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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SHAWWAL 28, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Close ranks and US launches Timberlake, Djokovic unite, Cabinet bombing raids Alba bring beats Nishkori urges Kuwaitis on Islamic seriousness to to claim on invasion3 eve State in Libya7 Teen38 Choice Toronto20 title Pain at the pump: Cabinet Min 34º hikes petrol prices by 83% Max 52º High Tide 10:40 New rates to take effect Sept 1 • Activists outraged Low Tide 05:07 & 18:23 40 PAGES NO: 16950 150 FILS By B Izzak

Proud Deehani refuses to carry Olympic flag KUWAIT: The Cabinet yesterday decided to raise petrol prices by more than 80 percent from September 1 as RIO DE JANEIRO: Legendary Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al- part of economic reforms aimed at countering falling oil Deehani has refused to carry the Olympic neutral team revenues. A statement after the weekly Cabinet meet- flag at the Rio Games opening ceremony, where the ing said the price of low octane petrol will rise by 41 state’s athletes cannot march behind their own percent to 85 fils a litre from 60 fils, while high grade emblem. Kuwait is suspended by the International petrol will increase by 61 percent to 105 fils from 65 fils. Olympic Committee (IOC) and other leading federa- These two types account for most of the petrol con- tions such as FIFA, football’s world body, over govern- sumed in the country. It also decided to raise the price ment interference in sport. of environmentally friendly low-emission “ultra” petrol Despite last-minute calls for dialogue to get the by 83 percent to 165 fils a litre from 95 fils. The increase Kuwait government to make a concession, Deehani, is applicable to all motorists in the country. winner of Kuwait’s only Olympic medals, and seven The ministers were briefed about recommendations other athletes are resigned to having to compete in Rio presented by the economic affairs committee - tasked as so-called Independent Olympic Athletes. According with revising various state subsidies - on setting fuel to Kuwaiti media, the IOC asked Deehani, who took prices. They approved the commission’s recommenda- trap shooting bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney and tion and decided to begin rationalizing subsidies on 2012 London Games, to carry the Olympic neutral gasoline in the country, as part of the government’s team flag. reform scheme where fuel products’ prices will be But the Kuwait army officer turned down the restructured to be in harmony with the average rates in request. “I am a military man and I will only carry the other GCC states. Kuwait flag,” he said. “I cannot carry the IOC flag.” The These are the first increases in heavily subsidized IOC and FIFA have now suspended Kuwait three times petrol prices in Kuwait for almost two decades. The since 2007 over government interference. The latest Cabinet said that even with the new increases, the sub- dispute has caused anguish across the state. The gov- sidy on petrol has not been completely lifted. The government has launched court action in Switzerland ernment liberalized the prices of diesel and kerosene in seeking $1 billion in damages from the IOC over its sus- Jan 2015 and revises their prices monthly. Kuwait is the pension, which Youth and Information Minister Sheikh LONDON: Kuwait’s Fehaid Al-Deehani, bronze medallist in the men’s trap final at the London 2012 Olympic last country among the energy-rich Gulf Cooperation Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah has called “unjustifiable”. Council states to increase the price of petrol. Other Continued on Page 13 Games, celebrates on the podium at the Royal Artillery Barracks in this Aug 6, 2012 file photo. — KUNA Continued on Page 13 Russian chopper downed in Syria RAK accuses top businessman of stealing $1.5bn

DUBAI: A small sheikhdom in the United Arab Emirates yesterday accused a businessman who once had ties to its ruler of stealing $1.5 billion while serving as the head of its local sovereign wealth fund. The allegations against Khater Massaad, who also helped Ras Al- Khaimah create a major, eponymous ceramics company, came in an unusually strongly worded dispatch car- KUWAIT: Head of the Yemeni government delegation, Foreign Minister ried by the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency. Abdulmalek Al-Mikhlafi (center), poses with his team as they wait at Kuwait airport Massaad could not be immediately reached for prior to their departure after they attended the UN-brokered peace talks. — KUNA comment. Cynthia Beudjekian, a marketing employee for one of Massaad’s businesses based in Lebanon, said Syrian rebels gather around the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 military transport heli- his organization planned to respond to the allegations. copter after it was shot down yesterday along the administrative border between Govt team leaves after The WAM report described Massaad as fleeing the UAE Idlib province in northwestern Syria and neighboring Aleppo. — AFP “as soon as questions arose concerning his business Houthis reject UN plan activities in 2012.” It described him as continuing to run BEIRUT: A Russian military helicopter was from the defense ministry, those in the businesses in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia shot down over Syria yesterday, killing all helicopter died, they died heroically, five people on board in the single deadliest because they were trying to move the air- KUWAIT: Yemen’s government delega- accepted by the government but reject- despite “corrupt dealings he has been involved in incident for Moscow since it intervened in craft away to minimize victims on the tion to peace talks left Kuwait yesterday ed by the rebels, Mikhlafi told reporters across the globe”. the war. The attack came as Syrian opposi- ground,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry after the rebel side rejected a draft peace at Kuwait airport. Government delega- It’s unclear why authorities decided to finally make plan proposed by the United Nations, its tion spokesman Mohammed Al-Emrani a formal announcement about the case after four tion fighters and their jihadist allies battled Peskov told journalists. representatives said. “We now leave earlier told AFP: “We are leaving today years. The WAM report said Massaad had “ended nego- government forces outside Aleppo in a bid Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy Kuwait... but are not quitting the consul- after having completed our part in the tiations” with Ras Al-Khaimah over the accusations. to ease the regime’s siege of rebel-held called the downing a “terrorist act” and said tations and not ending them before talks. The ball is now in the rebels’ court.” Massaad at one point ran the Ras Al-Khaimah parts of the northern city. Russia’s defense the defense ministry was still trying to con- ministry announced the downing of the firm the fate of the Russian servicemen August 7,” said the delegation head, The delegation was returning to Riyadh, Investment Authority, which the Las Vegas-based helicopter, which it said was carrying three “through all possible channels”. It was not Foreign Minister Abdulmalek Al-Mikhlafi. where it is based, after informing the UN Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute estimates is worth crew and two officers. immediately clear who was responsible. UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed set envoy that it was ready to sign the pro- $1.2 billion. The National, a state-owned newspaper “A Russian Mi-8 military transport heli- The incident was the deadliest single Aug 7 as the date for winding up the posed peace plan, Emrani said. based in Abu Dhabi, also described in him in 2008 as copter was shot down from the ground attack on Russian forces in Syria since talks that began April but have failed to Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he has being an adviser to Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al-Qasimi, after delivering humanitarian aid to Moscow began its intervention in support achieve any breakthrough towards end- received a letter from the government who now is the emirate’s ruler. Ras Al-Khaimah is one Aleppo,” the defense ministry said in a of President Bashar Al-Assad’s government ing Yemen’s conflict. delegation agreeing to a “draft peace of seven sheikhdoms in the UAE. Overshadowed by oil- statement quoted by Russian news agen- last September. It brought the total num- “We’ll return at any moment, even an agreement proposed by the United rich Abu Dhabi and the skyscrapers of Dubai, the small cies. The Kremlin said all five people on ber of members of the Russian forces killed hour after our departure, if the other side Nations to resolve the conflict in Yemen”. northern emirate borders Oman and is near the Strait board were assumed dead. “As far as we in Syria to 18. agrees to sign this document which the “The departure of the government of of Hormuz. — AP (UN) envoy presented” which was Continued on Page 13 know from the information we’ve had Continued on Page 13 India in talks to bring home workers

NEW DELHI: India said yesterday it is negoti- construction and layoffs. The Indian con- billionaire former prime minister Saad Hariri. ating with authorities in Saudi Arabia to sulate in Jeddah has been providing free “No jobless Indian will sleep hungry. If they repatriate thousands of migrant workers food for its nationals since their plight came want to come back home, the government after they lost their jobs, leaving them desti- to light last week, but Swaraj said the situa- will ensure their safe return...we have a col- tute and with no money to return home. tion could not be allowed to continue. “This lective responsibility towards our citizens,” Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parlia- can’t be a permanent solution, we will have Swaraj said. ment she was sending a junior minister to to bring them back,” Swaraj told the lower Some of the workers have not been paid Riyadh after reports that around 10,000 house of the parliament yesterday. However for months. Swaraj said India’s embassy has workers had lost their jobs and been left to that is being hampered by a Saudi require- set up five camps to feed the workers and all starve. Indians are among millions of poor ment that workers provide a no-objection 10,000 had received food supplies by early Asians working in the Gulf states, where certificate from their employers before they yesterday. More than 15,000 kg of food has human rights groups say many suffer can leave the country, she said. Junior minis- been delivered by the Indian Consulate in exploitation and abuses including non-pay- ter V K Singh will travel to Riyadh today to try Jeddah, she said. Swaraj said Singh is expect- ment of wages, with no channels for redress. to sort the situation out, she said. ed to raise the question of exit permits for ISTANBUL: A couple look at their mobile phone on a street near the Galata Tower, Many of the companies employing them Among those stranded are some 2,450 the workers when he reaches Saudi Arabia illuminated in Turkish flag colors, in the Galata district yesterday. Turkey has have suffered from the drop in oil revenues workers laid off by Saudi Oger, the once- and will oversee the airlift of the workers. arrested 11 fugitive soldiers suspected of involvement in an attack on President from falling prices, prompting a downturn in mighty construction giant led by Lebanon’s Continued on Page 13 Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hotel during the night of the failed coup, the deputy prime minister said yesterday. — AFP (See Page 8) TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 LOCAL

Great success at Kuwaiti-Spanish festival in Spain: Official MADRID: The Kuwaiti-Spanish Festival through the joint effort of the Kuwaiti in Marbella came to an end Sunday Foreign Ministry represented by the night, leaving the audience with a better Kuwait Embassy in Madrid, Kuwait’s understanding of Kuwait’s great people National Council for Culture, Arts, and and great culture. The festival reinforced Letters (NCCAL), the municipality of the notion that Kuwait is a country of Marbella, and the Spanish Ministry of peace and friendship, said Director Tourism. General of Kuwait’s Future The festival held a performance of Communications Company Global Kuwaiti folklore and traditional Kuwaiti (FCCG), Abrar Al-Masoud. music by Al-Takht band that merged Masoud said in a statement that the Kuwaiti and Spanish songs. A group of festival was a huge success and experi- children performed a Gergian celebra- enced a great turnout of Kuwaitis, Arabs, tion and a Kuwaiti wedding, including and foreigners interested in learning the ‘yalwah,’ where the bride sits below a about Kuwait. The festival featured green cloth held up by friends and fami- prominent members like Mayor of ly. The festival took place in Antonio Marbella, Jose Bernal, who was part of Banderas Plaza in Puerto Banus over the opening ceremony. three days, from seven in the evening The success of the festival was until midnight. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and head of the committee on protection of public funds MP Dr Abdullah Al-Turaiji. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Amir receives Speaker, head of public funds protection committee

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Meanwhile, His Highness the Crown Prince Chief of the National Security Bureau Sheikh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and Falah Palace yesterday National Assembly Speaker received yesterday at Seif Palace Deputy Chief Abdullah Al-Asousi. In the meantime, His Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem accompanied by head of National Guard Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- MADRID: Girls perform on stage during the Kuwaiti-Spanish Festival in Marbella. — KUNA of the committee on protection of public Al-Sabah. His Highness also received Minister Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received Sheikh funds MP Dr Abdullah Mohammad Al-Turaiji. of State for Housing Affairs Yasser Hassan Abul, Meshaal Al-Ahmad at Seif Palace. — KUNA

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Al-Sabah meets with Deputy Chief of the National Guard Sheikh Sabah meets with Minister of State for Housing Affairs Yasser Director General of Kuwait’s Future Communications Company Global (FCCG) Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Hassan Abul. Abrar Al-Masoud. Kuwait-Chinese military relations developing: Official Chinese embassy celebrates army anniversary

KUWAIT: Brigadier Khaled Al-Shemmari, Kuwait’s Assistant Army Chief of Staff for Administrative and Human Resources, Senior Colonel Zhang Ge, the Defence Attache of the Chinese Embassy, and Charge d’Affaires Zhao Liang jointly cuts the ceremonial cake at a reception at Crowne plaza hotel on the occasion of 89th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese people liberation army. Higher officials, diplomats, defense attaches and cross section of the Chinese community attended the event. — Photos by Joseph Shagra KUWAIT: Assistant Army Chief of Staff for Administrative and Human Resources Brigadier Khaled Al-Shemmari stated that military cooperation between Kuwait and China has been growing in the past years, especially in exchanging technology and expertise. The diplomatic relations, which date back to 1962, were built on the principles of peaceful coexistence and mutual benefits, he said during a function held by the Chinese embassy in Kuwait to celebrate the 89th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese people’s liberation army. He reiterated the Kuwaiti people’s appreciation of China’s role in the Kuwait liberation war in 1990s as well as its contributions to the post-war rebuild- ing operations. He congratulated the Chinese people on the occasion and wished China more progress and advancement in all domains, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported yesterday. Meanwhile, Senior Colonel Zhang Ge, Defense Attache of the Chinese Embassy in Kuwait spoke highly about the ties between the two countries. “Kuwait is the first Gulf Arabic country establishing diplomatic relations with China, and this year witnesses the 45th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries,” he said in a speech. “The traditional friendship between China and Kuwait has emerged stronger over time and has stood the test of changing international and regional climate. The military-to-military exchange and cooperation between China and Kuwait has been on the right track and we are confident to expect more bilateral events in the near future.” “I would like to take the opportunity to express most sincere gratitude to my colleagues in Kuwait Ministry of Defense, General Staff and Kuwait Military Attache Association, my fellow countrymen and all our friends in Kuwait. It is only with your support and cooperation that we can make such an achievement,” he concluded. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 LOCAL Close ranks and unite: Cabinet No charges at Jaber Hospital: Minister urges Kuwaitis on invasion’s eve

By A Saleh tal also has three helipads, a parking Kuwait hopes Yemenis reach concord lot with a 5,000 car capacity in addi- KUWAIT: Health Minister Dr Ali Al- tion to 50 ambulances. It also has a KUWAIT: On eve of the 26th anniversary of Yemen talks Obaidi yesterday said the ministry protective shelter. The hospital cov- the flagrant Iraqi invasion, the Cabinet urged Meanwhile, the Cabinet expressed hope provides and guarantees health servers an area of 220 meters squared Kuwaiti citizens to close ranks and maintain the Yemeni parties would reach an accord ices for all without charges. Obaidi with a construction area reaching their national unity “so that Kuwait may be within framework of the diplomatic process denied a newspaper report about 725 meters squared. The minister safeguarded under leadership of Their for sake of Yemen’s unity, regional security charging citizens for health services, said the hospital is considered an Highnesses the Amir and the Crown Prince.” and stability. The Cabinet said in a statement saying “it is not true that the ministry integrated health center. The Government, in a statement read fol- following the weekly session that the State of submitted a proposal to charge citi- It has five towers of patients rooms lowing its weekly session, called on the Kuwait “will continue the bids aimed halting zens - rather it is the opposite”. He said at a height of nine floors and each Kuwaiti people, on this painful occasion, to the destructive war” in Yemen. the ministry discussed the ‘foreign tower can be expanded in the future. take lessons and seek to continue developing The ministers, during the session, were management’ project for Jaber He added that the hospital has eight Kuwait for now and the future and stand briefed by the First Deputy Prime Minister and Hospital, while stressing no fees will entrances, 150 elevators, a catastro- together for maintaining the unity and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al- be collected from citizens. phe center which is considered the national bonds. Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah about the “con- Jaber Hospital, which is slated to first of its kind in Kuwait in addition to Such national unification is complementa- tacts and developments that happened in the open later this year, is considered the a medical mall that is one kilometer ry to the march of the ancestors who have past week in the Yemeni consultations largest hospital in the Middle East long, containing various shops and contributed to building the dear homeland. It process, hosted by the State of Kuwait, that with a total of 1,168 beds. The hospi- resting areas for patients and visitors. is also necessary to maintain the blessing of have been extended for a week in response to security and stability “in shadow of our lead- a UN request.” ers His Highness the Amir and His Highness The Kuwaiti Cabinet called on the Yemeni the Crown Prince.” parties to “seize the opportunity and work out Prosecution demands death The Cabinet, on eve of the aggression a comprehensive agreement that ends the KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister anniversary, recalled with “distress and bitter ongoing strife in their country and halt Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah chairs the for daughter’s killers sentiments those who had fallen as martyrs, spilling the blood of the brotherly Yemeni Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNA those had been taken as prisoners, as well as people.” By Meshaal Al-Enezi and forced her to eat her sister’s feces, those who had been enlisted as missing from Meanwhile, the Cabinet was briefed by the church in a suburb of Rouen, northern France. according to investigations. our dear homeland and sisterly States.” Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Sheikh The Cabinet reiterated Kuwait’s unwavering KUWAIT: The public prosecution asked Separately, the public prosecution The ministers expressed gratitude to help Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah regarding his par- stance rejecting such criminal acts that go for the death penalty against a couple decided to jail two bedoon men and a provided by sisterly and friendly States as well ticipation in the recent meeting by the inter- against religions and human values and that scalded their daughter to death, a woman for 10 days, and released a Saudi in as the brave stances that had helped Kuwait national coalition’s ministers of defense and norms, offering condolences to the govern- case described as one of the most a case of kidnapping and beating. The sus- restore its sovereignty, freedom and integrity, foreign affairs, hosted by Washington. ment of France. heinous crimes in Kuwait. The couple pects were charged with kidnapping and “such aid will remain ingrained in the Kuwaitis’ The minister informed his fellow executives The ministers renewed a call to the interna- reportedly tortured their child by expos- beating, while the woman is charged with consciousness.” about “the results reached; aimed at boosting tional community to crystallize the world’s ing her with hot water for several months publishing the clip on social media. They prayed for souls of the late great lead- military and political coordination among the solidarity to fight all forms of terrorism, reaf- ers, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Jaber Al- States taking part in facing the terrorist firming Kuwait’s support to all efforts in that Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness organization,” the so-called Islamic State (IS), respect. IS claimed responsibility for last EPA, Kuwait University sign the Father Amir Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al- known in Arabic as ‘Daesh.’ Tuesday’s attack in which a priest was killed Salem Al-Sabah for “the sacrifices they had and other people were taken hostages. The MoU on environment protection given in facing the blatant aggression and lib- Church attack two attackers were killed, and one hostage erating the country from claws of the hateful In the meantime, the Cabinet condemned seriously injured, as the police special force KUWAIT: The Environment Public Authority exchange of information, the formation of an occupation.” last week’s terrorist attack that targeted a intervened to free the hostages. — KUNA (EPA) signed yesterday a memorandum of accurate and complete environmental data- understanding with Kuwait University to base to contribute as much as possible in coordinate and unify efforts between the two solving the problems facing the Kuwaiti envi- sides in the scientific and technical fields and ronment. It also calls on the two sides to reduce duplication in addressing various cooperate in the development of monitoring environmental issues. Director-General of the and early warning systems through the EPA Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said exchange of experiences and technologies. on the sidelines of the signing of the memo- Sheikh Abdullah said that the university in randum that the memo aims at boosting turn will provide the training of national cooperation between the two parties and cadres and scientific consulting to raise their coordinate environmental efforts. efficiency in conducting laboratory analysis He added the memorandum includes the and integration in the use of laboratories of formation of a joint committee that includes both parties, indicating that the memo focus- faculty members, researchers and experts es on the exchange of technological informa- from both sides to determine the priorities of tion that is environmentally friendly. issues and ways to address them concerning Meanwhile, Kuwait University Rector Dr the implementation of plans and programs Hussein Al-Ansari said that the university’s related to the environment. He added that collaboration today with the EPA is very the committee is working on plans and important, recalling their cooperation at the mechanisms of action in emergency situa- Marine Science Center of the College of tions and emerging environmental issues as Sciences previously. He added that maintain- well as facilitating ways of communication ing the environmental situation of the coun- between the two parties. try is a shared responsibility and benefiting He pointed out that the memorandum from the experience and exchange of infor- contains items related to scientific research, mation in various fields is something very environmental studies and proposed important, pointing out that this memo will research projects to protect the environment develop the work environment at the and assess the environmental impact and University of Kuwait and the application of sustainable development. He pointed out laws and regulations issued by the State in that the memorandum also provides for the this regard. —KUNA

KUWAIT: This file photo shows destruction at Kuwait Airways’ head office burned down by An oil field burning after being targeted by Firemen injured in Seif Palace, inflicted by Iraqi soldiers during Iraqi soldiers during the invasion. Iraqi attacks during the invasion. the invasion. — KUNA Hawally shop blaze By Hanan Al-Saadoun Service Directorate (KFSD) has set certain Kuwait marks 26th Iraqi specifications for vehicles transporting lique- KUWAIT: Four firemen were injured fighting a fied petroleum gas (LPG), adding that the fire in a boat repair workshop in Hawally. The directorate held several meetings in this fire was in a two-storey building, and Hawally, regard with concerned parties including Invasion anniversary Salmiya and technical rescue centers Kuwait Oil Tankers Company. This decision responded. The fire was fought and put out, was made following several accidents that leaving four firemen injured. Separately, fire- took place in neighboring countries, so it was Kuwait returned to providing aid to Iraqis in 1993 men brought a fire at a warehouse under con- necessary to boost preventive measures on trol without injuries. Sulaibikhat, Jleeb, vehicles and ban their transport in commer- KUWAIT: Today marks the 26th anniversary of ple, and we are outraged that the people of stressed that providing Iraq with protection Mishref and backup responded and con- cial quantities without obtaining a prior the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which took place our neighboring country must endure pover- and insuring people’s safety and security is a tained the fire. license from KFSD. on August 2, 1990. The Iraqi Army attempted ty and starvation.” His Highness stressed that shared responsibility of the international Fahd mentioned some of the conditions to erase the existence and identity of Kuwait Kuwait will continue to help the Iraqi people community. Signboards that must be met by vehicles transporting and its people. The Kuwaiti people, home and after the invasion, especially the refugees in On July 11, 2014, Kuwait donated three Kuwait Municipality’s Acting Director of LPG cylinders: abroad, immediately responded by uniting the north and south. million dollars in humanitarian aid for Iraq to Public Relations Abdelmohsen Aba Al-Khail 1- The vehicle must use diesel fuel. under the National Flag, where they fought His Highness Sheikh Sabah’s famous the UN refugee agency, and donated $200 announced the launch of inspection cam- 2- The bed must be closed from the sides, and defended the country, its leadership and proclamation on August 4, 1998 was in million dollars in 2015. During the month of paigns to follow up refurbishment of sign- back and top, with metal barriers that guaran- its freedom. Troops of the dictator Saddam response to allegations by the Iraqi regime Ramadan of this year, Kuwait distributed boards. He said a media team was formed to tee natural aeration of the bed. Hussein went on a rampage, burning 752 bar- that Kuwait was behind the international 12,000 food parcels through its charity organ- cover the campaign, and prepared a field 3- The floor of the bed must be of com- rels of oil and filling trenches with oil as a bar- sanctions on the government of Baghdad. izations in Kurdistan, and distributed 40,000 plan to cover all markets, shops and malls. pressed wood or any other strong insulation rier between them and the coalition forces. It Sheikh Sabah said, “we are not a giant country rations of food last year through the Kuwait The campaign’s slogan is “renew the signage material. was under the guidance and leadership of the for us to force the United Nations to lift or Red Crescent Society. at your place”. Aba Al-Khail called upon own- 4- Cylinders must not be stacked on top of late Amir His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah, place sanctions on Iraq, and that the Iraqis ers to quickly respond to concerned munici- each other. Also, no other materials should be the late Father Amir His Highness Sheikh Saad who reside in Kuwait live with dignity and Copious program pality authorities by replacing signboards and placed on top. Al-Sabah, and His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- respect.” In another statement by Sheikh Separately, the news sector at the Ministry remove those in violation. He said the munici- Acting Director General of KFSD Maj Gen Ahmad Al-Sabah, who was Foreign Minister of Sabah on November 23, 1998, during a visit of Information has prepared a copious pro- pality will not be lenient in applying the law Khalid Al-Mikrad said HH the Prime Minister Kuwait at the time, and with the help of the from former Minister of Foreign Affairs of gram to mark the 26th anniversary of the Iraqi and collecting fees. gave instructions to send Capt Fahd Al- people, that Kuwait was able to achieve its Egypt, Amr Moussa, he stated, “Kuwait does invasion of Kuwait for today, a senior official Mukaimi from Hawally fire center for treat- liberation. not plan inflicting any harm on Iraq and its has said. Assistant Undersecretary of the min- LPG cylinders ment abroad as he sustained a fractured The international community offered its people and overthrowing the dictator istry’s news affairs and political programs Director of Hawally governorate’s preven- pelvis on Saturday while dealing with a fire in financial, political and moral support to Saddam Hussein is an internal affair that Mohammad Bader bin Naji said yesterday that tion sector Brig Khalid A Fahd said Kuwait Fire a Hawally building. Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council Kuwait will not interfere with.” the program would focus on Kuwait’s bright made a number of crucial decisions, starting image and its support to values of security, with Resolution 660, in which it demanded Support and aid peace and humanitarianism. the immediate withdrawal of the Iraqi forces Kuwait and its people adhere to humani- The news sector has prepared the program under Chapter VII of the United Nations tarian principles that compelled it to return to upon directives from Minister of Information Charter. Arab countries also demanded imme- providing support and aid to the Iraqi people and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh diate withdrawal of the Iraqi forces. in 1993. Under the direction of Sheikh Sabah, Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, to The late Amir, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) provided highlight the unity of the Kuwaiti people at played a key role in mobilizing diplomatic aid and assistance to the refugees in Iraq and the face of the invaders, which aroused the support from the Arab and international com- Iran in April of 1995, adamant to help support world’s support to Kuwait’s rights, bin Naji munities in favor of supporting Kuwait and the Iraqi people and to do so with kindness, said. He highly appreciated backing by the regaining its legitimacy and sovereignty. love, and respect. ministry’s Undersecretary Tareq Eid Al- In April 2008, Kuwait donated $1 million to Mazram for all works produced by the sector, Victims of dictatorship the UN refugee agency to help in its opera- as part of a new media vision, considering Kuwait declared that the Iraqi regime could tions aiming to lessen the suffering of the Kuwait’s prominent status on the world scene, not be trusted or dealt with as long as it was Iraqi people who do not have the most basic it’s the country’s distinguished and well- under the leadership of the dictator Saddam needs of food, water, health care and educa- established ties with all countries since the Hussein. Kuwait also declared that the Iraq’s tion. In November 2010, Kuwait announced independence in 1961. people were victims of the dictatorial regime, offering $1 million to the UN agency to pro- All through today, the news sector musters and that they stand in solidarity with its peo- vide aid to the homeless who fled for safety Kuwaiti views on the painful memories of the ple, an Arab and Muslim people just like reasons. During the 65th session of the Social, 1990 invasion through a host of programs, them. During the invasion, His Highness Humanitarian and Cultural and Social hosting specialists, as well as radio and TV KUWAIT: A fireman is stretchered out of the scene after suffering an injury while Sheikh Sabah stated that “we distinguish Committee of the UN General Assembly, the reports and interviews with officials and ana- tackling a blaze in Hawally. between the Iraqi regime and the Iraqi peo- Kuwaiti diplomat, Hassan Shaker Abulhasan lysts in several world countries. — KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 LOCAL

In Brief Jarallah, Indian Kuwait supports PIC earns ROSPA official discuss Arab cooperation safety awards bilateral ties CAIRO: Kuwait is a proponent of Arab collabora- KUWAIT: Petrochemical Industries Company tion and the Arab League, Deputy National (PIC) has earned the Royal Society for the KUWAIT: In a phone conversation yesterday, Assembly Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainij said yes- Prevention of Accidents’ (ROSPA) health and Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah dis- terday. Al-Khurainij made those remarks after safety award, in addition to its fleet safety cussed with Indian Minister of State for Foreign meeting with Arab League Secretary General award for the year 2016, the company Affairs, bilateral ties and issues related to the Ahmed Abu al-Gheit. Moreover, he underscored announced yesterday. These prestigious awards sizable Indian diaspora in the country. The talks Kuwait’s humanitarian and political support of are the results of the company’s commitment to also tackled current regional and international war-torn Yemen, adding that he is hopeful that health and safety standards, PIC official Mijbil developments. — KUNA ongoing United Nations (UN)-brokered Yemen Al-Shimmeri said in a press statement. — KUNA peace talks in Kuwait would succeed. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: Sadu, a Kuwaiti traditional handcraft of wool weaving. — KUNA 18th children, youngsters cultural festival kicks off

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah inaugurated Sunday the 18th edition of the children and youngsters cultural festival. This annual event is meant to foster cultural knowledge and hone cultural skills among children and teens, Sheikh Salman, who also heads the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), told reporters on the sideline of the opening ceremony. It is of significant importance to inculcate the positive culture and the state has to start early these cultural activities to enrich the knowledge of youngsters and harness their talents as well as provide them with useful entertainment and excitement activities. He noted that NCCAL’s efforts to develop children culture is a key factor for the success of the national strategy to boost the role of culture in

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah attends the 18th edition of the children and youngsters cultural festival. — KUNA

Acting Secretary General of the NCCAL Mohammad Al-Asousi speaks at the event. serving the homeland and promoting its national identity. The 33-day event comprises a variety for cultural and artistic activities. Meanwhile, Acting Secretary General of the NCCAL Mohammad Al-Asousi stated that the festival is one of main events on Kuwait’s cultural agenda. This year’s edition is special as it coincides with the state celebrations of choos- ing Kuwait as a capital for Islamic Culture for 2016, he said. He emphasized the role of culture in promoting tolerance and dialogue and countering extremism and exclusion of others. The festival was commenced with Cinderella performance by a Russian troupe. The performance is an adaptation of the cen- turies-old folk tale of a young woman, named Cinderalla, rise from oppression and ultimate discovery of true love. She was forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother and self-centered step- sisters, who dreams of a better life. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a Princess and finds her Prince. Backed by a classic musical score, the dancers of this internationally-renowned troupe expertly interpret this story of good tri- umphing over evil. — KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 LOCAL Kuwait launches South Saad Al-Abdullah, e-tendering

KUWAIT: The Central Tenders Committee announced Kuwait’s first smart city yeterday launching first stage of the electronic tendering project, posting Government measures and transactions online. Alya Over 59 square kilometers to accommodate 400,000 people Al-Kanderi, in charge of tenders in the commis- KUWAIT: Saad Al-Abdullah city will be the first smart and and working hard to provide houses for citizens, pointing out private sector to be allowed to play its due role in carrying out sion, said that the pro- environment-friendly city in Kuwait in line with international that Saad Al-Abdullah project will contribute to ease the bur- high-quality property achievements. Saad Al-Abdullah program is made up of four standards, and spread over 59 square kilometers to accommo- den on citizens. ject’s implementation is expected to begin February, and a phases, noting that the date 400,000 people. Minister of State for Housing Affairs He also called for offering more housing and investment Joint Committee has been formed with the Kuwait first one includes coordi- Yasser Abul and Koran Minister of Land, Infrastructure and land in various areas in Kuwait for property projects, with the Municipality to remove obstacles. — KUNA nation with concerned Transport Kang Ho-in, signed a memorandum of understand- authorities; followed by ing to develop South Saad Al-Abdullah new city, which will be presenting the tender the first Middle East city to be both eco-friendly and smart, online. The later steps and includes more than 30,000 housing units. include notifying other Under the agreement, Korea Land and Housing government departments Corporation will work on the plan and conduct feasibility Alya Al-Kanderi of the bid, purchase of the analysis, the corporation will work with Kuwait’s Public needed documents and Authority for Housing Welfare to establish a joint company in ending with the investors’ offers. These online services charge of designing, constructing and operating the project. are basically intended to shorten paper transactions, The idea of the environment-friendly smart city is based on save time and effort. — KUNA the city’s dependence on modern technology through connecting its services and roads by an internet network, considering that all its inhabitants will be citizens who are smart phones and smart devices users, which will make it easy for them to use all services of the city more efficiently and with less effort.

Solar cells Experts explained that the possibility of connecting the city to electrical energy through solar cells will be studied. It will also be designed in a way to avoid visual pollution through binding city inhabitants to use specific colors for buildings. It might also witness binding them to use specific designs and specific constriction materials to be within the financial ability of the citizens to afford. All these visions are not a Kuwaiti invention or created from imagination but it is reality already applied in South Korea, that’s why an agreement was inked with the Korean side to establish the first smart city and environment friendly in Kuwait and might be circulated in case of success. Dr Nayef Al-Shemmari Dr Abdullah Al-Awisi Chairman of Kuwait Real Estate Union Tawfeeq Al-Jarrah Home-based business: said that Kuwait government supports the housing projects, KUWAIT: South Saad Al-Abdullah City’s location on Kuwait’s map. — KUNA Step to diversify production

KUWAIT: It is simply a glaring fact that the private sector is the locomotive of the world economies, and the main contributor in the GDP. Kuwait has been offering support to the sector so that it could lead development in the country. Part of this is an initial study recently submitted to Minister of Commerce and Industry Yusuf Al-Ali on regulating commercial licenses for home business, as they constitute part of the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) sector, and can contribute to economic growth, besides providing job opportunities. Home business or home-based business (HBB) is a business whose primary office is in the owner’s home. The business can be any size or any type as long as the office itself is located in a home. Issuing HBB commercial licenses aims in the first place to encourage the private sector and diversify the base of production, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for companies and commercial licenses sector, Dr Abdullah Al-Awisi said yesterday. The study submitted to minister Al-Ali aims to curb unli- censed HBBs, through offering licenses, with regulations on the types of businesses involved, he added. The goals of encouraging legal HBB also seeks to encourage the Kuwaiti youth, productive families and even people with special needs to play a role in economic development, Awisi said. This will curb unemployment rates, improve the individuals’ standard of living and encourage people to have their own businesses. A license will be offered to Kuwaitis, no younger than 21 years old. A house will have one single license, to be renewed annually, the ministry’s senior official said. No doubt enhancing HBB through legalizing it is likely to create fresh jobs and add to the efforts to diversify production in the country, economics professor at the Kuwait University College of Business Administration Dr Nayef Al-Shemmari said. This will limit the jobless, reducing demand on government employment, which will help the state lessen wages budget, he added. Moreover, HBB plays a vital role for boosting people’s income and better their living. This all serves sustainable development in the country, he stressed. According to Al- Shemmari, the regulations set for HBB have to consider the real needs of the market. Homemade food must be included in the HBB, he said, with a special law to organize it, following example of other countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Jordan and Egypt, he said. — KUNA

Hussein Al-Kharafi Complex ‘launchpad’ for oil projects: Union

KUWAIT: Equate Petrochemical Company is building an industrial complex as part of efforts to buttress grand national oil projects, President of the Kuwait Industries Union (KIU) Hussein Al-Kharafi said yesterday. The complex, slated to be built in Al-Shaaiba area over 200 thousand square meters, is the product of collaborative efforts between Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and other oil industries with the aim of propping up oil projects, Kharafi said in a press statement. Moreover, he commended Equate for its contributions to the country’s economy, noting that the lion’s share of industrial exports belongs to the company. Further, he added that the complex project is a major breakthrough for the petrochemical industry, one that could help bolster projects in that sector. While large-scale oil projects are on the horizon, Kharafi said he is hopeful that the complex project would come to fruition given the government’s support of the private sector. Formed in 1989, KIU caters to industrialists and seeks to boost industrial efficiency, which would in turn, help strengthen the economy. — KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Crime Al-Anbaa Report Victims’ Minister extends Syrians’ visit visas negligence

KUWAIT: A security source said Deputy Premier and Interior By Tariq Hamada Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah instructed that visit visas for Syrians not be extended, including those who have already received approvals, and their holders spoke in a previous column about swindling cases, were asked to leave. All Syrians who arrived in the country where citizens and expatriates receive calls from pro- on a visit visa must leave as soon as the visa expires. Ifessional conmen who tell them they have won KD 50,000 or KD 20,000, and the recipient takes the bait with extreme naivety and presents his bank account to the Businesswoman scammed swindlers on a golden platter. Then the victim goes to the police station to lodge a complaint, although he is a part- A businesswoman fell victim to a company after she ner in the case, enabling the swindler to get his money. sold them goods worth thousands of dinars, and was What drew my attention lately are cases that are no given a cheque of a closed account. A security source less dangerous and naive, besides being exhausting for said that an agreement was made between the police and detectives - they are cases of leaving cars run- woman, a citizen, and a company with a capital of KD ning, which are then stolen. A news item published in Al- 500,000. When she went to cash the cheque, she was Anbaa a few days ago related to a lady leaving her car told the account is closed. running with its doors unlocked to go to a popular store in Fahaheel for shopping. When she was asked by the police investigator why she left the car running, she said it was hot and she did not want to come back to a hot car. Man hospitalized after fight Also on the same day, a driver did the same in Sabahiya, when he left his car running and went into a mosque. An Egyptian man was taken to hospital following a beating Both cars were stolen by unidentified persons, and there by a fellow countryman, who escaped. The victim had to are hundreds of such types of cases. undergo nose surgery. The victim said he had differences Such cases are highly exhausting to detectives Al-Jarida over the period to return the money he borrowed from the because thieves are not stupid to keep the license plates suspect, who punched the victim in the face. The suspect is as they are, and they do not keep the original color, as being sought by police. they carry out alterations on them. Personally, I consider the victims in these cases partners of the suspects, as CBK earns PCI DSS certificate they present their properties on a golden platter to these Electrocuted to death deviant people who wait for such carelessness and steal KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of the vehicles. An Egyptian man born in 1980 was electrocuted and Kuwait (CBK) has earned the Payment The stolen cars that were left running also got their died after he was rushed to at Jahra Hospital. The vic- Card Industry Data Security Standard owners tickets (for leaving the car running) - a fine of KD tim’s colleague told police that he suffered an electric (PCI DSS) certificate, which handles 5. Victims in these types of cases should not only pay this shock, so a medevac helicopter took him to Jahra security of banking cards under the low fine, but they should be charged according to the Hospital, where he died. highest safety and security standards. crime they committed against themselves and the socie- CBK is one of the first leading Kuwaiti ty, because they enabled the thieves to perform this act. banks to earn this certificate in its During my work with criminal detectives, I interrogat- Drug dealers caught newest edition. Yasser Behbehani, ed suspects in theft cases, and I found thieves stole tens Acting Information Technology of cars parked in front of grocery stores, pharmacies and Two Indians were sent to drugs prosecution for trading in Director, receive the award on behalf banks. The strange thing is that they said this is the easi- drugs, with nine heroin envelopes and a bag of marijuana. of CBK from Dharshan Shanthamurthy, est type of theft for them, and all they need is a few min- An Indian named Koshmo had become famous among CEO of SISA Information Security utes to steal a vehicle. Avoiding these thefts needs peo- addicts as he delivered drugs round the clock to their Company. ple to only use their brains. homes. Koshomo was lured to Mangaf to sell five grams of Cheques procedures What keeps the car owner from removing the keys heroin and was arrested during the exchange. He told Meanwhile, CBK would like to draw and closing the door? Do these things exhaust him?! We police that he, along with his friend Dipio, trade in heroin. the attention of its clients that the are facing deliberate negligence that should not be over- He was also arrested. bank would soon stop receiving and looked, and the Interior Ministry must look for a solution passing cheques drafted in Kuwaiti that reduces these thefts, such as not allowing the person Dinars unless they matched the stan- whose car is stolen in such a way to register a car in his Brothel raided dard security measures set by Kuwait name for two years, so that he can feel the extent of his Central Bank. negligence. Seven men and women were sent for deportation after Accordingly, CBK urges clients who I believe that the presence of a mechanism to punish being caught practicing prostitution. Information was print their own cheques directly at victims, who I consider as criminals, will lead to notably received that expats were frequenting a brothel, which print presses to have those cheques light the necessity to fully observe keep the MICR line to the bottom of the reducing such cases that take place in the country and was placed under surveillance. It was then raided, and six only printed through authorized bod- KECCS regulations that reduced the cheque clear without writing or signing cause a rise in crimes in the country, although their avoid- Ethiopian women were found working there. Another ies as soon as possible after checking period of cheque collection from three on it. Cheques must be kept in good ance is easy. The public relations department should brothel was found too, where a Nepalese man and woman with CBK to get the approved standard to the same day of issuance, or the fol- condition, not to be folded stapled or launch a campaign to educate citizens and expats to were found in a compromising position. All were sent to security measures prior to printing the lowing working day. torn. They must also be kept away from avoid such cases. — Translated by Kuwait Times concerned authorities. — Al-Rai, Al-Anbaa, Al-Qabas cheques. It is also noteworthy to high- CBK also draws clients’ attention to direct sun and high temperature. Burgan Bank organizes firefighting training for the bank’s employees Training led by Kuwait Fire Service Directorate

Zain’s executive management participates in ‘Customer Day’ Learning about customer needs, aspirations up-close KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced today that it has recently organized training for its employees assigned as emergency KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommu- the company’s strategy to achieve maxi- international standards. teams at the bank’s headquarters. The training, which was led nications company in Kuwait, organized mum customer satisfaction, demon- Zain has always maintained its lead- by the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) aimed at high- the ‘Customer Day’ program, where the strating Zain’s commitment to maintain- ership in introducing programs, initia- lighting best practice methods in civil defense and firefighting. company’s senior executives, led by ing close bonds with the largest cus- tives and innovative solutions that help The training was conducted over a course of one day by Zain Kuwait’s Chief Executive Officer tomer base in Kuwait. it further develop and improve the officers from the KFSD, who shared essential tips and informa- Eaman Al Roudhan, personally interact- The company’s officials, including needs of both its customers and tion such as extinguishing fire, evacuation techniques as well ed with customers and experienced Chiefs and Directors, personally worked employees to result in a better customer as adopting the highest security and safety standards. first-hand the role Zain personnel play side-by-side with the Customer Care experience. Maintaining the safety of employees is key to Burgan Bank, in delivering excellent customer service. Division’s Resolution Department, The participation of company’s sen- which has derived a commitment to routinely facilitate and Zain’s Customer Day program mainly receiving calls and personally engaging ior executive management is a positive provide the best professional and sustainable training and aims at offering decision makers from with customers. The opportunity step into further implementing Zain’s education to its staff. This latest training comes as part of the Zain’s executive management with an allowed the executive management developmental strategy that aims at bank’s longstanding conjunction with the Kuwait Fire service up-close experience to thoroughly learn team to witness the daily interactions meeting customers’ needs and aspira- Department, Ministry of Health, and the Authority of Civil about customers’ needs and aspirations. with customers and how to further tions, especially with the swift advance- Defense, which have over the years, organized successful in The program received overwhelming improve the overall customer experi- ments the telecom sector witnesses house safety and emergency workshops. positive feedback, as it came in line with ence in the future as per the highest every day.

