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ISSUE NO: 17369 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net

843 companies with 5,911 Iran moves to save last Saudis to extract uranium for Saudi women to be allowed 3 registered workers suspended 7 ‘mascot’ Asiatic cheetahs 17 ‘self-sufficient’ nuke program 16 into sports stadiums in 2018

Amir accepts resignation of Cabinet, names it caretaker Speaker: No parliament sessions until new govt is formed

By B Izzak new prime minister or ask the outgoing premier to form a new Cabinet. KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah National Assembly speaker Marzouq Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday Al-Ghanem told reporters that he was Harbi approves accepted the resignation of the Cabinet officially informed of the resignation and which was submitted to him by the prime that he will announce this at the start of new dental minister amid indications that the forma- today’s scheduled Assembly session. But tion of the new Cabinet could take he said he will adjourn the session and fees for expats weeks. The resignation came as expect- will not call for new Assembly sessions ed following a no-confidence motion before the formation of the new Cabinet. filed against Minister of State for Under Kuwaiti constitution, Assembly KUWAIT: Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi Cabinet Affairs and acting Information sessions are illegal if no Cabinet minister issued a decision to increase the fees for dental Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah is attending. services for expats, as part of the health fee Al-Sabah following a grilling last Ghanem gave no timeframe for the increases which came into Tuesday on the National Assembly’s formation of the Cabinet amid indica- effect this month. Harbi opening day. tions by sources that the process could approved the mechanism to Sheikh Mohammad was grilled over be a lengthy one and might take weeks. collect fees for dental services alleged financial and administrative vio- There is no official deadline for the for- and surgeries - KD 2 for each lations, which he categorically denied. mation of the Cabinet under normal cir- visit, in addition to charges for The government’s resignation came after cumstances. Due to political disputes each medical procedure the a large number of lawmakers announced between the government and the patient needs on every visit. their support for the no-confidence Assembly since 2006, at least a dozen KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (left) hands the The decision includes x-ray Jamal Al-Harbi motion, which threatens to dismiss the governments have stepped down, mostly government’s resignation letter to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- fees whenever the patient needs minister if the motion succeeds. over disputes with MPs. The Assembly Sabah yesterday. — KUNA it, to be collected once only if it HH the Amir asked outgoing Prime was also dissolved seven times in the is for the same tooth on the same visit. Expats will Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak same period. expatriates to enroll their children in insists that the law explicitly stipulates be received at specialized dental clinics by referral Al-Sabah and his ministers to remain as In another development, the lower public schools. The case, filed by lawyer that public schools are for Kuwaitis only, from primary care clinics after the initial treatment is a caretaker Cabinet until a new govern- court yesterday set Nov 20 to look into Ibrahim Al-Bathani on behalf of a but the government allows certain cate- completed (filling, extraction or cleaning). Continued on Page 11 ment is formed. Under the constitution, a case in which a Kuwaiti citizen is suing Kuwaiti citizen, claims the education gories of expats like teachers and judges the Amir has the sole right to name a the government for allowing certain ministry is violating the law. The citizen to enroll their children at such schools.

Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Moscow the GCC is a political and economic union and its allies in June issued Qatar with a list of First charges, political party. Manafort, a longtime Bahrain calls for that includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the demands, including shutting down Doha- Republican operative, arrived at the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as based broadcaster Al-Jazeera, curbing rela- plea deal emerge Federal Bureau of Investigation’s freeze on Qatar’s Oman and Kuwait. tions with Iran and closing a Turkish military Washington field office to hand himself in. Bahrain’s King Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al- base in the emirate. After severing ties with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy Khalifa announced later yesterday that his coun- Doha, Riyadh and its allies closed land and in Russia probe advisor to the GCC membership try would not attend any future GCC meeting if maritime borders, suspended air links and campaign early Qatar was to take part. “Qatar has proved today expelled Qatari citizens. WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s former last year, pleaded DUBAI: Bahrain called yesterday for Qatar’s that it does not respect charters, treaties and In an interview aired on Sunday, Qatar’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort was guilty on Oct 5 membership of the Gulf Cooperation Council bonds upon which the GCC was founded,” the emir accused Saudi Arabia and its Arab charged yesterday with conspiracy against to making false to be suspended until it accepts the demands king said during a cabinet meeting, cited by allies of seeking to topple his government. the United States and money laundering, in statements, of its neighbors and said Manama would not BNA news agency. He also accused Qatar of “They want a regime change. It’s... so the first indictments stemming from a admitting he attend GCC meetings alongside Doha. “The undermining the security of other GCC member obvious,” Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- sprawling probe into Russian interference sought to hide correct step to preserve the GCC would be to states. “So long as Qatar continues on this path, Thani told CBS’s 60 Minutes. “History as in the 2016 presidential election. Special contacts with a freeze Qatar’s membership until it sees reason Bahrain will not attend any Gulf summit or meet- well tells us, teaches us. They tried to do Moscow-linked counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the and accepts the demands of our countries. If ing in the presence of Qatar unless it rectifies its that before, in 1996 after my father professor offer- probe, also announced that a third person Paul Manafort not, we will be fine with it leaving the GCC,” policy and accepts the demands” of the Saudi- became the emir. So, and they made it also ing “dirt” on had pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investi- Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa led bloc, the king said. so obvious in the last couple of weeks,” he Donald Trump’s election rival Hillary gators probing the campaign’s possible said on Twitter. GCC members are scheduled to meet said. “They don’t like our independence, Clinton. “Papadopoulos impeded the FBI’s links to Russian interference. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab before the end of the year, but the Gulf crisis the way how we are thinking, our vision ongoing investigation into the existence of Manafort, 68, and business partner Rick Emirates and Egypt on June 5 severed ties could see the bloc’s annual meeting post- for the region. We want freedom of speech Gates, 45, were charged with allegedly any links or coordination between individ- with Qatar over accusations of supporting uals associated with the campaign and the poned or cancelled. Experts have warned that for the people of the region. And they’re hiding millions of dollars they earned extremism and being too close to rival Iran, Russian government’s efforts to interfere the nearly five-month-long diplomatic crisis not happy with that. And so they think that working for former Ukrainian politician charges Doha has denied. Founded in 1981, Continued on Page 11 could lead to the GCC’s demise. Saudi Arabia this is a threat to them.” — AFP Death brings In Oman desert, home reality of a gateway to Gulf workers life on Mars JAGTIAL, India: On a hot, sleepy after- DHOFAR, Oman: In sunglasses and jump- noon at Kalleda village in the southern suits, a crew of European test astronauts is Indian state of Telangana, Laxmi Malaya laying the groundwork for a Mars simulation sat on the porch of her house where the in the barren expanse of the Omani desert, a body of her husband Chittam - a daily terrestrial mission intended to pave the way wage laborer in Dubai - was to be to the red planet. The “analog astronauts” of brought the next day. Chittam, 45, was the Austrian Space Forum - a volunteer- the second migrant worker from the vil- based collective - have arrived in Oman to lage to have died in Dubai in September begin preparations for a four-week simulation and among the nearly 450 Indian mission due to begin next year. migrant workers shipped home in body Touching down at Marmul Airport, a bags since 2014. remote outpost used by oil workers, the five- “There were three deaths (of workers person advance team loaded up on sunscreen from the village) last year as well. We and, with their Omani counterparts dressed in were told Chittam died of a stroke, but Members of the Austrian Space Forum inspect a site in Oman’s Dhofar desert near crisp white gowns and colorful turbans, he was healthy when he came home for a the southern Marmul outpost on Sunday. — AFP KUWAIT: A worker is seen at a construction boarded four-by-fours and plunged into the visit last month,” said Ankathi site yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat desert under the blazing sun. Oil installations Gangadhar, the former village head of travel through space... Simulated, of course!” dures and doing these high-fidelity simula- Kalleda. Another local man, aged 24, receded into the background and only rocky plateaus and ancient sandy riverbeds Soucek said upon arrival at the chosen site. tions,” said Soucek. “We are one of them.” died in Dubai last month after suffering a Foundation. For decades, people have “When we fly to Mars in reality, we will need The team hopes the simulation will help nail migrated from Telangana - a largely rural remained as far as the eye could see. Maps heart attack, villagers said. Officials of as many questions as possible already down future tools and procedures for the first region with the tech hub of Hyderabad were spread on the hoods of the vehicles. the Telangana state government cite answered so that we are really well pre- manned mission to Mars. as its capital - to Indian cities such as “We want to simulate Mars on Earth and stress, ill health and working in searing pared.” Field commander Gernot Groemer pre- Mumbai and to the Gulf, unable to make so we need a place that looks as much like temperatures as the most common caus- During the mission, the team will carry out dicts a Mars mission may be carried out by a es of death and say fatality numbers a living from farming, mainly due to Mars as possible. And we found it here in a series of experiments, from growing greens collective of the United States, Russia, among migrants who travel to the Gulf water scarcity. About 10,000 people Oman,” Alexander Soucek, the lead flight without soil in an inflatable hydroponic Europe and possibly China relatively soon - from the state have remained stable. migrate to the Gulf states every year director of the AMADEE-18 mission, told greenhouse to testing an autonomous “tum- with the first human to set foot on the red “People discuss these deaths for a from Telangana, and about 200 on aver- AFP. The team was on a quest to pin down week, but then there is no initiative (to age from Kalleda, according to govern- the location of the base camp for the simula- bleweed” rover, which maps out terrain while planet maybe already born. “What we’re offer jobs here) so they keep leaving,” ment figures. tion, to be held in February. “Here the humans propelled by the wind. “There are very few going to see here in about 100 days is going Gangadhar told the Thomson Reuters Continued on Page 11 coming from Earth will land after six months groups on this planet testing these proce- Continued on Page 11 2 Established 1961 Local Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Amir receives ambassadors

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with meets with Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Yasir Mohammad Atef. — KUNA Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sunil Jain.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Sunil Jain on the occasion of ending his tenure as Minister of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, and President sented a copy of the report to His Highness the Prime Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yes- ambassador to country. The meetings were also attend- of Muslim World League Dr Abdullah bin Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Hamad Al-Sabah. terday Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Yasir ed by Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Abdulmehsen Al-Turki. In other news, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Mohammad Atef on the occasion of ending his tenure Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah. In the meantime, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Ali Al-Ghanem yesterday received the Palestinian as ambassador to country. His Highness the Amir also Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir received First Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Acting President Ambassador to Kuwait Rami Tahboub. Ghanem also received Cuban Ambassador to Kuwait Andres Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh of State Audit Bureau Adel Abdulaziz Al-Sar’awi. received the Moroccan ambassador to Kuwait Jaafar Gonzalez Garrido marking the occasion of ending his Sabah Khaled Hamad Al-Sabah, as well as Saudi Sar’awi presented to His Highness the Amir a copy of Hakeem, as well as Kuwait’s Ambassador to Belgium and tenure as ambassador to country. His Highness the Arabia’s Member of the International Organization for the Audit Bureau annual report review for budgets and the head of the country’s missions to the NATO and the Amir received as well the India’s Ambassador to Kuwait Muslim Scholars at the Saudi Royal Diwan, former final accounts for the year 2016-17. Sar’awi later pre- European Union (EU) Jassim Al-Bdaiwi. — KUNA

Zain participates in UN Day Turkey Ambassador hosts ceremony National Day reception

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunica- tions company in Kuwait, participated in a special ceremony that was held on the occa- sion of the United Nations Day, which coin- cides with the 24th of October of every year. The event, held under the patronage of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al- Sabah, came as part of Zain’s strategic part- nership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The ceremony, held at the UN House (Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Ahmad Al-Hain with Zain’s officials. Humanitarian Leader Building) in Mubarak Al Abdullah Area, witnessed the attendance of the representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations Ambassador Nasser Al-Hain, as well as Chairman of the Board - Director General of the General Authority for the Environment - Rapporteur of the Supreme Council for Environment Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Al-Homoud Al-Sabah, as well as a number of the UN’s partners from the civil community, private sector, international organ- izations, as well as a number of public figures. Zain’s participation came as an extension of the signing of a memorandum of understand- ing (MoU) between the company and the UNHCR during April of 2016. The agreement considered the best ways in which to con- tribute to the improvement of the living and social conditions of refugees and any other individuals who the UNHCR provides assis- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Sabah with Zain’s officials. tance to, and is considered an embodiment of the spirit of cooperation between private and global humanitarian sectors. Through its dedi- laboration with the UNHCR. The campaign shedding light on the humanitarian initiatives cated booth, Zain showcased its most promi- aimed at improving the living conditions of in place to alleviate the suffering of this com- nent contributions in humanitarian fields dur- thousands of refugees in the region who suffer munity of people around the world, as well as ing the past two years, including its from the lack of essential supplies during the highlight the efforts of the State of Kuwait in #ZainWithRefugees campaign, field trips to harsh winter season. Donations were utilized creating a hub for humanitarian work. refugee camps, online donation campaigns, to provide families with financial support, win- In relevance to the international refugee sit- strategic partnerships with local and global ter clothing, thermal blankets, heaters, and uation, Zain partnered with Kuwait Red humanitarian entities, and more. more. Zain prides itself in its long list of joint Crescent Society (KRCS) to organize a The event mainly aimed at highlighting the collaborations with the UNHCR, including the humanitarian trip that saw 12 of its volunteered State of Kuwait’s contributions and efforts into extension of mobile telecommunications cov- employees visiting and supporting Syrian achieving the 2030 sustainable goals, including erage to reconnect displaced families in the refugees in Lebanon to distribute food, Kuwait’s leading role in humanitarian aid, crisis Middle East, offering telecom services in clothes, blankets and cater to a number of and emergency aid, global developmental deprived areas, as well as awareness cam- KRCS-supported projects. Zain also continued efforts, and more. The event witnessed a dis- paigns through SMS services and social media its annual Clothes Donation Campaign and cussion panel as well an exhibition featuring channels. extended it this year to Kuwait University, the UN’s biggest partners, including Zain. The agreement between Zain and the were over 10.5 tons of clothes were donated Earlier this year, Zain launched its humani- UNHCR also focuses on the importance of and sent by Kuwait Society for Relief to dis- tarian campaign #ZainWithRefugees in col- raising awareness of the plight of refugees, and placed Syrian families.

by 10 MPs against Minister of State for three MPs filed a grilling motion against the Chronology of Cabinet Affairs and Acting Information Prime Minister. An Amiri Order was issued Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- on December 14, 2008 accepting the resig- Mubarak Al-Sabah, at the end of a day-long nation. The government, led by is His govt resignations grilling session. The following is a chronology Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser of resignations submitted by the Kuwaiti Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, at backdrop cabinet after MPs filed no-confidence resigned in March, 2009, two weeks after motions against the Premier or ministers: three grilling motions filed by MPs against In January 2001, the cabinet of Crown the Premier. Two days after the resignation of grilling prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad Al- was accepted, an Amiri Decree dissolved the Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah resigned two National Assembly, constitutionally. motions days after MP Hussein Al-Qallaf requested In March 2011, His Highness the Prime the interpellation of Minister of Justice and Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al- Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Dr Ahmed Al-Sabah’s cabinet resigned following KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Saad Al-Hashel. In March 2007, His Highness grilling motions filed against Minister of Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al- Housing and Development Sheikh Ahmad Al- yesterday submitted the resignation of his Sabah submitted the resignation of his cabi- Fahd, Minister of Oil and Minister of cabinet to His Highness the Amir Sheikh net, a day before a no-confidence session Information Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His that followed interpellation of Minister of Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Al- Highness the Amir issued an Amiri Order Health Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah. The Sabah. In November 2011, His Highness the accepting the resignation, whereby the pre- grilling was submitted by MPs Dr Waleed Al- Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed mier and ministers will proceed amid urgent Tabatabaie, Jamaan Al-Harbash and Ahmad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah submitted the resignation circumstances as a caretaker cabinet, pend- Al-Shahoumi. of his cabinet, less than two weeks after three KUWAIT: Ambassador of Turkey to Kuwait Murat Tamer hosted a reception ing the formation of a new cabinet. In November 2008, His Highness the MPs filed an interpellation against the Premier. The government resignation came at the Sunday night to celebrate his country’s national day. Senior officials, diplomats Premier Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al- Few days later, an Amiri Order dissolved the and other dignitaries attended the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat backdrop of a non-confidence motion filed Ahmed Al-Sabah’s cabinet resigned after National Assembly, constitutionally. — KUNA Established 1961 3 Local Tuesday, October 31, 2017 843 companies with 5,911 registered workers suspended Public Authority for Manpower cracks down on fake companies

KUWAIT: Public Authority for Manpower inspectors are The empty office of a fake company busted during the An inspector leaves a note at a closed company’s office, seen during the campaign. — Photos by Joseph Shagra crackdown. informing its owner to report to authorities within three days.

By Nawara Fattahova that all or the majority of the companies there were not will be completely electronic. “Machines will tally the practicing any business. The offices were vacant and commercial licenses, groups, dates of renewal and oth- KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) were very small, and some had few pieces of furniture ers. This will avoid any interference by any official or raided fake companies on Sunday evening in the as a camouflage,” Ahmad Al-Musa, Acting Director director in the inspection process. The inspectors will Why don’t Capital, Hawally and Farwaniya governorates. The General of PAM, said after the raids. use machines in documenting violations, which will inspectors divided into three groups and were accom- PAM will be cooperating with other public bodies. raise transparency,” concluded Musa. Arabs read? panied by reporters from various media outlets. The “We are now cooperating with the Ministry of raids resulted in sus- Commerce and the Eliminating trafficking pending the commercial Public Authority for Civil Abdullah Al-Mutoutah, Deputy Director for licenses of 843 compa- Information to verify civil Manpower Protection, said that these raids will elimi- nies with 5,911 employ- registrations and com- nate human trafficking. “These raids aim to ensure that ees registered with Inactive firms mercial licenses. We will employers respect the rules of the labor law. We will them - 181 companies in founded only check the total number release details to clarify the violations. The violators By Jeri Al-Jeri the Capital governorate of commercial licenses will then be transferred to the investigation depart- with 1,081 employees; to sell visas and the number of ment. We will do our duty, and then the judge will 314 companies in employees registered on decide the penalty for the crime committed,” he said Hawally with 2,144 to expats each license. The offices during a raid in Hawally. Salem Al-Jadi, head of the employees; and 348 that were inspected raiding team in Hawally governorate, explained that the [email protected] companies in Farwaniya today are temporarily inspectors during this raid posted warning stickers on with 2,686 employees. suspended with code 72. empty offices, giving owners three days to clarify their The raids focused After their representa- status by visiting the PAM headquarters and submitting There was an actual war on reading that poisoned mainly on empty offices of fake companies, in addition tives come here, they will be transferred to the investi- documents of their businesses. “We placed the warning our ancestors’ love for books. After the spread of to other violations. The employees registered with gation department with code 71. If they are guilty, the sticker even on some offices with furniture or decor, Islam, it became well-known that the Muslim these fake companies are working somewhere else or law will be strictly applied on them,” he added. since nobody was working inside the office or the shop. nation was a nation of reading. Europeans, during are unemployed (marginal laborers). The owners of Inspectors from the labor inspection department will We also took photos of the e-number of the office. We the Dark Age, were fascinated by how much time these companies are committing human trafficking, as conduct follow-up visits. “They will go on morning and send it to the central directorate, and they check it to and effort the Muslim people and governments they only founded a company to sell visas to expats evening inspections. The raids will be regular - monthly see whether there is a license registered on it or not. poured into anything book-related - from without practicing any commercial activity. or weekly depending on the violations observed by the The most significant evidence that nobody is working libraries and educational centers to paper facto- inspectors on previous visits. Some malls are on the in the office is the pile of classified ad papers under the ries; and polyglot scholars translating every read- Regular inspections blacklist, and no commercial licenses will be issued as door of the office,” Jadi told Kuwait Times. The public able material - even the hieroglyphics of ancient This was not the first raid by PAM on fake compa- they already have numerous and repeated violations,” can also participate in reporting any violation of the Egypt. Sadly, all this became history. Both Eastern nies, but the inspections will now be regular and more Musa explained. labor law by contacting PAM at [email protected], and Western historians found that the Muslim frequent. “Previous inspections on certain malls proved According to him, by the end of this year, the system 25359232 or WhatsApp: 69009600 world was victimized by losing its romance with the art of reading and writing. This tragedy wasn’t the making of a devilish, cerebral outsider - actu- ally, the bane spawned within. more steps for no more than two min- Prof Yasir Qadhi said during a lecture that the No water utes,” he concluded. last few Turkish sultans of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the modern-day Arabian Gulf, Egypt, Recruitment offices Syria and all its neighbors, had a special under- cuts today The Ministry of Commerce and standing of Islam that was unfortunate. The Industry Urged domestic helper recruit- empire initiated a law calling to execute any ment offices to announce the recruitment By A Saleh Muslim citizen who read, obtained, bought or sold fares for workers they provide. or even asked for any sheet of printed paper. “Otherwise, we will make you do so,” the KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Being the juggernaut it was, the Ottoman Empire ministry warned, urging the offices to Water’s (MEW) Assistant Undersecretary crushed the Arab’s quest for knowledge due to its provide a price list within 14 days at the for Water Operation and Maintenance extremism. commercial control department in Siddiq Khalifa Mohammed Al-Fraij denied social This might answer why our Muslim versions of to avoid legal action. media warnings that water supplies will Edison and Einstein were mostly figures who had be disconnected today. Fraij explained their sparks during the various caliphates or Cleaning contracts that the plan circulated on social media Islamic dynasties. Some historical resources men- only involves one of the new projects in Well-informed municipality sources tion chemists and physicians in the first 100 years Mutlaa (northern region) to connect new said current cleaning contracts are due to of the 500 years-plus era of the Ottoman Empire. lines to the grid, adding that no discon- expire on Nov 24 and that the municipali- But why did a Muslim government fight knowl- nection for water supplies will be ty will extend them for a maximum of 12 edge so viciously, even though Islam as a faith involved at any part of the country. months and a further six months. The teaches that Allah is worshiped via the seeking of sources said the total number of cleaning knowledge? No exemptions contracts in effect are 17, and a special Every Muslim sultan had his team of muftis - The Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) rela- committee to qualify applying companies scholars of Islamic rulings - who had the sole tions and security media department’s will subject all of them for studies to find purpose of making the Islamic states move in manager Brig Adel Ahmed Al-Hashash any shortcomings and avoid them in accordance to Islamic rules and regulations as stressed that the penalty of impounding future contracts. The sources added that much as possible. When Gutenberg perfected a vehicles parked in no-parking zones or the new cities of Sabah Al-Ahmad, West new method of printing that was a logistical and on pavements and for using mobile Hadiya, Jaber Al-Ahmed, New Khairan, educational dream, everyone in Europe became a phones while driving and not wearing New Abu Halifa, New Mesayel, East reader or an inspired writer. Fearing that the seatbelts will remain active. He said the Sulaibikhat and New Naseem will be masses will be led astray, and out of exaggerated law has been officially activated. “We will added to the new contracts. respect to the Arabic language that is considered study the pros and cons of activating the holy, the “fatwa” team of the Turkish Sultan law in the coming days to avoid its nega- Bachelors Bayazeed pressed his highness to take a firm tive effects,” he explained, strongly deny- Kuwait Municipality’s public relations stand against this kind of novelty and not fall ing that the law exempts any category of department announced that Farwaniya under the saying: “Whoever has his book as his motorists. inspection teams recently toured block 10 sheikh will make plenty of mistakes.” In their log- Hashash noted that the campaign had in Khaitan to examine dilapidated build- ic, the spread of any ideologically cancerous started on Sunday and would remain in ings. Farwaniya Municipality Manager book might cause massive blasphemy among the force, subjecting violators to two months Saeed Al-Azmi stressed that the tours Muslims. of vehicle impoundment and withdrawal were made on direct instructions from In the pre-Gutenberg era, the European world of license plates for the first offence. He Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and and the Islamic world were like China and the US added that if the violation is repeated, Minister of State for Municipal Affairs in their technological and educational race - how- violators will be sent to the traffic court Mohammed Al-Jabri in a bid to resolve ever, after the crippling of our mind’s growth by for relevant penalties. In addition, the problems the block’s residents have the misdemeanor of our own Muslim brothers for Hashash explained that standard fines for been facing. Azmi said the team discussed years, the West sprung ahead in unprecedented the violation are KD 15 plus KD 10 as residents’ grievances, with some of them leaps. Needless to say, even before the first towing charges and KD 1 per day as noting that the block has 600 buildings month of the Ottoman Empire’s demise, the entire impoundment charges. and most of them are derelict, cannot be Middle East was invaded by advanced European Hashash denied that traffic police expanded, lack enough parking spaces nations who were light years ahead. But all these were abusing their powers and the law and many of them are rented to “bache- elements have faded away and the trauma is over dealing with universities, govern- lors”. Azmi added that a full report will be evaporating, to leave us in this perfect timing for ment bodies or local markets, as each submitted to Jabri about the block and an Arabian renaissance! facility had enough parking spaces. promised legal actions would be taken to “Some drivers just won’t walk a few evict bachelors from the block. 4 Established 1961 Local Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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KUWAIT: Workers are seen working at a construction site in Kuwait City yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

High Education and expats who are self-fund- with students, parents and other members of Canadian ing or have a scholarship through other the education community, and provided infor- sources can also apply,” Ames said. mation about educational opportunities in VIVA concludes Shedding light on the application process, Canada. Canadian higher education offers Embassy Ames said that the embassy will direct the stu- superior academic curricula, cutting-edge breast cancer dents, adding, “If the students miss the fair, we research, state-of-the-art campuses, and pro- will direct them to the right people and get fessional and personal experience to last a awareness breast cancer tips and advices for spe- organizes them in touch with the universities that can pro- lifetime. Canada is home to a safe, multicultur- cialized doctors at the New Mowasat vide them with more information. Once the stu- al, vibrant society and a dynamic 21st century Hospital, on VIVA’s official social media dent receives the acceptance from the universi- economy. With almost most of the world’s campaign platforms, Instagram and Snapchat, to educational fair ty, they can apply for the visa as it may take up ethnic groups represented in Canada, stu- urge periodic examinations and how to to six weeks, so it dents interact with prevent and treat this disease. is better to apply many different KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- VIVA is keen to continue its ongoing By Faten Omar sooner. For Kuwaiti cultures; broaden- ing and most developed telecom opera- socially responsible role in the communi- students it ing their mindset tor, concluded the awareness campaign ty by spreading the spirit of goodness KUWAIT: The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait depends on their 54 Kuwaiti and giving them “more care” to prevent breast cancer amongst Kuwaiti society. We believe at organized the 12th annual Edu-Canada scholarship.” more international that has been launched in October in VIVA in taking a holistic approach to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) fair, Ames pointed students went perspective which coincidence with the annual breast can- our CSR activities that engages our composed of approximately 10 leading cer awareness month, in cooperation with out that student is a valuable employees, and creates goodwill in our Canadian institutions and colleges, on Sunday the New Mowasat Hospital in Kuwait. must apply in on scholarship to attribute that communities with a focus on helping to at the Symphony Style Hotel. Speaking to VIVA has posted videos focusing on January but also attracts employers grow and develop the State of Kuwait. Kuwait Times, the Counselor at the Embassy Canada this year worldwide. of Canada, Tammy Ames said, “After the one- check with the The schools day fair, the group of universities will visit a university for participating on number of schools to hold a mini fair for the availability. She the tour are: students considering attending the University said that 54 College of New Caledonia, British Columbia, in Canada.” Kuwaiti students went on scholarship this KIMS makes headway She noted that this fair mainly targets year. “Canada provides amazing opportuni- Thomson River Island University (TRU), Kuwaitis and expatriates who want to pursue ties for students. Just like Kuwait, we are British Columbia, Sheridan College, Ontario, in medical training their bachelor’s degrees but will also answer open to people of different cultures and we University of Waterloo, Ontario University of questions related to Master’s and PhDs. “This have a public educational system where Manitoba, Manitoba, Brock University, is the second fair that we had this year and we quality education is available throughout Ontario, Huron University College, Ontario, are planning for another one in February. Canada, and each university has something University of Windsor, Ontario, Algonquin Kuwaiti students who have excess to the exciting to offer.” College, Ontario and Golden Hills scholarship program through the Ministry of Representatives from the institutions met International School.

KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi is seen during the ceremony. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al- ebrated regulatory non-profit institution. Harbi said Kuwait Institute for Medical He welcomed the fruitful results of coop- Specializations (KIMS) asserted itself in eration between the institute and the finding solutions to problems of medical Royal College according to a bilateral training. KIMS is keen on modernizing the agreement that covers such areas as med- Kuwaiti Medical Board programs in keep- ical training, policymaking, examinations ing with the latest achievements world- and academic accreditation. The ceremo- wide, he said Sunday night. The minister ny coincides with the KIMS’ preparations made the comments at a ceremony to cele- for moving to its new building, introducing brate the institute’s accreditation by the the medical simulation system - a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons methodology for training healthcare pro- of Canada (RCPSC) as provider of contin- fessionals with advanced educational uing professional development (CPD). technology, and launching an electronic During the ceremony, 115 physicians library, the minister added. who completed the Kuwaiti Medical Board Meanwhile, KIMS Secretary-General Dr training courses in various specializations Ibrahim Hadi applauded the Ministry’s strat- were honored. The honoring of the physi- egy for upgrading the medical training sys- cians is meant to encourage the graduates tem and the results of cooperation with the to shoulder their noble and humanitarian Royal College. The agreement on coopera- responsibilities according to the ministry’s tion with the Royal College, signed in plan for building the capacity of the med- November 2016, opened new horizons for ical personnel and upgrade the healthcare Kuwaiti physicians and helped KIMS go system, Dr Harbi pointed out. global, he noted. Dr Hadi said that the e- He praised the collective efforts of library will provide trainees with access to KIMS leaders that led to the institute win- the latest medical information in an easy and ning of the RCPSC accreditation for a sustainable way, adding that the medical KUWAIT: Students attend the 12th annual Edu-Canada Middle East and four-year term and meeting the technical simulation system is of great importance in North Africa fair. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and professional standards set by this cel- the modern postgraduate training. —KUNA Established 1961 5 Local Tuesday, October 31, 2017

CRIMES Al-Anbaa Express your Man sold drugs from point of view! employer’s house

Victim and attacker KUWAIT: An Indian man turned his sponsor’s house into a drug vending outlet and was arrested with the help of his employer. The sponsor became suspi- By Dr Nermin Al-Houti cious after noticing strangers visiting his driver more often, so he called police Officers found The statement “in case of fights, both victim and cocaine, heroin, shabu (meth), a scale, police hand- attacker will be deported if they are expatriates” cuffs and 500 empty envelopes along with 23 large issued by the Interior Ministry has many meanings envelopes containing drugs. A source said that the summarized in one sentence. It truly is a right to suspect confessed to selling drugs and was sent to deport all those who create chaos and compro- the Drugs Control General Department (DCGD). mise the state’s security. Yet, many questions arise Meanwhile, a national guard’s man was arrested when you think about that statement in depth, after he was found in an abnormal condition with such as: shabu on him at a checkpoint in Khaitan. He was What if the expat in that is a minor? Does taken to DCGD for further legal action. deportation include the juvenile and his family? What is the mechanism of action in such cases? Is the decision exclusive for males or does it Gamblers arrested include both genders? Is the decision limited to physical attack? Or Ahmadi police arrested four Nepalese men for gam- includes other types of assault? bling outdoors in Mahboula, and also found money

Al-Anbaa and gambling tools. The four will be sent to residen- cy detectives department for deportation. The punishment should be strict Indecent messages enough to set an A female citizen was charged with misuse of tele- example phone after a Kuwaiti man lodged a complaint Al-Anbaa against her for sending indecent messages to him over social media. The woman will be summoned for questioning. Why is the decision limited to physical assault Chill out alone? These orders were issued for expats, but what By Yousif Abdul Rahman Deported about citizens? Is this decision subject to variation? Will it Four Bangladeshis and an Egyptian were sent to vanish like other decisions? As we all know, there Some days back I saw a picture of a Malaysian ice flavors. During the hot summer days, Kuwaitis used Residency Affairs Detectives’ Department, where was a decision made previously and stated that cream street vendor which reminded me of my to have ice cream to chill out and escape the they were held pending deportation. The men were any expat who harasses a girl will be deported, childhood in Al-Qadisiya when we ran into the annoying heat. Ice creams have developed a lot identified and arrested after a video clip showing but it lasted for a few hours only. street on hearing the ice cream man scream ‘Barred’ these days and it comes in many shapes, colors and them fighting at the Friday market went viral on We are tired of listening to statements such as (a colloquial Kuwaiti term for popsicles). Ice cream brands. social media. The Assistant Undersecretary for “mentally disturbed.” It is time to put a stop to is known as ‘Barred’ in Kuwait, but it also has many In the old days, Ice cream had its own customers General Security Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah such reckless behavior. Instead of studying the other Arabic names like Boutha or Dandorma, the of men, women, young people, Diwaniyas, min- ordered to deport all five. situation, it is time to take strict actions against latter of which is Turkish and is still used by the istries, corporates and even individuals. Back in the any kind of assault. The punishment should be people of Mecca, Medina and Jeddah. Some 1970s, we used to go to the late uncle Tawfik’s on strict enough to set an example against such Kuwaiti families used to make their own ice cream Fahad Al-Salem street or to Al-Kawakeb Ice Cream Domestic violence behavior. We also need to punish those who use by freezing different kinds of juices and placing a where the late uncle Rashid Boftain used to receive wooden stick in the cubes of liquid juice to make customers himself. I also remember the late uncle wasta (connections) as a loophole to get around A citizen hit his wife with an axe on the head and popsicles. ‘Wardi and Hail’ who used to wander around the the law. It is a request that a law should be passed caused her a severe injury during a domestic fight. Boutha was made in wooden boxes in Kuwait old Souk with his small ice cream cart calling out to against people using wasta, because Kuwait is The woman was rushed to hospital and the husband before the process developed into using thermoses his customers in a very loud voice. tired of it. was charged with attempted murder. to keep the chilled colorful ice cream with different — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated from the Arabic press

Chevrolet Alghanim sponsors Interior Ministry’s Commerce Minister hails retired officers appreciation event KFH role in empowering youth initiatives

KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and attaches great importance to the youth. Industry and Minister of State for Youth The bank supports all initiatives that Affairs, Khaled Al-Roudan hailed contribute in achieving the comprehen- Kuwait Finance House’s KFH role in sive and sustainable development in the empowering the youth initiatives, indi- country. cating this paves the way for further KFH is the first bank in Kuwait to ink development and prosperity. a partnership agreement with the On the sidelines of the 6th Youth Ministry of State for Youth Affairs for Empowerment Symposium “Tmkeen” supporting and sponsoring the activi- held at Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural ties of the Kuwait Capital of Arab Youth Centre, Roudan honored KFH in recog- event. This affirms the bank’s commit- nition of its strategic partnership with ment towards the youth and reflects its Tmkeen and its significant role in the significant role in supporting this vital corporate social responsibility. category of the society Executive Manager Group Public It’s worth noting that “Tmkeen” is a Relations and Media at KFH, Yousef national and academic initiative taken Abdullah Al-Ruwaieh received hon- by the youth. It is deemed as one of the orary shield from the Minister. Ruwaieh significant youth initiatives in Kuwait reiterated the bank’s commitment that aims at investing in the youth while towards the responsibility of empower- encouraging them to build a promising ing the youth and supporting their ini- future by organizing forums and confer- KUWAIT: As part of its efforts to strength- tiatives, indicating KFH’s participation ences that include elite group of lectur- en its relationship with all segments of the in “Tmkeen” comes for the 6th consec- ers from different nationalities and society, Yusuf A Alghanim and Sons utive year as a strategic partner. KFH backgrounds. Automotive, the exclusive distributor of Chevrolet vehicles in Kuwait, has sponsored the appreciation event honoring the laud- able service of the Ministry of Interior’s retired officers. In addition to this generous sponsorship, Chevrolet Alghanim has also presented the retirees an exclusive package from Chevrolet Service Center that includes a free checkup on a Chevrolet car, 30% dis- count on spare parts and 10% discount on labor, plus the thrilling experience to test drive any Chevrolet model available at the event at the showroom. This offer comes as a thankful gesture from Chevrolet Alghanim to the honorable KUWAIT: Yousef Al-Ruwaieh receives an honorary shield from the minister. retired officers and employees who have dedicated their life to the service of the country and its people. The appreciation event took place at the Retired Officers Center, on Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, attended by Major Gen. Adeeb Al-Suwaidan, General Director of the General Department ing a visit to the Barakah Nuclear of the Service Centers at the Ministry of Official Energy Plant as part of a team from the Interior. Not only did Chevrolet Alghanim companies, the government and Kuwaiti pable Tahoe, the elegant Captiva, and the International Atomic Energy Agency offer an exclusive KD 300 discount to all the society at large. Abdulwahab Al Shuwaiti, revolutionary Malibu. (IAEA). retired officers valid until end of year, but the head of the Kuwait Camaro Club, also commends Bu Shehri said Barakah was one of also a number of symbolic gifts to those showed his appreciation and gratitude to Chevrolet Care the key nuclear projects because it working at the Retired Officers Center, those servicemen who have dedicated their All customers who purchase a Chevrolet UAE’s nuclear would provide safe and clean energy. including its managing director, Col Saif lives to securing the safety of the youth seg- from Yusuf A Alghanim and Sons will The project will be home to four Ajab. All of this reflects Chevrolet Alghanim’s ment and watching over them on the roads receive the benefits of the Chevrolet Care nuclear reactors by 2020. Bu Shehri gratitude to those who have dedicated their of Kuwait. Program, which entails new levels of post- energy project said the team got acquainted with the life to securing the safety and peace of the Moreover, in the light of the massive sale support and trust. The Chevrolet Care construction of the four nuclear reac- country and its citizens. reception the new Chevrolet vehicles has is an exceptional customer service that is tors, with progress reaching 84 percent. ABU DHABI: A senior Kuwaiti official The event was inaugurated by Abdullah received, Chevrolet Alghanim encourages all based on four main pillars: competitive and He said the reactors would help elimi- on Sunday commended the United Arab Al-Mouazzen, General Manager of sales at Ministry of Interior’s employees to take transparent service costs (especially for nate 21 million tons of carbon emissions. Emirates’ (UAE) Barakah Nuclear advantage of this new offer and test drive four-wheel drive vehicles), scheduled serv- Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant’s four Chevrolet Alghanim, who showed apprecia- Energy Plant, which contained state-of- any Chevrolet vehicle whilst enjoying the ice appointment booking with same day nuclear reactors will supply up to 25 tion for all those attending. The attendees the-art technology. This came by were engaged and appreciative of all amazing benefits and offers presented by delivery, quality service by certified techni- percent of the UAE’s electricity needs. Mahmoud Bu Shehri, Undersecretary of Construction of the plant commenced in Alghanim efforts in sponsoring this and oth- the service center. Chevrolet Alghanim’s cians and 3yr/100,000km warranty with Ministry of Electricity and Water, dur- er events, which deepen the ties between unbeatable offers incorporate the unstop- 24x7 roadside assistance for four years. July 2012. —KUNA International TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017 Who is in charge? Catalans wonder Crackdown on Mumbai street vendors sparks a row Page 9 Page 8

AT SEA: A handout photo taken shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) transiting in the Pacific Ocean. An US destroyer has come to the aid of an Iranian fishing boat after a pirate attack off Yemen, the US Navy said. Iran’s coast guard called the US naval command in Bahrain to report the incident and to ask for help following the attack south of Yemen’s Socotra Island, the US Navy said in a statement.— AFP Court convicts 19 Shiites for spying for Iran

Bahraini woman, relatives jailed for ‘fake bomb’

DUBAI: A Bahraini court yesterday sentenced 19 Shiites demanding an elected government in the Sunni-ruled Nizar Alwadaei and nephew Mahmood Marzouq were In a report published on March 27, a group of UN to lengthy jail terms on charges of spying for Iran and kingdom. A key US ally and home to the US Fifth Fleet, charged under the Gulf state’s counter-terrorism law special rapporteurs said there was evidence that plotting to overthrow the regime, judicial sources said. Bahrain has tightened its grip on dissent since 2011, with planting a fake bomb, the London-based Bahrain Bahraini interrogators had threatened Alwadaei “to take Eight people were sentenced to life in prison, nine to 15 drawing harsh criticism from international rights groups Institute for Human Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said revenge on him” over BIRD’s Bahraini director. On years in prison and two to 10 years in jail for espionage for its treatment of the in a statement. October 26, 15 non-governmental organizations, includ- and inciting public dissent, according to a statement Shiite-majority popula- The case has come ing Amnesty and Reporters Without Borders, issued an released by the counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office. tion. In April, parliament under international open letter to the governments of Canada, France, Fifteen of those convicted were also stripped of gave approval for mili- scrutiny over both the Britain and the United States, among others. The letter Bahraini citizenship, the statement said. tary courts to try civil- Group found validity of the charges asked that the governments demand that the authorities The court found the group guilty of leaking informa- ians charged with “ter- and the trial procedures. in Bahrain drop all charges and release the three. tion to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon’s rorism”, a vaguely guilty of leaking Amnesty International Hajar Mansoor Hassan was one of five women who Iranian-backed Hezbollah and of receiving “material defined legal term in the tweeted that yesterday’s last week went on hunger strike for six days in protest support” from the two forces. They were also convicted kingdom. Bahrain accus- info to Iran and sentencing was “a at the mistreatment of detainees at the Isa Town of forming a cell to “incite the public against the gov- es Shiite Iran of training reprisal” for the work of women’s detention facility. Authorities have since agreed ernment and call for regime change by force”. The “terrorist cells” that aim Hezbollah the London-based to their demands, which include clean sheets, privacy prosecutor’s office said the 19 belonged to the Al- to overthrow its govern- BIRD’s director of advo- during phone calls to family and removal of a glass bar- Wafaa Islamic movement, a little-known group which ment, an allegation cacy, who is also Hassan’s rier during family visits. Bahrain-a key ally of the US Bahraini authorities say is linked to the Revolutionary Tehran denies. son-in-law. Marzouq was which bases its Fifth Fleet there-has cracked down on Guards and Hezbollah. Speaking on condition of In another develop- also sentenced to six political dissent since a wave of protests began in 2011 anonymity, a judicial source confirmed all 19 were ment, a Bahraini woman was sentenced to three years weeks and fined 100 Bahraini dinars ($265, 225 euros) demanding an elected government in the Shiite-majority Shiite Muslims. along with her son and nephew yesterday for planting a for possessing a knife, according to BIRD. All three have country. Hundreds of protesters have since been jailed Dozens of Bahrainis have been jailed and stripped of “fake bomb” in what Amnesty International has called a been in custody since March. and were not in court for and number of high-profile activists and clerics stripped citizenship since the 2011 outbreak of protests reprisal case. Hajar Mansoor Hassan, her son Sayed the sentencing. of their citizenship. — Agencies

North Korea’s leader Tehran rejects tours cosmetics plant ‘ridiculous and with wife and sister baseless’ Saudi SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un took his stylish wife and powerful sister to a make-up plant for a accusations “field guidance trip” amid the country’s nuclear stand- off with the US. During a visit to the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory in the capital, Kim hailed its “world- TEHRAN: Tehran yesterday rejected as “ridiculous level” products that realized “the dream of the women and baseless” accusations by Saudi Arabia that Iran who want to be more beautiful”, the official KCNA is supporting rebels and blocking peace efforts in news agency reported. Yemen. “The Saudi foreign minister’s claims that our Kim was accompanied by Kim Yo-Jong, his younger country has been blocking peace efforts in Yemen sister and a senior member of the ruling Workers’ Party, are ridiculous and baseless,” foreign ministry it said, with photos showing Kim’s wife Ri Sol-Ju fol- spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said. “Iran has con- lowing him at the factory in a floral pattern dress. The demned the aggression (against Yemen) since the two are seen as the most powerful women in the isolat- beginning... and will not spare any efforts to stop ed, deeply patriarchal nation. They have often accom- this bloody and detestable war,” Ghasemi said in a panied Kim to official events since he took power in statement published on the ministry’s website. 2011, in a break from the past when former leaders’ Saudi Arabia leads a military coalition backing spouses or sisters rarely made public appearances. Yemen’s government in its fight against the Shiite PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (left) inspects the Pyongyang Ri, a former star singer also known for her affinity for Cosmetics Factory, as his wife Ri Sol-Ju (2nd right) looks on. — AFP Houthi rebels. Both sides in the Yemen conflict have luxury fashion, is known to have three children with come under harsh criticism for their neglect of civil- Kim. Yo-Jong, believed to be in her 20s, was promoted ian safety, but the Saudi-led coalition has in partic- earlier this month to be an alternate member of the par- Il and his third partner Ko Yong-Hui, a former dancer. high on the peninsula with the North conducting its ular been accused of bombing schools, markets and ty’s powerful politburo-the decision-making body At the factory they viewed a mosaic of their father sixth nuclear test in September and launching multi- hospitals. “Repeating such false accusations will not presided over by her brother. Known to be handling the entitled “To Provide Our People with Better ple missiles capable of reaching the mainland of its reduce the responsibility... of those who have com- party’s propaganda operations, Yo-Jong has been seen Cosmetics”, KCNA reported Sunday. The Kim family “imperialist enemy” the US. Kim and US President mitted heinous crimes, particularly murder, destruc- accompanying Kim closely and in a casual manner-rare has ruled the impoverished but nuclear-armed state Donald Trump have traded threats of war and per- tion of schools and hospitals and pushing an inno- among the country’s top officials-at high-profile public with an iron fist through three generations since the sonal insults against each other in recent months, cent population to famine,” Ghasemi said. — AFP events. Both Kims were born to the late ruler Kim Jong- nation was established in 1948. Tensions have been sparking global alarm. — AFP Established 1961 7 International Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Singapore bans foreign Islamic preachers on religious cruises Preachers accused of promoting disharmony, segregation

SINGAPORE: Singapore has barred two foreign Islamic “The threat of extremism is real and should not be tak- preachers from entering the country to preach during reli- en lightly,” said Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim. “The gious-themed sea cruises, the interior ministry said yester- government strongly condemns the use of such publica- day. The pair had earlier applied to preach in the city-state tions to espouse destructive ideologies and promote enmi- but their applications were rejected. However authorities ty between communities.” The books were published in later learned they planned to preach aboard cruise ships in Indonesia between 2011 and 2016. Singapore’s move late November. “They will not be allowed to get around comes amid attempts by the Islamic State (IS) group to the ban by preaching instead on cruise ships which oper- establish a base in Southeast Asia. IS-backed militants, ate to and from Singapore,” the Ministry of Home Affairs including several foreign fighters, seized the southern said. One of the preachers, Ismail Menk, “has been known Philippine city of Marawi in May as part of plans to estab- to preach segregation- lish a caliphate, sparking a ist and divisive teach- bloody five-month campaign ings” while the other, by Filipino troops to dislodge Haslin bin Baharim, them. “has expressed views The top US commander in that promote dishar- Islamic State the Pacific, Admiral Harry mony between Muslims Harris, earlier this month and non-Muslims”, it group targets warned against the threat said without giving posed by Southeastern Asian their nationalities. Southeast Asia militants returning to the Singapore also yes- region as IS loses ground in terday banned four Iraq, Syria and Libya. foreign Islamic books “Foreign fighters are passing containing what it their ideology, resources and called “undesirable methods to local, home- and harmful teachings”. The information ministry said the grown, next-generation radicals,” Harris had said in a books’ teachings “can cause social distancing, distrust, speech in Singapore. “So we must stop ISIS at the front hatred and even violence among people of different end and not at the back end when the threat can become faiths and religious views” in the ethnically diverse even more dangerous,” he said, using another name for IS. nation. Possession, distribution and failure to surrender Singapore in 2001 arrested several suspected militants and SINGAPORE: A Cruise ship is docked at the Marina Bay cruise centre terminal in copies of the books to the police will be an offence foiled a plot to bomb several foreign targets in the country, Singapore yesterday. —AFP effective today, it said. including the US embassy.—AFP

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will testable moral goal: to provide a per- 100 years on, travel to London to mark the anniver- secuted people with a safe and secure sary. The statement remains contro- homeland.” London, he added, Iran moves to save last versial, setting off a chain of events remained committed to a two-state UK defends that eventually led to Israel’s forma- solution. tion, the displacement of millions of “I have no doubt that the only ‘mascot’ Asiatic cheetahs Palestinians and decades of strife viable solution to the conflict resem- the Balfour GARMSAR: Iranian environmentalists between the two communities that bles the one first set down on paper have mobilized to protect the world’s continues to this day. by another Briton, Lord Peel, in the last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to Declaration “I am proud of Britain’s part in report of the Royal Commission on number just 50 and faced with the creating Israel,” current Foreign Palestine in 1937, and that is the vision Secretary Boris Johnson wrote in the threats of becoming roadkill, a short- LONDON: Britain’s foreign secretary of two states for two peoples,” he age of prey and farmers’ dogs. “The yesterday defended his predecessor’s Telegraph newspaper on Sunday, wrote. The borders, he added, should adding the document was “indispens- last time our photo traps caught a role a century ago in paving the way be as they were before the Six Day cheetah here, it was two years ago. able to the creation of a great nation”. for the creation of Israel, saying two war in 1967, with Jerusalem “a shared But we’re sure they are still in the But he warned that one of the key sovereign states for Israelis and capital” and “equal land swaps to region,” said Rajab Ali Kargar, deputy caveats of the Balfour Declaration- Palestinians remains the “only viable reflect the national, security, and reli- head of the National Protection that the rights of non-Jewish commu- solution” for peace. This Thursday gious interests of the Jewish and Project for the Asiatic Cheetah. His nities shall be protected-”has not marks the centenary of the Balfour Palestinian peoples.” camp is just a stone’s throw from an Declaration-a 67-word letter from been fully realized”. In the article, “A century on, Britain will give old royal hunting pavilion in the Britain’s then foreign secretary Arthur Johnson said he was writing his whatever support we can in order to Garmsar area of Semnan province, Balfour that threw London’s backing thoughts down in the same room close the ring and complete the unfin- around 120 kilometers south of Tehran, behind a homeland for the Jewish Balfour used a century ago. He ished business of the Balfour but these days the focus is on preser- people in Palestine. Israeli Prime praised the 1917 letter for its “incon- Declaration,” he wrote. — AFP vation rather than killing. The world’s fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds of 120 kilo- TEHRAN: A female Asiatic Cheetah named ‘Dalbar’ snarls in meters per hour, once stalked habitats an enclosure at the Pardisan Park in Tehran. — AFP from the eastern reaches of India to the Atlantic coast of Senegal. Their numbers have stabilized in parts of Lack of prey Cars and farmers remain a threat, southern Africa, but they have practi- The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s was however. “Today, the cheetahs leave cally disappeared from northern Africa devastating for wild animals, particu- their zones and approach villages. and Asia. The subspecies “Acinonyx larly along the country’s western bor- Farmers and their dogs kill them to jubatus venaticus”, commonly known der. It was thought for a time that the protect their herds,” said Jokar. A pack as the Asiatic cheetah, is critically cheetahs had been wiped out, until of dogs can overpower a cheetah, he endangered, according to the they were found to have retreated into said. At least 20 cheetahs have been International Union for Conservation the central desert regions. Three major killed in road accidents over the past of Nature, mostly due to past hunting. problems have befallen the Asiatic 16 years. In its bid to raise public Iran launched its pro- awareness, the project’s tection project in 2001 most successful move was with the support of the putting an image of the United Nations “when we cheetah on the national realized Iran was the last football team’s jersey dur- country to have any Asiatic Asiatic cheetah, ing the 2014 World Cup cheetahs”, said Hooman and the Asian Games in the Jokar, who heads the pro- is critically same year. “That move had gram. It set up a network, an extraordinary effect in now numbering 92 special- endangered educating and mobilizing ly trained park wardens, people,” said Jokar. “Now who cover a total of six nearly everyone knows the GAZA: A Palestinian boy holds rides a bicycle with his feet up at Al-Ahatee refugee camp in Gaza million hectares in central cheetah is in danger.” City. Britain’s Balfour Declaration turns 100 this week, hailed by Israel for helping lead to its found- and northern Iran. “Every Since early September, ing, but viewed by Palestinians as contributing to a catastrophe that stole their land. —AFP day, we cover hundreds of a new campaign, headed kilometers to track wild animals in the cheetah in recent time: cars, farmers by popular actress Hedieh Tehrani, has park,” said warden Reza Shah- and having nothing to eat. “When we raised some eight billion rials Hosseini, as some 20 gazelles galloped launched the project, the biggest dan- ($200,000, 170,000 euros) in just over past behind him. There were 20 sight- ger was the lack of prey,” said Jokar. a month as part of efforts to relocate “We’re going to look at all of our options,” Plibersek ings of the cheetah in Semnan province The team focused on building up num- farms in order to reduce confrontations said yesterday in an interview with Australian last year. “Many think that without this bers of gazelles and rabbits for the with the cheetah. “It’s the biggest Broadcasting Corporation radio. “We are very con- program the cheetah would have total- cheetahs to eat, which has been largely mobilization of civil society that I’ve cerned about the fact that Barnaby Joyce has been vot- ly disappeared from Iran,” said Jokar. successful. witnessed,” said Jokar. —AFP Opposition party ing at a time when he shouldn’t have been in the Federal Parliament and we narrowly lost votes because of that.” Joyce has said many of those decisions were made by fumes; 2 Australia cabinet collectively rather than himself personally and so ought to remain valid. Plibersek said legal challenges ministers expelled could be mounted by anyone aggrieved by the govern- ment’s decisions. She flagged challenging a narrowly-won vote that cut SYDNEY: Australia’s main Labor opposition party said Sunday pay rates for some workers, as well as decisions yesterday it was considering a legal challenge to more taken by Joyce and Nash in their capacity as ministers. than 100 decisions made by Prime Minister Malcolm That includes a decision to relocate a government Turnbull’s conservative government, after two of his department headquarters to Joyce’s electorate and deci- cabinet ministers were expelled from parliament. Among sions on water-rights allocation and the rollout of a the parliamentary votes in question was the govern- national fast-internet scheme. Constitutional law aca- ment’s defeat of a proposed wide-ranging inquiry into demic George Williams said the issue was not so clear Australia’s scandal-hit banking sector. A powerful cut. “It’s certainly uncharted waters,” said Williams, inquiry into Australia’s banks, which are under fire after Dean of Law at the University of New South Wales. scams involving money-laundering, misleading financial The court would “look very carefully” in particular at advice, insurance fraud and interest-rate rigging, was decisions taken since August, when Joyce and Nash approved by the upper house Senate this year, but fell realized they may be dual nationals. “It’s not clear what one vote short of passing the lower house. the result would be,” he said. The Australian constitution The government lost its one-seat lower house majori- bars politicians with dual citizenship from being elected ty on Friday when a court ruled Deputy Prime Minister to the national parliament. Both Joyce and Nash said Barnaby Joyce was ineligible to sit in parliament as he they were not aware they held dual citizenship and have had held dual citizenship when elected, in contradiction since renounced their New Zealand and British citizen- to the constitution. Former cabinet colleague Fiona Nash, ships, respectively. Turnbull’s minority government now along with three other politicians, were also expelled. The relies on three independent lawmakers to remain in ruling has cast doubt over the validity of parliamentary office. Joyce is expected to win a by-election for his seat votes Joyce and Nash have cast, said Tanya Plibersek, on Dec 2, which would restore the government’s one- acting leader of the Australian Labor Party. seat majority.— Reuters 8 Established 1961 International Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Who is in charge? Catalonians wonder as Spain takes control

Sacked regional leaders may face criminal charges

BARCELONA: Catalonia’s civil servants returned to least one member of the ousted government defied his work yesterday for the first time since Spain’s central dismissal by showing up at work and posting a photo on government rejected an independence declaration by Twitter from his formal office. “In the office, exercising imposing direct control, as Madrid warned that sacked the responsibilities entrusted to us by the people of regional leaders face criminal charges if they attempt to Catalonia,” said Josep Rull, who until last week was the perform any official duties. Catalans watched and won- region’s top official in charge of territorial affairs. dered whether the ousted leaders would defy their firing Two police officers entered and left the building, fol- and face arrest, escalating a political crisis that already lowed minutes later by Rull, who told reporters and sup- appears to have no easy way out. Speculation raged porters that he would continue carrying out his agenda. about the whereabouts of the dismissed Catalan But there were no official events listed on the regional President Carles Puigdemont and his deposed Cabinet, government’s public agenda that is published online dai- whose reaction will be key to whether Madrid’s ly. Meanwhile, the two separatist parties in the former takeover will be smooth or face opposition. Catalan governing coalition held separate meetings to As staff arrived at the headquarters of the Catalan decide their next move. Spanish authorities say deposed government in Barcelona, Puigdemont posted a photo officials will be allowed to take their personal belongings on Instagram of a court- from official buildings, but yard at the building. are barred from perform- Both the Catalan and ing any official duties. Spanish national flags Interior Minister Juan waved from the top of Ignacio Zoido said yester- the building. The Spain, day that the government ambiguous Instagram was giving the separatist post, accompanied by Catalonia politicians “a few hours” the words “Good morn- political crisis of time because the goal ing” in Catalan and a was “to recover normality smiley emoticon, left escalates in a discreet way and many guessing whether under the principle of Puigdemont was inside minimal intervention” the building. There was from central authorities. BARCELONA: Some people wave flags from Occitania, Flanders, Wallonia and Catalonia in front of the no indication of when Catalonia’s regional par- ‘Generalitat’ palace (Catalan government headquarters) yesterday. —AFP the photo was taken. liament proclaimed independence from Spain in a secret As dozens of journalists, curious onlookers and ballot Friday. The Spanish government dissolved the leg- region of 7.5 million have tipped Spain into its deepest political turmoil in Catalonia could have a severe eco- bemused tourists gathered in the square outside the islature, fired the government and regional police chief crisis in decades. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands nomic impact, both in the region and on Spain itself. Gothic government palace in central Barcelona, resi- and called a new election for Dec 21. took part in an anti-independence demonstration in Some 1,700 companies have already relocated their dents expressed confusion about who was actually in The vote to secede came after an Oct 1 referendum Barcelona, calling for Catalonia to remain in Spain and headquarters to other parts of Spain in recent weeks charge of Catalonia. “I don’t know - the Catalan govern- in favor of independence that was deemed illegal by backing Rajoy’s use of unprecedented constitutional amid the uncertainty. ment says they are in charge, but the Spanish govern- Spain’s constitutional court. Puigdemont has vowed powers to seize wrest control from the pro-indepen- Spanish financial markets rose yesterday after a poll ment says they are,” said Cristina Guillen, an employee peaceful and “democratic opposition” to his Cabinet’s dence regional administration. “We won’t let Spain be suggested support for Catalan independence is wan- in a nearby bag shop. “So I have no idea, really. “What I dismissal, but he hasn’t clarified if that means accept- torn apart into pieces,” read one banner. “The awaken- ing, after falling amid Friday’s tumult. The Ibex 35 stock really think is that nobody is in charge right now,” she ing an early regional election as a way out of the dead- ing of a silenced nation,” read another. index was up 1.4 percent at 10,338 points, about as said. At least one portrait of Puigdemont was still hang- lock. Separatist parties and grassroots groups have “We have organized ourselves late, but we are here much as it had fallen on Friday. Spanish government ing on a wall inside the Catalan government’s spoken of waging a campaign of disobedience to ham- to show that there is a majority of Catalans that are no bonds were also higher. The driver seems to have been Generalitat building. per the efforts by central authorities to run the region. longer silent and that no longer want to be silenced,” a poll published by Spanish daily El Pais over the Puigdemont is likely to be accused of rebellion for A key factor will be how Catalonia’s estimated said Alex Ramos, head of Catalan Civil Society, a pro- weekend that indicated more Catalans are against the pushing ahead with secession. Spain’s government has 200,000 public workers would react to their bosses’ union grassroots group. The organizers said more than declaration of independence than in favor. That sug- said the ousted leaders could be charged with usurping dismissal, and whether any stay away from work in 1 million people turned out but police put the figure at gests the independence movement might lose power others’ functions if they attempt to carry on working. At protest. Secession moves by this wealthy northeastern 300,000. Many who oppose independence fear the when a new regional election is held. —AP

