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Just kiddin’, seriously In my view Farewell, my friend Goodbye Kuwait, you will be missed!

By Sahar Moussa By Priyanka Saligram

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have been working with Kuwait Times for approxi- people and things she loves - like her Sony Ericsson aying goodbye is always the hardest thing. After mately nine years now. Out of this, I have spent six phone for instance. I also know that squash is her spending six years in Kuwait, the time has come for me Iyears with my friend and colleague who is set to favorite sport, she is obsessed with gold and has a nice to go back to Bangalore in India. While I feel over- leave this week to get married in India next month. sense of humor. I know that she loves wearing jeans and S whelmed with sorrow at the thought of leaving a place I When she joined as an intern, it didn’t occur to me that definitely surprises everyone when she wears feminine have grown to love more than home, I am also very excited she was going to be my co-worker and friend and sit clothes during special occasions. to be marrying the love of my life next month. I can think of next to me for six years, sharing my space and so much She is the first person I see when I enter the office, many things - big and small - that I adore in Kuwait and have more. slouching in her chair and greeting me with a smile taken for granted over time. But here are some things that This young, tall, athletic girl with long, black curls, which is something I will miss a lot. A lot of people I’m going to think of often and miss terribly no matter cute dimples and a tomboyish walk and I spent more might come and go in our lives without leaving any where I head next in my life. time at work than we probably spent with our own fam- impact, but our long conversations, debates, rare fights 1. Kuwait Times: Kuwait means Kuwait Times newspaper ilies. Now she is ready to leave and saying goodbye to over silly misunderstandings, laughs and tears are to me. I have been with Kuwait Times for almost six years her might be a hard thing to do but I cannot be any- things I won’t forget. They always say that people come now (it was my first job) and I can honestly say that I don’t thing but thrilled and happy for the new life that is into our lives for a reason. I think the reason that we met feel like I have gone to “work” a single day. Being a part of a awaiting her. was to support and be there for each other and despite newsroom can be one of the most exciting experiences For some reason, I have always considered her my our differences, we always managed to meet in the mid- thanks to the dynamic work environment but throw in a younger sister. This may be because when she came, dle. great boss, a bunch of fun-loving colleagues with a wacky she was young and naive, and didn’t stop asking me for My last bit of advice to her is to always be happy, sense of humor and you’re back in college once again. advice. I really had the pleasure of watching her grow cherish the things she has, face her new life with an 2. Avenues Mall: Shopping at Avenues Mall is a lovely into a confident, strong woman in every aspect of her open heart and positivity and enjoy discovering the hid- experience and almost feels therapeutic. It’s easy to spend a life. You might think I’m exaggerating but I’m not, den treasures of the future with open arms. whole day lazing around doing nothing except shopping because these words are my genuine feelings. And Pinky, it is an honor to attend your wedding and taking a break from time to time to check out a new We learned a lot from each other over the past few soon and be there for you as your older sister. milkshake or cupcake. The place has a wonderful sense of years and shared a lot of secrets too. I know that she is a Congratulations and best of luck! space (except on weekends or public holidays when all of vegetarian, her favorite color is pink, she has a strong Kuwait descends on it). It’s easy to find a mall anywhere, but will and forbids herself from eating sweets, which she in my opinion, there will always be only one Avenues. loves. I know that a compliment makes her blush, she 3. The weather: Most people don’t like Kuwait’s weather has amazing taste in music and is very loyal towards because it can get too hot or too cold but I really like it because more often than not, it’s dry! Germs are known to breed in humid conditions, especially during the monsoon season. Since Kuwait doesn’t really have rain or snowfall, Local Spotlight incidents of viral flu or cold are few and far between. 4. Car watching: Kuwait has the coolest cars. Much has been said and written about the traffic issue here but I find it enjoyable to be stuck in a jam sometimes where I have the time to admire a swanky sports car on my left, a glamorous Ana Kuwaiti! sedan on my right and a rare monster truck in front. You could have the most expensive car in the world, but ironical- ly, traffic jams are a great leveler because everyone moves at a snail’s pace and the speedometer has no value at that By Muna Al-Fuzai point! 5. Different nationalities: I think one of the best things about Kuwait is that you get to mingle with different people from various nationalities and learn more about their cul- tures and how they do things back home. It’s also a great [email protected] chance to learn their language and I know that if I ever decide to travel to Lebanon or the North Pole (just saying!), I’ll know someone who would know someone there to host n a dispute, many words can come out and among ers to follow. me and ensure I have a great time. This is where networking them are “Ana Kuwaiti! Ana Kuwaiti!” If you ever come Another incident happened recently that was carried begins, methinks. across this phrase by a Kuwaiti, don’t panic - he or she by the local media. When a Kuwaiti woman was stopped I 6. Arabic food: I’m a big fan of falafel, hummus, tabouleh is trying to scare you. This is a common way to intimidate by the police because she was wanted on a legal case, she and khubs, and dates with tahina sauce is stuff that dreams others, especially expats and less-fortunate Kuwaitis. It refused to enter the police vehicle, saying “Ana Kuwaiti”, are made of. Just thinking of warak enab makes me drool shows how some people, especially the youth, utter this insisting that she is above the law! She was stopped for term in public to confirm their superiority in front of oth- driving a car which she allegedly rented and never took like a St Bernard and is a celebration ever complete without ers. The hidden meaning is that I’m above the law and you back to the rental office, so they filed a case against her. the sweet-smelling and even better-tasting kanafa? can do nothing to me. The fact that she is a Kuwaiti is irrelevant. And yet she 7. My gym: I’ve spent every morning these few years It is the ugly translation of a very racist term because fights over her identity as a shield to protect her from working out religiously at a local popular gym and made being a Kuwaiti means nothing when you break the law. obeying police orders. Eventually, they had no other some wonderful friends in the bargain. My weekends and Who cares if you are a Kuwaiti or not? You will not share choice but to escort her in her own vehicle! public holidays have all been about squash and sweating it your life’s benefits with others and they will get nothing When you travel to a country like Germany or Japan for out and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. out of your identity. In fact, as a Kuwaiti citizen, this should example, you don’t find anyone who says “Watch out, I’m Everybody knows that working in Kuwait translates to hav- imply that you are a role model for others. so and so” because it is in no one’s interest. Some parents ing time to pursue anything you want and if someone is Unfortunately, we are not. Here is how things go here. are to be blamed for the way they bring up their kids - as serious about their health and fitness, this is the most ideal When an expat comes to Kuwait for the first time, he better than others - and some national songs enhance this place to do it. Of course, having a million lip-smacking expects to follow the rules, but when he lives here for a kind of thinking and acts. They disregard the fact that you places to eat from doesn’t quite help your case but you can’t while and sees how easily rules are broken while driving or gain people’s respect by your actions and not origin. give the ubiquitous “I don’t have time to work out” excuse going about his daily business by wasta, then he also when you live here. starts to adopt the same attitude into his life here as an Kuwait and its people have been very kind to me and easy way to fix things. Whose fault is it? I believe it is ours treated me like family with a lot of love and affection (ham- as citizens because we have not been true models for oth- dulillah), and this is something I will carry in my heart forever. Local FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Conspiracy Theories Calamari calagari ...

By Badrya Darwish

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friend of mine invited me to lunch and God bless him on the phone asking the clerk in the store: Do you her she’s one of those people who travel a lot to have carigari? ASpain so naturally she’s influenced by the Spanish So she had him pass the phone once more and she cuisine. So she invited me to try one of their famous dish- explained to the Filipina that she wanted calamari and so es, paella. the Filipina burst out laughing at the ‘carigari’? It didn’t go so smooth with her to get the ingredients This was the hilarious part of my paella dish. So never for the famous paella. Paella, to my knowledge, contains forget calamari and caligari and Calamari went home. many season including shrimp, fish, mussels, calamari. So Either way, I enjoyed my lunch. she sent her driver to Sultan Center to get some calamari. As I was telling my American editor the story, she said I Unfortunately her driver did not speak English so she have a worse story even than this. She was taking her asked him on the phone to pass her to any clerk in the daughter to the doctor and the nurse was very impressed store so that she could ask them for guidance. Her luck by the daughter’s bright blue eyes. The nurse said she’s came that her driver chose an Egyptian salesman in Sultan so beautiful, she looks just like a cat. Of course my Center who also did not speak English. So when she spoke American friend wasn’t so pleased. It took me some time to him and asked if he had calamari, the poor guy pan- to convince her that when we say in the Arab world that icked an instead of telling her he didn’t understand, said if a woman looks like a cat, she is beautiful. that “Calamari finished her shift and went home.” I’m sure all of you have experienced miscommunica- Of course, my friend broke out laughing and asked tions of language. They can create situations that are her driver to go to someone who spoke English. Find a either hilarious or otherwise. Filipino in the store and they would know what is Have a nice weekend. calamari. KUWAIT: With the temperature finally coming down, more people Her driver panicked again, and the woman could hear Badryad are using their free time on the weekend for more outdoor activities like fishing, jogging etc. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Local FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Serenity by the sea

By Nawara Fattahova Serenity, the organizer of these sessions, said she is happy to bring this new activity oga lovers and all those who like to to Kuwait. She is a triathlete, and SUP yoga try new activities will definitely enjoy was a new experience for her. “We are three Ythe new ‘Stand Up Paddle’ yoga ses- partners - me, Nada and Saleh, who sions held at Messila Beach. It was a great approached Maya in Dubai and arranged experience to exercise on a board facing her working with us in Kuwait. Besides the water in the summer breeze. Maya, we will have other instructors for SUP Currently, two sessions are held on the yoga, so we will be able to provide classes weekends. Each class can take five partici- during weekdays too,” she pointed out. pants at a time, as there are five boats avail- The Kuwait Seas Sport Club (KSSC) provid- able. More classes will be available soon ed the place for SUP Serenity to hold the during the weekdays. Each class is an hour classes. “I appreciate the support of KSSC, long - 10 minutes workout on the beach who always encourages Kuwaiti youth to and 50 minutes exercising in the sea. The start new activities to be able to participate sessions are held at 8:00 am and 9:00 am. in the future in world competitions. Also dur- As the weather is still hot, the classes ing summer in Kuwait, we don’t see many start early. “When the weather gets cooler, activities, so we aimed to start something we may hold the sessions at 10 or 11 am. new,” explained Khudhairi. SUP yoga classes Today was our second class, and we plan to are open for all ages from both genders. offer this joyful activity till December. It’s a great exercise for various muscles and it demands extra balance on the boat. The participant uses more skills during this kind of yoga, which is more fun than the classic one. You can feel the breeze touching the skin and see the water instead of the mat. It’s a great way to start the week,” instructor Maya Wimbury told Kuwait Times. Maya is based in Dubai, and she comes every weekend to conduct the sessions. “I first learnt SUP yoga in Hong Kong, where I also started holding my first classes. Then I moved to Dubai, and I wasn’t able to offer this training for long, as there are not many places to do it, as they keep changing the rules there. I’m glad to be here and give the classes, and I hope more people will join,” she added. “This activity provides peace of mind and also makes the participant use various moves that strengthens different muscles. Also, this kind of yoga is combined with paddling, which strengthens the mus- cles of the arms and is fun,” concluded Maya. Ragad Al-Khudhairi, co-owner of SUO KUWAIT: The ‘Stand Up Paddle’ yoga session in process on Mesila beach.

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KUWAIT: A mix of residential and commercial buildings in Salmiya.

The king of apartments

By Ben Garcia 100,” he said. But if you are a bit generous to the haris, KUWAIT: The haris is called the king of the the story will be different. For some families, building for many reasons. They are envied Harises call the term ‘arboon’, which is actually since the rent is high, they will rent a flat but for their free accommodation, but mostly for will sublet rooms to other people. Josie for the huge amounts of money they make from a bribe. ‘Arboon’ in Arabic means reservation example has been renting her flat for years their tenants. Raj was a haris for over five fee, but apparently this is not the meaning of now in Maidan Hawally, but sublets two years in Salmiya. An Indian from Kerala, Raj rooms of her flat. “I know what the haris maintained several buildings owned by a arboon for some harises in Kuwait. wants - money - so whenever my tenants Kuwaiti, where he learned some of the ugly leave, I immediately inform the haris about tricks practiced by some harises in Kuwait. “I it and I pay him a bribe like KD 10 so he is was told by some of my colleagues here that they like is for their flats to be fully occu- be dragged by the police out of the build- aware that I am accepting a new tenant. if some tenants are not desirable enough - pied,” Raj added. ing, so we left and looked for a new place,” From the new tenant, the haris will also get probably not paying on time - they can easily Kuwait Times spoke to a Filipino family he said. an extra amount for garbage or sometimes pressure them and within a month, they will that has shifted four times in one year. An Indian family in Khaitan also experi- just to allow him to place a satellite dish. I vacate the building,” he said. “One trick was Gerronimo earns little more than KD 200 a enced harassment from the haris when they know this is a bribe, but this is the way it to make their life miserable by switching on month, which is frequently late, while his were asked an additional amount in rent. now works in Kuwait, so we have to deal and off their electricity,” he said. wife earns the same, but their rent eats up “The building is only for families, but there with it,” she said. According to Raj, this way they make half of their combined salary. Once when he were Filipinos using some flats with multiple Raj, the former haris, also reveals ugly money accepting new tenants. Nowadays, had a family emergency back in the people in it. One day the owner found that secrets of some buildings in Kuwait alleged- reserving a flat will cost a new tenant from Philippines, he skipped paying a month’s he was paying extra for their water and elec- ly being used for prostitution and some KD 80-KD 250 or even more depending on rent and was forced by the haris to vacate tricity, so they told us to pay an additional rented by Kuwaitis for their mistresses. “The the location and place you want. Harises call the flat. “We left because we were asked to KD 40 in rent. We were obliged to pay locals will rent a flat for their other women. the term ‘arboon’, which is actually a bribe. do so - I had to borrow money from a friend because we don’t want to leave the place The haris knows about the activities but ‘Arboon’ in Arabic means reservation fee, but to pay and get a new place,” he said. “The since we are close to the school of my kids, they are quiet about it because they are apparently this is not the meaning of arboon new haris demanded KD 80 as ‘arboon’ and but after a few months, the haris told us to being bribed,” he said. for some harises in Kuwait. “If we see a ten- we had to pay KD 240 in rent for the new pay an additional KD 20 again. I refused to While some dirty tricks are being played ant really likes the flat, we ask them to pay place. Again I asked my company to spare pay this amount. But we experienced sever- by some harris in Kuwait, there are prevail- more. They will readily pay because probably money so I could pay that amount. But after al forms of harassment from the haris, like ing laws regarding the issues mentioned. their job is closer or the school of their chil- only five months, I got a notice that the rent switching off our water and electricity. I Concerned individuals can certainly file case dren is down the corner. The amount paid will increase to KD 300 - the owner personal- remember two nights we didn’t have AC in at the Ministry of Justice; in fact, many are will be mine alone because the only concern ly came and told us that if we can pay, we the middle of summer, so we looked for resorting to paying or settling their house of my boss is the rent of the flat, and what shall stay, if not, we’ll have to vacate or we’ll another place, only to pay arboon of KD rental problems in the local court. Local8 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 PM supports stability News in brief in Egypt and Yemen Car jacking in Saad Al Abdallah ‘Kuwait ready to do whatever it can for Egyptian brothers’ KUWAIT: Two thieves stole a car in Saad Al-Abdallah area. After choking the driver, the two men threw him on the street NEW YORK: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber with the files that were discussed and to exchange high-level before escaping. The driver told his sponsor that the incident Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah has expressed his support to the visits to strengthen the good relations between Kuwait and took place while he was on his way to the store. Detectives are security and stability of Egypt and Iraq, during a meeting with Iraq,” noted Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled. working on the case. the two countries’ leaders in New York late on Wednesday, a HH the Prime Minister also met with Egyptian President senior government official said. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the first between the two leaders. “We HH the Prime Minister held an “important” meeting with reaffirmed Kuwait’s keenness on security and stability of Enraged lover attempts break-in his Iraqi counterpart Haidar Al-Abadi, the first since the forma- Egypt, and to back the (Egyptian) economy,” said Sheikh A citizen failed to storm the flat of his former girlfriend in tion of the new Iraqi government, First Deputy Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khaled. The Kuwaiti side informed Al-Sisi of their par- Maidan Hawally, as she ignored his strongly worded mes- and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah ticipation in the investment conference next Feburary, which sages, he then escaped. The woman called the police say- said in a statement to KUNA and Kuwait TV late last night. was called by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he said. “Kuwait ing that the man was trying to break into her flat because “It was important for us to re-affirm Kuwait’s support to the is ready to do whatever it can for its Egyptian brothers”. HH of problems between the two. The woman gave the security and stability of Yemen, and to work together to build the Prime Minister is representing HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah detectives information on the subject and they are cur- on what we have achieved over the past years,” he added. Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in the UN General Assembly’s rently looking for him. Prime Minister Al-Abadi expressed “sincere desire to pursue (UNGA) 69th session.

Electronics thief caught Nugra detectives caught an Egyptian trying to sell stolen goods worth KD 5,000. He was caught red handed trying to sell the items in an electronics store in Nugra. Police found 19 fingerprint systems, three recorders and three far-ranged sur- veillance cameras.

Car stolen in front of home An Iranian expat saw someone steal his own car which was parked in front of his house in Sabahiya. The Iranian said he didn’t know the thief, but he saw the man get in and drive away. Police are working on the case.

Drug traffickers arrested KUWAIT: (From left) The Chairman of ICBC Jiang Jianqing, Abdulaziz Al-Khaldi, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Narcotics authorities arrested two Bangladeshis with nearly China Saleh Al-Thuwaikh and the Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait Cui Jianchun. 750 grams of marijuana, 250 grams of ICE and 100 grams heroin. The arrest was made in their residence and the two Commercial Bank of China confessed to planning to sell the drugs. opens first Kuwait branch Traffic campaign issues violations Hawally traffic department issued 120 violations including 35 direct, 85 indirect citations for use of phone while driv- By Nawara Fattahova Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak service to cater to customers’ require- ing, driving the wrong way and not carrying a driver’s Al-Sabah in June this year brought the ments. At the same time, the branch will license during a recent crackdown. Along with these viola- KUWAIT: The first Chinese bank to bilateral economic and trade relation- continue the cooperation with other tions, 20 vehicles were impounded. launch a branch in Kuwait, the Industrial ship to a new level. The increasingly fre- institutions in Middle East to upgrade its and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) quent trade, the construction of the New comprehensive service capability. announced the opening of its Kuwaiti Silk Road Economic Zone, railway, 21st From his side Abdulaziz Al-Khaldi, Illegal dairy plant shut branch on Wednesday, during the gala century Ocean Silk Road, and personnel Undersecretary of the Ministry of ceremony held at the Jumeira Beach exchange between the two countries Commerce said that launching ICBC is Ahmadi Municipality with the help of police discovered an Hotel. ICBC Kuwait Branch is not only the has laid solid foundation for China- great opportunity to strengthen the rela- unlicensed dairy in Juwaihel desert area Wednesday morning. first but also the only Chinese bank to Kuwait financial cooperation, and also tions between the two countries. “I think More than 500 liters of milk and 100 kilos of butter were operate in Kuwait, marking a historic raised higher demand for cross-border that having this bank in the Kuwaiti mar- destroyed in addition to additives that sped up the fermenta- start of Chinese bank’s presence in the banking services,” he added. “The newly ket will definitely help the businessmen. tion process. The plant was immediately shut down. country. Meanwhile, ICBC Kuwait Branch established ICBC Kuwait Branch will play This launching also encourages busi- is the fourth branch of ICBC in the a role of a financial bridge between nessmen in both Kuwait and China to Middle East region after Dubai, Abu Kuwait and China, and strive to be an establish more economic partnerships in Girl escapes kidnapping attempt Dhabi and Doha. excellent bank that enjoys satisfaction by Kuwait. This is great chance for the An under-age girl escaped an attempt by a man in a sports The opening ceremony was attended local government, confidence by the Chinese investors to invest in Kuwait and car to kidnap her in Sabah Al-Salem. Her mother reported by the under-secretary of the Ministry of public, recognition by customers and exploit the free tax law,” he pointed out. the incident to police. A security source said the 17 year Commerce and Industry of Kuwait good reputation in the society,” Jianqing ICBC is the largest commercial bank in old was returning from her friend’s house nearby when Abdulaziz Al-Khaldi, the Chairman of further said. China and currently maintains the lead- ICBC Jiang Jianqing, the Chinese ICBC is not only the first Chinese bank ing position among global peers in the driver harassed her, then when she ignored him he Ambassador to Kuwait Cui Jianchun, the to set up operating branch In the Middle terms of deposits, loans, total assets, tier got out of the car and tried to push her into the car to take Kuwaiti Ambassador to China Saleh Al- East, but also the first Chinese bank in one capital, operating income and brand her by force, so she screamed, and that made him escape. Thuwaikh, and other officials and VIP this region in terms of total number of value. Nowadays ICBC has an extensive guests. branches and total assets. The establish- network of 331 overseas branches and Chairman Jiang Jianqing said at the ment of ICBC Kuwait Branch is a new affiliates covering 40 countries and Addict handed to police ceremony that Kuwait and China are dif- milestone of ICBC’s globalization strate- regions across Asia, Africa, Latin America, A citizen handed his addict son to police after an episode in ferentiated in resource endowment yet gy by further optimizing the bank’s net- North America, Europe and Australia. which the boy destroyed the furniture in his home. The Jahra are complementary to each other in work in Middle East. ICBC Kuwait Branch And its share-holding in the Standard resident took his son by force to the police station and told economy, thus the two countries have has the full banking license offering Bank in South Africa enables the bank to them he was under the influence of drugs. He will be handed great potential for bilateral cooperation. high-quality financial products and indirectly extend our presence to 18 over to narcotics authorities for further action. “The successful visit to China by Kuwait’s diversified, comprehensive financial African countries. Local FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 9 Court declines rule on TV owner citizenship No authority to pass verdict on such cases