KUWAIT: Thirteen students from Kuwait University’s College of Petroleum and Engineering and College of Computer Engineering are participating in a training trip to China, organized in cooperation with Huawei Company. The journey concludes on August 13, 2016. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

Clinton’s ‘rust belt’ IS-inspired London Tube knifeman jailed for life tour courts white working class Page 10 Page 8 US launches airstrikes targeting IS in Libya

WASHINGTON: The United States launched militants. US, French, British and Italian special multiple airstrikes against Islamic State mili- operations forces and military experts have tants in Libya yesterday, opening a new, more been assisting Libyan troops fighting IS mili- persistent front against the group at the tants in eastern and western Libya. request of the United Nations-backed govern- In a statement, Pentagon press secretary ment, Libyan and US officials said. Peter Cook said President Barack Obama Fayez Serraj, the head of Libya’s UN-bro- authorized the strikes following a recommen- kered presidency council, said in a televised dation from Defense Secretary Ash Carter and statement that American warplanes attacked Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint the IS bastion of Sirte on the Mediterranean in Chiefs of Staff. “They are consistent with our northern Libya. No U.S. ground forces will be approach to combating ISIL by working with deployed, he said. capable and motivated local forces,” said Cook, The precision strikes, which targeted an using another name for the Islamic State group. Islamic State tank and vehicles, come amid US officials earlier this year estimated there growing concerns about the group’s increased were as many as 6,000 Islamic State insurgents threat to Europe and its ability to inspire attacks in Libya, including some who have abandoned across the region, even though its numbers Syria. But in recent months, officials say, their have been shrinking because of attacks from numbers in Libya have dropped and the group local forces and allied international troops. “The is weakening there under pressure from local presidency council, as the general army com- militias and the UN-brokered government. mander, has made a request for direct US support to carry out specific airstrikes,” Serraj said. Possibility of defeat “The first strikes started today in positions in Just last week, UN Secretary-General Ban Sirte, causing major casualties.” Ki-moon said that Islamic State fighters in The strikes mark the start of a more intense Libya are facing the “distinct possibility” of American role in the fight against IS in Libya, defeat in their last stronghold. And Dunford as the US steps in to assist the fragile, UN- estimated in mid-July that there were only a backed government. They were the first strikes few hundred militants still inside Sirte, which by the US on the group in Libya since the group has used as a headquarters. “I don’t February. Obama’s authorization for action in think there is any doubt that the Islamic State Sirte covers strikes, intelligence and surveil- in Libya is weaker than it was some months lance, but not ground operations, according to ago,” said Dunford, adding, that “They’ve suf- a White House official, who wasn’t authorized fered significant casualties in and around the to speak publicly about the strikes and Benghazi area.” requested anonymity. Without mentioning any future US military plans in Libya, Dunford said that “whatever Coalition against IS actions we conduct,” aside from those meant Serraj said his government is joining the to eliminate an IS threat to the US homeland, coalition against IS, adding: “This is the time for “are going to be in conjunction with” the UN- LIBYA: Members of forces loyal to Libya’s unity government taking part in the military operations against the Islamic State group in the international community to live up to its backed government of national accord. Dollar neighborhood in the center of Sirte, situated 450 kilometers east of Tripoli. — AFP promises to the Libyan people.” Serraj also not- In February, American F-15E fighter- um left the country a breeding ground for by different militias and tribes. The UN bro- presidential or parliamentary elections. ed that the strikes will not go beyond Sirte and bombers struck an Islamic State training camp militias, and militants including the Islamic kered a deal in December, which tried to Libya’s pro-government militias - mainly its surroundings. He said that any other foreign in rural Libya near the Tunisian border, killing State group and al-Qaida affiliates. mend the rift by creating a presidency council from the western city of Misrata - have been intervention is not allowed without coordina- more than 40. Libya slid into chaos after the Since 2014, Libya has been split between and a unity government. The deal envisions a waging an offensive against the Islamic State tion. His warning comes after several French ouster and killing of dictator Col. Moammar rival governments and parliaments based in transitional period of up to two years, followed group in Sirte since May, but it has recently commandos were killed fighting Islamic State Gadhafi in 2011. The power and security vacu- the western and eastern regions, each backed by a vote on a draft constitution and then stalled. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 Clinton’s ‘Rust Belt’ tour courts white working class

PITTSBURGH: Hillary Clinton took a bus Nevertheless “there’s a lot of mistrust of ing in politically on this region’s malaise tour across the US “rust belt” region this Hillary Clinton, and it comes from Bill,” over lost industrial jobs. Trump blames weekend in a quest to win over white, who signed the North American Free the losses on Bill Clinton and his trade working class voters who tend to support Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said John deals, and claims that it will be the same populist Republican Donald Trump. Russo, a labor expert from the region cur- under Hillary Clinton. With her husband ex-president Bill rently at Georgetown University. Ohio and Pennsylvania are key “swing Clinton in tow, the former first lady, top “The working class has been pretty states” in November’s presidential race. diplomat, ex-senator and now angry on trade issues given the many Winning one or the other, or both, could Democratic presidential candidate took manufacturing-related jobs that have be crucial to a Republican or Democratic her seat on a blue bus that meandered been lost because of NAFTA,” Russo said. White House victory. By increasing white over 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Few anticipated the massive loss of US voter turnout, Trump could counter Philadelphia to Columbus, Ohio. manufacturing jobs-mostly to lower Clinton’s lead in large cities like Here on this green and hilly landscape waged Mexico-after Bill Clinton signed Philadelphia or Cleveland, where African- steel mills have been closing since the NAFTA into law in December 1993. In American voters who tend to vote late 1970s, and many factories have shut- time many of those same jobs moved to Democratic are concentrated. tered since the 1990s. The 2008-2009 even lower wage countries in Asia. Near Pittsburgh, which Hillary Clinton recession further aggravated despair, and US manufacturing jobs continued to visited Saturday, lies Monessen, popula- the following economic recovery has pro- hemorrhage in the following years. In tion 7,500 — a shadow of what the town duced only a fraction of jobs that pay as Pittsburgh, a historic steel city that has was when two huge steel plants were much as the lost industrial ones. “I under- largely shifted to being a medical and open there, employing some 22,000 peo- stand that there are people who feel like educational center, Clinton slammed ple. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy the economy is not working well for Trump for doing nothing for working made the trip in this Democratic strong- them,” Clinton said at a rally in Harrisburg class Americans. hold to praise its industrial strength. In on Friday. “But I understand that. Because She even quipped that his Trump June, it was Donald Trump’s turn-and he COLUMBUS, OHIO: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears on I’m not satisfied with the status quo, are brand ties are made in China. “So Donald came to declare “US economic independ- stage at a rally a Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center on Sunday.—AP you?” she asked, joined by Bill Clinton and Trump says he wants to make America ence” in a vitriolic speech decrying glob- homes set to be razed. Mavrakis is a even take care of your own people? That’s her vice presidential running mate Tim great again. He can start by actually mak- alization. “We are going to put American- Democrat who has never voted stupidity.” According to Mavrakis “there’s Kaine. ing things in America again,” Clinton said produced steel back into the backbone of Republican. But he refused to say a revolution going on in this country right at a rally in Johnstown. our country. This alone will create massive whether he would vote for Trump in now, and these idiots in Washington, DC First tour as nominee numbers of jobs,” Trump said. November. “I’m disgusted with both sides, don’t even know it.” Mavrakis predicted If elected, Clinton promises to imple- From Kennedy to Trump? From his office overlooking the with our government with the way they that Trump “is going to get more ment what she says is the biggest jobs Trump has broken with the Monongahela River, Monessen Mayor give the foreign countries that hate us,” Democrat votes than any other program since World War II, focused on Republican Party’s age-old free-market Louis Mavrakis, 79, tries to stay positive as Mavrakis said. “You’re giving them billions Republican president that ever ran, just manufacturing and infrastructure. orthodoxy and gone protectionist, cash- he mentions that some 400 vacant of dollars, and they hate us, and you can’t from this area right here.” —AFP Turkey admits some crackdown dismissals may be ‘unfair’

ISTANBUL: Turkey admitted yesterday that there may have been some “unfair” treatment in its post-coup crackdown as it voiced anger at Germany for barring President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing a rally in Cologne. Retaliating after a failed military attempt to unseat him, Erdogan has launched a purge that has seen tens of thousands people suspended from their jobs and almost 19,000 detained. Apparently responding to widening international alarm about the crackdown, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim admitted there may have been some unfair treatment in the state sector. “There must definitely be some among them who were subjected to unfair procedures,” he said in comments published by state-run Anadolu news agency. “We will make a distinction between those who are guilty and those who are not.” Echoing his tone, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said: “If there are any mistakes, we will correct them”.

German rally Turkey meanwhile summoned a senior German diplomat, a day after a rally of tens of thousands of Erdogan supporters in Cologne in opposition to the coup. Hours before the demonstration, Germany’s constitutional court rejected an application to show via video link ISTANBUL: Cars pass on the newly renamed “15 of July Martyrs” bridge following the failed live speeches from Turkey by politicians includ- coup yesterday. —AP ing Erdogan, over fears they could work up the Tensions with Washington been firmly denied by top US officials. MAXWELL, TEXAS: Robert Sumwalt, board member with the National Transportation crowd. The decision sparked anger in Turkey, Turkish officials also met with the top US mili- Turkey is now requesting the extradition of Safety Board, answers questions during a press conference near the site of with presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin call- tary commander in the first direct talks since the Gulen-who has lived in self-imposed exile since Saturday’s hot air balloon crash near Sunday.—AP ing the move a “violation of the freedom of failed coup, with Washington under pressure 1999 — from his leafy compound in expression and the right to free assembly”. A from Ankara to extradite the Islamic preacher Pennsylvania. “We do not want (the US) to be in spokeswoman for the German embassy in Fethullah Gulen. Ankara accuses Gulen of mas- a position that will make us question our friend- Rebels launch major assault Ankara told AFP that the charge d’affaires had terminding the coup and says it is seeking to ship,” Yildirim said. “If they keep on dragging “been summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry remove all trace of his influence in Turkish insti- (their) feet on the Gulen issue... then things will to try to break Aleppo siege at 1:00 pm (1000 GMT)” on Monday over the ral- tutions. General Joseph Dunford, chairman of take a different course, because the events of ly. Turkish foreign ministry sources said the the US joint chiefs of staff, met Turkish chief of July 15 are crystal clear.” envoy was summoned to “strongly express our BEIRUT: Syrian rebel fighters have ern neighborhoods, effectively under siege staff General Hulusi Akar, after a visit to Incirlik After a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Kurtulmus disappointment” over the ban on a popularly launched a major assault on government- since the army, aided by Iranian-backed air base — used by coalition planes for air raids said Washington would have to choose between held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to militias, cut off the last road into rebel dis- elected leader from addressing the rally and on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. “He will support for a “terrorist chief” and the citizens of reopen supply lines into opposition-held tricts in early July. called the German approach “unacceptable.” But deliver messages condemning in the strongest Turkey. Last week, Erdogan lashed out at the top areas of the city after the army and its allies Germany, which is home to the largest portion terms the recent coup attempt and reaffirming US general in the Middle East, General Joseph tightened their siege last week. Significant ground of Turkey’s diaspora, played down the incident, the importance of our enduring partnership for Votel, after he expressed concerns about the The rebels are trying to break through a The army last week took significant saying such “invitations” were nothing out of the regional security,” Dunford’s spokesman Greg future of military relations between the two strip of government-controlled territory in ground on the northern edge of the city, ordinary. Hicks said in a statement ahead of the talks. allies in the wake of the putsch. Meanwhile the hope of reconnecting their area of con- around the Castello road, which leads “In the day-to-day dealings between coun- Unexpectedly, Dunford also visited the Turkey on Monday said it had arrested 11 fugi- trol in the west of Syria with the encircled north towards Turkey. The British-based tries, it is a daily event-normal for a representa- Turkish parliament which was extensively dam- tive soldiers suspected of involvement in an sector of eastern Aleppo. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said tive of a country to be called in to the foreign aged by rebel air strikes on the night of the attack on Erdogan’s hotel during the night of the A rebel military command centre that the rebel assault was their biggest for sev- ministry of his host country,” German foreign coup, seen as a symbolic gesture. He was due to coup. Erdogan was staying in the western sea- includes the newly formed Islamist group eral months. The monitoring group, which ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told jour- meet with the Turkish premier. Tensions side resort of Marmaris on July 15 but dashed to Jabhat Fatah al Sham, formerly the al tracks violence across Syria, said pro-gov- nalists. Ties between Germany and Turkey are between the two NATO allies have been aggra- Istanbul just before the hotel came under attack Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, Ahrar al Sham ernment jets had bombed rebel-held Khan already strained over the German parliament’s vated by the foiled putsch, with some Turkish from rebel soldiers determined to oust him from and Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigades said Touman in the southern countryside of decision to brand as genocide the World War I- officials even alleging that Washington could power. Just one soldier from the attack group they had seized army positions and some Aleppo, and rebels had shelled govern- era Armenian massacre by Ottoman forces. have had a hand in the plot. The suggestion has now remains at large, Kurtulmus said. —AFP residential compounds in the first few ment-held parts of central Aleppo hours of the assault, which began on overnight. Sunday night. Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city before the Turkey navigates tense relations with key allies Later, rebels said they had captured the outbreak of the conflict five years ago, has strategic al-Mishrefah area, south of the been divided between government forces ISTANBUL: Turkey summoned a until ties soured several years ago. said Dunford would “deliver mes- building, which was bombed dur- Ramousah air force artillery base, which and rebels since the summer of 2012. German diplomat yesterday over a In a sign of efforts to shore up rela- sages condemning in the strongest ing the night of July 15. At a small has been used to pound rebel-held areas Seizing full control would be the biggest court decision that prevented tions, the chairman of the US Joint terms the recent coup attempt.” protest held near the U.S. Embassy from its fortified hilltop position. victory for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Hicks said the general would also in Ankara, demonstrators held up “There is fast and quick progress,” said in five years of fighting, and demonstrate from addressing a demonstration Dunford, visited Turkey and met reaffirm “the importance of our placards reading “Dunford go Abdul Salam Abdul Razak, military the dramatic shift of fortunes in his favor in Germany, while the top US mili- with his Turkish counterpart Gen. enduring partnership for regional home, send us Fethullhah,” and spokesman of the Free Syrian Army’s Nour since Moscow joined the war on his side tary official visited Ankara as Turkey Hulusi Akar, who was briefly held security,” citing operations out of “Get out coup plotter Dunford.” al Din al-Zinki group. However, the rebels last year. navigated through increasingly captive by the rebels during the the Incirlik air base against the Meanwhile, the foreign ministry still need to advance another 2.5 km and Assad’s government and its Russian strained relations with key allies. coup, as well as with Prime Minister Islamic State group in Syria and summoned Germany’s charge d’af- take the artillery base, one of the biggest in allies declared a joint humanitarian opera- The government has expressed Binali Yildirim. Iraq, and Turkey’s contributions to faires in Ankara to discuss a Syria, in order to reach fellow rebels on the tion for the besieged area on Thursday, growing annoyance over what it NATO and the fight against the German court decision that pre- Aleppo side. bombarding it with leaflets telling fighters sees as a lack of support from its General to reaffirm Islamic State group vented Erdogan from addressing The army earlier confirmed on state to surrender and civilians to leave. But the allies in the European Union over Ahead of the meetings, US joint While in Ankara, Dunford was via video link a Sunday rally in the media that rebels had begun an offensive United Nations raised misgivings about the its response to the failed July 15 staff spokesman Capt. Greg Hicks taken on a tour of the Parliament German city of Cologne denounc- but said they had been pushed back from plan and US officials suggested it might be coup, saying it expected solidarity ing the coup attempt and showing the base. A quarter of a million civilians still an attempt to depopulate the city so that rather than criticism for the wide- support for Erdogan. live in Aleppo’s opposition-controlled east- the army can seize it.—Reuters spread crackdown on those sus- The court ruled that messages pected of links to the coup plotters. from speakers elsewhere, such as The attempted coup left 271 politicians in Turkey, could not be people dead in a night of violence shown on a video screen at the ral- Israel nabs Palestinian security when renegade sections of the mil- ly, which was attended by about itary used tanks, fighter jets and 30,000-40,000 people. A message officer for weapons dealing helicopters to try to overthrow the from Erdogan was read out instead. JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says of a crackdown meant to quell a spate of government. Erdogan has accused Germany is home to roughly 3 mil- security forces have arrested a “major Palestinian attacks. The military says sev- the United States of harboring lion people with Turkish roots. weapons dealer” who is a member of the en weapons-manufacturing machines Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Speaking after a cabinet meet- Palestinian security services in the West were seized this year in the Nablus area. lives in self-imposed exile in ing, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Bank. The military says it arrested Since mid-September, Palestinians Pennsylvania and who the presi- Kurtulmus said Germany’s action Mahayub Borhan Rashad Knaza in the attacks have killed 34 Israelis and two dent says masterminded the coup. was contrary to freedom of speech. West Bank city of Nablus early yesterday Americans. Ankara has demanded Gulen’s Kurtulmus said German courts and confiscated weapons manufacturing At least 205 Palestinians have also extradition, but Washington is ask- normally address cases very slowly, equipment. been killed, mainly by Israeli forces. Most ing for evidence of the cleric’s “yet the German Constitutional Recent Israeli raids have seized were identified by Israel as attackers involvement and says the extradi- Court prohibited our president weapons, shuttered arms-making facto- while the rest were killed in clashes with tion process must be allowed to ANKARA, TURKEY: Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, right, and addressing the rally via teleconfer- ries and arrested weapons dealers as part Israeli forces. —AP run its course. US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford talk dur- ence in less than 24 hours. . This is a Gulen was once an Erdogan ally ing their meeting yesterday. —AP clear double standard.” — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 McCain slams Trump over attack on dead Muslim soldier’s parents Senator issues strongest rebuke yet

WASHINGTON: Decorated war veteran and US Senator John McCain denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday for his attack on the parents of a Muslim US Army officer killed in the Iraq war. The Arizona Republican, a leading voice on military matters in Congress, waded into a snow- balling dispute between his party’s controversial nominee and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, issuing the strongest rebuke yet to Trump from a senior Republican on the issue. “While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not SABRATHA, LIBYA: A handout picture released on July 25, 2016, by the Sabratha accompanied by unfettered license to defame Municipal Council, shows what the council said was a migrant recovery operation off those who are the best among us,” McCain, who the coast of the western town of Sabratha. —AFP was a prisoner of war for five years during the Vietnam War, wrote in a long statement. Serbia arrests 11 people for Trump’s dispute with the Khans has dominated the election campaign in recent days after smuggling migrants to Hungary Khizr Khan spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, with his wife BELGRADE, Serbia: Serbian police say allegedly transferred the migrants to standing at his side. The Khans’ son, Army they have arrested 11 people suspected of Hungary and then on to Austria. People Captain Humayun Khan, was killed by a bomb in smuggling dozens of migrants across the smuggling has been on the rise in the Iraq in 2004, and the father spoke emotionally of border to EU-member Hungary. Serbian Balkans since nations closed their borders the sacrifice his son had made for the country as police said yesterday the arrests were the for migrants in March in a bid to stem the an American Muslim, specifically criticizing result of “intensive operational work and flow after more than 1 million asylum-seek- Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering exchange of information with the ers entered Europe in 2015. the country. Hungarian police.” Several thousand migrants have been In response to the speech, Trump said he had The statement says two of those arrest- stuck in Serbia and elsewhere in the also made sacrifices in his life. He also said that ed were the suspected organizers of the Balkans looking for clandestine routes into Ghazala Khan might not have been “allowed” to smuggling operation, while the others the European Union. —AP speak, implying her silence reflected restrictions placed on women by some traditional Muslims. The parents bristled at that suggestion and, in numerous television appearances over the sex offenders banned weekend, have said Trump is ignorant about from Pokemon Go Islam and about their family’s sacrifice. Several leading Republicans have weighed in to express WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: This file photo taken on February 9, 2016 shows US support for the family. The dispute is the latest in NEW YORK: It’s the smartphone game game, but we need your assistance to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services a series of missteps by the freewheeling, Committee, speaking during a hearing on Capitol Hill. —AFP electrifying the world but New York took make certain that sex offenders will not unorthodox campaign of the New York business- steps yesterday to ban sex offenders from continue to use Pokemon GO by techno- man, who has never held elected political office Khizr Khan said Trump lacked the empathy to be cope with making her grief public during the using the app to potentially prey on child logically barring their use,” he said in the but who beat 16 rivals to become the a leader and chided him for throwing the first convention. victims. The game, developed by US-based letter. Republican presidential nominee for the Nov. 8 salvo in their exchange. In their interviews yesterday, the Khans software company Niantic, a spinoff of A report from two New York state sena- election. Trump’s off-the-cuff insults and contro- Trump responded simultaneously on Twitter described the outpouring of support they have Google, has been downloaded more than tors showed that children playing versial proposals such as the ban on Muslims to the parents’ morning television appearances, received during their very public exchange with 75 million times across the United States Pokemon have been unwittingly lured into and a plan to keep illegal immigrants out by saying he was being “viciously” attacked. Asked Trump. On Sunday, Democratic rival Hillary and has gone viral across the world. proximity of sex offenders. Their investiga- building a wall along the Mexican border, have on CNN what message he could give Trump, the Clinton said Trump had scapegoated the par- But Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered tion caught 57 Pokemon characters direct- made many in the party establishment reluctant father said he wanted to maintain his family’s ents. Leading Republicans including House New York’s department of corrections to ly outside 100 homes of registered sex backers of his White House bid. dignity and convey to Trump “that a good leader Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader ban nearly 3,000 registered offenders on offenders on probation or parole whose parole from downloading, accessing or tak- crimes involved child abuse or possession has one trait ... empathy.” “It is basic character, Mitch McConnell issued statements in support Running into danger ing part in Pokemon Go as well as other of child pornography in the city of New realizing, feeling the pains, the difficulties of the of the family. Trump drew similar opprobrium a In his statement, McCain recalled how Internet-enabled games. “Protecting New York. There are nearly 3,000 sex offenders people that you wish to lead,” Khan said. “And year ago when he said McCain, who as a naval Humayun Khan died, saying that when a suicide York’s children is priority number one and, currently on parole in New York, the fourth that is missing.” aviator was shot down and taken prisoner dur- bomber aimed his vehicle toward a building as technology evolves, we must ensure most populous state in the United States. Trump has tried to shift focus from the Khans. ing the Vietnam War, was not a hero since he housing hundreds of US soldiers, the captain these advances don’t become new Since 2008, New York sex offenders have “This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over had been captured. told his subordinates to stay away, then ran avenues for dangerous predators to prey been required to register all email accounts the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL In an open letter, nearly a dozen so-called toward it. McCain thanked the Khans for coming on new victims,” Cuomo said in a state- and Internet identities with the state crimi- ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the US Get smart!” Gold Star families - families who lost relatives in to America, saying “your son was the best of ment. The governor wrote Monday to soft- nal justice services. Trump said Monday on Twitter. He has accused wars - said Trump cheapened their sacrifice and ware developer Niantic, Inc. asking them to The list is given to more than two dozen America, and the memory of his sacrifice will Mr. Khan of “viciously attacking him.” called for an apology. “This goes beyond poli- bar sexual predators from playing social networking companies on a weekly make us a better nation - and he will never be Ghazala Khan wrote an opinion piece in The tics. It is about a sense of decency,” it said. “That Pokemon. “The state has taken action to basis in order to purge offenders from their forgotten.” Washington Post on Sunday saying that she had kind decency you mock as ‘political correct- prohibit sex offenders from using this membership. —AFP In a remarks to television networks yesterday, remained silent during her husband’s remarks to ness.’”—Reuters Puerto Rico bondholders devastated but still have hope in US plan SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Attorney tating many investors in Puerto Rico ing too much into the bond price rally, Santiago Mari sighed as he punched and on the mainland. Some have had however. “It was a momentary, reflex numbers into his calculator and saw to delay retirement, find alternative reaction as opposed to a market-mov- the result. The value of his retirement sources for their children’s college ing event,” said Jim Colby, who runs account has dropped 75 percent due funds or rejoin the workforce. “My the $2.2 billion VanEck Vectors High to the collapse in Puerto Rican bonds dream was to retire at 55 years old, Yield Municipal Index, an exchange- that make up much of his personal and I worked hard for that,” said 57- traded fund in New York. portfolio, he said. He’s long aban- year-old Eduardo Rodriguez, a former He said Puerto Rico general obliga- doned plans for an early retirement. maintenance worker who now works tion bonds, which many consider And he’s far from alone. in a supermarket. “What can I do? Puerto Rico’s safest, are trading at “You have a whole lot of Puerto They say men don’t cry, but we do.” around 65 cents on the dollar, and Ricans who invested millions of dol- that future prices might be close to lars in bonds that they’re unable to Holding on to hope that. But “there’s really no telling right sell,” said Puerto Rico financial adviser Many hold out hope that a new now what kind of haircut, what kind Jose Ivan Acosta. While hedge funds federal aid package signed by of valuation is going to be given to hold much of Puerto Rico’s troubled President Barack Obama in June will any of the bonds of any of the series debt, individual investors own an esti- at least limit their losses. The measure that are currently outstanding but not mated $15 billion in bonds - 22 per- creates a federal control board to paying their interest. “It’s going to be cent of the island’s overall $68 billion oversee Puerto Rico’s finances, super- a long time before we really have a public debt. Many eagerly bought vise some debt restructuring and clear picture,” he added. Puerto Rico bonds because they are negotiate with creditors. Puerto Rico exempt from state, local and federal bonds rallied by some 20 percent that $15 billion debt taxes and were widely considered day and remained at that level even Of the estimated $15 billion debt safe. “They made it sound like it was after the governor announced a held by Puerto Rico investors, roughly the last remaining Coca Cola in a moratorium on general obligation $7 billion belongs to the Government desert, that it was safe because it was debt, Acosta said. Development Bank, which is operat- backed by the government,” Mari said. The news has encouraged Mari ing under a state of emergency, and That changed as the US territory’s who, unlike some of his friends, has another $1 billion to the Public government and its public utilities retained his bonds. “I still have hope Finance Corporation, which was the piled on debt to cover deficits during within my despair,” Mari said. “The first government agency to default. a 10-year economic slump. New taxes solution has to come from the out- Only a small portion represents gen- and higher utility rates pushed busi- side. If it’s left in local hands, they will eral obligation debt that is expected nesses to close and the tax base dwin- plunder what little remains.” to receive top priority once the antici- dled as more than 200,000 Puerto While it’s too early to know what pated restructuring begins. Ricans left for the US mainland. With changes the control board will imple- Raymond Watson, a former direc- falling revenue, the government this ment, a restructuring process of any tor of Puerto Rico’s Highway year imposed a debt moratorium after kind would be positive, Acosta said. Transportation Authority, bought a series of defaults on bond payments “Honestly, anything is better than general obligation debt because he that began last year. Prices for Puerto what we have right now,” he said. believed it was the most secure. The Rican bonds have plummeted, devas- Some analysts cautioned about read- 80-year-old said he was aghast when the governor last month declared a moratorium on that debt even though it is supposedly backed by the island’s constitution. “That is almost as sacred as the Bible,” he said, adding that he and his wife face high medical bills and worry about being forced to declare bank- ruptcy. “We are not indulging in any kind of luxuries. We have cut back greatly on eating out, even if it’s at Burger King. We used to take a cruise almost yearly. None of that. We are now prisoners in our own home.” Watson holds out hope that the federal aid measures will help. At a minimum, they could repair Puerto Rico’s credibility by stabilizing the island’s finances and providing long- overdue transparency, which in turn could help it re-enter the market and allow people to recuperate some of their investment, Acosta said. That’s an encouraging prospect for Mari, who said some bonds he bought at $10 are now worth $1 or $2. “I am holding on SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO: In this July 26, 2016 photo, attorney Santiago until the end,” he said. “The uncer- Mari talks to a client in front of a federal courthouse. —AP tainty is killing me.”—AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

EU: Turkey must fulfill benchmarks to benefit from visa-free travel

BRUSSELS: The European Commission ference. On fulfilling the remaining the spokesperson. back refugees and the agreement of 18 The EU also wants Ankara to change (EC) stressed yesterday that Turkey has conditions for the visa liberalization, Turkey has to fulfill 72 benchmarks March,” he told Germany’s daily its an anti-terrorism law. Brussels to fulfill the conditions required to ben- the Commission continues to provide to get the EU visa liberalization for its Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung over argues that the law’s definition of ter- efit from visa-free travel to Europe. support and expertise to the Turkish citizens. Five benchmarks remain to be the weekend. rorism is too broad and allows authori- “The European Commission is, and authorities to accelerate the reforms fulfilled by Turkey. The EU reaction On his part, European Commission ties to target journalists and opposi- remains fully committed to ensure full needed. she noted. came after Turkish Foreign minister president Jean-Claude Juncker told tion. Andreeva told the news confer- implementation “ of the EU-Turkish deal The final timing for any visa free Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened to cancel Austrian daily Kurier on Friday that the ence that it has “never been the inten- on migration agreed last March and “we travel will depend on both, when a migrant deal with the EU should “risk is great” the agreement with tion of the EU to reduce Turkey’s capac- expect the same from our Turkish part- Turkey will complete its work on the Brussels fail to lift short-term visa Turkey would fail. “The success of the ity to fight terrorism effectively. It is ners, “ Mina Andreeva, Deputy Chief remaining benchmarks and when the restrictions on Turks. “If visa liberaliza- pact so far is fragile. President Erdogan only meant to align the Turkey’s legis- Spokesperson of the European Union European Parliament and the EU mem- tion does not follow, we will be forced has several times hinted he wants to lation with the EU legislation,” she (EU)’s executive body told a news con- ber states take their decision, clarified to back away from the deal on taking terminate the agreement,” he said. added. —KUNA IS-inspired London Tube knifeman jailed for life

LONDON: A paranoid schizophrenic knifeman mum impact,” he said. who tried to behead a commuter in a London Hilliard said had the knife blade not broken Underground station in an Islamic State-inspired from the handle, “it is hard to see that Mr attack was sentenced to life behind bars yester- Zimmerman would have survived the attack”. day. Somali-born Muhaydin Mire, 30, said during Mire forced Zimmerman to the ground and the rampage that he was doing it “for my Syrian repeatedly kicked his head before trying to cut brothers”, while a bystander shouted at him “You his throat. He also lashed out at other passers-by ain’t no Muslim, bruv”-a phrase that went viral before police shot him with electric stun guns. online. Mire attacked random stranger Lyle Mire pleaded guilty to attempting to wound Zimmerman with a rusty knife as the 56-year-old four other Tube passengers. He was sentenced musician walked through Leytonstone Tube sta- to two years’ imprisonment on each count, to tion in east London on December 5. run concurrently with his life sentence. Mire’s Zimmerman suffered serious injuries but recov- mobile phone contained a graph showing US ered well after the attack. Last month a jury con- and coalition air strikes on the Islamic State victed Mire of attempted murder. jihadist group and images of IS hostages before He was sent yesterday to begin his sentence they were executed by having their throats cut. at the top-security Broadmoor psychiatric hospi- The out-of-work minicab driver also had tal, where he was already being detained for images of Lee Rigby, a British soldier who was treatment. Mire will serve a minimum of eight murdered by Islamic extremists in a beheading and a half years before he can possibly be con- attempt in southeast London. sidered eligible for release. At the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in Paranoid delusions London, judge Nicholas Hilliard said he accept- Mire has battled mental illness for years and ed that Mire was suffering from paranoid schizo- suffered his first psychotic episode in 2006, the phrenia at the time of the attack. But he said he court heard. A month before the Leytonstone LONDON: A handout custody photograph was also in no doubt that Mire was motivated by station attack, doctors referred him to the men- released by Britain’s Metropolitan Police the conflict in Syria. “Because Muslims were tal health services, saying he had paranoid delu- Service (MPS) yesterday shows Somali-born BANGKOK: Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej leaves the Siriraj Hospital being bombed in Syria, he was going to attack sions that he was being followed by the security Muhiddin Mire who was sentenced at the Old civilians here,” said Hilliard, the recorder of services. His family were due to send him back for a ceremony at the Grand Palace December 5, 2010.—AFP Baily court yesterday to life imprisonment London. to Somalia the day after the attack. Mire, wear- with a minimum term of eight and a half ing a white T-shirt and a blue tracksuit top, years after being found guilty of attempted Treatment continues IS images on phone showed no emotion throughout the sentencing. murder in a knife attack at Leytonstone tube Hilliard said he was sure that the “extremely “London is a safer place with Mire behind bars,” station, in east London, in December. —AFP serious violence” was intended “to intimidate at said Commander Dean Haydon, of the police for ailing Thai King least a section of the public” in order to advance Counter Terrorism Command. have been inspired by terrorist propaganda.” He a “religious and extremist cause... namely Islamic “Whilst Mire was not accused of terrorist said police were working tirelessly at “stopping BANGKOK: Thailand’s hospital-bound King brospinal fluid often dubbed water on the extremism”. “This was an attempt to kill an inno- offences it would appear from comments he people getting drawn into terrorism and violent Bhumibol Adulyadej is still being treated brain. In the latest statement by the Royal cent member of the public for ideological rea- made at the time of the attack and the content extremism in all forms as well as prosecuting, for fever and water on the brain, the palace Household Bureau yesterday night, doctors sons by cutting his throat in plain sight for maxi- he had downloaded on his phone that he may disrupting and deterring extremists”. —AFP said Monday in the latest in a series of said they continued to use antibiotics to updates on the 88-year-old’s health. The treat the infections causing his fever. “After world’s longest-reigning monarch is widely taking antibiotics his condition has got revered and his frail health is a matter of better but he still has some fever,” the Zimbabwe arrests other veteran great public concern. He is confined to a statement said. Doctors added that they wheelchair and has not been seen or spo- had continued to adjust a catheter to drain group leaders in crackdown ken in public for nearly a year. But in excess spinal fluid, with satisfactory results. recent months the palace has begun Bhumibol is seen by most Thais as a unify- HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe police yester- for corruption and the southern African coun- same charge, Mtetwa said. Police on Monday releasing regular updates on his health. ing force in a nation bitterly divided along day arrested two more officials of the veterans try’s economic crisis. The veterans of the nation’s formed a human chain to block the courthouse The king’s reign has spanned seven political lines. Schoolchildren learn of his association that turned on President Robert 1970s war of independence from white rule had entrance. Scores of veterans gathered, some tumultuous decades and most Thais have good works, cinemagoers must stand for Mugabe last month, detaining one as he left a long been quick to defend Mugabe, even with singing, others crying or admonishing the never known another monarch. Analysts the royal anthem and giant portraits of the courthouse where a colleague was answering violence. Mugabe responded by vowing “severe” police, accusing them of doing no better than say a decade-long political crisis is in part monarch tower over most major roads. charges of insulting the president. punishment for those behind the statement. The the white government they once fought. motivated by elites jostling for primacy But detailed discussion of his reign and Victor Matemadanda, secretary-general of association’s spokesman, Douglas Mahiya, had Protests have become a near-daily occur- once his reign ends. the role of the monarchy is all but impossi- the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans been in detention since Wednesday and was rence in the capital, Harare, and other cities as Bhumibol has spent most of the past ble in Thailand because of one the world’s Association, was the second official detained in freed yesterday on $300 bail. frustrations grow over a rapidly deteriorating two years in hospital in Bangkok for a strictest lese majeste laws. Use of the laws a crackdown on the association’s leaders. Francis Matemadanda faces the same charge as economy. Political analyst Eldred Masunungure series of ailments, including bacterial infec- has skyrocketed in the last two years since Nhando, the association’s political commissar, Mahiya, insulting or undermining the authority said the tensions are not likely to result in any tions, breathing difficulties, heart problems the military took over in a coup, with some was also arrested, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said. of the president, said Irene Petras, director of immediate political changes as the 92-year-old and hydrocephalus-a build-up of cere- people jailedfor as much as 30 years. —AFP The once-loyal supporters of Mugabe last Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The non- Mugabe might hold on a little longer, but he month issued a harshly worded statement profit organization has been providing lawyers warned that the free-falling economy could be describing him as “dictatorial” and blaming him for the veterans. Nhando likely will face the the president’s Achilles heel. —AP London ruling marks potential breakthrough in Turkcell tussle Italy says 6,500 ISTANBUL: A London tribunal dis- Strapped for cash, Cukurova financed missed claims against Russian billion- the repurchase with a loan from state- migrants rescued aire Mikhail Fridman from the founder owned Turkish lender Ziraat Bank, of Turkcell, Fridman’s company said yes- which now holds the shares as collateral since Thursday terday, marking a possible break- for the unpaid loan. through in a decade-long battle for Cukurova has also made an offer to ROME: The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five Turkey’s top mobile operator. buy out Fridman’s stake, which is held migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean Sunday, Fridman has been locked in a legal by his Alfa Telecom vehicle. Fridman while more than 6,500 people had been rescued off Libya battle for control of the company with refused and went to arbitration court at since Thursday. In one operation by the Italian navy vessel another shareholder, Mehmet Emin the end of 2014. The London tribunal Vega, “five migrants were picked up out of the sea, three Karamehmet, one of Turkey’s richest has now upheld Fridman’s counterclaim people were resuscitated and two were already dead,” the men. The dispute prevented some divi- that he was entitled to launch a buyout coastguard said on its Twitter account. dends from being paid and has ham- procedure, triggered by the deadlock of The German aid group Jugend Rettet added that its ship pered the company’s development. corporate governance of Turkcell, an Iuventa had taken part in the same operation to save 130 Fridman indirectly holds 13.2 percent of affiliated Fridman company said in an people packed onto a rubber dinghy that was taking on Turkcell, while Karamehmet indirectly emailed statement. water, and had also recovered two bodies. A fifth body was holds a 13.8 percent stake. Swedish The tribunal’s decision requires found aboard a fishing boat from which some 470 migrants phone carrier Telia Company owns 37 Cukurova to choose within 60 days were rescued by the Italian navy and the Malta-based aid percent. whether to buy Fridman’s shares in group MOAS. The dispute started when Fridman’s Turkcell for $2.7 billion or sell its own Sunday’s rescue missions off the Libyan coast brought company Alfa seized Karamehmet’s stake to Fridman for $2.8 billion. If 1,100 migrants and refugees to safety overall, bringing the stake, saying the Turkish businessman’s Cukurova fails to make a decision within total to 6,530 since Thursday, said the Italian coastguard company, Cukurova Holding, defaulted that time it shall be treated as having which coordinates the operations. According to the latest figures from the UN’s refugee agency earlier this week, on a 2005 loan agreement for which the decided to sell its shares, Fridman’s com- LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives for a more than 89,000 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, shares were pledged as collateral. An pany said in the statement. A Cukurova Communication Workers Union press conference yesterday. —AFP international arbitrator ordered source said it was too early for it to make a have arrived in Italy by sea since the start of the year in Fridman to return the stake to Cukurova decision. Turkcell shares were up 0.9 per- search of a better life in Europe. Holding in exchange for $1.6 billion. cent at 10.45 lira by 0953 GMT. —Reuters Leader of Indian Prime Minister The tally is comparable to the total of 93,000 recorded for the January-July period last year. More than 3,000 Modi’s home state resigns migrants have died trying to make the crossing, an increase of more than 50 percent compared to the same period in Gunmen kill Shiites in NEW DELHI: The chief minister of the west- which could be politically damaging for 2015, according to the International Organization for ern Indian state of Gujarat and a long-time Modi. They have also disrupted parliamen- Migration (IOM). —AFP confidante of Prime Minister Narendra tary proceedings and may affect state elec- southwest Pakistan Modi resigned on yesterday, as protests by tions in Gujarat and the northern state of the low-caste Dalit community threatened Uttar Pradesh in 2017. QUETTA, Pakistan: Gunmen riding a but apparently it is a sectarian attack,” to hurt the standing of the ruling party. About 25,000 member of Dalit commu- motorcycle killed two members of Afridi said. Noor Baloch, a police surgeon in Anandiben Patel, who served as the nity have staged protests since four young Pakistan’s Shiite Muslim minority yesterday Quetta civil hospital, told AFP both victims state’s first woman chief minister, posted Dalit men were stripped and beaten in in an apparent sectarian attack, police said. were shot in the head. the resignation letter on her Facebook public after they were seen skinning a cow. The killing took place in the suburbs of There was no claim of responsibility. page. She said the decision was driven by The youths said the cow was dead. Cows Quetta, the provincial capital of the south- Baluchistan, which borders Iran and the fact that she was almost 75 years old, are considered sacred by Hindus. Killing western province of Baluchistan, while the Afghanistan, has oil and gas resources but the age at which Modi expects ministers to them is banned in Gujarat, although vil- victims were travelling in a rickshaw. is afflicted by Islamist militancy, sectarian retire. lagers said the animal that sparked the “Gunmen on a motorcycle stopped the violence between Sunni and Shiite Modi appointed Patel as his successor in attack on the youths had died of natural rickshaw and then opened fire on them Muslims and a separatist insurgency. Gujarat, his home state, in 2014. He had causes. Modi’s BJP party has sparked con- and fled the scene,” Abdullah Jan Afridi, a Sectarian violence-in particular by run the state for 13 years - an era of rapid troversies over the past two years as oppo- senior police officer in Quetta, told AFP. Sunni hardliners against the Shiites that industrial growth that his Bharatiya Janata nents have accused it of intolerance and Afridi said the pair, from the Hazara eth- make up roughly 20 percent of Pakistan’s Party (BJP) successfully pitched to voters as protested comments made by the party’s ON FLIGHT: Pope Francis listens to a journalist’s ques- nic group, were laborers in a coalmine. The 200 million people-has claimed thousands a “model” to bring prosperity to India’s 1.3 right-wing members. That was seen as tion on board the flight from Krakow, Poland, to Rome, rickshaw driver was unhurt in the attack in of lives in the country over the past billion people. But Patel’s standing weak- insensitive to religious minorities such as at the end of his 5-day trip to southern Poland on the Saryab road area. “We are investigating decade. —AFP ened after a series of caste-driven protests, Muslims. —Reuters Sunday. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 Bangladesh attackers’ bodies still in morgue after a month

DHAKA: The bodies of five Islamists hacked to death. Yesterday tens of thou- have been asked to give sermons on why Sohel Mahmud, a forensic doctor at old Rohan Imtiaz. His father Imtiaz Khan behind a deadly attack on a Bangladesh sands of university and college students Islam forbids killing. the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Babul told AFP he was “stunned and cafe have still not been claimed a month across the country stood in silence and Police said the bodies of nine other said several families had come to identi- speechless” to hear of his only son’s later, police said yesterday, as tens of formed human chains in front of their men allegedly from the same group fy the bodies. “But no one wanted to involvement in the carnage and apolo- thousands took to the streets to protest schools. “No terrorism, we want peace. who were shot when police launched a take them home for burial,” he said. gized to the nation. against extremism. We want life without fear,” read one ban- raid on a militant hideout on July 26 are Police gave no official reason, but offi- Abdus Salam said his brother Relatives of the men have spoken of ner at a women’s college in Dhaka. also still being stored at a state hospital. cers speaking on condition of anonymi- Mohammad Abdullah, one of the nine their shock and horror at learning of their Authorities have launched a nation- “No relatives came to us or officially ty said the parents of the extremists killed in the shootout with police, had involvement in the siege in Dhaka’s wide campaign to shame those behind applied for the bodies of the 14 extrem- were overwhelmed with guilt. betrayed the family and his country. Gulshan neighborhood, in which 20 the attacks. Clerics at the mainly Muslim ists,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police Six of the young men were from well- “That’s why we don’t want to take his hostages were killed-many of them country’s more than 300,000 mosques spokesman Masudur Rahman told AFP. off Dhaka families, among them 18-year- body,” he told reporters last week. —AFP Taleban truck bomb rocks hotel for foreigners in Kabul Highlighting growing insecurity

KABUL: A Taleban truck bomb blasted a hotel for foreigners in Kabul yesterday, triggering a seven- hour gun and grenade assault that highlighted growing insecurity in a city still reeling from its deadliest attack for 15 years. The guests and staff of the Northgate hotel escaped unharmed. But one policeman was killed after the suicide truck bomber paved the way for two other armed insurgents to enter the heavily guarded facility near Kabul airport. The powerful blast rocked much of the Afghan SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL, INDIA: Indian activists from the Communist Party of India capital. It left a huge muddy crater and piles of (Marxist-Leninist) hold placards as they shout anti-government slogans while burn- scorched debris strewn at the compound, which ing an effigy of Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh during a protest against was previously attacked in July 2013. “A truck civilian killings on July 25, 2016. — AFP bomb packed with explosives struck the outer (perimeter) wall of the hotel,” said Kabul police India to attend regional meet chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi. “One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of in Pakistan amid Kashmir tension the hotel staff or guests were hurt. Three Taleban fighters including the truck bomber were killed.” NEW DELHI: India’s interior minister will travel (SAARC). “Pakistan easily finds a reason to start The attack came nine days after the Islamic to Pakistan for a regional gathering but will violence in Kashmir and we don’t want to State group claimed twin bombings that left 80 not hold bilateral talks at a time when a surge engage with them at this juncture,” a senior people dead in Kabul, the deadliest attack in the of violence in disputed Kashmir has escalated interior ministry official in New Delhi said. city since the Taleban were ousted from power in rivalry between the nuclear-armed neighbors, The Foreign Ministry in Pakistan could not 2001. Afghan commandos set up a tight security officials said yesterday. be reached for comment and the Interior cordon around Northgate, which is used by mili- At least 50 people have been killed and Ministry had no immediate comment. tary contractors and other foreigners, as sporadic more than 6,000 wounded since protests However, the head of an anti-Indian militant grenade explosions and gunfire shook the area erupted in Indian-administered Kashmir after movement in Pakistani-administered Kashmir after the truck bomb struck around 1:30am (2100 security forces killed a separatist militant decried the Indian minister’s visit as well as GMT Sunday). KABUL: An Afghan policeman keeps watch near the site where a truck bomb exploded target- leader last month. Burhan Wani, 22, was a com- Pakistan’s allowing him to attend the summit. Local TV station Tolo cited a source inside the ing a hotel used by foreign contractors yesterday. — AFP mander of Hizbul Mujahideen, a separatist mil- “India has let loose a reign of terror in the facility as saying that all the staff and guests- shocked. We all left the house screaming and power line be routed through the central province itant group whose leader is based in Pakistan. occupied territory, massacring unarmed civil- including at least 11 foreigners-hunkered down in shouting as our windows were shattered.” Taleban of Bamiyan, one of the most deprived areas of He has been declared a martyr by officials in ians with impunity on a daily basis,” Syed safe rooms throughout the night. It added that spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said insurgents Afghanistan. But officials have denied that it Islamabad while India has branded him a “ter- Salahuddin, head of the Hizb ul Mujahideen NATO special forces had overseen the clearance armed with rocket-propelled grenades and marked a turning point for IS in Afghanistan, saying rorist”. India and Pakistan have fought two of militants, told Reuters by telephone. operation at the Northgate, a luxury enclave which machine guns blasted their way into the com- the group has been under heavy pressure in its their three wars since independence over “Pakistan should have suspended if not had been fortified with blast walls, watchtowers pound after the truck bomb went off. eastern strongholds from both US air strikes and a Kashmir, which each rules in part but claims in severed diplomatic ties with India. However, and sniffer dogs. Tremors from the bombing rattled The militants are intensifying their annual sum- ground offensive led by Afghan forces. full. The line of control dividing the Himalayan they are rubbing salt in the wounds of the windows across the city. It also cut a power line mer offensive after a brief lull during the holy fast- The latest attacks in Kabul are a grim reminder region still broadly runs along the front when Kashmiris by welcoming the Indian home that supplies electricity to half of Kabul, according ing month of Ramadan, which ended in early July. of growing insecurity in Afghanistan since most the guns fell silent in 1948. minister here.” The rivalry between India and to the city’s main utility. The previous attack on the hotel compound in foreign troops withdrew in 2014. The rising vio- Interior Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Pakistan has hampered efforts to transform 2013 also involved a Taleban truck bomb followed lence has resulted in large civilian casualties. The Islamabad on Aug. 3 but will not have a sepa- SAARC into a meaningful platform for integra- Growing insecurity by a gun siege. Nine people were killed, including UN last week said civilian casualties rose to a record rate meeting with the Pakistani host of the tion in South Asia, which accounts for a fifth of “The blast was so strong that it startled every- four Nepalese. The IS twin bombings on July 23 high in the first half of 2016, with 1,601 civilians meeting of interior ministers from the South the world’s population but less than a tenth of body out of their beds,” Abdul Mohib, a resident of tore through crowds of minority Shiite Hazara pro- killed and 3,565 wounded-a four percent increase Asian Association for Regional Cooperation its economic output. — Reuters the neighbourhood, told AFP. “The children were testers as they gathered to demand that a major compared to the same period last year. — AFP

DHAKA: Bangladeshi students and teachers hold placards as they form a human chain to protest terrorism yesterday. —AFP Students in Bangladesh protest rise of Islamic extremism