News in brief China universities Journalist stabbed to death start ‘Xi Thought’ KIRKUK: A Kurdish video journalist with a channel backing Iraqi Kurdistan’s leader Massud Barzani was stabbed to death at his home overnight in disputed at the institutes Kirkuk province, a security source said yesterday. Four armed men broke into the home of Arkan Sharif, BEIJING: Xi Jinping Thought will now be taught, a 54-year-old journalist with Kurdistan TV, at 2:30 am researched and promoted in universities across China, in the Daquq area south of Kirkuk city, the source ensuring that the leader’s eponymous philosophy is said. Sharif, a father of three, was stabbed five times implanted in students’ hearts and minds. At least twenty after his family were locked up in another room, the universities have established research institutes for Xi’s source said. Iraqi security forces backed by Hashed ideology, which was enshrined in the Communist Party’s al-Shaabi paramilitaries in mid-October seized oil-rich constitution during its 19th national congress this month. Kirkuk province from the Kurds in the wake of a The distinction places Xi on a par with Mao Zedong and Kurdish independence vote held in defiance of Deng Xiaoping. It means that his dogma-”Xi Jinping Baghdad. Kurdish media have since accused the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a Hashed, an alliance composed mainly of Shiite militias, New Era”-will become a mantra for a new generation. of carrying out a campaign of retribution against According to media reports Sunday, the research institutes Kurdish civilians. will not “hide in the ivory tower” but advocate the incorpo- ration of Xi thought in all aspects of daily life. “We will gather many experts and professors to dis- Activist details rape claims seminate and preach Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in businesses, PARIS: A Muslim feminist activist who has accused neighborhoods and villages,” Jiang Hongxin, head of Hunan Normal University’s newly-founded Xi Thought prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of violent research centre, told the People’s Daily, the party mouth- rape detailed her claims in a hard-hitting interview piece. Liu Ying, party secretary of the Tianjin University of BEIJING: Photo shows newspaper featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping at a news stand a day after Xi introduced yesterday. The leading Oxford professor, whose Technology’s Communist Youth League said the idea of China’s new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s top decision making body, in Beijing. —AFP grandfather founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood forming a Xi Thought “learning group” came to her spon- Islamist movement, is facing investigations in France taneously during his marathon speech at the congress’s for the alleged rape of two women. Ramadan has the Cultural Revolution. Guangming Daily. opening. Liu’s attitude mirrors that of many institute directors, One institute director said the lessons must “enter denied the accusations as a “campaign of lies “After studying these ideas, students will have more launched by my adversaries”. Henda Ayari, a former who in interviews with Chinese media over the weekend brains and hearts,” while another said the Xi Thought confidence not only in the country, but also in their own espoused a deep devotion to spreading Xi-isms. “The organization would “guide the entire school, from top to Muslim fundamentalist who says Ramadan raped her lives,” she said. “They will have a greater belief in the (research) centre has a unique duty, which is to push for- bottom, in implementing the spirit of the 19th congress”. in a Paris hotel room in 2012, said she was encouraged Chinese dream”-one of Xi’s pet slogans. Planned activities ward Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese The education ministry also released guidelines Monday to speak out against him publicly by the “Me Too” for the group include tours to promote Xi Thought in rural Characteristics for a New Era in curriculums, in class- for mandatory elementary and high school extracurricular campaign sweeping the world. “It was the communities and visits to Liangjiahe, the northern village rooms and in minds,” Chen Xianda, a professor at programs that include activities to “foster emotional #BalanceTonPorc campaign that pushed me to reveal where Xi spent seven years as a “sent-down youth” during Renmin University of China, told the Beijing-based attachment to the Chinese Communist Party”. —AFP his name,” she told the Parisien newspaper, in refer- ence to France’s version of the hashtag which means “Expose your pig”. Ayari, who lodged a rape com- liament. Other opinion polls have also shown Catalonia is should remain neutral. In an open letter on Sunday, Interior plaint against the 55-year-old Swiss national on Catalonia almost evenly split between pro- and anti-independence Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido praised the Mossos for their October 20, charged that for Tariq Ramadan, “either supporters. work and urged them to accept temporary direction from you wear a veil or you get raped”. Madrid. But a group of Mossos favoring independence had crisis: What Civil disobedience previously said they would not follow instructions from the Catalonia’s main secessionist groups have called for central government and would not use force to remove min- Woman in ‘love jihad’ case widespread civil disobedience. They also instructed civil isters and lawmakers from power. Several officers told is next? servants not to obey orders from Madrid and respond with Reuters they believed the 17,000-strong force was split NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has ordered a peaceful resistance. It is unclear whether such calls will be between those who want independence and those who followed or not. A key test will be when 200,000 civil ser- oppose it. The Mossos, whose former chief is under investi- 24-year-old woman whose marriage to a Muslim MADRID: Spain on Friday sacked Catalonia’s regional gov- vants return to work. gation on suspicion of sedition, will have to act on direct man was annulled at her Hindu father’s request to ernment, dissolved the Catalan parliament and called a snap orders from their new bosses. If deemed necessary, Mossos give evidence in person, saying only she could election in the region for Dec 21, in a bid to draw a line under Use of force officers may be replaced by national police. decide her own fate. The decision to annul the mar- the country’s worst political crisis in 40 years. Below are Spain’s government said it was not planning to make any riage and force the woman, Akhila Ashokan, to return several scenarios of what could happen in the next few days. to live with her parents has caused outrage among arrests, but it is unclear how it will proceed if the current Finances regional administration staff refuse to leave their offices. The economy and budget ministries took full control women’s rights campaigners in India. Earlier this year Direct rule None of the immediate Catalan cabinet, including over regional finances on Friday. Many companies have Ashokan’s father asked the high court in the southern Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy sacked Catalonia’s gov- Puigdemont, are thought to have spent the weekend in the however said on condition of anonymity that they feared a state of Kerala to annul the marriage, claiming she ernment including regional president Carles Puigdemont Barcelona central offices and it is unclear if they will attempt new Catalan treasury could start levying taxes, and that had been forced into it and made to convert to Islam. and his deputy Oriol Junqueras and assumed direct control to return to work yesterday. A growing number of analysts they would seek to move their tax base outside Catalonia. It over the region. Central government ministries assumed the The high court agreed, but her former husband chal- have feared this could lead to a physical confrontation if is also possible that some pro-independence Catalans will powers of the Catalan administration until a regional elec- lenged the decision in the Supreme Court, which on national police, who used heavy-handed tactics to thwart an stop paying their taxes to the Spanish treasury. tion takes place on Dec. 21. Monday ruled that Ashokan should appear in person Oct. 1 vote on independence, seek to intervene. to give evidence on November 27. It questioned Public media Elections whether the lower court had the legal right to annul a Police The Spanish government had initially said it would con- It is not clear whether a snap regional election will marriage between two adults. Inter-religious rela- One of the main problems over the implementation of trol widely watched Catalan public television TV3, but it resolve the crisis. An opinion poll published by El Mundo on tionships are still a taboo in India, particularly in rural direct rule will relate to Catalonia’s own police forces, the eventually dropped that plan. The media is likely to play an Sunday showed that pro-independence parties may lose areas. Mossos d’Esquadra. On Saturday, the Mossos chief Josep important role in the run-up to the new election in their parliamentary majority and even arrive behind anti- Lluis Trapero was fired. The new chief told officers they Catalonia.—Reuters independence forces. The vote could result into a hung par- Established 1961 9 International Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Japan offers Philippines aid for fighting terrorism, rebuilding Military campaign leaves over 1,100 fighters, civilians dead

TOKYO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won nobody is out to remove him or destroy his country, and pledges from Japan of help with fighting terrorism and ask him to stop threatening attacks. assistance in building the country’s crumbling infrastruc- “You must remember that he is a leader of his people,” ture, as he met with Japan’s prime minister yesterday dur- Duterte said, adding that “whatever he proclaims himself ing a visit to the country. Japan promised its support in the to be, somebody has got to talk to him.” “So, if somebody reconstruction of the strife-torn southern Philippine city of could just reach out, talk to him and say, ‘My friend, why Marawi. A military campaign recently ended a five-month don’t you just join me in the table and we’ll just talk about siege of the city by Islamic State group-aligned militants these things?’” Duterte told reporters in the southern that left more than 1,100 combatants and civilians dead. Philippine city of Davao. “Nobody’s talking to him.” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the liber- Duterte echoed US President Donald Trump in saying ation of Marawi and gave credit to Duterte’s leadership. “I he believes China has the greatest leverage with express my heartfelt Pyongyang, a longtime respect for President Beijing ally. And he Duterte’s leadership on the expressed concern over recent declaration of liber- the potential for danger- ation in Marawi,” Abe said. ous missteps in the stand- “We will provide full sup- Abe credits off with North Korea over port for (the Philippines’) its nuclear program. “We counterterrorism effort and Duterte’s are worried, all of us, that steps to ensure peace and you know, Murphy’s Law, stability” in the region. The leadership ‘If anything can go wrong, two leaders also agreed to it will go wrong.’” Apart cooperate on various proj- from his talks with gov- ects, including a subway ernment officials, while in system for metropolitan Tokyo Duterte is due to Manila, the traffic-jammed meet with Japanese busi- capital, energy development, maritime safety and the ness leaders and have an audience with Emperor Akihito Philippines’ fight against drugs and drug trafficking. and Empress Michiko. “I suppose that I have to limit my The assistance from Tokyo includes 15.9 billion yen mouth there,” the blunt-spoken Philippine president said. ($140 million) in low-interest financing for a water man- He praised Japan as a “true friend of the Philippines” agement project in the Philippines’ flood-prone Cavite and said he would seek as much help as possible from province, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Japan in rebuilding Marawi and the surrounding region. TOKYO: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (left) delivers his speech beside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Before leaving the Philippines for Tokyo late Sunday, The siege in the southern Philippines displaced some Abe during the joint remarks announcement at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday. —AFP Duterte said he hoped to discuss concerns over North 400,000 residents, including the entire population of Korea with Abe and declared that someone should talk to Marawi, a bastion of the Islamic faith in the predominantly and heavy machine-gun fire turned the lakeside city’s cen- dering wasteland of disfigured buildings and bullet- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, reassure him that Roman Catholic Philippines. Military airstrikes, artillery tral business district and outlying communities into a smol- pocked mosques and houses._—AP

pant. Campaigners said the workers were from a tribe in Losses, looting as Indians rescued the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and were given loans ranging from 500 to 20,000 rupees ($8 to $308) Filipinos return before being taken to Rajasthan to work in the fields. from a farm after “These people were trafficked from their home state to Marawi city with the lure of good work but kept bonded on the fields. years of suffering They believed they were repaying the loans,” said Nirmal Gorana, convener of the National Campaign Committee MARAWI CITY: Khaliluddin Ismail for Eradication of Bonded Labor, that took part in the res- returned home yesterday after five MUMBAI: Nearly 25 workers, including children, who cue. Rescued workers said while they worked in the fields, months of war in the southern worked 15-hour days for seven years, were rescued at the their children worked at the employer’s house for no mon- Philippines to find his house ransacked. weekend at Baran in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, ey. “The employers did not give them wages, but only But he’s still smiling. “At least we have in a rare crackdown on farms where forced labor is ram- packets of wheat. —Reuters something left,” he said, standing in a room with clothes, toys, ornaments and damaged pictures strewn across the floor. “Others have nothing. They lost their homes, they lost their lives.” Ismail, 44, the Imam of a nearby mosque, con- siders himself one of the luckiest people in Marawi. BALO-I, Philippines: Young evacuees cook rice in front of their tent at The city was devastated by more an evacuation centre in Balo-i town, Lanao del Sur province, on the than 150 days of battles between gov- southern island of Mindanao. —AFP ernment forces and pro-Islamic State militants that killed more than 1,100 Happy homecoming find jewelry, money, furniture and people and displaced some 350,000. There were scenes of joy and chaos antiques had been stolen. He said he His house is in Marawi’s safe zone, an as a convoy of returning residents feared he would have starved or been area long abandoned by residents but poured in to Marawi to a cacophony killed had he stayed behind. “We felt untouched by unrelenting shelling and of horns and whistles, jamming what the ground trembling from the air military air strikes that have all but flat- only a few hours earlier were deserted strikes. We didn’t know if the army tened the city’s commercial heart, streets. Armed police at checkpoints could protect us,” said Goling, wear- destroying thousands of homes, shops cross-checked documents and pic- ing sunglasses and a white skull cap. and vehicles. Six days after troops tures of each passengers from the 712 “If you don’t believe in their ideology, killed the last remaining rebels, Ismail families, to guard against possible infil- ISIS sees you as the enemy,” he said, was among about 4,000 people allowed tration by militants. referring to Islamic State. to return to their homes on Sunday in Babies cried as officials at a pub- Marawi’s Basak Malutlot area. lic hall shouted on megaphones to Destroy city to save it Many like him have discovered their try to establish order as hundreds He was among many people who houses were looted and left in disarray. “I opened the door and I was shocked, jostled to register for the sack of rice said they understood that the military but I’m still happy to be home,” he said. and 5,000 pesos ($97) allocated to had to destroy the city to save it. Ismail fled with his family on May 24 each household. With a stern face, Norida Manna’s three-storey house during a fierce three-day firefight that the district’s elderly chairwoman, was levelled by an air strike, but she’s erupted just 50 meters away, when Jamellah Indol Saro, yelled in the thankful she’s alive. The office clerk security forces tried to raid the hideout local Maranao dialect at anxious res- and single mother of six will now live of notorious militant leader Isnilon idents to calm down. “I told them we at her sister’s home, from which she Hapilon, Islamic State’s anointed “emir” have to thank Allah we’re still alive,” fled in May as troops outside battled in Southeast Asia. Hapilon escaped, then she said, smiling. hooded, black-clad gunmen who issued a call to arms to hundreds of Some 6,500 families are due to helped the escape of Hapilon. The insurgents to initiate their planned return this week in a phased repatria- rebel commander was subsequently takeover of Marawi. It sparked the tion, a fraction of the 77,000 that fled killed in a military operation 13 days Philippines’ biggest urban battle in to evacuation camps or nearby towns. ago. “My home was destroyed, but I recent history, and fears that Islamic Many face a lengthy wait for vast don’t blame the military. They had a State’s extremist agenda had gained a swathes of Marawi to be rebuilt. job to do,” she said. “I have nothing foothold in the south of the mainly Retired government employee left, but to us, every day is a happy Catholic country. Mitormar Goling, 72, came home to one now.”— Reuters

toys, clothes and shoes are a common sight in India’s Crackdown on Mumbai cities, with their wares on pavements, outside schools and at traffic lights. Only about 20,000 hawkers in street vendors sparks a Mumbai are licensed, with the number unlicensed esti- mated at more than 150,000. Unlicensed hawkers often have to pay policemen bribes, and flee eviction drives row over public spaces which are becoming more common as cities are upgraded with high-speed internet and air-conditioned metro trains. A plan is being drawn up to regularize MUMBAI: A crackdown on street vendors in Mumbai hawkers, a city official said. after they were blamed for a stampede at a train sta- “A survey has been done. We will be holding a tion last month highlights the diminishing access to meeting in coming weeks to decide on a committee to public spaces for the city’s poor and marginalized issue licences and demarcate hawking zones,” said communities, activists said. A report on the rush-hour Ranjit Dhakne, a deputy municipal commissioner. stampede during a monsoon downpour that killed 22 India passed the Street Vendors Act in 2014, which people, said vendors crowding a narrow footbridge protects from evictions and relocations. States were were partly to blame. Since then, city officials have required to pass a law adopting the policy, but few doubled a fine for illegal hawkers, and said they will have done so. introduce a mobile app for residents to register com- Informal street life that offers livelihoods to the plaints about hawkers. poor are increasingly seen as a problem, even as Members of a local political party have clashed with officials ignore illegal parking and extensions of vendors outside train stations, saying they pose a risk to shops on to pavements, said an academic who has commuters. “City officials have not done anything to studied the issue. “It is a paradox that the same create hawking zones and issue new licenses,” said people who want the convenience of street vendors Salma Sheikh of advocacy group Azad Vendors Union also want them removed,” said Hussain Indorewala in Mumbai. “The law clearly states there can be no at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of evictions till a survey is done. Yet vendors are being Architecture in Mumbai. evicted, their wares destroyed; this is a blatant violation “Decisions about who belongs in the city, and of our rights,” she told the Thomson Reuters what streets and public spaces should be used for Foundation. are increasingly being controlled through the privi- Vendors selling everything from snacks and tea to lege of property ownership.”—Reuters 10 Established 1961

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With loose khaki pants, a button-down shirt and a dark blue blazer, Tyler Ruzich looks a lot like any number of aspiring politicians before him. But if the election Ruzich is running in were to be held today, he’d be too young to vote for himself. The 17-year- old is one of five teens throwing their hats in the crowded ring for next year’s governor’s race in Kansas, which has permissive rules about who can run for the state’s top elected post. Speaking recently to a crowd of students at a high school gym in the city of Lawrence, Ruzich picked up a microphone and launched into his cam- paign speech. “It’s pretty clear that our politicians have neglected us,” Ruzich said, competing to be heard over the clangs of a nearby weightlifting room. Next to him were three other teen gubernatorial candidates. In this geographical center of the conti- nental United States - affectionately called America’s Killing silences anti-graft voice Heartland - the teenagers vying for the governor’s office are injecting youthful ambition into the 2018 A few hundred meters from the home of Maltese inves- in a Facebook post after her Oct 16 death, took up where Her life was not totally dominated by her hard-hitting election cycle. tigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in the field she left off, calling on Maltese Prime Minister Joseph investigations of corruption. She also edited a glossy, Emboldened by the Trump era, where anything where the flaming wreckage of her car landed after being Muscat to resign “for watching over the birth of a society monthly lifestyle magazine called Taste&Flair, which was seems possible in American politics, the teens are blown off the road by an assassin’s bomb, a plastic pen is dominated by fear, mistrust, crime and corruption.” distributed free of charge with the Malta Independent on challenging the status quo in a deeply Republican stuck into the ground near a Maltese flag. A hand-written Caruana Galizia also followed up on the Maltese con- Sunday. Caruana Galizia would unwind at her home, driv- state. “I view this as really an important opportuni- note among bunches of flowers nearby reads: “What you tent in the Panama Papers offshore accounts leaks in 2016. ing into the hills, along narrow country lanes lined by trees ty to get younger people involved,” Ruzich, a wrote and what you uncovered cannot be blown away.” She alleged earlier this year that documents provided by a and dusty cactus plants to a house built from limestone Republican, told AFP. The teenage candidates are Grief and anger are still palpable in this tiny blocks quarried in Malta that stands, shaded by trees, at taking advantage of the fact that Kansas has no age Mediterranean nation, where Caruana Galizia’s website, the end of a long dirt track. restrictions on who can run for governor - one can- “Running Commentary,” was essential reading in cafes, “She created a paradise at home for herself that was didate even jokingly suggested that a dog could corridors of power, boardrooms and newsrooms. “You an escape from everything she saw in her journalism,” get on the ballot. The only other state with such wouldn’t sleep at night if you hadn’t read Daphne,” said said Matthew, another of her three sons and a member of permissive election laws, sparsely populated Rachel Attard, news editor at the Malta Independent, Even in her The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Vermont, in the northeast, has a 13-year-old guber- which published a twice-weekly column by Caruana that won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Panama natorial candidate. Galizia. garden, Paper revelations. Nearly two weeks after the journalist’s brutal death, When protesters camped out outside Muscat’s office People are ‘fed up’ police have said almost nothing about their investigation Caruana Galizia in the capital, Valletta, in a show of support for the slain Jack Bergeson, 16, was the first Kansas teen to file or the prospect of identifying suspects. There have been journalist and to call for the resignations of the country’s election papers in the spring of 2016. The novelty of six car bombings in Malta over the past two years, never sat still police chief and attorney general, the sons sent them piz- it landed him on a national late-night talk show and including Caruana Galizia’s. None have been solved. za and branches of bay laurel from the garden, calling drew the attention of news media. By this summer, Caruana Galizia, 53, was educated at Catholic schools them symbols of courage and strength. 17-year-olds Ruzich and Ethan Randleas had joined before starting work as a journalist in 1987. She cited her But even in her beloved garden, Caruana Galizia never the race; Dominic Scavuzzo announced his candida- parents as her inspiration, saying in one of her posts that sat still. Shortly before her death, she had bought saplings cy in the fall. And last week, 16-year-old Joseph they faced challenges “with dignity, correctly and without whistleblower showed that the wife of Prime Minister of native trees to plant and was considering building a Tutera Jr became the latest teen to seek the state’s moral compromise” from 1971-87, when Malta was ruled Joseph Muscat had an offshore holding in Panama to chicken coop. “It’s like she collected responsibilities,” highest office. “It’s an overall good thing. People are by the Labor Party and gripped by political turmoil. receive money from Azerbaijan. Muscat and his wife, Andrew said. Her supporters in Malta are now hoping the showing that the younger generation is here to make She set up her blog in 2008 with the same absence of Michelle, denied that they had companies in Panama. outrage generated by Caruana Galizia’s killing will spark an impact,” Bergeson told AFP. moral compromise. Fed by a network of sources who Meanwhile, opposition leader Adrian Delia sued her change that could help this nation shrug off its reputation The young men - no girls have joined in - are tipped her off about stories, Caruana Galizia turned into a over stories linking him to a prostitution racket in London. as a haven for money laundering and corruption. hoping to tap into the anti-establishment fervor headline machine that could set the nation’s news agenda He dropped the case after her death. Despite her hard-hit- Greta Muscat Azzopardi, a 34-year-old project manag- coursing through American politics and roiling the on any given day. “She received so many stories from her ting reporting, in private the journalist was gentle and er who was among those camping outside the prime minis- sources, she was struggling to keep up,” her son Andrew reserved, said a lawyer who defended her in some libel ter’s office, said the journalist was an inspiration. “I haven’t Republican Party. Incumbents are facing unexpect- told AP at the family home. cases. “In person, she was very timid, docile, she was always agreed with what she posted, but I really believe ed challenges in next year’s midterm elections from She targeted both sides of politics with the same sense almost shy. It was the opposite of what one would think if we need to be OK with criticizing each other in public,” outsiders emboldened by Donald Trump’s rhetoric of moral outrage, accusing the country’s leaders of corrup- you were to read her blogs, her posts, her articles,” said she said. “A lot of things get hidden because we are so and his surprise presidential victory. “I’m not nec- tion and undermining its democratic institutions. Her sons, Roberto Montalto. afraid to criticize and challenge and question.” —AP essarily a supporter of the president, but he has showed that people are fed up with the establish- ment,” Bergeson said. The teens hope to inspire younger people to the US since we are now entirely isolat- register to vote. Of the five, only Bergeson is a At climate talks, ed,” he told AFP. Democrat. The other four are Republicans in a state “My expectation is that the rest of Chile battling Trump won by more than 20 points. And like it’s America the world will simply continue within the Trump, the five are willing to buck their respective Paris framework and wait and see what to save a parties. Ruzich would raise business taxes - anath- alone more than happens in the US in 2020. “The danger ema to true-believer Republicans. Bergeson would is that other countries are less ambitious raise taxes, too. And, all five teens would legalize America first in their own commitments and imple- favorite clam marijuana. mentation plans because they have the excuse of the US leaving,” he added. Long one of the country’s favorite seafood, ‘Uncertain race’ Facing 195 other countries who have Chile’s macha clam has become a victim of its The young candidates’ participation in the guber- chosen a different path, the task of US Next election Many delegates will be hoping that own popularity, with over-exploitation forcing A fisherman shows saltwater natorial race has been a spectacle, but it could have negotiators at upcoming climate talks in authorities to ban clam fishing in all but a few clams after collecting them from real impact. Students at the high school campaign Bonn is unenviable. Donald Trump has by a Nov 4, 2020 deadline - one day after the next presidential election - areas to help stocks recover. From humble sea- the shore at a beach in La event said they were inspired. “It was really cool to vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, side taverns to exclusive Santiago restaurants, Serena. —AFP see someone closer to my age actually up there talk- just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo Trump either backs down or a new president has embraced the agreement. machas have long been a mainstay of the menu ing about these political issues,” 17-year-old Josh for the next three years until in seafood-loving Chile. Found in the surf-swept Morris said. More significantly, the teens’ presence Washington can officially leave. So, it Either scenario is entirely possible. The from an icy Pacific in the austral winter. The sandbanks along the coasts of Chile and south- technique is old and rustic. It’s a heart and on the ballot could affect adult candidates, said falls to Thomas Shannon - a respected White House has given itself ample ern Peru, the macha is fished in the traditional soul, hands-and-feet kind of fishing. No rods, Burdett Loomis, professor of political science at the career diplomat - to this week lead a wiggle room, saying the United States way by men and women who brave icy waves no nets, just pure hand-to-hand combat with University of Kansas. “It’s a hugely open and uncer- delegation into talks aimed at imple- intends to withdraw “unless the presi- and riptides to wrest their prize from the sea. ripping current and surf. In San Pedro, groups tain race,” Loomis said, adding that the teens could menting an agreement the US is set to dent can identify terms that are more But since August, fishing for machas has of men and women “macheras” defy wind and drain votes from older candidates. abandon. favorable to American businesses, been banned in the central regions of tide to wade thigh deep into the icy seas of The adults might just want to pay attention; there workers, and taxpayers”. “It is a strange situation, I don’t think Valparaiso, O’Higgins and El Maule after indus- the austral winter, feeling for the bump of the is precedent for teens winning elected office in the I have seen anything like it in my almost That leaves open a broad range of trial-scale extraction has all but destroyed possibilities that would not wreck the shellfish in the sand with their bare feet, US. Saira Blair, aged 17 when she ran in 2014 for a 30 years of following this process,” said stocks. The future for the clam lies further north, before reaching down and grappling under seat in the West Virginia state legislature, became Alden Meyer of the Union of deal, including scaling back Obama’s where the fishing community in La Serena is national plan to reduce greenhouse gas the water for the reclusive clam. the youngest person ever elected to state or federal Concerned Scientists, a Washington- held up as an example of a sustainable way for- Being a good “machero” is all about experi- office, defeating an incumbent in her own based non-profit working on environ- emissions by 26-28 percent by 2025 ward after strict fishery management plans compared to 2005 levels. But for now, ence. “The macha fisherman must be in good Republican Party. The Kansas teens’ candidacies led mental issues. The Trump administration were put in place to help stocks recover. physical shape to put up with that. He has to put one adult gubernatorial contender to suggest says it will still turn up, hoping to pro- the most supportive American voices “The machas have almost disappeared in come from outside the administration - on 20 pounds of lead to anchor himself to the changing the law. “I think it’s both amusing and tect America’s interests and put Chile, except in this preservation area, where sand and resist the waves so that the sea doesn’t in the cities, states and companies, encouraging that high school students are throwing “America first”. stocks have been taken care of for years,” said move him around,” said Zepeda. “I’m 53 and many of whom will likely implement their name into the governor’s race,” Kris Kobach Rather ambitiously, Washington Franklin Zepada, president of the San Pedro since the age of 10 I’ve been catching machas. their requirements regardless. told the Kansas City Star newspaper in September. wants to handcuff its biggest geopoliti- Fisherman’s union in La Serena. On nearby It’s dedication that makes everyone a good “But it is appropriate to have minimum ages for cal rivals to their commitments. A White Billionaire former New York mayor Coquimbo Bay, Zepada says the conservation worker,” said Luis Castillo, before throwing the the governor’s office,” said Kobach, who as Kansas House official told AFP it wants “to Michael Bloomberg is on the front line program and a quota system for catches has catch of the day on the beach on Coquimbo Bay. secretary of state is in charge of administering elec- ensure the rules are transparent and of the Paris accord’s cheerleaders, secured the livelihood of 175 local macha fish- Once out of the water, the machas are sent to a tions - and who also is heading Trump’s controver- fair, and apply to countries like China determined to help meet US commit- ers, including 50 women. A quota system of production center managed by the fisherman’s ments whatever the position of the sial commission investigating alleged voter fraud. and other economic competitors to the around 1,000 tons a season has bolstered cooperative, to be sorted for size and shipped to White House. “That’s kind of a new plot Many of the teen candidates acknowledge their age United States”. But Shannon and his prices, and the fishing community ensures that restaurants and stores. A popular seafood dish here,” said Meyer. “You did not have is a barrier. “People don’t think I’m quite experi- team might find themselves on shaky any clam less than six centimeters in size is in Chile is machas served baked in the half- that kind of force in place when presi- returned to the sea to mature. enced,” Scavuzzo told AFP, “but to win this election ground. Ben Rhodes, a former aide to shell with a coating of melted Parmesan cheese, dent Bush announced he was withdraw- isn’t necessarily winning the governorship.” Getting president Barack Obama, believes along with a drizzle of white wine and lemon. ing from Kyoto in 2001.” The key ques- Buried in the sand young people more involved in politics, he added, Washington has abandoned any lever- Invented by who else but an Italian immigrant, tion is whether they can keep the flame Part of the clam’s raw appeal for con- would be a victory in itself. — AFP age it once had. “The rest of the world “Machas a la Parmesana” has become a classic has no incentive to make concessions to alive for another three years. —AFP sumers is the gritty fight to claim the bivalve of Chilean cuisine. —AFP Established 1961 11 News Tuesday, October 31, 2017

