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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 THULQADA 29, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Teacher Perry drops Socialist Martial makes explains new out of US Corbyn splash as school year presidential wins Labour Man Utd down preparations4 race 9 leadership10 Liverpool20 Hajj to go ahead despite Min 29º Max 43º Makkah crane collapse High Tide 10:39 & 23:20 Low Tide Death toll hits 107 Accident an ‘act of God’ Camel slaughter banned 05:02 & 17:25

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MAKKAH: Saudi authorities said yesterday that the annual hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse that Unified work killed 107 people at Makkah’s Grand Mosque, where crowds returned to pray a day after the tragedy. Hundreds contract to of thousands of pilgrims had already arrived in Makkah for the hajj, a must for all able-bodied Muslims who can afford it, when the massive red and white crane collapsed during protect rights rain and high winds on Friday. Parts of the Grand Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, remained sealed off yesterday KUWAIT: Acting director of the manpower authority around the toppled crane, which also injured around 200 Abdullah Al-Motoutah yesterday said that the authority people when it fell into a courtyard. has approved a unified labor contract including the rights The director general of civil defense, Suleiman bin and duties of both laborers and employers as per Kuwait’s Abdullah Al-Amro, told satellite broadcaster Al-Arabiya labor law. Motoutah added that the new contract form that the unusually powerful winds that toppled the crane would go into effect soon as instructed by Social Affairs also tore down trees and signs as a storm whipped and Labor Minister Hind Al-Subaih with the aim of intro- through the area. He denied reports that lightning brought ducing executive reforms. “This unified form had been a down the red-and-white crane, which was being used for top priority for minister Subaih with the aim of protecting the mosque’s expansion, or that some of those killed died both sides’ rights,” he underlined. in a stampede. “The speed of the wind was not normal,” he The authority’s legal department manager Mubarak Al- said. “There was no way for people to know that the crane Jafour said that it was with this in mind that the new con- was about to collapse for them to scramble,” he added. tract was worded after reviewing the opinions of relevant But there was little mourning among pilgrims, who authorities such as Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kuwait Labor Union, Banks Union, Industries snapped pictures of the wreckage and continued with their Union, Hotels Union and the authority’s youth committee, prayers and rituals. “I wish I had died in the accident, as it that all approved the contract’s project, which fully happened at a holy hour and in a holy place,” Egyptian pil- observes Kuwait labor act number 6/2010, especially arti- grim Mohammed Ibrahim told AFP. The accident occurred cle 28, including the date of commencement, validity, job only about an hour before evening Mahgrib prayers on the nature and wages in contracts. Muslim weekly day of prayer. Om Salma, a Moroccan pil- Continued on Page 13 MAKKAH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (center) listens to Makkah Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday grim, said “our phones have not stopped ringing since during a tour of the site where a crane fell inside the Grand Mosque. — AFP Continued on Page 13 India restaurant blasts kill 85

PETLAWAD, India: A powerful explosion triggered by a gas cylinder tore through a packed restaurant in India yesterday, killing at least 85 people and wounding approxi- mately 100 others, police said, in one of the worst such accidents in the country in recent memory. The restaurant building in central Madhya Pradesh state was being used to illegally store explosives which det- onated in the blast, local authorities said, vastly amplifying its impact and destroying neighboring buildings. “Initially we heard the sound of (fire) crackers... a huge explosion took place forc- ing people to run for cover,” Balram, an injured laborer, told Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency from the hospital in Jhabua district. The blast in the town of Petlawad occurred at around 8:30 am local time (0300 GMT) as many office workers and school- ROME: CEO and Executive Chairman of Alshaya Group Mohammad Alshaya is children were having breakfast in the restau- seen during the ceremony. — KUNA rant. Photographs from the scene showed corpses covered in dust and ash lying in the Alshaya inducted into World streets alongside the twisted wreckage of PETLAWAD, India: A crowd gathers at the site of an explosion in this town in the cen- Continued on Page 13 tral Indian state of Madhya Pradesh yesterday. — AP Retail Congress Hall of Fame PAGE PAGE ROME: The World Retail Conference in Alshaya, Executive Chairman of the Pro-migrant rallies Messi lifts Barca, Rome has inducted Kuwaiti businessman Alshaya group of companies”. Mohammad Alshaya into its 2015 hall of “Highly respected by retailers around held across Europe Ronaldo hits five fame describing the CEO and Executive the world, Mohammad has created a Chairman of Alshaya Group as “highly strong partnership approach to help respected” around the world. In its clos- drive growth not only through the ing statement received by KUNA yester- Middle East but also North Africa, Turkey, Latin America wins big day, the World Retail Congress said that it Russia and Europe,” added the event, was “delighted to announce that the which ran from Sept 8 to 10. The Kuwaiti third inductee into this year’s World was selected alongside another four at Venice Film Festival Retail Hall of Fame is Mohammad Continued on Page 13 Venezuelan film bags Golden Lion Riyadh says scores of VENICE: Venezuelan drama “Desde Alla” (From Afar) won the Golden Lion for best Syrians given residency film at the Venice Film Festival yesterday on a night to remember for Latin American DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said it has taken in at “some hundreds of thousands” - have cinema. The debut feature by director about 2.5 million Syrians on religious and been granted residency status. That sta- GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba: In this Lorenzo Vigas was awarded the festival’s humanitarian grounds in the years since tus gives the Syrians access to work, Dec 4, 2006 file photo, a detainee shields his face as top prize by a jury chaired by Mexican the country’s conflict began and has schools and free medical care, according he peers out through the so-called “bean hole” used director Alfonso Cuaron from a selection of offered residency to hundreds of thou- to the statement. It said Saudi public to pass food and other items into detainee cells at 21 productions from around the world. The sands, as it sought to rebut suggestions schools have accepted more than the Camp Delta detention center. — AP Silver Lion for best director went to that oil-rich Gulf states should do more 100,000 Syrian students. Argentina’s Pablo Trapero for “The Clan”, a to address the plight of refugees fleeing The kingdom had not intended to dis- Bid to shut Gitmo crime movie based on a real-life story of a civil war. The official Saudi Press Agency cuss its efforts to aid Syrians and “did not prosperous family of kidnappers in Buenos quoted an unnamed official at the wish to boast about its efforts or attempt Aires which has been a huge hit on home Foreign Ministry as saying the kingdom to gain media coverage,” but felt com- roils US politics soil. American duo Charlie Kaufman and does not consider those it has taken in as pelled to disclose some figures in light of Duke Johnson took the Grand Jury Prize for refugees and does not house them in what it called “erroneous and misleading WASHINGTON: The Obama administration’s struggling their acclaimed and highly original stop camps “in order to ensure their dignity information,” according to the report. quest to close the US detention center at Guantanamo animation feature for adults “Anomalisa”. and safety”. Saudi Arabia’s statement emphasized Bay, Cuba, is mired in state and federal politics. Italy’s Valeria Golina won the best The OPEC heavyweight is not a signa- that the kingdom has provided some Frustrated White House and Pentagon officials are actress award for “Per amor vostro” (For tory to the UN Refugee Convention, $700 million to support Syrian refugees, blaming each other for the slow progress releasing Your Love), a Naples-set drama by which outlines the rights of refugees and including those living in Jordan and approved detainees and finding a new prison to house Giuseppe Gaudino. France’s Fabrice Luchini VENICE: Director Lorenzo Vigas holds obligations on those countries that are Lebanon. Its aid included food and med- those still held. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is facing the Golden Lion for Best Film for his party to it. Saudi Arabia did not specify ical supplies, the establishment of clinics was named best actor for his role in criticism from some administration officials who com- movie “Desde Alla” (From Afar) during how many of those Syrians admitted in refugee camps, and payments to cover Christian Vincent’s “L’Hermine”, which also plain that he has not approved enough transfers, even the awards ceremony on the closing remain in the country, saying only that rent and living costs to families living in won the best screenplay award in the main though 52 Guantanamo detainees are eligible. Carter’s day of the 72nd Venice Film Festival those who wished to stay - a figure it put Lebanon and Syria. —AP competition. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 yesterday at the Venice Lido. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 LOCAL

MILAN: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah and Caretaker of Kuwait’s Pavilion Faisal Al-Mutalaqem and Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah visit Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled and Sheikh Khaled Al- Consul General in Milan Haji Bukhadour present a memento to His Kuwait’s Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 yesterday. — KUNA Jarrah with staff members at Kuwait’s pavilion. Highness the Prime Minister. Premier visits Kuwait’s Pavilion at Expo Milano

MILAN: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Civilized image The Kuwaiti pavilion, themed ‘Challenge of Nature,’ shows how Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday paid a visit to Kuwait’s Pavilion at and the UN proclamation of His Highness the Amir as a His Highness the Premier meanwhile applauded the efforts of the Kuwaitis made the desert inhabitable, and continue to do so, the international food exhibition Expo Milano 2015 which is held ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and of Kuwait as a ‘Humanitarian Center.’ the Kuwait pavilion team to show the world the civilized image of using education, technology, science and renewable energy to in the Italian Capital. His Highness Sheikh Jaber was received at the The function featured two documentaries one about Kuwait’s Kuwait. He also spoke highly about Kuwaiti people’s use of new establish a modern, vibrant and growing community which can venue by Caretaker of Kuwait’s Pavilion Faisal Al-Mutalaqem and nature and the success in producing drinking water and power technologies to overcome the nature’s challenges. contribute to global development and to feeding the world. Kuwait’s Consul General in Milan Haji Bukhadour. and the other about the ‘Humanitarian Leader,’ two folklore per- His Highness the Prime Minister was accompanied by the First Expo is a major international exhibition that has been held His Highness the Premier toured the different sections of the formances themed ‘Humanitarian Center’ and ‘Post-peace Kuwait’ Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- every five years since the 19th century. Covering 272 Acres, Expo pavilion and listened to presentations made by the pavilion offi- and a photo gallery for the ‘Humanitarian Leader’ His Highness the Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Milano expects an estimated 29 million visitors from May 1st- cials about its contents, participating institutions and the message Amir. Then, Mutalaqem delivered a welcoming speech in which he Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Chairman of the Kuwait- October 31st 2015. More than 140 participating countries are it aims to convey to the world. lauded His Highness the Prime Minister and his government’s based International Islamic Charitable Organization and Advisor at showcasing the best of their technology, which will offer answers After that, His Highness Sheikh Jaber attended a special func- unlimited support to the team of the Kuwaiti Pavilion in Expo the Amiri Diwan Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq and the Kuwaiti to questions revolving around health, safety and better food tion held to celebrate the first anniversary of the UN honoring of Milano 2015. Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Ali Al-Khalid Al-Sabah. nourishment. — KUNA

A member of Kuwait’s ‘Journey of Hope’ voyage greets His Highness the Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak is pictured during his tour at the Kuwaiti His Highness the Prime Minister is pictured with staff members at the pavilion. Prime Minister. pavilion. Prime Minister inaugurates Parliament 3rd E-Government Forum Speaker heads ‘Information Management and Security’ KUWAIT: A NoufEXPO spokesman cess of developing and implementing egy. CISCO has a strong message to “Information security is a mandatory to UK tomorrow announced yesterday that the compa- E-Government programs. EGOV3 will deliver, boosting its IT strategy. EGOV3, factor for the success of e-government ny is actively working on the arrange- witness the participation of IBM, which moreover, shall witness the participa- programs, as well as for any other elec- ments to hold the 3rd E-Government has led IT industry since the 1950s.IBM tion of many other global and local IT tronic systems such as banking, retail, KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Forum - Information Management and launched its new office in Kuwait on companies. and electronic payment related sys- Marzouq Al-Ghanem is to visit the UK Security. EGOV3 will be held in collabo- 25th May 2015 due to its belief that tems. EGOV3 shall touch upon the vari- tomorrow heading a parliamentary dele- ration with the Central Agency for Kuwait will continue to offer lucrative E-government programs ous aspects of information security. gation for an official visit lasting several Information Technology (CAIT) from 15 investment opportunities. IBM has been The NoufEXPO spokesman com- Topics will include the Need for days in response to an invitation by - 17 November 2015 at Arraya Ballroom a part of the IT industry in Kuwait since mented on this occasion: “EGOV3 will Continuous Monitoring and Security British House of Commons Speaker John of Courtyard Marriott hotel. For the the mid-seventies. Microsoft will also be discuss two tracks that are of significant Operation and Network Forensics Bercow. third consecutive year, His Highness the there with their leadership in both the importance to e-government develop- Analysis. It will try to answer tough During his visit, Ghanem is scheduled Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- personal and enterprise solutions space. ment services: These are information questions such as Information Security - to meet with Britain’s Prince Charles and Mubarak will patronize the event repre- Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement with management and information security. Can Governments Win the Battle? And holds official talks at the headquarters of sented by His Excellency Minister of the Kuwaiti Government provides The Information management track After Sony’s Incident - Who Is Secure? the House of Commons with Speaker State for Cabinet Affairs and the Microsoft with genuine opportunities to shall cover topics such as Road to Information Security is Much More than John Bercow. The talks will be expected Chairman of the Board for CAIT Sheikh play a bigger role. Both FireEye and Government Data Integration and Technology Implementation, and to focus on bilateral relations between Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah sig- Fortinet, at the forefront of IT Security Governance, Trends of Enterprise Mobile Data Security will also be dis- the two countries, especially parliamen- naling a much needed and valuable solutions, will answer strategic ques- Content Management (ECM), Data cussed in detail in addition to topics tary relations, as well as discussing the official support of Kuwait’s moderniza- tions on how to protect our information Analytics in e-Government Solutions, related to Hacker Tools, Techniques, latest developments on the regional and tion through a transformation into a assets. Their global IT security presence and Record Management in the e- Exploits and Incident Handling and the international arenas. Ghanem is also knowledge-based society. gives them the edge to make strong Government services. The Forum will Value and Trends of Encryption expected to meet with senior British law- intrusions in the enterprise IT security also shed light on the future NoSQL and Technologies.” makers and government officials. Strategic Participation market. EMC, the storage technology In-Memory Database Trends and The The NoufEXPO spokesman conclud- Ghanem will deliver a lecture on the NoufEXPO spokesman confirmed giant, will shed light on what is taking Paradigm Shift of the Internet of Things ed his statement by inviting global and sidelines of his visit at the London School the participation of many global tech- place in this industry sector where data (IoT). A core focus of this track is to dis- local IT vendors to make the most out of of Economics on the ‘Democratic nology giants driven by the overwhelm- management, storage, and protection cuss the Structural Challenges of this excellent marketing and investment Development and Governance in the ing success of EGOV1 and EGOV2. represent essential requirements for Service Oriented Governments, and the opportunity. He invited all interested State of Kuwait.’ Ghanem’s delegation Technology vendors will, in addition to today’s ever inflating storage volumes. role of the M-Government programs.” companies or specialists to contact the will include MPs Ahmad Al-Qudhaibi, presenting their solutions and services, CISCO, the network giant, will go fur- Scientific Committee or NoufEXPO at Rakan Al-Nesef, Askar Al-Enezi and go even further by discussing strategic ther by exploring their next generation Information security +965 22469921 or by email address Majed Al-Mutairi. — KUNA Marzouq Al-Ghanem and sensitive issues affecting the suc- networks and unified computing strat- The NoufEXPO spokesman added: [email protected]. Babtain Foundation calls on poets to contribute to Syrian refugees’ cause KUWAIT: The Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain’s Prize for Poetic Creativity called Arab poets yesterday to con- tribute with poems describing the suffering of the Syrian people, a move to include their contribution in Ailan Abdullah Al-Kurdi’s publication of poets which he previously received. In a statement, the foundation said various Arab poets contributed to highlight the tragedy of the Syrian peo- ple, the tragic Syrian child Ailan Abdullah Al-Kurdi who drowned on the shores of Turkey, including all those men, women, and children who recently died while they attempt- ed to flee the horror of war. The foundation, which will be sponsoring Al-Kurdi’s pub- lication, comes from its faith in the role played by Arab poet- KUWAIT: The Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) So Chang Sik hosted a reception at Crowne Plaza Hotel on the occasion of ry. It stressed that those who wish to participate must depict the 67th national day of DPRK last Tuesday evening. Higher official diplomats, media personnel and members of the Korean community in Kuwait partici- the tragic events in Syria, but keep in mind future genera- pated in the event. - Photos by Joseph Shagra. tions that would read their work. The foundation noted that participants can login to their website and fill out the form and contribute their work which will be distributed for free to public, libraries and Arabic cultural institutions. — KUNA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 LOCAL Ministers offer condolences over Makkah crane victims MPs coordinating over

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and the deadly crane collapse in Masjid Al- Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Haram (Grand Mosque in Makkah) on terrorism law: Tamimi Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- Friday. Sheikh Salman reaffirmed in a press Sabah has expressed his condolences over statement on Saturday Kuwait’s solidarity with Saudi Arabia following the fatal acci- By A Saleh that explanations must be made by the ministry Al-Subaih intends to refer four cooperative dent that left at least 107 dead and 238 of commerce, Kuwaiti partners must be pun- societies to the prosecution by the end of injured. KUWAIT: The parliament intends to discuss sev- ished and that the issue ought to be taken seri- this month, said informed sources, noting Meanwhile, Minister of Justice and eral security-related issues and pass whatever is ously, especially since terrorist attacks by Iran are that financial violations had been detected Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane needed to secure the country, said MP Abdullah still happening. in the concerned co-ops and that their yesterday urged Kuwaiti Hajj pilgrims to Al-Tamimi, noting that there is government-par- boards of directors failed to solve and end abide by the Saudi instructions during their liament coordination on passing several laws Kandari’s grilling them. journey for their own safety. In a statement, including one on terrorism. MP Khalil Abdullah was recently advised by Sane expressed his deep condolences to Separately, and in response to reports about his bloc, the National Islamic Alliance (NIA), not Children of bedoons Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to file a grilling motion against Minister of Minister of Education Bader Al-Essa and all Saudis over the victims of the dead- Communications Essa Al-Kandari to avoid its responded to parliamentary requests to ly crane collapse in Masjid Al-Haram. The negative impact on both NIA and Abdullah him- accept children of bedoons registered in the Minister also lauded efforts by members of self. Notably, Abdullah had intended to grill the 1965 census in public schools, telling them the Kuwaiti mission for the Hajj and their minister over Kuwait Aviation Services Company that it would be hard to do so because cur- follow-up of all details of the journey. (KASCO) and Kuwait Airways Company (KAC), rent capacities are insufficient. Notably, Also, Undersecretary of the Ministry of but NIA believes that he is doing a good job some lawmakers in the fourth electoral con- Health Dr Khaled Al-Sahlawi, assured that fighting corruption in both ministries under his stituency had urged the minister to accept Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah Kuwaitis and expats at home that the coun- jurisdiction. “Nobody will support Abdullah in those students similar to children of bedoon try’s pilgrims in the Kingdom are all safe. his no-confidence motion and Abdullah should military personnel. “Accepting this means Citing reports from the doctors’ team instead continue filing inquiries and wait for adding over 30,000 new students, which accompanying the pilgrims, he said that answers,” stressed NIA. requires more schools, teachers and workers none of them was harmed in the crane at a time when we are already suffering from accident. Deposits system financial deficit,” explained the minister, In the meantime, the Health Ministry Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh stressed that adding that he would nevertheless discuss will today embark on an awareness media all foreign aid are given from the sums allocated the proposal with the Cabinet. campaign on the Hajj, in cooperation with for this purpose in the state’s budget and that all the Directorate General of Civil Aviation sums given are subject to auditing by state KOC production and Kuwait Airways. The ministry will offer MP Abdullah Al-Tamimi auditing and monitoring bodies. Saleh also not- Recent oil and crude oil discoveries made pilgrims guidance and answer their ques- ed that state deposits with central banks and by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in various tions on Hajj through a pavilion at the a security breach at Shuwaikh Port, MP finance establishments are subject to commer- parts of Kuwait will increase production to Kuwait International Airport, head of the Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran said that the news were cial and investment deposits systems and inter- 3.3 million barrels per day within two years, ministry’s media office Dr Ghalia Al-Mutairi not surprising. “Yet, the strange thing is how est rates at the time of deposit. said informed oil sources, noting that seismic said. Guidance publications and documen- they managed to stay that long, sail out and in surveys conducted in several land and taries will be offered on board planes head- several times and manipulate the company’s log Co-ops to prosecution marine locations suggested the presence of Yaqoub Al-Sane ing to Saudi Arabia. —KUNA to avoid the ban,” he wondered. Jeeran added Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind huge amounts of crude oil and gas. Interior coordinates with community leaders to safeguard worship places

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior’s Undersecretary for Public Security Major General Abdulfatah Al-Ali and security commanders Man critically injured of Kuwaiti governorates held a coordinating meeting with directors of Hussainiyas (Shiite worship places) to discuss measures to protect in boat rescue mission Hussainiyas especially during religious occasions. In a press statement, the MoI’s Security Media Department stat- By Hanan Al-Saadoun ed Saturday that Maj Gen Al-Ali has emphasized the importance of immediate dealing with any suspicious person or vehicle until secu- KUWAIT: Salmiya marine rescue forces were dispatched to res- rity personnel and patrols take the required action. He instructed cue Iranian sailors when water started leaking into their boat security personnel to be deferential towards people during the near Ouhah island, said security sources, noting that the leak inspection process at the entrances of Hussainiyas. Ali also unveiled was controlled. One of the sailors was in a critical condition and a close cooperation between the Interior Ministry and other state needed immediate medical attention. bodies to resolve any problem facing officials at Hussainiyas. Separately, a fire broke out in a livestock fodder warehouse Meanwhile, Security Commander of Al-Asimah Governorate Maj located over an area of 1,200 square meters in a Sulaibiya farm, Gen Ibrahim Al-Tarah confirmed the security agencies’ readiness to said security sources, noting that firemen from Subhan, impose law and order nationwide and to retain safety of people and Sulaibikhat, Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh and Salmiya rushed to the scene facilities, particularly during formal and religious occasions. On the where they managed to control the fire and prevent it from other hand, Hussainiyas officials thanked Maj Gen Ali and all securi- spreading to adjacent buildings. A fireman suffered from ty officials for their relentless and sincere efforts to enhance the smoke inhalation and was treated onsite. KUWAIT: Major General Abdulfatah Al-Ali speaks during yesterday’s meeting. security and stability of Kuwait. —KUNA

Local spotlight KFSD holds fire The EU’s training courses challenge By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fire Services Directorate’s (KFSD) Public Relations and Media Department recently conclud- ed its seventh training course held under the title of ‘A Fireman in Every House’ with the aim of spreading public awareness on safety and fire prevention. The department’s By Muna Al-Fuzai director Colonel Khalil Al-Amir said that due to growing number of participant each time, the course would be held every three months to train Kuwaiti youth on safety at home in terms of fires and means of fighting and prevent- ing them. “Participants themselves had requested more courses”, he underlined. [email protected] Separately, KFSD’s deputy Director for Human Resources Affairs Major General Khalid Al-Terkait recently met with the Qabazard Engineering Consultancy, as well ast week I wrote about the position of European Union as a German consultancy team entrusted with turning the countries in dealing with the issue of Syrian refugees at a Firemen Training Center into an academy. The meeting Ltime when Gulf states have reservations on opening all saw discussion of curricula to be taught at the center, doors for security reasons and possible infiltration of terrorist courses details, training hours and conditions of joining elements. The article provoked a lot of controversy and specu- KFSD as well as post graduate courses for fire officers and lations over the EU’s future. The question is whether the personnel. European Union’s decision to open doors to Syrian refugees is enough? Will the flow of Syrian refugees change the EU map and perhaps European policies? The EU’s decision to welcome all Syrians refugees is not enough to end the basic problem that caused to take out all these people from their homeland forever, never to return. We now know the humanitarian situation of the EU countries, but what about the political situation!? The pressure imposed on the world’s semi-unified stance in providing shelter to these millions of refugees should not be crippled by providing a clear and specific stand on the Syrian crisis. Because if the crisis remains, it will mean that the flow of migrants will escalate. The EU countries today face a great challenge at all levels in dealing with the issue of Syrian refugees that might change the map of the world. I could not agree more. The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated that “such a challenge cannot be shouldered by a single nation to suc- ceed...it will be up to European solidarity.” Yes, the German position, which was expressed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was exceptional in hosting all Syrian refugees, but it will not be possible to avoid possible complexities. Think about the ethnic and religious challenges that the EU will face sooner or later because of the different ethnicities of refugees away from European values and ways. Does the EU have the tools to provide proper integration of the refugees into Western society? The British experience with Asian emi- grants was not successful. The Spanish interior minister has expressed determination to prevent the entry of militants linked to IS as refugees com- ing to Spain. This is an appropriate opportunity to activate intelligence work, especially given that the Spanish govern- ment has approved the proposal of the European Commission to host 149,000 refugees, while some countries such as Hungary and Denmark rejected the European Parliament plan. The Gulf states must take a share in supporting the EU to carry the burden of hosting the refugees. The EU and Gulf states must play a role in dealing seriously with this position through two dimensions: The first is that these migrants come from disturbed Middle East countries facing extremism, and the other is that the EU and Gulf states should not stand with folded arms in front of the continuation of the Syrian crisis. Now is time to use the situation to seek a common position by finding a final solution through the Security Council, because the containment of migrants is not a solution. It will never be enough. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 LOCAL

Teacher explains her new school year preparations Readying the groundwork

By Nawara Fattahova some. Some of the measures may not seem very impor- people think. The first day of school for students should tant - for example: Walking in line. But walking in line is never be a teacher’s first day. It takes a lot of time to get he new academic year is here, and teachers are a barometer of how well things are going in your class- ready for school to start. There is a lot of work that back to school before the students. Some teach- room and how ready your students are for more learn- needs to be done with both your classroom and your Ters get ready for the new school year by exerting ing. instructional material. Teachers who wait until the last extra efforts and buying new stuff for their classes, like moment to get everything ready are setting themselves Helene Al-Rahi, who has made great preparations in her Set Goals up for a rough year. Young teachers need more prepara- classroom to welcome her students. According to Helene, every teacher should have a set tion time than veteran teachers, but even veteran Helene, a Lebanese-Canadian, was born and raised in of expectations or goals that they want their students teachers must spend quite a bit of time preparing for Kuwait, and she always had a passion for teaching since to reach. “Teachers should also have a list of personal the upcoming school year if they plan to have a fantas- she was little. “My parents would buy me a blackboard goals to improve in specific areas of weakness that they tic year,” she stated. with chalk and I would play with my dolls, pretending have. Having goals of any kind will give you something they were taught by me! After high school, I went to to work towards. It is also okay to set goals together Set the Tone Canada for university where I got a double major in with your students. Having a shared set of goals will “The first few days and weeks of school will often set Helene Al-Rahi Sociology and Education from Concordia University in push both teacher and students to work harder to the tone for the entire school year. Respect is often won Montreal. I started off with sociology, wanting to be a obtain those goals. It is okay that goals be adjusted or lost in those first few days and weeks. A teacher social worker, but when I took an elective “Educational either way as the year moves along. Just remember that should seize that opportunity to establish a solid rap- Psychology” class, it was just love at first read. I went to all students have their own unique needs,” Helene port with their students, but at the same time respect- niture and pictures are in place, a classroom needs per- the education department and I asked them to add a pointed out. fully show them who is in charge. A teacher who comes sonal touches from both the grownups and children second major to my field. I was very excited to start my in with the mindset that they want every student to like who are utilizing the space. DÈcor may be focused teaching path. I am also a Zumba instructor since 2012,” Be Prepared them will lose respect quickly, and it will be a difficult around a particular theme, season or event, but it she told Kuwait Times. Being prepared is a very important aspect in teach- year. Make these things a priority early and your stu- should be up-to-date and in appropriate quantities. Do Helene officially started working in 2006 in Montreal ing. “Teaching is not an 8:00 am to 3:00 pm job as many dents will learn more in the long run,” stressed Helene. not make it too crowded! Just make your classroom at an after-school program for students with learning look simple, clean and nice for the students to feel wel- disabilities. “I graduated in 2007, came back to Kuwait Make Contact comed. Not too many bright colors too, especially with and started work. I got a job at the Hope School for spe- “Getting parents to trust that you have their child’s special needs students,” Helene reminded. cial needs students, teaching 5- to 8-year-old students best interest in mind is dominant. Teachers should make with learning disabilities, autism, Down syndrome and extra efforts to contact parents several times within the Supplies slow learners. In 2011, I got a job at Manarat School of first few weeks of school. You have to establish a trust- “Working with young children takes a lot of time and Kuwait (MSK), where I taught Pre-K for one year, then I worthy relationship with parents early on when things energy. On any given day, you solve problems, plan the was moved to kindergarten. I have been teaching KG are going good, and this will make it easier should you curriculum, meet the needs of your children and their ever since. I teach Math, English, Social Studies, Science, begin to have issues,” she added. parents and work together with your colleagues. The etc, except for Arabic, Art, PE and Swimming), and the last thing on your mind may be planning for and order- medium of instruction is English. I stood second in Plan Ahead ing supplies. On the other hand, nothing is more frus- Kuwait at the Kuwait Association for Learning Helene believes all teachers should plan ahead. “It is trating than starting off the week or school year without Disabilities’ (KALD) distinguished teachers’ award in not easy, but planning does become easier as experi- the necessary supplies to complete the activities you Kuwait,” she added proudly. ence is gained. For example, what I do for my lesson planned. Some schools do provide a budget for their The new way of teaching now is by hands-on activi- plans is I keep all the ones I used throughout the past classroom materials, some give you catalogues to order ties. “Some students are hands-on learners - they need years. I do that so I can use them for the upcoming year. materials and some teachers buy their own decorations, to touch, feel and explore what they are doing. For Therefore, instead of redeveloping the lesson plan, I supplies etc for their classroom. I honestly do both - I example, if I want to teach them the letter “A” and to make adjustments to them as needed. Planning trips, buy my own and order from the school by the end of relate the letter to the object, I get a real apple instead events, etc will save time later. Also, there are “emer- each year. I usually go to the 100 fils store and just stock of a picture. This way, they can touch it, taste it and gency lesson plans”. A teacher should have a folder with up. I make sure my classroom is clean and organized,” explore however they want. We also teach them critical a week’s worth of work in case an emergency occurs Helene added. thinking skills which need to be added in every class- and you have to be gone for an extended period of room and in every lesson plan,” Helene emphasized. time. This way, your class is covered, prepared and ready How long does it take to prepare? for the sub teacher and your assistant. Planning in gen- Each teacher varies on how long all these prepara- How do teachers prepare for the year? eral tends to make everyone’s life easy,” explained tions take. “We usually come in a week before the stu- It is a new year! Never come into a school year or Helene. dents come and prepare all this. Honestly, it takes two classroom with fixed notions. Every student who walks days to do the decor of the class from cleaning all the into your classroom deserves the chance to come in Curriculum toys (I have an OCD issue with cleanliness), and I think with a clean slate. Every class and every student is “Take time to review and update your curriculum, everyone else should have this, especially when you unique, and a different teacher may get other behav- themes, and other materials, especially if you’re reusing are dealing with children. Disinfecting toys and other iors. The first few days of a new school year are an activities and materials from previous years. You may materials every day is a must. In this week, we meet important time for classroom management. You have a even want to work with other teachers at your facility to and greet old and new staff, hold workshops and group of students, fresh and open to your way of doing coordinate themes so that you can share materials and refresh our minds. As for lesson plans, we SHOULD things. But it won’t last - you have to take advantage of ideas,” she noted. have a plan in the first week even if we are not teaching it. If you don’t get them onboard your program in the from the curriculum yet. We need to have a plan in first week or two, they’ll fall back into the same old Consider Decor order for the classroom to be a successful one,” con- habits, behaviors and attitudes of the past and then “Just as a new house doesn’t really feel cozy until fur- cluded Helene. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 LOCAL

Pet-friendly hotels: From hobby to serious business projects

KUWAIT: A growing number of owners of pets sleeping rooms for the dogs”. Mesallam noted in Kuwait, namely dogs, have expressed their that the summer season has been increasingly desire for suitable pet-friendly accommodations, busy in the past years. shelters and services for lonely pets, particularly when owners travel and cannot take their pets Time and experience with them. Meanwhile, Ahmad Al-Tarakmah, owner of Despite a mild shock in the community, new Dogs and Spa Hotel said he first started his proj- business projects like animal hotels began to ect two years ago and at first it was difficult but emerge. But while in the past they appeared as later it became easy with time and experience. amateur projects, and due to the surge in the Tarakmah added that his team for the project number of pet owners, there is an increase also consists of five people; four of them are in more serious business- oriented projects for European nationals, stressing that his project is pet-friendly owners, or even animal hotels. not for profit but they do it as a hobby and Such hotel projects not only tend to focus on enjoyment. shelter, food and medical care, but also enter- Among the services provided in the hotel is tainment and various animal sport activities. dog training, including swimming pool training, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) interviewed a Tarakmah said, adding that one of the condi- number of local animal-hotel owners to become tions for dogs’ admission is their medical record acquainted with the nature of the business and booklet and a complete hospital checkup. Every how customers are accepting such an idea as Saturday at Al-Maseelah beach, around 200 dog well as the obstacles obstructing such a busi- owners gather and enjoy their time, showcasing ness. around 60 dogs of various types. — KUNA

Dog care “We are a group of young men from Kuwait, two of us are specialized trainers, and another two have various degrees in dog care,” Royal KG, 1st grade students Canal Hotel Owner Saqr Al-Mesallam said. He added that his group has become an expert in head to school today this field since 1998, and in fact animal accom- modations or hotels started in Kuwait in 1994, KUWAIT: Some 37,308 kindergartners and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education noting that his hotel began work actively last first year elementary students begin their Dr. Haitham Al-Athari said. Regarding the July. Mesallam said the idea started as a hobby school year in Kuwait today, said a statement number of students registered for 2015-16 first as caring to dogs was simple and “we by the Ministry of Education yesterday. school year, the official said there were helped those who needed a place for their Kindergartners and first year elementary stu- roughly around 591,000 students registered dogs”. dents at some institutions will be attending in public and private schools. On September “We gained a lot and with time we became public and private Arabic schools in the 6th, some 288,000 students began their aca- experts,” Mesallam added. The Royal Canal own- beginning of their school year, demic year at private schools. — KUNA er said “we provide daily, weekly, and monthly accommodations for pets, including food and

Sheikha Dr Hessa Al-Sabah Sheikha Hessa elected 2015 ‘woman achiever’

KUWAIT: Sheikha Dr Hessa Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah was named Friday as the 2015 ‘woman achiever’ by Arab achievers’ institute in recogni- tion of her social and eco- nomic role in serving global communities. Chairman of the board of trustees Waleed Al-Araby, in a letter to Sheikha Hessa, voiced the Cairo-based insti- tute’s pride of the Kuwaiti dig- nitary, valuing her distin- guished contributions. Sheikha Hessa, also head of the Arab Businesswomen Council and the Union of Arab African Businesswomen, was further first vice chair of the East West and Africa Women’s Initiatives Forum, which was held in Phokeng, South Africa from September 2-9, 2015. Sheikha Hessa took part in the Forum upon an invitation from Mother Queen Semane Molotlegi. Phokeng is a town in the North West province of South Africa. It is the capital of the Royal Bafokeng Nation. In a speech at the opening of the Forum, Sheikha Hessa stressed significance of eco- nomic expansion among Africa, Europe and Arab coun- tries. The Forum, which included a number of work- shops and concluded with recommendations related to women empowerment, espe- cially in the world of business, agreed to hold the 2016 edi- tion in Morocco. — KUNA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 LOCAL

Al-Anbaa Al-Anbaa Searching Sedition Shifting proxy wars for calm to direct ones By Sami Al-Nisf By Nermin Al-Hooti n an earlier article, I explained the equation of friends and foes these days, which is a fact our ho among us is not looking for calm and planners and politicians ought to take into full con- quietness? How many among our societies I sideration so as not to be taken by surprise. Another spend a lot of money to get some time of W fact about this is that economy, lies and false reports quietness? Everybody seeks some time to settle in are being used to do our nations harm and it will not one’s tranquility, and many search for the way to it to be strange that someone might, in the near or far a point that the peace of mind became a science future, change the proxy wars regionally going on into many search into to find the means to help the direct ones, and then all tricks will be exposed and human being reach the peace of mind. masks will fall off so many faces. Many researches were written about that science, This coming war, if it takes place, will contribute to and many spoke about the peace of mind, but remapping the whole region for good, creating sectar- despite that, the human being is still searching and ian and racial ‘statelets’ demarking their borders with researchers are still thinking and creating ideas that blood, in addition to endless regional instability. In lead to the peace of mind. When we see what was other words, it will lead into a state of hot permanent written, we find the majority advising to stay away Al-Jarida Middle East Balkanization, substituting European from nervousness, to cool the nerves and to meditate Balkanization that has, for centuries, been the source with nature, in addition to urging the love of plants, of continuous wars there. demanding the planting of trees and appealing to the Preparations for a third Gulf war have already start- love of flowers. Many are the means that were written ed with lies similar to that of Saddam’s invasion of to reach peace of mind and from what was written we Kuwait, including accusing a GCC state (Saudi Arabia) find that all means lead to one that is the love of of being behind OPEC’s unanimous decision to main- nature. Al-Anbaa tain the current oil production rates as is, but those Peace of mind comes from the human surround- behind the lie forget that this particular state’s share ing: As the human being loves nature more and medi- Happy Anniversary, Kuwait! of OPEC production is no more than 10 percent of the tates on it, he becomes calm and dreamy in what sur- rounds him in the form of the beauty of the universe. By Basel Al-Jaser For example, when the human being plants some- Preparations for a third Gulf thing and cares for it and watches through the days as eptember 9, 2015 marked the first anniversary the world’s when Kuwait not only donated money to needy and distressed war have already started with his plant grows peacefully and quietly until it bears largest institution, the United Nations, and its secretary people in Gaza and West Bank in Palestine, to those quake- flowers... all these makes the human being’s nature Sgeneral, Ban Ki-Moon, bestowed the title of ‘Humanitarian stricken in Bangladesh and Turkey, to the victims of hurricanes lies similar to that of Saddam’s calm and dreamy, and this is what the human being is Leader’ on His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- in the Philippines, to those in Somalia and many places else- invasion of Kuwait looking for, to live in those beautiful moments, while Jaber Al-Sabah and declared Kuwait as where, but also, driven by HH the Amir’s waiting for his plant to bear fruits without disputes or ‘Humanitarian Center.’ Those titles posed Thanks to Allah that wisdom, Kuwait called for and held a differences. an international recognition of the great fund-raising conference for the benefit of world’s entire oil production, and that OPEC decisions Peace of mind is built on dreams and meditation role this small nation and its limited pop- the distressed Syrian people and fol- are made by the political leaderships of member Kuwait has an Amir and states. So, can KSA impose a decision on other OPEC and the truth of that dream is to reject disputes, built ulation has been playing in serving lowed it by a second one in 2013 and a members like Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Qatar, through meditation and seeking the truth. That truth, humanitarian causes worldwide. It was people who are keen on third one in 2014 during which times Ecuador...etc?! once the human being reaches it, becomes the start- an unprecedented event. Kuwait donated considerable sums. So, getting this honor Our Arab countries started this century as Middle ing point of the mind, making him gain much love of In fact, serving and aiding people in Kuwait’s role was not restricted to dona- distress as ordered by almighty Allah tions and aids but it also extended to East’s ‘Sick Men’ while international and regional coun- things in his surroundings, and when the human self and his holy prophet (PBUH) is one of the noblest tasks people urging international donors to help needy people. tries are competing to divide and share all its fortunes being becomes saturated with love then he becomes can compete and race to. Thanks to Allah that Kuwait has an The achievement was done and Kuwait took the lead in exactly the way they did with the Ottoman Empire the owner of the peace of mind. Amir and people who are keen on getting this honor because serving humanitarian causes and thus our beloved Amir truly that was dubbed as Europe’s ‘Sick Man’ by the begin- In conclusion: A moment of patience during a of their good nature and because of the way they have been earned the title of ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and our beloved coun- ning of the 20th century. I would finally like to high- moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of brought up. try earned its title as ‘Humanitarian Center.’ Congratulations to light that there will be no winners in a third Gulf war - regret. Kuwait and HH the Amir received those titles as a result of Kuwait and its people, and long live Kuwait, its people and its everyone will lose! — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa the growing humanitarian activities they did ever since 2006, Amir! — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa Five arrested for smuggling fugitives through airport

KUWAIT: The mere coincidence of that she had paid KD 5,000 to an receiving considerable amounts of spotting a wanted female citizen Egyptian law firm’s advisor to help money in return for allowing wanted touring Europe as a tourist was get her out through the airport per people out of the country. The three recently behind discovering a seri- time. She added that another were later on arrested and con- ous security breach at Kuwait Egyptian female employee was the fessed to making up to KD 10,000 International Airport, and led to the link. every month from their ‘business,’ arrest of a five-member gang which Arresting and interrogating the and that they could not remember had been helping wanted people two Egyptians, they told police that the total number of wanted people flee the country for up to KD 20,000. two female and one male citizens they helped out because they were In this regard, security sources working at the airport had been ‘too many.’ — Al-Jarida MP Khalil Abdullah MP Ahmad Al-Qodhaibi said that a citizen recently informed the office of the Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Parliamentary veto against Criminal Security Affairs Major No naturalization General Abdul Hameed Al-Awadhi that he had seen a female citizen in lists sent to Cabinet companies’ income taxes a European country though he knew that she was banned from travelling because she was wanted for finan- KUWAIT: A ministerial source naturalization until this is com- IMF recommends 10% company tax cial claims of up to half a million denied that lists of naturalization pleted. Kuwaiti dinars. were sent by the Central Agency About the categories that will KUWAIT: While legislatives and executives investors, including local ones, out of Kuwait tary financial affairs committee discussed The sources added that on con- for Illegal Residents to the receive Kuwaiti nationality, the are preparing to face economic and finan- as well as causing prices of goods and serv- the former’s recommendation to impose a ducting proper investigations, secu- Cabinet. He said the Cabinet did source said there are groups of cial challenges during the upcoming parlia- ices to sky-rocket. “This tax must not be 10 percent income tax on companies’ net rity forces learnt that the 38-year-old not receive any naturalization list, bedoons who are placed on top of mentary term through measures that have passed without government guarantees to profit from April 2016. Chairman of the female citizen had been wanted for be it of children of widows, the priority list as they are the earli- already started such as reducing subsidies those companies that would help protect committee MP Faisal Al-Shaya said that the fraud, was sentenced to 18 a year divorced women or bedoons est of those present in Kuwait, and preparing a law on salaries strategic national economy,” said Abdullah, noting recommendation comes within the and a half in prison and is also want- (stateless) registered in the 1965 including those who worked in the alternative, a proposal made by that imposing taxes call for guarantees that Cabinet’s efforts to diversify sources of ed for 7 other cases with half a mil- census. The source said that offi- oil sector, retired military men who International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the they would not affect prices of goods or income. He added that a full study on the lion Kuwaiti dinars’ financial claims. cials in the Higher Nationality participated in Arab wars, first parliamentary financial affairs committee services provided by concerned companies. proposal would be submitted to the The sources added that it appeared Committee in the Cabinet held degree relatives and holders of which suggests imposing revenue taxes on Meanwhile, Al-Rai daily quoted Qodhaibi Cabinet in weeks to discuss its possible several meetings with officials post-graduate degrees. All these that the suspect had left the country companies has already started taking the who stressed that though the tax would not impacts on citizens and compare it to simi- from the apparatus to discuss the people must have been in the 1965 and returned several times without lead of parliament’s top priorities. affect small projects, the government’s lar laws in other GCC states. Shaya said that files of bedoons who deserve census and prior. He said this does facing security obstacles, and that In this regard, chairman of the parlia- approach to diversify its national income the proposed tax would bring in additional Kuwait nationality. Their names not mean non-consideration of the she had been living in an apartment mentary human resources committee MP resources should be done more compre- revenues of KD 500-800 million, which is will be included in lists according files of the remaining groups who in Maidan Hawalli since her last Khalil Abdullah, as well as member of the hensively. five to eight times the volume of current tax to legal conditions and standards, were included in 1965 census, yet parliamentary financial affairs committee revenues. “The 10 percent tax will still be return a few days ago. A warrant was then will be sent to the Cabinet, priority will be for those mentioned MP Ahmad Al-Qodhaibi warned that 10 percent less than taxes collected in other GCC states, issued and she was arrested. adding that there will not be any above. — Al-Anbaa attempting to solve budget deficits trough Al-Jarida daily had reported Fricday that where they collect 15 percent,” he During initial investigations, the unstudied measures would lead to driving after a meeting with the IMF, the parliamen- explained. — Al-Rai, Al-Jarida suspect confessed and told police Preparations in progress for HORECA 2016: Anjeri