NEW DELHI: More than 100,000 stu- and young men. “We stand against any attack on an Eid congregation in central dents in Bangladesh linked their hands sort of extreme form of ideology. We Bangladesh that left three people dead. yesterday to form human chains to denounce terrorism,” said Tanvir Shakil The Islamic State group claimed protest two attacks last month by sus- Joy, one of the organizers. “I feel encour- responsibility for the attacks, but pected Islamist militants. aged to see that so many students, both Bangladesh authorities blamed the The students from hundreds of col- male and female, have joined the protest banned group Jumatul Mujahedeen leges and universities in Dhaka and oth- today.” Joy, a former ruling party law- Bangladesh. In a police raid last week, er cities took part in the protest as part maker, said the students gathered at nine other suspected militants, mostly of a campaign to create awareness about 50 locations in Dhaka, and similar young men, were killed in Dhaka. The about the rise of Islamic extremism in protests were held in all district head- government of Prime Minister Sheikh the country. Protesters carried banners quarters and major cities. A signature Hasina has vowed to fight extremism that read “Bangladesh stands against ter- campaign against extremism was also and urged citizens to build awareness rorism” and “We want peace; no place for launched at all educational institutions, about its dangers. Bangladesh, a terrorism.” he said by telephone. Muslim-majority nation of 160 million The organizers said they particularly Suspected Islamist militants killed 20 people, is a parliamentary democracy wanted students to lead yesterday’s people, including 17 foreigners, in an based on British common law. Many protests because the suspects in last attack on a popular restaurant in Dhaka local Islamist groups want to introduce month’s attacks were mostly students a month ago. That was followed by an Islamic Shariah law. — AP Pakistan arrests at least 12 staff of national airline in heroin case KARACHI, Pakistan: Pakistan has Saturday, Danyal Gilani said. phones and foreign currency. In arrested at least 12 staff of its nation- “Around a dozen employees of 2013, a PIA pilot was jailed for nine al carrier following the discovery of 6 PIA have been detained and are months in Britain after being found kg (13.23 lb) of heroin in the toilet of being interrogated in connection to be over three times Britain’s legal an aircraft bound for Dubai, an air- with heroin seizure,” he told Reuters. alcohol limit for flying, just before he line spokesman said yesterday. “If proven guilty, they will face action was due to take off with 156 people The latest instance of misbehav- with respect to their jobs, in addition aboard. ior by the staff of cash-strapped to the legal consequences.” For nearly three years, the govern- Pakistan International Airlines was In June last year, the airline ment has struggled to find private uncovered after the military-run sacked five cabin crew who had buyers for the airline. Employees Anti-Narcotics Force raided a flight been detained in Britain on accusa- staged a three-day strike in February from Lahore to Dubai flight on tions of trying to smuggle mobile to oppose privatization. — Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 INTERNATIONAL

Seoul blames N Korean govt organization for email scams

SEOUL: An organization likely run by North Korea’s more than 10 million users of an online shopping government hacked into the email accounts of site. South Korea said last year that North Korea has dozens of officials, journalists and others in South a 6,000-member cyber army dedicated to disrupt- Korea this year, Seoul officials said yesterday, the ing the South’s government and military. The figure latest cyber attack that the South blames on its was a sharp increase from a 2013 South Korean esti- rival. The organization sent phishing emails to gov- mate of 3,000 such specialists. ernment officials, journalists and professors who North Korea’s hacking technology has been specialize in North Korean affairs to try to trick them improving every year, according to Simon Choi at into giving away their passwords, Seoul’s Supreme Seoul-based anti-virus company Hauri Inc. He said Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement. the North has carried out many more cyber attacks The passwords for at least 56 of the email than is publicly known, making it difficult for South accounts were eventually leaked, according to the Korea to fend off all of them. statement. Seoul authorities were investigating Many previous alleged North Korean cyber whether any confidential government information attacks failed to infiltrate the targeted computer was stolen, but the prosecutors’ office said there systems at businesses and government agencies. had been no reports of leakage of sensitive infor- But in several cases, hackers destroyed hard drives, mation. paralyzed banking systems or disrupted access to The statement said the contents of the phishing websites. One attack was so crippling that a South emails, a China-based IP address and a web-hosting Korean bank was unable to restore its online servic- service provider were the same ones used in a pre- es for more than two weeks. vious North Korean cyberattack. It didn’t identify The Koreas have been divided by the world’s the suspected organization. most heavily fortified border since the Korean War South Korea accuses North Korea of launching a ended in 1953 with a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. series of cyber attacks in recent years, but the North Earlier this year, North Korea conducted its fourth has dismissed the allegations. Last week, South nuclear test explosion and conducted a prohibited PAJU, SOUTH KOREA: A North Korean army soldier, right, looks at the south side as a South Korean sol- Korean police said they believe North Korea was long-range rocket launch, prompting worldwide dier, left, stands guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since behind the recent leakage of personal data for condemnation and tougher UN sanctions. —AP the Korean War. —AP China releases prominent human rights lawyer on bail Condemning campaign against legal activism

TIANJIN: China released a prominent human not recognize it, identify with it or accept it. This agents who blanketed the street watched, film- rights lawyer on bail amid protests yesterday award is just another way for them to use me to ing with smart phones and video cameras. “My outside a northern city court, where supporters attack and smear the Chinese government,” said son is 16 months old now and he has never even of other jailed lawyers and activists condemned Wang, who was seated in a garden at what met his father. How can you be like this? Let him the secrecy surrounding the government’s year- appeared to be a western-style villa. “I am a come home,” Fan said. “All I’m here for today is to long campaign against legal activism. Chinese. I can only accept awards from the ask whether they are holding his hearing aid. The release of Wang Yu, who was detained Chinese government,” Wang said. why did they beat me?” last July, coincided with videos of an alleged Local officials later persuaded the family confession by Wang posted on the websites of Series of alleged confessions members, supporters and diplomats to move two Hong Kong media outlets in which she Wang’s statement is the latest in a series of from the courthouse gate. Family members say renounced her legal work and said “foreign alleged confessions that have appeared in they have not been permitted to visit the jailed forces” were using her law firm to undermine Chinese state media - and, more recently, in lawyers and activists since they were taken away and discredit the Chinese government. Wang’s Hong Kong outlets - with the apparent goal of more than a year ago. Chinese authorities, they Beijing-based firm, Fengrui, has been at the cen- settling high-profile political cases before they say, have also refused to identify the legal counter of a vast case in which dozens of lawyers and go to trial. sel they have appointed to represent the defen- activists have been detained, questioned or Zhao Wei, a 24-year old legal assistant who dants instead of the lawyers appointed by their charged with subversion since July last year. was seized last July, was released in early July families. Wen Donghai, a lawyer for Wang, told The and similarly told the South China Morning Post Chinese state media have previously accused QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his first Associated Press on Monday that he had learned newspaper that she regretted her activism. the Fengrui firm’s lawyers and associated State of the Nation Address before the joint session of the 17th Congress on July from media reports that Wang had been After their release by Chinese authorities ear- activists of disrupting social order by organizing 25th, 2016. —AP released but had not seen her. Li Yuhan, another lier this year, Peter Dahlin, a Swedish non-profit protests and stirring up trouble for personal lawyer representing Wang, said Wang’s mother worker, and Lam Wing Kee, a Hong Kong book- gain. Rights groups say the activists are being did not know of her release. The AP could not seller, recanted confessions they made while in targeted for organizing protests and social Philippines, rebels want peace independently verify the authenticity of the videos, and Phoenix TV, one of the outlets that talks despite feud over truce interviewed Wang, declined to disclose where and when the interview took place. MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Withdrawal of truce Duterte said yesterday his government Duterte withdrew his truce order before Wang’s release would pursue peace talks with communist the guerrillas could announce their own Wang’s reported release and confession were guerrillas despite an initial setback when ceasefire on Saturday, the rebels said, an unexpected bombshell for China’s small but he withdrew a ceasefire order after the adding it was “quite capricious” for the burgeoning human rights community on a day rebels killed a militiaman in an attack. president “to have imposed such ultima- when many believed the head of the Fengrui Duterte also announced he would tums of a few hours or several days for the firm, Zhou Shifeng, and three activists were release a top rebel couple, Benito and Communist Party of the Philippines to act standing trial behind closed doors in northern Wilma Tiamzon, from detention in another in accordance with his whims.” China. Flanked by Western diplomats, around move to bolster the resumption of peace “It is advisable for (Duterte) to exercise a two dozen supporters gathered outside the negotiations scheduled for Aug. 20-27 in little more prudence and display more Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court calling the Norwegian capital of Oslo. “It’s always a measured temperament ... in order to avoid for information to be disclosed about the four, such impulsive acts as imposing ultima- rocky road. There is no negotiation that who were indicted in mid-July. tums by the hour on a conflict that has comes easy to us, especially given the tur- Supporters included the wife of Gou spanned nearly fifty years,” the rebels said. Hongguo, one of the activists who was charged moil of our country,” Duterte said in a Following the lifting of the government speech before swearing in new officials at with subversion and thought to be standing trial ceasefire, army troops and police killed a yesterday, even though there were no visible the presidential palace. “We are hoping New People’s Army rebel in a clash yester- signs of a trial in progress aside from a heavy that we could just talk, maybe we did not day with up 20 guerrillas who were report- presence of plainclothes security officers out- understand each other. And so, the best edly extorting money from villagers in side the courthouse. Court officials reached by way is really is to talk again and find out Malimono town in southeastern Surigao phone said they had no information about the whether it is reachable or beyond our del Norte province, military spokesman cases. Several hundred people nationwide have TIANJIN, CHINA: Li Wenzu, center, wife of imprisoned lawyer Wang Quanzhang, holds a paper Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said. reach,” he said. been questioned, with some detained and that reads “Release Liu Ermin” as she and supporters of a prominent Chinese human rights Duterte suggested yesterday that he Duterte declared a ceasefire on July 25 arrested, in the crackdown that has sent a chill lawyer and activists stage a protest outside the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court yes- was open to declaring a new government but withdrew it five days later after the through China’s legal system. Nearly two dozen terday.—AP rebels killed a militiaman in a landmine ceasefire with communist insurgents. The people remain in detention and face charges, attack in southern Davao del Norte decades-long communist insurgency has the most serious of which include subversion of province and failed to declare their own left about 150,000 combatants and civil- state power, which carries a maximum penalty detention to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. An media campaigns to raise awareness of legal truce by Saturday. The president held a ians dead since it broke out in the late of life imprisonment. overseas Chinese news site and activist groups rights and hot-button social issues. Cabinet meeting yesterday to discuss how 1960s. It also has stunted economic devel- In her video interview, Wang denounced that track the prosecutions of Chinese rights Jiang Tianyong, a Beijing-based human rights his government would pursue talks with opment, especially in the countryside, Zhou, the law firm’s head, as an unqualified activists had reported rumors that Zhou, the law lawyer, said the level of secrecy was unusual. In the communist insurgents and two groups where the Maoist insurgents are active. lawyer and said all of the firm’s lawyers had firm’s head, Gou and the two others might be the past, high-profile dissidents such as writer of Muslim rebels in the country’s south, Under Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno received training in how to use Western univer- put on trial on Monday. Wives of lawyers and Liu Xiaobo had family-appointed lawyers and while excluding the brutal Abu Sayyaf Aquino III, peace talks stalled over the gov- sal values, human rights and democracy to activists who were detained in the crackdown relatives present at their trials. Jiang said the dis- extremist group. ernment’s refusal to heed a rebel demand “attack and smear” the Chinese government. staged a small demonstration outside the court- appearances, presumably into police custody, of The Maoist guerrillas said in a statement for the release of some captured guerrillas. She accused unidentified foreign powers of house next to diplomats from the United States, at least two of the presumed defendants’ wives on Sunday that they still fully back the Duterte, however, has agreed to the release hatching a plot to smuggle her 16-year-old son Britain and six other Western countries that have as they were headed to Tianjin on Sunday were resumption of long-stalled talks and were of detained rebels, who would be involved to the United States and denounced the publicly denounced Beijing’s crackdown. strong indications that a trial was under way. willing to declare a unilateral cease-fire in peace talks, and designated two allies of American Bar Association for awarding her its Fan Lili, the wife of Gou, fell to the ground in “This is unprecedented ... a completely secret simultaneously with the government when the guerrillas to Cabinet posts in conces- newly created “ABA International Human Rights tears following a confrontation with a plain- operation,” said Jiang. “From beginning to end, the talks resume. sions aimed at fostering the talks. —AP Award.” “Regarding this award, my attitude is to clothes police officer while dozens of security it’s a black box.”—AP False earthquake alert triggers panic in Japan New Tokyo governor says

TOKYO: An erroneous alert yesterday defying party secured win that a massive earthquake had hit the TOKYO: Tokyo’s new governor Yuriko Financial scandal Tokyo area sent many in Japan into a Koike yesterday credited her landslide The election was called after previous brief panic and disrupted some train victory to having stood up to the powers governor Yoichi Masuzoe resigned over a services. that be in Japan’s ruling party who didn’t financial scandal involving the lavish use The Japanese Meteorological want her to run. Koike, 64, was elected of public funds on hotels and spa trip- Agency sent the alert just after 5 p.m., Tokyo’s first female governor in the sóthe second successive Tokyo leader to saying a magnitude-9.1 quake had Sunday vote, winning more than 2.9 mil- quit. A key challenge facing Koike will be struck. Some people who have lion votes, far outpacing the nearly 1.8 to get a grip on Tokyo’s troubled path to Smartphone apps that alert them to million ballots cast for closest challenger hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, quakes got warnings popping up on Hiroya Masuda. which has been plagued by scandals and their screens. The agency’s alert, which Masuda, a former governor of Iwate cost overruns. was canceled within seconds, set off prefecture in northern Japan, was the She vowed late Sunday to be transpar- alarmed chatter on Twitter. favored candidate of Prime Minister ent on the budget and restore the trust of The meteorological agency said it Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic voters in the sprawling metropolis of 13.6 was investigating why the alert got Party (LDP) and its coalition partner. The million people. Her defeat of Masuda, a sent. An agency official, who spoke on LDP spurned Koike, an LDP member, for veteran administrator who had won plau- customary condition of anonymity, said failing to seek its approval before dits as governor of northeastern Iwate for the reason may have been lightning hit- announcing her candidacy, with a top 12 years, was a huge embarrassment for ting a seismograph, an instrument that party official calling her‘selfish’. Koike, the conservative party. monitors quakes. Following the alert, however, had the last laugh after her cam- Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide some Tokyo train services shut down paign drew huge crowds during street ral- Suga, the governmentís top spokesman, temporarily. Japan is among the most lies ahead of the vote. ‘I fought this race expressed disappointment that Masuda quake-prone nations in the world. A without support from the party, and peo- lost but hinted the LDP could work with magnitude-9 quake off the country’s ple joked I was like the sole player in a the- Koike. ‘It is important for the central gov- northeast coast in March 2011 set off a atre company,’ she told reporters early yes- ernment to cooperate (with the new gov- giant tsunami that killed more than TOKYO: This photo illustration shows people with their smart phones showing an erroneous mega- terday. ‘But in the end it allowed us to ernor) for the benefit of the Japanese 18,000 people and sent three nuclear earthquake alert with a magnitude of 9.1 on the Richter scale, and an intensity of 7 out of 7 on the move freely rather than restricting us.’ people,’ he said. — AFP reactors into meltdowns. —AP Japanese scale, for Tokyo Bay yesterday. —AP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

The Christ the Redeemer statue stands in front of the Sugar Loaf Mountain and Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. The Summer Games start Aug 5. — AP

India in talks to bring home workers Russian chopper downed in Syria Continued from Page 1 of India. In Nov 2014, Gulf and Asian labor ministers agreed on a Continued from Page 1 It is also used by civilians to enter and leave govern- series of initiatives aimed at boosting protection and improving ment-controlled districts of Aleppo. Taking a detour from He would also visit the camps where the workers were living conditions of employment for foreign workers in the Gulf. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain- the north would be too dangerous, he added. Islamist and speak to the workers about their needs. Many of the employ- Over the weekend, hundreds of expatriate workers of Saudi based monitor, said the helicopter had come down along group Ahrar Al-Sham said on Twitter it was involved in ers have shut their factories and some have left the country, leav- Oger staged rare protests in Jeddah to demand unpaid wages. the administrative border between Idlib province in the fierce clashes near Ramussa and advancing towards the ing the workers stranded, she said. The Saudi-owned Arab News reported that the company’s servic- northwest and neighboring Aleppo. Idlib is held almost route. State news agency SANA said rebel rocket and On Sunday, Swaraj tweeted that workers in Kuwait have also es were suspended for violating the kingdom’s Wage Protection entirely by a powerful coalition of Islamist and jihadist sniper fire near Ramussa yesterday killed four people, lost their jobs and are suffering food shortages, but that the situa- Law, and that the firm was fined for its violations. Earlier this year, forces including the former Al-Nusra Front, now known as including three women. The Observatory put the toll at six tion there is more manageable. Another junior foreign minister, M foreign workers at construction giant Saudi Binladin Group also the Fateh Al-Sham Front after renouncing its status as Al- dead. J Akbar, was coordinating efforts with Saudi authorities to ensure protested and set fire to company buses in retaliation for not that unpaid wages of the workers were processed and settled. being paid their salaries in months. State media reported the Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate. SANA said people were using the route as usual, but Nearly three million Indians live and work in Saudi Arabia, accord- company had terminated employment tens of thousands of the In neighboring Aleppo province, the Fateh Al-Sham residents of western Aleppo expressed fears that the ing to the foreign ministry, one of the largest populations outside firm’s workers and issued them exit visas too. — Agencies Front and allied Islamist rebel groups were fighting fierce assault could cut them off. “If the militants break the siege, battles yesterday against regime troops on the outskirts of they will besiege us and cut the Khanasser route, which is Aleppo city. The clashes are part of an assault launched the only artery we have,” said Hossam Qassab, a 32-year- Govt team leaves after Houthis reject... Sunday to try to ease a government siege of the rebel-held old pharmacist. A Syrian security source acknowledged Continued from Page 1 envoy. The government delegation had been due to east of the city. The Observatory said the rebels had the assault but said government forces had repelled it. quit negotiations and leave Kuwait on Saturday but advanced overnight south and southwest of Aleppo, but The encirclement of eastern Aleppo has raised fears of Yemen delegation from Kuwait is not a departure cancelled the decision after Ould Cheikh Ahmed pre- reported ongoing fighting, as well as government air starvation for remaining residents, who have reported from the peace talks,” the envoy said in a statement. He sented the draft peace plan. According to the govern- strikes on the battlefield and rebel-held eastern neighbor- food shortages and spiralling prices since the government said he will hold intensive talks with the Houthis and ment, the draft plan calls for the rebels to withdraw hoods. siege began on July 17. Last week, Moscow announced their allies. from the capital Sanaa and two major cities, hand over Once Syria’s economic powerhouse, Aleppo city has the opening of “humanitarian corridors” from the east into The Houthi rebels and their allies, former president heavy arms and return state institutions they seized in been roughly divided between government control in the government territory for civilians and surrendering rebels. Ali Abdullah Saleh’s loyalists, rejected the peace plan on Sept 2014. west and rebel control in the east since mid-2012. In recent On Saturday, Moscow and Syrian official media reported Sunday, saying it was incomplete. “The other party now The rebels said that first a national unity government weeks, government forces have encircled the east, cutting dozens of civilians had fled via these corridors, but resi- has the key to make the talks fail or succeed... If they must be formed and a new consensus president the sole supply route in and raising fears of a humanitarian dents and rebels on the ground dismissed the reports as agree to the plan, our delegation will return,” Emrani appointed to oversee the transition. Yemen, home to crisis for the estimated 250,000 people now under siege “lies”. said. Mikhlafi lashed out at the rebels for rejecting the what the United States sees as Al-Qaeda’s deadliest there. The primary goal of the rebel assault is to seize the Elsewhere in Aleppo province, the Syrian Democratic peace plan. “This Houthi-Saleh alliance will never accept franchise, descended into chaos after the 2012 ouster of Ramussa neighborhood on the city’s southern outskirts. Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, advanced any peace deal that does not legitimize their coup,” longtime strongman Saleh. Security deteriorated fur- “The road that runs through Ramussa is the main supply inside the Islamic State group bastion of Manbij yesterday, Mikhlafi said. ther after the Houthis swept into Sanaa and pushed route for regime forces going to the areas they control in the Observatory reported. The SDF hold approximately 40 The government delegation’s decision to leave host south, forcing President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s western Aleppo,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel percent of the town, and are fighting to take it with sup- country Kuwait came after a meeting with the UN government to flee into exile in March last year. — AFP Rahman. port from the US-led coalition against IS. —AFP Pain at the pump: Cabinet hikes petrol... Proud Deehani refuses to carry Olympic... Continued from Page 1 increases in the prices of many commodities and servic- Continued from Page 1 and sports, the Kuwait Olympic Committee and the es, especially those transported by trucks using petrol. A Olympic Movement Kuwait to sit together for the GCC members - Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia wave of price hikes swept the country in early 2015 after The Court of Arbitration for Sport has already ruled national interest and for Kuwait to return as it was.” and the United Arab Emirates - have either completely the government liberalized the prices of diesel and against the government, and a UN envoy’s efforts to Mussallam also appealed for all sides to “stay away liberalized fuel prices or raised them substantially kerosene. Activists, who were surprised by the decision, mediate have also come to nothing. from personal issues”. “The Olympic movement has a because of the sharp fall in oil income since mid-2014. launched a campaign against the hike on Twitter, with The National Assembly amended its controversial role to deal with the government in the interest of sport. The Cabinet said a government committee will some saying that citizens should have been given some sports law in June, but the government still has the pow- The government has to hear the point of view of interna- revise the new petrol prices every three months depend- financial compensation. Others said citizens should have er to dissolve sports associations and federations. The tional organizations and the United Nations and the ing on international oil prices. In April, parliament been exempted from the increase, which like power and Kuwait Olympic Committee on Sunday called on the opinion of the Kuwaiti Olympic movement.” The official approved a government-sponsored bill to raise electrici- water, should have targeted expats. government to start dialogue in a last-gasp bid to get said that Kuwaiti athletes want to compete in Rio “under ty and water prices paid by foreign residents and busi- MP Saleh Ashour criticized the decision and blamed the Kuwait flag in to the Rio opening ceremony. Hussein the flag of our country, so and we demand the sports nesses, but exempted citizens. This increase, the first in the three ministers in the Cabinet who are also elected Al-Mussallam, vice chairman of the committee’s legal minister respond to the advice of the International almost 50 years, will take effect from September next lawmakers. He said they should have resigned because and international relations commission, told AFP it was Olympic Committee and to stop the implementation of year. Kuwait has posted a budget deficit of $18.3 billion of the large-scale squandering in the budget and the bil- time “to sit down together and review things in a posi- the conflicting articles in the Kuwaiti sports law”. in the past fiscal year, according to provisional figures, lions of dinars of foreign aid by the government. The tive way”. Deehani is one of six Kuwaiti shooters in the Kuwait following 16 years of windfall due to high oil prices. It is lawmaker said this government does not deserve to stay He said “the interests of Kuwaiti athletes should come delegation in the neutral athletes. The others are Saud projecting a deficit of $29 billion in the current in power following this decision, which comes immedi- above all else”. “I am speaking on behalf of the KOC and Habib Al-Kandari, Abdul Rahman Fayhan, Khaled Al- 2016/2017 fiscal year. The state is home to 1.3 million ately after the commerce and industry ministry abol- not in the name of international organizations,” Mudhaf, Ahmad Al-Afasy and Abdullah Al-Toraqi. Fencer native citizens and around three million foreigners. ished a decision banning artificial price increases, which Mussallam added. “The time has come in front of every- Abdulaziz Al-Shatti and swimmer Abbas Al-Qali make The petrol price increase is expected to trigger will allow prices of commodities to rise. one, the Kuwaiti government and the ministry for youth up the eight waiting for an end to the battle. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 ANALYSIS

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Dirty, deadly and no cleaner legacy from Rio Games

By Brad Brooks

io de Janeiro’s air is dirtier and deadlier than por- trayed by authorities and the Olympics’ prom- Rised legacy of cleaner winds has not remotely been met, an analysis of government data and Reuters’ own testing found. Brazil declared in its official bid for the Olympic Games, which open on Friday, that Rio’s air quality was “within the limits recommended by the World Health Organization.” That was not true when Rio won the right to host the Games in 2009 and it is not true now. Rio for years has surpassed WHO limits for the most dangerous air pollutant - called particulate mat- With Khans, has Trump finally gone too far? ter (PM) - spewed from millions of vehicles clogging the city’s roads. Thousands die annually in Rio’s metro- By Lisa Lerer maintain our dignity,” even as the couple kept up a round father of a Marine, Pence said Sunday that he and Trump politan area of 12 million people because of complica- of TV appearances. Said his wife: “My religion or my family believe Capt Khan is a hero and his family “should be cher- tions related to the air. People exposed to the pollu- n a defensive crouch, Donald Trump complained yes- or my culture never stopped me from saying what I want ished by every American.” Last week, Pence said Russia tion have higher risks of lung cancer, heart attacks, terday about being “viciously attacked” by the father of to say. I have all the rights as a wife, as a mother, as a would face “serious consequences” for meddling in US strokes, asthma and other diseases. “This is definitely Ia decorated Muslim Army captain killed in Iraq, persist- daughter.” At last week’s convention, Khizr Khan criticized elections at roughly the same time Trump appeared to not ‘Olympic air’,” said Paulo Saldiva, a University of Sao ing in an emotionally charged feud that has left him Trump for proposing to freeze the entry of foreign encourage it, telling reporters he would welcome Russia Paulo pathologist and member of the WHO committee increasingly isolated among fellow Republicans. Trump Muslims into the US and accused him of making no sacri- unearthing emails that Democratic nominee Hillary that set tougher global pollution standards in 2006. broke a political and societal taboo over the weekend fices for his country. Clinton deleted from the private servers she used while “A lot of attention has been paid to Rio’s water pol- when he criticized Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority secretary of state. lution, but far more people die because of air pollution parents of Capt Humayun Khan, who was awarded a Leader Mitch McConnell issued statements over the week- Pence’s statement late Sunday came after an afternoon than the water,” he said. “You are not obligated to drink Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq end praising the couple’s son. Though neither mentioned of debate among his aides as to whether he should find a water from Guanabara Bay but you must breathe Rio’s in 2004. Trump stoked outrage by implying Ghazala Khan Trump, the congressional leaders pointedly denounced his way to dissociate himself subtly from Trump’s comments, air.” Rio’s contaminated Olympic waterways have drawn did not speak while standing alongside her husband at proposed restriction on foreign Muslims, a policy he had according to a person familiar with the internal campaign attention as the city suffers endemic levels of gastroin- last week’s Democratic convention because she is a altered in recent weeks. The episode risked setting back conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity testinal diseases from a lack of sewage collection. Muslim woman. whatever progress Trump made during his convention at because the person was not authorized to discuss them Reuters recently reported that Rio’s Olympic water ven- The outcry has been swift and bipartisan. Yesterday, winning over the independent voters who will probably publicly. At last week’s Democratic convention, the ues and favorite beaches also tested positive for drug- Republican Sen John McCain said in a statement that the be key in the fall election. Pakistan-born Khizr Khan told his son’s story, questioned resistant “super bacteria.” fact Trump won his party’s nomination doesn’t give him Yet he’s repeatedly made inflammatory statements at whether Trump had ever read the constitution and said But there has been no talk of Rio’s air pollution, “unfettered license to defame those who are the best little apparent political cost - and sometimes to his benefit “you have sacrificed nothing.” During the speech, Ghazala three-quarters of which is caused by exhaust fumes among us.” McCain added pointedly: “I’d like to say to Mr - going back to the beginning of the campaign when he Khan stood quietly by his side. from the 2.7 million vehicles on its roads, according to and Mrs Khan: Thank you for immigrating to America. challenged the heroism of McCain, a prisoner of war in Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Rio state’s environmental protection agency, Inea. Its We’re a better country because of you.” Trump tweeted Vietnam, and branded Mexican immigrants rapists and Week,” saying: “If you look at his wife, she was standing data shows that since 2008, Rio’s air has consistently yesterday that “Mr Khan, who does not know me, viciously criminals. Many of his supporters have been drawn to his there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she been two to three times above WHO’s annual limit for attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over tendency to say the politically unthinkable. The question wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.” Ghazala Khan PM 10 - so called because the particulate matter has a TV doing the same.” He said the focus should be on “radi- is whether this, finally, is a step too far. wrote in Sunday’s Washington Post that she did not speak diameter of 10 microns or less, seven times smaller cal Islamic terrorism,” not the parents. For the second time in a week, Trump’s running mate, because talking about her son’s death remains difficult. than that of a human hair. That means Rio has the dirti- Khizr Khan told CNN yesterday that “We want to be out Indiana Gov Mike Pence, issued a statement that appeared “Every day, whenever I pray, I have to pray for him, and I est air of any Olympic host city since scientists began of this controversy. That is not our style. ... We want to designed to put some space between the two men. The cry,” she wrote. — AP consistently tracking PM 10 in the late 1980s, with the exception of Beijing in 2008. Tania Braga, head of sustainability and legacy for the Rio Olympics organizing committee, said, “When Sole Afghan woman gov in a man’s world you talk about air quality, it cannot be judged on PM data alone, and Rio’s other pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide are comfortably within By Anuj Chopra problems too,” he said, setting off a ripple of titters. “We Ebbing international donor funding has exacerbated WHO’s limits.” Though accurate, Saldiva said “the health really are worried about men’s rights.” Muradi’s struggles. “Anyone in that position - man or damages associated with PM pollution are the most urrounded by male advisors and condescending woman - would struggle with dwindling resources,” said severe of all pollutants” and, because of that, Rio’s air is “mansplainers”, Masooma Muradi holds her own Sexist Wisecracks Habibullah Radmanesh, Daikundi’s deputy governor. For of poor quality. The WHO says on its website that “PM Sagainst a deep underswell of sexism in a society “Paying lip service to women’s empowerment is one his part, Ghani has appointed four female ministers since affects more people than any other pollutant,” that out- unaccustomed to women exercising authority. Breaking thing but real empowerment comes with deference to a he came to power in 2014, risking political capital. Last door pollution caused 3.7 million premature deaths new ground as Afghanistan’s only female governor, woman leader’s authority,” the UNDP official later said, year, for the first time in Afghanistan’s history he nominat- worldwide in 2012 and that those deaths were due to Muradi’s ascent to the top post in remote Daikundi referring to Muradi’s struggles. Muradi, who holds a degree ed a woman to the supreme court, but when she was exposure to PM 10. The UN body did not respond to province is a remarkable feat in Afghanistan, where stub- in business administration but lacks political clout, stands rejected by parliament he appointed a man instead. He requests for comment on Rio’s air quality. born patriarchal traditions are at odds with progressive in strong contrast to warlords and strongmen who govern also dismissed the only other woman governor, of central Using the WHO’s methodology on estimating ideas about a woman’s place in the world. But barely a year other provinces amid a deep-rooted system of patronage Ghor province, after protests from religious conservatives. mortality, Saldiva calculates some 5,400 people died in after President Ashraf Ghani appointed Muradi, her job politics. The antipathy towards her, observers say, high- “To genuinely give women a role in governance, Ghani Rio because of air pollution in 2014, the most recent hangs by a thread, with growing calls for her ouster from lights not just sexism but also clashing political interests. needs to push forward when he encounters opposition,” year that data is available. By comparison, Rio’s infa- religious conservatives and opponents. Daikundi is among the most challenging of said Heather Barr, a women’s rights researcher at Human mous murder levels resulted in 3,117 deaths last year. It highlights the travails of being the only woman in an Afghanistan’s 34 provinces to govern. Cut off from the out- Rights Watch. “This hasn’t been happening.” There are fears From 2010 to 2014, metropolitan Rio had an annual overwhelmingly male preserve. “People claim to be open- side world by heavy snow for several months of the year, its that Muradi might meet the same fate. But she can count average PM 10 reading of 52 per cubic meter of air, minded but many cannot bear having a woman in this meagre almond harvests, mainstay of the local economy, on the unbridled support of at least one person - her hus- according to Inea statistics. The WHO’s limit for the position,” Muradi, 37, told AFP, sinking into an overstuffed are dependent on the brutal vagaries of weather. Rampant band. Late one evening, after Muradi returned home, Khalil annual average is 20. sofa in her office in the capital Nili, decorated with faux joblessness is a ticking time bomb and most development Hashem walked into the room and said something you Jamie Mullins, a professor of resource economics sunflowers and a large portrait of a pouting child. “I won’t plans are just on paper. “There are schools but most don’t would seldom hear an Afghan husband, traditionally blind at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, estimates allow men to hush me up - society is not used to that from have buildings, there are hospitals but many don’t have to domestic details, say to his wife: “Dinner has been that for every 10 units above the WHO limit on PM 10 a woman,” she added. doctors,” said Haji Rasouli, a grocery seller in Nili. “I support served.” But he has also been at the receiving end of sexist levels, track athletes across all events see their per- Barely five feet tall, Muradi’s diminutive frame and soft women’s empowerment but will having a woman governor wisecracks. “People call me her secretary, her baby sitter,” formances diminished by 0.2 percent. Mullins based demeanor belies her steely instinct for survival. The moth- solve all these problems?” he said. “But I am very proud of her.” — AFP that calculation on an examination of nearly 656,000 er-of-two was handpicked by Ghani in Kabul to lead results from U.S. track athletes over eight years, and the Daikundi, a mosaic of rolling hills and boulder-strewn air pollution during each. ridges in central Afghanistan, hemmed in by insurgency- During the Beijing Olympics, the PM 10 level was wracked provinces. But protests erupted even before she 82 - well above Rio’s. When London held its Games in arrived in Daikundi, with political opponents - almost all 2012, the PM 10 level was 23, government data men -pillorying her lack of governance experience. showed. The PM level was 44 during the 2004 Muradi has since managed to hold on to the job, but Olympics in Athens, 24 in Sydney in 2000 and 28 in the resentment was palpable when she recently stepped Atlanta in 1996, said Staci Simonich, a professor at out in Nili with AFP, trailed by Kalashnikov-toting guards. Oregon State University who published a 2009 study “Useless,” one man barked as she passed by. “Maybe she on pollution at the Beijing Games. — Reuters should be a governor just for women,” another growled.

Boys’ Club Women have made giant strides since the Taleban All articles appearing on these regime was ousted in 2001, but they are still so absent from public life that the social media hashtag pages are the personal opinion of #WhereAreTheWomen has gained traction in Afghanistan. the writers. Kuwait Times takes no “The attitudes throughout Afghanistan still are such that not everyone is ready to be governed by a woman,” said responsibility for views expressed Douglas Keh, Afghanistan country director at the United therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Nations Development Programme. “Women leaders need all the support they can get,” he added. ers to voice their opinions. Please Daikundi’s administration has long been a boys’ club, which was apparent at a recent provincial council meeting, send submissions via email to: opin- attended by more than a dozen men but just one woman. [email protected] or via snail Swaddled in a blue scarf, she sat at the edge of the room doodling on the sofa upholstery using her finger as an mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. imaginary pen. When she tried to talk, the man chairing The editor reserves the right to edit the meeting stuck his palm up to make her stop. Only when a woman UNDP official attending the meeting asked any submission as necessary. for her view, was she able to speak. “I recently replaced a This photograph taken on May 11, 2016 shows Afghan Hazara tribe female governor of Daikundi province man in the provincial council,” she began. A council mem- Masooma Muradi walking in a bazaar in Nili, capital of Daikundi province. — AFP ber interjected with a smirk. “Say something about men’s TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SPORTS

Mahrez ‘distracted’ by Partizan coach Tomic quits Lehmann extends contract transfer talk: Ranieri after poor start to season as Australia coach to 2019

LONDON: Speculation about a possible transfer to Premier League rivals BELGRADE: Partizan Belgrade coach Ivan Tomic stepped down MELBOURNE: Darren Lehmann has extended his contact as Australia’s head Arsenal has unsettled Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez, manager Claudio after Sunday’s 2-1 Serbian first division defeat at promoted coach until 2019 to cover the World Cup and the Ashes series in England that Ranieri has said. The 25-year-old Algeria international, who signed from Ligue 2 Napredak Krusevac compounded the club’s awful start to the new year, the country’s cricket board (CA) said yesterday. side Le Havre in 2014, has become a hot property after scoring season, club officials said. “We accepted Tomic’s resignation after The 46-year-old former left-handed batsman took on the role on the eve of 17 league goals and winning the PFA Player of the Year the fans, who have stayed loyal to the club through the thick and the 2013 Ashes and despite losing 3-0 in England, he went on to guide the during Leicester’s remarkable title-winning campaign. thin, asked him to leave,” sports director Ivica Iliev told a news con- team to series wins over South Africa, England, India, New Zealand Leicester have already had to fight off advances from ference yesterday. “Tomic had a great vision of how the club and West Indies. He also won the 2015 World Cup on home soil Arsenal to keep striker Jamie Vardy, but lost midfield- should move forward but unfortunately we have hit a wall very with Australia, who currently top the ICC rankings in both test er N’Golo Kante to Chelsea for a reported fee of 32 early into the season and now have to reshuffle the cards,” he said. and one-day international cricket. Lehmann’s contract was due million pounds ($42.38 million). “Maybe Riyad is dis- “We will name a new coach as soon as possible but will not be to expire in June 2017. “I am incredibly grateful for the support tracted a bit by all of these rumours and specula- rushed because we have to get it right.” Belgrade media have and faith the Cricket Australia Board and the players have put in tion,” Ranieri told British media. “But that is also an touted Partizan’s former coaches Marko Nikolic and Vladimir me,” Lehmann said in a statement from CA. “I absolutely experience for my players. It is important that he Vermezovic as well as former Serbia boss Radovan Curcic as love doing this job and as far as I am concerned, it is understands that he should stay with us. “He has to Tomic’s likely replacements. The defeat at Napredak came on the the best job in the world. “There is still a lot I would like to achieve in the time I have left and we have a improve his fitness and play for the team as well as back of Partizan’s elimination from the Europa League in the sec- lot of hard work ahead of us, especially with an ond qualifying round at the hands of Polish side Zaglebie Lubin. last season.” Leicester, beaten 4-0 by French champi- upcoming test series in India and a home Ashes ons Paris St Germain in a friendly in California on That was followed by a goalless draw at newcomers Backa series. “I don’t just see my job as winning games Saturday, kick off their title defence with a trip to newly- Palanka on the opening day of the Serbian top flight, with of cricket. — Reuters promoted Hull City on Aug. 13. — Reuters Partizan failing to score in any of those three games. —Reuters ‘Manx Missile’ targets elusive Olympic medal

LONDON: It’s now or never for British Cavendish, who is also a reserve for the cycling great Mark Cavendish in his goal to team pursuit. Cavendish, who won the at last win an Olympic medal. In theory world road race title in 2011 when the everything appears in mint condition for team was captained by one of his idols as a the 31-year-old ‘Manx Missile’ to fill the one boy David Millar, fell in love with competi- hole in his CV as he arrives in Rio fresh from tive cycling at an early age.He would often four stage wins in the Tour de France-tak- compete in mountain bike races while racing his total to 30, just four shy of Eddie ing an ordinary BMX. Frustrated at his fail- Mercx’s record. ure to compete, he pestered his parents for However, Cavendish-who pulled out of a mountain bike to level the playing field. the Tour de France early so as to preserve “I got one for my thirteenth birthday. his strength for the Games-will have to The very next day I went out and beat adapt quickly as he is not competing on everyone,” he said in a 2008 interview. the road but reverts to the track, some- Cavendish, though, has had to battle hard thing he has not competed at in the Games to make it as a professional and despite since 2008. Cavendish teams up with sometimes being accused of arrogance, is Wiggins in the six-discipline Omnium in described as down-to-earth by those clos- Rio-the duo having won the world title this est to him. Indeed Cavendish showed his year in the Madison-and hope for a happier sensitivity when he won the opening stage outcome than when they finished ninth in of this year’s Tour de France, which cli- the 2008 Beijing Games. “Olympic gold is maxed at Utah Beach, one of the landing one thing left - I’ve tried it twice and I was sites for the Allied Forces on D-Day in 1944. in superb form on both days and they elud- After collecting the yellow jersey, ed me,” said Cavendish, whose other Cavendish was part of a moving ceremony to remember the war dead. appearance at the Games saw him “I wanted to be involved with the armed squeezed out of contention in London. forces in the UK and to finish here at Utah “I’ve made no secret that my aim is to win Beach was an incredible opportunity to an Olympic medal and I’m so pleased to remember and respect not just D-Day but have been given this opportunity. those who’ve fought and died in all wars CHAMPS-ELYSEES: This file photo taken on July 24, 2016 shows Slovakia’s Peter Sagan celebrating his combativity prize on the podium on the “I’m proudly patriotic and I love every for our freedom in the western world,” said time I get to pull on the Great Britain jersey Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, at the end of the 113 km twenty-first and last stage of the 103rd edition of the Tour de Francecycling race on Cavendish. “I wanted to (dedicate) this vic- July 24, 2016 between Chantilly and Champs-Elysees. — AFP and the Olympics is the biggest thing I can tory and say thank you to those great men do. I wouldn’t have done it unless I thought and women and friends back in the UK who I could medal in my two events,” added served in the armed forces.” — AFP World champion Sagan Hamilton heads to the beach as rivals look for answers joins BORA for 2017

HOCKENHEIM: Lewis Hamilton headed for is how it is right now and we just have to BERLIN: Slovakia’s road race world champion vide familiar surroundings as far as possible. “I the Classics and further new signings are expect- the beach yesterday following his victory in work hard and improve.” Peter Sagan has signed for German team BORA- think Peter’s trust in us proves that we did a ed for the Grand Tours before next season. Sunday’s German Grand Prix, but it was a Hansgrohe on a three-year deal, starting in 2017, good job in the last few years and has a solid “Since we started our sponsorship in cycling our very different story for his Mercedes team- ‘We have to improve’ from Russian outfit Tinkoff, his new employers reputation in the peloton. objective was to get to the top of this sport,” said mate Nico Rosberg and their traditional He added that he did not expect any announced yesterday. The 26-year-old, who “Our partners BORA and Hansgrohe are also BORA’s owner Willi Bruckbauer. “Peter will help rivals Ferrari. dramatic changes in the weeks to come. won the world title in Richmond, Virginia, in two big German quality brands. “This combina- us to achieve this goal. The defending world champion’s fourth “The tracks change but we just have to 2015 and the green jersey on this year’s Tour de tion convinced Peter that we are the right team “And he will support us to make our vision successive win and sixth in seven races work hard and improve,” he said. He added France, has signed along with Tinkoff teammates for him and his chase for even more successes in come true. “We are very happy to welcome gave him a 19-point lead in the title race that tyre wear had been a problem for him Maciej Bodnar, Michael Kloar and Erik Baska, the coming years. “I am very happy and sure that Peter Sagan as a new member to our cycling ahead of German Rosberg ahead of the tra- at Hockenheim. “I was expecting the tyres plus elder brother Juraj Sagan. this partnership will be a successful one.” family. “He is a real star, who achieved almost ditional European summer break. to last a bit better, so it made a bit tricky,” The number one in the World Tour rankings Rumours had been circulating since July that everything in cycling by being focused, dedicat- After winning the four season-opening he said. “It wasn’t too bad when we had has taken his closest domestiques with him. Sagan, who briefly held the yellow jersey and ed and by believing in himself. races, Rosberg has been victorious only the first tyres, but they dropped off quite “It is a great honour to welcome one of the won three stages on this year’s Tour de France, “At BORA we share this approach, self-belief once in eight and he faces a struggle to quickly. We need more down-force and this most popular cyclist of our time in our team,” would sign for the ambitious new German team helped us to get to where we stand now. And regain lost ground in the closing nine will make a difference with tyre life, but said BORA-Hansgrohe’s team manager Ralph having also been linked to Astana. we are proud to take the next steps together events starting with the Belgian Grand Prix here it looks like we were just lacking over- Denk in a release. “That’s why we tried to pro- The team’s first goal of the new season will be with him.” — AFP on August 28. “This is going to take some all speed.” Team chief Maurizio Arrivabene time to digest and work out,” said Rosberg, admitted that a lack of progress with chas- who on Sunday started on pole and fin- sis development had hampered them. ished fourth. The team last week split with technical Since the Spanish Grand Prix in May, he boss James Allison, but the lack of progress, Jimmy Walker clicks into has also seen a 43-point advantage over he said, went back to earlier in the year. “In Hamilton turned around. Rosberg’s strug- Canada we reacted quite well with the gles allowed both Red Bulls of Australian engine, but if I look at the situation now. winning form in a major way Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch teenager Max and I go back, I think we don’t have great Verstappen on to the podium in second improvements in terms of down-force since SPRINGFIELD: Jimmy Walker said he never long time. And to win our sixth event, first major, Day is a happy member of the bus buddies and third places. But for Ferrari, it was an Barcelona. That is the problem. “We know would have dreamed after missing the British here where we met, that’s just cool,” Walker said. club. “Me and him have been like bus partners even more profound setback to their high where we have to work now and we have to Open cut two weeks ago that he would be the “It’s special for both of us. It’s pretty emotional. for awhile now,” Day said. “We text each other all ambitions as four-time champion Sebastian do it as soon as possible, even if it is not next man to hoist a major golf trophy. But the He grinded it out this week. He did a great job. the time about him getting a new bus and I’m Vettel and Finn Kimi Raikkonen came home easy. “You have two types of down-force - 27-year-old American pulled off the astonishing “He reads putts great. Didn’t let me hit a shot showing him mine. We’re always parked right fifth and sixth. one is aerodynamic and the other is feat Sunday at the PGA Championship, sloshing until I was ready. Made sure everything was next to each other, always hanging out. We see This result meant that Red Bull moved mechanical... we have to work in both 36 holes across soggy Baltusrol and outdueling good. We did a great job this week communicat- each other all the time. He’s a top bloke.” Walker 14 points clear of the Italian team in second areas.” He added that Red Bull had done a top-ranked defending champion Jason Day ing and talking shots. Just we were in sync.” joined Masters winner Danny Willett of England, place in the constructors’ standings - a dent good job to overhaul and pass Ferrari this down the stretch to win. British Open champion Henrik Stenson of to the pride of the scarlet scuderia. season. “I have to say they have improved “It’s surreal,” Walker said. “I just had not quite DAY, WALKER ARE BUS BUDDIES Sweden and fellow American Dustin Johnson, “We just weren’t fast enough,” said a quite well,” he admitted. “It has been in our played as well as I would have liked to this year. Adding to the chemistry-Day is another of the US Open winner, as the first foursome of downbeat Raikkonen. “It’s as simple as that, minds, but it doesn’t mean we are going to “Just to be in it and be there and have a chance Walker’s pals as the two park beside each other first-time major winners in the same year since unfortunately. Hopefully we’ll find some surrender - we have to think and we have to and then to finish it off is just so gratifying. It’s at events in their motor homes. “We’re the bus 2011. “It shows that everybody is really good and tools to challenge both of them later on, react.” For Ferrari’s engineers, that may mean amazing.” Walker had not won since the US PGA guys out here,” Walker said. “We park next to everybody’s got a chance to win,” Walker said. but it’s not going to be easy. diminished beach time while their rivals are Texas Open 16 months ago, falling from the top each other every week and we see each other “It’s just a matter of time. That’s what I felt about “Everyone can see where we finished away soaking up the sunshine ahead of the 10 to 48th in the world rankings. But when he and we’re good friends.” myself and winning something like this.” —AFP and it’s obviously painful for all of us. “This closing stages of the season. — AFP shared 21st at the Canadian Open between the British Open and PGA, Walker had an epiphany. “Some stuff kind of clicked last week, literally Brits bring own plumber in the last like nine holes,” Walker said. “Everything felt good. I kept it going. Finished off the round. Finished off the nine holes. It felt to leaky athletes’ village big to me. Like everything worked, like my head was there. I was in every shot.” RIO DE JANEIRO: Record-seeking Britain they’ve completely tested our building on a In the final round, Walker chipped in from 45 have pulled out all the stops for their Rio number of occasions and we’re very satisfied yards to birdie the 10th hole. When Day Olympics campaign-to the extent of employ- with the certificates that we’ve seen as well.” answered with a 22-foot birdie at the 11th, ing their own plumber for the leaky athletes’ All of Britain’s 366 athletes will spend time Walker rolled in a 30-footer on the same hole village. Water leaks and even a small fire have at the 17-storey building, including minutes later to reclaim a two-shot lead. been among the problems reported at the Wimbledon tennis champion Andy Murray Walker sank an eight-foot birdie putt at 17 newly built tower blocks, along with blocked and golfers Justin Rose and Danny Willett. only to have Day eagle the 18th, forcing Walker toilets, exposed wiring and unlit stairwells. They have been warned to keep their valu- to save par from the greenside rough. He sank a Australia had to delay moving in because of ables locked away after thieves raided tense 3-foot par putt and the Wanamaker Trophy concerns over the accommodation, and the Australia’s rooms during the evacuation for was his, along with $1.8 million (1.6 million Brits are taking no chances as they eye their Friday’s blaze. “It’s very well documented euros). “Incredible finish, it really was. Just puts a biggest ever medal tally at an Olympics away that Australia had some computers and smile on my face,” Walker said. “Has not even from home. “We’ve got our own plumber that some bags of kit taken,” England said. “It’s really sunk in yet. It has been a whirlwind. But it’s comes in on a daily basis-he’s not at all over- just about being sensible-locking valuables awesome.” And totally unexpected, Walker said. worked, but he’s there just in case something away... as you would if you were overseas on “I wouldn’t have called this, but it’s huge,” Walker gets stuck,” chef de mission Mark England holiday.” England hopes that such precau- said. “It’s nice to get in the position and keep the told journalists yesterday. tions will keep Britain focused on breaking hammer down and keep making birdies and “Maybe somebody’s showers are a bit their away-from-home record of 47 Olympic keep playing well. “Kept working hard. It’s just colder in the morning than they would have medals, set at Beijing in 2008 before Team nice to see it pay off.” It helped that Baltusrol was SPRINGFIELD: Jimmy Walker of the United States celebrates alongside the Wanamaker Trophy liked. But we’ve prepared.” England added: GB, as hosts, finished third on the table at where he met his caddie, Andy Sanders, at a US with PGA of America Officers and Executives after winning the 2016 PGA Championship at “The bombeiros, which is the fire service, London 2012.— AFP Amateur practice round. “We’ve been together a Baltusrol Golf Club on July 31, 2016 in Springfield, New Jersey. —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SPORTS

MLB results/standings

Baltimore 6, Toronto 2 (12 innings); Detroit 11, Houston 0; NY Mets 6, Colorado 4; Tampa Bay 5, NY Yankees 3; Cleveland 8, Oakland 0; Miami 5, St. Louis 4; Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1; Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 4; Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2; Texas 5, Kansas City 3; Boston 5, LA Angels 3; San Francisco 3, Washington 1; LA Dodgers 14, Arizona 3; Cincinnati 3, San Diego 2; Chicago Cubs 7, Seattle 6 (12 innings).