tion system for foreign workers and a “Know Your Death brings Rights” campaign in five languages. As a government-authorized agent, Chitla’s job is Israel’s military said it had located and destroyed a tun- home reality of... to ensure migrants understand their job contracts, Six dead as Israel nel extending from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the first the employer does not alter the terms of employment such discovery since the 2014 conflict. later, and that all the paperwork of the applicant is fair and complete. But he fails to attract the same blows up tunnel ‘Breakthrough technology’ Continued from Page 1 number of workers as illegal agents. “There are at Hamas forces have used tunnels in the past to enter least 50 unlicensed agents who are sending hundreds GAZA CITY: Six Palestinians were killed yesterday Israel and carry out attacks. “We are developing break- Most migrants believe they will be able to make of workers. I have sent 48 so far,” Chitla said. India’s as Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel stretching through technology to deal with the tunnel threat,” good money in Dubai in just a few years - an illusion foreign ministry has made attempts to streamline the from the Gaza Strip into its territory, a rare case of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a unscrupulous agents create. “When people started recruitment process and help workers in need. such an incident since a devastating 2014 war. Ashraf statement. “We are implementing it. Today we located a leaving for Gulf states (in the 1980s), this region was Jingles asking workers to go through only authorized Al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-led Gazan health tunnel and destroyed it. Whoever seeks to harm us will reeling from years of drought. They had no option agents play on radio every day but many are lured by ministry, confirmed six men had been killed. One of be hit.” Conricus also said Israel used advanced tech- but to migrate,” said Suresh Reddy, a politician from the promises unauthorized agents make. the men came from Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzedine nology to locate the tunnel but declined to elaborate. Telangana who has worked on the migration issue. Chandrasekhar Boragalla, 26, a father of two, al-Qassam Brigades confirmed, while at least some of Yesterday’s operation came as Palestinian rival factions “When they left, there were some economic gains stepped out of Jagtial for the first time two years the others were believed to be from Islamic Jihad, an Hamas and Fatah seek to follow through on a reconcilia- but they paid a heavy price for it - working in inhu- ago when he sat on a bus to Mumbai about 800 km allied militant group. tion deal signed earlier this month aimed at ending a man conditions and leaving their families behind.” away and had an interview in a seafront office for a Their deaths were announced after Israel “neutral- decade-long rift between them. Hamas is due to hand Chittam’s annual savings rarely exceeded 12,000 cleaner’s job in Dubai. “I paid 70,000 rupees to the ized a terror tunnel leading into southern Israel,” mili- control of the Gaza Strip back to the Palestinian Authority Indian rupees ($185) and he sent home 4,000 to agent for this job. When I reached there, they made tary spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists. by Dec 1 under the agreement. The Islamist movement 5,000 rupees every few months. He worked in Dubai me sign a two-year bond for a salary much lower “The tunnel was detonated from within Israel, close to seized the enclave in a near civil war with Fatah, based in for 13 years and visited his wife and two children just than what was promised. I wasn’t even paid for three the security fence.” Tunnels dug by Gaza’s Islamist the occupied West Bank, in 2007. five times during that period. “He was planning to months. I was asked to pay 85,000 rupees for leave rulers Hamas were a key issue in the last war with Israel Israel has warned that it will not accept a unity gov- return for good next year after making a little more to go home,” he said. Boragalla returned penniless to in 2014, but discoveries of those stretching into the ernment that includes Hamas if the Islamist movement money,” Gangadhar said, as Chittam’s wife Laxmi Jagtial three months ago. He now works as a welder does not disarm and recognize the country, among oth- Jewish state have since been rare. Islamic Jihad said in a looked on, numb and impassive. and is still repaying the loan he took to pay the statement that the tunnels were “part of the policy of er demands. Israel launched its 2014 operation in Gaza Ramanna Chitla had worked in Dubai for 16 years agent from the 400 rupees he earns as daily wages. deterrence to defend the Palestinian people”. It added with the stated objectives of halting rocket fire and when he returned to Jagtial, a town in Telangana, last they were studying potential responses to this “danger- destroying attack tunnels into Israel. During the war, 32 “It’s not enough. Dubai is danger. I will not go ous escalation”. tunnels were discovered, including 14 that extended into year, determined to work to stop others from being back,” he said. Conricus said the Israeli military was not seeking a Israel, according to a UN report on the conflict. It was tricked by agents. “I saw a lot of misery there. Kalleda could easily be mistaken for a prosperous further escalation. He said the tunnel was targeted the third war in Gaza since 2008 and the longest, dead- Workers were underpaid and poorly treated. They village with lush farmlands and maize fields lining its around two kilometres from the Israeli village of liest and most destructive. It killed 2,251 Palestinians, were cheated by their agents with false promises so I roads. But earnings from farming are rarely enough Kissufim, but added that no Israelis had been in danger. while more than 10,000 were wounded and 100,000 thought I would come back and bring a change,” to feed families. “They are marginal farmers and own He said the tunnel was still being dug and no opening were left homeless. On the Israeli side, 74 people were Chitla said. less than 5 acre (2 hectares) of land which does not was found in Israeli territory. The military had been killed, all but six of them soldiers. Israeli leaders have Over the years, the Indian government and non- support their families. Water is scarce as this is a rain monitoring it for “some time”, Conricus said, declining been keen to show they are addressing the threat of governmental groups have received a steady stream fed region,” said land rights lawyer Sunil Reddy, who to say when it was first discovered. In April 2016, tunnels from the Gaza Strip. — AFP of complaints from migrant workers, ranging from takes up cases of the rural poor. “When Telangana non-payment of wages to torture and abuse. was created as a separate state in 2014, two promis- Workers often take loans of 50,000 to 100,000 es were made - more jobs and more irrigation water. Indian rupees ($750 to $1,500) to pay agents, hop- But the situation is the same,” Reddy said. ing to earn enough from working as cleaners and as Laxmi Malaya, now a widow, has a small piece of space” and that the tools being developed are not only labourers on construction sites to repay the loan, but land on which she grows maize, turmeric and rice. In Oman desert, useful for life on a distant planet but for our own. “Most their salaries rarely match promises. “They don’t visit Two harvests yielded an annual income of about people every day use a handful of space technologies doctors when they are unwell to save money,” Chitla 60,000 Indian rupees ($925), which supplemented without even knowing it,” said Groemer, listing off said, adding that deaths attributed to ill health are the money her husband sent home. Migrant rights a gateway to... satellite imagery, fuel injection for cars and breast can- often due to exploitative work conditions. cer screening software. campaigners are seeking a compensation for the Continued from Page 1 Yesterday the Austrian Space Forum signed a mem- Government figures show there are some 6 million widows of Gulf migrants. “Compensation is their orandum of understanding with Oman, making the sul- Indian migrants in the six Gulf states of Bahrain, right. The money workers send back is pumped into to be a sneak preview into the future,” said Groemer, tanate’s selection as the mission site official. For the Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates the state’s economy,” said activist Bheem Reddy. describing a U-shaped encampment where “an exquis- Omani Astronomical Society, which invited the Austrian (UAE) and Oman. According to official data, more Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary with the itely compiled suite of experiments” will take place. Space Forum, the mission is a way to inspire the coun- than 30,000 Indian nationals died in the Gulf states Telangana government said financial compensation Those include experiments designed to test human try’s youth. A series of lectures is taking place at Sultan between 2005 and 2015. The UAE embassy in New for widows has been proposed as part of the state’s factors that could affect pioneering astronauts, such as Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, geared especially Delhi said in an emailed statement the Gulf state had Non Resident Indian policy. For now, all that’s on mental fatigue and depression. Just 15 people will enter toward hundreds of young students. introduced a number of reforms over the last few offer is the free transportation of bodies of workers the isolation phase, when their only way to trou- Al-Khattab Ghalib Al-Hinai, deputy head of the years to combat abusive labor practices including like Chittam from Hyderabad airport back to their bleshoot snags will be through remote communication steering committee for AMADEE-18 and vice chairman improving transparency of contracts, a wage protec- home villages. — Reuters with “earth” in Austria. of Oman’s State Council, says a high school team will The total cost of the project is expected to be even participate, conducting a geophysics experiment around half-a-million euros, covered mainly by private to find water. “The whole idea is to ignite imagination donations from industry partners. Critics of such space within the young society in Oman, female and male, and “witch hunt”. With the Mueller investigation entering missions see the massive amounts of money as a luxury I hope this journey of discovery will help them to always First charges, plea deal this dramatic new phase, Republican officials and con- in a time of austerity measures in Europe and search for the unknown,” the geologist said. “I hope to servative media have stepped up attacks on Democrats depressed oil prices in the Gulf. The Austrian Space see astrophysicists in Oman, I hope to see geologists. I emerge in Russia... - especially Clinton - though opponents are dismissing Forum argues the money is not being “thrown into hope to see astronauts in the future.” — AFP the accusations as blatant attempts to divert attention. Manafort was among the participants of a June 9, Continued from Page 1 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Kremlin-linked lawyer that raised suspicions of collusion between the KD 2, but surgical extraction and removal of abscess with the 2016 presidential election,” the indictment campaign and Moscow. The meeting was arranged by Harbi approves will cost KD 5. Treatment of fractures of the mouth and states. Trump soon took to Twitter to dismiss the explo- Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr, in hopes of receiving jaws will cost KD 35. sive indictments, once again insisting there was no col- damaging information on Hillary Clinton, the new dental... Cleaning of gums will cost KD 5, but operations of lusion with Russia and calling on political rival Hillary Democratic candidate. Manafort’s indictment made no all types for each tooth will cost KD 10. Root canal will Clinton to be investigated. “Sorry, but this is years ago, mention of Russian involvement in the US campaign, cost KD 2 for partial removal, while preliminary treat- before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. however, focusing instead on Manafort’s earlier Continued from Page 1 ment of the front tooth costs KD 5 and KD 10 for the But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the Ukrainian ties. back tooth, with the same fees for repeated treatment focus?????” Trump tweeted. “....Also, there is NO A long-time political operative and consultant, he The new mechanism stipulates that for procedures of the front tooth and KD 15 for repeated treatment of COLLUSION!” was recruited in March 2016 to round up pro-Trump needing more than one session to be completed, the the back tooth. In all, Manafort and Gates were hit with 12 charges of delegates to the Republican Party convention. Then in patient pays only once. Temporary fillings cost KD 2, and permanent ones conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to laun- June Trump named him campaign chairman, replacing Temporary fillings following procedures such as a KD 5. For children, the fee for cleaning and treatment der money, failing to register as a foreign agent, making fired Corey Lewandowski. But in August he resigned as root canal will be considered within the treatment and by fluoride and preventive fillings for each temporary false statements and failure to report offshore bank Ukraine corruption investigators released files showing extra charges will not be collected. The decision tooth is KD 2. A permanent filling will cost KD 5, and accounts. “Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions large payments to Manafort companies and it became exempts expat children with special needs, cancer KD 10 for root canal of every temporary tooth with a of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work,” the clear he was under investigation in the United States in patients and those with congenital defects in the mouth metal crown. KD 5 will be charged for each root canal indictment states. “In order to hide Ukraine payments relation to that. Federal law enforcement officials were cavity up to 12 years of age from paying the new fees. with a permanent filling. Extracting a milk tooth will from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 reportedly aware of wire transfers linked to Manafort Mobile prosthodontics for upper and lower jaws will cost KD 2, and KD 5 for each space protector for each to at least 2016, Manafort and Gates laundered the mon- as far back as 2012, when they began investigating cost KD 30. Dentures for either jaw cost KD 15, partial side, and the treatment of a broken tooth. The fee for x- ey through scores of United States and foreign corpora- whether he committed tax fraud or helped the dentures KD 10, in addition to fixing one mobile tooth rays for each tooth is KD 2, KD 5 for a panoramic x-ray tions, partnerships and bank accounts,” it added. Ukrainian regime - at the time close to Russian leader for KD 5. As for surgeries, fees for extraction will be and KD 10 for a CT scan. On Sunday, Trump had called the investigation a Vladimir Putin - launder money. — AFP 12 Established 1961 Sports Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Gayle wins defamation UK nations plan to wear Wayde Van Niekerk marries case against publisher poppies after FIFA U-turn fiancee Chesney Campbell SYDNEY: West Indies batsman Chris Gayle won a defamation case against LONDON: British football authorities said yesterday they will ask JOHANNESBURG: South African 400 metres Olympic champion an Australian media company in the New South Wales Supreme Court yester- their opponents and FIFA for permission to display poppies on arm- Wayde Van Niekerk has married his fiancee Chesney Campbell, posting day over an alleged incident during the 2015 World Cup. After less than two bands in upcoming internationals as a tribute to those killed in war. an image of himself with his new bride on social media over the weekend. hours of deliberation, the jury found Fairfax media had failed to establish the Football’s world governing body last month backed down in its row “Can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you @Neshney. So blessed truth of a series of reports it ran alleging the 103-test cricketer had exposed with British football authorities over the wearing of poppies and to start this next adventure with the girl of my dreams! I love you!” he himself to a masseuse during the tournament. It also found Fairfax had issued fresh guidance, which says certain “initiatives” may appear tweeted on Sunday morning. The post included a black and white image failed to establish that the allegation Gayle had propositioned the on players’ kits. In a joint statement, the English Football Association of Van Niekerk, wearing a traditional three-piece suit and a masseuse was “substantially true”. “I came all the way from Jamaica (FA), FA of Wales, Irish FA and Scottish FA said they welcome the buttonhole carnation. He sat alongside Campbell who wore a to actually defend myself and my character as well. At the end of the clarification on “what can and cannot be worn on players’ shirts” white veil and flowing dress and held a pale bouquet. “And day I’m very, very happy,” Gayle told reporters outside the court. issued by the game’s law-making body, the International Football the most important is love,” wrote Van Niekerk alongside “I’m a good man. I’m not guilty.” The jury also found that the image which he also posted to Instagram. The couple Fairfax, which publishes The Sydney Morning Herald and Association Board, in September. “It was important that clarity was brought to this issue as it affects many football matches/competi- of more than four years became engaged in December last The Age newspapers, was motivated by “malice” in pub- year when they posted a clip of Campbell showing off her lishing the stories. A hearing over the amount of dam- tions throughout the world and is particularly helpful in relation to remembrance and poppies,” the four associations said. —AFP engagement ring on Instagram, accompanied by the words: ages will be held at a later date. —Reuters “she said yes”. —AFP Hardaway and Knicks give Cavs fourth loss in 5 games, 114-95

Murray, Jokic lead Nuggets to a win over Nets

CLEVELAND: Tim Hardaway Jr scored 34 points and leave as free agents and trading Dwight Howard to Kristaps Porzingis had 32 as the New York Knicks Charlotte. They were outrebounded by 12 and never led. handed the Cleveland Cavaliers their fourth loss in five games, 114-95 on Sunday night. Cleveland, which was PACERS 97, SPURS 94 blown out by Orlando and lost to Brooklyn during this Victor Oladipo made a 3-pointer with about 10 sec- stretch, fell below .500 onds left, lifting Indiana to despite cutting a 19- a rare win against San point deficit to six in Antonio. Oladipo finished the fourth quarter. with 23 points and five LeBron James down- assists, and Domantas played the Cavaliers’ Hawks have Sabonis set career highs problems following with 22 points and 12 Saturday night’s 123- no inside rebounds. It was the third 101 loss in New win for the Pacers in their Orleans, but the issues experience last 20 games against the continued for the Spurs. LaMarcus Aldridge defending Eastern had 26 points and eight Conference champions. rebounds for San Antonio, New York, after win- which played without ning its first game Kawhi Leonard and Tony Friday over the Nets, led 89-71 late in the third quarter. Parker again. The Spurs have dropped two in a row. Cleveland cut it to 94-88 on James’ drive, forcing New CLEVELAND: Tim Hardaway Jr #3 of the New York Knicks looks for a pass while under pressure from JR Smith York to call a timeout with 8:21 left. HORNETS 120, MAGIC 113 #5 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the second half at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. — AFP Courtney Lee scored on a drive and hit a 3-pointer, Kemba Walker had 34 points and 10 assists, and helping the Knicks make it 103-88. New York took its Charlotte snapped Orlando’s three-game win streak. largest lead, 114-93, in the final minute. Walker was 15 of 25 from the field. Dwight Howard had a season-high 22 points against his former team, eight NBA results/standings NUGGETS 124, KNICKS 111 of those coming off alley-oop dunks - two on assists Jamal Murray scored 26 points, Nikola Jokic had 21 from Walker and two from Jeremy Lamb. Lamb had 20 Detroit 115, Golden State 107; NY Knicks 114, Cleveland 95; Denver 124, Brooklyn 111; Charlotte 120, Orlando 113; Washington 110, points and 14 rebounds, and Denver earned its second points, marking his sixth straight game with at least 15 Sacramento 83; Indiana 97, San Antonio 94; Milwaukee 117, Atlanta 106. straight victory. Wilson Chandler added 18 points for points while filling in for the injured Nic Batum. Eastern Conference Western Conference the Nuggets, and Emmanuel Mudiay finished with 15. Jonathan Simmons led the Magic with 27 points on 9- Atlantic Division Northwest Division W L PCT GB Spencer Dinwiddie scored 22 points, Rondae Hollis- of-15 shooting. Evan Fournier added 23 points, and Portland 4 2 .667 - Boston 4 2 .667 - Minnesota 3 3 .500 1 Jefferson had 18 points and Joe Harris tied his season Terrence Ross and Aaron Gordon each had 17. Toronto 3 2 .600 0.5 Utah 3 3 .500 1 high with 16 points for the Nets, who have lost two Brooklyn 3 4 .429 1.5 Denver 3 3 .500 1 straight. Denver went on a 22-4 run to begin the third WIZARDS 110, KINGS 83 NY Knicks 2 3 .400 1.5 Oklahoma City 3 3 .500 1 quarter. John Wall scored 11 of his 19 points in the first quarter Philadelphia 2 4 .333 2 Pacific Division Central Division and finished with nine assists, helping the Wizards to the LA Clippers 4 1 .800 - Detroit 5 2 .714 - Golden State 4 3 .571 1 BUCKS 117, HAWKS 106 road win. Bradley Beal added 15 points on 6-of-11 Milwaukee 4 2 .667 0.5 LA Lakers 2 4 .333 2.5 Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, Khris shooting for Washington after being fined $50,000 by Indiana 3 3 .500 1.5 Middleton had 27 and the Bucks cruised to the victory. the NBA earlier in the day for his role in a fight with Cleveland 3 4 .429 2 Phoenix 2 4 .333 2.5 Antetokounmpo also had 11 rebounds and five assists. Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors on Friday. Chicago 1 4 .200 3 Sacramento 1 5 .167 3.5 Southeast Division Southwest Division He went 14 for 21 from the field, scoring from all over the The lopsided victory kept the Wizards out of the record Memphis 5 1 .833 - floor while helping Milwaukee to its third win in its last books. Washington’s first five games were decided by Orlando 4 2 .667 - Washington 4 2 .667 - Houston 5 2 .714 0.5 four games. Dennis Schroder finished with 21 points and five points or fewer; no team had ever opened the season Charlotte 3 3 .500 1 San Antonio 4 2 .667 1 Taurean Prince had 17 for Atlanta, which has lost six with six. The Kings shot 27.9 percent in the first half and Miami 2 3 .400 1.5 New Orleans 3 3 .500 2 straight. The Hawks have no inside experience or size trailed by double digits for the final 43 minutes. Brian Atlanta 1 6 .143 3.5 Dallas 1 6 .143 4.5 this season after letting Paul Millsap and Al Horford Bogdanovic scored 15 points for Sacramento. — AP

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BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: Scoreboard at stumps on day two of the second Test between Zimbabwe and Hazlewood Nadal prepares West Indies yesterday: targets Zimbabwe first innings Bowling: Gabriel 22-4-64-2 (1nb), Roach 18.1- to quietly seal H. Masakadza c Dowrich b Bishoo 147 5-44-3 (1nb), Blackwood 4-1-8-0, Holder 16- S. Mire c Dowrich b Roach 4 2-49-0, Bishoo 25-2-82-2, Chase 14-1-50-1, England’s C. Ervine b Gabriel 0 Brathwaite 10-0-23-1. number one status B. Taylor b Roach 1 batting P. Moor b Chase 52 West Indies first innings PARIS: Rafael Nadal said yesterday that he is ready to Sikandar Raza c K. Hope b Gabriel 80 K. Brathwaite c Masakadza b Cremer 32 consolidate his year-end number one ATP ranking by M. Waller b Brathwaite 0 K. Powell not out 43 SYDNEY: Australia paceman Josh Joe Root winning his opening match at the Paris Masters. But the R. Chakabva b Bishoo 10 D. Bishoo not out 0 Hazlewood has warned Joe Root’s England 31-year-old Spaniard - who is also trying to balance G. Cremer run out 11 Extras (2b, 1lb) 3 tourists and their raft of Ashes debutants the last Ashes series and James Vince, T. Chisoro lbw b Roach 9 the delicate political situation in his native country with Total (1 wkt, 49 overs) 78 they risk being exposed if their big guns Mark Stoneman and Dawid Malan have C. Mpofu not out 4 his status as an international sportsman - refused to Fall of wickets: 1-76 (Brathwaite). don’t fire in the coming series. England’s played a combined total of 17 Tests with- hype up his potential coronation. “I need to win a Extras (6lb, 2nb) 8 Still to bat: K. Hope, S. Hope, R. Chase, J. depleted squad touched down in Perth on out scoring a century. Root, rated the match. I’m here to try my best - as in every tourna- Total (all out, 109.1 overs) 326 Blackwood, S. Dowrich, J. Holder, K. Roach, S. Sunday without suspended star all- world’s second-best Test batsman, shapes ment,” he said before starting as top seed in the event Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Mire), 2-11 (Ervine), 3-14 rounder Ben Stokes. Their arrival coincided (Taylor), 4-156 (Moor), 5-246 (Masakadza), 6- Gabriel. as the key wicket for Australia despite a which is missing Roger Federer due to fatigue. with Hazlewood’s Test pace partner 248 (Waller), 7-267 (Chakabva), 8-310 Bowling: Mpofu 11-5-17-0, Mire 4-2-2-0, horror campaign in 2013/14 when he “Hopefully if this (number one) happens, it will be Mitchell Starc picking up a career-best (Sikandar Raza), 9-319 (Cremer), 10-326 Cremer 12-2-31-1, Sikandar Raza 13-6-10-0, passed 50 once in eight innings and was something important for me. “But the season is not over eight wickets with the pink ball in a (Chisoro). Chisoro 9-4-15-0. —AFP then dropped. and it’s not the moment to think much about that. “I’ll Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide. just try to think about trying to have the right prepara- “He’s a pretty good all-round player, The world number two’s inexperienced tion for the tournament and then try to be ready for the you don’t get to the top couple for no rea- batting line-up has been highlighted as its first match.” Nadal, who reclaimed the top ranking in son,” Hazlewood said. “He seems to be August for the first time in three years, is due to start at Powell was unbeaten on 43 from 123 biggest weakness as it aims to emulate the scoring quicker at the moment as well, at Bercy against South Korea’s Hyeon Chung, who opened balls, along with nightwatchman feat of Andrew Strauss’ men by becoming 80 strike-rate, the last 12 months. yesterday with a 6-0, 6-2 first-round defeat of German W Indies crawl Devendra Bishoo, who has yet to score. only the second England team to retain the “He’s definitely getting on with it so Mischa Zverev. Federer is skipping Paris after winning West Indies lost Kraigg Brathwaite Ashes urn in Australia in 31 years. hopefully that gives us an extra couple of back-to-back titles in Shanghai and Basel and is resting (32 from 160 balls) 15 minutes before the While doubts remain about the security opportunities. He’s got a pretty well- to be prepared for the ATP Finals starting in less than a to 78 for one close when he was caught by Hamilton of Australia’s top six batsmen, there is an rounded game at the moment.” Starc’s best fortnight in London. Masakadza at slip off the bowling of air of confidence among their bowling first-class figures of his career could not Nadal, who withdrew from Basel with a knee prob- in second Test Graeme Cremer. attack heading into the opening Test at the have come at a better time, but will also be lem, does not fault his main rival for looking after per- Zimbabwe had resumed on 169 for Gabba on November 23. welcomed by the England seamers, partic- sonal interests. BULAWAYO: A cautious West Indies four after a rain-hit opening day with “If you get him (Root), Alastair Cook ularly Stuart Broad. “Everyone makes the calendar which he thinks will crawled to 78 for one in their first Masakadza’s 147 anchoring their first and Jonny Bairstow, who have been scor- Broad is expected to be a handful at be the best for him,” Nadal said. “For him, everything innings at the close on the second day of innings. Sikandar Raza’s 80 allowed ing runs the last few years, it places extra Adelaide Oval when the tourists play their was working well that way. He had a little bit better them to post a par score on a slow wick- pressure on the inexperienced guys even first day-night Test in early December. “It’s chance, of course, if he came here. But you never know. the second test against Zimbabwe yes- et that is taking turn. West Indies won more so,” Hazlewood told Fairfax Media. been a long time since I’ve played a four- “You would think that he would have more points if he terday. The tourists took 49 overs, in “If we get the wood on them hopefully the day fixture so it was nice to get some overs had played on clay. But you never know (that) if he which they hit six boundaries, to reach a the first test at the same venue by 117 score that left them with a first-innings runs as they seek a first away test series rest fall in line.” Only Root, Cook and under the belt (37.4 for the game) and get played on clay if he would win Wimbledon or he would Bairstow have played a Test in Australia, be able to play as well as he did.— AFP deficit of 248 runs after they had bowled victory since a 2-0 triumph in ready for that first Test,” a fit-again Starc Zimbabwe out for 326. Opener Kieran Bangladesh in 2012. — Reuters while Gary Ballance was dropped during said on Sunday. — AFP Established 1961 13 Sports Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Hamilton wins fourth career F1 title at Mexican Grand Prix Hamilton celebrates championships in four cities

MEXICO CITY: Lewis Hamilton won his fourth career purpose.” “Not sure, Lewis,” the team replied. Race Formula One season championship on Sunday with a stewards determined no investigation was necessary. ninth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix in a race Both drivers made a mad scramble to get back won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Hamilton had to toward the front, weaving through the traffic that bot- overcome first-lap chaos when his Mercedes was tles up a short track at the Autodromo Hermanas bumped by title rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. Rodriguez, and Hamilton was struggling to make up any Hamilton got a tire puncture and Vettel had wing dam- ground. On lap 23, he was so slow that he was shown a age. Both had to stop immediately for repairs. blue flag, the order to let a faster car - Verstappen - go That left them in a past him. furious bid to catch up Vettel was on a furious as Verstappen sped pace to push the champi- away to victory. Vettel onship to the next race. finished fourth but had Most decorated He never got close. Late to win or finish second in the race, he asked his to push the title chase British driver team if he could get sec- to the last two races in ond but when told how far Brazil and Abu Dhabi. in F1 history behind he was, Vettel Hamilton’s champi- replied, “Oh mama mia, onship makes him the that’s too much.” most decorated British The finish allowed driver in F1 history, Hamilton to celebrate passing Sir Jackie championships in four Stewart. He is one of only five drivers in F1 history with cities, with Mexica City joining Sao Paolo, Brazil, in four or more. Hamilton held his helmet in his hands as 2008, Abu Dhabi in 2014 and Austin, Texas, in 2015. he crossed the finish line, then took a lap around the “Viva Mexico!” Hamilton told the crowd when he got track while waving the British Union Jack. out of his car. Hamilton’s championship will spur ques- Vettel didn’t make any of it easy, in more ways than tions about his place among the best drivers in F1 histo- one. A wild start saw Verstappen bump the Ferrari while ry. The 32-year-old joined Vettel and Alain Prost as fighting through the first turn at the end of the track’s four-time winners. He now trails only Argentina’s Juan MEXICO CITY: Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning his fourth Formula One world title long straight. Verstappen got the edge and got out Manuel Fangio (five) and Germany’s Michael despite finishing the Mexican Grand Prix in ninth place, at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City. — AFP when Hamilton made a move to get past Vettel, who Schumacher (seven) for the most of all time. drifted left. The Ferrari’s left front wing clipped He surpassed the three won by his idol, Brazilian Hamilton’s right rear tire, damaging both cars and forc- Aryton Senna, who is still considered one of the most tories, 40 have come over the last four years, a span races. Ferrari faltered as Hamilton had racked up five ing their drivers to pit for repairs. elegant and skillful drivers in F1 history. Hamilton’s of 77 races. wins over the past seven races and his car has been as As Verstappen pulled away, a seething Hamilton Mercedes car has dominated the era of turbo-hybrid He chased down this championship over the second steady as his driving. Hamilton has finished every race asked his team over the radio if Vettel made contact “on engines adopted in 2014. Of Hamilton’s 62 career vic- half of the season after Vettel won two of the first three and missed the podium just five times. — AP

helped overcome Forbath’s first field goal and an 18- yard touchdown reception by Thielen to push Eagles move to Cleveland’s lead to 13-9. SEAHAWKS 41, TEXANS 38 NFL-best 7-1 with Russell Wilson hit Jimmy Graham for an 18-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left, his second TD catch 33-10 win over 49ers of the fourth quarter. Down 38-34 with 1:39 left and out of timeouts, Wilson took Seattle 80 yards in bare- PHILADELPHIA: Carson Wentz tossed two touch- ly a minute. He hit Paul Richardson for 48 yards on a down passes, Jalen Mills had a pick-6 and the NFL- jump ball to start the drive, found Tyler Lockett for 19 leading Philadelphia Eagles beat the winless San yards, and drilled a strike to Graham for the winner. Francisco 49ers 33-10 on a sloppy, rainy Sunday. The Wilson finished 26 of 41 for a career-high 452 yards Eagles (7-1) overcame a slow start on their way to a and four TDs. He hit Richardson for two TDs and sixth straight win. The 49ers are 0-8 for the first time found Graham on a 1-yard TD pass with 5:41 left. in franchise history. Wentz was 18 of 32 for 211 yards Deshaun Watson was nearly the equal of Wilson, and one interception. He threw a 53-yard TD pass to throwing for 402 yards and four touchdowns. But the Alshon Jeffery and 1-yard TD pass to Zach Ertz. He rookie couldn’t come up with a final answer and was leads the NFL with 19 TD passes, most by an Eagles intercepted by Richard Sherman with 7 seconds left quarterback through eight games. C.J. Beathard shov- on a desperation throw. eled a 21-yard TD pass to Matt Breida and finished 17 of 36 for 167 yards with two interceptions in his sec- COWBOYS 33, REDSKINS 19 ond career start. The Eagles punted on six of their Ezekiel Elliott ran for 150 yards and two touch- first eight possessions before opening it up in the downs and the Cowboys took advantage of a blocked third quarter. Wentz hit Jeffery with a perfect pass to field goal return and three turnovers. Playing in a driv- extend the lead to 27-7. After Derek Barnett blocked ing rainstorm that made it difficult to hold onto the Robbie Gould’s field goal, the Eagles drove 62 yards ball, let alone throw it, Dak Prescott completed 14 of and LeGarrette Blount ran in from the 12 for a 33 -7 his 22 passes for 143 yards as Dallas (4-3) heeded the lead. The 49ers lost five straight games by a field goal message on Elliott’s cleats to “Feed Zeke.” With anoth- or less before Dallas routed them 40-10 last week. er hearing on his NFL suspension coming Monday, Elliott carried the ball 33 times, scored twice for the VIKINGS 33, BROWNS 16 second consecutive game, and surpassed 100 yards for the third week in a row. The game turned in the LANDOVER: Running back Ezekiel Elliott #21 of the Dallas Cowboys get tackled by strong safety Montae Nicholson Case Keenum threw for two touchdowns and Kai #35 of the Washington Redskins during the third quarter at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland.— AFP Forbath made four field goals in the last of four games second quarter when Dallas’ Tyrone Crawford blocked held this season in Britain. Adam Thielen had five Nick Rose’s field goal attempt and Orlando Scandrick returned it 86 yards to set up a 1-yard Elliott TD run. catches for 98 yards and a touchdown for the NFC toss from Brady to Rob Gronkowski in the second late fumbles kept the Bears in the game into the final North-leading Vikings (6-2), who trailed 13-12 at PATRIOTS 21, CHARGERS 13 quarter. The Patriots went 1 for 4 in the red zone, but minutes. Kamara had 76 yards from scrimmage, 48 halftime - the first time the Browns, 0-8 for the sec- were able to cobble together the Gostkowki field receiving. The Saints were threatening to score twice ond consecutive year, claimed a mid-game lead this Tom Brady passed for 333 yards and a touchdown, Stephen Gostkowski added four field goals. It was the goals and a safety. in the fourth quarter when the Bears stripped the ball season. Cleveland, without starting left tackle Joe from Ingram. Chicago converted the first fumble into Thomas for the first time since 2006, scored first, fourth straight victory for the Patriots (6-2). The loss snapped a three-game win streak for the Chargers. BILLS 34, RAIDERS 4 its only touchdown with 3:43 to go on Tarik Cohen’s taking a 6-0 lead on its second play from scrimmage Rookie linebacker Matt Milano scored on a 40- short dive over a pile of players at the goal line. The before kicker Zane Gonzalez’s missed extra point. Los Angeles (3-5) got on the board first when Melvin Gordon found a seam on the outside and rumbled yard fumble return on a rain-slick field, and the Bills second turnover occurred with a little more than two Middle linebacker Joe Schobert’s interception return forced four turnovers. Tyrod Taylor threw a 6-yard minutes left on the Bears 30, but Chicago was unable to the Vikings’ 37-yard line led to an 11-yard recep- down the sideline for an 87-yard touchdown run. But the rest of the game was marked by Los Angeles’ touchdown pass to Andre Holmes and also scored on to get a first down as rookie Mitchell Trubisky’s tion by David Njoku and a 26-yard touchdown run by a 1-yard run for Buffalo. LeSean McCoy had a sea- fourth-and-1 pass fell incomplete. Isaiah Crowell. A 1-yard run by rookie quarterback mistakes and inability to move the ball offensively. New England got its lone touchdown via a 2-yard son-best 151 yards rushing and also scored on a 48- DeShone Kizer with 40 seconds remaining in the half yard run. The Bills improved to 4-0 at home for the BENGALS 24, COLTS 23 first time since winning their first five home games of Lineman Carlos Dunlap batted Jacoby Brissett’s NFL results/standings the 1995 season. And Buffalo improved to 5-2, match- pass into the air, grabbed the ball and ran 16 yards to ing its best start during a 17-year postseason drought the end zone for a game-turning touchdown. The - the longest active streak in North America’s four defensive end excels at swatting away passes - he led Pittsburgh 20, Detroit 15; Dallas 33, Washington 19; Seattle 41, Houston 38; Atlanta 25, NY Jets 20; Carolina 17, Tampa Bay 3; major professional sports. NFL linemen last season - and changed the game Philadelphia 33, San Francisco 10; New Orleans 20, Chicago 12; New England 21, LA Chargers 13; Buffalo 34, Oakland 14; Cincinnati 24, Indianapolis 23; Minnesota 33, Cleveland 16. with his third career score. The Bengals (3-4) couldn’t FALCONS 25, JETS 20 protect Andy Dalton or get much pressure on Jacoby American Football Conference National Football Conference Matt Ryan threw two touchdown passes and the Brissett, who was sacked 10 times during a 27-0 loss AFC East NFC East Falcons slipped and slid to victory on a soggy field. to Jacksonville the previous week - the first time W L T OTL PF PA PCT Philadelphia 7 1 0 0 232 156 .875 Fumbled snaps, dropped passes and a big-time Indianapolis was blanked in 15 years. Brissett’s sec- New England 6 2 0 0 216 179 .750 Dallas 4 3 0 0 198 161 .571 drenching at MetLife Stadium had both squads trying ond touchdown pass had put the Colts (2-6) in posi- Buffalo 5 2 0 0 153 115 .714 Washington 3 4 0 0 160 180 .429 to find their footing, but the Falcons (4-3) steadied tion for a soothing road win. Instead, Dunlap Miami 4 3 0 0 92 152 .571 NY Giants 1 6 0 0 112 156 .143 themselves just enough to snap a three-game skid - snatched it away with 6:58 left, putting Cincinnati NY Jets 3 5 0 0 157 186 .375 all to other AFC East teams. Austin Hooper and ahead to stay in a game featuring four lead changes. NFC North Mohamed Sanu each caught touchdown passes from The Colts drove to a fourth-and-4 at the Cincinnati AFC North Minnesota 6 2 0 0 179 135 .750 Ryan, who finished 18 of 29 for 254 yards. The 48-yard line, and Brissett was hit as he threw an Pittsburgh 6 2 0 1 167 131 .750 Green Bay 4 3 0 0 164 161 .571 Falcons quarterback had lots of trouble with the incompletion with 1:18 to go. Baltimore 4 4 0 1 170 148 .500 Detroit 3 4 0 0 176 169 .429 weather, fumbling four snap exchanges from center Cincinnati 3 4 0 1 122 135 .429 Chicago 3 5 0 0 134 171 .375 Alex Mack and losing two. The Jets (3-5) had their PANTHERS 17, BUCCANEERS 3 Cleveland 0 8 0 1 119 202 0 own issues while losing their third straight. Josh Carolina’s defense didn’t allow a TD for the second NFC South McCown had a bad snap exchange and fumbled on straight week, helping the Panthers snap a two-game AFC South another play - but recovered - and Jeremy Kerley had losing streak. Cam Newton rebounded from a subpar Tennessee 4 3 0 0 158 173 .571 New Orleans 5 2 0 0 191 145 .714 Carolina 5 3 0 0 148 142 .625 a costly muffed punt. performance in a 14-point road loss to the Bears, Jacksonville 4 3 0 1 183 110 .571 leading a 17-play, 82-yard TD drive that consumed Houston 3 4 0 0 215 188 .429 Atlanta 4 3 0 0 153 152 .571 more eight minutes of the opening quarter. He then Indianapolis 2 6 0 1 142 246 .250 Tampa Bay 2 5 0 0 148 168 .286 SAINTS 20, BEARS 12 completed three passes to Christian McCaffrey to set AFC West NFC West Drew Brees completed 23 of 28 for 299 yards up a field goal for a 10-0 halftime lead. The Bucs (2- Kansas City 5 2 0 0 207 161 .714 Seattle 5 2 0 0 175 132 .714 against a Bears defense that ranked sixth in pass 5) have lost four straight. The Panthers put the game Denver 3 3 0 0 108 118 .500 LA Rams 5 2 0 0 212 138 .714 defense for the Saints’ fifth straight win. Mark Ingram away in the fourth quarter, intercepting Jameis LA Chargers 3 5 0 0 150 152 .375 Arizona 3 4 0 0 119 191 .429 and Alvin Kamara each ran for touchdowns for New Winston twice, with Mike Adams’ pick leading to Oakland 3 5 0 0 169 190 .375 San Francisco 0 8 0 2 133 219 0 Orleans (5-2). Ingram finished with 99 yards from Newton’s 25-yard TD pass to Kelvin Benjamin to scrimmage, including 75 on the ground, but his two make it 17-3. — AP 14 Established 1961 Sports Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Wheeler scores 3 of Jets’ 5 goals in first-period to rout Pens 7-1

