairs. — Al-Rai Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A man lies down to snap a photo with his smart phone outside a watch shop in Kuwait City. — Photo by Joseph Shagra ASAR bags ‘National Law Firm of the Year’ Award Recognized for exceptional service

KUWAIT: ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners (ASAR), Kuwait’s Mr Sam Habbas- Senior Partner at ASAR noted that: leading and most prominent corporate law firm, and “It is a great honor for our firm to receive the Kuwait one of the region’s top tier firms, is pleased to announce National Law Firm of the Year Award which we have that it has for the 6th consecutive year been awarded now won for the sixth consecutive year. We are also the prestigious “National Law Firm of the Year Award” delighted to have won the “Project Finance Deal of the for 2014 presented by the International Financial Law Year Award.” These awards are a true testament to our Review (IFLR), the leading market guide for financial law firm’s commitment to excellent client service and our firms worldwide. The awards ceremony that was held consistency in advising on the most ground-breaking on 15th October 2014 at the Burj Al Arab hotel, Dubai, and innovative transactions. We intend to continue saw the attendance of partners and representatives offering cutting - edge legal counsel to our clients, from other leading GCC and international law firms. across all sectors.” Additionally, the firm further won an award for With dedicated offices in Kuwait and Bahrain cou- “Project Finance Deal of the Year 2014” with respect to pled with its associated offices and relationships, ASAR its role as legal advisor to Kuwait’s Partnership Technical provides clients across an extensive range of industry Bureau in the structuring and procurement of the Az sectors with comprehensive legal advice and support Zour North (Phase 1) independent water and power for their business activities in Kuwait, across the GCC producer (IWPP) project, which is the first IWPP project and beyond. to be undertaken as a Public Private Partnership in The firm has been consistently rated as the leading Kuwait. The project was also recognized as a highly sig- corporate and commercial law firm in Kuwait by rep- nificant one in the context of paving the way for private utable legal guides such as the Chambers Global Guide, investment in a number of other large scale infrastruc- International Financial Law Review and the Legal 500. ture projects which are currently in the pipeline in The firm also won the “Best Restructuring Deal in the Kuwait. Middle East” award by IFLR during the same year. In addition to winning the above awards, ASAR was Further, the firm won the prestigious “2014 Commercial nominated for its roles in three major restructuring Litigation Law Firm of the Year” and the “2014 Best transactions namely, The Investment Dar Restructuring Banking and Finance Legal Team -Kuwait” awards from which featured a unique and complex settlement in Acquisition International Magazine in 2014. This year, kind offer, the innovative restructuring of Zain’s $2.4 ASAR lawyers also received multiple awards under dif- Billion murabaha facility and the $10 billion restructur- ferent categories in the Fourth Edition of ‘Best Lawyers’ ing of Dubai Group. in Kuwait.

Partners receiving the Award. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest Revenues In my view Ebola and Peace is a must the prayers

By Ahmad Al-Sarraf

he Ebola virus that is widespread in West Africa is considered very dangerous, bearing in mind that By Labeed Abdal Tthe world has known it since 1976, but it became more rampant lately and took thousands of lives in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. All these nations lack the most basic of medical requirements in villages and remote areas, making the control of the spread of this virus something extremely hard. The World Health [email protected] Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced that Ebola has become “a global health hazard”, and even America he Palestinian Authority (PA) commended was not immune from it after a person infected with it arrived there. Sweden and France for their latest official Despite what is being said about the tough war Tpositions on the recognition of a Palestinian between the world and this disease, the truth is that state, stating that these ‘encouraging steps’ serve Western countries alone are concerned with eradicating the peace process. This is considered a positive it, as the number of its victims reached 4,000 lately, in change in line with calls for activating United addition to tens of thousands of infected people. WHO said the number of victims of this epidemic will reach Nations resolutions and stop neglecting resolu- more than 20,000 if it is not brought under control tions that the whole world has agreed upon. before the end of next month, while the world does not Efforts must continue to achieve success in the have any cure or vaccine against this disease. Al-Jarida peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, The strange (or normal) thing is that the only areas with full commitment from both sides to interna- that are trying to do something to find a cure for this dis- tional resolutions. The need to recognize the ease, or those who donated to affected countries where this epidemic paralyzed economies, or those who volun- kuwait digest Palestinian state goes in line with international teered to work in their hospitals as medical teams or legitimacy, especially UN Security Council resolu- Scientists oppose Suez Canal expansion tions that draw the correct path for security and

This is what we have got By Linda Gradstein

used to hear during the past gypt has begun digging to significantly expand of jellyfish. Those jellyfish are just one of the species that Both sides must focus few decades! But what will the Suez Canal to enable a larger volume of ship- came from the Red Sea. during the next round of Eping. The move has sparked protests from scien- “When there are jellyfish, tourists don’t go into the be the stand of those speak- tists who say it could devastate the marine ecosystem in water, and fishermen don’t work because they don’t negotiations on the best the area. want to get nets full of jellyfish,” she said. “That means ers and propagandists if ‘This giant project will be the creation of a new Suez there are economic implications, and in some cases, interest of their own people Canal parallel to the current channel of a total length of negative health consequences as well.” this disease or suchlike 72 kilometers (44.74 miles),’ Mohab Mamish, chairman of The scientists say that some of the species are “nox- who will live side by side as the Suez Canal Authority, told a recent news conference ious, poisonous or venomous and pose clear threats to reaches their countries. in Ismailia. human health.” neighbors He said the $8 billion project will allow ships to travel Galil said the migration of species from the Red Sea to in both directions for just over half of the 101-mile Suez the Mediterranean has already affected the quality of nurses are all from Western countries, European in par- Canal, and could increase the revenue for the country fish in the Mediterranean Sea. While shrimp from the Red stability in the whole region. ticular, and Israel! For the rest of the countries, this may from $5 billion annually to $13 billion per year by 2023, Sea are considered superior, many of the indigenous fish All countries are required to adopt the same a potential lifeline for cash-strapped Egypt. Egyptian in the Mediterranean are being wiped out and replaced be expected from almost all of them, because they have position that Sweden and France have shown, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he wanted to see the by fish that are cheaper and considered poorer quality. their own calculations, interests, tremendous problems since everyone can see the suffering that civilians and views towards matters. project finished within a year, rather than the original The scientists urge Egypt to learn from the experience But what is the excuse of most Muslim and rich Arab five-year timetable, and said the army would be in of the Panama Canal. There, engineers and scientists first from both sides are subjected to as a result of con- countries in particular, that spend hundreds of millions charge of carrying it out. conducted risk assessments. In the end they took meas- flicts they have nothing to do with. of dinars on religious satellite channels of various sects But a group of scientists headed by an Israeli woman, ures to limit the entry of various species by flooding sec- France said that establishing a Palestinian state that corrupt minds and attitudes. The answer is nothing, Dr Bella Galil, said the project could do significant dam- tions of the canal with high-salinity water that would kill that lives in peace and security side by side with of course. Rather these countries were the only ones age. off invasive species. Israel is an urgent need, and the solution that the who prayed against these countries that participated “This would shatter the remains of the ecosystem in The scientists who signed the letter are from Italy, and contributed and its citizens took risks to eradicate the entire eastern Mediterranean,” Galil, from Israel’s Spain, New Zealand, the US, Norway and the UK, along international community supports. This is a very this contagious epidemic or at least contain it. They con- National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa said. “The with Israel. They aid it is not too late to stop the environ- important confirmation from a major country and tinue to pray against them from mosques pulpits, reli- Egyptians are not doing anything to prevent this, and it mental damage from the Egyptian expansion program. a permanent member of the Security Council. The gious channels and school curricula, hoping that Allah cannot be left at this stage.” “While global trade and shipping are vital to society, international community must focus all efforts to burns the Westerners’ trees, orphans Israeli children, wid- Galil is one of 18 scientists from 12 countries who the existing international agreements also recognize the ows Danish women, dries up the wells of the Australians achieve peace based on the two-state solution. published a letter in the journal Biological Invasions call- urgent need for sustainable practices that minimize Sweden’s recognition of Palestinians’ right of and eradicates the children of New Zealand! ing on the Egyptian government to take steps to mini- unwanted impacts and long-term consequences,” the This is what we have got used to hear during the past mize the ecological damage. scientists wrote. “It is not too late for the signatories to self-determination is an example to follow in order few decades! But what will be the stand of those speak- “We do not oppose enlarging the Suez Canal,” Galil the Convention on Biological Diversity to honor their to reach peace through direct negotiations to ers and propagandists if this disease or suchlike reaches said. “We understand that this is an economic necessity. obligations and urge a regionally supervised, far-reach- achieve a serious and responsible settlement. Both their countries. Then who will come to our rescue? Is it But it should be done in a structured and correct way ing “environmental impact assessment” that would cur- not the West with its labs, doctors, nurses and volun- sides must focus during the next round of negotia- teers? Do not be shameless and stop making such according to international norms and regulations.” tail, if not prevent, an entirely new 21st century wave of tions on the best interest of their own people who prayers while we are is this medical, scientific and indus- invasions through a next-generation Suez Canal.” will live side by side as neighbors, and avoid fol- trial ineptness. Don’t most our governments feel Economic implications A spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said Thousands of species have already migrated from he was looking into whether there have been any lowing plans that come from outside. The whole ashamed for allowing those ignorants making such world meanwhile shares the duty of helping them prayers as the answer. No, of course! the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, she said. Every sum- official contacts between Israel and Egypt over the —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas mer, bathers from Israel to Syria to Turkey face a plague issue. —The Media Line to achieve accord.

Kuwait marks World Osteoporosis Day

KUWAIT: Kuwait marks today nosis and treatment of International Osteoporosis national osteoporosis patient the World Osteoporosis Day osteoporosis and metabolic Foundation (IOF) every year, societies from around the with a plethora of activities to bone disease. World Osteoporosis Day world with activities in over raise public awareness about Organized by the involves campaigns by 90 countries. —KUNA the bone disease. Osteoporosis is a progres- sive bone disease that is char- acterized by a decrease in bone mass and density which can lead to an increased risk of fracture. It is also defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a bone mineral density of 2.5 standard devia- tions or more below the mean peak bone mass (aver- age of young, healthy adults) as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; the term “established osteoporo- sis” includes the presence of a fragility fracture. The risk of osteoporosis fractures can be reduced with lifestyle changes and in those with previous osteoporosis related fractures, medications. Lifestyle change includes diet, exercise, and preventing falls. “Having sufficient amount of calcium and vitamin D whether in form of food or med- ication as well as doing exercises is of great importance in pre- venting osteoporosis,” Head of the Kuwait Osteoporosis Society Abdulnasser Al-Othman told KUNA. World Osteoporosis Day takes place every year on October 20, launching a year-long campaign dedicat- ed to raising global aware- ness of the prevention, diag- MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

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Page 10 Page 11 ‘Critical moment’ for HK protests after clashes

HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters yes- used the Internet to incite others to join the terday accused police of using excessive force Mongkok protest and to paralyse the rail- against them after violent clashes in Hong ways, Hui said. Kong, as a senior politician said weeks of ral- Talks between student protest leaders and lies have reached a “critical moment”. government officials are still set to go ahead Police blamed radical activists for stirring on Tuesday despite the clashes. But with little up trouble after dozens of officers in riot gear common ground, there are slim hopes of a pushed into a crowd of angry demonstrators breakthrough. in the Mongkok district early yesterday, strik- ing at them repeatedly with batons. Plea for retreat Twenty people were injured in a fourth China insists that candidates for the 2017 night of clashes between protesters demand- vote for Hong Kong’s leader must be ing free elections for the semi-autonomous approved by a pro-Beijing committee-a con- Chinese city, and police trying to restore traf- dition which the protesters dismiss as “fake fic to the major Mongkok thoroughfare which democracy”. they have brought to a standstill. But Hong Kong’s current leader Leung The spike in violence comes after three Chun-ying has warned that Chinese authori- weeks of largely peaceful pro-democracy ral- ties have no intention of caving in to the pro- lies and road blockades that have paralysed testers, whose rallies come as one of the key parts of the Asian financial hub. biggest challenges to Beijing’s authority since At a press conference at the Mongkok the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of camp on yesterday, organisers blasted police 1989. for a response that left some demonstrators Although the crowds have shrunk from with head wounds, fractures and bruising, their peak of tens of thousands at certain with others carried away on stretchers. times earlier in the month, protesters still “If this goes on, one day there may be occupy key roads in a city usually known for someone who loses his life or gets seriously its stability. injured-then the situation in Hong Kong will Finance secretary John Tsang said Sunday get out of control,” said activist Lam Cheuk- the protests had reached a “critical moment” ting. and urged the demonstrators to retreat. But police insisted they had used appro- “I was young before and I have taken part priate force against protesters who attempt- in various student movements,” he wrote on HING KONG: Pro-democracy demonstrators study in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong yesterday. Pro-democracy activists accused ed to charge their cordon lines, pushing back his blog. police of using excessive force against protesters after violent clashes in Hong Kong, as a senior politician said weeks of rallies have with the umbrellas that have come to sym- “Retreating is not an easy decision. It takes reached a “critical moment”. — AFP bolise Hong Kong’s democracy movement. a lot of bravery. I still believe that you can take “Activists from radical organisations as well the courage to make right decisions at this purpose.” bleeding” as well as a back fracture. pride themselves as being “Asia’s finest”, but as troublemakers are mingling with other critical moment.” The government information service said “They hit us without any reason when we their reputation has taken a battering since protesters,” said police spokesman Steve Hui. 20 people involved in protest activities had were standing behind the roadblock. I was they used tear gas against the protesters on “From time to time they plan, organise and Head injuries been injured between 10pm and 6am hit by a police stick four or five times,” said 30- September 28, with images of the chaotic direct various actions to provoke our officers Some protesters at Mongkok yesterday overnight Saturday to Sunday-but would not year-old protester Jackie, as he sat at a local street battles beamed around the world. and create chaos,” he said. wore hard hats and makeshift protective gear specify how many were demonstrators or hospital with his head bandaged and blood The latest surge in violence comes after He said four people were arrested fashioned out of household items including police, or the extent of the injuries. on his T-shirt. video footage emerged last week showing between Saturday night and Sunday morn- baby mats. Posters stuck around the camp One volunteer medic said she had seen “There was no aggressive action on our plainclothes officers beating a handcuffed ing. Also held was a 23-year-old man who read: “Calm down. Don’t forget our original four people with head injuries with “serious side.” Hong Kong’s police force traditionally protester as he lay on the ground. — AFP p8_Layout 1 10/19/14 9:40 PM Page 1

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Yemen’s Houthis dismantle Sanaa airport road camp SANAA: Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi group dis- week, risking confrontation with Sunni mantled a protest camp blocking the coun- Muslim groups, including al Qaeda mili- try’s main airport in Sanaa yesterday, tants. The group comes from the northern authorities said, but was keeping its fight- highlands and claims to champion the ers on the streets of the recently seized interests of the Shi’ite Zaydi community, capital. which makes up a fifth of Yemen’s popula- The dismantling of the encampment, tion of 25 million. which allowed traffic to move unobstruct- Houthi fighters last Tuesday were ed between the airport and the capital for deployed to the Red Sea port city of the first time in weeks, came as newly Hodeidah. Though they met little resist- appointed Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, ance at the time, on Saturday activists told Yemen’s ambassador to the United Nations, Reuters that residents had taken to the flew back home to take up his post as part streets calling on the Houthis to leave. of an agreement aimed at stabilising the A statement distributed after the conflict-prone country. protests said residents of the coastal The Houthis captured Sanaa on Sept. 21 Tihama region “rejected the presence of after weeks of anti-government protests armed militias” and vowed to resist the centering on fuel price rises. The group group. Houthi fighters also clashed with signed a power-sharing agreement with supporters of the Sunni Muslim Islah party other political parties soon afterwards, a in central Yemen on Saturday, residents and deal that was sanctioned by President Abd- local officials said, raising the spectre of a Rabbu Mansour Hadi, but this has not wider sectarian confrontation in the coun- deterred them from pushing in to other try, which shares a long border with the parts of the country. world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the power-sharing The fighting took place in the town of agreement, the Houthi group was sup- Yareem in Ibb province, and came after 15 posed to start dismantling the protest people were killed the previous day in encampment and withdraw its fighters clashes between Sunni tribesmen and from the capital once a new prime minister Houthi rebels in and around the provincial had been appointed. capital, which lies 150 km (90 miles) south The Yemeni Defence Ministry’s website of Sanaa. said yesterday that the encampment had Saturday’s clashes erupted after Houthi CAIRO: A handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) looks on as his Sudanese coun- indeed been dismantled. fighters attacked the home of a local Islah terpart Omar al-Bashir speaks during a press conference in Cairo yesterday. — AFP “The airport road has been opened after official, Ali Bdeir, residents said. The Houthi the tents were removed yesterday raid came after four members of the group (Saturday) in implementation of the part- were killed in a dawn ambush in the town. nership and peace agreement,” the website A truce appeared to be holding and resi- Turkey to oppose US said, quoting an official at the capital’s dents said that local authorities were trying municipality. “Life in neighbourhoods of to get both sides to agree to withdraw their the airport road is back to normal.” fighters from the city. But residents of Sanaa said Houthi fight- In recent weeks the group as also arms transfers to Kurds ers were still in control of the city, operat- clashed with fighters from al Qaeda, who ing checkpoints and keeping guard outside regard Shi’ites as heretics and the Houthis key ministries, commercial districts and as pawns of Iran. Leaders discuss Syria in telephone conversation diplomatic missions. As well as fighting the Shi’ite group, al Qaeda has waged a long-standing cam- SURUC: Turkey wouldn’t agree to any US arms Expanding influence paign against the Yemeni state, frequently transfers to Kurdish fighters who are battling The Houthis began expanding their attacking security officials and government Islamic militants in Syria, President Recep Tayyip influence in other parts of the country this targets. —Reuters Erdogan was quoted as saying yesterday, as the extremist group fired more mortar rounds near the Syrian-Turkish border. Turkey views the main Syrian Kurdish group, the Sinai bomb kills PYD - and its military wing which is fighting IS mili- tants - as an extension of the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is desig- 7 Egypt soldiers nated a terror group by the US and NATO. Washington has said recently that it has CAIRO: A roadside bomb killed seven Egypt. It tried to assassinate the interior min- engaged in intelligence sharing with Kurdish fight- Egyptian soldiers and wounded four in the ister in Cairo last year with a car bomb. The ers and officials have not ruled out future arms restive Sinai Peninsula yesterday, security offi- group has expressed support for Islamic State transfers to the Kurdish fighters. cials said. The bomb exploded next to an jihadists in Iraq and Syria, although it has not “The PYD is for us, equal to the PKK. It is a terror armoured vehicle guarding a gas pipeline in formally pledged its allegiance. organization,” Erdogan told a group of reporters on north Sinai, the officials said. Militants have President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the army his return from a visit to Afghanistan. killed scores of policemen and soldiers in the chief who overthrew Morsi and later won “It would be wrong for the United States - with rugged peninsula since the military over- elections, has pledged to eradicate the mili- whom we are friends and allies in NATO - to talk threw Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in tants. openly and to expect us to say ‘yes’ to such a sup- July 2013. The military has said it killed at least 22 port to a terrorist organization,” Erdogan said. His A military official said first responders militants in October, including a local Ansar comments were reported by the state-run Anadolu were still assessing the casualties. The attack Beit al-Maqdis commander. agency yesterday. Turkey’s opposition to arms came three days after a similar bombing The group itself has acknowledged the transfers to the Kurdish forces is hampering the US- ZAKHO: In this Thursday photo, a man attaches the Kurdish flag on one of the busses that will killed two policemen in the north Sinai arrest or deaths of its cadres, but so far the led coalitions’ efforts to fight the extremists and transport Syrian refugees from Kobani to the Basirma refugee camp, at the Ibrahim Khalil bor- provincial capital of El-Arish. army has been unable to quell the militants further complicating relations between Turkey and der crossing between Turkey and Iraq, in Zakho, the Northern Kurdish region of Iraq. — AP Militants killed 17 policemen in Sinai in despite a massive operation in which it has Washington. The countries are involved in negotia- two bombings in September and later deployed attack helicopters and tanks. tions about Ankara’s role with the US and NATO released footage of the attacks. The militants sometimes operate openly in allies fighting the Islamic State group, which is Those attacks were claimed by Ansar Beit north Sinai, setting up impromptu check- Haniya’s daughter received attempting to capture the strategic town Kobani al-Maqdis, the most active militant group in points and handing out leaflets.—AFP on the Syrian-Turkish border. Turkey has demanded that the coalition widen medical treatment in Israel its campaign against the militants by providing JERUSALEM: A daughter of the leader of Hamas destroyed by an Israeli air strike. greater aid to Syrian rebels, who are battling both in Gaza was admitted to an Israeli hospital for An Israeli official said he could not discuss the IS and President Bashar Assad’s forces. Turkey emergency medical treatment this month after specific medical admissions from Gaza. But he has so far provided sanctuary to an estimated she suffered complications from a routine proce- said that in most cases a request by a Palestinian 200,000 Syrians fleeing Kobani, and recently dure, two sources familiar with the case said. doctor to allow a patient across the border for agreed to train and equip moderate Syrian rebel Ismail Haniya’s daughter’s week-long admission urgent treatment was sufficient - indicating fighters trying to remove Assad from power. to a hospital in Tel Aviv - which Israeli and Haniya may not have been personally involved The White House said President Barack Obama Palestinian officials declined to confirm or deny - in his daughter’s application. During the war and spoke with Erdogan on Saturday about the situa- shows humanitarian coordination between the since it ended in late August, dozens of patients tion in Kobani and steps that could be taken to sides continues just weeks after the Gaza war from Gaza have been brought to hospitals in counter IS advances. “The two leaders pledged to ended. Israel, where the resources and technology for continue to work closely together to strengthen Haniya, who has 13 children, is the leader of advanced treatment and complicated opera- cooperation against ISIL,” a statement said, using the Islamist group in Gaza and one of its most tions are vastly better. Hamas is sworn to Israel’s another name for IS militants. senior figures overall, serving as a deputy to destruction but has voiced openness to a long- Fighting between the militants and the Kurdish Khaled Meshaal, who lives in exile. Two sources - term truce and a measure of cooperation with fighters defending Kobani continued yesterday. one Palestinian and the other a foreign diplomat Israel which, along with neighbouring Egypt, Mortar strikes hit the town, sending plumes of with knowledge of the case - declined to name controls access to the coastal enclave, home to smoke into the air. Three mortars also fell on the the daughter and, out of respect for her privacy, 1.8 million Palestinians. Israeli media has report- Turkish side of the border, landing in an open field asked that details of her condition not be pub- ed that one of Haniya’s granddaughter’s was where they caused no injuries. Yesterday, IS lished. Like many Hamas officials, Haniya spent treated in an Israeli hospital last November, appeared to be targeting the border crossing area, the seven-week-long war largely in hiding. His while his mother-in-law sought treatment in a potentially in a bid to hamper Kobani’s last link to home in the northern part of the Gaza Strip was Jerusalem hospital in June. —Reuters the outside world. —AP Half-mumbled prayers, friction at Jerusalem’s holiest site JERUSALEM: Israeli and Palestinian police kept a Under the wary gaze of police, the group was led a drive to encourage Jews to visit and pray at tight watch over the al-Aqsa mosque compound escorted around the compound, sometimes the Temple Mount, despite it being forbidden by yesterday amid high tension between Muslims appearing to mumble prayers under their breath the Torah. and Jewish visitors to the holy site and calls from as they walked. Any overt praying or efforts to His aim is to overturn agreements dating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to lower themselves to the ground were quickly back to the 1967 Middle East War, when Israel defend it by “all means”. stopped by police. seized control of the Old City of Jerusalem, Clashes have flared repeatedly in the past few As they passed in front of al-Aqsa mosque, including Temple Mount, before handing weeks as increasing numbers of Jews have visit- where clashes erupted between Israeli security responsibility for administering the site to the ed the sacred area during the Jewish holidays, forces and Palestinian protesters last week, a Islamic authorities. angering Palestinians who see this as part of an crowd of Muslim women, their heads and faces Because the area is so sacred to both Jews Israeli agenda to alter a long-preserved status covered, chanted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is and Muslims, it is frequently the source of fric- quo. The ornate marble and stone compound, Greater”) and the Palestinian police urged the tion between the communities. known as Noble Sanctuary to Muslims and Orthodox Jews to keep moving along. In 1990, Israeli forces blocked Muslim wor- Temple Mount to Jews, is the third-holiest site in “This is a provocation,” said Samy Hashlamon, shippers from accessing the compound, leading Islam and the holiest in Judaism. It contains the a Palestinian man sitting nearby under the to clashes that ultimately left 20 Palestinians 8th century al-Aqsa mosque and the golden shade of some cypress trees. “They are trying to dead and more than 100 wounded. Dome of the Rock, where the Prophet confuse us and make us nervous, but this whole A visit to al-Aqsa in 2000 by then-Israeli Mohammad (PBUH) is said to have ascended to area belongs to Muslims.” opposition leader Ariel Sharon was seen as a heaven. On a flight of steps leading up to the octago- serious provocation by Palestinians and a spark While the site is ultimately administered by nal Dome of the Rock, which sits in the middle of that helped ignite a five-year uprising or Jordanian religious authorities, Israeli and the 37-acre (15-hectare) tree-lined compound, Intifada. Palestinian police secure it. Non-Muslims are someone had spray-painted an equals sign Last week, as tensions boiled again, Israeli allowed to visit under close monitoring but are between the Jewish Star of David and a Nazi forces restricted access to the area to Muslim not allowed to pray, a prohibition at the heart of swastika. It was removed by police within min- men over the age of 50. Among the Jewish visi- the tensions. utes, but not before the Jewish visitors had seen tors on Sunday was Meyer Beck, 59, who prayed Shortly after dawn yesterday, a group of 10 and photographed it. fervently before going up to the plateau, where Orthodox Jews gathered among dozens of for- he walked barefoot in a show of humility under eign tourists to visit the site situated on a Changing the status quo the watchful eyes of police. Asked if he had plateau above the Western Wall, where the sec- In recent months, Moshe Feiglin, a far-right prayed at the site, he smiled and said he “did ond Jewish temple stood before it was member of the Israeli parliament from Prime what I can”, including reciting prayers in his destroyed in 70 AD. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, has head.— Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Storm passing dangerously close to Hawaiian island HONOLULU: Hawaii residents Three emergency shelters were watched, waited and hoped for the opened on Kauai as the National best as a powerful storm lost speed Weather Service issued a tropical but churned on a dangerously close storm warning for the island and said parallel path early yesterday, threat- the eye was coming closer that first ening to batter several islands with predicted. wind and rain. The center of Hurricane Ana was Hurricane Ana has been spinning about 120 miles south of Kauai and south of Hawaii and heading west for 125 miles southwest of Honolulu ear- several days, prompting officials to ly Sunday, the National Weather open emergency shelters, suspend Service said. flights and urge residents to be Senior forecaster Tom Birchard ready. But the precautions have come said island beaches have been buffet- against the backdrop of a threat that ed by 10- to- 15-foot surf but heavy hasn’t materialized. rains have largely held off. A tropical As Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell storm watch remained in effect on told people on the island of Oahu not Oahu but has been lifted for Maui, to let their guard down, tourists and Lanai and the Big Island. surfers at Waikiki Beach jumped into Meanwhile, the weather service the ocean to take advantage of big issued a hurricane watch for parts of waves generated as Ana passed. the remote northwestern Hawaiian ALBERMARLE: Charlottesville Police Chief, Tim Longo, wears a Find Hannah button as he and Albermarle County police Col Steve Sellers, brief the media on the discovery of remains in Albermarle County during a news conference in Charlottesville, yesterday. — AP “Every time we have a hurricane islands, saying hurricane conditions we know it’s going to be good,” Emile are possible sometime late Monday Meder, 23, said. West of Oahu, on the around the island of Nihoa in a large- smaller island of Kauai, where many ly uninhabited marine sanctuary. Remains found may be of remember the devastation of Since the tempest grew to hurri- Hurricane Iniki, which killed six peo- cane force Friday, it has moved gen- ple and destroyed more than 1,400 erally parallel to Hawaii’s islands, with missing university student homes, the threat was considered the center remaining more than 100 more serious. miles from land. “Those of us that were here during The result has been high surf, ‘Today’s discovery is a significant development’ that time remember, and so we are occasional heavy rains and strong very cautious,” Mary Daubert, a coun- winds, but no reports of significant CHARLOTTESVILLE: The weekslong search Regional Jail. publicly described Matthew in detail without ty spokeswoman, said Saturday. damage. for a missing University of Virginia student Albermarle County Police are now taking naming him, saying investigators wanted to “Until she’s passed us, we all have to The American Red Cross has talk to the “person of interest” and had appears to have come to a sad end with the over the investigation. County Police Chief remain vigilant.” closed evacuation shelters on the Big announcement by police officials that they Steve Sellers said anyone who may have seen searched his apartment because he was the The hurricane packed sustained Island, but it has opened shelters on have discovered human remains that could suspicious activity in the area or may have last person to see her. winds of 80 mph. But it has lost some Oahu. Island Air suspended its Maui be hers. seen someone who fits Matthew’s descrip- Matthew showed up at police headquar- momentum, moving along a north- and Lanai flights Saturday afternoon Further forensic tests are needed to con- tion in the area after Graham’s disappearance, ters, asked for a lawyer, and then sped away, firm whether the remains are those of 18- should contact police. according to a police account. His exit western track at just 6 mph, com- and all flights Sunday, but airports year-old Hannah Graham, but Graham’s par- “Today’s discovery is a significant develop- prompted a warrant for “reckless driving,” a pared with 14 mph earlier. remained open. — AP ents were notified of the preliminary findings, ment and we have a great deal of work ahead charge that Longo cited as he named the sus- Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo of us,” Sellers said. “We cannot and we will not pect and appealed for information from any- told a news conference Saturday, shortly after jump to any conclusions regarding today’s one who saw him with Graham the night she the discovery was made. discovery, so I ask for the public’s patience as disappeared. A volunteer search for Graham that had we move forward and pursue what is now a Matthew was arrested a few days later in been planned for yesterday has been can- new ongoing death investigation.” Galveston, Texas. celed so law enforcement can turn their Police officials Saturday afternoon had While Matthew was a fugitive in Texas, attention to the new evidence, officials from blocked the road leading to the site where Virginia police added a charge of abduction the Albemarle County Police Department the remains were found. with intent to defile, a violent felony that said. Surveillance videos captured some of under Virginia law compels suspects to sub- Longo said a search team from the what Graham did the night she vanished. mit to DNA testing. Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office found the Authorities say she met friends at a restau- Very quickly thereafter, Virginia State remains Saturday on an abandoned property rant for dinner Sept. 12 before stopping by Police announced a “forensic link” to in southern Albemarle County - the same two parties at off-campus housing units. She Harrington’s killing. That case, in turn, has region where police found the body of 20- left the second party alone and eventually been linked by DNA evidence since 2012 to year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan texted a friend saying she was lost, authori- the rape of a woman in Fairfax, Virginia, who Harrington three months after she vanished ties said. survived after a passer-by startled her attack- in 2009. She can be seen walking unsteadily and er, the FBI has said. Last month, after arresting a suspect in even running at times, past a pub and a serv- Following Matthew’s arrest, Christopher Graham’s disappearance, police said they ice station and then onto a seven-block Newport University released a statement not- found a “forensic link” between the two cases. pedestrian strip that includes the Tempo ing that he had been named in a police file Thousands of volunteers had searched for Restaurant. involving a Sept. 7, 2003 sexual assault on the the 18-year-old Graham in the weeks since Tempo Restaurant owner Brice Newport News campus. Matthew was a stu- her disappearance Sept 13. Cunningham has said Graham appeared to dent there from January 2003 through Oct. “Countless hours, thousands of hours, be incapacitated as she walked away with 15, 2003. have been spent by literally hundreds of law Matthew. Police have said they have no rea- Matthew had transferred to CNU after enforcement, civilian volunteers in an effort son to believe she and Matthew knew each three years at Liberty University, where he to find Hannah,” Longo said. “We think per- other before their encounter. also was briefly on the football team. haps today proved their worth.” Matthew, an operating room technician at When he was at Liberty University, he was Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, has been the university’s hospital who sometimes accused of raping a student on campus. That charged with abduction with intent to defile drives a taxi, had been drinking at the bar charge was dropped when the person Graham. A preliminary hearing is set for Dec. earlier that night before he encountered declined to move forward with prosecution, 4 on the charge. In the meantime, Matthew is Graham, Cunningham has said. Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney being held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville A week after Graham went missing, Longo Michael Doucette said. — AP Maduro supporters, foes stage rival protests

CARACAS: Red-clad “Chavistas” rallied in central Caracas on Saturday to protest the killing of a young ruling party lawmaker, while across town a protest called by the oppo- sition’s new leader failed to attract as big a crowd. The government says the stabbing to death of the 27- year old Robert Serra in his home earlier this month is part of a wider plot by an elitist, self-interested opposition to bring down Venezuela’s socialist experiment, created by beloved late president Hugo Chavez. “Do you know why they killed Robert Serra?,” President Nicolas Maduro said at the rally in front of a podium emblazoned with the slogan “Against terrorism”. “To silence us! The right-wing fascists are scared of young rebels, young revolutionaries,” said Maduro, clad in a yellow, blue and red Venezuelan tracksuit. Several arrests have been made in Serra’s case, includ- ing one of his bodyguards. Maduro has also blamed Colombian paramilitaries, although some media say the case looks like an inside job and Venezuelan opposition leaders deny involvement. Critics say Maduro, whose pop- ularity has slipped, is seeking to capitalize on the crime to distract from shortages of basic goods, sky-high crime rates and 60 percent annual inflation. “I’m here because I’m against the Venezuelan right’s fas- cist activities,” said Rosario Carabello, a 37 year-old employ- ee at a government scholarship foundation. Carabello wore a t-shirt with the face of Chavez among a crowd whipped up by traditional ‘joropo’ music and speeches. A few miles away in East Caracas, the Democratic Unity (MUD) opposition coalition held its first protest since sever- al months of demonstrations that petered out in May. “What Maduro has done is incentivize hate,” said Manuel Castro, a 35 year-old administrative assistant for the oppo- sition government of the state of Miranda. Castro said he cannot find diapers for his child, has been robbed several times and struggles to make ends meet because of inflation. But the opposition event only drew a couple of hundred supporters, a far cry from the thousands at the pro-govern- ment march, albeit many bused in by state vehicles. Many hardline opposition protesters are tired or demor- alized, while moderates feel demonstrations are a nuisance that fuel accusations they are coup-mongerers. “I hope people wake up,” said 18 year-old student Christopher, who was draped in a Venezuelan flag. He declined to give his last name because he said he feared repression. The MUD is seeking to regroup and drum up support after the protests, which left 43 people dead, with victims on both sides.—Reuters MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Ghana’s opposition party elects Akufo-Addo as 2016 candidate

ACCRA: Ghana’s main opposition New and a currency that has fallen sharply decline of our nation,” he said. programme to start in January that Akufo-Addo ran for president in 2008 Patriotic Party voted overwhelmingly on this year. Ghana is considered a model of would help stabilise the economy and but lost to the NDC’s John Atta Mills. He Saturday to retain Nana Akufo-Addo as “We must rid our country through the African democracy because of its peace- facilitate wider economic transforma- died unexpectedly in July 2012 and was its leader for the 2016 election, setting peace of the ballot box of the incompe- ful elections, regular changes of power tion. succeeded by his vice president up a rematch of the last poll when he tent NDC government of John Mahama and respect for the rule of law. The West Some analysts say a Fund programme Mahama, who is likely to stand at the lost narrowly to President John Mahama. and relieve the Ghanaian people of the African state has also seen years of could help rebalance the economy in next election for a second and final term. The election is also expected to be unjustifiable hardships and difficulties strong economic growth from its exports 2015 and enable the government to Akufo-Addo lost the December 2012 close given that the ruling National they are encountering,” Akufo-Addo told of gold, cocoa and oil. reassure voters come election time. poll and the party launched a protracted Democratic Congress government has a party rally in Accra. The government said this week it is Akufo-Addo, 70, secured on Saturday Supreme Court challenge, which it lost. It faced economic headwinds including ris- “We are then to form a government close to a deal with the International more than 96 percent of 126,000 votes then embarked on an internal contest to ing inflation, a stubborn budget deficit for Ghana where we will reverse the Monetary Fund for a financial assistance cast, witnesses said. select a leader. —Reuters Pope beatifies Pope Paul VI at synod closing ceremony Church should not fear change: Pope