American League Eastern Division W L PCT GB Baltimore 59 45 .567 - Toronto 59 46 .562 0.5 Boston 57 46 .553 1.5 NY Yankees 52 52 .500 7 Tampa Bay 42 61 .408 16.5

Central Division Cleveland 60 42 .588 - Detroit 57 48 .543 4.5 Chicago White Sox 51 54 .486 10.5 Kansas City 49 55 .471 12 Minnesota 40 64 .385 21

Western Division Texas 62 44 .585 - Houston 55 49 .529 6 Seattle 52 51 .505 8.5 LA Angels 47 58 .448 14.5 Oakland 47 58 .448 14.5

National League Eastern Division Washington 61 44 .581 - Miami 57 48 .543 4 NY Mets 54 50 .519 6.5 Philadelphia 48 59 .449 14 Atlanta 37 68 .352 24

Central Division Chicago Cubs 63 41 .606 - St. Louis 56 49 .533 7.5 Pittsburgh 52 51 .505 10.5 Milwaukee 47 56 .456 15.5 Cincinnati 42 62 .404 21

Western Division San Francisco 61 44 .581 - LA Dodgers 59 46 .562 2 Colorado 52 53 .495 9 San Diego 45 60 .429 16 TORONTO: Troy Tulowitzki #2 of the Toronto Blue Jays reacts after being hit by pitch in the sixth inning during MLB game action against the Baltimore Orioles on July 31 at Arizona 43 62 .410 18 Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. —AFP Orioles down Blue Jays in 12 Rahul gives India innings to retake AL East lead a lead in Jamaica KINGSTON: Lokesh Rahul’s Test-best 158 match by the end of day one. TORONTO: Jonathan Schoop broke in a tie three runs in a four-RBI day, James McCann first base line, allowing Jason Heyward to anchored India’s formidable reply to the Virat Kohli, in top form following a with an RBI single in the 12th inning, Adam belted his first career grand slam and five score. Lester never previously appeared as a West Indies first innings total of 196 as the career-best 200 in the first Test triumph in Jones added a three-run homer in that inning Detroit pitchers combined on a seven-hit pinch hitter in his 11-year major league career. hosts reached 358 for five at stumps on Antigua a week earlier, seemed in the and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the shutout and the second straight sweep of a Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz and Lee Dae-ho the second day of the second Test at mood to deepen the home side’s dilem- Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 on Sunday to regain first three-game series. Cabrera hit his 22nd home homered in the first three innings for the Sabina Park in Jamaica on Sunday. ma. He helped Rahul add 69 runs for the place in the American League East. The win run of the season with nobody on and one Mariners, who have lost 12 of 21. The Cubs Leading 1-0 in the four-match series, third wicket going into the final session of ended a five-game losing streak for the out in the fifth off Dallas Keuchel (6-11) and won two of three in the weekend series. the tourists enjoy a lead of 162 runs with the day when the opener’s innings ended Orioles and put them a half-game ahead of added his 23rd after reliever Scott Feldman hit five wickets in hand. Making the most of a in somewhat controversial circumstances the Blue Jays. Left-hander Franklin Morales Cameron Maybin with a pitch to open the REDS 3, PADRES 2 recall to the team as replacement for the as lengthy deliberation involving the tele- (0-1) walked Pedro Alvarez to open the 12th seventh. Justin Upton hit his 13th home run Right-hander Homer Bailey won while injured Murali Vijay, Rahul interspersed vision umpire was needed before he was inning. He committed a balk on a pickoff of the season with two outs and the bases making his first start in 15 months to lead moments of rare aggression with long ruled caught by wicketkeeper Shane throw to first and Alvarez was awarded sec- empty in the seventh. Cincinnati to a 3-2 victory over San Diego in periods of watchful defiance over his near Dowrich down the leg-side off fast bowler seven-hour occupation of the crease in Shannon Gabriel. ond base. Alvarez scored when Schoop sin- the rubber match of a three-game series at compiling his third hundred in just six Chase snared his second wicket, the gled to left with one out. J.J. Hardy then RAYS 5, YANKEES 3 Petco Park. Jose Peraza belted his first major Tests. Resuming on the second morning prized scalp of Kohli, when the Indian walked and Jesse Chavez replaced Morales. Hours after trading away reliever Andrew league homer to pave the way for Cincinnati. on 75 in partnership with Cheteshwar captain fell to a sharp catch by Rajendra Miller to the Indians, New York’s struggles Bailey had made only two starts since April Pujara, he hoisted part-time off spinner Chandrika at short-leg for 44 and leg- INDIANS 8, ATHLETICS 0 continued, as last-place Tampa Bay completed 2014 while undergoing two rounds of elbow Roston Chase for the first six of the spinner Devendra Bishoo earned an LBW Corey Kluber pitched seven scoreless innings a three-game sweep. Rays rookie Blake Snell surgery, including “Tommy John” surgery on innings over long-on to reach three fig- verdict against Ravichandran Ashwin. At and Mike Napoli homered to lead Cleveland (3-4) struck out nine in 5 1/3 innings, and the May 8, 2015. He allowed two runs on four hits ures after 90 minutes’ play. There were that stage, India had lost three wickets for over Oakland to sweep the three-game series. deciding runs came on a two-out, two-run and three walks with six strikeouts in 5-2/3 two more sixes in the mid-afternoon ses- 50 runs at 327 for five, a veritable collapse Kluber (10-8) gave up five hits, with seven strike- single from catcher Luke Maile after the innings. sion to embellish an innings that spanned in the context of their virtual impregnabil- outs and two walks. Oakland starter Sonny Gray Yankees intentionally walked the No. 8 hitter 303 deliveries and also included 15 fours. ity through the first six hours of the came into the game with a record of 2-0 and a in the Rays’ lineup. The Rays matched their DODGERS 14, DIAMONDBACKS 3 “It was hard to get runs today and it innings. 0.64 ERA in four career starts against the Indians. season high with a four-game win streak, Los Angeles banged out 17 hits, including was also really, really hot,” said Rahul “I’m a batsman more than a bowler but But Gray (5-10) was removed from the game while the Yankees are back at .500 after drop- home runs by Yasmani Grandal, Joc Pederson reflecting on his first Test innings in a year. I’m looking at developing my all-round after 3 1/3 innings, having given up seven runs ping their fourth straight. and Corey Seager, in a rout of Arizona at “I was really enjoying my batting even game,” said Chase at the end of the day and eight hits. His 5.43 ERA, which was already Dodger Stadium. though they were bowling a lot better when he again featured prominently with the highest in the American League, climbed TWINS 6, WHITE SOX 4 With speculation persisting that the today.” He put on 121 for the second wick- his off-spin. “The selectors spoke to me several more points to 5.84. Brian Dozier homered twice and scored Dodgers will acquire a starting pitcher before et with Pujara, who was run out for 46 about it and advised that I shouldn’t be a three runs as Minnesota beat Chicago. Monday’s non-waiver trade deadline, right- after lunch by Chase’s direct throw to the one-track player so I’m working on my MARLINS 5, CARDINALS 4 Dozier’s home runs came after the White Sox hander Bud Norris lasted only 13 pitches stumps at the non-striker’s end. That was bowling especially.” Notwithstanding the Adeiny Hechavarria scored from first on a had cut the Twins’ lead to 4-3 in the fourth before leaving the game with back muscle the only success for a limited West Indies mid-innings wobble, India remain firmly attack through the first two sessions of in control with Ajinkya Rahane and wick- two-out triple by Derek Dietrich in the bottom inning. The first homer hit the facing of the tightness. The Dodgers had already shortened the day as they struggled to offer any con- etkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha of the ninth inning as Miami rallied to defeat third deck in left field, an estimated 421-foot their rotation to four pitchers with a glut of sistent threat to batsmen well equipped unbeaten at the close and together with St. Louis Until he scored the winning run shot, to put the Twins up by two. Two innings three off days in an eight-day span ending technically and temperamentally for the the rest of the batting will be seeking to Hechavarria had been the Marlins’ goat due to later, Dozier added another insurance run by Monday. At the same time, ace Clayton requirements of the day, especially after play the West Indies completely out of the a throwing error in the eighth. But with none just clearing the fence in left field for a 6-3 Kershaw (out since late June with a back India had taken such a firm grip on the match on the third day.— AFP on in the ninth, he fouled off several pitches lead. It marked the fourth career multi-homer injury) has not been cleared to start a throw- before hitting a single on a 3-2 pitch from game for Dozier. Three of those have been ing program, making the Dodgers a good bet Matt Bowman. Hechavarria then scored on against the White Sox. to add someone like Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer Dietrich’s triple that deflected off the glove of or Matt Moore by trade. center fielder Tommy Pham. BRAVES 2, PHILLIES 1 Jeff Francoeur hit a two-run homer to the GIANTS 3, NATIONALS 1 METS 6, ROCKIES 4 opposite field in the seventh inning as Atlanta Pitchers Madison Bumgarner and Jeff Neil Walker hit a long go-ahead three-run beat Philadelphia. Jimmy Paredes homered in Samardzija came off the bench to tag-team homer in the seventh inning as New York the eighth inning to draw the Phillies within a on a key run, helping San Francisco salvage a avoided being swept in the season series by run, but Jim Johnson induced a double play four-game split with Washington in a victory Colorado. The Mets won for just the second after a leadoff walk in the ninth inning while in the series finale. Matt Cain pitched five time in the last seven games to remain 2 1/2 recording his sixth save. The Phillies had five innings of no-hit ball for his 100th career win games behind the Miami Marlins in the race hits against six Atlanta pitchers. Rookie as a Giant. Ahead just 1-0 and with his starter for the National League’s second wild card, but Mauricio Cabrera (2-0) got credit for the victo- having already thrown 93 pitches, Giants it may have been a costly victory. Mets short- ry after pitching the seventh inning. manager Bruce Bochy elected to pinch hit for stop Asdrubal Cabrera, who has played in a Cain in the fifth inning even though he had team-high 100 games, had to be helped off BREWERS 4, PIRATES 2 yet to allow a hit. The strategy paid dividends KINGSTON: India’s Ajinkya Rahane plays a shot off West Indies bowler Roston Chase the field after suffering a strained left patellar Matt Garza allowed just one earned run in when Bumgarner, a .164 hitter entering the as wicket keeper Shane Dowrich and Rajendra Chandrika close in on day two of the tendon while scoring a run in the first inning. five innings and Milwaukee relievers pitched at-bat, doubled off the right-field fence off second test match on Sunday at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica. — AFP four hitless innings to stop Pittsburgh. The Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez. RANGERS 5, ROYALS 3 Brewers won their ninth straight home game Mitch Moreland hit his fourth homer of the against the Pirates and are now 64-17 at RED SOX 5, ANGELS 3 SCOREBOARD four-game series against Kansas City as Texas against Pittsburgh at Miller Park since 2007. Dustin Pedroia hit a three-run home run completed a sweep. The Rangers moved six Garza (2-4) allowed two runs on four hits and Xander Bogaerts followed with a solo KINGSTON, Jamaica: Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the second Test games ahead of Houston in the American through five innings. blast to lead a five-run rally in the ninth inning between the West Indies and India at Sabina Park in Jamaica yesterday. League West with the win, their largest lead that gave Boston a 5-3 win over Los Angeles West Indies 1st Innings - 196 Extras (b-8, lb-1, w-5, nb-7) 21 since July 9. The Royals have now dropped CUBS 7, MARINERS 6 (12 INNINGS) Angels in front of 39,553 at Angel Stadium. India 1st Innings (overnight 126 for 1) Total (125 overs, 5 wkts) 358 eight of their last nine games. Moreland’s The Chicago Cubs rallied from an early six- Right-hander Clay Buchholz earned the victo- K.L. Rahul c wkpr Dowrich b Gabriel 158 Fall of wickets: 1-87 (Dhawan), 2-208 (Pujara), 3- two-run homer in the fourth off Dillon Gee (3- run deficit, tied the game with three runs in ry with three hitless innings of relief. Buchholz S. Dhawan c Bravo b Chase 27 277 (Rahul), 4-310 (Kohli), 5-327 (Ashwin). 5) gave the Rangers a 4-1 lead and enough the ninth and won it on pinch hitter Jon (4-9) permitted just one baserunner on a walk C. Pujara run out 46 To bat: A. Mishra, M. Shami, I. Sharma, U. Yadav cushion for Lucas Harrell (3-2) and the Texas Lester’s bunt in the 12th during a 7-6 victory and collected one strikeout. Brad Ziegler V. Kohli c Chandrika b Chase 44 Bowling: S. Gabriel 23-8-50-1 (5nb), M. bullpen to get the job done. over the Seattle Mariners. Lester, a pitcher received his second save. A. Rahane not out 42 Cummins 15.4-3-54-0 (1w), J. Holder 23.2-9-49- with an .051 career batting average, bunted The Red Sox used the win to close within 1- R. Ashwin lbw Bishoo 3 0 (1nb), R. Chase 29-3-91-2, D. Bishoo 25-3-79- TIGERS 11, ASTROS 0 on a 2-2 count with a runner at third base and 1/2 games of the American League East-lead- W. Saha not out 17 1, K. Brathwaite 9-0-26-0. Miguel Cabrera hit two home runs worth one out. He perfectly placed the ball near the ing Baltimore Orioles. — Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SPORTS Legends of the Games - from 1920 to 1980

RIO DE JANEIRO: The 31st Summer waved to him in passing. But Owens was Olympics starts on August 5 in Rio de snubbed by his own president on his return Janeiro. Here is AFP Sport’s first set of leg- to the United States when Franklin D. ends of the Games. Roosevelt failed to greet him, a customary honour for returning champions. “When I PAAVO NURMI, THE ‘FLYING FINN’ came back to my native country, after all the One of the Olympics’ first superstars, stories about Hitler, I couldn’t ride in the Finland’s Nurmi stole the show at Antwerp front of the bus,” Owens said later. “I had to 1920, winning three gold medals in the go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I 10000m, individual and team cross country, wanted. I wasn’t invited to shake hands with and silver in the 5000m, in the space of just Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House three days. But he outdid himself four years to shake hands with the president, either.” US summer of later in Paris, winning the 1500m and then Owens, a pack-a-day smoker for much of his the 5000m two hours later, before success- life, died of lung cancer in 1980. In testament racial tension fully defending his team and individual cross to his enduring popularity among the country titles and then taking gold in the German public, he has a street and a school surfaces on 3000m team race, becoming the first athlete named after him in Berlin. to win five gold medals at the same road to Rio Olympics. But there was controversy when FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN Finnish officials, fearing for his physical con- Female athlete of the century Blankers- LOS ANGELES/RIO DE JANEIRO: dition, refused to allow him to defend his Koen defied conventions about age, sex and America’s hot summer of racial tension, 10000m title. The angry Nurmi responded, motherhood, and blazed a pathway for violence and politics has spilled on to the after returning to Finland, by setting a new women’s sport when she swept to four track Fanny Blankers-Koen basketball court, the track and the Twitter world record in the event. At Amsterdam in gold medals at the 1948 Olympics as a 30- feeds of some of the country’s top sports 1928, Nurmi reclaimed his 10000m title and year-old mother of two. After making her competing and finally she was caught steal- en-title haul remained unmatched until stars. Now, as athletes head to the took silver in the 5000m and 3000m steeple- Games debut in 1936 — where she ing souvenir flags near the Imperial Palace- Michael Phelps swam to eight gold medals Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro from crimes which earned her a whopping 10- in Beijing in 2008. The mustachioed Spitz did Aug. 5-21, will they take the debate over approached Jesse Owens for an autograph, one of her most treasured possessions-the year ban, prompting her retirement. Fraser, the 100m and 200m double in both freestyle America’s racial divide onto the world’s from a working-class suburb of Sydney, and the butterfly, together with three relay biggest global sports stage with them? Dutch marvel’s Olympic career was put on hold by World War II. By the time the remains one of Australia’s most outspoken titles-and promptly retired. The abrasive What comes to mind is another sum- sports heroes, and recently courted contro- Spitz’s success wasn’t universally popular mer in which sports and race collided Olympics returned in London in 1948, and despite living for six years under German versy when she told misbehaving tennis among his rival swimmers: “It could have spectacularly: in 1968 at the Olympics in stars Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic “to go happened to a nicer guy,” remarked one. Mexico City. occupation near Amsterdam, Blankers-Koen held six world records. Nevertheless, many back to where their parents came from”, Lucrative endorsements and business deals There, two American 200 metres track comments for which she later apologised. were to follow, until Spitz made a shortlived medallists, Tommie Smith and John held doubts about the young mother’s suit- comeback attempt aged 41, nearly two Carlos, raised their black-gloved fists and ability to compete-which were quickly bowed their heads on the podium in sup- erased when she took gold in the 100m, LARISA LATYNINA, SOVIET decades after Munich, in time for the 1992 port of Black Power, a protest for which 200m, 80m hurdles and 4x100m relay, top- MEDAL MACHINE Olympics. After Phelps broke his gold-medal Carlos says he has paid dearly. ping the podium in every event she entered. Ukrainian-born Latynina competed in the record in Beijing, Spitz was unstinting in his “As soon as we raised our hands, it’s “One newspaperman wrote that I was too 1958 world gymnastics while four months praise. “He is the single greatest Olympic ath- like somebody hit a switch. The mood in old to run, that I should stay at home and pregnant-and took home five gold medals. It lete of all time now... I always wondered the stadium went straight to venom,” take care of my children,” she told the New was the sort of determination that was to what my feelings would be. I feel a tremen- Carlos wrote in an op-ed on Vox in July. York Times in 1982. “When I got to London, I bring her 18 Olympic medals, a record which dous load off my back.” “Within days, Tommie and I were sus- pointed my finger at him and I said: ‘I show stood for nearly half a century until it was pended from the US Olympic team and you.’” In 1999, Blankers-Koen was named broken in 2012 by American swimmer TEOFILO STEVENSON, THE CUBAN ALI had to leave Mexico City early.” The vio- female athlete of the century by the IAAF, Michael Phelps. Latynina finished her Stevenson resisted the lure of profession- lence on America’s streets has made and she died five years later in 2004. Olympic career with nine gold medals, five al boxing-including a lucrative fight with many think back to the 1960s, the decade silver and four bronze, becoming gymnastics’ Muhammad Ali-to remain resolutely ama- defined by the fight for civil rights. inaugural superstar. “She was our first leg- teur throughout his career, earning the In July alone, two black men were EMIL ZATOPEK, UNIQUE DISTANCE TREBLE Zatopek spoke six languages and “never end,” Bela Karolyi, the coach of Romania’s devotion of his fellow Cubans. “What is a mil- killed by police in Louisiana and Nadia Comaneci, said of Latynina. “When lion dollars worth compared to the love of Minnesota, and there were two ambush- shut up”, according to one miffed rival, and sometimes it seemed that he never stopped she stepped out on the floor, all eyes were eight million Cubans?” he once said. es on police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, on her. She demanded attention and Stevenson was crowned Olympic heavy- Louisiana that left eight officers dead. running either. The Czech distance great, known for his ungainly running style, respect.” At her first Games in 1956, Latynina weight champion three times in 1972, 1976 Some athletes, like women in the won the vault and floor exercises en route to and 1980, one of only three fighters to win WNBA pro basketball league, have shown claimed an enormous victory in the 10000m a hard-fought all-round title, as well as gold three Olympic gold medals, and the first support for the Black Lives Matter move- at the 1948 Olympics, lapping all but two ment that coalesced nationally in 2014 competitors, despite racing for the first time in the team event. She defended her all- after Hungary’s Laszlo Papp 24 years earlier. after the police killing of an unarmed over the distance only two months earlier. A round title in 1960, and again took gold in In a 1988 Boxing Illustrated poll, the tower- teenager in Missouri. few days later in the 5000m, an out-of-sorts the floor exercises and team event. At Tokyo ing but graceful Stevenson, with a thunder- Others like basketball player Carmelo Zatopek dropped 100m behind Belgian in 1964, when she was 29, Latynina won her ing right hand-and a striking resemblance to Anthony, a member of the Olympic team, leader Gaston Reiff before stirringly fighting third straight floor and team titles. Despite Ali-was selected as the greatest Olympic have used their star power to bring back to miss gold by a whisker, in what her unprecedented medal haul, Latynina’s boxer of all time. In 1974, two years after his together communities and police to dis- would have been one of the great recoveries achievements were later overshadowed in first Olympic victory, promoters Bob Arum cuss racial tension and policing. of all time. Four years later at the Helsinki Olympic history by the exploits of Soviet and Don King both tried to lure the 22-year- “I am so humbled and honored that Olympics in 1952, Zatopek successfully gymnast Olga Korbut and Comaneci, but she old to fight the then fading Ali, a match that the women of the WNBA went to such an defended his 10000m crown, and then came to public attention again as Phelps many observers believe the Cuban would extent to uplift our message and the zeroed in on her record in London. have won. Instead Ali fought George cause,” said Kofi Ademola, lead organiser claimed a dramatic 5000m victory when he stormed past his rivals on the final bend. But Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, in the famous for Black Lives Matter in Chicago. MARK SPITZ, DAMP SQUIB Rumble in the Jungle. Stevenson only ever Ademola said he is watching to see if his most remarkable victory was in the marathon, which he had never run before TO RECORD-BREAKER lost one round at the Olympics, in his third Anthony and other athletes follow the The brash American boasted he would and last final against the Soviet Union’s Piotr “powerful women from the WNBA” or but won so easily that he chatted with pho- tographers along the route and afterwards win six gold medals at the 1968 Mexico City Zaev in 1980. He also won three world ama- support the police like some entertainers Olympics but he ended up with two relay teur titles and would have been a good bet have or “remain silent and oblivious to declared the event “very boring”. Zatopek, the only man to win the 5000m, 10000m and titles, plus an individual silver and bronze, in for a fourth Olympic gold medal, but Fidel everything, as if nothing is going on”. what he called “the worst meet of my life”. Castro’s Cuba boycotted both the 1984 and The WNBA initially fined teams for marathon at the same Olympics, later fell out Perhaps it was the motivation he needed, 1988 Olympics in Los Angeles and Seoul. wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts or of favour with Czech authorities. He was because four years later in Munich, Spitz Stevenson, described by his friend Ali as black warmups last month, but then assigned to collect rubbish in Prague and stunned the world by winning an unprece- “one of the great boxing champions”, retired backtracked after widespread outrage. worked for seven years in a uranium mine. Tina Charles, who is on the Olympic dented seven gold medals at the same aged 36 to a modest home in Havana. He Games-winning every event he entered, and died in 2012, at the age of 60, after a heart team, tweeted “I refuse to be silent LASZLO PAPP, HUNGARIAN BOXING GREAT @WNBA” with a picture of her in a t-shirt Emil Zatopek Papp tangled with Hungary’s Communist setting a world record each time. Spitz’s sev- attack. —AFP emblazoned with #BlackLivesMatter and chase. However this turned out to be Nurmi’s authorities as well as opponents in the ring #Dallas5. “Appreciate our players express- last Olympics as by now his fame was such in a career which made him the first boxer to ing themselves on matters important to that he was invited to star at athletics meets win three Olympic gold medals. The fluid, them,” WNBA President Lisa Borders worldwide, prompting the IAAF to designate hard-hitting southpaw, known for his devas- tweeted after she reversed course. him a professional-ruling him out of the tating left hook, totted up an astonishing “Rescinding imposed fines to show them 1932 Games, and a shot at a 10th gold 301 amateur wins against just 12 losses, with even more support.” medal. 55 of his victories ending in first-round knock-outs. His Olympic career was equally ABIDING BY RULE 50 JOHNNY WEISSMULLER as fearsome: in 13 bouts spread across Other athletes have chosen to make From gold to the silver screen Long London 1948, Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne more neutral statements about peace before he swung on to the silver screen as 1956, Papp lost only one round-in the 1956 and pride in their country. ‘Tarzan the Ape Man’. America’s Weissmuller final, which he won 2-1 against America’s After winning the 200 metres final in found fame at the Olympics, where he domi- Jose Torres. That third and final title came at the US Olympic track trials days after the nated the swimming events at the Paris and a highly emotional time for Hungary, as it Dallas police killings, Justin Gatlin urged people to take the love in the stadium Amsterdam Games in 1924 and 1928. At a coincided with the brutal crushing of an “and give it to someone you have never time when only six men’s gold medals were uprising against the Soviet-backed regime. loved before. Just go up to them and say I on offer, the son of German immigrants won Budapest-born Papp turned professional at love you for being an American.” the 100m and 400m freestyle, as well as the 31 in 1957 but had to train in Vienna to In the violence-filled first week of July, 4x200m freestyle relay, in Paris, before suc- become the first professional boxer from the Crystal Dunn, a member of the US cessfully defending the 100m and relay titles Soviet bloc. In 1965, he was denied a shot at women’s soccer team, tweeted “ANY four years later-a career haul of five Olympic reigning middleweight world champion wrongful death should concern every- titles. He also took water polo bronze in Joey Giardello in the United States when the one,” and noted that she has been get- Paris, for good measure. Weissmuller didn’t Hungarian Communist authorities revoked ting “a lot of questions lately about how I win as many gold medals as Mark Spitz or his passport, concerned about the sensitivi- feel about being a black player on the Michael Phelps, but he bears comparison ties of a boxer from the Soviet bloc fighting national team.” owing to his huge margins of victory and the for money in the focal point of the capitalist “Although I am Black, I am a human small number of swimming events contest- world. “This is my one big regret in life,” Papp first...,” she added. Public opinion appears ed at the time. His superiority owed much to said later. He retired undefeated as a profes- to be against using the Olympic stage to his revolutionary use of the flutter kick and sional and as European middleweight cham- make statements. head-turning breathing-innovations that pion and was later awarded an honorary Around two-thirds of Americans want remain to this day. After his Olympic career, world title by the World Boxing Council, who Olympic athletes to keep their political Weissmuller made even more of a splash in also named him the best amateur and pro- views to themselves in Rio de Janeiro, Hollywood, where he shot 12 Tarzan films fessional fighter of all time. according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll and became synonymous with the character, released yesterday. pioneering his famous jungle yell. DAWN FRASER, THE AUSTRALIAN REBEL When asked how the US Olympic The Australian swimmer made her mark Committee would deal with athletes who JESSE OWENS, FIRST TRACK SUPERSTAR in the 100m freestyle, taking gold in the made statements or protested, a Owens exploded the Nazi-propagated 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and then in spokesman pointed simply to the myth of Aryan racial superiority when he Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964. In doing so, Olympic Charter’s Rule 50. won four track and field gold medals at the she became the first woman to defend an That rule discourages participants 1936 Berlin Olympics under the nose of Olympic swimming title and the first from using the Games as a platform for Adolf Hitler. The African-American was Olympic swimmer of either sex to win the protests or “the promotion of political, already a star when he arrived in Berlin, a same event three times. Fraser also won religious or racial propaganda”. year after he set five world records and gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay in 1956 And while the International Olympic equalled a sixth in the space of 45 minutes in and earned silver medals in four other events Committee says athletes are free to Ann Arbor-including a long jump mark of over the Games in which she competed. express their opinions, they are advised 8.13m that would stand for 25 years. He However, her career was also defined by to only wear official uniforms on the field didn’t disappoint in Berlin, winning gold in clashes with Australia’s swimming authori- and at ceremonies. The place to make a statement might the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long ties. After the Rome Olympics, she was hand- be at one of the Games’ last events, the jump, and setting three world records along ed a two-year ban after a number of minor men’s basketball gold medal game on the way. Hitler was reported to have stormed offences, including not wearing the team Aug. 21. If protesters get sent home, they out of the stadium after Owens, the grand- tracksuit to receive her medal. At Tokyo, she will not miss much at all. — Reuters son of slaves, won the 100m, although the defied team orders by marching in the cere- “Buckeye Bullet” later said the Nazi leader mony, wore an unofficial swimsuit while Laszlo Papp TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SPORTS Kosovo athletes to fly the flag with pride in Rio

ROGANE: Kosovo’s 400 metres runner Vijona many athletes from the small Balkan country he said last month on Twitter: “We may get good.” Hajdari and Kryeziu are the two of eight Kryeziu has been training for the Olympic had to leave their home towns to participate gold, we may not, still #heroes.” Kosovo finally athletes from Kosovo who will be travelling to Games in the mountains around her native vil- under another country’s flag. became member of the Olympic Committee in Rio. The other six are two swimmers, two lage of Rogane, fulfilling a dream that until During London 2012, judo double world 2014. This year it joined UEFA and FIFA. judokas, a cyclist and a shooter. recently seemed impossible to many of her champion Majlinda Kelmendi had to compete “I never thought that I will see this day,” said “A lot of children were born as talents but country’s athletes. for Albania. In Rio she will proudly carry the 800 metre runner Musa Hajdari, Kryeziu’s team they will die without knowing their talent,” The Rio Games will be the first to host ath- Kosovo flag at the opening ceremony. mate. “It is a big responsibility for us and we said Zijadin Kryeziu, the country’s athletics letes competing under the flag of Kosovo, “It is big success for Kosovo that is repre- will try to go and give the maximum,” he said. coach, referring to the many who were not which proclaimed independence from Serbia sented for the first time with its flag,” President With her nails painted red, Kryeziu fixed the given the opportunity to participate in big in 2008, nine years after a NATO bombing cam- Hashim Thaci said on Friday when he handed starting block for her and Hajdari. sports events. “We will try to make a good paign to drive Serbian forces from its territory. over the flag to Kelmendi. “This is the break of She acknowledged they were running in debut,” said Kryeziu, who also works as a “I am very lucky to be part of these Games,” isolation from sport after almost three the woods because there was no athletics sta- teacher. “Everything that happens there will Kryeziu, 18, said. To pursue their careers before, decades.” Summing up the jubilation of many, dium nearby. “The conditions for us are not be a miracle.” — Reuters Yadav cleared of doping to keep Rio hopes alive

MUMBAI: India’s Narsingh Yadav was exoner- bronze in the 66kg category in Beijing in 2008 ated of doping charges yesterday after an and silver in London, moved up a weight after Indian anti-doping disciplinary panel ruled his category was scrapped and sought a court that there was no fault or negligence on the order for a bout between the pair to deter- part of the wrestler and he was a victim of mine who should go to Rio. Last month, the “sabotage”. Delhi High Court ruled against Kumar, the Yadav, who secured India a berth at the Rio only Indian athlete to win two individual Games in the 74kg category by winning a Olympic medals, clearing the way for Yadav to bronze medal at last year’s world champi- compete in Rio. The qualification row divided onships in Las Vegas, tested positive for a opinion in the country and Yadav was provid- banned steroid last month but now waits to ed police security, a rare measure for an hear whether he has been granted an Indian athlete, at the Sports Authority of India Olympics lifeline. training centre at Sonepat due to possible “There is no fault or negligence on the ath- threats to his life. Following the positive test, lete’s part and he is a victim of sabotage,” the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) had National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) director provisionally sent the name of Parveen Rana general, Navin Agarwal, told Reuters by as replacement for Rio to the United World phone. The freestyle wrestler had said his Wrestling (UWW) but said it would now supplements and water had been sabotaged approach the governing body to allow Yadav and lodged a police complaint against a jun- to compete at the Olympics. ior wrestler accusing him of contaminating his “We will write to both WADA and the UWW food at the Sports Authority of India training to allow Narsingh Yadav to compete at the Rio NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on July centre in Sonepat. Games,” Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh told 27, 2016, Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav “I want to thank everyone who supported reporters. leaves the National Anti-Doping Agency me. It’s a triumph for truth,” Yadav told “I am sure Narsingh Yadav will go to Rio (NADA) in New Delhi. India’s anti-doping reporters. “Now I want to go to Rio and bring and win a medal for India.” Men’s freestyle agency yesterday revived wrestler Narsingh back a medal for India.” wrestling starts in Rio from Aug. 19, which the Yadav’s hopes of Olympics glory by clearing Yadav’s Olympic berth was initially put in WFI said gives ample time for the wrestler to him of consuming a banned substance, declar- jeopardy when Sushil Kumar, who won be reinstated. —Reuters ing his food had been spiked by a rival. —AFP Five Chinese athletes to watch in Rio 2016

BEIJING: The 31st Summer Olympics starts on August 5. AFP Sport looks at five Chinese athletes to watch at Rio de Janeiro Games:

Lin Dan (Badminton) Competing in his fourth and probably final Olympics in Rio, the 32-year-old shuttle star Lin will be going for a third singles gold after tri- RIO DE JANEIRO: Zimbabwean rower Micheen Barbara Thornycraft attempts to walk umphing at his home Beijing Games in 2008 and on a tight rope at the Olympic athletes village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. The again in London four years ago. Lin’s stiffest Summer 2016 olympics is scheduled to open Aug 5. — AP competition would appear to come from countryman Chen Long and eternal rival Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who is back atop the world Speedster Green chasing rankings after returning from a doping ban last year. “Super Dan” beat Lee in both Olympic finals and, currently ranked third, will relish the chance rugby gold for Australia to complete his golden hat-trick against his biggest rival. CANBERRA: Ellia Green has been cutting women’s basketball team, field hockey her teeth as a rugby player for four years players Shannon Parry and Sharni Sun Yang (Swimming) in the pursuit of an Olympic gold medal. Williams, who was a full-time auto Controversy is never far away for the London It has cost her a couple of teeth along the mechanic, and Charlotte Caslick and 2012 freestyle 400m and 1500m Olympic cham- way, too. Alicia Quirk from touch football - a non- pion and 200m silver medallist. He skipped his The so-called fastest woman in world contact form of rugby. country’s Olympic swim trials in April with a foot rugby, for a long time Green trained in Having a squad of full-time contracted injury and pulled out of last year’s world champi- Ma Long track and field and had competed at players paid off in the women’s world onships, citing a “heart problem”, after he served international level for Australia before sevens series when the Australians broke a three-month ban in 2014 for testing positive being universally regarded as the best player in waiting for this gold medal for a long time,” making a sudden move into the rough- New Zealand’s dominance of the compe- for the banned stimulant trimetazidine-which the world. But he did win gold in the team event Zhong told media after her world title, adding and-tumble sport. tition, Green made more clean line breaks can also be used to treat the heart condition as China dominated. Ma has been selected for she would try her hardest to make history in Rio. Like so many players in the world than anyone in the 2016 world series and angina. China’s most decorated swimmer, who both singles and team events in Rio this time series-winning Australian women’s squad, scored 17 tries fourth on the list for the has also won seven world championship golds around alongside compatriot and London gold Wang Jianan (Long jump) it was games of backyard rugby with a season - lifting her career tally to 61. New in distance events, is nevertheless gunning to medallist Zhang Jike, who Ma will attempt to In taking world championship bronze just brother as a child that provided the only Zealander Portia Woodman led the try- retain his titles, and additionally turn 200m silver prevent from becoming the first man to defend days before his 19th birthday in Beijing last real hint about the physical demands of scoring for the season with 24, followed into gold. “The impact of these four years, of an Olympic table tennis singles title. August, with 8.18m behind Olympic champion Greg Rutherford’s winning 8.41m, Wang leapt the game. “He always tried to get me by Green’s Australian teammate Emilee defending my identity, and the pressure has Zhong Tianshi (Cycling) into the record books as the first Asian to win a involved. He tried to tackle me in the Cherry with 22 and Ghislaine Landry of changed, but the goal has not changed. My goal is to defend my gold medals,” he told reporters The 25-year-old became China’s first individ- global long jump medal outdoors. He had backyard,” Green recalled of her brother, Canada with 19. Australia won the first earlier this year. ual track world champion when she beat coun- served notice of his talent three months earlier Mitchell, now 25 and still playing rugby three titles in the five-event series and trywoman Lin Junhong in the women’s sprint in when setting an Asian record of 8.25m at the union. “It helped. Growing up, we were reached the final on the last stop to finish Ma Long (Table tennis) London in March. Zhong won the best-of-three Shanghai Diamond League meeting. The 2014 sort of rough with each other. He told me with 94 points, 14 clear of second-place The 27-year-old world number one was con- final series 2-0 to improve upon the bronze she world junior champion now has eyes on ‘You should try rugby, you’d be so good New Zealand and 20 clear of Canada and troversially overlooked in the singles by China’s won 12 months earlier. She is now gunning for Rutherford’s crown in Rio and is young enough, at it.’” That wasn’t exactly the unanimous England. selectors for London four years ago after a blip in the gold in Rio that would make her the coun- given an injury-free run, to be still threatening family line. Her mother, Yolanta, wasn’t The convincing series win make the form and consequent rankings slip, despite try’s first Olympic track champion. “I have been the podium for Tokyo 2020 and beyond. —AFP really sold on the idea at first. “She was Australians favorites for gold in Rio, but unsure about it - she was worried,” Green Green and her teammates are conscious said. “‘Ellia, can’t you pick a sport where that New Zealand timed its preparations you can’t get hurt?’” to peak for the Olympic tournament Four years later, by her reckoning, which kicks off Saturday. Green has had five operations. “Finger Speed is one of the Australian team’s surgeries, I’ve lost teeth, shoulder opera- biggest assets, and Green knows she’ll be tions,” she said, running through her cata- in the targets of defenders for that rea- log of injuries. “That’s one thing (Yolanta) son. She looks inside and outside of the was worried about. game for motivation, recalling the “But above all, she said opportunities posters of sprinters she had on her walls like this don’t come often. If it wasn’t for in her track and field days, admiring the her, I probably wouldn’t have gone on likes of Carmelita Jeter, Allyson Felix and with it.” Green’s initial contact with rugby Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. sevens was as a driver - giving her cousin From a rugby sevens perspective, she a ride to a “Pathway to Gold” talent identi- looks to the likes of US men’s players fication tryout in Melbourne in 2012. Carlin Isles and Perry Baker. “I do look up There were women there from all kinds of to speedsters,” she said. “I just like the sports, and from all over Australia. power.” Rugby is returning to the “I wasn’t planning on going at all. I was Olympics for the first time in 92 years, in just taking my cousin,” Green recalled in the modified sevens version rather than an interview with The Associated Press. “It the traditional 15-a-side game. Women was spontaneous. There were 150-200 will be playing for rugby medals for the girls. They only picked two.” first time, and Green sees that as an opportunity to break down some BORN IN FIJI stereotypes. “I want to be a tough girl One of those was Green, who was who can do anything,” she said. “I’m into born in Fiji and raised in Australia. The my cars. I love building - I did some con- team has several players drawn from oth- struction work last year. I don’t think NEW YORK: In this May 19, 2016, file photo, Adeline Gray, bottom, attempts to take down Canada’s Justina Di Stasio during the Beat the Streets er sports, including Chloe Dalton, who there should be any boundaries to what wrestling exhibition in Times Square in New York. Gray is ranked No. 1 at 75 kilograms (165 pounds) and will attempt to win the first gold for US earlier had aspirations to be in Australia’s girls should do.” —AP women’s wrestling on Aug 18 at the Olympics in Rio. — AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 SPORTS

Sports court race to hear Russia ban cases

RIO DE JANEIRO: The international power to act on the information and sports tribunal raced yesterday to decide insisted that its priority was to protect appeals by Russian athletes against their Stepanov and his wife Yulia Stepanova, ban from the Rio Olympics with the who are now in hiding in the United opening ceremony just four days away. States. Bach said the IOC was not respon- The restricted opening of a new metro sible for the accreditation or supervision line for the Olympic zone also highlight- of anti-doping laboratories in Russia. ed the struggle cash-strapped Rio organ- “So therefore the IOC cannot be made isers have faced to get Games stadiums responsible neither for the timing nor for and facilities ready and cleaned up on the reasons of these incidents we have to time. Swimmer Yulia Efimova and face now and which we are addressing wrestler Viktor Lebidev registered and have to address just a couple of days appeals at the Court of Arbitration for before the Olympic Games,” Bach said. Sport (CAS) taking the total number of But he insisted the doping scandal Russian challenges to International would not taint Rio. “I don’t think this Olympic Committee sanctions to four, event will be damaging. I trust people with more possible. will realise the difficult situation we are Cases involving swimmers Vladimir in. We did our best to address the situa- Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, who won tion in a way to protect clean athletes.” medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 Three IOC executive members have London Games, were to be completed been named to make a final decision on yesterday when the hearing of Efimova, which Russian athletes will compete in who took bronze in the 200m breast- Rio once the individual federations have stroke in London, was to start. made their lists. Seven Russian swimmers were The IOC said the Russian team will be banned from Rio by FINA after the IOC finalised before Friday’s opening ceremo- ordered sporting federations to exclude ny at the Rio Olympic stadium. The Rio any Russian competitors implicated in an Games has also faced criticism over the investigation into Russia’s doping scan- state of the athletes’ village and the dals by Canadian lawyer Richard readiness of venues. McLaren. Bach said that on his arrival Thursday, McLaren’s report for the World Anti- he had gone straight to the athletes vil- Doping Agency (WADA) said there was a lage “unshaven” to see the conditions state-organised doping scheme in where hundreds of plumbers have been Russia, with the secret service helping working on water pipes following com- the sports ministry to manipulate sam- plaints from some teams. ples. At least 117 of the 387 competitors He said athletes are now happy. A Russia had wanted to send to Rio have metro line linking the centre of Rio to the been excluded. In parallel there have Olympic zone opened but will only be been recriminations over who is to blame used by athletes and Olympic officials for the huge doping controversy because not enough full scale tests have revealed in a Geman television docu- been carried out. mentary in 2014 and now casting a shad- The metro passes by Guanabara Bay, ow over the Rio Games. in the shadow of Rio’s iconic Sugarloaf IOC president Thomas Bach rejected Mountain where the sailing events will suggestions at a press conference that be held. Daily pollution tests on the the chaos represented a “huge failure” for water are still being held while special the IOC. “The IOC is not responsible for boats are hauling out debris that flows in the timing of the McLaren report,” he said from Rio. in a veiled attack on WADA. But Bach insisted that the organisa- “The IOC is not responsible for the fact tion of the Games is “coming together”. that different information which was “There will be, as always be some last- offered to WADA already a couple of minute challenges,” said the IOC leader. years ago was not followed up.” He added that the Brazilian authorities had acted quickly in recent months INFORMATION and “we are more confident than ever Russian anti-doping agency whistle- that we will have a great Olympic Games blower Vitaly Stepanov says he first a la Brazil”. The Games, with an estimated began passing information to WADA in 10,500 athletes, start Friday and finish 2010. WADA has said it did not have the August 21. —AFP