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WINNIPEG: A blowout win over the two-time defend- this season. ing Stanley Cup champions was more important to “It’s disappointing,” Sullivan said. “We talk about Blake Wheeler than his own outstanding performance. doing the right things. We talk about managing the Wheeler scored three of Winnipeg’s five first-period puck the right way. We talk about staying on the right goals and added an assist in the third as the Jets routed side of people and then we go out and our actions are the Pittsburgh Penguins 7-1 on Sunday night. just the opposite.” “It’s all about getting two points. I think we’ve got The hats rained down 11 seconds after that when every guy pushing in that direction,” he said. Brendan Wheeler made it 5-0 at 18:18 with a goal against Lemieux scored his first career goal for Winnipeg on a Murray’s replacement, Casey DeSmith. The Jets lost 2-1 slap shot from the point at 12:20 of the third. The son of in overtime Thursday at Pittsburgh, one of two overtime Claude Lemieux made his NHL debut Oct. 20 after losses for them this week following a win at Minnesota. being called up from the Manitoba Moose of the AHL. Winnipeg returned to Hellebuyck’s hot hand in goal. “It feels great,” he said. “Obviously, really fortunate He has all five Jets wins this season. Pittsburgh tried to to have been able to get one regroup in the second period and really excited. Every day and outshot the Jets 15-4, I’m up here has been a thanks partly to a string of blessing and I’m just trying minor penalties on Winnipeg. to run with it.” Andrew But the Penguins not get one Copp, Joel Armia and Mark It’s all past Hellebuyck until Malkin Scheifele also scored for the scored his power-play goal Jets, who chased Matt about getting at 17:02. Scheifele scored in Murray early. Connor the third when he one-timed Hellebuyck made 31 saves. two points a pass from Wheeler during a WINNIPEG: Dustin Byfuglien #33 of the Winnipeg Jets attempts a wrap around shot on Matthew Murray #30 of Winnipeg (5-3-2) scored 4-on-3 power play at 10:28 the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third period during the game. — AFP three times in a span of 34 to make it 6-1. Lemieux’s seconds late in the first to goal about two minutes later break it open. The Penguins (7-5-1), playing back-to- completed the scoring. NHL results/standings back road games after losing 2-1 in Minnesota on Saturday, were on their heels from the start and didn’t DUCKS 4, HURRICANES 3 (SO) Winnipeg 7, Pittsburgh 1; Anaheim 4, Carolina 3 (SO). score until Evgeni Malkin’s fifth of the season late in the Ryan Miller made 34 saves and seemed to get better second period. as the game went on as Anaheim pulled out a shootout Western Conference Eastern Conference “We were fortunate to get the day off yesterday,” victory against Carolina. Miller made nine saves in Central Division Atlantic Division Wheeler said. “It’s tough when you’re playing a back- overtime and then stopped all three shootout attempts W L OTL GF GA PTS Tampa Bay 9 2 1 45 31 19 to-back and the back end of a three (games) in four by the Hurricanes. He said he worked on defending St. Louis 9 2 1 40 28 19 Ottawa 5 1 5 41 33 15 Toronto 7 4 0 45 40 14 (days). It takes a little bit of time to get going and lucki- breakaways as he recovered from a preseason injury Winnipeg 5 3 2 31 31 12 Colorado 6 5 0 34 34 12 Detroit 5 6 1 32 35 11 ly we had our legs early.” The Jets have played their that delayed his Ducks debut. Corey Perry scored the Boston 4 3 2 27 29 10 Dallas 6 5 0 32 32 12 best hockey in the first period this season, outscoring lone goal in the shootout for Anaheim. Florida 4 5 1 35 36 9 Nashville 5 4 2 27 31 12 opponents 16-8. Pittsburgh has been outscored 21-10 Buffalo 3 7 2 29 44 8 Chicago 5 5 2 38 34 12 in the opening 20 minutes. FLAMES 2, CAPITALS 1 Montreal 3 7 1 23 42 7 Minnesota 4 3 2 30 28 10 Metropolitan Division “If I had an answer, we’d probably cure it,” coach Sean Monahan tapped in a feed from Johnny Pacific Division New Jersey 8 2 0 40 31 16 Mike Sullivan said. Copp opened the scoring with his Gaudreau at 9:09 of the third period, leading Los Angeles 9 1 1 38 20 19 Pittsburgh 7 5 1 36 50 15 first of the season on a short pass in the slot from line- Calgary past Washington. Micheal Ferland also Las Vegas 8 1 0 34 19 16 Columbus 7 4 0 33 27 14 NY Islanders 6 4 1 39 35 13 mate Sean Matthias at 1:20. scored for the Flames, who snapped their four-game Vancouver 6 3 1 30 25 13 Philadelphia 6 5 0 38 31 12 The Jets remained on the attack but Murray stymied losing streak at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Calgary Anaheim 6 4 1 35 33 13 Washington 5 6 1 36 41 11 them until 13:58, when Scheifele fed Wheeler at the side goalie Mike Smith finished with 30 saves. Jakub Calgary 6 6 0 28 33 12 Carolina 4 4 2 28 30 10 of the net for his second goal of the season. He added Vrana scored the lone goal of the game for the San Jose 5 5 0 27 26 10 NY Rangers 3 7 2 34 43 8 another at 17:44 and Murray barely had time to take his Capitals. Making just his fourth start of the season, Edmonton 3 6 1 22 33 7 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings stance again before Armia made it 4-0 at 18:07. Murray Washington goalie Phillip Grubauer made 36 saves Arizona 0 10 1 26 48 1 and are not included in the loss column (L). was pulled and lost in regulation for the second time but saw his record fall to 0-3-1.— Agencies

be one of the most valuable points this season for Crystal tailenders, who notched up their 11th straight defeat since Palace psychologically as they forced a draw in the dying the season began. seconds. West Ham looked home and dry as they entered Zaha rescues the seventh minute of time added on but Zaha had other GERMANY ideas, levelling the match at 2-2 with a piece of individual IHLAS BEBOU (Hanover 96) brilliance. The Togo striker became a favourite with Hanover fans Tough for City to struggling after scoring twice in a shock 4-2 win over Borussia ANDRE AYEW (West Ham) Dortmund. The 23-year-old, who grew up in Germany, match Arsenal The Ghanaian star, who joined the Hammers in August showed terrific pace, and profited from dreadful Dortmund Crystal Palace 2016, has done little to justify his hefty transfer fee but he defending, to finish off counter-attacks on 40 and 86 min- showed why Slaven Bilic thought it worth bringing him on utes. Dortmund’s star Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick ‘Invincibles’ board when he put West Ham 2-0 up in the first half Aubameyang failed to score for the third straight game. PARIS: Bottom-of-the-table Crystal Palace were once against Palace with a stunning 20-yard strike. NABIL BENTALEB (Schalke 04) Algeria’s ex-Tottenham again indebted to Ivory Coast winger Wilfried Zaha as Hotspur midfielder netted his third goal of the season LONDON: Kevin De Bruyne says it will be “very they snatched a 2-2 English Premier League draw with SPAIN when he converted a first-half penalty in the 1-1 draw at hard” for Manchester City to match Arsenal’s West Ham United at the weekend. The Abidjan-born 24- CEDRIC BAKAMBU (Villarreal) home to Wolfsburg. “Invincibles” in going the entire Premier League year-old scored seven minutes into stoppage time as Bakambu’s free-scoring form was brought to an end by season unbeaten despite their flying start. City Palace came from two goals behind with Ghanaian Andre Atletico Madrid’s famously mean defence, but Villarreal NABY KEITA (RB Leipzig) have made the best-ever start to a Premier League Ayew among the West Ham scorers. Zaha struck the win- did escape the Wanda Metropolitano with a 1-1 draw to The Guinea midfielder picked up a foot injury in season after 10 games, collecting 28 points with a ner when Palace stunned defending champions Chelsea extend their unbeaten run against Atletico to five games. Leipzig’s 2-0 defeat at Bayern Munich, but hopes to be fit goal difference of plus 29. Saturday’s 3-2 win at this month for their only league victory this season. The Democratic Republic of Congo striker’s best chance for Wednesday’s Champions League game at Porto. Keita, West Brom left them five points clear at the top of came in the first period when Stefan Savic showed great who put in an impressive display, limped off on 86 minutes pace to recover and deny Bakambu a clear run on goal. after a kick from Spain international Thiago Alcantara. the table ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League ENGLAND MOHAMED SALAH (Liverpool) trip to Napoli and the visit of Arsenal on Sunday. The Egyptian has been outstanding for Liverpool since ITALY FRANCE Pep Guardiola’s team boast a proud record of joining the club in the transfer window, netting nine goals KWADWO ASAMOAH (Juventus) KEITA BALDE (Monaco) being the only unbeaten team in England’s top four in all competitions. But he suffered a rare blip when his Ghanaian Asamoah was instrumental in Gonzalo The 22-year-old Senegalese international scored one of divisions but De Bruyne said it was unlikely they weak first-half penalty was saved by Huddersfield’s Jonas Higuain’s double in a 2-0 win for champions Juventus at the second-half goals as defending champions Monaco would match the Arsenal team of 2003-2004, who Lossl. Salah was grateful to his team-mates as three sec- AC Milan. Asamoah linked up with Paulo Dybala to pass to defeated Nantes 2-0. Balde, a former Lazio player, was did not lose a single match. “To go unbeaten? ond-half goals spared his blushes. Higuain, who broke the 100-goal barrier with 101 goals in called up to replace the injured Radamel Falcao and he took Well, it’s very hard. I don’t think it will be possible,” Serie A. ACHRAF LAZAAR (Benevento) his chance when Brazilian left-back Jorge delivered a ball said the 26-year-old. WILFRIED ZAHA (Crystal Palace) Moroccan Lazaar scored for Benevento in a 5-1 loss to into the box that was met by Joao Moutinho with a cush- “The level of competition is so high, in every The Ivory Coast winger secured what could prove to Lazio-just the fourth goal of the season for the Serie A ioned header down for the Senegal striker to finish. — AFP team. It’s not like, with all respect, 10 or 15 years ago where you have a couple of teams that won’t win against the top teams. “Now every game is “If we were playing against Real hard and you need to be mentally there. And with Lewandowski Madrid, he might have gone, but Saturday’s the Champions League and all the cups, there will game is in the back of our minds, which is be a game where maybe we are a little bit less and very important for us.” Heynckes will have maybe lose. But as long as it keeps going, it’s good. to miss to improvise in attack against the Scottish “Obviously, if you win a lot of games it’s good for champions, who equalled their own 100- us. You keep maintaining pressure. Hopefully we year-old British record at the weekend by can have two good games this week and go into Celtic clash extending their unbeaten domestic run to the international break unbeaten and it will mean 62 matches. we put a lot of pressure on the rest.” BERLIN: Celtic were handed a boost Forwards Thomas Mueller and Franck ahead of today’s Champions League match Leroy Sane, Fernandinho and Raheem Sterling Ribery are out with hamstring and knee at home to Bayern Munich as the Germans’ scored to clinch victory at The Hawthorns, City’s injuries respectively. Reserve striker Kwasi star striker Robert Lewandowski was ruled Okyere Wriedt is not registered for the eighth straight top-flight win. Victory in Italy out by injury. The 29-year-old hot-shot Champions League, which means Under-19 tomorrow will mean City progress from Group F injured his left thigh in the first half of striker Manuel Wintzheimer has been with two games to spare, but De Bruyne wants to Bayern’s 2-0 win over RB Leipzig on added to the squad for Glasgow. avoid distractions. “We know if we go to Napoli Saturday and stayed in Munich when the After Lewandowski limped off before and win then we’ll have qualified. That would be a squad flew to Scotland yesterday. half-time on Saturday, Heynckes used nice position,” said the Belgium international. “It’s Lewandowski is Bayern’s top scorer this Thiago Alcantara, Arturo Vidal and James important just to get qualified not about thinking season with 13 goals. Second-placed Rodriguez to attack in the second half GLASGOW: Celtic’s head coach Brendan Rodgers attends a press conference at about what it might mean, whether we could get a Bayern need a win in Glasgow to keep the against Leipzig with limited success. Celtic Park in Glasgow yesterday, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League rest. If we are qualified, that is done. We might then pressure on Group B leaders Paris Saint- The trio failed to add to the scoreline Group B football match. — AFP have to think about finishing first or whatever but Germain, who are three points clear at the after Rodriguez and Lewandowski had we know if we get a point or win, we are qualified.” top, while Celtic are third. scored first-half goals. “It’s crazy that we Jay Rodriguez and Matt Phillips gave the score- Head coach Jupp Heynckes had hoped only have one striker,” bemoaned defender James Forrest set to take over. said. “In the second half at Bayern we were line a more flattering look than West Brom Lewandowski would be able to play at Jerome Boateng. French winger Kingsley “It looks like a hamstring so we’ll get a much more disciplined to go and play. “We Parkhead but took the decision to rest the deserved on Saturday and Kieran Gibbs conceded Coman has been declared fit after an injury scan on that. I’d suggest he’d probably be created good chances to score goals. “If Poland international ahead of Saturday’s lay-off, but goalkeeper Manuel Neuer out for a few weeks,” said the Celtic boss. we can replicate the last half-hour we City are the best team he has faced. Bundesliga clash at Borussia Dortmund. remains sidlelined long-term with a frac- “It’s unfortunate but the squad’s there to played over there then we give ourselves a The left-back said: “I think so. Collectively they “It’s a precautionary measure, the coach tured foot. Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers cope.” Striker Leigh Griffiths says Celtic good shot. are strong everywhere. It’s tough to play against. didn’t want to take any risks. He has injury worries of his own. Right winger will be a different side to the one which “It is going to be a difficult night for us, The way they move the ball, the way the players (Lewandowski) will be able to play on Patrick Roberts picked up a knock in lost 3-0 in Munich a fortnight ago. but as you have seen previously, big teams move position. It’s hard to keep track.” — AFP Saturday,” said chairman Karl-Heinz Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Kilmarnock, “The game will be different here, espe- have been turned over when they came Rummenigge. which rules him out against Bayern with cially with the crowd getting behind us,” he here.”—AFP Established 1961 15 Sports Tuesday, October 31, 2017 PSG, Barcelona on verge of Champions League last 16

Man Utd among teams to book last-16 place

PARIS: Big-spending Paris Saint-Germain, five-time cham- bid to keep their European adventure alive. A resurgent pions Barcelona and Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United are Bayern eased to a 3-0 win over the Scottish champions a among the teams looking to book a Champions League last- fortnight ago, and a repeat success would all but end Celtic’s 16 place today. The pick of the action sees Anderlecht take chances of reaching the knockout rounds. Jupp Heynckes is on Neymar and co. in Paris, while Barcelona face Olympiakos hopeful striker Robert Lewandowski will be fit for the trip to and Roma go head-to-head with Chelsea in Italy. Glasgow after limping out of Saturday’s 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig-their second triumph in four days over their title Group A rivals after a shootout win in the second round of the At Manchester, England German Cup. Manchester United (ENG) v Benfica (POR) Jose Mourinho’s side can secure a place in the last 16 with At Paris two matches to spare with a win at Old Trafford, if Basel Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) v Anderlecht (BEL) avoid defeat against CSKA Moscow. United are unbeaten at Unai Emery’s French heavyweights have cruised through home in 12 meetings with Portuguese opponents-their last their opening three fixtures-netting 12 goals with none con- home loss in Europe came in a 2-1 reverse against Real ceded-and will be expected to again sweep aside Anderlecht Madrid in the 2012/13 at the Parc des Princes. competition. Benfica are Edinson Cavani struck likely heading towards an twice more in Friday’s 3-0 early exit after losing their victory over Nice, giving first three group games and the Uruguayan 15 goals in will be without veteran Atletico still 14 matches this term, as defender Luisao following PSG stayed four points his dismissal in the 1-0 searching for clear in France. Neymar is defeat by United in Lisbon. also set to return after Brazilian striker Jonas their first win serving a domestic one- scored his league-leading match ban following his red 12th goal in a 1-0 win over card against Marseille. Feirense on Friday, while Anderlecht have yet to PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian defender Dani Alves controls the ball during a training session at Saint- United bounced back from register a goal or point in Germain-en-Laye, western Paris yesterday, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League football match against a shock loss at this season’s group stage, Anderlecht. — AFP Huddersfield Town by edging Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 on with their last away win in the Champions League proper Saturday courtesy of Anthony Martial’s late winner. coming in December 2005. game against struggling Qarabag. A thrilling 3-3 draw at first 10 outings. Barca talisman Lionel Messi is La Liga’s top- At Basel, Switzerland Group C Chelsea last time out prevented the Premier League champi- scorer so far this term with 12 goals and has also netted three Basel (SUI) v CSKA Moscow (RUS) At Madrid ons from moving five points clear at the top of Group C, with times from three Champions League outings. The first meet- Basel will clinch a spot in the knockout phase with a Atletico Madrid (ESP) v Qarabag (AZE) Roma now looking for a victory to overtake Antonio Conte’s ing two weeks ago saw Barcelona ease to a 3-1 win with second straight win over CSKA Moscow, if Benfica fail to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid are still searching for men. Roma won their last home game against Chelsea in the only 10 men, while Olympiakos, bottom of Group D, will be beat United. After a slow start to the season, Basel have hit their first win of the competition after a goalless draw in group stages nine years ago, but have not reached the quar- eliminated if they lose and Sporting fail to beat Juventus. their stride with six wins in their last eight games. Azerbaijan a fortnight ago. They are in danger of missing out ter-finals since 2007-08. Chelsea gave their English title Conversely, CSKA are in the middle of a terrible run of on the knockout stages for the first time since failing to qual- defence a boost by beating Bournemouth at the weekend to At Lisbon form after only winning once in their last eight matches and ify at all in 2012-13. The Spanish side have made a solid start stay nine points off top spot, while Roma are seven points Sporting Lisbon (POR) v Juventus (ITA) scoring just twice in that period. A 1-0 defeat at Arsenal in La Liga and are unbeaten in their first 10 games, but sit behind Serie A leaders Napoli with a game in hand. Sporting and Juventus look set to be in a straight fight for Tula on Friday left them four points off leaders Lokomotiv eight points adrift of leaders Barcelona in fourth place after second place in Group D behind Barcelona, with today’s in Russia, but Alan Dzagoev could return after a month out five draws. Although Qarabag picked up their first Group D match in Lisbon crucial after the Italians’ 2-1 win at Turin. with an Achilles injury. Champions League point in Baku, Atletico will be expected At Piraeus, Greece Jorge Jesus’ team are looking to draw level on points with to have little trouble in closing the gap on Chelsea and Roma, Olympiakos (GRE) v Barcelona (ESP) their opponents, although last season’s runners-up would Group B ahead of a home match against the Italians and a crucial visit Barcelona could secure a last-16 place on Tuesday. A move all but into the knockout rounds with victory. After At Glasgow, Scotland to Stamford Bridge. fourth straight group-stage win in Greece would book a winning six consecutive Serie A titles, Juve trail in-form Celtic (SCO) v Bayern Munich (GER) knock-out spot unless Sporting Lisbon beat Juventus. Napoli by three points domestically despite a strong start to Celtic matched their century-old British record by At Rome Ernesto Valverde’s men are on a 14-match unbeaten run in all the campaign. Jesus is hoping to improve Sporting’s stretching their domestic unbeaten streak to 62 matches with Roma (ITA) v Chelsea (ENG) competitions since losing both legs of the Spanish Super European pedigree as the Portuguese giants have not Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Kilmarnock. But Brendan The winner of the clash at the Stadio Olimpico will be Cup to Real Madrid. The five-time European champions are reached the last 16 since 2009, when they lost 12-1 on Rodgers’ team face a stiff test against Bayern Munich as they well-placed to reach the last 16 with both teams still to play a flying high in Spain, having only dropped two points in their aggregate to Bayern Munich. — AFP

Spanish media flay Real after worst Kane could face start in five years Real, says Spurs boss Pochettino BARCELONA: Real Madrid’s first ever trip to Wembley to face Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League tomorrow will come as a welcome LONDON: Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is distraction to the European and Liga holders in the hopeful Harry Kane will be fit for tomorrow’s midst of their worst domestic run of results in five Champions League clash with Real Madrid after he years. missed the 1-0 defeat at Manchester United. Sunday’s shock 2-1 defeat to Liga newcomers Kane, who has scored 13 goals for Spurs this sea- Girona saw them fall eight points behind arch rivals son, was expected to be a doubt for the game at Barcelona in the standings, the biggest gap they have Wembley after a hamstring problem forced him out of faced with a league leader since their final turbulent the match at Old Trafford. “With the doctors and the player, we will take the best decision for everyone,” campaign under Jose Mourinho in 2012/13. said Pochettino. Madrid were also defending champions in the “It’s not the last game or the final where you would Portuguese’s final campaign but came unstuck at the say, ‘OK, after that it’s holidays’. We must analyse and start of the season, dropping eight points in their first MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak catches a ball during a training session at the take the best decision for everyone. “We will assess four games while Barcelona raced ahead, eventually him and then we will make the best decision. My feel- Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid yesterday on the eve of the UEFA Champions League group C. —AFP finishing 15 clear of Madrid while Mourinho had an ing is good. But it’s not my feeling, it’s Harry Kane’s acrimonious split with the dressing room. feeling.” The feeling in the Spanish sports press after The United match, in which substitute Anthony Zinedine Zidane’s side threw away a 1-0 lead at half- points from their opening three Group C games. Costa’s Martial netted the only goal in the 81st minute, was an time was one of resignation about Madrid’s faltering old club Chelsea lead the way on seven points, closely unremarkable contest for much of the time, with the campaign, as the 32-times Liga champions have never Punchless Atletico followed by Roma on five. best work coming in defence. Pochettino was also managed to win the title after falling eight points asked afterwards if opposing teams were more defen- behind the leaders. GOAL-SHY GRIEZMANN sive against Tottenham, and he said: “No. I think no. “Madrid vote no to La Liga”, ran a headline on the face Champions Atletico’s problem is painstakingly obvious, they “My perception is that United played like they did website of daily newspaper Marca, alluding to the can’t score goals. Griezmann’s penalty in 2-1 home against Benfica (a 1-0 away win) and Liverpool (a 0-0 political undertones of Sunday’s game at Girona, defeat to Chelsea last month is their only Champions draw at Anfield). “That’s football. Everyone can play Real’s first trip to the troubled region of Catalonia League knockout League goal to date and they have managed just eight (how) they want to play.” High-flying Tottenham have since a banned referendum on independence on Oct. 1 in their last eight La Liga games to fall eight points off suffered back-to-back defeats, with the 1-1 draw at sparked Spain’s worst political crisis in 39 years. MADRID: Finding themselves against the ropes, the top. “It’s the same thing as always,” Saul confessed Real and 4-1 win over Liverpool at Wembley being Only Madrid’s goalscorer Isco and forward Karim Atletico Madrid have to come out swinging and finally after a 1-1 draw against third-tier Elche in the Copa del followed by a 3-2 League Cup loss to West Ham at the Benzema were exempt from criticism in Marca, which start landing punches to keep their Champions League Rey. “That lack of goals makes us anxious and we end same venue and the Old Trafford setback.—AFP criticised the team’s usual talisman Cristiano Ronaldo dreams alive when Azerbaijani champions Qarabag visit up suffering.” for only scoring once this campaign and called out the shiny new Wanda Metropolitano today. Top scorer for the past three seasons, Griezmann’s Marcelo, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and captain Sergio The move to the 68,000 capacity stadium, which form has faltered with just three goals 11 matches. Ramos for unconvincing displays. will host next season’s Champions League final, was However, Simeone insisted the Frenchman has got “Isco is out on his own”, ran the cover of newspa- seen as confirmation of Atletico’s place among the Atletico into a “bad habit” of solving the team’s attack- Matches on TV per AS, while daily ABC described Madrid as “apa- European elite. ing problems single-handedly for too long. thetic”, calling the defeat the team’s worst perform- Inspired by coach Diego Simeone, Atletico have Luciano Vietto, Fernando Torres and Kevin Gameiro (Local Timings) ance since Zidane took over at the club in January twice reached the final, as well as the semis and quar- have all been handed their opportunity to partner 2016 and began a winning cycle that has yielded sev- ters in the Champions League over the past four sea- Griezmann in attack and failed when presented chances UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE en trophies. sons - only to fall to cross city rivals Real Madrid on in front of goal. Some have also pointed the finger at Basel 1893 v CSKA Moscow 22:45 The French coach said Real had lost the game due every occasion. On top of a 310 million euro ($360 mil- Simeone’s defensive tactics as Atletico have been pun- beIN SPORTS HD 8 to two lapses of concentration in the space of four lion) outlay on their new home, Atletico made a huge ished for sitting back after taking the lead against Manchester United v Benfica 22:45 minutes which lead to Cristhian Stuani’s equaliser and economic effort to make their transition from the Chelsea, Barcelona and in drawing 1-1 against Villarreal beIN SPORTS HD 6 Portu’s winner, but denied there was a problem with Vicente Calderon as smooth as possible despite a FIFA on Saturday. Paris Saint v Anderlecht 22:45 the team’s attitude. ban on registering new players. “Simeone isn’t the one missing the chances,” wrote beIN SPORTS HD 2 “What I’m most annoyed about is not killing the Simeone and key figures such as Antoine Griezmann, former Atletico favourite Paulo Futre in sports daily Celtic v Bayern Munich 22:45 game off when we had the chance to do it,” the coach Saul Niguez and Koke were handed lucrative new con- Marca on Sunday in defence of the Argentine. beIN SPORTS HD 5 said in a news conference after Girona snapped Real’s tracts. Diego Costa also rejoined the club for a report- Griezmann, Yannick Carrasco and Torres all missed Atletico de Madrid v Qarabag Agdam 22:45 record run of 13 consecutive away wins over the ed club record 55 million euros ($64.8 million) from huge opportunities as Qarabag secured their first ever beIN SPORTS HD 7 course of two seasons. Chelsea, but he and Atletico’s other major recruit Vitolo Champions League point in Baku two weeks ago. Roma v Chelsea 22:45 “I’m not worried about a lack of intensity nor can’t feature until January. “Now we have a final here at home,” said Atletico’s beIN SPORTS HD 1 enthusiasm, these results can happen in the league but However, the gamble that Costa and Vitolo would top scorer Angel Correa, his side’s top scorer with a Sporting v Juventus 22:45 we’ll keep on working hard. I’m not worried. We didn’t provide the perfect boost to Atletico’s Champions meagre four goals this season. “We need to be calm beIN SPORTS HD 4 expect this after winning four games in a row but we League campaign come the new year could backfire because the only thing we lack is luck, we are creating Olympiacos v Barcelona 22:45 still want to win the league.” — Reuters spectacularly as Simeone’s men have taken a paltry two the chances.”—AFP beIN SPORTS HD 3 Established 1961 Sport

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HOUSTON: Derek Fisher #21 of the Houston Astros slides in to home plate scoring the game winning run during the tenth inning against Austin Barnes #15 of the Los Angeles Dodgers in game five of the 2017 World Series at Minute Maid Park yesterday.—AFP Astros edge Dodgers in thriller

Second-highest score for a losing team in history

HOUSTON: Alex Bregman singled home Derek Fisher with 113 editions being Toronto’s 15-14 game-four win at ing position but Josh Reddick flew out to force extra after Astros relief pitcher Collin McHugh walked Seager the winning run in the 10th inning and the Houston Astros Philadelphia in 1993. The Astros led 12-9 in the ninth and innings. and Justin Turner then surrendered a three-run homer to reached the brink of their first World Series title Sunday by were one strike from victory before the Dodgers equalized. Bellinger, who was batting only 2-for-17 with 10 strikeouts outlasting the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 in a tension- Yasiel Puig smashed a two-run homer into the left-field SPRINGER MAKES UP FOR MISS in the World Series. packed thriller. stands off Houston relief Cody Bellinger tripled But the Astros equalized in the bottom of the fifth on The Astros seized a 3-2 lead in Major League Baseball’s pitcher Chris Devenski in Enrique Hernandez in Altuve’s three-run homer over the left-field wall. best-of-seven final and can claim the crown by winning with one out to pull the the seventh after Astros game six on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers, seeking Dodgers within 12-11. It centerfielder George DODGERS SQUANDER BIG LEAD a seventh championship and their first since 1988, must win was the 22nd homer of Springer missed a diving Dodgers star left-hander Clayton Kershaw, 3-0 in the to force a winner-take-all seventh game on Wednesday. In this World Series, break- Springer misses catch attempt to give the playoffs, allowed four runs in the fourth inning as the Astros an epic game that mirrored the momentum swings a dra- ing the total homers mark Dodgers an 8-7 edge. pulled level, the first time this year Los Angeles squandered ma-filled series has produced, the outcome was decided of 21 set in 2002, and the a diving Houston’s Bregman then a four-run edge. after five hours and 17 minutes by standouts for each club. game’s seventh combined singled and scored on Jose Gurriel, whose controversial racist gesture in game three Astros catcher Brian McCann started the decisive rally homer for both teams, catch attempt Altuve’s double, and Carlos aimed at Dodgers’ Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish did not by taking first base when struck in the right arm by a pitch matching a Series record Correa followed with a result in a World Series ban, smashed a three-run homer from Dodgers closing pitcher Kenley Jansen, who then from 1989. two-run homer that gave after a run-scoring Correa double. Gurriel was suspended walked George Springer to put the winning run on second Austin Barnes followed the Astros an 11-8 lead. for the first five games of the 2018 campaign for his game base. The Astros inserted pinch-runner Fisher and Bregman with a double and took The Dodgers answered in three actions. Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel, game followed with a single to left field that sent Fisher racing third on Joc Pederson’s the eighth, Pederson blast- one’s losing pitcher, surrendered four runs off five hits and across the plate ahead of a desperate throw that was too ground out to shortstop. Dodgers leadoff batter Chris ing a double off the left-field wall and scoring on Corey an error over 3 2/3 innings in the shortest playoff outing by late to prevent the deciding run and an emotional celebra- Taylor was down to his last strike before ripping a single Seager’s double. But Brian McCann smacked a solo homer a Houston starter. The Dodgers jumped ahead 4-0 as tion by the Astros and their fans. up the middle to score Barnes and level the game. to boost the Astros’ edge to 12-9, setting up the ninth- Logan Forsythe hit a two-run single, Hernandez scored It was the second-highest score for a losing team in Houston’s Yuli Gurriel smacked a two-out, two-run double inning drama. from third on an errant throw by Gurriel and Forsythe World Series history, the only similar slugfest in the event’s in the Astros’ half of the ninth to put a winning run in scor- The Dodgers seized a 7-4 advantage in the fifth inning scored on a Barnes single. — AFP

accommodate families from early 2018,” the expressing surprise over the accelerating pace General Sports Authority said on Twitter. of reforms. In a rare public appearance last Saudi women to Restaurants, cafes and video screens would be week Prince Mohammed pledged a “moderate” set up inside the venues, the authority added. Saudi Arabia, long seen as an exporter of a Last month hundreds of women were allowed brand of puritanical Islam espoused by jihadists be allowed into to enter a sports stadium in Riyadh, used mostly worldwide. MBS, as he is well known, promised for football matches, in a one-off event to cele- his kingdom will return to “what we were brate Saudi Arabia’s national day. Sunday’s before-a country of moderate Islam that is tol- sports stadiums announcement implies that women in Saudi erant of all religions and to the world”. Arabia will be allowed for the first time to attend His comment, while unveiling plans for a RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will allow women into sporting events inside stadiums alongside men. $500-billion development zone, chimes with his sports stadiums for the first time from next year, Under the country’s guardianship system, a public image of a bold liberal reformer in a con- authorities said Sunday, in a landmark move male family member-normally the father, hus- servative country where more than half the pop- opening up three previously male-only venues band or brother-must grant permission for a ulation is under 25. But his vision for a new Saudi to families. The ultra-conservative kingdom, woman’s study, travel and other activities. Arabia is fraught with risks and could trigger a which has some of the world’s tightest restric- But the kingdom appears to be relaxing some backlash from conservatives, analysts warn. tions on women, has long barred women from norms as part of its sweeping “Vision 2030” “Despite the bold statements, it is important to sports arenas by strict rules on segregation of plan for economic and social reforms as it pre- remember that the dominance of conservative the sexes in public. pares for a post-oil era. Last month a royal thought since the late 1970’s cannot be quickly The announcement is in line with powerful decree said women would be allowed to drive. reversed,” said analysis firm Eurasia Group. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambi- The kingdom is also expected to lift a public “Ultraconservative and radical elements con- tious reforms shaking up the kingdom, including ban on cinemas and has encouraged mixed- tinue to pose risks.” The government appears to the historic decision to allow women to drive gender celebrations-something unseen before. have clipped the wings of the once-feared reli- from next June. “First women driving, now stadiums. What’s gious police-long accused of harassing the pub- RIYADH: In this Sept 23, 2017 file photo released by Saudi Press “Starting the preparation of three stadiums in next? Night clubs?” said one Saudi Twitter user, lic with rigid Islamic mores-who have all but Agency, SPA, Saudi men and women attend national day cere- Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam to be ready to echoing a deluge of social media comments disappeared from big cities.—AFP monies at the King Fahd stadium in Riyadh. — AP Established 1961

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ABU DHABI: William D Magwood, IV, Director General, Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-NEA) speaks during the Nuclear Power in the 21st Century International Ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi yesterday. — AFP Saudi plans to extract uranium domestically

A key step toward ‘self-sufficiency’ in producing atomic fuel

ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium information” on the decision. At a later news conference, can also be used to enrich the heavy metal to higher, built reactor in 2018. The UAE has committed not to domestically as part of its nuclear power program and Amano himself declined to discuss it. weapons-grade levels. This issue has been at the heart enrich uranium itself and not to reprocess spent fuel. sees this as a step towards “self-sufficiency” in producing of Western and regional concerns about the nuclear Industry sources have told Reuters Saudi Arabia is reach- atomic fuel, a senior official said yesterday. Extracting its Peaceful purposes work of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s foe, and led to the 2015 deal ing out to potential vendors from South Korea, China, own uranium also makes sense from an economic point of The world’s top oil exporter says it wants to tap in which Iran agreed to freeze the program for 15 years France, Russia, Japan and the United States for its first view, said Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi atomic power for peaceful purposes only in order to for sanctions relief. two reactors. The plans have received extra momentum government agency tasked with the nuclear plans, the diversify its energy sup- Yesterday, IAEA chief as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, an ambitious eco- King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy ply and will award a con- Yukiya Amano said Iran nomic reform program launched last year by Crown (KACARE). struction contract for its was complying with the Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In a speech at an international nuclear power confer- first two nuclear reactors nuclear deal signed with Yamani said Saudi Arabia will soon pass laws for its ence in Abu Dhabi, he did not specify whether Saudi by the end of 2018. world powers and which nuclear program and will have set up all of the regulations Arabia seeks to also enrich and reprocess uranium - “Regarding the produc- US President Donald for its nuclear regulator by the third quarter of 2018. steps in the fuel cycle which are especially sensitive as tion of uranium in the Iran skips Trump has called into “The IAEA also has been requested to conduct an inte- they can open up the possibility of military uses of the kingdom, this is a pro- Abu Dhabi question. Under the grated review of our nuclear infrastructure during the material. Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear deal with world pow- gram which is our first agreement, Iran can second quarter of 2018,” he said, which will allow the ers may hang in the balance, but you wouldn’t know it at step towards self-suffi- conference enrich uranium to 3.67 agency to assess efforts to prepare Saudi infrastructure the United Nations conference on atomic energy held ciency in producing percent purity, around “to introduce nuclear power for peaceful purposes.” yesterday in the United Arab Emirates. nuclear fuel,” Yamani told the normal level needed Saudi Arabia is considering building some 17.6 gigawatts Iran decided to skip the Abu Dhabi conference, leav- a conference organized for commercial power- of nuclear capacity by 2032, the equivalent of about 17 ing its seats empty as Yukiya Amano, the head of the by the International generation. reactors, making it one of the strongest prospects for an International Atomic Energy Agency, avoided speaking Atomic Energy Agency industry struggling after the 2011 nuclear disaster in about the nuclear deal at all in his address at the venue. (IAEA). “We utilize the uranium ore that has been proven Momentum Japan. Preliminary studies have estimated Saudi Arabia Officials at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran did to be economically efficient.” Saudi Arabia would be the second country in the Gulf has around 60,000 tons of uranium ore, Maher al Odan, not respond to a request for comment. Iranian Foreign Atomic reactors need uranium enriched to around 5 Arab region to tap nuclear after the United Arab the chief atomic energy officer of KACARE said at an Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said he had “no percent purity but the same technology in this process Emirates, which is set to start up its first, South Korean- electricity forum in Riyadh on Oct 11. — Agencies

‘Shortest The increase was driven almost entirely by a Asia-Europe Fuel prices nudge 6.8 percent spike in the costs of gasoline, elec- tricity, natural gas and similar energy goods and services-the largest monthly jump in the energy rail link’ up key US index in more than eight years. But when volatile food and fuel costs are excluded, the launched in inflation index “core” PCE index rose only 0.1 percent for the month, the same level now recorded for five months in a row. Azerbaijan WASHINGTON: A record spike in fuel prices On a 12-month basis, the index grew 1.6 per- following the summer’s back-to-back hurricanes cent, up two tenths from August, but the core ALYAT, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan, Georgia drove up a closely watched US inflation meas- index held steady at 1.3 percent, the same as in and Turkey yesterday launched a rail ure in September, but the underlying trend August and no higher than in October 2015. link between the countries aimed at remained weak, according to new data yester- Core annual PCE has held below the Fed’s cutting total journey times from China day. The new figures come as the Federal two percent target without interruption for to Western Europe while bypassing Reserve prepares to begin a two-day meeting more than five years. Commerce Department Russia. The 826-kilometre (500-mile) today, with policymakers widely expected to officials said hurricanes Harvey and Irma affect- railroad runs from Azerbaijan’s capital BAKU: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Azerbaijan’s leave benchmark interest rates untouched but to ed consumer spending, but they were unable to Baku via the Georgian capital Tbilisi to President Ilham Aliyev (right), symbolically inaugurate the Baku - raise them in December. Disagreements among isolate the effects given how the underlying data the city of Kars in Turkey. It will help to Tbilisi - Kars railway, at a ceremony in Baku yesterday. — AP policymakers about the timing and pace of rate were collected. Persistently low inflation has reduce the journey time between China hikes were unlikely to subside in the face of a bedeviled policymakers during much of 2017, with Fed chair Janet Yellen describing the low and Europe, Azerbaijan’s President Erdogan and Georgian Prime Minister opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars rail- fresh batch of weak inflation numbers for price pressures alternately as a “mystery,” a Ilham Aliyev said at the launch ceremo- Giorgi Kvirikashvili also attended the way is a major step in transport inter- September. But robust spending figures in the “surprise” and a “concern.” Meanwhile, person- ny in the town of Alyat in the oil-rich opening. After departing China, trains connections linking the European data report pointed to continuing economic al incomes rose $66.9 billion for the month as Caucasus nation. “The Baku-Tbilisi- will cross Central Asian country of Union, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and expansion. The Personal Consumption post-hurricane consumer spending gained a full Kars railroad is the shortest and most Kazakhstan before being transported by Central Asia ... along the ancient Silk Expenditures price index rose 0.4 percent for percentage point to reach $136 billion, the reliable link between Asia and Europe,” ferry across the Caspian Sea towards Road,” the European Union said in a the month, up two tenths from August and in largest monthly increase since August 2009, on Aliyev said. Baku and then heading to Western statement, referring to a historical trade line with analyst expectations, according to the sales of durable goods like cars. — Agencies Turkish President Recep Tayyip Europe via Georgia and Turkey. “The route from China. — AFP Commerce Department report. 18 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Established 1961 19 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017 20 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017

NBK economic report Kuwait real estate market gains traction in Q3 2017 Sales pick up, property prices stabilize

KUWAIT: Activity in the real estate market is gaining trac- Strong third quarter activity helped support resi- tion with a pickup in sales and stabilizing prices. Real estate dential prices further. The NBK residential home sales posted healthy 20 percent year-on-year (y/y) growth price index reached 153.1 in September, flat from a in 3Q17, the first positive growth since 4Q14, despite the year ago. The NBK residential land price index seasonality that customarily reigns over the quarter. The soared to 172.8 in September, up 4 percent for the positive pickup in activity also translated into further stabi- month, though it remains down 5.5 percent y/y. lization in real estate prices, with indices hovering around Although residential prices are down around 17 per- their 12-month average. cent from their peaks, Comparable stabilization their annual pace of is seen in other GCC real decline has come down estate price indices from double-digit to despite slight divergence less than 5 percent, in trends. Residential suggesting the end of The residential sec- the price correction. tor remained support- sales reach Investment proper- ive of the real estate ties’ activity remains market throughout the KD 226m in Q3 off, not in line with the first three quarters of spur in the residential The persistently slow activity in the sector con- Regional real estate residential price indices are the year. Residential sector, as other markets tinues to exercise negative pressure on investment exhibiting similar signs of stabilization despite the sales reached KD 226 seem more appealing to property prices. The NBK investment building price divergence in trends caused by the heterogeneous million in 3Q17, up 20 investors. 3Q17 sales index retreated to 171.1 in September, down 5.7 per- macroeconomic and geopolitical outlooks of each of percent y/y. Year-to- reached KD 160.5 mil- cent y/y. The price index has settled at levels last the GCC countries. Abu Dhabi prices appear among date (ytd) sales tallied up to KD 879 million over lion, down to a third of what was recorded in 3Q14. seen at the end of 2013. The index is off by 25 per- the most stable in the region, with prices advancing 2,519 transactions. As for the month of September, The exceptional performance of Kuwait’s stock mar- cent from its peak in July 2015. 5.4 percent y/y in June 2017. Qatar prices on the sector sales were up 28 percent y/y with transac- ket this year may have deterred investors from The commercial sector witnessed a healthy third other hand were the last to correct, with the resi- tions improving by 36 percent y/y. Renewed interest investing in real estate. With stocks generating dou- quarter. 20 commercial properties were sold during dential index down 5.5 percent y/y in June. KSA in the sector was not channeled through a specific ble-digit growth so far this year, the investment sec- the quarter for a total value of KD 74 million. This recently launched real estate quarterly indices, type of properties; both home and plot sales tor, plagued by increased vacant apartments, lower quarter’s transactions were predominantly commer- which reveal a downward trend since 2016; as of advanced, rising by 26 percent and 21 percent, housing inflation (i.e. rents) and higher utility bills, cial buildings and offices. Ytd, the sector is 30 per- June the general residential index is down 7.9 per- respectively ytd. was not able to generate comparable returns. cent short on sales and 20 percent on transactions. cent y/y. Oil market set to move from Place your bets for rebalancing the Brexit rate hike to tightening

LONDON: To hear some economists talk, the Bank of England is about to make a big mistake - LONDON: The oil market is now well into a cyclical raise interest rates just as the economy heads into upswing and within the next year the narrative about what could be a major storm. “rebalancing” is likely to be replaced by one about If all goes as scripted, the bank will hike bor- “tightening”. rowing costs in the coming week for the first time Rebalancing started well before the production pact in more than 10 years. But is the country really between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ready? The consensus is for rise to 0.5 percent Countries (OPEC) and its allies went into effect in from 0.25 percent. That 0.25 percent was where January. OPEC has been open about the fact that the rebalancing process pre-dated its agreement, with offi- the BoE put Bank Rate just over a year ago, short- cials repeatedly noting the accord was intended to ly after British voters elected to leave the “accelerate” a process that was already underway. European Union. And there’s the rub: the uncer- The spot price of Brent has been rising since tainty the vote triggered is still there. A Reuters January 2016 and the six-month calendar spread has poll published in the past week showed more than been increasing since January 2015. Depending on 70 percent of economists believe now is not the which turning point is used, the rebalancing process time to raise rates-though slightly more than that has already been underway for 21 months (spot prices) said it would happen anyway. or 32 months (spreads). BoE Governor Mark Carney has made it clear a Like any rebalancing process, adjustment is barely hike is in the offing, if not specifically saying at perceptible at first, which is why the turning point is SAN ANSELMO: This file photo shows a customer preparing to pump gasoline into his car at a gas this coming meeting. His concern is that low often missed, but tends to accelerate over time. The station in San Anselmo, California. —AFP unemployment means Britain’s economy has little current rebalancing started with an acceleration in spare capacity and, accordingly, faces upward global oil consumption, which was already evident in deeper, and the recovery has certainly been more pro- barrels since the start of 2017, although they are still inflation pressure. Added to that are moves by the first half of 2015 in response to lower prices. longed, but it can no longer be described as being in its 160 million barrels above the 2012-2016 average. other major central banks to rein in loose mone- Oil production did not decelerate until 2016, early stages. In practice, stocks at the five-year average would tary policy, which could also push inflation higher because of the lags in the system, and OPEC’s own out- The current rebalancing process is already therefore probably prove uncomfortably low given the big by weakening the pound further. The US Federal put restraint did not start until 2017. But with consump- fairly mature and at some point in the next six to nine increase in oil demand since 2012. Well before the five- Reserve has raised rates four times since late 2015 tion now running faster than production the market is months will be more accurately described as tightening. year average is reached, spot prices and spreads will and is expected to do so again. The European steadily whittling away the excess inventories accumu- The Brent spread has already shifted decisively from rise to move the market from production restraint/con- Central Bank is cutting back on its bond buying, lated in 2015/2016. contango to backwardation and is well within the sumption growth to production growth/consumption albeit gently. During the last two rebalancing processes, after oil upper-half of its historical range, pointing to a market restraint. So the BoE needs to concern itself with a pres- slumps in 1998/99 and 2008/09, front-month Brent that is undersupplied and drawing down stocks. In this context, the increase in front-month Brent sured pound and high employment driving up prices took roughly 21 months and 26 months respec- According estimates from the OPEC/non-OPEC Joint futures prices above $60 per barrel on Friday, for the inflation that, at 3 percent, is already well above tively to reach their first major peak. Ministerial Monitoring Committee, OPEC is more than first time since July 2015, and tightening of the calendar target and the highest in the Group of Seven Meanwhile, the calendar spread took 21 months and halfway to its declared target of reducing OECD oil spread to its highest on a sustained basis since July industrialized nations. —Reuters 34 months respectively to reach its first cyclical peak inventories to their five-year average. 2014, is consistent with a market transitioning from after each episode. The recent slump was in some ways Excess stocks have been draw down by 180 million rebalancing to tightening. —Reuters Established 1961 21 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017 NBK Saudi Arabia opens 2 new branches in Riyadh and Dammam Bank pursues integrated strategic plan to expand in Kingdom

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait - Saudi Arabia ously praised the Minister of Finance and the tions of regulators in this integrity at the level of the region. announced that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority for regard. He clarified that It is noteworthy to mention that NBK has opened (SAMA) has approved the opening of two new their role and efforts in issuing the decision approving the bank will equip the its first branch in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in branches in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh and Dammam, as the opening of the two new branches in Saudi Arabia. two branches with the lat- 2006 as part of its strategy aimed at keeping up with well as the main branch of the bank currently operat- Al-Sager added that NBK is always striving to pro- est banking technology to and investing in the close ties between Kuwait and ing in Jeddah. vide sophisticated services in line with the nature of ensure a distinguished lev- Saudi Arabia, by providing a full range of banking On this occasion, NBK’s the Saudi market by pro- el of service to its cus- services to serve its customers in the Saudi market. Group Chief Executive viding a full range of com- tomers, through the provi- NBK - Saudi Arabia has a seasoned team of highly Officer, Isam Jassem Al- mercial banking services to sion of a range of premium qualified customer relations managers, who develop Sager, said, “The acquisi- its customers covering a services, in addition to and deliver banking solutions tailored to their needs tion of two new branches We seek to wide range of sectors, such facilitating access to their and requirements. It is involved in several local deals, in the Kingdom is part of benefit from as commercial finance, Isam Jassem Al-Sager accounts at any branch drawing on the expertise of NBK Group in the field of the Bank’s integrated contracting, companies, through electronic con- projects and co-financing. strategic plan to expand in growth retail, and treasury. The nectivity among all the branches of the bank. The Bank’s branch in Jeddah also works closely the Kingdom, which is Bank also continues to He emphasized NBK’s ability to provide all corpo- with its counterparts in the NBK branch network and deemed the largest market opportunities seek good investment and rate banking services in the Gulf region in general and, subsidiaries to provide support to its customers with in the region and offers financing opportunities in in particular, in Saudi Arabia, which is considered one regard to their cross-border transactions, in addition promising opportunities, the kingdom. of the most important markets targeted by the bank to meeting their other global investment needs. thanks to its economic per- He said that NBK - especially that it is one of the largest markets in the The National Bank of Kuwait, through its pres- formance stability”. Saudi Arabia is seeking to establish a network of region. He indicated that the Bank is simultaneously ence, enjoys a local and global network of branches Al-Sager affirmed that the National Bank of Kuwait developed branches in Saudi Arabia. The locations of attempting to form strategic partnerships with major across four continents. NBK’s global presence seeks to benefit from the growth of the Saudi econo- the new branches are selected according to specific Saudi companies. extends to several international financial centers in my, especially with the strong government support of criteria, including the area’s attractiveness in terms of He pointed out that the Bank occupies a privileged China, Geneva, London, Paris, New York and the economy by injecting huge investments in several population density, expected business volume and the position in the list of GCC banks, a fact that enables it Singapore, as well as its regional presence in sectors of strategic importance, namely: transport, requirements of the area such as number of customers to achieve good future growth, as it is regarded as one Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, housing, energy and financial services. He simultane- from various segments, while adhering to the instruc- of the largest banking groups with high financial Turkey and the UAE.

The best car in the CBK sponsors world: Mercedes Rumaithiya Co-op’s Benz S-Class charity and cultural KUWAIT: Complete with a host of comprehensive new features for increased luxury and comfort, the new programs Mercedes Benz S-Class is leading the premium seg- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) ment on the road and in the interior. Sculpted, sewn, recently made a financial contribution to support the appointed and equipped to provide unmatched comfort charity, humanitarian, cultural, educational and sports and convenience, the new S-Class stimulates and activities organized and sponsored by Rumaithiya Co- soothes the senses, especially a passenger’s sense of op for the area residents. contentment. CBK stressed that this contribution was meant to In a world first, the new S-Class introduces ENER- support NGOs including co-ops as part of its social GIZING comfort control, ensuring well-being, physical responsibilities as well as a means to encourage more comfort and performance levels are enhanced while voluntary social activities . CBK’s regional individual driving and during a break. The optional feature links a Banking Services Manager Bedour Bokhamseen pre- variety of comfort systems, such as the climate control sented a check as the bank’s contribution to Rumaithiya system (including fragrancing) the seats (heater, venti- Coop’s treasurer Bader Hassan Hayat. lation, massage), the wall heating, as well as lighting and musical atmospheres, to enable a specific wellness set- up tailored to the mood and need of the customer. A has long been considered the pinnacle of luxury within total of six programs can be selected, including the automotive industry. The new S-Class elevates Freshness, Warmth, Vitality, Joy, Comfort and Training, comfort and prestige, treating passengers to a person- with each running for a duration of ten minutes. alized and multidimensional sense of wellness which It also incorporates ambience lighting, which is har- ensures they arrive at their destination more relaxed moniously tailored to each of the individual screen and energized than when they set off.” designs. The light stages the interior like a work of art Michael Ruehle, Chief Executive Officer, A.R.Albisher by composing color worlds from different colors. The & Z.Alkazemi Company, continued: “This latest S-Class brightness of the LEDs can be set in five levels and four is adaptive, advanced and brings the right balance of zones: wide-screen cockpit, area of front seats, rear composure and confidence to the road. It’s easy to see compartment, and all. In addition, the ambience lighting why it has been named the best car in the world.” creates emotionally appealing contrasts and structures Authentic materials and meticulous detail design the interior into levels. 64 colors, ten color worlds and define the top-of-the-range model from Mercedes- three different lighting zones (footwells, trim element Benz. The use of open-pore woods, leather-trimmed level and wide-screen cockpit) enable an avant-garde doors and dashboards, and a carefully composed lighting scene with spectacular color changes. colour concept add to the high quality look and feel. It Commenting on the new S-Class, Mohammed Abdul also offers complete convenience, allowing S-Class and can now receive, send, forward and use voice-to- Rahman Albisher, Director of Abdul Rahman Albisher & passengers to charge their mobile phones as standard, text to dictate text messages. The Mercedes-Benz S- Zaid Alkazemi Company, the authorized general distrib- wirelessly and without a telephone holder. Front and Class is now available at A.R Albisher & Z. Alkazemi utor of Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait, said: “The S-Class rear passengers also have more text messaging options Company’s Shuwaikh showroom.

ing to work for the industrial sector by presenting them KIB honored for with practical training courses, field work, visits and educational seminars. On this occasion, Manager of the Corporate gold sponsorship Communications Unit at KIB, Nawaf Najia, expressed his gratitude and highest appreciation towards KIU for of 4th ‘Future honoring KIB, commenting: “This recognition is a testa- ment to KIB’s unwavering commitment and support to various community-based initiatives, particularly proj- Makers’ project ects that aim at national economic development.” Najia added, “KIB’s sponsorship of the ‘Future Makers’ proj- ect came as part of its ongoing efforts to support youth, KUWAIT: Kuwait International Bank (KIB) has recently as we believe that youth are the leaders and architects been honored by the Kuwait Industries Union (KIU) of the future.” for its gold sponsorship of the 4th ‘Future Makers’ proj- Najia also lauded KIU for its vital role in supporting ect, which was organized by the Union. The Bank was and organizing projects that contribute to the develop- Today last day honored during the closing ceremony of KIU for 2017 ment of skills and capabilities of youth at the beginning aims at promoting diverse sectors in the country, with projects, which was held at the Kuwait Chamber of of their career in the industrial sector, thereby devel- a particular focus on the industrial sector, KIB to deposit and Commerce and Industry. oping the sector in the country. At the end, Najia remains strongly committed to participating in devel- KIB’s sponsorship of the 4th ‘Future Makers’ project wished KIU more successes and achievements in their opment activities and programs which contribute to reflects its strong belief in the project’s objectives, future endeavors. the country’s transformation into a commercial and enter Al-Danah’s which aim at preparing newly graduated students look- In line with its social responsibility strategy that financial hub. KD 1mn draw Bank’s strategy to enhance its digital infrastructure by providing KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announces that today (October 31) is Warba Bank in the most innovative solutions in the market to customers. the last date for customers to open an Al-Danah account or Over the three months, the bank will replace its existing deposit more, as to increase their chances in becoming the ATM fleet with Diebold Nixdorf’s latest ATM solutions, to pro- next Al-Danah millionaire! Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2017 draw strategic partnership vide an elevated consumer experience. lineup includes daily draws (2 winners per working day and Commenting on the new partnership, Shaheen Hamad Al- each receive KD 1,000), quarterly draws up to KD 500,000 Ghanem, CEO at Warba Bank said “We are delighted to be and Al-Danah’s final draw for KD 1 million, which is planned with Diebold Nixdorf partnering with Diebold Nixdorf to provide the latest ATM to be held on 11 January, 2018 whereby the Al-Danah mil- technology and security to our customers. This is a long-term lionaire will be announced. Gulf Bank encourages you to on ATM network strategic partnership that will support our ATM growth strategy increase your chances by depositing more into your Al- in the years ahead.” Danah account, immediately from any local bank, using the The new ATMs are designed to the highest international new ePay (Self-Pay) service, which is available on Gulf standards of security and functionality. They are equipped with Bank’s Online and Mobile Banking. KUWAIT: Warba Bank, a leading Islamic bank in Kuwait, has Diebold Nixdorf’s terminal software suite, to ensure reliable, partnered with Diebold Nixdorf, the world leader in driving efficient and uninterrupted experiences for consumers. Shaheen Al-Ghanem and Habib Hanna Five reasons why the Al-Danah account is the best: connected commerce, to elevate the consumer experience at Furthermore, all ATMs have installed anti-fraud and anti-card 1) Kuwait’s single biggest yearly cash prize of KD 1 mil- the ATM with secure, convenient and reliable solutions. skimming programs to ensure the highest level of security for lion and the largest international bank prize according to Through this new partnership the bank will replace its current Warba Bank customers. The bank is confident that these new and services will deliver improved operational efficiencies for Guinness World Records. ATM fleet with the latest technology from Diebold Nixdorf machines will play a key role in providing high quality services financial institutions and enhanced experiences for consumers.” 2) Kuwait’s biggest quarterly cash prizes, up to KD which includes, cash dispensing, as well as cash deposit ATMs. to their expanding customer base. The new machines provide leading interactive services and 500,000. The updated fleet of ATMs, which will be rolled out across “We’re delighted to work with Warba Bank to help further are tailored to assist customers with special needs in completing 3) Two winners of KD 1,000 every working day. Warba Bank branches and pubic locations in Kuwait, enable elevate the consumer experience in-branch and at the self-ser- cash deposits and withdrawals. Diebold Nixdorf’s local partner 4) The most chances to win. consumers to complete cash deposit transactions as well as vice channel,” said Habib Hanna, managing director, Middle East, in Kuwait, Axis Solutions, will be providing maintenance services 5) Only Bank that transfers your chances to win from the cash withdrawals at any time of the day, at the ATM. Diebold Diebold Nixdorf. “As banks continue to migrate more transac- to ensure the solutions are operating at maximum availability and previous year to the current year. Nixdorf’s latest ATM solutions play an integral part of the tions to digital channels, our market-proven systems, software deliver a vastly improved level of customer service. 22 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017 World stocks hit new high on Spain relief LONDON: A strong rally in the technology sector nated against bad news thanks to the strength of the after Apple said pre-orders for its new iPhone X were Union, but investors feared that the decision could cre- helped drive global stocks to a record high yesterday, global business cycle,” said Marie Owens Thomsen, “off the charts”. iPhone component suppliers AMS, ate more volatility than the well-received stimulus while a recovery in Spanish markets helped to lift global head of economic research at Indosuez Wealth Dialog Semiconductor and STMicro led gains. extension by the European Central Bank last week. European shares after an opinion poll smoothed Management in Geneva. Europe’s tech sector has quietly boomed, and has “This coming week will see whether the BoE has also investors’ concerns over Catalan secession. MSCI’s Spanish stocks jumped 1.5 percent and government outperformed the Nasdaq so far this year. US stock managed to steer markets in the right direction,” said world equity index, which tracks shares in 47 countries, borrowing costs fell after a weekend survey suggested futures pointed to a slight pullback at the open after blis- Societe Generale analysts in a note. rose 0.2 percent to its highest ever level. The index has Catalan secessionists may lose their majority in regional tering tech-driven gains on Friday. Dow Jones Industrial Sterling rose 0.3 percent against the dollar as surged 17.7 percent so far in 2017, and is on track for elections scheduled for December. Spain’s benchmark 10- and S&P 500 futures were down 0.2 percent, while the traders bid the currency higher on the expected rate its best annual showing since 2013. year bond yield fell 2 basis points to 1.52 percent. Banks tech-heavy Nasdaq was set for a 0.1 percent dip. rise. Other major currencies kept to tight ranges as Euro zone stocks climbed 0.2 percent, holding near Caixabank and Sabadell, which moved their headquarters markets also awaited interest rate decisions by the their highest level in 10 years. European stocks have out of Catalonia due to the crisis, led gains on the IBEX. Central banks in the spotlight Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve. rallied this year as a healthy economy dovetailed with The broader market showed signs of relief, with euro In a week of policy meetings by three major central The dollar fell 0.3 percent against a basket of curren- convincing growth in corporate earnings and a reduc- zone banks rising 0.7 percent, and Italian stocks - banks, gold edged down 0.1 percent on investor cau- cies as investors focused on the impending appointment tion in political risk. “There is an avalanche of things which have been sensitive to the Spanish crisis - up 0.4 tion. The Bank of England is widely expected to raise of the next Federal Reserve chair, with speculation rife that are happening or going to happen, but markets are percent. Technology stocks also drove European trad- rates on Thursday, reversing its monetary easing fol- that Fed governor Jerome Powell is the favored candidate. just shrugging it off. It’s like markets have been vacci- ing, riding a wave of gains on the Nasdaq and in Asia lowing Britain’s June 2016 vote to leave the European An announcement is expected this week. —Agencies Established 1961 23 Business Tuesday, October 31, 2017 24 Established 1961 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Business Energy, not tech or finance, in CEO lineup for Trump’s China visit Tech firms limited by market access barriers