By B Ishaq weeks later, it revoked the citizenship of Shemmari citizenship breached article 10 other people including well known 27 of the constitution because he KUWAIT: The administrative court yes- cleric Nabil Al-Awadhi. secured his nationality by birth and so it terday declined to rule in a petition chal- The court said that defense lawyer cannot be withdrawn. But the court said lenging the government for revoking Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie last month sub- that it is not authorized under the law the citizenship of Ahmad Jabr Al- mitted a petition on behalf of Shemmari to tackle nationality cases and accord- Shemmari, the owner of pro-opposition and attached a large number of docu- ingly it cannot deal with the lawsuit television station and newspaper, saying ments with it. Based on the lawsuit, it even if the government action violated it is not authorized to rule on such cases. was indicated that Shemmari’s father the law and the constitution. According to a copy of the decision, obtained Kuwaiti citizenship in 1962 Subaie however said that the court’s the court said that a decree issued in and that Shemmari was born three decision failed to address his main argu- 1981 for the establishment of the years later and thus was automatically ment that the court of cassation had in administrative court banned the court granted the nationality based on his the past tackled citizenship cases like from dealing with citizenship issues father. The lawsuit added that this one. The lawyer said that he is con- because it is a sovereign issue. The Shemmari obtained his nationality cer- fident that the court of appeals and the council of ministers in July revoked the tificate in 1981 and 10 years later he got court of cassation will overturn the citizenship of Shemmari and all his fam- married with a Kuwaiti woman and had administrative court decision and look ily members in addition to former a number of children. into the lawsuit. Subaie is expected to Islamist MP Abdullah Al-Barghash, his In his arguments, AL-Subaie stressed challenge the decision before the court brothers, sister and children. Three that the government action in revoking of appeals soon. Preps conclude for military exercise hosted by Kuwait KUWAIT: Preparatory meetings for the upcoming military exer- cise codenamed Eagle Resolve 2015, to be hosted by Kuwait next March and with the participation of 30 Arab and foreign countries, ended yesterday after five days of the exercise. Lt Col Mohammad Al-Kandari, chief of Kuwait’s joint military opera- tions and head of the committee tasked with preparing the exercise, said member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) together with friendly countries will participate in the exercise which is aimed at developing their defense cooper- ation. Eagle Resolve 2015 will be the 13th edition of the military exercise since its introduction in Bahrain 14 years ago. Lt Colonel Al-Kandari said that more than 30 Arab and foreign countries are expected to participate and that the US, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, France, Italy, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan and Argentina have already confirmed their participation. The Head of the US Military Cooperation Office Gen Rick Matson said the military exercise will strengthen mutual rela- tions and boost military capabilities between participating nations while Britain’s representative in the exercise looks for- ward to a prosperous and successful training. The military exer- cise will be held on Kuwaiti soil, territorial waters as well as a host of territories designed for training across GCC countries. Kuwait believes that hosting the exercise is a strategic boost to Fire in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh the country both regionally and internationally. The exercise is geared towards exchanging expertise in managing joint mili- By Hanan Al-Saadoun tary operations in coordination with the US Central Command. Egypt could also be joining the countries that will participate in KUWAIT: A fire broke out in a house in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh the military exercise after it concluded a bilateral agreement on KUWAIT: An Egyptian expat was arrested with 200 area. The fire was said to have started in the bachelors’ room military training with Kuwait on the sidelines of the 8th meeting kilograms of dead animal meat while he was on his and was put out quickly. No injuries were reported. of the Joint Kuwaiti-Egyptian Military Committee. —KUNA way to stores in Hawally. Youth theater festival comes to a close

KUWAIT: The annually-held 10th The event’s chief organizer Abdullah Minister Sheikh Salman, for his sponsor- logue are two of the main pillars of the Theatre Days for Youth local festival Abdul Rasool began by congratulating ship, and Sheikh Mansour, for his sup- credibility of an artist, as they represent came to a close in a ceremony, attended the young participants on their “ideas, port of the event. Renowned local actor the integrity and inner emotions of the by the Information Minister and Minister presentation and works” which he said Mohammad Al-Mansour remarked that artist and it is these deep meanings of Youth at Dasma Theatre on were characterized by “sincerity and the theatre represents “a message of that express the inner feelings and Wednesday. In addition to the Minister, total commitment to theatrical princi- enlightenment for the public.” emotions of a human being”. On this, Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- ple.” “Youth are the ones who carry the “Theatre performers are creative and he urged youngsters to maintain this Humoud Al-Sabah, the event was true meaning of the role of the theatre mature,” he said, adding that “the com- honesty in their works - which he attended by the Chairman and Director in building the society, and maintain the plete components of a play represent defined as “theatrical principles.” At the General of the Public Authority for Youth legacy of pioneers of the movement and true integration through the produc- conclusion of the event, awards were and Sports Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al- its disciplines”. The organizing commit- tion of a ‘complete play’ that raises handed out by Sheikh Ahmad to the Ahmad Al-Sabah. tee was thanked for its role, along with everyone’s expectations. Text and dia- winning troupes. —KUNA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Hamas and Hajj ‘dream’ Cyprus cruise Fatah agree on nears liner rescues return of unity for world’s 300 refugees govt12 in Gaza Muslims13 15

Major Mariam Al-Mansouri (right), the first female pilot to join the Emirates Air Forces, walking alongside her comrades at an ira force base. Mansouri, 35, “led the squadron” of UAE fighter jets that participated in raids targeting Islamic State jihadists in Syria as part of the US-led campaign against extremists. — AFP (See Page 12) US-led strikes hit IS oil sites in Syria US, Saudi, Emirati warplanes broaden anti-jihadists war

DAMASCUS: The United States and its Arab allies bombed oil facilities day. The strikes against the oil refineries killed 14 jihadists but also left that had created terror havens. The IS group has seized large parts of operated by jihadists in Syria to choke off their funding, killing more five civilians dead, including a child, according to the Britain-based Iraq and Syria, declaring a Muslim “caliphate” imposing its harsh inter- than a dozen militants and several civilians. France meanwhile monitoring group. It said foreigners from Europe, Arab nations, pretation of Islamic law. launched new air strikes yesterday in neighboring Iraq and pledged Chechnya and Turkey made up the vast majority of the more than 140 It has committed widespread atrocities including mass execu- more support for Syrian opposition forces, upping its fight against jihadists killed since the US-led raids began in Syria. tions of captured Iraqi soldiers, forced conversions of non-Muslims extremists following the beheading of a French hostage. The latest strikes came as US President Barack Obama urged lead- and the on-camera beheadings of Western hostages including two American, Saudi and Emirati warplanes hit oil installations in east- ers gathered at the UN General Assembly to join the coalition and US journalists and a British aid worker. Late on Wednesday an IS- ern Syria controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group, broadening the convinced the Security Council to back a resolution aimed at stem- linked group in Algeria which had demanded France halt its partici- campaign they launched this week beyond military targets to eco- ming the flow of foreign fighters joining IS. Belgium and The pation in strikes in Iraq posted video footage of the execution of an nomic assets. IS, which has imposed its brutal rule over large parts of Netherlands committed warplanes to Iraq and Britain said its parlia- abducted Frenchman, Herve Gourdel. President Francois Hollande Syria and Iraq, has been using such small-scale mobile refineries to ment would vote today on following suit. pledged “determination, composure and vigilance” in the face of generate up to $2 million (1.6 million euros) in revenues per day, “The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to jihadi threats. The Philippines said it would not negotiate with a mili- Washington said. dismantle this network of death,” Obama told the UN. tant group threatening to behead one of two German hostages The Pentagon meanwhile it will investigate reports that civilians “Today I ask the world to join in this effort.” Iranian President unless a huge ransom is paid and Berlin halts support for the cam- were killed in US-led air strikes in Syria this week but insisted the raids Hassan Rouhani said the West was responsible for “strategic blunders” paign against IS. —AFP were carried out with precision. The US military said its bombing raids this week were carefully calibrated to avoid civilian casualties and touted the role of coalition partners from Saudi Arabia and the United Plot to attack US, Paris subways: Iraqi PM Arab Emirates in the latest strikes carried out on Wednesday. “We don’t have credible operational reports” that civilians were NEW YORK: Iraq’s prime minister said yesterday his country’s Baghdad that there were arrests of a few elements and there killed in three days of air strikes, spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby intelligence operation has uncovered a plot for an attack on were networks from inside Iraq to have attacks ... on metros of told reporters. But “we are taking a look at that,” Kirby said, describing subway systems in the United States and Paris. Prime Minister Paris and US,” Al-Abadi said, speaking in English. “They are not the media reports and video as “allegations.” Haider Al-Abadi said he was told of the plot by Baghdad, and Iraqis. Some of them are French, some of them are Americans. Recounting the details of Wednesday’s round of strikes, Kirby said that it was the work of foreign fighters of the Islamic State But they are in Iraq.” He made the remarks at a meeting with Saudi and UAE warplanes played the leading role in the attack, devot- group in Iraq. There was no immediate comment from journalists on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders at ing more planes and dumping more bomb tonnage than American Washington or Paris, and Al-Abadi’s assertion could not be the United Nations General Assembly. forces. Ten warplanes from the two Arab states flew with six US air- independently confirmed. The Islamic State extremists’ blitz in Iraq and Syria prompt- craft in Wednesday’s raids on oil refineries held by the IS group. And Asked if the attacks were imminent, he said, “I’m not sure.” ed the United State to launch airstrikes in Iraq last month, to aid 80 percent of the bomb tonnage was delivered by the Saudi and UAE Asked if the attacks had been thwarted, he said, “No.” Al-Abadi Kurdish forces who were battling the militants and to protect planes, Kirby said. The strikes against 12 targets hit the majority of IS- said the United States had been alerted, and that the suspects religious minorities. In addition to the brutality Islamic State has held refineries but the extremist group still controlled several other included extremists from the United States and France who visited on the people in Iraq and Syria, western leaders have refineries as well, he said. Jihadists seized and set fire to a cement fac- were fighting for the Islamic State group in Iraq. voiced concern that the group would move its terror opera- tory in Syria owned by French construction giant Lafarge near the “Today, while I’m here I’m receiving accurate reports from tions outside the region. — AP Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yester-

International FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

British Muslim group hailed by Obama battles for hearts and minds

LONDON: The head of a British Muslim said in an interview that he himself was to help remove the suffering, not be part tion about Middle East politics. group praised by US President Barack once won over by extremist ideology-like of the suffering.” Trying to convince young Muslims not Obama is an ex-jihadist in a gritty London the estimated 500 British jihadists to go and fight is a daily struggle for neighborhood who tries to sway young believed to be fighting in IS group ranks ‘No compassion’ Qadir, who during a visit by AFP was minds against radicalism by whatever in Iraq and Syria. “I was involved with vio- Active Change’s video, which has meeting with a father whose son had means possible-including Twitter. lent extremist groups linked to Al-Qaeda been watched more than 170,000 times gone to Syria. Qadir said the man’s son In his speech at the United Nations, and the Taliban in 2001 and 2002 and I on YouTube, begins with a young had been “brainwashed” and the boy’s Obama highlighted the Active Change travelled to go to Afghanistan in 2002 — woman in a colourful headscarf saying: mother had subsequently left the father Foundation’s popular #notinmyname a similar situation we face now with our “ISIS do not represent Islam or any “because she now believes that he’s not a social media campaign which includes a young men,” he said. Muslim.” It follows with responses from a good enough Muslim”. video of young Muslims speaking out “I have a full understanding of what it variety of young people including one Qadir said Islamic State fighters had against the Islamic State group. feels like, what the drivers are, but I have man in a suit and tie saying, “Because shown themselves to be “barbarians”, “Look at the young British Muslims also an understanding of what the reali- what you’re doing is inhumane,” and adding: “The people who are doing this who responded to terrorist propaganda ties are when you arrive on the ground,” another man in a T-shirt saying, “Because in the name of Islam, they are represent- by starting the Not in My Name cam- said Qadir, who set up his anti-extremism they’re killing innocent people.” “Because ing themselves and their own objective.” paign declaring: ‘ISIL is hiding behind a group in 2003. “The reality is that you are you have no compassion,” Qadir himself But he admitted they had been suc- false Islam,’” Obama said Wednesday in given a different picture when you are says. The video was shot in the associa- cessful at persuading angry young comments seeking to highlight growing here and when you arrive there... What I tion’s offices next to a mosque in Muslims to join them. “They are attract- opposition to Islamic State (IS) jihadists saw there is the people I wanted to help Walthamstow in northeast London ing young minds that are angry. They are from within the Muslim community. were actually part of the problem,” he where young people regularly meet up attracting young Muslim men who want The foundation’s director Hanif Qadir said, referring to Afghanistan. “I wanted for a game of pool or a heated conversa- to get involved to kill,” he said. — AFP

Female UAE pilot ‘leads strikes’ on jihadists

DUBAI: A female pilot has led United Arab Emirates air strikes that targeted Islamic State jihadists in Syria as part of the US- led campaign against extremists. Major Mariam Al-Mansouri, 35, “led the squadron” of UAE fighter jets that participated in raids Tuesday against the extremists, an Emirati source familiar with the matter said. The source said a “coalition Western officer was surprised when she called in to refuel from aerial tanker.” The UAE did not confirm officially that a woman was among the pilots that conducted the raids. Mansouri is report- edly the UAE’s first female jet fighter pilot. She graduated from Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa bin Zayed Air College in 2007 and is veteran pilot of F-16 warplanes. Washington has said the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan, took part in the strikes on the Islamic State, which has seized swathes of Iraq and northern Syria. Saudi Arabia released photographs Wednesday of eight airmen it said were involved in Tuesday’s US-led operations, with the Saudi press saying one of the pilots was a son of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz. Mansouri’s participation in the raid stirred a debate on social media networks, with supporters posting her picture on Twitter and commending her service. GAZA CITY: A Palestinian boy sits inside the ruins of his family house which was destroyed during the 50 days of conflict “She is taking part in crushing the dens of Daesh,” wrote between Israel and Hamas, in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, on Wednesday. — AFP one woman on Twitter, using an Arabic acronym for IS. But angry Islamist sympathisers denounced what they said was Mansouri’s “criminal” act. In a past interview with Abu Dhabi Hamas and Fatah agree on television, Mansouri spoke of equality between men and women. “Men and women have the right to practice any pro- fession, with dedication and determination... to reach the return of unity govt in Gaza highest positions possible to serve this homeland,” she said. The UAE is a largely conservative Gulf state, where women cit- izens wear the traditional Islamic head cover and loose black abaya (cloak). But authorities in the oil-rich state have made Agreement ahead of talks with Israel efforts to put pioneering women forward and many women CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Hamas The talks were crucial for internal in densely populated Gaza, leaving more have assumed top government positions. — AFP and Fatah said they reached an agree- Palestinian divisions to be set aside and to than 100,000 Palestinians homeless in the ment yesterday for the return of their uni- agree on a unified strategy during talks long term, according to the United ty government in Gaza ahead of crucial with Israeli negotiators in October. Nations. A reconciliation deal was inked negotiations with Israel next month. The October talks, under Egyptian in April to end years of bitter rivalry The Palestinian rivals had set up a uni- mediation, are aimed at reaching a between the Fatah faction of Abbas, that ty government of independents in June durable ceasefire between Israel and the dominates the West Bank-based but it never took hold, with Palestinian Palestinians after the 50-day war between Palestinian Authority, and the Islamist president Mahmud Abbas accusing Israel and Hamas. The war killed more movement Hamas, which has ruled Gaza Hamas of running a “parallel” administra- than 2,140 Palestinians, most of them for the past seven years. Following the tion as de facto ruler in the Gaza Strip. civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side. It end- deal, the rivals set up a government of Hamas in turn accused Abbas’s ed on August 26 when the two sides independents, the first united administra- Palestinian Authority, headquartered in agreed in Cairo on a ceasefire and to hold tion in seven years, which took office in Ramallah, of not paying its 45,000 future talks on Palestinian demands to early June. employees in Gaza. end an eight-year blockade of Gaza and But sharp divisions quickly emerged “Fatah and Hamas have reached a exchange prisoners in Israeli jails for the over the control of Gaza, where the comprehensive agreement for the unity remains of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza. Hamas government formally stepped government to return to the Gaza Strip,” Hamas and Fatah talks were also cru- down on June 2 but remained the de fac- Jibril Rajoub of Fatah said. Senior Hamas cial ahead of an international donor con- to power. Abbas accused Hamas of oper- official Mussa Abu Marzuk and Fatah’s ference on October 12, to be hosted by ating a “shadow government” and threat- People stand around the new experimental aircraft “Solar head of delegation, Azzam Al-Ahmad, Cairo, on the reconstruction of Gaza. The ened to end the unity deal unless the Impulse 2” during the first exit for solar generator tests at confirmed that an agreement had been July-August war caused a vast amount of Islamists allow the new government to the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland. — AP reached after two days of talks in Cairo. destruction to homes and infrastructure function properly there. — AFP International FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Hajj ‘dream’ nears for world’s Muslims ‘This is like a beautiful dream, I will never forget these moments’

RIYADH: From war-ravaged Iraq and Syria to Ebola-hit Nigeria and dozens of other nations, pilgrims are converging on Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, the world’s largest Muslim gathering. From early October, close to two million believers will congregate to follow the 1,400-year-old tradition of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). “This is like a beautiful dream. I will never forget these moments,” Iraqi pilgrim Kazim Ibrahim, 69, said after reaching the holy city of Makkah. While Ibrahim and other pilgrims are united by a common religious bond, this year’s Hajj comes with Muslim nations drawn together by widespread revulsion toward the Islamic State group jihadists. Saudi Arabia and four other Arab states have joined Washington in launching air strikes in Syria against the militants, who have declared a “caliphate” straddling Iraq and Syria and committed brutal atrocities. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has branded IS “evil” and said the jihadists have distorted the image of Islam and Muslims. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s holiest sites, where it is waging a different kind of battle to protect pilgrims from two deadly viruses, Ebola and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). The deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has infected more than 6,200 people in west Africa and killed nearly half of them, BEIRUT: Lebanese Muslims sit near their luggage at Beirut International Airport as they head to perform the annual hajj pil- according to the World Health Organization (WHO). grimage in Saudi Arabia yesterday. — AFP Saudi Arabia is the country hardest hit by MERS, which last week- end claimed the life of a 27-year-old Saudi man in Taif, about 80 kilo- In another first, the command centre ordered 15 “isolation rooms” kidney and other chronic diseases not to make the pilgrimage. metres (50 miles) east of Makkah. This brought to 317 the number of established at the airport, Sindi said. Fewer than 30 people, including “But they come... The kingdom gives them instructions but MERS deaths in Saudi Arabia since it first appeared in September some with severe respiratory symptoms and unfortunately in some countries they are not following the 2012. Nigerian pilgrims with fever, were sent to isolation as a precaution instructions.” and then released, Sindi told AFP in a telephone interview. There have The biggest challenge is posed by pilgrims who do not wash ‘Isolation rooms’ been no suspected cases of Ebola or MERS among pilgrims, he said. hands or take other preventative health measures as advised, Sindi Research by Saudi scientists indicates that camels play a role in the Saudi Arabia has not allowed pilgrims to come from three West said. “We are worried” about the spread of infection, Sindi said, but as transmission of the virus to humans. In June the WHO said a surge in African nations hardest-hit by Ebola-Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. long as his team continues to follow WHO standards “we can prevent MERS cases had receded but countries should remain vigilant ahead Every hajj visitor is given a health-screening card which must be filled the spread of any disease” including Ebola. Marred by stampedes, of pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia. With such a large group of people con- in. It asks whether the traveller has been to an Ebola-infected country fires and other deadly incidents in the past, the hajj has in recent years centrated in a limited area for a short time, “the Hajj season consti- or had contact with an Ebola patient. been almost incident-free thanks to multi-billion-dollar safety projects tutes a factor increasing the likelihood of outbreaks or epidemics of “As of now, we received around 500,000 or 600,000 cards,” said by the authorities. infectious diseases,” acting Health Minister Adel Fakieh said in a state- Sindi, describing the pilgrims as “very cooperative, all of them.” Sindi Saudi media said 85,000 security and civil defense officers will be ment. The ministry has created a “command and control centre” to heads a team of 640 doctors, technicians and other medical staff at on duty for the hajj, which lasts five days. It is among the five pillars of direct its Hajj health operation. the airport. Among their tools are thermal cameras that detect high Islam and all capable Muslims must perform the Hajj at least once, the The centre assigned eight emergency consultant doctors to stand body temperatures. high point of their religious life. After landing in Jeddah many grateful by for treatment of newly landed pilgrims’ heart attacks and other crit- pilgrims prostrate themselves in a gesture of thanks to God, while ical illnesses, said Fouad Hussain Sindi, the medical director at King Instructions not followed some of the women ululate in a noisier expression of happiness that Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah. The ministry advised elderly people and those with heart, their dream has been realized. — AFP

International15 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Cyprus cruise liner rescues 300 refugees NICOSIA: A cruise liner returning from ment added. Aerial photographs released seas. State radio said two police patrol was in danger of sinking. Greece was pressed into action in rough by the ministry showed a large fishing boats had been dispatched and the cruise The director of Limassol General seas off Cyprus yesterday to rescue some trawler overloaded with people in heavy liner diverted after a warning that the boat Hospital, Chrysostomos Andronikou, said 300 people thought to be Syrian refugees medical teams would be at the port to whose trawler had run into trouble. The receive the migrants and to hospitalize refugees, mostly women and children, any needing treatment. were loaded aboard the Salamis Filoxenia The interior ministry said the migrants cruise liner and were in “good health”, would be bused to the Pournara army according to George Ppouro, the harbor camp in the small town of master in the Cypriot port of Limassol. Kokkinotrimithia, about 10 kilometers (six The vessel was expected to dock at miles) west of the capital Nicosia. around 9:00 pm (1800 GMT) in Limassol, In August 2012, seven Syrians, includ- where the interior ministry said the ing two children, drowned when the boat migrants would be given health checks. they were sailing to Cyprus to escape the The liner had been en route from the conflict in their homeland sank off the Greek island of Syros to Limassol when it island’s northern coast. received a call to assist in the rescue oper- Cyprus is located about 100 kilometers ation. The trawler sent out a distress signal (62 miles) from the shores of war-ravaged at 6:25 am (0325 GMT) when it was about Syria. The Mediterranean has been 50 nautical miles southwest of the tourist plagued by shipwrecks in recent months hub of Paphos, the Cypriot government involving migrants trying to reach Europe said. “On board the ship are about 300 from Africa and the Middle East. In one of people (mostly women and children) that the deadliest wrecks on record, a ship car- require recovery and rescue because of A handout image released by the Cyprus Defense Ministry yesterday shows a rying some 500 migrants including bad weather conditions in the area,” the large fishing trawler overloaded with people in the Mediterranean Sea. Syrians, Palestinians and Egyptians-was defense ministry said after the operation Cypriot emergency services launched a rescue mission yesterday for about deliberately sunk by traffickers off Malta was launched. “The ship probably comes 300 people thought to be Syrian refugees — mostly women and children — on earlier this month, leaving just 10 known from Syria with civilian refugees,” a state- a boat stricken in rough seas, the government said. — AFP survivors. — AFP Ukraine to shut border with Russia, seek EU membership Security measures designed to halt arms smuggling