Park In-Bee S Korean women on tee to drive for golf gold

SEOUL: As golf returns to the Olympics always intensely fierce. The women archers after more than a century, South Korea’s have won 14 of the 15 golds on offer since women golfers are targeting a medal the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. sweep and the start of a golden dynasty to The golfers will have to overcome some match their archery compatriots. stiff competition to achieve that level of The decision to bring golf back as an dominance, but coach Pak Se-Ri is setting individual event should suit the Korean the bar as high as it will go. players who are products of an ultra-com- An iconic sporting figure in South Korea, petitive domestic tour that continues to Pak won 25 LPGA titles, including five churn out world-class players. majors, and is widely credited with inspir- The qualifying rules for Rio de Janeiro ing the “Korean wave” in women’s golf. were based on global rankings, with the “Our goal is to bring back the gold, silver world’s top 15 players on July 11 getting an and bronze medals, but honestly I don’t automatic berth, with a maximum of four want to pressure the players,” she told a of those from any one country. press conference last week. The rest of the 60-woman field is made up from those next in line on the world CASH INCENTIVE rankings list up to a maximum of two play- Among those standing in the way of a ers per country. At the cut-off date, South Korean podium sweep are the formidable Korea accounted for half the women’s top figures of top-ranked Ko and world number 10 slots and had four more players in the two Brooke Henderson of Canada. top 20. But the restriction to four competi- There are also concerns over the form of tors meant some seriously talented golfers world number three Park who has spent missed out. months battling a thumb injury that forced “It shows how great those players are her to withdraw from multiple events, playing week in, week out,” world number including last weekend’s British Open. one Lydia Ko said in a recent interview with If any further incentive were needed, ESPN. “I’m kind of glad I’m not amongst the Korea Golf Association has offered a that,” said Ko, who is South Korean by birth cash prize of 300 million won ($265,000) to but represents New Zealand, where she has anyone bringing back gold. “It’s not manda- lived since the age of six. tory for us to give prize money but we want to motivate our players,” said KGA official FEARLESS FOURSOME Ko Sang-Won. Unlike the men’s side of the South Korea are the only country eligi- golf event, the women’s field has been ble to send the maximum four women largely unaffected by fears over the Zika golfers to Rio, with world number three virus.The world’s four top-ranked men- Park In-Bee leading the medal hopes. She Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth is joined by the fifth-ranked Kim Sei-Young, and Rory McIlroy-have all opted to avoid Amy Yang (seventh) and Chun In-Gee Rio, citing the virus which has been linked (ninth). The depth of talent is such that the to birth defects. world number 10, Jang Ha-Na, failed to While Pak acknowledged some health make the cut as did Ryu So-Yeun (12th), concerns, she said they were overcome by Park Sung-Hyun (16th), Lee Bo-Mee (17th) the lure of a possible Olympic medal. and Kim Hyo-Joo (19th). Not only that, “Korean players seem to attach different South Korea boast another 11 in the meaning to playing in the Olympics than women’s official world rankings top 50. others,” she said. The South Korean athletes The depth of talent echoes that in the in Rio have been given special uniforms South Korean women’s archery team, infused with mosquito repellent to combat where competition for Olympic spots is the Zika risk. — AFP World champion S Korean women Sagan joins on tee to drive BORA for 2017 for golf gold

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TORONTO: Novak Djokovic (R) of Serbia with the winner’s trophy and Kei Nishikori (L) of Japan with the runners-up trophy following the Singles Final during Day 7 of the Rogers Cup at the Aviva Centre on Sunday in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. — AFP Djokovic beats Nishikori for Rogers Cup title Halep eases past error-prone Keys to Montreal title

TORONTO: Novak Djokovic paused after said. “Naturally, I’m going to be very disci- to take care of at this tournament after reach- accepting the Rogers Cup trophy for the plined, committed, and focused to do well.” ing the final for the second straight year. fourth time, scanned the stands Sunday at Djokovic has won his last nine matches Halep was unable to close the deal last year York University’s Aviva Centre and asked against Nishikori and leads the series 10-2. when she became ill in the third set, handing everyone in the crowd to hug the person “I had too many unforced errors especially the title to unseeded Belinda Bencic. beside them. during important points,” Nishikori said. “He Sunday’s win wasn’t pretty as she hit just A small chuckle circulated the capacity was returning really well today, I think. I was four winners against Keys, an American play- crowd and then Djokovic said he would lead hitting some good first serves, but he was ing in her first career hardcourt tournament by example, turning to public announcer Ken making returns in deep.” In April in their previ- final. It was a match Keys would no doubt like Crosina and wrapping his arms around the ous match, Djokovic won the Key Biscayne to quickly forget as she finished with 45 emcee. Fans laughed and followed suit. final. Nishikori won his fourth straight unforced errors and had her serve broken five “It was a really wonderful moment,” Memphis title in February for his 11th ATP times, including four times in the opening set. Djokovic said. “I did feel that it was just the Tour victory. Her best previous hardcourt performance right moment for me to ask politely the crowd In the doubles final, Croatia’s Ivan Dodig was a semi-final run at the 2015 Australian to do that, because in the end of the day, we and Brazil’s Marcelo Melo topped Britain’s Open. She also reached the semis at Sydney in are all here for the same thing. We are all here Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Soares 6-4, 6- 2014 and Osaka in 2013. to connect through tennis, through passion 4. Meanwhile, Simona Halep beat a mistake- “I’m obviously not going to say it’s a bad for the sport. “It’s nice that we got to sense and prone Madison Keys 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 on Sunday week just because I lost one match. I think I feel that kind of energy around the stadium.” to win the WTA Montreal hardcourt tourna- played really a pretty good tournament,” Keys The top-ranked Serb beat third-seeded Kei ment and claim her 14th career singles crown. said. “I wish today went a little bit differently. Nishikori of Japan 6-3, 7-5 after a short rain World number five Halep, of Romania, has Sometimes it happens. Just take the positives delay. Djokovic also won the hardcourt event now won 23 of her last 26 matches, a stretch from that and move on.” that rotates between Toronto and Montreal that has included lifting titles in Madrid, Halep is the first player to reach back-to- 2007, 2011 and 2012. Ivan Lendl holds the Bucharest and now Montreal. back finals in the event since Jennifer Capriati tournament record with six titles. “It was not my best tennis because I could- did it in 2001 and 2002. Halep won a sloppy The 29-year-old Djokovic has seven victo- n’t play my best tennis,” Halep said. “I cannot first set in 43 minutes despite hitting just one ries this year and 66 overall, a record 30 in ATP hit stronger than her because she’s very winner. The Romanian took the set on the sec- World Tour Masters 1000 events such as the strong. “I tried just to keep the ball away from ond of five potential set points in the tiebreak- Canadian stop. He has 12 Grand Slam titles, her and to make her run. er when Keys hit a backhand wide. She then winning this year in Australia and France. “I think I did it pretty well, and she missed claimed the title on another Keys error as the TORONTO: Simona Halep of Romania holds the trophy after defeating Madison Keys “After Grand Slams, these are the biggest shots. It was really tough for me to hit winners American blasted a forehand into the net on of the United States during day seven in final round action of the Rogers Cup at events we have in sport of tennis,” Djokovic today.” Halep had some unfinished business championship point. — Agencies Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. — AFP Sunderland boss David Moyes relishes return

LONDON: Sunderland boss David Moyes insists he has ment means that more managers will take breaks in been revitalised by his spell out of management as he their career with the way it is. looks to bring stability to the Stadium of Light. “I wouldn’t say I’ve been away from the game, I Moyes had been out of work for eight months after watched as much football as I can. “I’ve been to watch being sacked by Real Sociedad last November, but the training from other sides of the world and I’ve involved former Manchester United and Everton manager feels with UEFA a lot, whether it’s been watching the Euros or reinvigorated after returning to the Premier League. whether it’s been taking the Pro Licence coaches. I’ve The 53-year-old Scot was hired last month to replace been out but I’ve been busy. “This has now got to be a Sam Allardyce, who left Sunderland to take the England building job. I’m here for four years and I want to bring a job, and on Monday he held his first press conference in level of stability back to the club.” his new role. Moyes remained tight-lipped on transfer rumours, Moyes’ reputation was tarnished by his nightmare which have included reports linking him with possible spell at Old Trafford, which ended with his sacking after moves for Adnan Januzaj and Marouane Fellaini, who less than a season in charge of United, and his under- both player under him at United. whelming spell in Spain. “If any of those good players want to join me I’d be But he is adamant his sabbatical has helped give him happy to have them,” he said. “They’re excellent players. a fresh outlook and more insight into the keys to suc- We’re interested but I’m sure there’s a load of other cess at a club who have narrowly avoided relegation for clubs that are as well. the last two seasons. “You have to have a realistic view. There’ll be some SUNDERLAND: Sunderland’s new Scottish manager David Moyes poses for the media with a team football at “It was great to play golf and spend time with my players we can attract just now and some players we Sunderland AFC’s Acadamy of Light in Sunderland, north east England yesterday after giving his first press con- family but this is what I do and I want to get back and can’t. “We have offers in for people already and we’re ference after his appointment. — AFP get on with it,” Moyes said. “I think modern manage- working hard.” — AFP Pilots’ strike hits easyJet flights from Amsterdam Page 22

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WASHINGTON: A Boeing 787 airplane purchased by Qatar Airways is shown during a delivery ceremony in Everett, Wash. —AP Qatar lifts stake in BA owner to 20% UK companies become 10-15% cheaper for overseas buyers

LONDON: Qatar Airways lifted its stake in British Airways- ment. Qatar Airways said it had no plans to increase its owner IAG by about 4.34 percent to 20 percent but said shareholding further than the current level unless the situ- yesterday that was its limit, buying shares worth about 375 ation changed materially. Under current rules, foreign million pounds ($496.61 million) on what it called an investors cannot own more than 49 percent of a European attractive buying opportunity. Shares in IAG have lost airline. Qatar Airways said while its interest was purely about a quarter of their value since Britain, the airline financial, the investment reflected the strength of the com- group’s biggest market, voted in June to leave the EU. mercial and strategic ties between the companies. British companies have also become 10 to 15 percent Al Baker has in the past said the company wanted to tap cheaper for overseas buyers due to the devaluation of the into IAG’s extensive American network through the tie-up. pound since the vote. State-owned Qatar Airways said it Qatar Airways has been expanding its global reach in had raised its stake to 20.01 percent from 15.67 percent, recent months, agreeing in July to acquire up to 10 percent sticking to its oft-repeated intention to increase its holding of Chile-based LATAM Airlines and 49 percent of Italian car- over time. It first invested in the company in January 2015. rier Meridiana. Qatar Airways said it owned the bigger “The recent market valuation of one of the world’s lead- stake in IAG as of July 28. On July 29, IAG’s shares closed ing airline groups has provided what we believe is an down 0.8 percent after it trimmed growth plans for 2016 attractive opportunity to increase our shareholding in IAG,” further and gave a cautious outlook for annual earnings DENVER: A British Airways plane lands on a runway at Denver International Airport. Qatar Airways says it has Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker in a state- following Britain’s vote to leave the EU. —Reuters boosted its stake in British Airways and Iberia parent IAG, and now owns just over a fifth of the company. —AP

Dollar crawls up after Jazeera Airways announces worst week in months LONDON: The dollar crawled up yesterday after recording net profit of KD 2.0 million its poorest weekly performance in three months, while the yen edged lower after a more than 3 percent surge on a much less aggressive than expected easing package KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways yesterday announced its second H1 2016 review game-changing initiatives that will boost Jazeera Airways’ from the Bank of Japan. The greenback shed 2 percent last quarter financial results, reporting Q2 operating revenues of l In February, Jazeera Airways launched a major product offering, reinforce its brand, and attract and retain more cus- week against a basket of major currencies after the US KD24.7 million and a net profit of KD2.0 million, bringing the enhancement program to boost customer experience tomers in 2016 and beyond. Below is a glimpse into the four Federal Reserve gave no hints of any near-term interest company’s year-to-date net profit to KD6.0 million. Jazeera through various on-ground and in-flight initiatives. The pro- new initiatives and how they will transform Jazeera Airways’ rate rise as some had expected it to, and after a disap- Airways Chairman, Marwan Boodai, said: “We are pleased to gram, titled ‘The Next Big Thing’, includes a dedicated offering. pointing set of US growth data at the end of the week. report another strong quarter on the back of higher passenger remote check-in and long-term parking facility, in-flight It could manage just a 0.2 percent rise yesterday, to numbers, in terms of both volume and load factor. We closed broadband service, a dedicated terminal at Kuwait Remote check-in 95.672, leaving it close to the 3-1/2-week low of 95.384 hit the year with a load factor of 72.4%, which is a full 10% higher International Airport, and a dedicated business class lounge Jazeera Airways is constructing a state-of-the-art check- on Friday. US gross domestic product grew at an annual than our peers’ average load factor on the routes we operate. at Kuwait International Airport. in facility located two minutes away from the airport to 1.2 percent in April-June, falling far short of the 2.6 per- That’s not to say it wasn’t a challenging quarter, we saw l In June, the company launched flights to the city of Taif, serve as a second option for flight check-in. Operational by cent increase that had been forecast. But strategists said more capacity being dumped on our routes, rising fuel costs, its third destination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with end of 2016, the facility is a single-stop remote check-in this week’s data, which includes the closely watched and an expected shift of the summer season as most of three flights a week. facility with valets for both short-term and long-term park- monthly non-farm payrolls report on Friday, could boost Ramadan has now moved into Q2, thus shifting revenue and l In July, Jazeera Airways was officially notified that its ing and luggage assistance. Once travelers and their lug- the US currency. travel trends and slightly impacting our earnings.” Our outlook request to be allocated land at Kuwait International Airport gage are checked in, they will be shuttled to the terminal “We’re expecting the US data flow to be very support- for the year remains unchanged and in line with our sector’s to build a dedicated terminal was approved by the Kuwait where they can proceed directly to passport control, thus ive of US yields and the dollar,” said BNP Paribas currency seasonality. While the excessive overcapacity on the sectors Council of Ministers. The terminal is a solution proposed by completely bypassing the hassle of navigating Kuwait strategist Sam Lynton-Brown, in London. “Our interpreta- we operate poses a downward pressure on our yields, we the airline to help ease the congestion at Kuwait International Airport’s parking and check-in congestion. tion of the July statement from the FOMC (Federal Open expect to counter this pressure in Q3, which only had 5 days International Airport, the country’s only primary airport, Market Committee) was that if data continues to remain of Ramadan, and close the year with growth in our opera- which is currently operating over capacity. The project’s Exclusive Business Class lounge very strong then September looks well underpriced by tional profits and our bottom line.” investment value is KD14 million, and its total construction Starting Q3 2016, Jazeera Airways Business Class travelers the market,” added Lynton-Brown. New York Fed President time frame is 15 months, including the permits acquisitions now enjoy an exclusive access to newest lounge at Kuwait William Dudley said at a central bankers’ conference in Financial highlights phase. In July, Jazeera Airways launched a dedicated busi- International Airport, and the only lounge at the airport with Operating revenue: KD24.7 million, less 7.3% from H1 ness class lounge at Kuwait International Airport. The lounge a direct and unobstructed view of the tarmac. High-speed Bali yesterday that the Fed could hike rates before the 2015. - Net profit: KD6.0 million, less 3.0% from H1 2015. - is part of the ‘The Next Big Thing’ product development pro- internet, comfortable seating, food, and drinks are offered at November US election if the economy and labor market Passengers: up 3.2% from H1 2015. - Load factor: up 3.2% gram launched by the airline. More on the ‘The Next Big the lounge. improve quickly, although he added the Fed should be from H1 2015. -On-time performance: 90.1%. - Q2 2016 Thing’ below. cautious. Financial Highlights: Operating revenue: KD12.8 million, less In-flight broadband The dollar had been rallying before last week, posting 6.9% from Q2 2015. - Net profit: KD2.0 million, less 38.1% from The Next Big Thing Starting Q1 2017, Jazeera Airways’ fleet will be equipped five weeks of consecutive gains - its strongest run in 1-1/2 Q2 2015. The Next Big Thing is a series of new ambitious and with cutting-edge broadband internet technology from years. The weaker-than-expected GDP report followed a Rockwell Collins, who have chosen Jazeera Airways to be the strong payrolls report for June, as well as improving infla- launch customer for this new service. In 2017 Jazeera tion, retail sales and jobless claims data. In response, spec- Airways travelers will have the opportunity to live stream ulators raised their bullish US dollar bets to the highest their favorite TV shows, movies, news, and sports on any level in nearly five months in the week up to last Tuesday, personal device. according to Reuters calculations and data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Jazeera Airways Long-Haul Friday. The dollar gained half a percent yesterday to Jazeera Airways is currently looking to expand its net- 102.54 yen, having fallen more than 3 percent on Friday. work to include key long-haul destinations by partnering The BOJ disappointed market hopes that it might with an international operator. Though still in its early increase its already huge bond-buying program or take stages, the airline confirms the new routes will be non-stop interest rates further into negative territory. Instead, it and offered through a true partnership with a global airline. increased its purchase of exchange-traded funds and left rates unchanged. “Last week the BOJ showed restraint Jazeera Airways Terminal once again, and as a result dollar/yen has since eased The airline is in an advanced planning stage to estab- back to 102,” wrote Commerzbank strategists in a note to lish a dedicated terminal at Kuwait International Airport, clients. “The outlook that may now be justified is likely to which will help Jazeera Airways better serve its travelers depend largely on fiscal policy measures the Japanese and help relieve the congestion at the country’s single- cabinet is going to decide on tomorrow.” —Reuters terminal airport. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 BUSINESS Pilots’ strike hits easyJet flights from Amsterdam Air France strike affects 150 flights

THE HAGUE: Several easyJet flights out of minimize the impact of the strike ... but unfortu- tain almost all long-haul services and 85 percent Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport were cancelled nately due to the short notice we will have to of its medium-haul flights from the main Charles yesterday after a strike called by Dutch pilots cancel flights.” Flights to London, Nice, and Tel de Gaulle hub. seeking better pay and conditions. The Dutch Aviv appeared to have been among at least six Two cabin crew unions are demanding man- pilots union (VNV) announced around midnight cancelled easyJet flights, although other early agement extend a collective labor accord on Sunday they would be walking off the job for morning departures did leave. In a further blow rules, pay and promotions and have indicated the second time this summer, after an earlier to travelers, Dutch police briefly closed one of more strikes are in the offing. Christophe Pillet stoppage on June 14. EasyJet denounced the the main motorways linking Amsterdam to for the SNPNC-FO cabin crew union told AFP a strike as a “disappointing and unnecessary Schiphol airport yesterday amid a bomb scare. further stoppage could come as early as next action by the union” saying it had been “working The alarm was raised when a man travelling week, estimating up to 280,000 passengers closely with the VNV to negotiate a collective on a bus on the A4 made “strange remarks” and would be affected by the past week’s stoppage, labor agreement and have already made a sig- mentioned “a bomb,” police said. The driver costing the carrier some 100 million euros ($111 nificantly improved offer.” stopped the bus and all passengers were evacu- million). But the union called the strike from 6:00am ated. Police said in a Twitter message the man “We shall meet by the end of the week to (0400 GMT) to 10:00am (0800 GMT) saying it “was arrested after being confused” and the decide on what course to take,” said Pillet as was “counting on the management to now motorway was later reopened after the bus was the company said it would operate 90 percent return quickly and seriously” to the negotiating searched and no explosives were found. Security of flights today. “Management made the choice table. The pilots are calling for no loss of pay has been stepped up in and around to break off social dialogue-we never closed during sick leave, more rest between flights and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport since Saturday fol- the door on negotiation,” added Pillet of a dis- better pensions, the labor organization said in a lowing an unspecified threat, and airport pute which saw management limit the exten- statement. The VNV added it had decided to authorities warned travelers yesterday to leave sion of a labor accord expiring in October to 17 strike again after easyJet in June flew in “strike- earlier than planned for the busy travel hub. months rather than three to five years as the breakers from abroad,” which they said “only unions wish. An Air France spokesman said added fuel to the fire.” Air France strike they had no indication of more stoppages in And it warned a further series of stoppages In another development, Air France cancelled the pipeline and added cancellations were in were planned over the coming months. “We are 150 flights in and out of Paris yesterday on the line with forecasts. A two-week stoppage in determined to conclude a fair collective agree- sixth day of a strike by flight crew, airport 2014 cost Air France an estimated 400 million ment for easyJet pilots even if it means that the sources said, as unions warned of more disrup- euros. Another one between June 11-14, right conflict and the resulting disruption in operation at the height of the holiday travel period. at the start of Euro 2016 football champi- tions drags on for months,” said union chief The carrier said it would cancel some 10 percent onships, cost around 40 million euros, the air- Steven Verhagen. EasyJet added it was “trying to of domestic flights yesterday, but would main- line calculated. —Agencies

Egypt President warns of ‘tough measures’ amid ailing economy

CAIRO: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi warned Egyptians yesterday that tough measures would be needed to turn the country’s ailing economy around, as the government negotiates a $12 billion loan program with the International Monetary Fund. In a bid to prepare public opinion for a series Etihad Airways medical centre, of measures that will include subsidy cuts, tax reforms, and privatizations of state-owned com- Fatima College sponsor nurses panies, Sisi told Egyptians the government needed their support to weather the storm. “The prob- KUWAIT: Etihad Airways Medical Centre with educational, training, research and opera- (EAMC), the UAE’s first aeromedical facility, and tional excellence opportunities in the field of lem is whether public opinion is prepared to Fatima College of Health Sciences (FCHS) of Occupational Medicine. accept the measures which could be tough or The Institute of Applied Technology, have The collaboration, which is the first of its harsh,” he told young people at a leadership con- announced a new partnership to support the kind in the Middle East, enabled Etihad ference. training and continued development of Airways to enhance the medical and broader “Egyptians love their country and are able to Emirati nurses in Abu Dhabi. The partnership, wellbeing services it provides, whilst also mark- face hardship but they are too busy with their which is the first of its kind in the UAE, forms an ing a significant step in the airline’s vision to be daily lives and thus must be afforded the correct important part of EAMC’s strategy to employ the global leader in Aviation Medicine. The information regarding the measures.” Egypt said more Emirati female healthcare professionals, EAMC serves the airline’s 23,000 Abu Dhabi last week it was seeking $4 billion a year over as the airline remains committed to realizing based employees, providing full laboratory three years from the IMF to help plug a funding the vital economic potential of women and services, physiotherapy, radiology, dental care, gap. The government hopes to finalize the deal their important role in driving the emirate’s nutrition counseling, ear, nose and throat serv- in August. Sisi’s government has been at pains transformation into a thriving knowledge ices, and primary care. Nurses from FCHS who to avoid a public backlash by showing that based economy. The agreement also supports successfully gain employment with Etihad FCHS’s vision to be a key provider of excellence Airways will have the option to work across a reforms are home-grown and not imposed from in health sciences education in the United number of disciplines in addition to aviation outside. Arab Emirates. health services. Fatima College of Health Import-dependent Egypt has faced a dollar The EAMC sponsorship program will pro- Sciences was established in 2006 to meet the shortage since the 2011 uprising that ended auto- vide up to three students a year with a unique United Arab Emirates growing need for skilled crat Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule but also scared opportunity to pursue a rewarding and chal- healthcare professionals. The college initially off tourists and foreign investors, key sources of lenging career in the nursing profession with offered just one course - a Bachelor of Science hard currency. Etihad Airways. EAMC will also give the select- degree in nursing. However, it has since The gap between the Egyptian pound’s official ed students the opportunity to become pio- expanded to offer more than 10 degree pro- and black market exchange rates has widened to neers in aviation and occupational nursing as a grams at BSc Degree and Diploma levels in more than 40 percent although news of the loan recognized training centre, following a recently Health Sciences including Pharmacy, has underpinned the local currency. Sisi said yes- signed agreement with the Royal College of Paramedics, Radiography Medical Imaging, terday that Egyptians would “very soon” be able Physicians of Ireland. Students will be selected and Physiotherapy, in collaboration with to purchase US dollars at a unified rate, adding: for sponsorship based on their robust academ- Monash University in Australia. The College’s “The next few days will see a lot of good news for ic performance to date. Successful students nursing program has been designed by Griffith will receive a monthly stipend from the airline University in Australia. In addition to the BSc the Egyptian people.” and will meet EAMC clinical staff members reg- Degree, the school of nursing offers a bridging Four traders on the black market said that their ularly to discuss their progress. After gradua- program for diploma-holding practitioner volumes of business had fallen as people wait to tion, students will be offered full-time employ- nurses. find out more details about the IMF loan program ment with the airline. Dr Nadia Bastaki, Etihad Dr Ahmed Al Awar, Managing Director of and a possible devaluation of the Egyptian Airways’ Vice President - Medical Services, said: The Institute of Applied Technology, said: “This pound. They said they were making only small “We are honored to announce our partnership agreement forms an important part of our transactions at a price of 12.30-12.70 pounds per with Fatima College of Health Sciences. This ongoing efforts to encourage more Emirati dollar, unchanged from Thursday. agreement provides a unique opportunity for nationals to enter into fulfilling professions “Some people are worried and others are EAMC to encourage female UAE nationals to within the healthcare sector as we continue to waiting for the green light on the IMF loan. There pursue a career in nursing and explore the play a vital part in ensuring its rapid growth is caution in the market over the possibility of fields of aviation and occupational medicine, and expansion. Our partnership with Etihad the flotation of the pound,” said one trader. when they will have the opportunity to Airways will enable a select number of our “Buying and selling is limited and Sisi’s remarks become a pioneer in this area of medicine.” In most talented nurses to pursue careers with will create apprehension in the market,” said March 2016, EAMCand the Royal College of one of the UAE’s largest companies as well as Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) announced a pio- gaining invaluable experience in the field of another. — Reuters neering new partnership to provide the airline aviation medicine.”

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 233.100 Malaysian Ringgit 75.855 Indian Rupee 0.004346 0.004735 Turkish lira 102.010 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.930 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Swiss Franc 313.910 Thai Bhat 9.675 Japanese Yen 0.002878 0.003058 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 231.680 Turkish Lira 101.390 Kenyan Shilling 0.003110 0.003110 Japanese Yen 2.955 US Dollar Buying 301.250 Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 Indian Rupees 4.524 Malaysian Ringgit 0.072187 0.078187 Pakistani Rupees 2.889 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002851 0.003021 Srilankan Rupees 2.077 20 Gram 271.550 Pakistan Rupee 0.002719 0.003009 Nepali Rupees 2.817 10 Gram 138.700 Philippine Peso 0.006317 0.006617 CURRENCY BUY SELL Singapore Dollar 226.890 5 Gram 70.190 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Hongkong Dollar 38.986 Europe Singapore Dollar 0.220621 0.230621 Bangladesh Taka 3.856 British Pound 0.393722 0.408722 South African Rand 0.015785 0.024285 Philippine Peso 6.453 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004495 0.016495 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001655 0.002235 Thai Baht 8.735 Danish Krone 0.041365 0.046365 Taiwan 0.009299 0.009479 Euro 0.032150 0.0341150 Thai Baht 0.008372 0.008922 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Norwegian Krone 0.031870 0.037070 Saudi Riyal 80.696 US Dollar 302.650 Romanian Leu 0.086745 0.086745 Arab Qatari Riyal 83.125 Canadian Dollar 232.415 Slovakia 0.009007 0.019007 ani Riyal 785.993 Sterling Pound 401.085 Swedish Krona 0.031320 0.036320 Bahraini Dinar 0.795553 0.804053 Bahraini Dinar 803.640 Euro 339.245 Swiss Franc 0.305256 0.316256 Egyptian Pound 0.025234 0.030352 UAE Dirham 82.389 Swiss Frank 294.580 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Bahrain Dinar 800.075 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 ARAB COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 82.630 Australasia Jordanian Dinar 0.422358 0.431358 Egyptian Pound - Cash 30.750 Qatari Riyals 83.840 Australian Dollar 0.221624 0.233624 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Saudi Riyals 81.430 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 34.450 New Zealand Dollar 0.211948 0.221448 Lebanese Pound 0.000146 0.000246 Jordanian Dinar 426.460 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.215 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019264 0.043264 Tunisian Dinar 137.630 Egyptian Pound 33.985 America Nigerian Naira 0.001246 0.001881 Jordanian Dinar 427.010 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.076 Canadian Dollar 0.226401 0.235401 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.016 Indian Rupees 4.531 Georgina Lari 0.136578 0.136578 Omani Riyal 0.779035 0.784715 Syrian Lira 2.0157 Pakistani Rupees 2.882 US Dollars 0.298300 0.303000 Qatar Riyal 0.082250 0.083700 Morocco Dirham 31.374 Bangladesh Taka 3.851 US Dollars Mint 0.298800 0.30300 Saudi Riyal 0.079553 0.080853 Philippines Pesso 6.435 Syrian Pound 0.001281 0.001501 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Cyprus pound 159.500 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.134032 0.142032 US Dollar Transfer 302.450 Japanese Yen 3.915 Bangladesh Taka 0.003384 0.003968 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Syrian Pound 2.400 Chinese Yuan 0.044074 0.047574 Euro 339.200 UAE Dirhams 0.080907 0.082607 Sterling Pound 402.260 Nepalese Rupees 3.815 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036916 0.039666 Yemeni Riyal 0.001367 0.001447 TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 BUSINESS London issues first offshore rupee bond

LONDON: An Indian bank yesterday by issuing so-called “masala” bonds. Alok Sharma, British minister for Asia, fledgling market in May, borrowing $457 to have brought uncertainty to many issued the first ever offshore rupee- The three-year bond, which carries an added: “I very warmly welcome HDFC’s million. industries as Britain begins the long denominated bond in London, a land- 8.33 percent yield (interest rate), was choice of the London Stock Exchange to Since being appointed last month, process that will lead to high-stakes mark celebrated by officials keen to four-times oversubscribed, according to list this world-first rupee bond, a clear Prime Minister Theresa May’s govern- negotiations to set the terms of London’s highlight Britain’s international business a Treasury press release. “It (the bond) signal of London’s standing as the lead- ment has been desperate to promote relationship with Brussels and the single prowess despite Brexit. The Housing represents a major vote of confidence in ing international financial centre.” Britain’s business credential on the world market. The long-term economic impact Development Finance Corporation London as the leading global financial London’s major financial centre has stage, following warnings by economists of Brexit is difficult to quantify but econ- (HDFC), India’s largest provider of hous- centre and is further proof that Britain is already hosted many issues of securities that its shock decision to leave the omists predict further turbulence in the ing finance, raised 30 billion Indian a great place to do business,” said new by foreign institutions. China issued its European Union would harm its econo- short term, borne out by early indicators Rupees ($450 million, 400 million euros) British finance minister Philip Hammond. first sale of offshore renminbi in London’s my. The June 23 EU referendum appears released since the referendum. —AFP News UK manufacturing shrinks as in brief

Bahrain AUB raises business confidence tumbles stake in Iraqi bank DUBAI: Ahli United Bank (AUB), Bahrain’s largest lender, has raised its stake in Commercial Bank of Iraq Recession ahead in Britain? to 64.71 percent, according to a stock exchange statement. AUB purchased a 10 percent stake in LONDON: British manufacturing shrank at “The collapse in the total orders balance 2012, while new orders - which grew pound was less marked than previously Commercial Bank of Iraq, AUB said in a statement yes- its fastest pace in more than three years in ... signals that support from the weaker robustly in June - suffered their sharpest estimated, Dobson said. Growth in new terday, without elaborating. A statement from the Iraq July and business confidence tumbled fol- pound simply is not powerful enough to turnaround since 1998 and fell at their export orders slowed in July after hitting a Stock Exchange on Thursday said AUB’s stake in lowing the Brexit vote, according to sur- offset slumping domestic demand,” fastest rate in over three years. Barclays seven-month high in June. When Britain Commercial Bank of Iraq had reached 64.71 percent veys that show an increased chance of a Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at said the purchasing manager survey sug- last suffered a big fall in its currency during after AUB purchased 25 billion additional shares in the recession ahead. The news will give more Pantheon Macroeconomics, said. gested Britain would enter a recession, the 2008 financial crisis, inflation stayed bank. It did not mention the price AUB paid for the impetus for the Bank of England to cut “Meanwhile, the pick-up in the prices contracting by 0.4 percent quarter on above the BoE’s 2 percent target for rather interest rates this week. Falling output and charged balance to its highest level in quarter at the end of September and by longer than expected, while exports failed shares. Commercial Bank of Iraq’s closing share price new orders pushed a closely watched almost two years demonstrates that the 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter. That to gain much. on Thursday was 0.43 dinars, which would value the index of factory purchasing managers to (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee cannot would be followed by “a prolonged and But inflation in June was far below tar- 10 percent stake at around 10.75 billion dinars ($9.20 its lowest since February 2013, adding to relax about the inflation outlook when shallow contraction”, it said. get at just 0.5 percent, and there has been million). AUB acquired a 49 percent stake in the bank signs that Britain’s decision to leave the considering policy easing measures this little sign in recent years that one-off price in December 2005, according to AUB’s website. In European Union is hurting the economy. week.” Inflation remains very low, however. Rate cut coming shocks get baked in to long-run inflation Sterling slid to a three-week low against The Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing pur- Almost all economists polled by Reuters trends. Since Brexit, there has been no offi- addition to Iraq, AUB has a presence in Kuwait, Egypt, the euro after the manufacturing survey. chasing managers’ index(PMI) fell to 48.2 in expect the Bank of England to cut interest cial data shedding real light on the impact Libya, Oman and Britain. British accountants, meanwhile, said that July from 52.4 in June, below an initial rates by at least 25 basis points on of the vote on economic output. But there confidence plunged just after the EU vote, “flash” reading reported in late July of 49.1 Thursday, but they were split on whether are signs consumer confidence is strug- while the Confederation of British Industry and its lowest since February 2013. the Bank would restart its bond-buying gling, and Markit said its earlier one-off Iraq oil exports from said on Sunday that firms expect economic Measures of output and new orders also program. Average purchase prices rose at “flash” PMI surveys were consistent with south rose to 3.2 m growth to grind almost to a halt over the fell below the 50 mark that denotes their fastest pace in five years, with compa- the economy shrinking by a quarterly 0.4 next three months. This all fuels the case growth for the first time since early 2013 nies citing higher commodity prices and percent if they persisted. British finance BASRA: Iraq’s oil exports from its southern ports for the BoE’s first rate cut since 2009 but due to weaker market conditions at home higher import prices, the latter due to the minister Philip Hammond downplayed the rose to 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) on aver- also highlights the challenge it faces as and uncertainty related to the EU referen- weaker currency. Output price inflation flash PMI numbers saying they were a age in July, up from 3.175 million bpd in June, as sterling’s slide since the June 23 vote puts dum. The output index fell to 47.8 in July was also the highest in nearly two years. measure of sentiment and not of “hard the OPEC nation increased crude production, Iraqi upward pressure on inflation. from 53.6 in June, its lowest since October The boost to exports from a weaker activity”. —Reuters oil officials said. Output at the Luhais field, operated by state-run South Oil Company, increased by 10,000 bpd to 90,000 bpd in July, according to a Rogue trader jailed for UK’s biggest company official. Fields operated by foreign companies in southern Iraq also contributed to the fraud warns ‘it could happen again’ July increase, he said. The southern region pro- duces most of the OPEC member’s crude oil. The Adoboli says banks fail to tackle cultural problems northern Kurdish regional government exports about 500,000 bpd through a pipeline to the LONDON: Kweku Adoboli, the rogue thing he did was to make profits for Deportation Turkish port of Ceyhan, on the Mediterranean, but trader jailed in 2012 for the biggest UBS and was in line with the bank’s Adoboli, who does not have that is done independent of the central govern- fraud in British history, has said his culture, but prosecutors said he told British citizenship, is fighting depor- crimes could be repeated because elaborate lies to cover up his reckless tation to his native Ghana and is not ment in Baghdad which oversees crude sales from bankers still faced the same pressure and fraudulent trading. After 11 weeks allowed to work in Britain. the south. Iraq reaped $3.744 billion from oil to make profits “no matter what”. A of evidence, a jury convicted him of Supporters have launched a crowd- exports in July, Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad star trader on the Exchange Traded two counts of fraud. UBS was fined 30 funding appeal on the FundRazr said in a statement. He said average production Funds desk at UBS’s London office, million pounds ($40 million) for sys- website to help him fund his legal for the month was over 3.202 million bpd. KFH-Group CEO Mazin Al-Nahedh speaks to CNBC Adoboli lost the Swiss bank $2.3 bil- tems and control failures and the trial battle to stay in Britain. They have Arabiya TV lion after trading far in excess of his was embarrassing for the bank, but raised 14,446 pounds so far. “I’m try- authorized risk limits and booking fic- the jury rejected Adoboli’s argument ing to achieve something positive Al-Nahedh: Approval titious hedging trades to hide his true that he had been tacitly authorized to from the experience that I’ve been exposure. break the rules to make profits. through but I face deportation from to sell AIG in line He was given a seven-year jail term “I accept I was found guilty of a the UK in a way that would mean in November 2012 and was released crime that had dishonesty central to that I’m not able to continue doing with KFH’s policy from prison last year. He has been it,” said Adoboli, now 36. However, he this work of sharing the story,” he said. “I unreservedly apologize for KUWAIT: The Board of Directors and the Executive what happened ... I went to prison for Management at Kuwait Finance House (KFH) had stressed the it,” Adoboli said. importance of restructuring KFH’s investments for achieving The son of a United Nations offi- sustainable profitability, mainly by focusing on core banking cial, Adoboli spent part of his child- business while exiting the non-essential businesses,” said KFH- hood in the Middle East before arriv- Group CEO, Mazin Saad Al-Nahedh. Speaking to CNBC Arabiya ing in Britain aged 12 and attending TV in an interview conducted at KFH’s Headquarters, Al- a private Quaker boarding school Nahedh added that the Board of Directors approved to sell where he did so well he was chosen KFH-Group’s interest in its subsidiary Aref Investment Group to be “head boy”. Confident, articu- (AIG) and therefore results of AIG are presented in the consoli- late and hard-working, he initially dated statement of income of KFH as discontinued operations. thrived at UBS and was selected for The total assets and total liabilities of AIG are presented as the bank’s “Ascent” program for one number in the consolidated statement of financial posi- future leaders. But from 2008 SYDNEY: Copies of the Australian Financial tion in accordance with the requirements of International onwards, he started using illicit trad- Review and The Sydney Morning Herald are seen Financial Reporting Standard - IFRS-5 until completion of sale ing methods, culminating in a con- for sale on a news stand in Sydney yesterday. within one year with possibility of extension for another year. cealed risk exposure of $12 billion in Leading Australian publisher Fairfax Media said it He indicated that AIG is a subsidiary and non-strategic invest- August 2011. His desk’s authorized would post nearly 760 million USD in writedowns ment for the bank, affirming that exiting from it comes in line risk limit was $100 million during a in the year to July. —AFP with KFH’s strategy to strip out non-strategic investments to day’s trading. release capital in efforts to further focus on core banking He argued at the trial that he had business. Kweku Adoboli become de-sensitized to the enormi- Fairfax Media flags $760 Al-Nahedh underlined KFH’s H1 financial results saying ty of the numbers due to burnout. million in writedowns banned from working in financial argued that the banking industry had After losing control of the situation, that the bank achieved KD 70.9 million net profits, an increase SYDNEY: Leading Australian publisher Fairfax Media by 13.6%. Net operating revenues reached KD 166 million, ie services but speaks about his experi- failed to learn from when things went he threw in the towel in September a growth of 14.4% over the same period last year. Total oper- ences for free at banking compliance wrong because it had a tendency to 2011, owning up in an email to the said yesterday it would post nearly Aus$1 billion in ating revenues for H1 this year reached KD 322 million i.e. a conferences. “I think it could absolute- try and blame individuals rather than bank that he had hidden short posi- writedowns in the year to July, while it announced growth of 4.4% compared to the same period last year. This ly happen again,” he said in interviews face up to profound cultural problems tions in Eurostoxx and DAX index the creation of a new reporting segment for its lucra- confirms that KFH is on the right track. Moreover, he noted with the BBC broadcast yesterday. and hold senior managers account- futures that turned out to be worth a tive online real estate division. Like its global peers, that the growth has been achieved due to many reasons, “The young people I’ve spoken to, for- able. “Culture is being set at very sen- staggering $8.75 billion. After UBS mer colleagues I have spoken to, are ior levels of the industry and those frantically unwound the positions, the group, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald most prominently the focus on financing mega projects such and The Age newspapers, has had add to slash jobs as the leading of the first tranche of KNPC financing worth KD still struggling with the same issues, responsible for setting that culture are the scandal had cost it $2.3 billion 1.2 billion for the clean fuel project in addition to the fees of the same conflicts, the same pressures as responsible for what the outcomes and a drop in its share price of more and costs owing to falling circulation and advertising some businesses. to achieve no matter what.” are as those who push the buttons at than 10 percent on the day of revenue. Most of the Aus$989 million (US$750 mil- He boasted the bank’s client base is the largest at the level During his trial, Adoboli said every- the coalface,” he said. Adoboli’s arrest. —Reuters lion) pre-tax impairment charges for the 2016 finan- of the local market. The bank is viewed as the leader of retail cial year come from major Australian metropolitan banking, indicating the bank’s keenness to offer the best eser- newspapers, accounting for Aus$484.9 million. vices that cope with the latest technological developments in Monte dei Paschi’s last-ditch Impairments for smaller, community media amount- the banking field. Also, KFH has the largest ATMs network among local banks. Al-Nahedh stressed the importance of cus- ed to Aus$408.8 million. Fairfax said its property list- tomer service while implementing the best practices for the rescue plan faces high hurdles ings division Domain Group would form a separate best interest of clients and shareholders. reporting segment. In response to the TV’s question about KFH-Turkey, he illus- MILAN: With the ink barely dry on its bailout plan, Italian bank biggest bank. But this is subject to conditions, including that the sec- trated that KFH has been operating in Turkey since 1989, indi- Monte dei Paschi di Siena faces a Herculean task convincing ond prong of the bank’s plan is successful: the sale of 9.2 billion euros cating that KFH-Turkey optimally utilized the development in investors to back a third recapitalization in as many years and avert a of bad loans via a mammoth securitization, whose sheer size is Lebanon’s Blom Bank the Turkish economy. KFH-Turky is the first bank among partici- banking crisis that would send shockwaves across Europe. To stave unprecedented in Italy. As the bank’s shares - which have lost nearly net profit rises 19.08% pation banks in Turkey and the total assets of participation off the risk of being wound down, the world’s oldest bank hastily 80 percent of their value this year - brace for yesterday’s market reac- banks account for 6% of the total assets of banks in Turkey, unveiled the private sector-backed rescue blueprint late on Friday. It tion to the bailout scheme, senior bankers and fund managers are BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Blom Bank reported a 19.08 indicating that the Turkish government mapped out a plan came just hours before the lender emerged as the worst performer already questioning the chances of the plan’s success. “Both legs of percent rise in first-half net profit due to higher in European stress tests that showed its capital would be entirely the plan are potentially fragile,” said Filippo Alloatti, credit analyst at whereby the share of participation banks will surge to 15% by profit at its foreign subsidiaries, it said yesterday. the year 2025. This comprises an impetus for further invest- wiped out in a severe economic downturn. asset manager Hermes Investments. “It will be difficult to complete ments in the Turkish market as the future is promising. The plan aims to clean up and bolster the bank’s balance sheet such a big capital increase given their track record with past cash calls, Group net profit for the six months to the end of He added that the recent incidents with regards to the once and for all, restoring to health a lender whose frailty threatens and the securitization is a monster operation, a puzzle full of moving June was $226.678 million, it said in a statement. failed cope in Turkey will diversely impact the investment in the wider Italian banking system, the savings of thousands of retail pieces that need to fall into place. The execution risk is significant.” The bank had reported $190.35 million net profit Turkey on the short term only, while the medium and long investors and the increasingly weak political standing of Prime for the same period a year ago. It is Lebanon’s sec- terms will witness robust growth and stability as the govern- Minister Matteo Renzi. A financial crisis in the euro zone’s third- Crisis mode ond-largest bank by market capitalization, accord- biggest economy would also risk creating contagion across Europe, a The global coordinators for the cash call, JPMorgan and Italian ment won votes of confidence from its people, which lead to ing to Thomson Reuters data, just behind Bank more political and economic stability, thus further lures region already reeling from Britain’s decision to leave the EU. investment bank Mediobanca, have secured a pre-underwriting investors. Al-Nahedh said that KFH’s portfolio in Turkey is in a The two-pronged rescue scheme hinges on Monte dei Paschi agreement from another six banks - Santander, Goldman Sachs, Audi. It said assets rose to $29.50 billion at the end very good position. He ruled out setting provisions for the raising 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) in a cash call to be completed by Citi, Credit Suisse , Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. But at least of June, up by 3.09 percent from the same period short term, expressing the bank’s readiness to set any provi- the end of the year - a tall order for a lender that is worth less than 1 three banks - Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit and Morgan Stanley - opt- in 2015. Customers’ deposits increased by 2.66 sions in compliance to the regulations of the Central Bank of billion on the market and has burned through 8 billion euros from ed out, highlighting doubts among investment bankers over percent to $25.4 billion and private loans rose 4.73 Kuwait CBK and the regulatory authorities in the countries in share issues since 2014. Global investment banks have made a pre- whether Monte dei Paschi can muster enough investor support for percent to $7.35 billion. which KFH operates. liminary agreement to underwrite the rights issue by Italy’s third its plan. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 BUSINESS Global stocks hit highest in a year Banks take shine off Europe; Asia shares rise