BEIJING: US energy and commodities firms will make up held public office, has had a sometimes testy relationship a major part of a business delegation visiting Beijing at the with corporate America since taking office in January. He same time as US President Donald Trump goes to China in disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils in November, according to an initial list seen by Reuters. August after several chief executives quit in protest over Prominent technology and financial companies are his controversial remarks on racist violence in mostly absent from the list, reflecting the slow Charlottesville. progress Washington has made in opening up China in US industry sources say it has been years since a major those sectors. business delegation has gone to China during a US presi- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who will lead the 29 dential visit. Calls for such a delegation during Trump’s vis- companies that have been approved to travel on the trade it originated in the China-based US business community, mission starting on Nov. 8, said they will be looking for according to several sources, who saw a need to match “immediate results” and “tangible agreements”. But, growing efforts by Germany, France and Britain to pro- speaking at the Paley International Council Summit in New mote their nation’s firms in China. York on Wednesday, he acknowledged that market access, Trump, who has frequently cited the substantial US intellectual property trade deficit with China as rights, and tariffs are more a reason why Washington complex and will take a should take more protec- longer time to negotiate. tionist measures, was an Some major industrial easy sell on incorporating companies - General China world’s a group of executives into Electric Co, Honeywell third-largest the visit, according to the International Inc and sources. Nonetheless, Boeing Co - are among gas buyer some trade analysts say the companies on the cur- China has done a good job rent list. of taming Trump’s combat- Whether executives ive trade impulses. They from all the named com- worry the U.S. administra- panies end up attending tion will be willing to could be subject to agree- paper over market access BEIJING: A woman takes a nap at a brokerage house displaying stock trading index in Beijing yesterday. ments or deals being negotiated in time for the visit, concerns during the visit in its focus on getting Beijing to Asian stock markets were mixed yesterday as investors waited to find out US President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Reserve. —AP according to multiple sources whose companies are take action against North Korea over its nuclear and mis- involved. One of the few tech companies going with Trump sile programs. is Qualcomm, which earns about half of its global revenue Beijing agreed in May to grant limited US access in Ten of the companies are involved in gas or other ener- the companies on the list tried to distance itself from in China and faces a series of tricky legal issues there, financial services in bilateral talks aimed at reducing gy fields, including Cheniere Energy Inc, which operates Trump. SolarReserve told Reuters in a statement that it including a lawsuit with Apple and the Chinese govern- China’s trade surplus with the United States which reached the only US liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, had been selected to participate in the commerce ment’s review of its pending $38 billion merger with NXP $347 billion last year, but business groups complained it three that are building new projects, and Freepoint department’s delegation but stressed that “we are not Semiconductors. Qualcomm said its CEO, Steve was too little, too late. Commodities, founded and run by David Messer, who led part of the business delegation travelling to China with Mollenkopf, planned to attend. William Zarit, the chairman of the American Chamber of power utility Sempra’s vaunted commodities division. President Trump.” An industry source told Reuters tech firms were reluc- Commerce in China, told Reuters he didn’t expect Trump Their presence underscores the US ambition to sell tant to go, given China market access issues, the unpre- to push hard on market access issues on this trip. more of its excess gas abroad as its shale revolution con- Toting existing deals dictability of the Trump administration, and a “Section “Unfortunately, I think the Chinese aren’t going to start tributes to a global LNG glut. One US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity 301” US trade investigation alleging Chinese abuses of to respond until they feel some pain,” Zarit said. “We’re all Others on the list who confirmed plans to attend that Trump will tout deals announced during the trip, but intellectual property. wondering what that is going to mean.” include GE, Houston-based LNG company Delfin they would have likely happened regardless. “(These) issues are extremely sensitive for tech compa- Scott Kennedy, at the Center for Strategic and Midstream, SolarReserve, Stine Seed Company, biotech The risk is that commercial deals “distract from long- nies said another source in the US business community. International Studies think tank in Washington, said Beijing firm Drylet, wastewater-processing firm Viroment and the term political solutions” to trade issues, the official said. “Very few want to stick their heads up and be per- has deflected commercial issues “using a combination of US Soybean Export Council. Evan Medeiros, former President Barack Obama’s top ceived as complaining directly, and even fewer trust this leadership flattery, coaxing up to his (Trump’s) family, Bell Helicopter and crane-maker Terex Corp are also on Asia adviser, made a similar point in Washington. Beijing White House to do anything helpful on their issues,” he token concessions, adjusting their level of help on North the delegation list. Honeywell, DowDuPont and ADM did would avoid seriously addressing the “underlying sys- said. Particularly galling to foreign tech firms are a slate of Korea sanctions, and threats of retaliation should the US not respond immediately to a request for comment and temic problems” such as market access for high-tech new national security and cyber security regulations, take any unilateral action”. Freepoint, Cheniere, Sempra Energy, and Texas LNG goods and intellectual property protection during the which mandate companies store crucial data within China Brownsville LLC said they had no comment. visit, he predicted. and pass security reviews they argue could put business Gas exports Boeing told Reuters it does not yet have plans to send “The Chinese will be happy to buy a lot of American secrets at risk. Agribusiness and energy firms dominate the delegation anyone but that may change. Alaska Gasline Development goods. That’s what they know Trump wants - big export list. They include Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM), one Corp said it had no information to release. numbers,” he said, predicting that China would announce Testy relationship of the world’s largest grain companies, and chemicals and The US Commerce Department, which is leading the big business deals and allow the president to tout them Trump, a real estate magnate who had never before agribusiness giant DowDuPont. delegation, has not yet issued its own list. At least one of during his visit. —Reuters

Oklahoma City, where parking meters began, Apple Q3 iPhone modernizes system

shipments surge OKLAHOMA CITY: The city where parking meters were born more than eight decades ago is phasing out 40% in China the last of the coin-gobbling contraptions that reshaped America’s downtowns in favor of computer- SHANGHAI: Apple has ended an 18-month slump in ized models seen in many other places. iPhone sales in China with a 40 percent surge in ship- Parking meters came into the picture as the streetcar ments in the third quarter, according to a private survey age gave way to the era of the automobile, remaking released yesterday. About 11 million iPhones were sold urban transportation and the way civic planners and in China from July to September compared to eight mil- business owners imagined commerce centers for more lion in the same period last year, research firm Canalys than three generations. But old-school analogue meters said in a report. Apple had negative year-on-year have been disappearing, as cities have been investing in growth in China for the previous six quarters. The uptick the digital ones that take plastic, along with coins. in deliveries came even though the country’s overall The changing technology has meant Oklahoma market declined five percent in the same quarter. City’s parking meters have been operating on borrowed “The high sell-in caters to the pent-up demand of time. Their guts date to the 1960s and 1970s, and many iPhone upgraders in the absence of the iPhone X,” said companies that once serviced them have long been out Canalys analyst Mo Jia, adding that price cuts on earli- of business. “The companies just plain and simple don’t er models after the announcement of the iPhone 8 also support the technology anymore,” says Cory Hubert, helped. But Apple’s iPhone shipments still lag far behind Oklahoma City’s parking services manager. domestic rivals, with the company ranked only fifth on This oil-and-gas hub’s new solar-powered kiosks feature a “pay-by-plate” system, though it will still have OKLAHOMA CITY: In this Oct 11, 2017 photo, Wade Beal, parking meter technician, answers a question the mainland behind Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi. some older models through the end of the year. during an interview in Oklahoma City. —AP Third-quarter growth was only temporary, according Motorists’ mostly hate-hate relationship with the to Mo, predicting that Apple was unlikely to sustain parking meter began in 1935, when the first one sprout- such momentum in Q4. —AFP ed here. The collective rage, like most things, worked its “The parking meter is a perfect example of a pivot steady revenue from the meters - and the fines for fail- way into popular culture. point on how people got around in American urban ing to pay- to pad coffers. Those fines aren’t going Paul Newman’s beer-swigging title character in the areas,” he said. “It sparked a renaissance in our inner away. Nor are Oklahoma City’s five meter readers, 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke” lops the heads off park- cities.” As automobiles became more common, down- much to the chagrin of 20-year-old barista Marina ing meters lining a nearly deserted downtown drag. “It town traffic jams irked merchants. Store owners com- Lozano, who says “they’re so ruthless.” Nikon closes was an iconic opening scene; it was this act of rebel- plained that most of the cars parked near their store- And not everyone thinks newer is better. Stay-at- lion,” says Bob Blackburn, executive director of the fronts were owned by people who worked downtown, home dad Will Cross was hunched over one of the new Oklahoma Historical Society, where the inaugural Park- alienating potential customers. Commerce won out, and units on a recent afternoon, trying to find out where his Chinese compact O-Meter No. 1 is on display. “That director knew that the parking meter was born, in part, to keep traffic ticket was before the machine finally spit one out. “I like everyone hated parking meters.” moving. the older ones better,” Cross said. “A lot of people don’t camera factory A pain, maybe, but Blackburn said their influence Millions of meters began springing up in cities understand the computers. I’m 48 and I don’t under- can’t be overstated. throughout the United States. Cities came to rely on the stand it.” —AP TOKYO: Nikon said yesterday it has ceased operations at a compact camera factory in China, underscoring how picture-taking smartphones have devastated the months. That’s unchanged from the previous survey in April but market for digital cameras. Tokyo-based Nikon, which Corporate way above the survey’s long-run average. The survey shows is going through a sweeping restructuring to repair its that the high degree of potential M&A activity runs parallel to finances, said it ended operations of Nikon Imaging rising expectations over the state of the world economy, with all major economies growing in sync. A staggering 99 percent (China) in eastern Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, which deal-making of global executives believe the M&A market will improve or employed nearly 2,300 people. remain stable this year. “In recent years...due to the rise of smartphones, the driven by fast Since a lull following the global financial crisis, when firms compact digital camera market has been shrinking rap- opted for a safety-first approach, M&A has become increas- idly, leading to a significant decrease in operating rate technological change ingly popular, with many companies opting to use their cash at NIC (Nikon Imaging China) and creating a difficult reserves to make deals, particularly in the field of financial business environment,” Nikon said in a statement. technology. Among the big deals announced this year are “The company has decided to discontinue opera- LONDON: The appetite for mergers and acquisitions remains Johnson & Johnson’s $30 billion takeover of Swiss pharmaceu- tions of NIC. Thereafter, we will begin conducting rele- near a record high as firms try to adapt to fast technological tical firm Actelion and United Technologies’ plan to buy PHILADELPHIA: This March 25, 2014 file photo shows vant dissolution and liquidation procedures,” it added. changes and despite a welter of geopolitical concerns, a survey Rockwell Collins for about $23 billion. a CVS store and pharmacy in Philadelphia. According Nikon said it expected the factory closure to cost of executives found yesterday. In its half-yearly report of Other high-profile deals include Amazon’s $14 billion to a report, the drugstore chain is in talks to buy around 7.0 billion yen ($62 million), but added that mergers and acquisitions, or M&A, consulting firm EY found takeover of Whole Foods and Gilead’s $12 billion acquisition of Aetna, the nation’s third-largest insurer. —AP China will remain one of its key markets. —AFP that 56 percent of firms are planning a deal within the next 12 Kite Pharma. —AP Established 1961 25 What’s On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Jumeirah Hotels and Resorts named Middle East’s Leading Luxury Hotel Brand 2017 At the World Travel Awards umeirah Hotels and Resorts is celebrating after win- ning eight trophies at the World Travel Awards includ- Jing the award for the Middle East’s Leading Luxury Hotel Brand 2017. The World Travel Awards are voted for by travel and tourism professionals and business and leisure travel con- sumers worldwide and these accolades recognize Jumeirah Group’s commitment to excellence over the last twelve months. Marc Dardenne, Group Chief Operating Officer and Interim CEO, said: “We are delighted to be named as the Middle East’s leading luxury hotel brand 2017 at the Middle East Gala Ceremony for the World Travel Awards. This acco- lade demonstrates Jumeirah’s strength in the market and enduring position as the region’s leading luxury hotel brand. Equally as pleasing are the seven awards collected for our hotels in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait - testaments to the dedication of our General Managers and colleagues who work hard to constantly exceed our guests’ expectations.

The complete list of awards include: Middle East’s Leading Luxury Hotel Brand 2017: Jumeirah. Middle East’s Leading All Suite Hotel 2017: Burj Al-Arab Jumeirah, Dubai. Middle East’s Leading Family and Mice Hotel 2017: Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai. Middle East’s Leading Hotel 2017: Jumeirah Al-Qasr at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. Middle East’s Leading Luxury Business Hotel 2017: Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates’s Leading Hotel 2017: Burj Al-Arab Jumeirah. United Arab Emirates’s Leading Lifestyle Hotel 2017: Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi. Middle East’s Leading Business Hotel 2017: Jumeirah Jumeirah Group Executives pose with their awards. Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa, Kuwait.

Hilton celebrates Oktoberfest with German Ambassador

o celebrate this year’s Oktoberfest - the popular the terrace was bustling with families and friends, as chil- sumptuous traditional German delights, including pretzels Florian Gruhl, Director of Operations at Hilton Kuwait German festival celebrated by millions of people dren swayed to the live music and shouts of glee could be and Bratwurst and good-cheer. With thousands of Resort said: “We love to celebrate occasions such as Taround the world - Hilton Kuwait Resort hosted heard as guests won dining vouchers as part of a raffle. Europeans living in Kuwait, Oktoberfest is celebrated by Oktoberfest with the local community. This year’s event over 200 guests, including the German Ambassador to Attendees arrived in style, dressed in traditional the local expat community each year and this year Hilton built on the success of the three previous years and we Kuwait Karlfried Bergner, in a traditional celebration at the German Lederhosen and Dirndl, ready to celebrate the Kuwait Resort welcomed guests to celebrate Oktoberfest look forward to hosting Karlfried Bergner and the German hotel’s Palm Court Terrace. Adorned in festive decorations, occasion with live cooking stations serving an array of with gusto. community at future celebrations.” LOYAC hosts Egyptian musician

n collaboration with the National Fareah Al-Saqqaf. After thanking LOYAC Council for Culture, Arts and for hosting him again in Kuwait after ILetters (NCCAL), LOYAC recently 38 years, Selim played eleven pieces organized a concert for Egyptian of the finest oriental songs for some of musician and pianist Amr Selim and his the most prominent Arab singers. He band at Abdulhussein Abdulredha also presented each piece in a most Theatre. The concert was attended by humorous manner, playing songs for NCCAL’s Assistant Secretary General Mohammad Abdul Wahab, Abdul For Cultural Affairs Mohammed Al- Haleem Hafez, Fareed Al-Atrash and Assoussi and LOYAC’s Chairperson Angham.

The raffle draw winner of ‘Win up to 100 kilos of Gold’ campaign, The raffle draw winner of ‘Win up to 100 kilos of Gold’ campaign, Reyaz The raffle draw winner of ‘Win up to 100 kilos of Gold’ campaign, Noore Nazar Jhan Eshwar Rao N receives the prize of 1/4 KG gold from Afsal Khan, Ahmed receives the prize of 1/4 KG gold from Afsal Khan, Zonal Head, Shareef receives the prize of 1/4 KG gold from Afsal Khan, Zonal Head, Malabar Gold Zonal Head, Malabar Gold and Diamonds, in the presence of offi- Malabar Gold and Diamonds, in the presence of officials from Malabar Gold and Diamonds, in the presence of officials from Malabar Gold and Diamonds. cials from Malabar Gold and Diamonds. and Diamonds. 26 Established 1961 Stars Tuesday, October 31, 2017

CROSSWORD 1749 STAR TRACK

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

Communicating and getting your message across to others is important. You may realize that there is a need for balance in your life. You could be No worries . . . Your timing should be perfect and others should find you most sponta- working too hard or someone’s joke may cause you to realize that it has been a long neous. Making peace with the past, coming to terms with karmic debts—these are time since you experienced some real belly laughter. You may find it difficult to be some of the issues that you deal with as a new phase begins in your life. Failure to face spontaneous or to get away from routine and do something different. You may also find these things can cause setbacks and put obstacles in your path. Learn to look beyond it necessary to make some changes in order to create more of a balance in your life. the narrowly personal and selfish or you will get in over your head. A little exercise this When you do enact a change, it is always at the deepest level and affects everything evening can work off some of the frustrations you may have built up lately. Notice else in your life as well. This is good time for change, especially if you are aiming for any nature’s new colors in and around your neighborhood. Tonight you may decide to type of education or job change. Eliminate some of the things that do not serve a pur- bring some of your plants inside so as to care for them better—the herbs perhaps. pose for you anymore. Note—a charity would appreciate your discarded clothes.

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

Look for creative avenues to resolve work-related problems and realize Your thoughts may undergo some change. There is a natural sense of that you may have a chance to rectify a situation that was previously out of control. growth and development, but there is also the strong foundation for leadership. Be tolerant if someone’s appearance or manners are a little rough. Humor is the best Concentrating and getting down to the essential ideas are easy. Deep and penetrating defense against vulgarity. This day brings with it opportunities to uncover and find conversations, particularly with a group or in relation to your situation, may be in order. the truth in a confusing issue. An active attention to your nutritional needs is impor- Others could seek you out for your psychological insight and understanding. You will tant. When you are under stress, it is important to increase your level of certain vita- find an unexpected boost in the way you think, speak or write. Communications are mins. Pay attention to this need and if you find it necessary, learn about the supple- uncomplicated and connections of all kinds, news and so on, are furthered—often at ments that could be helpful for better health, especially if you are experiencing any the expense of established order. The energies are good for any changes you may want stress. Your home environment and friends get attention this evening. to make in your environment: digging a well, planting a garden, etc.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Gemini (May 21-June 20) Events make it difficult to make good decisions concerning career and There are favorable changes happening. Any improvements or changes life direction—patience. Self-discipline and a sense of self-worth become you want to make in the workplace will be successful. Charitable endeav- important issues in your life as a new phase begins. A fear of asserting yourself can hold ors can also be quite successful now. Today through the end of this week is a great time you back—as can coming on too strong. The trick is learning to make the most of your ACROSS DOWN to take some vacation time. If you are working, others value your ability to make practi- personal talents and abilities and working within your limitations instead of feeling 1. System of measurement based on cen- 1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand cal decisions. You have a natural sense of what the public wants. Clear decisions affect- hemmed in by them. Co-workers are compatible and could give good advice without timeters and grams and seconds. or mud. ing others could be made now. Emotional security and a sense of belonging and nurtur- even realizing it—listen to and observe the things that are happening around you. Let 4. Tropical American tree with large 2. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake ing are issues felt instinctively. You may enjoy engaging views by observing a new bird your worries go this evening. Tonight you may earnestly try to begin a new habit and peltate leaves and hollow stems. Michigan. or watching a sunset over the water . . . They kick-start the spirit and make you fall in also involve the family. This could include having the evening meal together, often. love with life all over again. Get your photography equipment in order—be prepared. 11. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone 3. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of Service). lenses for correcting defective vision. 4. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi 15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated Capricorn (December 22-January 19) (Tammuz). ) person. Cancer (June 21-July 22 5. Destruction of heart tissue resulting This is a very good day for job-related events. Group decisions may point 16. Danish composer (1865-1931). from obstruction of the blood supply There is good fortune coming to you as things open up in a very natural 17. An organization of countries formed in to you to help with procedures to be followed. You have a natural sense of to the heart muscle. way. Tremendous success in creative ventures can provide great satis- what would please the most difficult client. Clear decisions affecting others could be 1961 to agree on a common policy for 6. Cut the head of. faction and may even bring financial rewards. It is easy to see which path is the one made now. Challenging authority and striving for success are on your agenda but you the sale of petroleum. 7. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to to take. Opportunities flourish and you may find yourself wanting and able to do are smart and careful to phrase your words carefully—higher-ups want to please you. 18. Any of several tall tropical palms native but heavier than beer. almost anything. Your work or career is in real harmony with the rest of your life. You Properly directed, ambition is a powerful motivation and results in great achievement to southeastern Asia having egg- could gain from young people during this time. Emotional security and a sense of with recognition. You could be most persuasive with others and eloquent in speech and 8. A former communist country in eastern belonging and nurturing are felt instinctively. Your popularity soars this whole week. shaped nuts. Europe and northern Asia. communication. The situation is a natural for self-expression and lends itself to your Your home environment, friends and surroundings in general become uncomplicated particular ideas. A good conversation with those you love is possible tonight. 20. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose 9. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. and receive encouragement. Love relationships can be rather fiery, but enjoyable. novels and poems express his interests 10. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi. in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962). 11. Pan with a convex bottom. 12. Any of various primates with short tails 21. A Chadic language spoken in Chad. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 22. An ancient city is southern Greece. or no tail at all. 24. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and 13. A three-tone Chadic language. Although you shy away from challenges, you cannot escape facing a few Business travel has positive aspects this winter. Allow the momentum to 14. Someone who works (or provides of them. Challenges help us grow and learning about ourselves improves carry you into broader career horizons and make yourself available to growth options. shrubby trees of temperate and sub- The key spot in your personality and circumstances is your mind—the world of ideas tropical North America, South Africa, workers) during a strike. our problem-solving skills—today may be challenging. You have the mind of a lawyer, 19. Tropical American trees with palmately always able to size up a problem and come up with a solution. Using your mind to and communication. Others may challenge your ideas but this either sends you back to eastern Asia and northeastern compound leaves and showy bell- negotiate obstacles and handle dilemmas, yours or those of others, is a great talent. the beginning of your project or gives you new opportunities. You could easily become Australia. shaped flowers. You have a natural ability to guide and lead others through the hurdles and hassles of carried away with your view or explanation of things. In order to stay within the confines of being tasteful or sophisticated, pay attention to the response of others when you 26. The blood group whose red cells carry 23. In bed. life. You could be very much in demand as a counselor. It is rewarding for you to solve both the A and B antigens. problems. Any professional advice you might need is available for you today. You communicate. Make every effort to interact with family members tonight as you could be 25. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that away from home for a few days. Loved ones enjoy your company this evening. 27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells is the top of an extinct volcano. could discover yourself through creativity and self-expression during this time. of the fantastic adventures he had in 28. Large tropical butterfly with degener- his voyages. ate forelegs and an unpleasant taste. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 29. A Hindu prince or king in India. 30. Upright consisting of a vertical side Pisces (February 19-March 20) 32. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. member of a door or window frame. Resist the temptation to exaggerate—you could damage your credibility. This is a good day, with lots of energy and ambition. This is the day to start 34. English monk and scholar (672-735). 31. Capable of being acted. new projects or push forward with those already in motion. You may enjoy 33. A small tent used as a dressing room This may be most important when giving lectures or when teaching young people. 35. A portable brazier that burns charcoal Exercise authority in moderation—there are energies available now that make it possi- a sense of creating your own opportunities. A senior advisor or someone in authority is and has a grill for cooking. beside the sea or a swimming pool. ble to get your message over to others in a new style of presentation. This could be motivating. You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working with 38. Avatar of Vishnu. 36. A salt of any halogen acid. books, a reward system or some other way you have discovered lately. You can win others. You know just what to do and can act without haste and emotion. You are called 40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of 37. Inflammation of the iris. everyone over to your viewpoint with your exceptional persuasive skill. This afternoon on to make use of your natural abilities and common sense. Your inner resources and the alkali metal group. 39. Cuban poet and revolutionary who you might enjoy shopping for new clothes or some necessary items and meeting family emotions are accented. Expect a sense of support and good will from those around you. Material things and the whole concept of value take on more importance for you now. 42. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon fought for Cuban independence from members at a restaurant in the evening. There are makings in the works for a relaxed, Spain (1853-1895). Financial security and enjoying the finer things in life assume a high priority. personifying death. enjoyable evening. Experiment with astral projection before nodding off to sleep. 41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent 43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made and univalent) metallic element. from aba cloth. 44. A small amount of residue. Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 46. An island in Indonesia east of Java. 45. A wine bottle made of leather. 47. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disem- 48. (prefix) Indicating difference or varia- bowelment on a sword. tion. 51. A religious belief of African origin 49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked involving witchcraft and sorcery. on a skewer usually with vegetables. 54. Injured by bites or stings. 50. A republic in the Middle East in west- 55. Having antlers. ern Asia. 56. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922). 52. Of or relating to or characteristic of 58. Pouch used in the shipment of mail. Bermuda or its inhabitants. 60. Consisting of or made of wood of the 53. Wading birds of warm regions having oak tree. long slender down-curved bills. 61. A state-chartered savings bank owned 57. A French abbot. by its depositors and managed by a 59. Of clothing. board of trustees. 63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 64. A small cake leavened with yeast. 62. Tag the base runner to get him out. 65. (comparative of `much' used with mass 68. Tropical starchy tuberous root. nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in 72. The sixth month of the civil year. size or amount or extent or degree. 76. A river in north central Switzerland that 66. A person who makes use of a thing. runs northeast into the Rhine. 67. Offering fun and gaiety. 77. A Chadic language spoken south of 69. The lower house of the parliament of Lake Chad. the Republic of Ireland. 78. Relating to or like or divided into areo- 70. An informal term for a father. lae. 71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 79. An agency of the United Nations affili- Arabia or North Africa. ated with the World Bank. 73. The most common computer memory 80. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian which can be used by programs to mythology. perform necessary tasks while the 81. Having close kinship and appropriate- computer is on. ness. 74. A label made of cardboard or plastic or 82. A workplace for the conduct of scien- metal. 75. A unit of surface area equal to 100 tific research. square meters.

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14:20 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:30 MSC 404 Asyut 12:15 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 FDB 059 Dubai 14:20 FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 QTR 1075 Doha 12:30 28 Established 1961

Lifestyle Gossip Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Alexandra Burke seeing ghost of her late mother

he 29-year-old pop star was left devastated week Alexandra score a 39 out of 40 for her Jive to over the summer when her mum Melissa Bell - Tina Turner’s ‘Proud Mary’. She explained: “I can’t even T who was one of the lead singers of the R&B begin to describe how it felt losing mum and I’m still band Soul II Soul - tragically passed away from a grieving. I’m feeling all kind of weird feelings. One lengthy battle with kidney failure, but she has admitted minute I’m really happy and then I’ll see a picture of her death is still something she’s coming to terms with smell something that reminds me of her and it takes me because she’s been seeing her sitting in the audience all the way back. Losing my mum so young made me with her brother every week when she performs on question my faith in God and so many things because I ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ Speaking to HELLO! maga- was completely in denial with how sick she was.” zine, she said: “I think mum is watching over me ... Alexandra found out her mum had kidney failure when When the camera panned to the audience, I saw my she auditioned for ‘The X Factor’, which she went on to mum sitting with my brother and I choked up. Then it win, in 2008 and has admitted she’d love nothing more hit me that she wasn’t there.”And the time she saw her than to go back to her routes once the ballroom and mum’s figure sitting in the audience happened to be the latin show has wrapped up. Stormzy annoying his girlfriend Maya with loud snoring he 23-year-old TV presenter has bemoaned that the 24-year-old grime rapper is interrupt- Karen Gillaninsists T ing her slumber with his nasal noise most nights. Maya told BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw her boyfriend’s most annoying habits ahead of his interview on the UK station yester- day, accusing him of being a “duvet hog” and a snoring she is a ‘pretty sleeper. But Stormzy isn’t convinced he’s a loud snorer and says he won’t accept her moan until she can present him with evidence. After being told what Maya thinks his worst habits are by Nick, 33, Stormzy said: “You awkward person’ know what, I’m not convinced that I snore. This is how I see it, we go to bed, we wake up, she says, ‘You were snoring.’ Where’s the evidence? You get what I mean? I he 29-year-old actress portrays commando just wake up to a new accusation or new charge of, ‘Yes, Ruby Roundhouse in forthcoming film ‘Jumanji: you were snoring.’ Maybe she was snoring, I don’t know. T Welcome to the Jungle’ but admits in real life I’m not buying it. Duvet hogging I’ll take that because she is much more like her alter-ego’s avatar Martha there’s evidence.” Stormzy and ‘Cannonball’ presenter Maya have been dating since 2015 and the ‘Big for Your Schwartz - played by Morgan Turner - who is a shy Boots’ hitmaker recently admitted he is planning to bookworm. She said: “Honestly, I’m Martha. I completely make Maya his wife. He said: “I’m still so young but I understand why I was cast in this role because I’m a pret- want to propose, it’s going to happen and I will do it ty awkward person in general “But I keep getting cast in right. She is so sick, she is the best.” Despite their rela- these kicka** roles, so I just honestly feel like it’s so close tionship garnering more and more attention from fans as to my life.” The former ‘Doctor Who’ star - who portrays the romance gets stronger, the pair are keen to keep alien supervillain Nebula in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ things under wraps as Maya wants to keep the focus on film franchise - cannot work out why she has been cast in their respective careers rather than their love life. such tough-female roles, but thinks it is something to do with her 5ft 11inch frame. She said: “I don’t know, that’s something I’m trying to work out. It might be because I’m tall?” While Karen enjoys taking on the parts, she felt right at home recently when she stepped behind the cam- era for her forthcoming big screen directorial debut in Vogue Williams was ‘The Party’s Just Beginning’, which she also stars in and wrote. Speaking to Virgin Atlantic’s Vera Magazine, the Bieber called a brunette - who helmed two short films, ‘Coward’, and ‘Conventional’, in 2015 - added: “I loved it so much. It’s told to ‘lose weight’ just something I want to do more and more now. When I ‘vile human’ by was a kid, before I decided that I wanted to be an actress, I had this video camera, which was my prize possession, he 32-year-old Irish model has admitted she was urged and I was making horror films in my house and using my Selena Gomez’s to shed the pounds “a couple of times” during her career, friends and parents as actors. “If we go right back to the T and she wouldn’t get booked for certain modeling jobs beginning that was everything to me, and I feel like I’ve because of her size, although she was adamant she was not going to finally like made my way back to that, because it felt the family member change her appearance just to star in a campaign. Speaking about same as making tiny films, just on a bigger scale.” the obstacles faced throughout her career, the blonde-haired beau- ty said: “In Ireland the modeling industry is less about being skinny. he ‘Never Say Never’ hitmaker met up with I’ve had agents tell me to lose weight a couple of times, but it’s not the 25-year-old singer - who he was involved something I ever did. I am what I am and I don’t book certain jobs T in an on/off relationship with between 2011 for that reason. I’d never change myself o my weight because and 2014 - on Sunday at JOi Cafe in Westlake Village, someone else told me to. “I was 17, but I think comments like that California, but one of her relatives is not happy about affect you at any age.” And the ‘Bear Grylls: Mission Survive’ cham- the reunion. A member of Selena’s family is said to have pion - who won the series in 2015 - has revealed she is still subject- told gossip website TMZ: “Justin is a vile human and ed to “fat shaming” and “skinny shaming” all the time, which she will never be accepted by us. As long as she is even thinks is “disgusting”. She said: “Even now. I can be fat shamed and speaking to him in any way, it is not only disrespectful skinny-shamed all in the same day. I don’t think it’s right that any- to everyone around her, it is disrespectful to herself.” one should attack you so personally about your own body size or Justin, 23, wore a hoodie and Selena a striped dress for weight. It’s absolutely disgusting.” Vogue - who is currently dating their meeting at the cafe, where they were for around former ‘Made In Chelsea’ star Spencer Matthews - has revealed she 25 minutes. A source said: “They seemed friendly. “once” tried going on a juice diet, but she “couldn’t stand” forsaking There was no PDA.” It comes shortly after the pair are her meals because she has an “obsession” with food. She explained said to have met up at the ‘Wolves’ hitmaker’s house to OK! magazine: “I did a juice diet once but I only lasted until which led to speculation they could be set to rekindle lunchtime. I couldn’t stand it” I have an obsession with food and i their romance - but Selena is still dating singer The couldn’t bear not having the food I wanted.” Weeknd. A source said: “Selena is still with The Weeknd, and she only sees Justin as a friend. “Selena is the one who got Justin involved in this church. It was Eva Longoria has her attempt to help turn his life around, and it really did help. He’s really committed to it and has formed a strong network. So, they have a lot of mutual friends broken her leg now from that.” Another insider explained: “They are Scherzinger works out not dating, it’s nothing romantic. “Justin and Selena are he former ‘Desperate Housewives’ star was just friends right now. They reconnected and, right now, spotted with a mystery boot on last week and Justin wants to be a good friend to her. At least for now, with David Beckham T it has now been revealed she suffered the it’s a friendship.” injury while on holiday in Spain, and doctors decided he 39-year-old singer boasts a super toned physique, and the brunette she needed the leg brace to help her bone heal. Sources beauty has revealed she maintains her slender frame by attending spin close to the 42-year-old actress told The Blast she T classes with the former England football Captain when she is in Los recently aggravated some of the tendons around the Angeles, California, because they both have the “same favorite teacher” at the fitness bone. With the raven-haired beauty set to do some centre. Speaking to Hello! magazine about her exercise plan and partner, she said: “I’ve taken SoulCycle spinning classes with David in LA because we have the same directing work on ‘The Mick’ and ‘LA>Vegas’, she was favorite teacher that we love there.” And ‘The X Factor’ judge has admitted fashion advised to wear the boot to aid her recovery. Despite designer Julien Macdonald has asked the ‘Right There’ hitmaker to exercise with her the inconvenience such a leg brace might cause, she is and the football ace - who has sons 18-year-old Brooklyn, Romeo, 15, Cruz, 12, and said to be planning to keep working through the injury. six-year-old daughter Harper with his wife Victoria - at Barry’s Bootcamp. She contin- Eva was spotted wearing the medical footwear at a Los ued: “My friend [designer] Julien Macdonald was like, ‘You, me and David are going to Angeles launch party last week alongside her pal go and work out at Barry’s Bootcamp’”. However, the Pussycat Dolls band member Victoria Beckham, who made a cheeky dig at her thinks she will have to start training a lot harder before she joins David and Julien on a friend’s new look. Alongside a picture of the pair sitting fitness class. She added: “Though I might have to shape up first.” Nicole has revealed down, she wrote the Instagram caption: “Nice boot!! she also enjoys going for a run on her own to get in the “right head space”, and to Love u @evalongoria X #fashionforward (sic)” Last make sure she is not spotted by fans she hides under a pair of glasses and a hat. She month, Eva reunited with her fellow ‘Desperate said: “[To get] in the right headspace. I put glasses on and a hat. no one can keep up with me.” And the star has joked if a passer-by notices her she “runs off fast”. She Housewives’ co-star and pal Felicity Huffman on the red explained: “And if people recognize me, I run off fast”. Nicole has admitted Italy is her carpet for her Eva Longoria Foundation annual dinner favorite place to go to when she wants a relaxing retreat. She said: “Italy has some- at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills - but she was- thing special in the air. Venice, Florence, Portofino, Verona, Rome, Capri - I love them n’t wearing the boot then. all. “It’s home to my heart and my spirit.” - Bangshowbiz Established 1961 29 Lifestyle Features Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Greece finds new love for stand-up comedy amid economic tragedy

he crammed basement bar heaves with laughter as the Tyoung comedians take to the microphone, riffing on daily life in austerity-slammed Greece. This is one of a growing number of open mic nights to have sprung up in the past few years as audiences find stand-up comedy in the middle of economic tragedy. Ancient Greek dramatist Aristophanes-known as the Father of Comedy-was writing plays that lampooned the worlds of politics, art and phi- losophy as far back as 425 BC. But stand-up here is a new art form.