KIEV: President Petro Poroshenko yester- day ordered a temporary closure of Ukraine’s porous border with Russia and voiced plans to apply for EU membership in 2020 as part of his ex-Soviet country’s Westward shift. A senior Ukrainian security source said that the border security meas- KIEV: A sign indicating the distance between Donetsk and ures was designed to halt the alleged Kiev (777km) stands in front of the headquarters of the smuggling of weapons into the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in east and would enter into force “soon”. The Donetsk yesterday. — AFP two steps underscore the extent of Kiev’s alienation from its historic master and deal Italy fights mafia with new a further blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dream of folding Ukraine strategy: Banish sons into a Kremlin-led alliance that could rival NATO and the European Union. LOCRI, Italy: First Italy fought its mafia mobsters by confis- The plunge in the neighbors’ relations cating their wealth. Now judges are taking away something comes in the wake of the February ouster more precious: their sons. Riccardo Cordi’, a shy 18-year-old in Kiev of a Moscow-backed leader and the scion of one of Italy’s most notorious mob families, is a pio- Kremlin’s subsequent annexation of Crimea and alleged backing of a bloody neer in a new strategy to fight the mafia by exiling crime clan UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center) and Ukraine Prime Minister pro-Russian revolt. But the announce- sons from their homes and families. Riccardo is the first of Arseniy Yatsenyuk wait for official to change a flag before they pose for a pho- ments also threaten to further devastate about 20 sons sent into a kind of rehab away from the mob to after their bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 69th Session of the UN Ukraine’s imploding economy by halting by juvenile courts in the southern region of Calabria, home to General Assembly at the United Nations in New York yesterday. — AFP the dangerous ‘ndrangheta syndicate. trade between the mutually dependent By age 16, Riccardo seemed destined to go the way of his nations and increasing the likelihood of bership in the European Union in six years,” charges and dismisses NATO satellite father, a reputed boss gunned down in a turf war, and three Russia adopting retaliatory steps. his press service said. imagery purporting to show its troops in elder brothers in prison on mafia-related convictions. Their A decree published on the presidential Ukraine as fabrications designed to back photos line the wall of the fortress-like Cordi’ home in website ordered the government “to set- ‘Very serious decision’ the military alliance’s expansion toward Calabria, seen in an exclusive visit by The Associated Press, in tle... the issue of temporarily closing check- Ukraine has already infuriated Russia by its border. a testimony to the rule of blood in the powerful ‘ndrangheta. points on Ukraine’s state border with the announcing plans to seek future NATO A senior security source said the border But when Riccardo was charged with attempted theft and Russian Federation to cars, sea and pedes- membership-a step the Kremlin views as a closure instructions were originally drafted damage to a police car, judge Roberto Di Bella followed up trian traffic.” It added that the 2,000-kilo- direct national security threat. Poroshenko by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense his acquittal with a startling order: The ‘ndrangheta family metre (1,200-mile) land frontier with reaffirmed those intentions yesterday by Council in order to limit future cross-bor- Ukraine’s giant northeastern neighbor may prince would be sent away to Sicily until he turned 18. tweeting that he had just “instructed the der travel to rail service and passenger be closed “to other forms of traffic” if nec- Di Bella had sent Riccardo’s three brothers to prison and cabinet minister to revoke Ukraine’s non- flights. “Air and rail traffic would be sub- essary. The presidency said Poroshenko wanted to spare the last son a similar fate. He cited legal pro- aligned (nation) status”. stantially easier to control than automobile also told a meeting of judges that Ukraine visions that allowed courts to remove minors from families There was no immediate reaction to and pedestrian traffic,” the source said. would make a formal EU membership bid Poroshenko’s various decisions from “This is a very serious social decision, but incapable of properly raising them. Riccardo’s mother in 2020 that was made possible by this Moscow. Both Kiev and its Western allies one we were forced to adopt.” A seethed, but there was nothing she could do. year’s signing of a landmark political and accuse Russia of sending elite forces and spokesman for Ukraine’s state border serv- “If you don’t like it, we’ll take him away anyway,” the judge economic association pact. Poroshenko heavy weapons such as surface-to-air mis- ice said no additional security measures told her. Riccardo was placed in a Sicilian facility for troubled said his “Strategy 2020” plan “envisions 60 siles into eastern Ukraine to help the sep- had yet been taken and that cars were still youths where nobody cared that he was a Cordi’. Rules were reforms and social programs whose adop- aratist uprising that pro-Kremlin gunmen allowed to pass along the dozens of border rigid, including no going out at night. —AP tion will prepare Ukraine to apply for mem- launched in April. Russia denies the crossings linking the two countries. —AFP International16 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 US to undertake review of Wal-Mart shooting

CINCINNATI: The US Justice Department has begun its latest review of police department practices following a grand jury’s decision not to indict officers in the fatal shooting of a man at a Wal-Mart in Ohio. The Justice Department has opened civil rights investigations into the practices of some 20 police departments in the past five years, with the latest in Ferguson, Missouri, which dealt with days of disturbances after police shot an unarmed black man. The federal government said its investigation of the Ohio shooting will be “thorough and independent” and it would take appropriate action if evidence was found that civil rights laws were broken. A special Greene County grand jury in Xenia on Wednesday opted not to issue any indictments in the Aug. 5 death of 22-year- old John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier said. Crawford was black. An emergency caller report- ed Crawford was waving what appeared to be a rifle in the store. Police said he didn’t obey commands to put down what turned out to be an air rifle taken from a shelf. Crawford’s family, which called for a federal investigation to see if race was a factor, said it was “incomprehensible” that police were not indicted. Crawford was black and the officers are white. “The Crawford family is extremely disappointed, disgusted and confused,” the family said in a statement. “They are heartbro- ken that justice was not done in the tragic death of their only son.” Family members are planning a news conference Thursday NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama speaks alongside US National Security Adviser Susan Rice (right), US Secretary morning at their attorney’s office in Dayton “to specifically of State John Kerry (second left) and US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power (left) during a meeting with Ethiopian address what’s next in this case.” Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in New York yesterday. — AFP Store surveillance video shown during the prosecutor’s announcement shows Crawford walking in the aisles while apparently talking on a mobile phone. Crawford picks up the air rifle - which Piepmeier said had apparently been taken out of a Suspect held, but UVa box and left on a shelf - and continues walking through the store. A short time later, police arrive and Crawford is shot twice while holding the air rifle. Beavercreek’s per capita income of $37,987 is well above the state average. About 2.5 percent of residents are student still missing black, well below the state average of 12.5 percent. The Crawford family accused Piepmeier and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine of not attempting to get an indictment. They also said Fugitive waiting to be extradited to Virginia the store surveillance tape proves that Crawford’s death was not justified. Prosecutor Stacey DeGraffenreid, who assisted Piepmeier, said Crawford was shot twice by one officer, once in GALVESTON, Texas: A man charged with ahead of us and that long road includes the elbow and once in the side under the rib area slightly from abducting a missing University of Virginia finding Hannah Graham.” the front to the back. DeGraffenreid says Crawford was shot while sophomore has been captured in Texas and The search is focusing on rural and holding the rifle, then dropped it, falling to the floor. She says no is awaiting extradition - but there is still no wooded areas around Charlottesville, other shots were fired. “This was a real tragedy,” DeGraffenreid sign of the student, authorities said. Longo said Thursday on NBC’s “Today” said in a telephone interview. But she said that based on what Yesterday morning, Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr, show. According to authorities, Graham information the officers had when they entered the Wal-Mart, 32, appeared briefly before a Galveston met friends at a restaurant for dinner Sept they were doing what they were trained to do. —AP County judge via a video link from jail to 12 before stopping by two parties at off- hear the charges against him. In Texas, he’s campus housing units. Officials said she left charged with being a fugitive from justice the second party alone and sent a text mes- and with giving false information to an offi- sage to a friend saying she was lost. Immigrant who cer, in addition to a count of abduction Surveillance videos showed her walking, with intent to defile in Virginia. Judge Mark and at some points running, past a pub and hid in US church Henry set bond at $1,500 on the false infor- a service station and then onto the mation charge but held Matthew without Downtown Mall, a seven-block pedestrian gains support bond on the fugitive count. Matthew - in a strip where police believe she entered a bar dark green jumpsuit, with his hands cuffed with Matthew. The video that has been PORTLAND, Oregon: As an immigrant activist’s stay at a - signed several papers and told Henry that publicly released does not show the two church to avoid deportation nears a week, he’s gaining sup- before his arrest in Texas he was not out on GALVESTON: This undated image pro- entering the bar together. porters, including the mayor of Portland, and the church bond on any other charges. vided by the Galveston County The university said Matthew had been plans a rally for him. In recent years, as immigration reform Matthew asked the judge a few short Sheriffís Office shows a booking photo employed at the University of Virginia has stalled in Washington, churches around the US have questions and expressed concern that his of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. Matthew Jr Medical Center since Aug. 12, 2012, as a offered sanctuary to immigrants who lack legal status clothes were taken from him when he was was arrested on a beach in the Texas patient technician in the operating room. because federal officials generally don’t make arrests at sensi- booked into the Galveston County jail. “I community of Gilchrist by Galveston The charges against the 6-foot-2, 270- tive locations such as churches. should be able to have some kind of cloth- County Sheriff’s authorities, pound Matthew surprised Dave Hansen, Francisco Aguirre, 35, who came to the US from El ing,” he said. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy who first met him about 11 years ago when Salvador nearly two decades ago, is facing removal to his Henry told him that his jumpsuit was Longo announced. — AP Hansen served as an assistant pastor at an native country because of an old drug conviction and a previ- sufficient clothing and that his personal area church. ous deportation. items would be returned later. After the Police received a call reporting a suspi- “I always thought he was a gentle giant, Aguirre - who has two children who are US citizens and is appearance, Henry told KPRC-TV that he cious person and a responding deputy just a nice guy,” Hansen said. “He seemed now the coordinator of a Portland nonprofit that runs a day expected Matthew would be extradited to found a man who had pitched a tent on the genuine with his faith and spirituality. ... I labor center - disputes the criminal prosecution on drug-deal- Virginia within a day or two. Officials have beach with his car parked nearby, the don’t see him doing this at all, but that’s ing charges 15 years ago and says he was innocent. He has not released any details about an extradi- Galveston County Daily News reported. usually the case, I guess.” vowed to remain at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland tion. Matthew was arrested on Wednesday Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset Hansen said he’s only kept up with until he’s able to resolve his immigration case. “I’m a part of afternoon on a beach in the sparsely popu- told the newspaper that a check of the car’s Matthew through Facebook but ran into this community, and this is where I belong,” Aguirre said. lated community of Gilchrist by Galveston plates revealed it was the vehicle sought in him at the university’s medical center with- Portland-area churches and local leaders support Aguirre, County Sheriff’s authorities, Charlottesville connection to the case. Authorities were in the last year. He said the soft-spoken pointing to his contributions during the past decade as a Police Chief Timothy Longo said. The cap- trying to get a warrant to search the car, he Matthew greeted him in an elevator with a labor and immigrant rights’ organizer and a family man. ture came less than a full day after police added. high-five. Matthew attended Liberty “Francisco Aguirre has been a community leader in Portland announced they had probable cause to In Charlottesville, police say an intense University from 2000 to 2002, said officials and an important voice on issues of equity and immigrant arrest Matthew on charges of abduction search for Graham continues. “This case is with the Lynchburg school founded by the rights ... I believe Francisco should remain in the United with intent to defile Hannah Graham, an nowhere near over,” Longo told a news late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The school’s athletics States, and in Portland, until his case can reach a humane 18-year-old sophomore who went missing conference late Wednesday. “We have a website listed him as a defensive lineman conclusion,” Mayor Charlie Hales said in a statement. —AP on Sept. 13 in Charlottesville. person in custody, but there’s a long road on the football team. —AP International FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 17 Briton on death row shot in Pakistan prison ISLAMABAD: A 70-year-old Scottish man sentenced to death in Pakistan for committing blasphemy was shot and wounded in prison yesterday, officials said, and was being treated in hospital. Mohammad Asghar was convicted in January for claiming to be a prophet of Islam, moving British Prime Minister David Cameron to say he was “deeply concerned” about the issue. Asghar, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in Britain in 2010, had declared his ‘prophethood’ in court and included a reference to it on his business card, a government prosecutor said at the time of his tri- al. Abdul Majeed, a police official at the Saddar police station in Rawalpindi said: “A prison official in his early twenties transported an illegal weapon inside the prison this morning and shot an inmate.” Majeed added that the accused was in custody and would face charges for attempted murder and possession of an illegal weapon. A doctor at the hospital where Asghar was first brought said: “One patient was brought here who had been shot from the back and the bullet has crossed his body affecting his ribs and lungs.” “He is out of danger now,” he added. The British High Commission in Islamabad-the de facto embassy- confirmed the prison shooting of a national and said it was provid- ing consular assistance. The attack took place around 8:30 am (0330 GMT), a member of his legal team told AFP. ISLAMABAD: Pakistani students shout slogans during a protest against the police outside their college in Islamabad. Islamabad’s students are growing frustrated with tens of thousands of armed police who have put Family pleas their education on hold by converting schools into makeshift barracks, as a protest movement outside parlia- It is unclear what led to the attack, but blasphemy is an extremely ment enters its second month. —AFP sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the population is Muslim and insulting the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) can carry the death penalty. Even unproven allegations can provoke a violent response. In 2012, a young Christian girl was forced to flee to Canada India’s spacecraft beams after being accused of blasphemy, even though the charges were eventually thrown out. There have also been several cases where mobs have attacked the mentally ill. Asghar’s family in January urged the British government to intervene to bring him home, saying he back first Mars photos had attempted suicide in jail. They also said the allegations against Asghar stemmed from a property dispute with one of his tenants. India basks in glory as it joins super exclusive Mars club Last week, gunmen shot dead a university professor in Karachi known for his liberal views on Islam who had been labelled a “blas- BANGALORE: India’s spacecraft has beamed back its first photos “The Mars color camera on board started working soon after phemer” in a text message campaign. of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed Orbiter stabilized in the elliptical orbit of Mars and has taken a Adiyala jail also houses Mumtaz Qadri, the former bodyguard of with pride yesterday after winning Asia’s race to the Red Planet. dozen quality pictures of its surface and its surroundings,” Rao Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer whom he gunned down The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) uploaded one said. “The camera will also take images of the Red Planet’s two in 2011 over the politician’s call for the blasphemy laws to be of the photos to its Facebook page, showing an orange surface moons and beam them to our deep space network centre,” he reformed. Qadri was feted by a wide segment of the population with dark holes, taken from a height of 7,300 kilometers (4,536 added, referring to the base near the southern city of Bangalore. including many lawyers, while a mosque named in his honour was miles). ISRO also posted the photo on Twitter, with the caption “Health and other parameters of the spacecraft are fine and all recently built in the capital Islamabad. Though Asghar was on death “The view is nice up here”. The organization’s senior scientist V the essential functions are performing normally.” row, Pakistan has had a de facto moratorium on civilian hangings Koteswara Rao said the spacecraft, called the Mars Orbiter Mission, since 2008. Only one person has been executed since then, a soldier has taken a dozen photos and that everything was working well. Supremacy in Asia convicted by a court martial and hanged in November 2012. —AFP India became the first Asian country to reach Mars on Wednesday when the unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft entered the planet’s orbit after a 10-month journey, all on a shoestring budget. ‘First Pakistani The mission, which is designed to search for evidence of life on the planet, is a huge source of national pride for India as it com- in space’ petes with Asian rivals for success in space. India beat rival neighbor China, whose first attempt flopped in congratulates India 2011 despite the Asian superpower pouring billions of dollars into ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani explorer expected to become its program. At just $74 million, India’s mission cost less than the her country’s first person in space congratulated India yes- estimated $100 million budget of the sci-fi blockbuster “Gravity”. It terday on reaching Mars on its maiden attempt. India won also represents just a fraction of the cost of NASA’s $671 million the Asian space race to the Red Planet on Wednesday MAVEN spacecraft, which successfully began orbiting the fourth when its unmanned Mangalyaan successfully entered the planet from the sun on Sunday. Red Planet’s orbit after a 10-month journey on a budget of India now joins an elite club of the United States, Russia and just $74 million. Europe who can boast of reaching Mars. More than half of all mis- Despite having a space agency since 1961 Pakistan sions to the planet have ended in failure. No single nation had pre- has not yet launched a satellite into orbit. But Namira viously succeeded on its first go, although the European Space Salim, the first Pakistani explorer to reach both poles said Agency, which represents a consortium of countries, pulled off the India’s achievement had made the region proud. “The suc- feat at its first attempt. cess of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), Mangalyaan, is a Scientists presented the Mars photos yesterday to Prime giant leap for South Asia,” said Salim, who has booked a Minister Narendra Modi who was on hand in the command centre ticket on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space project to witness the achievement. “The success of our space program is planned for 2015. “I commend the Indian Space Research a shining symbol of what we are capable of as a nation,” a jubilant Modi said on Wednesday. Organization (ISRO), and all its scientists and researchers This image provided by the Indian Government for not only achieving this astronomical feat, but also for The mission’s success received front-page coverage in Indian achieving it in the most cost-effective manner.” Press Information Bureau shows what the agency newspapers yesterday, with the Hindustan Times declaring “MAR- Pakistan has not yet officially congratulated India. The says is one of the first images of the surface of Mars TIAN RACE WON” and the Times of India, “India enters super exclu- neighbors have fought three wars, two of them over the taken by India’s Mars Orbiter Mission satellite, yes- sive Mars club.” disputed territory of Kashmir. Relations between the two terday. The image was taken while the Martian Indians, from government ministers to office workers and crick- countries have taken a turn for the worse after Pakistan’s Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was about 7,300 kilome- eters poured onto Twitter to show their national pride, while top envoy met Kashmiri separatist leaders in August, with ters (4,536 miles) from the planet’s surface, accord- school students celebrated by eating traditional Indian sweets. “The space exploration arena is getting crowded and it is India responding by calling off talks between the coun- ing to the ISRO. It took at least 12 minutes for the tries’ foreign secretaries. —AFP important to be ahead of your competition,” the Hindustan Times digital data to reach Earth. —AP said in an editorial. —AFP International FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 18 Guam killer gets life for Japanese tourist attack HAGATNA, Guam: A Guam man who killed three Japanese tourists and wounded 11 more during a frenzied knife attack on the Pacific island was jailed for three life terms yesterday. Superior Court judge Anita Sukola said that Chad Ryan De Soto had shown no remorse over the brutal attack in February last year and would spend the rest of his life in jail without the prospect of parole. “In your own statement to the court your remorsefulness did not come out, you were more concentrating about mental ill- ness,” Sukola told the court. She said De Soto, who was convict- ed last month after a jury rejected his insanity plea, was likely to commit more crimes unless he was incarcerated. The 22-year old ploughed his car into a group of people who were enjoying an evening stroll in the tourist district of Tumon, and then leapt from the vehicle and attacked bystanders at ran- dom with a knife in each hand. All of the victims were Japanese, including an eight-month-old baby and three-year-old toddler, who both survived. The toddler’s mother Rie Sugiyama, 29, died as she desperately tried to shield her daughter from the knife- man. Another relative, 81-year-old Kazuko Uehara, was also killed. They had been in Guam for a family wedding. Hitoshi Yokota, 51, died from injuries sustained when De Soto’s car crashed into him. Sugiyama’s father Masao Uehara addressed the court during the sentencing hearing, recounting how “heaven turned to hell in one day”. Uehara, who was one of a number of relatives who signed a letter to the judge asking for the maximum penalty, told the court De Soto would have faced the death penalty had the crimes occurred in Japan. Sugiyama’s mother, Miho Uehara Tamara, said: “My family will never forgive the defendant.” De Soto’s father, Christopher, also addressed the sentencing hearing, saying he felt he had failed his son. “He was trying hard to remain faithful to God but he lost his battle,” he said. De Soto broke down sobbing in the GUAM: Chad DeSoto, in orange, showed no outward emotion as he is handed down three life sentences without dock when his father said he still loved him. De Soto had plead- the possibility of parole at the Superior Court of Guam in Hagatna, Guam, yesterday. —AP ed not guilty by reason of insanity to three counts of murder and 11 of attempted murder, but a jury convicted him after a seven- week trial that included two weeks of deliberations involving more than 100 witnesses. The deadly incident shocked Guam, a nation of about 180,000 people and known as an idyllic tropical US man’s N Korean prison destination. Tourism is a key industry for the US territory and Japanese make up about 80 percent of visitors. —AFP life: Digging, isolation

PYONGYANG, North Korea: An American and former US Secretary of State Hillary situation. Miller is one of three Americans China defends man recently sentenced by North Korea to Clinton. Miller then enclosed them in a let- detained in North Korea. Jeffrey Fowle, six years of hard labor says he is digging in ter he mailed to his family from the hotel. who was arrested in May for leaving a life sentence for fields eight hours a day and being kept in Bible at a sailor’s club, is expected to be isolation, but that so far his health isn’t Wild ambition tried in court soon. Kenneth Bae was sen- Uighur scholar deteriorating. Under close guard and with At Miller’s 90-minute trial, North tenced in 2013 to 15 years of hard labor. only enough time to respond to one ques- Korea’s Supreme Court said he tore up Last week, Robert King, the US special BEIJING: China’s state media released the first comprehensive report on tion, 24-year-old Matthew Miller spoke envoy for North Korean human rights evidence used to convict a prominent ethnic minority scholar of sepa- briefly to an AP Television News journalist issues, said Pyongyang has not accepted ratism and send him to prison for life, as top officials defended the harsh at a Pyongyang hotel, where he had been American offers to send a high-level sentence amid criticism abroad. In an account released a week after the brought to make a phone call to his family. envoy to seek release of the three men. closed-door trial, the official Xinhua News Agency said prosecutors had It was his first appearance since he was King said that freeing the detainees marshalled 210 pieces of evidence against Ilham Tohti, including a video convicted Sept. 14 of entering the country could provide a diplomatic opening in of one of his lectures in which he purportedly said that the restive west- illegally to commit espionage. ties between the two countries, but that ern Xinjiang region belongs to the Muslim Uighur people, not the “Prison life is eight hours of work per Washington would not give into Chinese majority Han. The report late Wednesday also quoted the schol- day. Mostly it’s been agriculture, like in the attempts to “extort” political gain from ar as telling his students “I am not Chinese because I am a Uighur. My dirt, digging around,” Miller said when the detentions. pride is that of greater Turkestan.” Xinhua reported that prosecutors also asked if he was in prison and if so what King would not specify whom the said the scholar publicized a fake opinion poll showing 12 percent of conditions were like. Obama administration was willing to Uighurs supported separating from China and that his students had tes- “Other than that, it’s isolation, no con- send. But Scott Snyder, senior fellow for tified that he had forced separatist teachings on them. tact with anyone. But I have been in good Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Defense lawyer Li Fangping disputed the evidence cited in the health, and no sickness or no hurts,” he Relations think tank, said he was told by Xinhua report and said some of it, including the quote about not being said, showing little emotion. Wearing a the administration that it has offered in Chinese, was not even presented during the trial’s two days of pro- prison-style gray uniform and cap, Miller recent weeks to send Glyn Davies, who ceedings. Regarding the poll, he said his client had only referred to was filmed sitting down at a phone booth leads US diplomacy on North Korea’s someone else’s survey. Foreign reporters were not allowed to attend at the hotel and pressing the buttons on a nuclear weapons program, and that the Beijing economics professor’s trial in Xinjiang, where he was phone while a North Korean guard stood Pyongyang had not responded favorably. accused of fomenting separatist unrest. He was sentenced Tuesday to behind him. Officials said Miller spoke to In 2009, North Korea detained two life in prison. Known to many as a moderate mediator between the his father, but the APTN journalist was not This image taken from video shows American journalists, Laura Ling and Uighur minority group and the ruling Han Chinese majority, Tohti’s allowed to hear the conversation. Miller Matthew Miller in North Korea, Euna Lee, who were later freed after for- harsh sentence drew condemnation from rights groups and some gov- does not have routine access to phone Wednesday. —AP mer US President Bill Clinton visited ernments abroad. President Barack Obama cited Ilham Tohti among calls home. Pyongyang. In 2011, former President several people rights groups call political prisoners and said they The Bakersfield, California, native his tourist visa at Pyongyang’s airport Jimmy Carter visited North Korea to win deserved to be freed. Some foreign media cited a comparison originally showed several letters he had written upon arrival on April 10 and admitted to the release of imprisoned American made by a Chinese microblogger equating Ilham Tohti with Nelson pleading for help from influential having the “wild ambition” of experienc- Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced Mandela, South Africa’s long-imprisoned civil rights activist and later Americans, including first lady Michelle ing prison life so that he could secretly to eight years of hard labor for crossing national leader. —AP Obama, US Secretary of State John Kerry investigate North Korea’s human rights illegally into the North from China. —AP FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 www.kuwaittimes.net