KUWAIT: Following the remarkable success achieved by the HORECA 2015 exhibition that was held last January, Leaders Group Company for Consultancy and Development’s General Manager Nabila Al-Anjeri said that preparations are underway to organize the HORECA 2016 Exhibition, due to be held Jumeriah Hotel in January 2016. Anjeri added that Leaders Groups would keep on working on repaying the trust it already earned from major hospitality and hotel companies that took part in last year’s event. “Each year should mark an addition to NBK officials in a group picture with NBK Academy’s newly hired staff. the exhibition, enrich its activities and meet the needs of its visitors,” she stressed. Anjeri added that cooperation with NBK Academy welcomes Fourteenth Lebanon’s Hospitality Services Company had played a great role in making the exhibition a success over the past four years. “Preparations Nabila Al-Anjeri batch of newly hired Kuwaitis are already in progress and we are working on having a number of the world’s best chefs to developed by experts who find this is possible KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) recently Manager, Human Resources Group, along with theoretical and practical skills covering the differ- take part in judging daily cooking competi- through HORECA,” Anjeri said, noting that the welcomed the Fourteenth batch of newly hired other NBK officials. ent aspects of the banking industry in addition to tions to be held as part of the exhibition,” she huge number of participating companies young Kuwaitis in the NBK Academy. NBK NBK Academy is the first initiative of its kind in on job training. highlighted. “In view of the constant expan- enriches the exhibition. Academy aims to train and develop the profession- the private sector in Kuwait, and is part of NBK’s Annually, NBK offers many training programs sion in restaurants and hospitality sector in Anjeri also stressed that expectations that al skills of young Kuwaitis as part of NBK’s strategy strategy to attract young Kuwaitis by offering them for employees including Shabab program, and the Kuwait, and considering the fact that the hotel rooms in Kuwait were to reach over to attract and develop national human resources. a range of career and professional development first of its kind NBK High Fliers Program. NBK also country now have over 5,000 restaurants with 10,000 within the coming three years add to NBK organized a special welcoming ceremony opportunities. organizes executive training programs in line with an average of one restaurant per 760 persons, the significance of HORECA Kuwait, and call for for the newly hired employees. The ceremony was NBK Academy programs run for four months the bank’s commitment to developing and invest- the hospitality sector must be scientifically more cooperation. attended by Emad Ahmad Al-Ablani, NBK General and are specially tailored to provide trainees with ing in its key resource and human capital. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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LONDON: Demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a pro-refugee rally in central London yesterday. — AFP Pro-migrant rallies held in Europe

Hungary says EU ‘dreaming’ • Anti-migrant demos staged in east

LONDON: Tens of thousands of Europeans bloc. “We’re here so that the government not welcome here so go home”, an AFP cor- hit the streets yesterday to show solidarity hears our voice and abandons any plans to respondent said. Another said: with huge numbers of refugees entering welcome Muslims,” the organiser of one “Multiculturalism is a utopia, don’t open the continent, as Hungary’s premier such protest in Warsaw told a crowd of the borders”. The rally was organised by the warned leaders were “in a dream world” around 5,000 people chanting anti-Islam far-right “Our Slovakia” party, led by Marian about the dangers posed by the influx. In slogans. Kotleba. Unlike neighbouring Austria and London, one of dozens of events across Organisers claimed the demonstration Hungary, Slovakia - a eurozone member of Europe, tens of thousands demonstrated, drew 10,000 people but police refused to 5.4 million people - has seen few migrant brandishing placards reading “Open the confirm the figure. “We’re here so that the arrivals this summer. Borders”, an AFP journalist said, while in government hears our voice and abandons Police in the Czech capital Prague said Copenhagen, some 30,000 took to the any plans to welcome Muslims,” shouted some 800 people protested against the streets. “I want to support the refugees,” one of the organisers after starting the arrival of refugees and migrants, holding said Deborah Flatley in London, holding a march with prayers which identified the up banners saying: “Send them back!” and homemade cardboard sign reading: “We participants as Roman Catholics. Members “Protect the borders”. Demonstrators called admire your bravery. You deserve a safe of far-right fringe parties and football sup- on the Czech government to resign and for and happy life. We welcome you here with porters chanted “Poles against migrants” a withdrawal from the European Union open arms”. and “Migrants today, terrorists tomorrow”. which it joined in 2004. Elsewhere another A boy dressed as Paddington Bear - the Another thousand or so joined a 200 people staged a counter-demonstra- marmalade-loving migrant who arrived at “Welcome refugees” rally in favour of host- tion in support of welcoming refugees in London’s Paddington Station from “deep- ing migrants in Poland, a strongly Catholic the Czech Republic, which has a population est, darkest Peru” in Michael Bond’s famous EU member state which has a population of 10.5 million and has seen few new books - clutched a sign saying: “Paddington of 38 million and has seen hardly any new- arrivals in recent months. Bear Was A Refugee”. In Berlin, demonstra- comers arriving, despite Europe experienc- tors waved a Syrian flag with “Refugees ing its biggest movement of people since ‘Unscrupulous’ Traffickers Welcome” written on it, while rallies in World War II. “I became a refugee when I The International Organization for Stockholm, Helsinki and Lisbon each had to flee Warsaw as the Germans invaded Migration said Friday that more than attracted around 1,000 people, including at during the war,” 80-year-old Danuta 430,000 people have crossed the a picnic in the Finnish capital. Chomiak told AFP as she marched with the Mediterranean to Europe this year, with But highlighting how the arrival of hun- crowd. “I have a duty to be here today.” 2,748 dying or missing in packed boats dreds of thousands of migrants has divided Around 1,500 anti-migrant protestors operated by often unscrupulous human the European Union, there were counter- also rallied in the Slovak capital Bratislava, traffickers. The influx has exposed deep rifts demonstrations in eastern members of the some holding up banners reading: “You’re with the EU, with “frontline” states Italy, Greece and Hungary strug- gling and European Commission proposals for sharing 160,000 of the new arrivals in a quota scheme fac- ing resistance among eastern members. Germany has absorbed the lion’s share so far, taking in 450,000 people with the gov- ernment of Chancellor Angela Merkel - hailed as a heroine by many migrants but under fire at home, even from allies - relaxing asylum rules for Syrians. On Friday Germany’s foreign minister, saying the cri- sis could be the biggest in the EU’s history, failed in Prague to convince eastern European counterparts to sign up to the Brussels scheme.Hungary, meanwhile, has seen some 180,000 people travel up from Greece across its borders this year. Its plans to build a large fence, deploy the army and jail immigrants have earned it stiff criticism, stoked by images of migrants in packed camps. But on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched a broadside, saying Europe’s leaders are “liv- ing in a dream world” with “no clue” about the dangers and scale of the problem, while denying that the migrants are refugees. “These migrants are not coming our way from war zones but from camps in Syria’s neighbours... So these people are not fleeing danger and don’t need to be scared for their lives,” Orban told Germany’s Bild daily in an interview. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Syrian war to displace a million more this year

BEIRUT: One million more people will be dis- be faced with a refugee situation similar to the tries that have so generously been hosting these most of the refugees, with 1.9 million regis- from Jordan and Turkey. Hillo said: “We have placed within Syria by the end of the year if the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950,” refugees - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt - tered in Turkey, 1.1 million in Lebanon, and 4.8 million people in hard to reach areas in war there continues unabated, potentially he said, referring to the establishment of the UN are also reaching - in the case of some of them - 630,000 in Jordan. Hillo urged more interna- Syria. We are now able to reach more and more adding to the flow of refugees to Europe, a sen- refugee agency set up to help the displaced a breaking point,” he said. The multi-sided war tional support to help Syrians stay in the coun- of them than before with cross border access, ior UN official said. Yacoub El Hillo, UN resident from the World War II. which began in 2011 with an uprising against try - where possible. “As I speak to you today, and to a lesser extent through cross line deliv- and humanitarian coordinator in Syria, said the The conflict which has killed 250,000 people President Bashar al-Assad has accelerated this WFP (World Food Programme) has zero dollars eries which have slowed down this year mainly conflict had already displaced one million peo- since 2011 has forced half of all Syrians from year. Rebels have advanced against government to provide food to 5 million people inside Syria due to government restrictions and increasing ple within Syria so far in 2015, with intensified their homes, creating 4 million refugees and dis- forces in the north and the south, while Islamic come Nov 1,” he said. A $2.9 billion appeal to insecurities.” fighting in much of the country now in its fifth placing some 7.6 million more within the coun- State has battled Kurds in the northeast, and meet needs in Syria this year has so far secured Cross line deliveries refers to aid deliveries year of war. try. Its repercussions are being felt like never government forces and rebels further west. $908 million. For the rest of the year, the appeal from government-held to opposition-held He urged greater international support for before in Europe, with tens of thousands of Fighting has also intensified in Aleppo. “I remain is for $738 million, he said, describing that as areas. “There are 420,000 people in besieged severely underfunded aid efforts aimed at sus- refugees trekking from Greece via the Balkans very concerned by Aleppo and its surroundings, the absolute minimum needed. “We still have areas in Syria, the biggest portion of them taining Syrians in their country wherever possi- and Hungary towards western Europe. “There and Deraa and its surroundings,” Hillo said. the opportunity to invest and help many besieged by ISIL in Deir al-Zor,” Hillo said, refer- ble, and warned that a forecast harsh winter are a million people displaced this year and the “These are two places in the north and in the Syrians stay in Syria. Otherwise this human ring to a government-held city in eastern Syria ahead would bring even more hardship. “Unless projection is another million will be displaced south where I fear we will be witnessing more train will continue running in all directions, besieged by Islamic State. “We are ready to talk something big is done to resolve this conflict inside Syria between now and the end of the human movements as a result of the intensifica- including direction Europe,” he said. to anyone to reach civilians and deliver urgent- through political means, the human train that year if the violence continues to escalate,” El Hillo tion of the fighting,” he said. The bulk of Syrians still living in Syria are in ly needed humanitarian assistance, but the fact has started moving out of Syria and the neigh- said, speaking by phone from Damascus. “So it is the government-held areas of the west. Since of the matter is we have been extremely bourhood will continue to be running for many safe to assume that more people will be head- Supporting Aid Efforts in Syria last year, aid access to opposition-held areas unsuccessful in reaching people in areas con- months to come,” Hillo told Reuters. “Europe will ing to Europe, and rightly so, because the coun- Syria’s neighbours have so far absorbed has improved thanks to cross-border deliveries trolled by ISIL.” — Reuters In shadow of Erdogan, AKP re-elects Davutoglu leader

ANKARA: Turkey’s ruling AK Party re-elected Prime Turkey Analyst, a policy journal. In a recent meet- Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as its chairman at a con- ing to smooth out differences, Davutoglu agreed gress yesterday where the longest shadow was cast to allow Erdogan loyalists in executive party posi- by a politician who, officially at least, is no longer a tions, a senior party member said. Erdogan’s son- member: President Tayyip Erdogan. Although in-law, as well as Yildirim and his former lawyer Erdogan did not appear in person - as president he were all named to executive committees yester- is supposed to refrain from party politics - many of day, while Davutoglu’s allies were conspicuously his loyalists were named to executive committees, absent. Party officials say that among differences something Davutoglu had hoped to avoid, accord- within the ranks there is argument over ing to some party officials. Davutoglu’s efforts to form a coalition after the Turkey’s most popular and divisive politician in AKP lost its absolute majority at a June election. recent memory, Erdogan faces budding discontent Erdogan himself is not a leader easily given to from inside the movement he founded, officials compromise and is accused by critics of growing say. His drive to secure an absolute majority for the authoritarianism. AKP has pushed it towards a November snap elec- After the AKP failed to find a junior coalition tion that could again leave the party in stalemate. partner, Davutoglu was forced to form a temporary The political uncertainty is worrying NATO allies cabinet. Erdogan’s hope is that the AKP can win and investors in Turkey’s $800 billion economy. The enough votes to change the constitution and cre- lira currency has fallen to a series of record lows. ate a more powerful presidency for him. Erdogan Davutoglu portrayed Turkey as a country under had surrendered the prime minister’s position he siege from Kurdish rebels, again fighting troops had used to develop a strong grip on the country after breakdown of a ceasefire in July, and leftist over 10 years and moved to the presidency confi- radicals at home as well as Islamist fighters across dent he could transform it from a largely symbolic the border in Syria. “Every kind of effort has been post to a powerful executive position. In this he exerted to plunge Turkey into chaos since the June seems - for now - to have miscalculated. CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (right) meets outgoing oil minister Sharif Ismail at the presidential palace in the 7 election,” he said. “Suddenly, the PKK, the DHKP-C, capital yesterday. — AFP the Islamic State, with their foreign support, Enormous Influence pressed the button to destroy all of the accom- As the congress began in a packed and swel- plishments of the AK Party’s 12, 13 years in power. tering arena in Ankara yesterday, signs of While they are taking action to achieve their evil Erdogan’s popularity were everywhere, with some Egypt government quits in aims, the AK Party cadres are taking action for a attendees wearing headbands and red scarves new democracy on Nov. 1.” emblazoned with his image. A video showed him Friction between Erdogan and Davutoglu led addressing huge crowds at rallies, meeting with to speculation the president would have former world leaders, such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and wake of corruption scandal transport minister Binali Yildirim challenge British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Davutoglu for the chairmanship of the centre- inspecting building sites in an orange hard hat. right, Islamist-rooted AKP, party officials said. But That was followed, later, by a similar video featur- Oil minister asked to form new cabinet Davutoglu stood for the leadership unopposed. ing Davutoglu. Though nominally above party “He seems to have scared Davutoglu into toeing politics, party officials say Erdogan still exerts CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ters, and his feeling that the government wasn’t ers and the army has struggled to quash a jihadist his line by raising the spectre of his man Binali enormous influence over the AKP and will make yesterday accepted the resignation of the govern- achieving what he wanted, especially in light of insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula. Yildirim contesting the leadership,” said Halil this felt as members of the party’s powerful com- ment after it was rocked by a corruption scandal, complaints by citizens regarding services,” said The government had enjoyed support in the Karaveli, managing editor of policy journal The mittees are chosen. — Reuters and tasked the oil minister with forming a new Mostafa Kamel Al-Sayyed, a Cairo University politi- face of militants who have killed hundreds of sol- cabinet. A senior official told AFP the resignation of cal science professor. Mahlab’s resignation comes diers, but in recent months had come under fire for premier Ibrahim Mahlab’s administration aimed to as Egypt prepares to hold long-delayed legislative corruption and the unpopular civil service law. “pump new blood” into the government after the elections in two phases between Oct 17 and Dec 2. There has also been growing discontent over a rise arrest on Monday of agriculture minister Salah in food prices and slashes to a generous fuel sub- Helal on suspicion of taking bribes. The presidency Discontent over Prices sidy system as Sisi pushes to narrow a budget said Sisi asked outgoing oil minister Sharif Ismail to The elections had initially been scheduled for deficit. Sisi has been able to pass decrees virtually form a new cabinet within a week. early 2015 but were cancelled by a court on techni- unchecked in the absence of a parliament, includ- Media had reported an impending reshuffle cal grounds. Mahlab, who had headed the Arab ing the subsidy cuts that previous governments after Helal’s arrest following his resignation in Contractors construction firm, had been appointed had shirked to avoid unrest. The new parliament, connection with an investigation into corruption. by interim president Adly Mansour in March 2014, expected to begin work by the end of the year, will Helal and his chief of staff were accused of having less than a year after the army toppled Islamist review those laws. “requested and received” bribes from a business- president Mohamed Morsi. He was viewed as a However, it is unlikely to present the president man, via an intermediary, to legalise the purchase capable technocrat close to Sisi, the former army with any sustained opposition and will probably of state property. The government had denied chief who removed Morsi and won the presidential be dominated by Sisi loyalists and weak and frac- reports of an impending reshuffle, and said no election in May that year. tured political parties that have generally backed other ministers had been implicated in the cor- Ismail, who has experience in state-owned him. The previous parliament, elected in 2011 after ruption case. petroleum companies, had been the managing an uprising ousted veteran president Hosni But there have growing calls for Mahlab’s resig- director of Ganoub El Wadi Petroleum Holding Mubarak, had been dominated by Morsi’s Muslim nation and increasing protests by civil servants Company before his appointment as oil minister in Brotherhood movement. The Islamist group was over a new law that centralises promotions while July 2013 following Morsi’s overthrow. Morsi’s banned after Morsi’s overthrow in July 2013, and taxing bonuses. “The main reason was the presi- removal and detention unleashed a deadly crack- thousands of its members, including top leaders, dent was displeased with the job of some minis- down on Islamists that killed hundreds of protest- have been jailed. — AFP ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his wife Sare greet their sup- porters as they arrive to attend the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) annual congress yesterday. — AFP Turkey lifts curfew Tunisians ignore ban to protest against graft law

TUNIS: Hundreds of Tunisians defied a state of police and National Guard officers, both in uni- on devastated Cizre emergency protests ban yesterday to demon- form and plain-clothed. Barriers were installed at strate against a controversial draft law on amnesty all access points and some side streets were for corruption offences. “No to reconciliation that closed to pedestrians. President Beji Caid Essebsi CIZRE, Turkey: Residents of the Turkish southeastern blocks, said the correspondent who entered the city shortages. Telephone and Internet communications whitewashes corruption,” said one placard pro- presented the draft “economic and financial rec- city of Cizre Saturday emerged to find scenes of after the restriction ended 7:00 am (0400 GMT). were still severely limited as residents ventured out- testers brandished on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, onciliation” bill to the cabinet in mid-July. He has destruction and despair after authorities lifted a nine- The government had said the curfew was neces- side for the first time to inspect the extent of the dam- hub of the revolution that ended a 23-year dicta- called on parliament to adopt the law pardoning day curfew imposed for an operation against Kurdish sary for a military “anti-terror” operation in the city age. “Our children were dying of fear,” said Mehmet torship in 2011. The demonstrators included sup- people charged with or convicted of financial cor- militants. An AFP correspondent found several build- against suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Guler, a local official. During the curfew, outsiders had porters of the leftist Popular Front coalition, mem- ruption if they confess and return any money ings had been destroyed and others pock-marked with Workers Party (PKK). But the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ not been allowed to enter Cizre, in what Kurdish bers of a citizen’s group called “No, we will not for- obtained. The draft law has many critics in both bullet holes during the curfew, which took effect late Democratic Party (HDP) has said over 20 civilians were activists termed a blockade akin to Israel’s actions in give” set up after the bill was announced and political parties and civil society. Sallemi, a 55- on Sept 4. People were being allowed to move in and killed during the operation, which deprived residents the Gaza Strip. “There is no water, electricity and our opposition parties. “The people own the street - year-old protester who did not give his surname, out of Cizre despite continued army checks at road- of access to essential amenities and triggered food provisions are running out,” Guler added, saying that not afraid and not terrorised,” demonstrators said he came all the way from the central city of even the call to prayer had stopped for the duration of chanted during the peaceful protest. Gafsa to vent his anger. “I took out loans for every- the curfew. The remnants of the fighting were still Authorities have kept the key avenue in the thing, my house, my fridge. No one cancelled apparent in Cizre, with barricades and trenches block- capital closed to traffic for several days because of those loans, and now they want to pardon” the ing streets scattered with empty shell casings and the what they call “terrorist threats”. There was a large corrupt, he said. Opposition activist Naziha Rjiba wrecks of burned-out cars. security presence there yesterday, with many said the draft law was “unconstitutional”. — AFP

‘Saturated in Blood’ The length of the curfew in Cizre - meaning that citizens were unable to move freely outside their homes for over a week - also caused international concern. NIls Muiznieks, the Council of Europe com- missioner for human rights, on Friday expressed alarm over the “very distressing information” from Cizre, urg- ing that independent observers be allowed into the city. The operation in Cizre, a city of 120,000 on the border with Syria and close to Iraq, was a key part of the government’s drive to cripple the PKK in south- east Turkey and northern Iraq, which started in late July and shows no sign of abating. Interior Minister Selami Altinok said Thursday that up to 32 PKK militants had been killed in Cizre, adding just one civilian had died in the clashes. But HDP MP Ali Haydar Konca, EU affairs minister in Turkey’s caretaker government, said over 20 people had been killed, some CIZRE, Turkey: Children go out onto the streets to see the damage after a curfew was lifted fol- 50 wounded and many buildings destroyed. “This land lowing clashes between Turkish forces and militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in has been saturated in blood,” he said, quoted by the TUNIS: Tunisians hold placards during a protest against a controversial draft law on this Kurdish-majority city yesterday. — AFP Dogan news agency. — AFP amnesty for corruption offences in the capital yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Brazil priest opens parish doors to Syrian refugees

RIO DE JANEIRO: More than a year have no relatives, no home, no lan- before Pope Francis urged Europe’s guage,” Fares said. Refugees do however Catholics to take in Syrian refugees, a find here a larger Arab community, and priest in Brazil marshaled the support of a tradition of immigration to Brazil from his parishioners to ease the suffering of the Middle East dating back decades. those fleeing unimaginable horror. Brazil has received more than 2,000 More than 30 Syrians - almost all Syrian refugees since the start of the Muslims - have found safe haven in war in 2011, far more than any other Brazil thanks to the efforts of Alex country in Latin America. The govern- Coelho and his flock at St John the ment has accepted all Syrian asylum Baptist parish in Rio de Janeiro. Syrian petitions, as well as established meas- arrivals here have found a warm wel- ures to streamline and accelerate the come, and thanks to donations from the application process. faithful, room and board for at least three months. ‘God Has No Religion’ Coelho even learned some Arabic in Father Alex opened the doors of his order to communicate with the Syrians, church to the refugees a year and a half the vanguard of what is likely to ago, after seeing a television news RIO DE JANEIRO: Priest Alex Coelho (left), of the Sao Joao Batista church chats with Syrian refugees at an accommodation they become a much larger influx, as a broadcast detailing the suffering of the were provided with by the church on Sept 9, 2015. —AFP human tidal wave flees the war-torn Syrian refugees. The generosity of his country. Just this week, President Dilma parish extends not only to refugees Rousseff said Brazil would greet Syrian fleeing that conflict however, but to refugees with “open arms,” and would Nigerians, Afghans, Palestinians and welcome those “driven from their home- Iraqis as well, although 90 percent are Perry exits 2016 race land, who want to come live, work and Syrians. “I am a Christian, and the over- contribute to the prosperity and peace whelming majority of them are of Brazil.” Refugees sheltering at Father Muslims,” the cleric told AFP. “But there Alex’s church are given access to is just one God who looks over all of us, Trump’s first victim? Portuguese language lessons and assis- and we are brothers. God has no reli- tance in finding work. gion.” ST LOUIS: Rick Perry’s political career ended with a GOP when a 3 & half term Gov w/ a successful record of party will be in good hands.” And even though the help they The steady stream of those fleeing whimper, a remarkable if predictable fall for the longest- creating jobs bows out as a reality star leads in the polls?” Perry made several sly references to Trump, a last receive comes from the Catholic church the brutal civil war that has already serving governor in Texas history and a leader many con- warning of sorts to a GOP experiencing its most serious and church-affiliated charities, they are killed more than 240,000 people in four sidered the Republican Party’s savior just four years ago. Gracious Exit identity crisis in a generation. Trump may favor tax given the freedom to practice their years seems unlike to abate. The conflict History may judge the end as sealed back in 2011, when Perry was more gracious as he surprised a gathering increases on the rich, once supported abortion rights, Muslim faith. “We have a chapel here, has forced more than four million into Perry froze on a debate stage and tried to recover with of social conservatives in St Louis Friday night by gave money to Hillary Rodham Clinton and said kind an embarrassed “oops.” Others may remember the for- announcing his departure. “We have a tremendous field things about government-run health care in other coun- but the refugees can come to pray if exile. Many have wound up in Europe, mer governor with the movie-star looks and a resume of of candidates - probably the greatest group of men and tries, but he’s become the GOP’s unquestioned presiden- they wish,” Father Alex said, as he gave the largest exodus on the continent successes as Donald Trump’s first political victim. women,” Perry said. “I step aside knowing our party is in tial front-runner. AFP a tour of the spacious, sparsely fur- since World War II. Those who cannot Perry all but declared war on the billionaire busi- good hands, as long as we listen to the grassroots, listen Perry’s allies at three super PACs are well-funded but nished dwelling currently housing nine find safety and shelter crossing the nessman in July, calling Trump “a cancer on conser- to that cause of conservatism. If we do that, then our can’t share the money they’ve raised or coordinate their Syrians, located in the courtyard of the Mediterranean sometimes find it in Latin vatism” who could destroy the Republican Party. On activities with his campaign. Austin Barbour, a leader of church. America, although some - like Dara Saturday, Trump’s campaign was soaring while Perry’s the pro-Perry super PACs, said the groups have as much as Ramadan - harbor hopes of eventually White House ambitions were dead. And with Trump suf- $13 million in the bank. He planned to talk yesterday Syrian Army or Death being able to settle in Europe. Ramadan, focating the rest of the packed field, it’s only a matter of morning with lawyers to “see what the law says we can do The residents, all men, have been in who looks far older than his 42 years, time before he helps push another GOP candidate out with this money”. After that, and following consultation the house for the past month and only sold his home in northern of the race. with the donors, he said, “we will see if we want the super speak Arabic. Khaled Fares, 27, arrived in Syria, near the Iraqi border, and fled the Trump ignored the shake-up but embraced his role PAC to move in another direction, or if we give it back.” Brazil a year and half ago. He is studying war with his wife and four children, after as his party’s 2016 bully during an interview yesterday Perry was quickly praised by his Republican competi- Portuguese. “My options, had I stayed in this clothing store was burned to the with Fox News. “It’s an attitude that our country needs. tors, who publicly and privately began courting his polit- Syria, would have been either to go to ground. His family sheltered in Istanbul, We get pushed around by everybody,” Trump said. “I ical network. In a statement, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s cam- the army, or die,” he told AFP. “My father while Dara moved on to Brazil after sever- think it’s part of the reason I’m so high in the polls. We paign called Perry “a proud veteran who bravely served begged me to get out.” Back home, he al countries rejected his application for have to push back.” In still-early polls, the real-estate our nation” and “an extraordinary governor of Texas”. A had training as a technician in making asylum. Today, he says he would like to mogul and reality TV star has more support that the person close to the Cruz campaign, who was not author- dentures, and hopes to become a den- return to Turkey. “In Europe, the govern- once-top-tier trio of former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, ized to speak publicly and requested anonymity, says the tist in Rio some day. Fares came to ment gives you a house, a check and Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker and Florida Sen Marco Rubio fellow Texan’s camp will be “immediately” reaching out Brazil, some 11,000 km from home, health care,” Ramadan said through a combined. In second, by the way, is another political to Perry donors and supporters. “If we don’t jump in, oth- rookie: Dr Ben Carson, a retired surgeon. er campaigns are going to try to,” the person said. because it was the only country that translator. “If I bring my family here, I have “There is no play in the playbook for where we are Meanwhile, as Perry’s political career was ending, accepted his petition for asylum. He did no way to support them.” Whether or not right now,” said John Jordan, a California winery owner Trump spent his Friday basking on “The Tonight Show.” not want to put his life in peril by trying he makes it back to Turkey, Ramadan has and major Republican fundraiser. “Donors don’t know As his appearance drew to a close, host Jimmy Fallon to travel to Europe illegally. left his native land for good. “I don’t miss what to think. Nobody saw the Trump phenomenon proposed a new campaign song for Trump to consider, He is grateful to be here, but admits Syria. I have nothing there,” he said. “There ST LOUIS: Republican presidential candi- coming. Probably a lot of Jeb donors wish they had their date, former Texas Gov Rick Perry, speaks an anthem by DJ Khaled called “All I Do Is Win”. “What do to sometimes being overcome with sad- is nothing and no one there for me to money back.” Kentucky Sen Rand Paul put it a different you think?” asked Fallon. “Honestly,” Trump beamed, “it ness. “Here in Brazil, I know no one. I miss. I lost everything.” —AFP way on Twitter after Perry’s exit: “What does it say about at the Eagle Council XLIV on Friday. —AP happens to be 100 percent true.” —AP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Kenya Mau Mau memorial opens in rare colonial apology

NAIROBI: A British-funded memorial to the thousands forces.” The memorial features a statue of a dread- killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion locked Mau Mau fighter armed with a homemade rifle was unveiled in Kenya yesterday, in a rare example of being handed food by a woman supporter. Although a former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising. At joint project between Britain, the Mau Mau Veterans least 10,000 people died in one of the British Empire’s Association and the Kenya Human Rights Commission, bloodiest insurgencies-some historians say over dou- the £90,000 ($138,000, 124,000 euros) bill was paid by ble that-and the security operation to tackle the 1952- London. 1960 struggle was marked by horrific abuses. “This memorial is a symbol of reconciliation The guerrillas, mainly from the Kikuyu people, ter- between the British government, the Mau Mau, and all rorized colonial communities with attacks from bases those who suffered,” reads the stone plaque on the in remote forests, challenging white settlers for valu- memorial. able land. But while attention at the time focused on The commemorative statue follows a June 2013 32 murdered settlers, the number of Kenyans killed decision by Britain to compensate more than 5,200 was far higher. Thousands of Mau Mau veterans crowd- elderly Kenyans tortured and abused during the insur- ed into the memorial site, dancing and singing, as the gency. The £19.9 million deal-separate from the cost of ribbon was cut and it opened to the public. “It is a spe- the memorial-followed a four-year legal battle. cial day,” said Gitu wa Kahengeri, Mau Mau Veterans Professor David Anderson, author of “Histories of Association secretary general, adding they “truly the Hanged”-one of the first books to fully document believe in reconciliation for a better future.” the extreme abuses-said the memorial was “long over- Britain’s High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian due”. Turner, said he was “humbled” to be at the ceremony. “I “This gesture will do far more good than any mon- hope that this memorial will allow us to acknowledge ey you give out,” said Anderson, professor of history at and discuss together the issues arising from a difficult Britain’s University of Warwick. “It is the first memorial period in the history of both Britain and Kenya, and of this kind to come out of this kind of adversarial that it offers us the opportunity to draw a line and process,” he said. Lawyer Daniel Leader, from the move forward,” Turner said. London-based Leigh Day firm that represented the “This is the right thing to do for those of you who veterans in court, said the memorial was “historic” and suffered, for Britain and Kenya, and our joint relation- NAIROBI: British High Commissioner to Kenya Christian Turner attends the unveiling of the memorial dedi- represented “the first apology by the UK government ship,” he said. “To deal with the present and move for- cated to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion yesterday in Nairobi. — AFP for abuses”. ward into the future, we have to recognize and learn While the Mau Mau were ultimately defeated, their from the past.” hand. Thousands suffered horrific torture including against humanity,” but said that the British apology struggle was seen as a key step towards Kenya’s inde- British and Kenyan flags fluttered over Nairobi’s sexual mutilation, and tens of thousands more were was accepted. “The arc of history is long, but it bends pendence in 1964. But the struggle also created bitter Uhuru, or “Freedom”, park, with a crowd of several detained in shockingly harsh detention camps. towards justice,” Mutua said, celebrating that now “per- divisions within communities-as some of the worst thousand Mau Mau veterans surrounding the memori- “The memorial will serve as a symbol of reconcilia- petrator and victim, colonized and colonizers, can be atrocities were carried out between Kenyans loyal to al, many still with their trademark but greying dread- tion,” Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said. together.” colonial forces and the Mau Mau. locks. Many of the Mau Mau veterans, well over 70 Turner himself described how his step-grandfather Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta-whose years old, were wearing T-shirts adorned with the slo- Britain’s ‘first apology’ for abuses had been Kenyan police chief during the colonial peri- son Uhuru is president today-opposed the violence gan “heroes”. Turner was given a huge cheer, and many Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) chief od, resigning in 1954 over the “colonial administration’s carried out by the Mau Mau, and the group remained of the former fighters pressed forward to shake his Makua Mutua said that “colonialism was a crime failure to address brutality committed by the security outlawed until 2003. — AFP Socialist Corbyn wins UK Labor leadership New party chief slams ‘unfair welfare system’ after landslide win

LONDON: Radical leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn yesterday won the crown of Britain’s main opposition Labor party in a land- slide victory, becoming the nation’s most left-wing political leader for over 30 years. The 66-year-old socialist, whose policies have been com- pared to those of Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos, was named leader after clinching 59.5 percent of the 422,664 votes cast by Labor party members and supporters. The new- ly-elected leader condemned “grotesque levels of inequality” and “an unfair welfare system” in his victory speech to party members in central London. The veteran campaigner also called for Britain’s Conservative government to show more “compassion” in deal- ing with the Syrian refugee crisis and said he would attend a A man walks with crutches through a temporary holding center for migrants demonstration planned in London later yesterday. behind the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary in He said Labor was “united and absolutely determined in Roszke yesterday. — AP our quest for a decent and better society that is possible for all”. North Islington MP Corbyn has electrified Labor’s leader- Hungary suggests ship race, which was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband after he lost May’s general election to David Cameron’s right-wing pro-austerity Conservatives. aiding Syria’s neighbors “The fightback now of our party gathers speed and gathers to halt migrants pace,” Corbyn added in his speech. ‘Jez we did’ BERLIN: Hungary’s hard-line prime minister percent extra into the EU budget while reduc- The veteran MP comfortably beat the three other more has proposed that the European Union step ing other spending. He was quoted as saying centrist candidates in the race-Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham LONDON: Jeremy Corbyn is congratulated after he is announced as the new up aid to Syria’s neighbors to stem the flow of that that would generate 3 billion euros ($3.4 and Liz Kendall-who all had far stronger support from fellow leader of The Labor Party during the Labor Party Leadership Conference in refugees from camps there, while Germany’s billion) for aid, which could be increased Labour MPs. “Jez we did!” his delighted supporters chanted in London yesterday. — AP vice chancellor said Saturday that his nation is “until the stream of refugees dries up.” the conference room in reaction to the decisive outcome. “reaching limits.” The 28-nation European Aydan Ozoguz, a senior German govern- Corbyn has spent a total of 32 years on Labor’s backbench- Union is divided over how to deal with the ment official responsible for immigrant es and only won a handful of votes from his own MPs-but was Orban: I’d house a refugee family influx, with Germany and Austria stressing issues, said that “the pace at which people are swept to victory on a wave of enthusiasm from Labor support- the right to asylum for war refugees and fleeing from the region is breathtaking.” ers following the end of the Miliband era. if it didn’t encourage others Hungary in particular arguing that most are But “I must say that I find what Mr.Orban is The stunning result has however sparked talk of a deep split within Labor which was thrown into turmoil by economic migrants. Hungary and other east- saying extremely cynical, that they’re safe BERLIN: Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban, their journey across Europe. Orban, a ern nations reject proposed quotas to spread there,” she said on Germany’s rbb-Inforadio. Cameron’s shock election win in May. Corbyn’s triumph echoed anti-austerity sentiment across Europe because of his who has drawn criticism for his tough conservative populist always keen to the migrants around the EU. “Everyone who has been following this knows stance on migrants, told a German undercut his main political rival, the far- Hungary plans to start enforcing tougher that the food rations there have been halved - rhetoric about ending austerity cuts and taxing the rich. His policies include spending more on public services like newspaper that he would take a refugee right Jobbik party, has said Hungary’s frontier security on its border with Serbia one really can’t speak of safety.” family into his own home if he was sure southern border with Serbia will be Tuesday. Asked in an interview with German German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel schools and hospitals, scrapping nuclear weapons, renational- ising industries like the railways and involving Islamist groups that this would not encourage others to closed with a high fence from Sept. 15. daily Bild where future migrants should go, said Saturday that “Germany sees itself in a make the journey to Europe. Orban said refugees should be sent Orban replied, “to where they came from.” He situation where we are reaching limits,” news Hamas and Hezbollah in Middle East peace talks. “Jeremy Corbyn has won more than 50 percent of the votes in this Asked in an interview with back once Hungary’s border is closed. argued that people coming to Europe from agency dpa reported. He added that “the Germany’s mass-selling Bild whether he Asked where, he said: “Where they came camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey “were speed is almost more problematic than the round and I am therefore delighted to declare Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of the Labor party,” said Jim Kennedy, chair would put such a family up, Prime from. These migrants are not coming to safe there” and added: “There is no funda- number.” Gabriel said it’s important to help Minister Orban said: “Yes, if migrants did us from war zones but rather from mental right to a better life, only a right to the region around Syria and talk to Turkey, of Labor’s National Executive Committee, unveiling the result. Cheering supporters welcomed the news wearing red not take that as encouragement to camps in countries neighboring Syria safety and human dignity.” where migrants set off in boats for EU mem- come to Europe. That wouldn’t be advis- like Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. They Orban suggested every EU country pay 1 ber Greece, about how to slow the flow. — AP “Team Corbyn” T-shirts reading and waving signs saying “I Voted For A New Kind of Politics”. Corbyn drew strong support able at the moment.” He said his wife were safe there.” from students who had never voted before to older people and children were already actively help- He said people were not coming to disillusioned with Labor since it moved to the centre-ground ing the refugees. More than 170,000 Europe to live in safety but rather Uganda’s interior minister dies of British politics under Tony Blair in the 1990s and led the migrants have crossed into Hungary because they wanted “a German or per- country into the controversial 2003 Iraq war. from non-EU Serbia so far this year. haps a Swedish life. The living conditions suddenly during trip abroad The result was widely anticipated with bookmakers having Many try to avoid being registered in in Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary slashed the odds of a Corbyn victory from 100/1 outsider to Hungary for fear of being stranded and Austria are not good enough for KAMPALA: Uganda’s interior minister died the son of Ugandan President Yoweri 1/7 favorite. The bearded, grey-haired vegetarian has there or returned to the country later in them”. — Reuters suddenly while traveling home from an Museveni. That letter also mentioned for- crammed in 99 campaign appearances, eschewing soundbites official trip in South Korea, the government mer Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, who and usually wearing sandals and carrying a cup of tea. announced yesterday. has since announced he will challenge The MP was plastered over yesterday’s newspapers wear- Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, who was 56, Museveni in presidential elections next ing a stripey cream T-shirt and navy blue shorts, alongside Spain police make arrest, find died while transiting through Dubai in the year. trainers and socks. In a positive omen for Corbyn, lawmaker United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Nyakairima’s sudden death will be seen Sadiq Khan-who nominated the veteran left-winger for the body of missing US woman Ruhakana Rugunda said in a statement. by many “in the context” of Sejusa’s letter, Labour leadership-was elected as the party’s 2016 London Nyakairima died early yesterday, according which asked Uganda’s security agencies to mayoral candidate on Friday. MADRID: Spanish police investigating the “The body of the American pilgrim who to Pamela Ankunda, a spokeswoman for investigate the allegations of planned hits, Khan, who did not actually vote for Corbyn, comfortably case of an American woman who went disappeared on the Way of Saint James on the Ministry of Internal Affairs. said Ladislaus Rwakafuuzi, a prominent beat Blairite former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, boosting missing on a pilgrim trail have made an April 5 was found on Friday on the property Nyakairima, who trained in the US as a Ugandan rights lawyer and political ana- media speculation over a landslide for the Islington North MP. arrest and found a body on the grounds of of the main suspect, in Astorga,” the daily El young officer, was “a dedicated servant of lyst. — AP the suspect’s property, a police source and Pais said. the people of Uganda and his death is a Back to 1980s? media said. “It is a very large area and ideal for hid- tragic and huge loss to the country,” the Popular right-wing tabloid The Sun described Khan’s Denise Pikka Thiem disappeared in April ing a body,” the ABC newspaper said. statement said. “shock victory” as part of the “Jeremy Corbyn revolution”-but while hiking the Way of Saint James pilgrim The El Mundo daily said: “Police have The cause of death is not yet known and warned the victory could spark a deep split in the party oust- trail in northwestern Spain. Police had therefore closed the case. The suspect a team of pathologists has been dispatched ed from power in 2010. “A victory threatens to plunge Labour resumed their search for her on Thursday would the only person charged in the to Dubai to assist with the postmortem near the northern town of Astorga where death of Denise.” Hundreds of thousands of examination and repatriation of the body, back to the 1980s, given his hard-left views on nationalization, nuclear weapons, tax and business,” it wrote. The left-wing she was last seen. tourists and Roman Catholic pilgrims hike said the statement. Three hundred officers with dogs and a the Way of Saint James, known in Spanish Nyakairima served as interior minister Guardian also warned that some frontbenchers were unlikely to serve on Corbyn’s team due to “fundamental” differences helicopter were deployed in the operation, as the Camino de Santiago, each year, stay- since 2013. He had previously been the top which focused on wells. “A person has been ing at hostels on their way to the north- commander of Uganda’s military and was that would “destabilize Labor policies”. But former mayor of London Ken Livingstone described arrested and the search has been suspend- western city of Santiago de Compostela. credited with helping to push infamous ed for the moment,” a police source told Thiem has not been heard from since warlord Joseph Kony from Ugandan territo- Corbyn as a “consensual” politician who wanted proper discus- sions about the direction of the Labor party on key issues AFP late Friday, without giving further April 4 when she sent a message to a friend ry. His death has shocked many in Uganda, details. saying she was at a point on the trail near where in 2013 he was cited in a letter by a ahead of the next general election in 2020. “It will work if Jeremy starts to connect with people,” Livingstone said. Spanish newspapers said yesterday that Astorga. Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano renegade Ugandan general, David Sejusa, police have found a body on the suspect’s Rajoy has written to Thiem’s parents in who said he was one of three senior public Despite the “Corbynmania” of his grassroots campaign, Tony Blair-Labor’s most electorally successful leader who is now property, although authorities could not Arizona, saying he “understands the pain of officials who risked being assassinated Uganda’s interior minister Gen Aronda immediately be reached to confirm the a family that does not know where their because they opposed the political rise of Nyakairima. —AP deeply unpopular over Iraq-has warned that his victory would split Labor and consign the party to electoral oblivion. — AFP reports. daughter is.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 Bodies of six missing Indian seamen found after Yemen strike NEW DELHI: The bodies of six Indian sea- Another 14 crewmen were rescued and men missing since their boat was apparent- four are undergoing treatment at a hospital ly hit by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in in Yemen, he said. A Saudi-led military Yemen have been found and a seventh is coalition of mainly Gulf Arab countries has still missing, New Delhi said Friday. increased its air strikes against Shiite Huthi India’s foreign ministry said rebels in Yemen since a deadly missile Wednesday that boats carrying 21 Indian attack on coalition soldiers on Friday. The nationals had been hit as they travelled coalition launched its strikes in March across the Red Sea to the Yemeni port of against the Iran-backed rebels when Mokha on Tuesday. “It is regrettably President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled to informed that late at night on 10 neighboring Saudi Arabia after they September, the bodies of 6 of the missing entered his last refuge, Yemen’s second city persons present on the boats were recov- Aden. India closed it embassy in Yemen one ered,” said Vikas Swarup, the ministry month later and evacuated more than spokesman, in a statement Friday. 4,500 nationals. — AFP Gun battle kills 4 in Kashmir amid talks

SRINAGAR: Fighting in India killed two sol- the latest deaths came as Pakistani paramil- BANGALORE: People gather at the site of a train accident at Martur, in Gulbarga district, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north of India’s tech- diers and two suspected rebels Friday, as itary officials met India’s Home Minister nology hub of Bangalore yesterday. — AP representatives from India and Pakistan Rajnath Singh in New Delhi to discuss bor- met to discuss security on the disputed der security. frontier. The deaths were the latest to occur Kashmir has been divided between the Two Britons killed as train in recent weeks, which have seen an nuclear-armed neighbors since the end of upsurge in firing by both sides across the British colonial rule in 1947. Both claim the heavily militarized border. Himalayan territory in its entirety. Police said the fighting broke out late The disputed former kingdom has been derails in northern India Thursday after the army received a tip-off a source of constant tension between the that militants were in Laribal village, some South Asian neighbors who have fought 70 kilometers northwest of the main city of two wars over its control. Several rebel Srinagar. groups have battled hundreds of thou- Another train derails in Gulbarga killing 2 passengers “Two terrorists were killed and we lost sands of Indian forces deployed in the two soldiers in the firefight with them,” the region for independence or a merger with SHIMLA: Two Britons were killed and seven oth- local deputy inspector general of police Pakistan in a conflict that has killed tens of er passengers injured yesterday when a train car- Gharib Das told AFP. thousands mostly civilians. rying tourists to the hill town of Shimla in north- India regularly accuses Pakistan of arm- Violence has declined steadily in the ern India derailed, police said. ing and training rebels to infiltrate what it region in the last decade. But armed “Two British nationals, both women have sees as its territory. Islamabad denies the encounters between rebels and troops have been killed. Another (Briton) is seriously injured,” allegation, saying it only provides diplo- increased in recent weeks and last week S Z H Zaidi, a senior police official for Himachal matic and moral support to the Kashmiri four suspected rebels and a soldier were Pradesh state, said. The train was a special char- struggle for self-determination. News of killed during a night-long battle. — AFP tered service carrying a group of 37 British tourists and a few Indian crew members. The cause of the derailment was not immedi- Policeman, two militants ately clear, but the Press Trust of India news agency said three carriages may have gone off killed in Pakistan gunfight the track because the train was travelling too fast. The tiny Kalka-Shimla railway, which opened PESHAWAR: Three people were killed and Peshawar has suffered numerous Taliban in 1903, is a tourist highlight of India’s Himachal at least five others were injured in a gun- attacks but it was not immediately clear Pradesh state, attracting thousands of visitors fight in Pakistan’s northwestern city of that who was behind this ambush. The city from both India and abroad. The train was round- Peshawar late Friday, police said. suffered the worst terror attack in Pakistani ing a curve when the coaches derailed, said The clashes erupted when unknown history in December when Taliban gunmen Neeraj Sharma, a railway official. gunmen fired at a police van patrolling the massacred more than 150 people, most of Two women, both British tourists, died suburbs of Peshawar. them children, at an army-run school. instantly in the accident. Five other passengers “One policeman was killed while four But recently then there has been a lull in were injured, Sharma said. Suresh Prabhu, India’s others were wounded in exchange of fire violence. The last deadly attack in the city railway minister, ordered an investigation into with militants. Two militants were also came in February when three heavily the accident. Dubbed the “toy train”, it follows a SHIMLA: Indian officials investigate at the site of the derailment of a chartered narrow gauge killed in the fight,” Rana Omer, a senior armed Taliban militants stormed a Shiite scenic 96-kilometre (60-mile) route that includes train at Parwanoo on the Kalka-Shimla Unesco Heritage Track yesterday. — AFP police official in Peshawar, told AFP. mosque, killing 21 people. Pakistan has 103 tunnels, travelling on a winding track from their side near Gulbarga in Karnataka state after networks, with about 23 million passengers trav- “The militants fired at our mobile team been waging a major offensive against the town of Kalka up to Shimla, the former sum- the train derailed at about 2:15 am, Indian eling by train every day. However, safety stan- which was on a routine patrol in insurgent hideouts in the tribal northwest mer capital of India during British rule. Railway spokesman Anil Saksena said. dards on the massive state-run railway network Pushtakhara area at night. We responded for over a year in a bid to quell an Islamist Earlier yesterday, nine coaches of a train The injured were taken to hospitals in have been an ongoing concern amid a spate of to the gunfire and killed two attackers insurgency that has raged for more than a derailed in southern India, killing at least two Gulbarga, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north accidents. Last month, two passenger trains while one escaped after being wounded,” decade. Officials say nearly 3,000 militants people and leaving several injured. of India’s technology hub of Bangalore. The cause derailed over a bridge in central India while he said. Another senior police official, have been killed since the launch of the lat- Police and rescuers helped pull out scores of of the derailment was not immediately known. crossing a track that was flooded by heavy mon- Mubarak Zeb, confirmed the incident. est offensive. — AFP passengers from the coaches, which fell onto India operates one of the world’s largest railroad soon rains, killing at least 24 people. — Agencies Japan PM visits flood-hit town as rescuers search for missing

JOSO CITY , Japan: Japanese Prime Minister police spokesman said, bringing the death toll to was suffering a halt to water and power supply Shinzo Abe yesterday visited a disaster-struck four. While police have yet to identify the man, he for the third night. As the sky cleared, water levels city north of Tokyo in the aftermath of massive was was believed to be a 62-year-old missing in began to return to normal at the river, after the flooding that killed at least four people, as res- the prefecture where people also suffered floods, heaviest rain in years pounded the country in the cuers raced against time to find more than a local media reported. wake of Typhoon Etau, which smashed through dozen still missing. As the water receded, police officers wearing Japan this week, leaving a trail of destruction in Parts of Joso, a community of 65,000 resi- life vests shoved poles into thick muddy ground its wake. “We are working hard to rescue people dents, were washed away Thursday when a levee to locate possible victims. “The city is completely trapped in buildings and find those who still are on the Kinugawa river gave way, flooding an area destroyed - we need people’s help,” said 47-year- unaccounted for, while pumping out water,” a that reportedly spans 32 square kilometres (12 old Shinichi Ishizuka. Yesterday morning, Abe vis- local government official said. “But water levels square miles) after the worst rains in decades. ited the disaster-hit town, about 60 kilometres are still high in many areas so that has hampered Dramatic aerial footage showed whole houses (37 miles) outside Tokyo, as some 2,000 troops, our operation.” The number of missing in Joso being swept away by raging torrents in scenes police and firefighters were deployed to rescue declined from 22 to 15 after police found more eerily reminiscent of the devastating tsunami more than 100 people still trapped in water- victims alive, including a pair of eight-year-old that crushed Japan’s northeast coast four years logged buildings, the bulk of whom were children. It was not immediately clear where the ago. “I felt more dead than alive,” said a man who patients and medical staff inside a flooded hospi- children were found, but some of those missing was rescued yesterday morning after days tal, local media said. “We’re doing our best to appeared to have been among those trapped in trapped inside his home. “I lived by drinking tea make things safe by reconstructing the broken flooded buildings. In Kanuma city, north of Joso, a KARACHI: Activists of opposition party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) shout as there was no food. I’m so glad that they came (river) bank as quickly as possible to prevent a 63-year-old woman was killed in a landslide, slogans during the funeral of activists who were killed by paramilitary forces, in to rescue me,” he told public broadcaster NHK. repeat of this disaster,” Abe told reporters. while a 48-year-old woman was also found dead Karachi yesterday. — AFP Akinori Nagaoka, 39, returned home with his in Miyagi prefecture, officials said. son to find the first floor of the house flooded Picking up the pieces Police said the third victim was a 25-year-old with muddy brown water. “I have never seen any- The Japanese leader reviewed the extensive man helping to clear clogged drains in the city of thing like this before. I wonder when we can damage from a military helicopter and met with Nikko, which is known for its historic shrines. Six killed as protesters come back and live like it was,” he said. evacuees at a shelter. Some 4,500 people were Another river in Miyagi on Friday burst its banks Later in the day, police found the body of a forced to stay in more than 20 facilities such as and flooded a populated area but many resi- clash with Nepal police man in another river in Miyagi, northern Japan, a schools, public halls, gymnasiums as the region dents had already been evacuated. — AFP KATHMANDU: Five demonstrators and a been killed in violent clashes between police officer died in clashes in southern security forces and protesters against a Nepal as protests intensified against a proposed new constitution that would proposed new constitution, police said divide the Himalayan nation into seven yesterday. provinces. As violence escalated Friday protest- Tensions are particularly high in the ers dragged the wounded police officer country’s southern plains, where histori- out of an ambulance and killed him, with cally marginalized communities includ- anger running high after security forces ing the Madhesi and Tharu ethnic fired on protesters. “Five protesters-two minorities say the new internal borders in Mahottari and three in Dhanusa dis- will limit their political representation. trict-were killed after police were forced Nepal’s human rights commission on to fire at aggressive demonstrators yes- Friday urged both sides to engage in terday,” police spokesman Kamal Singh peaceful dialogue and said the govern- Bam told AFP. ment should withdraw troops deployed “A police officer was also killed.” The to try to maintain order. officer was being taken to hospital after Anger has been building for weeks in being beaten by protesters on his way to southern Nepal after lawmakers struck a work in the southeastern district of breakthrough deal on a new constitu- Mahottari when a mob stopped the tion, spurred by April’s devastating ambulance, dragged him out and earthquake. Work on a new national torched the vehicle. constitution began in 2008, two years “A crowd of about 150 stopped and after the end of the Maoist insurgency surrounded the ambulance, dragged that left an estimated 16,000 people him out to a field nearby and killed him. dead and brought down the 240-year- The ambulance was torched,” a old Hindu monarchy. But negotiations spokesman for the armed police force faltered over the issue of internal bor- Pushpa Ram KC told AFP Friday. More ders and the resulting uncertainty left than 30 people including 11 police offi- Nepal-one of the world’s poorest coun- cers and an 18-month-old boy have tries-in political limbo. — AFP JOSO: Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force attend a rescue mission in the city of Joso in Ibaraki prefecture yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Moderate 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Tokyo

TOKYO: A moderate earthquake hit from a bed, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. issued, and that the quake was 70 kilo- missing in disaster-struck Joso city, It served as a reminder that a huge Tokyo early yesterday, causing minor Television footage showed outside walls metres (43 miles) deep. which lies about 60 kilometres (37 miles) earthquake could strike the Japanese damage to buildings, temporarily bring- coming off the fourth floor of an apart- But the agency warned sizable after- outside Tokyo. The quake also temporari- capital-which has a population of about ing the capital’s subway system to a halt ment and scattering on the ground in shocks could strike in Tokyo at least in a ly stopped Tokyo subways and trains, but 13 million people-at any time. Experts and leaving 15 people injured in the the capital’s residential district of few days, while calling on residents to service was quickly resumed. have long warned Japan to stay vigilant region. The 5.4-magnitude quake, with Setagaya. stay vigilant against possible landslides The tremor did not cause any dam- for the next “Big One”, and a powerful its epicentre located in Tokyo Bay, struck The quake also broke water pipes in in the wake of heavy rain that hit the age to the region’s nuclear facilities, 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the at 5:49 am (2049 GMT), according to the several areas, leaking water, while at region earlier this week. according to the government, and did coast in May. US Geological Survey. least five people were temporarily The earthquake came as authorities not affect the areas that host the crip- Residents and officials of Tokyo and The number of injuries in connection trapped in elevators, Japan’s public were grappling with the aftermath of pled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the rest of the nation routinely hold with the jolt in Tokyo and its vicinity broadcaster NHK said. massive flooding that killed at least three which went through meltdowns after a emergency drills, with the government came to 15, including an 83-year-old The Japan Meteorological Agency people, as thousands of rescuers 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami dis- stepping up its disaster response in the woman who broke her leg when she fell said no tsunami warning had been searched for more than a dozen still aster in 2011. wake of the 2011 devastation. — AFP

‘Uighur’ suspect wanted over Bangkok blast: Thai police

BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday said an such links. “He is Uighur according to his arrest warrant had been issued for an passport,” national police spokesman ethnic “Uighur” man over last month’s Prawut Thavornsiri told AFP, after deadly Bangkok blast, for the first time authorities released a photo of the latest identifying a suspect as a member of the suspect identified as Abudusataer Chinese minority group. The announce- Abudureheman or “Ishan” of “Uighur” ment follows weeks of speculation over ethnicity and “Chinese” nationality. the motive and perpetrators of the Uighurs have long-accused Beijing of attack which killed 20 people, the major- religious and cultural repression with ity ethnic Chinese visitors, at a religious scores believed to have fled in recent shrine in the capital’s bustling down- years, often heading to Turkey via town district on August 17. Southeast Asia. Analysts had increasingly pointed Thailand’s deportation of 109 Uighur towards a link with the mostly Muslim refugees to China in July sparked violent Uighur minority from northwestern protests in Turkey, where nationalist China’s Xinjiang region but Thai police hardliners see the minority as part of a had up until now refused to confirm any global Turkic-speaking family. — AFP ‘Rebel’ female Buddhist monks challenge Thailand status quo

NAKHON PATHOM: On a rural road just after the investment of $1.2 million from donations daybreak, villagers young and old kneel rever- into the stock market. ently before a single file of ochre-robed women, With Buddhism so intimately tied to Thai filling their bowls with rice, curries, fruits and identity - more than 90 percent adhere to the sweets. In this country, it’s a rare sight. faith - these misdeeds and what is termed Thailand’s top Buddhist authority bars “checkbook Buddhism” have spurred calls in women from becoming monks. They can only Parliament for curbing the almost total authority SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the People’s Action Party greets his supporters after winning the general elec- become white-cloaked nuns, who are routinely the council wields over the clergy and the cor- tion in Singapore yesterday. — AFP treated as domestic servants. Many here believe ruption-stoking $4 billion in annual donations to women are inferior beings who had better per- monasteries. A proposed Patronage and form plenty of good deeds to ensure they will be Protection of the Clergy Bill would impose stiff reborn as men in their future lives. penalties for those who break the religion’s cardi- Singapore ruling party Yet with the religion beset by lurid scandals, nal rules and set up a panel to monitor dona- female monastics or “bhikkhunis” are emerging tions. Corruption within Buddhism may also be as a force for reform, not unlike activists in the dealt with in Thailand’s next constitution, now Christian world seeking gender equality includ- being drafted. stages crushing victory ing ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church. They are growing in numbers National debate and appear to be making headway. The role of women in Buddhism has also Election win boosts Lee’s mandate amid slowdown, Thailand has some 100 bhikkhunis who were aroused national-level debate. The Sangha coun- ordained in Sri Lanka, where women are allowed cil has urged the government to ban Sri Lankan SINGAPORE: Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party criticized for jailing dissidents and using defamation University in Australia who closely follows Singapore to become monks. They and their monasteries clergy from coming into the country following (PAP) extended 56 years in power yesterday after a lop- suits to cripple the opposition particularly during the politics, said the outcome “solidifies the PAP’s model of are not legally recognized in Thailand, and don’t what Dhammananda calls a “rebel ordination” in sided snap election that dashed hopes of a two-party elder Lee’s 31-year rule until 1990. technocratic authoritarianism even after the LKY era.” enjoy state funding and other support the coun- Thailand of eight bhikkhunis last November by system in the city-state. Friday’s vote, which saw the par- There was never any doubt the PAP would again win The party has traditionally drawn ministers from the civ- try’s 200,000 male monks are granted. Living Sri Lankans. That drew broad criticism of the ty take 83 of 89 seats and nearly 70 percent of the ballots a majority-but the results were a marked improvement il service, academe, the military, private business and spartan lives, the women are governed by 311 council itself. cast, stunned opponents and reversed a plunge in the for the party over the 2011 vote, when it took 80 of the the professional sector, many of them with foreign post- precepts from celibacy and poverty to archaic “The clergy can no longer insist on operating PAP’s share of the popular vote in 2011. 87 seats but saw its share of votes plunge to an all-time graduate degrees. ones like having to confess after eating garlic. in a closed, feudal system that violates universal It strengthened the mandate of Prime Minister Lee low of 60 percent. The odds were clearly in PAP’s favor. It controls Their ranks and those of hundreds of aspirants - norms and values,” said an editorial in the Hsien Loong amid an economic slowdown, with analysts Low Thia Khiang, leader of the main opposition the mainstream media and most MPs in Singapore there are five stages before ordination - include a English-language Bangkok Post. Instead of trying warning the trade-dependent economy could suffer a Workers’ Party (WP), vowed his party will rebound. are elected as part of geographic clusters, a system technical recession in the third quarter. “It is a good “You win, you lose. So I think that is part and parcel of criticized by the opposition as stacked in favor of the result for the PAP but it is an excellent result for life,” he told reporters Friday. Immigration, the high cost ruling party. Singapore,” said Lee, 63, who admitted the outcome of living and the plight of elderly and poor Singaporeans The opposition campaigned hard on social media to exceeded the party’s own expectations. were the key issues raised by the opposition during the generate rally crowds of up to 30,000 people but the “The results will be noted by the outside world... I campaign, but analysts said the PAP’s efforts to address numbers failed to deliver enough votes. Lee, who has believe these results will greatly bolster confidence in grievances after 2011 appeared to have placated voters. been in power since 2004, had staked the PAP’s fate on Singapore and Singapore’s future.” The new PAP mandate “suggests that the journey its performance since winning its first election in 1959, The United States immediately congratulated Lee towards a stronger and more credible opposition is not when Britain granted Singapore self rule. The opposi- and the PAP for the victory. “The people of Singapore important to most Singaporeans,” political analyst tion had urged voters to support the building of a have spoken and, in doing so, have once again united to Terence Chong said in a Facebook post yesterday. “They robust legislative opposition to rein in the PAP, but demonstrate their commitment to free and fair elec- are happy with a PAP-dominated landscape with a small Singaporeans decided to back the ruling party instead. tions,” US Ambassador Kirk Wagar said in a statement. opposition pr esence in parliament, with perhaps the The WP retained by a hairline margin the five-seat risk of even this disappearing,” said Chong, a researcher district of Aljunied it had won in 2011. Its vote share in The ‘LKY effect’ at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. that district dipped to 50.95 percent from 54.72 per- The election came six months after the death of Lee’s “The transactional relationship of goods delivery and cent. The WP also lost one of two single-seat wards it father, independence leader Lee Kuan Yew, plunged electoral reward comes across most vividly while the held in the previous parliament. “It seems Singapore into mourning and generated a wave of patri- desire for political pluralism seems overstated.” Singaporeans are not that concerned about issues like otism which analysts have called “the LKY effect.”. The freedom of speech or democracy... they are more con- PAP led Singapore, a former British colonial outpost, to ‘Technocratic authoritarianism’ cerned about making money and getting by, and I industrialized status in just one generation but has been Michael Barr, an associate professor at Flinders guess that is fair enough,” said Barr. — AFP Final death toll set at 173 NAKHON PATHOM: Women Buddhist monks stand beneath an image of Buddha at the Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Thailand’s top in China warehouse blast Buddhist authority bars women from becoming monks. — AP former Google executive, a Harvard graduate, to crush women’s aspirations, it said the “clergy journalists and doctors, as well as village noodle should concentrate on cleaning up its own BEIJING: Chinese authorities ended the search for the state-owned company and kept his ownership of Ruihai Authorities say they have sealed all waterways lead- vendors. house to restore declining public faith.” No scan- remaining eight missing in a massive chemical ware- hidden as a silent partner. ing out of the blast zone to curb cyanide contamination “It is our right, our heritage, to lead a fully dal has emerged among Thailand’s female cler- house explosion last month, setting the final death toll Also detained as part of the investigation are 11 as teams in hazmat suits clean up hazardous debris. monastic life. We are on the right side of histo- gy. Dhammananda said she has seen no misbe- at 173 in China’s worst industrial disaster in years. government officials, while the head of the govern- According to the Tianjin Environmental Protection ry,” says Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, an author, for- havior in her monastery beyond a few nuns who The announcement on the Tianjin city government’s ment body in charge of industrial safety, Yang Bureau, water samples inside the disaster zone have mer university professor and the first bhikkhuni had used their mobile telephones to excess. microblog said there was no hope of finding the eight Dongliang, has been placed under investigation for shown levels of cyanide as high as 20 times above that in Thailand from the Theravada branch of “I think that many nuns see themselves as people, and the court will now start issuing death certifi- corruption. Yang had previously worked for 18 years in considered safe. No cyanide has been detected in near- Buddhism, which is dominant in Southeast Asia exemplary. They are, and they’re carving a new cates. “After thorough investigations by all parties, it is Tianjin in state industry and local government, rising to by seawater or areas outside the 3-kilometer (1.8-mile ) and Sri Lanka. Using her religious name of role for themselves that didn’t exist,” said Juliane certain that there is no possibility of survivors,” said the executive vice mayor. radius quarantine zone. — AP Venerable Dhammananda, she contends that Schober, an expert on Southeast Asian statement, posted late Friday night. The eight include the Buddha 2,500 years ago built the religion as Buddhism at Arizona State University. “That that five firefighters, underscoring the explosion’s status as a four-legged stool - monks, nuns, laymen and puts pressure on the Sangha doesn’t surprise the worst ever disaster for Chinese first responders, more laywomen - but “we are now sitting on just me.” Women clergy interviewed at three monas- than 100 of whom were killed, including police officers. three legs.” teries said it was essential to maintain a high Among firefighters, a total of 104 were killed. moral ground so as not to give opponents an Investigations into the Aug. 12 blasts at the Ruihai Male-dominated excuse to stop their movement. Some cast them International Logistics warehouses showed they were The male-dominated religion has been as Western-educated feminists out to undermine located closer to homes than permitted, and stored blighted in recent years by crimes and gross vio- traditional Buddhism. much more hazardous material than authorized, includ- lations of vows, just as widespread sex abuse ing 700 tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide. and Vatican financial scandals have damaged the Change will come A series of massive explosions late at night shat- Roman Catholic Church. “They can be a force for change in Buddhism,” tered windows and tore facades off buildings for kilo- Monks in Thailand have been convicted of said Phramaha Boonchuay Doojai, a leading meters (miles) around, while launching debris includ- everything from murder to wildlife trafficking. activist monk at Chiang Mai Buddhist College. “If ing heavy steel storage canisters into nearby communi- Sexual depravity is frequently reported. One everything is in the hands of men, it is as if ties with the force of an artillery shell. Disgruntled former abbot, fugitive Wirapol Sukphol, faces Buddhism was just the way of a father, not moth- homeowners have held numerous angry protests charges of drug use, money laundering, father- er. But you need both,” he said. “Mothers have demanding the government buy back their apart- ing a child by an underage woman and illegally some unique feelings that men do not share. ments, saying they are unlivable. The disaster has raised amassing millions of dollars. A photograph They may have more loving kindness.” questions about corruption and government efficiency, shows him seated in a private jet wearing avia- Proponents of ordination like Boonchuay say potentially tarnishing the communist government led tor sunglasses. bhikkhunis originated with Buddha himself; the by President Xi Jinping, who has made those two issues The Supreme Sangha Council, the religion’s first was an aunt who raised him. Opponents a hallmark of his administration. TIANJIN: In this Sept 7, 2015 photo, workers clean up debris at the site of last month’s deadly ruling body, is under fire over the mishandling of argue that the lineage of the Theravada bhikkhu- Authorities are investigating malfeasance in the issu- explosions at a chemical warehouse at a port in northern China’s Tianjin Municipality. Chinese corruption allegations against prominent ni order, under which women could be ordained, ing of permits and regulation of the company, and have authorities said yesterday that they’ve ended the search for the remaining missing in a massive abbots, including one of its own members. The died out long ago and cannot be restored. The detained 12 of its employees and executives. They chemical warehouse explosion last month, setting the final death toll at 173 in China’s worst allegations include embezzling funds intended Mahayana branch of Buddhism practiced in East include the primary owner, who was on the board of a industrial disaster in years. — AP for the cremation of an abbot’s predecessor and Asia has historically ordained women. — AP NEWS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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Continued from Page 1 before he leaves office in January 2017 is more likely to die on Continued from Page 1 sex abuse in the US city. the steps of Capitol Hill. That ensured stars including Jake Gyllenhaal (Everest), predecessor, Chuck Hagel, was forced from the Pentagon Aware of those objections, the White House last month The Marcello Mastroianni best newcomer award went to Mark Ruffalo and Stanley Tucci (Spotlight) were spotted on the job in part because the White House felt he was not moving stalled Pentagon efforts to send a plan to Congress outlining Ghanaian Abraham Attah for his remarkable portrayal of a red carpet, although they could scarcely compete with Depp, quickly enough to send detainees to other countries. several US prisons that could be upgraded and used for the child soldier in “True Detective” director Cary Fukunaga’s whose appearance resulted in hundreds of fans camping out Two officials said the White House is frustrated because detainees. Early drafts of the plan included some rough esti- Netflix production “Beasts of No Nation”. overnight to catch a glimpse of him with new wife Amber President Barack Obama discussed the issue with Carter when mates of the costs and the time needed for renovations. US But there was no recognition for “The Danish Girl”. The British Heard, here promoting “The Danish Girl” in which she has a he was hired this year to lead the Defense Department, and officials said the administration was worried that sending the production had been one of the pre-festival favourites and supporting role. they believed Carter was on board with the White House’s plan to Congress could affect the crucial vote on the Iran Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has been heavily tipped Depp has been tipped as an Oscar contender for his role as plans to act faster. Other US officials note that Carter has nuclear deal by infuriating lawmakers who do not want the for further recognition for his depiction of a transgender artist’s Irish-American gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in “Black Mass”, approved some transfers and is pushing his staff to move detainees moved to the US or who adamantly oppose having journey from being a man to becoming a woman in the early in which Australia’s Joel Edgerton also won rave reviews for his quickly to get more to his desk. But many other proposed them in a prison in their state or district. The resolution of dis- 1930s. performance as an FBI agent who gets too close to Bulger. transfers are slogging through the bureaucracy, under review approval of the Iran deal failed in the Senate, handing Obama As well as showcasing the films in competition, this year’s American director Brady Corbet picked up two awards for his by a long list of defense, military, intelligence and other a victory on that issue. festival hosted world premieres of three major Hollywood pro- much-admired “Childhood of a Leader” - the Lion of the Future administration offices. The transfers cannot be approved Three to five civilian facilities are being eyed as potential ductions that will hope to be in the mix when Oscars time prize for a debut feature and best director in the Orizzonti unless officials believe the detainees will not return to terror- sites, officials said. A Pentagon team has gone to military facili- comes around next year. They were “Everest”, a 3D drama (Horizons) section of the festival which provides a platform for ism or the battlefield upon release and that there is a host ties in South Carolina and Kansas to develop better estimates based on a real-life disaster on the Himalayan peak, mobster world cinema. The film, which stars Robert Pattinson, deals country willing to take them. of construction and other changes that would be needed to saga “Black Mass” starring Johnny Depp, and Tom McCarthy’s with the emergence of fascism in Europe through a fable-like During his two years as Pentagon chief, Hagel approved 44 house the detainees as well as conduct military commission “Spotlight”, which recounts how the Boston Globe exposed story of the boyhood of a future dictator in the years following detainee transfers. Carter, in his first seven months, has trans- trials for those accused of war crimes. The visits to the Navy the Catholic Church’s efforts to cover up the scale of clerical the end of World War One. — AFP ferred six. Obama has promised to close the facility since he Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, and the was a presidential candidate in 2008. He said it ran counter to United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in American values to keep people in prison, many without crim- Kansas triggered immediate outrage from lawmakers and Alshaya inducted into World Retail... inal charges or due process. Opponents have argued the governors there. detainees are essentially prisoners of war. From a peak of 680 Republican Govs Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Sam Continued from Page 1 help develop a modern retailing culture in the Middle East prisoners, 116 remain. Finding acceptable places for them has Brownback of Kansas have threatened to sue the administra- which has delivered exciting new choices to customers and been an intractable problem. “Finding a solution for these tion if detainees are brought to either state. Both the House businessmen from different countries around the world - created many thousands of job opportunities”. individuals involves complicated negotiations with interna- and Senate have pending legislation that would maintain pro- the list having already inducted over 100 business icons who Alshaya is a long-established Kuwaiti family business tional partners, extensive consultations with the leaders of the hibitions on transferring detainees to US facilities. The Senate have contributed greatly to the retail world. These names formed in 1890, but since Mohammad Alshaya became CEO in national security and legal organizations and final approval by legislation allows the restrictions to be lifted if the White include “Dr Christo Weise, Chairperson of Pepkor Holdings 1990, it has been transformed into a powerful retailer of some me,” Carter told reporters. House submits a plan to close the facility and it’s approved by (Pty) Limited and Shoprite Holdings Limited and Kip Tindell, of the world’s biggest brands. A key player in the process is Gen Martin Dempsey, chair- Congress. Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Container Store in the The Alshaya Group now partners with over 70 internation- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dempsey, who spent more GOP Sen John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Senate 2015 World Retail Hall of Fame”, the statement mentioned. al brands in industries as diverse as real estate, construction, than three years as a commander in Iraq, continues to be very Armed Services Committee, has made it known he would con- Commenting on the award, Alshaya said his “inclusion in hotel hospitality, automobile, investment, catering and fash- ion retail. The group employs more than 44,000 staff, repre- cautious in his recommendations for transfers. His opinions sider a comprehensive plan to close Guantanamo, but said it the World Retail Hall of Fame is a great honor for me and for senting over 110 nationalities. Mohammad Alshaya became carry a lot of weight. According to US officials familiar with the must include answers to a number of tough legal and policy our family business. Retail is the most exciting industry in the world, constantly evolving and delivering new opportunities Executive Chairman in 2007. He is also chairman of Mabanee process, Carter recently notified Congress of two transfers, questions, including whether detainees held in the US would Company SAK, the mall development company behind The and has four whose files are ready to go to Capitol Hill, likely have additional rights. Sen Lindsey Graham, has opposed for growth. I have been privileged to be part of that evolution, partnering with some of the world’s greatest retail brands to Avenues mall. — KUNA later this month. Congress has 30 days to review the transfers using the Charleston brig because it is in a populated area. before they are made public. Sen Pat Roberts has said flatly that, “Not on my watch will any A number of US officials familiar with the ongoing discus- terrorist be placed in Kansas.” Hajj to go ahead despite Makkah crane... sions spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not Carter has acknowledged the challenge of getting a US authorized to talk about the subject publicly. The movement facility approved by Congress, but has insisted that some law- Continued from Page 1 out any problem. “It was not a technical issue at all,” said the of detainees is only part of the challenge. A greater hurdle will makers have indicated a willingness to consider a plan. “This engineer, who asked not to be identified. “I can only say that be finding a US-based prison to house the 64 detainees con- would be a good thing to do if - if we can all come together yesterday with relatives calling to check on us”. Indonesians what happened was beyond the power of humans. It was an sidered too dangerous to be sent to another country. behind a plan to do it,” Carter told reporters. “Our responsibili- and Indians were among those killed when the crane collapsed, act of God and, to my knowledge, there was no human fault in Congress has opposed any effort to bring detainees to ty is to provide them with a plan that they can consider that is while the injured included Malaysians, Egyptians and Iranians. A it at all.” The engineer said the crane was the main one used on America, so Obama’s long-stated goal of closing Guantanamo a responsible one.” — AP Saudi official said the hajj, expected to start on Sept 21, would work to expand the tawaf (circumambulation) area around the proceed despite the tragedy. “It definitely will not affect the hajj Kaaba - a massive cubed structure at the centre of the mosque India restaurant blasts kill 85 this season, and the affected part will probably be fixed in a few that is a focal point of worship. days,” said the official, who declined to be named. An investiga- “It has been installed in a way so as not to affect the hun- tive committee has “immediately and urgently” begun search- dreds of thousands of worshippers in the area and in an Continued from Page 1 an explosive material used in mining, being stored in the ing for the cause of the collapse, the official Saudi Press Agency extremely professional way,” he said. “This is the most difficult restaurant building. “Initial reports suggest that detonators said. The contractor has been directed to ensure the safety of all place to work in, due to the huge numbers of people in the burned-out vehicles, as victims described seeing body and explosives... used for digging wells and for mining other cranes at the site, it added. The cranes poke into the air area.” The crane’s heavy hook, which is able to lift hundreds of parts strewn in the street. “We have seen them flying and were stored in the room next to the restaurant, which over the sprawling mosque expansion taking place beneath the tonnes, began swaying and moved the whole crane with it, falling on the ground,” Narsingh, one of the injured told PTI. made the explosion so big,” Gond said. He added that the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, the world’s third-tallest building, at toppling into the mosque, the engineer explained. A witness Residents reported hearing a small blast followed by a explosive material was being stored illegally in the residen- 601 m. For years, work has been underway on a 400,000 sq m said the accident occurred during winds which were so strong much larger explosion, an AFP photographer at the scene tial area. expansion of the Grand Mosque to allow it to accommodate up they shook his car and tossed billboards around. The Saudi said. Television footage showed scores of people and res- Another district police official, Anurag Mishra, cited the to 2.2 million people at once. Binladin Group belongs to the family of the late Al-Qaeda cue workers using their bare hands to shift mangled heaps restaurant’s proximity to a busy bus stand as a reason for Abdel Aziz Naqoor, who said he works at the mosque, told leader Osama bin Laden. of steel and concrete of the ruined buildings while police the high number of casualties. Madhya Pradesh Chief AFP he saw the massive construction crane fall during the Sheikh Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, former head of Makkah’s religious cordoned off the area. Police revised the number of people Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took to Twitter to express storm. “If it weren’t for the tawaf bridge, the injuries and deaths police, told AFP the accident is a “test” from God. “We need to who died down to 85 after earlier reporting a higher toll, his sadness at the loss of life. “The Jhabua tragedy is heart would have been worse,” he said, referring to a covered walk- accept what happened,” he said, calling at the same time for a after clearing the debris of the destroyed restaurant and wrenching. I offer my condolences to the families of the way which broke the crane’s fall and surrounds the holy Kaaba. thorough investigation. Condolences came in from around the neighboring structures. “Earlier we thought it was 104 victims and pray for the speedy recovery of those injured,” The Kaaba is a massive cube-shaped structure at the centre of world, including from Arab leaders, as well as from Britain, (people who died) based on various reports coming to us Chouhan said. He offered compensation of 200,000 rupees the mosque towards which Muslims worldwide pray. A witness Canada, India and Nigeria. This was not the first tragedy to strike but now our own official information says 85 confirmed ($3,020) to the families of the dead and 50,000 rupees said the winds were so strong that they shook his car and Makkah pilgrims, though the hajj has been nearly incident-free deaths,” M L Gond, an inspector in charge of Jhabua’s police ($755) to help the injured victims. Chouhan has also tossed billboards around. in recent years. In 2006, several hundred died in a stampede control room, told AFP. ordered an inquiry into the matter. Pictures of the incident on Twitter showed bloodied bodies during the Stoning of the Devil ritual in nearby Mina, following a A local magistrate gave the same toll when contacted Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed suit and con- strewn across the courtyard, where part of the crane came to similar incident two years earlier. by AFP. “Total bodies identified and confirmed dead are 85 veyed his condolences on the micro-blogging site. rest atop an ornate, arched and colonnaded section of the Separately, Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of now,” Ashok Jadhav, the local sub-divisional magistrate, “Extremely pained at the loss of lives due to the cylinder complex. A video on YouTube showed people screaming and camels during this year’s hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths said. “As for the site, it has been cleared and no more bod- blast in Jhabua,” Modi said. Domestic gas cylinder explo- rushing around following a loud crash. Saudis and foreigners from the MERS virus linked to the animals. Camels will not be ies are there,” he said, adding that around 100 others were sions are common in India, where safety standards are lined up in the street to give blood in response to the tragedy. allowed to enter the holy sites of Makkah and Madinah, the being treated for their injuries in various nearby hospitals. relatively poor. But although reports of fatal accidents Irfan Al-Alawi, co-founder of the Makkah-based Islamic Permanent Committee for Fatwa said in a statement carried by Authorities suspect the intensity of the explosion may from cylinder blasts are frequent, mass casualties are Heritage Research Foundation, suggested that authorities the official Saudi Press Agency. “The Permanent Committee for have been compounded by detonators and gelatin sticks, unusual. — AFP were negligent by having a series of cranes overlooking the Fatwa stressed no slaughter of the camels inside the holy sites mosque. “They do not care about the heritage, and they do not due to emergence of the coronavirus,” the committee said. Only Unified work contract to protect rights care about health and safety,” he told AFP. Alawi is an outspo- sheep and cows will be allowed. As part of the hajj rituals, pil- ken critic of redevelopment at the holy sites, which he says is grims traditionally slaughter animals and give the meat to the Continued from Page 1 new contract will limit labor-employer disputes and conse- wiping away tangible links to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). needy. The World Health Organization has cited the preliminary quently reduce the burden shouldered by labor depart- But an engineer for the Saudi Binladin Group, the develop- results of studies indicating that people working with camels Jafour added that the new contracts would include leaves, ments,” he explained, noting that the authority will contact er, told AFP the crane was installed in “an extremely profession- are at increased risk of infection from the Middle East mandating employers to insure laborers and their indemnity the fatwa and legislation department as well as concerned al way” and there was no technical problem. “It was an act of Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Saudi Arabia is in addition to allowing both sides to agree on adding extra embassies for further consultation and translation into vari- God”, he said. The engineer told AFP the crane, like many oth- the worst-affected of more than 20 countries where MERS has items they agree upon in compliance with law 6/2010. “The ous languages. — KUNA ers on the project, had been there for three or four years with- appeared. — Agencies SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 ANALYSIS

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he unexpectedly large victory margin of Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) Tin a snap general election came from a swing vote triggered by fears of change and instability, analysts say. Enthusiastic crowds of up to 30,000 attended campaign rallies of the opposition Workers’ party (WP), which was hoping to win up to 20 of 89 available seats, almost triple the seven it held in the previous parliament. The PAP’s low-energy rallies were dwarfed by comparison and ridiculed in social media. And so the scale of the ruling party’s victory came as a surprise. The PAP, in power for more than half a century, won 83 seats and scooped up 70 percent of all votes cast, reversing a setback in 2011 when its share of the popular Global powers in disarray over Syria conflict vote fell to an all-time low of 60 percent. The WP’s seats fell to six and it very nearly lost five of them. “I think it is a By Fran Blandy to a UNESCO-listed world heritage site. “The coalition air to recognise “the pivotal role of Assad”. “I don’t see them flight to safety. The concern of the PAP being severely strikes have changed nothing... we ask ourselves if they are becoming more accommodating on this. To the contrary, I weakened has contributed to voters, particularly the mid- flood of desperate refugees and images of a toddler even necessary,” said Claire Talon of the International think they are committed to Assad’s survival,” said dle ground or undecided voters, deciding to plump for lying dead on a beach have thrown Syria’s chaos into Federation of Human Rights. Hokayem. the tried-and-tested plan,” said Eugene Tan, associate law Astark relief, but global powers are still far from seeing Jeffrey White of the Washington Institute for Near East professor at the Singapore Management University. eye-to-eye on a solution to the conflict. Despite a renewed ‘Fundamental Divergences’ Policy agreed, saying the lifting of pressure on Iran will Under the PAP, Singapore grew into one of the world’s sense of urgency, major players in the West, Gulf, Russia and While the countries involved, many of whom have prick- merely allow them to “devote more resources” to the war in richest societies with near universal home ownership, Iran are pursuing vastly different military and diplomatic tac- ly relations, agree that IS is the enemy, they cannot agree Syria. The UN Security Council last month adopted a new low crime and a per capita gross domestic product tics on the Syrian crisis. As political pressure mounts over the on Assad’s role in any resolution to Syria’s civil war. “The push for peace in Syria, where an uprising against Assad’s exceeding $50,000. But the party has also been criticised refugee exodus and the jihadist threat posed by the Islamic fact that they have the same enemy doesn’t mean that government in 2011 evolved into a civil war. But White is for quashing protests, jailing dissidents, muzzling the State group, both France and Australia are planning to extend they all give the same priority to fighting that enemy the pessimistic about the chances of an imminent diplomatic media and driving political opponents to bankruptcy a bombing campaign against the jihadists to Syria. And after same way,” said Hokayem. “We still see very fundamental solution. “The diplomatic activity usually just falls apart on with costly defamation suits. Yet political freedom was killing two British jihadists in a drone attack in Syria, Britain is divergences between the US, Turkey, the Gulf states.” And the basis of great differences and interests, various parties not even one of the hot topics during the campaign, also mulling air strikes there. hopes that Iran’s return to the international fold after a playing diplomatic and political games.” Middle East experts say the narrow focus on IS is a mistake, nuclear deal with the West could lead to a fresh diplomatic which centred on immigration, the high cost of living, and that efforts should concentrate on dealing with Syrian push - along with efforts by Russia to resolve the crisis - are ‘Assad at Root of Problem’ strained public services and the needs of the poor and President Bashar Al-Assad after a four-year civil war that has likely to fall flat. “If anything, both Russia and Iran are dou- Both White and Hokayem argue that it is not the IS jihadists elderly in a fast-ageing society. Bridget Welsh, a senior turned cities to rubble and left 240,000 dead. “It is not a prob- bling down in their support for Assad at this point,” said that are pushing Syrians to flee, but the war waged by Assad, research associate on Asian politics at the National lem of capability, it is a problem of strategy,” said Emile Hokayem. whose forces have waged air campaigns that have left many Taiwan University, said the PAP benefited from a “pendu- Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies While the coalition is focused on combating IS in gener- Syrian cities in ruins. The UN refugee agency estimated some lum swing” by the silent majority in the final phase of the (IISS). “Adding more British, French, Australian planes will al, Russia is pushing for a diplomatic solution in Syria that 5.6 million Syrians are internally displaced while some four mil- nine-day campaign. “As polling day approached, the destroy more IS targets but is not going to deal with the fun- would include Assad and fears are growing in Washington lion have fled the country. “It’s Assad that is at the base of the opposition’s messages and prominence in the media damental problems of why IS is expanding.” that Moscow is boosting military support to the regime. problem... and I think people in general are becoming more gained traction. The prominent messages and large The three countries are already bombing IS targets in Iraq The West, the Syrian opposition and some regional powers, aware that he needs to be dealt with and not spend so much crowds provoked a counter-reaction that boosted the but had resisted joining the US, Canada and Gulf allies in including Saudi Arabia, believe Assad must step down time worrying about IS and so on,” said White. Hokayem said: PAP performance, an opposition blowback,” she wrote in doing the same in Syria so as not to provide support to Assad. immediately for there to be any hope of reconciliation. “The prism through which the crisis is seen is the wrong one. a post-election analysis. “The stronger the opposition More than a year after the campaign was launched, and thou- Iran, which provides financial and military support to “While many in the West see IS as the greater evil, most Syrians became, the stronger the response against the opposi- sands of air strikes later, the coalition has failed to stop IS from Syria, has also proposed a peace plan to end the four-year see Assad as the greater evil and they have reason to - he is the tion, especially among the silent majority,” Welsh said. seizing the key Iraqi city of Ramadi and Syria’s Palmyra, home war but insists any initiative to end the conflict would have main reason for death, destruction and displacement.” —AFP In an emailed message to Singaporeans on Saturday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the results “show that you have rejected divisive politics, and supported Ageing Germany sees refugees as workers rational approaches to solving our problems”. “Our rallies may have been less exciting than the opposition’s, but By Tina Bellon and Caroline Copley ers have cited high unemployment as a rea- even though they may have filled their quo- qualified newcomers. The Federal you understood what was at stake, and stood with us. I son for refusing to take in even just a few ta. Apprenticeships are not bound by the Employment Agency lists mechanical engi- thank you for that. hile many European countries say thousand of the hundreds of thousands of minimum wage of Ä8.50 ($9.52) an hour. neers, trades such as plumbers, heating and asylum seekers could damage people pouring into Europe to escape war Trade unions have said care must be taken sanitary professionals as well as the IT and Ringing endorsement Wtheir economies if they let in too and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. to prevent migrants being exploited as health sectors, especially care workers, as Daniel Goh, a sociologist who ran unsuccessfully under many, Germany is counting on the record But in Dortmund, the local Chamber of cheap labour. Asked if the influx of refugees being in short supply. To speed up access to the WP, wrote Saturday on Facebook that the people had numbers pouring across its borders to save Trades (HWK) sees it differently, saying might drive down pay, the HWK spokes- the labour market, the government has spoken “and the collective wisdom is always right”. its own. Berlin estimates its working age almost a quarter of businesses in the city woman said remuneration for apprentice- reduced waiting times before asylum seek- “Analysts will fall over one another in the coming weeks to population will shrink by 6 million people have open positions. “The jobs are there but ships is fixed by collective wage agree- ers can work and removed the requirement discern the hearts of voters. For me, the meaning of the by 2030 as the number of deaths outstrips there aren’t always appropriate applicants ments and there was no separate negotia- to seek approval from employment authori- results is clear. It is a ringing endorsement of the PAP’s pro- births, making it hard to keep the economy that have the right qualifications,” an HWK tion of salaries. ties before starting apprenticeships. gram of going back to its centre-left roots and PM Lee’s growing. “If we manage to quickly train spokeswoman said, saying apprenticeships Berthold Schroeder, head of the HWK in But there is no guarantee those who leadership.” WP chief Low Thia Khiang also acknowledged those that come to us and to get them into did not appeal to many Germans, who pre- Dortmund who initiated the pilot project, complete their training can stay, which crit- that there was a “massive swing” in favour of the PAP. “I work, then we will solve one of our biggest ferred to go on to university after school. To said small companies can sometimes act as ics say may put off potential employers. Ulf believe all of us have to accept it,” he told journalists. The problems for the economic future of our fill the gap, it invited some 85 refugees to a substitute for families and help newcom- Rinne, Deputy Director of Research at the PAP did not wage a totally benign campaign. It attacked country: the skills shortage,” Economy take language and maths tests earlier this ers settle in. But there are other barriers to Institute for the future of Work (IzA) in Bonn the character of some candidates and cast doubt on the Minister Sigmar Gabriel told parliament on year, choosing 15 from Syria, Congo and the influx of refugees providing a quick said it was an illusion to think that refugees divided opposition’s ability to govern, alleging that it mis- Thursday. Eritrea to train as opticians, electricians, answer to Germany’s demographic dilem- could resolve the shortage of skilled work- managed one district it wrested from the ruling party in Matching skills gaps with newcomers mechanics, metal workers and parquet floor ma. While many are highly-educated, par- ers in the short term because so much was 2011. In densely populated Singapore, MPs also manage while keeping the population on side will fitters. One of them was Abraha, who fled ticularly those from Syria, around 20 per- open to chance. “In the mid to long-term municipal services, not just create legislation. Also working be a challenge for the government, but Eritrea by foot in 2012 after six years in the cent are illiterate, Interior Minister Thomas they can of course help to alleviate the many businesses have already woken up to military. He made it to Germany in de Maiziere said, potentially increasing the demographic problems in Germany, in par- in the PAP’s favour were the afterglow from the 50th the potential of the estimated 800,000 peo- November and had begun learning German burden on the state. Labour Minister ticularly if we as a society manage to suc- anniversary celebrations of Singapore’s independence in ple expected this year. Daniel Kok, owner of at his refugee shelter. Andrea Nahles said the number of recipi- cessfully integrate them into the labour August, and the outpouring of grief when founding leader a small flooring business in the west The HWK spokeswoman said some com- ents of benefits could rise by up to 460,000. market,” he said. “But this is of course a chal- Lee Kuan Yew died in March. German city of Dortmund, had been search- panies have offered extra training places for Skill shortages vary from region to lenge that faces us, there is no surefire suc- “I think that has a significant contributory effect psy- ing for a suitable trainee for over a year refugees who were especially motivated region, making them hard to match with cess.” —Reuters chologically in favour of the PAP,” said Devadas when the local trades association asked if Krishnadas, chief executive of consultancy Future-Moves he would take on an asylum-seeker. Group. The PAP also learned its lessons in 2011 and Kok was sent Tesfagebriel Abraha, a 31- moved quickly to address the issues. Lee’s government year-old refugee from Eritrea who had nev- sharply reduced the intake of immigrants and foreign er heard of parquet floors before he started workers accused of stealing Singaporeans’ jobs and caus- laying them. After a successful two-week tri- ing overcrowding. It poured billions of dollars into improv- al in late July, he is now doing an appren- ing public housing and mass transport. It expanded a ticeship that lasts until 2018. “I didn’t hire “baby bonus” scheme to encourage parents to have more Abraha out of starry-eyed-idealism but children. Benefits for the elderly and lower-income fami- because he is qualified, enthusiastic and lies were also unveiled in the run-up to the vote. —AFP eager to work,” said Kok, who said he had had countless unsatisfactory trainees. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW eco- nomic institute, said immigrants had filled more than two-thirds of the almost 1.5 mil- All articles appearing on these lion new jobs created in Europe’s largest economy over the past five years. “We need pages are the personal opinion of workers if we want to maintain Germany’s the writers. Kuwait Times takes no economic strength,” he said. responsibility for views expressed Boon or Burden? therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Located in North-Rhine Westphalia, ers to voice their opinions. Please Germany’s most populous state that takes send submissions via email to: opin- around a fifth of the new arrivals, Dortmund hosts around 4,000 refugees and expects [email protected] or via snail the number to double by the end of the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. year. The industrial city has suffered from a The editor reserves the right to edit decline in coal mining and its unemploy- any submission as necessary. ment rate, at 12.7 percent, is twice the A participant in a pro-migrant demonstration holds a sign reading ‘Keep calm and welcome refugees’ at Potsdamer national average. A string of European lead- Platz in Berlin yesterday. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 SPORTS