Sick and tired of talking about politics

Comedian Andreas Paspatis performs on October 6, 2017 during a People react as they listen to a stand-up comedian. “Ten years ago Greeks didn’t know what stand-up was,” stand-up comedy in a bar in Thessaloniki. — AFP photos says professional comic Andreas Paspatis, 28, the compere of the monthly Open Mic Thessaloniki, in Greece’s second- largest city. “When I was booking gigs back then we would Enough of politics “I think it’s a great idea, a guy on the stage telling jokes, I everyday life inevitably involves talking about the crisis, or call the bar and when we said we’re doing stand-up, 90 per- In her routine for “Gluten-free”, touring in theatres in think it’s super cool.” at least its effects. cent of them would ask, ‘What’s that?’” Thessaloniki and Athens, Katsouda however steers clear of He struggles to make a living as a professional comedian, In Britain, successful stand-up comedians have a certain politics and says most other stand-up comedians do the ‘Coping mechanism’ and like many young Greeks survives only by living rent- status, appearing on television panel shows and often com- same. “The audience is sick and tired of talking about poli- Young people may be struggling with close to 45-per- free with his parents, which he talks about in his set, along mentating on current affairs and writing newspaper columns. tics,” she says. At the open mic night the air is thick with cent unemployment “but I’m not going to talk about the with struggling to get by on a low budget, and the rage of But, while Greek television features sketch and comedy sweat, smoke and laughter as the 12 stand-ups try out new crisis because it’s not that funny”, he says. When he hits biting into a croissant to discover there is no chocolate fill- shows, it has no stand-ups, and there are still only about 20 material on a young audience, who have paid three euros the stage however, he does have a skit involving fare ing. “I grew up with the crisis. The moment I started to need professionals in the country. Many people get their first ($3.5) entrance fee and, in many cases, make their drinks last dodging on the city bus. “When the inspector comes on money, it was there. So yes, it’s an influence, it’s life,” he taste watching foreign stand-ups on the internet, says Ira the length of the show. we’re all stressed, I don’t mean only the ones without a says. “It’s very difficult (to be a stand-up) but I don’t want Katsouda, one of Greece’s few female stand-ups, whose own With ages ranging from 17 to 37 and just one woman ticket but also the ones with a ticket,” he tells the audi- to give up, I’m only 25 and I’m a romantic.” But outside the influences include cross-dressing Briton Eddie Izzard and among them, the stand-ups include a schoolboy, four univer- ence, to building laughter. venue, smoking a cigarette on the step, 21-year-old waitress philosophical American Louis CK. But the Greek crisis has sity students, a lawyer, a male nurse, a teacher, an unem- “I always have a ticket but I’m always stressed about the and stand-up fan Mary Tsevrentzidou says she does not also helped put stand-up in the spotlight and not just ployed man and three professionals. When the compere moment he’s going to come up to me... as if he’s going to say, indulge romantic thoughts of a brighter future. “People my because of cheap production costs, says the 33-year-old, Paspatis asks first-timers in the audience to clap, there is ‘That isn’t a very good ticket!’” The Greek economy nearly age are a little bit more nihilistic. We can’t have any roman- ahead of a sell-out show. “Stand-up comedy is blossoming loud applause. It’s an enthusiastic and friendly crowd-heck- collapsed in 2010 under a mountain of debt and it had to be tic thoughts, we can’t live in the clouds, so this is a coping here. I do believe the crisis has played a big role in this. “It’s ling is still a foreign concept here. “I’m really pumped up,” bailed out by its eurozone partners three times to prevent it mechanism for us.” — AFP a cheap form of entertainment and in these dark times-what says 17-year-old schoolboy Dimitris Marintsios, nervously bringing down the single currency bloc. Athanasios “Cain” I’m going to say is a cliche, but I’m going to say it-people running through his lines before performing for the first time. Samaras says that for people of his generation, talking about need to laugh,” she said. Revolutionaries to supernovas: Glamour names women of 2017

t’s been one epic year for women, a notion defi- nitely not lost on Glamour magazine as it named IUS Rep Maxine Waters, 27 key facilitators of the Women’s March on Washington and astronaut Peggy Whitson among its women of the year from the worlds of politics, entertainment, fashion, busi- ness and more. The other winners announced Monday, ahead of a Nov. 13 gala in Brooklyn, New York, are actor Nicole Kidman, singer Solange Knowles, Syrian refugee Muzoon Almellehan, late-night TV host Samantha Bee, supermodel Gigi Hadid, Dior’s first female creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, and “Wonder Woman” helmswoman Patty Jenkins. Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-in-chief, called A sign to repeal NYC’s Cabaret Law is seen posted at the Brooklyn venue Secret Project them “wildly diverse changemakers” who reflect Robot. this “tumultuous and electric year for women.” All will be on hand for the magazine’s annual awards night, with a summit featuring Chelsea Clinton, Laverne Cox, Cecile Richards and other past win- Ballet to end NYC’s ners planned for earlier the same day. This year’s honorees will be featured on multiple Glamour cov- ers and in a spread for December. A look at some in (From left) Samantha Bee, Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, Gigi Hadid, director Patty Jenkins, the Class of 2017: and bottom row from left, actress Nicole Kidman, singer Solange Knowles, Rep Maxine Waters and dancing prohibition astronaut Peggy Whitson, who are among Glamour’s Women of the Year Honorees. — AP THE REVOLUTIONARIES ancing is technically illegal in thousands office. He wants to repeal the law, which Listening especially to the strong voices of of bars, clubs and restaurants in the city could be put to a vote in the New York City young women after Hillary Clinton’s popular with fashion collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger and appropriation, activism and empowerment among Dthat never sleeps, but New York cam- Council as early as December. “Let’s finally vote win but Electoral College loss to Donald an upcoming cosmetics collection with Maybelline. them. “She’s such a fantastic and inspiring example paigners are finally in sight of getting the get this law off the books so that we can go Trump, Glamour called the impact of the As Glamour writes, Hadid didn’t just take off, “she of somebody who has always chosen not to do law overturned. The “cabaret law,” passed in after the real problem, whether it be noise, Women’s March massive, along with an out- took over.” things the easy way,” Leive said. “Her sister is 1926, requires public spaces that sell food crime, unsafe conditions,” he snorted. “Let’s pouring around the globe. At 22, Hadid has a 36-million strong following on Beyonce. She could have become a pop star in any and drink to acquire near impossible-to- not go after dancing.” Espinal and pressure “Vastly more women turned out for the march, Instagram and a megaplatform that could easily number of ways but she decided to really focus on obtain permits to authorize dancing indoors. groups such as the Dance Liberation not just in Washington but the marches around the have been wasted. Instead, she has spoken out her own personal vision of art.” Those without the permit can be fined. Network say the law has been used histori- world, than anyone expected,” Leive told The about gun control and marched with sister Bella to Knowles told the magazine that she worked on Repeat infractions risk bar owners losing cally to crack down on neighborhoods with Associated Press in a recent interview. “There were ‘bravely’ protest Trump’s signing of an executive “A Seat at the Table” on and off for three years, at their license to sell alcohol, which could in large minority populations such as African so many hundreds of women who were involved in order that suspended immigration to the US from one point spending three months writing songs in turn lead to bankruptcy. Americans, Latinos and the LGBT (lesbian, the organization and planning of these marches, but seven Muslim countries. Their father, real estate tiny Patoutville, Louisiana, soaking up the pride, Yet fewer than 100 of New York’s more gay, bisexual and transgender) community. 27 key leaders and organizers really devoted the developer Mohamed Hadid, was born in Palestine resilience and traditions of the regional culture. She than 22,000 bars, restaurants and clubs have lion’s share of their time between Election Day and and their mother, Yolanda Hadid, emigrated from worked in a house on a sugar plantation, feeling a the elusive permit, which is granted after Racist Inauguration Day.” In all, an estimated half a million Holland in her teens. “When I started working in closeness to her ancestors and feeling a “constant mountains of Kafkaesque paperwork and Passed initially to assert control during made their way to Washington, where maybe fashion, it was like, Gigi, the all-American. I was state of reflection.” jumping through prohibitively expensive the time of Prohibition, some historians say 200,000 had been expected, and 5 million more very much that ‘girl next door,’” she told Glamour, Part of her goal was to reclaim and change her hoops that Brooklyn councilman Rafael its true goal was the closure of Harlem jazz gathered everywhere from Australia to Antarctica. “but if you read my interviews, I always talk about own narrative, she said, “whether it was people Espinal says unfairly discriminate against bars in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s to stop my parents’ cultural backgrounds.” Leive called her challenging who wrote what on my album, whether small business owners. whites and blacks mixing. In the 1970s and GIGI THE SUPERNOVA “incredibly wise beyond her years.” it was about some editor commenting on my hair in “It’s just ridiculous,” says the indignant ‘80s, it was used to close establishments fre- The first time Gigi Hadid bubbled to the surface a story or someone feeling like they were entitled to 27-year-old Democrat in his basement quented by the LGBT community as it was on the reality show “The Real Housewives of SOLANGE BREAKS IT OPEN space in my life. I needed to unfold, reveal and dis- fought for its rights. In the 1990s, mayor Beverly Hills.” Modeling since she was around 3, With a Grammy win and a groundbreaking cover my truth. — AP Rudy Giuliani used the law to get tough on she went from a Guess campaign at 17 to super- album, “A Seat at the Table,” Knowles is living her clubs in his fight against crime. model five years later, racking up numerous maga- truth in abundance. The record, released late last Today, it is little used, but detractors say zine covers, editorial gigs and runway shows, along year, takes on some key issues: racism, cultural it is invoked as an excuse to shut down premises considered undesirable. One recent casualty was Andrew Muchmore, a lawyer who owns a bar that hosts live music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s hippest neigh- Oscar-nominated Iranian director borhood. One night in 2013 when a group of customers were making noise outside, an inspector fined Muchmore $200 under the challenges Trump to watch her film cabaret law. ran’s first Oscar-nominated female director has chal- she spends much of her time making sure that he is still When he went to pay, the office couldn’t lenged President Donald Trump to watch her film to see breathing. Bahar’s devout grandmother, far from being kind- find the docket. But Muchmore went to if its portrayal of ordinary Iranians’ experience of war ly, punishes her for refusing to go to Koran school. court anyway, charging the law violated the I and revolution will change his views of her country. The US The film and Abyar’s Oscar nomination have angered “sacred” First Amendment of the US president has called Iran a “terrorist nation” for involvement hardline conservatives in Iran’s establishment, who call the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of in conflicts in the Middle East, and derided an international Iran-Iraq war the “Sacred Defence” and consider the movie expression. “I was bothered by the principle deal that scrapped sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on anti-Islamic. “Three thousand (Iranian) children were killed that such a law could exist in America and what many in the West believe was a nuclear weapons pro- during the war. Why should I not show all these?” Abyar that offended my sensibility as an gram. told Reuters in an interview. “This film promotes peace.” She American,” Muchmore told AFP. “I did not Narges Abyar’s Farsi-language film “Nafas” (Breath) fol- said it could also “help American society ... to understand Rachel Nelson, Co-Founder of the feel comfortable that that could exist in the lows a young girl, Bahar, living through the changes that fol- that Iranians are not terrorists, as claimed by some politi- Brooklyn venue Secret Project Robot 21st century in New York of all places,” he low Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the start of the Iran- cians”. “Trump is using the language of threat against Iran ... said.—AFP poses for a picture at Cuckoo on October Iraq War in 1980 with her impoverished family. Her greatest what will he think if he watches Nafas? Will he continue to 20, 2017 in New York. — AFP photos fear is losing the chronically asthmatic father who is bringing threaten Iran?” Narges Abyar her and her three brothers and sisters up on his own, and “I wish I were a boy”— Reuters 30 Established 1961 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Lifestyle Features Kevin Spacey apologizes, comes out as gay after ‘sexual advance’ claim

evin Spacey came out as gay early yesterday and Spacey were performing in Broadway shows, Spacey Kapologized to actor Anthony Rapp, who accused the invited the then 14-year-old to a party at his New York Hollywood star of making a sexual advance on him at a apartment. Spacey would have been 26 at the time. Rapp 1986 party when he was only 14 years old. Spacey’s said he was in Spacey’s bedroom watching TV when announcement, posted on his Twitter account at midnight, Spacey appeared in the doorway at the end of the night, came after Rapp-best known after all the other guests had for being part of the original left, “kind of swaying” and cast of the hit Broadway musi- apparently drunk. Rapp said cal “Rent”-made the accusa- Spacey picked him up, put tion in an interview with him on the bed and lay on top Buzzfeed News. of him. Spacey, 58, a double Oscar Deeply “He was trying to seduce This file photo taken on February 23, 2016 shows actor Anthony Rapp, cast member in “Star Trek: Discovery,” winner and star of the Netflix me,” Rapp told Buzzfeed. “I Kevin Spacey arriving for the season 4 premiere poses at the premiere of the new television series in series “House of Cards,” said inappropriate don’t know if I would have screening of the Netflix show “House of Cards” in Los Angeles. — AFP/AP photos he did not remember the used that language. But I was Washington, DC. encounter but that “if I did drunken behavior aware that he was trying to get behave then as he describes, I with me sexually.” Rapp said owe him the sincerest apology he squirmed away after a brief for what would have been period of time and went into powerful men in the entertainment industry. Publicly accus- Backlash against Spacey’s announcement was quick to deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.” the bathroom. Shortly after, he left Spacey’s apartment and ing Spacey is “not to simply air a grievance,” he said, “but to build, with commentators slamming the actor’s declaration The actor-whose sexuality had been an open secret in went home. Rapp, who was living in New York with his try to shine another light on the decades of behavior that that he is gay as a cynical ploy to distract attention from the Hollywood for years went on to say that Rapp’s accusation mother, stressed that a young teen going alone to a party at have been allowed to continue because many people, includ- troubling allegation of sexual misconduct with a young teen. “encouraged me to address other things about my life.” “As an adult actor’s home was not considered a cause for con- ing myself, being silent.” “‘Sure, I may have tried to rape a 14-year-old boy when I those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships cern at the time. “It was a different era,” he said. “I went to “I’m feeling really awake to the moment that we’re living was 26, but I’m gay!’ is a pretty horrible defense,” conserva- with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic work by myself. I would walk to the subway, and go to the in, and I’m hopeful that this can make a difference.” More tive commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted. “No no no no no! encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now theater by myself.” than 50 women, including top actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, You do not get to ‘choose’ to hide under the rainbow! Kick to live as a gay man. “I want to deal with this honestly and Angelina Jolie and Mira Sorvino, have accused Weinstein of rocks!” comedian Wanda Sykes said on Twitter. — AFP openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.” ‘A pretty horrible defense’ misconduct including rape, sexual abuse and harassment. Rapp said he felt compelled to speak out after a recent The now-disgraced tycoon was sacked as co-chairman of ‘Trying to seduce me’ deluge of accusations against movie mogul Harvey The Weinstein Company and also resigned from its board. Rapp, 46, told Buzzfeed that in 1986, while both he and Weinstein sparked an examination of abuses committed by He has denied forcing himself on his accusers.

‘Pineapple pen’ star to serenade Trump on his Japan visit

S President Donald Trump will be Arabella Kushner, the six-year-old daugh- serenaded with a bizarre hit song ter of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Uabout a “pen-pineapple-apple-pen” was seen singing along to the tune in a clip on his visit to Japan next week. Japan will shared on Instagram in November by her roll out wacky crooner Pikotaro-whose mother. The repetitive earworm, whose 45-second “PPAP” ditty went viral last video features the dancing Pikotaro year after being shared by pop star Justin dressed in his garish animal-print costume, Bieber-when Trump comes to town at the set a Guinness World Record as the short- start of an Asian tour, Kyodo News est song to break into the Billboard Hot agency reported. 100. Trump is also set to play a round of The singer, apparently a favourite of golf with Japanese pro Hideki Matsuyama Trump’s grandchildren, will attend a dinner during his visit. — AFP Japanese comedian Pikotaro posing during a press hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Abe, government sources told Kyodo. Japan in Tokyo.

Lauren Friedman, daughter of lawyer Samuel Friedman, poses with photos of her father, and a telegram from Thurgood Marshall, in her New York apartment. — AP photos ‘Marshall’ scores with those ‘Suburbicon’ tanks, ‘Jigsaw’ who knew late justice

upreme Court Justice Thurgood Factual liberties Marshall’s widow, Cecilia, has seen two Koskoff said he reviewed old newspaper No. 1 in the box-office Sshowings of the new movie “Marshall” articles , investigators’ notes and what about her late husband. She liked it, but had remained of court files. He looked at letters one observation about actor Chadwick between Marshall and co-counsel Friedman Boseman, who plays the civil rights pioneer and notes Marshall took during jury selec- eorge Clooney’s “Suburbicon” notched an outlier in a horror marketplace dominated by respected filmmakers, including Darren and legal giant. “He’s a very good-looking tion. There was no transcript of the court Gone of the most dismal wide-release films that typically favor spooks over spurts.” Aronofsky’s “mother!” which also sputtered at the man, but he’s not as handsome as my hus- proceedings. As a result, much of the court- debuts in recent years on a sluggish pre- Opening-weekend moviegoers also weren’t over- box office and garnered an even worse F band was,” she told her son John after see- room dialogue is made up, as is the nature of Halloween weekend where the horror sequel whelmed, giving the film a modest B CinemaScore. ing the film, he said. the relationship between the two lawyers. “Jigsaw” topped all releases despite an underper- CinemaScore. The Miles Teller PTSD drama “Thank You For The question of looks aside, what movie- The movie takes other factual liberties: a forming debut. The eighth “Saw” film landed at But that rating still easily surpassed the D- Your Service,” directed by “American Sniper” goers get in “Marshall” is a film faithful to court scene that opens the movie happened No. 1 with $16.3 million in North American ticket minus grade that greeted Clooney’s latest direc- writer Jason Hall, also opened weakly with $3.7 the facts and to the man, according to those after, not before the Spell case. In the movie, sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That torial effort. Despite debuting on more than million in 2,054 theaters for DreamWorks and who have studied the real-life Connecticut Spell’s socialite employer claims she was came in below industry expectations and sug- 2,000 screens, “Suburbicon” managed just $2.8 Universal. Business overall was slow ahead of rape case from 1941 and those who knew raped twice; accounts from the time have gested the revived “Saw” franchise isn’t connect- million, making it one of Paramount Pictures’ Halloween. Weekend ticket sales totaled about Marshall. He died in 1993 at age 84. Michael her saying it was three times. ing with audiences the way other recent horror worst performing wide-releases ever and marking $75 million, according to comScore, making it the Koskoff, a lawyer who wrote the screenplay Friedman was slender and athletic, not entries have. a new box-office low for Clooney as a director second-lowest grossing frame of the year in the with his son, says he began with the infor- the heavyset character played by Josh Gad. In its first release since the Harvey Weinstein and star Matt Damon. US and Canada. But overseas, where “Thor: mation he had about the case, then filled in Friedman’s daughter Lauren, who was also scandal began unfolding, the beleaguered “Obviously we are disappointed in these Ragnarok” began its worldwide rollout, was a dif- the gaps. involved in the movie, said one thing the film Weinstein Co. feebly released a horror sequel of results which we don’t feel are indicative of the ferent story. The Disney release grossed $107.6 In early 1941, Marshall was in Bridgeport, doesn’t show was that the night of the ver- its own: “Amityville: The Awakening.” It played in quality and message of his original movie,” said million internationally from about 52 percent of Connecticut, to represent Joseph Spell, a dict, her parents had left town because of an unusual Saturday-only engagement on just 10 Kyle Davies, president of distribution for the marketplace. The “Thor” sequel opens in black chauffeur accused by his wealthy, death threats. But more is accurate than not screens, and grossed a mere $742. “Jigsaw” dis- Paramount. “Suburbicon,” which debuted at the North America, China and elsewhere on Friday. white employer of rape. Because Marshall in the film, including even details about tributor Lionsgate also claimed the No. 2 spot Venice Film Festival, was crafted as a fusion Yet a release in China couldn’t rescue the box- was an out-of-state attorney, he enlisted the minor characters. “Some of the things you with $10 million in the second week of release for between an old Joel and Ethan Coen home-inva- office disappointment “Blade Runner 2049.” help of a local lawyer, Sam Friedman, who would think are not true were true,” Koskoff “Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween.” sion comedy script and a more pointed satire of Denis Villeneuve’s film, starring Ryan Gosling and was white and had expertise in trying civil said, referencing a point in the movie where Made for about $10 million, “Jigsaw” comes racism in a 1959 suburb. Critics didn’t respond Harrison Ford, added $16.6 million overseas this cases, not criminal ones. Friedman, in the courtroom, demonstrates seven years after the notoriously gruesome fran- well to the mix, either; its Rotten Tomatoes score weekend, including its China debut. The film, dis- The movie, which came out this month, being gagged. chise - famously dubbed “torture porn” - bid is just 26 percent fresh. tributed by Warner Bros. in North America and shows a 32-year-old Marshall, with one Details moviegoers learn about adieu with “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.” Critics Paramount paid $10 million for domestic distri- Sony internationally, has earned $223.4 million Supreme Court argument under his belt and Marshall’s life also are correct, including the weren’t happy to see its return, giving “Jigsaw” a bution rights for the Black Bear Pictures produc- globally in three weeks of release. — AP more than a decade before his victory in the fact that his first wife, Vivian “Buster” 39 percent Rotten Tomatoes score. The tion, made for about $25 million. The studio has landmark Brown v. Board of Education case Marshall, suffered multiple miscarriages Hollywood Reporter said the film “now feels like recently backed several divisive releases from that outlawed segregation in public schools. before her death from cancer in 1955. It Koskoff said there is “nothing particularly wasn’t until his second marriage, to Cecilia significant” about the case depicted in the Suyat, that he became a father. One of their movie, but it is representative of the legal two boys, John Marshall, reviewed multiple work Marshall was doing in the early 1940s drafts of the movie’s script and helped the on behalf of the NAACP: traveling around scriptwriters capture his dad. John Marshall the United States to defend black men said the film’s director, Reginald Hudlin, accused of crimes, and doing it at great per- called him half a dozen times asking whether sonal risk. certain details were right, down to whether his father smoked. The filmmakers faithfully captured his father’s sense of humor, his confidence and his mastery of the law, John Marshall said. University of Maryland law professor Larry Gibson, a Marshall biographer, agreed that the movie’s creators got how Marshall carried himself. “Life hung on him kind of loosely,” he said. Susan Low Bloch, a Georgetown professor who clerked for Marshall at the Supreme Court, said the movie captured the personality, sense of humor and thoroughness of the Marshall she knew. Moviegoers who linger in the theater through the credits will get to hear Marshall himself in a bit of old audio. He says in part: “You know, there are so many people, indeed my own sons at times, look at me with an expression on their face that they don’t believe what This Aug 22, 1958, file photo shows happened in the past.” — AP Thurgood Marshall outside the Supreme This image released by Lionsgate shows Laura Vandervoort This file image released by Paramount Pictures shows Julianne Moore, left, and Court in Washington. in the horror film, “Jigsaw.” — AP photos Matt Damon in a scene from “Suburbicon.” Established 1961 31 Lifestyle Fashion Tuesday, October 31, 2017 China Fashion Week

Models parade the creations from the “Aipark” collection by Yin Shanshan during China Fashion Week in Beijing. Models parade the creations from the “Taoloulan” collection by Tao Tao. — AFP photos China agency denies dead Russian model, 14, was overworked

he Chinese agency representing a “beautiful” 14-year- ESEE declined to give precise figures for how much the old Russian model who died after taking part in teenage model earned, but Fang denied reports it was as TShanghai Fashion Week yesterday denied allegations little as $8 a day. “We want to tell everybody the truth, that she was overworked and underpaid. The death of what we are thinking and what has happened, especially Vlada Dzyuba in a Chinese hospital on Friday shines a the Russian people, they lost one of their beautiful daugh- light on the murky world of western models in China, many ters,” said Zheng, adding most of Dzyuba’s assignments of whom are from the former Soviet Union and dream of lasted between four and eight hours a day and she had making a career in the notoriously cut-throat industry. regular time off. The teenager, who despite her youth was allowed under Chinese law to model, began feeling dizzy and started Worsening health being sick on Tuesday last week. She was taken to a Dzyuba, a brunette who weighed 58 kg (128 pounds) Shanghai hospital the next day but died on Friday from when she died, passed away less than two weeks before multiple organ failure after her condition quickly wors- her 15th birthday. ESEE said it had signed a three-month ened. English-language newspaper The Siberian Times contract with Dzyuba and her modeling agency in Russia. alleged that Dzyuba, from the city of Perm, died of menin- After Shanghai Fashion Week Dzyuba travelled to Yiwu, a gitis compounded by exhaustion following “a gruelling city south of Shanghai, but a model shoot was cancelled fashion show in Shanghai”. But ESEE Model Management because she began feeling unwell and she returned to vehemently denied that, pointing out that Shanghai Shanghai. Fashion Week ended on October 18 and she fell ill six days But with her health worsening, she was taken to hospi- later while on another assignment. tal and put in touch by telephone with Russian consular Johney Zheng, chairman of ESEE, said Dzyuba-who staff, while her family were also told that she was unwell. died without her family at her side because her mother The next day, according to ESEE, Dzyuba was moved to could not travel to China in time-had never complained of intensive care where she died the following morning. being overworked. ESEE reproduced a medical report ESEE, which said it has 20-30 international models in from Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai that gave the cause of Shanghai, said it had covered the medical expenses. The death as septicaemia, a type of bacterial blood poisoning. firm has its headquarters in Shanghai and also offices in “Our whole agency is in a very sad situation, Vlada was the nearby city of Hangzhou, Beijing, the eastern city of such a lovely girl and we worked with her for two years,” Xiamen and Hong Kong. “She was young, she was a very Zheng, dressed all in black, told a press conference. “We excitable girl, she liked to eat, she liked to eat chips, like a wish that she can have no pain in heaven.” Carrie Fang, teenager is supposed to do,” said Fang, her voice cracking the chief agent for ESEE who was at Dzyuba’s side when with emotion. — AFP Russian models take a rest outside a Beijing hotel after taking part in a fashion show during the China Fashion Week in she died, fought back tears and said the young Russian Beijing. — AP had been enjoying the two months she spent in China before her death. Established 1961 Lifestyle

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A snake representing Mexican culture is carried on a VW Beetle during a parade before the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City. — AFP Clowns bring laughter to traumatized Rohingya children

he Rohingya boys and girls shrieked with delight as the huge gathered crowd. Theatre groups in Bangladesh have a clowns juggled hoops and somersaulted, their red-nosed record of using “drama therapy” to lift spirits in the most Tantics provoking a sound rarely heard in the world’s depressing of circumstances. largest refugee camp-children’s laughter. The clowns have One troupe performed for the survivors of a factory col- been providing much-needed levity in the crowded lapse in 2013 that killed 1100 garment workers, while anoth- Bangladesh camps, where hundreds of thousands of trauma- er hosted shows in a small village in Bangladesh’s south that tized Rohingya children lost nearly 50 children in a spend long days in bleak tragic road accident. In the and difficult conditions. Rohingya camps, where Mohammad Noor lives many lie sick or injured with his mother and three Using ‘drama mourning the death of fam- Myanmar’s westernmost Rakhine State after their parents Rohingya are a reviled minority in Myanmar and are siblings in a makeshift ily and loss of their home- were murdered and communities driven out by state-sanc- denied citizenship, education and opportunity by the shanty in the teeming therapy’ to lands, laughter is sorely tioned violence. Charities on the ground say children are in Buddhist-majority government that regards them as illegal Kutupalong camp, where a needed. “Our sole aim is to dire need of emotional and mental support after enduring outsiders. Most have enjoyed few if any luxuries in their lack of food and water lift spirits bring laughter to the such trauma on their difficult journeys. “I am sure our show lives-making the circus performance all the more thrilling. means a constant struggle Rohingya,” said Rina Akter will live in their memory for some time. It won’t erase their “We hardly have any fun,” said Nesar Ahmed, 38. Even dur- to survive. The 10-year- Putul, a veteran acrobat scars, but it will boost their confidence,” said Faker Ali, an ing major Islamic festivals and weddings, there is little in the old fled Myanmar last and the lone female mem- acrobat who has worked in drama therapy for more than two way of entertainment, he added. month after his father was ber of the group. “Making decades. But it’s not just the children who benefit from the “Life in Arakan (Rakhine) is grim,” Khairul Amin, a 63- killed in brutal violence by people laugh is a tough job, visiting performers. year-old grandfather, told AFP as a boisterous crowd, the army that the United especially for those who Among the spectators who flocked to a recent show young and old, jostled to meet the visiting clowns. “There is Nations has likened to ethnic cleansing. The impromptu cir- lost their parents in the conflict.” were countless elderly Rohingya refugees, clapping and no television and no cinema or theatre. And there is this cus in a dusty clearing is a welcome distraction from the smiling as the acrobats whirred rings and bars. Life has constant fear you’ll be killed or arrested by the military.” horror at home. Laughter as medicine been a grueling quest to survive for older generations of Seated for the show with her youngest child on her lap, “It is hilarious. I have never seen anything like it. My The UN estimates 60 percent of the more than 600,000 the stateless Muslim minority. Many have escaped past Rehana smiled and laughed, saying: “Never in my life have I friends and I were just laughing and laughing,” he told AFP, refugees to arrive in Bangladesh since late August are chil- pogroms in Rakhine and lost family and friends in bitter have seen such fun.” — AFP as a quartet of painted clowns performed skits before a dren. Many crossed the border alone from their villages in cycles of ethnic violence.

Rohingya refugee children watching the Bangladeshi theatre group “Drama Therapy” at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. — AFP photos