A May 1956 file photo shows French actress Brigitte Bardot posing with a parrot during the Cannes film festival. — AFP

Screen siren Brigitte Bardot turns 80 Page 21 Lifestyle FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Screen siren Brigitte Bardot A file photo taken in April 1959 shows French actress Brigitte Bardot posing in London where she has arrived to film ‘Babette s’en va-t-en guerre’ turns 80 (Babette Goes to War). — AFP photos

arefree sensuality oozed from every pore as Muslims and immigrants that have led to five con- wants, and that is what is so troubling.” Brigitte Bardot, who turns 80 on Sunday, victions for inciting racial hatred. At 80 she keeps Saint-Tropez, the quiet French fishing village Cmamboed her way to fame, leaving men herself busy with her animal rights activism that Bardot adored and where she still lives, mush- weak at the knees and drawing a generation of lib- through high-profile campaigns to save seals, ele- roomed into a jet-set hub. Bob Dylan is said to have erated young women in her wake. Half a century phants or stray dogs. She described retirement as written his very first song about Bardot as a teen, on, the big wispy hair and hourglass silhouette “dreadful” in a recent interview with AFP. “One gets and John Lennon is said to have suffered so bad immortalized by the 1950s sex symbol still inspire bored stiff. That is why people die of boredom,” she from jitters that he took LSD before meeting her. designers the world over, though the real-life said. But Bardot’s modern-day persona belies her Bardot’s fame saw contemporaries adopt her Bardot has long abandoned the limelight in favor fame as an icon for a free-thinking, free-loving style en masse, and the way she was hounded by of animal rights activism. “She was an idol for a young generation. Invited to meet then president paparazzi inspired Louis Malle’s film “Private Life”. generation of women,” said Marie-Dominique The Bardot style “remains widely copied,” said her Lelievre, author of a recent biography on “BB”, as biographer, who believes Kate Moss, Claudia Bardot became known. Schiffer, Kylie Minogue and Madonna all borrowed “She was monstrously famous, and the myth from her seductive wiles at one point or another. only grew bigger since she ended her career before Bardot refused to allow Madonna to adapt her she was even 40.” In 1956, Bardot set the screen memoirs for the big screen however, because the alight in “And God Created Woman”, shot by her star would not give up wearing fur. Her fashion then husband Roger Vadim and the best-known of legacy was on display again this month at Diane the 50-odd movies-many of them flops-of her short Von Furstenberg’s show in New York, complete career. The classic scene in which she dances an with blue-and-white striped fishermen’s tops, bal- impassioned Mambo in a flowing skirt slit to the lerina shoes, checks and bee-hives. waist brought onto the big screen a new level of These days Bardot shuns the fashion and film unbridled sexual energy — and quickly earned the worlds, and proudly refuses to resort to plastic sur- wrath of US censors. gery. “A myth? That is a word I have been stuck A December 17, 1971 file photo shows For defenders of the strict morals of the 1950s, with but which means nothing,” Bardot told the Bardot, with her babydoll face, pouty lips, hour- French actresses Brigitte Bardot and magazine Marie-Claire in 2010. Two years later glass figure and liberated attitude, was a threat. “A Claudia Cardinale, attending the Premiere however, she was asked in an interview which girl of her time, free of any sense of guilt, of any of the film ‘Les Petroleuses’ (The Legend of French actress could play her in a film. “No one. Not social taboo,” was how Vadim described her. Frenchie King), in Paris. one could do it. What do they lack? My personali- ty,” was the stinging reply. — AFP Lurch to far-right With age, Bardot has lurched to the far-right, increasingly prone to illiberal remarks on gays,

An April 8, 1976 file photo shows French former actress Brigitte Bardot stroking a baby seal in fecamp, northern France.

Charles De Gaulle, she turned up in pants and a jacket-unheard of in bourgeois French circles at the time. Bardot herself was raised in a traditional Catholic household-but her good-girl upbringing gave way well before 1968 to a “Bohemian” lifestyle that was to include four husbands, assort- ed lovers, and a dress code far from the sophistica- tion of Hollywood stars of the time. A December 9, 1992, file photo shows former French actress Brigitte Bardot flanked by her ‘Does what she wants’ adopted daughter Mylene de Muygdler, as A photo taken on December 16, 1965 “She goes barefoot, and turns her back on ele- A June 4, 1977 file photo shows French they leave the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in shows French actress Brigitte Bardot wav- gant grooming, jewels, perfumes, make-up, on all actress Brigitte Bardot attending the inter- Saint Tropez (South of France) for the starting ing as she boards a plane at Orly airport these tricks,” the French feminist icon Simone de national feline exhibition in Saint-Tropez, up of ‘A Christmas for the animals’. near Paris en route to New York. Beauvoir noted with approval. “She does what she southern France. Lifestyle FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Paris Fashion Week

Models wear creations by Indian fashion designer Manish Arora’s Spring/Summer 2015 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented in Paris, France yesterday. — AFP photos Lifestyle FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Russians urged to bin Western T-shirts in pro-Kremlin stunt ussians are being urged by a old Archil Beniya. pro-Kremlin group to trash The stunt seemed to score a hit RWestern T-shirts and put on with young Muscovites, who new ones flaunting anti-sanctions handed in more than 3,000 old T- slogans such as “We can get our shirts bearing slogans such as “I kicks without your Coca-Cola.” The love NY” on the first day, Monday, group has set up street exchange said Ksenia Melnikova, one of the points where Muscovites can hand organizers from fundraising group in old T-shirts with English logos Sodeistviye, or Cooperation. Two and get free T-shirts with belliger- construction firms paid to produce ently pro-Russian wording. “I just the 30,000 T-shirts, while a fashion want to show my support for my designer helped to create them, country as it is being treated Melnikova said on Wednesday. injustly by the West,” said student Russians have previously Sergei Seryogin after handing over flaunted their support for four old T-shirts decorated with President Vladimir Putin with T- the emblems of US states. shirts praising the Russian forces “We have to show that we live who annexed Crimea and even well without the West,” said Denis skimpy knickers saying “Vova, I’m Golovin, an accountant who had with you,” using a pet name for just pulled on a new T-shirt with the Kremlin leader. Successive the Coca-Cola slogan. Other slo- rounds of Western sanctions pun- gans riff unsubtly on Russia’s pow- ishing Moscow for its role in the erful missile capability. “Don’t Ukraine crisis have not dampened make my Iskanders laugh,” reads Russians’ support for Putin, who is one, while another says: “Topols still enjoying record approval rat- aren’t scared of sanctions.” “These ings. Experts caution, however, sanctions have sparked a new that the effects of reciprocal sanc- patriotic spirit. Russia needs to tions have not yet hit home with show its strength,” said 23-year- the Russians. — AFP Food FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Meals on the go Quick and healthy office lunches

e all have our office routines. We know exactly when the alarm will ring in the morning, how long the shower will take to get hot and how long it will take to beat the afternoon rush hour traffic. In all this hurry, most of us forget that solely having a cup of coffee with toast is not the most healthiest or filling of meal options’. To help out, we have created a handy list of easy to make and quick to prepare office lunches that almost anyone can make. No matter what your work timings, youíll always Whave a tasty meal waiting for you. Salami and Cream Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients • 1 teaspoon mustard • 2 slices rye bread • 2 ounces salami (about 6 slices), thinly sliced • 1/2 small bunch arugula, trimmed and washed • 1 tablespoon cream cheese

Preparation • Spread mustard on one slice of bread; top with salami and arugula. • Spread cream cheese on the other slice of bread; close sandwich. • Serve, or refrigerate, wrapped tightly in wax paper or plastic, up to overnight. Cut in half.

Three-Bean Pasta Salad

Ingredients • 6 ounces small pasta shells • 1 pound green beans, trimmed and cut into thirds • 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard • 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil • 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained • 5 stalks celery, thinly sliced

Preparation • In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta 3 minutes less than pack- age instructions. Add green beans and cook 3 minutes more. Drain and rinse with cold water. • In a medium bowl, combine mustard, vinegar, honey, and oil. Add pasta mixture, pinto beans, chickpeas, scallions, and celery; toss gently. Season with salt and pepper. Food FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Turkey Caesar Crisp Tuna-Cabbage Salad Sandwich

Ingredients • 1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise • 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice • 1 dash Worcestershire sauce • 2 slices multigrain bread • 1 ounce thinly sliced smoked turkey

Preparation • In a small bowl, combine Parmesan, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and Worcestershire sauce; season with salt and pepper. Spread on both bread slices. • Break lettuce into large pieces; layer half on 1 slice of bread. Top with turkey, remaining lettuce, and bread.

Ingredients • One 5-ounce can tuna, drained • 2 cups finely chopped green or red cabbage, Pasta Salad with Broccoli and Peanuts • 1/4 cup minced chives, from about 1/4 ounce chives • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise • 3 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt Ingredients • 1/2 pound whole-wheat bread Preparation • 2 pounds broccoli • Shred the tuna with a fork and mix thoroughly with the cabbage. • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil • Stir in the chives, mayonnaise, and yogurt. • 1/2 teaspoon red-pepper flakes • Taste and add salt and pepper to taste. Eat immediately or else refrig- • 1/4 cup rice vinegar erate for up to two days. • 3 tablespoons soy sauce • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped

Preparation • In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta until al dente according to package instructions. Drain, and rinse under cold water; set aside. • Meanwhile, trim 1 inch from the stem end of broccoli stalks. Using a vegetable peeler or paring knife, peel outer layer of stalks; thinly slice crosswise. Separate florets into bite-size pieces. • Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium. Add pepper flakes, broccoli, and 3/4 cup water; cover and cook until broccoli is crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Uncover and cook until liquid has evap- orated and broccoli is tender, 2 to 4 minutes. • In a large bowl, whisk together remaining 2 tablespoons oil, vinegar, peanut butter, and soy sauce until smooth. Add cooled pasta, broccoli, scallions, and peanuts; toss to combine. Serve immediate- ly, or refrigerate and serve chilled.

Green beans with tomato & feta Ingredients • 300g green beans, trimmed • 6 large tomatoes, roughly chopped • 100g feta, cubed • 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation • Boil a pan of water. Once boiling, add the beans and cook for 4 minutes until tender. • Drain the beans, and then mix with the tomato and feta. • Drizzle over the olive oil and season generously with black pepper. — www.marthastewart.com Travel FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 The cultural wonders of Arabia

World heritage sites in the Gulf

City of Tyre (Lebanon)

yre is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon juts out from the coast of the TMediterranean and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut. The name of the city means “rock” after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. Tyre is an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido). Today, it is the fourth With Kuwait placing the Kuwait Towers as a cultural nomination to the World largest city in Lebanon and houses one of the nation’s major ports with tourism being a major Cultural Heritage Committee, we wanted to look at other great cultural land- industry. The city has a number of ancient sites, marks in the region. The Arabian Peninsula has been a thriving civilization with including its Roman Hippodrome which was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in centuries of history embedded into the very land itself. Take a look at some of the 1979. Tyre was founded around 2750 BC accord- region’s most famous World Heritage sites. ing to Herodotus and was originally built as a walled city upon the mainland.

Madain Saleh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

adain Saleh, also called Al-Hijr or homes in the mountains, were punished by Hegra, is a pre-Islamic archaeologi- Allah for their practice of idol worship, Mcal site located in the Al-Ula sector, being struck by an earthquake and light- within the Al Madinah Region of Saudi ning blasts. Arabia. A majority of the vestiges date from Thus, the site has earned a reputation as the Nabatean kingdom (1st century CE).The a cursed place - an image which the nation- site constitutes the kingdom’s southern- al government is attempting to overcome most and largest settlement after Petra, its as it seeks to develop Madain Saleh for its capital. Traces of Lihyanite and Roman tourism potential. In 2008 UNESCO pro- occupation before and after the Nabatean claimed Madain Saleh as a site of patrimo- rule, respectively, can also be found. ny, becoming Saudi Arabia’s first World The Holy Quran places settlement of the Heritage Site. It was chosen for its well-pre- area by the Thamud people after Noah but served remains from late antiquity, especial- before Moses, which can be interpreted as ly the 131 rock-cut monumental tombs, the 3rd millennium BC. According to the with their elaborately ornamented faÁades, Islamic text, the Thamudis, who carved out of the Nabatean kingdom. Travel FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Bahla Fort (Oman) Baalbeck (Lebanon)

ahla Fort is one of four historic fortress- the walls collapsing each year in the rainy sea- aalbeck, is a town in the Beqaa Valley of In 1984, UNESCO declared it a World es situated at the foot of the Djebel son. The fort became a UNESCO World Lebanon situated east of the Litani River. Heritage site stating that Baalbeck’s colossal BAkhdar highlands in Oman. It was built Heritage Site in 1987. It was included in the BKnown as Heliopolis during the period of structures, is one of the finest examples of in the 13th and 14th centuries, when the oasis List of World Heritage in Danger from 1988. Roman rule, it was one of the largest sanctuar- Imperial Roman architecture at the very peak of of Bahla was prosperous under the control of Restoration works began in the 1990s, and ies in the empire and contains some of the best their civilization. It expressed the wish that the the Banu Nabhan tribe. The forts ruined nearly $9m were spent by the Omani govern- preserved Roman ruins in Lebanon. The gods protected area include the entire town within adobe walls and towers rise some 165 feet ment from 1993 to 1999. It remained covered that were worshipped at the temple - Jupiter, the Arab walls, as well as the southwestern above its sandstone foundations. Nearby to with scaffolding and closed to tourists for Venus, and Bacchus - were grafted onto the extramural quarter between Bastan-Al-Khan, the southwest is the Friday Mosque with a many years. It was removed from the list of indigenous deities of Hadad, Atargatis, and a the Roman site and the Mameluk mosque of 14th-century sculpted mihrab. The fort was endangered sites in 2004. The fort of Bahla young male god of fertility. Local influences are Ras-Al-Ain. Lebanon’s representative gave not restored or conserved before 1987, and has been semi-reopened to the public since seen in the planning and layout of the temples, assurances that the committee’s wish would be had fallen into a parlous state, with parts of September 2012. which vary from the classic Roman design. honored.

Bahrain Pearling Trail (Bahrain) Abu Simbel Temples (Egypt)

he Bahrain pearling trail is a 3.5 he Abu Simbel temples are two mas- being submerged during the creation of km trail located in the island of sive rock temples in Abu Simbel in Lake Nasser. Construction of the temple TMuharraq, in Bahrain, that was TNubia, southern Egypt. They are situ- complex started in approximately 1264 BC used by pearl divers during much of ated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, and lasted for about 20 years, until 1244 BC. Bahrain’s history until the early about 230 km southwest of 1930s. Pearling in Bahrain has Aswan (about 300 km by road). occurred since 2000 BC. The pathway Along with the great pyramids consists of 17 buildings in Murharraq, of Giza, the temples were one 3 oyster beds located in the nearby of the earliest sites to be sea, a segment of the coast and the inscribed by the UNESCO seafront Bu Mahir fortress in the World Heritage Committee. southern tip of Muharraq. The The twin temples were origi- UNESCO World Heritage Committee nally carved out of the moun- inscribed the site in 2012 stating that tainside during the reign of the trail was the last remaining com- Pharaoh Ramesses II in the plete example of the cultural tradi- 13th century BC, as a lasting tion of pearling and the wealth it monument to himself and his generated at a time when the trade queen Nefertari, to commemo- dominated the Gulf economy. It also rate his alleged victory at the constituted an outstanding example Battle of Kadesh. However, the of traditional utilization of the sea’s complex was relocated in its resources and human interaction entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made Known as the “Temple of Ramesses, with the environment, which shaped from a domed structure, high above the beloved by Amun” it was one of six rock both the economy and cultural iden- Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation temples erected in Nubia during the long tity of the island’s society. of the temples was necessary to avoid their reign of Ramesses II.

Petra (Jordan) Old city of Sanaa (Yemen) etra is a historical and archaeological city which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi he old city of Sanaa has a distinctive than 1,400 years old. The city contains more in the southern Jordanian governorate of Araba), the large valley running from the Dead visual character due to its unique archi- than 100 mosques, 12 hammams (baths) and PMaan that is famous for its rock-cut archi- Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra has been a Ttectural characteristics, most notably 6,500 houses. Many of the houses resemble tecture and water conduit system. Another name UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. The site expressed in its multi-storey buildings deco- ancient skyscrapers, reaching several stories for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the remained unknown to the Western world until rated with geometric patterns. The old forti- high and topped with flat roofs. They are dec- stone out of which it is carved. 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer fied city has been inhabited for more than orated with elaborate friezes and intricately Established possibly as early as 312 BC as the Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was described as 2,500 years and contains many intact architec- carved frames and stained-glass windows. The capital city of the Nabataeans, it is a symbol of “a rose-red city half as old as time” in a tural gems. It was declared a World Heritage 7thcentury Jami Al-Kabir (Great Mosque) is Jordan, as well as Jordan’s most-visited tourist Newdigate Prize-winning poem by John William Site by the United Nations in 1986. Efforts are one of the oldest mosques in the world. The attraction. It lies on the slope of Jebel Al- Burgon. UNESCO has described it as “one of the underway to preserve some of the oldest Bab Al-Yaman (Yemen Gate) is an iconic entry Madhbah (identified by some as the biblical most precious cultural properties of man’s cul- buildings some of which, such as the Samsarh point through the city walls and is more than Mount Hor) in a basin among the mountains tural heritage”. and the Great Mosque of Sana’a, are more 1,000 years old. — http://whc.unesco.org Travel FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 28

DiscoverDiscover Oman:Oman:

TheThe pearlpearl inin thethe desertdesert

or a keen traveler, Oman offers a whole spectrum of experiences, from risky climbing or paragliding to Fscuba diving, camping under the stars in the desert, sightseeing or simply strolling the vast, empty beaches scattered between rocky cliffs. We take a look at some of the things we were lucky to experience. From towering mountains growing straight from the Arabian Sea to palm groves, huge desert dunes, deep ravines and rocky deserts cres-crossed by shiny asphalt of new highways - the unfor- gettable natural beauty makes Oman a great destination in any holiday season. 1) Surf the Wahiba desert The rolling sand dunes of The Wahiba Sands, varying from deep red to rich honey color, stretch as far as the eye can see. This is the traditional home of the Bedouin, hardy spirited people who know how to survive in these harsh desert conditions. Witness the amazing desert sunset from the top of a dune, followed by a traditional Omani dinner, in the tranquility of the desert. Choose one of the many tourist companies to take you on a 4◊4 Dune Bashing excursion. Enjoy the roller-coaster ride of creeping up steep sand dunes to go plummeting down them much to your thrill and excitement - hold on tight! You can also go sand boarding. This is a whole new kind of workout - climb up the dunes with your board to go whizzing down a mass of deep-orange, rippling hills. 2) Trek in the Wadi Shab Located along the coast road Wadi Shab is a gorge carved by thousands of years of natural erosion. Huge rock boulders, cliffs, waterfalls and natural pools of intensely Travel FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 29

turquoise water combine to form one of a kind attraction. The trek is only for the able however: it’s hot and the path is difficult, but there is a reward at the end: a set of inter- connected pools with a cool grotto awaits the adventurer. If your are up for it, embark on 3km of swimming through or jumping in to bright green pools and water-filled caves, climbing up waterfalls, sliding down natural water-slides and scrambling over boulders. This is all through a narrow dramatic canyon cutting snake-like in to the rugged land- scape. This certainly feels like you’ve been transported in to an Indiana Jones movie or a thrilling water-park ride.

3) Shop at Nizwa market Near the Nizwa Fort is the Nizwa Souk, a market that is still very much in use by locals and therefore not yet flood- ed with products made in China. On Fridays, Omanis come from many miles away to visit the so-called “Cattle Market”, actually more of a general livestock market. In addition to cows, you’ll see flat-bed trucks filled with camels, and plen- ty of goats. The cattle market is a round space, allowing sellers to lead their animals for sale in a slow circular walk, where buyers sit in the middle and along the edges, shout- ing out a price as they feel moved to do so. If a deal is reached, the transfer is made immediately - the animal is either led away via a rope, or in the case of a pair small goat kids, scooped up one other each arm. The rest of the souk is mostly dedicated to the needs of locals during their marketing. Even on a busy day, the vibe is calm - there are virtually no aggressive merchants and touts trying to relieve you of your money.

4) Swim in Bimah sinkhole Bimah sinkhole is beautiful natural landmark - a place of refreshment at the long coastal road of Oman. Bimah sink- hole was formed in limestone by a collapse of large cave chamber. Earlier locals believed that this hole was formed by meteorite (“piece of Moon”). The sinkhole is approxi- mately 50 by 70 m large, 20 - 30 m deep. At the bottom is located deep blue-green lake with a heap of rock - rem- nants of the collapse. Municipality has developed a park around the sinkhole, there is built concrete stairway lead- ing to the lake. Locals and tourists often enjoy a refreshing bath in the lake. It’s usually deserted, with occasional tourist popping in for a swim. It’s bliss in a hot day.

5) Hike through the Musandam Mountains The starkly beautiful and desolate Musandam Peninsula is an exclave separated from the rest of Oman by the United Arab Emirates. Some of the most memorable vistas, some wildest and most spectacular landscapes in Oman can be found here: rugged peaks and massifs rising straight from the sea, deep ravines and mountain ledges that use to support small-scale barley plantations. These days they lie abandoned, together with dozens of stone-house villages, whose inhabitants moved to cities after the oil boom.

6) Plummet into Majlis Al Jinn Cave Out of sight in the heart of brown hills located at the foothills of the eastern Al Hajar Mountains hides one of the Travel FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 30 relieve you of your money. 4) Swim in Bimah sinkhole Bimah sinkhole is beautiful natural landmark - a place of refreshment at the long coastal road of Oman. Bimah sink- hole was formed in limestone by a collapse of large cave chamber. Earlier locals believed that this hole was formed by meteorite (“piece of Moon”). The sinkhole is approxi- mately 50 by 70 m large, 20 - 30 m deep. At the bottom is located deep blue-green lake with a heap of rock - rem- nants of the collapse. Municipality has developed a park around the sinkhole, there is built concrete stairway lead- ing to the lake. Locals and tourists often enjoy a refreshing bath in the lake. It’s usually deserted, with occasional tourist popping in for a swim. It’s bliss in a hot day. 5) Hike through the Musandam Mountains The starkly beautiful and desolate Musandam Peninsula is an exclave separated from the rest of Oman by the United Arab Emirates. Some of the most memorable vistas, some wildest and most spectacular landscapes in Oman can be found here: rugged peaks and massifs rising straight from the sea, deep ravines and mountain ledges that use to support small-scale barley plantations. These days they lie abandoned, together with dozens of stone-house villages, whose inhabitants moved to cities after the oil boom. 6) Plummet into Majlis Al Jinn Cave Out of sight in the heart of brown hills located at the foothills of the eastern Al Hajar Mountains hides one of the greatest and most beautiful natural wonders. It is the Majlis Al Jinn Cave, or Salma Plateau as it is commonly known, and is considered one of the largest underground caves in the world. The area of this enormous cave is 58 thousand square meters and its capacity is 4 million cubic meters. The length of Majlis Al Jinn Cave is 310 meters and its width is 225 meters. A dome-shaped ceiling tops the cave at a height of 120 meters. Despite the enormity of this cave, it is difficult to detect it from the outside in this vast area, as the only evidence of its existence is a scant three openings that seem of no importance to the viewer. Reaching the Cave opening requires strenuous physical effort, since you must traverse a distance of 1,300 meters to reach the cave opening through rugged mountain terrain. This trip takes about five hours. The only way to descend into the cave is by ropes. Geologists put the age of this cave (Majlis Al Jinn, or Salma Plateau as some like to call it owing to the area where it’s located) at fifty million years. The cave is considered a repository of natural life treasures. 7) Explore Jebel Akhdar This is one of the most beautiful and scenic places to see in Oman. Discover valleys, plunging canyons, plateaus, mountain cliffs and fantastic hiking trails through Jebal Akhdar (‘Green Mountain’), part of the Al Hajar Mountain range. Extending about 300km wide, the highest point of eastern Arabia lies here, called Jebal Shams around 3000m high. This is a treat for hikers who can soak in spectacular views while embarking on a mix of challenging and moder- ate trails. Many tourists and locals will reach this mountain by 4◊4 car through rocky terrain, for day or overnight camping trips. The area is known for its Mediterranean cli- mate. Temperatures drop during winter to below zero Celsius, with snow falling at times, and rise in summer to 22 degrees Celsius. Due to its location and unique weather, it produces a variety of fruits, such as apricots, plums, figs, grapes, apples and pears, as well as almonds, walnuts and saffron. The pomegranate that grows here is classified among the finest of its kind in the world. 8) Turtle watching at Ras Al Jinz The beaches of Ras Al Had, Ras Al Junayz and Masirah island are just some of the areas where several species of marine turtles come to lay their eggs. Green turtles, logger- heads, Hawksbill and leatherbacks live for over 100 years and swim the length and breadth of the Indian Ocean only to return every year to the same sites to lay their eggs. Many tour operators and hotels in the town offer turtle visi- tation packages. It is necessary to acquire a permit to visit the official nesting sites as the turtles are protected as endangered species. Once again, local tour operators will provide full details. 9) Unwind on the beaches of Dhofar The Dhofar district is characterized by attractive and rich beaches. There are plenty of lagoons crowded with flamin- gos, as well as caves with winding entrances. Oman’s most important beaches are Al Maghsayl, Raysut, Al Hafah, and Leisure FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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News 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 18:10 Casualty 19:00 E!ES 18:00 Hot In Cleveland 19:00 Friday Night Dinner 20:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 18:30 The Michael J. Fox Show 19:30 Little Britain 20:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 19:00 Friends With Better Lives 20:00 Hotel Secrets With Richard E 21:00 Giuliana & Bill 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring Grant 22:00 Fashion Police Jimmy Fallon 20:45 Hebburn 22:30 E! News 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 21:15 Live At The Apollo 23:30 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills Stewart 22:00 Sherlock Holmes 21:30 The Colbert Report 23:35 The Weakest Link 22:00 Mixology 23:00 South Park 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers

00:40 The Hungry Sailors 00:20 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 01:30 Coach Trip Taylor 02:00 Emmerdale 00:45 Cash In The Attic 02:55 Coronation Street 00:00 Royal Pains 01:35 Cash In The Attic 03:25 Tom Daley Goes Global 01:00 The Fosters 02:05 Cash In The Attic 04:20 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 02:00 Survivor: San Juan Del Sur 02:50 Bargain Hunt SKYLINE ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 05:15 The Chase 03:00 American Horror Story: Coven TV listings FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

04:00 C.S.I. 19:00 Once Upon A Time In 02:30 Cocktail-PG15 14:30 Top 14 Highlights 05:00 Killer Women Wonderland 04:30 Emperor-PG15 15:00 Total Rugby 06:00 Royal Pains 20:00 Chicago Fire 06:30 Mud-PG15 15:30 Trans World Sport 08:00 Criminal Minds 21:00 Bones 00:00 The Dream Team-PG15 09:00 Blackfish-PG15 16:30 NFL 09:00 The Fosters 22:00 Banshee 10:30 Meet Joe Black-PG15 19:00 WWE Superstars 02:00 Splash-PG 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 10:00 C.S.I. 23:00 True Detective 13:30 Mud-PG15 20:00 WWE Smackdown 04:00 Fred 2: Night Of The Living Fred- 01:00 Oprah’s Master Class 11:00 Killer Women 15:45 Veronica Guerin-PG15 22:00 Live Super League PG 01:50 Oprah’s Next Chapter 12:00 Emmerdale 17:30 Blackfish-PG15 05:30 Sabrina-PG 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00 Something New-PG15 19:00 Wrecked-PG15 03:05 Secretly Pregnant 14:00 Criminal Minds 10:00 Undercover Brother-PG15 20:45 The Firm-PG15 15:00 Royal Pains 23:30 Prisoners-PG15 03:55 Long Island Medium 00:00 The Marine 12:00 4 Wedding Planners-PG15 16:00 Emmerdale 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 02:00 Skyline 14:00 Ski Patrol-PG15 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 04:00 Flight Of The Intruder 16:00 Something New-PG15 00:30 Champions League T20 18:00 Criminal Minds 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 06:00 Maximum Conviction 18:00 Father Of The Bride-PG15 Highlights 20:00 Grey’s Anatomy 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 08:00 Skyline 20:00 Bernie-PG15 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 21:00 Crisis 09:45 Waterworld 22:00 Here Comes The Boom-PG15 01:30 The Colony-PG15 02:00 England Women v South African 07:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 23:00 American Horror Story: Coven 12:00 The Marine 03:15 G.I. Joe: Retaliation-PG15 Women T20I Highlights 07:50 Cake Boss 14:00 The Grandmaster 05:15 There Be Dragons-PG15 03:00 England Women v South African 08:15 Cake Boss 16:00 Skyline 07:15 Stuck In Love-PG15 Women T20I Highlights 08:40 Cake Boss 18:00 Summoned 09:00 Superman: Unbound-PG 04:00 England Women v South African 09:05 Cake Boss 19:45 Waterworld 10:45 G.I. Joe: Retaliation-PG15 Women T20I Highlights 09:30 Hoarding: Buried Alive 22:00 Haywire 01:00 The Music Never Stopped-PG15 12:45 The Wolverine-PG15 05:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 10:20 Secret Eaters 03:00 Ain’t Them Bodies Saints-PG15 15:00 Battle Of The Year-PG15 00:00 Bones Highlights 11:10 Brides Of Beverly Hills 05:00 Centre Place-PG15 17:00 Superman: Unbound-PG 01:00 Good Morning America 06:00 Champions League T20 11:35 Brides Of Beverly Hills 07:00 Grand Piano-PG15 18:30 The Lone Ranger-PG15 Highlights 03:00 Banshee 12:00 Brides Of Beverly Hills 04:00 True Detective 09:00 Darling Companion-PG15 21:00 Frozen-PG 07:00 Champions League T20 11:00 Centre Place-PG15 22:45 About Time-PG15 12:25 Brides Of Beverly Hills 05:00 Good Morning America 00:00 Skyline-PG15 Highlights 13:00 Grand Piano-PG15 12:50 Brides Of Beverly Hills 07:00 Emmerdale 02:00 Flight Of The Intruder-PG15 08:00 Champions League T20 15:00 Someday This Pain Will Be 13:15 Oprah’s Master Class 09:00 Once Upon A Time In 04:00 Maximum Conviction-PG15 Highlights Useful To You-PG15 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter Wonderland 06:00 Skyline-PG15 09:00 Champions League T20 17:00 Darling Companion-PG15 14:55 Little People, Big World 10:00 Emmerdale 07:45 Waterworld-PG15 Highlights 18:45 Silver Linings Playbook-PG15 01:15 Cher Ami 15:20 Little People, Big World 12:00 Chicago Fire 10:00 The Marine-PG15 10:00 ICC Cricket 360 21:00 End Of Watch-18 02:45 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers II 13:00 Bones 12:00 The Grandmaster-PG15 10:30 Champions League T20 15:45 Little People, Big World 23:00 Hick-PG15 04:15 The Missing Lynx 14:00 Live Good Morning America 14:00 Skyline-PG15 Highlights 16:10 Little People, Big World 06:00 Shark Bait 16:00 Once Upon A Time In 16:00 Summoned-PG15 11:30 Champions League T20 16:35 Little People, Big World 08:00 Barbie As The Island Princess Wonderland 17:45 Waterworld-PG15 Highlights 17:00 The Next Great Baker 10:00 Madagascar 17:00 Chicago Fire 20:00 Haywire-PG15 12:30 Champions League T20 17:50 17 Kids And Counting 18:00 Bones 11:30 Lego Batman: The Movie - DC Highlights 22:00 2 Fast 2 Furious-PG15 00:00 Passion Fish-18 18:15 17 Kids And Counting Super Heroes Unite 13:30 Live Champions League T20 18:40 17 Kids And Counting 12:45 Back To The Sea 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 19:10 17 Kids And Counting 14:30 The Ugly Duckling And Me 17:30 Live Champions League T20 16:00 Open Season 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 19:40 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo 18:00 Madagascar 21:30 Champions League T20 21:00 Little People, Big World: Big 20:00 Home Alone: The Holiday Heist Highlights Changes 22:00 The Ugly Duckling And Me 22:30 Champions League T20 21:55 Alaskan Women Looking For 23:30 Open Season Highlights Love 23:30 Champions League T20 22:50 Long Island Medium Highlights 23:15 Secretly Pregnant

00:15 Phantom-PG15 02:00 Gambit-PG15 04:00 Lovestruck: The Musical-PG15 Proposal: Media 06:00 The Croods-PG 08:00 The Trial-PG15 needs permit to 10:00 Snowflake , The White Gorilla- PG 12:00 Gambit-PG15 film in wilderness 14:00 Disturbia-PG15 16:00 The Trial-PG15 he US Forest Service is proposing permanent new 18:00 The Worricker: Turks & Caicos- rules that would require media organizations to obtain PG15 a permit to film and shoot photographs in more than 20:00 Colombiana-PG15 T 100 million acres of the nation’s wilderness. Under the plan, 22:00 The Call-PG15 the Forest Service would consider the nature of a proposed project before approving a special use permit then charge fees of up to $1,500 for commercial filming and photogra- phy in federally designated wilderness areas. 00:00 WWE NXT Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National 01:00 WWE Main Event Press Photographers Association, said such rules would be a 02:00 Sydney Darts Masters clear violation of the First Amendment and raises concerns 05:00 NRL Premiership about press freedom, including whether denying a permit 07:00 Golfing World would amount to prior restraint. “What if they deny you a 08:00 European tour weekly permit because they don’t like the story you’re working on?” 08:30 Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony he asked. 09:30 Live Ryder Cup Liz Close, the Forest Service’s acting wilderness direc- 20:30 Golfing World 21:30 NFL Gameday tor, said the Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibits commercial 22:00 Live top 14 enterprise in wilderness. The rules exclude breaking news situations, defined as “an event or incident that arises sud- denly, evolves quickly, and rapidly ceases to be newswor- thy.” But Osterreicher said the agency ignores big distinc- tions between editorial and commercial use and also 00:00 Indycar Highlights 01:00 Currie Cup should not be allowed to define what constitutes break- 02:00 World Match Racing Tour ing news. 03:00 World Match Racing Tour “We’re headed down a really slippery slope if we allowed 04:00 World Match Racing Tour the government to include editorial and news gathering 05:00 V8 Supercars Highlights activities in commercial use,” he said. Close said the current 06:00 V8 Supercars Highlights rules have been in place for 48 months, and the proposal 07:00 Super League released this month would make those guidelines perma- 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 nent. Public comments are due by Nov 3. “This is the oppor- 09:30 TOP 14 tunity for the public and news organizations to work with us 10:00 Total Rugby to make sure that our directive is the way we want it,” she 10:30 Live ITM Cup said.—AP WATERWORLD ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 12:30 Live NRL Premiership Stars FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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Sebamed raises awareness on Ebola

KUWAIT: Jahra health zone continued its campaign to make people aware of the Ebola virus, as it held a weeklong campaign in various health centers. Yesterday witnessed the last of such events in Taima area, health center, with lectures, literature and instructions to the public, particularly the pilgrims. Sebamed, as usual was on hand with products that are suitable for pilgrims. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Kuwait ACCOMMODATION KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY Sharing accommodation - (25/09/2014 TO 01/10/2014) two fully furnished & spa- cious bedrooms in CAC flat are available in Ishbiliya, SHARQIA-1 NO THU+FRI+SAT AVENUES-3 block 1. Bachelor/Single NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 9:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 1:45 PM Pakistani/Indian Muslims are THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 2:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 11:00 PM THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 4:00 PM preferred. Contact Afzal Shafi: NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 4:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 1:00 AM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 6:15 PM 99714430. (C 4771) LIFE OF CRIME (DIG) 6:30 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM 25-9-2014 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 8:30 PM FANAR-3 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 10:15 PM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 12:45 PM (Arabic) 10:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:05 AM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 2:45 PM THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 1:00 AM SITUATION VACANT HERCULES (DIG) 4:45 PM Office. Good communication SHARQIA-2 LIFE OF CRIME (DIG) 6:45 PM AVENUES-4 Required a driver, any skills. Please contact: HERCULES (DIG) 8:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 1:30 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA nationality for a Kuwaiti busi- 94062123. (C 4765) TURTLES (DIG) 1:30 PM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 10:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 3:30 PM nessman, familiar with TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 12:45 AM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 5:30 PM Kuwait areas. Contact: Accountant (Indian) having TURTLES (DIG) 3:30 PM FANAR-4 Special Show “THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 97334456. (C 4770) experience in Middle East JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 5:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:30 PM 5:30 PM 24-9-2014 and Africa for the last 23 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 2:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 7:30 PM years working in Kuwait as TURTLES (DIG) 7:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 4:15 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 9:30 PM chief accountant since 2006 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 11:30 PM SITUATION WANTED looking for post of accounts TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 8:15 PM THU+FRI+SAT manager or chief accountant TURTLES (DIG) 12:15 AM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 11:30 PM Indian female (MBA in HR), with iqama transfer. Contact: NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:15 AM NO THU+FRI+SAT 10 years experience in 97934610 / 98856808. SHARQIA-3 HR/Administration. Capable (C 4769) AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 12:45 PM FANAR-5 360º- 1 of managing all functions in 21-9-2014 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 2:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 1:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 1:30 PM HR/Admin. 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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Modi pledges to cut Marka jumps 59% in first DFM flotation since 2009 red tape in ‘Make in India’ campaign PAGE 38 PAGE 41 Apple acknowledges bug in iPhone software Smartphone giant offers temporary fix, full update in next few days

WASHINGTON: Apple yesterday acknowledged a through iTunes. “We are also preparing iOS 8.0.2 Kay, analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates. saying “you’re not supposed to abuse your phone bug in its iPhone software update that caused with a fix for the issue, and will release it as soon Kay said the software glitch “is not a major or sit on your phone, you’re supposed to treat it users to lose cellular service, offering a temporary as it’s ready in the next few days,” Apple added. problem, they can fix that” in a short period of like a piece of electronics.” fix and a full update “in the next few days.” In a statement to some media outlets, Apple time. More serious, said Kay is the whether Apple’s Apple said Monday it sold more than 10 mil- A statement on Apple’s website was the first to said, “We apologize for the great inconvenience new “phablet” will be viewed as too fragile for lion of the new smartphones in the first three days acknowledge the problem, which came after experienced by users, and are working around the some buyers. since launching in a handful of countries, setting a numerous users complained on social media and clock to prepare iOS 8.0.2 with a fix for the issue.” “The bending problem is baked into the new record for opening weekend sales. online forums that the iOS 8.0.1 update left their The news caused further embarrassment to design of the phone, so its something they can’t The new iPhones were launched Friday in phones largely inoperable. The update was devel- Apple after some users posted comments about just fix,” Kay told AFP. “They’re committed to this the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, oped to add in fitness monitoring programs bends in the bodies of the oversize iPhone 6 Plus design.” Kay said Apple may have to respond in France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto which were omitted from the iOS 8 platform when carried in trouser pockets. On the some manner if it gets more complaints, but Rico and Singapore. They will be available in released last week. MacRumors forum of Apple users, one iPhone won’t be able to quickly redesign the handset. The more than 20 additional countries on The Apple website acknowledged that the lat- buyer noted that, after carrying the handset in a analyst said Apple may offer some compensation September 26, and 115 countries by the end of est update, which was pulled shortly after its front pocket for 18 hours, “I saw the reflection of to buyers or it may take a “hardball” approach by the year. — AFP release Wednesday, caused a loss of cellular serv- the window in the iPhones slightly distorted.” ice and the touch identification which allows users The user posted a picture of the bent iPhone, to operate their phones with a fingerprint ID. and dozens posted similar complaints on Twitter, “We have a workaround for you if you have an using the hashtag #BendGate. Apple shares iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus and you lost cellular meanwhile tumbled 3.4 percent to $98.24 on the service and Touch ID functionality today after news, amid concerns the problems could hurt updating to iOS 8.0.1,” Apple said. sales of the hugely profitable iPhones. The temporary fix allows users to reinstall iOS 8 “It’s certainly a black eye for Apple,” said Roger

PASADENA: A man checks out his iPhone 6 Plus outside the Apple store in Pasadena, California. Apple yesterday acknowledged a bug in its iPhone software update that caused users to lose cellular service, offering a temporary fix and a full update “in the next few days.”— AFP

KAC and Boeing near deal

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways and Boeing are buy 25 aircraft and lease 12 others from nearing a deal for the purchase of 10 wide- European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. body 777 aircraft, with a list value of $3.3 bil- The deal is estimated worth was $4.4 bil- lion, according to Bloomberg reports. Citing lion at list prices and included 10 A350-900 unnamed sources, the report said that the and 15 medium-haul A320neo airliners aircraft may arrive as early as 2016 if a deal is due for delivery beginning 2020. reached by year end. Kuwait’s civil aviation Controversy over the deal lead to the council has reportedly ok’d the deal which launching of a parliamentary investigation. has also been backed by the government. Kuwait Airways competes regionally with Neither KAC nor Boeing commented for the global carriers Emirates, Qatar Airways and Bloomberg article. Etihad as well as local low cost carrier In February, Kuwait Airways agreed to Jazeera Airways. Business FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Marka jumps 59% in first DFM flotation since 2009 Strong retail investor demand shows hunger for new equity

DUBAI: Shares in Dubai retailing and restaurants start-up Marka ping malls unit on the DFM, which will end this week and is expected brands to the Gulf, including the CR7 footwear of soccer star Cristiano jumped 59 percent yesterday in the first flotation on the emirate’s to raise $1.58 billion. Ronaldo. It plans to open its first three store outlets in Dubai and Abu main stock market since 2009, showing a hunger for fresh equity The huge oversubscription for Marka’s offer was partly a vote of Dhabi in early 2015. among local retail investors. Marka shares closed at 1.59 dirhams on confidence in Dubai’s travel and tourism boom. Founded this year by The company has said it aims over the next five years to open over the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), up from their initial public offer prominent United Arab Emirates investors, the firm plans to spend 100 fashion stores, restaurants and cafes across the Gulf Arab region, price of 1.00 dirham. The firm raised 275 million dirhams ($75 million), proceeds of the offer on opening fashion retail outlets, restaurants where personal consumption is rising rapidly because of strong eco- 55 percent of its capital, in April via an offer that was 36 times sub- and cafes across the Gulf Arab region.—Reuters nomic growth. Marka’s 151 founders are a virtual who’s who of the scribed. But because Marka is a start-up which does not yet have major UAE business community, including Jamal Al Hai, a top executive at The shares swung wildly yesterday, hitting a high of 2.00 dirhams underlying businesses, the stock mostly attracted retail investors; ana- Dubai’s airports operator, Abubaker Al Khoori, chairman of Abu and a low of 1.53, in massive volume of 119 million shares - almost lysts at institutions contacted by Reuters said they had not assigned Dhabi’s biggest real estate developer Aldar Properties , and Khaled half the number of shares sold in the IPO. Marka was by far the most the stock fair value or target price estimates. Almheiri, founder of Evolvence Capital. heavily traded stock in Dubai, where the main index fell 0.2 percent. “We should expect the stock to fluctuate,” said Sebastien Henin, The firm obtained regulatory approval to list in Dubai as a “green- IPOs in Dubai dried up when the emirate’s financial crisis erupted head of asset management at The National Investor in Abu DHabi. field” company, meaning it did not have to file financial records for five years ago, and since then restrictive listing requirements have “The volume is likely to be dominated by retail investors.” past years as existing companies would have to do. Greenfield IPOs encouraged several United Arab Emirates companies to float in A Dubai-based asset manager said: “With no underlying business, were popular at the height of the UAE’s stock market boom a decade London rather than at home. But a strong rebound in Dubai’s equity it’s not an investment we would consider. I believe the IPO was domi- ago but then fell out of favour as financial storm clouds gathered. and property prices over the past 18 months has revived investors’ nated by retail investors.” Khaled Almheiri, Marka’s vice chairman, said Marka initially planned to list its shares on the DFM around the first spirits, and the Marka IPO appears to signal the start of a string of this week that the company was looking at possible acquisitions in week of June, but the market was hit by massive volatility that month. offers on the DFM. Emaar Properties, Dubai’s top real estate develop- the retail and hospitality sectors, but did not name the targets. Marka Two companies have listed shares on the smaller of Dubai’s two stock er, has attracted heavy demand for the much bigger IPO of its shop- says it has obtained rights to introduce six international fashion markets, NASDAQ Dubai, over the past 12 months. — Reuters