Lorenzo on Italian pole SA plan for WCup glory Alvarez extends contract

ITALY: Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo took pole position in record EASTBOURNE: Mastery of scrums, line drives and the breakdown will LAS VEGAS: Former WBA and WBC super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of time at the San Marino MotoGP yesterday with champi- win the World Cup, South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer said after his 31- Mexico signed a multi-fight, multi-year contract extension with Golden Boy Promotions on onship-leading team mate Valentino Rossi also on the man squad arrived for the tournament yesterday. “These are three areas Friday with his next bout set for November. Alvarez, who lost both front row in third place for his home race. Spaniard that will determine the outcome of the tournament and we have spent a world titles on a majority decision to undefeated American Floyd Lorenzo lapped Misano’s 4.2km Marco Simoncelli circuit lot of time working on them,” Meyer said. Mayweather Jr. in 2013, will challenge Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto Meyer also said winning the World Cup, which South Africa achieved in eastern Italy with a best time of one minute 32.146 sec- for the WBC middleweight crown at the Mandalay Bay Resort in in 1995 and 2007, would require playing “seven cup finals” over the next onds, smashing compatriot Marc Marquez’s 2013 pole Las Vegas on Nov. 21. two months. “All the opponents will be difficult and you have to record by nearly eight tenths. Honda’s double world “I am loyal, it’s part of my character and that’s why I am extend- approach each game as if it were a final. The challenge is to play seven ing my contract with Golden Boy Promotions,” Guadalajara-born champion Marquez will line up second on the starting great games in a row.” The Springboks, who are based on the South grid after lapping 0.106 slower. The pole was Lorenzo’s Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) said in a statement. “Golden Boy Coast of England, start their campaign next Saturday against Japan at Promotions knows how to build a fighter and elevate him to third of the season and 33rd in the top flight, but he was Brighton in Pool B with the coach suggesting it was an opportunity to a world stage as they have done with me and continue to unhappy with Rossi for running slowly in front of him on give game time to players who have been working their way back to fit- do with many others.” The red-haired Mexican, who is his last lap. ness after injury. “Most of the guys coming back from injury will be in the known for his punching power, suffered the only loss of “I was lucky because Marquez could not improve his lap time match 23. But there are one or two who still have some hard work to do his career against Mayweather in a much-hyped title enough, but I could have lost the pole position because of over the next weeks. bout in Las Vegas two years ago. Since then, Alvarez, 25, Valentino on the (racing) line,” he said. “We’ve studied Japan and it’s not going to be easy. They bring a dif- has won his last three fights to set up an intriguing show- Italian great Rossi, a nine-times world champion, leads ferent challenge with a highly technical game. For us it is about taking down with Cotto in two months. “Canelo Alvarez is no Lorenzo in the standings with 236 points to off from the first game and building up momentum.” Meyer insisted his longer the future of the boxing-he is the present, and with the Spaniard’s 224. Marquez is third on side were not favourites and said they preferred “to be under the radar, if a win ... against Miguel Cotto, he will solidify his status as 159 with six races remaining includ- that is possible for us”. “There will be no (external) pressure on us but we the best in the business,” said boxing great Oscar De La ing today’s. —Reuters will put pressure on ourselves to achieve.” —Reuters Hoya, chairman of Golden Boy Promotions. —Reuters Blue Jays down Yankees, Mets roll

NEW YORK: Russell Martin homered twice and drove in before it was suspended. It was Cincinnati’s first sus- replaced by Joba Chamberlain, who yielded Oakland. Lewis, who was 0-3 with an 8.62 ERA in his pre- four runs against his former team, and the Toronto Blue pended game this season - three have been rained out. Clevenger’s slam. Clevenger entered the game earli- vious three starts, got a standing ovation from the home Jays went deep five times to beat the New York Yankees Reds first baseman Joey Votto struck out and walked er in the inning as a pinch hitter. crowd after Danny Valencia’s double down the left-field 11-5 Friday night in the opener of their weekend show- three times. He received a two-game suspension on line to start the eighth. down for first place in the AL East. Friday for an altercation with umpire Bill Welke on TWINS 6, WHITE SOX 2 The 36-year-old right-hander (15-8) needed just 97 Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak each hit a two-run Wednesday, but will keep playing while his appeal is Trevor Plouffe hit a pair of solo homers, including pitches to set a career best in wins, beating his previous shot in a five-run first inning to build a big lead for heard. a tiebreaking shot in the eighth, to lead Minnesota high of 14 from the second of two straight World Series David Price. Edwin Encarnacion added a titanic drive Rain fell intermittently during the game, then inten- over Chicago. Eduardo Escobar added a solo shot in seasons for the Rangers in 2011. after the Blue Jays chased rookie starter Luis Severino in sified in the eighth inning with the Cardinals batting, the Twins’ three-run ninth as Minnesota remained Mitch Moreland snapped an 18-inning scoreless the third. prompting the umpires to call for the tarp. one game behind Texas for the second American streak for Texas with a two-run double in a three-run first Seeking its first playoff appearance in 22 years, League wild card. inning off Oakland starter Jesse Chavez (7-15). Valencia Toronto increased its division lead to 2 1/2 games over CUBS 7, PHILLIES 3 Ervin Santana came through with his third straight reached third on a flyout by Billy Butler in the eighth, but New York. The teams play a rare single-admission dou- Jake Arrieta pitched eight strong innings for his strong start, allowing two runs, on Adam Eaton’s 13th Lewis struck out Muncy to keep the shutout intact. bleheader at Yankee Stadium on Saturday to make up major league-leading 19th win, and Starlin Castro homer in the fifth, through seven innings, while scat- Thursday night’s rainout. The four-game series con- homered to lead Chicago past Philadelphia in the tering six hits and striking out six. In his last three DIAMONDBACKS 12, DODGERS 4 cludes Sunday. first game of a doubleheader. In the second game, outings, Santana (5-4) has allowed just three earned Welington Castillo, Paul Goldschmidt and Nick Kyle Schwarber homered twice to lead the Cubs in a runs in 22 innings and struck out 27. Ahmed homered for the Diamondbacks, who cruised to METS 5, BRAVES 1 sweep of the doubleheader. Arrieta (19-6) won his Plouffe’s second homer, came off Nate Jones (1-2), a victory over the Dodgers. Rookie Steven Matz pitched five strong innings, eighth straight start, allowing six hits with seven the second Chicago reliever, and gave the Twins Ahmed went 4 for 4 with three RBIs, including two Yoenis Cespedes had a home run and three RBIs and strikeouts and two walks to become the first Cubs infielder his third career multi-homer game. doubles and two runs scored. The Diamondbacks won New York took another step toward a division title with for the third time in four games, with four pitchers com- a win over Atlanta. bining to hold the Dodgers to four hits. With Washington losing to Miami 2-1, the Mets lead The last of the four hits was a grand slam by Justin the NL East by a season-high 8 1/2 games. It was the Ruggiano in the top of the ninth inning with two outs. Mets’ fifth straight victory. Castillo’s towering drive far over the wall in left-center Matz allowed one run and six hits as he improved to gave Arizona 3-0 lead, and Chris Owings’ triple drove in 3-0 in four career starts and lowered his ERA to 1.88 Phil Gosselin with the fourth run of the inning off against an anemic Braves offense that is last in the Dodgers starter Alex Wood. majors in runs. Wood (10-10) lasted only 1 2-3 innings, allowing six Rookie Matt Wisler (5-7) took the loss for the Braves runs and eight hits in his shortest outing since coming to after allowing two runs in five innings. Wisler has lost six the Dodgers in a trade on July 30. Robbie Ray (4-11) shut straight decisions for the Braves, who have dropped 22 out the Dodgers for five innings for his first win since of their last 25 games. Atlanta has lost 10 straight at July 7. Turner Field, tying the franchise single-season home losing streak. ROCKIES 4, MARINERS 2. Dustin Garneau snapped a scoreless tie with a three- MARLINS 2, NATIONALS 1 run homer in the seventh and Chad Bettis pitched three- NL batting leader Bryce Harper struck out three hit ball over seven innings, leading the Rockies over the times and stranded five runners, and fading Washington Mariners. lost its fourth straight game. Bettis (7-5), making his fourth start since coming off The Nationals out-hit the Marlins 7-5 but went 0 for 6 the disabled list, struck out six and walked three. The with runners in scoring position, and their lone run was Rockies had just three hits through six innings before unearned. Washington, swept in a three-game series by breaking through against Hisashi Iwakuma (7-4). After the Mets earlier this week, began the night 7 1-2 games DJ LeMahiue grounded out, Justin Morneau and Ben behind first-place New York in the NL East. Paulsen had consecutive singles. Garneau then ripped Mike Dunn (2-5) struck out Harper, the only batter he the first pitch over the left-field wall for his second faced, with two on to end the seventh and keep the homer, snapping a streak of 24 1-3 scoreless innings by score 1-all. JT Realmuto led off the bottom of the sev- Seattle pitchers. enth with a double off Casey Janssen (1-5) and later scored the tie-breaking run on a sacrifice fly by Miguel ANGELS 3, ASTROS 2 Rojas. The Angels parlayed a fielding error by Houston NEW YORK: Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (left) drops the ball while falling to the grass pitcher Dallas Keuchel into three unearned runs in the PIRATES 6, BREWERS 3 after colliding with Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar (11) when they both tried to field a fly ball in second inning and went on to beat the AL West-leading Chris Stewart had three hits and three RBIs, and the second inning of a baseball game. —AP Astros, reducing their deficit to 4 1-2 games. Charlie Morton pitched six strong innings as Pittsburgh Jered Weaver (7-10) allowed two runs and five hits in ended its seven-game losing streak against Milwaukee. pitcher to win that many in a row since Milt Pappas RAYS 8, RED SOX 4 six innings en route to his 138th career victory, which Stewart hit a two-run single that capped a three-run won 11 consecutive games in 1972. Asdrubal Cabrera and J.P. Arencibia hit two-run tied Nolan Ryan for second place on the Angels’ career fourth inning that put the Pirates ahead for good 3-2. homers in a five-run eighth inning and Tampa Bay beat list behind Chuck Finley’s 165. The backup catcher, starting for resting Francisco ORIOLES 14, ROYALS 8 Boston. After Logan Forsythe had an RBI single, Cabrera Keuchel (17-7) gave up five hits through six innings, Cervelli, added an RBI single in the sixth. Nolan Reimold and Steve Clevenger both hit made it 6-4 on his drive to center off Junichi Tazawa (2- struck out seven and walked two. The left-hander, who Stewart tied his career high with his third three-hit grand slams during a 10-run eighth inning, and 7). Arencibia then gave Tampa Bay an 8-4 lead with his last year became the first Astros pitcher ever to win a game of the season and the fifth of his nine-year career. Baltimore beat Kansas City for its third straight victo- fifth homer in 34 at-bats since being called up Triple-A Gold Glove, committed his first error in 62 chances this Morton (9-7) snapped a three-start losing streak, allow- ry. Durham on Aug. 26. season and the Angels turned it into a three-run second ing two runs and three hits while walking two and strik- Baltimore trailed 6-4 in the eighth before a dou- Andrew Bellatti (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for inning. ing out two. ble, an error and an infield hit loaded the bases for the win. Boston slugger David Ortiz remained two Mark Melancon struck out two in a perfect ninth for Reimold, who lined a 2-0 pitch from Kelvin Herrera homers shy of becoming the 27th player to reach 500. GIANTS 9, PADRES 1 his 45th save in 47 chances. Jimmy Nelson (11-12) lost (4-3) high off the left-field foul pole. He had an RBI double and a single in four at-bats. He was Jake Peavy allowed two hits over seven innings, for the just the second time in six decisions against the Manny Machado followed with a solo shot off also intentionally walked. Marlon Byrd had three hits and drove in a run and the Pirates this season. Franklin Morales. After Adam Jones singled, Morales Enny Romero replaced starter Chris Archer with two Giants beat the Padres. Matt Duffy had two hits and hit slugger Chris Davis in the back with a pitch. Davis on and no outs in the sixth and gave up a run-scoring drove in two runs for the Giants, who have won four of CARDINALS 2, REDS 2 (SUSPENDED) slammed down his bat, breaking it in two, as Orioles double to Travis Shaw and Pablo Sandoval’s RBI infield six following a seven-game losing streak. Heavy rain forced the St. Louis at Cincinnati game to manager Buck Showalter sprinted out of the dugout. single that tied it at 3. Ryan Hanigan gave Boston a 4-3 The Giants, who left 10 men on base, picked up be suspended in the top of the eighth inning. It’ll be No one else emerged from the either dugout dur- lead with a sacrifice fly off Brandon Gomes. ground on the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first time resumed at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, with the regularly ing the potentially volatile situation, although Davis since Aug. 21, moving 7 1-2 games back. Peavy (6-6) scheduled game to follow. glared at Morales while taking his base. Showalter, RANGERS 4, ATHLETICS 0 did not walk a batter and struck out two. Andrew The teams waited out the 17th rain delay at Great meanwhile, was ejected from the game for arguing. Colby Lewis took a perfect game into the eighth Cashner (5-15) gave up five runs and nine hits over 4 2- American Ball Park for an hour and seven minutes Morales lasted one more batter before being inning before settling for a two-hitter, leading Texas past 3 innings. —AP

MLB results/standings

Chicago Cubs 5, Philadelphia 1; Baltimore 14, Kansas City 8; Toronto 11, NY Yankees 5; Chicago Cubs 7, Philadelphia 3; Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 3; Tampa Bay 8, Boston 4; Miami 2, Washington 1; NY Mets 5, Atlanta 1; Texas 4, Oakland 0; Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 2; Arizona 12, LA Dodgers 4; LA Angels 3, Houston 2; Colorado 4, Seattle 2; San Francisco 9, San Diego 1. American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Mets 80 61 .567 - Toronto 80 60 .571 - Washington 71 69 .507 8.5 NY Yankees 77 62 .554 2.5 Miami 60 81 .426 20 Tampa Bay 69 71 .493 11 Atlanta 56 86 .394 24.5 Baltimore 68 72 .486 12 Philadelphia 54 88 .380 26.5 Boston 66 74 .471 14 Central Division Central Division St. Louis 88 52 .629 - Kansas City 83 57 .593 - Pittsburgh 84 56 .600 4 Minnesota 73 67 .521 10 Cleveland 69 70 .496 13.5 Chicago Cubs 82 58 .586 6 Chicago White Sox 66 73 .475 16.5 Milwaukee 62 79 .440 26.5 Detroit 64 76 .457 19 Cincinnati 58 81 .417 29.5

Western Division Western Division Houston 76 65 .539 - LA Dodgers 80 60 .571 - Texas 74 66 .529 1.5 San Francisco 73 68 .518 7.5 LA Angels 71 69 .507 4.5 Arizona 68 73 .482 12.5 San Diego 67 75 .472 14 Seattle 68 74 .479 8.5 ATLANTA: New York Mets starting pitcher Steven Matz (32) works during the first inning of a baseball game against the Oakland 60 81 .426 16 Colorado 59 82 .418 21.5 Atlanta Braves. —AP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 SPORTS Sprint queen Schippers triumphs

BRUSSELS: World champion Dafne Schippers something exciting to have,” added Felix, who proved she will be the sprinter to beat over 200 hopes to compete in both the 200 and 400 metres metres at next year’s Rio Games with victory over in Rio. Olympic champion Allyson Felix at the Diamond In the men’s sprints, controversial American League athletics finale in Brussels on Friday. Justin Gatlin, who has been banned twice for dop- The Dutchwoman, a former heptathlete who ing, narrowly won the 100 metres in 9.98 seconds, took the 200m world title in Beijing with the dipping at just the right time ahead of Qatar’s fourth fastest time in history, showed she has fin- Femi Ogunode, who was given the same time. ishing speed to pull clear and finish in 22.12 sec- Gatlin had also agreed to race the 200 metres onds. an hour later after world and Olympic champion Felix, who won the 400 metres in Beijing but Usain Bolt withdrew earlier in the week, citing a did not run the 200 metres due to a scheduling need to recharge. clash, was a further 0.10 seconds back, but did at However, after feeling a twinge in his thigh least have the consolation of winning the season- towards the end of the 100 metres, Gatlin too long Diamond Race and its $40,000 cash prize. decided his season was at an end, leaving Schippers, 23, said she was delighted to have Ogunode to win the 200 metres in an Asian record settled any lingering debate about who is the time of 19.97 seconds. Unbeaten until the world fastest for now. “If you can win everything it gives championships, Gatlin described his season as bit- you a good feeling. It’s a fine way of ending the tersweet. season,” she said. Felix said her final 100 metres “I was poised to go out there (in Beijing) and was lacking, perhaps a result of focusing on the win. To be able to come away with two (silver) 400 metres for most of the season, but commend- medals though, is sweet,” he said. ed Schippers on an incredible year. In another highlight at the Diamond League “That’s a big confidence booster and you finale in Brussels, Tunisia’s Habiba Ghibri set a sea- expect her to do well,” she said. “I think there’s just son’s best time and African record of 9 minutes 5.36 a lot of new talent in the 200 metres and that’s seconds in the 3,000m steeplechase.- —Reuters Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers Betting action quiet ahead of Mayweather bout

LAS VEGAS: Four months after Floyd “It’s not going to be a fire sale, that’s for Mayweather’s megabout with Manny sure,” said Rood. “From a gambling perspec- Pacquiao delivered Nevada one of its most tive, you have to be mightily confident that heavily bet-upon sporting events, the gam- Mayweather’s going to go out there and bling action ahead of Mayweather’s latest win for you to put any real significant mon- fight has been very low-key. ey to make significant money. The undefeated five-division world “If you want to win $10,000 on this fight, champion is a 1-30 favourite heading into you have to lay $300,000. We’ll see a few of his WBC and WBA welterweight title those. But right now, it’s been all Berto defence against fellow American Andre because everyone wants to see the ticket Berto on Saturday, giving prospective pun- that says a $100 wager to win a $1,000, ters a much narrower range of options. instead of a $100 wager to win $3.30.” “It’s been much different from the While Mayweather is renowned for his Mayweather-Pacquiao bout here in May,” a defensive brilliance and ability to out-think smiling Jay Rood, vice president of race and opponents, Berto is likely to rely on his sports book at MGM Resorts, told Reuters power and athleticism in the early rounds on Friday shortly before the fighters’ official as he bids to avoid a fourth defeat in his weigh-in. last seven fights. “I spent nearly three-and-a-half days With that in mind, Rood said that many doing media interviews for that last fight, gamblers are looking at the ‘will go, won’t everybody from all around the globe want- go the 12 full rounds’ bets as an option. “A ed to talk about it. Right now this is the first lot of people will look at it and think, ‘Well, time I have stepped into the media centre a couple of things can happen.’ here at the MGM Grand all week. “Mayweather can dance around, show his “Floyd is a much larger favourite, a 30-1 speed and skill, put on a boxing clinic and (on) favorite for this particular fight, where- maybe do enough damage to get a techni- as he was right around a $2 favorite against cal knockout on Berto. Or Berto will come LEEDS: England’s Jonny Bairstow slips over as he bats during the One Day International cricket match between England and Australia at Pacquiao.” straight at him early and they will both mix Headingley cricket ground. —AP Gamblers flocked in huge numbers to it up, then a few things can happen. Sin City for the May 2 “Fight of the Century” “Berto can get a nice punch in and end between Mayweather and Filipino the fight, Mayweather can get a good England defeat Australia Pacquiao, which the American won on a punch in and end the fight or Mayweather unanimous decision to improve his perfect may be very aggressive and put some dam- record to 48-0. age on Berto, who has to retire. “Most peo- LEEDS: England captain Eoin Morgan led his side to a as he shared a 91-run partnership with Ben Stokes and win. But Moeen Ali and David Willey saw England over The wager total for that bout, featuring ple are still betting for the upset because of history-making three-wicket win over Australia in the 58 with Yorkshire’s Jonny Bairstow as England held their the line, with Willey hitting John Hastings for England’s the sport’s best pound-for-pound boxers, the price that is available. 10-1 on a small fourth one-day international at Headingley on Friday to nerve to get home with ten balls to spare in an exciting sixth six of the innings to complete victory in the penul- nudged above the $60 million mark but wager for a little bit of interest is probably tie the five-match series 2-2. Morgan made 92 as finish. timate over. Saturday’s title showdown in Vegas will be where this fight’s going to fall into the England successfully chased a total of 300 for only the Glenn Maxwell’s superb catch at backward point England had earlier overcome the early loss of open- a far cry from that. gambling world.” —Reuters fourth time in one-day cricket to set up a series decider denied Morgan a ninth ODI century as he fell after fac- er Alex Hales, whose position on the tour to the United at Manchester’s Old Trafford today. ing 92 balls and hitting eight fours and two Arab Emirates to face Pakistan later this month must be Overhauling the World Cup holders’ 50-over total of sixes.Maxwell then took an even better catch, taking the in doubt due to his poor run of form, to make a positive 299-7 also surpassed the 270-4 England made in their ball in mid-air behind the boundary before throwing it start to their run chase through Jason Roy and James previous highest one-day run chase in beating Australia up and completing the catch to remove the hard-hitting Taylor. in 1997. Morgan made his third successive half-century Liam Plunkett for 17 when England still needed 18 to The pair put on 72 before both fell in the space of 16 runs to bring together Morgan and Stokes for the deci- sive partnership. At the halfway stage of their innings, SCOREBOARD England had reached 144-3, exactly the same as Australia had, and despite the loss of four further wick- LEEDS, United Kingdom: Scoreboard in the fourth one-day international between England and ets, the home side paced their chase to perfection. After Australia at Headingley yesterday: winning the toss, Australia reached 299-7 thanks to half- Australia England centuries from top scorer Glenn Maxwell, who made 85, J. Burns b Willey 2 J. Roy c Finch b Cummins 36 George Bailey and wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, whose late onslaught at least gave his side something to try to A. Finch c Bairstow b Willey 15 A. Hales lbw Cummins 0 J. Taylor c Wade b Marsh 41 defend. S. Smith lbw Willey 5 The tourists were in trouble at 30-3 as Willey, who G. Bailey c and b Plunkett 75 E. Morgan c Maxwell b Cummins 92 B. Stokes b Marsh 41 will be playing his county cricket on this ground next G. Maxwell b Ali 85 J. Bairstow c Wade b Maxwell 31 season after signing for champions Yorkshire from M. Marsh c Willey b Plunkett 17 M. Ali not out 21 Northamptonshire, struck early in his first game of the M.Wade not out 50 L. Plunkett c Maxwell b Cummins 17 series to remove Joe Burns, captain Steven Smith and M. Stoinis c Rashid b Ali 4 D. Willey not out 12 Aaron Finch. J. Hastings not out 34 Extras (3lb, 8w, 2nb) 13 Maxwell and Bailey rebuilt the innings as they Extras (8lb, 3w, 1nb) 12 Total (7 wkts, 48.2 overs) 304 shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 137 before Total (7wkts, 50 overs) 299 Did not bat: A Rashid, M Wood Maxwell was bowled by spinner Ali for 85 off 64 balls, including 10 fours and two sixes. Did not bat: J Pattinson, P Cummins Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Hales), 73-2 (Roy), 89-3 (Taylor), 180-4 (Stokes), 238-5 (Morgan), 261-6 When Bailey then went for 75 at 210-6, Australia Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Burns), 2-25 (Smith), 3-30 were in the midst of a mid-order collapse. But Wade and (Finch), 4-167 (Maxwell), 5-210 (Marsh), 6-210 (Bairstow), 282-7 (Plunkett) Bowling: Pattinson 9-0-73-0 (1nb, 2 w); Hastings, called up from county cricket with Durham for (Bailey), 7-215 (Stoinis) Cummins 10-0-49-4 (1nb, 2w); Hastings 6.2-0- his first ODI since 2011, counter-attacked as Australia Bowling: Willey 8-0-51-3 (1w); Wood 9-0-65-0 56-0; Marsh 9-0-52-2 (2w); Maxwell 10-0-54-1 added 89 off the last 10 overs and 65 off the last five. (1nb); Plunkett 8-0-47-2 (1w); Stokes 5-0-25-0 (2w); Stoinis 4-0-17-0 Wade reached 50 off 26 balls with three fours and LAS VEGAS: Andre Berto poses on the scale during a weigh-in Friday in Las Vegas. (1w); Rashid 10-0-63-0; Ali 10-0-40-2 Result: England won by three wickets. three sixes but it was not enough to put Australia out of Berto is scheduled to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a welterweight title bout late yes- reach of a resurgent England. —AFP terday. —AP Toulon brush aside La Rochelle

PARIS: European champions Toulon picked up a welcome 45-24 trailed 17-3 after 20 minutes with Tuisova in the sin-bin-after a victory over La Rochelle yesterday following a controversial week high tackle that cost Toulon a penalty try, before Kaulashvili bur- in which media group RTL accused the club of doping, much to rowed over form five metres against the 14 men. the fury of president Mourad Boudjellal. “At the beginning of the match we conceded 14 points, two Fijian wing Josua Tuisova led the way with tries in each half tries, from Tuisova’s gesture and then conceding the second with while South African Juan Smith, English No.8 Steffon Armitage 14 men,” added Laporte. and Theo Belan also ran in scores, with scrum-half Jonathan “It wasn’t going well but we didn’t crumble. What I liked is that Pelissie landing six conversions and a penalty in the bonus point no-one gave up.” Toulon reacted like champions and once Vuisova victory. Georgian prop Lekso Kaulashvili and wing Francois Herry was back on the field, he scored his first try before scores from scored tries for the visitors while both sides were also awarded a Smith and Armitage helped the hosts into a 24-17 lead at the penalty try. break. “Toulon are one of those teams that are good enough to Less than a week after starting their trip to champions Stade make you pay immediately,” moaned La Rochelle coach Patrice Francais bottom of the Top 14 table, Toulon moved provisionally Collazo. “They don’t need 50 chances, they finish them all off.” up to fifth on 10 points after picking up their second win from He added: “From the 30th minute we disappeared from the four matches. “Winning at Stade Francais and against La Rochelle match, full-stop.” La Rochelle picked up yellow cards for Jean- with the bonus point was our aim,” said Toulon manager Bernard Pascal Barraque and New Zealander Jason Eaton either side of Laporte. half-time and Toulon extended their lead through a penalty try. “Well done to the players. We had said that with 10 points after But even with 14 men, La Rochelle hit back through Herry’s four matches we’d have had a good start to the season.” score to reduce the gap to 31-24. However, the minnows ran out However, the fallout from a tumultuous week was still taking of legs towards the end and Belan and Vuisova again crossed the effect. An RTL journalist reported that the club were implicated in whitewash to wrap up victory. an investigation into fraudulent practices by certain chemists issu- On Friday, 2013 champions Castres took provisional posses- ing illegal prescriptions for medication. sion of fourth spot with a 35-26 win over Oyonnax, who lost their “Since the beginning of the week Toulon have been associated third match in four outings. with doping, that is hugely prejudicial. We’re going to make a Playing later on Saturday, Top 14 leaders Clermont host FRANCE: Toulon’s players celebrate at the end of the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and La complaint against RTL,” Boudjellal said at a press conference on Bordeaux-Begles, Racing 92 are at home to Grenoble and Stade Rochelle at the Mayol stadium. — AFP Friday. And Toulon suffered a torrid start to the match as they Francais travel to Montpellier. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 SPORTS Serena calendar Slam dream ends

NEW YORK: Serena Williams saw her dream of a calen- Federer today, warned that the defeat might make dar year Grand Slam title sweep shattered in stunning Williams tougher. fashion Friday as Italy’s Roberta Vinci shocked the “Certainly isn’t easy for Serena to deal with this world number one to reach the US Open final. Vinci loss today, but she’s a great champion,” Djokovic said. battled back for an epic upset of the three-time “She has been there before. She knows how to take defending champion 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, ending Williams’ 33- the lessons out of this experience and move on as a match Grand Slam win streak. stronger player.” In Saturday’s final, world number 43 Vinci will Pennetta and Vinci become only the third and face 26th-seeded compatriot Flavia Pennetta-who fourth Italian women in a Slam final after Francesca upset Romania’s second-ranked Simona Halep 6-1, Schiavone won the 2010 French Open final and lost in 6-3 — in the first all-Italian Grand Slam women’s 2011 and Sara Errani lost the 2012 final at Roland final in the Open Era. “I think she played out of her Garros. Pennetta, who took just 59 minutes to dis- mind. I don’t think I played that bad. I think she just patch Halep, leads Vinci 5-4 in career meetings. “It’s played really well,” said Williams. “She played the amazing,” Pennetta said. “I didn’t think to be so far in best tennis of her career.” the tournament. I played really well. I tried to play It was a shocking end to Williams’ run at not only a every match the best I can from the first one, don’t sweep of the year’s four major titles, a feat that hasn’t worry about the draw and focus on the things I have been done since Steffi Graf’s 1988 effort, but her bid to do on the court. And here I am.” for a 22nd Grand Slam title to match Graf’s Open Era Williams, who fell to 53-3 this year, broke Vinci career record and a take a fifth Slam crown in a row. three times in taking the first set after only 31 minutes. “I don’t want to talk about how disappointing it is Williams fell behind triple break point in the first game for me,” said Williams in a brief post-match news con- of the second set but held. ference. That left it for her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, Vinci reached triple break point again in the fifth to sum up the failure. game and Williams, after her ninth and 10th aces of “The pressure of this tournament was enormous the match, fired a backhand wide to surrender the and this was a match which she managed less well break and a 3-2 lead. Vinci held from there to force a than the others,” he said. “After her career, what we will third set. remember isn’t that she didn’t win the Grand Slam. We After breaking for a 2-0 lead, Williams double fault- will say that she is the greatest champion of all time.” ed away a break to Vinci in the next game. She yelled Vinci was overjoyed by her shock win. “It’s an between points often after falling behind to start the incredible moment for me,” Vinci said. “It’s like a dream. fifth game, in which she held. I’m in the final. I beat Serena. It’s an amazing moment. “I was just trying to win points and win the match,” It’s incredible. “It’s I think the best moment of my life.” Williams said. Vinci broke to 4-3 when Williams swat- Vinci apologized to the crowd for ending Williams’ ted a forehand long, then denied Williams had two Grand Slam sweep dream. “Sorry for the American break points in the eighth game and held for a 5-3 people, for Serena, for the Grand Slam and everything. edge. Williams held but could not threaten Vinci in the Today is my day. Sorry guys.” last game, falling after two hours on the Italian’s fore- Vinci, 32, said she never thought to win after losing hand drop volley winner. four prior matches against Williams without taking a Pennetta, 33, broke Halep in the fourth game set. “No, really, it’s true,” she said. “When I wake up, I say, and again in the sixth when the Romanian netted a ‘I have a semi final today. I play Serena. Try to enjoy.’ I forehand on the way to taking the first set in 28 min- didn’t expect that I win.” utes. She broke four times in the second set, a fore- Men’s world number one Novak Djokovic, who will hand winner capping her fourth win in five tries over NEW YORK: Serena Williams reacts after losing a point to Roberta Vinci, of Italy, during a semifinal match at the US Open seek his third Slam title of the year against Roger Halep. —AFP tennis tournament. —AP Federer, Djokovic in dream US Open final

NEW YORK: Roger Federer reached his first US Open final in six years Friday, where will face world number one Novak Djokovic in the 42nd round of their heavyweight rivalry. Five-time champion Federer, 34, bidding to become the oldest New York champion since 1970, swept past Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 Djokovic, the 2011 champion, booked a place in the final for the sixth time with a record 6-0, 6-1, 6-2 rout of defending champion Marin Cilic in the most one-sided US Open semi-final of the modern era. Sunday’s clash will be a rematch of July’s NEW YORK: Pierre-Hugues Herbert (right) of France and Nicolas Mahut of France Wimbledon final, where Djokovic triumphed to hold up the men’s doubles championship trophy after beating John Peers of claim his ninth career Grand Slam crown. Australia and Jamie Murray, of the United Kingdom, in the men’s doubles final. —AP Federer, the holder of 17 majors but without a Grand Slam title since Wimbledon in 2012, will Mahut, Herbert win take a 21-20 career edge over Djokovic into the championship match, having won their last duel in Cincinnati in August. doubles crown The Swiss legend was imperious against Wawrinka and his victory means he has not dropped a set since the Wimbledon final, a per- NEW YORK: Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and last 2 1/2 years. We’ll try our best to keep going fect stretch of 28 sets, as he reached a seventh Pierre-Hugues Herbert won the US Open men’s and get across the line.” Both Mahut and Herbert US Open final. doubles crown yesterday with a 6-4, 6-4 victory reached an ATP singles final this year as a qualifier, “I’m very happy. It’s been a great tourna- over Britain’s Jamie Murray and Australian John Herbert losing at Winston-Salem and Mahut win- ment so far, I have tried very hard in the last six Peers. Mahut and Herbert, Australian Open run- ning at ‘s-Hertogenbosch. years to get back to the final and tonight it ners-up earlier this year, won their first Grand Slam Herbert was 0-4 at Slams before teaming up worked,” Federer said after his 92-minute win doubles crown and became the first all-French with Mahut at this year’s Australian Open and they sealed by a 10th ace. duo to capture a US Open men’s doubles title. are 14-3 since. “It feels actually great,” Herbert said. “I am playing at a good level, possibly my “I’m kind of speechless now,” Mahut said. “We “I’m really so happy to win a Grand Slam.” Murray best. I am serving very well, going for my shots. were working so hard for so many years to win was 9-23 in majors before partnering with Peers at “I’d love for it to keep working for one more this kind of tournament. We said before the the 2013 French Open and they have gone 23-10 match.” Federer is the oldest finalist in a Slam match, ‘Let’s go for it,’ and we did.” Murray, the since. “It has been a lot of fun but unfortunately since 35-year-old Andre Agassi at the 2005 US brother of former US Open champion Andy we didn’t do it today,” Peers said. Other than US Open, which the Swiss star won. Today, he will Murray, and Peers suffered another near miss, hav- siblings Bob and Mike Bryan, Murray and Peers are face Djokovic for the sixth time this year-all ing lost the Wimbledon final in July. “Starting to the first team since Daniel Nestor and Nenad have been in finals. know what Andy felt like for a long time,” Murray Zimonjic to reach consecutive Slam men’s dou- “Novak has had a tremendous year. There’s a NEW YORK: Roger Federer, of Switzerland, returns a shot to Stan Wawrinka, of said, a reference to his brother losing his first four bles final since the 2010 French Open. lot on the line. He could win his third Slam of Switzerland, during a semifinal match at the US Open tennis tournament. —AP Grand Slam singles finals before breaking through The French duo had won their only prior meet- the year while I can win my first for some time. for his first major win at the 2012 US Open. ing with Murray and Peers in a ‘s-Hertogenbosch “He’s the best mover on hard courts. He will be “A lot of hard work has gone into the team the semi-final earlier this year. —AFP tough to beat but I am ready for the challenge,” “It’s never easy knowing that your opponent against Cilic. “I haven’t been 100 percent with said Federer, the champion from 2004-2008 is not 100 percent but I had to show good my ankle and Novak exposed it more than any and runner-up to Juan Martin del Potro in 2009. intensity and stick to my game plan.” “It’s a other player,” said Cilic. Federer was defeated by Wawrinka in their great achievement to reach the finals of all four “I thought about not playing but I decided Aru climbs to the last clash in the French Open quarter-finals in majors in the same year for the first time. It’s to play as it is a Grand Slam tournament. June, when his compatriot went on to the title. where you want to do your best.” Anywhere else I would have pulled out so as It was just one of three losses against 16 It was Djokovic’s 14th win in 14 meetings not to aggravate it.” —AFP brink of victory wins with all three setbacks coming on clay. Federer converted the only break point he carved out in the opening set to lead 2-1 and CERCEDILLA: Italian Fabio Aru is on the verge of what I have done. “This is a great sport and this is saved three when Wawrinka threatened in the Ogier has one hand sealing his first Grand Tour win after he moved a great result for us.” Aru was well-flanked by his sixth game. into the lead of Spain’s Vuelta yesterday with just Astana teammates as Dumoulin’s inability to stay The 30-year-old Wawrinka had to save five today’s parade around Madrid to come. with the stronger climbers was finally exposed on break points to nip ahead 3-2 in second set, Spain’s Ruben Plaza won the 175.8km stage the penultimate climb of the stage up the Puerto on world title three from 0-40 down. But he cracked in his from San Lorenzo de El Escorial to Cercedilla de la Morcuera as he finished nearly four minutes next service game as Federer broke for 4-3 and thanks to a remarkable solo breakaway ride from down on Aru. —AFP again in the ninth game, when he was broken COFFS HARBOUR: Frenchman Sebastien Andreas Mikkelsen of Norway 9.1 sec- 114km out, ahead of Portugal’s Jose Goncalves to love and Federer opened a two-sets lead and Italian Alessandro de Marchi respectively. Ogier has one hand on the World Rally onds off the leading time. having won 16 of the last 17 points. Championship title after grabbing a nar- Meeke seized the lead in his Citroen Aru started the day six seconds behind Tom Federer was unstoppable now, breaking the Dumoulin, but the Dutch rider finally cracked on row lead over Northern Irishman Kris after consistent performances on the first outclassed Wawrinka in the fourth and sixth Meeke on the second day of Rally two stages, both won by New Zealander the four category one climbs on the penultimate games on his way to his 27th Grand Slam final. Australia yesterday. Ogier, driving a Hayden Paddon, who is in fifth placed stage as his hopes of even a place on the podium Djokovic’s rout of Cilic was the most lop- were ended as he slipped down to sixth. sided semi-final of the Open Era at the tourna- Volkswagen Polo, heads into Sunday’s overall, 19.1 seconds behind the leader. Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez and Poland’s Rafal ment, beating Lleyton Hewitt’s 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 final five stages with a 0.3 second lead Latvala slipped from the lead after he Majka look set to complete the podium in second defeat of Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 2001. over Meeke, who led the rally until the admitted to being too cautious on the and third respectively. Aru finished second at the Djokovic has now reached the finals of all final night stage. opening stages. Ogier began to show his Giro d’Italia earlier this year and had been given four majors this year, winning the Australian Overnight leader Jari-Matti Latvala dominance as he won the third stage to the freedom to lead his Astana team once Open and Wimbledon titles and finishing run- faded to third place, 2.6 seconds behind close to within 2.6 seconds of Meeke. Vincenzo Nibali had been disqualified for being ner-up to Wawrinka in Paris. his French teammate with his hopes of He then drove superbly to overtake towed by a team car on stage two. “This victory is Today’s final will be his 16th in the last 21 winning the 2015 title now hanging by a Meeke on the final stage and put himself for my team, it’s not just about me. All the Vuelta Grand Slams and 18th overall, tying the record thread. in prime position to take his third Rally they have been working very hard,” he told of Pete Sampras. It took Djokovic just 85 min- Ogier has a commanding lead over Australia title in as many years. Ogier said Eurosport. “(Dario) Cataldo, (Mikel) Landa, Luis utes to see off Cilic, whose hopes were under- Latvala and only needs to finish in front the lingering dust was a problem on the Leon Sanchez have given everything. We started mined by an ankle injury. The ninth seeded of the Finn to take his third consecutive final stage. “I was worried about the dust this Vuelta with our difficulties, but we worked to Croatian committed 37 unforced errors and world title. near the beginning but it was okay,” he be united. We motivated each other all the time, took just 13 points off the Djokovic serve. and that gave us strength. In a thrilling race around the New said.”Not a good stage for me though- “Marin has had an ankle injury for a few days South Wales town of Coffs Harbour the still a lot of dust on the road. “I expected “The public enjoyed a great battle. Even SPAIN: Astana’s Italian cyclist Fabio Aru now so he was very courageous to come out though I was tired, I gave my best. Sometimes you top four drivers are separated by less it would be cleaner. I didn’t find the opti- competes during the 20th Stage of the and finish the match,” said Djokovic, who will than 10 seconds, with fourth placed mal rhythm so I was not flat out.”—AFP win, sometimes the results don’t come your way, 2015 Vuelta Espana cycling tour. —AFP be chasing a 10th Grand Slam title today. but you just have to keep fighting and that is SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 SPORTS Roma top Serie A