LONDON: Global stocks hit their highest in week. European shares initially rose but gave than an hour before the results came out. Its contraction in July but a private PMI was al market research at Bank of Tokyo- almost a year yesterday as investors pared up its gains as banks turned broadly negative shares rose 4.5 percent yesterday and were stronger than forecast and signaled the Mitsubishi UFJ. The dollar index, which back expectations of when US interest rates after Friday’s release of stress tests on 51 among Europe’s top gainers. Italian govern- first expansion since February 2015. measures the greenback against a basket would rise, although a fall in bank shares after European Union lenders. ment bond yields hit 17-month lows. Chinese shares fell to a one-month of major currencies, rose 0.1 percent, still stress tests took the shine off European shares. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.6 MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares low on a regulatory crackdown on specu- close to Friday’s lows. After the US GDP Wall Street, however, looked set to open high- percent, led lower by a 2 percent fall in the outside Japan rose 1.3 percent, hitting its lation. Tokyo’s Nikkei index closed up 0.4 numbers, the chance of a hike by year- er, according to index futures, potentially giv- banks sub-index. Among the day’s biggest los- highest level in about a year. “Investors have percent, led by financials as the dollar fell end fell to about 33 percent, according to ing another nudge up to MSCI’s world stocks er were Italy’s UniCredit, down 7.4 percent and been shifting money to Asia, which is likely to against the dollar. The yen, which soared CME Fedwatch, down from about 50 ear- index, which touched its highest level since Austria’s Raiffeisen, down 6.5 percent. Investor be least affected by Brexit and as the US Fed on Friday after economic stimulus meas- ly last week. mid-August 2015 before pulling back slightly. concerns had focused on Italy, whose banks appears to be in no hurry to raise interest ures from the Bank of Japan disappoint- The dollar rose against the yen but held are saddled with 360 billion euros of non-per- rates,” said Yukino Yamada, senior strategist at ed investors and the US growth data, fell US jobs close to lows hit after weaker-than-expected forming loans. Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, the Daiwa Securities. Factory activity data from 0.2 percent to 102.21 per dollar. The Some analysts said data in the coming US growth numbers on Friday, putting the world’s oldest bank, fared among the worst in China painted a mixed picture. The official euro was slightly weaker at $1.1165. week, including US payrolls on Friday, spotlight on monthly jobs data due later this the stress tests but unveiled a rescue plan less Purchasing Managers’ Index showed a surprise Sterling weakened by 0.4 percent to would be more supportive of the dollar. $1.3171 after data showed UK manufac- US Treasury yields edged up yesterday, turing shrinking in July at its fastest pace reversing some of Friday’s falls. Ten-year in three years and before a Bank of yields rose 2 basis points to 1.48 percent. England meeting on Thursday, at which it German 10-year yields rose by a similar is widely expected to cut interest rates. amount to minus 0.16 percent. Oil prices Britain voted on June 23 to leave the reversed early gains adding ti July’s 15 European Union, a move that drove ster- percent falls. Brent crude, the interna- ling sharply lower. “Action by the BoE is tional benchmark, traded 61 cents lower fully anticipated by the market, with the at $42.92 a barrel. With stocks in positive overnight swaps rate pointing to a cut of territory and the dollar stronger, gold over 30 basis points being priced,” said dipped 0.2 percent to about $1,348 an Derek Halpenny, European head of glob- ounce.—Reuters

TOKYO: People walk past an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. —AP Oil falls as oversupply still weighs on market

LONDON: Oil fell yesterday morning, the oil market was oversupplied but said reversing earlier gains, as increases in OPEC balance between demand and supply will production and US oil rig additions contin- be restored, Iranian state television report- ued to weigh on the market. Brent crude ed. “Prices remain under pressure but we was down $0.44 at $43.09 a barrel at 0854 think they are likely to find a floor at GMT from the previous settlement, after around $40 and increase to $50 by the year reaching an intra-day high of $43.85 in ear- end,” Weinberg said. French bank Societe lier trade. US West Texas intermediate was Generale said that the global oil market has $0.40 lower at $41.20 a barrel, after hitting shifted from massive oversupply to broadly an intra-day high of $41.88 earlier. balanced in the second half of this year and “Sentiment remains quite negative follow- first half of next year. Analysts at the bank ing the price slump recently. It is negative expect crude prices to bottom out in the because rebalancing takes longer than high $30s and should not return to lows of some market participants thought before,” $26-27 seen in the first quarter of this year. said Eugen Weinberg at Commerzbank. Earlier yesterday, Barclays said Brent “Reuters data shows yet another crude has averaged $46.50 in the third quar- increase in OPEC production, helped by ter so far and could fall further from current production hikes in Nigeria and Iraq. There price levels. The global glut of oil still weighs is also data pointing to yet another on the market and even though summer is a increase in the rig count in the US,” he good time to make supply adjustments, it is added. Last week, a Reuters survey already halfway over, the bank said in a showed that OPEC’s oil production in July research note. “Demand growth remains is likely to reach its highest in recent histo- lacklustre and has not made significant ry. Yesterday, Iraqi oil officials said oil inroads to clear the inventory overhang for exports from Iraq’s southern ports rose to oil,” Barclays said. “With the macroeconomic 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) on aver- picture worsening and Saudi Arabia unlikely age in July, up from 3.175 million bpd in to exhibit much restraint as Iran seeks incre- June, as the OPEC nation increased crude mental market share, refineries are going to production. find themselves in the line of fire,” Barclays Also yesterday, Iran’s Oil Minister said added. —Reuters Gold eases; silver hits 3-week high

LONDON: Gold inched lower yesterday, favors gold,” ETF Securities analyst Martin retreating from a near 3-week high hit in Arnold said. Top US Fed policymakers the previous session, as the dollar recov- held varying opinions about rate hikes, ered from the lows, but uncertainty on with Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan the Federal Reserve’s interest rates path calling for caution, while San Francisco limited losses. Spot gold was down 0.2 Fed President John Williams expected percent at $1,348.05 an ounce at 1135 the central bank to raise interest rates up GMT. Bullion hit $1,355.10 on Friday, its to two times before year-end. A sidelined highest level since July 12, after much Fed between now and year-end should slower-than-expected US economic weaken the dollar, pushing gold to test growth weighed on the dollar. US gold July highs of $1,374 levels, with an out- eased 0.2 percent at $1,355.00 an ounce. side chance of getting to $1,400, INTL The US Commerce Department reported FCStone said in a note. that GDP grew at an annual rate of 1.2 Markets will closely monitor this percent in the second quarter, far less week’s data, which includes the closely than economists’ estimates of 2.6 per- watched monthly non-farm payrolls cent growth. report on Friday. “If (payrolls data) is The data came after the US Federal ...weak, then people will change their Reserve gave no hints of any near-term expectations about the US economic interest rate rise as some had expected it prospects drastically. If they are relative- to at its monthly policy meeting last ly good, bad GDP data could be coun- week. Gold is highly sensitive to rising US terbalanced by good jobs data,” said interest rates, as the opportunity cost of Jiang Shu, chief analyst at Shandong holding the non-yielding asset increases, Gold Group. while boosting the dollar, in which it is Speculators increased their net long priced. The dollar rose 0.2 percent position in COMEX silver contracts, but against a basket of six currencies, crawl- cut net long positions in gold, in the ing away from its lowest since July 5 hit week to July 26. Spot silver touched a 3- on Friday. European equities fell slightly week high of $20.64 an ounce, before after a steadier start. steadying up 0.9 percent at $20.49. “Although equities are performing Platinum, which hit over 14-month highs well, there is concern that that might be on Friday, was down 0.1 percent at topping out, while the lack of clarity over $1,141.50 an ounce, while palladium was the Fed’s interest rates policy is providing unchanged at $711.55. It hit its highest in a negative real yield environment that over 9-1/2 months on Friday. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 BUSINESS Stocks may not be as cheap as they seem

By Hayder Tawfik above-mentioned strategies. They are easy to use, panies and financial institutions started compet- Today, most worlds developed stock indices less costly and don’t require lots of work. Actually, I ing aggressively with banks in the lending busi- valuation assumes economic growth and earnings ost stock markets across the globe are still think at times when equity indices at their lows ness. It would get even tougher with the long last- prospect are as good as what they were back in below their historical highs that were stock picking becomes even more crucial because ing negative interest rates. Banks are such a good the late 1990’s or over the long-term averages and Mreached before the start of the global buying equity indices generally reflect the past example of big underperformers that have not that is where doubts creep in. If the exceptional financial crises back in 2008. Some are still sagging more than the future. It is never a sound investment recovered from the 2008 financial crises. This is yet long term stimulus measures and zero interest at 10-year lows or worse. strategy at a time of rising divergence. another example of the need to stock pick careful- rates produce inflation, which needs to be This might seem quite There is a quite clear divergence in the global ly, even when engaging in bottom fishing. squeezed out by tighter monetary policy, or the attractive for those equity indices and different sectors that will have Investors should be aware that what right now persistent large budget deficits crowd out private investors who have long- big impact on business sectors and finally on prof- looks like a hugely under-valued could easily investment, then growth and earnings prospects term view and fancy just itability. I would advice that cheap equity valua- prove to have been a significantly over-valued for the next few years would be below average. buying equity indices. tion is not always the best future performers. For one in a relatively short space of time. Whereas In that event, the market as it stands today Buying equity indices is example, most banks are trading at their lowest some high technology stocks that looked very would be overvalued. Bailouts and stimulus can easy, no fuss and are cheap. price to book value ever but perhaps for good rea- expensive few years ago are still performing very thus produce long-term uncertainty as well as One another investment sons. Interest rates at their lowest ever been, this well on the back big growth in their top and bot- short-term uplift. If we take into account cyclically strategy that is popular is to is not good for banks that have very high cost tom line earnings. This suggests they are cheap, adjusted earning multiples, a reliable long-term buy index stocks that have base and at the same time rely heavily on high net assuming growth prospects are as good as they value indicator, then we would find that in general performed badly, on hopes they will bounce the interest rate margins. were back then. Obviously there is a risk to such stocks are not expensive. So for equity indices to most when the indices start rising again. This has Also, new rules and regulations imposed on kind of analysis and that is too much fiscal and rise further from today’s levels they will have to be been the case this year with most US equity index banks are quite restrictive and expensive when budgetary stimulus could bring on growth with dictated by the economic data and it is the stocks. implemented. There are other threats to their high inflation. I believe this kind of risk is quite strength of the economic activity that should Generally, most global equity investors use the basic function of lending. Some investments com- remote at preset time. guide the speed of the recovery. China factory activity dips on softer orders, flooding PMI eases to 49.9, a slight contraction

BEIJING: Activity in China’s manu- ure, the statistics bureau said, but and stronger construction demand, stress than larger state-backed facturing sector eased unexpectedly performance at larger companies China’s steel output and exports enterprises. But overall order growth in July as orders cooled and flooding improved, in a sign that the govern- have been near record levels. But it was modest and export orders con- disrupted business, an official survey ment is becoming more reliant on one of the key sectors being target- tinued to fall. The Caixin report showed, adding to fears the econo- big state firms to generate growth. ed by officials for capacity cuts and tends to give more weight to light my will slow in coming months tougher pollution controls. Indeed, industry, whereas the official survey unless the government steps up a Bumpy outlook the PMI showed factory output in is skewed more toward heavy indus- huge spending spree. While a similar “Today’s data do not bode well July still expanded solidly, though tries, said Zhengsheng Zhong, direc- private survey showed business for GDP growth in the second half,” the pace cooled to 52.1 from 52.5 in tor of macroeconomic analysis at picked up for the first time in 17 ANZ economists Louis Lam and June. Total new orders hovered just CEBM Group, according to Caixin. months, the increase was only slight David Qu wrote in a note. Fiscal poli- inside expansionary territory at 50.4, An official survey on the services and the much larger official survey cy would be the key tool for boost- slightly down from June, but new sector was more upbeat, showing yesterday suggested China’s overall ing growth in coming months, while export orders contracted as over- growth accelerated to 53.9 in July TOKYO: A woman walks past an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm industrial activity remains sluggish in Tokyo yesterday. —AP at best. Both surveys showed persistently weak demand at home and abroad Japan negative rates were forcing companies to continue to shed jobs, even as Beijing vows to shut more industrial overcapacity whack the big banks that could lead to larger layoffs. And other readings yesterday pointed to MUFG joins peers with Q1 profit hit signs of cooling in both the construction industry and real estate, which were key drivers behind bet- TOKYO: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group first quarter to 502.1 billion yen. ter-than-expected economic growth (MUFG), Japan’s biggest lender, said first- For the full-year through March, MUFG in the second quarter. The official quarter profit skidded nearly a third as the kept its net profit forecast unchanged at Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) Bank of Japan’s negative interest rates 850 billion yen, down 11 percent from the eased to 49.9 in July from the previ- slashed returns on loans without coaxing previous year, and its lowest since the ous month’s 50.0 and below the 50- firms to ramp up new borrowing and stoke Y583.1 billion it posted in the 12 months point mark that separates growth growth. Reiterating a downbeat annual ended March 2011. The bank’s own fore- from contraction on a monthly forecast for its lowest net profit in six years, cast is well below an average estimate of basis. MUFG said yesterday its April-June net 930 billion yen in a poll by Thomson Analysts polled by Reuters pre- profit fell 32 percent from a year earlier to Reuters of 18 analysts’ forecasts. While the dicted a level of 50.0. While the July 188.9 billion yen ($1.84 billion). first quarter was weaker for bank earnings reading showed only a slight loss of That trailed an average estimate of than some had predicted, the three momentum, Nomura’s chief China 234.5 billion yen from two analysts polled biggest lenders all left full-year forecasts economist Yang Zhao said it may be by Thomson Reuters. Three years into BOJ unchanged from previous estimate as a sign that the impact of stimulus Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s aggressive some indicators suggest better news measures earlier this year may campaign to end deflation, MUFG’s weaker ahead on costs as a pickup in oil prices already be wearing off. That has cre- earnings echoed those reported last week reduces the potential for loans to that sec- ated a dilemma for Beijing as the by Japan’s second-biggest bank, Mizuho tor going sour. Communist Party seeks to deliver on Financial Group, and No.3-ranked “I expect credit costs to improve in official targets, even as concerns Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. coming quarters,” said Takashi Miura, grow about the risks of prolonged, Underlining the headache faced by banking analyst at Credit Suisse Securities debt-fuelled stimulus. Kuroda and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as in Tokyo. In May, MUFG said it expected “The government has realized LIANYUNGANG: Chinese workers check carbon fiber silk thread at a carbon fiber factory in they seek to shake Japan out of economic bad energy loan costs to be around 75 bil- the downward pressure is great but Lianyungang, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province yesterday. —AFP torpor, central bank data shows average lion yen for the current financial year, they’ve also realized that stimulus to outstanding loans of major banks grew based on assumption of US West Texas stimulate the economy continuous- the central bank was expected to seas demand remains weak and the from 53.7 in June. But it, too, con- only 0.8 percent year-on-year during the Intermediate (WTI) crude at $35 a barrel. ly is not a good idea and they want keep its policy settings accommoda- impact of Britain’s vote to leave the tained several worrying notes, with first quarter, while deposits grew 4.7 per- The benchmark price is now around $41 to continue to focus on reform and tive, they added. While many ana- European Union hurt sentiment. A construction services growth solid cent. Monetary easing moves by major per barrel, and MUFG has previously said a deleveraging,” Zhao said. Heavy lysts believe the world’s second- private PMI survey by Caixin/Markit but cooling and the property servic- central banks, including the Bank of price increase of $5 a barrel would reduce flooding, particularly along the largest economy may be slowly sta- was more mixed. es sector weakening, adding to wor- Japan’s negative interest rate policy, are anticipated bad loan costs by 20 billion Yangtze River, contributed to July’s bilizing, conditions still look patchy. Its 50.6 reading was stronger ries that China’s housing boom may hurting global lenders by driving down yen. Japan’s banks typically provide only manufacturing contraction along Industrial profits rose at the fastest than expected and the first expan- have peaked. Beijing has been returns from loans and bond invest- minimal disclosure on their earnings after with slowing demand and the cut- pace in three months in June, but sion since February 2015, sparking counting on a strong services sector ments. MUFG’s net interest income, a the first quarter of each fiscal year, and ting of overcapacity in some indus- gains were concentrated in just a hopes that some of the govern- to pick up the slack as it tries to shift core measure of profits from lending, don’t conduct media briefings on their tries, the statistics bureau said. few industries including electronics, ment’s stimulus was starting to trick- the economy away from a depend- dropped 8 percent year-on-year in the numbers. —Reuters Falling activity at smaller firms also steel and oil processing. le down to smaller private firms ence on heavy industry and manu- was a key reason for July’s poor fig- Spurred by rebounding prices which have been under greater facturing exports. —Reuters Planned Chinese investment in nuclear power in Britain

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Unlike Yingluck, whose older brother Thaksin from 1 August 2016 until 30 September find out more about Gulf Bank’s promo- EDF and CGN are responsible for the upfront Hinkely and Sizewell, Bradwell would be a Shinawatra was booted out as premier by a 2016. tions and offers, you can visit one of Gulf cost of the project but Britain has committed Chinese-led project, using Chinese technolo- 2006 coup, is accused of failing to halt rampant corruption in the multi-billion dollar subsidy. Gulf Bank Cardholders will automatically Bank’s 56 branches; contact the Customer to paying a minimum price for the power gen- gy. CGN is due to take a 66.5 percent share in erated for 35 years. The plant is due to provide a joint venture company behind the design She is expected to appear in court on Friday to get one chance to enter the draw for every Contact Center on 1805805, or go on to the begin laying out her defense in the ongoing around 7 percent of Britain’s electricity. The and development of the plant, with EDF tak- KD 10 spent locally on their Credit card, and bank’s bilingual website at www.e-gulf- criminal trial. —AFP three chances for every KD 10 spent abroad bank.com. plant is due to begin operating in 2025. ing 33.5 percent. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 BUSINESS Ahli United Bank announces winners in its weekly draw ‘Al Hassad Islamic Saving’ Program

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MILAN: With the ink barely dry on its bailout plan, complete such a big capital increase given their The banks’ preliminary commitment to under- Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena faces a track record with past cash calls, and the securitiza- write the capital increase is in any case subject to Herculean task convincing investors to back a third tion is a monster operation, a puzzle full of moving the Tuscan lender moving the worst of its bad loans recapitalization in as many years and avert a bank- pieces that need to fall into place. The execution off its balance sheet and into a special vehicle ing crisis that would send shockwaves across risk is significant.” which will have to sell them. The loans will be secu- Europe. To stave off the risk of being wound down, ritized, with a senior tranche of 6 billion euros bene- the world’s oldest bank hastily unveiled the private Crisis mode fiting from an Italian government guarantee, the 1.6 sector-backed rescue blueprint late on Friday. It The global coordinators for the cash call, billion euro mezzanine tranche being bought by came just hours before the lender emerged as the JPMorgan and Italian investment bank Mediobanca, Atlante, a private-sector bank-rescue fund, and the worst performer in European stress tests that have secured a pre-underwriting agreement from riskiest or junior portion left with Monte dei Paschi showed its capital would be entirely wiped out in a another six banks - Santander, Goldman Sachs, Citi, shareholders. But it is unclear how much of the sen- severe economic downturn. Credit Suisse , Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. ior tranche will fetch the investment grade required The plan aims to clean up and bolster the bank’s But at least three banks - Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit for the government guarantee to kick in. Sources balance sheet once and for all, restoring to health a and Morgan Stanley - opted out, highlighting close to the deal said the process could take a year Huawei and Lebara Mobile lender whose frailty threatens the wider Italian bank- doubts among investment bankers over whether as a due diligence of the underlying loans needs to ing system, the savings of thousands of retail Monte dei Paschi can muster enough investor sup- be completed for rating agencies to gauge their KSA launch first Mobile investors and the increasingly weak political stand- port for its plan. Also, the pre-underwriting is not a worthiness against an uncertain economic backing of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. A financial crisis final commitment by the banks involved to mop up drop for Europe post-Brexit. JPMorgan has taken on Virtual Network Enabler in the euro zone’s third-biggest economy would also any unsold shares in the rights issue. Monte dei additional exposure to the deal by committing to risk creating contagion across Europe, a region Paschi has been in crisis mode for years due to a dis- grant a syndicated bridge loan of around 6 billion KUWAIT: Global ICT solutions provider vided support in planning and implementa- already reeling from Britain’s decision to leave the EU. astrous acquisition of a regional Italian lender on euros to finance the special vehicle and give it Huawei and Lebara Mobile KSA have tion of the core network elements while The two-pronged rescue scheme hinges on the eve of the financial crisis, accumulated losses breathing space to engineer the securitization of announced the commercial launch of Lebara deploying the full range of Business Support Monte dei Paschi raising 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) and a fraud scandal. the loans. JPMorgan did not immediately respond Mobile’s first Mobile Virtual Network Enabler Services to provide end-to-end telecommuni- in a cash call to be completed by the end of the Analysts at broker Equita said in a note it would to requests for comment. “It will be challenging to in the region. Lebara Mobile leverages cation services, as well as a range of value- year - a tall order for a lender that is worth less than be “almost impossible” for the lender to raise all the place the senior tranche as only part of it will poten- Mobily’s advanced telecom network in the added services to Lebara Mobile. 1 billion on the market and has burned through 8 required cash in current choppy markets. Italian tially be eligible and assisted by GACSs (govern- Kingdom to deliver cost-effective voice and “Huawei is particularly proud of its partner- billion euros from share issues since 2014. Global bank shares have tanked this year as the industry is ment guarantees). Part of the 6 billion will not be data service to Saudi customers. The launch ship with Lebara Mobile KSA, as this network investment banks have made a preliminary agree- weighed down by 360 billion euros in problematic investment grade and it will be difficult to place,” of Lebara Mobile KSA ushers in the next evo- represents a first-of-its-kind in the region and a ment to underwrite the rights issue by Italy’s third loans, more than a third of the euro zone’s total. said LC Macro Chief Economist Lorenzo Codogno, a lution of mobile connectivity in the region new era in digital communications services for biggest bank. But this is subject to conditions, Italy’s biggest bank by assets, UniCredit, is also former chief economist at the Italian treasury. with the creation of the Kingdom’s first the Middle East as a whole,” said Chen Jianhan, including that the second prong of the bank’s plan expected to soon tap the market in a multi-billion Meanwhile, the Atlante fund is scrambling to Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE). COO of Huawei KSA. “The telecom industry is successful: the sale of 9.2 billion euros of bad euro rights issue that could lure investors away beef up its coffers by around 2 billion euros with MVNEs provide turn-key communications needs to move rapidly towards an open digital loans via a mammoth securitization, whose sheer from Monte dei Paschi’s own capital raising. contributions from the post office, private pension infrastructure and related services to other ecosystem, and Huawei is committed to collab- size is unprecedented in Italy. As the bank’s shares - And market sentiment towards Italy could sour funds and other institutions. Despite the daunting MVNOs and businesses who, in turn, can offer orating with customers and industry partners which have lost nearly 80 percent of their value this further if a constitutional referendum in the obstacles, analysts say that if the rescue is success- hosted mobile services to their customers to achieve this. Lebara Mobile KSA’s network is year - brace for yesterday’s market reaction to the autumn, on which Renzi has wagered his job, does ful, it could be replicated to help other Italian banks while leveraging the MVNE’s hosted network, proof of the effectiveness of embracing this bailout scheme, senior bankers and fund managers not go the prime minister’s way. Monte dei Paschi’s offload their bad loans and restore confidence in services, billing and CRM systems. ecosystem and delivers digital services seam- are already questioning the chances of the plan’s management said on Friday it would also look at the sector. “Italy is on a good course to solve its “Lebara Mobile KSA is the first MVNE host lessly anytime, anywhere, and on any device.” success. “Both legs of the plan are potentially frag- other capital-boosting measures, which bankers banking issues. However, leaving aside some near- in KSA and the Middle East, and will serve as Huawei believes that telecom providers ile,” said Filippo Alloatti, credit analyst at asset man- say could include the conversion of subordinated term re-pricing of risk, this is not yet a turning the enabler of many new businesses in the must be able to deliver the ROADS experi- ager Hermes Investments. “It will be difficult to bonds into shares, to reduce the size of its cash call. point,” said Codogno. — Reuters mobile industry while accelerating the digital ence to stay competitive, encompassing five transformation of the region,” said Fadi Kawar, fundamental characteristics of the ultimate CEO Lebara Mobile KSA. “Advanced, cost- user experience in a fully connected world - effective mobile services are critical to busi- Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and nesses today and through our advanced Social. Today, Lebara Mobile delivers on these mobile virtual network which is based on five key characteristics based on Huawei’s Mobily’s superior mobile infrastructure, we are ROADS vision, and will foster an open indus- able to serve regional telecom business by try ecosystem that will enable innovation and meeting their communications needs and accelerate the region’s digital transformation. delivering value-added services that acceler- Through Lebara telecom platform supported ate their growth.” by Huawei, Lebara Mobile will begin to offer Huawei was able to help design and then high-quality MVNO services to regional play- deploy the Lebara Mobile network in less ers in the coming months. Huawei will contin- than 30 weeks, putting in place the tools to ue to collaborate with Lebara Mobile on migrate to the new network without any loss building win-win scenarios as it continues to of critical data or functionality. Huawei pro- expand its services in the region. Saatchi chairman put on leave after controversial comment Women lack ‘vertical ambition:’ Roberts

PARIS: Kevin Roberts, chairman of Saatchi & response from Roberts. In the interview Saatchi, was suspended by owner Publicis after Roberts appeared to argue that “idiotic 2016 Olympic Committee receives the legendary advertising boss said some dinosaur-like men” were trying to make women women lacked “vertical ambition” and that low conform to Darwinian urges to acquire wealth, numbers of women in senior positions was not power, and fame. official vehicle fleet from Nissan a problem. Roberts, the British-born executive “I don’t think (the lack of women in leader- of Saatchi & Saatchi, was quoted in an inter- ship roles) is a problem. I’m just not worried DUBAI: The vehicle fleet that will be used during will be more than 200 of the first-of-its kind Nissan this directly involves our vehicles, most of which view with Business Insider website as saying about it because they are very happy, they’re the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games was Kicks crossover. were produced in Brazil. We know how important it that he doesn’t spend any time on gender very successful, and doing great work,” he said officially delivered by automotive partner Nissan to The car, developed and designed to reflect the is to ensure the mobility of the athletes and issues as the gender diversity debate was over in the interview. “We have a bunch of talented, the Local Organizing Committee. The company will vibrant culture, style and colors of Brazil, is the offi- Olympic family with comfort, agility and low car- in the advertising world. creative females, but they reach a certain point supply about 4,200 vehicles comprising various cial vehicle of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic bon emissions, since all our passenger cars current- He said that some women at key junctures in their careers ... 10 years of experience, when models to meet the manyday-to-day mobility Games and is being incorporated into the Games ly manufactured in the country have a grade A in in their careers did not want to lead businesses we are ready to make them a creative director needs during the Games. The official delivery cere- before it even reaches Nissan’s stores in Brazil on energy efficiency, the best possible score”, says and people and that managers should reflect of a big piece of business, and I think we fail in mony was held at the Sambadrome in Rio de August 5, in a world premiere. Besides Kicks, the FranÁois Dossa, President of Nissan Brazil. on how to deal with the ambitions of female two out of three of those choices because the Janeiro, one of the city’s landmarks and the venue fleet includes the Nissan March, Versa, Sentra, Nissan Brazil is an official sponsor of the Rio and male employees who “simply want to be executive involved said: ‘I don’t want to man- which will host archery events during the Games. Altima and the mid-size truck Frontier. The models 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In addition happy and do great work”. “Their ambition is age a piece of business and people, I want to Attending the ceremony were Francois Dossa, will be used for transporting thousands of athletes, to the Olympic fleet, the company will have a pres- not a vertical ambition, it’s this intrinsic, circular keep doing the work’,” he said. President of Nissan Brazil, and Sidney Levy, Rio delegation members, and guests, for supporting ence at the Olympic Live Sites and is developing ambition to be happy,” Roberts was quoted as But from within Saatchi, Roberts’ position 2016 Organizing Committee’s General Director. The operational activities and also some competitions. activations to engage all Brazilians and visitors at saying by Business Insider. “So they say: ‘We are was questioned. “Women don’t bail out. I think Brazilian queen of basketball, former player The fleet will be driven by volunteers selected by the event. Additionally, Nissan is sponsoring the not judging ourselves by those standards that we do want the top jobs,” Saatchi & Saatchi Hortencia Marcari, who is Team Nissan’s mentor, the Organizing Committee. Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays and the you idiotic dinosaur-like men judge yourself by’. Chief Creative Office Kate Stanners told BBC was invited to represent the Brazilian athletes. The “Over the past several years, we have worked Brazilian Olympic Team, which includes a number Publicis Groupe has around a 50-50 gender radio, adding that there had been a strong Olympic fleet features cars from various categories very closely with the Rio 2016 Organizing of athletes from Team Nissan - a project created by split amongst all its staff, while around 65 per- reaction from employees within Saatchi & and sizes to ensure comfort and best use across Committee on a variety of activities, but the fleet the company in 2012 and formed by 31 Brazilian cent of Saatchi & Saatchi’s staff are female, as Saatchi and the wider group. “I think the most many different activities. Among the models, there delivery is an important moment for us because athletes and para-athletes. the agency wants to reflect the buyers of the important thing is encouraging women to be types of products it is advertising, Roberts told more vocal and more high profile, so younger Business Insider. Publicis said it had asked women and women coming through the ranks Roberts to take an immediate leave of absence can see that it is possible and there’s no reason as the group did not tolerate “anyone speaking they can’t take those jobs.” for our organization who does not value the Roberts, born in 1949, started his career at importance of inclusion”. The row engulfing London fashion house Mary Quant before Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s most working for Gillette, Procter & Gamble and famous advertising agencies, comes just days Pepsi. Robert Senior, worldwide CEO of after Roger Ailes resigned as chairman and Saatchi & Saatchi, said the agency was a meri- chief executive of Fox News Channel following tocracy. “Kevin Roberts has given what are his allegations of sexual harassment. personal views on the subject of gender diversity. However, those views are not mine, ‘Talented, creative females’ and nor are they the position of the agency,” Roberts, who is described on his Senior said. “Saatchi & Saatchi is, and has www.saatchikevin.com website as an uncom- always been, a meritocracy. We live and die promisingly positive and inspirational leader, by our people, our talent, and it makes no dif- could not be reached for comment on the situ- ference to us whether that talent is male or ation. Saatchi & Saatchi did not pass on any female.” — Reuters technology TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 Solar-powered TVs brighten homes in rural Kenya

MACHAKOS, Kenya: Violet Mwikali’s TV owner, said she had long resigned Leapfrogging the Grid company has sold over 6,000 television echoed the suggestion, saying he is new television has not just brought herself to never being hooked up to the The whole M-KOPA kit, including the sets, and plans to scale up production to sometimes forced to use backups such as entertainment to her home. It has ush- national electricity grid. Before buying television set, costs about $530, and cus- meet rising demand. The company hopes kerosene lanterns when the solar battery ered in peace, too. “The whining has the solar kit, Nduge used a generator for tomers make an initial payment of up to to reach 3 million households out of the runs out in the evenings. stopped now. I was put on the spot for a power, but it was smoky and noisy, and $79, followed by instalments of as little as 5 million yet to be connected to the grid M-KOPA is seeking to boost the quality while as my two children went to the the cost of fuel was a drain on her $1 a day. Kit owner Raphael Makau said in Kenya, Moore told the Thomson of the solar television sets and enhance neighbors’ to watch television,” Mwikali finances. “My neighbors didn’t believe the $148 minimum fee levied upfront by Reuters Foundation. Target areas are their features, Moore said. But he warned said as she adjusted her new 16-inch that I could afford to power my house the Kenya Power and Lighting Company mainly rural because many residents the price may not come down as the cost solar-powered television. Mwikali is one silently,” she said. to connect a home to the national grid there are poor and need affordable ener- is already low considering the capabilities of many residents of Lukenya in The solar television works even when was too expensive. It would have taken gy products. Allowing payments via of the whole system. The company is now Machakos County, east of Nairobi, who there is little or no sun, she said, allowing him years to afford access to electricity mobile money transfer helps attract cus- working out what to do with the solar have bought televisions from M-KOPA her to keep up with her favorite gospel were it not for the solar kit, he said. tomers, Moore added. batteries when their five-year lifespan Solar, a Nairobi-based company that sells channels and the national news. The bat- Makau also likes the convenience of mak- ends, and has engaged another business solar-powered products in places not tery lasts for four hours when used for ing his daily payment to M-KOPA through Better Batteries to recycle the batteries to help conserve connected to the national energy grid. lighting and watching TV simultaneously. his mobile phone. Consumers are already identifying the environment, Moore said. M-KOPA is The digital flat-screen television, Television reaches less than a third of Jesse Moore, M-KOPA’s chief execu- improvements they would like to see in hoping to expand access to its solar tele- added to the product line in February, Kenya’s adult population on a daily basis, tive, believes poorer nations will lead the the next generation of solar products. visions to Tanzania and Uganda, and to comes with a solar panel and a portable with the rest lacking power or a TV set, way in switching to green energy use. “In Mwikali wants enhanced battery life to start manufacturing all the components battery that also controls a lighting unit according to 2015 data from the Kenya Africa, (we are going) directly from limit- expand the amount of time she can use in Kenya. More solar products for the poor and has a socket for charging mobile Audience Research Foundation cited by ed energy connections straight to renew- her TV, because the current four hours is are also in the pipeline, Moore said, phones. Margaret Nduge, another solar M-KOPA. able,” he said. According to Moore, the not enough for her family’s needs. Makau declining to elaborate. Ride-share battle ends; Didi buys Uber China operations

BEIJING: After a bruising two-year Ltd, which manages about $900 tions and its desire to work togeth- have built formidable businesses, battle, ride-hailing firm Uber is million and owns Didi stock, said er with Uber to tap Chinese travel- partly helped by a supportive gov- selling its China operations to big- the deal makes “huge sense”. ers, who are going out in big num- ernment. All of China’s technology ger local rival Didi Chuxing in a “Uber faces an uphill task in bers. There’s a possibility the two heavyweights will be stakeholders deal that will give Uber a one-fifth China especially since Didi is multi- could work together in other marin Didi, as Uber shareholder Baidu stake in Didi. The merged entity is ple times larger by transaction val- kets,” All-Stars Investment’s Ji said. will gain a stake. Apple Inc recent- worth around $35 billion - combin- ue and city coverage,” he said. “This Didi said in its posting it will look ly made a rare $1 billion investing Didi’s most recent $28 billion will lead to favorable outcomes for to expand its international busi- ment in Didi. valuation and Uber China’s $7 bil- both companies. The biggest ben- ness and enter markets like Hong China last week issued guide- lion worth - said a source familiar efit is cost savings, they no longer Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Japan, South lines that establish a long-awaited with the matter who did not want have to give out subsidies to driv- Korea, Europe and Russia. Didi - framework for the booming ride- to be named before the deal was ers and passengers. It will give itself created last year from a hailing industry and remove made public. pricing power as the new entity merger of two firms backed uncertainty for firms such as Didi Didi confirmed the agreement on its official microblog, but gave SHANGHAI: This file photo taken on March 17, 2015 shows a Tesla Model S no valuation. In a posting on car on display at a showroom. —AFP Uber’s website, CEO Travis Kalanick said San Francisco-based Uber Tesla offers $2.6bn for SolarCity Technologies would have a one- fifth stake in Didi, making it the NEW YORK: Tesla will spend about $2.6 bil- Tesla with the San Mateo, California, solar Chinese firm’s biggest shareholder. lion on solar panel maker SolarCity in an all- company primarily revolves around a bat- Kalanick will join Didi’s board, with stock deal. While electric car maker Tesla tery system that stores solar energy in Didi Chuxing chief Cheng Wei join- Motors Inc. has said that the transaction homes and businesses. The deal may draw ing the Uber board. Uber will con- would create a one-stop shop for cleaner more attention to the financial position of tinue to operate independently, energy, some have questioned the motives both companies. Tesla has lost $1.2 billion in the Didi posting said. “Cooperating behind the deal. Elon Musk is the chairman the past two years alone while SolarCity has with Uber will give the entire and biggest shareholder of both companies. suffered losses exceeding $1.1 billion during mobile travel industry a healthier And SolarCity is run by his cousin, Lyndon the same span. Analysts surveyed by FactSet order and a period of a higher lev- Rive. SolarCity’s stock slid more than 6 per- are predicting a 416 million loss from Tesla el of development,” it said. China cent before the market opened yesterday. this year while they believe SolarCity will has been a challenging market for The buyout, announced yesterday, gives lose $851 million. Uber, which has spent billions of SolarCity Corp. stockholders 0.110 Tesla Tesla anticipates $150 million in costs dollars in a price war with Didi. common shares per SolarCity share, which savings in the first full year after closing of Both firms spent heavily to puts the value of SolarCity stock at $25.37 any tie-up with SolarCity. SolarCity has a 45- attract riders with discounts and per share. Tesla previously said it would offer day “go-shop” period in which it can solicit both also raised billions in recent $23.56 to $25.30 per SolarCity share. Musk alternative acquisition proposals. It will have fundraisings. Uber is profitable in has cultivated the image of a maverick since to pay Tesla a $78.2 million termination fee the United States, Canada and he made his initial fortune as co-founder of unless it ends the deal with Tesla in order to about 100 other cities. In an inter- online payment service, PayPal, which eBay enter an agreement with a third party that nal message to staff viewed by bought for $1.5 billion in 2002. He is hailed initially made an alternative offer before the Reuters, Kalanick wrote: as a visionary by admirers who applaud him “go-shop” period ended. In such an instance, “Sustainably serving China’s cities, for shaking up the auto industry with Tesla’s SolarCity would pay a $26.1 million termina- and the riders and drivers who live BEIJING: Women holding their smartphones show the ride-hailing apps Uber Technology Ltd sleek, electric vehicles and drawing up plans tion fee, according to a regulatory filing. The in them, is only possible with prof- (left) and Didi Chuxing at a residential compound yesterday. —AP to send people to Mars on Space X’s rockets. deal is expected to close in the fourth quar- itability. This merger paves the His detractors ridicule him as an unpre- ter. It still needs the approval of a majority of way for our team and Didi’s to will become the dominant player. respectively by e-commerce giant and Uber. It was unclear whether dictable control freak. “disinterested” shareholders of both compa- partner on an enormous mission, That means profitability will come Alibaba Group and social network the deal would need to be cleared Musk owns a 26 percent stake in Tesla, nies, meaning Musk wouldn’t have a say. and it frees up substantial sooner than later.” Under the deal, firm Tencent - has invested $100 by China’s Ministry of Commerce based in Palo Alto, California, and a 22.5 per- Tesla’s stock rose slightly in premarket trad- resources for bold initiatives Didi will also invest $1 billion in million in Lyft, Uber’s main rival in (MOFCOM), the anti-trust regula- cent stake in SolarCity. His motivation to pair ing. —AP focused on the future of cities - Uber, which operates globally out- the United States. tor. “Given Didi’s reported high from self-driving technology to side China, the source said, adding It has also formed an alliance market share, any increment the future of food and logistics.” to a series of deals and joint ven- with Lyft, India’s ride service Ola would attract MOFCOM’s atten- He said Uber was operating in tures Didi has struck in recent and Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing tion. But for the parties to seek more than 60 cities in China and years. startup Grab in an effort to com- pre-closing approval, each has to “doing more than 150 million trips pete with Uber’s global domi- meet the minimum sales thresh- a month.” Didi, however, claims 87 International ambition nance. The Didi deal is the latest old. That’s where it’s unclear percent of the Chinese market for Analysts said Didi’s acquisition sign that global Internet and tech- whether an anti-trust filing would private vehicle ride-hailing. signals its readiness to step nology companies are struggling be required,” said Marc Waha, Richard Ji, Hong Kong-based co- beyond its home market. “This to break into China’s cut-throat partner at Norton Rose founder of All-Stars Investment clearly shows Didi’s global ambi- market, where local entrepreneurs Fulbright.—Reuters GSK and Alphabet forge $715m bioelectronic medicines firm

LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent shows the growing convergence of healthcare and Alphabet’s life sciences unit are creating a new com- technology. Verily already has several other medical Delphi, Singapore pany focused on fighting diseases by targeting elec- projects in the works, including the development of trical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field a smart contact lens in partnership with the Swiss launch test of of medicine called bioelectronics. Verily Life Sciences drugmaker Novartis that has an embedded glucose HAWTHORNE, California: This file photo taken on April 30, 2015 shows Tesla - known as Google’s life sciences unit until last year - sensor to help monitor diabetes. self-driving taxis Motors CEO Elon Musk unveiling large utility scale home batteries at the and Britain’s biggest drugmaker will together con- SINGAPORE: Delphi Automotive Plc will launch a Tesla Design Studio. tribute £540 million ($715 million) over seven years Grain of Rice small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore to Galvani Bioelectronics, they said on Monday. Famm said the first generation of implants com- next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city The new company, owned 55 percent by GSK ing to market would be around the size of a medical district in one of the first real-world tests of auto- and 45 percent by Verily, will be based at GSK’s pill but the aim eventually was to make them as mated rides on demand, the company said yester- Stevenage research center north of London, with a small or smaller than a grain of rice, using the latest day. The project, run in partnership with the Israeli army identifies second research hub in South San Francisco. It is advances in nanotechnology. Patients will be treat- Singapore Land Transport Authority, will road test GSK’s second notable investment in Britain since the ed with keyhole surgery and the hope is that bio- a concept that many companies investing in auto- new threat: Pokemon country voted to leave the European Union in June. electronic medicine could provide a one-off treat- mated driving believe offers the fastest path to Last week it announced plans to spend 275 million ment, potentially lasting decades. Major challenges making such technology commercially viable. JERUSALEM: The Israeli military is warn- The Israel Cancer Association has pounds on drug manufacturing. Galvani will devel- including making the devices ultra low-power so A cab ride in a dense urban area can cost $3 to ing its soldiers about a new threat: the advised players not to go outdoors to op miniaturized, implantable devices that can modi- that they function reliably deep inside the body. 4 a mile, Delphi vice president of engineering widely popular mobile phone game catch Pokemon creatures in the middle of fy electrical nerve signals. The aim is to modulate The idea of treating serious disease with electri- Glen DeVos said in an interview. “We think we can Pokemon Go. The army said yesterday it the day to avoid excessive sun exposure, irregular or altered impulses that occur in many ill- cal impulses is not completely new. Large-scale elec- get to 90 cents a mile” with an automated vehicle. has banned its forces from playing the and other tips to protect oneself from the nesses. trical devices have been used for years as heart That drops the price of transporting goods and game on Israeli military bases due to sun’s rays. “In the game itself, some of the GSK believes chronic conditions such as diabetes, pacemakers and, more recently, deep brain stimula- people, and allows for the costs of automated security concerns. In a directive to sol- Pokemon snatchers are always with a arthritis and asthma could be treated using these tion has been applied to treat Parkinson’s disease driving systems to be spread over hours of opera- diers and officers, the army warned the baseball hat on,” the association said on tiny devices, which consist of a electronic collar that and severe depression, while EnteroMedics last year tion and multiple users. Initially, the cars will have game acti䁶ates cell phone cameras and its website. “In the real world too, make wraps around nerves. Kris Famm, GSK’s head of bio- won U.S. approval for a device to help obese people drivers ready to take over if the piloting systems location services, and could leak sensitive sure you wear a hat before going out- electronics research and president of Galvani, said control their appetite. Galvani, however, is taking fail, DeVos said. But by 2019 or 2020, “we’ll have information like army base locations and doors.” the first bioelectronic medicines using these electrical interventions to the micro level, using tiny removed drivers from the car,” Glen DeVos, photographs of the bases. The AIG insurance company in Israel implants to stimulate nerves could be submitted for implants to coax insulin from cells to treat diabetes, Delphi’s vice president of engineering said in an The military is also concerned that sol- is taking advantage of the Pokemon regulatory approval by around 2023. “We have had for example, or correct muscle imbalances in lung interview. diers could download a fake application craze to market its personal accident really promising results in animal tests, where we’ve diseases. By 2022, Delphi plans to launch a regularly that impersonates Pokemon Go but could insurance policy that covers accidents shown we can address some chronic diseases with Galvani will initially employ around 30 scientists, operating automated cab service, the company leak information from soldiers’ phones. caused while playing such mobile phone this mechanism, and now we are bringing that work engineers and clinicians. The company will be said. The company said it plans similar projects Pokemon Go players roam streets and games. Yifat Reiter of AIG said the com- into the clinic,” he told Reuters. “Our goal is to have chaired by Moncef Slaoui, GSK’s vaccines head, who in North America and Europe. A United States buildings holding up their mobile phones pany has received dozens of inquiries our first medicines ready for regulatory approval in pioneered the drugmaker’s drive into the bioelec- site could be selected later this year, DeVos said. and following a digital map to catch crea- about the accident insurance for seven years.” tronics field. Slaoui is retiring from GSK next March Delphi plans to start the project with a fleet of tures that appear on the screen. Israeli Pokemon players. Israel’s emergency res- GSK first unveiled its ambitions in bioelectronics but will continue to steer Galvani after that date, a Audi vehicles equipped with automated driving civilians are also being warned about the cue service Magen David Adom said dis- in a paper in the journal Nature three years ago and spokesman said. Galvani will be fully consolidated in and mapping systems. Later, DeVos said the perils of chasing Pikachu and other digital tracted Pokemon players have suffered believes it is ahead of Big Pharma rivals in develop- GSK’s financial statements, following the model of project will expand with the addition of electric critters in the Pokemon Go game. moderate injuries.—AP ing medicines that use electrical impulses rather the group’s majority-owned ViiV Healthcare busi- vehicles. —Reuters than traditional chemicals or proteins. The tie-up ness, which sells HIV medicines. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Brazilian restaurants turn waste back into food