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yes- gathering ended on Saturday vowed to change the language on prising us, opening our hearts and terday closed an assembly of night with a final document that gays, cohabitation and re-mar- guiding us in unexpected ways,” he Catholic bishops that revealed reversed a historic acceptance of riage, saying it would create confu- said. deep divisions on how to reach gays by the Church, a result some sion among the faithful and out to homosexuals and divorced progressives see as a setback for threatened to undermine the tra- ‘Hostile rigidity’ people, saying the Church should Francis. ditional family. He said the Church had “to not be afraid of change and new At the Mass, he beatified Pope Francis dedicated most of his respond courageously to whatever challenges. Paul VI, who died in 1978, bringing sermon to the synod, which tack- new challenges come our way.” He Francis, who has said he wants the pontiff best known for con- led themes such as homosexuality, spoke about courage a day after a more merciful and less rigid cluding the reforms of the Second divorce, re-marriage, and same-sex telling the bishops at their last Church, made his comments in a Vatican Council and enshrining the couples ahead of a definitive gath- working session to beware both sermon to some 70,000 people in Church’s ban on contraception a ering next October after more dis- “hostile rigidity” by doctrinal con- St. Peter’s Square for the ceremoni- step closer to sainthood. cussions at a local level around the servatives as well as “destructive al closing of a two-week assembly, After an initial draft of the syn- world. good will” by those seeking STOCKHOLM: Swedish corvette HMS Visby searching for what the military known as a synod. od’s final document was released “God is not afraid of new things. change at any cost. says is a foreign threat in the waters in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, The working session of the on Monday, conservative bishops That is why he is continuously sur- Francis called the synod, where yesterday. The Swedish armed forces stepped up a military operation off the some 200 bishops had sometimes coast of Stockholm where they were investigating a report of “foreign heated debates on issues of sexual underwater activity”. —AFP morality “a great experience” because participants were able to speak “in true freedom and hum- Mystery deepens over ble creativity”. Now, he said, “the Church is called to waste no time in seeking Russian sub in Sweden to bind up open wounds and to rekindle hope in so many people STOCKHOLM: Mystery deepened yester- lipped, but did say its focus was on “under- who have lost hope.” day over a Swedish military operation trig- water activities.” The pope, who urged the bish- gered by “foreign underwater activity” off “The Swedish Armed Forces are not in a ops to speak their minds frankly at the coast of Stockholm, amid an uncon- position to deny or verify media news or the start of the meeting, told them firmed report of a hunt for a damaged speculations recently published about a on Saturday night that he would Russian submarine. missing foreign submarine,” spokesman have been “worried and saddened” Late Saturday, Swedish armed forces Erik Lagersten said. if there had not been such honest stepped up an operation-involving more “At the moment we are conducting an discussion during the gathering. than 200 men, stealth ships, minesweepers intelligence operation in the archipelago of Voting tallies released by the and helicopters — in an area about 50 kilo- Stockholm with optical reconnaissance as Vatican showed that three contro- metres (30 miles) east of the Swedish capi- well as with naval vessels equipped with versial articles, including the final tal. The manuevers were initiated Friday qualified underwater sensors... to establish version of one of the two on gays, after the armed forces said they had been if there are or has been foreign underwater won an absolute majority but informed of a “man made object” in the activities in the area.” failed to get the two-thirds vote water. Anonymous military sources told needed for a broad consensus. Officials denied they were “submarine Svenska Dagbladet that the emergency But the pope decided to keep hunting,” calling the mobilisation-one of signal in Russian was intercepted on even the botched articles, which the biggest, barring purely training exercis- Thursday evening, and that further would have been deleted under es, since the Cold War-an “intelligence oper- encrypted signals were sent on Friday after normal synod rules, in the final ation”. Swedish armed forces began combing the document, meaning the themes Russia also denied yesterday that any of area. will be discussed locally ahead of its submarines were involved. “There have In August 2000 the Kursk, a Russian next year’s assembly. been no irregular situations and, even less nuclear submarine, sank in the Barents Sea Former Pope Benedict XVI so, accidents involving Russian naval ves- killing the entire crew of 118. Russian VATICAN: Pope Francis catches an Italian flag thrown by a pilgrim, at the end of the beatification attended the Mass, making only sels,” the Russian defence ministry said in a authorities were later criticised for refusing ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a mass celebrated for the closing of of a two-week synod on fami- his fourth public appearance at a statement. international assistance and for misleading ly issues, in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, yesterday. —AP major Church event since his resig- But the respected Swedish daily Svenska the public about the pace of their failed nation in March, 2013. —Reuters Dagbladet reported that a damaged rescue operation. Russian submarine was at the centre of the In recent months, Sweden has seen an mystery. uptick in Baltic Sea manoeuvres by the Killer in honeymoon murder trial dies Russian air force. In one incident in Emergency transmission September, two SU-24 fighter-bombers The report said that Swedish military allegedly entered Swedish airspace in what JOHANNESBURG: The man convicted for the body of Anni Dewani were found the intelligence had intercepted radio signals Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at the time the murder of a woman killed on honey- next day. between an area off the coast of Stockholm called “the most serious aerial incursion by moon in Cape Town has died, announced Mngeni, who was convicted as the man and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad- the Russians” in almost a decade. South Africa’s Department of Correctional who fired the gun that killed the 28-year- home to much of Russia’s Baltic Sea naval During the 1980s and early 90s the Services. old Swedish national, was serving a life sen- fleet. then-neutral-and now non-aligned-Nordic Xolile Mngeni, who was convicted for tence when he died. Mngeni was diagnosed “It was transmitted on a special frequen- country was regularly on alert following the murder in 2010 of Anni Dewani, died in with a brain tumor during his murder trial in cy, used by Russia in emergency situations,” Russian submarine sightings, including one a hospital unit of a Cape Town prison. 2011. The Cape Town local applied for med- the newspaper wrote, citing Swedish mili- notable case in 1981 when a Soviet U-boat ical parole in July this year but it was South African prosecutors argue that the tary sources involved in the search. ran aground several miles from one of woman’s husband, Shrien Dewani, con- denied. Sweden’s armed forces remained tight- Sweden’s largest naval base. —AFP spired with Mngeni and two other men to Earlier this month, another man convict- kill his wife. ed for the murder, Mziwamadoda Qwabe Dewani, who has pleaded not guilty to testified that he was hired by the Dewani’s charges ranging from murder to kidnap- taxi driver, Zola Tongo, to kill Anni Dewani. ping, said he and his wife were hijacked at Qwabe and Tongo are currently serving ‘Ceasefire’ in doubts after gunpoint while on a nighttime drive long prison theories for the killing. Dewani through a Cape Town township. Dewani is standing trial in South Africa after fighting attacks reported in Nigeria said he was forced out of the car and the extradition from the United Kingdom for alleged assailants drove off with his wife nearly four years. Mngeni has been a figure MAIDUGURI: Nigerian military and dent, Mallam Babagana, said yesterday. Xolile Mngeni still in the backseat of the car. The car and during the ongoing trial. —AP intelligence officials raised doubts yes- “To me, they (the militants) don’t terday about the implementation of a even care about it because they ceasefire with Boko Haram, as reports of increased their attacks from Friday, the Peace process deadlocked fresh attacks filtered out of the coun- very day the ceasefire was announced. try’s northeast. By Saturday, they hoisted their flags.” after ETA’s farewell to arms The chief of defence staff and a sen- Elsewhere, Enoch Mark, whose ior presidential aide announced on daughter and niece are among the 219 MADRID: Three years ago, Basque separatist Buesa, a Madrid university professor specialis- Friday that agreement had been schoolgirls who have been held by group ETA declared it was ending a more ing in terrorism. reached to end hostilities and the possi- Boko Haram since mid-April, said there than four-decade secessionist campaign in But “the military defeat of ETA has been ble release of more than 200 kidnapped had been another attack in neighbour- Spain but lasting peace is not exactly around confirmed over the past three years,” he said. schoolgirls. ing Adamawa state. the corner. A French expert who has written several Air Marshal Alex Badeh said he had He said the attack, in the village of The Spanish government wants the group books on ETA echoed him. “There are only instructed all armed forces’ chiefs to Wagga on Saturday, saw some 40 dissolved as a precursor to peace talks. But about 15 or 20 active ETA members on the ensure the “immediate compliance” women abducted-an established Boko ETA still exists and the logjam has prevented warpath” and not behind bars, said Jean with the development. Haram tactic in its bloody five-year western Europe’s last major armed secession- Chalvidant. But a senior army officer in the vio- insurgency. ist movement from ending in letter and spirit. In July, ETA said it has dismantled the lence-wracked northeast, who asked to On Friday, eight people were also ETA is blamed for the killing of 829 people “logistical and operational structures” of its remain anonymous, said: “Honestly, we killed on a road in the Borno state vil- in a long campaign of bombings and shoot- armed campaign in a step towards full disar- are yet to receive any operational order lage of Shaffa near where a prominent ings for an independent homeland in parts of mament. “Their fight has now moved to a on the ceasefire. Muslim leader, the Emir of Gwoza, was northern Spain and southern France. On political level,” he added. Non-violent leftist “As such, we are battle-ready and ambushed and killed by Boko Haram October 20, 2011 it declared a “definitive end” Basque nationalist parties have gained politi- would confront the terrorists if we see fighters in May. to armed activity and in February this year cal influence and increasing power through them.” Babagana said local hunters on their international monitors released a video of regional elections in the region. A senior intelligence official in the way to recover the bodies of the eight weapons which they said ETA was putting region also indicated to AFP that he had fought battles with militants on out of use. Prisoners a key hurdle not received word about the purported Saturday in Azul, also in the Hawul local But the group, which has been greatly For the moment, the biggest stumbling ceasefire. government area. weakened by the arrest of its top leaders, has block in the peace process is the thorny ques- Locals said on Saturday that dozens “The unrelenting terrorists waylaid not formally disbanded as the Spanish and tion of prisoners. of suspected Boko Haram gunmen had our members at around 9:00 am (0800 French governments demand. According to a count by pro-prisoners stormed the town of Abadam in Borno GMT) and serious fighting ensued. We Meanwhile, arrests of ETA members con- group Etxerat, there were about 470 ETA BARCELONA: A supporter of the independence of state on Thursday. lost four of our members and we killed tinue. Yesterday, Spain announced the arrest members jailed in 76 prisons, including about the Catalonia region of Spain, with an estelada or A number of residents said at least three terrorists,” he said. of suspected ETA member Alicante Nagore 100 incarcerated in France. pro independence flag painted on his face gathers 30 people were killed on Thursday and Independent corroboration of Mugica, who was detained while visiting her Madrid has notably refused to budge on in Catalonia square during a rally in Barcelona, Friday while hundreds of others were attacks in the remote northeast are jailed partner Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas. one of ETA’s most sensitive demands: the Spain, yesterday. Thousands of demonstrators forced to flee across the border into almost impossible, with communica- Iglesias Chouzas had been sentenced to return of imprisoned ETA members to the crowded a central square in Barcelona during the neighbouring Niger. tions devastated by the violence and six years prison in France in 1998 and then Basque country. ETA members have tried to “We all heard of the ceasefire over access fraught with danger. The police transferred to Spain, where he was wanted in gain concessions from the Spanish govern- main campaign event organized by two major pro independence civil society organizations ahead of the radio but it seems the insurgents and the military have largely stopped connection with 24 different cases. “The ment over prison conditions, outraging vic- are not perturbed at all,” another resi- communicating on attacks. —AFP process is deadlocked,” said analyst Mikel tims’ families. —AFP the vote scheduled for Nov 9th. —AP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Nepal rescuers find 34 more trekkers, 3 bodies

KATHMANDU: Nepalese teams yesterday to an exposed high mountain pass on the rescued 34 more trekkers and guides circuit. stranded in the Himalayas since a deadly Police have said 483 trekkers, guides snowstorm struck five days ago at the and others have been rescued since height of the hiking season, officials said. Wednesday, including 292 foreigners. Rescuers using helicopters also found Thousands of people head to the three more bodies buried on the highly Annapurna region every October, when the popular Annapurna Circuit trekking route, weather is usually clear and cool. taking the total number of those confirmed Search and rescue efforts were focused or feared dead to 40. on an area of the circuit in Manang where “Four helicopters were sent out today to two of the three bodies were found on the affected areas in Mustang, Manang and Sunday and where more were feared Dolpa. We have rescued 34 since morning,” buried, another official from the Trekking said police official Pradeep Bhattarai. Agencies’ Association of Nepal told AFP. Those rescued include 17 Nepalese, 10 “A team of experts dug through snow to Germans, five Swedes and two Australians, recover bodies of two Indians at Nar-Phu Bhattarai told AFP, without giving details of area. Ten bodies were (still) believed to be their injuries or condition. buried in that area,” said Machendra Rescuers also pressed on with their Acharya. search for bodies that they have seen from The third body was discovered in Letdar, the air but have so far been unable to higher up the circuit at 4,200 metres retrieve, said the Trekking Agencies’ (13,779 feet). The identity of the man, Association of Nepal, an industry group. dressed in monk’s clothing, was unknown, Searchers were taking advantage of he said. good weather but efforts were being ham- There have differing accounts of the pered by the fact that snow was turning to total number of dead. But according to the ice, making it difficult to retrieve trapped trekking association a total of 40 people bodies. have died. NEW DELHI: Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi (C) arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to attend the BJP Parliamentary “We are scanning areas at higher alti- Many bodies have been recovered, Board meeting in New Delhi yesterday. India’s right-wing ruling party secured strong victories in two important state elections, tightening its tude today, coordinating with local officials while others have been seen from the air grip on power after storming to power nationally five months ago. — AFP to identify areas where remaining trekkers by rescuers or described in eyewitness might be found,” said association official accounts by survivors. Ramesh Dhamala. The dead include at least 26 hikers, Indian ruling BJP makes Nepal has pledged to set up a weather guides and porters on the circuit, three yak warning system after the snowstorm herders, and five people who were climb- caught trekkers unaware as they heading ing a nearby mountain. —AFP big gains in state polls ‘We are closer to our mission of Congress-free India’

MUMBAI: India’s right-wing ruling party destroy,” Shah said after supporters placed a gar- three prime ministers, following its thumping secured strong victories yesterday in two impor- land around his neck. loss to the BJP in May after 10 years in charge tant state elections, tightening its grip on power Modi, a popular leader and fiery orator, cam- nationally. after storming to power nationally five months paigned doggedly for the elections held last Political analyst Samir Saran said the victories ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya week. The victories are likely to encourage him “allow greater space to Modi to accelerate his Janata Party (BJP) was assured of victory in to push ahead with promised economic reforms, reforms agenda”. Maharashtra, of which financial hub Mumbai is some of which could prove unpopular. “In many ways the results signify the continu- the capital, over its centre-left rival the Congress The nationalist leader won a landslide victory ing rejection of the brand of politics on offer party which ruled the western state with its win at the national polls in May on a pledge to from the Congress and its allies at the centre and allies for 15 years. revive the ailing economy and clean up endemic in the states,” Saran, senior fellow at the Celebrations erupted at BJP headquarters in corruption, but many reforms have yet to be Observer Research Foundation think-tank, told Mumbai, with supporters lighting firecrackers, introduced. AFP. “It also is confirmation of Narendra Modi as feeding each other sweets, throwing flower On the eve of the results, Modi’s government ‘the’ leader with momentum.” Despite the wins, petals and shouting “Long live Mother India!”- lifted controls on diesel prices in an attempt to the BJP is expected to fall short of a majority in although the party is likely to fall short of an give market forces greater influence over the Maharashtra and is seen as needing a partner to absolute majority. economy, attract investment and cut subsidies. form a government. The BJP won outright for the first time in Success for the BJP would also strengthen its The Hindu nationalist BJP is expected to Haryana, which borders the national capital, power in the national parliament’s upper house, mend ties with its ally of 25 years in handing the once-powerful Congress a humiliat- crucial for the passing of contentious laws. The Maharashtra, the far-right Shiv Sena, after decid- ing defeat after its 10-year rule of the state, offi- BJP currently lacks a majority in that chamber, ing to campaign alone following an acrimonious cial results showed. whose composition is based on seats won in split. ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT TREK: In this handout photograph released by the Nepal Army “We are two steps closer to our mission of a regional assemblies. “I hope that the old alliance is restored once on October 15, 2014, a Nepalese Army helicopter rescues survivors of a snow storm Congress-free India,” BJP president Amit Shah again in a crucial state like Maharashtra,” BJP vet- in Manang District, along the Annapurna Circuit Trek. Nepalese teams yesterday res- told reporters in New Delhi with a grin as vote- Modi momentum eran leader L.K. Advani told reporters, ahead of a cued 34 more trekkers and guides stranded in the Himalayas since a deadly snow- counting continued. “Today’s results show that The defeats are yet another blow for state party meeting late Sunday on the way for- storm struck five days ago at the height of the hiking season, officials said. — AFP the Modi wave is still the tsunami that can Congress, whose Gandhi dynasty has produced ward.—AFP

Two tourists missing in boat crash BANGKOK: Two tourists- believed to be from China- were missing late yesterday after their tour boat crashed into a fishing vessel between two Thai resort hubs, local police told AFP, adding sever- al others were “seriously injured”. The speedboat was carrying around 40 passen- gers-the majority apparently Chinese tourists-from the famous Phi Phi island to Phuket off the southern mainland when the crash occurred around dusk. “Eight passengers were seriously injured with two missing. We don’t know what has happened to them yet,” Police Colonel Chanucharn Chonsuwat of Phang Nga province told AFP late yester- day. “All of the 37 on board were Chinese tourists,” he said, adding the cause of the crash was as yet unknown. A conflicting report from China’s official news agency Xinhua said the two missing tourists were from South Korea, while 14 Chinese pas- sengers suffered “slight injuries”. Accidents involving boats, buses and other forms of public transport are common in Thailand, where safety standards are generally poor. Yesterday’s accident will do little to improve Thailand’s reputation as a tourist haven, which has been buffeted in recent months. Prolonged and often-violent protests in Bangkok resulted in a coup on May 22 and the introduc- tion of martial law-which is yet to be revoked. The murder of two British holidaymakers on the south- ern resort island of Koh Tao in mid-September has also raised serious fears over tourist safety. Thai authorities have come under intense criticism for their handling of the mur- der probe. In November last year six people died-half of them foreigners-when an overcrowded tourist ferry suddenly sunk near Pattaya, a beach resort two hours south of Bangkok.—AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Resignation of Japan minister over scandal seen imminent

TOKYO: In a blow to Prime Minister Japan’s first woman prime minister, office in December 2012. His previous Party, said yesterday. Controversy Shinzo Abe, Japan’s new trade and Obuchi apologised during a parliamen- stint as prime minister in 2006-2007 was “I think she will fulfil her responsibili- After her appointment, Obuchi was industry minister will resign as soon over tary grilling on Thursday over media marked by scandals among his minis- ty to make a proper explanation to given the tough task of trying to gain allegations that groups backing her mis- reports of the misuse of funds, which ters, several of whom were forced to restore the people’s trust in politics,” public trust for the government’s used political funds, Japanese media could violate electoral and political resign and one who committed suicide. Inada said during a debate program, unpopular policy of restarting nuclear said. funding laws. when asked about the possibility of reactors idled after the 2011 Fukushima Yuko Obuchi, the 40-year-old daugh- “I feel that ignorance is no excuse,” Explanation Obuchi resigning. atomic disaster. Abe had hoped the soft- ter of a former prime minister, plans to Obuchi said on Friday. On Saturday, she The Obuchi scandal comes as Abe Reports of funding irregularities spoken Obuchi would be able to ease report on her investigation of the ques- avoided saying if she would quit, telling faces a decision whether to proceed emerged on Thursday. On Saturday, opposition to nuclear power, but the tionable funding today and then submit reporters her first priority was to investi- with a planned but unpopular increase public broadcaster NHK said two Obuchi controversy could hinder the govern- her resignation to Abe, the Nikkei and gate the issue. in the sales tax, after a tax hike in April political groups spent 43 million yen ment’s plan, some political analysts say. Sankei newspapers said yesterday. The Nikkei and Kyodo News reported pushed the world’s third-largest econo- ($400,000) on annual theatre events The ruling coalition has a hefty parlia- But the Sankei said Abe’s team was that Obuchi had told people close to my into its deepest quarterly slump between 2009 and 2011 and kept no mentary majority, but the opposition considering having Obuchi make her Abe she planned to resign to take since the 2009 global financial crisis. record of spending on the 2012 event. Democratic Party has been targeting report to the prime minister yesterday, responsibility for the furore. Jiji news Support for Abe has begun to sag a Another political funds group bought new cabinet ministers in debates in not waiting for a parliamentary commit- wire said her resignation was inevitable. little, a survey at the weekend by Kyodo 3.8 million yen worth of goods from hopes of denting Abe’s popularity. tee meeting today. Abe tapped Obuchi, A METI spokesman said he was news agency showed, falling 6.8 points businesses run by her sister and brother- The Democrats on Friday filed a crimi- a telegenic mother of two, less than two unaware of any plans by Obuchi to quit. to 48.1 percent from a previous survey in in-law over the four years through 2012, nal complaint against Justice Minister months ago to head the powerful A person answering the phone at September. The scandal around Obuchi NHK said. Midori Matsushima, accusing her of vio- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Obuchi’s office in her electoral district in may have affected the rating, Kyodo Obuchi told parliament she believed lating the election law by distributing She was one of five women Abe chose in Gunma prefecture referred a reporter to said. “The minister is now investigating her supporters had paid for the theatre paper fans to voters. The party has a cabinet reshuffle in a bid to bolster his her Tokyo offices, where there was no and will make a report at the start of the events themselves but was aware it demanded that Matsushima resign. popularity by showing his commitment answer. week, so I think she will make an appro- would be a legal violation if her political Defense Minister Akinori Eto has also to promoting women. The departure would be the first priate explanation,” Tomomi Inada, poli- groups made more payments. faced questions from the opposition Regarded as a contender to become Cabinet resignation for Abe, who took cy chief of Abe’s Liberal Democratic over his political funding. — Reuters US, China look to manage differences

BOSTON: America and China’s top diplo- “candid” and went beyond a restatement of mats stressed the need to manage differ- rhetorical positions. He stressed that the ences and cooperate against global threats talks had been consultations rather than including Islamic State and Ebola, as they negotiations aimed at achieving concrete sought to warm the mood between their outcomes and the results would therefore countries ahead of a summit next month. be “incremental.” “There are many areas that the United Nevertheless, the official said, the talks States and China are cooperating on, even had been “an extremely substantive and as we have some differences that we try to productive encounter” and the informal manage effectively,” US Secretary of State atmosphere had broken with a tradition of John Kerry told reporters in Boston on heavily structured dialogue between the Saturday before a second day of talks with two countries. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi. On the Islamic State issue, the official He listed areas of cooperation ranging said China had made clear it did “not join from Afghanistan, the North Korea nuclear coalitions” but shared the same perception situation, Iran, climate change and coun- of the threat posed by the group, and the terterrorism, including the effort against two sides discussed how they could better Islamic State. coordinate their efforts. Yang said the aim of his visit was to pre- The talks also included a discussion of pare the way for a meeting between the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. On Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Monday, Kerry is to attend the inauguration President Barack Obama in Beijing on Nov. of Indonesia’s newly elected president, 12 after a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Joko Widodo, in Jakarta, where he is Economic Cooperation forum. expected to hold bilateral meetings with “We believe that we should continue to work together to deepen our mutual trust regional counterparts who share concerns and to put our efforts into major areas of about China’s territorial assertiveness in cooperation, while on the basis of mutual East Asia. respect we can properly handle any kind of Yang said it was important to cooperate difference between us,” Yang said. in the Asia-Pacific. “We need to work Shared concern about Islamic State together to build up even more coopera- PAJU: In this June 30, 2014 file photo, South Korean army soldiers patrol through the military wire fence with national flags at the Imjingak offers a rare convergence of security inter- tion between China and the United States Pavilion in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea. Border guards of the rival Koreas exchanged gunfire yesterday, along their heav- ests for Beijing and Washington, and a in the area because this is the area that has ily fortified border in the second such shootout in less than 10 days. — AP break from their more typical enmity on experienced robust economic develop- sensitive geopolitical issues, notably the ment,” he told reporters. South China Sea and matters such as cyber Analysts familiar with US thinking said spying. Kerry hosted a dinner for Yang at the talks in Boston on Islamic State would Two Koreas exchange his Boston townhouse on Friday. A senior likely include discussion of intelligence State Department official said after cooperation, including tracking militant Saturday’s talks that Kerry had raised all movements and financing. areas of US concern about China, including China has significant energy interests gunfire along border human rights, Hong Kong, the South China in Iraq and its state media has reported Sea and cyber spying. that militants from the western region of Xinjiang have sought training from South vows to float more leaflets across the border Consultations Islamic State fighters for attacks at The official said the exchanges had been home. — Reuters SEOUL: North Korean and South Korean troops two Koreas also traded gunfire along the border Koreas despite earlier hopes of easing animosi- exchanged fire yesterday along their heavily for- after South Korean activists floated balloons car- ties after a group of top North Korean officials tified border in the second such shooting in less rying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets made a rare e visit to South Korea early this than 10 days, South Korean officials said. toward the North. There were no reports of casu- month and agreed to resume senior-level talks. Ukraine rebels downed South Korean soldiers broadcast warnings alties from that incident either. Only days after the North Koreans’ visit, navy and fired warning shots at about 10 North North Korea has repeatedly demanded South ships of the two Koreas also traded gunfire near MH17 with seized missiles Korean soldiers who were approaching the mili- Korea ban activists from sending leaflets, which their disputed western sea border, the scene of tary demarcation line inside the Demilitarized often urges North Korean citizens to rise up several bloody maritime skirmishes in recent BERLIN: German intelligence has accused Schindler said Russian claims the missile Zone that bisects the Korean Peninsula, accord- against leader Kim Jong Un. South Korea has years. Military generals from the sides met at a pro-Russian rebels of shooting down a was fired by Ukrainian soldiers and that a ing to a statement from South Korea’s Joint refused, saying activists are exercising freedom border village last week in their first military Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine using Ukrainian fighter jet was flying close to the Chiefs of Staff. of speech. talks in more than three years to discuss how to missiles captured from government forces, Malaysia Airlines plane were false, accord- Two shots believed to have been fired by North Korea has warned it would take ease tensions, but the meeting ended with no a media report said yesterday. ing to Monday’s edition of Spiegel. North Korean soldiers were found at a South unspecified stronger measures if leafleting con- agreement including when to meet again. Kiev and the West have previously He also said Ukrainian photos had been Korean guard post, and South Korean soldiers tinues. South Korean activists said they won’t The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical charged that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 “manipulated”, the magazine reported but fired toward the North, the statement said. yield to the North’s threats and vowed to float state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War was blown out of the sky in July by sepa- did not elaborate on what the pictures South Korean defense officials said the North more leaflets across the border. One activists’ ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. ratist fighters using a BUK surface-to-air showed, who had provided them or altered Korean soldiers returned to the North after the group said it will send about 50,000 leaflets on About 28,500 US troops are stationed in South system supplied by Russia, charges denied them. shooting lasted for about 10 minutes. There Oct. 25. The latest fire exchanges serve as a Korea to help deter potential aggression from by Moscow. Schindler presented his findings to par- were no reports of casualties. On Oct. 10, the reminder of long-running tensions between the North Korea. —AP But the head of Germany’s BND foreign liamant’s control committee overseeing spy agency Gerhard Schindler said intelli- German intelligence work on October 8. gence indicated the rebels had captured a An initial report by Dutch investigators BUK system from a Ukrainian base and fired issued last month found that the jet was hit Marine accused in Philippine killing tests US ties a missile that exploded directly next to the by multiple “high-energy” objects but did OLONGAPO: Inside a funeral parlor, a took part in joint exercises earlier this Laude, who identified herself only as prosecutors in Olongapo in a prelimi- plane, Spiegel magazine reported. not apportion blame. Filipino mother sits and weeps next month. He and other US personnel Alexis, said the victim was a devout nary investigation. The prosecutors The Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight The Russian-made BUK works by to a coffin containing the body of her were on leave in Olongapo city when Catholic. In the house they shared, will decide if there is enough evi- crashed on July 17 as it flew over rebel-held exploding directly outside the target and daughter and demands answers. On Laude was found dead. she pointed to a Christmas tree that dence for charges to be filed in court. territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 hitting it with a massive amount of high- a hulking American assault ship American investigators have Laude had only recently erected. The US Embassy said yesterday people on board, 153 of them Dutch. velocity shrapnel. — AFP moored at a nearby port sits a man worked with local police, but have There were photos of Laude wearing that prosecutors have met with the who might have them - a US Marine not made public any details sur- a bikini on the wall. Accompanied by four witnesses. The embassy said it authorities suspect in the brutal slay- rounding the case. local police, Laude’s family filed a was up to the suspect whether to ing at a cheap hotel more than a In interviews with The Associated murder complaint Wednesday appear on Tuesday, depending on week ago. Press, Philippine police and witnesses against Pemberton with Olongapo the advice of his Philippine lawyers. “We don’t eat without praying said that Laude met Pemberton at prosecutors. Under local laws, he could be repre- first. We don’t sleep without saying a the Ambyanz, an Olongapo disco bar, On Friday, Philippine authorities sented by his lawyers at the initial prayer. Where were you when this in the late hours of Oct. 11. served a subpoena at the US hearing, but any non-appearance happened?” Julita Laude beseeched At one point, they left friends at Embassy for Pemberton and four oth- might spark more criticism about the God. “She had so many dreams and the bar and checked in at a nearby er Marines, who were sought as wit- government’s inability to gain cus- that killer destroyed them all.” motel and got a room beside the nesses, to appear tomorrow before tody of him.—AP US authorities are cooperating in reception desk. the investigation, and have ordered About 30 minutes later, the ship to stay at the Subic Bay Pemberton walked out, leaving the Freeport, about 80 kilometers (50 door ajar, according to the motel miles) northwest of Manila, until it is staff. A housekeeper entered the completed. room to find Laude’s body, partly The killing of Jennifer Laude, a 26- wrapped in bedsheet, in the bath- year-old transgender whose former room. She had apparently been name was Jeffrey, has sparked public drowned in the toilet, according to anger in the Philippines and revived a police Chief Inspector Gil Domingo. debate over the US military presence in a country seen by Washington as a Identified major ally in Southeast Asia. The Two witnesses - a friend of Laude nations signed a new accord in April who was with them at the disco and that allows greater US military access the motel housekeeper identified to Philippine military camps, part of Pemberton in a gallery of pictures Washington’s pivot back to Asia made available by US military author- where it wants to counter China’s ris- ities as the Caucasian male seen with ing might. the victim at the bar and later at the Philippine police have identified motel, said Olongapo Mayor Rolen ZAMBALES: In this Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 photo, activists hold slo- JAKARTA: Outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, left, and the suspect as US Marine Pfc. Joseph Paulino. gans during a rally near the USS Peleliu, where US Marine Pfc. Joseph President-elect Joko Widodo wave at photographers prior to a tour of the presiden- Scott Pemberton. He was one of DNA tests were being carried out Scott Pemberton is being held for allegedly killing Filipino transgen- tial palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, will thousands of American and on two condoms recovered from the der Jennifer Laude, at the Subic Bay free port, Zambales province, be inaugurated as the country’s new president today. — AP Philippines military personnel who bathroom, he said. A housemate of northern Philippines. — AP NEWS MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Oil union condemns Saudi halt of Khafji... Fiercest fighting in days hits Kobane Continued from Page1 Brigade, who are fighting alongside Kurdish fighters, had exe- Continued from Page1 therefore the whole area requires a shutdown during the cuted two Islamic State captives. “One was a child of around repairs unless the gas is flared during the entire turn- “Clashes did not stop until the morning. We have had an 15 years old. They shot them in the head,” he said. around,” the source added. In the letter, dated Oct 16 and addressed to early morning walk inside the city and have seen lots of dam- Islamic State has also used executions throughout their In another development, the National Assembly’s legal Mohammed Al-Khatib, executive director of operations of aged cars on the streets and unexploded mortar shells,” he campaigns in Syria and Iraq, killing hundreds of enemy com- and legislative committee yesterday approved a proposal KJO, Aramco’s Helal referred to non-compliance with new said. The Observatory reported two Islamic State car bombs batants and civilians who oppose their cause, according to to raise the salaries of civil servants by 25 percent of their environmental air emission standards issued recently by hit Kurdish positions on Saturday evening, leading to casual- Islamic State videos and statements. Welat Omer, a doctor car- basic salary. The decision applies only to employees who Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of Meteorology and ties. A cloud of black smoke towered over Kobane yesterday. ing for the few remaining civilians in Kobane, told Reuters by are not receiving a special pay-scale benefit and those Environment authority. “The Khafji issue is purely environ- A fighter from one of the female units of the main Syrian telephone that he was looking after 15 patients, including who will not be impacted by a planned new comprehen- mental,” said the industry source familiar with Saudi oil Kurdish militia in Kobane, YPG, said Kurdish fighters were able children and the elderly. “We need medicine, including antibi- sive pay-scale for all government employees. The commit- policy. He said Aramco and all other companies operating to detonate the car bombs before they reached their targets. otics and milk for the children, and medicine for the elderly, tee also approved proposals for salary increases to pen- in the kingdom have to comply with orders issued by “Last night there were clashes all across Kobane ... this morn- who have heart conditions, diabetes and high blood pres- sioners and servicemen and referred all proposals to the Saudi’s PME authority. ing the clashes are still ongoing,” she said, speaking on condi- sure,” Omer said. concerned committees for thorough study and approval. Other sources told Reuters an onshore gas gathering tion of anonymity. Hundreds of thousands have fled Islamic State’s advance. The financial and economic affairs committee mean- plant in Khafji needed to be repaired after a gas leak and The Observatory said 70 Islamic State fighters had been Turkey hosts about 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including while discussed the draft five year development plan with that the repairs could take around six weeks. “The killed in the past two days, according to sources at the hospi- almost 200,000 Syrian Kurds from Kobane. Ankara has refused Planning Minister Hind Al-Subaih and provided com- Kuwaitis have refused to allow a shutdown for repairs tal in the nearby town of Tel Abyab, where Islamic State bod- to rearm beleaguered Kurdish fighters, who complain they are ments about the plan. The plan proposes a number of because of their gas shortfall during the summer. This has ies are taken. Reuters cannot independently confirm the at huge disadvantage in the face of Islamic State’s weaponry, mega projects and a large number of other projects that been an escalating confrontation between Kuwait and reports due to security restrictions. The Observatory said much of it seized from the Iraqi military when the militants are expected to cost over $100 billion over the next five Saudi Arabia,” one of the sources said. “The plant gathers some Syrian Arab fighters from the Revolutionaries of Raqqa took the city of Mosul in June. — Reuters the gas from all onshore facilities in the Neutral Zone and years. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 ANALYSIS

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he powerful Dutch dairy industry is scrambling to cash in on exploding demand for whey, a Tcheese by-product once used mainly in cattle feed now turned global nutritional hit. Over the last decade whey powder, produced when milk separates into curd during the cheese-making process, has become a multi-billion-euro industry. Analysts say research has proven that whey, once the ugly step-sis- ter to its more widely-consumed sibling, cheese, is in fact one of the planet’s best sources of natural protein. From bodybuilding supplements to infant formula and fortified meals for the elderly, demand for whey has skyrocketed over the last five years, with even non-dairy companies wanting a piece of the action. And analysts predict that is likely to keep growing, UK grapples with returning jihadists driven by a taste for imported dairy products from Asia’s growing middle class and the expanding ranks of elderly around the world. Last year whey powder By Maureen Cofflard argue that the programs should be accessible to In total, between 30 and 50 Britons want to and proteins represented a global market of Ä7.6 bil- returning jihadists who might help prevent others return but fear they face jail, according to lion ($9.8 billion), up 36 percent from 2011, said Tage o you lock them up, or try to rehabilitate following in their path. researchers at the International Centre for the Affertsholt, dairy market specialist at the Danish-based 3A Business Consulting Group. them? Britain has taken a hard line on citi- Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College By 2017, the market will have expanded to Ä9 bil- Dzens returning from fighting in Syria and Fighters ‘Feel Trapped’ London, who have been contacted by one of the lion, Affertsholt predicted. The demand for whey “just Iraq, but anti-extremism groups and experts say Britain has stepped up prevention measures, jihadists speaking on the group’s behalf. Hanif keeps growing, irrespective of the relative poor per- more good might come from trying to help them. including surveillance of flights in and out of Qadir, the founder of the Active Change formance of the global economy,” he told AFP. “Some An estimated 500 Britons have travelled abroad to Istanbul - a key transit point - and by confiscating Foundation, an anti-extremism organisation, said people used to say whey is a by-product. Today cheese has become something of a by-product.” become jihadists, many with the Islamic State passports of suspected jihadists before they leave. British fighters must be given an opportunity to Investment in the whey industry since 2012 has organisation, and about half have returned, accord- Prime Minister David Cameron and his interior min- come home. “At the moment there is nothing put in topped three billion euros globally, including two bil- ing to government sources. The problem of what to ister have expressed their desire to withdraw place by the British government to allow a corridor lion euros in Europe. “At one stage whey was worth do with them faces many Western governments, British citizenship from Islamist fighters, although for them to return,” he told AFP, adding that he was pretty much nothing, only good to go into cattle feed,” but Britain, which has suffered several Islamist international human rights conventions prohibit “in discussions” with the government about how to Rabobank senior dairy analyst Kevin Bellamy told AFP. “Today, whey forms a major part of many dairy com- attacks and fears the returning fighters will wreak making a person stateless. Of the 250 or so bring people back “in a controlled way”. panies’ profits.” bloody havoc on home soil, is clear on its response. jihadists who have returned, more than 60 have Professor Peter Neumann of the ICSR has urged “ISIL is a proscribed organisation so these people been arrested and 16 have so far been charged - a compulsory program for all returning fighters, a A ‘Hot Product’ are guilty of a criminal offence,” said Defence raising questions about what has happened to the position also backed by opposition Labour leader The Dutch dairy industry, renowned for its top- Secretary Michael Fallon. “And if we can get them others. Ed Miliband. “The people we have been talking to... quality cheese, is fighting for its stake in the rapidly expanding market. The Netherlands is already one of into the courts on their return that’s what we will Contacted by AFP, Scotland Yard highlighted the want to quit but feel trapped because all the gov- Europe’s top producers of demineralised whey powder do.” The British authorities say they refer about 50 “significant increase” in arrests linked to Syria and ernment is talking about is locking them up for 30 - a key ingredient of baby formula - and Dutch compa- people a week to “de-radicalisation programs”, the prevention measures, but stayed silent on the years,” he told the Daily Telegraph. Qadir, who him- nies are investing heavily in the research and develop- where their mental health can be assessed and they returning fighters. While some jihadists are seen as self went to Afghanistan in 2002 to join a group ment of whey-based products. “All the major dairy can be offered help with issues such as housing, a threat, others become disillusioned with the reali- affiliated with Al-Qaeda before becoming disillu- companies in the world are squaring up for control of the liquid whey industry,” added Affertsholt. employment and education. These are only open to ties of fighting in Syria. According to the British sioned, says returning fighters could be an asset. “If One of the world’s largest dairy cooperatives, those who have not yet left the country, however. press, five Britons, three French, two Germans and we have a young man or a young girl that has gone FrieslandCampina, now produces over 350,000 tonnes The security services are drawing on experience two Belgians want to return home after complain- to Syria and realised and saw the truth and the of “whey dry matter” a year. “Whey is a ‘hot product’ from the war in Afghanistan, where a number of ing that they ended up fighting other rebel groups hypocrisy, I’m quite confident that they will be able that resonates with the consumer,” Fraser Tooley, western Islamists went to Kabul and some returned rather than Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s to help us to prevent other men and women from FrieslandCampina’s business developer, told AFP. FrieslandCampina has invested some Ä600 million to home to commit bloody attacks. But many experts regime. They are currently prisoners of the IS group. going abroad,” he said. —AFP improve technology, processing capacity and quality systems at its plants, including whey production. Last year, it opened an innovation centre at Wageningen University in the central Netherlands, Orban gets free rein for ‘illiberal democracy’ staffed by around 320 researchers, many focused on whey. Tooley said the centre is developing a range of new whey-enhanced products including high-protein By Eszter Zalan Orban has played a balancing utility bills or cost-cutting, of lawyers,” Kati Marton, from the fare system, like the health care products for the elderly - but declined to go into more act between the West and solving the problems of for- New York-based Committee to system, education, and cut detail. “Whey plays a core part in the company’s future resh from a third electoral Russia, criticising EU sanctions eign-currency debtors, or Protest Journalists, told AFP. bureaucracy,” he told AFP. strategy,” said Tooley. win this year, Hungary’s against Moscow over the conflict delving into currency con- “They don’t go a millimetre Economy Minister Mihaly Fcontroversial Premier in Ukraine, while gladly taking tracts,” he said recently. beyond the legally permissible. Varga has already hinted at cut- Sights Set on China Viktor Orban will have a free rein funds from Brussels. He drew flak “Hungary will not be a dicta- But they are absolutely in viola- ting public spending to 45 per- The world’s top dairy exporter, New Zealand’s in his second term to build what recently from Norway and the torship just because it won’t tion of the spirit of the EU,” she cent of gross domestic product Fonterra, is also building a huge whey processing he terms an “illiberal democracy”, United States over a probe tar- accept the liberal dogma sys- said. With no new elections due from around 50 percent - saving plant next to a cheese factory in the Netherlands’s northern Friesland province. Fonterra plans to export analysts say. After four years in geting Norwegian-funded civil tem.” until 2018, Fidesz will now have about 1.7 trillion forints ($7.0 bil- whey from there to the massive half-billion-euro office, Orban’s right-wing Fidesz lion). This could help placate the Chinese market, said Jan Willem van der Windt, the party continues to ride a wave of European Union, which has company’s European financial director. “Whey is not support, winning general elec- warned Hungary that it could available (in China) because there’s no cheese produc- tions in April, European elections return to the bloc’s budget-mon- tion. We need to source this in Europe, where the in May and local elections last itoring mechanism if it does not cheese market is,” he said. weekend. The prime minister has reduce its debt, currently at The Dutch dairy industry, which produces popular cheeses like Gouda, is therefore well-positioned to tap made no qualms about his agen- about 80 percent of GDP, fast into rising demand for imported children’s milk formu- da and has cited Russia, China enough. la among Chinese consumers, who are mistrustful of and Turkey as examples to fol- More controversially, Orban local products after several food scares. “The demand low. has repeatedly said he would like for dairy products has shot up, particularly in develop- Analysts are bracing for more to see half of the country’s banks ing countries like in Asia and in China,” said dairy ana- controversy and fresh accusa- - most of them foreign-owned - lyst Affertsholt. “You have a growing middle class, dis- tions of autocratic rule. His latest in Hungarian hands. He also enchanted with the quality of local products, who look towards countries like the Netherlands to fill the electoral win “will strengthen plans to set up a non-profit state demand, especially when it comes to products like Orban’s impression that he is an utility company next year to infant formula,” he said. omnipotent politician and that bring prices down for consumers, The popularity of whey has been further boosted by could undermine the sobriety of although this will challenge exist- a global health trend towards fortified foods and drinks, the government,” warned Peter ing participants in the market. which has seen companies like Coca-Cola and others Kreko, director of Political “The essence of the future is that bring out whey-based drinks or snack bars. —AFP Capital, a Budapest think tank. anything can happen,” Orban Since storming to power in 2010 said this summer about his plans with a constitution-changing for the rest of his term in office. two-thirds majority, the 51-year- But a small cloud looms over- All articles appearing on these old has attracted regular criti- head. Despite its latest poll victo- pages are the personal opinion of cism over his unorthodox eco- ry Fidesz has been losing sup- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no nomic policies and perceived port, analysts say. And as Orban responsibility for views expressed crackdown on the media and continues his balancing act judiciary. A photo taken on April 7, 2014 shows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a press confer- between its Western allies and therein. Kuwait Times invites read- ence in Budapest. —AFP ers to voice their opinions. Please Measures to help severely Russia, which Hungary depends send submissions via email to: opin- indebted Hungarians pay back rights groups and corruption even more room for manoeuvre on for most of its gas, there is also foreign loans have angered watchdogs that the government Reforms and Cuts especially as the left-wing oppo- a risk he will fall between both [email protected] or via snail banks, while “special taxes” have says have links to the political Despite his defiance of sition is weak, said Tamas Lanczi stools. “It’s not a sustainable mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. hit sectors typically dominated left. Brussels and foreign banks, from the Szazadveg Institute, a model to be part of Western The editor reserves the right to edit by foreign companies like ener- But Orban is unapologetic. Orban has always made sure to think tank. “Prime Minister Orban alliances and speak against their any submission as necessary. gy, retail and telecommunica- “Liberal democracy would not stay just within the confines of will use the next two years to interests,” Political Capital’s Peter tions. On the international stage, have been capable of tackling the law. “It’s a government of transform the large public wel- Kreko warned. —AFP