MILAN: A messy first-half effort from Iago Dzeko narrowly failed to connect with Falque and a cracking Juan Iturbe strike at Falque’s cross from close in and Seydou the death sent Roma provisionally top of Keita should have done better with a free Serie A on Saturday after a 2-0 win away to header when Alessandro Florenzi whipped Serie A new boys Frosinone. in a delightful ball towards the back post. Roma coach Rudi Garcia had warned his Roma took the lead on the stroke of half- scudetto-chasing side not to take time when a Lucas Digne throw-in bounced Frosinone, based 75km south-east of the through the Frosinone defence, allowing capital, lightly. Falque a touch from close in to bundle over The Frenchman’s words proved judicious at the back post. as the Canaries kept the Giallorossi on their As maiden goals go, it wasn’t the nicest toes, notably losing claims for a penalty in but it gave Roma the edge to up the pace in the second half, before relinquishing arms a more positive second half that saw Garcia in the latter stages. reshuffle again after replacing Dzeko with Garcia paid tribute to Frosinone, and Radja Nainggolan. while hailing Roma’s defence he regretted Roma were given the benefit of the their lack of real chances on goal. “Fair play doubt on the hour when French defender to Frosinone, they battled throughout and if Digne, who was inside the area, used his they keep that up they’ll have a good sea- hands to protect his face when the ball was son,” Garcia told Sky Sport. crossed in from the right. The ball came off “I’m happy with the attitude we showed, Digne’s arm but the referee waved away although we didn’t have enough shots on Frosinone’s claims for a penalty. Only a goal. There’s still work to do but we defend- minute later, Daniel Ciofani came close for ed well. “We needed the three points and the hosts with a header from a corner. that’s what we got.” Garcia made a late change that effective- Days before their Champions League ly changed the outcome. Iturbe replaced group opener at home to defending cham- Totti on 81 minutes and minutes later pions Barcelona and in the absence of Florenzi hit post and crossbar with a right- injured Bosnian forward Miralem Pjanic, foot missile. Iturbe’s winner came in extra- Garcia was forced to reshuffle. time, the Argentinian latching on to Iconic club captain Francesco Totti made Mohamed Salah’s pass to power down the his first league start of the season playing right and, despite having Gervinho to his SPAIN: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring against Espanyol during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at behind lone striker Edin Dzeko in a 4-2-3-1 left, turn his marker and fire inside Nicola Cornella-El Prat stadium. —AP formation, while Antonio Rudiger made his Leali’s far post. Frosinone, promoted with Roma debut in central defence. At the Carpi and Bologna, are without a win in 10,000-capacity Stadio Matusa, Frosinone, three games and sit rock bottom. playing their first season in Italy’s top flight, Elsewhere, Khouma Babacar headed home Messi downs Atletico were defiant. on the hour for Fiorentina to secure a 1-0 Efforts by Aleksandar Tonev, from long win at home to Genoa. Later Saturday, range, and a Robert Gucher lob were not far champions Juventus bid for their first win of off target, although Roma missed first-half the season, after defeats to Udinese and as Ronaldo slams five chances too. Roma, at home to Chievo. —AFP

MADRID: Lionel Messi celebrated the birth of midway through the half when he turned Earlier, Ronaldo silenced any critics about his his second son by coming off the bench to score Rafinha’s flick onto the crossbar from point- lack of early season form by scoring five times in the winner as Barcelona came from behind to blank range. a La Liga match for the second time in five claim a vital 2-1 win away at Atletico Madrid yes- Jose Maria Gimenez then made a terrific months. terday. block to deny Neymar the opener after a rapid The Portuguese slotted home the opener Real Madrid remain two points behind Barca counter-attack from Barca, but the Uruguayan from Luka Modric’s wonderful pass before dou- at the top of the table after Cristiano Ronaldo was also fortunate the referee didn’t point to the bling his tally from the penalty spot after Gareth became the club’s all-time leading scorer in La spot as the ball ricocheted off his hand to safety. Bale had been felled inside the area. Liga with five goals in a 6-0 rout of Espanyol. Atletico struck first six minutes after the break Bale crossed for Ronaldo to complete his Messi started on the sidelines having missed when Torres latched onto Tiago’s through ball 32nd hat-trick for Madrid and the World Player training on Friday to attend the birth, a day after and his shot found the net via the far post. of the Year then turned provider himself for returning from international duty. However, the lead lasted barely three minutes Karim Benzema to tap home a fourth before However, he was still to make the decisive as in the absence of Messi, Neymar was given half-time. contribution as he nonchalantly flicked home the chance to strike a free-kick from the edge of Ronaldo finished off another unselfish piece the winner 11 minutes from time after Neymar the area and arrowed the ball into Oblak’s top of play by Bale before smashing home his fifth had cancelled out Fernando Torres’s opener. right-hand corner. 10 minutes from time. The former Manchester Even without Messi, Barca were the dominant Messi was introduced for the final half hour United man’s five-goal haul takes him ahead of side early on at the Calderon with Ivan Rakitic by Barca boss Luis Enrique and he and Neymar Madrid legends Raul and Alfredo di Stefano to forcing Jan Oblak into the first serious save of combined to set up a great chance for Suarez become the club’s all-time leading scorer in La the game with a fierce drive from a narrow only for the former Liverpool man to scuff wide. Liga with 330 goals. “Someone who scores so angle. Felipe Luis made a desperate clearance off many goals has their place in history forever like Torres was again chosen ahead of Jackson the line from Neymar as the pressure built from Raul or Di Stefano,” said Madrid boss Rafael Martinez in attack for Atletico and he wasted the the European champions. And it finally told Benitez. “I think we are speaking of three historic hosts’ best chance of the first-half when he blast- when a neat exchange between Messi and players and I hope Cristiano continues adding to ed over under pressure from Javier Mascherano. Suarez freed the Argentine to lift the ball over his tally for his good and the good of the Luis Suarez should have given Barca the lead Oblak into the far corner. team.”—AFP Bayern keep pace with Dortmund Matches on TV BERLIN: Thomas Mueller converted a controversial 90th turned in a great performance and we can certainly build (Local Timings) minute penalty as Bayern Munich came back from a goal on this,” he added. Dortmund kept pace with their bitter down to defeat Bavarian rivals Augsburg 2-1 while Borussia rivals after they rode a pair of penalties from Gabon inter- English Premier League Dortmund also made it four Bundesliga wins from four yes- national Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to come back and terday. defeat Hanover 4-2 at the HDI-Arena. Artur Sobiech had Sunderland v Tottenham 15:30 Robert Lewandowski began the champions’ comeback given the winless hosts an 18th minute lead before beIN SPORTS as the Polish international struck with 13 minutes left after Aubameyang converted the first of his spot-kicks 10 min- Leicester v Aston Villa 18:00 Alexander Esswein had opened the scoring for the visitors utes before half-time. on the stroke of half-time. However, as the match appeared Henrik Mikhitaryan put Dortmund in front for the first beIN SPORTS to be heading for a draw, the referee harshly pointed to the time just before the break before Sobiech grabbed his sec- spot with time running out when Douglas Costa was ond on 53 minutes to level the match at 2-2. Brazilian Spanish League brought down by Markus Feulner, which allowed the cool- defender Felipe was the unfortunate victim of an own goal headed Mueller to snatch the points for Bayern. with 23 minutes left to give Dortmund the lead for the sec- Granada v Villarreal 13:00 Bayern coach Pep Guardiola fielded a weakened line-up ond time before Aubameyang slotted home his second beIN SPORTS with one eye on their Champions League group match penalty on 85 minutes to put the result beyond doubt. against Olympiakos, on Wednesday in Athens, and was “It was a superb team performance,” said Dortmund Bilbao v Getafe 17:00 without star forward Arjen Robben, who out for four weeks coach Thomas Tuchel, who was particularly pleased with beIN SPORTS with a groin injury picked up on international duty. the “patience of the team when they were 1-0 down” as Augsburg had won the same fixture last season 1-0 well as the “response after the equaliser”. Elsewhere, pro- ITALY: Roma’s Lucas Digne (left) and Frosinone’s Alexandar Tonev fight for Celta v Las Palmas 19:15 when Raul Bobadilla grabbed a late winner. “I know how moted SV Darmstadt 98 found the back of the net after the ball during a Serie A soccer match between Frosinone and Roma. —AP beIN SPORTS difficult it can be after the international break but that is just eight minutes against Bayer Leverkusen thanks to Malaga v Eibar 21:30 not an excuse,” said Guardiola. “We have to play for 90 min- captain Aytac Sulu as they held on for a 1-0 win, their first utes and not just 45. During the first-half we were not in the top flight victory in 33 years. Hertha Berlin picked up their Lyon miss chance to beIN SPORTS match and our game was very, very slow. I hope we can second win of the season with goals from Japanese inter- improve on that but Augsburg defended very well. In the national Genki Haraguchi and captain Fabian Italian Calcio League second half, we created a lot more chances,” added the Lustenberger to edge Stuttgart 2-1 while FC Ingolstadt close gap on PSG Spaniard. and Wolfsburg finished 0-0. Hellas Verona v Torino 13:30 Augsburg coach Markus Weinzierl was proud of his Last year’s leading scorer Alex Meier marked his return PARIS: Lyon missed an opportunity to month when his free-kick from 30 yards beIN SPORTS players but dejected about the late penalty decision which from injury with a hat-trick as Eintracht Frankfurt thumped make up ground on French league lead- smacked back off the crossbar minutes cost his side a point. Cologne 6-2 while on Sunday Hoffenheim await Werder ers Paris Saint-Germain as they were before the interval. The hosts ramped up Empoli v Napoli 16:00 “We played well for 90 minutes, we fought and put into Bremen and Mainz travel to Schalke. On Friday, Hamburg, held to a frustrating 0-0 draw by Lille the pressure after the break but couldn’t beIN SPORTS 3 HD place our game plan but it is obviously impossible to who only avoided relegation for the first time in club history yesterday. find a way past Lille goalkeeper Vincent defend everything against Bayern,” said Weinzierl, whose via the playoffs last season, moved into the upper half of the Sampdoria v Bologna 16:00 A nightmare evening for PSG goal- Enyeama. team are still chasing their first win of the campaign. “We table with a fine 3-0 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach, keeper Kevin Trapp ended the French A slick passing move on the edge of beIN SPORTS deserved a point and the boys were fantastic so I feel sorry who remain rock bottom with no points, having finished champions’ perfect start to the season on the visitors’ box found Valbuena in space Palermo v Carpi 16:00 for them. The penalty was a disastrous decision but we third last season. —AFP Friday but Lyon were unable to take full on the right but his goalbound effort was beIN SPORTS advantage 24 hours later against a res- tipped over by the Nigerian internation- olute Lille side. Saturday’s result left Lyon al. Sassuolo v Atalanta 16:00 still five points adrift of PSG as Lille Another Valbuena free-kick nearly beIN SPORTS stretched their unbeaten run to four resulted in the breakthrough Lyon Lazio v Udinese 19:00 matches. craved but Rafael da Silva’s glancing “We are certainly disappointed, header bounced back off the inside of beIN SPORTS because even if we didn’t deliver a great the post with Enyeama well beaten. Internazionale v AC Milan 21:45 performance we still did enough to win Lyon continued their furious assault beIN SPORTS 3 HD against a team that sat back and defend- on the Lille goal right until the finish as ed,” said Lyon coach Hubert Fournier. Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa saw a header “We have to be a bit more clinical tipped over by Enyeama that preserved a German Bundesliga when we have chances to score. We had fourth clean sheet in five for the north- Hoffenheim v Werder Bremen 16:30 the chance to win but at the same time I erners. Later on Saturday promoted feel like we are getting stronger,” he Angers put their unbeaten record on the beIN SPORTS added. line away to winless Lorient while sec- Schalke v FSV Mainz 18:30 Lyon returned to domestic duty with- ond-place Reims can draw to within a beIN SPORTS out Nabil Fekir after the France interna- point of PSG with a victory at Toulouse. tional ruptured the anterior cruciate liga- Monaco visit bottom side Gazelac ment in his right knee in his country’s 1-0 Ajaccio on Sunday with high-flyers French League win over Portugal last week. Rennes travelling to Nantes while strug- Ajaccio v AS Monaco 15:00 Lille entered the weekend with just gling Marseille, who have lost three of one goal scored through their first four their first four matches, host Bastia. beIN SPORTS matches under new coach Herve Renard On Friday table-toppers PSG twice led Nantes v Stade Rennes 18:00 but Junior Tallo and Adama Soumaoro through goals from Uruguayan striker beIN SPORTS forced home goalkeeper Anthony Lopes Edinson Cavani but an own goal from into two smart saves in quick succession. Trapp followed by another mistake from Marseille v Bastia 22:00 Mathieu Valbuena then came agonis- the German allowed Wahbi Khazri to beIN SPORTS MUNICH: Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski (left) and Augsburg’s Ragnar Klavan challenge ingly close to netting his first Lyon goal earn Bordeaux a precious point in a 2-2 for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match. —AP since joining from Dinamo Moscow last draw at the Parc des Princes. —AFP SPORTS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 Giroud leaves it late to settle Arsenal nerves

Arsenal 2

Stoke 0

LONDON: Olivier Giroud came off the bench to ensure Arsenal didn’t pay for their profligacy in a 2-0 win over Stoke at the Emirates Stadium yes- terday. Theo Walcott had put Arsenal ahead in the first half, but the Gunners’ fans once again spent most of the afternoon frustrated at wasted opportunities before Giroud struck late on to secure their third victory of the season. For all their possession and pretty football, Arsene Wenger’s side have had a problem scoring this LONDON: Norwich City’s Matt Jarvis (center) celebrates scoring his side’s goal of the game during season and that was highlighted after just four their English Premier League soccer match against Bournemouth at Carrow Road. — AP minutes. Santi Cazorla delivered a delicious ball right onto Alexis Sanchez’s head, but his nod down Hoolahan shines was tipped against a post by Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland. The rebound fell invitingly to Walcott and his miss from eight yards was ridicu- in Norwich stroll lously remiss. Wenger’s team hit the same post again four minutes later when Sanchez struck a low angled shot following another incisive pass clash with Joshua King and he was fortunate to from Francis Coquelin. escape with a booking soon after for an ugly hack The Gunners kept pressing and Butland Norwich 3 on the Bournemouth forward. saved well from a dipping Sanchez free kick. That tetchy challenge brought the simmering Moments later Walcott squandered yet another tensions between the teams to the boil and opportunity when he headed a Hector Bellerin Bournemouth duo Simon Francis and Adam Smith cross over the bar from six yards. So, within 10 Bournemouth 1 earned yellow card for crunching fouls, while minutes the Gunners had scorned five very invit- Hoolahan also went into Martin Atkinson’s book. ing chances. The ammunition was being provid- Amid all the aggression, Jerome had a chance to ed, but the Gunners were misfiring. With open the scoring when Hoolahan found him with a Coquelin the fulcrum in midfield, operating just NORWICH: Wes Hoolahan stole the spotlight as clever through-ball, but the former Stoke forward in front of the back four, Arsenal at least attacked Norwich secured their second Premier League win fired into the side-netting. with purpose down both flanks. They even came of the season with a 3-1 success against Jerome made amends for that miss in the 35th through French centre-half Laurent Koscielny, Bournemouth yesterday. minute when he scored from close-range after who let fly from 35 yards only to be denied by Alex Neil’s side took the lead when Hoolahan set Hoolahan unhinged the Bournemouth defence Butland. The Stoke keeper was in a class of his up Cameron Jerome’s first half opener and with a clever nutmeg of Cook. own with dramatic saves, brave blocks and Hoolahan added the second with an eye-catching The visitors nearly equalised just before half- unflappable demeanor. individual effort before debutant Matt Jarvis netted time when Callum Wilson’s strike was touched onto the third at Carrow Road. This was the first ever top- a post by Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy. SOPHISTICATED LONDON: Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez (left) tries to score past Stoke City’s Phillip flight meeting between these sides, who were both But Hoolahan’s sublime solo goal increased Under Mark Hughes, Stoke are slowly devel- Bardsley during their English Premier League soccer match. — AP promoted from the Championship last season, and, Norwich’s lead in the 52nd minute. Taking posses- oping a more sophisticated approach to their although Steve Cook got one back for sion 40 yards from goal, the Republic of Ireland game while still retaining something of an edge Bournemouth, it is Norwich with seven points who midfielder advanced unchecked before drilling a without the overt physicality deployed under EPL results/standings are making the smoother transition. superb strike past Bournemouth goalkeeper Artur Tony Pulis. Ironically, the opening goal, in the Norwich were without former Bournemouth Boruc. 31st minute, came during a period when Stoke Arsenal 2 (Walcott 31, Giroud 85) Stoke 0; Crystal Palace 0 Manchester City 1 (Iheanacho striker Lewis Grabban, who is out of favour after try- Neil’s team were well on top and on-loan West were enjoying their best period of possession 90); Everton 3 (Naismith 17, 22, 82) Chelsea 1 (Matic 36); Manchester United 3 (Blind 49, ing to force a move to his old club earlier this sea- Ham winger Jarvis sealed the points in the 67th and pressing forward. Joselu was caught in pos- Herrera 70-pen, Martial 86) Liverpool 1 (Benteke 84); Norwich 3 (Jerome 35, Hoolahan 52, son, but the hosts still swept to a comfortable win. minute with a cool curled finish. Cook headed in a session in the Arsenal half by a superbly execut- Jarvis 67) Bournemouth 1 (Cook 81); Watford 1 (Ighalo 59) Swansea 0; West Brom 0 Canaries midfielder Alexander Tettey needed Francis corner in the 81st minute but it was little ed Coquelin tackle and within a split second Southampton 0. treatment after suffering a head injury in an early consolation for bedraggled Bournemouth. —AFP Mesut Ozil hit a long ball forward. Walcott controlled, held off a strong chal- Playing today lenge from Mark Muniesa and rolled the ball Leicester v Aston Villa, Sunderland v Tottenham Watford see off Swansea past the advancing Butland for his first club goal of the campaign. Facing an eight consecutive Playing tomorrow defeat by Arsenal at the Emirates, Stoke had to West Ham v Newcastle newcomers Bournemouth and Tottenham. do more to win the ball and then retain it. They Watford’s afternoon wasn’t all plain sailing as did neither and for long periods Arsenal played English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals Watford 1 they had to play the closing 25 minutes a man around them with ease. down after Swiss midfielder Valon Behrami’s reck- It was Coquelin who continued to control the for, goals against, points): less studs-up challenge on Andre Ayew above the game with his ball-winning, neat passing and Man City 5 5 0 0 11 0 15 Southampton 5 1 3 1 5 5 6 knee earning him a straight red card. sheer presence. However, Arsenal’s inability to Man Utd 5 3 1 1 6 3 10 Watford 5 1 3 1 3 4 6 Victor Ibarbo, who arrived on a season-long convert chances into goals continued as Aaron Swansea 0 Arsenal 5 3 1 1 5 3 10 West Brom 5 1 2 2 3 6 5 loan from Roma on deadline day, received interna- Ramsey slipped just as Ozil found him wide Crystal Palace 5 3 0 2 8 6 9 Aston Villa 4 1 1 2 4 5 4 tional clearance and was named on the Watford open and sliced his shot well wide. Everton 5 2 2 1 8 5 8 Bournemouth 5 1 1 3 6 9 4 bench by Quique Sanchez Flores. Stoke took heart from this and Xherdan Leicester 4 2 2 0 8 5 8 Chelsea 5 1 1 3 7 12 4 WATFORD: Odion Ighalo scored the only goal of Swansea manager Garry Monk fielded his Shaqiri forced a fumbled save from Petr Cech Swansea 5 2 2 1 7 5 8 Tottenham 4 0 3 1 3 4 3 the game against Swansea on Saturday to earn 10- strongest side with Jonjo Shelvey, fresh from his and had a couple of other shots blocked by Norwich 5 2 1 2 8 9 7 Newcastle 4 0 2 2 2 5 2 man Watford their first win at the fifth attempt England call-up, marshalling the midfield, and defenders. The Potters replaced Joselu with Liverpool 5 2 1 2 3 6 7 Sunderland 4 0 2 2 6 10 2 since promotion to the English top flight. Wayne Routledge preferred to Jefferson Montero. Stephen Ireland in a bid to spice up the midfield. West Ham 4 2 0 2 9 6 6 Stoke 5 0 2 3 3 7 2 The Nigeria international celebrated signing a In-form Swansea’s best chance of the game Referee Jon Moss waved away two penalty new five-year contract on Friday when sweeping came when Bafetimbi Gomis, who had scored in appeals from Stoke with Marko Arnautovic home in the 59th minute after keeper Heurelho each of their opening four games, had a shot being guided off the ball forcibly by Koscielny Gomes’ long punt up field with Troy Deeney’s denied by Gomes before the half-hour point. and Mame Biram Diouf tumbled as a cross was headed knockdown setting up unmarked Ighalo to Gomis had gone close with an acrobatic volley delivered. Walcott had second half chances to Quinn winner downs Celtic finish the move in style. in first-half injury time. In a lively encounter add to his tally but his efforts were feeble and Seconds earlier the 26-year-old striker who Watford’s Etienne Capoue forced Swansea keeper Butland was defiant. Even when the ball fell invit- Lukasz Fabianski into action on a number of occa- ingly to Giroud, seconds after his introduction, ABERDEEN: Paul Quinn scored a late wicked deflection off the back of joined the Hornets from Udinese in 2014 had gone winner as 10-man Aberdeen moved top Graeme Shinnie in the wall. close only to shoot wide from six yards. sions, including in the 80th minute with a danger- he shot wide with only the keeper to beat. But ous angled attempt. Swansea’s first defeat of the the Frenchman made up for it in the dying of the Scottish Premiership with a 2-1 Aberdeen recovered well from their The precious 1-0 victory over the previously win over Celtic at Pittodrie yesterday. shaky start and Andrew Considine unbeaten Swansea lifted Watford from 17th to campaign saw Monk’s side slip two places to moments as he headed home from a Cazorla sixth. — AFP free-kick from six yards. — AFP It is a club record sixth successive should have done better when he rose 12th, above the likes of champions Chelsea, fellow win at the start of a season for the Dons to meet a Hayes corner but he headed while it is Celtic’s first defeat in the over from four yards out. league since March. The Hoops had The Dons defender then attempted opened the scoring when Leigh Griffiths to lay the ball off to a teammate instead West Brom held in drab draw expertly despatched a penalty he had of shooting when Kenny McLean’s pass earned himself in the 35th minute. picked him out unmarked in the box. Aberdeen levelled matters in the Considine’s misery at his misses was 56th minute with a spot-kick of their compounded in the 35th minute when own that Adam Rooney fired home his tug on Griffiths earned him a book- Southampton 0 before Jonny Hayes was given a straight ing and handed Celtic a penalty. red in the 72nd minute for a lunge on Griffiths fired the spot-kick into the bot- Mikel Lustig. tom right-hand corner past the despair- Despite their numerical disadvan- ing dive of Danny Ward to score for the West Brom 0 tage the Dons found an 86th minute fifth successive league game. winner through Quinn to move two Aberdeen were appealing for a points clear of Celtic at the top. penalty in the 50th minute when WEST BROMWICH: Saido Berahino returned to the The Dons could now extend their Charlie Mulgrew used his arm to control West Brom squad yesterday after his transfer lead at the top if they can win their Shay Logan’s cross but referee Craig request was rejected last month but had little game in hand against Hamilton at Thomson waved away their protests. impact in a 0-0 draw at home to Southampton. Pittodrie on Tuesday. Celtic manager However, the Dons weren’t to be Berahino, who had vowed never to play for Ronny Deila was disappointed in his denied six minutes later when Dedryk Baggies chairman Jeremy Peace again after the side’s defending and refereeing deci- Boyata bundled over Shinnie near the club blocked a move to Tottenham Hotspur, sions. by-line to concede a penalty. Rooney received a mixed reception at The Hawthorns after “I think we were the best team in the took the resultant spot-kick and sent coming on as a 55th-minute substitute for Rickie first half and created the most chances. Craig Gordon the wrong way as he Lambert. The second half started ok as well but buried his effort in the bottom right- Baggies manager Tony Pulis handed defender they got the penalty, which I think was hand corner. Jonny Evans his debut following the Northern no penalty,” Deila said. Aberdeen’s task was made harder Irishman’s arrival from Manchester United while “The end of the game was very dis- when Hayes was given a straight red for Virgil van Dijk started in Southampton’s backline appointing. They got one sent off and a reckless lunge on Lustig, two minutes after joining from Celtic. West Brom saw a penalty we should have attacked and scored a after the Swede had been booked for appeal waved away on the quarter hour after second goal and instead we conceded hacking down the Dons winger. Callum McManaman went to ground somewhat one in an easy set play.” Substitute James Forrest fired an theatrically while Jay Rodriguez missed a chance to Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes angled drive just wide before sending a end his long goal drought when he nodded wide was delighted with the win. “I think we shot straight at Ward as Celtic tried to from a Dusan Tadic cross down at the other end. had to do it the hard way but we got make their extra man advantage count. Rodriguez’s last Premier League goal came in our just reward for that,” said McInnes, However, it was ten men Aberdeen March 2014, just before the England international whose side’s title challenge last season who found a winner when Niall suffered a serious knee injury that sidelined him for was derailed by four defeats to Celtic. McGinn’s sent in a high hanging free- 16 months. LONDON: West Bromwich Albion’s Salomon Rondon (left) challenges Southampton’s Virgil van “From the first second of the second kick into the box and Quinn stuck out a Tadic represented the biggest danger for the Dijk during their English Premier League soccer match at The Hawthorns. — AP half we were absolutely relentless in our foot to prod past Gordon. home defence although the Serbian spurned an determination to win the game.” Celtic Considine cleared a Griffiths shot off opportunity to shoot midway through the second Graziano Pelle nearly broke the deadlock with Southampton bench as the visitors sought to had come close to opening the scoring the line after the striker had rounded half in favour of cutting the ball back for James 70 minutes gone but the Italian couldn’t quite snatch a winner late on but the Senegalese steered in the 18th minute when Griffiths’ free- Ward in stoppage time as the Dons held Ward-Prowse with the England Under-21 interna- stretch far enough to make contact with a pass wide after being put through by Pelle with both kick crashed off the bar after taking a on for the win. — AFP tional firing over. from Steven Davis. Sadio Mane was brought off the sides forced to settle for a point. — AFP Messi downs Giroud leaves Atletico it late to as Ronaldo settle Arsenal 18slams five 19nerves SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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MANCHESTER:Martial Manchester United’s Anthony Martial scores past Liverpool’s makes Simon Mignolet during the English Premier League instant soccer match against Liverpool at Old Trafford Stadium. — AP impact

two-goal lead with a sensational overhead bicy- their 3-0 loss at home to West Ham United. between two Liverpool defenders on the left and Shortly after, Blind came to United’s rescue, cle kick when Martial picked the ball up wide on Wayne Rooney returned to Manchester this week winning a free-kick that yielded the opening clearing Martin Skrtel’s header off his own goal- Man United 3 the left, tip-toed between three defenders and having created a piece of history in mid-week by goal. Mata rolled the set-piece to the edge of the line and then flying out to thwart Firmino when tucked a shot into the bottom-right corner in scoring a record-breaking 50th England goal, but box and with Bastian Schweinsteiger blocking the ball came back into the box. front of the Stretford End. he was ruled out by injury, so Marouane Fellaini off Nathaniel Clyne at the near post, Blind had Martial made his United bow in the 65th Second-half goals from Daley Blind and started up front with Martial on the bench. the freedom of the penalty area to pick his spot. minute, replacing Mata, and within five minutes Liverpool 1 Ander Herrera had put United in control and There were cheers for De Gea as he took his Moments later, Blind found Schweinsteiger the home side had doubled their lead. Martial’s strike provided the perfect finale to an place in goal and the Spaniard was given a gen- barrelling into the box following a short corner Referee Michael Oliver pointed to the spot MANCHESTER: Anthony Martial scored a memo- evening that had begun with David de Gea tle re-introduction to life at Old Trafford as on the United left, but the Germany midfielder after Liverpool’s teenage left-back Joe Gomez rable debut goal as Manchester United beat old returning to the United goal following the col- United immediately put the visitors on the back could not take the ball in his stride. recklessly slid in on Herrera and the Spaniard enemies Liverpool 3-1 at Old Trafford yesterday lapse of his move to Real Madrid. foot. It was from a mistake by De Gea’s opposite It had been a stress-free return for De Gea up slammed home the penalty. to claim second place in the Premier League Victory saw Louis van Gaal’s side return to number Simon Mignolet that United’s best first- to that point, but he found himself in the firing Jordon Ibe’s introduction enlivened Liverpool, table. The 19-year-old French striker signed from winning ways following their 2-1 defeat at half chance stemmed, the Belgian bowling the line as the hour-mark approached. the 19-year-old extending De Gea with a left- Monaco on transfer deadline day for a reported Swansea City and left them in second place, ball straight at Mata, but although the ball fell First, his scuffed kick let in Roberto Firmino, foot strike and then teeing up Benteke’s spectac- initial fee of £36 million ($55.1 million, 49 million above Arsenal on goal difference and five points kindly at Fellaini’s feet, the former Everton mid- whose low cross towards Benteke was alertly cut ular goal with a deflected cross from the right. euros), making him the world’s most expensive below leaders Manchester City. Benteke’s breath- fielder chipped well over. out by Chris Smalling, before a volley from But barely a minute later Martial stole every- teenager, and he was quick to make his mark taking goal had briefly given Liverpool hope, but United made a change at the interval, Ashley Danny Ings in for the suspended Philippe one’s thunder, slaloming into the box from wide after coming on as a substitute for Juan Mata. instead manager Brendan Rodgers was left to Young replacing Memphis Depay, and the substi- Coutinho-obliged him to spring to his right and on the left to give the United faithful a new hero Christian Benteke had just halved United’s reflect on a second successive defeat following tute was quick to make his presence felt, darting tip the ball behind for a corner. to serenade. — AFP Naismith deepens City down Palace

Chelsea’s gloom Silva picked up an ankle injury with Spain, while Sterling was unexpectedly absent from the squad Crystal Palace 0 with a hamstring problem. The forward deftly evaded John Mikel The City manager responded by pairing Aguero Obi and Matic, slipped the ball out with Wilfried Bony up front for only the third time Everton 3 wide to the impressive Brendan since the latter arrived at the Etihad Stadium last Galloway, and then got in between Man City 1 January. Pardew also shuffled his pack after losing Zouma and Terry to guide a header Joel Ward-the right-back who scored the winner at past Asmir Begovic. Chelsea-and striker Connor Wickham to injury and Chelsea 1 Everton went close to increasing LONDON: Kelechi Iheanacho opened his handed the job of leading the attack to Yannick their advantage twice in the space of a Manchester City account with a last-minute winner Bolasie. The Palace manager had insisted before this couple of minutes as Begovic, deputis- as his side maintained their perfect start to the game that his side deserved to be riding high near LIVERPOOL: Everton substitute Steven ing for the injured Thibaut Courtois Premier League campaign by winning 1-0 at Crystal the head of the table after a series of impressive ear- Naismith’s hat-trick secured a 3-1 win made two fine diving saves. Palace yesterday. Palace, who had started the day in ly performances. against Chelsea yesterday as the stutter- First, Arouna Kone saw his header second place, looked set to claim a point before And the confidence generated by their eye- ing Premier League champions suffered from Seamus Coleman’s cross tipped Iheanacho finished from close range shortly after catching start-and in particular, the win at Chelsea- their third defeat of the season. past the post, then James McCarthy’s appearing as an 89th-minute substitute to secure was clear from the way they immediately took the Naismith, who came on early in the effort from distance was beaten away. City’s fifth successive win. game to the visitors. game, scored twice in the first half and Everton’s determination to capitalise It was only the 18-year-old Nigerian’s second Dann’s tackle on Aguero did nothing to help capped a fine individual display with a on a spell of dominance was rewarded senior appearance and drew the attention away City’s cause and Toure could easily have been dis- third late on. Nemanja Matic netted the with a second goal and Naismith again from an impressive debut for Kevin De Bruyne, who missed when he chopped down McArthur. pick of the game’s goals before the was the scorer following neat build-up arrived from Wolfsburg in a £54 million ($83.3 mil- But when tempers subsided, City began to look break with a spectacular long-range play involving Ross Barkley and Romelu lion, 73.5 million euros) move shortly before the end the stronger side, with De Bruyne wasting no time strike, but that will be of little consola- Lukaku. Chelsea defender Branislav of the transfer window. in exerting his influence. tion for Chelsea manager Jose Ivanovic declined to close down De Bruyne was introduced as a first-half replace- The Belgium international was quickly involved, Mourinho, whose side have collected Naismith just outside the penalty area ment for the injured Sergio Aguero and the loss of receiving the ball from Samir Nasri and setting up just four points from their opening five and the Scot responded to the space the Argentina striker added to City’s mounting Bony, whose low shot was well saved by Palace matches. Chelsea’s defence, despite afforded him with an arrowed left-foot injury concerns ahead of next week’s Champions goalkeeper Alex McCarthy. being boosted by the return of John shot into the bottom-right corner of the League clash with Juventus. De Bruyne was again involved when he moved Terry from suspension, looked shaky net. Equally poor closing down-this time A bad-tempered game threatened to flare up quickly down the right flank before squaring for and indecisive throughout the contest by Barkley-allowed Chelsea to pull a when Scott Dann brought down Aguero with a kick Navas, who shot over from 20 yards out. and the margin of victory could well goal back when Matic struck a swerving to the knee in the 17th minute and the City striker The Spain international should have done better, have been greater. shot from 30 yards past the dive of Tim was forced to withdraw seven minutes later. but he would produce a more glaring miss shortly Everton suffered an early blow when Howard and into the top corner. Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, and his after the restart after again being set up by De Muhamed Besic was substituted in the Terry flashed a header over the players were incensed Dann escaped with only a Bruyne, whose crossfield ball sent Naves clear on ninth minute following an awkward col- crossbar, while Eden Hazard saw a yellow card and when Yaya Toure reacted by bring- McCarthy’s goal. lision with Kurt Zouma, which allowed deflected effort go just wide as Chelsea ing down Palace’s James McArthur in a similar man- The winger appeared to do everything right as Naismith to enter the fray. finished the half strongly. ner, Pellegrini and Palace manager Alan Pardew he took the ball around the goalkeeper, but he was It turned out to be a blessing for the However, Everton regained their clashed physically on the touchline. unable to direct his shot into the open goal, finding Toffees, though, as Scotland internation- momentum after half-time and Lukaku Iheanacho’s late intervention brought relief for instead the side-netting. It seemed that City would al Naismith made an instant impact and bustled his way into the box, but LIVERPOOL: Everton’s goalkeeper Tim Howard (upper left) fights for Pellegrini, but Aguero’s injury added to the manag- rue Navas’s miss when referee Mike Jones dismissed put Roberto Martinez’s side ahead six Begovic was well stationed to block his the ball against Chelsea’s Eden Hazard during the English Premier er’s concerns after David Silva and Raheem Sterling Nasri’s claims for a penalty after he went to ground minutes later with a well-crafted goal. shot at the near post. —AFP League soccer match. — AP were both forced to miss this game. following a challenge from Yohan Cabaye. —AFP Kuwait’s consumer inflation rises in July; food prices up Page 22

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LUXEMBOURG: (L-R) British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Dutch Minister of Finance Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Luxembourg Minister of Finance, Treasury, & Budget, President of the Council Pierre Gramegna and the Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb speak with one another during an informal economic and financial affairs council (ECOFIN) meeting at the European Council in Luxembourg yesterday. — AFP Euro-zone downplays Greece vote dangers Germany attaches strings on sharing bank risk

LUXEMBOURG: The euro-zone’s top finance officials yesterday ing to move quickly on the first review, in order to get the IMF on downplayed the risk of surprises after the September 20 Greece board. But this would then bring tense negotiations on how to election, setting their sights instead on fraught bailout talks scale back the debt, with euro-zone nations insisting this be done ahead, including restructuring Greek debt. only by extending maturities. “The debt restructuring debate will The EU’s economics affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said be intense in October and November, assuming all goes well with he felt “no worries” over the outcome of the vote, in which the the first review,” an EU source told AFP. radical leftists of ex-premier Alexis Tsipras are polling fractionally ahead of the conservatives of New Democracy. German rider “I have the impression, including when I see the polls, that Germany made clear it would agree to sharing more banking there is a clear majority in Greece for parties that backed the risk only if governments first proved they were ready to share (bailout),” Moscovici said at talks with European finance ministers more responsibilities as well, at a meeting of European Union in Luxembourg. Greeks go to the polls for their fifth time in six finance ministers yesterday. years next weekend as Tsipras seeks a fresh mandate to push The ministers were discussing a deposit guarantee plan, an through huge reform commitments made under the new 86-bil- idea backed by the European Commission. It wants to propose lion-euro ($96-billion) bailout. steps towards a deposit insurance and reinsurance scheme in Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said he was October, Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said. “totally convinced” that Greece would do what was agreed, after The deposit guarantee would be the third and final element of the elections. “I expect it and I insist on it,” he said. the EU’s banking union. However, Germany opposes the idea, According to a latest poll, Tsipras’ Syriza party has won a nar- fearing funds it has built up to protect its savers would be used to row lead over the conservative rivals. Both parties support guarantee deposits in other, less prudent European countries. In a Greece’s third bailout since 2010 that was agreed after six months paper prepared for the meeting in Luxembourg, Berlin said that of angry negotiations that nearly caused the euro-zone to break before such a scheme could be introduced, the two existing ele- apart. “I don’t know what party will win, which coalition will be ments of the banking union-a single supervisor for euro-zone formed,” Moscovici said, with polls showing both parties short of banks and a single resolution mechanism-should be fully imple- winning an absolute majority. Tsipras triggered the early poll with mented and tested. his August 20 resignation when his party split over austerity Germany also proposed a scheme for sovereign debt restruc- measures forced by the three-year bailout. turing and some changes to existing laws that would require a Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the tough-minded head of the change in the EU treaty-a lengthy and risky process. Eurogroup of euro-zone finance ministers, urged Greek authori- EU ministers seemed to have adopted the German approach, ties to not waste any time, despite the vote. “I think that it’s impor- which could push the creation of the EU deposit guarantee well tant that in Greece the preparations continue while the political into the future. “There is a readiness to go towards a deposit guar- situation is of course unclear at the moment,” said Dijsselbloem, antee system that is more European, but this has to be seen in a who is also Dutch finance minister. “The work needs to continue sequence,” Pierre Gramegna, the finance minister of Luxembourg as much as possible and the same would go for the institutions,” which holds the rotating EU presidency, told a news conference. he said. The European Commission oversees Greece’s third bailout “It is all about when the risk-sharing is going to happen. When along with the ECB and the euro-zone’s ESM bailout fund. At the we see there is more responsibility ... the time will be right to dis- insistence of powerful Germany, the hardline International cuss an EU level deposit system,” he said. “The door is not closed, Monetary Fund is expected to join the program after the first but it is a question of timing.” review, set for October. The 19 countries sharing the euro have already agreed the first But the IMF insists the euro-zone reduce Greece’s level of pub- two pillars of the banking union. Those are a single bank supervi- lic debt, which stands at a towering 190 percent of gross domestic sor and a Single Resolution Mechanism for winding up failed product. European sources said that everyone involved was push- banks. —Agencies Renzi says Italy on the mend with extra money to spend

ROME: Italy is on the mend and will have 17 billion euros extra to percent,” he said. “But we will use the flexibility provided for in the spend next year after winning its battle for greater flexibility on (EU rules) fiscal compact, which thanks to our work in Europe is no EU deficit rules, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said yesterday. Renzi, longer impossible to use.” who is preparing tax and spending cuts for a 2016 budget due to be unveiled in October, said the euro-zone’s third-biggest econo- 17-bn ‘not a gift’ my was finally set to accelerate after years of stagnation or worse. Renzi said a flexible application of the rules would give Italy a “I say it without any problem and based on the figures: Italy has margin of manoeuvre equivalent to one percent of GDP, which turned the corner. Full stop.” Renzi said in an interview with daily Il could be allocated to investment and structural reforms. “It means Foglio. “The economy is taking off and spending is growing. that while remaining under the three percent next year there will Something is changing.” Renzi’s bullish comments follow recent be up to 17 billion for us,” he said. “And this is not a gift that falls encouraging economic data, including falling unemployment, an from the sky: it is the product of a battle we have fought and are unexpectedly high 2.7-percent jump in industrial output in July winning in Europe.” (compared to the same month in 2014) and a spike in mortgage The government has already announced that it will abolish an applications in the first seven months of the year. The premier said unpopular annual tax on primary residences as part of its 2016 Friday the data would likely mean upwards revisions to the gov- budget. The measure will cost four billion euros but analysts say it ernment’s forecasts of 0.7 percent growth this year and 1.4 percent will pay political dividends in a country where 80 percent of the in 2016. But the head of Italy’s main employers organisation, population own their own homes. An opinion poll published Giorgio Squinzi, voiced caution. “There has been a little positive Saturday by La Repubblica indicated that the tentative pick-up in data but it is risky to talk of recovery,” the Confindustria president the economy has helped consolidate Renzi’s approval ratings, said. “Let’s hope these figures are confirmed in the coming with 42 percent of voters giving him a score of six out of 10 or months.” better. The same survey suggested Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) Renzi reiterated that Italy would keep its budget deficit under would comfortably win an election if he were to go to the polls the EU’s ceiling of three percent of GDP but make use of the maxi- now. A third of voters would back the PD in a first round of voting mum margin of flexibility allowed under the rules. “Spending and clear majorities would support him in a run-off against reform is a priority for me,” he insisted. “But it is foolish to say taxes whichever of his rivals scored the next biggest score. Under new can only be cut through spending cuts. electoral rules now going through parliament, a party securing “That is not and will not be the road for Italy,” he said, citing over 40 percent will be guaranteed a parliamentary majority. If no Britain as an example of a country that had allowed its deficit to party reaches that threshold there will be a run-off. Renzi must rise to fund growth-friendly tax cuts. “We will not breach the three call elections by 2018 at the latest. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 BUSINESS

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Prepare for the interview Algeria raises taxes to make up for plunge in oil revenue Employers are primarily looking for candidates ALGIERS: Once-flush Algeria is raising taxes and impos- on diesel, 3G internet and electricity. Customs duties will way. On Thursday, Finance Minister Bekhti Belaib met who have the right kind of experience, can do the ing duties on imports as it struggles to balance its books also be increased on imported computers and computer with the head of IMF’s Algerian mission, Jean Francois job and will fit in well with the company culture. in the face of plummeting oil prices. There’s even talk that parts. The new measures are designed to reduce Algeria’s Dauphin to discuss the economic crisis. With new graduates, experience becomes less rele- the country may even have to borrow abroad. Algeria, massive import bill, some $60 billion a year, as well as “The economic situation is difficult and very danger- vant compared to whether you can do the job and which depends on oil and gas for 94 percent of its decrease energy subsidies. Prime Minister Abdelmalek ous if radical decisions are not taken to get us out of this will fit in seamlessly with the culture. The employer exports, has been hit hard by the halving in oil prices over Sellal acknowledged last month that Algeria, for so long a crisis,” said economist Abdelhak Lamiri. “We can function may ask you during the interview to demonstrate the past year or so. The lower revenues have severely contributor to the International Monetary Fund’s coffers, normally for another three years, but that is a short time how you would actually do a specific part of the job impacted a country that relies on expensive subsidies may actually need external assistance. in the life of a country.” under certain circumstance, be it dealing with a dif- and the government providing most services. Many Algeria’s current woes contrast with the era of high oil Algeria is key ally in the US fight against terrorism and ficult client, selling a company product or service, major projects have also been halted. prices when the country was able to fund ambitious infra- there are fears that a rise in prices might stop social solving a problem and so on. As a result, the government is planning to raise taxes structure projects like the 1,200 kilometer east-west high- unrest. — AP IMF chief urges Africa to spend responsibly

MONROVIA: IMF chief Christine Lagarde tion,” she told journalists in the capital ery. She told journalists on Friday however Ebola. It was long the nation hardest hit in an in 2007, according to World Bank figures. urged African governments to spend respon- Monrovia. her visit was less about Ebola than about outbreak that began in December 2013, But authorities fear the crisis will derail sibly as she visited Liberia on Friday, a week “Second, not to be overburdened and, offering IMF support for Liberians “to deliver infecting more than 28,000 people and claim- the impoverished state’s drive to recover after it was declared free from an Ebola epi- three, make sure that public spending, public on what has been government’s ambition, to ing more than 11,000 lives in Liberia, Guinea from 14 years of civil war, which by the demic which has shattered its economy. finance, is deployed in the most growth move into the middle-income category by and Sierra Leone. time it ended in 2003 had claimed 250,000 Lagarde, wrapping up two days of meetings friendly fashion,” Lagarde told journalists. 2030”. “To do that there has to be growth, More than 10,500 of those infections and lives. The economy is forecast to grow by with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, business Lagarde had congratulated Liberia for its there has to be good revenue generation and 4,800 of the deaths occurred in Liberia. The just three percent this year-less than half leaders and community activists, set out “coordinated effort and extraordinary we can certainly provide, in addition to outbreak took a heavy toll on the economy as the pre-Ebola projection-equating to a loss measures she said were necessary “for African engagement” to beat Ebola in a statement financing the program, a lot of technical crops rotted in the fields, mines were aban- in expected income of around $200 mil- governments to be financially disciplined”. released ahead of her visit. assistance,” she said. doned and goods could not get to market. lion. The IMF says it has provided around “I would say that for the economy to pros- She added that the trip would enable her The World Health Organization said last Before the epidemic, Liberia had notched up $130 million (115 million euros) in financ- per, and to be seen as prospering, having to see first-hand how the country had put in week Liberia, where thousands died at the strong growth of more than nine percent per ing and debt relief for Liberia during the sound and reliable data is certainly a condi- place plans to support the post-Ebola recov- height of the epidemic last year, was free of year since 2005, rising as high as 15.7 percent crisis. — AFP EXCHANGE RATES

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GALICH, Russia: When asked if still live in one-story wooden cot- new roof. These loans are now who has held more than 130 Vladimir Putin is to blame for their tages with slanted roofs and carved overdue. “I wake up in the morning meetings while campaigning in economic squeeze, residents of window frames and rely on the and I think: I don’t know how to recent weeks. Even though vil- the small town of Galich over- food grown in their gardens. repay the loans,” Gruzdeva said. lage voters have never supported whelmingly say: “He doesn’t The main difference is that “Banks keep calling and they the liberal opposition, he said he know.” many young men now go to threaten me. I tell them I can’t pay has been well received because More than 15 years after Putin Moscow to work on construction and I won’t able to pay.” She he travels to places so remote became president, Russians like sites or as security guards in one of thought about going to Moscow that local bureaucrats rarely ven- these, part of what is known as the dozens of shopping malls. and getting a job as a nanny, but ture there. Standing under the “Putin’s majority,” still see no alter- “Half of Galich goes to Moscow,” was needed at home to help with roof of a whitewashed medieval native to him. At the same time, Shatunov said. her grandchildren. market arcade, opposition their faith in positive change is But with the economic down- She is discouraged but con- activist Nikolai Levshits hands diminishing and many are turn, aggravated by Western sanc- vinced that Putin is not to blame. If out leaflets and asks passers-by resigned to seeing no improve- tions and flagging energy prices, only, she sighs, he could visit to vote for RPR-Parnas. He says ments in their lifetime. jobs are more difficult to come by, Galich and see it for himself, rather their real opponents in this elec- Voters will cast ballots Sunday even in Moscow. Shatunov spent than relying on what local officials tion are “indifference and a lack across Russia to elect local legisla- April to October last year outside tell him. of faith that you can change any- tors and governors, and the Moscow, building summer cot- “He doesn’t see the scale of thing.” LUXEMBOURG: Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism Kostroma region, which includes (ESM) Klaus Regling (left) speaks with the President of the European Galich, was alone among 11 Investment Bank (EIB) Werner Hoyer during an informal economic and regions voting for regional parlia- financial affairs council (ECOFIN) meeting at the European Council in ments in allowing the anti-Putin Luxembourg yesterday.— AFP opposition to run. Kostroma, an economically depressed area ranked 79 out of the 83 Russian regions in average income, is best Pakistan cuts interest known for the unkempt beauty of its crumbling medieval churches and weedy banks of the Volga rates to 42-year low River. Once the heartland of the medieval Russian state, its capital KARACHI: Pakistan’s central bank yesterday plan linking western China to the Arabian Sea Kostroma is a typical provincial reduced interest rates to a 42-year-low of six in Pakistan with infrastructure, energy and city with potholed roads. percent, after inflation fell dramatically. The transport projects. The Russian opposition was State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced it Pakistan is set to sign a 40-year-lease with hoping to run in four regions, had cut rates to six percent from 6.5 percent. a Chinese company to develop a massive including more cosmopolitan Inflation came down to 3.6 percent in July- special economic zone in the deep sea port areas like Russia’s third-largest city August from 8.4 percent in the same period of Gwadar as part of the scheme. Pakistan’s of Novosibirsk. But with election last year due to falling fuel and food prices. economy grew at 4.24 percent during the authorities refusing them registra- The SBP added the Pakistan economy 2014-2015 fiscal year with per capita income tion elsewhere, opposition would receive a boost from infrastructure rising a significant 9.25 percent, markers that activists were left to canvass in projects such as the planned China Pakistan come as investor confidence in the long- Kostroma and places around it, like Economic Corridor (CPEC). “Therefore, there is underperforming South Asian country have the sleepy medieval market town anticipation of higher economic activity in also increased. Pakistan is currently in a $6.6 of Galich with 17,000 people. (fiscal year) FY2015-16 which is expected to billion loan program with the International boost credit uptake,” the bank said. The Monetary Fund, which was granted on condi- Popularity Pakistan fiscal year begins in July. tion that Islamabad carried out extensive Small towns like Galich, 400 kilo- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor economic reforms, particularly in the energy meters (240 miles) north of (CPEC) is an ambitious $46 billion investment and taxation sectors. —AFP Moscow, have been the foundation of Putin’s popularity. In the 2012 presidential election, Putin won GALICH: A woman walks with a child past the marketplace in Galich, 400 km (250 miles) north- about 53 percent of the vote in the east of Moscow. Voters will go to polls today across Russia and the anti-Putin opposition was Talks on Turkey-Russia Kostroma region, with turnout at allowed to run in only one Russian region, Kostroma. —AP about 61 percent. Today, most vot- gas pipeline ‘frozen’ ers are likely to stay home. “What’s the point?” 26-year-old tages and bathhouses. This year, he the problems, they cheat him,” he Domestic problems ISTANBUL: Talks between Russia and ing on the sidelines of a conference in Alexander Shatunov said with a said, demand was low and he was said. The opposition RPR-Parnas What’s more, state television, Turkey on building a new gas pipeline Istanbul. smile, even though he was at his there just for a couple of weeks. party has been one of Putin’s which is what everyone in Galich between the two countries are currently He said that talks were “deadlocked” wits’ end trying to fix the engine on His neighbor, 57-year-old fiercest critics. But here in the watches, describes the opposition frozen amid differences over the price of because of preconditions imposed by his 2005 minivan. “They will have Natalya Gruzdeva, helps her son Kostroma region, its candidates leaders as revolutionaries bent on Russian gas imports, a Turkish official said. Russian gas giant Gazprom for the reduc- decided everything for me anyway.” and daughter-in-law with their have been careful to steer the destroying Russia. During a chat Russian President Vladimir Putin tion Turkey wants in the price of Russian This is a recurrent sentiment in three children since she is out of conversation away from politics with the police chief in the village announced the plan for the Turkstream gas imports. “At this point I see a mutual these parts, reflecting the helpless- work and past retirement age, and focus instead on concrete of Antropovo, Levshits said he was pipeline in a shock move in December 2014, distrust,” he said, adding that the negotia- ness and apathy resulting from the which is 55 for women in Russia. issues. asked what he thought about the saying it would replace Russia’s now junked tions would have been easier if Russia Kremlin’s paternalistic policies and She was making 11,000 rubles Ilya Yashin, a Moscow political annexation of Crimea from South Stream joint venture with EU firms. agreed the price reduction. “Russia has lost control over the political process. ($160) a month as a cook in a local activist and ally of slain opposi- Ukraine. “I told him,” Levshits said, However, despite the fanfare of the considerable time,” he said. Russia’s oil-driven economic boom cafe when she retired. With the tion leader Boris Nemtsov, said “you know it’s really weird to be announcement, construction of the Analysts had already questioned the has transformed big cities like family’s combined income they the Kremlin allowed them to run talking about Crimea in the village pipeline has never properly got under way, need for the project at a time when global Moscow and St. Petersburg into bought a crumbling house with- in Kostroma because of how diffi- of Antropovo, where there is no leaving analysts suspicious over the feasi- energy prices are falling and the EU is look- cosmopolitan centers where you out a roof years ago, a small one- cult it is to campaign here, with hot water, where there are no bility of the project. “I am not saying the ing for alternatives to Russian gas. The plan can get a Frappuccino even in the story stone structure with a wood 60 percent of the population liv- roads, where there is no physician, sides have walked away from the table. I for Turkstream envisages four 900 kilome- most remote neighborhood. Life in stove and no running water. They ing in villages and small towns. the maternity ward does not work am saying that the talks are frozen,” Turkish tre (560 mile) long offshore pipelines Galich, however, has remained took out a loan of 500,000 rubles “You cannot win without and you have to travel 150 kilome- media quoted energy ministry assistant underneath the Black Sea linking southern largely unchanged. Most people ($7,400) to pay for the repairs and those village votes,” said Yashin, ters (93 miles) to Kostroma.” —AP under-secretary Sefa Sadik Aytekin as say- Russia to western Turkey. —AFP APEC FMs to refrain from competitive devaluation Gulf Bank announces winners CEBU, Philippines: Finance ministers from the “We maintain our commitment to strengthen not part of a currency war, but was aimed at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economic growth and promote financial stability making its exchange rate reflect market condi- of Al-Danah daily draws group said they were committed to addressing in the APEC region,” they said, even as they con- tions more closely. Speaking at a closing cere- weaknesses in their economies but stressed they ceded risks to growth remained significant. mony, China’s vice finance minister said volatility KUWAIT: Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah account is the Best: would not seek to gain a competitive edge by The Cebu meeting took place amid growing in Chinese stock and currency markets was tem- daily draws on 6 September 2015 1) Kuwait’s single biggest yearly cash weakening their currencies. “We will refrain from concern about the slowdown in China, the porary. announcing the names of its winners prize of KD 1 million competitive devaluation and resist all forms of world’s second-largest economy, and recent “The exchange rate movements in the past for the week of 30 August to 3 2) Kuwait’s biggest quarterly cash protectionism,” ministers from the 21-member swings in global financial markets following its month is totally because of technical reasons September 2015. The Al-Danah daily prizes, up to KD500,000 group said in a statement at the end of a meet- devaluation of its yuan currency last month. and factors, and will not affect the stability of draws include draws each and every 3) Two winners of KD1,000 every work- ing on the Philippine island of Cebu. China has insisted that the devaluation was financial markets in the future,” the vice minister, working day for two prizes of KD1000 ing day Shi Yaobin, told a press briefing. per winner. 4) The most opportunities to win (64 APEC members include the United States, draws a year, and up to 532 winners) China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and The winners are: 5) Only Bank that transfers your Canada, and together account for 57 percent of (Sunday 30/8): Ahmed Abduljalil chances to win from year to year global production and 46.5 percent of world Abdulrazzaq Al-Awadhi, Mona Hassan Open an account and Deposit now trade. Ahmad Al-Wayel to Win Big, Live Big, with Al-Danah On the whole, delegates to the two-day (Monday 31/8): Dalal Subih Hamdan 2015. meeting have been circumspect in their com- Raheem, Deena Ahmed Hussain Ali Al- Al-Danah also offers a number of ments, often speaking in bland terms about the Rumi unique services including: the Al-Danah need for greater financial integration. (Tuesday 1/9): Talal Mohammed Saad Deposit Only ATM card which helps But Malaysia’s deputy minister of finance, Al-Ajmy, Wajiha Yousef Mohammed account holders deposit their money at Johari Abdul Ghani, said all the talk of integra- Behbehani (Wednesday 2/9): Amal Ali their convenience; as well as the Al- tion might not amount to much because deci- Hussain Al-Ali, Zainab Hussain Ahmed Danah calculator to help customers cal- sions taken by APEC’s larger economies were Bu Abass culate their chances of becoming an Al- having a big impact on smaller ones. “The devel- (Thursday 3/9): Fatma Zahed Sayed Danah winner. oped countries, the much stronger economic Ahmed Mosawi, Dhamd Khalaf Obaid Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open countries, also have to be mindful any action Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2015 draw line- to Kuwaitis and all residents of Kuwait. that they do will affect the smaller countries in up includes daily draws (2 winners per Customers who open an account and/ APEC,” he told Reuters, singling out China’s working day each receive KD1000). Al- or deposit more will enter the draw devaluation and eventual rises in US interest Danah’s 3rd Quarterly draw will be held within two days. To take part in the Al- rates. on 17 September (cash prizes are: Danah 2015 upcoming yearly draw, cus- Malaysia’s ringgit has slumped by 18.87 per- KD500,000; KD125,000; and KD25,000). tomers must have an Al-Danah account cent against the dollar this year and is the worst- The final Al-Danah draw for one million containing at least KD 200. To be part of performing major currency in Asia. “We want to dinars will be held on 7 January 2016. the Al-Danah draws, customers can visit have financial integration. But at the same time, The Al-Danah millionaire will be one of Gulf Bank’s 58 branches, transfer when you have developed countries like announced alongside winners of on line, or call the Customer Contact America, China for example, anything that they do will affect some of the emerging countries. KD250,000 and KD50,000 cash prizes. Center on 1805805 for assistance and NEW YORK: People walk by a Panera Bread restaurant in Manhattan on September Five reasons why the Al-Danah guidance. The impact of this is that the integration will not 11 in New York.—AFP be able to come,” he said. —Reuters BUSINESS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Kuwait bourse ends losing streak

BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last ones of previous declines and tempting prices, in Sectors’ Indices week in the green zone. The Price Index closed at parallel with a noticeable increase in the trading Eight of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the 5,764.92 points, up by 0.12 percent from the week activity. green zone, four recorded declines. Last week’s before closing, the Weighted Index increased by However in the mid-week session, the stock highest gainer was the Basic Material sector, 0.31 percent after closing at 386.71 points, where- market indicators witnessed mixed closings, achieving 5.66 percent growth rate as its index as the KSX-15 Index closed at 929.97 points up by whereas the Price Index was able to record slight closed at 1,001.27 points. Whereas, in the second 0.60 percent. Furthermore, last week’s average increase affected by the quick speculative opera- place, the Insurance sector’s index closed at daily turnover increased by 5.99 percent, com- tions executed on the small-cap stocks in particu- 1,125.76 points recording 3.59 percent increase. pared to the preceding week, reaching KD 13.62 lar, while the profit collection operations forced Followed by Consumer Goods sector’s index million, whereas trading volume average was the Weighted and KSX-15 indices to close in the closed at 1,199.85 points recording 2.81 percent 198.38 million shares, recording an increase of red zone, among a declined trading activity. On increase. 39.83 percent. Wednesday’s session, the market was able to real- On the other hand, the Health Care sector The three stock market indicators returned to ize good gains for the three indices, especially the headed the losers list as its index declined 5.98 meet in the green zone after three consecutive Weighted and KSX-15 indices which benefited percent to end the week’s activity at 968.38 weeks of grouped losses, whereas it realized dif- from the active purchasing power that focused points. The Consumer Services sector was second ferent gains as a result to the purchasing power on the leading and heavy stocks, while the Price on the losers’ list, which index declined by 1.73 that affected the leading and operational listed Index was able to end the session with relatively percent, closing at 1,046.91 points, followed by stocks, in addition to the quick speculation and good gains, to compensate all the week’s losses, the Banks sector, as its index closed at 900.30 the random purchasing operations that included among an increased trading activity, especially points at a loss of 1.21 percent. some small-cap and mid-cap stocks. Also, the the liquidity which increased by around 35 per- Sectors’ Activity market was affected by the selling operations cent. On the end of week session, the market The Financial Services sector dominated a that were present during some sessions last could not continue its positive performance it total trade volume of around 382.69 million week, as the market witnessed quick profit collec- witnessed in the previous two sessions, as it shares changing hands during last week, repre- tion operations with negative impact on its indi- recorded a grouped decline for the three indica- senting 38.58 percent of the total market trading cators and were able to lighten its weekly gains, tors as a result to the profit collection operations volume. The Real Estate sector was second in however negatively. executed on most of the traded stocks, which lim- terms of trading volume as the sector’s traded As far as the daily trading activity, the stock ited the indices’ gains on the weekly level. shares were 37.83 percent of last week’s total market ended the first session of the week with On the other hand, the market cap for KSE trading volume, with a total of around 375.19 mil- violent losses for the three indices, especially the reached by the end of last week KD 25.84 billion, lion shares. Price Index which declined by more than 1.5 per- increasing by 0.28 percent compared to its level On the other hand, the Financial Services sec- cent as a result to the random selling operations in a week earlier, which reached then KD 25.77 tor’s stocks were the highest traded in terms of that the small-cap stocks were subject to and billion. However on the annual level, the losses of value; with a turnover of around KD 19.59 million caused its prices to decline noticeably; the market the KSE listed companies market cap reached or 28.78 percent of last week’s total market trad- witnessed such performance among an increased 7.65 percent compared to its value at end of 2014, ing value. The Real Estate sector took the second trading activity especially the traded volume. On where it reached then KD 27.98 billion. place as the sector’s last week turnover was the next session, the three market indicators were As far as KSE annual performance, the Price approx. KD 15.34 million representing 22.53 per- able to increase, compensating by this a part of its Index ended last week recording 11.79 percent cent of the total market trading value. losses recorded in the previous session, as it came annual loss compared to its closing in 2014, while among an active purchasing included many the Weighted Index decreased by 11.89 percent, — Prepared by the Studies & Research large-cap and small-cap stocks, especially the and the KSX-15 recorded 12.26 percent loss. Department, Bayan Investment Co.

US stocks rise ahead of big Fed meeting

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks pushed higher in a holiday- Japan’s Nikkei index climbed 2.7 percent for the week, but shortened week, recovering some of the losses from the prior that was due to a “ridiculous” one-day gain of 7.7 percent gain week’s plunge ahead of a hotly-anticipated Federal Reserve on Wednesday, said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O’Hare. meeting. Earlier that day, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had reit- The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 330.71 points (2.05 erated a pledge to cut corporate tax rates. percent) to 16,433.09. The broad-based S&P 500 climbed “Take that move out of the equation and, well, it’s plain to 39.83 (2.07 percent) to 1,961.05, while the tech-rich Nasdaq see it wasn’t a flat-out bullish week in Japan,” said O’Hare, who Composite Index gained 138.42 (2.96 percent) to 4,822.34. said advances in the US and other markets “haven’t exactly felt Analysts said the market was primed to go higher after the solid or entirely satisfactory.” rout the prior week. An up week also fit the pattern of the last 10 weeks that has seen the S&P 500 alternate positive and Mixed reviews for Apple negative results. The week’s biggest corporate story was the launch by That volatility is due partly to fears of slowing economic Apple of a series of upgraded smartphone, tablet and televi- growth, especially in the world number-two economy China. sion products. Wall Street initially sent Apple shares lower, but But analysts also attribute the choppiness to mystery around shares rallied in the following session. Some analysts believe the Fed. Top officials from the US central bank have said they the outlook for the iPhone is dimming with the maturation of plan to lift US benchmark interest rates from near-zero levels the smartphone market. some time in 2015. The case for a rate hike has been strength- But Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research praised the improved ened by steadily improving US labor data, even as inflation Apple TV, which is expected to become even bigger when the has remained weak. Apple TV service is launched a few months from now. But the rockiness in global markets over the last month has United Airlines announced the surprise resignation of its raised speculation the Fed will hold off in September and per- chief executive and two other top officials in connection with haps for all of 2015. “We’ve seen a lot of volatility because a federal investigation involving the regional airport authority. investors have a lot of questions, and the number one ques- General Electric got a boost when US and European regulators tion they have right now is: What’s the Fed going to do?” said gave the green light to its acquisition of the energy business Alan Skrainka, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth of French company Alstom. GE said the deal was worth about Management. $9.5 billion following divestments to address antitrust con- “It’s very difficult to have convictions in the short-term out- cerns. look when there’s so much uncertainty on Fed policy,” Among other transaction, Blackstone struck a $6 billion Skrainka said. “We’ve entered in a period of frustration for deal to buy luxury property giant Strategic Hotels & Resorts both the bulls and the bears, and it’s not going to be resolved and Media General reached an agreement to buy media and until we know what happens with the Fed,” said Tom Cahill, publishing company Meredith Corporation for $2.4 billion. portfolio strategist at Ventura Wealth Management. Besides the Fed decision and news conference on Thursday Questions about the Fed are also casting a shadow over with Chair Janet Yellen, next week’s calendar includes retail NEW YORK: Pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets mostly drifted lower on Friday despite international equity markets, where trade has stayed volatile. sales and housing starts data for August. — AFP a tail wind from Wall Street as investors braced for the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates next week. —AP BUSINESS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 Oil market seen remaining weak

AL-SHALL WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT

KUWAIT: In a report issued last August, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) adopts a scenario for the oil market conditions in the short term covering the remaining part of 2015 and 2016. The scenario expects the likelihood of the oil market remaining weak during this term with some slight negative influ- ence of the American production level. The Administration projects that the price of US light oil would drop from an average of $ 92.05 per barrel in 2014 to an average of $ 48.82 per barrel in 2015, losing -47 percent, and expects that the US pro- duction level would reach its peak in the second quar- ter of the current year (an average of 9.58 million bar- rels per day) before it starts its gradual decline to settle at 9.36 million barrels per day until the end of the year. Despite its anticipation of a rise in oil price to an aver- age of $53.43 per barrel in 2016, the production aver- age in the same year would fall to 8.96 million barrels percent (19.3 percent on annual basis), it scored 74.6 investment income dropped by 72.9 percent, or by KD period 2014 and would be close to KD 225.9 million, or per day especially when low prices start pressure on percent for the 17 companies (111.9 percent on annual 6.6 million, to KD 2.4 million (KD 9 million for the same by 3.3 percent, as they scored KD 6.805 billion then. shale oil companies. What is important is not the drop basis). It scored about 1204.1 percent for the highest period last year). Percentage of total loans and advances to total volume but stopping production growth. company, 704.2 percent for the second highest and As for operations expenditures, total expenses deposits scored 66.4 percent (62.7 percent in the first The importance of the USA to the oil market is 536.4 percent for the third highest. Despite their big (staff expenses and other expenses) rose by KD 6.2 mil- half of 2014). derived from two factors. The first is that it became rise, if calculated on annual basis, they remain lower lion, or by 10.8 percent and scored KD 63.9 million (KD Results of analyzing the bank’s profitability indexes one of the biggest producers in the world, a factor than their turnover rates in 2014. 57.7 million for the same period last year). Percentage calculated on annual basis indicate decline in most of which affects the supply side. The second is that it of total operational expenses to total operational them compared with the same period of 2014. The became due to the shale oil production technologies Monthly Report of State, Financial incomes scored 44.4 percent (44.2 percent in the first average return on equities relevant to the bank share- the determining factor for the higher cap of the oil Administration Accounts half of 2014). Total provisions increased by KD 2.2 holders (ROE) after deducted perpetual (Tier 1) capital price. Although the Administration also predicts that The Ministry of Finance issued the monthly follow- million, or by 8.1 percent, and scored KD 29.1 million security to 9.8 percent from 13.1 percent. Likewise, the the U.S economic recovery with its GDP rising from 2.2 up reports for the State’s Financial Administration (KD 26.9 million). The net profit margin increased to return on average bank capital (ROC) decreased to percent in 2015 to 3 percent in 2016 and perhaps Accounts for the period of April to July 2015, which is a 27.7 percent (24.7 percent during the same period in 42.8 percent from 43.6 percent. While the return on more, the US is no longer an influencing factor on good matter, and should be appreciated. Total collect- 2014). average assets (ROA) increased slightly to 1.1 percent demand. The negative impact on demand will be real- ed revenues during that period amounted to approxi- The bank’s financial statements show rise in the from 1 percent. (EPS) decreased to 15.8 fils (18.7 fils in ized by the sharp drop in China’s growth rates which mately KD 6.0684 billion, about 49.7 percent of the bank’s total assets by KD 227 million, or by 2.9 percent June 2014) due to decrease in the profit of the bank lost about 3.5 percent of growth rates in pre-2008 lev- total estimated revenues for the entire current fiscal to KD 7.978 billion (KD 7.751 billion in the end of for the period attributable to equity holder of the bank els in addition to its indirect impact on the growth of year 2015/2016 in the amount of approximately KD 2014). This rise would be bigger if they were compared after interest payment in (Tier 1) capital securities by most countries of the world due to its superior com- 12.2106 billion, a noticeable decline by -40.2 percent with the total assets in the first half of 2014 and would 4.1 percent, as we mentioned above. (P/E) scored 13.4 mercial partnership with it, including weak demand on below the total collected revenues during the same be close to KD 492.6 million, or by 6.6 percent, when it times (13.6 times). (P/B) scored 0.9 times (1.3 times for all raw materials, most important of which is oil. period of last fiscal year (2014/2015) in the amount of scored KD 7.486 billion. Volume of loans and advances the same period last year). Under such circumstances, 5 of the GCC countries KD 10.146 billion. portfolio increased by 2.9 percent to KD 4.512 billion are anticipated to lose about -40.2 percent of their In detail, the bulletin estimates actual oil revenues (56.5 percent of total assets) versus KD 4.386 billion Weekly performance of KSE revenues achieved in 2014 and would score $282 bil- until 31/07/2015 by about KD 5.7046 billion, i.e. 53 (56.6 percent of total assets) in the end of 2014. If we The performance of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) lion in 2015 ($471.5 billion in 2014 and $491 billion in percent of oil revenues estimated for the entire cur- compare the volume of this portfolio with its counter- for the last week was more active, where all indexes 2013) according to Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) for rent fiscal year in the amount of KD 10.7575 billion, or part value in the same period 2014, we note it rose by showed an increase, the traded value, the traded vol- August 2015. The matter is not a big problem if the oil about 94 percent of total collected revenues. The col- 9.4 percent as it amounted to KD 4.123 billion (55.1 ume, the number of transactions, and the general market weakness will continue for the short term or lected amounts from oil revenues during the first four percent of total assets). index also showed an increase, AlShall Index (value 2015/2016; but repeating weakness on the long run as months of the current fiscal year were less by KD - Figures indicate that the bank’s liabilities (without weighted) closed at 380.8 points at the closing of last in the 1980s and 1990s is closer to reality. Saudi Arabia 3.805 billion, -40 percent, than its counterpart value including total equity) increased by KD 235.4 million, Thursday, showing an increase of about 3.4 points or has already issued bonds to finance deficit and its last fiscal year. KD 363.872 million was collected from or by 3.5 percent, and scored KD 7.031 billion up from about 0.9 percent compared with its level last week, Minister of Finance urged cuts in unnecessary expens- non-oil revenues, a monthly average by KD 90.968 KD 6.796 billion in the end of 2014. This rise would be while it decreased by 63.2 points or about 14.2 percent es. This is the case in Kuwait and others though it is a million. The total estimated amount for the entire fis- less if we compared the total liabilities with the same compared with the end of 2014. solution that buys sometime only. cal year was about KD 1.453 billion. This means the The real criterion for countering the weak oil mar- realized amount will be less for the entire fiscal year ket in the medium to long terms is to adopt the sus- by about KD 361.5 million than the estimated tainability principle. This means balancing the due amount. expenses with only the recurrent revenues within a Expenditures allocations for the current fiscal year specific term. This will not be achieved without real were estimated at about KD 19.171 billion, of which an surgery, i.e. a painful search in waste and corruption amount of KD 3.165 billion was spent -according to sites, a comprehensive change in the internal security the bulletin- until 31/07/2015, a monthly spending concept and across borders, programmed replace- average at KD 791.258 million. We, however, do not

recommend relying on this figure because there are ment of the oil asset with a real economic activity that expenses which have become due but have not been guarantees creating a growing and sustainable tax actually dispensed. Spending in the last month of the vessel. Indicators in the region so far which are moving fiscal year will be higher when settlements are made towards a merited change are not encouraging. and then in the final account. Although the bulletin Therefore and unfortunately their stability is on the concludes that the budget surplus in end of the first stake. four months of the current fiscal year scored about KD 2.9034 billion, we publish it without recommending its KSE liquidity endorsement as we believe that the surplus figure will Market liquidity during August 2015 achieved a dai- change into deficit in the end of these four months ly trading average value worth KD 13.6 million, a rise and with the issuance of the final account. by 24.8 percent compared with the average daily trad- In fact, the current fiscal year will witness a funda- ing value for July 2015 which was at KD 10.9 million. mental and negative difference with the budget deficit However, this liquidity declined by -31.3 percent com- scoring about KD 4-5 billion, as we stated in a former pared with August 2014. During last month, the mar- report. ket added liquidity in the amount of KD 300.1 million bringing the total market liquidity in 8 months to KD Burgan Bank financial results 2.929 billion (KD 4.042 billion in the first 8 months of The Burgan Bank announced its results for the first 2014), a drop by -27.5 percent. half of the current year, which indicate that the bank’s Adopting the same measurement tool, ie following net profit, after tax deductions, scored KD 42.8 million up the share of the top 30 companies out of trading with a rise by KD 6.2 million, or by 16.9 percent, com- value, we note a noticeable decline in liquidity devia- pared with KD 36.6 million in the same period 2014. tion despite its unjustifiable continuity. Those compa- When we deduct the non-controlling interests and nies captured about 72 percent, equal to KD 2.110 bil- after interest payment on (Tier 1) capital securities, we lion, of market liquidity representing 62 percent of its note the bank achieved net profit to its shareholders total capital value. by about KD 32 million versus KD 33.3 million for the The number of speculation companies within the same period of last year, scoring a decline by KD 1.3 sample was 17 companies which captured 33.8 per- million, 4.1 percent. cent of total market trading value, i.e. KD 989 million, In details, the bank’s total operational incomes rose while their market value equaled 5 percent of total by KD 13.6 million, or by 10.4 percent, to KD 144.1 mil- market companies’ value. lion (KD 130.5 million in the same period 2014), due to This drop in concentration on speculation compa- the rise in net gain from foreign currencies by KD 10.9 nies extended to their shares turnover though it million, or by 452.6 percent , to KD 13.3 million (KD 2.4 remained high. While the turnover average for all mar- million in the same period 2014). Likewise, item of net ket companies continued weak at about 11.1 percent interests incomes increased by KD 7.2 million to KD (16.6 percent on annual basis) and even weak for the 96.3 million (KD 89.1 million). While the item of net 30 companies sample the higher in liquidity at 12.9 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 BUSINESS

McLaren Sports Series enters pre-production First models to join the family: 570S CoupÈ and 540C Coupé

KUWAIT: The countdown to the launch this in the McLaren range can be viewed The McLaren Production Centre (MPC) has autumn of the most attainable McLaren road at:www.youtube.com/McLarenAutomotiveTV. now been set up in preparation for the start of car project yet, the Sports Series, continues Up to this point through the development production, with all tooling in place for the with the start of the pre-production phase program, the Sports Series has covered in new model. The latest phase of the Sports within the state-of-the-art McLaren excess of 500,000 testing kilometers. These Series program will ensure the smooth transi- Production Centre in Woking, England. This have been on a mixture of race circuits and tion of production methods already in place milestone marks the final stage in the devel- roads, in some of the harshest conditions for the Super Series and Ultimate Series mod- opment program ahead of the global roll-out around the world including the extreme heat els with minimal disruption. It will see the inte- of the 570S CoupÈ; the first model to be of the Arizona and Nevada summer, the Arctic gration of the Sports Series into the produc- launched in the McLaren Sports Series family. conditions common of northern Sweden in tion line along with the Super Series, underlin- A short video documenting some of the the winter and, of course, the changeable ing the flexibility of the MPC. This will also stages of testing to date of the newest model British weather. ensure the highest levels of quality, matching the exacting standards befitting any model wearing the McLaren badge. Andreas Bareis, Executive Director - Quality at McLaren Automotive explained: ‘The pre- production phase is one of the most impor- tant, and also one of the most demanding, in a product readiness phase at McLaren. Up to this point, vehicles have been running in vari- ous locations around the world and subjected to some of the harshest conditions, and we are testing every component and system to the extreme. This final phase brings all testing relentless drive for continuously improving the end of the year. When the full family has together for the first time in a package that is quality within all business areas, with a focus been launched, forecast to be by the end of representative of the cars our owners will be on the pre-production phase, enables us to 2017, the range is expected to more than taking delivery of. achieve a significant milestone which was set double the annual volume of McLaren, and ‘As we move forward as a business we take as a key target at the beginning of the pro- bring the brand in front of a new audience. learning from previous projects and current gram. It is a real achievement by the different The McLaren Sports Series will be available products, and now moving into the sports car teams across the business that have helped later this year at Ali Alghanim& Sons sector, the program has become the most progress to this point.’ Automotive Company, the exclusive importer challenging to date as we push the bar of Deliveries of the Sports Series, starting for McLaren and BMW Group in Kuwait, with quality and performance even higher. The with the 570S CoupÈ, will commence before price starting from KD52,900. Bahrah Trading to participate in Big5 Kuwait Exhibition Company to showcase 3 global brands Toyota Forklifts, Bobcat and Hino

KUWAIT: Bahrah Trading Company (BTC), one Kuwait and neighboring GCC nations KSA, UAE of the Al-Sayer Group Holding Companies will and Bahrain and the organizers are expecting participate in Big5 Exhibition, largest construc- 40% more turnout of visitors in 2015 in compar- tion event of Kuwait. The exhibition is a great ison to the previous event. platform to tap into the high value construction BTC will be participating with major prod- market with mega projects, by gaining access to ucts from 3 renowned global brands on display 5,000+ Architects, Contractors, Engineers, including the No#1 forklifts in the world - Procurement Managers, Building Consultants, Toyota Forklift, World’s first skid-steer loaders - Government officials as well as local distributors Bobcat and largest manufacturer of heavy, at one place, at one time. medium and light trucks in Japan - Hino. According to Mubarak Naser Al-Sayer CEO Al-Sayer Group “Participation in the Big5 event TOYOTA FORKLIFT will enable BTC to showcase their renowned Toyota is committed to being a total solu- world class products to high-level decision mak- tions provider, offering customers the solutions ers seeking quality manufacturers and distribu- they need for a diverse range of material han- tors”. dling needs. Numerous design advancements BTC is the market leader in transportation, and industrial equipment solutions that have industrial and material handling equipment and improved the material handling process and construction machinery, representing globally enhanced the end-user experience. The compa- leading brands. ny is committed to innovation in everything it with groundbreaking products offering high the globe have faith and confidence in. capacity, high speed transportation and Products from BTC will be exhibited in stand advanced technology for contributing to reduc- #OS700 for 2015 Big5 Kuwait event to be held at ing the operation cost of businesses. Trucks from International Kuwait International Fair at HINO satisfy all the conditions of a truck at Mishref. Exhibition Visiting hours will be exceptionally high levels through excellent between 11:00 am and 20:00 pm from 14 to 16 durability, drivability, economic efficiency and September 2015. environment friendly technology for guarantee- Apart from the displayed products, compre- ing perfect ownership satisfaction and driving hensive information about the full range of experience. HINO trucks aim to deliver products handled by Bahrah Trading shall be enhanced transport quality that clients across available at the stand. BOBCAT Bobcat is the World’s most popular Skid-Steer Loaders and nears almost 6 decades history of quality, performance and reliability. Bobcat, the first skid steer to be built and is still the best and dominate the world market with 50% market share and has become the industry bench mark name for Skid-Steer Loaders. Bobcats are widely used for Construction, agriculture, landscaping, road maintenance etc. Innovative design, simplic- ity, highly user friendly, best value for money are some of the highlights that make Bobcat a leg- end in its life time and would continue so for a long time to come. The World’s most popular Skid-Steer Loaders are also renowned for its does-and to excellence in the design and engi- strong performance, panoramic serviceability, neering processes. The result is a broad range of uptime protection, comfort cab, effective control superior forklifts that deliver the highest levels options as well as productive and efficient attach- Hamza Melakandy, General Manager BTC of performance and operator safety and pro- ments. Bobcat also produces high quality tele- said “Over the years BTC has evolved into a ductivity. Rugged, durable and reliable, Toyota scopic handlers of various sizes and capacities. major source of supply serving a wide spectrum Forklifts continue to set the standard for the of clients in construction, oil and industrial sec- industry. HINO tors in Kuwait. BTC has also established a repu- The famous warehouse forklift brands such The success of HINO trucks are backed by its tation for professional and reliable service and as BT of Sweden and Raymond of USA are under unshakable commitment to combat challenges, providing full after sales support”. the umbrella of Toyota Material Handling and deliver trucks which are driven to perfec- Big5 Kuwait event attracts visitors from International and BTC represent them as well. tion. HINO opened new horizons in the market technology SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 Headset technology better but not perfect

NEW YORK: The NFL upgraded the coach-to- can be taken to avoid similar problems from Pettine said the coach-to-coach commu- player communication system three years occurring in other games.” nication system would soon be upgraded. ago and now it’s apparent the coach-to- Players and coaches say headsets used to “The system that we’re using, it’s my coach headsets are due for an upgrade, too. communicate with quarterbacks and desig- understanding that it’s going to be Following Pittsburgh’s 28-21 loss at New nated defenders on the field have become replaced. That, to me, has been in the England in the 2015 opener, Steelers coach more reliable in recent seasons after the works,” Pettine said. “We’ve talked about it in Mike Tomlin complained about headset fail- league switched from the outdated analog the offseason. We’re going to get through ures, which he charged are “always the case” communication system to a digital network this season with what we have and there are when playing in New England. The Steelers in 2012, but problems persist in the coach- problems with it.” said Friday they don’t plan to file a formal to-coach channels. Sometimes, they hear Coaches and coordinators began talking complaint and the league said the Patriots static, crossed signals, noises that aren’t sup- to quarterbacks with radios in 1994 and mis- did nothing wrong. But the Patriots are posed to be there - like the Patriots’ radio communications and mishaps were an occu- under scrutiny after the team accepted pun- broadcast that Tomlin said he and his staff pational hazard with hot dog vendors, musi- ishment for using deflated footballs and Tom had to listen to on their headsets in the first cians, and truckers have somehow ending up Brady fought his suspension. Last decade, half Thursday night. on team radios until a few years ago when the Patriots were punished for videotaping “With radio frequencies, there’s millions of things got much, much better. the hand signals of opposing coaches. factors that come into play, so I couldn’t tell The digital system is easier to use. There’s NFL vice president of football communi- you exactly what happened there,” said Alex no longer a delay preceded by a beep to wait cations Michael Signora said the communica- Shada, director of operations for Gubser & for the frequency to clear. Instead, coaches tions equipment falls under the jurisdiction Schnakenberg LLC, the Lincoln, Nebraska- now push a button and can talk instantly and of the league, and that the headset problems based provider of coach-to-player communi- with clearer sound. were a function of a power issue at the stadi- cation systems for the NFL. The helmets are equipped only with a um that was made worse by foul weather but Gubser & Schnakenberg only provides speaker, not a microphone. So, the player FOXBOROUGH: In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, Pittsburgh Steelers was fixed during the game. the coach-to-player system; the coach-to- cannot talk back to the coach. Each team is head coach Mike Tomlin speaks to his team on the sideline in the second half of The league added Friday that “it involved coach systems aren’t as secure and are open only allowed one live helmet, designated by an NFL football game. —AP no manipulation by any individual; and that to more interference, teams say. a small green dot on the back, on the field at the Patriots had nothing to do with it. The “It’s rare that I’ve gone through an NFL a time. Once the 40-second play clock coaches can’t give live advice during a play. A communications though. “It’s just like any- issue was promptly resolved and there were game that there was not a problem with the begins, coaches have 25 seconds to make a league official is on site to monitor. thing else you’ve got to work through on no further problems for the remainder of the headset,” Browns coach Mike Pettine said, call and pass on information. The micro- The NFL has said military-grade encryp- game day, like an injury or something,” game. We will continue to review the matter noting there’s often dead zones in certain phones for all the radio transmitters shut off tion codes protect the frequencies. Obviously, Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. “You’ve got to determine if there are technical steps that spots on the sideline. automatically at the 15-second mark, so the signals still get crossed in the coach-to-coach to battle your way through it.”— AP Robots take root on smaller dairy farms, upping production