SAO PAULO: There’s not a lot of green in them into compost over the course of three process, said Danelon. But with a little the urban jungle of Sao Paulo, but thanks to to four months, and delivers the compost patience, all that waste turns into rich, nutri- Fernanda Danelon, restaurants in the back to the restaurants to fertilize in-house ent-packed compost. Brazilian mega-city are turning their waste gardens-which the institute also helps them back into food at innovative gardens tucked set up and maintain. She started with just Seeing things differently amid the skyscrapers. Danelon, a 43-year- one restaurant. Today, she has 17, and is in The average 50-table restaurant pays 900 old journalist by training, quit her day job talks with 10 more. “At first, I collected the reals ($275) a month for the composting and two years ago to launch the Guandu trash myself in my car,” Danelon said with a gardening service-about the same as the Institute, which recycles restaurants’ food laugh as she turned over dirt with a shovel municipal waste collection fee. “We have to waste and helps them set up gardens to put in the leafy courtyard of her house in Sao look squarely at our own waste, value it and all that compost to good use. Paulo. “But now we’ve grown, and today we know that it can be reused,” said Danelon. Cities in Brazil, the economic giant of recycle 30 to 40 tons of organic waste per She offers starter kits for people looking to Latin America, throw out more than 75 mil- month.” make their own compost at home. More and lion tons of trash a year, according to the more people are contacting her to ask about Brazilian Association of Public Sanitation Gardens in the sky setting up communal gardens on the roofs Companies (ABRELPE). About half of it is Her partners include French restaurant of their apartment buildings, she said. At organic waste, according to the Brazilian Le Bilboquet, in the chic downtown neigh- Mesa III, a deli in a working-class neighbor- environment ministry. There are no munici- borhood of Jardins. With Danelon’s help, the hood, customers are greeted by basil, sage pal recycling or composting programs to restaurant now has cherry tomatoes, and rosemary plants ever since the Guandu reduce all that garbage, and triaging trash is lemons and lavender plants growing on its Institute trained the staff. “If we as a society a foreign concept to most Brazilians. The rooftop, a stone’s throw from the skyscrap- realize how much trash we’re producing, country recycles about three percent of its ers of the Brazilian economic capital’s finan- SAO PAULO: An employee of the French restaurant Le Bilboquet takes care of the we’ll see it’s just atrocious,” said owner Ana waste, according to ABRELPE. cial district. Its French chef, 34-year-old vegetable garden on the roof of the restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. — AFP Soares, 63. Her restaurant has installed a To fill the void, Danelon decided to put Julien Mercier, signed up for Danelon’s pro- These things are growing here, and we 50 kilometers outside the city, where it is recycling system for glass and switched to her passion for composting and gardening gram six months ago. “What we grow here can also boast that we recycle a ton and a mixed with earth and allowed to biode- cardboard take-out containers to cut down to work on behalf of restaurants in her isn’t enough to supply the whole restaurant. half of organic waste every month,” he said grade over the course of months. It is a “tra- on plastic. “That’s why we joined this beauti- hometown. Her organization collects But the important thing is to understand as he inspected his vegetables and herbs. ditional composting technique,” without ful project,” she said. “We have to learn to restaurants’ food waste at their doors, turns that we’re part of a process. The waste is composted at a facility about enzymes or earthworms to accelerate the look at things in a new way.” — AFP Shackled remains at ancient Greek site tell tale of intrigue Skeletons handcuffed, victims of mass execution

ATHENS: At least 80 skeletons lie in a mass and in a very good state of health when they on these skeletons we may confirm or not this grave in an ancient Greek cemetery, their were executed.” The experts hope DNA testing hypothesis that these deceased, these young wrists clamped by iron shackles. They are the and research by anthropologists will uncover people could be ... part of a coup ... an victims, say archaeologists, of a mass execu- exactly how the rows of people died. Whatever attempt by a noble to take power by force,” tion. But who they were, how they got there happened was violent - most had their arms said Chryssoulaki. More than 1,500 bodies lie and why they appear to have been buried bound above their heads, the wrists tied in the whole cemetery, some infants laid to with a measure of respect - that all remains a together. But the orderly way they have been rest in ceramic pots, other adults burned on mystery. They were found earlier this year in buried suggest these were more than slaves or funeral pyres or buried in stone coffins. One part of the Falyron Delta necropolis - a large common criminals. casket is made from a wooden boat. ancient cemetery unearthed during the con- Unlike Athens’ renowned ancient struction of a national opera house and Coup plot? Kerameikos cemetery, the last resting place of library between downtown Athens and the The cemetery dates from between the 8th many prominent ancient Greeks, these appear RIJEKA: Huanito Luksetic, who fight for legalization of marijuana-based medicine port of Piraeus. and 5th century BC. “It is a period of great to be the inhabitants of regular neighbor- and was arrested for growing cannabis plants to produce cannabis oil to ease his Few people have been able to get in to unrest for Athenian society, a period where hoods. The dig is within a 170,000 sq m land- multiple sclerosis symptoms and tireless, poses in his garden in front of his house have a close look. But on a rare tour of the aristocrats, nobles, are battling with each oth- scaped park, shadowed by the vast new mod- near the northern Adriatic port of Rijeka. — AFP site, archaeologists carefully showed Reuters er for power,” said Chryssoulaki. One of the ern library and opera house buildings being the skeletons, some lying in a long neat row in strongest theories is that they were support- built by the Stavros Niarchos philanthropic MS patient’s war for weed the dug-out sandy ground, others piled on ers of Cylon, an Athenian noble and Olympic foundation. High-rise apartments dot the sky- top of each other, arms and legs twisted with champion who staged an attempted coup in line to the north while a noisy motorway wins Croatia a ‘legal high’ their jaws hanging open. “They have been Athens in 632 BC with the help of his father- snakes by the site’s east side. Chryssoulaki executed, all in the same manner. But they in-law, the tyrant of Megara. wants to see a museum built on the spot, as a have been buried with respect,” Dr Stella The coup failed and Cylon hid in a temple monument to the daily lives of Athenians BREGI: When Huanito Luksetic was arrested the point where he no longer displayed any Chryssoulaki, head of excavations, said. of the Acropolis. He managed to escape, but from another era. “A cemetery is a first and last for growing marijuana to help him cope with symptoms. “I have the right to live, to help “They are all tied at the hands with hand- the people who backed him were killed. photograph in antiquity of those people that multiple sclerosis, he could not have known myself without hurting others,” he says. And cuffs and most of them are very very young “Perhaps with the DNA tests that we will do pass from life to death,” she said. — Reuters his struggle would eventually pave the way he has vowed to continue growing it, brand- for Croatia to legalize cannabis for medical ing the case against him as “nothing but mal- use. “I knew it would happen eventually,” says treatment of a patient.” Many Croatians suffer- Luksetic, recalling the day in October 2014 ing from MS or cancer are known to take Zika mosquito thrives in hot when police burst into his home near Rijeka cannabis to ease symptoms, but without on the northern Adriatic coast, seizing some telling their doctors, who have traditionally 20 kilos (44 pounds) of marijuana. “When they turned a blind eye to the phenomenon. weather, hard to wipe out knocked on my door, it was a kind of relief,” he In late 2014 the health ministry set up an admits. Released on bail soon after his arrest, expert commission to review the issue, upon he is now on trial for marijuana production whose recommendations the regulation was WASHINGTON: Behind the spread of the Zika and sale, although he was growing it for per- drawn up. Speaking to AFP, Dr Ognjen virus is a tiny menace that just won’t go away. sonal medical use only. If found guilty, he Brborovic said it was Luksetic’s struggle that It’s called the Aedes aegypti (AYE’-dees uh-GYP’- faces up to 12 years in jail. brought about the change in the law. “If there tie), a species of mosquito that has played a vil- His case raised intense media interest from was no Huanito, shouting against injustice lainous role in public health history and defeat- the start and triggered the October 2015 and seeking help, nothing would have hap- ed attempts to wipe it out. The mosquito is decision to legalise the sale of cannabis- pened,” said Brborovic, who headed the com- behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin derived products for medical purposes, with mission on the issue. After Luksetic’s arrest, America and the Caribbean. On Friday, Florida the medicines finally appearing in pharma- the authorities were left with a choice: either said four Zika infections in the Miami area are cies in July. The decision saw Croatia joining to continue arresting such people or to find a likely the first caused by mosquito bites in the other European countries such as Germany, way to regulate the use of marijuana for med- continental US All previous US cases have been Italy and the Czech Republic as well as a ical purposes, he said. linked to outbreak countries. Five things to know growing number of US states which have all about the bug: legalised the use of marijuana for medical Not covered by insurance purposes in recent years. Luksetic was a Since the regulation came into force, doc- First in Africa teenager when he first began showing symp- tors can now prescribe medicines containing Aedes aegypti is a small, dark, hot weather toms of multiple sclerosis, a lifelong, incur- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the plant’s main mosquito with white markings and banded legs. able disease which attacks the central nerv- psychoactive ingredient, to ease symptoms Scientists believe the species originated in ous system. After exhausting traditional med- associated with cancer, MS, epilepsy and Africa, but came to the Americas on slave ships. icine options, he, like many others, began AIDS. The medication, which is hailed for It’s continued to spread through shipping and seeking help through alternative methods. reducing pain and spasms, relieving nausea airplanes. Now it’s found through much of the Despite trying everything from vein sur- and increasing appetite, can be prescribed for world, including cities across the southern gery to bee venom-he endured more than up to 30 days. Over that period, the dosage United States. 5,000 painful bee stings in a year after must not exceed 7.5 grams, with the price installing a bee hive in his room nothing pro- varying between 130 and 260 euros ($145 to Yellow fever mosquito vided any lasting improvement. And the $290) per month, depending on the prescrip- Early in the 20th century, it was the engine symptoms were getting worse-he was tion. But the medication is not currently cov- behind devastating yellow fever outbreaks and MIAMI: Robert Muxo, a Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector, inspects a property increasingly suffering from double vision, ered by health insurance, potentially posing became known as the yellow fever mosquito. for mosquitos or breeding areas in the Wynwood neighborhood as the county fights to control sensory symptoms and limping. Fearing he another obstacle for patients. “These drugs Since then, it’s also been identified as a carrier the Zika virus outbreak in Miami, Florida. — AFP would eventually end up paralysed, he redou- need to be taken for life and price makes for other tropical illnesses such as dengue fever, Researchers say it doesn’t travel more than a few engineering, radiation or bacterial infections. bled his quest for an answer. The turning them unreachable” for many, warned Vladimir chikungunya and Zika. Scientists say other types hundred yards during its lifetime - usually two to point was in 2011 when he heard a lecture by Komparic, a retired doctor and former head of of mosquitoes might also spread Zika but Aedes four weeks. Going for blood Canadian medical cannabis activist Rick an association for MS patients. aegypti is the main culprit. The vast majority of Female mosquitoes drink human blood for Simpson. “I immediately realized the cannabis Interest in medical marijuana seems to be the mosquitoes tested recently in South Florida Killed off, it came back nutrients used in making eggs. After a female oil’s quality was key and that I would have to high with many patients calling pharmacies have been that kind. The mosquito is a hardy bug that can be par- bites an infected person, it can spread the virus make it myself,” the 38-year-old said. for information, says Aisa Zanki-Zelic, a phar- ticularly challenging to get rid of. In the early 20th through its saliva to its next human victim. macist in downtown Zagreb. She hailed the A city dweller century, many countries tried to wipe out the While the virus is mostly spread to people Dramatic improvement regulation as providing patients with a stan- Aedes aegypti has an unusually cozy relation- mosquito with chemicals and other measures. By through mosquito bites, scientists have estab- After planting his first seeds, Luksetic even- dardized treatment. “We know exactly what ship with people. While other species thrive in 1970, it was eradicated from much of South lished that it’s been spread through sex - mostly tually managed to grow enough marijuana to the ingredients are and their quantity.” But it more rural areas, or at least in parks and gardens, America - including Brazil. But many mosquito- by men to their partners - in some cases. Zika create his own supply of cannabis oil. The was too early to quantify the real demand this is a domesticated species - sort of a house- control programs lapsed due to budget prob- can also be spread through blood; the virus usu- effect was astonishing-after three weeks of after a shipment of capsules imported from cat mosquito - accustomed to living in apart- lems, concerns about insecticides and the success ally stays in the blood for about a week, though taking it, his muscle spasms and limping were Canada had to be temporarily withdrawn ment buildings and city centers. It prefers biting of the yellow fever vaccine. The species roared it’s been seen longer in the blood of pregnant gone. As he continued taking the home-pro- from pharmacies due to reports that oil was people to animals and likes to feed indoors, dur- back. More recently, scientists have been explor- women. A US lab worker was accidentally duced oil, his health improved dramatically, to leaking from some of them. — AP ing daylight hours. It doesn’t venture far. ing novel ways of curbing the pest with genetic infected through blood. — AP Meet curious Cupid: Matchmaking for HIV patients - looking for love

ABUJA: Sitting in his dimly-lit office in the the books, ranging in age from 19 to 72. Six in percent of people with HIV to know their status, 90 decided the time was right to launch his HIV ... they accuse me of encouraging promiscuity,” Nigerian capital of Abuja, surrounded by files seven of them are women. He charges a one-off percent of diagnosed people to be on treatment, matchmaking service. Weary of trying to per- said the husband and father-of five, who and boxes of condoms, matchmaker Ugochukwu fee of 2,000 naira ($6) for people who work, but and 90 percent of those on treatment to have sup- suade government agencies to invest in his idea, declined to disclose if he has HIV or not. Michael talks passionately about the part he has his service is free for the unemployed. “You will pressed levels of the virus in their bodies. he headed out into the streets of Abuja at night, played in the marriages of around 100 couples in see a lot of improvement,” Michael tells one hanging up around 100 banners to advertise his Health before love recent years. While the popularity of dating apps caller. “Let’s see how it will be before the end of HIV-positive sugar mummy project. “By the following morning, my phone After an initial telephone conversation, most and websites may make Michael’s efforts to play the month.” The prevalence of HIV among adults After a failed attempt to migrate to Europe six started ringing - so many people were calling of Michael’s clients insist on coming to see him in Cupid seem old-fashioned, his matchmaking in Nigeria is relatively low for sub-Saharan Africa, years ago and the loss of his life savings from his me,” Michael said, scrolling through the dozens person to talk further. “When they come, we just service stands out from the rest. All of his clients around one in 30 compared to one in five in job as a technician, Michael decided to volunteer of texts he receives from his clients each day. sit and chat,” he said, adding that many of his are living with HIV. “Sometimes, I spend days South Africa, said the UN AIDS program UNAIDS. with a Catholic organization. Helping out at a Some of the texts ask for medical or fertility patients are suicidal because of their HIV status. without sleeping,” he said, his phone ringing Yet discrimination towards Nigeria’s some 3.5 state hospital where nurses were reluctant to get advice, while one comes from a man looking for Beyond setting up dates, Michael also ensures non-stop as he explained how most calls come in million HIV-positive people is rife, and many strug- too close to HIV-positive patients made Michael an “HIV-positive sugar mummy”. Yet not every- that every person he works with is registered the middle of the night when it is cheaper to call. gle to enter university or find work, health experts aware of the discrimination they faced daily. “I one approves of Michael’s matchmaking efforts. with a specific hospital and that they are regular- The 45-year-old started his service in 2012 and human rights activists say. “Stigma is the obsta- encouraged the patients to help one another do When people started tearing the banners down, ly taking their antiretroviral drugs. “I cannot with the desire to help those he describes as cle to achieving the 90-90-90 agenda,” John Idoko, things, like go to the toilet, since they all had one Michael turned to bright red spray paint. Signs match-make anyone who is not on drugs - it is a Nigeria’s “rejects” after becoming disillusioned director general of Nigeria’s National Agency for thing in common.” When the threat of Boko reading: “HIV positive? Need husband/wife?” can lot of risk,” Michael said, sitting in his office in with widespread stigma towards people with the Control of AIDS (NACA), told the Thomson Haram forced him to move from the northeast- be seen alongside many major roads in Abuja. front of a decorative wall hanging that reads: HIV. Michael says he has some 7,000 clients on Reuters Foundation. By 2020, UNAIDS wants 90 ern city of Damaturu to Abuja in 2012, Michael “Strangers call me to express disdain for my work ‘May hope encourage you’. — Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Photo shows a supply ship at the Edvard Grieg oil field, in the North Sea. — AP photos Photo shows the general view of Oil company Statoil’s headquarters in Fornebu, on the outskirts of Oslo. Paradox nation: Norway, a climate leader making oil money Norway pushing ever farther into Arctic Ocean in search of more oil and gas

STAVANGER: Norway wants to get rid of gaso- by oil workers through the streets of line-fueled cars, plans to become carbon neu- Stavanger attest to the rich subsidies the gov- tral by 2030 and spends billions on helping ernment has poured into the electric car mar- poor countries reduce their carbon footprints. ket. E-cars have zero import duty, sales tax is a Meanwhile, it’s pushing ever farther into the quarter less than for conventional vehicles and Arctic Ocean in search of more oil and gas. “We most roads are free. Some 29 percent of new know there is a paradox,” admits Vidar cars sold in Norway are electric or hybrid. The Helgesen, Norway’s climate and energy minis- government in June introduced a target of ter. “We have been living well from oil and gas. 100 percent by 2025. But there is no country in the world that has Helgesen says Norway’s example is spread- done more to undermine the oil and gas ing around the world, with once-skeptical car industry than Norway.” manufacturers investing in green technology The mountainous Scandinavian country of and speeding the transition away from hydro- 5 million people is torn between its ambition carbons. In June, lawmakers forced through a to be a global leader on climate change and commitment for Norway to become carbon the awareness that its wealth is linked to the neutral by 2030 - some 20 years ahead of world’s dependence on fossil fuels. This appar- schedule. Norway is also one of the most gen- ent contradiction is particularly striking in erous donors to international initiatives to Stavanger, Norway’s oil capital. The west coast maintain rainforests, which help fight climate town is the hub of an offshore industry that change by absorbing some of the heat-trap- has made Norway the world’s eighth biggest ping carbon dioxide released by the burning exporter of oil and third biggest exporter of of fossil fuels. natural gas. Norway’s $875 billion oil kitty is It has already spent $1 billion saving trees the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, and in Brazil and is committed to spend up to $350 hydrocarbons account for 40 percent of million a year preserving trees in places like Norwegian exports. Indonesia and Guyana. But Norway is accused But very little of those fossil fuels are used of environmental hypocrisy, grandstanding at home. Like the rest of the country, overseas with environmental projects while Stavanger gets almost all its electricity from allowing its domestic oil and gas industry to hydropower. And the streams of Teslas driven pump ever larger quantities of carbon into the

OSLO: Electric cars queue in the bus lane (left) on the main road to Oslo. — AP atmosphere. Plans for carbon neutrality trade emissions credits with European neigh- nies don’t take much of a risk but their upside is involve buying credits for helping reduce bors to reach its reduction quota. huge.” Norway’s state-owned energy company emissions abroad. In fact, Norway was one of Meanwhile, environmental activists bristle at Statoil scooped up the largest share of explo- the few Western countries to see a rise in exploration permits handed out to 13 oil com- ration rights in the latest licensing round. domestic carbon emissions in 2015. That was panies in May to drill in a new area of the Chevron and ConoccoPhillips also secured per- mainly due to the fact that its aging North Sea Norwegian Arctic. Critics say the technology to mits. In June, Norway became one of the first oil fields require ever more energy to tap safely explore in such remote areas is not prop- countries to ratify last year’s Paris Agreement on depleting reservoirs. erly tested and claim plunging prices make climate change, which seeks to limit global “The plan has always been to buy carbon Arctic oil unaffordable without hefty warming to less than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) credits to allow us to continue polluting as a Norwegian subsidies. While companies pay 78 compared with pre-industrial times. country,” says Lars Haltbrekken, chairman of percent tax on hydrocarbons they produce in Haltbrekken says that any Norwegian con- the Norwegian chapter of Friends of the Earth, Norwegian waters, they can claim back the tribution to this target that does not involve a an environmental advocacy group. “That is why same amount on costs for exploration. “We reduction in oil and gas is empty. Helgesen we don’t think carbon neutrality is the most absolutely regard this as a subsidy,” says Ellen disagrees. “We are living in a time of tremen- important factor in combatting climate Viseth, a political advisor at the Bellona environ- dous energy transformation,” he says. “We change,” he says. “We can buy credits in devel- mental group. Viseth says the Barents Sea north want to play a part whether it is in electrifica- oping countries. It doesn’t require us to reduce of Norway is already one of the most expensive tion, bio-energy, hydropower, or any other SARPSBORG: Electric Tesla cars parked at a supercharger facility in Sarpsborg, Norway. emissions here in Norway.” A tougher European places in the world to produce oil. “The price green energy. But Norway has the cleanest Norway wants to get rid of gasoline-fueled cars, plans to become carbon neutral by 2030 Union scheme will set emissions reduction tar- and the risk make it uneconomical,” she says. hydrocarbons anywhere in the world. And as and spends billions on helping poor countries reduce their carbon footprints. Meanwhile, gets within the next two years. But Norway, “But the Norwegian government is heavily sup- long as the world needs oil and gas, we will it’s pushing ever farther into the Arctic Ocean in search for more oil and gas. which is not an EU member, will still be able to porting the oil and gas industry. The oil compa- provide it.”— AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

GUST announces 2nd Abdulrahman Al-Rushaid Al-Bader Scholarship

ulf University for Science and exceling in their academic study, with- Bates, “This scholarship is one of a kind, also attain a score of 61 in the TOEFL, six ister for a minimum of 12 credits per Technology (GUST) announced out financial strain. and in the spirit of a student who was on IELTS, or pass the GUST Math and semester, and must not withdraw or Gtoday the Abdulrahman Al- The Abdulrahman Al-Rushaid Al- also one of a kind. The university is hum- English placement tests to be able to transfer from GUST. The application Rushaid Al-Bader Scholarship for all first- Bader Scholarship covers the entire four bled and privileged to offer this scholar- enroll. The selected student cannot be process includes the completion of a time GUST students thanks to the gen- year of study, with a maximum of 120 ship to its students, and those in receipt awarded another scholarship during form for the specified scholarship peri- erosity of Abdulrahman’s family. The credits, and will be awarded annually to of it should cherish the opportunity.” their period of study and must abide by od which must be submitted with all scholarship aims to assist any new uni- an incoming Business Administration Students applying for the scholarship the GUST Code of Conduct at all times. supporting documents by August 18, versity student to attend and enjoy their freshman at GUST. can be from any nationality, with a high To maintain the scholarship, the stu- 2016. educational experience and focus on GUST President, Professor Donald school GPA of 3.00. The student must dent must maintain a CGPA of 3.00, reg-

Kuwait University (KU) recently signed a contract to build students and sports activities’ facilities at the Sabah Al-Salem University City project. Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Bader Al-Essa attended the signing ceremony, which took place at KU’s Khaldiya campus. Volunteer league celebrated 22nd founding anniversary

n the Occasion of 22 years Successive Ashraful Azam Mohobbot, Jakir Hossain, and Human Resource Secretary Hero Khan, Completion of Bangladesh Awami Office Secretary Abdul Hossain Rashid, Mohammed Mithu, Mohammed Asraf, Jibon OVolunteer League Kuwait organized a Publication Secretary Monir Hossain, Sports Shah, Habib Sheikh vice-president of wafra function recently, which consisted of a speech Secretary Mohammed Shumon, Education committee. delivery session and a cake cutting ceremony. The function was presented by Mohammed Belal Uddin Acting General Secretary of Awami Volunteer League Kuwait. Mohammed Masud karim the president of Awami Volunteer League Kuwait presided over the event. Engineer Abdur Rob the chief Advisor of Awami Volunteer League Kuwait attended was the chief Guest Were Special guests Sultan Faruk the advisor of Awami Volunteer League Kuwait, Imam Uddin Badal Convener of Awami Jubo League Kuwait, NSH arranges drug Robiul Husain Robin senior vice-president of Awami shilpi goshthi Kuwait, Safiqur awareness program Rahaman General Secretary of Banganandhu Soinik League. The stage also lined up by vice- he NSH Global Village Harmony (NSH the importance of the letter, NSH GVH president of Awami Volunteer League Kuwait GVH) has given an immediate arranged an awareness program about the Mohammed yousuf, Abu Taher, Abdul Mabud, Tresponse to the call of Indian consequences. Earlier, the planning meet- Joint Secretary of amra mukti juddar sontan Embassy in Kuwait regarding the abolition ing was chaired by Sabu, President and the Choyon miah. In the Speech Delivery Session of narcotics and drugs. To the letter, sent program was led by Pani J Anthony, along with Chief guest, Special guest, from the Indian Embassy to the Indian General Secretary. NSH GVH proves to be Shahadat hossain Joint Secretary of Awami Community here in Kuwait, the NSH GVH the responsible organization by doing this Volunteer League Kuwait, Organizing secre- did give a very quick response. Realizing yeomen service to the fellow citizens. tary Anisul hoque Sumon, Rashedul Islam,

The Direct Aid foundation announced launching a medical camp in Yemen, which provides free medical care for people in need, especially children, orphans, people with special need, senior citizens and displaced persons. Yemen is the first country in the Arabian Peninsula where Direct Aid operates, after operating for over thirty years in Africa through thirty branches around the continent. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 information

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01:10 Diamond River Hunters 08:25 Shark Men 12:30 The Goldbergs 02:00 Venom Hunters 09:20 Kingdom Of The Forest 13:00 Community 02:50 So You Think You’d Survive? 10:15 Outsiders: Living Off The 13:30 Breaking In Edge 14:00 Black-Ish 11:10 Locked Up Abroad 14:30 The Last Man On Earth 03:35 Spooks 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 03:20 Calimero 12:05 Breakout 15:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 04:30 Doctors 13:00 Shark Men 15:30 Galavant 05:05 The Musketeers 03:35 Zou 03:45 Loopdidoo 14:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 16:00 Last Man Standing 06:00 Casualty 15:00 Live Free Or Die 16:30 George Lopez 07:00 Casualty 04:00 Art Attack 03:00 Discovery ID 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster 16:00 Outsiders: Living Off The 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 07:50 Death In Paradise Edge 18:00 The Simpsons 08:45 Stella 09:00 Discovery ID 04:35 Calimero 15:00 Discovery ID 04:50 Zou 17:00 Locked Up Abroad 18:30 Black-Ish 09:35 The Musketeers 18:00 Breakout 19:00 The Grinder 10:30 Casualty 21:00 Discovery ID 05:00 Loopdidoo Discovery Science HD 05:15 Art Attack 19:00 Live Free Or Die 19:30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 11:30 Death In Paradise 20:00 Outsiders: Living Off The 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 12:25 Stella 03:00 Extreme Engineering 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 03:48 Mythbusters 05:50 Calimero Edge Jimmy Fallon 13:20 The Musketeers 20:50 Locked Up Abroad 21:00 Galavant 14:15 Casualty 04:36 Joe Rogan Questions 06:00 Zou Everything 06:20 Loopdidoo 21:40 Breakout 21:30 Last Man Standing 15:15 Death In Paradise 22:30 Live Free Or Die 22:00 You’re The Worst 16:10 Call The Midwife 05:24 Through The Wormhole With 06:35 Art Attack Morgan Freeman 07:00 The Hive 23:20 Hunter Hunted 22:30 Bordertown 17:00 The Musketeers 00:10 Outsiders: Living Off The 23:00 Web Therapy 18:00 Doctors 06:12 How Do They Do It? 07:10 Zou 06:36 Food Factory 07:25 Loopdidoo Edge 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 18:30 Doctors 01:00 Locked Up Abroad 00:30 Galavant 19:05 Death In Paradise 07:00 How Do They Do It? 07:40 Jungle Cubs 07:26 Mythbusters 08:05 Sofia The First 02:00 Breakout 01:00 Last Man Standing 20:00 Silent Witness 02:55 Live Free Or Die 01:30 You’re The Worst 21:00 Silent Witness 08:14 Through The Wormhole With 08:30 Miles From Tomorrow Morgan Freeman 08:40 PJ Masks 02:00 Bordertown 21:55 Ripper Street 02:30 Web Therapy 22:50 Spooks 09:02 Extreme Engineering 09:10 Doc McStuffins 23:45 Doctors 09:50 How Do They Do It? 09:40 Doc McStuffins 10:14 Food Factory 09:55 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 00:15 Doctors 03:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:50 Silent Witness 10:38 Joe Rogan Questions 10:00 Sofia The First Everything 10:30 Sofia The First 03:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 01:45 Silent Witness 03:48 Henry Danger 02:40 Ripper Street 11:26 Mythbusters 11:00 The Lion Guard 12:14 Through The Wormhole With 11:30 Jake And The Never Land 04:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Morgan Freeman Pirates 04:36 The Haunted Hathaways 04:00 Sword Of Vengeance 13:02 How Do They Do It? 12:00 Jake And The Never Land 05:00 Max & Shred 06:00 Armageddon 13:26 Food Factory Pirates 05:24 Henry Danger 08:45 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 13:50 Extreme Engineering 12:30 Gummi Bears 05:48 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 10:45 Sword Of Vengeance 14:38 Joe Rogan Questions 13:00 Sofia The First 06:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 12:15 Jurassic Attack Everything 13:30 Doc McStuffins 06:36 SpongeBob SquarePants 13:45 Armageddon 03:00 Nathan For You 15:26 Mythbusters 14:00 The Lion Guard 07:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 16:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 03:25 Nathan For You 16:14 Through The Wormhole With 14:30 Aladdin 07:24 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:15 Armored 03:50 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 14:55 Jake And The Never Land 07:48 Winx Club 20:00 Lucy 04:15 Ridiculousness 17:02 Extreme Engineering Pirates 08:12 Harvey Beaks 22:00 Naked Soldier 04:40 Disorderly Conduct: Video 17:50 Mythbusters 15:05 Goldie & Bear 08:36 Breadwinners 23:45 Public Enemies On Patrol 18:40 Through The Wormhole With 15:30 Miles From Tomorrow 09:00 Get Blake 02:15 Area 407 05:30 Tosh.0 Morgan Freeman 16:00 Doc McStuffins 09:24 Rabbids Invasion 05:55 Tosh.0 19:30 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 16:25 Doc McStuffins 09:48 Henry Danger 06:20 MLE Championship 19:55 Magic Of Science 16:55 Sofia The First 10:12 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 07:15 Catch A Contractor 20:20 How Do They Do It? 17:25 Sofia The First 10:36 The Haunted Hathaways 08:05 Disorderly Conduct: Video 20:45 Food Factory 17:50 The Lion Guard 11:00 Winx Club On Patrol 21:10 Mega World 18:15 Jake And The Never Land 11:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 04:00 Three Men And A Baby 08:55 Nathan For You 22:00 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow Pirates 11:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 06:00 At Middleton 09:20 Nathan For You 22:25 Prank Science 18:45 Jake And The Neverland 12:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 08:00 Chef 09:45 Ridiculousness 22:50 Through The Wormhole With Pirates 12:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:00 Three Men And A Baby 10:10 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 19:00 PJ Masks 13:00 Breadwinners 12:00 The Bounty Hunter 10:35 Key And Peele 23:40 Mythbusters 19:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 13:24 The Loud House 14:00 Father Of The Bride 11:00 Workaholics 00:30 How Do They Do It? 20:00 Doc McStuffins 13:48 Harvey Beaks 16:00 Chef 11:25 Catch A Contractor 00:55 Food Factory 20:30 Sofia The First 14:12 Rabbids Invasion 18:00 Cas & Dylan 12:15 Nathan For You 01:20 You Can’t Lick Your Elbow 21:00 PJ Masks 14:36 Henry Danger 20:00 I Love You Beth Cooper 12:40 Nathan For You 01:45 Prank Science 21:30 Aladdin 15:00 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 22:00 Adult World 13:05 Ridiculousness 02:10 Through The Wormhole With 22:00 Jungle Cubs 15:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 00:00 Drunk Wedding 13:30 Ridiculousness Morgan Freeman 22:25 Gummi Bears 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 02:00 Cas & Dylan 13:55 Disorderly Conduct: Video 22:50 Zou 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles On Patrol 23:05 Henry Hugglemonster 16:36 The Loud House 14:45 MLE Championship 23:20 Calimero 17:00 Sanjay And Craig 15:35 Catch A Contractor 23:35 Zou 17:24 Harvey Beaks 16:30 Nathan For You 23:50 Loopdidoo CAS & DYLAN ON OSN MOVIES HD COMEDY 17:48 Breadwinners 16:55 Nathan For You 00:05 Art Attack 18:12 Henry Danger 17:20 Lip Sync Battle 00:30 Henry Hugglemonster 10:15 Keeping Up With The 02:00 Man v Food 01:30 Coronation Street 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 03:00 Clockstoppers 17:50 Ridiculousness 00:45 Calimero Kardashians 02:30 Man v Food 02:00 Coronation Street 19:00 100 Things To Do Before 05:00 My Girl 18:15 Ridiculousness 01:00 Zou 11:10 Keeping Up With The 02:30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries High School 07:00 Atlantis: The Lost Empire 18:39 Key And Peele 03:15 The Hive 01:15 Loopdidoo Kardashians 19:24 Game Shakers 09:00 Frankenweenie 19:03 Workaholics 03:20 Sabrina Secrets Of A 01:30 Art Attack 12:05 Keeping Up With The 19:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 11:00 My Girl 2 19:27 Tattoo Disasters Teenage Witch 02:00 Calimero Kardashians 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 13:00 Penguins Of Madagascar 19:50 Tattoo Disasters 03:45 Sabrina Secrets Of A 02:15 Zou 13:05 E! 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Undercover Kardashians 17:40 Swamp People 00:50 Tattoo Disasters 08:10 Austin & Ally 07:50 Supa Strikas 18:30 The Curse Of Oak Island 01:15 Tosh.0 23:00 Famously Single 08:35 Shake It Up 08:15 Phineas And Ferb 00:00 Hollywood Medium With 19:20 American Pickers 01:40 The Daily Show With Trevor 09:00 Hannah Montana 08:40 Camp Lakebottom 20:10 Pawn Stars Noah Tyler Henry 09:25 Hannah Montana 09:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 00:55 WAGs 20:35 Pawn Stars 02:05 Joe Rogan: Rocky Mountain 09:50 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:10 Gravity Falls 21:00 Ax Men High 01:50 New Money 10:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:35 Lab Rats 02:20 Giuliana & Bill 21:50 Appalachian Outlaws 10:40 Good Luck Charlie 10:00 Lab Rats 22:40 Outlaw Chronicles: Hells 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 10:25 K.C. Undercover Angels 11:30 Jessie 10:50 K.C. Undercover 23:30 Ax Men 11:55 Jessie 11:20 Supa Strikas 00:20 Appalachian Outlaws 12:20 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 11:45 Supa Strikas 01:10 Outlaw Chronicles: Hells And Cat Noir 12:10 Gamer’s Guide To Pretty... Angels 12:45 Hank Zipzer 12:35 Gamer’s Guide To Pretty... 03:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 02:00 Swamp People 03:40 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 13:00 Mark And Russell’s Wild Ride 03:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 02:50 Mountain Men Edition 13:10 Austin & Ally 13:35 Austin & Ally 14:45 Pokemon Bw: Adventures In 04:00 Man Fire Food 04:05 Auction Hunters Unova 04:30 Man Fire Food 04:30 Dallas Car Sharks 14:00 Liv And Maddie 14:25 Liv And Maddie 15:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 05:00 Chopped 05:00 How Stuff’s Made 15:15 Supa Strikas 06:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 05:30 How Do They Do It? 14:50 Dog With A Blog 15:15 Hank Zipzer 15:40 Supa Strikas 07:00 Man Fire Food 06:00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 16:05 Lab Rats 15:40 Bunk’d 07:30 Man Fire Food 06:50 Kindig Customs 16:30 Pickle And Peanut 03:25 Together 16:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 08:00 Chopped 07:40 Fat N’ Furious: Rolling 16:55 Kirby Buckets 03:55 Tracey Ullman’s Show 16:10 Gravity Falls 09:00 Barefoot Contessa Thunder 17:25 K.C. Undercover 04:20 Don’t Tell The Bride 16:35 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug 09:30 Barefoot Contessa 08:30 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 17:50 Annedroids S3&4 10:00 The Kitchen 05:15 Come Dine With Me Couples Edition And Cat Noir 18:15 Gamer’s Guide To Pretty... 06:10 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 17:00 Backstage 11:00 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 08:55 Auction Hunters 18:40 K.C. Undercover 11:30 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 07:05 Chopping Block 17:50 Girl Meets World 09:20 Dallas Car Sharks 19:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 12:00 Chopped 08:00 Together 18:15 Liv And Maddie 09:45 How Stuff’s Made 19:10 Mark And Russell’s Wild Ride 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 08:30 Tracey Ullman’s Show 10:10 How Do They Do It? 18:40 Best Friends Whenever 20:55 K.C. 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Bahrain 23:00 MSC 401 Alexandria 12:30 JZR 802 Taif 22:40 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:00 JZR 241 Amman 12:30 KAC 782 Jeddah 22:50 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:05 SAW 701 Damascus 12:35 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 NIA 152 Cairo 23:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 MSC 403 Asyut 23:10 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 KAC 155 Istanbul 23:15 FEG 961 Sohag 12:55 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:20 MSC 402 Alexandria 13:30 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 SAW 702 Damascus 13:35 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:25 CLX 784 Luxembourg 13:00 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 FEG 934 Sohag 13:55 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 JAD 301 Amman 23:45 34 TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 stars

CROSSWORD 1330 STAR TRACK

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

There is an emotional seriousness to becoming focused now. You will There is a yearning for the stimulation of new ideas. You become more want to dig deep for information, references or confirmations. It seems that time is not occupied with products that people can use when they travel . . . Perhaps you will put slow enough for all that needs accomplishing. You could be too strict with yourself, to together a quick demonstration for the public to learn easy packing or what to leave at insist that whatever does not contribute to security and other long-term goals is trivial. home when traveling by plane. Whatever your job, there will be more communication Your ambition is intensified. Study and research could enter into your work more often with the public so familiarize yourself with new guidelines of travel and be prepared to now-perhaps you feel that statistics will help back your actions, or your word. Real be helpful. Business is improving every day. During the noon break today, you may estate or home and family planning take on a greater importance for you now. You may decide to get together with co-worker friends and plan a fun get-together away from feel that it is time to build your support group and have roots. This is a very nice day, work. It is time for a break and time to get to better know the people with whom you perhaps filled with some renewed appreciation for those you love. work. You enjoy having a few friends over to your place this evening.

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

This is an easy, calm day that should find everything running smoothly. You like to get right to work the minute you get to work. It is a confidence Interaction with authority figures or older people may be quite productive. You will feel builder when people want what you have to offer. Today you may need to yourself working easily with the gush of work volume today. This is a good day to get use your wise tact as you are often looking to please. You have learned to look ahead so many things accomplished. You make your way through ideas, concepts and your abili- that you can know as you make important decisions that they are good decisions and ty to communicate and express them to others is admirable. This may be a good time to there are no compromises today. You could be working in a bank and have control over a loan division or some other type of transaction process. Today you have enough peo- consider teaching or tutoring. This afternoon you will take pride in your accomplish- ple in your office to work a little overtime. It feels good to have business in a positive ments as you talk with a friend or counselor about your progress within the business upswing. Obstacles that have been frustrating before now, should finally find easy expla- world. You remind yourself that it is not what you do so much as how you do it and not nation under your supervision. You look forward to making your vacation plans. who you are so much as how you make others feel about themselves.

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

Although difficulties arise today, it is a good problem-solving day. You may Problems at home may be short-lived but could leave lingering thoughts feel as though you are between a rock and a hard place at times without of what should have, could have or would have been. Fortunately, you have done some very good work on solving problems and can achieve good results from ACROSS DOWN really understanding why. You will find several answers are right in front of you and your decision of which one to pick is almost a plus in either direction . . . So, pick one and keep the action you take. Now you must leave your good work to take hold and turn to the 1. Fallow deer. 1. The capital and largest city of moving forward. If you stop and think for too long, you miss out on the experience and workplace in order to help move the business world along. You feel successful and able 5. A high-crowned black cap (usually Bangladesh. that winning feeling. This is a day when you can trust your inner voice. The energies to handle difficult situations. Good advice from a guide or older person may be forth- made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men 2. A name that has been assumed tem- around you are workable and solvable and highlight emotional fulfillment. Suddenly the coming. This is looking like a very profitable day. You are a good worker, always thinking in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus. porarily. world is a brighter place. A focused and clear vision can be quite beneficial. Smile! and caring for others. You are naturally service-oriented and enjoy taking care of whatever gains your attention. You can sort out just what each person needs. 12. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand. 3. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus. Remain confident, not cocky but confident. Good news is shared this evening. 15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 4. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana. 16. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae. 5. A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere. 17. The month following March and pre- Cancer (June 21-July 22) 6. Before noon. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) ceding May. 7. Medication (trade name Lopid) used to 18. To this place (especially toward the This is an easy day that runs along quite smoothly. There is a greater You can demonstrate great understanding and sensitivity about the needs lower the levels of triglyceride in the appreciation for things of value-and the idea of value itself. This is certainly of others just now and are in a good position to communicate concerning speaker). blood. a time when material things have a great deal of importance for you. New business groups and society in general. Be careful that you do not go on a spending spree after 20. An inquiry into unfamiliar or question- 8. English soldier killed in a rebellion equipment or a demonstration of new technical gizmos is mesmerizing and catches the work today, for you may appreciate the beauty and value of everything you encounter. able activities. against Henry IV (1364-1403). attention quickly. Every worker wants to try something new and a line is forming. Some You could feel loving and warm to those around you, and you are appreciative of your 21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) 9. A dark-skinned member of a race of items cause you to think an investment opportunity might be coming to your attention, own life and self, in general. Everything you see in the stores seems to be something you that was responsible for research into people living in Australia when and you may yet give that idea another pass. Today, it is a test period to actually see what have been wanting to purchase . . . Careful. You may find that someone close to you atomic energy and its peacetime uses in Europeans arrived. the company owners want to purchase and what is most helpful for production or resale. understands and is helpful with good insights. You could come up with new solutions or There are other achievements but new products seem to take the lead for today. inventions this evening-the ideas and possibilities are numerous. Keep an idea log. the United States. 10. An esoteric or occult matter that is tra- 22. Of or concerning Qatar. ditionally secret. 23. Being nine more than ninety. 11. The Israeli unicameral parliament. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 24. A bachelor's degree in architecture. 12. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that Leo (July 23-August 22) was formed by an explosion. Travel and other contacts with faraway people and places play a big role 26. British choreographer (1906-1988). Unexpected showers may catch you while you run errands today and if 13. An organization of countries formed for you now. If you decide to sign up for a special discount, make sure the 27. A hereditary ruler. you are going to be on foot, making deliveries from building to building, consider a rain discount is for the whole trip and not just the first leg of the trip. You will find that you in 1961 to agree on a common policy for slicker folded up in your carrier-you might need it. A definite move forward is the idea for 29. A light touch or stroke. can really make clear choices. Career decisions are straightforward and easy to make. the sale of petroleum. today. Let nothing hold you back. If there are possible changes that would help your 31. Type genus of the family Your communication skills are good and you are able to make your way through ideas 14. (of persons) Highest in rank or author- company grow, you may take on the responsibility of creating a presentation that would Elephantidae. with the ability to express yourself well to others. Higher education, philosophical or reli- ity or office. help make positive changes happen. An idea in the suggestion box would not be good, gious contacts could have a part in making good things happen. Earning an extra 35. The hole that an anchor rope passes 19. Become ground down or deteriorate. but a wisely put-together presentation may lead to high esteem for you; even if the income through a little part-time work comes to mind today as there are items on your through. higher-ups do not accept your idea right away, you have a name and a date for the 25. A nucleotide derived from adenosine list of wants that amuse and tickle your fancy. A few new books would be good. 38. Aimlessly drifting. that occurs in muscle tissue. recognition. Tonight there is celebration for your special day! 41. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- 28. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and cially in Turkey). flows eastward into Oklahoma to become 42. Angular distance above the horizon a tributary of the Arkansas River. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) (especially of a celestial object). 30. An old Scottish coin of little value. 43. Resembling an owl. 32. A board game in which players try to You enjoy working hard and being organized and you exercise skill and Gathering and exchanging information is part of the ability to solve prob- 45. A radioactive element of the actinide move their pieces into their opponent's discipline in anything that affects your career. This is a perfect combination for manage- lems. You could be most persuasive with others and expressive in communication. There series. bases. ment. There may be a sticky situation coming to your attention today; however, you are could be challenges but this only helps to fine-tune the details of a particular project. 33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions not afraid to get into the most difficult of situations. You always seem to come up with Your ambition is intensified as the day progresses. Easy does it . . . Take your breaks and 46. A monarchy in northwestern Europe allow others to contribute toward the outcome of the day. This afternoon you may find of the Old World. the essence of the matter at hand. Your imagination reaches beyond differences and occupying most of the British Isles. manages to solve difficulties. At your best you are enchanting, able to point to the unity yourself being put to good use by your friends, or it could be that circumstances force 47. A vessel in which something is 34. American dwarf fan palms. that binds all things together. Today your quick thinking surprises even you as you rally you to reorganize and be more conservative. All of this should go rather smoothly. Your immersed to maintain it at a constant 36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising around the conference table. Keep up the good work. A good conversation with those finances will be improving soon. There is a recipe a young person wants and you may be solely the razorbill. temperature or to process or lubricate it. you love is possible and dinner this evening is through a gift. digging through the home files to find it. Try the internet. 37. Short and fat. 48. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet. 39. Fiber of the flax plant that is made 49. Large burrowing rodent of South and into thread and woven into linen fabric. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution Central America. 40. Limited or below average in number 51. Praise, glorify, or honor. or quantity or magnitude or extent. 53. Any of numerous local fertility and 44. A very young child (birth to 1 year) nature deities worshipped by ancient who has not yet begun to walk or talk. Semitic peoples. 50. A large crater caused by the violent 54. Lower in esteem. explosion of a volcano that collapses into 56. (informal) Of the highest quality. a depression. 57. The sign language used in the United 52. Remove with or as if with a ladle. States. 55. The elementary stages of any subject 59. No longer having or seeming to have (usually plural). or expecting to have life. 58. A twilled woolen fabric. 64. A tricycle (usually propelled by ped- 60. Essential oil or perfume obtained from alling). flowers. 68. A woman's sleeveless undergarment. 61. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles. 71. A person who is the victim of ridicule 62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked or exploitation by some hostile person or on a skewer usually with vegetables. influence. 63. Small shrubby African tree having 72. A region of Malaysia in northeastern compound leaves and racemes of small Borneo. fragrant green flowers. 75. Any of numerous low-growing cush- 65. The eighth month of the civil year. ion-forming plants of the genus Draba 66. United States writer (born in Poland) having rosette-forming leaves and termi- who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). nal racemes of small flowers with scapose 67. Common Indian weaverbird. or leafy stems. 69. A doctor's degree in religion. 76. A city in northern India. 70. Lacking in liveliness or charm or sur- 77. A percussion instrument consisting of prise. a concave brass disk. 73. The rate at which heat is produced by 79. Type genus of the Anatidae. an individual in a resting state. 80. British artist and writer of nonsense 74. A loose sleeveless outer garment verse (1812-1888). made from aba cloth. 78. A chronic inflammatory collagen dis- 81. The capital and largest city of ease affecting connective tissue (skin or Zimbabwe. joints). 82. A small cake leavened with yeast. Yesterday’s Solution