LANG SON: Vendors selling Chinese-made blankets at Dong Kinh market in the northern town of Lang Son bordering with China. China and Vietnam, once close ideological allies, are locked in a bitter dispute over disputed waters and island chains in the South China Sea. — AFP Japan’s BTMU seeks to offer Islamic ringgit loans

KUALA LUMPUR: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ sukuk issue, part of a $500 million multi-currency (BTMU), Japan’s largest lender, hopes to secure a sukuk program established in Malaysia in June, was license for its Malaysian unit to expand operations not denominated in ringgit. by providing Islamic loans in the local currency. “We did not choose ringgit because of the lack This would allow BTMU Malaysia, a wholly owned of ringgit assets on our books,” said Nishida, noting unit, to meet the needs of existing clients for that issuing ringgit sukuk at this stage would have Islamic loans in ringgit, the unit’s chief executive entailed negative carry on the cost of funding. Naoki Nishida told Reuters yesterday. BTMU Malaysia serves large Malaysian firms and He said the bank might obtain the license next government-linked companies, particularly those year and hoped to start such lending in the near with operations abroad in the oil and gas, palm oil future, though other issues such as accounting sys- and real estate sectors. tems also needed to be resolved. Nishida was speaking after BTMU earlier in the Debut sukuk day became the first Japanese commercial bank to BTMU was conservative with the size of its first issue Islamic bonds, selling $25 million of sukuk in a sukuk issue, which was at the bottom of its target US dollar tranche and 2.5 billion yen ($22.9 million) range of $50 million to $100 million. The one-year in a yen tranche. Its issue underlined growing inter- sukuk were privately placed with a mix of local and est in Islamic finance among big, international con- foreign institutional investors, which the bank ventional banks. Goldman Sachs raised $500 mil- declined to name. Pricing details were not dis- lion with its debut sale of sukuk earlier this month, closed. Nishida said it took time to explain to while France’s Societe Generale set up a sukuk pro- investors the structure of the sukuk wakala and the gram in Malaysia this year. decision to issue in yen. “With yen, there were addi- Currently, BTMU’s Islamic operations are only tional explanations, additional questions,” he said. allowed to provide loans in currencies other than “Although yen-denominated sukuk were new and ringgit and they conduct nearly all transactions in not familiar to investors, we were able to find a cer- US dollars. That is the reason why BTMU’s first tain amount of appetite.”—Reuters Business FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Airbus test-flies less-thirsty A320neo

TOULOUSE: Airbus yesterday sent its new A320neo-an updat- The European planemaker has orders from 60 customers current A320s in service, a significant selling point for airlines ed, more fuel-efficient version of its hugely popular medium- for 3,257 of the A320neos after they start to be delivered in in the cutthroat medium-haul sector. haul A320 passenger plane-into the skies on its first of several October 2015, Airbus chief operating officer John Leahy told The neo boasts aerodynamic improvements including little test flights before deliveries next year to waiting customers. reporters. The stated catalogue price is between $94 million curved winglets, trimmed weight and more efficient engines. The narrow-body, two-engined aircraft took off from and $120 million (74 million and 94 million euros) each, Airbus says its current version of the A320 family, which Toulouse-Blagnac airport in southwest France where Airbus is depending on configuration, but is often discounted. includes the smaller A319 and bigger A321, has 60 percent of headquartered for a two-hour flight, an AFP reporter wit- The plane-whose “neo” designation stands for “new engine the medium-haul market, ahead of US rival Boeing with its 737 nessed. option”-is designed to consume 15 percent less fuel than the aircraft. — AFP

TOULOSE: Airbus employees look at Airbus A320neo taking off for its first test flight, yesterday in Blagnac near Toulouse. — AFP

Air France pilots dig in despite offer to GlaxoSmithKline names scrap low-cost plans RBS’s Hampton as head PARIS: Air France pilots refused to budge yesterday after man- agement offered to scrap plans to expand its low-cost sub- Appointment comes amid pressure for change sidiary, as their strike became the longest ever at Europe’s sec- ond-largest flag carrier. The striking pilots brushed off calls to LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline said yesterday it had chosen scandal, which forced GSK to make an abject apology to return to the skies, leaving half the fleet grounded for an 11th day running, as they sought to push management even fur- Philip Hampton, who currently chairs Royal Bank of the Chinese people last week. Investors have become ther at talks later yesterday. Scotland, as its next chairman. Hampton will be taking the increasingly disillusioned with GSK’s management in the The company proposed “the immediate withdrawal” of helm at Britain’s biggest drugmaker at a testing time. GSK past year and the company’s shares have lagged badly. plans to expand Transavia Europe on the continent, but said it was hit last week by a record $489 million fine in China for While the European healthcare sector has risen by around would pursue the development of the low-cost airline in bribing doctors and has warned on profits in 2014 due to a fifth this year on optimism over new drugs, GSK shares France. It called for pilots to return to work “immediately”, to weak sales of its core respiratory drugs. have lost 11 percent as forecasts for its sales and earnings end a dispute that has crippled the airline at a cost of 20 mil- He will join the board in January, become deputy chair- have fallen. lion euros ($25 million) a day. But the main pilots union SNPL said it had made a “counter-offer” that would be discussed as man on April 1 and chairman with effect from Sept. 1, 2015 talks resume later yesterday. Many Air France pilots, who earn - or earlier if released from other commitments. He will Parachuted in up to 250,000 euros a year, are angry at the plans to develop leave RBS during 2015 and the bank said the process for Hampton has been chairman of RBS since 2009 when he Transavia, which currently serves holiday destinations across selecting his successor was being managed by the board’s was parachuted in to help rescue the bank following its 45 Europe and the Mediterranean. They fear management will nominations committee. billion pounds ($74 billion) bailout during the financial cri- eventually seek to replace Air France flights with services oper- A person close to the process had previously said that sis. He has previously said that a chairman should typically ated by Transavia, whose pilots earn considerably less. Hampton was set to be named as GSK’s chairman this serve between five and seven years at a listed company week. Reuters reported on Monday that GSK was under and is expected to stay at RBS until a successor is appoint- ‘Into the red’ The withdrawal of plans to expand Transavia will come as a pressure to make changes, including a possible early ed, according to industry sources. blow to the airline’s efforts to be more competitive in the replacement of current Chairman Chris Gent, as a result of Hampton has led RBS, which is 80-percent owned by the crowded and changing European skies, increasingly dominat- its problems, which have undermined investor confidence. British government, through a turbulent period of transi- ed by no-frills airlines. The MEDEF employers association said Gent, best-known for leading mobile phone company tion during which it shed assets worth 1 trillion pounds to the conflict at Air France — 16 percent state-owned-encapsu- Vodafone during a period of rapid growth, has chaired GSK rid itself of toxic loans built up during a period of aggres- lated the malaise gripping the country’s crisis-hit economy. for nine years. He was due to retire by the end of 2015 and sive lending in the run-up to the financial crisis. The union action is “again dragging a company into the red,” the drugmaker said it had been planning for his succession However, the bank’s attempts to return to health have said MEDEF vice-president Jean-Francois Pillard. “For those who want to invest or travel in France, this does not con- over the last two years. been held back by the legacy of past misconduct, which tribute, at an already extremely difficult time, to improving the Naming a new chairman may be seen as a sign that included fines of $612 million for the fixing of benchmark image of the country,” he said. change is coming at GSK to address shareholder concerns interest rates and accusations over how it treated strug- Air France has already implemented an ambitious restruc- over both the China affair and the company’s recent poor gling small firms. Hampton had hoped to oversee the start turing plan to reduce costs and improve efficiency. “Low-cost financial performance. As the new chairman, a key task for of RBS’s return to full private ownership but that prospect airlines now represent between 25 and 45 percent of air traffic Hampton will be to steer the group back to sustainable is still seen to be several years away with its shares trading in Europe, depending on the country,” said Didier Brechemier, growth and, in the long term, to find an eventual successor well below the price the government bought them at, leav- an aviation expert at consultants Roland Berger. Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will soon expand its fleet to to Chief Executive Andrew Witty, who was appointed by ing taxpayers sitting on a loss of 13 billion pounds. Before 400, which would take it above Air France’s stable of 350 air- Gent and has been in the job since 2008. RBS, Hampton chaired supermarket chain Sainsbury and craft. —AFP Witty has been viewed as a star manager for much of his was previously group finance director at Lloyds TSB, BT six-year tenure but he has been damaged by the China Group, BG Group, British Gas and British Steel. — Reuters Business FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 German minister not Applications for US happy about ECB’s asset purchases jobless claims rise

BERLIN: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said yes- Durable goods fell 18.2% in August terday he is not particularly happy about the European Central Bank’s plans to buy up asset-backed securities on a large scale. Speaking to the lower house of German parliament or WASHINGTON: The number of people seeking US unemploy- Employers added just 142,000 jobs last month, according Bundestag at the start of a debate on Europe’s new banking ment benefits increased last week after falling sharply two to the Labor Department, down from an average of 212,000 in union laws, Schaeuble expressed reservations about the ECB’s weeks ago. Despite the rise, the level of applications remains the preceding 12 months. It was the end of a six-month streak asset purchase plans. “In this respect, I’m not particularly happy near pre-recession levels, a sign that hiring will likely remain of monthly job gains in excess of 200,000. The unemployment about the debate about loan purchases. It’s something that has healthy. rate fell to 6.1 percent from 6.2 percent, but only because to be looked at with caution.” Weekly unemployment benefit applications rose 12,000 to some of those out of work gave up looking. The government Asset-backed securities (ABS) are bundles of individual loans a seasonally adjusted 293,000, the Labor Department said yes- doesn’t count people as unemployed unless they are actively such as mortgages, auto credit and credit-card debt that are sold terday. Yet the four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell searching. Still, most economists expect hiring will continue at on to investors, allowing banks to share the risk of default and for the second straight week to 298,500. a healthy pace this year. Surveys of both manufacturing and encouraging them to offer more credit. The ECB believes that the Two weeks ago, applications had plummeted to 281,000, services firms show that companies in both sectors added market for such securities-an important source of financing for near a 14-year low first reached in July. Over the past year, the workers in September. small and medium-sized enterprises-has effectively dried up four-week average for applications has fallen 7.1 percent. They Meanwhile, business orders for long-lasting manufactured since the financial crisis. climbed above 650,000 during the recession in 2009. goods fell by a record amount in August, dragged lower by a And the ECB hopes that by buying them on a large scale, it Applications are a proxy for layoffs. Fewer applications indi- plunge in demand for commercial aircraft. But orders in a key can help revive the market and free up some of the credit chan- cate that employers are holding onto their workers, likely category that tracks business investment plans posted a gain. nels which have seized up during the long years of crisis. because they are more confident about the economy. It may The Commerce Department says that orders for durable The problem is that it was precisely complex financial deriva- also indicate they will boost hiring. The total number of peo- goods fell 18.2 percent in August following a 22.5 percent tives such as ABS which are seen as the the root of the sub-prime ple receiving benefits ticked up by 7,000 to 2.4 million. A year increase in July. Both the big increase and the big drop were crisis in the United States in 2008, leading many observers, partic- ago, 3.9 million people were receiving unemployment aid. records. They reflected a sharp swing in demand for commer- ularly in Germany, to harbor deep reservations about them. The That number has fallen sharply partly because of the expira- cial aircraft, an extremely volatile category. Airplane orders fell head of the German central bank or Bundesbank, Jens tion of extended benefits, a program that ended at the begin- 74.3 percent in August. A key category that serves as a proxy Weidmann, is opposed to the ECB’s ABS plans. ning of this year. for business plans for investment rose 0.6 percent. It is, however, unusual for members of the German govern- Applications fell steadily through the summer. At the same Manufacturing production has been a key source of strength ment to openly comment on the ECB’s decisions in case the com- time, job gains have been solid, despite a slowdown in hiring for the economy this year, and economists are looking for this ments are interpreted as an attack on the central bank’s inde- in August. to continue. — AP pendence. —AFP China, Spain sign business deals worth $4bn

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China and Spain signed business deals worth about 3.2 billion euros ($4 billion) yesterday during a visit by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to the Asian powerhouse to drum up support for his country’s economy. At a ceremony in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Chinese and Spanish companies signed 14 deals in industries ranging from telecommunications to nuclear power to finance. Rajoy, who will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping today, is the latest European leader to visit China to lure investment from the world’s second-biggest economy. He was welcomed to the capital by Premier Li Keqiang late yesterday following a morning gathering of Chinese and Spanish business executives in Shanghai, where Rajoy called for Chinese investment in Spain, saying the Spanish economy was back on track after its problems during the euro zone debt crisis. “Few countries offer such a good investment opportunity as Spain with its open and competitive market,” Rajoy said in Spanish, adding SHANGHAI: People waiting at the Shanghai Entry- Exit Inspection And Quaratine Bureau in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free that the food and consumer industries were areas where the compa- Trade zone during a media trip. Concerns over China’s economy — a key driver of global growth — have intensified following nies of both countries could increase cooperation. Companies that a string of lackluster recent data, with economists calling for authorities to take further action to kickstart growth. — AFP took part in the meetings included Spain’s largest bank, Banco Santander, Inditex, the owner of global fashion chain Zara, and Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding, which listed China considering replacing CB head on the New York stock exchange last week. There was no word late on Thursday of a tie-up between Inditex BEIJING: Chinese central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, an advo- that have spawned fledgling capital markets, liberalized some interest and Alibaba despite reports in Spain that Rajoy was hoping to push cate of pro-market financial reforms, may lose his job in a reshuffling rates and broken the peg between China’s yuan and the US dollar. through a partnership between the world’s largest clothing retailer that follows internal battles over overhauling the economy, the Wall Christian Lundblad, professor of finance at the University of North and the Chinese e-commerce company that now has a market capi- Street Journal reported yesterday. Carolina at Chapel Hill, said if Zhou left it would increase uncertainty talization of more than $220 billion. The 14 agreements included President Xi Jinping is considering replacing Zhou, the paper about whether China wanted to slow the pace of reforms designed to deals between China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest reported, quoting officials with knowledge of the plans. The top con- open the economy. telecommunications equipment maker, and Spanish telecom giant tender to head the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is Guo Shuqing, a “If this means they are going to be moving away from that in the Telefonica SA and a 150 megawatt contract in Hebei Province for former banker and securities regulator who is currently governor of face of concerns about a slowdown (in economic growth), I’m disap- wind turbine maker Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. eastern Shandong province, the paper said. Xi wants more allies in pointed,” he said. Zhou was reappointed as the PBOC chief in March Spain is one of few economic brightspots in the euro zone this top government, military and Communist Party positions, and per- 2013, although he had already reached the normal retirement age of year. It grew at its fastest pace in six years in the second quarter, accel- sonnel changes were expected around a major party meeting next 65 for cabinet-ranked Chinese officials. erating a recovery from an on-off recession that began in 2008 after a month, the newspaper said. property bubble burst. “As the world economy slowly recovers, trade It added that no final decision has been made about the central Economy stumbles between China and Spain has been growing against the trend this bank post. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, the PBOC said China’s economy has stumbled in recent months and is at risk of year,” Li said during his meeting with Rajoy. As China’s economy Zhou, 66, would not be stepping down soon. When asked by Reuters falling short of the government’s 7.5 percent growth target, raising matures, its companies are increasingly investing abroad in search of on Thursday whether Zhou was leaving the central bank, the PBOC investor expectations that policymakers would further loosen fiscal higher returns. By 2014, China’s overseas direct investment is expect- said: “There is no such thing.” In response, a spokeswoman for Dow and monetary policy to stoke growth. However, senior leaders, includ- ed to exceed the direct investment it receives from foreign firms, the Jones & Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal, said it stood by ing Premier Li Keqiang, have publicly ruled out any dramatic policy trade ministry said this month. Chinese firms invested $90.2 billion in its story. easing, saying China cannot always depend on easy credit to lift its 156 countries last year, government data showed, up 17 percent on Zhou, who has led the central bank for the world’s second-largest economy. Instead, he said authorities would only make “targeted” an annual basis. — Reuters economy since 2002, has been the architect of broad financial reforms adjustments in the economy as needed.—Reuters Business FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 Modi pledges to cut red tape News in brief

in ‘Make in India’ campaign Egypt’s CA deficit shrinks to $2.4bn Flagging manufacturing sector to get a boost CAIRO: Egypt’s 2013-14 current account deficit shrank to $2.4 billion in the 2013-14 fiscal year from $6.4 billion the NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged yesterday to British mobile giant Vodafone is locked in a $2.4 billion tax row previous year, boosted by billions of dollars in foreign trans- slash red tape and harness the benefits of a huge young population with the Indian government while Finnish company Nokia also saw its fers, the central bank said yesterday. The improvement in the as he launched a campaign to attract global business to manufacture plant in India being seized over a tax dispute. current account deficit was driven by a rise in remittances in India. India’s business-friendly new leader wants to revive his coun- Kenichi Ayukawa, head of Indian car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki, and other payments from abroad, including aid, the central try’s flagging economic fortunes by kickstarting a manufacturing sec- said India had the potential to be a world leader in the sector, but was bank said. Net official transfers increased to $11.9 billion in tor long eclipsed by that of neighboring China. being held back by red tape and other issues. the 2013-14 fiscal year which ended in June, from $835.6 mil- “We don’t need to invite the world to India, they are ready to “Costs of production in India increase because of various govern- lion the previous fiscal year, the bank said. Arab Gulf coun- come. We just need to give them our address,” Modi said at the ment policies, procedures, regulations and the way some of the laws tries have provided Egypt with aid worth billions of dollars in launch of his ‘Make in India’ campaign. are implemented,” he said at the launch, adding he was confident the form of financial support and oil products since former “India is the only country in the world that has the power of such barriers to growth could now be removed. army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi deposed Islamist President democracy, demographic dividend and demand,” he added, saying Mohammad Morsi last year after mass protests. Sisi took India’s young people stood to benefit from manufacturing growth. Red carpet for investors office as president in June and pledged to combat terrorism, Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in May In the lead-up to the launch, the government revamped an Invest improve the economy and restore stability after three years on a mandate to revive the economy which is going through its worst India unit which will now act as the “first reference point” for guiding of upheaval, which began when a popular uprising ended slowdown in two decades. The government has already relaxed rules foreign investors on all aspects of regulatory issues. three decades of iron-fisted rule by Hosni Mubarak. The cen- for foreign investors, eager to create jobs for the millions of Indians In addition, a newly created web portal www.makeinindia.com tral bank said the improvement might have been larger with- who enter the employment market each year. will answer all investment-related queries from business entities. The out a sharp decline in tourism revenues. They fell 48 percent But any company seeking to do business still has to go through government has identified 25 sectors including automobile, aviation to $5.1 billion from $9.8 billion a year earlier. byzantine rules and regulations as well as from having to deal with a and construction that have potential to attract investment. stringent tax regime. Although it has moved to open the insurance, defense and trans- Modi said he had been “pained” to hear stories of companies port sectors to foreign investors, the government has also closed the Ryanair annual profit abandoning India because they had lost confidence in a country door on foreign supermarket chains such as Wal Mart who had been at top end of forecast notorious for cumbersome bureaucracy and high taxation. “I asked hoping to enter the Indian market. DUBLIN: Irish low-fare airline Ryanair said yesterday my staff, ‘why are government forms so lengthy?’ And there was no The campaign comes just hours before Modi is set to travel to the that annual net profits will be at the top end of expec- reason,” he told an audience of business leaders including Reliance United States where he will have breakfast with heads of Google and tations, citing improved customer services and a new Industries head Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, saying the gov- PepsiCo, seeking to attract investment. offering for business travellers. Profits after taxation for ernment should facilitate business, not make it more complicated. The government’s manufacturing push comes at a time when the current financial year to March 2015 are expected Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said there was “huge many global companies are seeking an alternative to China as costs to be “towards the upper end” of its previously- untapped potential” for manufacturing in India, which accounts for and risks there rise. “India can become an alternative to China for announced forecast range of between 620 million just 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), far less than many global manufacturers,” Anjan Roy, an independent economist based euros and 650 million euros ($790 million and $827 other Asian nations. “We want to make India a global manufacturing in Delhi told AFP. “We have a large domestic market that is being million), Ryanair said in a statement. The group also destination,” she said, adding India would aim to have a manufactur- largely serviced from imports. “Manufacturing has been lagging for a raised its prediction for annual passenger traffic to 87 ing sector that accounted for 25 percent of its GDP. The World Bank long time, growth in this sector has been marginal and sometimes it million customers from 86 million. Ryanair had last recently placed India a poor 134th among 189 economies in its ease has even slipped into the negative zone. So this push by Mr Modi is month launched a new ‘Business Plus’ service targeting of doing business report while regional rival China ranked 96th. very timely.”— AFP companies wanting to cut costs, with benefits includ- ing ticket change flexibility, greater baggage allowance, priority boarding and premium seats. The airline is also pushing ahead with its ‘Always Getting Better’ customer service overhaul, which has already seen a new website and app, a free second carry-on bag, and a new service for families. “Our customers and our shareholders have responded favorably to our improving customer experience, our better digital plat- form and the positive initial uptake of our Business Plus service,” said Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary in yesterday’s statement.

Lufthansa pilots’ union threatens new strikes BERLIN: A union representing pilots at Germany’s Lufthansa says talks aimed at resolving a dispute over early retirement benefits have broken down and is threatening further strikes. The Vereinigung Cockpit union staged three strikes, each of which lasted several hours, in recent weeks against Lufthansa and its Germanwings subsidiary. However, it called off anoth- er strike planned for Sept. 16 after receiving a new offer from the airline. The union said yesterday it “regrets that the nego- tiations have failed again.” It said more walkouts can be expected though no dates were given. The two sides are at odds over the pilots’ demand that Lufthansa keep a transi- tion payment for those wanting early retirement. The airline, NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Miniser Narendra Modi (center) launches the ‘Make In India’ project as Minister for Commerce and which faces tough competition from European budget air- Industry Nirmala Sitaraman looks on in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP lines and major Gulf carriers, wants to cut those payments. ADB: Modi election points to economy ‘turnaround’

HONG KONG: India’s economy shows promise of a “turnaround” said in its summary. “Reform to stimulate investment, the timely winning the biggest mandate in 30 years, Modi’s right-wing gov- following Narendra Modi’s election while Asian markets will likely award of environmental clearances, and measures to control infla- ernment has not yet introduced big-ticket reforms that are need- ride out the effects of further stimulus tapering by the United tion are expected to augment firming exports demand from major ed to kickstart economic growth. Industrial output expanded by States, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday. The Manila- industrial economies to boost economic growth,” it added. Prime an unexpectedly slow 3.4 percent in June. based lender was bullish on India’s future in a supplement to its Minister Modi swept to power in May on a pro-business platform In a cheer for regional stock markets ADB said the developing 2014 economic outlook for the region saying it expected gross that generated a tide of hope after years of political stagnation regions of Asia would likely avoid much of the panic caused in domestic product (GDP) to grow by 6.3 percent next year, com- and slowing economic growth. India’s economy expanded by 5.7 2013 by the beginning of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus tapering pared to an earlier projection of six percent. percent in the first quarter of the financial year, the best quarterly when investors moved vast sums of money towards safer havens. “After winning a decisive parliamentary victory, the new (Modi) performance in more than two years. The bank said regional economies had kept policy rates elevated government is better positioned than the old to pursue the reform And a sharp narrowing of its current account deficit-the broad- “limiting the risk that a surprise factor will worsen any financial necessary to unlock the economy’s growth potential,” the bank est measure of trade-also boosted investor sentiment. But despite turbulence”.—AFP Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 42

Three changes for Australia in Rugby Championship test

CAPE TOWN: Australia recalled hooker Saia starting places at Newlands this weekend. The NSW Waratahs teammates Nick Phipps and around its lineout and scrum. “The set-piece is Fainga’a and wings Joe Tomane and Adam Wallabies said Thursday that Tomane had Bernard Foley. Former captain and scrumhalf always an important area of focus for us, even Ashley-Cooper for tomorrow’s Rugby recovered from a broken cheekbone and a Will Genia missed out on the 23-man match- more so when you play South Africa, and we Championship test as the Wallabies chase a hamstring problem to make his first appear- day squad after being recalled for the tour to know the outcome of the scrum and lineout first win in South Africa since 2011. ance this year. Ashley-Cooper, a veteran of 97 South Africa and Argentina. will be crucial to the final result,” McKenzie said Fainga’a was due to return to Australia’s tests, is back after a neck injury forced him out McKenzie said the selection of Fainga’a in in a statement announcing his selection. squad for the South Africa game in Perth on of Australia’s victory over Argentina in its last the run-on team and Robinson on the bench The 24-year-old Tomane made the team Sept. 6 but missed out to return home for the outing. Coach Ewen McKenzie also gave a would boost the Wallabies’ set-piece and for- ahead of Rob Horne, who dropped to the birth of his first child. Tomane and vice-captain place on the bench to experienced prop Benn ward effort against a typically muscular South bench as Australia aims to combat the physi- Ashley-Cooper recovered from injury to earn Robinson and retained the half-back pairing of African team that bases much of its game cality of the Boks. —AP

Tiger remains Ryder Cup one-win wonder

GLENEAGLES: Injured star Tiger Woods has 14 major titles and 79 career PGA crowns, second-most all-time in both areas, but when it comes to Ryder Cups, he’s only a one-trophy won- der. The former world number one, who turns 39 in December, is absent from this year’s Ryder Cup, back surgery in March to ease a pinched nerve having caused him to miss most of the rest of the season and tell US captain Tom Watson not to con- sider him as a captain’s pick. “The US team and the Ryder Cup mean too much to me not to be able to give it my best,” Woods said. “I’ll be cheering for the US team. I think we have an outstanding squad going into the matches.” Watson says the Americans miss Woods’ intimidation fac- tor, which has dimmed of late due to recent injuries and his eight-year major win drought. “I said right from the beginning, I would love to have Tiger GLENEAGLES: Phil Mickelson of Team US (R) and Keegan Bradley of Team US speak during a practice session at on the team,” Watson said. “He brings an element of intimida- the Gleneagles golf course in Gleneagles, Scotland, yesterday, ahead of the 2014 Ryder Cup golf competition tion. Even though he’s not on the team, he is here in spirit.” between Europe and the USA. —AFP While Woods ranks second to the all-time major win mark of 18 by Jack Nicklaus and career win mark of 82 by Sam Snead, he has found little success in the Ryder Cup. The only winning side Woods has played for was the 1999 Europe shrugs off squad that rallied for 8 1/2 points in singles to edge Europe 14 1/2-13 1/2 at Brookline. He missed the 2008 US team that won in Valhalla with an injury after winning his most recent major, Mickelson remark the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines, on a broken leg. Woods was still an teen amateur in 1993 when Watson guided the Americans to a Cup victory in England, the most recent US triumph on European soil as this week’s showdown GLENEAGLES: European golf stars brushed laugh at the comment. thing extra to that is not going to help the in Scotland is set to begin at Gleneagles. off a Phil Mickelson barb aimed at Rory “I don’t think it’s a big factor. I don’t think cause. It comes down to being professional. McIlroy and Graeme McDowell, saying yes- mind games come into play. There are no It comes down to getting the job done on terday that such banter will have no impact personal vendettas. There are no grudges the golf course.” Ball of energy on the Ryder Cup. against anybody out there.” Germany’s Poulter, whose emotional fightback Woods has a 13-17-3 (win-loss-halved) Ryder Cup record. On the eve of the 40th biennial matchup Martin Kaymer, the reigning US Open cham- sparked Europe’s 2012 winning rally at Only Phil Mickelson has more losses, 18 as he enters his 10th between US and European squads at pion, said the remark was set aside almost as Medinah, took being made a US target by Cup start, three more than Woods. Gleneagles, 2013 US Open winner Justin it was brought up. “It’s not really a topic for American captain Tom Watson as high “I’ll tune in to the Ryder Cup to see how our guys do,” Rose of England said the five-time major us. It’s one of those things you read it, you praise. Woods said in a blog posting last week on his website. “I think champion’s remark might have been a bit of laugh about it and that’s it,” Kaymer said. “I “I take Tom Watson’s comment as a huge Tom Watson made three great captain’s picks. Hunter Mahan bolstering by the Americans for their own think in the end of the day, we should just compliment to me as a player, as someone hits the ball on a string and is one of the best ball-strikers out benefit. “I can imagine just to spice things up play golf. It’s fairly simple. If things like this that has loved the Ryder Cup,” Poulter said. here. And when he putts well, he wins, hands down. and have a bit of fun with it,” Rose said. start, it’s a little-I don’t know if that’s neces- “For Tom, accomplished as he is, to pay me “Webb Simpson is a great grinder. He’s a great person to “Maybe looking for that spark themselves. sary.” Rose said Mickelson and McIlroy spoke that compliment is amazing.” have in these team events because he can get up and down ‘Don’t forget about us, we’re here.’ And at a concert Wednesday night in Glasgow. that’s something the European team certain- “It’s a bit of banter and getting things going. Europe owns US lately and make putts. And Keegan Bradley is just a ball of energy. ly have not forgotten.” We don’t have a problem with that at all,” The US team leads the all-time rivalry 25- He’s the guy you want on the team because he’s fired up.” On Wednesday, Mickelson was asked Rose said. “There’s no real angst between the 12-2 but Europe has won seven of the past Little mention has been made of Woods this week at the about US teamwork and replied, “Not only players and in our team room it’s a non- nine meetings and owns a 9-7-1 edge since Cup, although British star Justin Rose was asked about racial are we able to play together, we also don’t issue. expanding beyond a British-Irish team. diversity in golf and said the full measure of Woods’ impact on litigate against each other and that’s a real “Of course it was mentioned last night. The Americans have not won a Ryder Cup developing elite talent and wider fan followings has yet to be plus, I feel, heading into this week.” Phil came up to Rory and was like, hey, this on European soil since Watson captained the fully seen. The barb was in reference to a lawsuit by and that. It’s no real big deal. “Phil likes to 1993 US triumph at The Belfry in England. “It is reflected a lot of times of who the kids see on TV and I world number one McIlroy, who won the sort of be that guy that will throw a good Watson, who won four of his eight career think there’s going to be a bit of a lag effect obviously with the British Open and PGA Championship in the line, especially amongst friends, which I major titles on Scottish soil, becomes the Tiger effect,” Rose said. past two months, against his former man- assume that was his intent. Amongst friends oldest captain in Ryder Cup history at age 65. “I think the people he has encouraged to start playing the agement company, one still used by good he loves the banter and he loves to throw a McIlroy sparks a Europe side that includes pal McDowell. Both players said the issue is few barbs out there, which is great.” Poulter, Kaymer, third-ranked Spaniard game, I’ve definitely seen a huge change in the States, espe- behind them and they are better friends Don’t look for Europe to build it into extra Sergio Garcia and Sweden’s fifth-ranked cially with people coming out to watch golf. There’s a great than ever off the course. motivation either, Rose said. “We’re very con- Henrik Stenson. mix of people out there and that’s fantastic for the game. “You need to see how Rory and G-Mac fident and comfortable with our games and The Americans counter with two-time “I just think there could be a 15-, 20-year cycle before we are in the team room. They are very comfort- our situation and we’re very confident as a Masters champion Bubba Watson, Cup veter- see the real impact, certainly of what Tiger has been able to able,” said 2012 Europe Ryder Cup hero Ian team,” Rose said. “We’re going to have to an Jim Furyk, five-time major winner Phil do to the game and some of the changes he’s been able to Poulter. “There’s no animosity in there what- rely upon hard work, commitment, concen- Mickelson and young rising stars Jordan make.” —AFP soever. The guys are good. So I just have to tration and focus to get the job done so any- Spieth and Rickie Fowler. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 43

Tigers beat White Sox 6-1, MLB results/standings

Baltimore 9, NY Yankees 5; Detroit 6, Chicago White Sox 1; clinch post season spot Minnesota 2, Arizona 1; LA Angels 5, Oakland 4; Toronto 1, Seattle 0; Boston 11, Tampa Bay 3; Atlanta 6, Pittsburgh 2; Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 0; Philadelphia 2, Miami 1; Cleveland 6, Kansas City 4; Texas 5, Houston 1; Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 1; San Diego 4, Colorado 3; LA Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1. American League Eastern Division W L PCT GB Baltimore 95 63 .601 - NY Yankees 81 77 .513 14 Toronto 81 77 .513 14 Tampa Bay 76 82 .481 19 Boston 69 89 .437 26

Central Division Detroit 88 70 .557 - Kansas City 86 72 .544 2 Cleveland 83 76 .522 5.5 Chicago White Sox 72 86 .456 16 Minnesota 68 90 .430 20

Western Division LA Angels 98 61 .616 - Oakland 86 72 .544 11.5 Seattle 83 75 .525 14.5 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Dodgers’ Hanley Ramirez, right, scores on a single by Juan Uribe as San Francisco Houston 69 90 .434 29 Giants relief pitcher Javier Lopez takes a late throw during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Texas 65 93 .411 32.5 in Los Angeles. —AP National League DETROIT: The Detroit Tigers looked dormant with the bats until a pitch since Kenny Lofton had 210 in 1996. The Royals fell two games behind Eastern Division from Chicago’s Chris Sale hit Victor Martinez around the back of his left first-place Detroit in the AL Central thought they remain tied with Washington 92 64 .590 - shoulder. Then tempers flared, the benches and bullpens emptied - and Oakland for the first wild-card spot with identical records of 86-72, three Sale’s shutout didn’t last much longer. games ahead of Seattle. Atlanta 77 81 .487 16 Martinez came around to score the tying run in the sixth inning, and NY Mets 76 81 .484 16.5 after Sale came out of the game, Chicago’s bullpen was no match for the Braves 6, Pirates 2 Miami 75 82 .478 17.5 Tigers. Detroit won 6-1 on Wednesday - and clinched a spot in the post- Justin Upton hit a two-run homer to break out of a September slump Philadelphia 72 86 .456 21 season when Seattle lost to Toronto. and right-hander Julio Teheran helped himself with a two-run single as The worst the Tigers can end up with now is a wild card. Detroit is try- the Braves defeated the Pirates. The home run was the 28th for Upton, Central Division ing for its fourth straight AL Central crown, and the Tigers took a two- who finished 2-for-4 with a walk, and moved him to 99 RBIs. Pittsburgh St. Louis 88 71 .553 - game lead over second-place Kansas City, which lost at Cleveland. (86-72), who had clinched at least a wild-card spot in the postseason on Pittsburgh 86 72 .544 1.5 Detroit’s magic number to clinch the division is three. Tuesday, remained 1-1/2 games behind the Cardinals in the National With one out in the sixth and Chicago up 1-0, Sale’s first pitch to League Central. Milwaukee 81 77 .513 6.5 Martinez hit the Detroit slugger. Martinez walked slowly to first, and the Cincinnati 73 85 .462 14.5 two started jawing at each other. Sale appeared to point out toward cen- Cubs 3, Cardinals 1 Chicago Cubs 71 88 .447 17 ter field in agitated fashion as Martinez went to first. Right-hander Jake Arrieta tossed a two-hitter while striking out 10 as “They were claiming that someone with binoculars in center field was the Chicago Cubs wrapped up their home season with a victory over the Western Division giving signs to Victor,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. “I think it’s a lit- St Louis Cardinals. But the Cardinals (88-71) maintained a 1-1/2 game LA Dodgers 91 68 .572 - tle weak that they would hit him. If they injure Victor there and we’re in lead over Pittsburgh in the NL Central. San Francisco 85 73 .538 5.5 the playoff hunt, that’s bad news. That just can’t happen. “He clearly did it on purpose. He made it obvious.” Sale didn’t accuse Angels 5, Athletics 4 San Diego 76 82 .481 14.5 the Tigers of stealing signs afterward, and he said he wasn’t specifically Left-hander Hector Santiago pitched 5-1/3 shutout innings, second Colorado 66 93 .415 25 gesturing toward center field. “I was just throwing my arms up, like you baseman Howie Kendrick drove in three runs, and the Los Angeles Arizona 63 96 .396 28 do when you are upset,” the left-hander said. “I wasn’t really trying to Angels withstood a furious rally to hold off the Oakland A’s. The A’s (86- control where they pointed.” Sale appeared to tip his hat toward the out- 72), who scored four runs in the seventh inning, remain tied with the field in the third inning after striking out Martinez. Kansas City Royals in the AL wild-card playoff race with the pair three Garrett Jones. Papelbon ended the game by striking out center fielder “There was a fan that was just wearing me out in the bullpen before games ahead of the Seattle Mariners. Enrique Hernandez, getting his 38th save for the Phillies. the game, telling me that I wasn’t any good, and telling me how much Victor was going to hit me,” Sale said. “So that was just having some fun Brewers 5, Reds 0 Orioles 9, Yankees 5 with him.” Justin Verlander (15-12) allowed a run in eight innings for Kyle Lohse allowed just two base runners en route to his ninth career Nick Markakis hit a two-run single during a six-run fourth inning as Detroit. Sale allowed a run and four hits in six innings. He struck out 10 shutout and Jean Segura went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs, lifting the Baltimore Orioles officially eliminated the New York Yankees from and walked three, becoming his franchise’s career leader with his 18th the Milwaukee Brewers to a victory over the Cincinnati Reds. With the postseason contention. Shortstop Ryan Flaherty had a two-run double game of at least 10 strikeouts. Ed Walsh had 17. win, Milwaukee (81-77) remained mathematically alive for the postsea- ahead of Markakis, while left fielder David Lough added an RBI triple and But Chicago’s slim lead slipped away after he hit Martinez. “I think he son. Lohse (13-9) was sharp throughout, retiring the final 13 batters and center fielder Adam Jones had a RBI bunt single as the Orioles came just woke the whole team up,” said Martinez, who is 15 of 29 for his 21-of-22 for the 12th complete game of his career. back from an early 3-0 deficit. Bud Norris (15-8) settled down after a career off Sale. The benches and bullpens emptied, but order was quickly rocky beginning and won his fourth successive decision. restored. J.D. Martinez followed with a double and Nick Castellanos hit a Blue Jays 1, Mariners 0 sacrifice fly to tie it at 1. Mark Buehrle pitched into the ninth inning and Ryan Goins singled in Red Sox 11, Rays 3 Ian Kinsler’s RBI double the following inning off Javy Guerra (2-4) put the run with two outs in the eighth as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Rookie right-hander Anthony Ranaudo overcame a shaky start to Detroit ahead, and when Kinsler reached second, he put his hands up in Seattle Mariners to dent their playoff hopes. Buehrle (13-10) held the pitch the Boston Red Sox to a rout of the Tampa Bay Rays. Ranaudo, one front of his eyes, pantomiming someone looking through binoculars. Mariners to three hits and a walk while striking out 10 in eight-plus of seven rookies to start the game for Boston, gave up two runs in the Miguel Cabrera added a sacrifice fly in the seventh. Detroit scored three innings. It was the fifth successive loss for the Mariners (83-75), who have first inning but settled down to snap a personal three-game losing runs in the eighth on a well-executed squeeze play by Andrew Romine fallen three games behind a wild card spot with just four to play. streak. Xander Bogaerts drove in three runs and combined with right and RBI singles by Rajai Davis and Kinsler. fielder Daniel Nava for back-to-back, two-run hits in a five-run fourth Phillies 2, Marlins 1 inning that knocked Tampa Bay starter Jake Odorizzi out of the game. Indians 6, Royals 4 Marlon Byrd hit an eighth-inning, game-winning single and Jonathan Yan Gomes belted a three-run homer in the first inning and Michael Papelbon returned from a suspension to get the save and lead the Rangers 5, Astros 1 Brantley had three hits to boost his season total to 199 as the Cleveland Philadelphia Phillies past the Miami Marlins. Papelbon-who was sus- Starting pitcher Lisalverto Bonilla tossed six scoreless innings and Indians beat the Kansas City Royals. Brantley needs one hit in the last pended for seven games after making an obscene gesture-pitched a struck out seven batters while Ryan Rua hit a three-run home run for three games to become the first Indians’ player with 200 hits in a season scoreless ninth, working around a one-out double by first baseman Texas as they beat the Astros. —Agencies Sports44 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Troicki dumps top seed Ferrer out of Shenzen

SHENZEN: Top seed David Ferrer was bundled Ferrer, just 25 points behind in eighth spot ATP Race to London standings out of the Shenzen Open second round by Serb before this week’s tournaments, but ninth- (top eight qualify) Viktor Troicki, while Andy Murray began his bid placed Milos Raonic is not far behind, with 1. Novak Djokovic 8150-qualified to end a 14-month title drought with an easy Grigor Dimitrov and Andy Murray on his heels. 2. Roger Federer 7020-qualified win yesterday. World number 174 Troicki fired 13 aces to 3. Rafa Nadal6645-qualified To compound the Spaniard Ferrer’s misery, canter to victory in just 66 minutes, his first over 4. Stanislas Wawrinka 4795 the 6-3 6-4 defeat by Troicki will not help his world number five Ferrer in four matches. 5. Marin Cilic3935 chances of reaching the year-ending ATP World Second seed Murray prevailed 6-3 6-3 over 6. Kei Nishikori 3675 Tour Finals in London. India’s Somdev Devvarman in his first match Ferrer, 32, is currently seventh in the race to since losing to Novak Djokovic in the US Open 7. David Ferrer3535 qualify for the Nov. 9-16 event in London. Novak quarter-finals. 8. Tomas Berdych 3510 Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal have The Scot capitalised on four of his seven 9. Milos Raonic3440 already booked three of the eight spots for the break points against the Indian who skipped the 10. Grigor Dimitrov 3335 singles. ongoing Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea to 11. Andy Murray3155 Tomas Berdych is almost neck and neck with focus on the professional tour. 12. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2650. —Reuters Kvitova, Bouchard, Wozniacki in semis

WUHAN: World number three Petra on before Bouchard claimed the first set She also became the first woman Kvitova powered into the semi-finals of 6-3. Cornet appeared to argue with the since Justine Henin in 2007 to gain the $2.4 million WTA Wuhan Open yes- umpire in the first game of the second three victories over world number one terday, joining Eugenie Bouchard and set after a video showed that she had Serena Williams in a season when the Caroline Wozniacki in the last four, served an ace, but it was ruled out. The top seed in Wuhan retired from their while Angelique Kerber crashed out. French player lost her serve two games second round match with a viral illness. Wimbledon champion Kvitova later and Bouchard looked to be cruis- Her other victories over the American SYDNEY: Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke is advanced at the expense of Caroline ing with the scores at 5-2. power-hitter came at Wimbledon in watched by young players at his cricket academy as he Garcia, who had previously performed The world number 22 staged a June and in Dubai in February. gives a press conference in Sydney yesterday. Clarke is heroics at the inaugural tournament, battling a hamstring injury which threatens his beating Venus Williams and world num- involvement in the two Tests against Pakistan starting ber six Agnieszka Radwanska. late next month, however the skipper is confident he’s The third seed in Wuhan proved to on track to a full recovery. —AFP be a step too far for the 20-year-old French rising star, who took only one game in the opening five, before going Clarke guided by on to lose the set 6-3. The pair matched each other early physio on injury on in the second set before Kvitova broke serve in the seventh game and SYDNEY: Australia captain Michael Clarke said yesterday he closed in on victory by taking the set 6- will be guided by the team physio on whether he will play in 4. Garcia, who is ranked 49th, has won next month’s two-Test series against Pakistan in the United one WTA title in her career, at Bogota in Arab Emirates. April. The 33-year-old plans to fly out on Tuesday, six days ahead Kvitova told reporters after the of the rest of the Test squad, to ensure he is acclimatised match that she was content with the before beginning to stretch himself at training. conditions in Wuhan. “The court feels a Clarke, who said he was improving daily from hamstring little bit faster... and that probably is tendon damage, is adamant he will not play unless 100 per- what suits my game,” she said. “I just cent fit. “Alex knows my body very well,” Clarke told reporters feel well here. The people are coming to of Alex Kountouris, the Australian physio. support us every time, so it’s beautiful “He’ll be the one that gives me the all clear to play the Test to see them there. I feel good, and I matches if he thinks I’m fully fit. If I pass what Alex needs me work(ed) hard before I came here.” to pass that will give me a lot of confidence as well.” The Czech will now face Elina Clarke, who has a catalogue of back and hamstring trouble, Svitolina in Friday’s semi-final after the has already been ruled out of the upcoming one-day series Ukrainian beat German seventh seed against Pakistan with what was described as a “significant” Angelique Kerber in their quarter-final hamstring injury that was worse than first thought. match 6-4, 7-6 (7/3). He was forced to retire hurt in a one-dayer against Zimbabwe in Harare on August 31 and returned home from ‘No excuse’ the tour early. Subsequent scans revealed tendon damage in It was a feisty performance from the the affected area. 34th-ranked player in the world, who The three-game one-day series against Pakistan starts on showed greater composure in the hot WUHAN: Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic hits a return during her quar- October 7 with the first of two Tests not until October 22. and humid conditions. ter-final match against Caroline Garcia of France at the Wuhan Open ten- Meanwhile, Clarke insisted fellow veteran Shane Watson’s Svitolina was 4-1 down in the second nis tournament in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province yesterday. —AFP Test career was not finished after the injury-plagued all- set, but dug deep to win the match. “I rounder was ruled out of the entire UAE tour with an ankle think I was proud of myself today, revival which saw her claw her way back Bouchard will go on to play injury, opening the door for Mitch Marsh. because I was really fighting for every to 5-5, but the Canadian took the Wozniacki in the semis, after the world ball and didn’t give up on 4-1,” she said. remaining games in quick succession. “I number seven overcame Switzerland’s Competition “I think it’s the main thing for me feel like I could have closed much bet- Timea Bacsinszky after a scare. He said Watson, 33, could expect more injuries and that I could find the way to win these ter,” Bouchard said. Bacsinszky, who beat Maria Sharapova in increased competition for his spot between now and when he kind of matches, because they are great “There is no excuse for that. That’s the last round, took the first set against retires, but that he still had plenty to offer, especially looking players and they are not giving easy something I really need to work on is Wozniacki 6-4, but the Dane powered ahead to next year’s World Cup and Ashes series against balls.” closing out better in my matches. It’s back to take the remaining sets 6-2, 6-3. England. But it was heartbreak for Alize happened a few times this week.” The Wuhan Open in the central “I think if Watto is batting and bowling, he’s a huge part of Cornet, who went out after putting up Cornet has been on terrific form in province of Hubei features the world’s our team, but he’s obviously got some stiff competition now late resistance against sixth seed China, having reached the final of the top 20 women players and reaches its as well,” Clarke said. —AFP Bouchard. The pair traded breaks early WTA Guangzhou Open last Saturday. climax on Saturday. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 45

Dortmund eye Schalke derby for redemption

BERLIN: There are few things that can lift points, there are a lot more brownie points ance against Stuttgart in his season debut For Schalke the game presents an equally the spirits of Borussia Dortmund fans, and to be won with our fans in a game like this,” with his defensive work much needed. good opportunity to convince their fans that help them forget a stuttering start to the said defender Neven Subotic. “Mats is crucial for us. He does not allow their own bad start is now a thing of the past, Bundesliga, like a win over Ruhr valley rivals “We all know that a derby victory over anything at the back and that is what we especially after Tuesday’s 3-0 win at Werder Schalke 04. So that is exactly what coach Schalke can last the whole year. That is our need these days,” said Subotic. Bremen, their first victory of the season. Juergen Klopp’s team will look to deliver on big aim, to beat Schalke.” Subotic, only Hummels warned their defence would “We do not need to motivate anyone for Saturday given Dortmund’s failure to sparkle recently back from a cruciate ligament tear need to come together if they were to return this duel,” said Schalke coach Jens Keller. “It in the German league so far. that saw him miss most of last season, could to their winning ways. is the greatest derby in the country and we Two wins and two defeats were followed be partnered from the start with fellow cen- “We need defensive stability because we are looking forward to it.” by a last-gasp 2-2 draw against struggling tral defender Mats Hummels. have already let in nine goals in five (league) He will be without suspended midfield- VfB Stuttgart on Wednesday as last season’s games,” the World Cup winner said. “That is er Julian Draxler but will have playmaker runners-up struggle to cope with a string of Crucial hummels a very bad ratio. We have to defend as a Kevin-Prince Boateng back after he sat out injuries, including the absence of their entire The Dortmund captain and fellow central team because it is only like that that you can his one-match ban for a dismissal last first choice midfield. “Besides the three defender made a brief second half appear- be successful.” week. —Reuters

Fit Ronaldo back to his prolific best

BARCELONA: Cristiano Ronaldo’s seven goals in two matches show he is back to his prolific best following a run of injury niggles as Real Madrid prepare to face Villarreal this weekend in La Liga. The Portuguese admitted he had over-stretched himself after having knee problems at the back end of the last season which he carried into the World Cup and then suffered a hamstring injury at the start of this campaign. He was rested for Real’s match against Real Sociedad and fol- lowing time-off for the international break at the beginning of this month he has returned reinvigorated. Carrying the ball home after his four-goal haul in the 5-1 win over Elche in mid-week, the 29-year-old showed that he has lost none of the desire. “As far as I remember I’ve never scored seven goals in five days,” Ronaldo told reporters at the Bernabeu. Ronaldo also bagged a hat-trick against Deportivo La Coruna last weekend in an 8-2 demolition and has now made his best ever start to a league season with nine goals so far. “I needed an active break as in my 12-year career I have always had presea- son but this year I was unable due to the problems I had at the end of the last season,” Ronaldo explained. “Those days without a match worked very well for me because I trained, rested and recovered. These goals reflect the work I did. “Each day I am now feeling quicker and gradually I am finding my rhythm. This is the fourth game that I have played a full 90 minutes but I think I may be still lacking something as I have been a long time out. MALAGA: Gerard Pique, Sergio Sanchez, Marc Bartra, Welligton Robson FC Barcelona’s Gerard Pique, left, in “For that reason it is not the moment to rest and I think the coach will action with Malaga’s Sergio Sanchez, second left, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Malaga have other opportunities to rotate the squad.” Real made a stuttering and Barcelona at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain, Wednesday. —AP start but have responded to back-to-back defeats with two big wins and have also closed the gap on leaders Barcelona who drew 0-0 away to Malaga on Wednesday. They were the first points the Catalan side have Misfiring Barca drop first dropped this season and with 13 points are joint leaders with Sevilla who now take on champions Atletico Madrid, two points behind. Barca are still to concede a goal but it was their forward line that let them down against points away to Malaga the Andalusian side with Lionel Messi and Neymar failing to make an impact. It came only a few days since they swept aside Levante 5-0 last BARCELONA: Barcelona dropped didn’t work out for us today.” ed the resistance of determined weekend playing their usual cavalier football. their first points of the La Liga season Barca top the standings on 13 Almeria as third-placed Atletico “We aren’t machines and we can’t play with the same intensity every as their star-studded forward line mis- points, ahead of Sevilla, who beat Real Madrid won 1-0 away from home. three games,” Barca coach Luis Enrique told a news conference in fired in a 0-0 draw away to Malaga on Sociedad 1-0, on goal difference. Atletico, missing injured striker Malaga. Their target now is Granada on Saturday at Camp Nou. “It wasn’t Wednesday. Malaga have not been an easy team to Mario Mandzukic, looked toothless in a great game from us but we know what we are trying to do and our Lionel Messi and Neymar have both breakdown, especially at home where attack but they pressed forward more objectives. It was a difficult match and we were not clinical enough shone in recent weeks as Barca won they have not conceded a goal, and earnestly after the break and got their inside the area. It is not as though we were in any danger ourselves even their first four games under new coach they held their positions well with reward with Miranda heading home a though Malaga did play well.” —Reuters Luis Enrique but they failed to make Sergi Darder and Ignacio Camacho Koke corner on the hour mark. an impression against Malaga with the giving them little space in the middle It was the Brazilian’s third goal of Catalan side struggling with their link- of the pitch. the season and Diego Simeone’s side up play. At the same time Messi and Neymar once again capitalised on their Barca are still yet to concede a goal did not look the potent duo that had strength in the air for an important but that too came under threat in the helped Barca thrash Levante 5-0 at the win on the back of their Champions second half as Malaga pressed forward weekend. The closest Barcelona came League defeat by Olympiakos and a and came closest to scoring from a to scoring was through a Marc Bartra weekend home draw with Celta Vigo Luis Alberto free-kick from a tight header from a corner which went just in La Liga. angle which keeper Claudio Bravo wide but there was a more consistent “We controlled the game and we turned onto a post. threat at the other end. had chances in the first half which their “We tried to move the ball around A Roberto Rosales drive whistled keeper dealt with and then after the and get on top in the game but it was just past Bravo’s right post and then goal we again moved the ball around difficult as Malaga defended in depth,” the Barca keeper pushed an Alberto well,” Simeone told a news conference. Andres Iniesta told reporters. free-kick against the same post and “To have a corner you have to “Malaga did very well but at the away for a corner midway through the attack and the team worked hard to same time we lacked speed to cause second half. create the chance which Miranda took FRISCO: FC Dallas defender Moises Hernandez (3) them problems and create chances. well. “It is an important win for us at a moves the ball downfield against the Seattle “We tried different tactics but it always Atletico win ground which is always difficult for Sounders during an MLS soccer game Wednesday, in depends on how sharp we are and it A second-half Miranda header end- us.” —Reuters Frisco, Texas. —AP Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 China win eight shooting golds in a day

INCHEON: China swept eight of the 10 Khan ended just 0.5 points behind least five countries to make it a world-level medallist Kim Jong-Hong of South Korea. gold medals fought for in the Asian Games Zhao’s score of 198.6 in a keenly-fought event. The Asian Games, where 19 trap With the men’s 10m running team gold shooting yesterday, breaking one world last round. Park Bong-Duk of South Korea shooters from six countries took part, was in the bag, China also clinched the individ- record even as revised rules handed them claimed the bronze. the first competition to be covered by the ual title through Zhai Yujiya. Jo Yong-Chol and South Korea new world marks. Khan said he was delighted to win his rules that were introduced last year. Kim of North Korea took the silver and Zhao Shengbo, Lan Xing and Liu Gang first medal in an international event. “With was not even aware of being handed a Bakhtiyar Ibrayev of Kazakhstan claimed shot a combined score of 1,876 in the such good shooters around, one can only world record as she ran and hugged her the bronze. In a well-contested men’s dou- men’s 50m rifle prone, surpassing the pre- hope for the best and that is what hap- four-year-old son, Son-Yeon-Ho, after the ble trap team final, Qatar, China and vious record of 1,873.6 by the French team pened today,” he said. event. “My son gave me a drawing on Kuwait finished with 404 points each but of Cyril Graff, Michael Halluin and Valerian “I am on a high like never before. which it was written ‘Go Mom. Asian an aggregate of 84 points in the fifth round Sauveplane at the European champi- Maybe this is just the start I need to boost Games!,” she said. “I just wanted to say handed the Qataris the gold. onships in Croatia last year. my career.” South Korea’s Kim Mi-Jin found ‘thank you’ to him for being a good boy China’s fifth round score was 83 and The win helped China avenge their loss herself in the list of world record holders while I was training.” Kuwait had 81. However, Hu Binyuan won to South Korea in the same event at the after winning the women’s double trap China’s women’s double trap team the individual title beating Fehaid previous Asiad in Guangzhou four years with 110 points, two more than second- were also awarded a world record under Aldeehani of Kuwait in the final. Juma Al- ago. The Koreans won the silver with 1,869 placed Zhang Yafei of China. the same rules after they finished with 315 Makhtoum of the United Arab Emirates points and Kazakhstan retained the bronze points, one ahead of the hosts. India took earned a bronze. with 1,859. Zhao then triumphed in the World record the bronze. With 30 titles decided so far in the 44- individual eight-man final that featured The record came automatically to Kim The Chinese won both the team and event shooting competition, China have the entire Chinese and Korean team, but it under new rules set by the International individual gold medals in the 25m stan- won 18 golds and South Korea seven. The was Muhammad Nasir Khan of Malaysia Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) which dard pistol with Ding Feng’s 577.15 points rest have been shared by India, Iran, who stole the show with a silver. require more than 15 competitors from at in the final proving too much for silver- Mongolia, Qatar and Kazakhstan. — AFP Champions Japan crush Palestine football hopes INCHEON: Defending champions Japan hammered Palestine 4-0 yesterday to set up an Asian Games quarter-final clash with South Korea, while 10-man China crashed out against Thailand. Wataru Endo, Musashi Suzuki, Takuma Arano and Riki Harakawa scored the goals that ended the Palestinians’ impressive run in the tour- nament. In other second round games, South Korea beat Hong Kong 3-0, while Jordan dealt with Kyrgyzstan 2-0 after extra time to book their quarter-final slots. The Jordanians now play Thailand, who beat China 2-0 with two spectacular Adisak Kraisorn goals. Palestine, who won their qualifying group, struggled to create chances and their goal was soon under siege. Endo smashed home a one-two with Suzuki to make it 1-0 for Japan in the 17th minute. Suzuki headed in a right-wing cross by Harakawa for his fifth goal of the tournament midway through the first half. Within a minute of coming on as second-half substitute for Suzuki, Arano shot home the third and in the 82nd minute, Harakawa picked up a rebound of Gakuto Notsuda’s close-range effort for the fourth. Japan coach Makato Teguramori said he was now looking forward to Sunday’s quarter-final against hosts South Korea, who beat Hong Kong with second-half goals from Lee Yong-Jae, Park Joo-Ho and Kim Jin-Su. The Asian Games is an under-23 event and the Palestinian full national side will play Japan again in the first match of the Asian Cup in January. Coach Abdalnasser Barakat said he was not demoralised by this defeat. “We have many professional players INCHEON: Kuwait team and officials (right) during the medal awarding ceremony. Qatar won gold, Kuwait silver and in the first team so that game will be different than this,” he said. China bronze. “Most of the players here don’t have the experience of such games.” China’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals shrank in the 33rd minute when defender Ting Yang was ordered off for a Kuwait shooters snatch new scything foul. —AFP two medals at ASIAD 2014

INCHEON: Kuwait’s national shooting ly up to five medals; one gold in ance of Kuwaiti players which helped team has added two new medals, one squash, three silver and one bronze in them defeat the Asian Games champi- silver and one bronze, to Kuwait’s shooting competitions. on Pakistani team. medals tally at the 17th Asian Games The Asian Games, which this year The new win places the Kuwaiti in South Korea’s Incheon. combines total 45 nations from across team at the top of its group with four Shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani won the continent, is considered the sec- successive wins. Kuwait will face the the silver medal in men’s individual ond largest multi-sport event after the top team in the other group in the competition and the national team Olympics. semi-final stage. On Tuesday, won the bronze medal in teams’ dou- Meanwhile, Kuwait’s national Abdullah Al-Mezayen won his coun- ble trap contest. “We were too close squash team has qualified for the try’s first gold medal at the 17th Asian to snatching gold medals in trap and semi-final phase after trouncing the Games after beating Indian rival double trap of individuals and teams title holder Pakistani team 2-1. Ghosal Saurav. contests, but luck was not in our side,” “The national team players have The Asian Games, which this year Al-Deehani told reporters after receiv- put in an outstanding performance combine a total 45 nations from INCHEON: Football player Ueda Naomichi of Japan (L) and ing the silver medal. during the various group matches,” across the continent, is considered the Palestine players compete for the ball during the men’s He expressed satisfaction was his national team coach Nasser Zahran second largest multi-sport event after 1/8 final at the Hwaseong Main Stadium during the 17th and all the shooting team’s perform- told KUNA. Zahran added that there is the Olympics. The Games will end on Asian Games in Incheon yesterday. — AFP ance. The new medals take Kuwait tal- a remarkable progress in the perform- October fourth. — KUNA Sports FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

China swim king bashes Japan’s ‘ugly’ anthem

INCHEON: China’s controversial swimming superstar Sun ured response when asked for his thoughts. “I didn’t hear Japan got off to a flying start over the first two days of Yang has taken a potshot at rival Japan’s national anthem at what he said so it’s hard to comment,” he said. “But first and the Asian Games swimming competition, triggering an the Asian Games, describing it as “ugly”. foremost we’re all athletes and we have to respect each oth- angry rant from a top Chinese swim official, who ordered The double Olympic champion told Chinese media he er. We also have to show human values so hopefully we can Hagino to sit down as he tried to leave a press conference. had taken great pleasure in helping the men’s 4x100 metres continue to compete in that atmosphere.” China have since roared back to open up an 18-11 lead freestyle relay team beat the Japanese on Wednesday. He Sun is no stranger to controversy, getting himself sus- in gold medals after five days. Sun won gold in the 400m then indulged in a spot of diplomatic jousting. “The Chinese pended from swimming for six months after police freestyle, in which he is the Olympic champion, but blamed let their anger out tonight,” he is heard as saying on a detained him last year for colliding with a bus while driving a thumb injury for his stunning defeat by Hagino in the Chinese-language audio passed to AFP. “Honestly speaking, his Porsche without a license. 200m. The sore digit also forced him to switch to the third the Japanese national anthem sounds ugly.” China’s swimming bad boy previously had a public bust- leg of the relay. “My hands still hurts and I have the 1,500m Japanese rival Kosuke Hagino, who ruffled Sun’s feath- up with his coach after he voiced disapproval of the swim- to go,” said the giant Chinese, also the Olympic champion ers with a shock 200m victory last weekend, gave a meas- mer’s dalliance with an air hostess. and world record holder in the 1,500 free.—AFP Waqas winner as Pakistan beat India

INCHEON: Muhammad Waqas scored the winner outside,” said Walsh. “But the good thing is that it six minutes from time as defending champions was just a three-point match, not a semi-final or a Pakistan downed arch-rivals India 2-1 to reach the final. Asian Games semi-finals yesterday. In a keenly contested pool B encounter, Pakistan desire Muhammad Bhutta put Pakistan ahead in the “Pakistan had more desire to win than we did. third quarter before Nikkin Thimmaiah drew level Now we have to concentrate on the match at the start of the fourth. Waqas took advantage against China. I will make sure our guys get more of a defensive lapse to hit the winner that gave competitive.” unbeaten Pakistan a place in the semi-finals even Hosts South Korea also advanced to the last before their last league match against Oman four with a 2-1 win over Malaysia, their third suc- tomorrow. cessive win in pool A. Nam Hyun-Woo banged in The winner between India and China tomor- two penalty corners in the second and third quar- row will determine the other semi-finalist from ters, before Mohammad Jalil narrowed the margin the pool. Both teams are level on six points from for Malaysia in the fourth. three matches. Pakistan’s coach Shahnaz Sheikh Meanwhile, Kenta Tanaka and Toshiro played down the rivalry against India, saying it Tachibana slammed hat-tricks as Japan blanked was more important to gain full points from the Singapore 13-0 to remain in contention for the match. semi-finals from pool A. INCHEON: This photo taken on September 24, 2014 shows members of the Qatar women’s “I think we played our best game in the tour- With two wins from three games, Japan drew basketball team walking off the court after withdrawing ahead of their women’s preliminary nament,” Sheikh, a former international said. level with Malaysia, whom they play on Saturday round match against Mongolia during the 17th Asian Games at the Hwaseong Sports Complex “Every match counts in an event like this and we to decide the second semi-finalist from the pool. Gymnasium in Incheon. — AFP are capable of doing well against any team. Japan’s Korean coach Kang Keon-Wook said “In Pakistan, hockey is a national sport and his team was geared for the crucial game against people celebrate when we win. It is not only the Malaysians, silver-medallists in Guangzhou about India. They want us to do well against every four years ago. “Malaysia are a strong team so I China stays top at Asian team.” With the winner gaining a direct entry into guess it is going to be a pretty intense match,” the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Sheikh is anx- Kang said. “We have made plans for that game Games amid hijab flap ious to get the gold medal again. and ensure our strong points are not wasted.” “We did not qualify for the World Cup and that Singapore ended the competition with four loss- Qatar withdraws, prepares to return home was a huge blow,” he said. “We need to win this es, having conceded 35 goals and scored only one because the qualifiers are tough.” India’s three. Oman recorded their first win in three pool INCHEON: China widened its lead in the Asian Games organizing committee. Australian coach Terry Walsh was livid at the B games with a 3-1 romp over winless Sri Lanka, Games medal race yesterday as the competition Away from the controversy, attention again defeat, but said his team’s campaign was not over but the effort came too late to stay in line for the was overshadowed by the Qatari women’s bas- focused on the swimming competition, with yet. “It was frustrating to watch the game from semi-finals. — AFP ketball team withdrawing because of a ban rivals Japan and China splitting the medals over against wearing Muslim headscarves during the day’s six races. With one day to go, China games. Three world records were also set in holds the overall lead with 18 swimming golds archery, shooting and weightlifting. At the end to Japan’s 11. of day six of the 16-day continental games, with China’s Shi Yang won the men’s 50-meter 173 of the 439 total gold medals awarded, China butterfly in 23.46 seconds, with 100 butterfly had won 78 golds, with South Korea and Japan gold medalist Joseph Schooling coming in sec- in a tie for second with 28 each. ond to earn his third medal of the competition. The dispute over the Qatari players’ refusal to Yang Jung-doo of South Korea was third. remove their hijabs - considered by conservative Despite collecting the full set of gold, silver Muslim women to be a requirement of their faith and bronze, Schooling said he’d fallen short of - has raised new questions about rules over head his goal of winning all three of his races. “It coverings and efforts to promote Muslim wasn’t too bad. I was pretty pleased with that. women’s sports participation. There are a lot of positives I can take out of this,” Qatar delegation leader Khalid al-Jabir said said the University of Texas freshman, whose win the team had decided to withdraw and was on Wednesday was Singapore’s first men’s already preparing to return home. swimming gold medal at the Asian Games in 32 The Qatari women were due to play Nepal years. yesterday afternoon but didn’t show up at the venue. The women weren’t allowed to wear Hometown favorite head coverings in their opening game on Japan’s Olympic silver medalist Satomi Suzuki Wednesday and refused to play, surrendering outpaced the favorites to win the women’s 50 the game to Mongolia. Although sports ranging breaststroke in 31.34 ahead of China’s Suo Ran from bowling to badminton allow hijabs to be and He Yuzhe. Meanwhile, hometown favorite worn during the Asian Games, basketball’s world Park Tae-hwan continued his mediocre run at governing body does not allow them in interna- the games with a silver in the men’s 100 freestyle tional competition. behind China’s Ning Zetao, who set a new Asian INCHEON: India’s Ramandeep Singh and Pakistan’s Rashid Mehmood battle for the ball during The Olympic Council of Asia had no immedi- record at 47.70 seconds. Japan’s Shinri Shioura there A pool hockey match at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday. — AP ate comment on the issue, nor did the Asian was third.—AP Korea, yesterday.—AP Range inIncheon,South Gyeonggido Shooting the 17thAsianGamesat gun beforeapracticeat Kuwait carrieshershot- lete AfrahMohammadof INCHEON: Shootingath- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 www.kuwaittimes.net two medals at ASIAD 2014 Kuwait shooters snatch Page 46