GRANITEVILLE: Robots have taken up last year to install two robots and retrofit residence at some small- and medium- a barn at their organic dairy farm in sized dairy farms across the country, pro- Graniteville. They were looking for a viding reliable and more efficient labor more consistent way to milk their cows, and helping the businesses remain more time to spend with their newborn viable. Plus, farmers say, the milking son and more money in their pockets. technology makes for happier, more They’re saving $60,000 a year that used productive cows. to go to paying one full-time and one Dairy operations here and abroad part-time employee and their cows are have used robotic milkers for more than producing 20 percent more milk. a decade. But with more manufacturers “No one wants to milk cows,” Jennifer and dealerships emerging the U.S., the Lambert said. “Even when we had number of smaller farms in Iowa with employees the last thing they wanted to the technology has doubled over the do was milk cows, you know, and they last two years, from roughly 20 to more especially didn’t want to do it on the than 40, and family farms in the weekend.” WASHINGTON: In this May 19, 2015 file photo, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Northeast also are plugging in. Plus, cows thrive on consistency, she speaks at the Transportation Department in Washington. Ten automakers have commit- The cost of not automating the milk- said, something farmworkers can’t ted to the government to include automatic emergency braking in all new cars, a step ing process may be greater for some always provide but robots do, which she safety advocates say could significantly reduce traffic deaths and injuries. — AP farmers than shelling out hundreds of says leads to more relaxed cows. thousands of dollars, experts say. The When a cow wants to be milked, it Automakers commit to put technology supplants paying for hard- steps up into a stall, grain is dumped in to-find and migrant labor, creates time front of it and an arm reaches under its for other farm duties and collects vital body to wash the teats. A laser scans the automatic brakes in all cars data about the animals. Perhaps most of cow’s body, and then the arm attaches a all, it boosts the number of gallons of cup to each of the four teats, milking WASHINGTON: Ten automakers have committed nent crash, warn the driver and, if the driver does milk being produced because cows get them individually. The technology also to the government and a private safety group that not take sufficient action, engage the brakes. milked when and as often as they want, collects and stores data about each they will include automatic emergency braking in The systems could prevent or mitigate an esti- though it doesn’t affect consumer milk cow’s production, body temperature, all new cars, a step transportation officials say mated 80 percent of the auto and commercial prices. weight and number of visits to the milk- could significantly reduce traffic deaths and truck rear-end collisions that cause about 1,700 The reason robots might make sense ing system, which farmers can check on injuries. deaths and a half million injuries annually, accord- for many small- and medium-sized their computers. But safety advocates were swift to criticize the ing to a recent report by the National farms in the Northeast is because of the Ron Lawfer’s cows also have pro- effort as a backroom deal that allows automakers Transportation Safety Board. There are about 1.7 challenge of finding reliable workers and duced about 20 percent more milk since to avoid the possibility that the Transportation million rear-end crashes each year in the US. “This outdated infrastructure that makes the two robots were installed in December Department will impose a legal requirement for can’t be voluntary,” said Clarence Ditlow, executive operations inefficient, said Richard 2014. The 55-year-old figures he, his wife inclusion of the braking systems in cars and set director of the Center for Auto Safety. “This needs Kersbergen with the University of Maine and son would have been out of the binding standards for the technology. a mandated safety standard with rigorous per- Extension. milk business in a couple of years if they GRANITEVILLE: In this Sept. 2, 2015, photo, a cow voluntarily gets Making the technology widely available is part formance measures that trigger a recall if an “There’s a lot of farmers that are inter- hadn’t built a new $2 million facility near milked by a robot at Lambert Farm. With trouble finding reliable labor of a new era in vehicle safety in which the focus is automaker doesn’t meet them.” ested but are concerned about the the northern Illinois town of Kent to and technology more readable available, some family dairy farms on preventing crashes rather than on protecting Only through the government rulemaking financial costs with it,” noted Kersbergen, accommodate a growing herd and the from the Northeast to the Midwest are turning to robots to milk cows occupants from their effects, Transportation process will consumer groups have the opportu- who just returned from studying farms milking technology. They spent to stay competitive. — AP Secretary Anthony Foxx said Friday in a statement nity “to raise the hard questions,” such as if a type in the Netherlands, where he said more $400,000 of that on robots and acces- announcing the commitments. of braking system is capable of stopping a car than half used robotic milkers because sories. Larry Tranel, a dairy specialist with the said, “and when you start going larger The announcement didn’t specify a timetable going 25 mph, then why not 50 mph, which is of high labor costs. “We weren’t large enough to support Iowa State University Extension. than that people figure out pretty quick for implementing the change. The automakers are closer to highway speeds,” he said. But the price can be a high obstacle two families ... basically that’s what it “It’s a technology that it’s kind of that it’s probably cheaper to hire the Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, The traffic safety administration and the insur- to clear. Jennifer and Jesse Lambert took boils down to, we were not efficient,” he scale-neutral in a sense because every labor and put in a big parlor. “It really Mercedes Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and ance institute said they will set specific perform- out seven-year loans for about $380,000 said. But robots aren’t for everyone, said robot can handle about 60 cows,” he becomes a money game.” —AP Volvo. The manufacturers represented 57 percent ance criteria for manufacturers to meet their vol- of U.S. car and light truck sales in 2014. untary commitments, and will determine how The commitments were made to the National soon consumers can expect to see the technology Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which reg- as standard equipment. ulates automakers, and the Insurance Institute for The commitments from automakers don’t Police body cameras show Auto Safety, an industry group that researches mean the government has taken the possibility of and promotes safety. The technology is already issuing regulations on the braking systems “off the available in some vehicles, but typically as an table,” Gordon Trowbridge, a spokesman for the option in higher-priced models like Cadillac, traffic safety administration, said in an email. more than just the facts Infiniti and Lexus. It is also often bundled with “Today’s announcement puts 10 automakers other features like heated seats or faux leather representing more than half of all light duty vehi- interiors, making the overall package more cle sales on the record as committed to making WASHINGTON: A Seattle man was arrested in January mean footage of the inside of a person’s home or a hos- arrested, or blur a video so much that little is recogniza- expensive. (automatic braking) standard on all their vehicles, during a demonstration to protest police violence. pital would be available. But if the policy is not to ble. Others won’t release video if it’s part of an ongoing “If technologies such as automatic emergency and we expect that will accelerate the availability Though he has yet to be charged with an offense, his release footage in order to protect a person’s privacy, investigation. Some policies allow officers to turn their braking are only available as options or on the of that technology beyond what could be accom- arrest - captured on police body-camera recordings, that could mean a video of an officer shooting some- cameras on and off. Even completely uncensored most expensive models, too few Americans will plished through rulemaking that could take sever- along with his full name, address, phone number and one would not be made public, defeating the main pur- footage may not crystalize an incident because it’s tak- see the benefits of this new era,” Foxx said. al years,” he said. birthdate - are public records. The use of police body pose of the use of these cameras. en from one officer’s physical position, often a moving Automatic emergency braking includes a The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, cameras, like those used in Seattle, is spreading to keep “What started as an effort to capture or prevent bad one. This can create shaky footage and in some cases range of systems designed to address the large which represents most large automakers, has officers honest about using force against citizens. But police behavior, I think now we’re starting to see the won’t capture all details of a violent encounter. number of crashes, especially rear-end crashes, in opposed requiring that automatic braking be how and when the public gets to see the footage is up realities of it capturing true human suffering,” Frank State laws vary about what the public can see. which drivers do not apply the brakes or fail to standard in all cars. for debate. Months after the arrest of Michael Straub, chief of the Spokane, Washington, Police Existing recordings are covered under these laws, such apply sufficient braking power to avoid or miti- “Consumers should determine what vehicles Moynihan, the 32-year old Seattle man, the Seattle Department, said earlier this year at a policy forum on as videos from cameras mounted inside patrol cars. But gate a crash. The systems use on-vehicle sensors they drive and what safety technology is in those Police Department said his case is under review. Capitol Hill. body cameras produce more footage than dashboard such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect an immi- vehicles,” the alliance said in a statement. — AP Moynihan said he supports police wearing body cam- The solution is somewhere in the middle. Some cameras - footage that can show officers inside peoples’ eras, but his own experience shows the unsettling con- departments redact the faces of bystanders or those homes and other private places. —AP sequences. “That’s a very dangerous weapon that they have Europe launches satellites there,” Moynihan said. Videos of police shootings across the country have become critical to determining what happened in situations that turn deadly. In some cases, aiming for GPS rival strapping cigarette pack-size cameras to officers’ uni- forms has been framed as a way to curb police brutality BERLIN: Europe came a step closer to service, said. Hahn said the total cost of and stem deteriorating trust in law enforcement. setting up its own satellite navigation the project up to 2020 was 6.6 billion It’s not that simple. While the recordings may help system on Friday after successfully euros ($7.4 billion), which includes 2.2 get to the truth of an incident with police, they also launching two Galileo satellites from billion for the initial validation phase. record distraught victims, grieving family members, French Guyana. The Galileo project suffered a set- people suffering from mental illness and citizens exer- The European Space Agency’s back last year after two satellites were cising their rights to free speech and civil disobedience. Galileo project is meant as a European set in an incorrect orbit. They were later Cameras may solve one problem but create others. “Any Union alternative to the U.S. Global nudged into a more viable position. policy that categorically shields or opens up body-cam- Positioning System, or GPS. Friday’s The satellites sent up on Friday were era footage is probably wrong,” said Jay Stanley, a senior launch, in Europe’s early hours, took the on board a Russian Soyuz launcher. policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union. number of satellites sent up to 10 out of They reached their target orbit almost The use of police body cameras is still in its infancy, a planned total of 30. four hours after lift-off. ESA plans to with no official count for how many of the 18,000 state “The day of Galileo’s full operational launch two further Galileo satellites and local departments have turned to them. But capability is approaching,” Jan Woerner, this year. dozens of agencies across the country are testing them, director general of ESA, said in a state- From next year, Galileo satellites will and many have plans to roll them out more broadly. ment. “It will be a great day for Europe.” take off on board a European Ariane Some existing laws that govern what information is Galileo is due to reach full opera- rocket launcher that can send up four, released to the public are on the chopping block, as SEATTLE: In this March 12, 2015, file photo, Seattle police officer Debra Pelich (right) wears a tional capability by 2020, Joerg Hahn, rather than two, satellites with a single states try to strike the balance between a citizen’s right video camera on her eyeglasses as she talks with Alex Legesse before a small community gath- head of the Galileo system procurement launch. — Reuters to privacy and making officers answer for their actions. ering in Seattle. ‚— AP A policy to release all police-recorded videos could SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Getting blood pressure Cameron’s next climate push: The American diet

even lower saves lives LOS ANGELES: When director James Cameron meat industry, which even started a petition trekked to Washington in 2010 to press for action campaign called Hands Off My Hot Dog, charg- on climate change and appear at an Earth Day ing that the guidelines committee overstepped ‘Study provides potentially life-saving information’ rally, he returned not just disappointed, but disil- their bounds “by not focusing on nutrition and lusioned. One lawmaker, worried about the shift instead wandering into environmental issues.” WASHINGTON: Aiming lower saves more lives when it toward denying the existence of man-made They cast the issue not only as personal freedom, comes to controlling high blood pressure, says a major global warming, advised him that to even use but make positive health claims about animal- new study that could spur doctors to more aggressively the word “climate change” was the “instant kiss of based diets. The committee advised reducing treat patients over 50. Patients who got their blood death for any proposed legislation.” consumption of red and processed meat, pressure well below the usually recommended level sig- Five years later, Cameron hasn’t given up, and although they didn’t recommend doing away nificantly cut their risk of heart disease and death, the he’s even a bit more optimistic. On Tuesday, he with lean meat. National Institutes of Health announced Friday. The ben- will take part in the US-China Climate Leaders Cameron is unabashed in linking a healthy efit was strong enough that NIH stopped the study Summit in Los Angeles, appearing at a lunchtime diet to the environment, but he also acknowl- about a year early. panel with Sam Kass, former White House senior edges the pushback. “All it takes is someone, “This study provides potentially life-saving informa- nutrition policy adviser, about the relationship somewhere, no matter how ridiculous their argu- tion,” declared Dr Gary Gibbons, director of NIH’s between food and climate change. This week, ment is, saying, ‘This isn’t really a problem,’ and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Doctors have Cameron and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti people will latch on to that because they would long debated how low blood-pressure patients need to taped a series of social media video segments to rather hear that.” go, especially as they get older. Friday’s results are pre- promote the summit. Almost four years ago, Cameron and his wife liminary, and researchers stressed that they shouldn’t “This time around, [climate change] is defi- Suzy Amis Cameron changed their diet away alter patient care just yet. But if the full results pan out, nitely on the agenda,” Cameron says. “And that is from animal products, and while he calls it a they eventually could influence treatment guidelines. not coming from our so-called leaders. That is “win-win” for personal health and the environ- “This study certainly supports that lower is better,” bubbling up from below, from concerned citi- ment, convincing the public to change eating said Dr Mark Creager, president of the American Heart zens saying, ‘This needs to be discussed. You habits is something that has vexed health advo- Association, who wasn’t involved with the new study. guys need to talk about this.’” cates for generations. He called the research a possible roadmap to treatment Cameron is pursuing more of a niche focus He said that when it comes to messaging to strategies “that will save a significant amount of lives.” when it comes to environmental activism, citing the public, he’s learned a bit from his experience About 1 in 3 adults in the US has high blood pressure, “the real lack of information at the public level making the 2014 Showtime documentary minis- raising the risk of heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure and about the links between sustainable agriculture eries “The Years of Living Dangerously,” which other health problems. and food choices we are making and climate won an Emmy but didn’t do well in terms of Normal blood pressure is less than a measurement change, and there is a direct impact.” “One of the viewers. Nevertheless, he says that a second sea- of 120 over 80. High blood pressure is diagnosed once things that has given me hope is that there are son is in the works. “You can’t just go running that measurement reaches, or passes, 140 over 90. Only other answers besides the obvious ones,” he said. down the street telling everyone, ‘The sky is PLAINFIELD: In this Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, a patient has her blood pressure checked about half of diagnosed patients have their blood pres- “The obvious ones are that we’ve got to wrangle falling.’ You have got to have an action plan, and by a registered nurse. — AP sure under control. Today’s treatment guidelines are transportation to a certain extent so that we can this struck me as a place where people could mixed but generally recommend getting that top num- cut down on gasoline, and we’ve got to control quickly make a difference, and they just needed ber - called the systolic pressure - down to about 140 in give precise numbers, or information about side effects, gling to control their blood pressure? “The important fossil fuels. But when 14.5% of greenhouse gas the information,” he says. generally healthy adults and to 130 in patients who also data that’s expected when the full study is published in public health message is to speak with their health care emissions are coming from animal agriculture, The Food Choice Task Force, he said, did have kidney disease or diabetes. a scientific journal by year’s end. But preliminary results providers,” said NHLBI heart specialist Dr. George that is a big thermostat that you can turn down. research to confirm the 14.5% number, which is suggest treatment was “extremely well tolerated,” said Mensah. The average person can start to make a big dif- from the United Nations Food Agriculture Nationwide study SPRINT investigator Dr Jackson Wright of Case Western Everyone should know their blood pressure, added ference right away.” Organization. He said that the figure is “a highly The institute sponsored a nationwide study to test if Reserve University. Creager, director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Cameron founded the Avatar Alliance conservative and defensible number,” but still that’s the best goal, or if aiming lower would either help One question is whether older patients need to get Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Risks for heart Foundation, named for his highest-grossing significant because it is larger than that from or harm. Starting in 2010, more than 9,300 high blood their blood pressure as low as middle-aged patients do, disease begin gradually rising as blood pressure gets movie of all time, to pursue climate change transportation emissions. Yet information alone pressure patients were enrolled in the SPRINT study, the or if doing so increases the seniors’ risk of side effects above 120, even if people never cross the line into full- issues, and the organization has distributed won’t change hearts and minds. The topic of ani- Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial. Half received including falls. Last year, an expert panel sparked debate blown hypertension. Good diets, physical activity and grants for such things as ocean science research. mal agriculture’s contribution to climate change an average of about two medications with the goal of by recommending that the treatment target for patients keeping a healthy weight help avoid high blood pres- More recently, he founded the Food Choice often has been one of ridicule-for example, the lowering their systolic pressure below 140. The other over 60 be a systolic pressure of 150. The average age of sure, and can help to lower it before medications are Taskforce, jointly funded with cellular mogul methane that comes from cattle. As Cameron half received an average of three medications with the SPRINT participants was 68, and a quarter of them were required or along with them. But once high blood pres- Craig McCaw and others, with a recent initiative noted, what little people have heard “has been goal of getting below 120. over 75. The heart association’s Creager said doctors will sure is diagnosed, getting treatment is more important called My Plate, My Planet. laughed off as, ‘Oh, cow farts. I’m supposed to be The more aggressively treated patients saw their risk examine closely how those older patients fared. than the debate over how low to go, Creager said. That’s Among other things, the initiative has gath- afraid of that?’ Well, it turns out there’s 1.5 billion of death drop by almost 25 percent compared to the Researchers also will continue tracking SPRINT par- an individual decision based on the person’s overall ered dozens of groups and scientists to push fed- cattle in the world, and all they do is stand around less controlled patients, researchers said. And rates of ticipants to see if kidney disease, brain function and health, and many people aren’t reaching today’s recom- eral officials to adopt dietary guidelines higher in a digest grass and produce methane.” (He also cardiovascular problems dropped by almost 30 percent dementia were affected by more aggressive care. mended levels. “The worst thing people with high blood plant-based foods, running open letters in May notes that “the joke is on them because most of it in the better-controlled group. Researchers wouldn’t Meanwhile, what’s the advice for patients now strug- pressure can do is ignore it,” he said. — AP in The New York Times, the Washington Post and is actually burped up.”) The director rattles off Politico. The Dietary Guidelines Committee, stats about the long-term prospects of popula- which makes recommendations to the US tion growth by 205o, to about 9 billion to 10 bil- Department of Agriculture and the Department lion people. “We have to come up somehow with Medical marijuana legalization of Health and Human Services, recommended 70% more food production, out of a planet where such an approach, with implications for the most or all of the land has already been acquired school lunch program and, when it comes to for agriculture. How are you going to do that? It is bills head to California governor education, the food pyramid. actually not technically possible, unless you start eating the plants instead of feeding the plants to SACRAMENTO: With California voters future with the Democratic governor, declare a special session to tackle One, AB266 by Bonta, establishes a Positive health claims an animal, which makes it 10 times less efficient. likely to consider legalizing recre- a former Jesuit seminarian who has problems related to California’s ongo- Bureau of Medical Marijuana The effort has run into opposition from the So we just have to do it.” — Reuters ational marijuana use next year, state not said whether he will sign it. ing drought. Racing to meet a dead- Regulation to oversee licensing and lawmakers approved a package of Special session line for passing the marijuana plan operating rules for pot growers, mari- legislation that would create the first Also Friday, a bipartisan group of hashed out late Thursday, senators on juana product producers and retail statewide licensing and operating 47 state Assembly members delivered Friday night approved three bills to shops. AB243 by Assemblyman Jim US elementary school does away rules for pot growers and retail weed a letter to Brown asking him to establish a regulatory structure. Wood, D-Healdsburg, authorizes the outlets since the state became the state to use licensing fees to carry out with gender centric bathrooms first to legalize medical marijuana in the framework and a fund for helping 1996. Lawmakers in both houses of local governments address environ- LOS ANGELES: A California elementary school has Measure to be phased in the Legislature pushed through three mental problems associated with become one of the first in the country to phase out The measure concerns kindergarten and first- Democratic bills late Friday to set up marijuana cultivation. gendered bathrooms, a move in line with a nation- grade classes this year while restrooms for older the state’s first regulatory framework A third bill, SB643 by Sen. Mike al trend to recognize the needs of transgender children will be phased in over the next few years. for the free-wheeling medical mari- McGuire, D-Healdsburg, would crack people. The principal at Miraloma Elementary Alison Gill, senior legislative counsel for the juana industry, sending the proposal down on clinics that specialize in issu- School in San Francisco said the decision to do Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for to Gov Jerry Brown. ing medical marijuana recommenda- away with separate bathrooms for boys and girls LGBT rights, welcomed the decision. “After 20 years, we have an agree- tions to residents without valid health was in part to acknowledge about eight gender “Gender-neutral bathrooms make a lot of ment on a comprehensive regulatory needs and create pesticide standards non-conforming students. sense because instead of having people wait in regime and that is historic,” said for pot plants and labeling require- “Not only do we want all of our students to feel line, everyone feels comfortable using the bath- Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, ments for edible marijuana products. safe... we want them to understand systematic room,” Gill told AFP. “It’s increased privacy for the lead author of the main Assembly Whatever emerges would not have an equality for everyone,” Sam Bass said in a state- everyone.” The mother of a first grader at bill. “We knew it had to be done this immediate impact on the existing ment. “We are teaching them a valuable lesson.” Miraloma told local media that gender-neutral year.” The framework seeks to manage medical marijuana landscape The move comes as schools and universities across bathrooms would relieve anxiety for some stu- medical marijuana from seed to because the licensing provisions the country grapple with how to deal with trans- dents. smoke, calling for 17 separate license would not take effect until 2018, said gender students, an issue recently cast into the “I think most people don’t think about how categories, detailed labeling require- Nate Bradley, executive director of the spotlight by Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympian and reali- difficult it can be, going to the bathroom for ments and a product-tracking system California Cannabis Industry ty TV star formerly known as Bruce Jenner. someone like my son,” a woman named Jae told complete with bar codes and ship- Association. Though many schools in the United States have the San Francisco Chronicle. She gave only her ping manifests. Pot dispensaries already licensed made gender-neutral bathrooms available, few first name for her son’s safety. While her son iden- If enacted as drafted, it would not by local governments would eventu- have done away with separate facilities for boys tifies as a boy, Jae said, he likes to look like a girl only impose strict controls on an ally have to comply with the product and girls and the subject remains controversial. and had struggled with the bathroom issue. industry that never has had to comply tracking, advertising, criminal back- About 150 students walked out of class in a small Now, “he can just use the restroom without with any but provide a template for ground check and job training provi- Missouri town this week to protest a transgender thinking about it,” she told the Chronicle. how recreational marijuana might be sions required for a state license, but teen using the girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. California is one of the most liberal states in treated if it is legalized. Another major they could continue to operate and Several members of the school board in America regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- piece of legislation approved Friday buy marijuana from unlicensed farm- Hillsboro, where the school is located, also resigned gender (LGBT) rights. It is just one of 14 states was a landmark climate change bill ers until then, Bradley said. The near- after the controversy erupted, with one citing with legislation that bans discrimination against that Brown and Senate President Pro certainty that one or more initiatives philosophical differences. Bass, the principal at students based on their sexual orientation or gen- Tem Kevin de Leon were forced to to legalize recreational marijuana will Miraloma, said his school opted for gender-neutral der identity, according to Human Rights scale back this week as lawmakers be on the 2016 ballot put pressure on bathrooms rather than separate facilities because it Campaign. approved dozens of bills. lawmakers to get the state’s medical was the right thing to do. “Some elementary A state law that took effect last year guaran- Among the potential new laws marijuana house in order. The US schools in the district have created one space for a tees students can use school bathrooms and take that made it to the governor’s desk on DENVER: In this photograph taken Saturday, April 25, 2015, an Department of Justice has said it does student on the gender spectrum to use,” he said. part in sex-segregated activities that correspond the Legislature’s last day of business employee loads packets with medicinal marijuana for sale as a contin- not plan to raid medical marijuana “We are the first elementary school in the district to with their expressed gender. Some schools also was a bill that would allow terminally gent of lawmakers, their staffers and a handful of lobbyists toured sites or interfere in recreational pot say that’s not good enough. “All of our students allow students who object to using bathrooms or ill patients to legally end their lives. one of two retail and grow operations for both medical and recre- sales as long as states have solid regu- should have full, equal, safe, comfortable access to locker rooms with transgender classmates the The measure faces an uncertain ational marijuana. —AP latory schemes in place. — AP facilities.” option of using staff restrooms. — AFP Scientists expect Hawaii’s worst coral bleaching ever

KANEOHE: Warmer-than-normal ocean tem- because many travelers come to the islands to Kaneohe Bay and Waimanalo on Oahu and peratures around Hawaii this year will likely lead enjoy marine life. Gates compared dead coral Olowalu on Maui. For the Big Island, reports of to the worst coral bleaching the islands have reef to a city laid to rubble. “You go from a bleaching have come in from Kawaihae to South ever seen, scientists said Friday. Many corals are vibrant, three-dimensional structure teeming Kona on the leeward side and Kapoho in the only just recovering from last year’s bleaching, with life, teeming with color, to a flat pavement southeast. Scientists on an expedition to the which occurs when warm waters prompt coral that’s covered with brown or green algae,” said remote, mostly uninhabited islands in the far to expel the algae they rely on for food, said Gates. “That is a really doom-and-gloom out- northeastern end of the island chain reported Ruth Gates, the director of the Hawaii Institute come but that is the reality that we face with some coral died after last year’s bleaching event. of Marine Biology. The phenomenon is called extremely severe bleaching events.” Courtney Couch, a researcher at the Hawaii bleaching because coral lose their color when Gates said 30 to 40 percent of the world’s Institute of Marine Biology, said a mile and a half they push out algae. The island chain experi- reefs have died from bleaching events over the of reef on the eastern side of Lisianski Island was enced a mass bleaching event in 1996, and years. Hawaii’s reefs generally have been spared essentially dead. Coral further out from the atoll another one last year. This year, ocean tempera- such large scale die-offs until now. Most corals handled the warm temperatures better, she said. tures around Hawaii are about 3 to 6 degrees bleached last year bounced back, for example. Brian Neilson, an aquatic biologist with the state Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) warmer than nor- But Gates said it will be harder for these corals to Department of Land and Natural Resources, said mal, said Chris Brenchley, meteorologist for the tolerate the warmer temperatures two years in a people could help by not adding to the coral’s National Weather Service in Honolulu. row. “You can’t stress an individual, an organism, problems. That means avoiding fertilizing lawns Bleaching makes coral more susceptible to once and then hit it again very, very quickly and and washing cars with soap so contaminants disease and increases the risk they will die. This hope they will recover as quickly,” she said. don’t flow into the ocean. People should avoid is a troubling for fish and other species that walking on coral and boaters should make sure spawn and live in coral reefs. It’s also a concern Essentially dead they don’t drop anchor on coral. Fishermen KANEOHE: This Sept 10, 2015, photo provided by the Hawaii Department of for Hawaii’s tourism-dependent economy Scientists have reports of bleaching in should fish responsibly, he said. — AP Land and Natural Resources shows partially bleached coral. — AP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE New federal food safety rules issued after deadly outbreaks

WASHINGTON: Food manufacturers must be year, food manufacturers will have to prepare low good food safety practices, and the law outbreak this year, FDA inspectors found President Barack Obama’s first term, that more vigilant about keeping their operations food safety plans for the government that would aim to ensure that all do. many violations at a company plant, includ- prompted the government and Congress to clean under new government safety rules detail how they are keeping their operations “The food safety problems we face have ing dirty equipment, inadequate food stor- move forward on strengthening the food released Thursday in the wake of deadly clean and show that they understand the one thing in common - they are largely pre- age, food held at improper temperatures and safety system. foodborne illness outbreaks linked to ice hazards specific to their product. The plans ventable,” said Michael Taylor, the FDA’s employees not washing hands appropriately. Mindful of the high cost of outbreaks and cream, caramel apples, cantaloupes and will lay out how they handle and process deputy commissioner for foods. The Centers Three listeria deaths were linked to ice cream recalls, food companies generally have sup- peanuts. The rules, once promoted as an food and how they monitor and clean up for Disease Control and Prevention estimate produced by the company. ported the rules. The rule “ensures that pre- Obama administration priority and in the dangerous bacteria like listeria, E. coli or sal- that 48 million people - or 1 in 6 Americans - A 2011 listeria outbreak linked to vention is the cornerstone of our nation’s works for several years, ran into delays and monella that may be present, among other get sick annually from foodborne diseases. Colorado cantaloupe killed 30 people. The food safety strategy, places new responsibili- came out under a court-ordered deadline safety measures. An estimated 3,000 people die. FDA said old, hard to clean equipment and ties on food and beverage manufacturers, after advocacy groups had sued. Even then, The idea is to put more focus on preven- improper cooling were partly to blame for and provides the FDA with the authorities it the Food and Drug Administration allowed tion in a system that for decades has been Numerous violations the illnesses. The outbreak of salmonella needs to further strengthen our nation’s food the Aug. 30 deadline to pass without releas- primarily reactive to outbreaks after they FDA investigators have often found dirty linked to a Georgia peanut company in 2009 safety net,” said Pamela Bailey, head of the ing the rules to the public. sicken or even kill people. The majority of equipment in food processing facilities after killed nine and sickened more than 700 peo- Grocery Manufacturers Association, which When the rules go into effect later this farmers and food manufacturers already fol- deadly outbreaks. In the Blue Bell ice cream ple in 46 states. It was that outbreak, early in represents the largest food companies. — AP

Jump in number of immigrants losing healthcare law coverage

WASHINGTON: A change in government proce- Strict timeline dures has led to a big jump in people losing cover- Last year, “we had the authority to provide con- age under the Obama health care law because of sumers more flexibility - we were not taking action immigration and citizenship issues. More than on the strict timeline,” said Ben Wakana, a 400,000 had their insurance canceled, nearly four spokesman for the Department of Health and times as many as last year. Human Services. “In 2015, we moved to the time- The Obama administration says it is following line of about three months, so consumers need to the letter of the law, and this year that means a act quickly to submit supporting documentation.” shorter time frame for resolving immigration and Padilla said a shorter time window might not citizenship issues. But advocates say the adminis- be so much of a problem if the administration tration’s system for verifying eligibility is seriously would clearly communicate which documents are flawed, and consumers who are legally entitled to needed. “If it was clearer what the consumer need- benefits are paying the price. ed to do, we wouldn’t have the numbers that we “Same dog, different collar,” said Jane Delgado, have,” he said. The administration says it is continu- president of the National Alliance for Hispanic ally making improvements to help consumers. Health, evoking an old Spanish saying about situa- Hispanics, the nation’s most numerous ethnic tions that do not seem to change. “The bottom group, have been among the biggest beneficiaries line is people got taken off health insurance when of the Affordable Care Act. The uninsured rate for they applied in good faith.” Latino adults ages 18-64 dropped from nearly 41 The National Immigration Law Center says it percent in 2013 to about 28 percent in the first believes the overwhelming majority of the three months of this year, according to a govern- 423,000 people whose coverage was terminated ment survey. But Hispanics are still more likely to are legal US residents and citizens snared in a com- be uninsured than people of other ethnic and racial plicated, inefficient system for checking docu- backgrounds. Signing up more Latinos is a priority ments. Angel Padilla, the center’s health policy for the administration and the law’s supporters. analyst, said it defies common sense that that The administration is highly sensitive to many immigrants without legal authorization to Republican accusations that it is dispensing health be in the country would risk alerting a federal benefits to people who are not legally entitled to agency by applying for taxpayer-subsidized bene- them, including those who cannot prove their citi- WASHINGTON: In this March 1, 2001, file photo, Ann Rice walks passed earthquake damage. — AP fits. zenship or legal status. Investigators for the con- “Somebody who is trying to submit docu- gressional Government Accountability Office suc- ments over and over ... is someone who believes cessfully enrolled fictitious characters through Disaster looming: Quake warning they have an eligible immigration status,” Padilla HealthCare.gov in 2014, and at least initially, said. By comparison, a total of 109,000 people lost renewed their coverage for this year. coverage because of citizenship and immigration But the nonpartisan probe also found evidence issues during all of 2014. of problems with HealthCare.gov’s consumer com- system preparing to take shape President Barack Obama’s health care law spec- munications about problem applications. For ifies that only citizens and legal U.S. residents are example, the federal insurance marketplace asked ‘Any advance warning would be helpful’ entitled to coverage through the new insurance eight of the GAO’s bogus beneficiaries to submit markets that offer subsidized policies. The admin- additional documentation to prove citizenship and istration says this year the law provides just a 95- identity. But GAO said the list of suitable docu- PORTLAND: University of Washington quake hits. Her agency is among those and North America tectonic plates. The life and property. Some coastal commu- day window for resolving documentation issues ments that could be sent in consisted of paperwork researchers are testing an earthquake testing ShakeAlert, which sends out Juan de Fuca plate is being shoved nities have placed caches of food and that involve citizenship and immigration. There for verifying income. After documents were sent in, alert system as the Pacific Northwest warnings that tell recipients when a beneath the North America plate, creat- other supplies on high ground in case was no such clock in 2014 because it was the first HealthCare.gov failed in some cases to say whether prepares for the day when a 600-mile- temblor is developing and, depending ing strains that will eventually be of evacuation. New maps have been year of HealthCare.gov’s coverage expansion. they were acceptable. — AP long fault line looming off the coast on the depth, strength and distance released in a large earthquake that will drawn up showing areas likely to be unleashes a catastrophic earthquake from the epicenter, calculates how also produce a tsunami. inundated by a tsunami. Schools are and tsunami. The fault line hasn’t pro- much time before the jolt will hit their Concerns about the looming danger getting seismic retrofits. duced a major quake since 1700, but location. offshore have grown after quakes and seismologists say one could happen in tsunamis in the Indian Ocean in 2004 Seismic sensors our lifetimes. Not quite ready and in Japan in 2011. The seismic threat Part of the effort, ShakeAlert uses Fears of such a quake - heightened The system has used smaller quakes was underscored in a recent New Yorker hundreds of seismic sensors around the after the devastating 2011 Japanese to create its alerts. That’s good, because article titled “The Really Big One.” A 2013 Pacific Northwest to detect harmless, temblor - have fueled the development some bugs are still being worked out of report by a panel of Oregon experts fast-moving signals - called “p” waves - of the computer alert system that offi- the warning system and it’s not quite also spelled out the potential disaster. that precede the “s” waves that create vio- cials hope will save lives and protect ready for implementation, say UW The report said a 9.0-magnitude lent shaking in an earthquake. Data from critical infrastructure by giving a pre- researchers. When it is up and running, Cascadia quake and tsunami might the sensors are sent to a computer at UW, cious heads-up to get ready. The alerts alerts could let motorists avoid bridges result in several thousand deaths in where the signals are analyzed and alerts are now going to companies such as that may collapse, automatically open Oregon alone, tens of thousands of generated on ShakeAlert software that Boeing and Microsoft as well as hospi- fire department bay doors so they buildings destroyed or badly damaged, has been distributed to the system’s tals, utilities and emergency manage- aren’t jammed shut during the coming coastal communities decimated, testers. ShakeAlert is being developed by ment agencies in Oregon, Washington quake, shut off natural gas lines, power bridges snapped, transmission towers the US Geological Survey in partnership and British Columbia, who are begin- up emergency generators, and shut toppled, landslides, explosions and eco- with university researchers. Testing ning to think about how they would down machinery at manufacturing nomic losses of more than $32 billion. began in California in 2012 and was respond. plants, to name just a few examples. There is broad scientific consensus extended to Oregon and Washington “Any advance warning would be Development of the system comes that Cascadia mega-quakes as large as state last February. Japan has a similar helpful - even as little as 10 seconds,” amid growing worry about a slumber- magnitude 9.0 have occurred on aver- alert network, and it was credited with said Carmen Merlo, director of the ing beast called the Cascadia age every 500 years. But seismologists saving lives in the 2011 disaster. The sys- Bureau of Emergency Management in Subduction Zone: a fault stretching say one could occur at any time. As its tem got a real-life test in a 6.0 earthquake WASHINGTON: Jane Delgado, president of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Portland, Oregon, among the places from northern California to Vancouver devastating potential becomes clearer, that rocked California’s wine country in works in her office. — AP that could be devastated when a mega- Island that separates the Juan de Fuca greater steps are being taken to protect August 2014. — AP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Mariachi Romatitlan band Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa presents evening of traditional Mexican mariachi music

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa will The audience will be transported to the land of form another fantastic show to entertain our host a special performance of the Mariachi Mexico with soulful and joyful melodies of the guests with the cultural spirit of Mexico.” JRomatitlan band on 18 September, 2015 in Romatitlan Band. A Mexican buffet, taco station Mariachi is a form of folk music which origi- collaboration with the Mexican embassy in Kuwait. and an extensive selection of Mexican and inter- nates from the rural area of west-central Mexico. Guests can enjoy the lively rhythm of Mexican national mocktails will be offered for KWD 19 per Since the beginning of the 19th century and folk music that represents the cultural and musi- person. through a series of historical-cultural processes, it cal heart of Mexico. The grand festive perform- General Manager Hakan Petek said: “We are has since become a strong symbol of national ance will be held in Badriah, Kuwait’s largest ball- delighted to collaborate with the Mexican identity. Reservations for this special night are room which will be themed with Mexican- Embassy for the second year running. We are also open thought Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and inspired décor. pleased to have the Romatitlan Band back to per- Spa direct line +965 2226 9600.

The Indonesian Embassy and the Indonesian community in Kuwait hosted the ‘Indonesian Day 2015’ event this past Friday at the Kuwait Karate Federation in Salmiya. Musical and cultural performances as well as the Indonesian Culinary Festivity highlighted the event. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

Dr Johnarts wins twin records Ceremony to mark honoring anniversary KUWAIT: Dr Johnarts Kalabhavan, an Indian expatriate from Kerala, won the prestigious ceremony will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 to commemorate the first anniversary of the United Assist World Records for presenting the ‘most number of caricatures on stage.’ He created Nations’ honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as a ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and caricatures of 350 prominent personalities from various fields each with the dimensions AKuwait as a ‘Humanitarian Center.’ Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al- 100cm X 70cm using water colors. The first caricature was presented on June 6, 2007, said Hmoud Al-Sabah and researcher Abdullah Buwair are set to speak during the event, which takes place at the Crowne a letter sent by the Assist World Records. Dr Johnarts was also accorded the Unique World Plaza hotel. Records, registrar of the records, for creating the most number of caricatures and pre- senting them on stage. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Senior Management participate in the blood donation campaign.

Positive participation in the blood donation campaign. Ooredoo employees donate blood Initiative reflects company’s corporate social responsibility

oredoo Kuwait, a member of the the Kuwaiti society. donate their blood to those who are in need of to changing other people’s lives, we believe Ooredoo Kuwait and its employee strongly international Ooredoo Group, has In collaboration with the CBB, Ooredoo it and fulfill their commitment towards the that blood equals life to many of those who believe in giving back the community and Oorganized an internal blood donation Kuwait has arranged for blood donation clinics society. are in real need of it, therefore, in collabora- making real difference in the lives of people campaign for its employees in collaboration to be setup at the7th floor of its main head- Mijbil Alayoub, Director of Corporate tion with the Central Blood Bank, Ooredoo who need it the most, Kuwait and its people with the Central Blood Bank (CBB); an initia- quarters in Kuwait City last Thursday, with pos- Communications at Ooredoo Kuwait said: Kuwait has organized this campaign where its remains an integral part of the company’s cor- tive that reiterates its commitment towards itive participated from its employees, to “There is no better feeling than contributing employees contributed to save many lives” porate social responsibility plan. Gulf Bank Sponsors Kuwait’s 642 Marathon Exclusive 3-year partnership signed with marathon’s creators

ulf Bank is pleased to announce its Management Company held a successful ‘642 Towers and Souq Mubarakia. or to have Gulf Bank as our partner. The bank strategic partnership for a unique, Marathon’ last year in Kuwait and this new César Gonzalez-Bueno, Gulf Bank’s Chief has a long tradition of supporting important Gmarathon sporting event to be held in partnership with Gulf Bank builds on that Executive Officer said, “We are proud to have events and initiatives in Kuwait. As young Kuwait. This new marathon will be held on success and increases the scope and size of partnered with Pro-Vision Sport Kuwaiti entrepreneurs, we held the “642 Saturday, 14 November 2015, and will be the the event. The number 642 represent the Management for this significant event in Marathon” last year and now with the sup- first full road race marathon in Kuwait. The number of muscles in the human body. Kuwait. We believe that this event is a step port of Gulf Bank for the next three years, we date of the event also coincides with World This year’s marathon will include five dif- towards encouraging a more healthy lifestyle will be increasing the size of scope of the Diabetes Day (WDD) in order to raise aware- ferent categories of races, in order to appeal in Kuwait. We are also happy to have the marathon. Our aim is to work together to ness of the growing problem of diabetes in to all levels and age groups in Kuwait. The Dasman Diabetes Institute as a part of the improve the lifestyle of the population of Kuwait, and how exercise and fitness play a categories include: Family Fun Run for new race. They will be on hand to raise awareness Kuwait by encouraging them to include regu- role in combating this health issue. beginners (5KM); the Special Run for the about ways to combat the alarmingly high lar exercise and physical activity as essential Gulf Bank is pleased to have Pro-Vision handicapped (5KM), the Souq Run for regular rates of obesity and diabetes in Kuwait. Part components to good health.” Sport Management Company, a leader in runners (10KM), the Half Marathon for more of the proceeds from the race will be donated The signing ceremony for this three-year sports management with unique specialist advanced runners (21KM); and the Full to the Dasman Diabetes Institute to assist in partnership took place at Gulf Bank’s head experience in the creation and organization Marathon (42KM). The route for the marathon their ongoing work.” office and was witnessed by senior execu- of sporting events, as its three-year partner in race will pass through high traffic areas Ahmad Al-Majed, Managing Partner of Pro tives from the Bank. More details on this new Gulf Bank CEO Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno at the signing this event. The Pro-Vision Sport including Gulf Road, Souq Sharq, Kuwait Vision Sport Management said, “It is our hon- marathon will be forthcoming. ceremony with Ahmed Al-Majed and Ahmed Al-Huzami

The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) received a team from Royale Hayat Hospital which provided medical checkups and advices to CBK staff. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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CROSSWORD 1021 STAR TRACK

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

Your senses are on high alert and your acute perceptions register every single It feels as if people are pressuring you to participate in a group activity today, but nuance in your immediate environment today. Unfortunately, you may be so you’re not feeling very social. Normally, you’re the neighborly one who seeks out receptive to other people’s feelings now that you start noticing things that aren’t the company of friends; however, the loud planetary noise in your 12th House of actually there. Be careful with your pronouncements about what is real; you Privacy prompts you to run for the nearest cave. People might not understand might be fabricating stories to justify what’s in your imagination without even your current need for solitude, but the secret to your happiness may be found realizing it. Asking lots of questions is better than making faulty assumptions by spending time in seclusion now rather than in the public eye. It’s easy to lose that lead to nothing but trouble. yourself in a crowd; it takes true courage to stand alone.

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

Everyone seems to be out of step while you are marching along to the beat of a You need to set aside a chunk of time for a serious relationship discussion with a very reliable drummer today. The Sun and Moon are walking hand in hand close friend or partner today. Nevertheless, you’re not interested in revisiting an through fellow earth sign Virgo, supporting your efforts to maintain a steady old issue now because you really want to create forward movement. pace. However, a few unexpected events could rattle your rhythm. Be gentle Unfortunately, you may feel as if you’re stuck in an energetic holding pattern. with yourself because you can easily grow anxious if you try to perform your Don’t let your unspoken feelings fester; talking about them might not bring reso- work at record speed. There’s really no need to rush; rely on your sense of humor lution, but it certainly starts the ball rolling. Communication is the glue of any to save the day. relationship; without it, you’re simply two people dancing in the dark.

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

You’re happily racing ahead on the road of life today, but could be careening You think you’re ahead of the game only to discover that you somehow out- toward an unexpected roadblock in the distance. You might even be required to smarted yourself as trickster Mercury makes his presence known. There’s no suddenly change directions if you’re not willing to stop and reassess your ACROSS spice berries. need to let your inquisitive nature tempt you to look for problems that haven’t motives. Although there’s no need to finalize your new destination, the sooner 1. A youthful male person. 82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made even surfaced when there is so much positive potential in front of you. Your you begin discussing your lingering fears with someone you trust, the quicker 4. Greek philosopher who believed that the from aba cloth. mental agility is your strong suit, but it’s more useful now to just stick with your you’ll be able to regain a clear perspective. Count on your resiliency; you can’t world is a random combination of atoms and original plan. Although counting your chickens before they hatch isn’t wise, nei- keep a good Centaur down for long. that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC). DOWN ther is letting negativity hijack your day. 12. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur. 1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 15. Any of various primates with short tails or Chad. no tail at all. 2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 16. A light shade of blue. to agree on a common policy for the sale of Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. The sign language used in the United States. petroleum. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 18. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in 3. Not only so, but. water. 4. Other than what is under consideration or You may be very thankful that you have a concrete plan in place now, even if it Tinkering with your calendar one more time still won’t enable you to fit every- 19. Tangled in knots or snarls. implied. will take considerable time to put it into motion. You’re eager to dig in your heels thing into your day. You need to face the facts and decide what to eliminate 20. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai 5. Low stingless nettle of Central and South and get serious about reaching your goals. Luckily, you excel at strategic calcula- before it’s too late. Unfortunately, talking about your current time crunch may be Peninsula (7,500 feet high). America having velvety brownish-green tions when it comes to obtaining what you want, especially if long-range ambi- a lot easier than actually resolving it. Nevertheless, you will feel a sense of wel- 22. A member of one of the four divisions of the toothed leaves and clusters of small green flow- tions are on the agenda. Nevertheless, gaining control of the details of your day come relief after you postpone a few things on your schedule. Setting limits is prehistoric Greeks. ers. will actually help you regain mastery over your entire life. 24. Any customary and rightful perquisite 6. The god who fathered the islands and gods the kindest thing you can do for everyone involved. appropriate to your station in life. of Japan with his sister Izanami. 26. A diagrammatic representation of the 7. Of inferior or mixed breed. earth's surface (or part of it). 8. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known 28. Trade name for an oral contraceptive. for his beauty and skill with bow and skis. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 29. Low stingless nettle of Central and South 9. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia America having velvety brownish-green located in the central oasis. toothed leaves and clusters of small green flow- 10. An organization of independent states to You have magi c at your fingertips today whether you re alize it or not. Howe ve r, You might feel a loss of momentum today as you readdress issues of financial ers. promote international peace and security. this co smic gi ft is not meant to be used fo r personal benefit. Answers are more security. Although you’re eager to replenish your reserves, it will take longer than 32. The act of drawing or hauling something. 11. Tropical African and Indian herbs. likely to appear in your dreams now inste ad of rational logic, so don’t seek solu- 33. According to the Old Testament he was a 12. Obvious and dull. you think to put your finances back in order. Spring into action if you don’t want tions to global problems thro ugh the usual channels. Although yo ur thoughts pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel 13. A member of the Siouan people formerly liv- your concerns about money to be more problematic in the weeks ahead. might mislead you, images wo n’t. Employing symbolic gestures can stro ngly (9th century BC). ing in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Remember, there’s no need to spend what you don’t have just to keep up impact the outcome of your spiritual work in a positive manner. Live the Aquarian 34. (computer science) A kind of computer Osage rivers. appearances. Getting back to basics is the first step to reclaiming solid ground. dream and use your superpowers to help the world be a better place. architecture that has a large number of instruc- 14. Not contained in or deriving from the essen- tions hard coded into the cpu chip. tial nature of something. 21. Any plant of the genus Inula. 36. A city in central Georgia southeast of Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Atlanta. 23. Jordan's port. 40. Type genus of the Tupaia. 25. Seed of a pea plant. 27. An archaic name for Easter or Passover. 42. (British slang) Cafe. You’re struggling with balancing two divergent approaches to life today. On one A significant relationship may fall short of your expectations now, especially if you 30. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities. 45. A benevolent aspect of Devi. hand, the Moon, the Sun and Jupiter conspire in your discerning sign, inspiring believe your partner is being excessively critical. It might seem as if he or she is 46. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square 31. Greek mythology. emotionally distant and you don’t have a clue why. Meanwhile, you long for deep- 35. Of or like a cecum. you to singularly focus your intentions on your work. On the other hand, wild- meters. er personal connections in your life while others seem to be less available for one 37. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corro- card Uranus could change the rules of the game in a blink of an eye. Thankfully, 49. The branch of computer science that deal you can manage the volatility by instinctively reacting in the present moment reason or another. Although it’s easy to get confused by all the missing pieces of with writing computer programs that can solve sion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element. 38. A member of the Siouan people formerly liv- and sorting through the details later on. Don’t waste time trying to figure out the puzzle, your imagination holds the keys to the kingdom today and not your problems creatively. ing in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska. what’s right; the answers will come to you organically on their own. logic. Keep calm and follow your dreams. 50. A river that rises in central Germany and 39. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow flows north to join the Elbe River. leaves and small flowers. 52. Tropical American tree producing cacao 41. The content of cognition. Word Search beans. 43. Loose or flaccid body fat. Yesterday Solution 53. A Loloish language. 44. A small loosely aggregated mass of floccu- 55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs lent material suspended in or precipitated from northeast into the Rhine. a liquid. 57. The elementary stages of any subject (usual- 47. A small digital computer based on a micro- ly plural). processor and designed to be used by one per- 58. No longer having or seeming to have or son at a time. expecting to have life. 48. A woman of refinement. 59. The length of a straight line passing through 51. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the center of a circle and connecting two points the blood of the living. on the circumference. 54. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the man- 63. A room or establishment where alcoholic ner of the early church. drinks are served over a counter. 56. Of or in or relating to the nose. 64. Arousing to action or rebellion. 60. Complacently or inanely foolish. 68. A doctor's degree in music. 61. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections 71. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on of the skin. the east coast of the Mediterranean. 62. Yellow-fever mosquitos. 72. Russian country house. 65. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and 75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the Pipturus albidus. pilot is talked down by ground control using 66. Interface consisting of a standard port precision approach radar. between a computer and its peripherals that is 76. The compass point midway between north- used in some computers. east and east. 67. Colloquial British abbreviation. 77. American Revolutionary leader (born in 69. Someone who works (or provides workers) Ireland) who was a member of the during a strike. Constitutional Convention (1745-1806). 70. An informal term for a father. 79. (informal) Roused to anger. 73. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder 80. Having any of numerous bright or strong of Dadaism in Zurich. colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cher- 74. Used of a single unit or thing. ries or tomatoes or rubies. 78. A soft gray malleable metallic element that 81. Aromatic West Indian tree that produces all- resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air. Yesterday’s Solution

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Gossip Brooklyn Beckham planning to get tattoos like his father

he 16-year-old model is already considering his first piece of “mean- cial piece. He said: My mum and dad bought me a great bracelet for my ingful” body art, and thinks he will eventually end up covered in ink- birthday.” David has previously admitted his wife Victoria doesn’t want their Tings, much like his retired soccer star dad David Beckham. He said: “I kids - Brooklyn, Romeo, 13, Cruz, 10, and Harper, four - to have tattoos. He want to start with something meaningful, but eventually I’ll probably end has said: “My son had tattoos all over his arms when I came home from the up looking like my dad. Dr Woo is my favorite tattooist, from Shamrock in World Cup, thankfully not real. “Romeo said he’s going to have Mummy and LA.” David is famed for having changed his hairstyle many times over the Daddy on his arm. I’m not sure Victoria will like that too much!” years, and Brooklyn believes a “good haircut” is the key to looking good. He told Miss Vogue: “I exfoliate, clean and moisturize and shave when I need to. I use Go 24-7 [on my hair] but good styling always starts with a good hair- cut.” The teenager is also a fan of accessories, and has one particularly spe-

Dixon never Cumberbatch thinks his feels guilty sex symbol status is a ‘reflection’ of his work about leaving he 39-year-old actor insists no one ever lies in being so very different and difficult and found him attractive until he starred as the someone whom people find strikingly attractive Ttitular detective in ‘Sherlock’ and so and compelling. He’s the ultimate outsider hero.” believes people only think he is sexy because Benedict - who has a three-month-old son, they are drawn to the character. He said: “I was Christopher, with wife Sophie Hunter - is always her daughter never seen as sexy by anyone until ‘Sherlock’ delighted when fans stop him in the street to came along and so I understand [being seen as a praise his work. He told Britain’s OK! magazine he ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judge - who has 22-month- sex symbol] more as a reflection and apprecia- “I’m very happy that audiences have responded old Azura with boyfriend Azuka Ononye - doesn’t tion of the work, rather than my own natural so enthusiastically to the character. “When peo- Tthink working women should feel bad about leav- magnetism.”I certainly remember when I was an ple stop you in the street and want to congratu- ing their kids in the care of others while they focus on adolescent and despairing why girls weren’t late you on your work and express their joy at their careers. Asked if she feels working mother’s guilt, interested in me. “I’ve always maintained that having seen you in the role, it’s such an affirma- she said: “Don’t judge me, but never, I mean, not at all.”I Sherlock is sexy and people are merely project- tion of that. You feel great.” miss Azura and I can’t wait to see her, but I’m happy to ing his cold, brilliant, charming, flawed self onto be going to work and I want her to see me providing for me. “He’s an extraordinary man whose appeal her by doing something that I love. “I think one of the biggest mistakes women are making is saying they feel guilty all the time - even if they don’t. Because they make other women feel like they should be feeling guilty.” But the 36-year-old beauty also admitted jug- gling work and family life can be tough. She told Britain’s Glamour magazine: “I don’t know if I’m coming Gomez and Lovato or going at the moment. I’m not going to lie, juggling work, motherhood and life isn’t easy. But we women are all in the same boat, right?” Meanwhile, Alesha is more confident than ever and isn’t upset about getting older. are friends again She said: “Oprah Winfrey’s philosophy about turning 60 was, ‘Think about all the people in the world who never he former Disney duo, who haven’t been pictured together in public since the even got to 60.’ “My thirties have been by far my favorite beginning of 2014, have seemingly buried their differences and rekindled decade - and I can only imagine the next one will be Ttheir friendship after the ‘Heart Attack’ hitmaker posted a snap of her cuddling even better.” up to the actress on her Instagram page. Alongside a snap of Selena placing her hands on Demi’s shoulders and the pair of them pulling silly faces, the former TV star wrote: “Look at how #coolforthesummer we are ... Friends for years, #same- oldlove.” Demi and Selena are both 23 and have been friends since they were were youngsters, but were last pictured together at the united4:good gala event in February 2014. They later sparked rumors of a fractured friendship when the ‘Really Don’t Care’ singer unfollowed the brunette beauty across all of her social network- ing platforms in August 2014. When asked why she had dropped Selena, Demi said on ‘Watch What Happens Live’: “I think it’s just one of those things where people change and people grow apart.”Despite their turbulent year, the pair began to rebuild their friendship last month when Selena wished the former ‘Barney & Friends’ star a happy birthday on August 20. This isn’t the first time the duo have experienced a rocky patch as they also went through a falling out back in 2010, when Demi was admitted to rehab for an eating disorder and self-harm, and didn’t reunite until 2014. Sia has been sober for five years he ‘Chandelier’ hitmaker, who has battled drug and alcohol addiction in the past, took to her Twitter account on Thursday to reveal she has Treached half a decade of sobriety and to encourage any fans struggling to stay on the straight and narrow to “keep at it”. She wrote: “5 years sober today. If you’re newly sober, keep at it, it gets so so awesome. YOU CAN DO IT.” The famously shy star has been candid about her issues in the past, even admitting she came close to taking her own life in 2010 due to the pressures of fame. Speaking to ABC’s Chris Connelly previously about the time she hit “rock bottom”, she said: “I was extremely depressed at the time that was one of my lowest points. I don’t think I ever would have stopped drinking had I not got hooked on Xanax and OxyContin. I don’t think I was taking them for more than maybe 10 months before I hit rock bottom.” The 39-year-old musician later revealed to Australia’s OK! magazine that a friend, who was also trying to follow a sobriety program, had saved her life by encouraging her fight her demons. Sia - whose full name is Sia Furler - explained: “There was a small voice [in me] that wanted to live and the only thing I knew how to do was to call someone who was also in the program, and then I just did what I was told and I’m still sober now, so I am really grateful.” Caitlyn Hathaway had ‘soul stirring’ had her experience when she got married beard removed

he ‘Intern’ actress tied the knot with Adam in the ‘80s Schulman in 2012 and, because they had been he ‘I Am Cait’ star, 65 - who was known as Bruce Jenner Ttogether for four years before walking down the before her gender transition - has revealed she had laser aisle, she hadn’t expected that legalizing their union to Ttreatment 30 years ago to zap off unwanted facial hair. make a difference to how she felt. She said: “I really Speaking in a WhoSay video, Caitlyn explained: ‘[My skin cer- thought it was just going to be signing a piece of paper tainly has changed] since my transition. “I had, back in the ‘80s, and I was very surprised by the soul stirring that hap- my beard removed, which actually took a lot of volume out of pened. You think, ‘Oh, I’ve been in a relationship with [my chin] area. That has gotten better throughout the years.” this person for so many years, how is this going to Caitlyn has undergone a number of plastic surgery procedures change anything?” She added: “And I realized there was - including a boob job, a rhinoplasty, a brow lift and a tracheal a piece of my soul that I was keeping out of bounds from shave - as part of her gender transition. The brunette star the relationship. When we got married it was suddenly unveiled her new identity on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine released.” The 32-year-old star feels lucky to have such a in June and admitted recently she has no regrets “whatsoever” “happy marriage” and feels at home wherever her about her drastic change. Meanwhile, Caitlyn - who has been spouse is. Discussing their move from New York to Los married three times, including to Kardashian matriarch Kris Angeles earlier this year, she told Glamour magazine: “It Jenner, and has six children - is remaining tight-lipped on was never really my thing. I’d been out there for 14 years what the future holds for her love life but has admitted she’s and never really felt anything for it and then we started “open to anything” when pressed on which sex she’s attracted to make some awesome friendships. But I’m happiest to. She said earlier this week: “I want a lot of great friends that I when I can travel and spend time at home. “I’m really can share my life with, OK? And that’s important to me. lucky, I’m in a happy marriage. I feel like he’s my home. Certainly that love and compassion. I have no idea what that When he and I and the dogs are all together I’m like, ‘OK, would be in the future. “I’m kind of open to anything ... Right this is my home.’” now, I’m just happy living myself. I have no idea what the future holds. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.” lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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Gyllenhaal complained to KFC after his favorite item went off the menu

he ‘Everest’ actor was furious when the fast food while Jake is now 34, he hasn’t lost his love of fast food and consider “getting fat” for a film role. Asked whether he chain stopped serving Chicken Littles and although recently admitted he is addicted to baguettes from a high- would bite the bullet and put on weight for a movie, he The was only five years old at the time, he wrote an street bakery chain. The ‘Demolition’ star has revealed he said: “Absolutely! I mean I think, it just depends on the role official letter of complaint to the company. He told PEO- can’t get enough of the baguettes sold at United Kingdom and it depends on if I’m driven by it. I like to learn and do PLE: “Kentucky Fried Chicken, when I was a kid, they had chain Greggs and always stops by the store when he visits almost anything for a role. It’s not an easy thing that, but I’d these things, [Chicken Littles] ... like little hamburgers, but the country. He shared: “I eat Greggs, Greggs baguettes - give it a go.” they were fried little chicken nuggets. “Anyway, they dis- that’s what I eat when I’m in London. “If it’s sunny, I just find continued them, and in school, we were told to learn how a green spot and sit. That’s what I do when I’m in the UK.” to write a complaint letter, right? So I wrote a complaint And Jake would have no problem stuffing his face with the letter to Kentucky telling them [to bring them back].” And treats from the bakery, as he previously revealed he would Louis Tomlinson is ‘taken’ Charli XCX likes he 23-year-old One Direction singer will welcome a tionship with bandmate Harry Styles. Speaking about fans ‘sweating, being baby with stylist Briana Jungwirth next year after a bringing pride flags to concerts to show support for the Tbrief fling and while the pair were believed to be LGBQT community, he said: “There were loads of rainbow planning to raise the baby as friends, his bandmate Liam flags flying at our shows, but I think that was mainly gross and partying’ Payne says Louis is “taken”. When asked by Attitude maga- because people think of the Louis and Harry thing, which he 23-year-old singer says she doesn’t want to be a zine which of his bandmates he would fancy if he were gay is absolutely nuts and drives me insane. “It’s like, when you typical role model and is showing her fans that they for a day, Liam said: “Louis is my best mate, he’s the one I know the ins and outs of what is going on with people and Tdon’t have to be perfect. She told the Evening have the strongest connection with. Would I marry him? it’s just annoying when it’s so stupid. It becomes like a con- Standard: “The idea of role models is changing. In the clas- Well I couldn’t as he is taken now.” Liam didn’t clarify if spiracy or like a cult, the people who watch them and think sic sense of role model I maybe wasn’t very good but I Louis is dating Briana or someone else. Louis split from his that every move they make is a gesture toward them being think now it’s all become a bit more open-minded and way girlfriend of four years, Eleanor Calder, in March and together, and I know it’s just not true and it makes me less 1950s, which is great. I also don’t really care, I’m just Briana’s pregnancy was revealed in July. While Louis has mad. “I get tagged in drawings of Louis and Harry being trying to be myself. “I like sweating, being gross, partying, remained tight-lipped on his impending fatherhood, together. I remember one time I was sitting next to my dad whatever. I’m definitely not here to be perfect.” Charli also except to say on ‘Good Morning America’ that he is and I see this picture of me on top of Niall [Horan], which insisted that there is less pressure on women to be flawless “buzzing”, Liam hit out at claims that the pregnancy is fake. was quite intimidating. It’s just really weird to have people these days. She said: “I think things have really changed a He said: “Louis is very happy about becoming a dad. But drawing these sexually explicit pictures of us in strange sit- lot recently and I guess I’m a part of that wave for sure. But the funny thing is, there are some people out there who uations.” a lot of women in the public eye are part of that wave and I think that Louis getting Briana pregnant is fake. “That it’s think it’s tipped now that women can do what they feel not real; it’s a cover up. And that’s the sort of stuff that gets without as much pressures as before and that’s great.” to me. But you have to hold your tongue and that’s fine.” While Charli is good friends with fellow singer Rita Ora, Liam also denied speculation that Louis is in a secret rela- who she recorded the song ‘Doing It’ with, she insisted that she has no plans to follow in her footsteps and become an ‘X Factor’ judge. She said: “I’m probably too much of a wildcard for them. I would probably say something awful in seconds. I haven’t watched it yet but knowing Rita Ora I think she’s going to be amazing.” Teigen will never hire a ‘hot nanny’ hile the 29-year-old model that I have to think about. “But the rule trusts her husband John is no hot nannies. I trust John, but you WLegend, 36, not to cheat on never know with these men.” However, her, she admitted she will still make sure Chrissy joked that she could already be not to put any temptation in his way in trouble as she currently has a “hot when they eventually have children. She assistant”. She quipped: “It’s too late for told PEOPLE: “No hot nannies, drivers or me though, because I have a hot assis- maids. It’s an ongoing joke in my house. tant - she is cute. “These days, it doesn’t I do want kids one day, so it’s something really matter what you look like - some- times cabin fever just strikes and men do the do. I have to keep an eye on my assistant.” Chrissy may have to think about hiring a nanny sooner rather than Simpson says her first later as she recently revealed that she is being pressured to have children by her marriage was her family. The Sports Illustrated model’s rel- atives are desperate for her and John to ‘biggest financial mistake’ welcome a new addition into the world. She said: “We’ve been together for so he 35-year-old singer has taken a humorous swipe at her first hus- long at this point they’ve been begging band, with whom she won over the US with in their popular MTV for it since year two of our relationship. Treality show ‘Newlyweds: Nick And Jessica’, by claiming their relation- Of course we want to have kids.” And ship threw her into money issues. When asked by Kelly Evans on ‘Closing the beauty has admitted everyone - Bell’ on Thursday to name some of her biggest financial mistakes thus far, family, friends and fans - will know Jessica replied: “The biggest money mistakes? I don’t know. For some rea- about it straight away when she does son I thought of my first marriage!” The former couple, who shared the get pregnant because she won’t be able same manager, first began dating in January 1999 but called it quits short- to keep it quiet. She added: “I won’t be ly afterwards, only to rekindle their romance five months later. They took able to keep my mouth shut about it their relationship to the next level in February 2002 when the hunky singer when it happens. “We want a lot of kids. popped the question, and just eight months later on October 26, 2002, I would love to have three or four of my they became husband and wife following a romantic ceremony in Texas. own, and then adopt a few. So basically However, their marriage was short-lived as the young lovers announced at I’ll be pregnant the rest of my life.” the end of 2005 they were going their separate ways, and Jessica later filed for divorce. Despite her messy first marriage, the ‘Employee Of The Month’ star has found love again with Eric Johnson. The couple tied the knot in July 2014 and have children Maxwell, three, and Ace, two, together. Nick, meanwhile, is married to Vanessa Lachey, with whom he has son Camden, three, and nine-month-old daughter Brooklyn. Jessica insists she and Eric have no plans to expand her family at the moment. She said: “No more kids are on the horizon.”

Hunnman’s says Shields limits her leaving ‘50 Shades of alcohol because of Grey’ was ‘destructive’ he 35-year-old actor was originally cast to play family history Christian Grey in the erotica before dropping out 40 Tdays later, but he has admitted his decision to turn he 50-year-old star has revealed her mother, late his back on the role was “heartbreaking” and is something actress-and-producer Teri Shields, and father, that still haunts him now. Speaking to VMan magazine, he Tdeceased Revlon executive Francis Shields, both had explained: “It was the worst professional experience of my a tendency to booze too much and so she is always very life. It was the most emotionally destructive and difficult strict about how much she drinks. In an interview with thing that I’ve ever had to deal with professionally. It was German magazine BUNTE, she said: “I really have to take heartbreaking.” The hunky star thought the most difficult care that I limit my intake of alcohol. I know I have the ten- part was informing director Sam Taylor-Johnson he was dency to drink too much.” Brooke - whose parents bowing out and has revealed he spent “20 minutes crying” divorced when she was just five months old - lost her his eyes out down the phone to her after he broke the dev- mother in 2012 when Teri was 79 after a long battle with astating news. He explained: “I called her [Sam] and we dementia. The ‘Mr Pickles’ star admits it was one of the both cried our eyes out on the phone for 20 minutes. I worst experiences of her life watching her mother deterio- needed to tell her that this was not going to work.” He rate and it still upsets her now when she thinks about her added: “There was a lot of personal stuff going on in my life final months. She said: “I get a knot straight away in my that left me on real emotional shaky ground and mentally stomach, it was just so horrible. I have to force myself to weak. I just got myself so overwhelmed and I was sort of not think about it all the time, because it doesn’t help.” having panic attacks about the whole thing. I just didn’t Brooke is married to Chris Henchy and they have two chil- know what to do.” The romantic drama film - which starred dren, Rowan, 12, and Grier, nine. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson - raked in $469.7 mil- lion worldwide at the box office, despite being criticized for its pace and acting. — Bangshowbiz lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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Trump on ‘Tonight Show: ‘Will Hollywood pilot on Tom apologize ‘if I’m ever wrong’ Cruise film killed in crash small plane assigned to the crew trollers. The Piper Aerostar-600, with onald Trump clarified, sort of, a long- both Fallon and the audience eating out of his Fallon impersonating Trump, complete with of a movie starring Tom Cruise tail number N164HH, appears to be the standing question about his personality hand. orange wig, as they faced one another on oppo- Acrashed in the Colombian Andes same aircraft that Cruise, a trained pilot, Dduring an appearance on Friday’s In what passed as one of the segment’s more site sides of a picture frame, as if one of them on Friday, killing two people, including was photographed exiting the cockpit “Tonight Show.” Host Jimmy Fallon asked him, serious moments, Fallon asked what Trump was were the other’s mirror image. In this setting, a Los Angeles-based film pilot, and seri- from upon his arrival in Medellin on playfully, if the billionaire developer and GOP doing on the campaign trail that his Republicans Trump could be interviewed by the only person ously injuring a third, the country’s Aug 20 to start work on his new film. presidential front-runner has ever apologized for aren’t to win support from voters.”I think they he deems worthy of the task - himself. “How are civilian aviation authority said. Called “Mena,” the film stars Cruise anything. want our country to be respected again,” Trump you gonna create great jobs in this country?” An official with the aviation agency, as American pilot Barry Seal, a drug “I fully think apologizing is a great thing,” the said. “I think they feel that if I’m president, I will asked Fallon-as-Trump during the exchange. who spoke on condition of anonymity runner recruited by the CIA to try and famously self-assured Trump replied before win- do some great things for our country, and we’re “I’m just gonna do it,” Trump replied. “But because he was not authorized to dis- capture the late cocaine kingpin Pablo ning the studio audience’s applause by adding: gonna be respected again.... There’s a movement how?” “By doing it. It just happens!” “Geeeenius!” cuss the matter, said Cruise was not on Escobar. Seal was shot and killed in “But you have to be WRONG. ... I will absolutely going on, and it’s amazing to watch.” exclaimed Fallon-Trump. During the real, desk- the aircraft. The official said an 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, apologize sometime in the hopefully distant Trump’s interview session with Fallon was and-sofa interview, Trump shared his vision as American, Alan Purwin, was killed allegedly by assassins sent by Escobar’s future if I’m ever wrong.” That’s how it went, with remarkably similar to a comedy sketch that had president for America: “We have to become rich along with the Colombian Carlos Berl. Medellin cartel. Cruise’s spokeswoman, again, and we’re going to become great again.” A third person aboard, Jimmy Lee Amanda Lundberg, had no comment The crowd cheered. Garland, a pilot from Georgia, was on Friday’s accident. Trump’s guest shot on the NBC show was rushed to a hospital in Medellin, where Purwin was founder and president taped only hours after he tweeted that he had he was in intensive care. of the Los Angeles-based Helinet purchased NBC’s half of the Miss Universe Technologies, a company providing Organization, giving him full ownership and aerial surveillance technology to law completing a divorce begun in June when NBC enforcement. On the company’s web- announced it was ending its relationship with its site, he’s described as “one of the top co-investor in the beauty pageants and the host film pilots of his generation” with a list of its long-running “The Celebrity Apprentice.” of credits from television and major In June, the network had announced it would Hollywood movies such as sever ties with Trump because of comments he “Transformers,” “Pearl Harbor,” and made about Mexican immigrants during his “Pirates of the Caribbean.” campaign kickoff remarks. “What’s refreshing,” He sat at the controls of a helicopter Fallon told him, “is, you’re off-the-cuff, you get for the first time at age 16 and two yourself in a lot of trouble sometimes. “I think years later took his first flying job crop you dig yourself a hole sometimes, a deep hole, dusting in Indiana, according to and then instead of getting out of the hole, you Helinet’s website. “Alan’s enduring pas- just dig deeper. And if you keep digging, eventu- sion for film and flying has created aeri- ally you might come out in China and be the al footage loved by millions around the president of China.” Tom Cruise world,” according to an online bio on As the interview drew to a close, Fallon pro- the website of Shotover, an aerial cine- posed a new campaign song for Trump to con- The official said the twin-engine matography subsidiary of Helinet. sider. Pressing a key on his MacBook, he brought plane ran into bad weather late Friday to life a pounding anthem by DJ Khaled called afternoon after taking off from the “All I Do Is Win.” “What do you think?” asked colonial town of Santa Fe de Antioquia Fallon. “Honestly,” Trump beamed, “it happens to for a short flight to Medellin. No emer- In this image released by NBC, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, appears with be 100 percent true.” gency was reported to air traffic con- host Jimmy Fallon during a taping of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” on Friday, Sept 11, 2015, in New York. — AP

2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Michael Moore invades Sandra Bullock joins Oscar festival after six year absence race with ‘Our Brand is Crisis’ arner Bros’ “Our Brand is Crisis” is could/should be re-scripted for women. rovocateur Michael Moore is back anymore.” The Oscar-winning documen- about politics-as-big-business, Clooney and Heslov had seen the Rachel after a six-year absence with a new tary filmmaker places himself in the Wthe pervasiveness of market- Boynton-directed 2005 documentary of Pdocumentary film, “Where to Invade action, as a pseudo conqueror who plants ing/spin and about personal redemption- the same title, and commissioned Peter Next,” pitching once again socialist ideals the American flag wherever he goes, baf- but what it’s really about is star power. Straughan to write a script that fictional- put to the test abroad to his fellow coun- fling onlookers. Sandra Bullock joins the Oscar race with a ized the events, but retained the premise trymen. The film premiered at the Toronto terrific performance that features both of US political strategists working on a film festival. Based on its title, it was ini- Greener on the other side big, juicy scenes and quiet moments. Best Bolivian election. Once Bullock got the tially thought to be an indictment of His travels in search of spoils take him of all, it reminds that she is that rare star- eight-years-in-development project in America’s military zeal. to tuition-free Slovenia, to Italy and its actor who is capable of showing new lay- motion, they signed on director David But the movie actually delves very little jaw-dropping two-hour lunches and eight ers of talent with each film. Gordon Green. Green said he likes working into US military misadventures abroad. weeks of vacation per year for workers, to “Our Brand” screened at the Princess of with actors, and enjoyed their improvs, Instead, Moore uses the term “invasion” to Portugal, which saw its addiction rate Wales theater on the second night of the such as on a bus sequence. An audience mean plundering other nations’ notions plummet after decriminalizing drug use, Toronto Fest, and Bullock told the audi- member asked if the rear end sticking out of happy workers, good education, and to Norway to showcase humane pris- ence that the role had been written for a of the bus window was really Bullock’s, humane prisons and empowered women. ons that boast a low rate of recidivism. He man, but she asked producers George which inspired some quips from her and He then presents these as examples of also visits Iceland and Tunisia, where he Clooney and Grant Heslov to consider Clooney on the topic of tushes, joking that how life should be in the United States. claims women are fully empowered. changing it to a woman. “George could it was really his bum doubling for hers. In “I hope nobody will be mad at me, and And he returns to France-his 2007 doc- have played the role, but maybe I could contrast with past years, the best actress (audiences will) appreciate the prankish umentary film “Sicko” praised its health have played it better,” she deadpanned. Oscar race has more serious contenders nature of it all,” he told The Hollywood care system-to tour schools. There, he Clooney added that the shift in the than usual, but Bullock’s stellar turn is cer- Reporter. “All the countries that don’t tries to tempt French schoolchildren with script was surprisingly easy, and “it made tainly a hot contender. The film opens spend 60 percent of their economy on so- Coca-Cola, while he himself is astonished Actress Sandra Bullock and producer George Clooney pose for photographs on the red carpet for the new movie us realize that there could be a lot more domestically in October. — Reuters called defense, spend the money on their at the tasty meals in its cafeterias, notably (male-written) roles out there” that people. “So in a way, the perpetual war, the large selection of cheeses. The French “Our Brand is Crisis”. — AP the military industrial complex has result- schoolchildren, meanwhile, gasp at pho- ed in the America we now have where we tos of lunches served in Boston schools are not number one in probably anything that look like mush. Moore contrasts sex education curricu- lum in France that promotes condom use Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’ takes off with footage of US presidential candidate att Damon got to relive his childhood fan- ring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. 1979 “Alien” hit film: “In space nobody can hear you Rick Perry insisting that teaching absti- tasies of being an astronaut in Ridley “The fantasy of space, which is now a reality, is a scream.” But the line was cut inexplicably from the nence works when confronted with a MScott’s 3D space epic “The Martian,” where marvelous platform... where almost anything film. high teen pregnancy rate in Texas. he portrays a character left for dead on the Red goes,” said Ridley Scott. This film, he said, “leans Described by the film festival organizers as a Arguably, the filmmaker cherry-picked Planet. The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s 2011 heavily on science, the way the NASA people are, “galactic spin on ‘Saving Private Ryan’” (in which only some of the most successful social book about fictional NASA astronaut Mark Watney the way the JPL people are. This was a much more Damon played the titular role), the movie pays trib- programs across Europe, while glossing (played by Damon) becoming stranded by a sud- realistic movie.” It “is really about the reality of ute to space explorers and mankind’s enduring over their problems. The film is unlikely to den storm on Mars and the heroic efforts to bring NASA and what goes on,” said the director of “Blade thirst for discovery. “I’m such a nerd when it comes win over Moore’s detractors but got a few him home premiered Friday at the Toronto film fes- Runner” and “Prometheus.” to space exploration now,” Chastain said of the laughs from Toronto audiences. The real tival. The script was pitched as “a love letter to sci- experience, adding that she had looked forward rub, however, comes at the end, when To stay alive, Watney must use all of his scientific ence,” said Damon, whose character says to himself most to filming zero gravity scenes done with pul- Moore reveals that the ideas implement- knowledge and limited materials inventively to when faced with a technical problem in his leys. It was “very surreal,” Mara added. “It feels very ed by these countries originally came secure water, grow food and reach out for help, attempts to get off the arid planet: “I’m going to much like a dance.” But “I would never make it as an from America, but never really took off and hope nothing else goes wrong while waiting have to science the shit out of this.” astronaut,” she confessed. — AFP there-such as an equal-rights amendment for a possible rescue. For Damon and his stellar co- The book ironically pays homage to Scott’s sci- to Tunisia’s constitution. stars, playing astronauts “was like being a little kid... ence fiction legacy, referencing the tagline from his “Where To Invade Next” is Moore’s first in your bedroom pretending you’re in space,” he film since “Capitalism: A Love Story” in said. This photo provided by courtesy of the 2009 in which he assesses a culture of Jessica Chastain worked with NASA consultants Toronto International Film Festival and greed on Wall Street that led to the global and visited its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Twentieth Century Fox shows Matt Damon financial crisis. He previously earned an Pasadena, California to prepare for her film role as as Mark Watney a scene from the film, “The Academy Award for Best Documentary for the mission commander. “I don’t really want to go Martian,” directed by Ridley Scott. — AP to space, but I want to pretend to,” she said. “Bowling for Columbine,” which bashed Chastain’s character presumes Watney is dead and American gun culture in the wake of the leaves the NASA botanist behind on a Martian 1999 Columbine High School massacre of plateau. 12 students and a teacher. It briefly “I assumed when people went to space that became the highest grossing documen- they didn’t wear jewelry,” she said, recalling her sur- tary film of all time, before Moore beat his prise when learning that astronauts wear their own box office record with “Fahrenheit wedding ring in space. One astronaut told her 9/11.” — AFP “how important it is when you’re in space to keep your ties to Earth,” she explained.

Realistic sci-fi The movie’s other stars include Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena (“the first Mexican in space”), Director Michael Moore attends the Sean Bean and Kate Mara. It follows other recent “Where to Invade Next” premiere on day 1 space faring blockbusters, including Alfonso of the Toronto International Film Festival Cuaron’s “Gravity” with Sandra Bullock and George at The Princess of Wales Theatre. — AP Clooney, and Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” star- lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Fashion

Givenchy makes spectacular New York debut

ulia Roberts and Kim Kardashian sat front row at music, from six different cultures and religions, has the power Givenchy’s spectacular New York fashion week debut, a to unite people without discrimination,” she wrote. “This event Jmeditation on love to the backdrop of Freedom Tower on that we are creating together is about forgiveness, inclusivity, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The French giant’s decision new life, hope, and above all, love.” Models present the creations from the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2016 collection during to fly across the Atlantic for the first time to unveil a ready-to- Givenchy extended the theme of inclusivity by inviting New York Fashion Week in New York. wear collection made the hugely ambitious, celebrity-studded more than 1,000 members of the general public to a show that show one of fashion week’s hottest tickets in town. It was held would ordinarily be seen in the flesh by just an elite band of outside at sunset on Pier 26 next to the lapping waters of the fashionistas. The show marks Givenchy creative director Hudson River and before the glittering lights of Manhattan’s Riccardo Tisci’s 10 years in charge at the brand in the LVMH lux- skyline, including Freedom Tower, built on part of the site ury goods stable and coincides with the opening of a new flag- destroyed in the Al-Qaeda attacks. ship boutique on Madison Avenue. Tisci told Women’s Wear The meandering set was crafted out of sheets of corrugated Daily in June that the United States “gives me so much energy, metal and wooden crates, which made for rather uncomfort- and I’m very inspired by the culture.” He said the free tickets able seats, and conjured up the impression of a bleak or even and “opening to the public was my dream for many, many war-torn landscape. Live, meditative Buddhist music greeted years.” — AFP guests as a man dressed in a long black skirt held tree branch- es aloft. Rap star Nicki Minaj, dressed in a body-clinging, ruffled ani- mal print dress with her cleavage on ample display, was the first A-list star to arrive, closely followed by an elegant Hollywood leading lady Roberts. But the show kicked off more than an hour late, after the delayed arrival of reality superstar Kardashian, her pregnant belly draped in transparent black lace, on the arm of her husband, Givenchy-loving rapper Kanye West. The show began with the sound of a gong, followed by Fashion Week music representing six religions-including a woman singing in Hebrew, Middle Eastern music, South Asian song and finishing with Ave Maria. An astonishing 75 models walked the floodlit runway in black and white, the women clad in romantic layers of delicate lace that mimicked lingerie or sexy nightwear, with sharply tai- lored trouser suits for men and women. The ultra-thin models had to prove dexterous in towering stilettos as they clambered up and down crate stairs along the catwalk, causing at least one woman to stumble and fall during the 20-minute show.

Respectful on 9/11 anniversary Black silk trouser suits were paired with delicate lace slips, with stunningly opulent evening wear of sculpted 3D ball gowns and jewel-embellished white jacket and exotic Oriental- style face masks. Friday was a somber day in the United States- the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001 at the former World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. “The 11th of September is the most sad day in recent American history,” wrote Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic in notes to accompany the show she helped put together. “I want to create something respectful and humble,” she added, saying that Pier 26 had been chosen deliberately for its The Polo Ralph Lauren Spring 2016 collection is pre- clear view of Freedom Tower, the highest skyscraper in the sented during Fashion Week in New York, Friday, Sept Western hemisphere built after the attacks. “Our choice of 11, 2015. New York

Models present the designs by Jason Wu during the New York Fashion Week in New York. — AP / AFP photos Betsey Johnson does the splits after showing her Spring/Summer 2016 collection during New York Fashion Week. Givenchy makes spectacular New York debut

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Runners throw colors after the ‘The Color Run Night’ in Stockholmon September 11, 2015. The Color Run founder, Travis Snyder, was inspired by the Indian Holi Festival and decided to combine the idea with a 5km running experience. From the first event in the United States in January 2012 The Color Run has since spread across the globe leaving a trail of color and happy runners. — AFP Literary world asks: Who is ‘Mario’ still super after 30 years the author of ‘Cow Country’? t’s been a guessing game that has fascinat- Artist as an Assessment Committee Chair,” a uper Mario, the hyperactive little plumber released on September 13, 1985, in Japan on visible,” Miyamoto said in an interview released ed the book world all week: Did Thomas title that does not appear anywhere online who has become one of the best-known the Famicom console, the character had already by Nintendo. IPynchon write a campus farce called “Cow besides the Cow Eye website. The book’s characters in video game history, cele- made an appearance in the Nintendo arcade There was a simple explanation for his cap Country” and publish it in April under the author, Norman Gorbington, just happens to S pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson? The ques- be on the faculty of the school satirized in brates his 30th birthday today and Japanese game “Donkey Kong”, but under the name too-the designers initially lacked the technolo- giant Nintendo is marking the event with the Jumpman. gy to make his hair move. In his best-known tion was first raised in Harper’s magazine, “Cow Country,” Cow Eye Community College. release of a creative new format. With his blue The Mario moniker came from the landlord adventures, Mario comes to the rescue of which on Wednesday ran a long essay by the Perry is reluctant to talk, but “Pearson” overalls, red cap and fulsome moustache, Mario of the warehouse where the US arm of Princess Peach, but our hero has also been respected critic Art Winslow, who called the sounds a bit like him during an interview that is instantly recognizable, a rare quality in the Nintendo was based, whose physical appear- inserted into formats featuring football, golf or 540-page book “side-splittingly funny” and appears in the publication Cow Eye Express. games market, matched only by a handful of ance made the programmers think of a video karting. found enough similarities to Pynchon to He noted that all of his books have “been characters such as Lara Croft, Sonic the game character. Mario’s creator, game designer The games have often been accompanied by make it plausible that the media-adverse published under separate pen names by dif- Hedgehog and Pac-Man. Shigeru Miyamoto, said: “I had it in mind to technological advances, such as the fully three- author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” had also writ- ferent publishers in different countries” and So beloved is Mario that Nintendo has sold make him an Italian when I was drawing the dimensional format introduced by “Super Mario ten “Cow Country.” Winslow, the former liter- that he expected to do the same with future more than 310 million units featuring him since character, so I decided to officially call him 64” in 1996. To mark the three-decade milestone, ary editor of The Nation, concluded that “an works. he first hit the screens under his own name in Mario.” Nintendo is releasing “Super Mario Maker” on extremely confident sensibility is in control, “I’ve always had a severe distaste for all the 1985, the year that Ronald Reagan began a sec- the WiiU console, which allows players to create one neither unpracticed nor hesitant.” A sen- mindless biographical drivel that serves to ond term as US president and the Live Aid con- Shaped by limited hardware their own worlds for Mario, or use those created sibility that could belong to a writer as enig- prop up this or that writer,” he says. “So much certs for the Ethiopian famine relief took place. Mario’s plain appearance is attributed to the by other players and shared through the matic and as playful as Thomas Pynchon. But effort goes into credentialing the creator that “Mario now has a status in popular culture limitations of the hardware at the time, with a Internet. And for adults still nostalgic for the the real author, apparently, is far less known. we lose sight of the creation itself, with the equal to Mickey Mouse,” Florent Gorges, the limited number of pixels and restricted range of Mario of their youth, the new game allows play- The Associated Press traced the book’s pub- consequence being that we tend to read French author of a book on Nintendo’s history, colors-but it has possibly helped increase his ers a choice of four styles of graphics, ranging lisher, Cow Eye Press, to a Western US address authors instead of their works.” As of Friday told AFP. “He is likely to be around for some time longevity. “I drew him with a big nose and a from those in 1985’s “Super Mario Bros” to “New and determined it was written by Anthony night, enough people cared about Pearson yet because we notice that it’s often parents moustache so that players could recognize his Super Mario Bros U” released in 2012. — AFP Perry, who as AJ Perry previously wrote and his book to make ‘Cow Country” a who introduce him to their children.” Even face. (At first) Mario wore a white shirt and red “Twelve Stories of Russia: A Novel, I Guess.” respectable No. 2544 on Amazon.com’s best- before the first “Super Mario Bros” game was overalls so his arm movements would be clearly The AP then confirmed Perry’s identity with seller list. — AP the literary scholar Steven Moore, who con- tributed a blurb to “Cow Country.” Moore, whose books include a two-volume history of the novel, said he has been in touch with Perry. Responding by email, Perry declined to say whether he was Pearson, but did say that he believed “the author is superfluous to his work.” “I’ve been saying this for a long time, in fact ... long before Pearson took up the cause,” he wrote. “The focus should be on the texts, not the author, because the texts will always tell the truth.”

Secret identities Hidden identities have long been a source of literary scavenger hunts. In 2013, JK Rowling released the detective novel “The Cuckoo’s Calling” under the name “Robert Galbraith.” In the 1990s, journalist Joe Klein initially stumped the political world when he anonymously published the novel “Primary Colors,” based on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presiden- tial campaign. Whether Perry or not, the brains behind In this file photo, Shigeru Miyamoto poses for a portrait In this file picture taken on October 25, 2012 Japanese video game designer Shigeru “Cow Country” clearly enjoys a good joke. during an interview with Associated Press at the Montage Miyamoto (center) grimaces as he poses with arcade game stars Mario Bros and Luigi at Cow Eye Press, established in 2014, also Hotel in Beverly Hills. the Jovellanos Theatre in Gijon, to participate in a tribute to the video game, on the eve claims to be the publisher of “Portrait of the of the Prince of Asturias 2012 Award ceremony.— AFP/AP photos