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 SPORTS

Vidal denies fine report Oscar happy with form Pacquiao makes MILAN: Arturo Vidal has denied reports that he has been fined by Juventus LONDON: Brazilian Oscar’s match-winning performance in Chelsea’s 2-1 away for indiscipline, describing them as “ill-intentioned”, and said he is fully com- victory over Crystal Palace on Saturday included a superb free kick and the final basketball debut mitted to the Serie A champions. pass for Cesc Fabregas’s decisive goal. MANILA: Manny Pacquiao made his professional basketball debut The Chile midfielder, who underwent keyhole surgery on his right knee Unbeaten Premier League leaders Chelsea settled the match with goals in the yesterday, just a month before he is set to defend his WBO welter- one month before playing at the World Cup, has struggled for form and fit- sixth minute of each half at Selhurst Park in south London. weight crown. ness this season. Damien Delaney gave away an early free kick close to the Palace box that Pacquiao started yesterday’s game for the newly formed KIA He was left out of the starting line-up for the top-of-the-table clash Oscar took right-footed and curled over the wall and inside the top far corner out Sorento of the Philippine Basketball Association but played only sev- against AS Roma two weeks ago amid reports that he had a late night out in of reach of the diving Julian Speroni. en minutes and committed two turnovers in his team’s 80-66 win over the run-up to the match, although coach Massimiliano Allegri said “We practise (free kicks) every day and Fabregas, Willian or I always take them the Blackwater Elite at Philippine Arena. his omission was for technical reasons. and when the time comes we decide on the spot, one, two, three and today I The boxing icon, who joined the pro league team as a player- He also missed the 1-1 draw with Sassuolo on Saturday as asked to take it,” midfielder Oscar said. coach, played in a preseason game earlier this month, fin- Allegri rested him after he played friendlies against Peru and He told Reuters there were two reasons behind who took the kick. “It depends ishing with one point and two turnovers after a 10- Bolivia in the previous 10 days. on the position (of the ball) and who’s feeling most confident, he’s the one that minute stint. “My relationship with Juventus is very good. The coach- will go and take it,” Oscar said. Pacquiao said after the game he would take a ing staff and my team mates have confidence in me and I “First I look to see where the goalkeeper is standing and decide in that break from his KIA duties to focus on the defense of have confidence in them,” said Vidal on Twitter. moment. “He was standing in the middle and I went for the top corner.” Chelsea his WBO welterweight crown on Nov. 22 in Macau “The club has never fined me. The reports about this are scored again in the 51st minute when both teams were down to 10 men after against undefeated junior welterweight champi- wrong and, in some cases, ill-intentioned. “My knee is their left back Cesar Azpilicueta and Delaney had been sent off within three min- on Chris Algieri. At 5 feet 6 inches (169 fine,” he added. “I will get back to full fitness with utes at the end of the first half. centimeters) tall, Pacquiao does not hard work and effort, having recovered from an An attack on the centre of the Palace defence started by Fabregas set up Eden have the typical stature of a basket- operation and been unable to take part in pre- Hazard to pass to Oscar who neatly laid the ball off for the Spaniard to shoot ball player, but is a big fan of the season training with my team mates. —Reuters between Speroni and his near post. —Reuters sport. — AP Rossi wins MotoGP race

PHILLIP ISLAND: Valentino Rossi of Italy Bradley Smith of Britain was third, with all won his sixth Australian Grand Prix MotoGP podium finishers on Yamahas. Another - and first since 2005 - when he claimed a British rider, Cal Crutchlow, was in line for 10-second victory over Spain’s Jorge second place before he crashed out on the Lorenzo yesterday. final lap. Crutchlow was one of nine forced The win by Rossi, who started eighth on retirements, including Marquez, Dani the grid, was his 82nd in MotoGP, or its Pedrosa, Aleix Espargaro and Pol Espargaro. predecessor the 500 cc class, the most by “I knew I had to start behind but I knew I any rider. World champion Marc Marquez had quite good pace,” said the 35-year-old of Spain, who clinched the season title last Rossi. “On the second corner I saw Marc weekend in Japan, crashed with 10 laps and Jorge in front and I was still sixth - I remaining while leading by four seconds thought ‘this will be hard’. But after I was on the 4.5-kilometer (2.7-mile) Philip Island able to overtake it was fine.” circuit. Marquez slide across the tarmac and Rossi said it was meaningful to win in to a grassy area and was not injured. again in Australia. “On one of the best and more important tracks and beautiful tracks of the season ... is a great achievement,” he said. The win gave Rossi control for second place in the championship - he now leads Lorenzo by eight points with two races remaining in Sepang, Malaysia next week- end and at Valencia, Spain on Nov. 9. After having tire problems and being overtaken by Crutchlow, Lorenzo called his finish following the British rider’s crash “the luckiest second place of my life.” “On the wrong tire, it was impossible to fight for position,” Lorenzo said. Earlier, Maverick Vinales of Spain rode his Paginas Amarillas HP 40 entry to victory in the Moto2 race while Australian Jack Miller was the Moto3 winner. Vinales finished the 25-lap Moto2 race in 39 minutes, 10.419 seconds, 1.329 seconds ahead of second-place Thomas Luthi of Switzerland, riding a Suter. NEWARK: Cory Schneider No. 35 of the New Jersey Devils saves a penalty shot by Tommy Wingels No. 57 of the San JoseSharks in the third Series leader Esteve Rabat of Spain was period at the Prudential Center. — AFP third and his Marc VDS teammate Mika Kallio fourth, giving Rabat a 41-point lead over his Finnish teammate in the series Penguins, Lightning advance championship. Miller, riding a KTM, won his 23-lap race PITTSBURGH: Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist scored the clincher for Washington. BLACKHAWKS 2, PREDATORS 1 PHILLIP ISLAND: MotoGP rider Valentino to pull to within 20 points of series leader scored power-play goals 55 seconds apart in the sec- In a matchup of backups, Peters outdueled Al Jonathan Toews scored a short-handed breakaway Rossi of Italy celebrates on the podium Alex Marquez, Marc Marquez’ younger ond period as the Pittsburgh Penguins gave the New Montoya. The Panthers have scored five goals in five goal at 3:26 of overtime to lift Chicago over Nashville. after winning the Australian MotoGP brother. Alex Marquez was second in the York Islanders their first loss of the season, 3-1 on games. Washington outshot Florida 28-21 overall. With Patrick Sharp off for tripping, Toews stole the Grand Prix at Phillip Island. — AFP Moto3 race yesterday. —AP Saturday night. puck from Nashville’s Roman Josi just inside the The Islanders (4-1) had been the Eastern RED WINGS 1, MAPLE LEAFS 0 Chicago blue line. He raced down left wing, cut to the Conference’s last unbeaten team. Hornqvist, who Henrik Zetterberg scored the lone goal 4:50 into slot and was stopped by Carter Hutton on his first assisted on Malkin’s goal, added an empty-net tally overtime to give Detroit a victory over Toronto and a shot, but Toews pushed the rebound under Hutton’s Zain main sponsor of the with 1:20 left to seal the Penguins’ win. Pittsburgh sweep of the teams’ home-and-home series. pads. Johnny Oduya scored his first goal of the season captain Sidney Crosby had two assists, including the Zetterburg streaked down the right side and sent in the first period for Chicago. Corey Crawford had 19 region’s top Motorsport 500th of his career. Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves Niklas Kronwall’s centering pass over Jonathan saves. Shea Weber scored his third goal for Nashville, in the win. Thomas Hickey staked the Islanders to a 1- Bernier’s shoulder. Jonas Gustavson made 30 saves for and Hutton stopped 35 shots. Hutton made his first 0 lead in the first period, but New York failed to post his sixth career shutout. Bernier stopped 31 shots, but start of the season in place of Pekka Rinne, who start- Activity ‘GulfRun 10’ its first 5-0 start. Jaroslav Halak stopped 35 shots. sustained his third loss of the season. ed the Predators’ first four games. KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- track of motorsport experience. Tomas Tatar almost ended the game 80 seconds LIGHTNING 4, CANUCKS 2 into overtime but his shot past a distracted Bernier FLYERS 6, STARS 5 munications company in Kuwait, Zain highlighted that its sponsor- Steven Stamkos scored two goals and added an nicked the left post. The Red Wings won 4-1 on Friday Claude Giroux scored a power-play goal 2:49 into announced its main sponsorship of ship came in light of the current pas- assist, and Ben Bishop made 30 saves as Tampa Bay night in Toronto. overtime to give Philadelphia a come-from-behind the region’s most anticipated motor- sion arousing within youth for car rac- handed Vancouver its first loss of the season. victory. Sean Couturier, Brayden Schenn, Andrew sport activity, “GulfRun 10”. The motor- ing, and by sponsoring this event the Ryan Callahan added a goal and an assist for SENATORS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 MacDonald, Jakub Voracek and Michael Raffl scored in sport event was established with a company is highlighting its dedication Tampa Bay (3-1-1), and Alex Killhorn also scored. Mike Hoffman made up for missing a penalty shot regulation for the Flyers. Giroux’s game-winner came main aim of promoting safe and to applying safety measures while Ondrej Palat had two assists. by scoring the tiebreaking goal midway through the 40 seconds after Dallas’ Trevor Daley was penalized for secure automobile racing and training driving within Kuwaiti youth. The com- Chris Higgins and Alexander Edler scored for third period to give Ottawa a win over Columbus. hooking. It was Philadelphia’s third power-play goal in within youth. The event will kick-start pany stated that its sponsorship of this Vancouver (3-1), which had 20 saves from backup David Legwand and Erik Karlsson also scored, and the game. Daley scored twice, Jason Spezza had a from December 2014 until January highly anticipated event is set to goalie Eddie Lack in his first start. The Canucks were Robin Lehner stopped 38 shots to help Ottawa earn goal and three assists, Eric Cole and Jamie Benn also the last NHL team to lose this season. Vancouver its fourth straight win after losing its opener. attract hundreds of visitors and high- scored, and Tyler Seguin had four assists for the Stars. 2015 and will involve several thrilling opened with two wins against Edmonton - including Nick Foligno and David Savard scored for the Blue Kari Lehtonen made 30 saves but fell to 0-11-2 against activities which will take place in speed cars enthusiasts, which will fur- Friday night’s road victory - and one over Calgary, but Jackets. Curtis McElhinney allowed two goals on 16 the Flyers. The Stars led 4-2 heading to the third peri- Kuwait and Bahrain. ther affirm Zain’s core commitment to ran into trouble against one of the Eastern shots before being replaced by Sergei Bobrovsky, who od, before MacDonald and Voracek scored to tie it The company stated in a press Kuwaiti youth’s various interests and Conference’s best teams. The Canucks had a home gave up one goal on 18 shots. Columbus scored two with 5:46 left in regulation. Spezza regained Dallas’ statement that the GulfRun 10 is con- activities especially that this exciting sellout streak snapped at 474 games. The previous goals 41 seconds apart in the second period to tie the lead 40 seconds later, but Raffl tied it again with 3:53 sidered an ideal alternative to the race was established by a group of non-sellout in Vancouver was Nov. 12, 2002. game. Ottawa had made it 2-0 at the 7-minute mark remaining. Kuwaiti youth. on Karlsson’s goal that was reviewed after McElhinney Additionally, the SHARKS 4, DEVILS 2 was knocked over by Nick Foligno as he made the BLUES 6, COYOTES 1 GulfRun 10 events will Logan Couture had a goal and two assists, and save and slid into the back of the net. The goal stood, Jaden Schwartz completed his first NHL hat trick involve a Karting Antti Niemi made 35 saves as San Jose topped pesky but it was the end of the night for McElhinney, who with 3 seconds to play, goalie Jake Allen was strong in New Jersey. Joe Pavelski added a goal and an assist, was injured on the play. his first NHL start in two seasons, and St. Louis domi- Endurance race, which will and Joe Thornton iced the game with an empty net nated Arizona. Jori Lehtera scored his first career goal be held at Kuwait’s SIRBB goal - his 1,200th NHL point - as the Sharks won for CANADIENS 3, AVALANCHE 2 and had two assists for the Blues. David Backes and Circuit over a straight peri- the fourth time in five games. They have earned 9 of PK Subban scored twice and Alex Galchenyuk had Alexander Steen each had a goal and an assist, and od of 24 hours during 10 points, losing only in a shootout to the New York a goal and an assist in Montreal’s victory over Vladimir Tarasenko assisted on three goals. Lauri December 2014. This race, Islanders. Patrick Marleau added a goal for Sharks. Colorado. Carey Price made 32 saves to help the Korpikoski ruined Allen’s shutout bid with 9:32 left. which comes in its 4th edi- Mike Cammalleri and Adam Henrique gave the sellout Canadiens improve to 5-1. Alex Tanguay and Matt Backes’ goal, Lehtera’s goal, and Schwartz’s first tion, has previously wit- crowd of 16,592 something to cheer about, scoring in Duchene scored for Colorado, and Calvin Pickard score came on power plays. Schwartz, who also had nessed tremendous suc- a 4:10 span to pull within New Jersey one with 7:50 to made 33 saves in his first NHL start. The Avalanche an assist, made a shot from the point just before the cess gathering many play. Niemi made the lead stand with excelling stops went 1-2-1 on their trip to drop to 1-4-1 overall. game ended. Allen finished with 24 saves. on Cammalleri, Henrique and Damien Brunner before enthusiasts of this sport The Avalanche turned to Pickard after Semyon Beleaguered goalie Mike Smith had 30 saves for Thornton scored his first of the season with 1:14 to Varlamov aggravated a groin injury and backup Reto Arizona. Smith has allowed 15 goals in his three and is expected to be as play. Cory Schneider made 28 saves for the Devils in Berra was hurt in Thursday night in a 5-3 loss to games. Allen, the AHL’s top goalie last season, made successful as the previous their home opener, including a glove stop on a penal- Ottawa. his first NHL start since April 21, 2013. — AP years. ty shot by Tommy Wingels with 3:44 left. Zain concluded that its street racing which threatens youth’s sponsorship of this much anticipated BRUINS 4, SABRES 0 NHL results/standings lives. Motorsport enthusiasts can now event stems from its utmost responsi- Niklas Svedberg made 32 saves in his first NHL showcase their talents within profes- bility of youth’s talent development shutout as Boston blanked Buffalo. It was just the third Boston 4, Buffalo 0; Montreal 3, Colorado 2; Ottawa 3, Columbus 2; Detroit 1, Toronto 0 (OT); San sional and certified circuits while gain- and the sports sector, which comes in career start for Svedberg, who replaced Tuukka Rask in Jose 4, New Jersey 2; Pittsburgh 3, NY Islanders 1; Washington 2, Florida 1 (SO); Philadelphia 6, ing professional guidance based on line with its corporate social responsi- the third period of Boston’s loss Thursday at Montreal. Dallas 5 (OT); Chicago 2, Nashville 1 (OT); St. Louis 6, Arizona 1; Tampa Bay 4, Vancouver 2. Dougie Hamilton, Zdeno Chara, Torey Krug and Carl worldwide safety procedures. Zain will bility strategy. The company will spare Soderberg scored for the Bruins (3-4). All four goals Western Conference Eastern Conference be awarding the race winners during no efforts in supporting causes and came at even strength, and three were scored against Pacific Division Atlantic Division an awards ceremony where they will initiatives that spread awareness on Buffalo’s top line. WL OTLGFGAPTS Montreal 5 1 0 20 20 10 be rewarded with valuable cash prizes. certain areas that concern the Kuwaiti Ottawa 4 1 0 14 10 8 The Sabres (1-5) were shut out in consecutive San Jose 4 0 1 20 11 9 Tampa Bay 3 1 1 17 10 7 The GulfRun 10 events will com- youth, thus leading the Kuwaiti private games for the first time since October 2003. Buffalo Anaheim 4 1 0 18 13 8 Detroit 3 1 1 11 8 7 mence with an exciting Car Show sector as a responsible Kuwaiti institu- went 0 for 7 on the power play, falling to 0 for 18 on Los Angeles 3 1 1 13 9 7 Boston 3 4 0 15 17 6 the season. Jhonas Enroth made 31 saves. The Bruins’ which will be taking place at 360 Mall, tion dedicated to advancing youth’s Vancouver 3 1 0 13 10 6 Toronto 2 3 1 15 19 5 first three goals were scored by defensemen. Florida 1 2 2 5 11 4 where participants will be showcasing talents. Calgary 3 3 0 15 16 6 their exquisite high-speed cars to thrill It is worth mentioning that GulfRun Buffalo 1 5 0 8 22 2 CAPITALS 2, PANTHERS 1 Arizona 2 2 0 13 18 4 Metropolitan Division seeking individuals. Following the car is an annual motorsport event which Washington scored on all three shots in the Edmonton 0 4 1 11 25 1 NY Islanders 4 1 0 20 15 8 show event, participants will be flying was established in 2005 by a group of shootout, and Justin Peters made 20 saves in his start Central Division Washington 3 0 2 18 11 8 over to Bahrain to take part in several Kuwaiti youth who are simply passion- Pittsburgh 3 1 0 16 10 6 this season to lift the Capitals over Florida. Nashville 3 0 2 12 8 8 training procedures in preparation to ate about automobile racing. The race Jason Chimera scored his first goal of the young Columbus 3 2 0 15 12 6 the final race at the Bahrain extinguishes itself from any other season for the Capitals (3-0-2), who improved to 10-0- Chicago 3 0 1 12 7 7 New Jersey 3 2 0 17 16 6 International Circuit. Participants will motorsport race by promoting a safe 1 in their last 11 meetings against their former divi- Dallas 2 1 2 15 17 6 Philadelphia 1 2 2 17 21 4 sion rival. Brad Boyes’ power play goal for Florida (1-3- St. Louis 2 1 1 12 6 5 NY Rangers 2 3 0 13 20 4 be able to gain valuable insights with and secure environment to race and Carolina 0 2 2 10 15 2 the help of qualified trainers and pro- train, thus - spreading awareness to 1) tied the game early in the third period. Minnesota 2 1 0 9 2 4 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one fessional instructors who have a long- limit street accidents. Each team scored on its first shootout attempt, Colorado 1 4 1 9 20 3 point in the standings and are not included in and Nicklas Backstrom then put the Capitals ahead 2- Winnipeg 1 3 0 7 11 2 the loss column (L). 1. After Peters stopped Jussi Jokinen, Alex Ovechkin MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 SPORTS Lloyd apologizes for abandoning India tour

NEW DELHI: West Indies chief selector and former captain Clive Lloyd has apologized for the national team’s abrupt withdrawal from its tour of India because of a pay dispute between its cricket board and the players’ union. “I want to talk about the West Indies,” Lloyd said at a televised cricket discussion in New Delhi on Saturday night. “I apologize for the team leaving. Some guys decided to stop this tour and I think it is a mistake.” Lloyd hoped relations between the two cricket boards would not suffer. “I did not want it to end like this. It’s unfortunate we left, and I hope the damage is not irreparable,” added Lloyd, who took charge of the selection com- mittee this year. The West Indies team abandoned the tour after the fourth one day international in BEIJING: A runner, wearing a mask to protect herself from pollutants, looks at her Dharamsala on Friday, with one more ODI, a smartphone as she and others jog past Chang’an Avenue near Tiananmen Square Twenty20 and three tests remaining. shrouded in haze at the start of 2014 Beijing International Marathon. — AP The Board of Control for Cricket in India replaced the abandoned matches with five Beijing marathoners don one-dayers against Sri Lanka next month, but still stands to lose over $50 million in revenue. face masks to battle smog The BCCI called for an emergency meeting Tuesday to decide on the issue of claiming BEIJING: Despite heavy pollution blanket- and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports, damages and raising the matter with the ing Beijing yesterday, an international said “there might be slight or moderate International Cricket Council. Its secretary marathon went ahead, with face masks and smog.” It asked competitors to take meas- Sanjay Patel also indicated the board is consid- sponges among the equipment used by ures according to their own health, and ering severing bilateral cricket ties with the competitors to battle the smog. advised the elderly and people with respi- West Indies. ST. JOHN: In this March 26, 2007 file photo, then West Indies’ team manager Clive Lloyd watch- The 34th Beijing International Marathon ratory diseases to carefully consider “The working committee members will es their players during a practice session at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. — AP began at Tiananmen Square with many of whether to participate. have a dialogue on this and after that we may cricketers would lose popularity after aban- the West Indians, who are universally popular, the tens of thousands of participants wear- But the air yesterday was deemed consider to not pursue further (Future Tours doning the tour. have not done themselves any favors by ing face masks. The 42-kilometer (26-mile) severely polluted, according to the real- Programs) with West Indies,” Patel said. “I had a “Whether it was the West Indies board, or abruptly cancelling the tour. “Hopefully reason course ended at the Chinese capital’s time monitoring of Beijing’s environmental very hectic time and this was an unprecedent- the players association, or the players them- will prevail and the West Indians get back to Olympic Park, on a day when buildings center. It was the most serious level on ed decision. We will discuss all these at the selves that were responsible is not known,” doing what they do best, that is to play cricket across the city disappeared into the gray- China’s air quality index, and came with a working committee.” Meanwhile, former India Gavaskar wrote in the Times of India, “but and bring the joie de vivre to the game that tinged mist. warning for children, the elderly and the captain Sunil Gavaskar said the West Indian cricket has suffered a blow to its image and only they can bring,” he wrote. — AP “Actually, on a normal day, nobody sick to stay indoors, and for everyone to would run in such conditions,” said partici- avoid outdoor activities. The US Embassy, pant Liu Zhenyu, a computer engineer. “But which tracks the Beijing air from a monitor- the event is happening today, so what can ing station on its roof and uses a different we do?” air quality index, said the air was haz- About 30,000 people were expected to ardous. It gave a reading of 344 micro- take part in the marathon and the half- grams per cubic meter of PM2.5 particulate marathon. The organizing committee made matter. The World Health Organization con- 140,000 sponges available at supply sta- siders 25 micrograms within a 24-hour peri- tions along the marathon route so runners od a safe level. could “clean their skin that is exposed to The marathon’s organizing committee the air,” the Beijing News reported. said late Saturday that postponing the The men’s and women’s marathon win- event would be difficult because of all the ners were both from Ethiopia. Girmay planning that had gone into it, and asked Birhanu Gebru won the men’s race in 2 competitors to understand, the Beijing hours, 10 minutes, 42 seconds, while News reported. It said 46 percent of the Fatuma Sado Dergo won the women’s in competitors had traveled from abroad and 2:30:3. “Today the smog did have a little other parts of China to take part. impact on my performance, but not a China’s pollution is notorious following major one,” said China’s Gong Lihua, who years of rapid economic development. came in third in the women’s race. Combating the problem has shot up the An update Saturday night on the official agenda of the ruling Communist Party, microblog of the marathon, which was which is under pressure from citizens who hosted by the Chinese Athletic Association are tired of breathing in smog. —-AP Chinese take Volvo Ocean Race lead ALICANTE: China’s Dongfeng Race Team broke it. It took the crew two hours to have taken a surprise lead in the Volvo replace the rudder but despite the hold- Ocean Race and even a broken rudder up they had regained the lead by the end has not halted their push toward a first- of the day and smart navigational moves leg victory in South Africa. near the Cape Verde Islands stretched China has no tradition of success in their advantage over nearest rivals, offshore racing, let alone the sport’s lead- Denmark’s Team Vestas Wind, by day- ing professional crewed event, but under break on Sunday. The race covers 38,789 the helmsmanship of French skipper nautical miles, visiting 11 ports, over Charles Caudrelier they had established a nearly nine months. It concludes on June Toyota Racing stay unbeaten at 45 nautical mile lead over their nearest 27, 2015, in Gothenburg, Sweden. rivals by 0900 GMT late yesterday. Seven teams from China, Denmark, The seven-strong fleet completed a Spain, Abu Dhabi, Turkey/U.S., the home in Six Hours of Fiji race week of the expected three weeks it will Netherlands and Sweden are competing. take to cover the 6,487 nautical miles The Swedish entry, Team SCA, boasts the between start port Alicante on Spain’s first all-female crew to take part in the DUBAI: Toyota Racing maintained its unbeat- even better than our previous victories. Many Toyota Motor Corporation who have given us Costa Blanca and Cape Town. race for 12 years. After a good start in en record on home ground with a dominant people have asked me if we feel extra pres- such great support this week.” On Saturday morning, the Chinese which they briefly took the lead, the team were rocked by a “violent impact” women have slipped back in the last two one-two victory in the Six Hours of Fuji race sure this weekend, as Fuji is our home race; Starting from pole, Sébastien in the #8 ini- when an unidentified object in the mid- days and now trail Dongfeng by some 90 which was held on October 12 during the actually we only feel extra support. So I tially slipped to third in the first corners Atlantic smashed into their rudder and nautical miles. — AP fifth round of the FIA World Endurance would like to say a big thank you to all the before hitting back and, helped by the Championship (WEC). The team scored a fans, Fuji Speedway and our colleagues from 1,000PS four-wheel-drive Toyota Hybrid third consecutive win in the event thanks to Toyota who gave us such great encourage- System - Racing, retaking the lead within the the No. 8 TS040 Hybrid of Anthony Davidson ment all weekend. Our car was the most com- opening lap. Kazuki was also involved in the Proteas seek World Cup and Sébastien Buemi, who extend their lead petitive this weekend and this is what we are battle and ultimately gained a position to in the drivers’ World Championship. edge against N Zealand A perfect day for the team saw the No. 7, winner in Fuji for the past two seasons, finish close behind in second, with Alex Wurz, WELLINGTON: South Africa opens a one- among the tournament favorites. Stéphane Sarrazin and Kazuki Nakajima at day series against New Zealand tomorrow “I wouldn’t call them dark horses, I’d say the wheel. Both cars finished one lap ahead looking to strike a psychological blow one of the favorites,” he said. “They’re of the opposition as Toyota regained the lead against the Black Caps ahead of the Cricket always a very competitive ODI team. of the manufacturers’ World Championship. World Cup early next year. Playing on their home grounds in their Its third win of the season puts the team The three-match series, which begins in country, they’ll be even more competitive.” eight points clear of the closest competitor. the North Island’s picturesque Mount The World Cup is a glaring omission from In the drivers’ standings, Anthony and Maunganui, will also give the Proteas a South Africa’s trophy cabinet and de Villiers Sébastien lead by 26 points over team-mate chance to familiarise themselves with local said the New Zealand series, and an ODI Nicolas Lapierre, who missed the Fuji race for conditions in preparation for the World Cup series in Australia next month, provided the pool matches they will play at New Zealand chance to sharpen his team’s skills for the personal reasons.According to Takayuki venues. On paper, the series should be a tournament, particularly in the field. Yoshitsugu, Chief Representative, Middle East mis-match, with South Africa ranked the “It’s turning games around, doing spe- and North Africa Representative Office, world’s second best ODI team, just behind cial stuff that I see other teams do,” he said. Toyota Motor Corporation, “The performance Australia, while New Zealand languish at “I don’t believe we are in the top two field- of the Toyota Racing team in the Six Hours of seventh. ing teams in the world and you need that Fuji race was truly impressive and I congratu- In addition, the Proteas have three bats- in a World Cup.” late the team and support staff for this great men in the ICC’s top 10 (AB de Villiers, De Villiers said the New Zealand and result. Through our participation in the World Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock), and two of Australia series would also give selectors an Endurance Championship, we have added the world’s best-ranked bowlers (Dale opportunity to assess fringe players and another dimension to our push towards for Steyn and Ryan McLaren). allow the Proteas to send a message to two Toyota hybrid vehicles. Our vehicles have New Zealand, meanwhile, have just one sides he sees as World Cup threats. enthused tens of thousands of fans - and pushing to achieve for the final three races of move into third. SÈbastien returned to the player ranked among the ODI elite in bats- “Mentally and physically, it would be a real- showed them that hybrids can be efficient - the season.” Anthony Davidson said: “It was cockpit of the #8 just before half distance man Ross Taylor, and he will miss the series ly good way for us to get on top of them yes, but fun and fast too! an absolutely perfect race and a perfect while Alex took the wheel of the #7 to contin- with a calf strain. before the World Cup starts,” he said. The TS040 Hybrid represents a great exam- weekend for everyone at Toyota Racing. That ue the TS040 Hybrid dominance. Anthony But the Blacks Caps frequently punch New Zealand fast bowler Adam Milne ple of Toyota’s pioneering development of was a great job by all the team; we had the and Kazuki returned for further stints, with above their weight in the 50-over format, will join Taylor on the sick list for the series, the most advanced hybrid technology in rac- strongest car, the right strategy and great pit Stéphane taking over the #7 in the last hour including eliminating the Proteas at the while batsman Kane Williamson will miss ing. We will utilize this knowledge and stops. First and second in our home race; it as Anthony remained in the cockpit to take quarter-final stage of the last World Cup in the first match and then undergo a fitness expertise in developing even better hybrid doesn’t get better than that. the chequered flag and a very popular one- 2011 and claiming a first-ever ODI series test. The Black Caps have called in Dean road cars to reinforce Toyota’s global leader- For the team to win here three times in a two in front of 51,000 Japanese fans over the win on South African soil last year. Brownlie and Tom Latham to bolster their Captain de Villiers said the tourists depleted batting stocks. They also welcome ship in hybrid vehicles.” On this occasion, row now is pretty special. It extends our lead weekend. Racing resumes for WEC next would not underestimate New Zealand, veteran spinner Dan Vettori back into the Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Team President said: “I am in the drivers’ World Championship and month with a hectic climax to the year, start- either in the upcoming series or the World 14-man squad after a long stint on the very proud of the team and drivers for this regains the lead in the manufacturers’, so you ing on Nov. 2 with the Six Hours of Shanghai Cup, when he believes home advantage sidelines injured, although it is not yet clear one-two finish in our home race. We have had couldn’t ask for any more as a team. So big prior to the season-closing races in Bahrain means Brendon McCullum’s men will rank whether he will play. — AFP some great days here at Fuji but this was thanks to all and especially to the guys from and Sao Paulo. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 SPORTS

Crown Prince shooting tourney concludes

KUWAIT: The HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Results of the tournament are as follows: Sabah shooting tournament con- Skeet men: cluded on Saturday in the presence Zaid Al-Mutairi, Mansour Al-Rashidi, Abdallah Al-Rashidi of his representative Hawally Trap men: Governor Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Abdelrahamn Al-Faihan, Hamad Al-Kandy, Nasser Al-Miqled Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber, Chairwoman of Double Trap men: Al-Fatat Club, Chairwoman of Hamad Al-Afasi, Hamad Al-Kandy, Saad Al-Mutairi Kuwait Society for Model Family Skeet women: Sheikha Fareeha Al-Ahmad, Afrah Adel, Fatima Al-Zaabi, Sheikha Al-Rashidi Chairwoman of Kuwait Association Trap Women: for Women Sports Sheikha Naeema Asmaa Al-Qatami, Sumaya Al-Hujail, Sarah Al-Hawal Al-Ahmad, PAYS Chairman Sheikh Air pistol 10m men: Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad, chair- Hamad Al-Namshan, Saad Nuhaiqan, Hassan Al-Mulla man of the International Council of Air Rifle 10m men: Military Sports Colonel Mohammad Adel, Khalid Al-Subaie, Abdallah Al-Harby Abdelhakeem Al-Shino, President of 50 meter rifle men: Arab and Kuwait Shooting Khalid Al-Subaie, Turky Al-Shimmary, Abdallah Al-Harby Federations Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi 50 m three position rifle: Abdallah Al-Harby, Mohammad Adel, Khalid Al-Subaie and board members. shooters, as well as shooters from ing the Asian Games, where they The tournament saw 500 shoot- 50 meter Pistol men: police, army and national guard bagged six medals. Hamad Al-Namshan, Ali Al-Mutairi, Mishal Al-Mutairi ers from the club and military asso- associations as well as Sheikh Saad Kuwait shooting appreciated the ciations compete in all Olympic dis- 25 meter Pistol women: Al-Abdullah shooting academy. major support of HH the Amir Ghizlan Hussein, Iman Bouland, Israa Bahman ciplines of clay targets, rifle and pis- He said the HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- tol as well as archery for both men Air rifle 10 m women: tournament declares the start of the Sabah and HH the Crown Prince and Zahraa Al-Saffar, Mariam Irzouqi, Duaa Al-Duwaikhi and women. Otaibi said the 2014/2015 season ‘as we recall with HH the Prime Minister to athletes in Shooting Club looked forward to HH Air pistol 10m women: pride his tremendous contribution general and shooting in particular, Huthama Al-Baghli, Ghizlan Hussein, Dana Al-Ruwaie the Crown Prince tournament, and to the sport, enabling Olympic and and ‘we are looking forward to con- this tournament witnessed the par- Olympic archery men: other major achievements’. Otaibi tinue the achievements and keep Mohammad al-Mislem, Ahmad Al-Shatti, Abdallah Taha ticipation of Gulf shooters as well as lauded the latest achievements of Kuwait’s name in prominence at all a large participation by the club’s Compound Archery men: Kuwait shooters in South Korea dur- times’, he added. Musallam Ibrahim, Ahmad Al-Shatti, Salem Al-Saeed. Ilonen clinches Volvo World Match Play title

LONDON: Mikko Ilonen of Finland pulled death playoff, but Ilonen hit a better drive off the biggest win of his career at London and approach close to the pin and Stenson Golf Club yesterday, defeating top seed shook hands after missing with his birdie Henrik Stenson of Sweden 3 and 1 in the putt. “The game plan was not to make any final of the Volvo World Match Play champi- mistakes and I didn’t make any,” said Ilonen, onship. Ilonen clinched the win, in what who won the Irish Open this summer. was the 50th anniversary of the celebrated “I definitely felt really comfortable going European PGA Tour tournament, on the into the final and I felt I had a good chance 17th green when Stenson, already 2 down, of beating him.” Stenson said that he had conceded after missing with a long birdie exceeded his own expectations just by get- putt. Setting out shortly after winning their ting to the final. morning semi-finals, the tournament’s con- “I felt I was running low on energy and I cluding tie saw some patchy play from don’t know where I found the energy to fin- both men to start with. ish this afternoon,” he said. “I didn’t play my Ilonen though was the steadier and he best and was unlucky on a couple of holes moved ahead with a birdie putt at the but all credit to him.” eighth. The Finn then took back-to-back Earlier in the day in the semi-finals holes at the 11th and 12th to move three Stenson defeated George Coetzee of South ahead. Stenson tried hard to claw his way Africa at the last while Ilonen saw off the back into it, taking the 13th and 15th holes, previously unbeaten Joost Luiten of the but Ilonen kept him at bay by winning the Netherlands 2 and 1. 14th. The Swede needed to win the last Top seed Stenson was two down early two holes to take the final into a sudden on to Coetzee, who only got into the tour- nament as a late replacement for the injured Thomas Bjorn. But as he did in the quarter-finals on Saturday against Jonas Blixt, the Ryder Cup player turned up the heat down the back nine going four under for the last six holes. MOSCOW: Sixth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia holds the He levelled the tie with a long putt at MOSCOW: Marin Cilic of Croatia kisses the winner’s cup after defeat- winner’s cup after beating Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu in the WTA the 15th and after Coetzee’s putt from the ing Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut during the Kremlin Cup. — AFP title of the Kremlin Cup. — AFP edge of the 18th green missed narrowly, Stenson sunk an 18-footer for birdie and the win. Ilonen was two up after seven holes against Luiten, but made a mess of Cilic, Anastasia win the par-three eighth to reach the turn with the slimmest of leads. Luiten bounced back again to take the lead for the first time at the 13th, but it was back to all-square after the Dutchman Kremlin Cup titles three-putted the next. Ilonen looked to be in trouble at the ASH: Mikko Ilonen of Finland holds up 15th but a superb chip and putt saw him MOSCOW: US Open champion Marin Cilic con- nail to try to break back but Cilic held his nerve Begu 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 in two hours 28 minutes. the World Match Play Championship take the lead and he finished it off at the tinued his fine season by beating fifth seeded to win his fourth ATP Tour crown this year and The women’s final got off to a nervy start that trophy as he poses for photographers 17th when another long range effort Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut in straight sets the 13th of his career. At the award ceremony produced seven breaks of serve in the opening after defeating Henrik Stenson of tipped in from the side. Luiten took third to win the Kremlin Cup in Moscow yesterday. Cilic promised to come back next year to defend set before the 30th-ranked Pavlyuchenkova Sweden in the final at the London Golf place in the afternoon by defeating The 26-year-old Croat, a career-high eighth in his title. managed to settle down. Club. — AP Coetzee at the first extra hole. — AFP the ATP rankings fired 10 aces in a 6-4, 6-4 victo- “It’s one of my career’s most important titles The Russian pocketed the set in 50 minutes ry, his first ever meeting with Bautista-Agut. Cilic because after winning a Grand Slam event you but it was Begu, playing in her fourth WTA Tour thus became the first Croat to win in the Russian lose a lot of energy and emotions and it was very final, who dominated the second set to break Fraser on top in Hong Kong capital since his coach Goran Ivanisevic took the important for me to bounce back,” Cilic said. serve twice and level the match. Kremlin Cup title in 1996. “I feel that a win here will be a serious push In the deciding set Pavlyuchenkova again HONG KONG: Australian Marcus Fraser will tournament, especially being in the mix,” he In reaching the final he also booked his spot forward for my career and very important for my moved up a gear to break twice for a command- take a one-shot lead into the final round of the said, adding that his hand feels stiff. “I had no in the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in further progress. “Today I still wasn’t able to ing 5-0 lead, taking her to the seventh title win $1.3 million Hong Kong Open, his first tourna- idea coming into the week and I’ve got no London. Second-seeded Cilic broke his rival’s serve really big bombs. I played more from the of her career. ment in eight months, after a five-under-par idea going into tomorrow. “Hopefully I’ll just serve halfway through the opening set before baseline and we had plenty of long and physical “It’s just the best possible way to finish the 65 Saturday. The 36-year-old has spent most of go out and keep playing the way I’m playing serving it out in 46 minutes. He started the sec- rallies. It was a really tough match, as I expected.” season,” Pavlyuchenkova said at the award cere- this year “sitting on the couch” after surgery for and I feel pretty comfortable out there at the ond set with an immediate break. Earlier yesterday, sixth seed Anastasia mony. “It was a really tough match. We were a hand injury but sits top of the leaderboard in moment,” he said. Els felt considerably less Bautista-Agut, 16th in the world, who was Pavlyuchenkova of Russia claimed the WTA title both fighting but somebody had to win. I just the southern Chinese city ahead of compatriot comfortable during round three at the par 70, playing his fourth career final, fought tooth and at the event by beating Romania’s Irina-Camelia couldn’t have lost at home.”— AFP Scott Hend. Four-time major winner Ernie Els- 6,699-yard course in Fanling, picking up a dou- the overnight leader-endured a difficult day ble-bogey and finishing with two bogeys in stumbling to a one-over-par 71 to lie three the last four holes. shots behind Fraser going into Sunday. The double came on the ninth when the Fraser, ranked 282 in the world, last played big South African was forced to take a penalty Murray triumphs in Vienna competitive golf in February when he was drop after hitting his tee shot into a hedge. It forced to retire from the Dubai Desert Classic was an up-and-down day for Els who enjoyed VIENNA: Andy Murray wasted no time in hop- pagne,” he hinted after beating Ferrer for the his loss at the final hurdle. “Andy played a great during the second round because of excruciat- an eagle at 13 and a birdie on the next hole ping on a jet yesterday for his next ATP event eighth time in their series. “Every event is so match and deserved to win the title,” said the ing tendonitis in his left hand. Surgery to before four missed putts derailed his round. “I in Spain after boosting his chances of making important now with the race for London going 32-year-old. “I had my chances but it was so remove bone, three months worth of injec- hit a lot of shots to the right today which cost tions and rehabilitation followed, with Fraser me and I’m struggling with a right hip. There’s a the ATP World Tour Finals by winning the strong.” tough today. I’m going to keep fighting for only able to start practising again six weeks bit of pain there,” said Els. “I also missed a cou- Austrian Open. Murray will be joined in Valencia by Ferrer London.” ago before getting back into competitive golf ple of putts but other than that I’m fine. It’s dis- The Scot claimed the 30th title of his career at the Spaniard’s home event. As during the The battling victory in two hours, 41 min- on Thursday. “No one is more surprised than I appointing but I’m still in with a chance tomor- as he defeated Spain’s David Ferrer 5-7, 6-2, 7- Vienna week, just a few computer points sepa- utes puts Murray in solid contention to book a am, that’s for sure, after eight months of sitting row. “I’ll be looking for a 63,” he added. 5, lifting the title on his Austrian debut as he rate the battling pair in the season race with London berth with next week and the Paris on the couch,” Fraser told reporters at the Els is one of five players on 8-under, includ- played his 44th career final. Murray now slightly ahead after yesterday’s Masters to follow wrapping up the regular ATP Hong Kong Golf Club. ing France’s Raphael Jacquelin and Spaniard The 27-year-old is now one of five active title. Murray’s win came a week after he lost in season. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect. To Javier Colomo who shot a round-of-the-day players with 30 trophies. Murray, who flew into three sets to Ferrer in Shanghai. “It’s the same The Scot now trails US Open finalist Kei come in and play the way I did on the back 64. Australian Hend is on his own in second Vienna on a private jet, was promising himself for both of us, we’ve had very close matches,” Nishikori and Stockholm winner Tomas nine today was pretty pleasing,” he added. place at ten-under par while South African Jbe the smallest of celebrations as he continues his said Murray. “Whoever qualifies for London will Berdych. Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Fraser-who has two European Tour wins- Kruger, Filipino Angelo Que and England’s battle to claim one of three remaining spots in deserve it.” Nadal, Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic have started with a bogey but bounced back with Mark Foster are on nine-under. The Hong the year-end showpiece in London. Ferrer was making his first Vienna appear- already qualified for London, which begins six birdies, including four on the inward half. Kong Open is a co-sanctioned European/Asian “Maybe there will be one glass of cham- ance in a decade and remains inspired despite November 9. — AFP “I’d forgotten how much fun it is to play a golf Tour event. — AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 SPORTS ISL gets off to strong start with FIFA endorsement NEW DELHI: The jury is still out on whether the chise play out a goalless draw against David but I think India is big enough to have a second eventually. I think it’s a good beginning.” Indian Super League (ISL) can wake the world’s sec- Trezeguet’s Pune on Tuesday and he liked the level sport and football is strong enough to become the Co-owned by La Liga champions Atletico ond most populous nation from its football slumber of enthusiasm. “What was nice last night is the second sport in India,” Valcke said. Madrid, the Kolkata team, with Spaniard Luis Garcia but the first week of the eight-team competition sound, it was amazing,” Valcke later said of his expe- Bankrolled by India’s Reliance Industries, Rupert as their marquee player, currently top the table hav- has at least made people sit up and take notice. rience at the capital’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Murdoch’s Star India and sports management ing won both their games so far. Some 70,000 fans thronged the Salt Lake “(I witnessed) How strong was the support of the group IMG, the ISL has welcomed former cricket The demand for ISL tickets is in stark contrast to Stadium in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata for last fans in the stadium, how they supported the teams, greats Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, as the I-League and Arthur Papas, deputy coach of the Sunday’s spectacular opening ceremony and the how they supported whenever there was a change well as current captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Goa franchise, had no hesitation in admitting it hav- social media has been abuzz with discussions about of player, how they supported Del Piero when he among the team owners. The league’s strong start ing been involved in both. “I’ve been in this country the league with celebrity owners, experienced for- came in. “That’s football. That’s when you feel yes, has fuelled fears that it might eclipse the national for two and a half years playing in national leagues eign managers and a sprinkling of high-profile play- football has its place in India. Yesterday you saw a league but the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and I-League, but I haven’t felt this sense of excite- ers. Not a bad start in a cricket-obsessed country of culture of football here.” The first week of the tour- president Praful Patel assured I-League will remain ment about a competition before,” said the 1.2 billion, which ranks an embarrassing 158th and nament has also seen packed stadiums at other the country’s only league. “I-Legaue is the league of Australian who coaches Dempo in the I-League. was described as football’s ‘sleeping giant’ by FIFA venues and the trend is expected to continue after India. This (ISL) is a tournament which brings more “That’s probably what is lacking at the I-League... president Sepp Blatter. the West Indies cricket team abruptly called off their attention and extra popularity, it’s like a booster A packed stadium will improve the product you see FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was at tour of India on Friday following their internal dis- dose,” Patel said. “I can assure you that a number of on TV all around the world, not just in India,” he hand to watch Alessandro Del Piero’s Delhi fran- pute. “It’s not a question of competing with cricket ISL clubs would also like to progress into I-League added. — Reuters Valencia stumble, Atletico grab win

MADRID: Valencia’s unbeaten start to the sea- son came crashing to an end as they were beat- en 3-0 away at struggling Deportivo la Coruna yesterday. Los Che are now tied with Atletico Madrid in fourth place after the champions beat Espanyol earlier in the day thanks to goals from Tiago and Mario Suarez. Valencia had started the weekend just two points adrift of leaders Barcelona, but never got going against a Depor side that had won just one of their first seven league games on their return to the top flight. The hosts opener came in controversial cir- cumstances, however, as Shkodran Mustafi inad- vertently turned a corner towards his own goal and despite Jose Gaya’s attempts to clear off the line the goal was given, although replays sug- gested the whole ball hadn’t crossed the line. German international Mustafi was at fault again as Depor doubled their lead six minutes later, misjudging a header as Lucas Perez scam- GERMANY: Hamburg midfielder Nicolai Muller (left) and Hoffenheim’s Norwegian pered in behind the Valencia defence before fir- midfielder Tarik Elyounoussi vie for the ball during the German First division. —AFP ing in off the far post. Valencia pushed for an equaliser after the break, but despite starting with Spanish internationals Paco Alcacer and Hoffenheim miss out on Rodrigo up front, the closest they came to get- ting back into the game was when Alcacer second spot in Hamburg struck the outside of the post 13 minutes from time. However, within a minute, Deportivo had BERLIN: Hoffenheim missed out on reclaim- midfield and scored the first double of his extended their lead as Toche took advantage of the huge space in behind the Valencia defence SPAIN: Espanyol’s JA Canas (left) and Lucas (right) duel for the ball with Atletico’s Koke during ing second place in the Bundesliga after yes- career while Germany star Mario Geotze also a Spanish La Liga soccer match. — AP terday’s 1-1 draw at strugglers Hamburg netted twice. to gallop clear on goal and slot past Yoel while leaders Bayern Munich finished the Ex-Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder Rodriguez. weekend four points clear after hammering Xabi Alonso scored the first goal of his Bayern Earlier, Atletico moved back to within five Werder Bremen. career when he drove his free-kick under the points of Barcelona thanks to goals either side of Spanish league results/standings Hoffenheim took an early lead when strik- Bremen wall on 27 minutes after Lahm gave half-time. Tiago opened the scoring with a won- er Anthony Modeste coolly slotted home in the hosts an early lead. derful looping header into the far corner from Atletico Madrid 2 (Tiago 43, Suarez 70) Espanyol 0; Deportivo la Coruna 3 (Gaya 36-og, Perez 42, the 15th minute, but hosts Hamburg, who are Thomas Mueller put the hosts 3-0 up Gabi’s cross two minutes before half-time to set- Toche 79) Valencia 0. Playing later: Elche v Sevilla, Villarreal v Almeria Playing today: Real third from bottom, hit back when Pierre- when he converted a penalty and Goetze tle the hosts’ nerves. Sociedad v Getafe Michel Lasogga showed superb finishing on made it 4-0 at the break before both he and The Portuguese midfielder then limped off 34 minutes. Lahm added second-half goals. early in the second half, making him a doubt for Spanish La Liga table after yesterday’s two early matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, Atletico’s Champions League game against The former Germany Under-21 interna- Roberto di Matteo got off to a winning goals against, points): Malmo in midweek. tional had several chances in the second-half start as Schalke 04 coach when the Royal However, his replacement Suarez had the Barcelona 8 7 1 0 22 0 22 Espanyol 8 2 3 3 9 10 9 and clipped the crossbar with 10 minutes left Blues picked up only their third win of the easy task of tapping home the second from Jose Real Madrid 8 6 0 2 30 9 18 Eibar 8 2 3 3 8 10 9 to leave Hoffenheim, Bayern, Mainz and season with a 2-0 victory at home to Hertha Gimenez’s header 20 minutes from time. Valencia 8 5 2 1 17 7 17 Granada 8 2 2 4 5 12 8 Moenchengladbach as the league’s only Berlin. “The team played the way they had to,” said Atletico Madrid 8 5 2 1 14 7 17 Getafe 7 2 1 4 4 11 7 unbeaten teams. The 44-year-old, who won the 2012 Atletico boss Diego Simeone. “We played with a Sevilla 7 5 1 1 13 8 16 Deportivo 8 2 1 5 11 19 7 The point lifts Hamburg up to 16th, while Champions League title during his eight- good tempo and with patience until the first Celta Vigo 8 3 4 1 13 11 13 Sociedad 7 1 2 4 8 11 5 Hoffenheim are third after Borussia month reign at Chelsea, is looking for his sec- goal arrived. Then, in the second half, we con- Malaga 8 3 3 2 7 8 12 Bilbao 8 1 2 5 5 12 5 Moenchengladbach moved up to second ond win when Schalke host Sporting Lisbon trolled the game.” Villarreal 7 3 2 2 10 7 11 Elche 7 1 2 4 7 16 5 on Tuesday in Europe. Simeone’s men had been beaten by an early Rayo Vallecano 8 3 2 3 11 12 11 Levante 8 1 2 5 4 20 5 Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar three-goal blitz at Valencia last time out and Almeria 7 2 3 2 7 7 9 Cordoba 8 0 4 4 5 13 4 put Schalke ahead with a long-range header they set out to make amends early on as Kiko MATCHES ON TV on 19 minutes before Germany midfielder Casilla denied Arda Turan from point-blank breakthrough just before half-time when Gabi’s penalty waved away 25 minutes from time when Julian Draxler made it 2-0 with a well-taken range before the Turkish midfielder had a goal cross to the far post was looped back across goal Christian Stuani tumbled under pressure from goal on 65 minutes. ruled out for offside. and over the helpless Casilla from Tiago. Gimenez in the box, but within 60 seconds it was English Premier League The result lifts Schalke to ninth while Casilla also turned behind a fierce drive from Sergio Garcia could have punished some Casilla who was forced into action once more as Borussia Dortmund’s horror league run con- Koke, but Atletico were thankful to their own slack defending by Atletico with the last kick of he repelled Mario Mandzukic’s low drive. West Brom FC v Man Utd 22:00 tinued as they lost 2-1 at Cologne to go five goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya moments later the half but he blasted over from a narrow angle. Atletico made the game safe on 70 minutes beIN SPORTS 4 HD Bundesliga games without a win. as he smothered Lucas Vazquez’s effort at the The champions were dealt a blow at the start as Espanyol struggled to defend a corner and It was their third defeat in a row ahead of back post. The home side continued to enjoy the of the second period as Tiago hobbled off to be Gimenez’s header across goal was tapped home Spanish League Wednesday’s Champions League clash at majority of the play, though, and made the replaced by Suarez. Espanyol had claims for a by Suarez for his first goal in two years. — AFP Galatasaray. Cologne took a 1-0 lead as mid- Real Sociedad v Getafe CF 21:45 fielder Kevin Vogt fired home on 40 minutes. beIN SPORTS 2 HD Although Dortmund striker Ciro Immobile equalised, Simon Zoller netted Cologne’s win- Honda fires up for Milan Italian Calcio League ner on 74 minutes after a mix-up in the Dortmund defence to seal their first home Genoa CFC v Empoli 21:45 victory against Borussia since 2003. The result MILAN: Japan international Keisuke Honda struck a leaders Juventus, held 1-1 at Sassuolo on Saturday, back two goals from Sampdoria,” said Sau, who now beIN SPORTS 3 HD leaves Dortmund 14th-just a point above the brace in a 3-1 win at Verona to go top of the Serie A while Roma put three unanswered goals past Chievo has three goals in seven games. beIN SPORTS 2 HD FR bottom three-while Cologne are 11th. scoring charts yesterday as AC Milan moved up to to reinforce their grip on second spot and reduce Elsewhere, Palermo moved off bottom spot after beIN SPORTS 2 FR Bayer Leverkusen, who host Zenit St fourth. Milan travelled to the Bentegodi stadium their deficit to a point. Sampdoria are three points Giancarlo Gonzalez’s precision header secured a 2-1 Petersburg in the Champions League on looking for their second successive win having behind Roma in third after they drew 2-2 at Cagliari home win for the Sicilians against Cesena. Fabio with Saturday’s 3-0 win at Hanover 96 when Wednesday, threw away a three-goal lead in accounted for another Verona-based side, Chievo, despite Manolo Gabbiadini and Spanish midfielder Quagliarella’s 62nd-minute strike was enough to Germany striker Max Kruse scored twice. their 3-3 draw at plucky VfB Stuttgart. A win two weeks ago. Pedro Obiang giving them a 2-0 interval lead. “We secure a 1-0 home win for Torino against Udinese, The weekend’s results mean first plays sec- would have seen Leverkusen go third, but the The visitors were missing injured French forward didn’t draw, we lost,” Samp coach Sinisa Mihajlovic while in Bergamo Yiadom Boakye bundled home a ond when Gladbach host Bayern Munich in draw saw them drop to sixth. Jeremy Menez, but Honda was in scintillating form. told Sky. “We can’t afford to give away points like we 90th-minute winner to secure a 1-0 win for Atalanta the league’s top game next Sunday. Leverkusen raced into a 2-0 lead after only “He’s the consummate professional and a great play- did today. “The only positive is that we’re still in third against Parma. Parma now sit bottom of Serie A with Paderborn moved up to seventh with a 3-1 nine minutes as South Korea’s Son Heung- er, I already said that back in August,” Milan coach place and still unbeaten.” Cagliari were given hope 13 six defeats and just one win in seven games. comeback win against Eintracht Frankfurt, Min scored twice and he could have had a Filippo Inzaghi told Sky Sport Italia. “He rarely misses minutes into the second half when Fabrizio Earlier, Serbian international Filip Djordjevic who dropped to eighth. hat-trick on 11 minutes when his lob hit the a scoring chance and deserves all the credit he gets.” Cacciatore saw red for a second bookable offence scored his fifth goal in three games as Lazio won 2-0 Defender Uwe Huenemeier and striker crossbar before Germany’s Karim Bellarabi Inzaghi added: “We’re happy, these were three really and defender Danilo Avelar stepped up to slam the away to misfiring Fiorentina. Stefan Kutschke put the result beyond doubt made it 3-0 at the break. important points, but we still have improvements to resulting spot-kick into the top right-hand corner of Lazio sit sixth, seven points off top spot, with after Marvin Ducksch’s stunning volley put But Stuttgart battled back as midfielder make especially in defence.” Emiliano Viviano’s net. The pressure on Cagliari coach Fiorentina in ninth place, 10 points off the pace. Inter Paderborn level after Frankfurt captain Alex Timo Werner and left-back Florian Klein Milan were given a helping hand in the 21st Zdenek Zeman eased somewhat when Marco Sau Milan will look to get back to winning ways following Meier gave the guests a first-half lead. scored second-half goals before Martin minute when Brazilian Rafael Marques, one half of a fired a late leveller after superbly controlling Avelar’s two heavy defeats when they host Napoli in yester- Pep Guardiola’s Bayern maintained their Harnik headed Stuttgart level on 76 minutes centre-back pairing which also included Mexican quickfire pass into the area. “It wasn’t easy to claw day’s late clash at the San Siro. — AFP stranglehold on the Bundesliga with their when he was left unmarked at the far post-by international Rafa Marquez, skewed a volley into his fifth straight victory on Saturday in a 6-0 rout Son. VfL Wolfsburg went fifth with a 2-1 win own net from Ignazio Abate’s cross from the right. “It of bottom side Bremen in Munich. at Freiburg as midfielder Daniel Caligiuri can happen to anyone,” said Verona coach Andrea Italian league results/standings The Bavarians warmed up for Tuesday’s scored twice against his old club, while Mainz Mandorlini. Milan were 2-0 up six minutes later when Champions League clash at Roma as captain are joint third with Hoffenheim after their 2-1 Stephan El Shaarawy, given a rare start on the left of a Fiorentina 0 Lazio 2 (Djordjevic 35, Lulic 90+2); Atalanta 1 (Boakye 90) Parma 0; Cagliari 2 (Avelar 59-pen, Sau Philipp Lahm moved up into the defensive win at home to Augsburg. — AFP three-man forward line spearheaded by Spaniard 77) Sampdoria 2 (Gabbiadini 28, Obiang 38); Verona 1 (Lopez 87) Milan 3 (Marques 21-og, Honda 27, 56); Fernando Torres, found Honda in space on the right Palermo 2 (Dybala 33, Gonzalez 90+1) Cesena 1 (Rodriguez 61-pen); Torino 1 (Quagliarella 62) Udinese 0. with a long ball from midfield. Honda had time to run unmarked towards goal before curling a first-time Italian Serie A table ahead of yesterday’s late game (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals German league results/standings shot past Verona ‘keeper Rafael. against, points): Verona striker Luca Toni came close to reducing Playing later Played Saturday Hamburg 1 (Lasogga 34) Hoffenheim 1 (Modeste 15); Paderborn 3 (Ducksch 66, the arrears with an acrobatic effort minutes later but Inter v Napoli Roma 3 (Destro 4, Ljajic 25, Totti 33-pen) Huenemeier 79, Kutschke 85) Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Meier 57). Christian Abbiati pulled off a remarkable save to parry Playing today Chievo 0; Sassuolo 1 (Zaza 13) Juventus 1 at his near post. Abbiati was at full stretch again just Genoa v Empoli (Pogba 19), German Bundesliga table after yesterday evening’s match (played, won, drawn, lost, after the half hour to push away Bosko Jankovic’s goals for, goals against, points): header. If Verona’s defence had been conspicuously Juventus 7 6 1 0 14 3 19 Genoa 6 2 2 2 6 6 8 Bayern Munich 8 6 2 0 21 2 20 Hanover 96 8 3 1 4 5 11 10 absent at Honda’s first goal, they were even more so Roma 7 6 0 1 14 4 18 Torino 7 2 2 3 5 7 8 M’gladbach 8 4 4 0 12 4 16 Cologne 8 2 3 3 6 7 9 10 minutes after the restart when the Japan interna- Sampdoria 7 4 3 0 9 4 15 Atalanta 7 2 1 4 3 8 7 Hoffenheim 8 3 5 0 12 7 14 Augsburg 8 3 0 5 9 11 9 tional was left in acres of space. AC Milan 7 4 2 1 16 10 14 Empoli 6 1 3 2 8 8 6 Mainz 05 8 3 5 0 12 7 14 Hertha Berlin 8 2 2 4 11 16 8 French defender Adil Rami fired a low pass from Udinese 7 4 1 2 9 6 13 Cesena 7 1 3 3 6 12 6 VfL Wolfsburg 8 4 2 2 13 9 14 B Dortmund 8 2 1 5 10 14 7 just over the halfway line and Honda ran in practically Lazio 7 4 0 3 13 7 12 Palermo 7 1 3 3 8 15 6 Leverkusen 8 3 4 1 16 14 13 VfB Stuttgart 8 1 3 4 9 15 6 unhindered to dink another left-footed shot over Verona 7 3 2 2 7 8 11 Cagliari 7 1 2 4 9 11 5 Paderborn 8 3 3 2 13 11 12 Hamburg 8 1 3 4 3 9 6 Rafael. Verona grabbed a late consolation when Nico Napoli 6 3 1 2 8 7 10 Chievo 7 1 1 5 5 12 4 Eintracht 8 3 3 2 13 10 12 Freiburg 8 0 5 3 8 12 5 Lopez powered past Sulley Muntari before cutting in Fiorentina 7 2 3 2 5 5 9 Sassuolo 7 0 4 3 4 13 4 Schalke 04 8 3 2 3 13 12 11 Werder Bremen 8 0 4 4 10 22 4 to beat Abbiati. Milan are now only five points behind Inter Milan 6 2 2 2 11 8 8 Parma 7 1 0 6 11 17 3 Cilic, Anastasia win Valencia stumble, Kremlin Cup titles Atletico grab win

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LONDON: Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard (centre) shoots during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Queens Park Rangers. — AP

EPL results/standings Liverpool win thriller at QPR QPR 2 (Vargas 87, 90+2) Liverpool 3 (Dunne 67-og, Countinho 90, Caulker 90+5-og); Stoke City 2 (Adam 43-pen, Walters 76) Swansea City 1 (Bony 34-pen). Loftus Road and produced two key Real Madrid. bar before Sandro’s attempt to force tute smashed home after Charlie contributions to seal the points for “Raheem Sterling was outstand- in the rebound was hacked clear by Austin headed a cross back into the Playing today QPR 2 Brendan Rodgers’s men. ing in his running and in his desire, Glen Johnson. danger zone. West Brom v Manchester United With Hodgson watching from the but QPR certainly did not deserve to Rodgers’s side were faring no bet- After looking lethargic in attack stands, Sterling, who began his career lose,” Rodgers told Sky Sports. “We ter in front of goal and Mario for so long, Liverpool were suddenly English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, as a QPR trainee, won a free-kick were lucky to get the win, but we Balotelli’s lethargic performance was provoked into life and Coutinho won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): which led to Hoops defender Richard showed tremendous character.” QPR summed up when he somehow looked to have won it when he fin- Liverpool 3 Chelsea 8 7 1 0 23 8 22 Dunne turning into the net for manager Harry Redknapp added: blazed over an open goal from close ished a flowing move between Man City 8 5 2 1 18 8 17 Liverpool’s second-half opener. That “That’s the best I’ve seen the team range. Sterling and Steven Gerrard with a Southampton 8 5 1 2 19 5 16 set the stage for an astonishing finale play since I’ve been here, but we Sterling had been the catalyst for fine low strike in the 90th minute. West Ham 8 4 1 3 15 11 13 LONDON: Liverpool’s Raheem as Eduardo Vargas equalised with were naive at the end.” that Liverpool break and the teenag- Yet remarkably there was even Liverpool 8 4 1 3 13 12 13 Sterling ended a difficult week on a three minutes left, only for Philippe Leroy Fer should have put the er played a key role again when the more drama to come in stoppage Man Utd 7 3 2 2 13 10 11 high as the teenager inspired his Coutinho to restore Liverpool’s lead hosts ahead just before the half-hour Reds took the lead in the 67th time as Vargas flicked in a near-post Arsenal 8 2 5 1 13 11 11 side’s dramatic 3-2 win over QPR in an in the 90th minute. mark when Bobby Zamora’s cutback minute. header that crept past Mignolet and Swansea 8 3 2 3 11 10 11 incredible finish featuring three goals Vargas levelled again in stoppage picked out the Dutch midfielder in Battling for possession on the just over the line. Tottenham 8 3 2 3 10 11 11 in stoppage time at Loftus Road yes- time, but Liverpool still emerged with yards of space inside the penalty right flank, Sterling won a free-kick QPR barely had time to celebrate Stoke 8 3 2 3 8 9 11 terday. Sterling had endured wide- three points thanks to Sterling, area, but instead he fired his shot which he cleverly took quickly while their apparent escape before Hull 8 2 4 2 13 13 10 spread derision after England manag- whose cross was deflected into his onto the crossbar. QPR were still regrouping. Liverpool provided the final twist. Aston Villa 8 3 1 4 4 12 10 er Roy Hodgson revealed the Reds own net by QPR defender Steven Liverpool’s notoriously creaky With QPR suddenly exposed, Coutinho’s pass set Sterling away Everton 8 2 3 3 16 16 9 star had told him he was too tired to Caulker with virtually the last kick of defence remained in danger of crum- Johnson took Sterling’s pass and down the left edge of the QPR area Leicester 8 2 3 3 11 13 9 play in last weekend’s Euro 2016 qual- the match. bling and there was another whipped over a low cross that Dunne and he calmly cut a cross in the West Brom 7 2 2 3 8 9 8 ifier against Estonia. Not for the first time this season, moment of mayhem in the visitors’ miscued into his own net as he tried direction of Balotelli, only for the ball Crystal Palace 8 2 2 4 11 14 8 The 19-year-old’s commitment to Liverpool were well below their best area when Martin Skrtel’s poor clear- to clear. to hit Caulker and deflect past the Sunderland 8 1 5 2 8 15 8 his country and passion for the sport for long periods, but somehow they ance let in Zamora down the right. Balotelli squandered a chance to wrong-footed Alex McCarthy to Newcastle 8 1 4 3 8 14 7 were subsequently questioned, but were able to secure a morale-boost- Fer should have punished goalkeep- kill off QPR in the closing minutes spark wild celebrations among Burnley 8 0 4 4 4 13 4 Sterling made a point to the critics as ing victory ahead of Wednesday’s er Simon Mignolet’s failure to collect and Vargas made him pay with an Liverpool’s players and travelling QPR 8 1 1 6 6 18 4 he played the entire 90 minutes at crunch Champions League clash with Zamora’s cross, but his header hit the 87th-minute equaliser as the substi- supporters. —AFP Angry Swans boss Monk Van Gaal eager for slams referee after loss week after week and it’s always against first away success us. I contacted Mike Riley (the head of the Premier League referees’ depart- MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager before the international break. Stoke 2 ment) but haven’t heard anything and I Louis van Gaal believes his team’s away form is “I think West Brom are very difficult to beat, think that’s very poor leadership from better than their record suggests as they look especially at their home,” Van Gaal added. “They him. for a first win on the road at West Bromwich are dangerous opponents. But no opponent in “This is the highest level and if they Albion today. the Premier League is easy to beat. Swansea 1 can’t perform at this level they United have taken just two points from their “We have to start with a victory after the shouldn’t be there.” Monk’s comment opening three Premier League games away international break because we have won the seems certain to land him in discipli- from Old Trafford this season and threw away a last two games. “But West Brom did that too LONDON: Swansea manager Garry nary trouble but the unrepentant boss two-goal lead to lose 5-3 at Leicester on their (recently), so they also want to win the match. It Monk accused referee Michael Oliver of added: “What have I said wrong? I last trip almost a month ago. But Van Gaal, won’t be easy.” making a “disgusting decision” after his haven’t said anything wrong, I haven’t whose side have recovered from a poor start to United have been helped lately by an easing side lost 2-1 away to Stoke in the called anyone names, it’s not slander- the season to climb to fifth place in the table of their injury problems. After missing up to 10 Premier League yesterday. ous.” ahead of Sunday’s matches, claims the points players at various stages in the early weeks of Swansea were 1-0 up through a Unsurprisingly, Stoke manager they have amassed on their travels are not a the season, only Antonio Valencia (hamstring), Mark Hughes took a different view. true reflection of the way they have performed. Jonny Evans (ankle), Paddy McNair (hamstring) penalty of their own when, shortly LONDON: Swansea City’s Argentinian defender Federico Fernandez (right) before half-time, Oliver pointed to the “With Victor Moses’s pace in the box, “We played very good at Leicester City,” the and Jesse Lingard (knee) are unavailable for Angel Rangel has come across him and vies with Stoke City’s Senegalese striker Mame Biram Diouf during the Dutchman said. “We gave it away by certain cir- Monday’s match, along with captain Wayne spot at the other end of the Britannia English Premier League football match. — AFP Stadium after the Swans’ Angel Rangel impeded him in my view,” said the for- cumstances-you can remember that. Rooney, who will be serving the second of a made minimal contact with Victor mer Manchester United and Wales pled Wilfried Bony to the ground as the the box which is a complete nonsense,” “But the other matches, we played two three-match ban. Moses, who appeared to dive in the striker. pair waited for a Swansea corner to said Hughes. draws and we could have also won those Meanwhile, West Brom boss Alan Irvine has box. “It doesn’t take too much at that come in. “I see everybody holding people at matches,” Van Gaal added. “We were the better said only an offer well in excess of £15 million Nevertheless, Oliver signalled a pace. I actually heard him (Monk) say Shawcross was booked while the corners. The fact that it has been high- team, we created chances but we didn’t score,” ($24 million, 19 million euros) would be enough penalty and Charlie Adam’s spot-kick my player is a cheat, which is unaccept- decision was met with disbelieving lighted was maybe in the back of the he said. to persuade them to sell Saido Berahino. beat the dive of Swansea keeper able in my view. jeers from Stoke fans who, in common referee’s mind. Wilfried Bony is a big “So we have to wait and see if that tendency The 21-year-old forward has starred for club is going through. “When it is not, OK it is not, and country so far this season with five goals for Lukasz Fabianski. Stoke went on to win “Obviously he is upset, and we have with many English football-watchers, lad, and he goes down too easily in my but we have to wait and see if that is true. We the Baggies in addition to reaching double fig- thanks to Jonathan Walters’s 76th- to come in here and speak 20 minutes had grown used to seeing such inci- mind.” start today against West Bromwich Albion with ures for England’s Under-21s en route to qualifi- minute header. after the game but sometimes you just dents go unpunished. However, Oliver Meanwhile a defiant Shawcross told a victory I hope.” cation for next year’s European Championship. But there was no doubting the sec- have to bite your tongue, maybe that had issued a warning before the corner. the BBC: “If the decisions are given United have also dropped points away from Several of England’s elite clubs have been ond penalty was the turning point of will come with experience.” Ivory Coast striker Bony then got up to every single game I will accept it but I home this season at Sunderland and Burnley, linked with Berahino- Tottenham Hotspur being the match and a furious Monk told Sky Victory saw Stoke climb to 10th send Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic very much doubt they will. and may not find it straight-forward at the the latest-and Albion have by no means dis- Sports afterwards: “Today was an place in the table, level on points with the wrong way as Swansea went 1-0 up “In the press from previous games I Hawthorns, even though Albion are in sight of couraged bids after Irvine recently admitted absolute disgusting decision from the Manchester United, Arsenal, Swansea in the 34th minute. have been singled out and it seems the relegation zone. they would be prepared to cash in if the price referee. and Tottenham Hotspur. “I am disappointed because Ryan when the bigger players do it it is The Midlands club beat Burnley 4-0 in their was right. But he said: “I would be absolutely “Victor Moses should be done for Oliver first pointed to the spot after Shawcross has been highlighted in the world-class defending but when I do it Stoke defender Ryan Shawcross grap- media as apparently holding players in is cheating.” — AFP most recent home game and their only defeat astonished if anyone could sign Saido from us diving, he cheated us. “It’s happening in four matches was a 2-1 loss at Liverpool just for £15 million. —AFP Saudi’s Jarir to double stores over five years

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HAMBURG: A nearly empty main station is pictured in Hamburg yesterday. Train drivers at Germany’s national railway are on a two-day strike after their union rejected a new pay offer in a bitter dispute complicated by rivalry between unions. The GDL union called members out on strike from early Saturday morning until early yesterday morning. —AP Gulf Bank posts operating profit of KD 79.8 million Net profit up 10% to KD 26.5 million for first 9 months of 2014 KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday announced profit, and demonstrate Gulf Bank’s ability an operating profit before provisions of to grow and improve its profits in a highly India frees diesel prices from govt control KD79.8 million for the first nine months of competitive market. The Bank’s loans have 2014. Net profit was KD 26.5 million for grown by 13 percent and the capital ade- the first nine months of 2014, up 10 per- quacy is at 16.6 percent against the regula- Natural gas tariffs jump in biggest Modi govt reform cent against KD 24.1 million for the same tory ratio of 12 percent. More importantly, NEW DELHI: India freed diesel prices from gov- While India began tweaking diesel prices last omy and provide power to the entire nation with- period last year. As of end of the Bank is on track to final- ernment control yesterday while raising natural year and rolling back some subsidies, the deci- in five years - an enormous challenge with at least September 2014, the Bank’s ize the restructuring started gas tariffs in the biggest-yet reform by Prime sion to fully deregulate diesel now appeared 300 million Indians still with no power at all, and total assets were KD 5,192 in 2008. The Gulf Bank team Minister Narendra Modi’s government, as it aims timed to a sudden drop in global oil prices last hundreds of million more lucky to get a few million, deposits stood at KD is ready for alternatives to to boost the country’s economy and overhaul its week, easing the burden on Indian consumers. hours a day. Noting that no country in the world 4,194 million and total share- further develop and better energy sector. The decision on diesel targets one Diesel prices yesterday, the first day of the new has expanded its economic without building holders’ equity was KD 509 serve its customers both in of India’s costliest subsidies for one of the world’s fuel regime, were slightly lower than a day before electricity capacity, Modi has urged entrepre- million. The Bank increased wholesale and retail bank- dirtiest fuels. in major Indian cities like New Delhi, Mumbai and neurs to move into power generation from solar its precautionary general ing.” Those subsidies - meant to help poor farmers Kolkata. panels, hydroelectric dams, nuclear reactors or provisions to KD201 million, Gulf Bank is frequently using diesel-powered water pumps - inadvertent- “They were lucky they did it at the right time. wind mills. an increase of KD 43 million honored with prestigious ly led the country to consume more than four Usually prices go up when you decontrol,” said As part of the fuel reforms announced during the period, and main- awards and accolades’, most times as much diesel as petrol, at large cost to the Delhi-based writer and economics commentator Saturday night, the government also raised natu- tained its non-performing recently, the Bank has been national budget. Almost half the country’s $23 Gurcharan Das. He urged Modi to explain the ral gas tariffs by 33 percent to $5.61 per mmBtu in loans (i.e ‘NPL’) ratio, which recognized as the ‘Best billion spent on fuel subsidies last year went for benefits of deregulation to the people. “Here’s a an effort to increase incentives for exploring and now stands at 5.1 percent Domestic Payments and Cash diesel, according to the Delhi-based National country that gives enormous political and reli- drilling. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asked state and has increased the total Gulf Bank CEO César Management Bank in Kuwait’ Institute of Public Finance and Policy. gious freedom, and yet we have so much diffi- governments on Saturday to reconsider taxes “so coverage ratio of non-per- Gonzalez-Bueno by Asian Banker, ‘Best Meanwhile, India’s trade deficit has ballooned, culty giving economic freedom that reforms that consumers are not affected by the price rise.” forming loans to 238 percent. Domestic Retail Bank’ and reaching $14.3 billion in September, thanks to have to be done by stealth,” Das said. “Modi Analysts and industry executives welcomed Commenting on the results, César ‘Best Human Resources Development’ years of high international oil prices and a needs to get out and sell the idea of the market, the reforms. The president of the Federation of Gonz·lez-Bueno, Gulf Bank’s CEO said: “I am awards for 2014 from Banker Middle East, dependency on petroleum-based fuels like the fact that price control is harmful in the end Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry pleased to share with you our results for STP Award from Citibank, Best Retail Bank diesel, kerosene and gasoline for 22 percent of its for the people.” called the diesel deregulation an “extremely pro- the third quarter of the year. These results from International Finance Magazine, entire energy consumption. Modi has pledged to both boost India’s econ- gressive move.” — AP reflect steady growth of the Bank’s net amongst others. Burgan Bank says Gulf markets rebound as global bourses rally plans KD21.6m rights issue MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Burgan Bank, Kuwait’s third- DUBAI: Most exchanges in the Middle East Dubai’s bourse jumped 3.5 percent after far posted mixed results. Al-Rajhi Bank, Thursday but said it was keeping an eye on largest lender by assets, will launch a rebounded yesterday after global stock mar- tumbling 5.0 percent in the previous ses- Saudi Arabia’s largest listed lender, missed the risks to recovery posed by mounting KD21.6 million ($74.8 million) rights issue kets recovered on Friday from a big sell-off sion. Most stocks posted gains and builder analyst forecasts with a profit drop, while concerns about the global economy and by the end of 2014 pending regulatory triggered by worries about the impact of Arabtec Holding was one of the top per- Riyad Bank, Saudi Hollandi and Saudi British fears of a resurgence in European debt approvals, it said in a bourse filing yester- weak earnings reports on growth and busi- formers, surging 8.1 percent. Bank matched expectations and Banque problems. day. nesses. Those worries had sent Middle East Arabtec said yesterday it expected soon Saudi Fransi posted better-than-expected Burgan said it plans to issue 216 mil- bourses tumbling, with Dubai’s index down to conclude a final agreement with Egyptian results. HIGHLIGHTS lion new shares and that the rights issue 13.6 percent last week. Saudi Arabia lost authorities to begin work on a $40 billion Shares in retailer Jarir Marketing jumped DUBAI: The index jumped 3.5 percent to will raise its paid-up capital to KD197.18 12.0 percent and Egypt dropped 10.0 per- project to build one million homes. Abu 5.0 percent after its chairman told Reuters in 4,419 points. million. This would indicate that shares cent over the same period. Dhabi’s index added 0.5 percent as Abu an interview that the firm planned to invest ABU DHABI: The index rose 0.5 percent to would be priced at 0.1 dinars in the rights But on Friday, when markets in the Dhabi Commercial Bank rose 1.9 percent 1.1 billion riyals ($293 million) over the next 4,794 points. issue, a significant discount to the 0.54 Middle East were closed, European stocks and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank surged 5.7 per- five years to roughly double the number of SAUDI ARABIA: The index gained 2.4 per- dinars the stock closed at on Thursday. The shares will be available to existing surged by the most in more than two years cent. Qatar’s benchmark rose 1.6 percent, its stores in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. cent to 9,775 points. shareholders on a proportional basis and as investors bought back into beaten-down also in a broad rally. Egypt’s index also edged up early in the QATAR: The index climbed 1.6 percent to any unsold shares will then be put on markets after further, solid US corporate session but then changed direction and 13,148 points. general sale, the bank said in the state- earnings and rising consumer sentiment. Saudi, Egypt closed 0.8 percent down as most shares EGYPT: The index fell 0.8 percent to 8,524 ment. Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO), declined. “Basically, it’s just consolidation,” points. Wall Street followed Europe’s lead, with all Saudi Arabia’s main index rose 2.4 per- which owns a 57.94 percent stake in major stock indexes climbing more than 1 cent as most stocks gained. Alinma Bank said Allen Sandeep, director of research at KUWAIT: The index slipped 0.3 percent to Burgan, had said in September that it percent after earnings reports eased con- was the main support, surging 9.5 percent. Naeem Brokerage in Cairo. 7,388 points. received approval from the country’s cen- cerns about the impact of weak global The lender has yet to publish its third-quar- Egypt’s central bank kept its main inter- OMAN: The index added 1.1 percent to tral bank to increase its stake in the lender demand on US growth and businesses. ter earnings and other local banks have so est rates unchanged at a policy meeting last 6,947 points. — Reuters by 5 percent. — Reuters BUSINESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Falling oil price News in brief and deflationary Saudi’s SAFCO Q3 alarms! net profit rises 24% By Hayder Tawfik DUBAI: Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co reported a 24.4 per- cent rise in third-quarter net profit yesterday, beating KUWAIT: If very high oil price spells recession so why central analysts’ forecasts and ending a sustained profit slump bankers around the world are scared of the recent correction as sales prices and sales volumes increased. The compa- in oil price. We can understand why ny, a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) , one of they worry about high oil price. The oil the world’s biggest petrochemical companies, said it shock of the early 1970s had led to a made a profit of 913 million riyals ($243.5 million) in the very deep recession throughout the three months to Sept. 30, up from 734 million riyals in Western world. It is this experience that the year-earlier period. A group of nine analysts polled has been taunting them ever since. by Reuters forecast on average that Safco would make a So, the present big correction in oil quarterly profit of 794.7 million riyals. SAFCO, a big pro- price can cause them a big headache ducer of ammonia and urea, is dependent on global too, especially at a time when global demand and prices. Since mid-2013, global players economic growth heavily relying on the have voiced increasing concerns over the continued fall US and the fear of deflation is hanging around everywhere. of urea prices due to China’s ramp up in output. The The recent 25 percent correction in oil price from the peak in firm had reported decreasing year-on-year profits for June of $110 per a barrel to around $85 per a barrel should be five consecutive quarters as it suffered from declining a cause of celebration for all oil consumers around the world, urea prices. Saudi companies issue brief earnings state- in particular for Japan, USA and Europe. On average oil price ments early in the reporting period before publishing has been trading around the $100 per a barrel over the past 5 more detailed results later. years so the recent drop should be a welcome event. It makes it cheaper for everyone from companies that produces cars, MINSK: A man carries a bag of cabbage during the agricultural fair in the town of Molodechno, some machines, toys, and food and for drivers to fill their cars with 70 kilometers northwest of Minsk, yesterday. —AFP Dubai judge OKs liquidation cheap petrol and spur consumption demand. of local Espirito Santo unit It is a statistical fact that higher oil price leads to reduction DUBAI: A judge in the Dubai International Financial Centre in the size of big oil consuming economies such as the US and Tunisia to lift retirement (DIFC) court approved yesterday an application to liquidate Europe. During the financial crises the US economy shrunk by ES Bankers (Dubai) Ltd, part of the Portuguese Espirito Santo 5 percent because of the rise in the oil price. So what is the family’s troubled empire. “In reality, it’s impossible for the worry now? At present central banks are more worried about age by two years to 62 bank to continue its business. The bank is indeed insolvent low inflation and weak economic growth more than ever. Their and there are no countervailing considerations to my mind biggest problem is the risk of deflation. They are working very which would call for the refusal of an application of the wind- hard to avoid deflation. A deflationary spiral will drive up debt Reform delays making IMF disbursement difficult ing up order,” Justice David Steel said. The move is the latest burdens for all who are in debt and will derail demand as busi- in a series of international regulatory actions taken against ness and consumers retreat in anticipation of even lower TUNIS: Tunisia will raise the normal government as it tackled painful pace of some reforms. Tunisia is Espirito Santo interests since Portugal’s largest listed lender, prices. retirement age by two years in 2015 reforms to increase tax revenues and under pressure from its international Banco Espirito Santo, was rescued by the state in August. The coming weeks and months will show how much the to reduce the deficit in its social cut energy subsidies. lenders to restrain public sector drop in oil price has impacted on the rate of inflation. Even security funds, as part of economic But he said the current government spending. Saudi MMG’s board before the recent drop in oil price some economies have been reforms designed to stabilize state had prepared a clear reform strategy seeing fall in the annual rate of inflation. The euro-zone block approves recovery plan finances, minister for economic for coming years, which would help Budget is the most vulnerable to the risk of deflation. Also, the UK, affairs Nidhal Ouerfelli said. the next government. Politicians in key Ouerfelli revealed that Tunisia’s KHOBAR: Saudi contractor Mohammad Al-Mojil Group’s (MMG) Japan and some Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and board had approved a recovery plan that use most of its existing Norway. The US is not immune from the risk of falling inflation. The North African country is reor- parties contesting the election, includ- state budget for next year would capital base to pay off debts and new cash raised through a share The future expectation of global inflation has been lowered ganising its economy as it nears the ing the secular interests led by the total about 29 billion dinars ($16.1 issue, it said yesterday. The firm, which got into difficulty after over- continuously. A 20 percent drop in the oil price would shave completion of a difficult transition to Nida Tounes party and the Islamist billion), up from 28 billion dinars in extending itself trying to take advantage of a boom in construc- 0.5 percent off global inflation in the next year, pushing the democracy over three years after the Ennahda, have expressed support for 2014, and that public sector wages tion in the kingdom, has not traded on the Saudi bourse since July rate back towards 1.7 percent it reached in 2009 during the 2011 revolution that ousted autocrat economic reforms in principle. would rise by about 800 million 2012, when its shares were suspended by the regulator after financial crises. Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Parliamentary Tunisia hopes to reduce its state dinars. Total state spending on wages breaching rules relating to accumulated losses. MMG said in As I said earlier the European Central Bank has more to elections are to be held on Oct. 26 and budget deficit to 5.0 percent of gross in 2015 will reach 11 billion dinars, September its accumulated losses for the period ending Aug. 31 worry about than other central banks. Its President Mario a presidential ballot in November. domestic product in 2015 from 5.8 more than one-third of the budget, stood at 2.689 billion riyals ($717.1 million), equivalent to 215 per- Draghi has been saying that the euro-zone is not concerned “Today, social funds suffer a large percent projected for 2014. While the he added. “We cannot continue in cent of its paid-up capital. Saudi shares are suspended once losses about falling inflation. He has been blaming the annual deficit and we are studying how to country’s powerful 800,000-member this way if we want to revive the pass 75 percent of capital. Under the plan approved at a board decline of the inflation rate in the euro-zone on falling oil and fix it effectively...We are going to UGTT labor union has urged the gov- economy and create growth by meeting on Thursday, MMG’s capital will be cut from 1.25 billion food prices. But the recent big drop in oil price must have been raise the retirement age two years ernment to start immediate negotia- financing development projects and riyals to 125 million riyals, creating one share for every 10 shares giving him a real nightmare. The biggest winner in all of these from 2015,” Ouerfelli said in an inter- tions on raising public sector salaries, infrastructure.” currently possessed, it said in a bourse filing. Such an accountancy is the US. Recent estimates conclude that US drivers are saving view for the Reuters Middle East Ouerfelli said the critical financial sit- To fill next year’s budget gap, technique will allow the company to effectively write off some of over $50 billion on petrol because of the correction in oil price. Investment Summit. uation would not allow talks to start Tunisia is again assembling a com- its accumulated losses. At a later stage, it said, its board will recom- The impact on companies, drivers, and consumers around the He said the retirement age would this year. plex series of external financing mend increasing the capital again via a rights issue and/or through world will be savings of nearly $1 trillion. rise to 62, and that the reform was Officials in the UGTT have threat- plans. “We will issue, probably in the preferred shares to help it restructure its operations. Also part of At the same time, the US is now the world’s biggest oil pro- justified since Tunisia was one of the ened to stage protests and even first half of 2015, bonds worth $600 the plan would be a “significant reduction” in the amount payable ducer and soon will be a net exporter. Cheaper oil is very good few countries in the region where declare a general strike to pressure million,” Ouerfelli said without giv- to the lenders in respect of outstanding sharia-compliant loan for the US economy overall. I believe that the Federal Reserve the government to accept immediate ing details. In addition, Tunisia aims facilities, it said. All these steps would be subject to the outcome of will watch closely the recent correction in oil price and wait to the age was currently still 60. The negotiations with potential new investors, existing lenders and see the true impact on the economy before taking any deci- reform is not certain to go ahead, negotiations. However, Ouerfelli said to borrow about $450 million from regulatory approval, the statement said. Should the restructuring sion on interest rates. This is a big major event and should not since the new post-election govern- the government was now finding it the IMF next year, $500 million from go ahead, it is hoped that all legacy projects would be completed be ignored. Overall, if low oil price is good for companies, driv- ment will reshuffle the cabinet and difficult to persuade the International the World Bank, $380 million from in the first quarter of 2015,allowing the business to return to prof- ers and consumers then it must be good for the economy and may have different priorities. Monetary Fund to disburse the final the European Union and $200 mil- itability in subsequent quarters as it takes on new business oppor- also for the financial markets worldwide. — Dimah Capital Ouerfelli said the initial months of tranche of a two-year, $1.78 billion lion from the African Development 2015 would be very hard for the new loan program because of the slow Bank. —Reuters tunities, MMG added.

US markets sell-off Saudi’s Jarir to double stores over five years to abate: Blackstone DUBAI: The recent slump in US stock prices, in which the S&P 500 Company to invest $293 million over period index has posted four straight weekly losses for the first time in more than three years, is unlikely to go on for much longer, one of RIYADH: Saudi Arabian retailer Jarir Marketing Co plans to invest 1.1 Arabia’s rapid population growth and rising incomes, which is why cent growth - for instance next year we think growth will be above America’s best-known investment strategists said yesterday. Byron billion riyals ($293 million) over the next five years to roughly dou- its shares are up 75 percent since end-2012 compared to a 40 per- 20 percent,” said Agil, who co-founded the chain with his family. Wien, veteran investor and vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory ble the number of its stores in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, its chair- cent gain for the main market index. The company, which sells The population of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council is Partners, part of investment and advisory firm Blackstone Group man said. The kingdom’s largest listed retailer aims to open six new books, office and art supplies, computers and some other electron- projected to climb 30 percent over a decade to more than 50 mil- LP, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai it was stores on average each year, seeking to increase its bottom line 15 ics, has grown from a single store in a Riyadh street in 1979 into a lion in 2020, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. At pres- unlikely the US market would fall much further. “Nobody knows percent or more annually, and believes growth could hit 20 percent chain with 36 stores. Thirty-one of them are inside Saudi Arabia ent most of the 20.3 million citizens of Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab how long it (falling markets) lasts and it always goes farther than next year. with the remainder in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar. “We have more economy, are under the age of 30. Saudi labour reforms over the you think, but I do think it’s a correction and not the beginning of “As a general rule, we want to double our store number every than 25 stores in the pipeline. We are expanding our stores and we past three years have helped tens of thousands of young nationals a bear market,” Wien said. A bear market is an extended phase dur- five years, and we think the market can support it in Saudi Arabia, are opening between four and eight stores a year, averaging around secure jobs in the private sector, raising household disposable ing which shares slump some 20 percent from their peak levels. the Gulf and eventually in North Africa, starting from Egypt,” six stores a year. This will bring us to more than 60 stores by end- income. “In general there is room for growth in the sector, coming “Maybe it’ll go a little bit further, but it’s already gone down Muhammad al-Agil told the Reuters Middle East Investment 2018 in Saudi and in the Gulf states of Kuwait and Qatar,” Agil said. from population growth, better education, higher disposable almost 10 percent, so I hope we’re nearing the end of it,” Wien Summit. “In order to do this expansion over five years, we expect to “When we open stores every year, this gives us 18 percent sales income plus general economic growth,” Agil said. Earlier this month added. The S&P 500 was down more than 6 percent at the end of invest 1.1 billion riyals. More than 100 million of that is going to be space growth, which translates into 10-15 percent sales growth, Jarir posted a 9 percent year-on-year increase in third-quarter net last week from a record high set in September, despite a rally on spent outside Saudi Arabia, including Egypt.” depending on location. “Adding the existing stores which are still profit to 203 million riyals, as turnover rose 6.9 percent to 1.43 bil- Friday aided by estimate-beating third-quarter earnings from blue Jarir is one of the stock market’s most direct plays on Saudi growing at 8-10 percent, this will give us between 15 and 20 per- lion riyals. —Reuters chip stocks including General Electric. EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.780 Singapore Dollar 0.223788 0.229788 Nepalese Rupees 3.920 South African Rand 0.020171 0.028671 Malaysian Ringgit 89.210 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001918 0.002498 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.635 Taiwan 0.009430 0.009610 Japanese Yen 2.717 Australian Dollar 234.07 231.07 Thai Baht 0.008601 0.009151 Indian Rupees 4.714 Canadian Dollar 260.97 261.97 Thai Bhat 9.915 Pakistani Rupees 2.813 Swiss Franc 312.97 310.97 Turkish Lira 128.830 Srilankan Rupees 2.211 Euro 374.22 375.22 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.940 US Dollar 289.75 292.75 Bahraini Dinar 0.761844 0.769844 Singapore Dollar 227.990 Sterling Pound 469.38 472.38 Bahrain Exchange Company Egyptian Pound 0.038825 0.041925 Hongkong Dollar 37.323 Japanese Yen 2.76 2.78 Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Bangladesh Taka 3.735 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 Philippine Peso 6.448 Bangladesh Taka 3.734 4.004 Belgian Franc 0.007538 0.008538 Thai Baht 8.944 Indian Rupee 4.712 5.012 Jordanian Dinar 0.404442 0.411942 British Pound 0.453546 0.462546 Irani Riyal transfer 1175.280 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.217 2.652 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Czech Korune 0.005292 0.017292 Irani Riyal cash 142.380 Nepali Rupee 2.946 3.481 Lebanese Pound 0.000143 0.000243 Pakistani Rupee 2.821 2.790 Danish Krone 0.045147 0.050147 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023585 0.047585 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.74 79.20 Euro 0.360233 0.368233 Nigerian Naira 0.001168 0.001803 Norwegian Krone 0.040019 0.045219 Saudi Riyal 77.285 Bahraini Dinar 769.05 771.12 Omani Riyal 0.746312 0.751992 Romanian Leu 0.083079 0.083079 Qatari Riyal 79.634 Egyptian Pound 40.41 41.01 Qatar Riyal 0.078849 0.080062 Jordanian Dinar 411.23 416.88 Slovakia 0.008415 0.018415 Omani Riyal 752.760 Saudi Riyal 0.076603 0.077303 Omani Riyal 751.44 758.74 Swedish Krona 0.035894 0.040894 Bahraini Dinar 769.570 Syrian Pound 0.001716 0.001936 UAE Dirham 78.918 Qatari Riyal 79.79 80.34 Swiss Franc 0.296375 0.306575 Saudi Riyal 77.27 77.67 Turkish Lira 0.128247 0.135247 Tunisian Dinar 0.157789 0.165789 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.128247 0.135247 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.650 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia UAE Dirhams 0.077879 0.079028 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.411 Australian Dollar 0.244022 0.255522 Yemeni Riyal 0.001307 0.001387 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.351 New Zealand Dollar 0.220450 0.229950 Tunisian Dinar 162.440 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 409.060 US Dollar 289.300 Canadian Dollar 0.251048 0.259548 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.943 Canadian Dollar 259.550 US Dollars 0.285550 0.290250 Syrian Lira 2.064 Sterling Pound 466.260 US Dollars Mint 0.286050 0.290250 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.865 Euro 370.735 US Dollar 288.950 Swiss Frank 306.160 Asia Euro 371.400 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 770.030 Bangladesh Taka 0.003357 0.003957 Pound Sterlng 467.700 US Dollar Transfer 289.550 UAE Dirhams 78.745 Chinese Yuan 0.045714 0.049214 Canadian Dollar 258.550 Euro 371.350 Qatari Riyals 80.345 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035272 0.038022 Indian Rupee 4.702 Sterling Pound 467.620 Saudi Riyals 77.405 Indian Rupee 0.004482 0.004883 Egyptian Pound 40.392 Canadian dollar 257.950 Jordanian Dinar 408.625 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Turkish lira 128.090 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.209 Egyptian Pound 40.407 Japanese Yen 0.002620 0.002800 Bangladesh Taka 3.730 Swiss Franc 307.380 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.214 Kenyan Shilling 0.003239 0.003239 Australian Dollar 256.250 Philippines Peso 6.430 Indian Rupees 4.708 Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 US Dollar Buying 288.350 Pakistan Rupee 2.812 Pakistani Rupees 2.816 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085458 0.091458 Bahraini Dinar 769.500 Bangladesh Taka 3.736 Nepalese Rupee 0.002960 0.003130 GOLD UAE Dirham 78.700 Philippines Pesso 6.434 Tola 1 142.380 Pakistan Rupee 0.002790 0.003070 Saudi Riyal 77.150 Cyprus pound 710.585 Philippine Peso 0.006388 0.006668 Tola 2 280.020 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 694.065 Japanese Yen 3.705 Sierra Leone 0.000064 0.000070 MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS

Blackstone Market Commentary China growth seen at So much to worry about By Byron Wien five-year low in Q3 he Standard & Poor’s 500 finally broke above 2000, but has now Setback could prompt more stimulus: Survey Tfallen (hopefully temporarily) somewhat below that level. Alibaba SHANGHAI: China’s economic growth in the ing the goal as “around” 7.5 percent. biggest banks for re-lending just last month. has had a successful initial public offer- third quarter fell to its slowest since the depths The analysts polled by AFP expect the econo- Analysts are divided over whether the ing, with the stock closing 38 percent of the global financial crisis more than five years my to grow 7.3 percent this year, unchanged People’s Bank of China, the central bank, might above its offering price on its first day ago, an AFP survey projects. The country’s gross from the previous forecast three months ago but resort to an across-the-board reserve require- of trading. Federal Reserve Chair Janet domestic product (GDP) is predicted to have slower than actual growth of 7.7 percent in 2013. ment cut or even slashing interest rates. “We Yellen has indicated that monetary pol- risen 7.2 percent year-on-year in the July- Although China’s economy is still growing may see some more policy easing before the icy will remain accommodative “for a September period, the poll of 17 economists faster than most other countries, some policy year-end, but I expect that if we do it will be tar- considerable time” even though the showed. makers believe seven percent annual growth is geted and limited scope,” said China economist bond-buying program of the last sever- The median forecast for the world’s second- needed to maintain job creation in the world’s for Capital Economics, Julian Evans-Pritchard. al years ends this month, and this sug- largest economy, a key driver of global growth, most populous nation. The government still has weapons in its arse- gests that the first increase in short- would be the worst since the first quarter of Economic data for September have been nal, including greater infrastructure spending term rates will be later rather than 2009, when growth stagnated at 6.6 percent. mixed. Better than expected exports and and tax cuts, while easier mortgage lending sooner. The United States economy The government will release the official GDP imports brought some cheer, while the weakest polices announced late last month could take grew more than 4 percent in the sec- figure tomorrow. The setback would be likely to inflation in nearly five years showed the eco- the sting out of falling housing prices, analysts ond quarter after a dismal first and it prompt more stimulus intervention from Beijing, nomic engine is sputtering. said. now looks like second half real growth erupted, and the conflict has reduced respondents said, which has set a 7.5 percent But Bank of Communications analyst Tang may trend toward 3 percent. Scotland target for expansion this year-the pace of Sacrificing growth for reform Jianwei said: “An interest rate cut or reserve ratio voted to remain a part of the United the likelihood of hitting that mark. If we are truly entering a period of nego- growth in the second quarter. China has so far clung to “targeted” measures cut cannot be ruled out.” He expects the third Kingdom. Investors’ outlook reflects China’s economy has been pummelled by a to spur growth, shunning a repeat of its 4.0 tril- quarter to be the trough for this year, with the these favorable conditions; most sur- tiation rather than conflict, the 1 per- cent real growth target is back in place. deflating property bubble as well as a govern- lion yuan (now $656 billion) stimulus package of fourth quarter to show a rebound. veys reveal an optimistic view. ment crackdown on corruption and weak 2008. The chief economist for China’s central Chinese leaders have indicated that lower Against this background, however, In addition, the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has demand from Europe. “Given much weaker bank, Ma Jun, said earlier this month that the growth is the new normal for China, in order to there are a number of troubling condi- growth... Beijing will have to push ahead with government wanted to avoid “excessive stimu- carry out long-awaited economic reforms. “The tions which could change the positive announced several steps underway toward monetary accommodation, more aggressive policies in order to hit the 7.5 lus”. government will very likely lower its target to mood. I still believe the rest of the year percent GDP growth target in 2014,” said a In what has been called a “mini-stimulus”, the around 7.0 percent” for 2015, said Wendy Chen, will be good for the economy and the which should stimulate European growth. All of this is favorable for Beijing-based economist for Standard Chartered government has so far used targeted cuts in Shanghai-based economist for Nomura. “This is market, but, like most observers, I have Bank, Shen Lan. But the consensus is that China reserve requirements-the amount of funds actually a good signal, indicating the govern- my worries. The first is valuation. The European equities and ultimately for the U.S. market and the dollar, but the will miss that target, though Premier Li Keqiang banks must put aside-as well as a 500 billion ment is willing to tolerate a short-term econom- S&P 500 is now trading at about 17 has allowed himself an escape clause by qualify- yuan fund injection into the country’s five ic slowdown for structural reforms.” — AFP times 2014 earnings and probably 16 situation is fluid and could reverse times next year’s estimate. I look at toward the negative at any time. trailing twelve month earnings and, on that basis, “bubbles” occur at 25 to 30 Mideast turmoil times, some distance from the current More troubling is the situation in level. Those who believe that the mar- Syria and Iraq. President Obama has ket is approaching a bubble condition ordered air strikes against the Islamic may be using the so-called cyclically State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to prevent adjusted price-earnings ratio (CAPE) the further incursion of ISIS troops into developed by Robert Shiller of Yale. Kurdistan and curb the power of that When market valuation is analyzed this organization in the region. A number way, the price-earnings ratio is now 26, of Arab and European states are fight- definitely putting the market in over- ing alongside the United States. The valued territory, based on the history of U.S. has been able to gain more inter- this series. The CAPE method worked national support for this effort, possibly well in the 1980s, the early 1990s and because the recent beheadings have leading up to the decline of 2008-9, but dramatized ISIS’s barbaric brutality. It is the market has continued to rise in the doubtful that air strikes alone will do past half-decade in spite of its warn- more than slow ISIS down. The first tar- ings. I take note of what the CAPE is gets were oil-producing sites in Syria saying but its message is not central to which provided revenue for ISIS’s mili- my strategy work. I thought it would tary operations. ISIS already occupies a carry me through to retirement and it reasonable amount of territory which it was a sad day in the mid-1990s when I is not likely to surrender. The Chairman realized it was no longer relevant. of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey has said that ground troops Guidance may need to be sent in, even though The valuation context could change there is no popular support in the if earnings fell short of estimates. Right United States for that alternative. now analysts seem to be stepping up President Obama has said that the their forecasts. I started the year think- ground fighters will have to be Arabs ing the S&P 500 would earn $115, but and Muslims from other nearby states there are now forecasts out there as like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, the high as $120 for this year and $127 for United Arab Emirates and Qatar. While 2015. This has occurred in spite of the there seems to be broad approval for our air strike efforts against ISIS, there preponderance of negative guidance VILNIUS: EU commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn (2nd L) and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite (2nd R) looking at a model being given to analysts by the compa- are risks. The organization’s Syrian headquarters in Raqqa is located in the of the world’s first new-build liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) Independence displayed in Vilnius during nies they follow. The favorable earn- the 4th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. — AFP ings outlook would change if the heavily populated area and any bomb- United States slipped back into a reces- ing there would likely result in civilian sion, but most of the indicators I am casualties, thereby causing internation- reviewing suggest that is unlikely to al criticism of our efforts. Lithuania’s first LNG terminal happen anytime soon. The one eco- Finally I worry about the South nomic area I am concerned about is China Sea. As the second largest econ- housing. With the improvement in omy in the world, China can be expect- ends Russian grip on Baltics employment and continued low inter- ed to have a political voice that it wants everyone to hear. China believes it has est rates I would have expected the VILNIUS: As much of Europe anxiously awaits a Minister Rokas Masiulis said that “Lithuania has the roof. fishing rights in waters claimed by monthly figures on housing starts, new Ukraine-Russia deal to avert the risk of winter paid the highest prices for natural gas in the EU “Dismantling Russia’s monopoly deprives it of and existing home sales, and mortgage Japan and the Philippines and oil gas cuts, Lithuania is breathing a sigh of relief as in recent years”. Vilnius has not taken the situa- yet another tool of political influence over applications for purchase to be consis- drilling rights in offshore Vietnam. My its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal will tion lying down. In addition to arranging for the Lithuania,” Marius Laurinavicius, an analyst at the tently strong, but the data have been view has been that China is not willing sever Moscow’s grip on gas deliveries to the LNG terminal, it has asked the EU to conduct an Eastern Europe Studies Center, a Vilnius-based mixed. I wonder if there are some secu- to go to war over these issues. Right Baltic states. Aptly dubbed “Independence”, the anti-trust probe against Gazprom and launched think tank, said. lar changes taking place in terms of now, the leaders are preoccupied with massive floating LNG facility measuring three an international arbitration procedure, with more flexible lifestyles, as well as their reform program, which includes a football fields in length is due to dock in the port decisions expected within the coming year. EU energy market delayed marriages and family forma- vigorous anticorruption effort, regula- of Klaipeda on October 27. Gazprom’s contract with Lithuania expires at Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas tions. Housing is a key component of tory changes and a rebalancing of the Its arrival comes just as Russian President the end of 2015. While Gazprom is likely to Butkevicius recently told US Vice President Joe growth, so this is an area that bears components of gross domestic product Vladimir Putin warned that Europe faces “major remain a key supplier, Vilnius insists competition Biden the terminal meant “de facto energy inde- close attention. in favor of the consumer sector by transit risks” to gas supplies coming from Russia will improve pricing and energy security, and so pendence” and finally integrated the “Baltic At this point geopolitical turbulence diminishing investment in state-owned this winter unless Ukraine resolves a gas dispute curb Moscow’s political leverage in the region. States into the internal market of the continental appears to have receded as a market- enterprises and infrastructure. That’s a with Moscow. The terminal gives Lithuania the We’re “looking forward to important negotia- EU.” Fellow Baltic states Estonia and Latvia, also influencing factor. The situation in full plate of domestic issues which I capability to import up to four billion cubic tions with LNG suppliers and Gazprom,” said EU and NATO members dependent on Russian Ukraine has quieted down with a think will be the primary focus of metres of gas per year from sources like Masiulis, adding that “in a worst-case scenario, gas, say they could also use the terminal to seek cease-fire reported in the pro-Russian China’s near-term initiatives. Foreign Norway’s Statoil-well above the 2.7 billion cubic we could buy all our gas via the terminal”. As the out alternative suppliers. regions. President Vladimir Putin is policy will be kept at a low flame. metres it bought from Russia last year. arrival date neared for the new LNG facility, Latvia has the capacity to stockpile more than negotiating for more political autono- I also worry about the dysfunctional That leaves plenty of extra capacity for its which Lithuania is leasing for a decade, Gazprom a year’s supply of gas, while Estonia is almost my for the areas where separatism has democracy we have here in the United Baltic neighbors Latvia or Estonia, analysts note. already agreed to a price cut of around 20 per- self-sufficient with shale oil. The Baltic states and strongest support with the hope that States. The current Congress is likely to Despite joining the EU and NATO in 2004, cent. Gazprom has always denied monopoly Finland are also in talks with Brussels over a sep- punitive sanctions will be lifted. The prove to be one of the least productive Lithuania has been completely dependent upon practices in Lithuania and warned that shipped- arate EU-funded LNG terminal in the Gulf of Russian economy has clearly suffered in history in terms of producing legisla- Russia for natural gas, a legacy of five decades of in LNG will not come cheap. “If Lithuanian con- Finland. as a result of the conflict and Putin, tion. I do not expect this condition to Soviet domination that wound down in 1990. sumers are willing to pay more to reduce their Unlike Poland, Slovakia, Austria or Hungary, having gotten much of what he wanted change even if the Republicans gain The nation of three million will initially import dependence, it’s their business,” Gazprom the Baltic trio have not seen any dip in deliveries in Ukraine (as well as Crimea), seems to control of the Senate in November. 0.54 billion cubic metres of gas from Statoil in spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said in Moscow. from Gazprom this autumn. Russia cut off have opted for a more gradual That’s the bad news. The good news is 2015, covering about one-fifth of its demand. Lithuania’s state-owned Litgas LNG agency Ukraine in mid-June after a pro-Western govern- approach to his objective of reuniting a that what happens in Congress over says Statoil’s LNG prices will depend on market ment took power, accusing Kiev of not paying its part of the former Soviet Union. How the next few months is not likely to The price is right? factors. gas bills. long the cease-fire will last is an open have much of an impact on the econo- Tensions have been running high between The floating 294-metre (964-foot) terminal The EU, which gets over a quarter of its gas question, but Europe needs Russia as a my or the market. The big worries are Vilnius and Moscow for years over gas, as owned by Norway’s Hoegh LNG will also buoy from Russia, is seeking a deal to ensure that customer for its manufactured prod- elsewhere. A market coasting on posi- Lithuania believes that state-controlled tiny Lithuania’s political leverage towards its Russian gas will flow uninterrupted to European ucts and it also needs Russian gas as tive sentiment is, however, likely to Gazprom has abused its monopoly position and Soviet-era master Russia at a time when homes via Ukraine this winter. As Russia must winter approaches. Europe was on a overreact in the face of negative devel- driven up the price. Moscow’s meddling in eastern Ukraine has sent pump gas to its Kalinigrad exclave via Lithuania, path to grow 1 percent before Ukraine opments. Gazprom’s prices are confidential, but Energy geopolitical jitters in the Baltic states through it is unlikely to suffer cuts. — AFP German pilots to strike at Lufthansa today FRANKFURT: German pilots’ union VC VC, representing about 5,400 called a strike at Deutsche Lufthansa Lufthansa pilots, wants the airline to for Oct. 20 and 21, targeting the air- maintain a scheme that allows pilots line’s Airbus 320 planes as well as to retire early at the age of 55 and still Boeing 737s. The union said yesterday receive up to 60 percent of their pay the walkout would last from 1100 before regular pension payments GMT today until 2159 GMT tomorrow. start. Management, under pressure to The pilots are in dispute with reduce costs to better compete with Lufthansa’s management over retire- budget rivals and fast-growing air- ment benefits. The union said the lines from the Middle East, has offered strike would affect all short- and mid- to keep the pension scheme for distance Lufthansa flights from employees who started before this Germany. Lufthansa’s low-cost unit year but wants to increase the earliest Germanwings will not be hit. The possible retirement age for new pilots’ move follows a strike by train recruits. drivers in support of pay and negotia- The union, however, has rejected FRANKFURT: Lufthansa planes stand at the Frankfurt Rhein-Main tion rights, which halted two thirds of this and has offered to help cover the airport in Frankfurt Germany. A union representing Lufthansa’s long-distance trains in Germany, leav- costs of the scheme. Lufthansa was pilots has announced a new 35-hour strike against the airline’s KANDAHAR: An Afghan fruit vendor sorts pomegranates at a market in Kandahar ing millions of passengers stranded not immediately available for com- short-haul fleet starting today, the latest in a string of walkouts yesterday. Pomegranates are a major agricultural crop in the war-torn nation. — AFP on Saturday and yesterday. ment. — Reuters over retirement benefits. — AP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS Getting used to the ‘new mediocre’

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LONDON: Evaporating inflation and slowing the end of this month, investors appear to have panies and households. weaker global demand.” reprised at an EU leaders summit in growth have put financial markets into such a woken up to poor growth prospects in much of “US momentum has softened a little but we Fears are centered on recession and Brussels late next week. spin that they could inflict further damage on the world, something International Monetary expect growth to remain solidly above trend. At even deflation in the euro zone and the France and Italy are pressing for more the world economy. Until a dramatic selloff, Fund chief Christine Lagarde has termed a “new the same time, the drop in oil prices is as much extent of China’s slowdown. When the leeway on debt targets to buy time to push exuberant markets had raced well ahead of the mediocre”. It’s not all doom and gloom. The a reflection of supply as demand factors,” econ- world financial crisis raged from 2007- through much-needed structural economic economies that underpin them, partly because outlook for the world’s largest economy has not omists at Goldman Sachs said in a note. “For 2009, China’s resilience was one of the reforms but are likely to have their 2015 the US Federal Reserve and other central banks suddenly taken a turn for the worse. And a 25 consumers in the largest economies, it should major silver linings. It may not be this budgets rejected by Brussels, leading to a flooded the financial system with new money. percent plunge in the price of oil since June provide meaningful relief, offsetting the pres- time. scramble to broker a face-saving deal. With the Fed set to turn off its money taps at should put more money in the pockets of com- sure from tighter financial conditions and Chinese third-quarter gross domestic The German and French economy min- product numbers due tomorrow are fore- isters have asked experts in Berlin and Paris cast to show growth at its weakest pace in to come up with reform recommendations more than five years, at 7.2 percent year- for their countries in an apparent attempt on-year. Beijing is expected to roll out a to avert a full-blown clash over economic stream of stimulus measures in coming policy. The hope is that a renewed French months, though most economists believe and Italian commitment to economic it will hold off on an interest rate cut reforms will persuade Germany to loosen unless conditions deteriorate sharply. its purse strings and the ECB to act more forcefully, even crossing its Rubicon and Pressure on Germany printing money. A poor run of economic data suggests The ECB has denied there is any “grand Germany will flirt with recession in the bargain” in the offing and officials admit third quarter, having contracted by 0.2 that whatever transpires-the aim is that a percent in the second. Flash October pur- deal will be done in time for a December chasing managers indices for the United summit-may fall short of what is required. States, euro zone, Germany and France- “We now see sovereign QE as unavoidable due on Thursday-will give a first glimpse next year,” said Ruben Segura-Cayuela, of the state of their economies heading economist at Bank of America Merrill into the last quarter of the year. Lynch, referring to quantitative easing, or Britain won’t escape the impact of the asset purchases with new money. “In a cen- euro zone’s malaise but is in much healthi- tral scenario of a weak economic recovery, er shape. Third-quarter GDP data on where the fiscal stance does not ease Friday are forecast to show growth of 0.7 meaningfully, and an inflation profile that percent in July to September. surprises the ECB on the downside, we The International Monetary Fund, believe the central bank will be forced to United States, G20 and European Central do more than it has done so far.” Bank have pressured Berlin to increase The euro-zone’s most pressing problem public spending to lift its own economy is Greece, where borrowing costs have and help its peers in the currency area. rocketed way above the level that would But the German government, the only allow Athens to quit the bailout program one in the euro zone with the resources to hated by its people and return to financing spend more and the heft for it to make a itself on the markets. Prime Minister difference, is committed to a balanced Antonis Samaras insists Athens will press budget with no net new borrowing in ahead with plans to wean itself off EU and 2015. The argument will doubtless be IMF aid. —Reuters

MINSK: Workers load beet roots into a railway carriage at the station of Smorgon, some 125 kilometers northwest of Minsk yesterday. —AFP HK protests, China slowdown take sparkle off luxury market

PARIS: Protests in Hong Kong, an econom- in September, and the shoe still also fits for ic slowdown and anti-corruption drive in Jimmy Choo, whose initial public offering China and a coup in Thailand: Asia is no (IPO) launched in London this week was longer a market of constant growth for lux- aimed at raising cash to tap into demand ury goods firms. LVMH, world number-one in China and Japan. in the sector and owner of brands like Louis Vuitton, Givenchy and Dior, saw its Cognac, wine, watches sales drop by three percent in Asia, exclud- Luxury goods firms have also com- ing Japan, in the third-quarter of 2014, a plained that a drive to stamp out lavish far cry from the halcyon days of 2010-2012. and ostentatious spending has dried up In every other market, LVMH’s sales sales of cognac and expensive wines as increased, according to figures published well as items such as watches, traditionally last week. Even activity in sluggish Europe given as presents. LVMH said revenues in has done better over the past nine months, its wines and spirits division dipped 7 per- the group said. The crisis in Hong Kong cent in the first nine months of 2014 from “will have an impact” on the quarterly a year earlier. results, group finance director Jean- French spirit-maker Remy Cointreau this Jacques Guiony said. “We have already not- week said sales in the first half of the year ed some negative impact on activity in had slumped 15.5 percent, dragged lower duty free shops in the third-quarter.” by weaker demand for its flagship Remy Arnaud Cadart, an analyst at CM-CIC Martin cognac in China. securities, said there was a “rare coming- Luxury goods sectors in other countries together of economic, monetary and in the region have also taken a hit from geopolitical factors that have had a nega- Chinese tourists staying away for a variety tive impact on the Asian market”. Slowing of reasons, including a military-backed economic growth in China, along with a coup in Thailand in May. clampdown on lavish spending by govern- Singapore has seen luxury goods clients ment officials, is crippling luxury goods cut by a fifth, according to Bain. But the firms that are used to viewing the growing biggest dent in the sector is likely to come pool of wealthy and brand-conscious con- from the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, a sumers in the world’s number two econo- global centre for luxury watches and the my as a cash cow. high-end goods market in general. Consultants Bain & Company have fore- Normally, the industry can count on cast that the luxury goods market in China around 10 to 12 percent of its turnover will contract for the first time ever this year. coming from Hong Kong, and as much as This will have a clear impact on companies 20 percent for watchmakers such as like Switzerland’s Richemont, Britain’s Richemont and Swatch. In addition to Burberry and Mulberry and Italy’s Prada, LVMH’s warning about the effect of the and many luxury brands are reining in protests on profits, watchmakers are their previously rapid expansion. already feeling the pain. Bain said the slowdown in China, com- Retail sales have declined by up to half bined with other factors, would put the in the past few weeks, as protesters clog brakes on the global luxury-goods sector, up Hong Kong’s streets and clash with which the consultancy now sees growing police in the biggest democracy rallies at two percent in 2014 — what it called since the former British colony was handed “the new normal”. Cadart noted that the back to the Chinese in 1997. Chinese market has carried the sector for The drop in sales in Asia is also having several years and “couldn’t keep up such a an impact in companies’ home markets. pace in the long-term”. Tag Heuer watches, part of the LVMH While rich Chinese clients are still seen group, has decided to make 46 people in as the big spenders, these days the big Switzerland redundant and Cartier will put spending tends to be on holiday rather people on shorter working hours from than at home. November. The only bright spot? Japan, Still, that’s not to say all luxury firms are where the market in luxury goods is actu- putting the skids on the breakneck pace of ally growing, even though Japanese clients expansion in China. Hermes cut the rib- have lost some purchasing power due to a bon on a glittering new store in Shanghai weaker yen. —AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS Signs of global slowdown resurface

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KUWAIT: Volatility dominated the market last the week at 1.6093. The Japanese yen contin- high 28.0 three months ago. The figure came fell to 5.9 percent, the lowest since 2008. United Kingdom week, with fears in Europe escalating, and a ued to gain against the US dollar, as fears that better than most economists’ forecasts, as the The United Kingdoms’ unemployment fell few worse than expected data from the US recent changes in the global market might survey stood at 19.8. The better-than-expect- Europe more than expected, to the lowest level in 6- gave a scare in the market, which pushed the take a turn to the downside, prompting ed performance gave a boost for the US dollar German investor confidence fell in October years. The jobless rate dropped to 6 percent in US dollar to drop against major currencies in investors to reach for safe haven assets such as to hike against major currencies. below the zero for the first time in 2-years, sig- the three months through August, from 6.2 the middle of the week. Anticipation of an the Yen. The Japanese yen opened at 107.66, Number of Americans filing for applications naling that the recovery for the German econ- percent the previous period. Furthermore, job- increase in interest rates in the UK have dimin- and gained dramatically against a weaker US for unemployment benefits fell last week to omy is reeling from crises abroad and a weak less claims fell the least since April 2013 in ished, and the ECB are still in talks of more dollar to touch a low of 105.23. The Yen eased the lowest level in 14-years. The number work- European economy, pushing the German September, and the economy created jobs at stimulus, which leaves the United States’ fed- towards the end of the week to close at the slowest pace in more than a year in the eral reserve in the best position for an interest 106.88. last quarter. As manufacturing and services rate hike, albeit some data that came below The Aussie dollar opened at 0.8686, only to cooling off, and Euro area endures a severe expectations. gradually strengthen against the US dollar to slump, hopes for a raise interest rate from the The euro started the week at 1.2628, gain- 0.8813. The Aussie rose versus all except one Bank of England are diminishing. ing against the US dollar to touch 1.2770, after of its 31 major counterparts as reports from Federal Reserve official stated that “an eco- China, Australia’s largest trading partner, Commodities nomic worldwide slowdown may delay inter- showed that imports increased 7 percent last Oil declined sharply since the beginning of est rate increases”, damping demand for the month from a year earlier, compared with the October, as OPEC oil production increased by greenback. The euro then eliminated almost forecast of a 2 percent decline. The Aussie lost 810,000 barrels per day (bpd), with more than all its gains as reports across Europe highlight- its steam towards the end of the week, to half of this increase came from Libya, which ed signs of economic weakness. The European weaken back to 0.8686. The Australian dollar has managed to ramp up production despite currency dropped to a low of 1.2625, after rose again on Friday to end the week at increasing domestic tensions and uncertainty. reports showed that industrial production in 0.8744. Another factor that contributed to the drop of the region dropped and a measure of German oil prices is the lower on demand that was investor confidence decreased for a tenth Retail sales m/m stimulated from weaker growth from around month. The single currency regained its losses Retail sales dropped more than forecasted and more, hiking to the weeks high of 1.2886, last month on a broad slowdown in spending the world. The International Energy Agency after worse than expected data from the US that signals that American consumers provid- forecasts the slowest consumption growth fueled concerns that US economic expansion ed less of a boost for the economy in the third since 2009. Oil prices collapsed into a bear is faltering. The euro continued to trade at a quarter. Retail sales fell by 0.3 percent vs a 0.6 market as shale supplies boost US output to between 1.2700 and 1.2850, and closed the percent gain in August, which was the biggest the most in almost 30 years, while Kuwait and week at 1.2761. in 4-months. Forecasts stood at 0.5 percent. Saudi Arabia halted production at a jointly run The sterling pound opened at 1.6076, hik- Sales fell at auto dealers, furniture stores, oil field in an effort to ease the supply in the ing only slightly to a high of 1.6127 at the building-supply outlets and clothing mer- market, that has pushed oil prices down by 25 beginning of the week. The pound then col- chants. ers filing for jobless claims decreased by economy closer to a recession. The ZEW percent. The shutdown comes as some OPEC lapsed to an 11-month low against the US dol- 23,000 to 264,000, the lowest level since April investor Confidence index fell to the lowest members face increasing pressure to scale lar, as reports showed that UK inflation slowed Philly Fed factory index 2000. The forecasted claims showed an level since November 2012, sliding more than back production while supply expands from to the least in 5-years last month, adding pres- The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s increase of 3,000 to 290,000. Data from the forecasted 0.0, to -3.6, from 6.9 the previ- the US and demand growth slows. sure on the Bank of England to keep interest Business Outlook index rebounded in March, the Labor Department showed that there ous month. Furthermore, a separate gauge of rates at record lows. The pound the regained suggesting that the world’s largest economy is is a sustain drop in firings, and a firm current conditions slid to 3.2 this month from Kuwait all its losses, as data from the US weakened overcoming a global slowdown. The Philly Fed pickup in hiring. Moreover, job gains 25.4 in September, and considerably below Kuwaiti dinar at 0.28870 the greenback. Cable hiked all the way to Index fell to 20.7 this month, the second con- continued on pace to post the best year economists forecast of 18.0. The lowest level in The USDKD opened at 0.28870 yesterday touch the previous high of 1.6127, and ended secutive decline, since it surged to a 3-year since 1999, and the unemployment rate 4-years. morning. Euro-zone faces specter of triple dip recession EU’s Juncker faces make-or-break week

BRUSSELS: The EU faces a decisive week as supposed to rubber stamp the new commis- incoming chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker sion. seeks approval for his new team to start tackling The summit agenda is already difficult, with the economic and foreign policy challenges leaders facing tough talks on climate change that beset the continent. With the euro-zone on targets for 2030, plus calls to do more to tackle the verge of a new crisis, the risk of spillover the Ebola outbreak in Africa and the Islamic from turmoil in the Middle East, and relations State militant group in Iraq and Syria. with Russia still tense over Ukraine, Europe is under pressure from all sides to act. Lame duck commission But Brussels is in limbo until Juncker’s new But it would also leave Barroso’s commission European Commission replaces the outgoing as a lame-duck administration at a time of crisis, team, led by Jose Manuel Barroso, as the execu- with the possibility that it could take until TOKYO: Rice farmer Shuichi Yokota checking growth condition with a smartphone at tive arm for the bloc of 28 nations and 500 mil- January or February before Juncker’s team is his rice field in Ryugasaki in Ibaraki prefecture, 70km north east of Tokyo. The 38-year- lion people. pushed through, EU sources said. old is about half the age of most growers, he uses smartphone-technology to cultivate The European Parliament is due to vote in Barroso’s two previous commissions in 2004 crops, while his paddy fields are nearly 50 times the size of an average plot. —AFP Strasbourg on Wednesday on Juncker’s commis- and 2010 both took office late after commis- sion in its entirety. If it passes, Juncker’s team sioners were rejected. World stocks plunged last can start its five-year mandate as planned on week on fears of a triple dip recession in a stag- Jean-Claude Juncker Japan’s ‘sacred’ rice farms November 1. The European Commission is nant euro-zone economy that is flirting with mer prime minister Alenka Bratusek. arguably the most powerful institution in deflation, and new worries about Greece. Slovakia’s Maros Sefcovic will also be inter- rotting from inside Brussels, as it drafts laws and policies for a Juncker’s flagship plan for his first months in viewed today after Juncker moved him from the sprawling region that, taken together, repre- office is a 300-billion-euro ($380-billion) invest- transport role to become vice president for RYUGASAKI, Japan: Shuichi Yokota may be offering that still forms a key part of the sents the world’s largest economy. ment package to boost jobs and growth, and energy union, the role originally earmarked for the future of Japan’s struggling rice indus- native Shinto religion, as well as tradition- But that depends on the last two members any delay would be a further blow to the euro- Bratusek. Political leaders will then meet to eval- try. The 38-year-old is about half the age of bound Sumo wrestling. “Nothing gets done of Juncker’s team-including the controversial zone. The commission also faces an early test uate the hearings and make a decision today, most growers and he relies on cutting-edge here without rice,” said Sachiko Goto, head Slovenian candidate Violeta Bulc, named at from the review it must carry out of budgets the day before the planned vote. Parliamentary technology to cultivate vast paddy fields of the Tokyo Sushi Academy, a chef-training short notice after parliament rejected her pred- submitted by France and Italy that challenge sources said they were both likely to be that eclipse the bulk of the country’s rice school. That reverence has translated into ecessor-passing interviews with parliament the EU’s strict fiscal rules imposed after the approved, despite doubts over Bulc’s lack of plots. strong protections for tiny plots tended by today. euro-zone crisis. Meanwhile any delay in experience and a fondness for New Age views And Yokota doesn’t fear opening up to families who inherited land through genera- “It’s not a done deal, but it’s likely” parlia- approving the commission could also revive that has been lampooned on social media. foreign competition-taboo in a place where tions-resulting in a hefty premium in stores. ment will vote as planned, a source close to doubts about the “democratic deficit” in the EU, “Unless she starts giving bizarre answers, there rice is a sacred cow that is protected by sub- Tokyo has for decades stabilized prices Juncker told AFP on condition of anonymity. A with increasingly alienated European voters won’t be any problems,” the EPP source said. sidies and massive tariffs. by controlling supply and penalizing over- source in Juncker’s centre-right European watching Brussels tearing itself apart. “For us, the most important thing is to let the His farm in Ryugasaki, a community production to protect farmers-a key voter People’s Party added that there was a “95 per- Slovenia’s Bulc, a little-known deputy pre- commission start work,” added a source in the north of Tokyo, has ballooned more than base-from volatile world markets, cent chance of a vote on Wednesday.” mier and telecoms entrepreneur, will be inter- socialist group in parliament. France and five-fold in 15 years into an operation span- This policy, known as “gentan” and refer- If the vote is delayed, it would cast a shadow viewed on Monday for the post of transport Germany have been privately pressing the ning 112 hectares (275 acres) — almost 30 ring to small-scale cultivation, effectively over a summit of European leaders in Brussels commissioner. Ljubljana nominated her after European Parliament to get the Commission times bigger than the tiny commercial rice made rice farming a part-time job left to on Thursday and Friday, during which they are parliament rejected the previous candidate, for- through on time, EU sources said. — AFP fields commonly found in the area. “This is older relatives while younger family mem- simply the consequence of retiring farmers bers worked in other sectors. asking me to cultivate their rice paddies for But, as with much of the greying nation, them,” Yokota said. many farmers are now retiring-the average Market turmoil: A gift for “I am one of very few full-time farmers in is about 66 years old-with few interested in this area, and the people who were retiring replacing them. That has left some 400,000 didn’t have anyone in the family to continue hectares of farmland unused across the growing rice. But they don’t want to sell the country, an area almost twice the size of mortgage refinancers? land.” Tokyo. “What needs to be done is encourage While many of Japan’s farmers get by older farmers to retire and then gather small NEW YORK: A sudden plunge in mortgage rates boom for $400,000, using an adjustable-rate loan Even a slight drop in mortgage rates can with centuries-old farming methods, Yokota pieces of land into one big lot for someone last week raised an urgent question for millions with an initial 5.875 percent rate that would reset translate into significant savings over the long and his colleagues share workload informa- capable like Yokota,” said Masayoshi Honma, of Americans: Should I refinance my mortgage? after 10 years. The reset would amount to an run. For a median-priced home worth $221,000, tion and data such as temperature and an economics professor at Tokyo University. Across the country, homeowners and would- extra $400 a month on the condo, which the cou- a 0.5 percentage point decline in a mortgage water levels-monitored by sensors installed It is estimated that ditching rice tariffs- be homeowners eager for a bargain rate fired off ple now rents, Issi Romem said. “Seeing rates go rate would produce savings of $50 a month, in each paddy-on their smartphones. which can reach 778 percent would see inquiries to lenders. The opportunity emerged down even more is something I wasn’t expect- according to a Bank of America analysis. Still, it Yokota may be an accidental giant local prices fall by about 341 yen ($3.20) per from the tumult that seized financial markets and ing,” he said. “It reminds me that I need to do this takes time for the savings to offset the costs of among rice growers, but some are betting kilogram, according to Japan’s agricultural sent stock prices and bond yields tumbling. now, before interest rates do go up.” refinancing. “There’s no free lunch in this,” noted that people like him are the best hope for ministry. An average five-kilogram (11-lb) Rates on long-term mortgages tend to track the Gary Kalman, executive vice president at the fixing an inefficient system, with wider calls bag in a Tokyo supermarket costs between 10-year Treasury yield, which fell below 2 percent Home loan rates Center for Responsible Lending. Lenders typically for a shake up of Japan’s cossetted agricul- 1,500-2,000 yen, up to three times a compa- for the first time since May 2013. Before last week, many bankers, lenders and charge fees for paperwork on the loan and to pay tural sector. Prices have tumbled as Japan’s rable bag in Sydney, Bangkok and Beijing. Accordingly, the average rate for a 30-year borrowers had assumed that home loan rates for a home appraisal and title insurance, among rice consumption has halved in 50 years, fixed mortgage, mortgage giant Freddie Mac would soon start rising closer to a two-decade other costs. and there are fears the sector is rotting from Overseas markets reported, dipped below 4 percent to 3.97 per- average of 6 percent. That was based on expecta- “You want to make sure the interest rate the inside despite-or some say, because of- Despite resistance to change by the cent - a tantalizing figure. As recently as January, tions that the Federal Reserve would start raising you’re getting is dropping enough that it more decades-old protectionism. powerful agricultural lobby, some older rice the average was 4.53 percent. Ultra-low rates do its key short-term rate next year - a move that than offsets whatever fees you may be paying,” Ageing farmers are also facing fresh farmers such as Yamada blame the subsidy carry risks as well as opportunities. Charges and would likely lead to higher mortgage rates, too. Kalman said. Refinancing from a 5.5 percent rate competition, with the country’s largest system for a now stagnant sector. Prime fees can shortchange refinancers who are But that assumption fell suddenly into doubt - which some borrowers still have - to 4 percent supermarket chain Aeon jumping into the Minister Shinzo Abe last year said he would focused only on the potential savings. And falling as stocks plunged yesterday and Wednesday would save $180 a month on a $200,000 mort- rice business. end production quotas from 2018 and abol- rates are often associated with the broader risk of amid fears about global economic weaknesses, gage. But the fees - averaging around $2,500 - “The situation is extremely serious-this is ish some cash handouts to rice farmers an economic slowdown that could eventually the spread of Ebola and the threat of the Islamic mean it would take about 14 months to break the dawn of a very difficult time,” said while expanding other payments-leading to reduce the income that some people have to pay State militia group in the Middle East. Seeking even. Yoshito Yamada, a 66-year-old farmer in the claims the policy was toothless. their mortgages. safety, investors poured money into US Treasurys. Research done this year by economists at the Yet the tempting possibility of locking in a Higher demand drives up prices for those govern- University of Chicago and Brigham Young northeastern city of Kitakata. Despite his plan to shake up the econo- sub-4 percent rate has a way of motivating peo- ment bonds and causes their yields to drop. University found that 20 percent of eligible my, Abe has avoided taking an axe to rice ple. “It gets people excited,” said Michelle Meyer, The yield on the 10-year note traded as low as households failed to refinance when rates first Rice reverence tariffs that have long been seen as untouch- an economist at Bank of America. “It gets mort- 1.91 percent Wednesday before ending the day made doing so profitable in late 2010. They Whether it is a bed for a piece of raw fish, able. The levies have kept imports of foreign gage bankers excited. It gets prospective buyers at 2.14 percent. A stock market rally on Friday essentially cost themselves $11,500 in potential an essential component of almost every rice to a trickle — 77 tons last year against excited.” helped lift the yield to 2.20 percent. That sug- savings. Those who missed those late rates last meal, or the key ingredient in making sake, domestic production of eight million-and The drop in rates could finally give homeown- gested that the moment to refinance might be year now have a second chance. “When you get rice is Japan’s unparallelled staple food and they remain a key stumbling block in ers like Issi and Amy Romem of Mountain View, fleeting. “It’s likely to be the last time we see these little boomlets like we see now, most of enjoys a revered status. Tokyo’s trade talks, including the US-led California, the chance to refinance. Amy Romem these rates for a generation, if ever again,” said that is what drives refinancing activity,” said Bob Hundreds of years ago it was a currency, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed bought the condo at the peak of the housing Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at Realtor.com. Walters, chief economist at Quicken Loans.—AP a symbol of wealth and power, and a ritual 12-nation free-trade bloc.—AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS

British Airways links two Capitals with Superjumbo

KUWAIT: First and Club World (business in Club World can enjoy their pre-flight Traveller cabinsto residents of Kuwait class) customers travelling between dining with views over the runway. For travelling with British Airways across the Kuwait and Washington via Heathrow on people wanting a lighter snack, a new Atlantic via Heathrow. British Airways’ first A380 to the US deli areaoffers a range of options along The airline is initially operating five Capital, will now have the added bonus with Twinings tea, freshly ground A380 services a week from Washington of enjoying the airline’s newly re- Fairtrade coffee. A stylish new bar area Dulles. This will increase from the end of launched lounge at Washington Dulles offers a range of complimentary bever- October to a daily A380 service, in con- International Airport. ages. The Washington lounge is the latest junction with the daily BA292, operated The upgraded lounge can now host in a line to be re-launched, following by a Boeing 747 and the thrice weekly 200 customers, thanks to 10,000 square Newark, Cape Town, Edinburgh and BA264 operated by a Boeing 777. feet of space. It features intimate bar Belfast City. The extra space will be put to British Airways currently flies its A380 areas, business facilities, fine dining, good use as the airline’s A380s - the aircraft from Los Angeles, Hong Kong shower suites and a private VIP area. largest commercial aircraft in the sky - and Johannesburg, with flights to Reflecting the style of the Galleries are capable of accommodating up to 469 Singapore beginning on October 28, flagship lounges at London Heathrow’s customers, including 97 in Club World 2014 and San Francisco in April 2015. Terminal 5, the lounge is designed with and 14 in First. British Airways has ordered 12 A380s for areas where customers can relax and The flight is the first and only non- delivery by 2016 as part of a £5bn invest- unwind, or refresh and work. stop A380 service between the two ment in new aircraft, smarter cabins, ele- A private dining room is available for nations’ capitals and the aircraft offers a gant lounges, and new technologies to customers travelling in First, which offers choice of British Airways’ First, Club make life more comfortable in the air comfort and privacy and those travelling World, World Traveller Plus and World and on the ground. British Airways A380 First class cabin Top Automan honor shows star Nissan vehicle on right Path Pathfinder ‘midsize SUV of the year’

KUWAIT: The Nissan Pathfinder has won ‘Midsize SUV of the Year’ in the Automan Magazine awards, bringing another prestigious trophy to the Japanese automaker’s bulging showcase. “For the Pathfinder to be awarded the title of Midsize SUV of the Year is a tremendous honor for Nissan,” says Samir Cherfan, Managing Director, Nissan Middle East. “This is a highly-competitive segment which makes the Automan award even more noteworthy.” Automan is the leading automotive publication in Oman. Its annual Car of the Year awards are held in high regard throughout the Middle East. The award was received by Katib Belkhodja, Brand Manager for SUVs and Crossovers in Nissan Middle East during the Award Ceremony that was held in ‘On the Rocks’ restaurant in Muscat. Carmax launches offer Judges have noted that Nissan has achieved its goal with the fourth generation Pathfinder of not just satisfying the faithful customers but attracting ‘Enjoy Driving it new buyers to the famed vehicle and the brand. The all-new vehicle has enjoyed ultra-high lev- Today and Pay in 2015’ els of popularity since its launch in 2013 with Pathfinder sales more than doubling for financial year 2013 compared to the previous 12 months. KUWAIT: “Carmax”, the first supermar- It is worth noting that the appraisal The GCC countries, a heartland for the ket of its kind for selling used cars in operation is completed on all models Pathfinder and Nissan vehicles generally, saw 5,936 Kuwait, continues to present the best and types of cars and used models. Pathfinders leave the showroom floors during the “Sales of SUVs are booming and our best-in- includes the Advanced Drive-Assist Display in the offers. The company lately announced “Carmax” is committed to providing 2013 financial year as opposed to 2,827 for the pre- class Pathfinder is at the forefront. The just- centre of the instrument cluster in front of the driv- the launch of its innovative and exclu- several special services with high added vious generation Pathfinder in financial year 2012, announced award from Automan bears testimony er. The Pathfinder also features Nissan’s advanced, sive offer “Enjoy driving it today and pay value, rendering it the number one a 110 per cent increase. to this. class-exclusive Around View monitor, which pro- in 2015” for a limited number of choice for those looking to purchase a In the wider Middle East Pathfinder sales “It boasts seven full-sized seats, vast cabin vides the driver a virtual 360-degree image of the Mitsubishi Pajero Cars which were used used vehicle. It includes the voluntary notched 6,393 for financial year 2013, a 121 per space, good fuel economy, cruising comfort and area around the vehicle. by managers. guarantee which guarantees and repairs cent hike on the 2,887 for the previous generation more. We have said from the outset that our goal is Advanced Drive-Assist display comes standard In its statement, “Carmax” called its the damages during the guarantee Pathfinder units in financial year 2012. for the current Pathfinder to not only be the best in on every model and can be customised, is easy-to- clients to seize the opportunity of own- term, which provides clients with peace A breakdown of sales throughout the GCC its class, but also to advance the entire SUV seg- use and integrates key information in front of the ing a Pajero which was used by man- of mind. Clients can find everything states for financial year 2013 compared to the pre- ment,” says Cherfan. driver. The Pathfinder utilises a refined new drive- agers, with modest meter readings and they need in “Carmax” World, including vious 12 month shows that while in UAE and The Automan award joins some other presti- train featuring a 3.5-litre DOHC V6 engine mated to a price starting at 94 dinars per month various accessories that are installed Kuwait sales more than doubled, for Oman sales gious honors for the Pathfinder. It has been named a next-generation Xtronic continuously variable only. The client shall receive many other before receiving the vehicle to achieve increased by 43 percent, in Qatarsales shot up by ‘Best Mid-size SUV’ by Automobile TV in the Middle transmission. The new combination maintains benefits, including: free gas coupons its motto: “you want to choose it? You 74 percent and sales in Bahrain were up by 38 per- East, ‘Best Family Car’ by Kelly Blue Book in the nearly the same horsepower as the previous gener- worth 1000 liters, guarantee for 20 want to compare it? You want to deco- cent. Cherfan says the Pathfinder is maintaining its United States and among the ‘10 Best family cars’ ation’s larger displacement 4.0-litre V6 - 254 horse- thousand kilometers, free registration at rate it? You found it”. It provides every- impressive momentum in 2014. by Edmunds.com and Parents Magazine, both also power versus the previous 266. the Traffic, free oil and filter replace- thing the client is looking for, including “With fresh design and improved levels of stan- in US. Nissan aims to sell 8,200 Pathfinders per year Pathfinder is the only vehicle in class with selec- ment, unprecedented credit facilities various products and prices as well as dard technology, the all-new Pathfinder is all about in the GCC in the next two years. The Pathfinder’s table 2WD, auto or 4WD lock modes for its intuitive represented in owning a car without an various services and additions under generating new wave of Middle Eastern buyers new unibody platform gave the designers an All-Mode 4x4-i system. The system lets the driver opportunity to create a more aerodynamic exterior choose full-time 2WD for maximum fuel economy, advance payment, and a grace period one roof. looking for a stylish, premium and authentic SUV while staying true to the roots of this extremely without compromising headroom or cargo capaci- Auto mode to automatically monitor conditions for the payment of installments extend- “Carmax” exhibition, which succeed- popular vehicle,” says the automaker’s Middle East ty. The vehicle also comes with reduced weight. and adjust the balance of power between front ing to 2015 in cooperation with the Al ed in attracting many clients who look chief. “The Middle East loves the Pathfinder and it’s Exterior details include a wide chrome grille and and rear wheels for best traction, or 4WD lock Mulla International Financing Company. for surprises and benefits, purchasing getting more popular by the day. Maybe it’s the large aerodynamic headlights, hidden front wind- mode when the confidence of full-time 4WD is This exceptional offer guarantees that fantastic used vehicles of all models allure of a weekend out of town aided by generous shield wipers, chrome door handles and large rear desired. the clients of “Carmax” receive the high- with modest meter readings and excep- ground-clearance and outstanding cabins, maybe combination lights. There’s an available dual The all-new Pathfinder also boasts a significant est possible appraisal value for their old tional prices, receives clients in the main it’s the elevated driving position for peering past panoramic moonroof with sliding opening front improvement over the previous body-on-frame cars in the local market so everyone exhibition found in Al-Rai region, which the traffic on our region’s increasingly bustling panel and fixed rear glass panel. Thoughtful tech- design - a weight saving of up to 227kg. The vehi- receives an adequate opportunity to is considered the latest and largest of its roads or maybe it’s the sense of safety of while trav- nology is also found throughout the Pathfinder cle has best-in-class standard towing capacity of replace their old cars with one of the kind for used cars in Kuwait. The exhibi- elling in a large tall vehicle. interior, starting with the instrument panel, which up to 1,500 kgs. special “Carmax” cars, without losing in tion is open from 8.30 am until 8.30 pm the appraisal operation of their old cars. all days of the week. Qalaa Holdings founder and Chairman Ahmed Al-Tijari announces winners Heikal named ‘African Business Leader of the Year’ of Najma Account draw KUWAIT: Qalaa Holdings (formerly Investment Authority (KenInvest). EGP 2 million in capital. The compa- Citadel Capital, CCAP.CA on the “I am truly honored to be recog- ny has since successfully shifted its KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held 100,000 each on different occasions: The Egyptian Exchange) an African leader nized at such a prestigious venue investment model from a private the Al-Najma Account Daily draw yester- National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha and in infrastructure and industry, is and alongside such an esteemed list equity firm to an investment holding day. The draw was held under the supervi- on the 19th of June which is the date of pleased to announce that its of key African business and invest- company with accumulated assets Founder and Chairman Ahmed ment figures,” said Heikal. “As I have on its balance sheet that are present- sion of the Ministry of Commerce & the bank’s establishment. Heikal has received African Investor’s noted repeatedly, we are truly in the ly in excess of $4.2 billion, extending Industry represented by Abdulaziz With a minimum balance of KD 500, Ashkanani. African Business Leader of the Year midst of an African Century. Twelve its leadership in five core sectors: customers will be eligible for the daily Award, honoring his 25-year contri- of the world’s 20 fastest-growing energy, transportation, agrifoods, The winners of the Najma daily draw are: draw provided that the money is in the bution to the development of busi- economies in the next five years will mining and cement. • Jeyanthy Mithir Anesan — KD 7000 account one week prior to the daily ness, finance and investment in likely be in North and Sub-Saharan “The transformation currently • Shafiq Wadea Adra — KD 7000 draw or 2 months prior to the mega Africa. Africa, and today our continent is a underway in Africa is one that will • Mashhour Mohammed Al-Saleh: KD 7000 draw. In addition, for each KD 25 a cus- The annual awards, which recent- one-billion-strong consumer market, completely remake the continent • Mohammed Shafeq Fadhel: KD 7000 tomer can get one chance for winning ly took place in Washington DC while in 2040 it will be home to the and, with it, the global economy,” • Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Tememi : KD 7000 instead of KD 50. alongside the World Bank’s Annual world’s largest working-age popula- noted Heikal. “Africa is now home to The Commercial Bank of Kuwait Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this Meetings, recognize exceptional tion. Our middle class is already more than two dozen nations that announces the biggest daily draw in opportunity to congratulate all lucky business practices, economic more than 310-million strong, and the World Bank’s International Kuwait with the launch of the new Najma winners and also extends appreciation to achievements and investments our 18 largest cities will have com- Finance Corporation sees as prime number of governments led by across Africa, as well as the institu- bined purchasing power of $1.3 tril- for private equity investment, and younger, better-educated individuals account. Customers of the bank can now the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for their effective supervision of the tions and individuals improving the lion by 2030,” added Heikal. the continent’s foreign reserves base who are more open to private-sector enjoy a KD 7,000 daily prize which is the continent’s investment climate. Heikal founded Qalaa Holdings as is skyrocketing on the back of an draws which were conducted in an involvement in the economy than highest in the country and another 4 Other winners included Nigeria’s a two-person partnership with export-led, commodities-driven ever before, it’s easy to see why all mega prizes during the year worth KD orderly and organized manner. Minister of Finance and the Kenyan Hisham El-Khazindar in 2004 with boom. When coupled with a growing eyes should be on Africa,” he added. technology MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Ex-German professor makes Twitter splash saying ‘Nein’

BERLIN: Former Ivy League professor of “Youth. Wasted on the wrong demographic,” undercut it in a kind of playful and thought- comes from Wisconsin and lives in New York, so different than the emptiness of a whole German Eric Jarosinski seemed an unlikely reads one. “A gentle reminder that today was provoking way,” Jarosinski told AFP. “That’s said he was mindful to avoid only “inside page on a laptop and so those constraints for Twitter phenomenon in the making, at least on just a symptom. We’re the problem,” reads always the challenge, that these short things jokes”. Nor is he seeking to popularize the me really brought about the creativity,” said paper. When he wasn’t teaching his students in another, or: “Every now and then you should have to do all of that at once. But that’s also thinkers and works that have long fascinated Jarosinski, who cites a high-school love as the the United States about 20th-century writers step back. Take a look at your life. And keep what I love about it,” he said in an interview on him, he added. “What I’m trying to do is simply spark for having learnt German. and philosophers, he was trying to write a book stepping back.” the sidelines of this month’s Frankfurt Book Fair, say, that to honor the spirit of this work also In July, he left the University of on transparency as a political metaphor in post- Written in German and/or English from his where he was promoting a planned book. means to be critical of this work and that you Pennsylvania where he was assistant profes- Wall Germany. smartphone, Jarosinski has struck a chord can play with this stuff,” he said. sor of German, and is now working on a new He readily admits he was averse to the among users of a form of social media often ‘No need to fetishise’ book “Nein. A Manifesto”, due to be published Internet-it meant having to deal with an ava- derided for being overindulgent in tracking the Open, witty and with a wide ready smile, he “That it doesn’t have to be fetishised.” in various countries from 2015. lanche of work emails and he was “never the minutiae of everyday life. His Twitter feed, calls what he does “writing jokes” whose form He’s a critical reviewer of his own tweets and After his previous leap from scholarly writ- type” to sit at home reading blogs, the 43-year- which he dubs “A Compendium of Utopian and delivery have evolved over time and are typically later deletes about a third but enjoys ing to Twitter, his switch back to print will fea- old said. Negation”, has more than 90,000 followers in an inspired by the aphorisms-terse or astute say- the instant reaction they can prompt, likening it ture four-liners whose style emanates from Then two-and-a-half years ago a friend estimated 100 countries and a weekly column ings or observations-of writer Karl Kraus, an ear- to “a comedian who tries new material”. the “spirit” of his tweets but is not a “book of introduced him to Twitter whose point, he said, in the prestigious German Die Zeit newspaper. ly 20th-century Austrian writer and satirist, and “Sometimes someone comes back with a tweets”, he said. he didn’t understand at first. But through fol- Much of the effect comes from his avatar-a others. Often his pithy philosophical musings better punchline... that’s thrilling,” he said. He’s also currently on the second of what lowing several comedians and writers, he came formidable cartoon image of German philoso- play on language, mixing German and he terms his #FailedIntellectual Goodwill to see the potential of the microblogging site. It pher and social critic Theodor W. Adorno wear- English, with puns, inversion, negation or con- Bridging Twitter and print Tour, with universities or other forums in sparked what he calls his “little experiment”, ing a monocle with a stern “Nein” (No) written tradiction, and tend to be pegged to current His success with Twitter’s “little box” Europe, North and South America inviting probing life’s complexities in his Twitter feed below his face. events or daily life. where users are restricted to composing the him to talk about @NeinQuarterly. The idea, @NeinQuarterly in a style that is ironic, melan- “What I’m interested in is taking the authori- “Remember, friends: The dative never says briefest of messages has helped draw a line he said dryly, came from his alter-ego. “My cholic, funny or intriguing in up to 140 charac- ty that’s there in that face, in the words and die”, read a recent one that requires knowl- under the angst, isolation and frustration he persona has no problem with self-promotion ters. undercutting it at the same time, but trying to edge of German grammar, but Jarosinski, who felt in his academic writing, he said. “It feels at all.” —AFP With new entrants, streaming TV sees watershed moment Traditional pay TV industry being transformed

WASHINGTON: For years, the notion of on- with cable companies. When they put their con- Morningstar analyst Neil Macker said the new demand, anywhere television has been slowly tent over the Internet, they can reach consumers HBO and CBS services are not necessarily aimed disrupting the traditional pay TV industry. Now on their own terms.” This means an acceleration at cutting profitable ties with cable. “They’re not it seems that streaming video has hit a water- in “cord cutters” in the cable industry and could trying to accelerate cord cutting,” because of the shed moment. In the past week, HBO force the providers to break up the expensive large number who are still on the cable bundle, announced it would launch a standalone “bundles” consumers are forced to buy when said Macker. streaming service in 2015 to deliver hit shows they want popular channels like HBO or sports “I don’t think it’s really a competitor to Netflix, like “Game of Thrones” and “Girls,” directly to channel ESPN, said McCall. I think it’s an additional channel.” Still, he noted viewers without a cable or satellite subscription. Roger Kay at Endpoint Technologies said the that others like HBO rival Showtime would likely That was followed quickly by CBS, which said new trend is “scaring the carriers” such as follow the trend, aiming at some 10 million US it was offering a Web-only subscription service, Comcast, the dominant cable provider, which home with broadband Internet but not pay TV. bypassing the cable, for its shows like “NCIS,” as fears the hugely profitable cable system will turn OUARZAZATE: A Moroccan worker walks in front of a solar array that is part well as its archive including “Star Trek” and “Twin into “dumb pipes.” “There’s going to be a recom- Sports is wild card of the Noor 1 solar power project in Ouarzazate yesterday. Morocco’s first Peaks.” Spanish-language broadcaster Univision position of video content distribution... separat- McQuivey said one thing holding back the solar energy plant will begin operating in 2015, an official said, as part of a is also set to make its shows available through a ing the pipe from the content,” Kay said. move to online TV is the availability of live sports multi-billion-euro project the oil-scarce kingdom hopes will satisfy its website and app, without cable, sources said. According to the research firm SNL Kagan, US such as NFL football and NBA basketball. “As growing energy needs. —AFP Over the past few years, online services like cable and other traditional pay TV firms lost long as people can’t get sports any other way, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have been gaining some two million customers in 2013. Roughly 84 they will keep the existing pay TV model,” he First plant in Morocco solar viewers at the expense of cable and satellite percent of US households subscribe to pay TV, said. “The pay TV model will decline a little more services. But the entry of content powerhouses according to Leichtman Research, but that has sharply but it is not going to disappear.” mega-project to open in 2015 like HBO (a unit of Time Warner) and CBS change been slowly falling since 2010. At some point in the coming years, said the landscape because they bring new and pop- Leichtman surveys shows 22 percent of those McQuivey, consumers will have a greater ability ular shows that had not been available on who move don’t get a pay TV subscription at to break free from expensive cable bundles” and OUARZAZATE, Morocco: Morocco’s first solar last September. streaming before, said James McQuivey at their new residence, with 11 percent of those select the channels and content they want. energy plant will begin operating in 2015, an The World Bank, the African Development Forrester Research. without a cable or satellite package saying they “It doesn’t necessarily mean consumers pay official said yesterday, as part of a multi-bil- Bank and the European Investment Bank are “It doesn’t necessarily cannibalize the other can manage with digital services like Netflix. less. They might pay more, but they would like it lion-euro project the oil-scarce kingdom helping to finance the solar complex. streaming experiences but it creates a new focus McCall said that with increasing services if they could have access to everything on HBO hopes will satisfy its growing energy needs. Bakkoury said the general project-the largest for the viewer because it has the hit series, and online, “people can find enough stuff and not and everything HBO ever aired,” he said. The so-called “Nour 1” thermo-solar plant at of its kind in the world was progressing “in a that drives a lot of interest,” McQuivey said. pay for 100 channels they don’t want.” This trend Over time, the industry will adapt to give con- the southern desert city of Ouarzazate will be satisfactory manner”. has been gradually increasing, and McCall sumers what they want. “They want to watch the operational “next year”, Mustapha Bakkoury, The plant’s second phase, including the Moving to new model expects a “major shift” within 10 to 15 years. best program on the device they want when the head of Morocco’s MASEN solar energy construction of two additional solar parks, will Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication at “Consumers can get out of these huge cable they want to watch,” said McQuivey. agency said. The North African country is aim- begin at the start of next year, Bakkoury said. DePauw University, said these developments packages and create and their own online a la And because cable firms are losing their grip, ing to become a world-class renewable ener- He said a call for tenders had attracted seven show the TV industry is increasingly moving carte programming,” he said. But McCall said big it gives program producers more options. “I gy producer and is eyeing the chance to firms, including French and Spanish groups, toward the on-demand, online model. “We’re not conglomerates like Comcast-which owns NBC think we’re going to see a rise in independent export clean electricity to nearby Europe. the result of which will be announced before there yet, but these announcements show we and which is seeking to merge with Time Warner production without having distribution secured,” Morocco expects to build five new solar the end of the year. are headed in that direction,” McCall said. Cable-can survive by offering both content and he said. “I think we’ll see an explosion of great plants by the end of the decade with a com- A third and final construction phase at “For CBS and HBO, there’s no need to deal distribution. programming.” —AFP bined production capacity of 2,000 Ouarzazate will be announced “in the com- megawatts (MW) and at an estimated cost of ing weeks”, Bakkoury said. The kingdom has seven billion euros ($9 billion). scarce oil and gas reserves and is hoping The Nour 1 plant cost 600 million euros with the solar projects, along with a string of Federal General Trading & Contracting and is expected to have a capacity to gener- planned wind farms along its Atlantic coast, ate 160 MW. A consortium led by Saudi devel- to raise renewable energy production to 42 Co launches Energizer car battery oper ACWA Power won the contract to build percent of its total power supply mix by the plant, near Morocco’s desert gateway city, 2020. —AFP KUWAIT: FTC Federal General important feature of the new bat- start, ignition) batteries as well as “FTC” Federal General Trading & Trading & Contracting Co, recently teries. The robust PowerFrame the AGM (Absorbent-Glass-Matt) Contracting Co. was established in launched officially a range of grid structure prevents premature and EFB (Enhanced-Flooded- 2012 with its main office in Ardiya Energizer automotive batteries by battery failure caused by corro- Batteries) for passenger car vehi- Industrial area. FTC offer cus- Johnson Controls. FTC strives at sion, ensuring efficient electrical cles with start-stop technology. tomer’s services and products that offering Kuwait customers the very flow for consistently high power The entire range for truck and are fine picked to best serve best from the world’s top brand of over the life of the battery. These commercial vehicles are Energizer Kuwait companies and consumers. automotive batteries. batteries also have an unusually commercial, Energizer commercial FTC is a distributor of the following Ashish Tandon expressed his delight at the business association with Bushehri Trading Company (BUCO) the exclusive distributor of Energizer automotive batteries by Johnson Controls in the Middle East. He also mentioned that he was confident in the quality of the product which would give cars on Kuwait roads an added edge and improved performance. Satpal Singh, FTC Executive Manager explained that Energizer automo- tive batteries could be found in all KAICO outlets, ACE hardware, Sardar Traders, Sabeeh Auto Parts and many more spare parts shops in Kuwait. The Energizer automotive bat- tery provides reliable starting power thanks to its streamlined range of batteries. The technology utilized in the Energizer batteries KUWAIT: (From left to right): Mokhles Yaqoub - Sales Executive, Ashish Tandon - FTC General is called PowerFrame technology, Manager, Satpal Singh - FTC Executive Manager and Mahmoud Ezzaldeen - Sales Executive. which is at the moment absolutely NEW DELHI: An Indian technician repairs telephone cables in New Delhi unique in the market and is main- long shelf-life of up to 18 months. heavy duty and Energizer com- brands in Kuwait - Apollo tyres, yesterday. Uncertainty about India’s regulatory climate has dampened for- tenance free. Furthermore, the full The entire range available in mercial super heavy duty all of Achilles Tyres, VR-12 (Vitamin for PowerFrame grid is made to last Kuwait for passenger cars includes which feature ‘True Strength’ pow- your radiator), Sherwin Williams eign investment at a time when the country urgently needs it to upgrade longer in the hot weather condi- Energizer, Energizer Plus and er storage provided by Automotive Paints, Seahorse dilapidated infrastructure and spur economic growth. —AFP tions of Kuwait which is the most Energizer Premium for LSI (light, PowerFrame. Lubes, Mitsubishi belts. Egg freezing: Controversial new benefit in the US workplace

WASHINGTON: Free meals, four months of maternity ing that in the United States, a woman doing the meals a day at the office, a medical care in situ and a for us without a family to distract them,’” Jessica leave and now egg-freezing: Facebook’s latest gift to same job as a man earns 77 percent what he does. car wash. Cussins of the Center for Genetics and Society wrote its employees has rekindled debate on the role of That is apparently not the goal of Facebook, in a Huffington Post editorial. women in the company. known among companies in Silicon Valley for its ‘Generous’ maternity leave’ But Chavi Eve Karkowsky, an obstetrician in New The move aims to at the very least show that “we groundbreaking ideas on personnel management, in “We don’t have women-specific benefits. We have York, wrote in the online magazine Slate that when it have a lot of work to do to help companies really offering this coverage up to $20,000. benefits for people at Facebook,” the spokesman comes to delayed child bearing, “the two factors that understand what they need to do,” said Carolyn “We take care of all our employees and the people said, insisting that the four-month maternity leave is come up again and again are financial stability and Leighton, who founded WITI, a network of women who matter most to them,” said a Facebook quite generous in a country where much shorter the availability of an appropriate partner.” working in the tech sector. As for paying to have eggs spokesman, outlining the company’s health care ben- periods are often granted. Apple, which will start Of the second factor, she added “this is the one frozen-which allows women to put off having chil- efits. There is no universal, government-funded health paying for egg freezing in January, said it wanted to that I think creates the egg-freezing push.” dren-she dismissed the idea as “ridiculous.” care program in the United States, and most give its workers the power to make their lives pro- The procedure that was once mostly used by peo- “My phone has been ringing off the hook with Americans get their health care from their employer. ductive as they take care of their loved ones and ple with cancer and is not harmless and its results not women who found it insulting,” Leighton said. At Facebook, the benefits include fertility treat- raise their children. guaranteed. The debate has rekindled the controversy “They felt they were just trying to deflect the con- ment, surrogate mothers for homosexual couples and “Surely what they meant to say was, ‘We want over women in the workplace, a key issue for the versation about equal pay for women,” she said, recall- sperm bank access. This is all on top of three free women at Apple to spend more of their lives working women’s liberation movement. —AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Americans ‘can’t give in to hysteria or fear’ over Ebola Canada to ship vials of experimental vaccine to WHO

WASHINGTON: With three cases of to seal off an entire region of the phase, if successful, involving vaccinat- who flew with Vinson on a trip she Ebola diagnosed in the United States world, if that were even possible, ing frontline healthcare workers, would made to Ohio before being diag- and more than 100 people being could actually make the situation begin in early 2015. nosed, as well as those on subse- monitored for possible infection, worse.” quent flights on the same planes, President Barack Obama said on Obama, who has been criticized Fear have been contacted by Frontier Saturday that Americans “can’t give in over his administration’s handling of Obama sought to put the extent Airlines, it said on Saturday. Also to hysteria or fear” about the spread Ebola, held a flurry of meetings this of the disease in the United States in being monitored are a lab worker at of the virus. While Obama administra- week and on Friday appointed Ron perspective. “What we’re seeing now the hospital who is not ill but is in iso- tion and world health officials Klain, an experienced Washington is not an ‘outbreak’ or an ‘epidemic’ of lation at sea in her cabin on the remained focused on tackling Ebola lawyer, to oversee efforts to contain Ebola in America,” he said. “This is a Carnival Magic cruise ship owned by at its source in three West African the disease. Republicans questioned serious disease, but we can’t give in to Carnival Corp. The worker had no countries, Texas state authorities said why he did not pick a medical expert. hysteria or fear.” A series of Ebola contact with Duncan but may have 14 people had been cleared from an “I hope he (Klain) is successful in this. I scares has hit the country since come in contact with test samples. MONROVIA: A Liberian health worker holds a baby infected with the Ebola Ebola watch list. Three weeks of moni- think it’s a step in the right direction, Duncan, who died on Oct 8, was diag- The ship was on its way back to virus on October 18, 2014 at the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors toring for fever and other symptoms but I just question picking someone nosed. Americans’ faith in the medical Galveston, Texas. Without Borders) Ebola treatment center. —AFP was expected to end for others in the without any background in public system and in its disease prevention The Ohio Department of Health next two days if they remained health,” Republican Rep. and House ability was jolted by early missteps in strengthened its recommended asymptomatic. Foreign Affairs Committee chairman his case. Ebola quarantine protocols to limit Liberian president asks ‘world’ Those include Louise Troh in Ed Royce told CNN. In a public letter on Saturday travel by those required to have their Dallas, fiancÈe of the now deceased The World Health Organization night, Texas Health Resources Chief health condition monitored locally or to pitch in to fight Ebola Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who has also been faulted for failing to do Executive Barclay Berdan acknowl- report it to officials. Ohio said its vigi- became the first US-diagnosed Ebola enough to halt the spread of the edged that the Texas Health lance was meant to exceed CDC rec- MONROVIA: Liberian President Ellen organizations, financial institutions to case in late September while visiting virus. The WHO said it would publish a Presbyterian Hospital where Duncan ommendations. Obama has stressed Johnson Sirleaf made an impassioned NGOs, politicians to ordinary people on the her. Troh, her 13-year-old son and full review of its handling of the crisis first went “made mistakes in handling that containing Ebola should include appeal to the world’s nations to pitch in to street in any corner of the world, we all two Duncan relatives have been in once the outbreak was under control. this very difficult challenge,” including help for the worst-hit countries and fight against Ebola, saying the “time for have a stake in the battle against Ebola.” mandatory quarantine in Dallas that There is no cure or approved vaccine initially not correctly diagnosing his Washington plans to deploy up to talking or theorizing is over.” Sirleaf said the The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly ends on Sunday. The Texas yet for Ebola but pharmaceutical symptoms. Berdan said aggressive 4,000 military personnel to the region three worst-hit West Africa nations-her own Ebola virus has so far killed more than Department of State Health Services companies have been working on actions and changes since then by late October. He is preparing to ask and neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone- 4,500 people, almost all in Guinea, Liberia said in a statement that 145 people experimental drugs. The virus is trans- ensured that the hospital was “a safe Congress for additional Ebola fund- were being devastated because what infra- and Sierra Leone, but isolated cases have with “contacts and possible contacts” mitted through an infected person’s place” for patients and staff, and that ing. structure they had was destroyed in a now begun to appear in Europe and the with the virus were being monitored. bodily fluids and is not airborne. outside experts would be consulted British Prime Minister David series of interconnected wars. Now, the United States. In his weekly radio address, Canada said on Saturday it would to determine how two nurses caring Cameron said on Saturday European world had realized it could no longer hope “This disease respects no borders,” the Obama made plain he does not plan ship 800 vials of its experimental Ebola for Duncan became infected with Union leaders should raise the to “pull up the drawbridge and wish the sit- president said. “The damage it is causing in to accede to demands from some US vaccine, undergoing clinical trials, to the Ebola. amount pledged to fight Ebola to 1 uation away,” the Nobel laureate said in an West Africa, whether in public health, the lawmakers for a ban on travelers from WHO in Geneva, starting on Monday. Amber Vinson is at Atlanta’s Emory billion euros ($1.3 billion) and mobi- open letter to the BBC put online on economy or within communities-is already Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the Iowa-based NewLink Genetics Corp University Hospital, while Nina Pham lize at least 2,000 workers to head to Sunday. reverberating throughout the region and worst-hit countries, where more than holds the commercial license for the is being treated at the National West Africa. A spokeswoman at “This fight requires a commitment from across the world,” she said. Sirleaf criticized 4,500 people have died since March Canadian vaccine. Britain’s biggest Institutes of Health outside Cameron’s office said the EU commis- every nation that has the capacity to help- the initial global response as “inconsistent in the worst Ebola outbreak on drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline, said work Washington. People who had contact sion and 28 member states had whether that is with emergency funds, and lacking in clear direction or urgency,” record. “We can’t just cut ourselves off to develop a vaccine was moving at an with them or Duncan are being moni- pledged a total of 500 million euros medical supplies or clinical expertise,” she but added that “finally, the world has wok- from West Africa,” Obama said. “Trying “unprecedented rate” and the next tored, while some 800 passengers so far. —Reuters said. “From governments to international en up.” —AFP Nigeria expected to be declared Ebola-free

LAGOS: Nigeria is expected to be declared contact with about 50 people. Ebola-free today, just three months after In all, nearly 900 people were monitored fears that the virus could spread like wild- in Lagos and the oil city of Port Harcourt, fire through Africa’s most populous nation. where one contact of Sawyer travelled after The World Health Organization (WHO) is slipping surveillance, going on to infect preparing to announce that Nigeria has not another doctor. Some 1,800 people were had a confirmed case of Ebola for 42 days- trained to trace and monitor those at risk, or two incubation periods of 21 days-just as as well as decontaminate infected places it did for Senegal on Friday. and care for the sick, said the head of the The achievement is being welcomed, EEOC, Faisal Shuaib. with no end in sight to the disease that has claimed more than 4,500 lives this year, Luck, concerns most of them in west Africa, and mounting Luck cannot be discounted in Nigeria’s fears about cases around the world. Close first brush with Ebola. Sawyer was taken attention is being paid to how Nigeria, with straight to hospital after arriving from an under-funded and ill-equipped health Monrovia visibly ill, keeping him off Lagos’ system, managed to contain the virus, as teeming streets. Doctors also prevented specialists look for a more effective him from discharging himself into an area response to control its spread. But there of the city frequented by tens of thousands were warnings against any premature cele- of people with a bus station that serves the bration, with complacency still a risk and entire country. luck considered to have played a part in The EEOC in the early days of the out- containing the outbreak. break highlighted concerns such as a lack MEXICO: The cruise ship Carnival Magic passes near Cozumel, Mexico, in this Friday file photo. —AP of personal protective equipment for Monitoring, awareness medics, which could have had serious Eight people died out of 20 confirmed implications in any rapid spread. Public US cruise ship carrying Ebola cases in Nigeria, with all infections health campaigns, including a giant elec- traced back to a single source-Liberian tronic billboard warning about Ebola just finance ministry official Patrick Sawyer, who outside the hospital where Sawyer died, arrived in Lagos on July 20. Many feared have helped raise awareness. Airports and health care worker returns the worst when Sawyer died on July 25 in a seaports have introduced compulsory private hospital in Nigeria’s biggest city, screening on arrival and departure; tem- which is home to more than 20 million perature checks and hand sanitizer use for GALVESTON, TEXAS: A cruise ship carrying a a helicopter Saturday to meet the Carnival Magic a lab supervisor, remained in isolation “and is not people, with poor sanitation and inade- the public are now the norm. Dallas health care worker who is being moni- and lowered a basket of supplies. The woman deemed to be a risk to any guests or crew.” “We quate health facilities. Doctors were on Greater knowledge about Ebola is likely tored for signs of Ebola has returned to provided a blood sample, which was taken to a are in close contact with the CDC, and at this strike at the time over pay and conditions to help in reporting any new cases, said Galveston, Texas. The Carnival Magic returned to state lab in Austin for processing. Kendrick had time it has been determined that the appropri- in the public health sector, where many epidemiologist Chukwe Ihekweazu, who port shortly after 6a EDT. Petty Officer Andy no further details about how the sample was ate course of action is to simply keep the guest state hospitals lack running water, let alone runs the Nigeria Health Watch website. But Kendrick told The Associated Press earlier yester- taken. He said the decision to take the sample in isolation on board,” the statement said, refer- soap and other basic equipment. he warned Nigeria against celebrating its day that a Coast Guard crew had flown in a heli- was made in coordination with the federal, state ring to the Centers for Disease Control and Yet the doomsday scenario of rapid Ebola-free status. “It’s premature when you copter Saturday to the meet the ship and and local health authorities. Prevention. spread among a 170-million-strong popu- see the situation in west Africa right now. retrieve a blood sample. Kendrick had no further Obama administration officials said the pas- The ship was refused clearance to dock in lation, devastating Africa’s leading econo- There’s still a lot to do. It’s not the right time details about how the sample was taken. He says senger handled a lab specimen from a Liberian Cozumel, Mexico on Friday, a day after Belize my and oil producer, did not materialize. to celebrate,” he said. Vertefeuille admitted the decision to take the sample was made in man who died from Ebola at Texas Health refused to let the passenger leave the vessel. A “Nigeria acted quickly and early and on a that there was “no equal level of prepared- coordination with the federal, state and local Presbyterian Hospital earlier this month. Officials spokeswoman for the cruise line, Jennifer De La large scale,” John Vertefeuille, from the US ness everywhere in the country” but still health authorities. said the woman poses no risk because she has Cruz, said that when the Magic made a port call Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Nigeria was better equipped to deal Officials have said the woman poses no risk shown no signs of illness for 19 days and has vol- in Belize, other passengers were allowed to dis- (CDC), told AFP. “They acted aggressively, with any future Ebola cases. because she has shown no symptoms and has vol- untarily self-quarantined on the cruise ship. embark with the exception of the health care especially in terms of contact-tracing.” Isolation centers have now been identi- untarily self-quarantined. Kendrick says the sam- US officials had been seeking ways to return worker and her spouse. There have been no Key to the response was an existing fied in most Nigerian states, while six labo- ple was taken to a state lab in Austin for process- the woman and her husband to the US before restrictions placed on other passengers aboard plan for a mass outbreak of polio, which ratories have been accredited by the WHO ing. A blood sample taken from a Dallas health the ship completes its cruise yesterday. State the ship, officials said. The cruise line said Friday was adapted to Ebola, as well as a rapid to conduct Ebola tests, said Shuaib. But care worker who is aboard a cruise ship and being Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that that after not receiving clearance, the ship left appeal for foreign help. The Ebola concerns remained, not least about fund- monitored for signs of Ebola was retrieved by the when the woman left the US on the cruise ship Cozumel waters shortly after noon Friday with Emergency Operations Centre (EEOC) ing. Vertefeuille said the federal authorities Coast Guard, officials said yesterday. from Galveston, Texas, on Oct 12 health officials the goal of returning to its home port of prioritized contact-tracing and twice- had been slow to match state government Petty Officer Andy Kendrick told The were requiring only self-monitoring. Carnival Galveston yesterday morning as originally daily monitoring of those at risk, with funding for the outbreak, which would be Associated Press that a Coast Guard crew flew in Cruise Lines said in a statement that the woman, scheduled. —AP experts aware that every Ebola case is in vital for tackling any new cases. —AFP ‘Pioneers’: The Spanish medics fighting Ebola in Europe

MADRID: Doctor Lago was with her kids, Doctor meant a further step into uncharted territory. been working right round the clock three times a inherited from his grandmother. Fernandez was at Pilates class and Doctors “There has been hardly any research published week and hardly seeing her teenage son. “There Besides fighting for the life of a colleague, the Arsuaga and De la Calle were eating chocolate on Ebola. All that is known about it is contained have been several critical moments. I was on doctors also want to save Teresa so that the ice cream, when the call came about Ebola. They in about 15 papers,” said Mar Lago, 45. “It is ugly duty one of those nights. Teresa nearly passed experimental treatments they are trying may lat- were taking some down-time after several tough and very clever and it defends itself.” away,” she said. The doctors wear thick, clumsy er be used on patients in Africa in the hope of weeks trying in vain to save the lives of two mis- protective suits to shield them from any bodily developing a cure-a professional challenge. “I like sionaries who caught the disease in Africa-but Long shifts, clumsy suits fluids that could infect them with the disease. working on acute diseases,” said Lago. When the now it had struck one of their own colleagues. Lago received the news of Romero’s infection The suits are difficult to put on and take off and, first of the two Spanish missionaries was brought The infection of a nurse in a hospital in Madrid in a text message on her mobile phone. Marta while wearing one, a doctor’s bedside manner is back from Liberia with Ebola in August, the team put the four doctors and their team of about 50 Arsuaga received it as she was eating chocolate muted by a face mask. “You can touch patients did not know where to turn for information, said staff in the front line of a worldwide battle and lemon ice cream at the start of a holiday in but you can’t examine them internally,” Arsuaga De la Calle. against a still uncurable disease. Palermo with her colleague and friend De la explained. But now they have weekly conference calls “We are pioneers,” said Fernando de la Calle, Calle, 33. “I said to myself, ‘It’s not possible’,” with hospitals abroad, organized by the World 33. “Ebola is very aggressive. It explodes and in a recalled Arsuaga, 32. They rushed back to a Prayers but no cure Health Organization. After several tense days, few days it destroys you. Like a tsunami, it devas- Madrid gripped by anxiety over Ebola and fears The doctors avoid going into Romero’s room as Romero’s condition improved this week. She has tates everything in its path.” On October 6, nurse the virus was spreading across Europe. “It was much as possible, talking to her via an intercom and been talking and asking for music and photo- Teresa Romero, 44, became the first person crazy. The telephones wouldn’t stop ringing. monitoring her body language on a video screen, in graphs of her loved ones, the doctors said on known to have become infected with the haem- Messages were flying in from all over: family, awe of the brutal virus. Belen prays before starting Thursday, feeling a tinge of hope. But hours later, orrhagic fever outside Africa, where it has killed friends, journalists,” said Belen Fernandez, a 47- work, she said, showing a silver pendant with an their race against the virus speeded up again, nearly 4,500 people. For these doctors who treat- year-old biologist. image of the Virgin Mary. Fernando said he wasn’t when three new patients were admitted to the ed the missionaries along with Romero and The doctors hunkered down in Carlos III, work- generally religious but now he is carrying in the hospital to be tested for Ebola-tests that have scores of other staff at the Carlos III hospital, that ing in shifts to save their colleague. Lago has pocket of his white clinical trousers a rosary he since come back negative. —AFP MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

GELIOYA, Sri Lanka: Sequel photos show a frog jumping in a pool and swimming to reach the other end of it. —Photos by Sherif Ismail

OSN marks ‘Breast Cancer For many journalists Ebola’s invisible threat scarier than war Awareness Month’ PARIS: You can’t see shells falling, guns point- Africa region. “It is an invisible threat. In war ed or identify the bad guys: for many journal- zones you can see the shells falling.” ists the invisible threat of Ebola is more Associated Press international editor-in-chief DUBAI: As the world marks the higher than this average with awareness videos, a special screening and aspects relating to treatment unnerving than covering a war. Along with John Daniszewski said that the subject was ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ dur- Lebanon at 78.68 cases per 100,000 on E! channel called Pink Warrior will and care. health workers and aid workers, journalists “very stressful” to cover, as you can’t see the ing October, OSN, the region’s leading adults, Jordan at 61.03 and Egypt at have celebrity TV host Giuliana Rancic Dr Samira Al-Ghamdi, Consultant have to get right up close to the epidemic to enemy. pay-TV network, is rolling out a dedi- 49.5 cases per 100,000 people. talk about her battle with breast cancer Psychologist, will discuss about the do their job, donning gloves, masks and rub- cated campaign throughout the Research conducted in Saudi Arabia in ‘Beyond Candid with Giuliana:Hope, emotional, psychological and social ber boots and washing hands with chlorine Interviewing at a distance month focused on strengthening recently reports that late-stage diag- Strength and Courage’. Further under- support for breast cancer patients, countless times a day. “We have less difficulty On top of all the safety precautions, one of awareness and encouraging the com- nosis of breast cancer, which leads to lining the global support to the cause, while Dr Wael Daghestani, finding journalists to go to Iraq or Central the main rules on the ground for reporters is to munity to undertake early screening. greater mortality rates, are also the TLC HD has rebranded the channel for Consultant Plastic Surgeon, will pro- African Republic” than Ebola-hit countries, keep your distance.”The basic rule is don’t touch Building on its ‘Live More’ corpo- result of lack of information and time- breast cancer awareness for the entire vide details about reconstruction said Claire Hedon of Radio France anything or anyone. And two weeks without rate social responsibility (CSR) initia- ly care, thus underpinning the impor- month. Oprah Winfrey will speak to surgery. Internationale (RFI) who just returned from touching anyone is weird,” said AFP’s Marc tive that leverages the power of tele- tance of awareness campaigns. OSN special guests Fergie and Jane Fonda in Guinea. Bastian who recently returned from vision and community engagement is taking the lead in building aware- ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’ and The Ellen Early screening Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, have Monrovia.”We left with litres of disinfectant. We to promote wellness and bring posi- ness about breast cancer with a par- DeGeneres show will further commu- Khulud Abu Humus, Executive Vice borne the brunt of the epidemic which has sprayed our shoes with bleach, we washed our tive change to people’s lifestyles, OSN ticular focus on promoting early nicate the message to a wide audience. President of Programming & Creative killed over 4,500 people out of a total of 9,216 hands 40, 50 times a day,” he said.”Photographers is supporting the efforts of govern- screening and healthier lifestyles. OSN will also devote its own exclu- Services of OSN, said: “Through our cases registered in seven countries, according use telephoto lenses to photograph the sick and ments in the Middle East and North OSN is also screening awareness sive production, Saudi Doctors to put Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to the World Health Organization. At least five I once shouted out an interview with someone Africa region to address the rising videos on breast cancer through a the spotlight on breast cancer, its risk this month, we are highlighting our local journalists have succumbed to Ebola, eight metres away.” incidence of breast cancer. commitment to be closer to the com- according to media unions. Three were in For radio reporters who need sound, the Several ‘Live More’ awareness munity in addressing the increasing Liberia and two in Sierra Leone, including the process is equally tricky. Yves Rocle, deputy videos that highlight breast cancer incidence of breast cancer. This com- radio journalist Victor Kassim who died along director for the Africa region with RFI explains and the need for early screening have plements our ‘Live More’ CSR initiative with his wife, two children and mother. Three that their journalists use a boom to get sound. been developed by OSN, which are to encourage the community to lead media workers were also among an eight- “We avoid contact,” he said. “I have inter- telecast through various channels as a well-balanced lifestyle and make a member Ebola education team murdered last viewed the sick from two meters away, where well as communicated over its social big difference to their lives through month by panicked villagers in a remote area it is considered you won’t be hit by spittle,” said media platforms. Additionally, breast simple day-to-day changes. near the epicenter of the outbreak in Guinea. the Hedon, who admits that sometimes one’s cancer survivors will share their sto- “It has been proven that early So far only one of the dozens of Western attention can slip and possibly fatal errors be ries through OSN’s own production screening and diagnosis help journalists covering the epidemic in west made. “To be honest, you let your guard ‘Saudi Doctors.’ The health and well- enhance the effectiveness of breast Africa has caught Ebola-Ashoka Mukpo, an down. Yes in the end I shook a few hands.” ness programme will also feature sev- cancer treatment. We are highlight- American freelancer for NBC who is recover- eral Arab celebrities endorsing the ing this message through our spe- ing well. Shunned upon return ‘Live More’ approach and driving cial programs on various channels But for those on the ground stalked by an The assignment doesn’t end at the air- awareness about breast cancer. on OSN. By highlighting the risk unseen enemy, every interview poses a risk. port. For many coming home to face fearful According to WHO’s International factors to bringing cancer survivor “Some journalists used to covering war zones colleagues and family members, while still Agency for Research on Cancer and stories, we want to motivate more have not volunteered for family reasons,” anxiously counting down the incubation Cancer Research UK, breast cancer is people to go for preventive checks explains Sofia Bouderbala, deputy editor-in- period themselves, it can be a scary and the second most common form of and make positive lifestyle chief for Agence France Presse’s Europe and lonely time. —AFP cancer globally, accounting for 11.9%, ‘Pink House’ campaign across Saudi factors, the need for early screening, changes.” next only to lung cancer at 13% of the Arabia in partnership with Zahra treatment and care, and stories of Several studies have concluded total. However, in the West Asia Breast Cancer Association, a voluntary cancer survivors. The special Saudi that obesity, smoking psychologi- region (comprising MENA countries), organisation. In association with Doctors episode on October 16 will cal pressures and stress and family MoH launches Kuwait National breast cancer leads in total cancer Zahra, OSN will host ‘Pink Houses’ in feature Dr Essam Morshed, history are risk factors of breast incidence at about 13.4% of the total. 20 key cities and towns across the Consultant Clinical Oncologist and cancer. They advocate a healthy Mammography Screening Program It is estimated that the region Kingdom in locations such as malls President of Saudi Oncology Society, and balanced lifestyle to decrease accounts for 42.76 cases of breast and community centres. and Dr Khalid Al-Hajeri, Consultant the chances of breast cancer inci- KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health, with support Kuwait. To make matters worse, Kuwait has a cancer per 100,000 adults as of 2012. Surgical Oncologist, discussing the dence, and reiterate the need for from Ali Abdulwahab Al-Mutawa Commercial Co higher number of delayed cancer detection cas- Breast cancer incidence in individ- ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’ symptoms of breast cancer, detec- physical exercise which strength- (AAW), one of Kuwait’s leading medical distribu- es compared to countries like the US and the UK ual MENA countries are often much In addition to OSN Live More tion, importance of self-assessment ens the body’s immunity. tion companies and the main distributor of and we know by facilitating free mammogram Roche Pharmaceuticals in Kuwait, introduced services we are able to tackle this issue in order the Kuwait National Mammography Screening to detect cases as early as possible.” Program (KNMSP), designed to provide free AAW’s support stems from their ongoing Royale Hayat Hospital launches breast cancer screening services at select gov- support in fighting breast cancer alongside ernmental clinics in conjunction with Breast NGOs and other private and public institutions. Cancer Awareness month. In the last decade, the companies have support- Breast Cancer Awareness’ campaign The program which was launched on ed Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN) and Hayatt October 1 provides mammography services, Breast Cancer Foundation. KUWAIT: Breast Cancer Awareness month is marked least once a month to detect any physical changes in physical examination and medical consultations AAW General Manager of Pharmaceuticals, to women over 40 years of age in five govern- Dr Sherif Younan said: “Breast cancer among every October to help increase attention and aware- the shape of the breast. mental clinics that include: South Khaitan Health women in Kuwait is the most alarming of all ness to detect the disease earlier, treat it and support At Royale Hayat Hospital Radiology Department, Center, Al-Zahraa Health Center, Al-Naeem types of cancers and early detection is key to patients. This year, Royale Hayat Hospital breast can- advanced technology and qualified medical teams Health Center, Egaila Health Center and soon in overcoming the disease. We are in full support of cer awareness campaign focused on the importance can easily help save lives through early detection and Surra area at Shaikhan Ahmad Al-Farsi and his the Ministry of Health’s public program that facil- of early detection, self-breast exam, and mammo- proper treatment. Although there is no sufficient wife Shereefa Al-Awadhi Health Center. itates mammogram testing for the women that gram. Experts at Royale Hayat Hospital encourage knowledge on the causes of breast cancer, but the risk Radiology Specialist and President of KNMSP, need it the most, and we encourage women that women above 40 to have mammogram scans annu- factors could include lifestyle, menstruation, mother- Dr Hanaa Al-Khawari said: “Breast cancer is the meet the program criteria to get tested regular- most common type of cancer among Kuwait’s ly.” If you’d like to learn more about breast cancer ally, which could detect breast cancer at its early hood, hormones, family history and genetic, and age, population where there are about 1.7 million or more information about KNMSP, please con- stages and increase survival chances. They also in addition to factors that could be controlled such as, cases yearly, 440 of them are specifically in tact: 24620989. encouraged women to perform self-breast exam at smoking, weight, and alcohol intake. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Now open, La Mamma Italian Pizzeria in Four Points by Sheraton Kuwait

our Points by Sheraton Kuwait oven, the fresh ingredients carefully put La Mamma Pizzeria is located on the sec- The Four Points by Sheraton Kuwait con- unwind and relax with a health club located announcing the newly opened La together by a specialty Italian chef to pro- ond floor of the Four Points by Sheraton tinues to provide the most personalized and on the 38th floor, the astounding pool with FMamma Italian Pizzeria as the comple- vide the most distinctive and original fla- Kuwait hotel is decorated with trendy colors contemporary services through the contin- a breathtaking panoramic view located on tion of the recent expansion. La Mamma vors, as well as offering the choice of deli- and wooden furniture to evoke the feeling ued development of its facilities, providing the 42nd floor and the choice of dining at Pizzeria offers a tasty variety of Italian piz- cious Anti pasta, Paste e Risotti, Le Zuppe, of Italy’s simple and rustic charm with the all guests with the utmost comfort with 406 the International Asseef restaurant or the zas baked in the most modern brick pizza and Dolci. homemade and fresh flavors of Italy. rooms and suites, the opportunity to brand new La Mamma Italian Pizzeria.

Greetings Indian Frontliners team donates t 20, if you see a strand of black to PM fund for J&K flood relief Ahair, consider it to be a black hair of maturity. If you notice t was a proud moment for The Indian a soft wrinkle under Frontliners team when they met and Isubmitted the first installment of your eyes, consider it INR. 3,00,834 to the Prime Minister’s to be a wrinkle of wis- national relief fund towards Jammu & dom and if you notice Kashmir flood relief. IFL team is taking a shadow always lurk- every effort to spread the message ing behind you, consider it’s me watching over across the Indian community in Kuwait you! Happy 20th birthday Jera. Love from mom about the destruction of Jammu & Kashmir due to the recent floods and and sister inviting them to donate generously towards the relief and rehabilitation elated happy efforts. birthday to Ariel During the course of the meet, the Quitalig who ambassador mentioned that the B destruction has been estimated to the celebrated his birth- level of USD Five billion and it would day on Oct 19. May take a generation to rebuild Jammu & your birthday and Kashmir. The state, which is predomi- every day be filled nantly dependent on revenues from with the warmth of agriculture & tourism, has been crip- sunshine, happiness of pled by the natural calamity. The Indian government is taking every measure to smiles, sounds of direct all possible resources to extend laughter, the feeling of love and the sharing of help to the affected people. The ambas- good cheer. Greetings coming from your sador thanked the IFL team members friends. for their seamless efforts & support to the nation. & Mst Ashwin Jai Ganesh (2 children) voluntarily contribute towards the line contributions can also be made At this point it is notable to mention from their savings. Ambassador Sunil PMNRF. All donations will be gratefully through the website of the Prime the commendable contributions from Jain encourages all Indian acknowledged either by Minister’s Office i.e. CRYchess 2014 Ms Auroshika Jai Ganesh of grade 8 and nationals/organizations in Kuwait to cheque/draft/cash at the Embassy.On- https://pmnrf.gov.in/payform.php riends of CRY Club (FOCC), announces plans for 2014 Chess Tournament for children of all ages upto high- Fschool. “CRYchess 2014” will be held at the Salmiya Indian Model School (SIMS), Salmiya, Kuwait,on Friday, 28th November 2014, from 0930 - 1630 hrs. The players will be allocated groups by their age, to play in the Swiss pair- ing format. For more details, registration forms, Rules of CRYChess 2014, please visit www.focckwt.org or contact FOCC members. Sponsors are also welcome to encourage the participating young chess players. The last date for reg- istration is Saturday, the 22nd November 2014. Children of all ages and various nationalities competed in the annu- al event which had some of those participating over and over every year. “With CRY everyone wins” is the slogan FOCC carries. The players are paired in the Swiss Pairing System, which is used in many international chess tourna- ments. All the children play all the 5 rounds. After each round, the computer software pairs players based on the automatically calculated player rankings. After the fifth round the final ranking is determined by the software according to the number of games won and on the rating of the opponents defeated. Each group is supervised by an arbiter. The arbiters are volunteers who have a sound chess playing background and offer their services for the cause of promoting this game. Visit http://focckwt.org/contact.html. CRY, the link between Child Rights & You. Friends of CRY Club was established in November 2003 in Kuwait with the objective of having sus- tainable, result oriented, well founded organization to con- tinue to be in service of the deprived children with syner- gic participation of a cross section of people in Kuwait. Heba Osman, the 7th raffle draw winner of “Win Up to 25 Kilos of Gold in 25 Days” campaign by Malabar Gold & Diamonds receives the prize 1/4 kg of gold from Ahammed M P, Chairman- Malabar Group in the presence of Shamlal Ahamed MP - Managing Director, International Operations; Manoj KV - Regional Head and officials from Economic department and Malabar Gold & Diamonds.

What’s On - Submission Guidelines Upcoming Events in Kuwait

October 21 - Open until 21, Contemporary Art leading to October 2014. As with many of her by a Kuwaiti gentleman in his own home, this All photos submitted for What’s On Today - Pretty in Pink breast cancer aware- Platform exhibition, Layers. “Layers” presents exhibitions, this collection is a series of journal- museum has an excellent collection of Kuwaiti ness event by the American Women’s League at Steve Sabella’s new works Independence (2013) based drawings grouped into three main instal- antiques with a section of the museum dedicated should be minimum 200dpi. the Jumeriah - Messila Ballroom 2 at 7pm. Email and 38 days of re-collection (2014), together lations. A dynamic show, Alkandari hopes to to his relatives who died during the invasion of [email protected]. with Metamorphosis (2012) and Exit (2006). Born entice visitors with the promise of touching, Kuwait. Join us as he recounts stories about Articles must be in plain text and 21 - Al Sidra Association for the Pyschological in Jerusalem, Palestine, Sabella has used his work organizing and re-organizing her work. After all, Kuwait and about the antiques housed in the Care of Cancer Patients holds a Breast Cancer as a platform to address the reality of the impact a secretary’s job is never done. Sultan Gallery is museum. Advance reservations required at should include name and phone Awareness Day at the Radisson Blu Hotel. From that perpetual conflict and occupation has on located in South Subhan, Block no. 8, Street no. [email protected] 11am to 2pm. Register to reserve your seat at people, including himself. Through his art he 105, Building no. 168. Hours: 10 am to 4 pm. 31 - 7 Market - Outdoor market at Kipco numbers. Articles and photos that [email protected] Telephone: 5155-0689 developed a method for coming to terms with (closed on Fridays & Saturdays) Telephone: Tower, Kuwait City. October 31. For inquiries, fail to meet these requirements will 21 - Diwaniya through an expat’s eyes at the his exile, the journey of which is reflected in the (+965) 24714325/6. email [email protected] Aware Center. Moving to a new country can be titles of some of his series - Exit, In Exile, 22-25 - Stomp road show at the Ice Skating 31 - Halloween party at Cozmo Bowling in not be published. intimidating: both scary and thrilling at the same Euphoria, Beyond Euphoria, Metamorphosis and rink. For more information visit the website Discovery Mall. Bring kids for a spooktacular time time. Linda Young uses photography to explore Independence. Shuwaikh Industrial area. www.eventmania.co or call 5599-5511 from 4-6pm for only 5KD per child! Kids will get 1 her new home. Some photos are fun, some are Telephone: 2492-5636 Website: http://cap- 25 - K’s Path Yoga Fest Fundraiser at Bayan game of bowling, a 1KD arcade card, 1 Cozmo Please send them to serious. All are Kuwait through her eyes & lens. kuwait.com/ Nursery in Jabriya. From 9:30am to 4pm. Email bag, a coloring book, a McDonalds kids meal and Refreshments Provided. Starts at 7pm. Villa 84, 21-23 - Local Kuwaiti artist Ghadah [email protected] or Telephone: 6700-1622 trick or treat goodies. Participating kids in cos- [email protected] Street 50, Block 3, Surra. Telephone: 2533-5280. Alkandari’s solo exhibition at the Sultan Gallery. 27 - Guided Tour of Hamad Al Fuzai Museum tume will be in a parade and have a chance to Website: www.aware.com.kw/ A visual account of the artist’s last six months of Antiques from 5pm. KD 2 per person. Opened win prizes! WHAT’S ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa appoints new directors

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, training at Cornell University in New York Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, satisfaction, human resources, sales and knowledge in restaurants, room service Kuwait’s idyllic resort, has appointed and at Hunt Communication in Toronto. Behiye’s focus will be on enhancing the revenue management and financial and kitchen operational procedures. JBehiye Salk as the new Director of As the new Director of Rooms at overall guest experience and promoting management. He also has extensive These are further complemented by his Rooms and Mohammed Al-Khatib as the the hotel’s 316 rooms and suites, 80 resi- expert knowledge in menu composition new Director of Food and Beverage. dential suites and 12 private villas. and food preparation. Behiye Salk has a 26-year career in the Mohammed Al-Khatib joins as the As the new Director of Food and hospitality industry and has held pre- new Director of Food and Beverage with Beverage, Mohammed will be in charge opening managerial positions across lux- vast experience in the hospitality indus- of increasing the profile of Jumeirah ury hotel brands including the Four try. His career includes roles in key food Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa’s impressive Seasons Hotels and Resorts and the and beverage outlets at the Four Seasons dining options and enhancing product Swissotel in Europe, Northern America, Hotels and Resorts, Viceroy Hotels and and service delivery across all its restau- Canada and the Middle East. Resorts and Marriott Hotels and Resorts. rants and room service packages. He With a degree in Tourism and Hotel Mohammed Al-Khatib holds a Master’s looks forward to bringing personalised Management from Turkey’s Uluda degree in Hotel Management and brings services to exceed guests’ expectations. University, Behiye has also attended strong qualifications in operations, guest Canadians in Kuwait (CiK) holds seasons greeting event

Charge D’ Affairs - James Hill from the Ishtiaq Malik - CiK President wel- Embassy of Canada in Kuwait addressed comed the dignitaries, members and the audience by greeting Canadian com- guests on behalf of CiK. munity in Kuwait with season’s greet- ings and appreciated CiK for holding this event.

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

Endurance and muscle-tone exercises will keep you feeling good physically Overnight friends or family bring some fun times to your memory of past and mentally. Consider a routine day that includes exercise. Perhaps a friend childhood adventures. You enjoy cooking a large breakfast this morning would like to join you in this process. There is a bout of philosophy or even a little religion for the group and whether you are at home or camping out under the skies, you know just now that could have an enormous effect on your future. Lasting values, whatever you find what to do to pull together a fantastic meal. No complaints, except for a tease or two. to be true and lasting, can guide you now. You will find yourself opening up avenues of Dreams and visions about how you want your life to be lived may move you to be most yourself that have remained blocked-a new understanding. You may enjoy some sort of understanding of others that are less fortunate. Your peers or family members give you group involvement in an entertainment activity-perhaps a concert or movie this after- lots of reason to be grateful today. You may express concern to a senior member of your noon. Many people value your independence and may look to you for advice. The young circle and you might appoint someone to be watchful and let you know what is needed. people in your family find you especially witty. Picture time is any time today.

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

You are favored today. Good luck and positive actions are in the forecast. You can acquire a deeper spiritual understanding if you look at religious Overall, this is a good day. Romance and other things that tug at the heartstrings come practices of other lands. This is a marvelous time for writing. Put your ideas your way. This is a great time to deepen or seal a love relationship. This is also a creative or your story on paper. This period gives you the opportunity to work on a plan. You also period-take a chance-you are appreciated and admired. You will be very idealistic during gain a better understanding of a difficult situation or people around you. Your inner this time, able to see the unity that binds the world. Your happiest times are now-when resources and emotions are accented today. Expect a sense of support and goodwill from you can spend some prime time with friends or loved ones. Spiritual practices and some those around you. You appreciate your life situation at this time. There is a chance to charity work may be involved in making this a rewarding time. Vacation time is recom- understand those around you and to have a special time with someone you love. General mended soon and planning can begin now. If you enjoy being outside, consider this after- good feeling about your choices in life and in the people around you makes this a happy noon a good time to clean and cook those fish you caught. time. Later, this evening, you will have some time to enjoy a good movie or book.

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

Money matters come up today-all is positive. Perhaps a friend or family Faith, optimism and a yearning to explore new horizons are some of the member remembers to repay a loan. Sometime today you could be com- focal points in your life at this time. A plan is developing and the subjects of posing music or creating poetry-you enjoy whistling a creative tune. You have real vision travel and education come to mind. These are great ways to stretch your horizons and ACROSS DOWN and insight into the unity that ties this world together. Your brilliant imagination and open new doors of opportunity. Religious, philosophical and cultural matters are likely to 1. An abnormally large amount of this fetopro- 1. State in northeastern India. enchanting manner transport all who meet you beyond the mundane and into the have a special appeal for you as well; transmitting ideas on a broad scale brings gain. Your tein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of 2. A boy or man. extraordinary regions where you spend a lot of your time. You are a seer, in the true sense current crop of dreams and ideals may not feel right to you or may seem to go against all the neural tube (as spina bifida or anen- 3. An archaic name for Easter or Passover. of the word. You possess a waking experience of that part of us that is mystical and that normally motivates you. It is possible to be misled or misguided and your efforts may 4. A federal agency established to coordinate dreamlike. You find new ways to bring people together, to unify situations. You enjoy go into directions that bring no return. Again, a plan is in the making. You can create suc- cephaly). cessful results by writing out your goals and marking your priorities. 4. Providing legal power or sanction. programs aimed at reducing pollution and pro- unusual music. Exercise this creative side-you will find everyday problems less complex. 12. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct tecting the environment. control of an operational commander to locate 5. United States admiral of the Pacific fleet dur- sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for ing World War II who used aircraft carriers to Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the purpose of immediate threat recognition. destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966). 15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring 6. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification. Improvement in relationships is most satisfying. A person with whom you Your outward seriousness and no-nonsense approach to things are obvious on the sea or ships. are interested in continuing a relationship seems to want the same as you; 7. Army unit smaller than a division. to all. This deliberate sense of responsibility comes across and is central to 16. Cabbage butterflies. go slow. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying and you gain a great deal of joy by 8. A floor covering. your personality. Everything is run through your checkpoint to see if it holds up and can watching nature, attending religious ceremonies, watching others, viewing art, etc. Today pass the test. You can be a stickler with details-careful, this can slow your progress. Now 17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules 9. An artificial language that is a revision and shaped like a double helix. you may decide to do many of these things. Close personal ties to other people are a cen- through the middle of November is a good time to change your residence. All the ener- simplification of Esperanto. tral point for your feelings. Travel and mental development at high levels are major gies are working in your favor to pull this off with little trouble. Expect a sense of support 18. A caustic detergent useful for removing 10. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and direc- themes in your life plan. Take steps that will help to broaden your horizons both intellectu- grease. and goodwill from those around you. There is good fortune-situations develop in a very tor of the League of Nations relief program for ally and spiritually. You can now reflect on your own situation, just how you feel about natural way for you. Projects are almost made to order and it is easy to see which path is 19. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intra- refugees of World War I (1861-1930). yourself. Emotions of others are clear. the one you want to take. Relax with a loved one tonight. venously in heart failure. 11. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by 20. An anxiety disorder characterized by chron- gravity. ic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as 12. The younger brother of Edwy who became Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) tension or sweating or trembling of light-head- king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy. Family, home and the other roots in your life give you a sense of mission. edness or irritability etc that has lasted for 13. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion. Today is the best time to begin a new habit-perhaps a diet. Radical changes There are growth and gain through these things. This is a fruitful period for more than six months. 14. A woman of refinement. in self-care are available. Cutting through the unessential and superficial and getting to real-estate investments, particularly if you do not take on too much at one time. 21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising sole- 22. A large fleet. the core in matters of food and health are most important at this time. All of your energies Unconventional hobbies and other forms of self-expression that break from the norm play 24. (Old Testament) The Hebrew prophet who are working in a favorable and positive direction. This is a period when the new, different ly the razorbill. a big part in your life now. A child or lover may be rebellious-or perhaps simply ahead of and unusual will have big influences on you-both psychological and physical . . . A kind of 23. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea his or her time. Romance and recreation take on an unusual character, out of step with personal revolution. Friendships are in a state of transformation. Old friendships are either who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. on a journey known as the Exodus. ordinary expectations. High-tech gambles could pay off big. People value you for your revitalized or they come to an end; new ones are formed. Fate seems to bring you to your 25. A member of a people of India living in 26. A river in north central Switzerland that warmth and dynamic qualities as much as your insight. You may however, find it easier to friends, or you to them. Your relationship with these friends may change or deepen. You runs northeast into the Rhine. respond with your animal warmth than to develop your mind just now. Maharashtra. will join in a celebration tonight. 29. Filled with the emotional impact of over- 27. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of whelming surprise or shock. intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye. 30. Type genus of the Anatidae. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 28. A white metallic element that burns with a Pisces (February 19-March 20) 33. A colorless and odorless inert gas. brilliant light. 32. A promontory in northern Morocco oppo- Making peace with the past is essential and it’s the only way you can get the 34. A piece of furniture with a writing surface Visiting a nearby tourist attraction may be where your energies are best site the Rock of Gibraltar. enjoyed this day. Lovers, children and other people or things dear to your heart are future you want. People who cannot help themselves play a big role in your and usually drawers or other compartments. 35. Republic in northern Europe. emphasized at this time. Economize on this adventure-you will still have lots of fun. This is life now-a neighbor needs a cup of sugar, a friend gives birth, etc. Although there is much 36. Situated in or facing or moving toward the 37. Wild sheep of northern Africa. a great time to get outdoors and enjoy the fresh air. If you are unattached, you may very activity with others today, there will still be some solitude where you can think and recu- east. well meet the right person today. An existing relationship, however, could become more perate your own energies. Time with friends or neighbors in their time of need is time well 38. Take hold of. spent. This afternoon you may rush around to get a few of your own chores completed as 40. In the same place (used when citing a refer- 39. Forced to turn and face attackers. satisfying. You may feel that something new, different and unique will help to grab your ence). attention and help you relax from your past schedule. You may be able to enjoy and value well as a repair job or two. Good eye-hand coordination and an unrelenting effort make 41. A class of proteins produced in lymph tis- almost any task run well. Even if you work into the evening, your stamina is good. Reward 43. An institution that issues something (secu- your own life situation today. Someone visiting in your home this evening may compli- sue in vertebrates and that function as anti- ment you on your tastes or belongings. yourself for a successful day and enjoy something relaxing tonight. rities or publications or currency etc.). bodies in the immune response. 45. Port city that is the capital and largest city 42. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin. of Latvia. 44. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude. 46. The fourth or lowest deck. 47. Large hawk of the northern hemisphere Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 50. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces. that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is bene- 51. A silvery ductile metallic element found pri- ficial to farmers. marily in bauxite. 48. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount 52. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the of light given out through a solid angle of 1 separation of elements within the grammatical steradian by a point source of 1 candela inten- structure of a sentence. sity radiating uniformly in all directions. 53. Affect with wonder. 49. Low stingless nettle of Central and South 55. Extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu America having velvety brownish-green used for dying and tanning and preserving toothed leaves and clusters of small green fishnets and sails. flowers. 59. Enclosed in the same envelope or package. 54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 61. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or Chad. 56. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from Bantu people who speak it. rolling down an incline. 57. Constituting or having to do with or sug- 62. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey gestive of a literary epic. (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows 58. A member of an Algonquian people living generally eastward through Armenia to the in central Canada. Caspian Sea. 60. Of or relating to a creed. 63. American pioneer and hero of the Texas 64. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea Revolution (1796-1836). fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. 69. With rapid movements. 65. Morally bad or wrong. 70. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness 66. A contagious skin infection caused by the or emotion. itch mite. 72. A state in the western United States. 67. Plant with an elongated head of broad 73. Type genus of the Ranidae. stalked leaves resembling celery. 76. An accountant certified by the state. 68. Stairway in India leading down to a landing 77. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow on the water. flowers and flat pods. 71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated 78. A member of the Siouan people formerly with the World Bank. inhabiting the Black Hills of western South 74. A radioactive metallic element that is simi- Dakota. lar to tellurium and bismuth. 79. Headdress that protects the head from bad 75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali weather. earth group.

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wabs performed a stellar set to a sell-out crowd at KOKO in London on Thursday. The rising star played for almost Borgella Kan hour at the iconic Camden venue in a one-off show during which he performed tracks from his EPs and showcased dies at 32 new music. The 24-year-old musician also praised his long-term inger and model Joanne Borgella, who com- collaborator, SOHN, who has produced his tracks including peted on “American Idol” in 2008, died on ‘Wrong or Right’ and ‘Last Stand’, and premiered a new song Saturday at age 32 after a battle with cancer, titled ‘Look Over Your Shoulder’ which the pair have worked on S her family said on her Facebook page. “With heavy together. He told the crowd: “I’ve had the great opportunity of hearts, we are deeply saddened to announce the working with so many people over the last two years, one of passing of our beloved Joanne,” the family said in a whom, you’ll know his song. “We met earlier this year in Vienna statement, which did not say where Borgella had to make some more things. Do you want to hear some of these died. The Long Island, New York-born Borgella things?” Elsewhere in his set, the soul singer showed off his slick, made it to the top 24 on “American Idol” in 2008, urban dance moves as he played a new track which he said was three years after she appeared on reality series Kwabs inspired by Michael Jackson, but slowed things down with a “Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance” and won its contest to find stunning stripped back performance of his self-penned tearjerk- the ideal plus-sized model. In recent years, she had er ‘Perfect Ruin’, which was met with rapturous applause thanks modeled professionally and launched her own to his powerful vocals. After playing his most recent single ‘Walk’, clothing line. Borgella last year shared a video with the Bermondsey lad pleased the hoards of adoring fans with an wows London crowd London wows her fans to say she was diagnosed with cancer and encore of crowd favorite ‘Wrong or Right’ and a cover of James that it had spread to her chest. She had since Blake’s enigmatic single ‘The Wilhelm Scream’. chronicled her treatment on her Facebook page.

Ware wants to matchmake for brother

essie Ware wants to take her brother on tour to find him a date. The ‘Say You Love Me’ singer - who married child- Jhood sweetheart Sam Burrows in August - has a big gay fan base so thinks her brother Alex would “clean up” at her shows. She said: “Gay men seem to like me. It might be because I talk about my gay brother Alex all the time - I try and ship him off to people in the audience every time. “I think he should come on tour with me because he’d clean up. He’s younger than me and in his last year of medical school. He’s a catch!” Though Jessie, 30, is happy with her career so far, she still hasn’t perfected writing a “really happy” song. She told Stylist magazine: “The only thing I struggle with is that I still haven’t written my ultimate happy song. “I can’t

takes movie mementos mementos movie takes obert Downey Jr took home a 30 foot letter ‘A’ Although he likes to collect props, Downey admits really do it, although ‘Champagne Kisses’ has this euphoric Robert Downey Jr from the set of ‘The Avengers’. The 49-year-old he was disappointed not to get an armored suit from feeling, but still with a bit of tension. “That’s the thing I still Ractor likes to collect props from his films as the set of any of the three ‘Iron Man’ films. When need to conquer, writing a really happy song.” mementos to remind him of his movies, and he asked if he still had the iconic costume, he said: recently received a gigantic letter ‘A’ that he joked he “That’s a tough commodity, I have some helmets!” wanted when he was filming the 2012 hit movie ‘The The Golden Globe winner was appearing on the sta- Avengers’. He told UK station BBC Radio 1: “On the tion to promote his new movie ‘The Judge’ and last Avengers, there’s this scene where there’s this ‘A’ explained that he enjoyed playing his character, which is probably 30 feet tall, and I’m looking at it, Hank, as it is not a character which audiences would and we’re shooting in England, and I go ‘I need that expect from him. He added: “What I wanted to do in my office in Venice’. “About two weeks ago, a was set it up an expectation that this is going to be wheeler showed up, I’m like ‘What the heck is this something you’re familiar with, me playing the kind doing here?!’ And they go, ‘This is the ‘A’ you asked of character you’re familiar with, and over the course for.’ And I go, ‘They brought it?!’ So now we have a of three acts, just punch that idea in the stomach.” massive Avengers ‘A’ that will be prominently placed.”

‘Buffy’ star Nicholas Brendon arrested in Idaho

uffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon has been arrested in Idaho on multiple charges, including “Bresisting arrest, according to a police report. Brendon, 43, starred on the hit show as Xander Harris, along with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the series’ title role over seven seasons. According to an Ada County, Idaho police report, Brendon was charged with malicious injury to property and resisting or obstruct- ing Boise police officers on Friday night. Media reports said Brendon was in town to attend a comics convention and got into a drunken dispute with hotel staff and broke a decorative item. Police took him into custody when he tried to leave the scene, the reports

said. Brendon has also starred on “Criminal Minds” and “Private Jobs? Steve to play Practice,” among other television series. Christian Bale

hristian Bale is in talks for the title role in a Steve Jobs biopic. The ‘American Hustle’ actor has reportedly been in discussions with Sony who want Christian to play the Apple co-founder in a Cbiopic based on his life. Famed director Danny Boyle has already signed up to direct the film, while Aaron Sorkin has been busy writing the script. The writer - who has also worked on ‘The Social Network’ - has revealed that the movie will be split into three parts, including the launch of the Mac computer, the start of his computer company NeXT and the birth of the iPod. Talking to the Daily Beast, Aaron said: “It’s a little like writing about the Beatles. There are so many people out there that know him and revere him.” Leonardo DiCaprio has also been contacted about the role. However, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ actor has reportedly turned down the job offer leaving the path clear for Christian. If everything goes according to plan, the as-yet-unnamed movie will reportedly start shooting in the spring before Christian starts filming for his other project, ‘The Deep Blue Goodbye’.—Bang Showbiz Sigourney Weaver too tall for roles igourney Weaver loses roles because of her height. The ‘Prometheus’ star admits some directors are Sreluctant to cast her in their movies because, at 6ft tall, she would tower over her male co-stars. She said: “I’ve been lucky with my career. When I started, hardly anybody wanted to hire a woman who was six feet tall. “What man wants to spend their days on set standing on an apple box just to be able to look into my eyes? A lot of directors decided to pass on hiring me.” Sigourney got her big break starring as Ellen Ripley in ‘Alien’ and Gyllenhaal admits it was an unusual step for her to make as she had previously been such a “snob” about movies and says society is complicit in ‘nightcrawling’ only wanted to work on stage. She told Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “Ripley gave me a career. Without her, my life ake Gyllenhaal says almost everybody in society ought to relate to his new movie ‘Nightcrawlers’. would have taken a different direction. “I was a real snob The eagerly-awaited film concerns those people who monitor police scanners and then race to at times and didn’t really want to do cinema. All I really Jcrime scenes to film eye-catching incidents before selling the footage to TV news channels. wanted to do was theatre.” And despite the lasting pop- Gyllenhaal argues that society is complicit in this activity, explaining to the Guardian newspaper: “I ularity of the sci-fi series, the actress doesn’t want to be equate it with fast food. We all know [it’s] bad for us. But people demand it ... This narrative of fear and thought of as a legend. She said: “I don’t feel comfort- this spinning of news has a great detrimental effect.” heT 33-year-old actor said it’s important people able being called a legend or a star. I’m thankful for remain aware of this issue, warning of the potential impact of “these images ... coming at us so fast being able to provide a good living for my family but I and so graphically. It can have a negative effect on us.” Meanwhile, the movie’s writer-director Dan can do without the fame part.” Gilroy - whose previous work includes ‘The Bourne Legacy’ - explained that he’s witnessed so-called nightcrawlers at first hand. He said: “We get there and three young girls had been ejected from a [speeding] car. Our technical adviser [a nightcrawler himself] ... got out of our car and filmed it. Within five minutes, he’d sold the footage for several thousand dollars to the local station. Next night, we saw [several] fatalities. This is just night-time in LA.” He added that while the upcoming film may exag- gerate some aspects of nightcrawling, it’s not far removed from the reality. lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Music & Movies

US actor Brad Pitt (3rd left) joins fellows cast-members Jon Bernthal (left), Logan Lerman (2nd left), Shia LaBeouf (3rd right) and Michael Pena (2nd right) and Director David Ayer (right) of Andrey Zvyagintsev World War II action film ‘Fury’ at a photocall during theBFI London Film Festival in London yesterday.—AFP photos Brad Pitt war film wraps up London Film Festival

rad Pitt was bringing the London Film will walk away from this and feel they are rec- Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Festival to a storming conclusion yester- ognized.” “Fury” is an appropriately unflinching Bedirxan, a schoolteacher who filmed life in Bday with “Fury,” David Ayer’s mud- and finale for a festival that awarded prizes to films the besieged city of Homs. Director Stephen blood-splattered tale of a tank crew in the that tackled corruption, gang violence, honor Frears was awarded the British Film Institute’s closing days of World War II. The film offers a killing and war. Fellowship, in recognition of a career that has brutal depiction of combat, but Pitt says film- Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan,” a tragic traveled from the battered streets of Margaret ing it has made him a better father to his six satire of small-town Russian corruption, was Thatcher’s Britain in “My Beautiful Laundrette,” children with Angelina Jolie. “This role is a real named the festival’s best picture. Ukrainian to 18th-century France in “Dangerous study in leadership and learning to command director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy won the first- Liaisons,” seedy Los Angeles in “The Grifters” respect and because of this, I am now a better feature award for “The Tribe,” a teen-gang dra- and Buckingham Palace in “The Queen.” The father,” said Pitt, who plays a hard-bitten ser- ma set at a school for the deaf and performed 73-year-old director said that he’d become a geant in command of a Sherman tank crew entirely in sign language, without subtitles. filmmaker by accident, and quoted playwright played by Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Actress Sameena Jabeen Ahmed was named Joe Orton, subject of his 1987 film “Prick Up Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal. best British newcomer for her performance as Your Ears.” “I’ve got away with it so far,” he said, “This film is about the soldiers’ exhaustion a British-Pakistani teenager on the run from “and I’m going to go on.”—AP from the cold, hunger and the accumulative her family in “Catch Me Daddy.” effect on a daily basis,” Pitt told reporters The documentary prize went to “Silvered before the movie’s black-tie European pre- Water, Syria Self-Portrait,” a searing look at the US actor Brad Pitt poses for photographers at a media photocall for World War II action miere. “We took that to heart. I hope ... soldiers country’s civil war by Paris-based director film “Fury”.

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar receives the Lumiere Award during the Sixth edition of the Lumiere Film Festival, as French actress Juliette Binoche stands by, in Lyon.—AFP

Martin Sheen watches as Captain Oona Layolle smashes a bottle of champagne against the hull during the christening of Sea Shepherdís newest vessel.—AFP photos Pedro Almodovar shoots Sheen launches boat as latest film in Lyon hat will be Pedro Almodovar’s tic approach, dressing Rossy de Palma, next film? Answer: It’s a remake Berenice Bejo (pictured), Isabella Wof a French classic, 1895’s Rossellini and Marisa Paredes in period campaign founder eyes return “Employees Leaving the Lumiere hats, with Almodovar suddenly appear- Factory,” and Almodovar shot it Saturday ing into view behind them. Dolan’s short ward-winning actor Martin Sheen teamed a few months ago when he traveled to France, the sea,” the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning in France’s Lyon. Credited as the first is probably the most conceptually devel- up with conservation group Sea according to a Sea Shepherd spokeswoman, Lisa “Apocalypse Now” and “West Wing” actor told a mass audience movie ever made, oped. Including Keanu Reeves, John Shepherd Saturday to launch a new ship, Agabian. She told AFP there were still two “politi- crowd at the boat-christening ceremony in A “Employees” was just some 40-seconds McTiernan, Edgar Ramirez. Thierry as its exiled founder said he hopes to return to cally motivated” active Interpol Red Notices” Marina Del Rey, just outside Los Angeles. “If we long, showing workers streaming out of Freamaux, Bertrand Tavernier and Elena the US next year. Sea Shepherd founder Captain from Japan and Costa Rica “which limit Captain fail to clean up the plastic mess that humans the factory gates to left and right, a Anaya, his “workers” leaves the portal Paul Watson said via Skype that he hoped to Watson’s travel, but we are continuing to work have made and stop the pollution... we face the horse-cart leaving, a man on a bicycle, a filming themselves with their smart- return from France, where he said the govern- on getting them removed.” potential extinction of many species of sea life.” stray dog. phones. Dolan said he’d like everybody ment was being supportive despite two coun- The French captain of the boat described The Lumiere Factory is no more; a to send him the films, but not because tries including Japan seeking his arrest. Cracks a bottle how its six crew had encountered masses of stone portal has substituted its gates. they’d necessarily be great cinema.”I “I’m in a sort of exile in Paris... it’s not the Sea Shepherd said last month that it would plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific, on Working from the same camera place- want to show what films looks like when worst exile in the world,” he joked. “It’s great over switch its high-profile Southern Ocean cam- their two-week journey from Hawaii to Los ment as the original, Almodovar’s movie one is only interested in oneself and the here. Everybody’s been very friendly, the govern- paign from whales to toothfish-a rare species Angeles for the launch. “It was very sad to see can be seen as not only a remake but a instantaneous character of new tech- ment’s been very supportive. Hopefully we’ll famed as “white gold” if Japan cancels this year’s that even in the most remote place far away reappraisal of the Lumiere brothers work nologies rather then taking the time to have all of this cleared up by next spring and I hunt in Antarctica. But Sea Shepherd, which has from any human beings, you can find so much which is credited far more for its docu- step back.” The 6th Lumiere Festival can return” to the US, he said. Watson was arrest- spent a decade harassing the Japanese harpoon pollution,” said Captain Oona Layolle, a veteran mentary record of the hustle-bustle of wrapped yesterday with Almodovar’s “All ed in May 2012 in Frankfurt on a warrant from ships during the southern hemisphere summer, of five Sea Shepherd campaigns. Sheen, 74, said the Belle Epoque than for its notable aes- About My Mother,” which won him his Costa Rica, where he is wanted on charges stem- said it would still keep its eye on any whaling more than a million birds are believed to die thetic qualities. “Obsessed by symmetry,” first Academy Award, as the closing film, ming from a high-seas confrontation over shark vessels. Meanwhile the captain of the new boat, each year from plastic pollution. “Cleaning up Almodovar has his figures walking in with the Spanish director in atten- finning in 2002. the “Martin Sheen,” cracked a bottle over the side the oceans is a major environmental imperative lines of five towards the camera, accord- dance.—Reuters He was released on bail, but fled the country of the research vessel, which will focus on bat- of our time... this vessel has a very specific mis- ing to the Lumiere Fest Daily Rue du on July 22, 2012 and was a fugitive on the high tling maritime litter like plastics in the world’s sion and I cannot tell you how proud I am to be Premier-Film. seas for 15 months. He eventually entered the oceans. associated with it,” he added.—AFP Paulo Sorrentino took a more roman- United States last October, and stayed here until “Plastic has become the deadliest predator of

(From left) Japanese professional wrestler Keiji Mutoh, director Brett Ratner, Martin Sheen at the helm at the christening of Sea Shepherd’s newest Martin Sheen and Captain Oona Layolle during the christening of Sea American actor Dwayne Johnson, model Sumire, and producer Beau Flynn, pose for vessel named after him during a ceremony in Marina del Rey, California. Shepherd’s newest vessel. a photo in Tokyo, Japan for the ‘Hercules’ movie premiere yesterday.—AP lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 FEATURES

Art works by French street artist JR are pictured inside the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital during a media tour in New York on October 16, 2014. — AFP photos Street artist revisits ghosts of Ellis Island hospital

llis Island was once the gateway to of mentally ill patients are the only photo- America for millions of immigrants, but graphs mounted outside, stuck on the porch Ethe cavernous hospital that treated of the psychiatric ward-the same place where some of those new arrivals has been closed to the photograph was originally taken. “For the the public for 60 years. Now, a moving exhibi- autopsy room, I tried hundreds of things, but tion of blown-up, century-old photographs there was no image that was connecting,” JR has been put together by French artist JR, said. He says he doesn’t believe in ghosts, but allowing new generations to explore the admits “there are some rooms, you don’t want ghosts of the past for the first time. to walk alone,” in the run-down buildings of For his “Unframed, Ellis Island” project, JR interminable, dark corridors. In the former visited the island’s archives, selected black- washing room, enormous machines sit rust- and-white photographs and mounted them ing. There is a morgue, a succession of empty on the hospital’s dilapidated walls and bro- bedrooms with old sinks and the room used ken windows. There are girls with a scalp dis- to sterilize mattresses. The hospital is so dilap- ease, their heads wrapped in white cloth, idated that visitors are given hard hats to nurses in uniform, surgeons, a newly arrived wear. Groups of a maximum of 10 are allowed family, German physicians visiting in 1912 to visit for 90 minutes four times a day, four and photographs of the mentally ill. JR has days a week. pasted the cut-out, life-size photographs of a couple and their child onto a window looking Stuck souls French street across at the Statue of Liberty-the iconic bea- JR’s work has appeared on streets all over artist JR poses in con of America-so close and yet so far. the world, and he is motivated by showing to front of his art The hospital, which opened in 1902 and people who would not ordinarily visit muse- work inside the closed in 1954, treated 1.2 million sick immi- ums. He says he has never exhibited anywhere Ellis Island grants, around 10 percent of those processed like the hospital before. “It’s as if there are still Immigrant through Ellis Island after crossing the Atlantic. souls who are stuck... I still feel their energy,” Hospital. Around 350 babies were born. Though most he said. JR became fascinated with Ellis Island patients eventually rejoined their families, after discovering the hospital three years ago around two percent were deported and 3,500 in a book by photographer Stephen Wilkes. died without realizing their dream of a new The project is sponsored by the Save Ellis life in America. Walking through the aban- Island association and it took him two months doned hospital’s corridors, JR told AFP that he to put the project together this summer carefully selected where to position the 30 before it opened to the public in October. He photographs, saying he was guided by the has no plans to dismantle the exhibition. “It’s a energy of the place. “I didn’t want to paste all last homage to this place because they might over,” said the 31-year-old artist. disappear forever. You don’t know how long (the buildings) are going to stand like this,” he You don’t want to walk alone said. “I came many, many times, and tried many The exhibition has proven popular and JR things,” but it didn’t always work. “You can is working on a book about the project. He’s feel the intensity in certain rooms, it is also planning a short film about Ellis Island in charged (with) history.” In a former bedroom collaboration with Robert de Niro. “I expected with a cracked chest of drawers, a photo- an interest but not like that, this is totally graph of three sleeping people has been overwhelming,” said Antoni Mrozinski, a vol- pasted on the decrepit wall. unteer guide. “It adds to the whole story of The little girls with white bandages are Ellis Island,” he said. “That part of the story stuck on a broken window, surrounded by could be told, but couldn’t be felt. And open- overhanging foliage with the outside light ing this for people, you can feel the rest of the making their faces look translucent. A group story.” — AFP Iconic ‘Easy Rider’ chopper sells for $1.35 million

he iconic Harley-Davidson chopper-style motorbike ridden by Peter Fonda in the 1969 classic “Easy Rider” Tfilm sold for $1.35 million at auction this weekend, organizers said yesterday. The “Captain America” bike, complete with authenticating documents including a letter from Fonda, was sold late Saturday at entertainment indus- try auction house Profiles in History, said spokeswoman Sabrina Propper. The red, white and blue stars-and-stripes panhead chopper was designed and built by two African-American bike builders, Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, based on design suggestions from Fonda. There were two “Captain America” bikes built for “Easy Rider,” so shooting would not be disrupted if one of them broke down. The bike sold Saturday was used in the crash scene at the end of the film. It was sold as part of a sale of Hollywood memorabilia at Profiles in History’s auction rooms in Calabasas, north- west of Los Angeles. Bids were taken online and by phone, as well as in person. Auctioneers’ boss Joseph M Maddalena described the chopper before the sale as “one of the most iconic images in American film,” adding: “The File photo shows the iconic Harley-Davidson chopper ridden by Peter Fonda (photo bike evokes powerful emotions even in non-bikers. “It on left) in the 1969 classic “Easy Rider” on display prior to its auction at the Profiles personifies the 60s, all of the good and the bad that in History auction house in Calabasas, California. — AFP photos decade brought,” he said. — AFP In Mexico, codex exhibit rethinks Moctezuma’s death

exico’s largest exhibit of dued after the conquest,” Brito said. codex tell a different story of the final days Mesoamerican manuscripts fea- “They are a very important demonstra- of one of the last Aztec emperors. “This Mtures a codex made of fig tree tion of the knowledge acquired by codex shows us how he was captured by a bark suggesting that Aztec emperor Mesoamerican peoples throughout their Spaniard and then he is seen dead, blood- Moctezuma was slain by a Spanish con- history.” The collection’s centerpiece is the ied with a sword,” Brito said. quistador with a sword. The piece is among Chimalpahin codex, which the government “This is another version of history that 44 codices made by several pre-Columbian bought in May from the Bible Society to has a lot of value because the codices were populations- stop it from being auctioned off. The manu- considered works done by the people, for including the Mayas, Purepechas and script was made by indigenous historians the people.” There are some 650 Mexican Zapotecos-on display at the National Domingo Chimalpahin (1579-1660) and codices in museums around the world, and Museum of Anthropology. Some of the Alva Ixtlilxochitl (1578-1650). The piece a third belong to Mexico’s Museum of pieces in the temporary exhibit, titled recounts the daily life of Mexican society in Anthropology. The current exhibit, which “Codices of Mexico: Memories and the country’s central regions as well as dur- runs through January, includes manuscripts Wisdom,” are as large as 10 square meters ing colonial times under New Spain. describing plants and recipes that the (108 square feet). Spanish crown forced the indigenous pop- One cost the government $1 million to Moctezuma’s death ulations to elaborate after learning about buy from the Bible Society in Britain. “It’s Another jewel in the museum’s treasure their medicinal value. The indigenous pop- the biggest codex exhibit (in Mexico),” trove is the Moctezuma codex, a two- ulations also used these manuscripts to curator Baltazar Brito, director of the meter (two-yard) long and 25-centimeter appeal for their rights before the crown. National Anthropology and History Library, (10-inch) wide piece made with the bark of One codex was drawn on a nopal cactus to told AFP. The codices were written by a fig tree. Ancient chronicles say depict the family tree of the elite who lived tlacuilos, which in Mayan means a person Moctezuma was stoned to death in 1520 in the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, where Details of the Martin de la Cruz Badiano codex (1552), made on European paper, who carves stones. The ancient manu- by his own people, who considered him a Mexico City lies today. “The messages of are seen at the “Codices of Mexico, memories and knowledge” exhibition at the scripts present a vision of history from the traitor for surrendering to the Spaniards. the codices have yet to be completely deci- National Anthropology museum on October 9, 2014. — AFP point of view of “the people who were sub- But the small drawings in the Moctezuma phered,” Brito said. — AFP lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 FASHION From power symbol to fashion statement

rom a symbol of power to a fashion A visitor faces a wall showing ties An artwork by designers Virginie Eyes on the ties: on the ties: Eyes statement, ties in all their guises are on and bow ties by US artist Andy Tache and Enzo Melchiorre of HEAD- Fshow at a new exhibition dedicated to Warhol from the Andy Warhol Geneva entitled ‘The Permanent the neckwear at the Swiss National Museum. Museum of Pittsburgh during the Stain’ is shown during the exhibition They speak volumes about their wearer, exhibition ‘The Tie.’ ‘The Tie.’ — AFP photos whether sported by British regimental veter- ans and university alumni, or US presidential hopefuls-red for Republicans, blue for Democrats. The subtle tie-codes at various points in history are set out step by step for visitors to the Zurich-based museum. “The concept of the exhibition is to show the dif- ferent facets and contexts of the necktie and also that it had different meanings depend- ing on the era,” co-curator Joya Indermuehle told AFP. Ties of various kinds were long worn as a symbol of social and political status. They emerged in the 17th century when French Alongside the somewhat psychedelic tie is a ties fuelled the prosperity of a city now best- aristocrats adopted the cravat, originally a letter Vallance received from the White known for its banks. Rival manufacturing simple scarf worn by soldiers from Croatia. House. “Although we can appreciate your hubs included Como in Italy and Krefeld in The name cravat was a nod to “Hrvat”, to the interest, unfortunately, the President receives Germany. In tribute to the Zurich manufac- Croatian word for a Croat. Among the treas- so many requests for souvenirs and other turers of the past, the exhibition includes a ures on display in Zurich is a long lace cravat momentos that it is not possible for him to section of cloth production, with a huge worn by Christian VII, king of Denmark and comply with all of them. He believes it would image of a design used on the weavers’ Norway, at his coronation in 1767. From be unfair to make an exception in this case “Jacquard” looms. Britain was Zurich’s main more recent history is a tie offered to US when he has not do so for others. I hope you export market in the 19th century, joined by A board showing British regiments ties is photographed during the exhibition ‘The President Jimmy Carter in 1979 by American will understand,” it says. Beyond monarchs the United States and Japan in the 20th cen- Tie.’ artist Jeffrey Vallance. and politicians, the exhibition also spotlights tury. The sector was vulnerable to shifting Vallance’s “Cultural Ties” project involved ties in the art world, including those of Port economic winds, noted historian Alexis sending neckties to a host of heads of state Art icon Andy Warhol, or from the punk Schwarzenbach, who is researching the and asked them to give him one in return. movement. Zurich silk industry. “The devaluation of the dollar in the 1970s practically wiped out the Emancipation symbol for women American market,” he said. Others include one sported by German Swiss exporters also faced rising competi- actress Marlene Dietrich, in a sign of the tion from Asian producers, just as male dress rebellious androgeny of the post-World War I codes became more relaxed, and the sector Berlin cabaret scene. A section of the exhibi- slowly withered. With ties no longer deemed tion is dedicated to women’s ties. “We want- essential in many circles, they have become a ed to show that there were contexts proba- way to personalize men’s style. “Tie-wearing bly not so much known, like for example the has lost its obligatory side and returned via women neckties in the 17th century,” said fashion,” said Isabelle Lartigue, head of Indermuehle. While aristocratic women had menswear at Parisian trend-spotting compa- adopted neckwear, ties became a mark of ny Peclers. On the catwalks, ties are this year the female challenge to male dominance facing tough competition from flowing from the 19th century onwards. scarfs, though retro-style knitted ties with “It became a statement later on when square tips are back in, she said. In Italian George Sand or Colette started to use it as a fashion, the current trend is to deploy ties in symbol of emancipation,” said Indermuehle. “almost theatrical style”, said Lartigue, while Despite that, neckties have remained a large- American designers are opting for ties that Ties belonging to the 850-piece of Florence-based pro- ly male preserve. Zurich is a fitting location match the color of the shirts. The exhibition Ties belonging to the 850-piece of Florence-based professor Piergiovanni Marzili are fessor Piergiovanni Marzili are displayed. for the exhibition, given that quality cloth for runs until January 18. — AFP displayed.

People shop for Halloween items at the Halloween Club store. Too soon? How about not at all for Ebola Halloween o holiday screams pop culture controversy quite like Wonder Woman, among searches for DIY costumes. Regardless, the Halloween. So what’s the costume flap of the year? It might costume site BrandsOnSale went there. It’s selling an “Ebola Njust be Ebola, as in Ebola zombies, bloody Ebola patients and Containment Suit Costume” for $79.99, complete with white suit faux protective gear. Twitter and other social media were abuzz emblazoned with “Ebola,” face shield, breathing mask, safety gog- leading into the holiday with talk of hazmat suits and respirators. gles and blue latex gloves. Too soon? How about just no, said Philadelphia physician’s assistant “You are sure to be prepared if any outbreak happens at your Maria McKenna. Halloween party. This will literally be the most ‘viral’ costume of the One of her own, a Dallas nurse who at 26 is exactly her age, was year,” declares the online product description. diagnosed with the virus in the United States after she had helped The company’s chief executive, Johnathon Weeks, said he sold care for a Liberian man who died at her hospital. The idea of riffing about a dozen of the costumes in the first week after its Oct 8 on the crisis for Halloween “definitely rubs me the wrong way,” said launch. That’s barely a ripple in the more than one million costumes McKenna, who works with post-surgical patients at a hospital. he stocks, but it was shared on social media 7,000 times last “Normally I think that irony and humor is funny, but this thing with Monday - the most shared item on his site. Word of the costume the costumes, is it really that funny? I mean, Ebola’s not even under was greeted by some blowback from outraged members of the control yet,” she said Monday by telephone. Skulls are among a wide selection of items sold for public, he said. Like it or not, some costume sellers have leftover yellow jump- Halloween at the Halloween Club store in Montebello, “We don’t stray away from anything that’s current or controver- suits, rubber gloves and masks from the “Breaking Bad” craze last California ahead of the annual end of the month tradition on sial or anything like that,” Weeks said from his 127,000-square-foot Halloween. Some sellers predict Halloweeners will repurpose those October 31. — AFP photos warehouse in Banning, California. for takes on Ebola or make their own getups. Halloween, falling on a look. “But people are definitely asking about an Ebola-type cos- “If I told you we had a toddler ISIS costume in the works, your Friday, is sure to be a big season for many costume sellers, including tume.” Ricky’s had gone so far this season as to internally kick mouth would drop.”Does he? “I will definitely let you know when Ricky’s NYC. around the idea of selling some type of Ebola costume and donat- that goes on sale,” Weeks said. “I can tell you it will come complete Some revelers are notoriously last-minute on costumes, so it was ing a portion of proceeds to finding a cure, Parrott said. Ultimately, with a fake machine gun.”— AP a bit too early to tell whether all the talk about dressing up as Ebola “we felt like it probably crosses a line that we don’t want to cross.” something or other will actually take off. Talk, after all, especially on This product image released by Brands On social media, is cheap. “I wouldn’t say we can see an uptick in sales. Breathing mask Sale, Inc shows a hazmat costume with a I’d say it’s still chugging along because it’s a good seller no matter If searches on Google are any indication, the Ebola crisis doesn’t respirator. No holiday screams pop culture what,” said Ricky’s president Richard Parrott of the ‘Breaking Bad’ match the Top 10 popularity of Elsa from “Frozen,” or even your basic controversy quite like Halloween. —AP Eyes on the ties: From power symbol to fashion statement

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 39 What’s faster?

Mohamed Al-Attar vs Abdo Feghali

an a man really outrun a machine? the island’s deserted streets to duke it out. The Mohamed Al-Attar. in 1998. His passion for drifting to develop his in 2006 and participated in several shows Drift racer Abdo Feghali and parkour athletes raced through old buildings and natu- “Faialaka Showdown was a new experience talent and become a drifting veteran. Feghali across the GCC countries. His first competitive Cathlete Mohamed Al-Attar chose the ral obstacles to find out who will reach the fin- for me. I always competed against competitors was crowned the Middle East’s Hill Climb win was at Red Bull Urban in Jump in 2010. In ancient Kuwaiti island of Failaka as the place ish line first. from the the motorsport world. I enjoyed this Champion for four consecutive years. In 2013 2011 Al-Attar and his team earned 3rd place to find out. “It was a new and unique experience that I experience and we hope that we do some- Feghali managed to break the Guinness world spot at the Red Bull Art of Motion. So who was With Feghali armed with a Nissan 370Z and enjoyed a lot. I hope through this experience thing new very soon”, said Abdo Feghali. record for the longest vehicle drift. the winner? You’ll have to check out the Al-Attar with nothing more than a pair of train- that the Arab audience will get to know more Abdo Feghali is a Lebanese Rally Driver and Mohamed Al-Attar is a freerunner and park- Failaka Showdown video at www.redbull.com. ers and a sweat band, the pair headed onto about parkour and freerunning,” said triple national champion who began his career our athlete from Kuwait. He began his career

Mohamed Al-Attar Abdo Feghali