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e left for Maine with three bicycles on was all before my wife’s broken ankle. On the sec- be on the water, so we chose a 2 1/2-hour light- the back of the car. One for him, one for ond day of the trip. house survey out of Port Clyde with Monhegan Wher, one for any house guest who cared By the end of the vacation, only one bike had Boat Line, $30 per passenger. Easy to board, even to ride along. There were other modest recre- been taken out. Only one of us had paddled the on only one good ankle. It came with a fascinat- ational plans for our three-week vacation on the Penobscot. Mount Battie remained unconquered. ing demonstration of lobstering by a 19-year-old coast. Twice-weekly yoga at a local community And the yoga mat remained coiled and unused in tour guide and third-generation lobsterman. At a center, a little kayaking, a little hiking maybe, and a closet. But as vacation disasters go, this was a rel- lighthouse now owned by Jamie Wyeth, some- certainly walking the hilly streets of Bayside and atively small one. The broken bone was Debbie’s one came out - we were told it was Wyeth him- admiring its gingerbread-house architecture. That fibula, so she didn’t need a cast, just a walking self - and fired off a cannon as a salute. At that boot. Still, she couldn’t walk much. So we had to distance, it could have been anyone. But he’s in rewrite our expectations and create a Maine vaca- our story and we’re sticking with it. tion that was friendlier to the differently abled. Antiques at 10 mechanic street Nervous Nellie’s Jams and Jellies A throbbing ankle can be a good way to A wise friend who has vacationed in Maine judge Maine’s many antiques shops. After a countless times mentioned that some of her best while, you’ve had your share of distressed buoys times in the state had been just driving around. and shellback lawn chairs, and clomping through Sitting in the passenger seat did turn out to be a another store with a clunky orthopedic boot can boundless source of pleasure for the injured one: feel more like a chore than an adventure. Not so, the abundant Queen Anne’s lace and tiger lilies however, with Antiques at 10 Mechanic in that decorate the landscape, antiques stores and Camden, a former movie house where “Peyton lobster shacks around every bend, wonderful vis- Place,” which was filmed nearby, had its world tas of inlets with bobbing boats, bridges connect- Photo shows items for sale at Antiques at 10 Mechanic Street in Camden, Maine. premiere. Antiques at 10 Mechanic feels like a ing islands and peninsulas. On one outing, to the Farnsworth museum and Olson house Wyeth painted his most famous work, grandfather’s attic crossed with Beatrix Potter’s 17th century French settlement at Castine, wait- The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland is “Christina’s World,” in 1948. No elevator, but pantry and, perhaps, an old set shop from MGM. ing for lobster rolls to arrive, a fellow diner at our a well-polished gem, with a collection of there’s a delightful docent-led tour of the first You can’t walk 2 feet without wanting some- picnic table recommended a stop on neighbor- American works, especially Maine-influenced floor (you can sit for most of it), chock-full of thing. The day we visited, Lou Bega’s “A Little Bit ing Deer Isle: Nervous Nellie’s Jams and Jellies, ones. In this part of Maine, that means three details about Wyeth’s relationship with Anna of Mambo” was playing on the stereo, and bro- which Google correctly categorizes as an art generations of Wyeths: NC, Andrew and Jamie. Christina Olson and her brother Alvaro. The ken ankle girl was practically dancing through gallery. Yes, there are jams, but the big attraction Equally important for our injured traveler, little high, wavy grass in the painting can be seen in the store. Bonus: Saturday Cove, a popular spot is the sprawling installation by metal artist Peter walking was required. Both the main museum a patch in the front yard, where everyone takes for Flax clothing, housewares and art in Beerits, which evokes an old Western town, com- and an annex in a converted church have ele- pictures, occasionally in the prone. We didn’t. Northport, which closed this spring, has an out- plete with saloon, jail and 24 slightly menacing vators? galleries easily accommodate available Too hard to get up. Museum admission is $15, post in the back of the store. — AP life-size characters. No charge, although they take wheelchairs, which, thankfully, we didn’t need. another $5 gets you in the Olson House. This undated photo shows a horse figure that donations, and you do feel honor-bound to pur- The Farnsworth also runs the Olson House is part of an art installation at Nervous Nellie’s chase a jar of something. There’s a nice little cafe in Cushing, about 20 minutes’ drive away. The Monhegan Boat Line Jams and Jellies in Deer Isle, Maine. with coffee and tarts too. modest clapboard farmhouse is where Andrew Double kayaking was out. But we wanted to

Pedro Luca walks along a mountain path to San Pedro de Pedro Luca cooks meat fillets and sausage inside a mountain cavern near San Pedro de Pedro Luca poses for a picture inside a mountain cavern near San Pedro de Colalao, Colalao, in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman. Colalao, Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman. Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman. No-rent lifestyle: Argentine man lived 40 years in a cave

edro Luca has lived in a cave in northern “Fire is magical,” he says, as the smoke fills his father in San Pedro de Colalao, which he first left at Argentina for 40 years. The 79-year-old sur- cave. Luca has become a legend in San Pedro de age 14 to travel northern Argentina and earn a liv- Pvives without running water or electricity in Colalao, and town dwellers often give him food ing transporting coal to Bolivia. his cavern high in a mountain in northern Tucuman and supplies. He buys candles, yeast and corn with He returned to the area and the cave. Word of province. When he gets hungry he picks up his rifle a government old-age pension, worth about $100- his solitary lifestyle spread and he now gets occa- and goes hunting or heads on a three-hour trek $200, that he collects at the town’s post office. His sional visits from tourists and schoolchildren. “I down the mountain to the nearest settlement of only technological gadget is a small, battery-pow- never asked myself why I chose to live here,” he San Pedro de Colalao. A creek is his main source of ered radio, but he has a hard time tuning into sta- says. “There was another cave nearby but I liked water. “It’s the purest, richest water there is,” he tions because the signal is weak up the mountain. this one better. Sometimes, I think that I would says. His cave mates? Eleven roosters and two He walks three hours every day, climbing the have liked to travel the world, see Europe. But goats that roam the mountainside during the day steep mountainside to reach his cave. Luca’s skin is there’s a lot of sea in the middle of it all and you and return at night looking for shelter from pumas weather-beaten and he has few teeth left, but he have to have the time to cross that sea.” — AP and other predators. The crows of the roosters seems much younger than a man who is almost 80. Pedro Mamani prepares food inside a mountain cavern near San Pedro de Colalao, wake him up at around 3 am- every morning and Luca says he always wanted to live in isolation in Argentina’s northern province of Tucuman. — AP photos he begins the day by starting a fire. the wild, even as a boy. He was raised by his grand- Dali stolen from Dutch museum ‘found after seven years’

wo renowned paintings stolen from a museum,” he wrote in a Tweet, posting two pic- criminal groups. But “this organization did not Dutch museum seven years ago, one by tures of himself with the paintings. want to be found guilty of the destruction or TSalvador Dali and the other by Polish artist The two works of art were snatched from the resale of art works,” Brand told the Dutch daily Tamara de Lempicka, have been recovered, a Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in the northern De Telegraaf, and had contacted him through a specialist art detective said. Dali’s 1941 surrealist town of Spanbroek in a daylight armed robbery go-between. Brand said he had handed the work “Adolescence” featuring the Catalan artist on May 1, 2009. Several masked men threatened paintings over to British police at Scotland Yard and his beloved nanny and Lempicka’s sensual staff and visitors with a gun and then drove off who are in contact with the rightful owners, 1929 tableau “La Musicienne” have been tracked in a car with the two tableaux, police told AFP at whose identities have not been revealed. — AFP down, detective Arthur Brand said via his Twitter the time. Brand said the two paintings had then account. “We recovered the #Dali and the been given to a criminal gang in lieu of pay- #DeLempicka, stolen in 2009 from Scheringa ment-a transaction which is common among lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

GOSSIP

Ripa not saying who she’d like as new ‘Live!’ co-host f Kelly Ripa has a preference for who will join her as the co-host of “Live! With Kelly,” she isn’t saying who it Iis. Ripa said Saturday that naming a favorite candidate to join her on the morning talk show would be “like telling you who my favorite child is.” Ripa spoke at a designer clothing sale to benefit ovarian cancer research in Water Mill, New York. Organizers say the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance’s Super Saturday sale raised $3.4 million last year. Ripa said the cause is dear to her heart because she lost a close family friend to ovarian cancer when she was growing up. Ripa’s former co-host on “Live!” was retired NFL player Michael Strahan. Strahan left the syndicated show last spring for ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Bella Thorne has got her eyebrows tattooed on he 18-year-old actress underwent microblading - a form of semi-permanent makeup that costs between $500 - $900 - on Sunday to Tmake the arch above her eyes appear fuller and thicker with a little more shape. Taking to her Snapchat account prior to the procedure, the flame-haired beauty uploaded a photo on her sparse brows. The young star was then injected with a numbing treatment before her brows were drawn on to ensure she was pleased with the shape and thickness before the deed was done. Bella documented the whole experience on her account’s story as she laid back on the beautician bed and let the make-up artist work her magic on her thin and fair brows. After hours of work, Kym Johnson and Bella’s brows were finally complete and she couldn’t resist showing them off in a series of stills. But Bella hasn’t always had the confidence to pose for photographs as she recently admitted she used to cry “every night” Robert Herjavec marry over her acne problem. She said recently: “I cried every night for months. “It sounds silly to say that I cared so much about my face, but when you’re anadian businessman and “Shark Tank” star Robert Herjavec has married his former West to create an a young girl, it takes a toll on your self-esteem. It’s unbelievable how peo- “Dancing with the Stars” partner Kym Johnson. People magazine reports the pair ple looked at me differently because I had pimples. I’m still self-conscious Cgot married Sunday in Los Angeles. People says guests included “Dancing with the about it.” Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba and former competitors Joe Fatone, Lance Bass and Donny ‘affordable’ shoe range Osmond. Herjavec is 53. He made a fortune in internet security technology before going anye West wants to create an “affordable” shoe range. The on to star on “Dragon’s Den” in Canada and “Shark Tank,” the ABC version of business- ‘Bound 2’ hitmaker has been working with Adidas for just over themed reality show. Kthree years and shows no signs of slowing down as he’s determined to come up with a shoe that costs under $30. Speaking on BBC Radio One yesterday, Kanye explained: “I’m going to Adidas and I’m like,’ Adidas, I know you’ve never made a shoe under $50 but we Ally Hilfiger has have to make a shoe that costs $30 and I’m gonna be the coolest shoe of all.’ “ And, although he’s got a highly successful music career under his belt and a fashion empire, Kanye - who claimed he was in $53 million in debt earlier this year - is most excited about designing got engaged the affordable shoe for his fans. He said: “To me, this thing I’m saying is the thing I’m most excited about of anything I’ve ever done. To be he 31-year-old daughter of the fash- told People: “I was so surprised and over- able to take all of what I’ve learnt from the best designers and mak- ion mogul Tommy Hilfiger is to tie the whelmed with happiness and excitement. ing collections with fashion people ripping me up alive and dissing Tknot with her longtime boyfriend “We are having fun planning a lovely wed- me saying don’t quit your day job and all that, to be able to get to Steve Hash and they plan on getting ding at our family’s home in Connecticut.” the point of being able to make something that everyone can touch hitched at their family’s house in The couple have been together for nearly and have that visibility.” Meanwhile, the 39-year-old rapper recently Connecticut. Steve proposed while the six years and have 17-month-old daughter revealed the popular sports brand is planning to build more facto- couple were in Paris in July with a ring he Harley together. The engagement comes ries this year to cope with the demand for his Yeezy collection. Hear designed himself and the brunette beauty at an already busy time for the former ‘Rich the interview tonight on Annie Mac’s 7-9pm BBC Radio One show. has described how “surprised” she was. Girls’ star as she has recently released her Talking about the adorable proposal, she first book, ‘Bite Me’, about her struggles with Lyme disease. Ally contracted Lymes when she was just seven from a tick bite and spent years being misdiagnosed and saw around 10 different doctors. She said after being diagnosed her condition is Kylie Jenner to release much more manageable and her improved health meant she was able to have a child with Steve. She previously shared: “I wasn’t birthday make-up collection planning on having a baby so soon. I didn’t even think I could get pregnant! And then I ylie Jenner is to release a limited edition Kylie Cosmetics make-up did, and I was a little freaked out, but I was collection to mark her 19th birthday. The ‘Keeping Up With the reassured by several doctors that I was KKardashians’ star will drop the exciting range at 3pm on August 1 strong enough and could handle it. And I but fans will need to be quick if they want to get their hands on her stun- felt in my heart that I was. “My baby is per- ning exclusive pieces as they’ll only be available for 10 days. Taking to her fectly healthy and normal but I am sure if I Snapchat account on Sunday, she teased: “I’ve been working on this for too had had her 11 years ago, it would not long.” The brunette beauty then pulled out a black make-up bag with a have worked out. I don’t believe I would huge pair of lips stuck on the front and a ‘K’ zipper. Inside the bag is a selec- have had a healthy pregnancy or a healthy tion of goodies; including a eyeliner and gel liner - Kyliner - in the shade child at that time because I was so sick.” dark bronze. She explained: “This is my first ever Kyliner for my birthday edition collection. I really wanted to launch with dark bronze because that’s what I wear every day.” But her birthday edition didn’t stop there as she’s also included a mini matte liquid lipstick pack featuring her popular glosses Dolce, Exposed, Candy, KoKo, Kristen, and her new maroon limited Josh Groban and Jennifer Hudson edition shade Leo. She’s also created a new gloss called Poppin’ in a gorgeous orange shade infused with real gold pieces. She said: “Everything in this collection is infused with real gold. everything has real gold in it.” The Kat Dennings have split up talented businesswoman has also bundled in a new metal matte lipstick likes to wear denim called Lord and create her first ever creme shadows in the shades rose gold he couple - who have been dating for in October 2014 when they stepped out and gold. Despite the range only being available until August 10 - Kylie’s almost two years - have mutually together at the Carousel of Hope Ball in birthday - she’s adamant she’s created enough for every one and no one Tdecided to call time on their romance Beverly Hills, California. And that wasn’t the will be left disappointed. She said: “There will be enough for everybody.” because it “wasn’t the right time” but are only milestone for the pair as the glam- in the summer And, although the pieces all come together in the gorgeous make-up bag determined to remain friends. A source orous event was the first time the ‘Two he 34-year-old singer has admitted she regularly slips into the sturdy for the price of $195, Kylie has revealed fans can also buy the items individ- told E! News: “It was a mutual breakup. Broke Girls’ star, 30, had heard her then- ually. She added: “You can buy everything separate.” They are still friends and care about each beau sing.-Bang Showbiz cotton items, despite the scorching temperatures in New York at the other, but it’s not the right time for them Tmoment, because she always feels cold. Speaking to WWD.com, she now as a couple.” The reason for their split said: “When it’s summer, that means a lot of air conditioning. Somebody is not yet known but the 35-year-old singer like myself, I get cold a lot. I feel like the denim helps keep you warm at recently admitted dating someone in the times, but it’s still cool enough to wear in the summer.” Meanwhile, the same industry can be a “challenge” because ‘Dreamgirls’ star feels she has finally accepted her body for what it is and they’re always globe-trotting. He said earli- insists she won’t hide it as she’s worked hard to lose weight. She explained er this year: “We’re having a wonderful time recently: “I’ve made a huge transition [with my weight]. There are things and enjoying every minute of it. “I don’t you want to try but you can’t always wear when you’re ‘plus size.’ So I feel think it’s about being in the same industry. like I am able to explore more, but I am still very conscious of every girl, Kat could be a doctor or a pet psychic, she every woman, every size. I like high-waisted things. “I love the pencil could be anything and she’s just one of the shape, which works regardless of your size. I feel like each one of these kindest, most understanding people I’ve pieces represent that silhouette. I did not work this hard for this [my body] ever met, so really it comes down to who to hide it!” And Jennifer - who has David, six, with her partner David she is as a person. “The fact we’re both in Otunga - previously revealed parenting keeps her fit. She shared: “We the industry can be more of a challenge were outside in our front yard recently playing ball and I was like ‘What because we’re always travelling and work- other parent does this?’ I know they think we’re the strangest people, but ing. But when the connection is strong, you we keep up with the kids ... In the summertime, I like to do outdoor activi- find ways to make it work.” The former cou- ties with my son like bike riding, playing basketball or skating. Big David ple made their relationship publicly known and I are very active parents.” TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES

Tracy D’Souza (center), head of the filmmaking group ‘Girliyapa’, speaking with team members during a meeting at their Tracy D’Souza (left), head of the filmmaking group ‘Girliyapa’, joking with team members during a meeting at their office office in Mumbai. in Mumbai. Indian filmmakers tackle sexism with edgy videos rom “The Period Song” to “How I Raped Your hit American sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”, Mother”, one all-women Indian production team Girliyapa tackles old-fashioned familial attitudes Fis challenging conservative attitudes with no- towards marital rape, which is not illegal under Indian holds-barred satirical videos that are causing a stir law. In the 13-minute satirical video, a daughter com- online. Mumbai-based filmmakers “Girliyapa” have plains to members of her family that her husband has released a series of hard-hitting clips that tackle been sexually abusing her. The mother says it’s just misogyny, with subjects ranging from marital rape, part of marriage while the father terms it “intense which is not a crime in India, to social stigmas sur- love-making”. “Political statements aren’t solving the rounding menstruation cycles. “Our videos aren’t real issue. So we decided to make the video to high- preachy but laced with humour and to the point, light rape and violence against women,” Ratnabali which drives the message home rather effectively,” Bhattacharjee, a Girliyapa scriptwriter who plays the group head Tracy D’Souza told AFP in an interview. role of the mother, told AFP. The five videos, which vary from music and dance Indian filmmaker Paromita Vohra also deals with sequences to mini-sitcoms, have received more than the subject of consent in a short online sitcom enti- five million total views since the first one was tled “The Amorous Adventures of Shakku and Megha uploaded onto YouTube last October. But the ten- in the Valley of Consent” uploaded on YouTube in member Girliyapa team have also faced plenty of March. It’s part of her project called “Agents of Ishq”, online sexist abuse from anonymous critics wanting to meaning love in both Hindi and Urdu, which aims to silence them. Their skits are the type that never screen create awareness about women’s rights and sex edu- on India’s main television networks, dominated by cation through videos and animated graphics. And soap operas whose sari-clad female characters almost both sitcom web series “Girl in the City”, on youth tele- always play traditional roles of mother and housewife. vision channel Bindass, and “Ladies Room” are also Girliyapa is one of several filmmaking teams taking proving a massive hit online with their 21st century the internet by storm, tackling social issues, but also depictions of independent-minded women. tapping into a growing desire among India’s youth for “Girl in the City” is about a 21-year-old who moves a more modern portrayal of women on screen. India’s to financial capital Mumbai to follow her dream of massive Hindi film industry has been regularly criti- being a fashion stylist. “Ladies Room” sees two female periods. Another of their videos deals with young slurs and threats of rape, all in a bid to shame them This photo shows team cized for depicting women as meek and subjecting protagonists discuss subjects ranging from relation- women buying condoms, while trying to navigate into silence. The Girliyapa team say they have faced members of the filmmak- female characters to aggressive methods of wooing ships to pregnancy, all while in a women’s washroom. internet dating is the subject of one of their other such attacks every time they have released a new ing group ‘Girliyapa’ taking by dominant male leads. Critics point to Bollywood In one episode they even smoke drugs, something productions. Analysts say the videos are playing an video, but remain determined in their quest to a selfie at their office in superstar Salman Khan’s controversial comment rarely seen on Indian television. important role in overturning gender biases. “Digital change attitudes. “We won’t stop telling our stories. Mumbai. — AFP photos recently that his heavy training schedule for wrestling media can help educate, advocate and encourage People will have to accept the narrative despite all movie “Sultan” left him feeling “like a raped woman”, Online trolls people to adopt attitudes and behaviour that pro- their inherent inhibitions,” co-writer Shruti Madan told as an insight into attitudes in the industry. Girliyapa’s “The Period Song” celebrates the men- mote gender equality,” Mumbai-based women’s safety AFP. — AFP struation cycle, a taboo subject in deeply patriarchal activist Elsa D’Silva told AFP. Marital rape India where women are often banned from religious However it’s also online where women are being In “How I Raped Your Mother”, a play on the title of sites and even rooms in their own home during their subjected to misogynistic trolling, including sexual Real-life ‘Pianist’ family wins defamation appeal

he family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of Oscar-win- added it would be impossible to pen a biography of the recently ning Holocaust film “The Pianist” said yesterday they had deceased without upsetting anyone. Twon an appeal against defamation over claims in a book The appeals court however found in favor of Szpilman, who that he was a Nazi collaborator. Wladyslaw Szpilman’s widow and died in 2000. “This ruling will allow the ethical standards in Poland son brought the case in Warsaw’s appeals court after losing the to improve and bring into question the poorly-interpreted notion initial complaint in September 2013. The family took issue with of freedom of speech,” said Andrzej Szpilman, the son, after the certain quotes by Polish-Jewish singer Wiera Gran in a 2010 biog- 2013 ruling was thrown out. But Tuszynska was aghast. “Once raphy of her life, written by Agata Tuszynska. The remarks see Gran again they have closed Wiera Gran’s mouth. I am really sorry,” the In this June 30, 2016 file photo, director Charles Stone accuse Szpilman of being part of the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Gazeta Wyborcza daily quoted the writer as saying. Following the III poses for a portrait on the set of his new film ìStep ghetto. appeal court’s decision Friday, Tuszynska and her publishers have Sistersî in Atlanta. — AP The popular late ghetto songstress was herself suspected of 15 days to make a public apology to the Szpilman family and collaborating with the Nazis. A court acquitted her of the charges remove incriminating passages from any future editions of the after the war but continued criticism forced her to leave Poland. In work. Szpilman inspired Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film the original court case, ghetto survivors who knew Szpilman testi- about a piano player who uses his music to survive under Nazi Wheatley’s ‘Free Fire,’ fied and rejected Gran’s claims, as did former foreign minister rule. Polanski’s poignant 2002 movie about Szpilman won three Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who helped Jews during World War II. Oscars, including one for actor Adrian Brody, who played him. Judge Bozena Lasota said the author herself had expressed After leaving Poland, Gran emigrated to Israel then moved to starring Larson, to doubts over the allegations against Szpilman and “never shared France, where she died in 2007. — AFP Wiera Gran’s most serious view”. But Lasota said a biographer has Actor Adrian Brody the right to quote opinions based on freedom of speech and close BFI London en Wheatley’s action-thriller “Free Fire,” which is executive produced by Martin Scorsese, will be the clos- Bing night film at the 60th BFI London Film Festival. ‘Step Sisters’ film drawing backlash over racial humor The film’s director and cast, which is led by Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer, will be on the red car- pet for the European premiere on Oct 16 at London’s he dance comedy “Step Sisters” won’t be in film isn’t an attempt to portray black fraternities satire about race relations. “The comedy, stereo- arms.” But he said black Greek-stepping is the Odeon Leicester Square. The pic’s stars are red hot: Larson theaters until next year, but the film is or sororities in a negative light. She told one per- types and the social references are meant to be “perfect” stage to tackle racism and discrimina- won an Oscar this year for “Room” and is set to topline in already drawing a backlash from the son the film is in good hands with fellow pro- thought-provoking,” Echikunwoke said. “It’s defi- tion. Stepping is a popular dance routine used T “Captain Marvel”; Murphy leads the cast in cult TV show African-American community because of sub- ducer Benjamin Jones and writer Chuck nitely meant to be provocative. It might be mostly by African-American fraternities and “Peaky Blinders” and appears next year in Christopher ject matter deemed racially offensive by some. Hayward, both of whom have black fraternity offensive to some people. It’s not like we are try- sororities in competitions on college campuses. Nolan’s war-time epic “Dunkirk”; and Hammer features The plot centers on a black sorority sister named backgrounds. Frederick said Waithe reached out ing to be offensive, but I think we’re definitely Routines typically involve a rhythmic, beat-dri- soon in Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation.” Other cast Jamilah, who in order to get into law school, has to her directly and said she would never work on pushing it a little in a good way.” When director ven mixture of foot moves and hand claps. members include Michael Smiley, Sharlto Copley and Jack to teach black Greek-stepping to a group of a project involving cultural appropriation and Charles Stone, who is black, was first pitched the “White and black Greek systems are separate,” Reynor. white sorority sisters whose charter is about to that “Step Sisters” was “really smart and funny.” film, he was opposed to helming it. But after he said Stone, who directed the 2002 film “Free Fire” is set in Boston in the late ‘70s. Justine be revoked. On its face, the story line suggests a Frederick said she’s open to the movie Waithe is read Hayward’s script, he liked how the story “Drumline.” “They really don’t mix together. In (Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse dubious effort to get some laughs out of racial describing, “but this is really about how this explored the gray areas of crossing cultures, the the African-American Greek world, it embraces between two Irishmen (Murphy, Smiley) and a gang led by stereotyping and cultural appropriation. But the movie is being presented.” fear of cultural appropriation and humor in racial being separate because they are protective of Vernon (Copley) and Ord (Hammer), who are selling them a film’s participants believe the public is getting Echikunwoke said “Step Sisters,” in a comedic stereotypes. their rituals for the fear of appropriation and stash of guns. “When shots are fired in the handover, a the wrong impression. way, actually takes issue with stereotypes of another culture profiting off of it. It’s a very real heart stopping game of survival ensues,” according to the “I think people will come away being pleas- both blacks and whites, along with society’s lack Greek systems are separate fear and concern.” press statement. The movie is produced by Andrew Starke antly surprised that the take-away message is of racial progress. She compares the context of Stone expects some initial backlash, saying But Stone also noted that crossing cultures for Rook Films, and is backed by Film4 and the British Film actually the opposite of white people culturally the film to the 2014 movie “Dear White People,” a the hook line will “immediately get people up in isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He said the film ref- Institute. The screenplay is by Amy Jump and Wheatley. appropriating the black culture,” said Megalyn erences black sisters Serena and Venus Williams’ BFI London Film Festival’s director, Clare Stewart, said in Echikunwoke, who plays Jamilah. “The messages breakthrough in the predominantly white sport a statement: “Ben Wheatley’s ascent as one of the UK’s are a lot different, and a lot more profound.” Yet a of tennis, and white rapper Eminem’s rise in hip- most dazzling cinematic talents continues with this ballsy description of the film making its way around hop music, which was ignited in the black com- actioner. Dripping with blood, sweat and irony, ‘Free Fire’s’ the internet has disturbed many blacks. “The munity. “We’re all human beings, despite the bravura filmmaking pays knowing tribute to the films of way it was presented to me, it just put me off,” fact we live in a world where there are biases, Sam Peckinpah and features a terrific cast, who clearly rel- said Candice Frederick, a film blogger. “A lot of prejudice and gender inequality,” he said. “Here’s ish bringing Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump’s vivid char- my readers and followers kind of felt similarly, an opportunity where we all can embrace a acters to the screen.” and a lot less diplomatic. ... There are a lot of common goal in working together regardless of “Free Fire” is Wheatley’s third film to be presented at the (black) people not excited about this movie.” cultural and societal differences.” Eden Sher, festival, following “Sightseers” in 2012 and “High-Rise” last who plays white dancer Beth in the film, said year. This year’s festival, which runs Oct 5-16, opens with Really smart and funny she never attempted step dancing until her role Amma Asante’s “A United Kingdom,” as previously Frederick and others have sent messages to in “Step Sisters.” The actress said she doesn’t announced. The full program will be unveiled Sept 1. The Echikunwoke and to one of the film’s producers, have a problem with both cultures learning attendance of last year’s festival totaled 164,000, across 568 Lena Waithe, through blogs and social media. from each other. —AP screenings. — Reuters Waithe, who is black, has responded that the lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

AWARDS

Justin Timberlake accepts the decade award at the Teen Choice Awards.

Justin Timberlake accepts the decade award.— AP/AFP photos Actress Jessica Alba (center) speaks out against gun violence with victims and victims’ families of gun violence attacks onstage during Teen Choice Awards 2016. Timberlake, Alba bring seriousness to Teen Choice Awards

he rowdy revelry of the Teen Choice Awards momentari- ly took on a somber tone Sunday when Jessica Alba, Ne- TYo and a group of teenagers called for an end to gun violence. The actress was joined on stage at the fan-favorite ceremony by a group of teens related to shooting victims in such places as San Bernardino, California; Newtown, Connecticut; and Orlando, Florida. Alba and singer Ne-Yo, who performed Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” asked the audience to stand and for everyone to post on social media using the hashtag #StopTheViolence. “Tonight, we stand together with these teens united in a call for peace and an end to this violence,” Alba said after each of the teens introduced themselves. “Now, more than ever, we need to stop, feel and ask, ‘What’s going on?’” Justin Timberlake also brought seriousness to the otherwise silly ceremony. He was bestowed by Kobe Bryant with the show’s version of a lifetime achievement award. The singer-actor used his moment in the spotlight to honor late boxer Muhammad Ali, address the importance of diversity and impart wisdom to the young crowd gathered at the Forum in Inglewood, Actors Ross Lynch (left) and Gina Rodriguez speak California. “As a relatively new dad and a former teen, I am onstage. here to say you will make mistakes along the way,” he said. “You will fall down. I have many times - even Ali did.” (From left) Actors Ian Harding, Tyler Blackburn, Shay Mitchell, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario, Janel Parrish The speech marked the first time Timberlake has accepted and Sasha Pieterse accept the award for Choice TV Show: Drama onstage. an award since he apologized after responding to online backlash following writing that he was inspired by Jessie Williams’ thing,” said Timberlake. Teen Choice Awards co-hosts John speech at the BET Awards, where Williams spoke out about Cena and Victoria Justice engaged in several goofy stunts racial issues and cultural appropriation. “The truth is, we are all between helping to hand out surfboard-shaped trophies in different, but that does not mean we all don’t want the same categories honoring film, TV, music, sports and social media, as voted on by viewers. The 18th annual ceremony kicked off with Cena and Justice respectively dressed as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The gender-bending bit wasn’t just for laughs. The pair encouraged teens to register to vote. Other stunts included the wrestler-actor and singer-actress engaging in a 30-second selfie challenge, as well as Justice and Laverne Cox, her co-star in an upcoming remake of “The Rocky Horror Picture,” squirt- ing Cena with water bottles as they explained the movie’s Recording artists Bebe Rexha (left) and Flo Rida perform plot. This year’s winners on hand to pick up their surfboard- onstage. shaped trophies included “Captain America” actor Chris Evans, “Neighbors 2” actress Chloe Grace Moretz, “The Flash” actor Grant Gustin, “Star Wars” actress Daisy Ridley and social media stars Cameron Dallas and the Dolan twins. The casts of “Pretty Little Liars,” “Teen Wolf” and “Fuller House” were honored with several awards. Jennifer Garner and her young “Miracles from Heaven” co-star Kiley Rogers dedicated the film’s prize to sick children. “Don’t give up hope,” said Garner. The two-hour ceremony included performances by “Empire” actress Serayah, Charlie Puth, Flo Rida, Bebe Rexha and Jason Derulo. Fox said more than 37 million votes were cast online for this year’s award winners. — AP

(From left) Actors Shelley Hennig, Cody Christian and Tyler Posey accept the award for Choice Summer TV Show.

Chris Evans accepts the award for choice movie actor: Sci- fi/fantasy for ‘Captain America: Civil War’.

Co-hosts John Cena (left) and Victoria Justice speak onstage during Teen Choice Awards 2016.

Actor Grant Gustin accepts the award for Choice TV Actor: Victims of gun violence pose in the press room during Teen Choice Awards 2016. Actors John Stamos (left) and Sarah Hyland speak onstage. Sci Fi/Fantasy onstage. lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016

AWARDS

Maddie Ziegler poses with the choice dance Actress Chloe Grace Moretz accepts award Jennifer Garner, left, and Kylie Rogers accept Actress Daisy Ridley accepts the award for Actor Matthew Daddario poses in the press award. for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy onstage. the award for choice movie: Drama for Choice Movie: Breakout Star onstage. room during Teen Choice Awards 2016. ‘Miracles from Heaven’. Winners

MOVIES CHOICE MOVIE: ACTION/ADVENTURE MUSIC “Deadpool” CHOICE MALE ARTIST Justin Bieber CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: ACTION/ADVENTURE CHOICE FEMALE ARTIST Dylan O’Brien, “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” Selena Gomez CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: ACTION/ADVENTURE CHOICE MUSIC GROUP: Shailene Woodley, “The Divergent Series: Allegiant” One Direction CHOICE R&B/HIP-HOP ARTIST CHOICE MOVIE: SCI-FI/FANTASY Beyonce “Captain America: Civil War” CHOICE COUNTRY ARTIST Bethany Mota, left, and Lea Michele present the award for CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: SCI-FI/FANTASY Lana Parrilla, left, and Paul Wesley present the award for Carrie Underwood choice TV show: Drama at the Teen Choice Awards. choice TV show: Comedy at the Teen Choice Awards. Chris Evans, “Captain America: Civil War” CHOICE SONG: FEMALE ARTIST CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: SCI-FI/FANTASY Ariana Grande, “Dangerous Woman” Jennifer Lawrence, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part CHOICE SONG: MALE ARTIST 2” Justin Bieber, “Sorry” CHOICE MOVIE: DRAMA CHOICE SONG: GROUP “Miracles from Heaven” One Direction, “Home” CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: DRAMA CHOICE COUNTRY SONG Brad Paisley feat. Demi Lovato, “Without a Fight” Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant” CHOICE R&B/HIP-HOP SONG CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: DRAMA Drake, “One Dance” (feat Wizkid & Kyla) Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy” CHOICE ROCK SONG 5 Seconds of Summer, “Jet Black Heart” CHOICE MOVIE: COMEDY CHOICE LOVE SONG “Ride Along 2” One Direction, “Perfect” CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: COMEDY CHOICE BREAK-UP SONG Zac Efron, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself” CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: COMEDY CHOICE PARTY SONG DNCE, “Cake by the Ocean” Nikki Bella, from left, Matthew Daddario and Brie Bella Internet personalities Grayson Dolan (left) and Ethan Chlo’ Grace Moretz, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” CHOICE SONG FROM A MOVIE OR TV SHOW present the award for choice movie: Breakout star. Dolan accept the Choice Web Stars award onstage. CHOICE MOVIE VILLAIN Fifth Harmony, “I’m In Love with A Monster” (“Hotel Adam Driver, “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” Transylvania 2”) CHOICE MOVIE SCENE STEALER CHOICE MUSIC BREAKOUT ARTIST Jena Malone, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2” Zayn CHOICE MOVIE BREAKOUT STAR CHOICE MUSIC: NEXT BIG THING Daisy Ridley, “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” Hey Violet CHOICE MOVIE CHEMISTRY CHOICE SUMMER SONG Thomas Brodie-Sangster & Dylan O’Brien, “Maze Runner: Fifth Harmony, “Work from Home” (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) The Scorch Trials” CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: FEMALE Selena Gomez CHOICE MOVIE LIPLOCK CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: MALE Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson, “The Hunger Games: Zayn Mockingjay - Part 2” CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: GROUP CHOICE MOVIE HISSY FIT 5 Seconds of Summer Ryan Reynolds, “Deadpool” CHOICE SUMMER TOUR CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE 5 Seconds of Summer, “Sounds Live Feels Live Tour” “Finding Dory” CHOICE MUSIC: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE ACTOR Little Mix Kevin Hart, “Central Intelligence” WEB/DIGITAL CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE ACTRESS CHOICE WEB STAR: FEMALE Lilly Singh (“IISuperwomanII”) Ellen DeGeneres, “Finding Dory” CHOICE WEB STAR: MALE CHOICE ANTEENCIPATED MOVIE Dolan Twins “Suicide Squad” CHOICE WEB STAR: COMEDY CHOICE ANTEENCIPATED MOVIE ACTOR Lilly Singh (“IISuperwomanII”) Dylan O’Brien, “Deepwater Horizon” CHOICE WEB STAR: MUSIC CHOICE ANTEENCIPATED MOVIE ACTRESS Christina Grimmie Andrea Barber, from left, Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure pose in the Ross Lynch poses in the press room Cara Delevingne, “Suicide Squad” CHOICE WEB STAR: FASHION/BEAUTY press room with the award for choice TV show: Comedy for ‘Fuller House’. with the award for choice TV come- Bethany Mota dy actor for ‘Austin & Ally’. TELEVISION SOCIAL MEDIA KING CHOICE TV SHOW: DRAMA Cameron Dallas SOCIAL MEDIA QUEEN “Pretty Little Liars” Fifth Harmony CHOICE TV ACTOR: DRAMA CHOICE TWIT Ian Harding, “Pretty Little Liars” Justin Bieber CHOICE TV ACTRESS: DRAMA CHOICE VINER Ashley Benson, “Pretty Little Liars” Lele Pons CHOICE TV SHOW: SCI-FI/FANTASY CHOICE INSTAGRAMMER “Once Upon a Time” Selena Gomez CHOICE TV ACTOR: SCI-FI/FANTASY CHOICE SNAPCHATTER Grant Gustin, “The Flash” Kylie Jenner CHOICE YOUTUBER CHOICE TV ACTRESS: SCI-FI/FANTASY Dolan Twins Lana Parrilla, “Once Upon a Time” CHOICE MUSER CHOICE TV SHOW: COMEDY Baby Ariel “Fuller House” CHOICE FANDOM CHOICE TV ACTOR: COMEDY One Direction, #Directioners Ross Lynch, “Austin & Ally” CHOICE TV ACTRESS: COMEDY FASHION Candace Cameron Bure, “Fuller House” CHOICE FEMALE HOTTIE CHOICE TV: ANIMATED SHOW Kendall Jenner “Family Guy” CHOICE MALE HOTTIE Harry Styles CHOICE TV: REALITY SHOW CHOICE STYLE: MALE “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” Nick Jonas CHOICE TV VILLAIN CHOICE STYLE: FEMALE Janel Parrish, “Pretty Little Liars” Zendaya CHOICE TV: SCENE STEALER SPORTS (from left) Writer/producer Jeff Franklin and actors John Stamos, Michael Campion, Soni Nicole Bringas, Elias Harger, Sasha Pieterse, “Pretty Little Liars” CHOICE MALE ATHLETE Andrea Barber, and Jodie Sweetin accept the Choice TV Comedy award for ‘Fuller House’ onstage. CHOICE TV: BREAKOUT STAR Stephen Curry Matthew Daddario, “Shadowhunters: The Mortal CHOICE FEMALE ATHLETE Instruments” The Bella Twins CHOICE TV: BREAKOUT SHOW CHOICE SPORTS TEAM U.S.A. 2016 Olympic Team “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” CHOICE TV: CHEMISTRY OTHER Ashley Benson & Tyler Blackburn, “Pretty Little Liars” CHOICE COMEDIAN CHOICE TV: LIPLOCK Ellen DeGeneres Jennifer Morrison & Colin O’Donoghue, “Once Upon A CHOICE SELFIE TAKER Time” Ariana Grand CHOICE SUMMER TV SHOW CHOICE DANCER “Teen Wolf” Maddie Ziegler CHOICE SUMMER TV ACTOR CHOICE MODEL Kendall Jenner Dylan O’Brien, “Teen Wolf” CHOICE PRESIDENT Recording artist Ne-Yo (right) and Crystal Renay attend Keegan-Michael Key, from left, John Cena and Victoria CHOICE SUMMER TV ACTRESS Hillary Clinton — Reuters Shelley Hennig, “Teen Wolf” the Teen Choice Awards 2016. Justice announce Hillary Clinton as the winner of the Rock the Vote results at the Teen Choice Awards. 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Actors and singers perform during the opera ‘La Traviata’ by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Louis Desire and conducted by Daniele Rustioni, in Orange, southern France, during the Choregies d’Orange festival, dedicated to opera, lyrical art and symphonic concert. — AFP Syrian child actor who rose to fame killed in city of Aleppo

he sit-com is a little like “I Love Lucy,” starring a tion station Halab Today TV. It was filmed in Aleppo, boy,” Sakka told The Associated Press. “We were look- comic housewife who gets into shenanigans even as it was subjected almost daily to bombarding for an intelligent boy,” he said from southern Tand bickers with her husband. Except children ment. In one outtake, three girls performing a scene Turkey via Skype. “We wanted him to be free with play all the roles. And it all takes place in one of the his- jump at the sound of an explosion, then go on with ideas, and without fear of Bashar Assad’s regime and toric stone houses in the old city of Aleppo, besieged their lines. Bashar Sakka, the director, said he cast kids its ruthlessness.” by government forces in one of the worst battle- because children are the witnesses to “the massacres grounds of Syria’s civil war. “Um Abdou the Aleppan” is committed by Assad against childhood.” The show is A little hero a small curiosity of the 5-year-old war, the first sit-com steeped in the atmosphere of Aleppo, Syria’s largest Abtini was 10 years old when mass protests first produced out of rebel-held parts of Syria. city, taking place in the stone alleyways of one of its erupted against the rule of President Bashar Assad Aired in 2014 on a local Aleppo station, it was a old neighborhoods, with the dialogue in the city’s dis- erupted in March 2011. He became quickly entangled light-hearted look at life in the war-ravaged city, find- tinct accent of Arabic. The title character, Um Abdou, in the uprising, taking part in anti-Assad demonstra- This undated frame grab shows Syrian child actor Qusai Abtini, while filming an episode, ing comedy as it showed residents dealing with every- was played by a young girl named Rasha, while Abtini tions, often sitting on his older brother’s shoulders. He in Aleppo, Syria. thing from cut-offs in electricity and water, to faction- played her husband, Abu Abdou. Both show a talent spoke in opposition videos, criticizing Assad’s govern- alism among rebels, to bombardments and violence. for comic timing, playing a stereotypical traditional ment and describing Aleppo’s destruction. At the The child actors, even as they spot-on mimic charac- husband and wife. He’s domineering and patriarchal. same time, he acted in school plays. Afraa Hashem, his ters of a traditional Aleppo neighborhood, provide a She’s clever, ambitious and a bit ditzy, dealing with school’s director, saw his talent and introduced him to tone of innocence. The tragic reality intruded on that neighboring families living on top of each other in Sakka. “He was very ambitious. Once he moved from innocence this month. Qusai Abtini, the 14-year-old close quarters. acting in plays to TV, his dreams broadened and boy who played the husband, was killed when a mis- worked on transforming what he was living through” sile struck the car he was in as he tried to escape Afraid of cockroaches into his performances, she said, speaking from Aleppo Aleppo. Fresh-faced with a toothy grin and thick black In one episode, the mother of a rebel fighter visits, via Skype. hair, Abtini had become a local celebrity. looking to marry her son to Umm Abdou’s daughter. After the TV series, Abtini had roles in local theater. Over tea, Umm Abou tells her all her daughters are Last summer, he played a rebel killed in fighting. As his Symbolic funeral married to members of the Free Syrian Army, the com- mother weeps over his body, a man tells her: “Be hap- His life and death underscored the suffering of paratively secular rebel umbrella group. When she py for him. He wanted martyrdom and got it.” During Aleppans, whose city was once the commercial center learns that the prospective groom is a “mujahid” - an recent shelling, Abtini’s home was hit and his father of Syria with a thriving, unique culture but has now Islamic militant fighter - she slyly demands a high was wounded, left bound to a wheelchair. On July 8, been torn to pieces by fighting, with whole neighbor- dowry to intentionally foil the negotiations. In another Abtini’s father decided to send his children out of hoods left in ruin. Tens of thousands in the city have episode, Um Abdou decides with her girlfriends to Aleppo. But as the car Abtini was in made a run down been killed since the summer of 2012, when Aleppo form an all-female rebel faction. Abu Abdou teases the one road out of rebel-held parts of Aleppo, a mis- split into rebel- and government-held districts and the her, saying, “You want to go to the front lines when sile struck it. In a video of the symbolic funeral a few two sides turned on each other. In recent weeks, gov- you’re afraid of cockroaches.” Then he tells her there’s a days later, his father in his wheelchair watches the ernment forces have tightened their siege of rebel- mouse under the couch and laughs as she jumps up marchers go by, holding a placard reading, “Qusai, Abu This undated frame grab shows Syrian child actor Qusai Abtini, left, playing the role of an held sections, trying to cut off the last escape routes. and screams. Abdu the Aleppan. You are a little hero. You scared the opposition fighter while acting in a play, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria. Days after Abtini’s death, several dozen men marched Another scene has Abu Abdou going with rebels regime with your giant acts so they killed you.” — AP through his home district in a symbolic funeral, wav- on a raid, but Um Abdou gossips about it to all her ing opposition flags and chanting “Qusai has gone to neighbors - and her husband comes back wounded heaven. Bashar is the killer of my people.” from an ambush by government forces who learned “Umm Abdou the Aleppan” aired in nearly 30 of the planned attack. “I wonder how everyone found episodes, each about 10 minutes long, on the opposi- out!” Umm Abdou muses. “Qusai was a very talented

This undated frame grab from video provided by Bashar Sakka, producer This undated frame shows Syrian actor Qusai Abtini, right, while filming This undated frame grab shows Syrian actress Rasha, background, playing the role of a of the sit-com, ‘Um Abdou the Aleppan,’ shows Syrian actor Qusai Abtini, an episode with Rasha, left, known as Umm Abdou, in Aleppo, Syria. mother who lost her son, a rebel killed in fighting, played by Qusai Abtini, laying on the right, while filming an episode with Rasha, left, known as Umm Abdu, in — AP photos ground, in Aleppo, Syria. the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria.