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ISSUE NO: 17578 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net

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Kuwait-China joint statement reveals ‘strategic partnership’ Amir, Xi Jinping discuss regional, international issues

BEIJING: In the midst of his official three-day state tion to other humanitarian initiatives Kuwait has been visit to Beijing, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- known to pursue, by virtue of the “Humanitarian Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah held extensive talks with Leader” moniker the UN has bestowed upon His Chinese President Xi Jinping, focusing on bilateral ties. Highness the Amir. The two countries have also The Kuwaiti and Chinese leaders have spoken highly of emphasized their commitment to one another’s sover- the tremendous progress in relations between the Gulf eignty through a non-interventionist and non-med- state and the world’s most populous nation - seeing eye dling policy, with Kuwait seeing the self-ruled island to eye on a myriad of significant issues including cur- of Taiwan as a breakaway province to be reunited rent world events. with mainland China. Since diplomatic relations began in earnest a little The two leaders pointed out that peace and stability under half a century ago, Kuwait and Beijing started in their countries is partially contingent upon a free and to develop camaraderie that still stands to this very open Indo-Pacific, as well as ensuring peaceful resolu- day, with their respective economies being the ulti- tions to conflicts in the region. Kuwait also said that it is mate beneficiaries. Citing a mutual desire to take ties a proponent of the Chinese government’s “Belt and to new levels, His Highness the Kuwaiti Amir and the Road Initiative”, in addition to other similar develop- Chinese president have pinpointed a number of fields ment strategies that allow Beijing to reach out to the that they have agreed to cooperate on, chiefly, the rest of the world. need to establish a platform for dialogue as a constant They agreed that energy production and invest- form of engagement. ment are crucial aspects of scientific development, in BEIJING: Kuwait’s Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Meanwhile, Beijing has thrown its weight behind addition to being two concrete concepts that can help Xi Jinping after witnessing a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People yesterday. — AFP (See Page 3) His Highness’s efforts to quell a Gulf dispute, in addi- Continued on Page 24

of Turkey,” Erdogan told parliament as he Erdogan is expected to name a stream- Erdogan sworn in took the oath of office. The introduction of lined cabinet of 16 ministers yesterday the new presidential system marks the evening after a ceremony at the presidential biggest overhaul of governance since the palace for more than 7,000 guests, including with new powers Turkish republic was established on the ruins Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, of the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago. Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ANKARA: Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in The post of prime minister has been and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. again as Turkey’s president yesterday, scrapped and the president will now be able No major Western leader was included on a assuming sweeping powers he won in a ref- to select his own cabinet, regulate ministries list of 50 presidents, prime ministers and oth- erendum last year and sealed in a hard- and remove civil servants, all without parlia- er high-ranking guests published by state fought re-election victory two weeks ago. mentary approval. Erdogan’s supporters see news agency Anadolu. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics the changes as a just reward for a leader who Investors were waiting to see whether for 15 years, says the powerful new executive has put Islamic values at the core of public cabinet appointees would include individuals presidency is vital to drive economic growth, life, championed the pious working classes seen as market-friendly, and particularly ensure security after a failed 2016 military and overseen years of strong economic whether Mehmet Simsek, currently deputy coup and safeguard the country from conflict growth. Opponents say the move marks a prime minister, would continue to oversee the in Syria and Iraq. lurch to authoritarianism, accusing Erdogan economy. “For the cabinet appointments in “As president, I swear upon my honor and of eroding the secular institutions set up by the past several years, the most important integrity, before the great Turkish nation and modern Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal issue has been the presence of the current ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with his wife Emine Erdogan history, to work with all my power to protect Ataturk, and driving it further from Western deputy prime minister, Mehmet Simsek,” said wave as he arrives at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) to take oath and exalt the glory and honor of the Republic values of democracy and free speech. Continued on Page 24 of office yesterday in Ankara. — AFP

ation of objects, especially those predating the Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH). The Saudi Arabia Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) life in the 7th 62-year-old royal, a son of the king and an old- century, as tantamount to idolatry, and has er half-brother of the Crown Prince, told advocated their neglect or outright destruction. Reuters in a recent interview about ongoing bid to protect But under reforms pushed by Crown Prince cooperation with senior Muslim scholars Mohammed Bin Salman, who has vowed to including bimonthly discussions with the Grand its pre-Islamic promote a more moderate form of Islam and Mufti, the kingdom’s top religious figure, about loosened strict social rules like a ban on women the latest “discoveries”. driving, the kingdom has allocated $1 billion to Those include Al-Ahsa, one of the world’s heritage sites preserve its heritage. Many of the cultural largest natural agricultural oases, which areas date back thousands of years and the became the country’s fifth UNESCO World RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is preserving pre- attention given to them could risk a possible Heritage site last month. In addition to fresh- Islamic heritage sites, like a date palm oasis backlash from religious fundamentalists. and hot-water springs and vast tracks of date from the Stone Age, in a break with the austere “National heritage wasn’t an easy trip, to get palms, the 10,000 hectare region holds archae- strain of Sunni Islam that has dominated the people to reflect and go back, especially the ological sites dating to the Neolithic period. country for decades, as the reclusive kingdom antiquities. All the discussions that were about Another UNESCO site, Madain Saleh, is a tries to open up. Wahhabism, the ultra-conser- antiquity-this is not Islamic, this is Islamic-this 2,000-year-old city carved into the rocks of MUSCAT: Photo shows a view of Oman’s ancient city of Qalhat that dates back to vative branch of Islam that emerged in Saudi is - I think behind us now,” said Prince Sultan the northern desert by the Nabateans, the pre-Islamic times. UNESCO has added Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahsa Oasis and Oman’s Arabia some 250 years ago, regards the vener- Bin Salman, head of the Saudi Commission for Continued on Page 24 ancient city of Qalhat to its World Heritage List. — AFP

Turkey train sources also ruled out the possibility of Groups call for a collective resignation since MPs have not met. MP Mohammad Al-Mutair, who disaster kills was acquitted along with 16 other urgent law on activists and former MPs, yesterday twenty-four called on lawmakers for a meeting on public amnesty Thursday to study their course of action ISTANBUL: Twenty-four people were killed after the ruling. and hundreds injured when a train packed By B Izzak Sources said that the meeting is with weekend passengers derailed in north- expected to discuss the issue of resigna- west Turkey due to ground erosion after KUWAIT: Opposition MPs, groups and tions or calling for an extraordinary heavy rains, officials said yesterday. The train, activists yesterday called for moves and meeting for the National Assembly, cur- which was carrying 362 passengers, was trav- actions to contain the consequences of a rently in summer recess, to discuss issu- elling from the Edirne region on the Greek stunning ruling by Kuwait’s top court in ing a law for public amnesty to pardon and Bulgarian borders to Istanbul’s Halkali which it jailed two serving lawmakers, all activists sentenced to jail or found station on Sunday when six carriages derailed six ex-MPs and eight activists after con- guilty but the court did not punish them. in the Tekirdag region. Deputy Prime Minister victing them in the highly publicized Most of those who received jail terms Recep Akdag said 24 people died, in a sharp storming the Assembly case. Postings on are outside the country, especially MPs rise from the previous toll of 10. social media said that as many as 16 Waleed Al-Tabtabai and Jamaan Al- The state-run Anadolu news agency quot- TEKIRDAG: A helicopter flies over the site where a train derailed at Corlu district in Tekirdag, opposition and pro-opposition lawmak- Harbash and former MPs Mussallam Al- ed Akdag as saying search operations northwest Turkey yesterday. — AFP ers have decided to resign from the Barrak and Faisal Al-Muslem and others. through the derailed train carriages had been National Assembly in protest over the Opposition leader and former three- completed yesterday morning. Health moned to give statements, Anadolu said. The in April, Anadolu reported. Turkish media, rulings - many have described as harsh. time Assembly speaker Ahmad Al- Minister Ahmet Demircan said 318 people transport ministry said that the train had including the Hurriyet newspaper, published But MP Abdullah Al-Roumi, one of Saadoun said it was high time for the required treatment after the accident with 124 derailed as recent heavy downpours caused pictures showing the erosion had been so bad those said to have resigned, immediately National Assembly to issue legislation still hospitalized. Regional prosecutors have the ground beneath the track to erode away. that part of the track had been in the air with denied the reports. Parliamentary Continued on Page 24 opened an investigation, with the two train Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan said that no ground left to support it. drivers and three other railway workers sum- the latest checks on the rails had been made Continued on Page 24 2 Local Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Amir condemns deadly criminal attack on Saudi check point Amir sends condolences to Japan’s Emperor, Tunisian, Turkish Presidents

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- In the cable, His Highness the Amir expressed deepest Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah strongly condemned a crimi- condolences on the deaths among the national guard as nal attack that triggered an exchange of fire with ter- a result of the terror attack in Jenduba border province. rorists at a check point, killing a Saudi security person- Furthermore, His Highness asked Almighty Allah to nel and an expatriate in the bestow mercy upon those Saudi city of Qassim on who have been killed and Sunday. provide speedy recovery to His Highness the Amir those wounded. His Highness condemned the attack in a Crown Prince the Crown Prince and His cable to Saudi Arabia’s King Highness the Prime Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz, and meets also sent similar cables, while affirmed Kuwait’s backing Ghanem sent a cable to his to all measures by Riyadh to security chief Tunisian counterpart restore the Kingdom’s secu- Mohammad Al-Nasser. rity. His Highness the Amir expressed condolences for Japan’s floods the martyrdom of the Saudi Meanwhile, His Highness serviceman and the expatriate. the Amir sent a cable of condolences to Japanese His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Emperor Akihito and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a Abe on the victims of mudslides and floods caused by cable to King Salman, expressing sincere condolences torrential rain in western Japan. His Highness the Amir for the death of the serviceman and the expatriate. His prayed Almighty Allah would have mercy on the souls KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- of the victims. His Highness the Crown Prince and His with Chief of National Security Apparatus Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah. — KUNA Hamad Al-Sabah sent a similar cable. Also, National Highness the Prime Minister sent similar cables, while Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem cabled Speaker Ghanem sent a cable of condolences to the Chairman of the Saudi Shura (consultative) Council Speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives Tadamori His Highness the Amir prayed to Allah the Almighty to Minister sent a similar cable. In other news, His Sheikh Dr Abdullah Al-Sheikh, expressing deep and Oshima. bestow blessing upon the deceased, and hoped the Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh sincere solace on martyrdom of the security man. Separately, His Highness the Amir sent a cable of injured recover rapidly. His Highness the Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yester- In the meantime, His Highness the Amir sent a cable condolences to Turkish President Recep Tayyip sent a cable of condolences to President Erdogan on day at Sief Palace Chief of National Security Apparatus of condolences to Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi. Erdogan on the victims of a train derailment incident. the victims of the train accident. His Highness the Prime Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah. — KUNA

In a statement to yesterday during a diplomatic Tanzania, Kuwait to function, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al- Najem said that Minister Mahiga addressed the proj- ects implemented by the embassy in the humanitarian sign KD 5.4 million field, commending Kuwait’s for its numerous contri- butions. He referred to a disability program funded by loan agreement the Kuwaiti government late last year that greatly achieved success in focusing on needs of this group in communities in both Tanzanian mainland and DODOMA: Foreign Minister of Tanzania Augustine islands of Zanzibar. Mahiga will visit Kuwait soon to sign a loan agree- During the state budget presentation in the parlia- ment worth KD 5.4 million (around $18 million), for an ment last month, Minister Mahiga discussed the proj- irrigation project in Mkuranga district. Kuwait Fund ects by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) will offer Development (KFAED) in Tanzania, which amounted the loan to Tanzania. to about $65 million in 2017. — KUNA

DODOMA: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al-Najem (left) presents a gift to Foreign Minister of Tanzania Augustine Mahiga during a diplomatic function in Dodoma, Tanzania.— KUNA

Cabinet discusses outcomes of Amir’s China visit

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti cabinet discussed during its weekly meeting yesterday the outcome of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s state visit to China and his meetings in Beijing. The cabinet, chaired by His Highness the Prime KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the said that His Highness the Amir’s meeting with cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNA Chinese President Xi Jinping would further cement relations and cooperation between the two countries in different spheres, Deputy Premier and Interior tourism agreement with Egypt, and electricity Minister, Acting Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs accord with Bahrain. The government, on the other Sheikh Khaled Jarrah Al-Sabah said in a statement. hand, congratulated the US on the 242nd Kuwait and China signed earlier yesterday coopera- Independence Day, and wished the American people tion agreements in different domains like defense further development and prosperity. industries, telecommunications, oil, investment and The cabinet meanwhile condemned deadly e-commerce. attacks in Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Tunisia, extend- Meanwhile, the cabinet approved an international ing condolences for families of the victims and wish- agreement on combating illegal trade in tobacco, the ing speedy recovery for the wounded. The cabinet final documents of the international radio communi- condemned an attack on a check point in Saudi city cation conference, cooperation agreement on of Qassim that killed a security man and a civilian. national guards training with Turkey, cooperation The cabinet, according to an official statement, agreement between custom departments in Kuwait expressed full support to all measures taken by the and the US, a multi-party accord on tax and profits’ Saudi government to restore security and stability of transference treaties, as well as joining the tax the Kingdom. authorities union in Islamic countries. The government also condemned the terrorist The cabinet also approved drafts agreements on attack on the Somali Interior Ministry building in culture and art with Britain, Turkmenistan and Mogadishu that killed and wounded many people. Vietnam. It also approved establishment of coopera- It denounced a terrorist assault on Tunisian forces tion committees with Turkmenistan and Comoros, in Jandouba province that killed at least eight marine transport and ports agreement with Egypt, personnel. — KUNA

KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry held a reception yesterday to welcome its new undersecretary Lt Gen Essam Al-Nahham, which was attended by top ministry officials, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. 3 Local Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Kuwait, China ink several agreements, MoUs to boost ties in various fields Amir, Chinese President chair official talks in Beijing

BEIJING: His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a ceremony that featured signing several His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Chinese President Xi Jinping lead their respective countries’ official delegations during official talks agreements between the two countries yesterday. between Kuwait and China. —Amiri Diwan, KUNA and AFP photos

BEIJING: Kuwait and China yesterday signed several intelligent infrastructure networks, security, virtual sys- agreements and Memorandums of Understanding tems and the digital transformation of various industries (MoU) aimed at boosting ties. During a ceremony held and central managements in Kuwait. at the Great Hall of People in Beijing in the presence of He also explained that the memorandum had touched His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al- on the implementation of smart cities in Kuwait, includ- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Chinese President Xi ing the Silk (Al-Harir) City and Kuwaiti islands develop- Jinping, Kuwait - represented by Deputy Prime ment projects. He added that both sides discussed the Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Mubarak seaport, proposed to be built in Boubyan Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah - and China - repre- Island northeast of Kuwait, as an initial starting point for sented by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi - signed a smart cities projects, noting that the MoU will include a cooperation mechanism between the governments of joint strategy in this regard. The MoU also aimed to the two states. exchange expertise, technological innovation, general A cooperation protocol to boost defensive industry design and consultancy to transform Mubarak seaport cooperation was signed by Foreign Minister Sheikh project into an intelligent facility. The cost of this con- Sabah Al-Khaled and executive at the Chinese State sultation and design will be on Huawei Company, Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for Othaina said. National Defense Zhang Youxia. A bilateral cooperation Meanwhile, the MoU signed on e-commerce aims to agreement was signed between Kuwait’s Minister of boost cooperation in facilitating trade between the two Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State of countries and achieve sustainable development in the Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh as well as Vice field, Roudhan said. The three-year deal also focuses on Chairman of the Chinese National Development and boosting electronic trade in the fields of joint studies, His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomes His Highness the Amir of Reform Commission (NDRC) Zhang Yong. A MoU on e- sharing experience in making policies, creating dialogue Jaber Al-Sabah and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the offi- Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. commerce cooperation was signed between Kuwaiti between private and public sectors and organizing joint cial reception ceremony. Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan training courses. Moreover, it will provide opportunities and Chinese International Trade Representative and to develop small and medium-sized enterprises in differ- Deputy Minister of Commerce Fu Ziying. ent fields including tourism and leisure, which will create Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Chief Executive Officer of the A MoU to encourage investment was signed by more job opportunities. and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh, apparatus for developing the Silk City (in Al-Sabbiah) Director General of Kuwait Direct Investment Minister of Finance Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf, Minister of and Boubyan Island, Faisal Al-Medlej and top officials at Promotion Authority (KDIPA) Sheikh Mishal Al-Jaber Official reception Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Amiri Diwan, Foreign Ministry and oil Ministry. Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Chairman of the China The reception ceremony for the official state visit of Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh, Minister of com- Council for the Promotion of International Trade His Highness the Amir and his accompanying delegation merce and industry Khaled Al-Roudan and Minister of Strategic value (CCPIT) Jiang Zengwei. A cooperation agreement was to China was held earlier yesterday at Great Hall of the Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Bakheet Al- Minister Hajraf described the Amir’s official state signed between Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) People in Beijing with the presence of President Xi and Rashidi. The delegation also includes, Chief of Staff of visit to China as being of extreme strategic value, say- and China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation senior officials. After the ceremony, His Highness the His Highness the Amir’s Office Ahmad Fahad Al-Fahad, ing that the event would hopefully further bolster rela- (Sinosure). KPC’s CEO Nizar Al-Adsani and Sinosure’s Amir and President Xi presided over the official talks Advisor at the Amiri Diwan Dr Yousef Hamad Al- tions between the two sides. The official rounds of talks Wang Yi inked the deal. between Kuwait and China. The discussions focused on Ibrahim, Amiri Diwan advisor Muhammad Abdullah Abu had touched on various political and economic issues, A memo on developing smart applications for the historic bilateral ties in addition to ways and means Al-Hasan, Chief of Amiri Protocols Sheikh Khaled Al- said Hajraf who indicated that the Kuwaiti side Kuwait’s Al-Harir City (Silk City) and Boubyan to develop the partnership on all possible domains, Abdullah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah and Deputy Foreign informed their Chinese counterparts of their plans for Islands projects was signed between Chairman of the especially within economy. The talks, highlighted by a Minister Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah. the development of Al-Harir city and a number of Board and CEO of Kuwait’s Communication and relaxed and friendly atmosphere, also touched on coor- The delegation also gathered the Chairman and CEO Kuwaiti Islands. Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CIT- dinating efforts within the regional and international of the Communication and Information Technology China is welcomed to invest in Kuwait, affirmed RA) Salem Al-Othainah and Chairman of Huawei spheres, as well as issues of common interest. Regulatory Authority, Eng. Salem Al-Othaina, Director Hajraf, adding that his country was keen on exploring Technology Liang Hua. Furthermore, His Highness the Amir extended an official General of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic business opportunities offered by China. The two sides invitation to President Xi to visit the country. Development’s (KFAED) Abdulwahab Al-Bader, Head of have succeeded in inking seven agreements and memo- Smart cities President Xi later held a dinner banquet at the Great Media and Cultural Affairs at Amiri Diwan Yousef Hamad randum of understandings that will contribute to the The agreement signed with Huawei Company aims to Hall of People in Beijing in honor of His Highness the Al-Roumi, Head of Political and Economic Affairs at development of relations on various domains, said the implement the smart cities strategy in the country, Amir and his accompanying delegation. His Highness Amiri Diwan Sheikh Fawaz Al-Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti minister, indicating that “the Chinese side have Othaina said, noting that the memorandum was divided the Amir’s accompanying delegation includes Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Direct Investment showcased great interest integrated economic cooper- into four sections connected with the development of Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Promotion Authority (KDIPA) Sheikh Dr Meshaal Jaber ation with Kuwait.” —KUNA

His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Kuwaiti and Chinese officials sign cooperation agreements between the two Chinese President Xi Jinping look on as officials sign cooperation agreements between Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for the cameras countries. the two countries. after signing a cooperation mechanism between the governments of the two states.

Children welcome His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Members of His Highness the Amir’s accompanying delegation are seen during the official reception ceremony. 4 Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Local

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KUWAIT: Al-Jahra Gate, one of five main gates of Kuwait’s Wall, located on the edge of Jahra Road in Kuwait City. Kuwait’s 3rd wall was built in 1920 to fend off attacks on Kuwait City. Its five gates were kept as memorials upon the wall’s demolition in 1957. In addition to Jahra, the gates include Dasman, Al-Shaab, Al-Shamia, and Al-Maqsab. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Alghanim Industries supports low-income women entrepreneurs In collaboration with 33 Boutique; a Ministry of Social Affairs initiative KUWAIT: Alghanim Industries, one of the Industries Abdullateef Al-Sharikh noted: “At and propel them to reach their highest poten- largest privately owned companies in the Alghanim Industries, we are always excited tial. We have received a large number of region, announced its ongoing support for and eager to expand long-standing partner- applicants that exceeded our expectations,” low-income women entrepreneurs through its ships with local and regional entitles, to sup- she noted. sponsorship of 33 Boutique, an ‘Own Effort’ port aspiring entrepreneurs. The spirit of this Throughout its contribution with Alghanim project in collaboration with the Ministry of initiative shares some of our fundamental val- Industries, the incubator was able to success- Social Affairs and Labor and the Kuwait ues and focus areas, such as supporting entre- fully hold a pop-up market in the Avenues Awqaf Public Foundation. preneurs and empowering women. We wish all Mall during the holy month of Ramadan. Boutique 33 provides comprehensive sup- the participants in this business incubator During this 11-day event, business owners port for low-income women entrepreneurs, continued success and prosperity.” were able to interact with a large segment of including monetary and moral support in addi- Meanwhile, the founder of ‘Own Effort’ audiences and customers, which is one of the tion to providing them with all the necessary project Dalal Subayil presented Alghanim main goals of the project. skillsets to prepare them for launching their Industries with a plaque of appreciation for Alghanim Industries works extensively business and reaching financial independence. the generous contribution to the project, throughout the year with a number of Joining the incubator is exclusive to women underscoring the great example for corporate regional and local reputable entities, such as between the ages of 20 and 50, who are already social responsibility set by the company. “We the UNCHR, the Kuwait Red Crescent registered to receive monetary aid from the appreciate the generous support of Alghanim Society, AMIDEAST, and Injaz Kuwait. Ministry of Awqaf. Boutique 33 also holds exhi- Industries, and the opportunity to work with Throughout its contribution and collabora- bitions and pop-up markets for a rotating num- such a reputable organization of this size to tion with these entities, Alghanim Industries ber of 33 businesses throughout the year. support the participants of our program. This reiterates the deep-rooted value of giving KUWAIT: ‘Own Effort’ team poses with Abdullateef Al-Sharikh and Hadeer Shelash from Commenting on this initiative, Director of isn’t new to an organization of such a long back to the community, which is engrained Alghanim Industries. Corporate Communications at Alghanim track of activities that support entrepreneurs within its Kuwaiti identity.

Group companies, that focus on educating and towards discovering their true potential while empowering the youth to become tomorrow’s developing key skills that will benefit their leaders. future careers. It has been a privilege for KAM- EQUATE decreases greenhouse KAMCO hosts The workshop kicked off with an opening CO to witness the previous generations go speech delivered by Chief Business through the different stages of this one of a kind Generation 8 Development Officer of KAMCO, Faisal Hasan, program in Kuwait, and now we get to witness gases by over 1 percent who gave a brief introduction about KAMCO’s the 8th generation.” KUWAIT: Continuing its role as a impact of our activities throughout the operations, products and services. Hasan’s He also said, “It is crucial for organizations global petrochemical enterprise com- world. The strategy consists of 16 initia- of Proteges speech was followed by a Q&A session allowing to implement and monitor their social responsi- the Generation 8 candidates to get a better bilities, regardless of what sector they operate mitted to sustainability, the EQUATE tives identified under three core themes KUWAIT: KAMCO Investment Company, a understanding about the investment firm and the in, to contribute towards achieving a more sus- Group issued its 2015-2016 sustain- - Build, Innovate and Impact. These are leading investment firm with one of the largest investment sector. The next segment of the tainable economy. KAMCO’s annual CSR ability report that details elements that we aspire to AUMs in the region, hosted the Generation 8 workshop was led by Proteges Director and agenda focuses primarily on issues related to its combined performance achieve in all parts of our Proteges, as part of the Kuwait Projects Mentor, Shamlan Al-Bahar, who assisted the health, education and the environment. These after acquiring MEGlobal business,” added Dr Company’s (KIPCO) strategic partnership with candidates in a key brainstorming session to initiatives, carried out by the Proteges mentor- in 2015. Ramachandran. the youth mentorship program, at the American develop an idea and strategize for their upcom- ship program, fall in line with our corporate As the fifth account of Covering a number of University of Kuwait’s (AUK) auditorium. The ing project. social responsibility and personal goals to its type issued since 2012, sustainability topics, major workshop, titled ‘KAMCO Day’, is part of Hasan said, “KAMCO is a proud and ongoing enhance and promote education while driving the EQUATE Group’s highlights from the report KAMCO’s ongoing corporate social responsibil- supporter of the Proteges mentorship program, the youth to expand their reach and impact in Sustainability Report include: ity initiatives, in collaboration with KIPCO a program that challenges and drives the youth our society.” 2015-2016 was developed ● Total amount of com- according to the guide- munity investments reached lines of the Global $2.8 million in 2015 and Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2016. to cover the Group’s loca- ● An increase in the eco- tions in Kuwait, UAE, Dr Ramesh Ramachndran nomic value retained from Canada and the USA. In zero to $37.5 million during addition, it details 2015 to 2016. EQUATE’s Sustainability Strategy 2025. ● An increase of over 119 percent in EQUATE’s President and CEO Dr the direct economic value generated Ramesh Ramachandran, said: “The from $1.619 million to $3.557 million Group seeks to create sustainable throughout 2015 to 2016. development through the triple bottom ● A decrease of over 58,000 tons of line of economy, society and the envi- direct greenhouse gas emissions repre- ronment in all our locations. senting a 1.14 percent reduction Sustainability is a core strategic objec- between 2015 and 2016. ● tive that we want to achieve with our An achieved goal of zero regulato- stakeholders. It is applicable to every ry fines. ● aspect of our enterprise, and is not an EQUATE’s sustainability roadmap expression that we use lightly”. until 2025 and overall realized progress. ● “Having launched our Sustainability Alignment with the UN Sustainable Strategy 2025 during 2016, we renewed Goals (SDGs) and the Kuwait National our focus and plan to enhance the development plan 2035. KUWAIT: Faisal Hasan poses with Generation 8 candidates. 5 Local Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Legalese Intellectual property Salmonella, other bacteria found in rights for writers Hawally restaurant food samples Owner blames ex-partner of poisoning food ‘as revenge’

By Attorney Fajer Ahmed By A Saleh concluded their school year yesterday and started a summer vacation that runs through September 2, 2018. This year’s 52-day KUWAIT: Test results on samples taken from a Hawally restau- summer break for high school staff is considered the least com- Motorist killed, rant where nearly 300 customers were recently hospitalized with pared to other educational stages. In this regard, education min- food poisoning came positive for contamination with salmonella istry sources said that secondary stage schools had exerted and other types of bacteria, said sources familiar with the results. relentless efforts this year, adding that the summer vacation two injured in 6th The Public Authority for Food and Nutrition (PAFN) had offers an opportunity to reconsider the success of primary stage received samples of the food served by the popular falafel joint, pupils and help prepare them for further stages, with hopes of and tests revealed traces of salmonella and other bacteria which eventually helping limit complaints made about the outcomes of Ring Road crash the educational process. s a lawyer, legal columnist and bookstore makes the food completely inedible, the sources noted. By Hanan Al-Saadoun owner, I have always had a passion for the Other sources said meanwhile that the owner, who is current- ly detained with his staff members pending investigations, Free gas production power of words as a means to transforming KUWAIT: A motorist was killed and two others were hos- A accused his former partner, a Syrian man, of conspiring with one Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) CEO Jamal Jaafar stressed that knowledge, wisdom or even creativity through pitalized with head injuries following an accident reported of the restaurant’s staff members, and had him contaminate the free gas production would reach 500 million cubic feet per day writing. Today’s article is dedicated to all the aspir- on Sixth Ring Road yesterday. Paramedics, firefighters and falafel, which resulted in poisoning a large number of customers. by the end of this fiscal year, while light crude oil’s daily produc- ing writers and creative content creators (your local police rushed to the scene immediately after the accident The sources added that the former partner would be summoned tion would reach 200,000 barrels. was reported, and discovered that one driver had suc- blogger). for interrogation as well. Jaafar added that KOC’s strategic goal is to increase gas pro- cumbed to his injuries. His body was left for forensics’ per- On a related concern, PAFN urged Kuwait Municipality to duction’s capacity to one billion cubic feet a day, and light crude sonnel, while the other two persons involved in the acci- Copyrighting your work hand over authority of the main food lab to it, said the capital oil to 275,000 barrels a day by 2022-2023. He also stressed that dents were rushed to the nearest medical facility. An inves- Question: As a writer, I want to copyright my food and nutrition department’s manager Abdul Rahman Al- KOC is keen on developing its free gas and light oil production’s tigation was opened to determine the cause of the accident. work. Where do I go, and what information should I Fares. He noted that food inspectors are incapable of detecting capabilities, which are the base of its strategy for 2040. Further, know? food contamination by virtual inspection, adding that samples Jaafar said that discovering free gas and light crude oil came Attorney Fajer: Copyrighting in the State of have to be collected and examined in labs, which would enable within KOC’s constant work to find alternatives to the use of Man found dead in Jahra stable Kuwait is done at the Public Library, which is locat- routine inspection rounds to examine food and prevent any fur- crude oil and its derivatives in generating electricity. He added A Kuwaiti man was found dead in a Jahra stable. Police ed on the Arabian Gulf Road. Copyrighting is done ther poisoning cases. that KOC always works on turning strategic goals into well- and paramedics rushed to the scene in response to an very quickly, and is done internationally for writers studied working plans. emergency call in which a man reported that he found his for a minimal fee. The copyright is valid for 50 Govt debt friend motionless inside a rented stable. The man was pro- nounced dead on the scene, and investigations are under- years usually, and the author has the following The government paid off KD 650 million as part of its KD Construction material way to determine whether foul play is involved or not. rights: 6.97 billion general debt, as per the end of March 2018, said The Ministry of Commerce and Industry decided to citizens informed sources, noting that the debts were in the form of subsidized construction material to citizens for only once in their 1. To have their name or an anonymous name as a Drunks arrested writer. bonds due for local banks. The sources explained that KD 200m lifetimes, even if a citizen obtains more than one construction were paid in April, KD 150m in May, KD 200m in June and KD loan. In this regard, informed sources said that unless a citizen Six teenagers were arrested while being under the 2. The author has the right to ban any changes or influence of alcohol, and they were sent to the juveniles’ edits to their work, or to order the court to do so. 100m on July 4. Following the payments, the state’s general debt had received full subsidies when applying to build his first house, drops by 9 percent, the sources explained, adding that further the concerned committee agreed that he would have the right to prosecution for further action. A vehicle carrying four boys 3. To have all mentions of their work cited to the and two girls was pulled over at a street in Ahmadi for author. 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Thefts Question: I am a creative person working on a Staff promotion An Egyptian woman accused her friend of stealing her wide range of artists’ pieces, and I would like to The chairman of the Public Anticorruption Authority denied Passports centers gold bracelet while they were visiting a mutual friend in know what can I or can’t I copyright? that the board of trustees issued any decisions to ban authority Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Fintas. Investigations are underway. 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The old centers would be allocated to submit applications, rents from tenants in the buildings that the citizen owns. and podcasts, any art, photography, maps, illustra- tional structure. while the new ones would be used to deliver the passports, he tions, computer programs i.e. coding, translations On a different concern, Afasi said that the total cost of added. Speaking during a reception that the Ministry of Interior Smuggling foiled and research. You cannot copy general ideas, offi- preparing the authority’s current headquarters reaches KD (MOI) held yesterday to welcome its new undersecretary Lt Gen Nuwaiseeb customs officers caught a man who had a cial documents or daily news and events. 6,342,000, adding that once the authority moves to its new Essam Al-Nahham, Jarrah said that the new centers would pistol and ammunition. 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LONDON: Britain’s new Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) Dominic Raab leaves 10 Downing Street in central London yesterday following his appointment. — AFP May-day: Foreign, Brexit ministers quit Davis and his deputy dramatically quit overnight

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May’s govern- with a stinging warning that Britain was “giving too much ment reached on Friday and we look forward to taking that control by parliament illusory rather than real”, and propos- ment imploded yesterday as Foreign Secretary Boris away too easily” in Brexit talks, was a blow to May just days agreement forward in negotiations.” He added: “We believe als for a “common rulebook” on goods “hands control of Johnson followed Brexit minister David Davis in resigning after she declared a truce among her warring ministers. it will deliver a positive Brexit, that’s what we’re focused large swathes of our economy to the EU”. over her master-plan for Britain’s future outside the EU. All eyes are now on the next move by Brexit hardliners in on.” European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas Davis said his job required “an enthusiastic believer in Davis and his deputy dramatically quit overnight over May’s her centre-right Conservative Party. But the appointment of said the change of ministers was not a problem and that the your approach, and not merely a reluctant conscript”. plan to retain strong economic ties with the European Union Raab, a leading Brexit supporter, EU was ready to negotiate Speaking to BBC radio on Monday, he said he hoped Britain even after Britain leaves in March next year. suggests Tory Brexiteers are “24/7”. The EU “will continue to would “resist very strongly any attempt to get any further Brexit cheerleader Johnson then delivered a stunning divided. Davis himself said it negotiate in goodwill, bona fide, concessions”. May replied in a letter rejecting “your charac- second blow when he also marched out, triggering specula- would be “wrong” if his depar- with Prime Minister May and terization of the policy we agreed”, which she said would tion that May could face an imminent leadership contest. ture led to a full-fledged rebel- Eyes now the UK negotiators in order to see powers currently held by the EU returned to Britain. May’s Brexit plan-agreed by the cabinet on Friday in the lion, insisting that “of course” reach a deal”, he said. May Davis was appointed after the referendum to head up the hope of unblocking negotiations with Brussels due to May would survive. on the next spoke to Commission chief newly created Department for Exiting the EU and became resume on Monday-has now cost her two of her top four May will address parliament Jean-Claude Juncker, EU presi- the public face of Brexit, leading the British delegation in ministers, throwing her administration and authority into later to explain her proposal for move by dent Donald Tusk and the lead- talks with Brussels. His role had been increasingly overshad- turmoil. “This afternoon, the prime minister accepted the Britain to adopt EU rules on hardliners ers of Ireland, Sweden and owed in recent months as May and her aides took a bigger resignation of Boris Johnson as foreign secretary,” her goods after Brexit, and is also Malta over the weekend to dis- role, and had reportedly threatened to quit several times as Downing Street office said in a three-sentence statement. expected to speak to cuss her plans, and is meeting they moved towards closer ties with the EU post-Brexit. “His replacement will be announced shortly. The prime min- Conservative MPs. The plan was Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Brexit hardliners have welcomed Davis’s move, with ister thanks Boris for his work.” Johnson criticized the Brexit agreed by cabinet ministers dur- Kurz in London later Monday. Conservative MP Peter Bone saying: “The PM’s proposals blueprint in private but has so far refrained from public ing marathon talks on Friday, where even those wanting a for a Brexit in name only are not acceptable.” The main comment. clean break from the EU fell into line. The deal meant that ‘Reluctant conscript’ opposition Labour Party said the government was in Downing Street swiftly appointed eurosceptic housing for the first time since the vote for Brexit in June 2016, In his resignation letter to May late Sunday, Davis “absolute chaos”. “It is now clearer than ever that Theresa minister Dominic Raab to Davis’s job, and said May was Britain has a detailed proposal to take to Brussels, and still warned that on Brexit, “the general direction of policy will May does not have the authority to negotiate for Britain or looking forward to working with him to deliver Britain’s hopes to agree a deal by October. leave us in at best a weak negotiating position, and possibly deliver a Brexit deal that protects jobs and the economy,” departure from the EU in March. The resignation of Davis, May’s spokesman told reporters: “There was an agree- an inescapable one”. Her plan would “make the supposed spokesman Keir Starmer said. — AFP

ty,” said Izzet Izcan, a former member of parlia- we have found our identities... and our connec- Turkey-funded ment and founder of the socialist United Cyprus tion with our Ottoman ancestors.” Hala Sultan is Party who has urged members of the govern- a sized-down copy of the Selimiye mosque in ment to boycott the opening ceremony. “Our Edirne, Turkey, built during the Ottoman empire mosque stirs identity is based on Cyprus. We have a lot of reputedly with tax revenues collected in Bahrain’s top Shiite cleric common identity with Greek Cypriots, and Cyprus. It is also not to be confused with the unease in Cyprus Armenians and Maronites, all of which have a Hala Sultan Tekke shrine on the Greek Cypriot leaves to UK for treatment presence on the island,” said Izcan. “What side of the island, a pilgrimage destination DUBAI: Bahrain’s top Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa in protests against Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy, NICOSIA: In the flat sunbaked fields north of Erdogan is trying to do is to annex the north, to revered by Muslims as the burial site of a com- Qassim left Manama for treatment in London said the issue of payment had not yet been the Cypriot capital Nicosia, a huge Turkey- build another identity... They are trying to make panion of the Prophet Mohammed. yesterday after his health deteriorated, his decided, and it was up to the sheikh to accept funded mosque opening this week has caused a us good Muslims for their way of life, and pure aides said. The ayatollah, in his late 70s, was or reject the king’s offer. stir in the largely secular Muslim society. Turks as they wish to see us.” ‘Not an innocent thing’ The monarch’s olive branch to the influential Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to “These kinds of buildings, they really add stripped of his Bahraini nationality in 2016 on attend the opening ceremony, expected to take ‘Ottoman ancestors’ something to the community,” said Mustafa charges of “serving foreign interests”. He flew cleric came less than three weeks after a place on Tuesday, of the 3,000-capacity house Elcil and Izcan are at the forefront of calls Tumer, a 51-year-old marketing professor at the out of the country at 10:30 AM (0730 GMT) Bahraini court made a rare acquittal of another of worship, with its four minarets and built in against Ankara’s strengthening pull on Turkish Social Sciences University next to the mosque. using a temporary passport-valid for one year- Shiite opposition figure. Sheikh Ali Salman, classic Ottoman style. Cypriot life. “We all know (the goal) behind this A few kilometers (miles) away in the winding issued on the orders of Bahrain’s king, the head of Bahrain’s largest-and now banned- While many have welcomed it, the mosque is to assimilate and to integrate the north part of streets of Nicosia’s Old Town, 75-year-old aides said. Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq was found has fuelled concern among some Turkish Cyprus to Turkey,” Izcan said. In a rare protest shopkeeper Zihni Kalmaz was unimpressed. While the family has not made public the not guilty on charges of spying for regional Cypriots that Ankara is increasing its domi- in Nicosia on Friday, members of Elcil’s teachers “Those minarets! They’re huge! And why so details of his condition, rights groups say the rival Qatar. nance over the north of the divided island. union demonstrated against the mosque under many? If I want to pray I can pray on my own cleric has high blood pressure, diabetes and Located between regional arch-rivals Iran “This mosque symbolizes the Islamist mentali- the slogan “put schools and hospitals first”. or in my shop, but God is here,” he said, point- heart disease. Bahrain’s foreign minister tweet- and Saudi Arabia, Sunni-ruled Bahrain is home ty, the Sunni Islam mentality and also an impe- “What our country needs is science, educa- ing to his chest. “If you want to build a mosque, ed Friday that the country’s monarch had to a Shiite majority that has long complained of rialist mentality,” Sener Elcil, head of the tion and health, (but) priority is being given to you also have to repair your schools. The school ordered the “facilitation of travel” for Qassim political marginalization. Security forces Turkish Cypriot Teachers Union, told AFP at investments in religion,” demonstrators said in a is more important for me. We want to send our to seek treatment abroad. The cleric’s health crushed demonstrations demanding a constitu- his Nicosia office. “The Turkish Cypriot com- statement. The Hala Sultan mosque is the cen- kids to good schools.” Elcil of the teachers has for months been a point of contention tional monarchy and an elected prime minister munity is secular. We are not a fundamentalist terpiece of a string of Turkish-funded projects union said it cost more than $30 million to build between authorities and his family, who had in 2011. The country has been rocked by unrest Islamist community.” in the same area on the capital’s outskirts, the superstructure, which dwarfs the island’s refused offers to transfer him to hospital over ever since. Elcil and many other leftist Turkish Cypriots including an Islamic high school, several univer- other generally squat, two-storey mosques. fears he could be detained and deported. Manama has long accused Tehran of backing strongly oppose Ankara’s dealings in northern sities and housing projects for students, many of Official figures on its cost were unavailable. He did however undergo surgery in the protests and seeking to overthrow the gov- Cyprus, which broke away after Turkey invaded them from Turkey. “They could build a huge hospital for less... December before returning to de facto house ernment. Tehran denies any involvement. the island in 1974 following a Greek Cypriot Outside the towering new structure with its They could build more than 20 schools, which arrest, activists said. In January, a Bahraini Authorities have jailed dozens of high-profile coup seeking union with Greece. Turkey is the four 60-meter minarets, local resident Ayhan we need,” he said. “Instead, they want to build court upheld the decision to revoke his nation- activists, disbanded both religious and secular only country to recognize the unilaterally Ankurt was ecstatic. The 61-year-old spent a mosque... on every street in northern ality. The Gulf nation’s king has offered to cov- opposition groups and stripped hundreds of peo- declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, months collecting signatures from other resi- Cyprus,” he said. “This is the policy of er the cost of “any treatment required”, ple of their citizenship. The strategic Gulf king- whose administration it bankrolls and where it dents in the area in favour of building the Erdogan. To occupy the northern part (of the Bahrain’s foreign minister said Friday. Those dom is a key regional ally of the United States and has some 35,000 soldiers stationed. “Erdogan’s mosque. “Every day I’ve prayed for this island). It’s not an innocent thing to build a close to Qassim, who has played a leading role serves as home for its Fifth Fleet. — AFP policy is to transform the Turkish Cypriot identi- mosque,” he said. “With the help of this mosque mosque in Cyprus.” — AFP 7 International Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Syrian rebels say army besieging their enclave in the southern city of Deraa Syrian army, allies step up pressure on rebels

AMMAN: The Syrian army and allied troops yes- Deraa province had been forced to agree to terday laid siege to the rebel-held enclave in Deraa return to state control after a major Russian aeri- and were poised to gain complete control of the al bombing campaign on urban centres that led city where the uprising against President Bashar to the largest displacement of civilians in the Assad’s rule first erupted, rebels said. With its more than seven year-long conflict. advance on rebel-held parts of Deraa city, the gov- The territorial sweep into Deraa province will ernment appeared to be piling military pressure on allow the army for the first time to take over FSA the insurgents even after they agreed to surrender frontlines with Islamic State militants, who occu- terms last week, in a major victory for Assad. py the Yarmouk Valley pocket south-west of The army was also consolidating its grip over Deraa along both the Israeli and Jordanian bor- the border area with ders, opposition Jordan to the east of sources said. Deraa city yesterday. “The Russian mili- Free Syrian Army tary police and the rebels (FSA), once army entered Tafas backed by the West Militias have town and secured a and Jordan, have corridor through mostly handed over besieged Deraa opposition territory the area along with to a frontline with their heavy arms to completely Daesh,” a regional the government after intelligence officer the surrender deal said, using the Arab clinched last Friday. acronym for Islamic Backed by Russian air State. As part of the power, the Syrian army and its militias won a surrender deal, opposition fighters not ready to strategic victory in a 20-day offensive after they make peace with the army must first be allowed to captured Nassib crossing, a vital trade route that evacuate to opposition-held areas in northern insurgents held for three years. Syria before the handover of weapons and the Abu Shaima, a spokesman for the opposition in return of state sovereignty. Syrian government soldiers ride in an infantry-fighting vehicle in the town of Saida in the west of Daraa province on July 7, 2018. — AFP Deraa, said several thousand people were now “There are fighters who want to go to (opposi- encircled after the army pushed into a base west of tion-held) Idlib but this was rejected after we were the city without a fight. “The army and its militias besieged,” said Abu Shamia, referring to a meeting have besieged Deraa completely,” he told Reuters. on Sunday in which he said a go-between with the so that police and law enforcement in Africa and in Europe State media said the army was spreading along the Syrian army had flatly rejected their demands to can work together on a common objective,” Tajani said after border areas with Jordan and tightening the noose leave. The rebels say the deal also does not allow meeting the head of Libya’s internationally backed govern- on what they term as “terrorists” but made no the army to move into their bastions and allows for EU head in Libya urges ment in Tripoli. “If we do not manage to destroy these criminal mention of the siege of Deraa. The return of Deraa setting up local forces from ex-rebels under the organizations, it will be very difficult to fight against illegal to Assad’s complete control would deal a big psy- oversight of Russian military police. for trafficker ‘blacklist’ immigration.” chological blow to the opposition since the city “There is a lot of fear about the unknown fate Italy and Greece have until now recorded the biggest num- came to epitomise the early peaceful protests that awaits us and we do not trust the Russians or TRIPOLI: European Parliament chief Antonio Tajani in Libya bers of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach the against authoritarian rule in 2011 that spread regime,” Shaima said, adding that remaining rebels yesterday called for a “blacklist” of people smugglers to be set European Union. But with the route through Libya shutting across Syria. The protests were violently crushed in Deraa city were still holding their positions on up to help stem the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe. The down as the Libyan coast guard increases patrols, people and paved the way for the bloody civil war. its frontlines. Another opposition negotiator said a European Union is grappling with the issue of migration from smugglers are setting their sights westward to routes from further round of talks with Russian officers was Africa and the Middle East and hammered out a controversial Morocco to Spain. Libya is split between rival factions, with the Surrender deal planned yesterday over the fate of Deraa and plan last week to curb the number of arrivals. People traffickers UN-backed Government of National accord under Fayez Al- The surrender deal reached on Friday security arrangements once it returns to state rule. in North Africa have taken advantage of chaos in Libya since Sarraj in Tripoli opposed by strongman Khalifa Haftar in the east between Russian officers and rebel representa- “We will work with the Russians on setting up a the 2011 ouster of Moamer Khadafi to send people on the per- of the country. A deal between Libya’s vying leaders was bro- tives covers Deraa city along with other towns in local force from the inhabitants that will prevent ilous voyage northwards across the Mediterranean Sea. kered in May by France to hold elections this year, but skepti- the southern province, which borders Jordan. the entry of the army to Deraa with Russian guar- “We have to establish a blacklist of the major traffickers... cism remains that the vote will go ahead. — AFP Before the deal, many towns and villages in antees,” Abu Jihad, a negotiator said. — Reuters 8 Tuesday, July 10, 2018 International British police rushing to solve Novichok nerve agent death

‘Present a danger not just for the British but for all Europeans’

SALISBURY: British police rushed to solve a murder mys- tees,” said Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, who is leading tery yesterday after a woman died following exposure to the the investigation. nerve agent Novichok, four months after the same toxin He said people in Salisbury should not pick up strange nearly killed a former Russian spy in an attack that Britain items such as needles, syringes or unusual containers. Whilst blamed on Moscow. Prime Minister Theresa May said she 21 other people have come forward with health concerns, was “appalled and shocked” by the death of Dawn Sturgess, they have been screened and “all been given the all-clear”, a 44-year-old mother of three who had been living in a he said. Police and public health officials insist the risk to the homeless hostel in Salisbury in southwest England. wider public remains low. Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill last weekend in Police said that given the deadly dose, the British couple the town of Amesbury, near Salisbury, the city where former were believed to have become exposed to Novichok by han- double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were dling a “contaminated item”, with speculation that it could attacked with Novichok in March. They have since recov- have been the container used to administer the nerve agent ered. The British government has called a meeting of its to the Skripals. Christine Blanshard, medical director at COBRA emergencies committee Salisbury District Hospital, where for 1:00pm (1200 GMT). The Sturgess and Rowley were being Kremlin said it would be treated and where the Skripals “absurd” to suggest Russia was were hospitalised, told The Daily involved in the death of Sturgess. “Absurd” to Telegraph newspaper that staff “We don’t know that Russia had “worked tirelessly to save has been mentioned or associat- suggest Russia Dawn”. “This latest, horrendous ed with this,” President Vladimir turn of events has only served to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry was involved strengthen the resolve of our Peskov said. “We consider that in investigation team as we work to any case it would be quite identify those responsible for this absurd.” Russia is “deeply con- outrageous, reckless and barbar- cerned by the continuing ic act,” said Basu. He said Rowley appearance of these poisonous substances on British terri- remained critically ill in hospital. SALISBURY: In this file photo taken on July 04, 2018 a general view shows the main entrance to tory,” which “present a danger not just for the British but for Salisbury District Hospital. —AFP all Europeans,” Peskov added. Britain and its allies accused ‘Praying for Charlie’ Russia of trying to kill the Skripals, prompting angry denials Residents of the homeless hostel in Salisbury where and sparking an international diplomatic crisis. Sturgess lived, which was evacuated after the couple fell ill, the sites involved in the Skripal case. “Detectives will contin- On Wednesday, the government’s Defense Science expressed their devastation at the news of her death. “It ue with their painstaking and meticulous work to gather all and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down confirmed ‘No guarantees’ could easily have happened to anyone, to me or my partner,” the available evidence so that we can understand how two their exposure to Novichok. Police said Sunday they Police said they could not yet say whether the nerve 27-year-old Ben Jordan told AFP. “We are really, really sad. I citizens came to be exposed with such a deadly substance were not yet able to say whether the nerve agent was agent in the Amesbury case was linked to the Salisbury am praying for Charlie.” Around 100 counter-terrorism offi- that tragically cost Dawn her life,” Basu said. Sturgess col- from the same batch that the Skripals were exposed to. attack-but it was their main line of inquiry. The head of cers are helping in the investigation, which police said Friday lapsed on the morning of June 30 and was taken to hospital. The Skripals have been released from hospital but the Britain’s counter-terror police also said he could not rule out could take “weeks and months”. That afternoon, Rowley fell ill at the same address in investigation into the attack on them continues. No further contaminations. “I simply cannot offer any guaran- So far, there is no evidence that the couple visited any of Amesbury and was also hospitalized. arrests have been made. —AFP

us,” the official said. Before the meeting, Spain PM Torra tweeted that he was going “to explain to Pedro Sanchez the very serious situation that the Spanish state has created in At least 14 dead meets Catalan Catalonia”. “And with the willingness to listen prez to defuse to the solution he proposes,” he added. after raid by ‘Federal model’? Sanchez overthrew his conservative pred- tensions ecessor Mariano Rajoy in a key parliamen- Nicaragua tary vote last month that he won with the MADRID: Spain’s new leader Pedro Sanchez help of Catalan separatists. In a bid to ease pro-govt forces met with separatist Catalan president Quim tensions ahead of the talks, at the start of this Torra for the first time yesterday, aiming to month six of the nine Catalan leaders being MANAGUA: A raid by pro-government forces kickstart dialogue after the region’s failed held near Madrid were transferred to Sunday left at least 14 people dead in Nicaragua, attempt at secession sparked a political cri- Catalonia. where hundreds have been killed since unrest sis. The first meeting between a Spanish They include former Catalan vice presi- broke out in April, a rights group said. Protesters prime minister and a Catalan regional leader dent Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Sanchez and Jordi in the Central American country, who are in more than two years started in Madrid Cuixart of two pro-independence associa- demanding the resignation of President Daniel around 0930 GMT with a handshake. tions and Raul Romeva, the former Catalan Ortega, had barricaded roads in the areas of government’s international affairs chief. Torra, who has said he wants another MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (R) meets with Catalan regional president Diriamba and Jinotepe, 20 kilometers from the independence referendum, earlier said his Accused of rebellion along with deposed Quim Torra (L) at the Moncloa Palace. —AFP opposition bastion of Masaya. aim was to “find out the Socialists’ view on Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont for their According to videos filmed by residents and the right of self-determination for Catalans”. role in the region’s proclamation of independ- posted on social media, heavily armed groups of However Sanchez, who has been in power for ence, they face up to 25 years in jail. imposing direct rule over the wealthy north- Vallespin, a political science professor at the men in black-hooded civilian clothes were seen a month, has urged Catalan separatist lead- Catalonia’s separatist government eastern region. Madrid ended direct rule Autonomous University of Madrid. on Sunday in the region. Demolishing the oppo- ers to “turn the page”. Several government pushed ahead with an independence refer- over Catalonia last month after Torra’s sition barricades, they entered the municipali- figures have rebuffed the idea of another ref- endum on October 1 despite it having been administration was sworn in. Catalan law- No majority ties alongside police, who also surrounded the erendum, with Deputy Prime Minister ruled unconstitutional by the court and maker Meritxell Batet, who was recently “There’s no majority in Spain for an area. Mechanical equipment dismantled the bar- Carmen Calvo telling the Spanish newspaper Spain’s central government. The referendum appointed as Spain’s minister for public amendment of the constitution. The right ricades, opening up access to over 350 cargo El Mundo on Sunday that the country’s con- was followed by a unilateral declaration on administration, said the ruling Socialists can block it.” Vallespin said the only possi- trucks stranded on the highway in Jinotepe for stitution does not allow for a territory to independence on October 27. At the time, wanted to amend the constitution to move ble positive outcome would be if both sides over a month. become independent. separatist authorities said 92 percent of the toward a “federal model”. accept to try and reach a compromise that “This has been a horror. We have a minimum of “And no Spanish constitutional govern- 2.2 million Catalans who cast their ballot — However with only 84 deputies in the grants Catalonia a special status within 14 dead, but it could be more. That includes at least ment will consider it,” Calvo said. But a sen- 43 percent of eligible voters-opted for 350-member house, the Socialists have little Spain with more power over taxation and one anti-riot officer, one paramilitary member and ior Catalan government official told AFP that independence. room for maneuver. Amending Spain’s con- other matters. “Sanchez will push for two police officers,” Vilma Nunez, president of the they would bring the fractious issue up in The conservative Spanish government in stitution requires a two-thirds majority of the Catalonia to start abiding by the law again Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), Madrid. “Our proposal to resolve this is a power at the time, headed by Mariano Congress of Deputies. Sanchez “will not and function as a region within the constitu- told AFP. “This looked like an occupation army. referendum on self-determination. If they Rajoy, responded by sacking the Catalan launch anything that is too complicated for tion and Torra will say that’s not his inten- They wiped out all the barricades. There are more have a better idea, they can explain that to government, suspending its parliament and such a minority party”, said Fernando tion,” Vallespin predicted. —AFP dead whose identities we have not been able to confirm. There are a lot of arrests and injuries. A disaster,” she added. —AFP of Crimea and the outbreak of Russian- Ukraine wins US backed separatist fighting in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people despite a notional ceasefire. assurances ahead Kiev and Washington accuse Russia of Reuters reporters to sending troops and arms to Ukraine’s east- of Trump-Putin ern Donbass region, which Moscow denies. face Myanmar trial Ukraine hopes Trump will push Putin to scale back Moscow’s support for the sepa- YANGON: Two Reuters reporters accused of break- summit ratists in eastern Ukraine and to soften his ing Myanmar’s draconian secrecy law during their KIEV: Ukraine has secured US assurances position regarding the deployment of a reporting of the Rohingya crisis must face trial, a that President Donald Trump will not betray peacekeeping mission to that region. judge ruled yesterday, on a charge that carries up to its interests when he holds his first bilateral 14 years in jail. Myanmar nationals Wa Lone, 32, and summit meeting with Russian leader Support Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were both “charged under the state Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16. But Some comments Trump made on the secrets act”, Judge Ye Lwin told the court, setting a Trump is known for his spontaneous and presidential election campaign trail in first court date for July 16. sometimes erratic style of doing diplomacy, 2016 made Ukrainians nervous about a The pair have been held in custody for nearly seven and Kiev fears that behind closed doors he Trump presidency, but such worries have months for pre-trial hearings. They were arrested in may prove susceptible to Putin’s efforts to proved premature. Kiev has continued to December and accused of possession of leaked sensitive BRUSSELS: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (C-R) and his delegation attend a EU- win US acceptance of Russia’s 2014 annexa- enjoy strong bilateral support from the Ukraine summit with European Union Council president Donald Tusk (C-L) and European material linked to security operations in crisis-hit tion of Crimea from Ukraine. United States, and sanctions imposed commission president Jean-Claude Juncker (4th L) to discuss trade, economic reforms, Rakhine state. Reuters says the pair are innocent and Trump and Putin will discuss a range of against Russia after the Crimea annexation and relations with Russia. —AFP were simply doing their job by reporting on a massacre issues including arms control, Syria and US have been strengthened, not, as some of Rohingya Muslims and has urged the judge to dismiss economic sanctions against Moscow at their feared, lifted. the case. But Judge Ye Lwin decided the prosecution had summit, which could potentially prove a In Kurt Volker, Washington appointed a Trump said: “We’re going to have to see.” channel 112. “President Obama did not pro- shown enough proof that they men were “collecting evi- game-changer for Ukraine. “We received hawkish special envoy to the Ukraine conflict A White House spokesman later stressed tect us, he let Putin freely capture Crimea dence” from state officials to proceed the case to trial. clear assurances from the American side that after Trump’s election victory, and went as far Washington would not recognize the and did not support us to the proper The legal action against them has been lambasted by Ukrainian interests will be confirmed and as providing military aid to Ukraine, a step Crimea annexation. Anton Gerashchenko, extent.” Trump’s meeting with Putin will rights groups and foreign observers as an assault on protected (at the summit),” said a Ukrainian Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama had a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker, said any take place after a potentially fractious media freedom and an effort to stifle reporting on the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymi- shied away from taking. Also, any concession decision by Trump to support Putin’s NATO summit in Brussels this week, where Rohingya crisis. During pre-trial hearings the prosecution ty because of the sensitivity of the matter. Trump might want to make to Putin would interests in Ukraine would “extremely the president is likely to press argued the reporters tried to access “secret papers” and “It is important for us that no nasty sur- likely meet resistance in the US Congress. negatively affect all US positions in the Washington’s allies to spend more on therefore deserved punishment under the British colonial- prise happens behind our backs, and we But Trump’s unpredictability and capacity to world because America was believed only defense. German lawmakers and security era secrecy law. The reporters say they were entrapped by received assurances (from the US side) that cause ructions among Washington’s allies will when they defended their allies with their experts fret that Trump could take deci- police-a version of events seemingly backed up in court this will not happen.” Kiev has counted on give Ukraine pause for thought. own strength”. sions with Putin at their meeting without by a whistle-blowing cop who testified that officers were US diplomatic and financial support in its Asked in June if the United States “Ukraine, one way or another, is an ally consulting his NATO allies. Ukraine is not ordered to set up the reporters.—AFP standoff with Moscow since the annexation would recognize Crimea as part of Russia, of the United States,” he told the television a NATO member. —Reuters 9 International Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Delhi’s top court upholds death sentences over 2012 gang-rape

Crime that sparked national protests and soul-searching

NEW DELHI: India’s top court yesterday upheld ety, women and all of us,” father Badrinath Singh death sentences for three men convicted over the told reporters. notorious 2012 gang-rape and murder of a woman But the defendants’ lawyer said he would file a that sparked national protests and soul-searching. curative petition, the last legal challenge. If that fails Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was raped and they could seek a pardon from the president. “Justice left for dead by a gang of five men and a teenager should be for everyone. Injustice has been meted out on a bus in the Indian capital New Delhi in to them. The court has taken a decision against these December 2012. kids (convicts) under political and media pressure,” The 23-year-old woman, on course to be the first AP Singh told reporters. professional in the family, was coming home from the cinema with a male friend. The six-strong gang beat 40,000 rapes the man unconscious before raping and torturing Following the 2012 case and subsequent protests, Singh with an iron bar as the private bus drove loops some of which were violent, there were demands to through the Indian capital. She was dumped on the overhaul the laws on sexual assaults. A panel entrust- streets after 45 minutes with horrific internal injuries, ed with reviewing legislation rejected public appeals and died 13 days later in a Singapore hospital. for the death penalty for rape but boosted the jail The brutality of the terms to 20 years. But the attack, and her determina- government then buckled tion to survive long under public pressure and enough to identify her It’s a great approved capital punish- attackers to police, trig- ment for repeat offenders. gered angry demonstra- message for There were some tions by tens of thousands 40,000 rapes reported in of people in Delhi and the entire India in 2016, according to nationwide. The case also the most recent official fig- put the treatment of society ures available. But activists women in the world’s say this is just the tip of the largest democracy in the iceberg as many victims global spotlight and led to are afraid to report the heavier sentences for sex crimes. Four of the men crimes due to threats by perpetrators or the social were convicted in September 2013 for murder, stigma attached to sexual assaults. In recent months a NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court building is pictured in New Delhi. —AFP gang-rape, theft, conspiracy and “unnatural acts” string of sex attacks, mostly of children, have caused after a seven-month trial in a fast-track court. further outrage and protests. All four maintain their innocence. Only three of them were involved in the appeal rejected on Death row death in the past decade, and India ranks 10th who were acquitted outright. Out of the 371 death Monday by the Supreme Court. A fifth man, the sus- This included the attack on an eight-year-old girl globally in the number of sentences handed down. row convicts in 2017, 43 were awarded the ultimate pected ringleader, was found dead in jail in a sus- from a Muslim nomadic community in January. The India rejected a 2007 UN sponsored moratorium punishment for crimes involving fatal sexual pected suicide, while a 17-year-old was sentenced girl from the northern Jammu region died after plea on executions amid an ongoing debate on assaults. But India carries out very few hangings. to three years in a detention centre and has since being kidnapped, drugged and gang raped by sev- capital punishment. Just four convicts have been executed in the last 25 been released. The victim’s parents on Monday wel- eral men for days at a Hindu temple. This led to the More than 370 convicts were on death row as on years, including Dhananjoy Chatterjee in 2004 for comed the ruling, with her mother Asha Singh say- introduction of the death sentence for raping girls December 2017, the last official count, down from the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. The ing it was “very happy news”. “It’s a great message younger than 12. 399 the previous year. But many were spared the three other hangings-in 2010, 2011 and 2015 — for the entire society. This verdict is meant for soci- More than 1,300 people have been sentenced to noose by higher courts on appeals, including 35 were for terrorism. —AFP

Pakistan’s transgenders launch North Korea talks election fight sidelining human ISLAMABAD: “Give me a chance,” Nadeem Kashish rights: UN reporter pleads with voters in Islamabad. Her struggle is not for power-she knows her campaign is futile-but for SEOUL: The North Korean talks process with the acceptance, as transgenders make historic bids in the US and the South is sidelining the human rights of upcoming Pakistan election. “I am contesting for the Pyongyang’s oppressed citizens, the UN’s top official first time and your vote will give me my identity,” on the issue said yesterday. In a whirlwind of diplo- Kashish tells residents as she goes from door to door in macy, the leader of the isolated, nuclear-armed a low-income neighbourhood near the Sufi shrine of North Kim Jong Un held an unprecedented summit Bari Imam, in the north of the capital. with US President Donald Trump in Singapore last Kashish, slender and clad in yellow plaid, is contest- month, after two earlier meetings with the South’s ing in a district that pits her against incumbent prime Moon Jae-in. minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and opposition leader It was a marked contrast to the mutual threats Imran Khan. She is armed with small black and white and mounting fears of last year, instead raising hopes leaflets displaying her picture and mobile phone num- of reaching a deal over North Korea’s arsenal, which ber which she hands out enthusiastically to everyone ISLAMABAD: In this picture taken on July 3, 2018, Pakistani transgender independent candidate Nadeem include nuclear bombs and missiles capable of she meets: shopkeepers, motorcyclists, pedestrians. Kashish (R), who will contest in the general election for a parliamentary seat, distributes pamphlets on reaching the US mainland. But Pyongyang remains Two sentences printed on it amount to her manifesto: the campaign trail in her constituency. —AFP accused by many-including the UN-of a litany of “Preserve water for the next generation” and “I need rights abuses against its population. your support”. Neither the joint statement issued by Trump and But the vote on July 25 is not about winning or los- This year Pakistan’s parliament passed a historic bill say TransAction, a rights organization. Kim in Singapore, nor the earlier Panmunjom ing for Pakistan’s transgenders, she says. “We have providing transgenders with the right to determine their They are among the most politicized minority com- Declaration signed by Kim and Moon, mentioned the been given support and space by the government (to own gender identity in all official documents, including munities in Pakistan. Originally a record 13 transgender issue of human rights. “It seems that those who are contest the elections) and we will use this opportunity choosing a blend of both genders. But the nationwide candidates sought to contest the 2018 election, though negotiating are losing sight of this important thing, with full force.” Transgenders-also known in Pakistan as vote on July 25 is a historic one for the community as nine had to withdraw, mainly due to lack of funds. Their which is would this process benefit at the end the “khawajasiras”, an umbrella term denoting a third sex authorities have removed gender as a criteria for candi- campaign weapons are primarily social media and local people living in North Korea,” said Tomas Ojea that includes transsexuals, transvestites and eunuchs- dates, meaning that, for example, men who identify as meetings. “But I still believe that they will bag a few Quintana, the United Nations’ Special Reporter on have long fought for their rights in the patriarchal, women are no longer forced to run as men. votes,” says Uzma Yaqoob, head of the Forum for human rights in the North. deeply conservative Islamic country. Dignity Initiatives (FDI). Instead Washington and Seoul were prioritizing Many modern-day transgender people in Pakistan Politicized Kashish says the main message is that transgenders their own concerns, he said. “In principle the inter- claim to be cultural heirs of the eunuchs who thrived The same goes for voters, says Altaf Ahmad, a are part of Pakistan’s budding democracy and can help ests that the president of the United States has at the courts of the Mughal emperors that ruled the spokesman for the Pakistan Election Commission. move it forward. This month all four transgender candi- shown is that they want to denuclearize North Korea Indian subcontinent for two centuries, until the British “(Transgenders) will have the liberty to vote at the dates appeared together on a local radio show which so their territory is not in danger, and that of course arrived in the 19th century and banned them. In 2009, women’s polling booth or the men’s,” he said. In fact, she hosts. Fellow candidate Lubna Laal, who is contest- is something that has to do with their own interests,” Pakistan became one of the first countries in the world they will be given priority voting, able to skip the long ing in Punjab province, said there was still a long way Ojea Quintana told AFP in Seoul. —AFP to legally recognize a third sex, allowing transgenders queues expected to form on election day. Transgenders to go. “Our family members do not accept us,” she said. to obtain identity cards, and several have run in elec- number at least half a million people in the country, “Society too does not accept us, which is the main tions in the past. according to several studies-possibly up to two million, problem.” —AFP Duterte could ble that survivors could be found, but Japan digs through acknowledged the odds were getting extend rule under longer. “It has been three days... It’s pos- rain devastation sible that survivors will be found, but as draft constitution the days pass the likelihood becomes KUMANO: Desperate relatives braced slimmer,” a soldier at the scene said. At MANILA: The draft of a new Philippine constitution sub- for bad news yesterday as rescuers dug the end of last week rivers engorged by mitted to President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday would grant through landslides in the wake of severe more than a meter of rain burst their him new powers and a chance to extend his stay in office by floods that have killed more than 100 banks, engulfing entire villages and forc- up to eight years. Under the current law Duterte will have to people and left swathes of central and ing people on to rooftops to await evacu- step down in 2022, when his six-year term is up. But the western Japan under water. With the toll ation by helicopter. Hillsides gave way proposed shift to a federal system laid out in the draft mounting, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe under the weight of water, with deadly would allow him to run for two additional terms of four cancelled a four-country foreign trip, the landslides crushing wooden houses and years each. government’s top spokesman said. erasing roads. The government said at “The adoption of a new constitution... effectively results As the floods receded, emergency least 103 people had been killed, and with in a fresh start for all,” said a statement from the committee workers reached previously cut-off places many people still missing, the tally was that crafted the draft on the president’s orders. The draft where authorities fear they could find expected to rise further. constitution has several obstacles to clear before it can more bodies in the wreckage of homes HIROSHIMA: This photo shows a damaged house in a flood hit area in Kumano, Hiroshima become law, including a congressional debate and a public devastated by rivers of mud and debris. “I Search for survivors prefecture. —AFP referendum. The latest polls-surveying around 1,200 peo- have asked my family to prepare for the Government spokesman Yoshihide ple-show only 37 per cent of Filipinos back changing the worst,” said Kosuke Kiyohara, 38, as he Suga said 73,000 police, firemen and constitution while 29 per cent are against it. waited for word of his sister and her two troops were taking part in the rescue they were moving carefully, looking as from the rest of the building and swept According to the draft the country would be divided young sons. “I can’t reach her phone,” he effort, with 700 helicopters deployed to they went for survivors, or the remains of down a hillside.Water was still flowing under a federal system into 18 regions which would have a told AFP, sitting across from a house that help. In Kumano, soldiers and other emer- those killed in the disaster. from the surrounding hillsides around the greater degree of control over their own affairs. Duterte had been ripped apart and tossed on its gency workers were using diggers to In one part of Kumano, the nose of a feet of shellshocked residents, some of says the reforms would shift power away from Manila elites side by a huge landslide. clear crushed cars and mangled homes white car was just visible underneath the whom wept as they saw their damaged and help seal long-stymied peace agreements with insur- Rescue workers said it was still possi- and chainsaws to cut up tree trunks. But top floor of a home that had been torn district. —AFP gent groups fighting for greater regional autonomy. —AFP 10

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Ethiopia and Eritrea: Decades of dispute over a border thiopia and Eritrea have been bitter enemies for decades, fighting a frontier war in 1998-2000 Ethat cost nearly 80,000 lives, but a break- through was signaled Sunday when they agreed to reopen embassies and borders. Here is an overview of their troubled relationship.

Eritrea breaks away In 1962 Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, pro- claims the annexation of Eritrea, abolishing its autonomous status and effectively making it a province. Eritrea launches a war for independence that lasts nearly 30 years. In 1991 Eritrean rebels, who help overthrow the military-Marxist Ethiopian regime of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, seize the Eritrean capital Asmara. They install a government, gaining de facto independence. Eritrea gains full independence in May 1993, a secession blessed by Addis Ababa. However the 1,000-kilometre border between the neighbors is not properly defined. Erdogan: Turkey’s combative ‘chief’ with eye on history War breaks out In May 1998 skirmishes erupt after Eritrean forces fter 15 years in office that have ‘The heavyweight campaigner’ harbour district of Kasimpasa but Ankara was being “kept waiting at the enter the area around Badme, claiming the town under transformed his country, President If there was a global contest for win- brought up near the Black Sea, Erdogan door”-and in 2015 the peace process for borders drawn during Italian colonial rule. Fighting ARecep Tayyip Erdogan takes up a ning elections, Erdogan would see himself gained prominence in the nascent the Kurdish-majority southeast collapsed. spreads and in June the warring sides carry out air new mandate with expanded powers, as the undisputed-and undefeated-heavy- Islamist political movements that were strikes. The ensuing conflict is marked by trench war- aiming to establish himself alongside weight champion of the world. In the one- challenging secular domination, becom- Close family fare and large-scale pitched battles, alternating with founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as the and-a-half decades since his ruling party ing a popular mayor of Istanbul in 1994. In its early days the AKP, lacking allies long periods of calm. Attempts at mediation fail. leading figure of modern Turkish history. came to power, Erdogan has taken part in 14 His term was cut short when he was con- and experience, forged an alliance with Fighting flares anew in May 2000. A fierce bombard- Erdogan, 64, has in his political career elections-six legislative polls, three referen- victed and then jailed for four months for Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who ment of Eritrea turns the conflict in favor of Ethiopia, overcome a stint in prison, mass protests da, three local elections and two presidential inciting religious hatred when he recited moved to permanent exile in the US in while indirect negotiations resume in Algiers. and even a bloody coup attempt to votes-and won them all. Known to his inner an Islamist poem. But this only magnified 1999 yet built huge influence in Turkish emerge as Turkey’s uncontested leader, circle as “beyefendi” (sir) and to admirers as his profile. society. Gulen’s former allies blamed him Peace deal reached first as premier and then as president from “reis” (the chief), Erdogan prides himself on Founding the AKP after the previous for masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup In June 2000 they reach an initial peace accord 2014. He has freed up constraints on reli- being able to woo doubters with his inde- Islamist party led by his mentor bid by a renegade army faction, charges brokered by the Organization of African Unity (OAU). gion in the officially secular but over- fatigable campaigning. His only setback-so Necmettin Erbakan was banned, he denies. The president, on holiday in It allows for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping whelmingly Muslim state, overseen a vast far-came in June 2015 elections when the Erdogan spearheaded its 2002 landslide the Aegean, appeared on the FaceTime force in a border buffer zone and calls for the with- program of infrastructure building he calls AKP won the most votes but lost its overall election victory and became premier less app on live TV to urge supporters out drawal of Ethiopian troops from areas inside Eritrea. his “crazy projects” and implemented a majority for the first time. than six months later. Erdogan’s signa- onto the streets, before returning in tri- An official peace pact signed in December 2000 more assertive foreign policy. But Erdogan swatted away the ture early achievements included a series umph to Istanbul and describing the establishes a Boundary Commission, which sits at the Supporters say Erdogan gives a voice prospect of a coalition, saying such gov- of reforms that gladdened the EU, events as a “gift from God”. International Court of Arbitration in The Hague, to to Turkey’s conservative Muslim majority, ernments belonged to the days of “old including abolishing the death penalty The coup bid marked a watershed officially demarcate the disputed frontier. Its ruling is has brought new levels of economic Turkey”. He called new elections in and beginning a peace process with moment in Erdogan’s rule with some to be “final and binding”. prosperity and commands respect on the November 2015 where the party’s major- Kurdish militants. 77,000 arrested in the unprecedented international stage. But detractors ity was restored. Erdogan pressed on Mass protests in summer 2013 over purge that followed, further increasing Border ruling rejected accuse Erdogan of leading Turkey down with an April 2017 referendum on a new plans to turn an Istanbul park into a tensions with the West. And his increas- In April 2002 the commission attributes to Eritrea a dangerous path to authoritarianism constitution that abolishes the office of shopping mall marked the start of a more ingly pugnacious style has alienated some chunks of land along the border, including the contest- reminiscent of the Ottoman Sultans, pur- prime minister and that critics said divisive era as Erdogan came out fighting, former allies such as predecessor Abdullah ed town of Badme. Ethiopia rejects the ruling as “ille- suing an imperial foreign policy and resembled an autocracy, but eked out a dismissing the protesters as “hooligans”. Gul, a co-founder of the AKP. Family is key gal, unjust and irresponsible” and requests an “inter- reckless handling of the economy. In any relatively narrow win. He won 52.6 per- Tensions further increased later that year for Erdogan and one of his closest confi- pretation, correction and consultation”. The commis- case, Erdogan is here to stay, being cent of the vote in the presidential elec- when a corruption scandal broke impli- dants is his energy minister and son-in- sion refuses. Ethiopian forces continue to occupy the sworn in Monday for a second presiden- tions last month, higher even than his cating Erdogan’s inner circle. The allega- law Berat Albayrak, the husband of his town. The standoff delays the physical demarcation of tial term under a new system that gives result from the 2014 polls. tions enthralled his opponents but his eldest daughter Esra. His younger daugh- the border in terms of the commission’s ruling. him enhanced powers and could see him supporters rubbished the claims. The ter Sumeyye plays a key role in a women’s Tensions rise between the two sides with gunfire, stay in office to 2028. From Kasimpasa to presidency accession process to join the EU ground organization but, in contrast, his two sons landmines and troop movements near the border. Born in the working-class Istanbul to a halt-with Erdogan complaining are less prominent. — AFP

Stalemate In May 2006, amid fears of a new all-out war, talks are held in London on resuming the demarcation of the border but fail, the neighbors accusing each other What do we know of holding to inflexible positions. In June Ethiopia claims to have killed more than 110 rebels allegedly about gang-rape sent by Eritrea to destabilize the country, a claim denied by Eritrea. Meanwhile fears arise that the feuding neighbors may be using Somalia as a proxy that rocked India? battleground. As the dispute drags on, border regions experience regular attacks and incidents. ndia’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld death sen- tences for three men over the infamous gang-rape and Concession, breakthrough murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked In June 2018 Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy I national protests and led to tough new penalties for sexual Ahmed, announces his country will abide by the 2002 violence. The horrific violence meted out to 23-year-old ruling requiring it to cede territory, including Badme, Jyoti Singh on a bus in India’s capital sparked angry and withdraw its forces. Eritrea’s President Isaias protests and shone unprecedented attention on the Afwerki responds positively and sends a delegation to scourge of sexual crimes against women in the country. Addis Ababa to plan for future action. Talks are The case spurred a major overhaul of laws governing such announced between the rival leaders and Abiy arrives crimes, faster prosecutions in courts and harsher punish- in Asmara on July 8 for the meeting, cheering crowds ments for perpetrators. Here are five questions and lining the streets to welcome him. At dinner after- answers about the watershed case. wards Abiy announces that the two countries will reopen embassies and borders between them, a major Who was the victim? step in normalising ties. — AFP Singh’s father moved the family from their small farming village in rural Uttar Pradesh state to the bustling capital in search of work. It was hoped Singh would become the first professional in the family, and all energies were chan- neled into her studies at a private physiotherapy college. Her father earned just $200 per month as an airport bag- gage handler but sold ancestral land to help pay for his NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court building is pictured in New Delhi. India’s Supreme Court has upheld death daughter’s tuition. To supplement her family’s meagre sentences handed down to three men over the gang-rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012, saying income, Singh worked nights at an outsourcing firm and there were no grounds for a review. — AFP gave private lessons to school children. punish perpetrators. It also led to much soul-searching tenced to three years in a detention centre and has since December 16, 2012 about the treatment of women in India, which suffers from been released. Sentencing the four in 2013, Judge Yogesh Singh was returning from the cinema after watching extremely high levels of sexual assault and where discrimi- Khanna said the case fell into the “rarest of rare category” ‘Life of Pi’ with a male friend when they were offered a nation against women and girls is rife. As Singh struggled which justifies capital punishment in India. Just three were ride in a private bus. Six men, including a juvenile, beat to survive long enough to help police identify her attack- involved in the appeal rejected yesterday. Singh’s friend unconscious before raping and torturing her ers, she became a symbol of India’s long-overdue cam- with an iron bar as the bus drove loops through the city. paign to end sexual violence against women. What changes came of it? Singh was dumped on the streets 45 minutes later with In the aftermath of the crime, a panel headed by a for- horrific internal injuries, and died 13 days later in a What happened to attackers? mer chief justice was tasked with reviewing India’s laws on Singapore hospital. The accused were low-paid migrants to New Delhi, sexual violence. The panel recommended a minimum sen- among them a bus cleaner, a gym assistant, a fruit seller tence of 20 years for gang-rape, with the possibility of life Why is this case extraordinary? and a school dropout. Four were convicted in September imprisonment. It also called for tougher punishments for a The savagery of the attack proved a tipping point in a 2013 for murder, gang-rape, theft, conspiracy and “unnat- range of sexual crimes common across India, including Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed walks to make his city where an average of six women are raped every day. ural acts” after a seven-month trial in a fast-track court. A voyeurism, stalking and acid attacks. The government speech during the inauguration ceremony of Djibouti. — AFP Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Delhi fifth man, the suspected ringleader, was found dead in jail responded by introducing tougher punishments for rapists, demanding swifter justice for victims and tougher laws to in a suspected suicide, while the 17-year-old was sen- including the death penalty for repeat offenders. — AFP Established 1961

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KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) reported net ($1,460.3 million), driven by robust lending volumes, through a Saudi CMA licensed entity.” Through constant profits of KD 185.9 million ($613.8 million) for the period improving margins in addition to strong fee business” Al- innovation, NBK secures its future, and ensures both the of 1H 2018 compared with KD 164.7 million ($543.9 mil- Sayer highlighted. acquisition and retention of customers. NBK has recently lion) in 1H 2017, growing 12.9 percent year-on-year. Al-Sayer also added that “the domestic operating envi- been investing in platforms to support transfer initiatives. NBK’s 2Q 2018 net profits reached KD 92.3 million ronment continues to drive our positive outlook growth. During the second quarter, the Bank introduced SWIFT ($304.7 million), compared to KD 79.3 million ($262.0 mil- We continue to witness capital spending plans in place; GPI service after passing the rigorous testing phase of lion) for the same period in 2017 recording an increase of that was evident in the recent budget where capital SWIFT. Moreover, NBK will be the first bank in Kuwait to 16.3 percent YoY. spending is on an upward trend.” offer instant cross-border payments latest technology in Total assets as of end of June 2018 reached KD 26.9 “Kuwait is our home market and the most important for partnership with Ripple Labs. The RippleNet solution will billion ($89.0 billion) up 5.7 percent compared to end of us. We continue to see a great opportunity in Kuwait on the offer NBK customers a fast, safe and convenient cross June 2017, while total shareholders’ equity increased by back of our view of the private sector playing a major role border payments option while ensuring all regulatory and 4.1 percent to KD 3.0 billion ($9.9 billion). Customer loans in infrastructure project execution and financing,” Al-Sayer compliance requirements are met. and advances reached KD 15.2 billion ($50.3 billion) as of highlighted. “NBK continues to be at the forefront of this Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer Isam Al-Sager end of June 2018, up 6.3 percent from last year’s levels. segment and the largest beneficiary given the size of the Ratings, awards Customer deposits grew by 7.8 percent year-on-year to Banks’ balance sheet, market, dominance, capabilities and and growing its contribution to the Group. Boubyan Bank NBK continues to enjoy collectively one of the highest reach KD 14.6 billion ($48.3 billion) as of end of June 2018. expertise. Isam Al-Sager, NBK’s Group Chief Executive positions NBK Group in a very favorable position, being ratings among all banks in the Middle East from the three Asset quality remained strong with NPL/Gross Loans Officer said; “The Group has been delivering strong per- the only Kuwaiti bank with access to both markets, con- international rating agencies Moody’s, Fitch Ratings and ratio at 1.40 percent as of end of June 2018, and NPL cov- formance quarter after quarter and we continue to see sim- ventional and Islamic.” Standard and Poor’s. The Bank’s ratings are supported by erage ratio at 254 percent. The Group maintained best in ilar trends in 1H 2018 and beyond. Our profits are lwaysa “The geographic exposure helped NBK bring its diver- its high capitalization, prudent lending policies, and its dis- class capitalization ratios. As of end-June 2018, NBK’s driven by core banking activities and growing volumes sification strategy into practice as we drive a meaningful ciplined approach to risk management, in addition to its capital adequacy ratio (CAR) reached 17.2 percent, com- across most segments supporting our aspiration to diversi- contribution from our operations outside Kuwait. Profits highly recognized and very stable management team. NBK fortably exceeding regulatory requirements. fy assets and income stream by business activity and geog- from international operations reached 28.2 percent of the was also named among Global Finance’s list of the 50 Nasser Al-Sayer, NBK Group Chairman said “Building raphy. Given the Bank’s adequate capitalization, stable Group’s total profits in 1H 2018. This confirm the Bank’s safest banks in the world for twelve consecutive times and on last year’s strong profitability trends, NBK is on track funding and ample liquidity conditions; NBK continues to key competitive advantage relative to peers.” was awarded as the Best Bank in Kuwait in 2017 by the to recording another year of record profits as demonstrat- benefit from emerging opportunities locally and regionally.” “Our key growth markets regionally are the GCC along Banker, Euromoney and Global Finance. ed in 1H 2018 results. We continued to deliver on our con- with Egypt; and we continue to identify organic growth NBK enjoys the widest banking presence with a local servative diversification strategy, while maintain growing Islamic banking opportunities in international markets. In 2H 2018, we plan and international network reaching 4 continents. NBK’s at a steady pace in spite of critical challenges in the “Islamic banking remains a key element in the Group’s to expand our branch network in Saudi Arabia to three international presence spans many of the world’s leading regions we operate in. “The Group’s net operating income growth and diversification strategy. Our subsidiary, branches from one branch currently, in addition to inaugu- financial centers including New York, Europe, Singapore grew by 10.9 percent year-on-year to KD 442.2 million Boubyan Bank, is delivering extraordinary performance rating our wealth management services in the Kingdom and China; in addition to its presence in MENA. 12

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Business

NBK OIL MARKET REPORT OPEC agrees to boost output to resupply tight markets Production outages hit supply, sanctions affect Iran output KUWAIT: The much-anticipated OPEC ministerial meeting concluded on 23 June with oil producers agreeing to effective- ly boost aggregate output to resupply markets that had visibly tightened over the last year. This tightening has come about through a combination of burgeoning global oil demand and falling supply due to production outages, for example, in Venezuela, Angola and Libya, and has sent oil prices up to three-and-a-half year highs of $80 per barrel (bbl). In its official communique, however, OPEC was deliberate- ly vague about which producers will make up the shortfall and by how much, stating only that the aim was to bring collective compliance with the November 2016 production cut agree- ment down to 100 percent from May’s figure of 162 percent (OPEC-12). Oil ministers later indicated that this would be a nominal production increase of around 1 million barrels per day (mb/d). It is not yet clear how this figure was derived. The aggre- gate supply shortfall among OPEC countries compared to the Vienna Agreement targets was around 720,000 b/d in May, stemming mainly from Venezuela, which accounted for the bulk of the loss with production at least 580,000 b/d below the level the country was officially required to reduce its out- put to-achieving 711 percent compliance. Lower supply was also the case with Angola (148,000 b/d below target) due to underinvestment amid maturing oil fields and Saudi Arabia (67,000 b/d below quota), which deliberately overcut in an attempt to stimulate higher prices. We assume, however, that the figure of 1 mb/d, which applies to both OPEC and non- Iran was allowed to increase output, offer any waivers to countries that planned to maintain capacity is added. On the demand side, the IEA pegs growth OPEC producers, is probably predicated on the expectation Libya and Nigeria exempt imports of Iranian crude-China and India, for example-after in 2018 at a robust 1.4 mb/d, which will continue at the same that Venezuelan production will continue to decline in the Indeed, the ambiguous wording of the OPEC announce- the US embargo commences in a few months’ time. rate in 2019. While the pace has slowed since last year’s rise of second half of the year, Iranian output will fall after the re- ment and the move away from talk of individual production Prices have since maintained their upward trend, with 1.6 mb/d, it is, nevertheless, backed up by solid macroeconom- imposition of US sanctions and global oil demand will contin- allocations in favor of a group-wide ceiling is seen as OPEC’s Brent and WTI closing last week at $77.1/bbl and $73.8/bbl, ic fundamentals-for now. Of course, were the tariff dispute to ue to be robust. way of appeasing Iran, which, along with Venezuela, has been respectively-near to their three-and-a-half-year high. deteriorate to the extent that global trade is adversely affect- the most vocal critic of the Saudi-Russian plan to increase The price whipsaw illustrates the diametrically opposed ed, then oil demand would naturally be impacted. Saudi assurance production. These producers’ resistance stems from the fact forces that will influence the trajectory of oil prices over the On the current trajectory, demand is expected to exceed Saudi Arabia has reiterated its commitment to supply the that their oil production is either in decline or at its limit next six months and beyond: fears of too aggressive an supply in 2018 by a mere 30,000 b/d on average. Meanwhile, markets with enough crude to ensure that they remain in bal- ahead of the imposition of US sanctions. Neither is happy increase in oil supplies from OPEC and Russia ranged against global crude and product inventories, OPEC’s preferred met- ance. It was reported recently that the Saudis are planning for with the idea that they will not be able to increase output to a possible supply crunch due to the loss of Venezuelan and ric for gauging the efficacy of its production cuts up until a sizeable increase in production of at least 600,000 b/d, and compensate for the loss of revenue resulting from lower oil Iranian oil barrels. The International Energy Agency (IEA), in recently, have slipped below the group’s five year average possibly up to 800,000 b/d to top 10.8 mb/d, which, if true, prices, and neither would accept the prospect of ceding mar- its June report, outlined a scenario in which crude output target, by 27 million barrels. These two factors could push the would be a record, surpassing the 10.6 mb/d the kingdom ket share to Saudi Arabia and its GCC allies. Iran went as far from both countries by the end of 2019 could be 1.5 mb/d oil price up or at least maintain it within a narrow range. pumped in November 2016. as warning OPEC that, by boosting output, it was in danger of lower than it is today, based on, in Iran’s case, sanctions hav- Oil outlook Indeed, it was reported that President Trump had asked becoming a tool of US President Donald Trump’s foreign poli- ing as great an impact on its exports now as they did last time The outlook remains highly uncertain, however. The vol- King Salman of Saudi Arabia to pump up to 2 mb/d of addi- cy, implicitly referring to the president’s complaint in May around. And hanging over both scenarios is the market’s anxi- ety about eroding global spare production capacity, which umes OPEC and Russia intend to bring to the market and the tional crude, effectively the kingdom’s entire spare production that OPEC was keeping prices “artificially” high. could fall from the current 3 percent of global demand to volumes likely to be lost from Iran due to sanctions are still capacity, in order to offset the expected loss of Iranian bar- below 2 percent. This would be the thinnest buffer from which largely unknown. But the risk that OPEC+ overshoots on sup- rels once US sanctions kick-in. Prices rally to draw supplies (to meet demand in the event of a supply ply and global inventories rebuild as a result should not be So, the signs are that the oil producers intend to produce Once it became clear that OPEC+ was targeting 1 mb/d outage) since 1984. The potential for price spikes and volatili- discounted. Then there is US shale, which is expected to over and above the current supply deficit. In any case, only a and not 0.5 mb/d, as had been reported on the Friday of the meeting, oil prices took their cue and fell, by more than 1 per- ty is obvious. resume its break-neck pace of growth once infrastructure handful of OPEC+ countries-mainly Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the bottlenecks in Texas and Louisiana are solved. Moreover, in cent when the market opened on Monday, the first trading Meanwhile, US shale growth, the predominant bearish UAE, Iraq and Russia-have the spare capacity to ramp up the medium term, global economic growth is expected to slow day after the agreement was announced. On Tuesday, when force of the last few years, appears to be cooling amid pipeline output to reach this figure. But potential gains from Iraq are constraints and infrastructure bottlenecks. While production as many advanced countries will have reached their full the higher Saudi output forecast filtered through, oil prices hampered by its dispute with the Kurdistan Regional has soared by more than a million barrels a day this year capacity. Add to this the prospect of an unprecedented rise in immediately dropped, climbing only on preliminary reports of Government (KRG) amid limited export infrastructure, leaving (+11.4 percent) to reach a record high of 10.9 mb/d in the protectionism that could turn into an all-out trade war that a greater-than-expected stockpile draw in the US and after it the remaining four producers, with estimated spare produc- week-ending 22 June, more and more voices are now warning significantly impacts world economic growth and downward emerged that US state department officials were unwilling to tion capacity of around 3 mb/d, to fill the gap. of a slowdown over the next twelve months while new pipeline pressures on the oil price could feasibly ensue.

Buying interest in US beans from China, the ENERGY: The fallout from world’s top importer of the oilseed, has slowed A record volume of US crude oil is heading to to a trickle ahead of the tariffs, with one China even as Beijing’s planned tariffs threaten to Libya’s oil output remaining US cargo heading for China still on cut off a relatively new and burgeoning business for US-China trade war: the water. US exporters. Nine vessels with 26.6 million barrels more than halved The vessel, Peak Pegasus, carrying 70,000 tons of crude oil loaded in Texas and Alaska and worth What’s at stake of the US oilseed for state grain trader Sinograin, about $2 billion are due to land over the next five was due to arrive in the port of Dalian at 5:00 pm weeks, Thomson Reuters trade flow data shows. since February (0900 GMT) on Friday, just hours after the duties That equates to 700,000 barrels per day, 8 BEIJING: Washington imposed tariffs on $34 bil- went into effect. percent of China’s daily imports and a large vol- TUNIS: Libya’s national oil production fell to 527,000 barrels lion of Chinese imports on Friday and Beijing has Some shipments marked for China were due to ume for the United States, a newcomer to the per day (bpd) from a high of 1.28 million bpd in February follow- said it will retaliate with punitive measures on US be loaded from the US Pacific Northwest, and are Chinese market. ing recent oil port closures, the head of the National Oil products worth a similar amount, including soy- likely to get sent elsewhere as exporters scramble If enacted, the import duty would make US oil Corporation (NOC) said in a statement yesterday. beans, pork and cotton. The Chinese government to avoid paying the tariff, a US trader said. less competitive than other crudes, likely causing a The NOC had not previously stated how high the country’s had not officially confirmed on Friday afternoon In the months ahead though, China will struggle decline in Chinese purchases and forcing US oil production had climbed after partially recovering to more than 1 that the retaliatory tariffs had taken effect. to replace the US beans, forcing processors, which firms to find other buyers. Amid a relatively well- million bpd a year ago. In the video statement dated July 8 the But the tit-for-tat measures have escalated the crush the beans to make oil and animal feed, to pay supplied global oil market, energy consultancy chairman of Tripoli-based NOC, Mustafa Sanalla, said the Feb. trade dispute between the world’s two largest the extra duty or find substitutes. Wood Mackenzie said the United States “would find 23 closure of the El Feel oilfield due to protests led to the loss of economies and the world’s commodities markets Rabobank reckons China may have to buy up to it hard to find an alternative market that is as big as 80,000 bpd, but output had subsequently remained around 1.1 are increasingly embroiled in the bust-up. 15 million tons of US beans at tariff prices. China,” as Chinese buyers make up 20 percent of million bpd. The higher US tariffs went into effect just after Crushers may not pass on the inflated cost at least US overseas crude sales. China would likely replace Last month it dropped sharply when an armed attack against noon in Beijing (0401 GMT). The US and China in the short term, further eroding their already low the lost US barrels from their top sellers Russia or forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar at the have also issued a second batch of proposed duties margins, the bank said in a research note. The Saudi Arabia, which have recently announced plans oil export ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider shut both terminals on $16 billion of each other’s goods. These would biggest impact will likely be seen in sales of the to raise output. down. After Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) repelled the hit US energy exports, such as coal and crude oil, next US crop, which will come to market in Among other energy products, China noticeably attack a week later, it announced it would hand the ports and among other areas. It is unclear when these will September. spared US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from fields in the east to a parallel NOC. Ras Lanuf and Es Sider have come into effect. In the meantime, Brazil, the world’s top exporter, potential import tariffs, but in doing so, it has pre- remained shut and tankers booked by the NOC in Tripoli, which Below is a detailed breakdown of the markets will likely pick up the slack, although a trade asso- served a potential weapon should the trade war with is recognised internationally as the sole producer and seller of affected by the tariffs imposed and proposed: ciation warned on Thursday the South American Washington deepen. Libyan oil, have been unable to load. “Our production today is 527,000 bpd. Tomorrow it will be country may need to import the oilseed from the However, coal could be caught in the crossfire if less and the day after tomorrow less again. And we are going FOOD: United States this year to satisfy demand from the second batch of duties are introduced. lower,” Sanalla said. The NOC had previously estimated the pro- Beijing’s tariffs will have the biggest impact on local processors. Replacing American shipments with coal from oth- soybeans, the United States’ top agricultural duction loss from the stoppage at 850,000 bpd, or $67 million in European pork will gain some ground over the er places would not be difficult for China, but a daily revenue. export to China in 2017 worth about $12.7 billion, US, which shipped almost $500 million worth of loss of business with the world’s top importer of hurting U.S. farmers in states, such as Iowa and OPEC member Libya was pumping 1.6 million bpd or more pork to China last year. US shipments have nearly the fuel would hurt companies in West Virginia, a before conflict, blockades and political splits slashed output Texas, which backed Republican President Donald ground to a halt since the 25 percent tariffs imple- state that heavily favored Trump in the 2016 presi- from 2013. — Reuters Trump in the 2016 election. mented on April 2. dential election. — Reuters

workers. “The 15-day strike will affect all EXCHANGE RATES Gabon oil installations operated by Total Gabon’s employees as of Monday July 9th,” the ONEP statement said, including facilities BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL workers start in the capital Libreville and the oil hub of Port Gentil. CURRENCY BUY SELL America Taiwan 0.009859 0.010039 The decision to strike follows several Europe Canadian Dollar 0.226213 0.235213 Thai Baht 0.008840 0.009390 15-day strike at US Dollars 0.299050 0.304350 failed discussions with Total representa- British Pound 0.395638 0.409538 Czech Korune 0.005736 0.015036 US Dollars Mint 0.299550 0.304350 Arab tives mediated by the Ministry of Total facilities Danish Krone 0.043734 0.048734 Bahraini Dinar 0.788904 0.805404 Employment, ONEP said. A Total spokes- Euro 0. 348742 0.362442 Asia Egyptian Pound 0.014307 0.020025 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 LIBREVILLE: Gabon oil workers’ union woman had no immediate comment. Georgian Lari 0.123097 0.123097 Bangladesh Taka 0.003210 0.003921 Gabon produces about 200,000 bar- Chinese Yuan 0.044222 0.047722 Iraqi Dinar 0.000197 0.000257 ONEP began a 15-day strike at the facili- Hungarian 0.001011 0.001201 Jordanian Dinar 0.423269 0.432269 ties of French oil producer Total yester- rels per day (bpd) of crude, according to Norwegian Krone 0.033737 0.038937 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036539 0.039289 Indian Rupee 0.003899 0.004671 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 day after demands for higher pay and the US Energy Information Administration, Romanian Leu 0.059474 0.081744 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000017 0.000023 but output from the OPEC member’s Russian ruble 0.004797 0.004797 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020522 0.044522 other issues were not met, the union said Japanese Yen 0.002658 0.002838 mature fields has plummeted from a 1997 Slovakia 0.009041 0.019041 Omani Riyal 0.781084 0.786764 in a statement. ONEP threatened to strike Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 Swedish Krona 0.030742 0.030742 Qatar Riyal 0.078978 0.083918 last month, after Total Gabon failed to peak of 370,000 bpd. A steep fall in oil Malaysian Ringgit 0.071802 0.077802 prices in 2014 and 2015 choked much Swiss Franc 0.300015 0.300015 Saudi Riyal 0.079753 0.081053 respond to demands made to the compa- Nepalese Rupee 0.002658 0.002998 Syrian Pound 0.001285 0.001505 ny in May. In addition to higher pay, the needed revenue and forced companies to Pakistan Rupee 0.001914 0.002684 Australasia Tunisian Dinar 0.111776 0.119776 lay off thousands of oil workers. Total pro- Philippine Peso 0.005501 0.005801 union requested new bonuses, increased Australian Dollar 0.217688 0.229688 Turkish Lira 0.060892 0.071192 duces about 54,000 barrels of oil equiva- Singapore Dollar 0.217922 0.227922 UAE Dirhams 0.081111 0.082811 opportunities for career advancement and New Zealand Dollar 0.200951 0.210451 a reduction in the number of foreign lent per day in Gabon. — Reuters Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001608 0.002188 Yemeni Riyal 0.000985 0.001065 13 Business Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Boubyan Bank posts net profits of KD 25.7 million in H1 2018 Bank’s successful strategy, strength of HR dept pay off KUWAIT: Boubyan Bank has reported net profits of KD Customer Service 25.7 million for the first half of 2018, a growth rate of 18 On the other hand, Al- percent compared with the comparative period last year, Majed stressed that the with an earnings per share of 9.72 fils compared to 8.09 bank would continue fils for the comparative period of 2017. opening new branches Adel Abdul Wahab Al-Majed, the Bank’s Vice-Chairman after reaching 42 branches, and Chief Executive Officer, commented on such positive and he stated: “In line with results by stating: “Boubyan’s journey of success which our domestic geographic started 9 years ago continues to achieve positive results expansion to be closer to by acquiring market shares in various segments, both in our clients, we are continu- retail or corporate services”. ing our investment in e- “This reflects the level of trust in the bank by various services and e-banking stakeholders whether shareholders or clients and this pos- products which placed us itively influences the growth of all the financial indicators ahead of other local banks. of the bank,” he added. We are doing that in order Adel Abdul Wahab to cater for the various Al-Majed Positive growth needs of our clients.” Al-Majed stated that all of the Bank’s main performance He went on to add: indicators witnessed a remarkable growth during the first “Boubyan will continue providing the highest levels of half of the year where the total assets increased to KD 4.2 service to its client emanating from its slogan “Towards billion at a growth rate of 12 percent while the operating Perfection” which has been reflected in all the services and income increased to reach KD 71 million at a growth rate products of the bank, aiming to make the life of our cus- of 18 percent in addition to the increase in customers’ tomers easier and to make all the aspects of their daily life deposits by 12 percent, amounting to KD 3.5 billion. He more convenient.” further added that the total equity of the bank increased to In this context, Al-Majed stressed that Boubyan KD 378 million compared with KD 352 million last year Bank continued being at the top of the pyramid for cus- and that there was a notable increase in the financing tomer service in Kuwait, supported by receiving two portfolio to KD 3.1 billion with a growth rate of 13 percent awards from Service Hero - the international con- in addition to the continuous growth of the bank’s cus- sumer-driven customer satisfaction index, namely, the tomers’ base. First Place Award in Customer Service as a Country Al-Majed stated as well that the market share, in Winner atop all economic sectors in Kuwait, for the third time, in addition to being named the 2017 Best financing, increased to approximately 8.3 percent with an Islamic Bank in Customer Service for the eighth year in number of activities and events organized by the bank as a tional and regional changes through its young manage- increase in the market share of the retail finance to a row since 2010. part of its corporate social responsibility to support the ment, and the Consumer Banking Group, which com- approximately 11 percent. Besides this, the bank recorded Al-Majed added: “The confidence of our customers youth as well as many other segments of the society, while prises mostly of youths, testifies to this. The bank is a remarkable growth in the corporate credit portfolio at was well-placed, and this was fruitful as it resulted in highlighting that the past Holy Month of Ramadan wit- known for placing the youth in leading roles, and this 11 percent compared to last year. This was achieved by these two special awards in Kuwait”. He further stressed nessed a number of outstanding activities and events held has further helped Boubyan Bank earn the award for the building relationship with a number of companies known that the bank would continue at that remarkable level of by Boubyan Bank. “Replacement and Nationalization of Manpower in for their financial position and creditworthiness while customer service. “Boubyan Bank gives a special attention to its human Kuwait”. The award is given on an annual basis by the continuing to maintain the highest standards of credit CSR and HR resources as a part of the bank’s approach being a Council for the Ministers of Labor for the best GCC quality, monitoring and diversifying risks. Al-Majed stated that the first half of this year marked a developed and modern bank keeping up with interna- institution.”, Al-Majed concluded.

duction costs at below $1 per barrel compared Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Khalid Al- Aramco more to $10 per barrel in places like Russia and as Falih, said on June 21 it would be “nice” to see much as $20-30 per barrel in locations like the Aramco floated in 2019, adding the timing was the BBC, the head of Britain’s main busi- North Sea. not critical to the government. ness lobby group the CBI, called the res- resilient to oil The accounts show 67,718 people worked UK business ignation of Davis “a blow” to the plan. for Aramco in 2016. That compares with 71,100 $13 billion net income But at the same time, Carolyn Fairbairn slump than at Exxon and 89,000 at Shell. Aramco produces The documents seen by Reuters show that welcomes May’s said the government was moving “in the around 10 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil Aramco made more money than any other oil right direction”. She added: “There will listed rivals compared with Exxon’s and Shell’s oil equivalent company in 2016. Its net income of $13.3 billion Brexit plan be a time when the benefits of free trade of 4 million bpd and 3.7 million bpd respectively. in 2016 outstripped Exxon’s $7.8 billion, while deals internationally could outweigh LONDON: Saudi Aramco is more resilient to oil In April, Bloomberg reported Aramco had net Shell reported 2016 earnings attributable to LONDON: British business welcomed a European trade, but it’s not yet. price slumps than its biggest listed rivals, its income of $33.8 billion in the first six months of shareholders - the equivalent metric - of $3.5 UK plan to keep strong European Union “Our argument is unless and until you 2016 accounts indicate, giving a rare insight into 2017, up from $7.2 billion in the first half of billion. BP, dealing with the financial aftermath of economic ties post Brexit, even though have an alternative way of reaching fric- the state energy giant’s finances ahead of a pro- 2016, as oil prices spiked and as the Saudi gov- the Deepwater Horizon disaster, reported a loss Prime Minister Theresa May was already tionless trade, a customs union is the right posed flotation. The full-year accounts, not pub- ernment changed the tax rate. of $999 million in 2016, better than a $5.162 bil- counting the political cost. May faced a answer so we think broadly this is going in licly available but seen by Reuters, show Full-year results for 2016 and 2015 have nev- lion loss in 2015. crisis in her cabinet yesterday after Brexit the right direction.” And in a statement on Aramco’s net income fell by about 21 percent to er been disclosed before. Aramco’s earnings and Based on cash flow from operations, another minister David Davis and two of his Davis’ replacement, eurosceptic junior min- $13.3 billion in 2016 - when oil prices collapsed other key information about the company, which important metric for investors, Aramco did well deputies resigned over the plan drawn up ister for housing Dominic Raab, Fairbairn to a 12-year low of $27.10 a barrel due to a pumps about 10 percent of the world’s oil, have too. The company’s net cash from operating ahead of the weekend. said: “There’s a tough job ahead and busi- global glut of crude. been a closely guarded secret for decades. The activities rose about 21 percent to $29 billion in British business, whose leaders have ness is ready and willing to support him By comparison, the net income of Exxon accounts provide a window into its finances 2016, the accounts show. The highest figure persistently called for a clear plan on and his team... deliver a good Brexit at such Mobil Corp, the world’s largest listed oil compa- ahead of the proposed stock market listing, among the listed competitors was reported by Brexit, came together yesterday to back a critical time for the country.” ny, dropped 51 percent in 2016, while the earn- should it go ahead. Exxon, whose cash flow from operations was May’s proposals. “It is welcome that the May’s proposals are for “a common ings attributable to shareholders of Royal Dutch Even though Aramco may be bigger and $22.1 billion, down 27 percent from 2015. Shell’s cabinet set out an agreed position for the rule book for industrial goods and agri- Shell, the No.2 listed oil firm, fell 37 percent, more resilient than its peers, analysts have cash flow from operations fell 31 percent and UK’s future relationship with the cultural products”. They additionally call excluding items. repeatedly expressed doubt that it can achieve BP’s declined 44 percent. European Union,” said Catherine for “a new business-friendly customs Saudi Aramco said in response to a request Riyadh’s $2 trillion valuation, if and when it Aramco realised an average price of $40.68 McGuinness, head of policy at the City of model”, which would maintain high stan- for comment: “Saudi Aramco does not comment decides to list its stock. Its nearest rival Exxon is on its crude oil exports in 2016, down from London Corporation, a local government dards but allow Britain “to strike new on speculation regarding its financial perform- worth $350 billion. $49.46 in 2015, the accounts showed. Revenue authority for the capital’s financial district. trade deals around the world” once it has ance and fiscal regime.” A listing of up to 5 percent of Aramco has was $135 billion, down from $146 billion in 2015. However in a note of caution she said left the European Union in March next Industry experts say Aramco’s ability to bet- been the centerpiece of a government plan to The 2016 Aramco accounts reviewed by “a deal that excludes services... could year. The government believes that plan ter weather price shocks is down to low pro- diversify the kingdom’s economy. But some Reuters were prepared according to IFRS have a negative impact on the UK’s finan- would allow Britain to maintain friction- duction costs, the fact its major operations are sources close to the process say the plans for a standards, and according to the 85 percent tax cial sector”. Despite a divided cabinet, less trade with the EU in goods, avoid concentrated in just one country and because it domestic and international listing may never rate that applied at the time. The Saudi govern- May on Friday won overall support at her customs checks on the sensitive Irish country retreat for a new “free trade has fewer employees than its biggest rivals even happen. “Domestic is more likely, but the whole ment cut the tax rate to 50 percent from 2017, border, and end both free movement of area” where Britain would accept EU though it is the world’s largest oil producer. thing is uncertain,” said a source familiar with making the firm more attractive to potential people and jurisdiction of the European rules for goods. Speaking yesterday to Analysts estimates the Saudi giant’s pro- Aramco’s IPO plans. investors. — Reuters Court of Justice in Britain. — AFP 14 Established 1961 Business Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Turkish Airlines signs significant global agreement with Amex GBT Deal to boost cooperation on a global level

KUWAIT: Turkish Airlines signed a significant deal with Amex GBT, will also become one of the airlines supported GBT organization, as well as top level participation in all was existed on a regional scale and now expanded to glob- American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), one by Amex GBT at the top level, within the scope of this global events organized by Amex GBT, increasing the visi- al, we aim to increase our market share also in the corpo- of the world’s leading agencies for corporate travel. With expanded agreement. bility of Turkish Airlines in Amex GBT’s communication rate travel segment and to be the most preferred airline for this agreement, signed by Turkish Airlines Chairman of the It is aimed to determine a common strategy on a global channels, acquiring new corporate customers through the all business travellers worldwide.” Board and the Executive Committee, M Ilker Ayci, and level and to increase the cooperation between the manage- joint data analysis studies, and also the promotion of sales Amex GBT, considered as one of the largest global Amex GBT’s Board Chairman, Greg O’Hara, Turkish ments of both parts at all levels along with this expanded activities are all the other subjects to be improved within agencies in the sector, has more than 100 years of experi- Airlines expands its existing collaboration with AMEX to a partnership. Another goal at this point is to increase the this new business partnership. Commenting on the agree- ence in corporate travel. The global agency, which aims to global partnership, which was on regional scale between cooperation in product development and sales for “Marine ment M Ilker Ayci, Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board make the business travels much easier, productive and less 2014-2017 and including just Europe, North America and & Offshore”, “Travel and Lifestyle Services” (TLS), and and the Executive Committee said; “As Turkish Airlines, we stressful, both in terms of suppliers and travelers, serves in Asia / Pacific regions. The global carrier who has added the “Meeting & Events” segments. Promotion of Turkish are very pleased to enter such an important business part- nearly 140 countries around the world, with 12,000 “South America” region to the new joint service area with Airlines’ brand awareness and perception within Amex nership with Amex GBT. With this new agreement, which employees, to 8,000 customers.

mode of usage for mobile internet, as it is the main Unlimited roaming tool for sharing videos, pictures and audio clips with loved ones on various social media channels pline around a softer Brexit strategy. such as Instagram and Snapchat. Sterling gains as However, analysts said May’s success in get- internet with Commenting on the launch of the revamped ting broad agreement for her plan for life service, Ooredoo Kuwait issued a statement saying investors bet on after the EU was more important. that the service is aimed to enrich the experience of UBS Global Wealth Management’s chief Ooredoo Passport the telecom service provider’s customers and meet economist Paul Donovan said the market softer Brexit KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait launched a revamped their expectations, taking in mind the lifestyle of the reaction was “almost as if investors do not roaming package - Ooredoo Passport Unlimited company’s global-oriented customer base. The know who Davis is”. that can be used in over 60 countries including packages also reiterate Ooredoo’s commitment to despite Davis exit Under the agreement announced by May Russia, the host country of the 2018 World Cup. helping customers enjoy the internet, especially on Friday, Britain will retain a close trading since mobile internet is an essential part of every- LONDON: Sterling rallied yesterday as relationship with the EU, making the sort of day use to many customers. Ooredoo noted that traders bet the resignation of British Brexit arrangement business leaders have called for the new my Ooredoo passport service can be con- minister David Davis would not endanger the in recent weeks more likely. “It’s a softer veniently activated and auto-renewed through the prime minister and instead focused on the Brexit and it’s a plan. A plan is better than no company’s My Ooredoo smartphone app. government’s newly-announced plan that mar- plan. The market is extrapolating that the EU Ooredoo’s operations in Kuwait date back to kets believe makes a “soft Brexit” more likely. will get more concessions out of the UK”, December 1999 when it launched wireless services In a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, bringing the two sides towards something The roaming package is available for both pre- as the second operator. The company today pro- vides mobile, broadband internet and corporate Davis resigned overnight because he was not like a customs union as favored by markets, paid and post-paid customers, at the same price and benefits. managed services tailored to the needs of cus- providers in the region, such as Ooredoo Algeria, willing to be “a reluctant conscript” to her Nomura’s Rochester said. May announced hard-won Brexit agreement with the cabinet. The Ooredoo Passport Unlimited package gives tomers and businesses. Ooredoo Kuwait - which is Ooredoo Tunis, Ooredoo Maldives, and Wataniya Davis’s replacement as Brexit campaigner customers exclusive unlimited roaming internet for an enlisted company in the Kuwait Stock Exchange Palestine. Ooredoo Kuwait is a member of the inter- Under the plan, Britain and the European Dominic Raab. Union would keep close trade ties but Davis KD 12 per week to keep up with the customers’ Market - operates a number of telecom service national Ooredoo Group based in Doha, Qatar. believed this would hand too much power to BoE boost the European Union in the exit talks. Broad-based dollar weakness also sup- Davis, however, said yesterday that he ported the pound’s bounce, while data this would not encourage a challenge to May’s week could raise expectations of a Bank of Burgan Bank leadership, fuelling sterling’s rally as investors England interest rate rise in August if they speculated that the exit from the cabinet of a suggest growing economic momentum in announces chief opponent to a softer Brexit would make the second quarter. “News that Brexiteer it easier for her to negotiate with Brussels. David Davis has resigned looks welcome The British currency gained as much as half a news to those looking for a soft Brexit. The winners of Yawmi percent to $1.3363, its strongest best level question will be what further backlash since June 14, with most of the rise following (leadership attack) May now faces from the account draw Davis’s comments that played down the risk right wing of the (Conservative) party,” said to May posed by his departure. ING analysts in a note. KUWAIT: Burgan Bank, the second largest Sterling strengthened 0.3 percent against They predicted that sterling could hit in terms of assets, announced yesterday the the euro to 88.17 pence per euro before eas- $1.3450 if the EU signals its openness to names of the daily draw winners of its ing back. “She’s survived resignations before; Britain’s Brexit proposal and if the BoE sticks Yawmi account draw, each taking home a she can survive again,” said Nomura strate- to a slightly hawkish script. Markets are now cash-prize of KD 5,000. gist Jordan Rochester, adding that the major pricing in a 68 percent chance of a rate rise The lucky winners are: risk for the pound would be if the in August. Sterling has climbed 2.3 percent 1. Abdullah Hasan Abdullah Alsabti Conservative prime minister’s leadership since hitting a 7-1/2 month low in late June, 2. Sundus Mahmoud Yaseen Alshatti looked untenable. boosted by improving economic sentiment 3. Gurvinder Singh Amrik Sahni The Davis resignation has underlined and signs that May had faced down the hard 4. Sameerah Khudhair Habar Alshammari May’s limited ability to impose cabinet disci- Brexiteers in her cabinet. — Reuters 5. Makeyah Sulaiman Mandani Khawajah In addition to the daily draw, Burgan Bank also offers a quarterly draw with more Burgan Bank encourages everyone to The Bank has continuously improved its chances to win higher rewards, offering the open a Yawmi account and/or increase performance over the years through an Alkhaja stated, “We are very pleased to cele- chance to one lucky customer to win KD their deposit to maximize their chances of expanded revenue structure, diversified First Bahrain brate the completion of El Mercado Village. 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi becoming a winner. The higher the level of funding sources, and a strong capital base. These villas, built to the highest-standards, are Account offers daily and quarterly draws, the deposit, the higher the likelihood to win. The adoption of state-of-the-art services some of the most premium properties available wherein the quarterly draw requires cus- Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the and technology has positioned it as a appoints on the market today. As our first new homeown- tomers to maintain a minimum amount of youngest commercial Bank and second trendsetter in the domestic market and er has already moved in, I would like to highlight KD 500 in their account for two months largest by assets in Kuwait, with a significant within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s Waleed Alkhaja that these homes are available for immediate prior to the draw date. Additionally, every focus on the corporate and financial institu- brand has been created on a foundation of occupancy. The mixed-use development, KD 10 in the account will entitle customers tions sectors, as well as having a growing real values - of trust, commitment, excel- anchored by the adjacent El Mercado Mall, is to one chance of winning. If the account retail, and private bank customer base. lence and progression, to remind us of the as Acting CEO quickly transforming into a vibrant community balance is KD 500 and above, the account Burgan Bank has majority owned sub- high standards to which we aspire. ‘People and an ideal place to call home.” holder will be qualified for both the quarter- MANAMA: The Board of Directors of First sidiaries in the MENAT region supported by come first’ is the foundation on which its Alkhaja is a seasoned leader with a long ly and daily draws. one of the largest regional branch networks. products and services are developed. Bahrain Real Estate Development Company career in investments. He served for 19 years in has announced the appointment of their cur- the Investment Directorate of the Kingdom of rent Chairman Waleed Ahmed Alkhaja as Bahrain’s Ministry of Finance, before Acting CEO. He will assume become the world’s fourth-biggest smart- overhauled to allow weighted voting rights joining the Pension Fund phone vendor at the end of last year, for different sets of shareholders. responsibilities from the 12th of Commission of Bahrain as Director Shares in China’s according to International Data Corp. Lei Analysts say Hong Kong’s technology July, succeeding Amin Al Arrayed of Investment and Executive has described Xiaomi as a “new species” listings have struggled in recent months, who recently was appointed to Director of the SIO Asset Xiaomi dip on of company with what he describes as a deflating investor interest, while escalating serve as the CEO for Edamah, the Management Company. In 2013, he “triathlon” business model combining trade tensions have made it a bad time to real estate arm of Mumtalakat became the Managing Director of hardware, internet and e-commerce serv- launch an IPO. Holding Company (Mumtalakat), AMAK Property & Development, a Hong Kong debut the sovereign wealth fund of the family firm. He served on the Board ices. Its products range from smart home “Nothing can help because the senti- Kingdom of Bahrain. of Directors of Seef Properties, HONG KONG: Chinese smartphone giant gadgets like air purifiers to non-tech items ment is no good at the moment... Most of With the selection of Alkhaja as Batelco Group, and Bahrain Tourism Xiaomi fell on its Hong Kong stock debut such as pillows and ballpoint pens. the IPOs listed this year were not that prof- the interim CEO, the Board desired Waleed Ahmed Co. He currently serves on the yesterday, following a long-awaited initial A delay in Xiaomi’s plan to launch new itable,” said Dickie Wong of Kingston Alkhaja to send a message of stability and Board of Directors of Reef Real public offering overshadowed by China-US so-called Chinese Depository Receipts Securities, adding he does not see any confidence to the market. Alkhaja has Estate Finance Co, Gulf Educational trade tensions and falling global markets. (CDRs) in Shanghai as well as doubts about “upsides” until the CDR listing, which served as Chairman of First Bahrain since May Projects, and on the Board of Trustees of Even before public trading started confi- the sustainability of its business model were would boost interest. But Mo Jia of Canalys 2014. Under his wise leadership, the Company Applied Science University. Alkhaja holds a dence was low, with investors selling at a also among reasons for the lower valuation, said the IPO was a “must-go for them even has doubled the value of its income generating Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration discount on the unofficial “grey market” last analysts said. Chinese authorities devised though the current situation is not positive”, assets and quadrupled its net rental income, as it from North Texas State University. First week, Bloomberg News reported. the CDR program, under which homegrown as Xiaomi would need the cash for an developed a series of new projects in Janabiya Bahrain Real Estate Development Company is And yesterday it ended down 1.18 percent companies listed abroad can simultaneously ongoing global expansion as it looks to and Seef, actively converting raw lands into an innovative regional real estate developer at HK$16.80, though that was much better list at home, after watching technology broaden its scope outside the saturated income generating investments. The Company established in Kuwait in October 2004. than in mid-morning trade, when it was heavyweights Alibaba and Baidu launch on Chinese smartphone market. has clear plans for expansion as it begins work Dedicated to achieving sustainable returns briefly down almost six percent. Despite Wall Street. And Jackson Wong, at Huarong on the first phase of a retail project in Seef and through collaborative relationships, First being one of the most anticipated Chinese The plan aims to help development of International Securities, warned there could looks closely at opportunistic acquisitions. Bahrain creates enduring value for all stake- technology IPOs this year, Xiaomi saw a dis- China’s still relatively immature and volatile be repercussions for Hong Kong’s IPO out- The announcement of this leadership transi- holders with a demand-driven investment appointing valuation of US$54 billion, well share markets and allow domestic investors look, saying a tepid start for Xiaomi would tion was made on the side lines of celebration in approach. Operating out of Bahrain and below its ambitious $100 billion target. to invest in the country’s big tech champi- suggest a weak appetite for new listings in honor of the successful completion of the second Kuwait, First Bahrain is strategically positioned Founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Lei ons. Beijing-based Xiaomi is the first firm in the city. “That would definitely make (other and final phase of its mixed-use development in to execute projects across the GCC, in accor- Jun, Xiaomi has grown from a start-up in Hong Kong to trade with a controversial firms looking to list) look for other markets Janabiya. Commenting on this announcement, dance with the principles of sharia. Zhongguancun-China’s “Silicon Valley”-to dual-class structure since listing rules were such as New York,” he added. — AFP Established 1961 15 Health & Science Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Eco-warriors battle glyphosate in Argentina’s countryside Glyphosate causes increase in cancer, birth defects

DIQUE CHICO: “They can’t spray!” screamed the conflict. “On the one hand there are constitu- into my garden, dries up my garden, contami- Sofia Gatica, waving her arms before police led tional rights, like the right to engage in legal nates it and my children die,” added Gatica, who her away from the soybean field, handcuffed for industry, which is what the agricultural producer lives in the neighboring village of Anisacate and having illegally entered private property. Gatica usually argues. But on the other side, there are several years ago suffered the death of a three- had been protesting against the use of an herbi- other rights: to live in a healthy environment, the month old baby, born with a congenital disorder. cide in the field in the village of Dique Chico, in right to good health and life,” said environmental According to neonatologist Medardo Avila, Argentina’s Cordoba province. It’s a place attorney Dario Avila. “In terms of pesticides in from the Doctors of Fumigated Villages where local residents clash regularly with farm- Argentina, there are no national laws that apply Network, since the use of glyphosate in ers over the spraying of glyphosate on geneti- Argentina began there has been an increase in cally modified crops. cancer and birth defects amongst rural popula- Glyphosate is an herbicide developed by the tions. “What we doctors are seeing is that peo- controversial agrochemical company Monsanto- ple are becoming sick in a different way,” he which ceased to exist last month after it was said. “They’re mostly dying of cancer now, since bought by Bayer-that has been described by the The right to good the use of spraying and the mass use of pesti- World Health Organization as “probably car- cides. “Clearly, rural populations in Argentina cinogenic.” These genetically modified planta- health and life have a cancer rate three times higher than those tions first appeared in Argentina at the end of in the cities,” stated Avila, adding that for every the 1990s in place of livestock. At the end of 100 births in the countryside six babies have June, 18 million hectares had been planted, pro- defects compared to two percent in other areas. ducing 35.8 million metric tons and making Eco-terrorists Argentina the third biggest such producer in the to the whole country. These rules are reserved However, the farmers are fighting back and ARGENTINA: A soybean field is fumigated near Urdinarrain, Entre Rios world behind the United States and Brazil. for the provincial governments.” Alejandro Dalmasso, who produces soybeans in province, Argentina. —AFP But millions of liters of glyphosate are poured Dique Chico, brands the health activists as onto those plantations. Pressured by local resi- My children die criminals. “We’re adhering to the right agricul- dents, and without specific legislation, village As for Gatica, she bears a heavy cross. “I tural practices. We fulfill whatever standards in agriculture, there’s no other use.” loss of muscle mass and joint pain making it dif- mayors have delivered their own regulations to entered a property to stop the spraying which there are,” he said. “These groups are all over But for Fabian Tomasi, a 53-year-old suffer- ficult to move and believes that glyphosate is control the spraying, as much to limit their scope enters homes without permission,” she said. Argentina, they feed off causing damage to this ing from severe toxic polyneuropathy (a disease “tremendously deceptive, a trap set by powerful as to control the amount of toxins in herbicides. “They (pesticides) can enter our homes without country. We call them eco-terrorists. “There’s affecting the nervous system) who used to work people.” “There will be no-one left,” he said. “All But those regulations have been appealed by permission and we have to ask their permission no serious scientific evidence to support their in the supply of herbicides for fumigation the land that we have won’t be enough to bury farmers, occasionally successfully, thus fueling not to kill us. “Their spray comes into my house, claims. That product was developed to be used planes, the outlook is bleak. He’s suffering from so many dead.” — AFP

‘Round Up’ curity,” he said. When the birds on one farm are the same age, they are less likely to spread dis- China’s chickens ease. Imported, latest-generation equipment pesticide cancer helps speed up the throughput of the hatchery. lay a billion An automatic grading machine, which can handle 60,000 eggs an hour, sorts eggs into two link on trial eggs a day acceptable sizes before they enter incubators - SAN FRANCISCO: During more than a century of uniform eggs produce similar sized chicks that business, US agrochemical colossus Monsanto has HANDAN, China: Behind a row of sealed red will have the same feeding ability. Once hatched, been vilified for products critics say harm people and incubator doors in a new facility in northern female chicks go to automated beak-clipping the environment. In the first trial of its kind, a China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every machines that process around 3,500 an hour. Californian dying of cancer is suing Monsanto, claim- day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain Only 20 staff will be needed in the new plant, ing its popular herbicide Roundup caused his dis- in China’s $37 billion egg industry, the world’s compared with around 100 in Huayu’s older ease-a case that could have sweeping ramifications. biggest. As China overhauls production of hatchery, said Huayu chairman Wang Lianzeng. A jury yesterday was scheduled to begin hearing everything from pork to milk and vegetables, pitches from opposing sides, with witnesses to follow. farmers raising hens for eggs are also shifting Fierce competition, disease The stakes are high for Monsanto, which could from backyards to factory farms, where modern Efficiency is important in an industry which is face massive losses should a jury order it to pay out standardized processes are expected to raise not expected to see much volume growth. The damages over the product, whose main ingredient is quality and safety. Chinese already eat more eggs per capita than glyphosate, a substance some say is dangerously That’s an important step in a country where almost everyone else, about 280 a year or almost carcinogenic. Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old melamine-tainted eggs and eggs with high antibi- one billion a day across the country, so consump- father of two, says he is sick because of contact CALIFORNIA: In this file photo bottles of Monsanto’s Roundup are seen otic residues have featured in a series of food tion is unlikely to rise much. Breeders like Huayu with Roundup, which he used for two years from for sale at a retail store in Glendale, California. — AFP safety scandals in recent years. It is also spurring are trying to grow by taking market share from 2012 as a groundskeeper for the Benicia school dis- demand for higher priced branded eggs over others. In addition to the new Handan hatchery, it trict near San Francisco, his lawyer Timothy ing agrochemicals in the 1940s and now employs glyphosate, a substance classified as carcinogenic in those sold loose in fresh produce markets. “These is building another in Chongqing, which will bring Litzenburg said. 20,000 people around the world and generates $15 the state of California. days if you’re a small farmer, your eggs won’t get annual production to 180 million chicks. “A major part of that job was spraying Roundup billion in annual revenue. Monsanto was one of the “More than 800 scientific studies, the US EPA into the supermarkets,” said Yuan Song, analyst Layer inventory last year was around 1.2 or Ranger Pro (a similar Monsanto product).... He companies which produced a defoliant dubbed (Environmental Protection Agency), the National with China-America Commodity Data Analytics. billion, according to the China Animal sprayed it 20 to 40 times per year, sometimes hun- “Agent Orange,” which has been linked to cancer Institutes of Health and regulators around the world Tough new regulations on treating manure and Agriculture Association. Huayu is also looking dreds of gallons at a time on the school properties,” and other diseases, for use by US forces in Vietnam have concluded that glyphosate is safe for use and reducing the environmental impact from farms into breeding layers and building hatcheries in Litzenburg said. In 2014, Johnson was diagnosed but denies responsibility for how the military used it. does not cause cancer,” the group said in a state- have also pushed many small farmers out. Most South-East Asia and Africa, said Wang, the with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that affects The company also made insecticide DDT. ment. “We have empathy for anyone suffering from egg producers now have between 20,000 and chairman. Key to industrial scale facilities will white blood cells. No longer able to work two years Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup was cancer but the scientific evidence clearly shows that 50,000 hens, said Yuan, a significant change even be managing the risks of disease. Prices and later, he filed suit against Monsanto, accusing the launched in 1976. The company soon thereafter glyphosate was not the cause. We look forward to from two years ago. The remainder with less than demand for eggs and poultry plunged last year, company of hiding the dangers of its product. began genetically modifying plants, making some presenting this evidence to the court.” 10,000 birds are likely to be shut down soon as after hundreds of people died from contracting A key to Johnson’s case will be convincing jurors resistant to Roundup. The pesticide has been Johnson has not yet set the damages he intends local governments favor larger producers that can bird flu, even though the disease left flocks that Monsanto’s pesticide is to blame for his illness. accused of damaging the environment, contributing to seek from Monsanto, also known for its geneti- be more easily scrutinized. largely unscathed. “His case has been expedited because he currently to the disappearance of bees and being an cally modified seeds that have sparked intense con- Although that has created new opportunities has only a few months to live,” his lawyer said. endocrine disruptor. The Roundup trial in San troversy elsewhere. “The only thing, as civil attor- High-tech hatchery for large players to expand after others were Litzenburg says he represents hundreds of people Francisco, which will directly address whether prod- neys, that we can do is to take money from Those rapid changes are driving investments forced to exit, the impact of a disease outbreak who also say they are victims of glyphosate. uct has caused cancer, is the first of its kind. Monsanto and give it to Mr. Johnson,” said like the 150 million yuan hatchery in Handan, on intensive operations is significantly higher. Whether the substance causes cancer has been the Litzenburg. Californian law allows for an expedited about 400km southwest of Beijing. The highly Huayu itself has recently suffered from out- source of endless debate among government regu- Scientific controversy procedure when a party is facing imminent death automated plant, owned by a joint venture breaks, with high rates of poultry disease lators, health experts and lawyers. The International Agency for Research on and Johnson’s is the first targeting Roundup to use between China’s Huayu Agricultural Science and Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) in China’s breeding Cancer, a World Health Organization body, has clas- that law and reach trial. “Monsanto has purposefully Technology Co Ltd and EW Group’s genetics flocks last year, said Wang. Agent Orange sified glyphosate, which is widely used around the deceived the public about the safety of its flagship business Hy-Line International, is the world’s The disease can reduce egg production in Monsanto, a company that is more than a centu- world, as “probably carcinogenic.” The European herbicide Roundup for decades,” said Linda Wells, biggest hatchery of layer chicks, or birds raised layers. Wang said biosecurity is the major ry old, was recently acquired by Germany-based food safety and chemicals agencies have so far not Midwest organizing director for Pesticide Action to produce eggs rather than meat. advantage in the new hatchery, which uses Bayer for more than $62 billion. Founded in 1901 in followed suit. A US Department of Health study has Network North America. “If Johnson is successful at By producing 200,000 females a day, or advanced ventilation and environmental controls St. Louis, Missouri, Monsanto made the artificial suggested its toxicity is limited. Monsanto has trial, it will be a huge shakeup for the entire pesti- around 60 million layers a year (one day a week to keep new chicks healthy. “When you enter the sweetener saccharin. The company began produc- always denied any link between disease and cide industry.” — AFP is for cleaning), it can meet demand from larger hatchery you wouldn’t know you’re in a hatch- farms who want to buy day-old-chicks in one ery,” he said, referring to the smell typical in batch, said Jonathan Cade, president of Hy-Line older facilities. Disinfection is used at every step International, based in West Des Moines, Iowa. along the chain and workers follow strict proce- “That’s the best way to start off with good biose- dures on hygiene, he added. — Reuters Reindeer herders tangle with new First quolls born industries in Arctic FINNMARK PLATEAU, NORWAY: When he’s in Australian wild not out on the Arctic tundra with his 2,000 rein- deer, his dog and Whitney Houston blasting through his headphones, Nils Mathis Sara is in half a century often busy explaining to people how a planned SYDNEY: The first eastern quolls in 50 years copper mine threatens his livelihood. Along with have been born in the wild on the Australian other Sami herders and fishermen, the 60-year- mainland, with the rice grain-sized pups offering old is in a standoff with the mine owners, hope to a species of marsupial devastated by Norwegian officials and many townspeople that foxes. Eastern quolls-a furry carnivore that is, after six years, coming to a head. grows to about the size of a domestic cat-disap- It is a litmus test for the Arctic, where climate peared from the mainland in the 1960s but clung change and technology are enabling mineral and on in the island state of Tasmania. Twenty of CRADLE MOUNTAIN, Australia: This handout energy extraction, shipping and tourism while photo shows juvenile eastern quolls at the threatening traditional ways of life and creating them were returned to their native environment FINNMARK PLATEAU: Nils Mathis Sara drives his ATV as he follows a Devils at Cradle conservation facility in tensions among its four million inhabitants. “This in the Booderee National Park, south of Sydney, herd of reindeer on the Finnmark Plateau. — Reuters in March to see if they could survive and thrive. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. — AFP mine is completely nuts,” said Sara, preparing to It is the first time in Australia that a carnivore move his herd from winter pastures on Norway’s extinct on the mainland has been re-introduced ly discover and manage threats,” Dexter added. windswept Finnmark plateau three days north to the spotlight. “Big industry is sitting on the fence lucrative but unpredictable income. “We are a to the wild and followed a 15-year project to Eastern quolls, which primarily eat insects, were the grass-rich pastures on the coast, where females and seeing how it plays out,” he said. maritime nation. We have relied on the ocean to bring feral predators in the area under control. present on the mainland for thousands of years. calve and there are fewer mosquitoes. “We would live off and we want to dump this stuff in the Booderee National Park Natural Resource But large numbers were killed in the early 1900s be losing summer pastures for our reindeer again.” Legal action? fjord?” He had just caught king crabs worth Manager Nick Dexter said yesterday babies had by a mysterious epidemic, and their population Herders around the Arctic - in other Nordic Local officials gave the green light for the pri- 16,000 Norwegian crowns. Last year he earned been confirmed in three of the females’ pouches. was then devastated as foxes spread across nations, Russia, Canada and Alaska - echoed his vately-owned Nussir copper project back in 2012 1.6 million crowns for four weeks’ work-about half “There remains challenges ahead to establish a south-eastern Australia. concerns in interviews, citing threats from climate on the grounds it would bring in much-needed from cod and the rest from crabs, a Pacific species sustainable population, but to have 30 percent They were last regularly seen on the mainland change, mining, oil spills and poaching as well as jobs and funds. It has been stuck ever since. brought to the Barents Sea in the Stalin era. of the female quolls produce pouch young from in the 1960s in the Sydney region. Australian thoughtless behaviour from townspeople and Indigenous Sami herders and fishermen say the Sara’s income is steadier. He gets up to 130 this pilot project is a move in the right direc- National University researcher Natasha tourists. Global majors, including Eni, Equinor, plan to dump the mine’s tailings in the fjord, while Norwegian crowns a kilo for his meat, 300 tion,” he said. Robinson said the new colony had demonstrated Gazprom, Glencore, Lukoil and Rio Tinto, are all less damaging than piling them on land, would crowns for each skin and 140 crowns a kilo for Quoll babies stay sheltered in the pouch for several vital points needed for a successful long- grappling with how to square their prospecting destroy spawning grounds for cod and the mine the antlers, which he sells to China as aphrodisi- around three months while they gain weight and term future. “We’ve proven the quolls can find plans with the interests of people whose views would damage summer pasture grounds and ac. Nussir has won the necessary permits, says grow fur. “We’ve been tracking every animal in food, shelter and breed. We’ve also shown a count more than in the past. Anders Oskal, frighten the reindeer. “I don’t get it,” Tommy the area contains 72 million tons of copper- this project with a GPS collar, and unlike other capacity to make changes to improve the quolls Executive Director of the International Centre for Pettersen, a 47-year-old Sami fisherman, said on Norway’s largest reserve-and plans more than 1 translocation projects we’ve been able to quick- survival rate,” she said. —AFP Reindeer Husbandry, said the copper mine was in board his boat, which gives him a potentially billion crowns in investment. — Reuters 16 Tuesday, July 10, 2018

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) You may find this a great time to reflect and gain understanding of your own You seem to have a major focus on health and wellness at this time. A sense situation. How did you get to this point in your lifeyou know that everything of what is right and what you view as wrong seems to drive you to make your decisions happens for a reason and you have learned to have a positive outlook on adversity. You more carefully. You may be focused on your future and this finds you focused on your have learned lessons from obstacles that have been place in your path in the past. This a well-being and the well-being of those around you. You have a desire to care for those great time for you to gain a sense of understanding for those around you. A deeper con- around you and realize you also long to surround yourself with others that will care for nection is possible for your relationships. This is a good time for you to spend with a you in return. Today finds you able to convey your feeling to others and they will have loved one. Pisces, you may have found yourself at peace today, Libra. You may find that great understanding of your focus and your needs. You may experience this as a very you are very in touch with your spiritual side. This will help you make deep connections peaceful day as you are surrounded with love. with those that see things the same way.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Not only are you intelligent but a quick thinker. You have the ability to make things happen. You know what will work and who is best for the job. You may find your- You may be feeling a strong desire for change, a need for something new and self seeking new financial ventures. Working deals and making deals work may bring different. It may be time to throw out the old and start fresh. Let your creative side be your great financial reward your way. You see opportunity and seize it. Anything to make a guide. Step above and beyond the boundaries you have allowed yourself to become so dollar. Your horizons are broad and options limitless and you know just what to do to comfortable with and let your hair down. You may find those close to you are drawn to the make the deals profitable. This may be a new venture for you or something you have new and different version of you and find great ease when communicating with them. This done in the past but seems to be a new focus and will bring you much success, Taurus. could be a great time to study and take some time to broaden your intellectual horizons. You seem to be paying strong attention to detail and find yourself rejecting any ideas and Reach out to a love one whether by a phone call or possibly a letter. You may find they are plans that you do not absolutely feel are the right things to do. very open to what you have to say and old barriers between you have since dissolved.

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It seems as if what you have been keeping secret and private may be Scatter brain is the word of the day. You may not be able to keep your mind revealed in a most disturbing way today. When you feel exposed at this level you could on work or any other task you have facing you. This is not a great time for you to make be at your most vulnerable. This will most likely be a very emotional time for you and decisions. You may find that you are extremely sensitive to the feelings of others now. ACROSS DOWN You have a million things going through your mind at once. You may be unable to focus 1. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir 1. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae. you will have no choice to face the music. The best answer for this situation is a major change. You may find yourself faced with a situation that you are unable to fix. The best on work or any task that is put before you. You may find yourself bonding with someone known for his beauty and skill with 2. Being four more than sixty. younger. They may find you as someone they look up to and this may be the beginning 3. Having relatively few calories. thing to do is hold your head high and move on, Gemini. This is not a good time to make bow and skis. any decisions concerning your living situation. Sit tight and let the air clear. of a long-term relationship and they may look to you as a mentor for years to come. 4. Human external genital organs collec- 4. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom tively especially of a female. and useful arts and prudent warfare. 12. A religious belief of African origin 5. Without salt or seasoning. 6. An official prosecutor for a judicial dis- Capricorn (December 22-January 19) involving witchcraft and sorcery. ) 15. Being one more than sixty. trict. Cancer (June 21-July 22 7. The choicest or most essential or most 16. Generalized edema with accumulation Your conscience seems to be in total control of your actions today. If any- vital part of some idea or experience. Today you may find everything just falls into place for you. This a great of serum in subcutaneous connective thing strikes you as being the least bit shady you will have no part of it. You seem to be 8. A period of time spent sleeping. day to get those unfinished projects completed. You seem to crave change. You are led tissue. paying close attention to detail and have begun to find great satisfaction with doing what 9. (slang) Merchandise that is shoddy or to do the right thing. What you feel in your heart to be right is the only way to go for 17. Something that remunerates. is right and refusing to cut any corners to accomplish completing all projects set before inferior. you today. Anything that doesn’t seem on the up and up will give you a very uneasy 18. A bodily organ that is essential for life. you. Today finds you placing much value on your material possessions and items you 10. Fiddler crabs. feeling and this is the day to just let your conscience be your guide. You are very detail 20. A long pointed rod used as a weapon. would like to acquire. You may find a quick trip to the mall would satisfy the desire you 11. A percussion instrument consisting of a oriented and today you will find much satisfaction with the projects you are able to 21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made have to surround yourself with some of the finer things in life. You have worked hard and pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone complete. A great day and a wonderful time is to be spent with those near and dear to from aba cloth. feel as if you deserve a reward and deserve to splurge a bit and do something for yourself. (usually held between the thumb and you today, Cancer. Much love! 22. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts. fingers) that are made to click togeth- 24. Essential oil or perfume obtained from er (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm flowers. with the dance. 26. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) 12. Large elliptical brightly colored deep- Aquarius (January 20- February 18) used as an oral or parenteral calcium sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Leo (July 23-August 22) blocker in cases of hypertension or Mediterranean. This is a time there is no room for any grey area in your world. You see congestive heart failure or angina or 13. A small cake leavened with yeast. You are extremely focused on doing the right thing. You only see black and things in black and white only. It is either right or wrong and any action you may choose migraine. 14. The eighth month of the civil year. white at this time. There is no room for grey areas. If you have the least bit of doubt about to take that is questionable will leave you with a feeling of overwhelming guilt. You have 27. German bacteriologist who isolated the 19. A small recess opening off a larger a situation you have to follow your heart to avoid overwhelming guilt. You seem to be always been admired for your honesty and being the person that tends to always do the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle room. extremely focused on detail today. Eating right, working out, and physical activity seem right thing. You are very detailed oriented and very health conscious at this time. You bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843- 23. Lack of sophistication or worldliness. to be a major focus for you now. Mentally and physically your well-being will all play a may find yourself resisting that chocolate you are craving because you know the guilt 1910). 25. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac part in your success. Others may see you as distant today as you seem to be all about isn’t worth the pleasure. You are on the right track, Aquarius, and will soon see great 29. Uncertain of all claims to knowledge. or moss capsule. you! Don’t let the pressure of trying to fit in and please others entice you to make deci- results from the choices you make. 32. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia hav- 28. Reverent petition to a deity. sions you are not comfortable with. ing small white flowers. 30. Aircraft supported only by the dynam- 36. Speaking a Slavic language. ic action of air against its surfaces. 31. Given or having a specified name. Pisces (February 19-March 20) 37. A member of the people inhabiting an Virgo (August 23-September 22) area of northern Mongolia and eastern 33. An alloy of copper and zinc (and some- times arsenic) used to imitate gold in Siberia. Today finds you at your mental best. You seem to be paying close attention cheap jewelry and for gilding. to detail and are extremely disciplined. Things you may have viewed as problems in the 39. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus You seem to be paying major attention to detail today. Your focus is strong, 34. A large fleet. past present clear solutions today. You feel a need to be respected and are not only and Demeter. and you seem to only be able to do things your way. You have no tolerance for other’s 35. An internationally recognized distress working to organize your surroundings, but you are able to organize the people around 40. Sweetened beverage of lime juice and ideas nor their opinions. You may be faced with some very personal issues and find oth- signal via radiotelephone (from the you. You’re extremely ambitious and devoted to your job today. This is a great day for water. ers close to you not to be as understanding and supportive as you need them to be. You French m'aider). working with others and you may be called upon to lead the team. You may have to 42. A soft suede leather formerly from the may have to fight this battle on your own. The issues you face today will have to be 38. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of. work to fund balance between your home and work life as you try hard to keep every- sheep of the chamois antelope but worked through, so you can move on and get yourself back on the right track. This is a 41. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly one around you happy, Pisces. This is an easy task for you as you are as devoted to your time that being on the go and keeping busy is what makes you feel the best. now from sheepskin. aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking family as you are to your job. 43. A lyric poem with complex stanza true stems and roots and leaves. forms. 45. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) 44. A ballroom dance of Latin-American that was responsible for research into origin. atomic energy and its peacetime uses Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution 46. Having undesirable or negative quali- in the United States. ties. 48. Small tropical American tree bearing 47. Having a list of ancestors as proof of edible plumlike fruit. being a purebred animal. 50. Unaged colorless liquor originating in 49. A state in the western United States. Russia. 51. A trivalent metallic element of the rare 54. A very poisonous metallic element that earth group. has three allotropic forms. 52. 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This photo shows a contestant taking part in a chilli pepper eating competition in Ningxiang in Chinaís central Hunan province. The winner of the contest ate 50 chilli peppers in one minute. — AFP

Colombian peace allows cultural jewels to re-emerge

eep inside the lush green and humid Amazonia ‘A lot to discover’ jungle, a sinewing path stops abruptly in front of This area was declared a “protected archeological site” a giant rock face decorated with ancient paint- by the culture ministry at the end of May, in a move initiat- ings of anacondas, jaguars and tortoises. For mil- ed by the ICANH, which also organized the first interna- lennia,D indigenous Colombians have been illustrating their tional mission to the site, alongside the French Institute for View of the Cerro Azul, in the Serrania La Lindosa. mythology in rock art, but these national treasures laid Andean Studies (IFEA). “We hope to be able... to explain hidden-and preserved-during decades of war between all this. There’s still a lot to discover,” said IFEA anthropol- government forces and Marxist rebels. ogist Celine Valadeau. There are other unknown sites, for In the heart of the Guaviare jungle, a strategic area that which “there is photographic evidence... but it hasn’t been armed groups continue to fight over, lies a UNESCO possible to find them because back then there wasn’t any World Heritage site national park in which the Serrania de GPS” and the existing maps are imprecise, she says while Chiribiquete table top mountains stand tall like giant displaying pictures of dancers, hunters and even amorous drums. The rock frescoes adorning their sides occupy an relations. invaluable place in the understanding of Amazonian settle- ment. “It was very difficult to work in the Guaviare because it was the epicenter... of the war these last 50 years,” Ernesto Montenegro, general manager at Colombia’s Anthropology and History Institute (ICANH), told AFP. “Although there were exploration missions at the start of the 20th century they stopped because of the (precari- ous) situation.” Since the 2016 peace accord that ended the war with FARC guerillas, adventurers have ventured forth once again to try to decipher the secrets of the ritual Detail of cave art at the Cerro Azul, in Serrania La Lindosa . drawings, some of which date back at least 12,000 years.

Sacred spirits The area is sacred to the indigenous people of the jun- gle and not everyone has the right to even approach the rock art. “Only wise men are worthy of entering sacred sites, in which spirits dwell. The common mortals should not even allow their thoughts to wander in,” said Andres Lopez, a historian at the institute, as he traipsed through Mystery surrounds the paintings. Even carbon dating Colombian President Juan mud to a rock painting spanning 30 meters (100 feet) in cannot shed light on when the drawings, created with a Manuel Santos speaks dur- height and 100 meters in length. That site lies an hour by mineral mixture rich in manganese that turns orange once ing a press conference to jeep away from the village of Raudal in the Guaviare oxidized, were created due to vegetable components. The announce the expansion by department, an area known for coca plantations and only indications come from the ashes of fires burned by 1.5 million hectares of the cocaine production that once marked the front line the artists in front of the rock faces. Crucially, though, this Chiribiquete National Park - between government soldiers and FARC rebels. area was declared a World Heritage Site at the start of this named UNESCO’s World An hour by boat down the Guaviare river, where mili- month-the ninth such listing in Colombia. Spanning an Heritage site on the eve- at tary vessels mounted with machine guns still patrol, a area of 2.7 million hectares (6.7 million acres), the Cerro Azul in the hamlet on stilts, surrounded by right-wing paramilitaries Chiribiquete is Colombia’s largest natural park and the Serrania La Lindosa, depart- until 2000, remains the stronghold of the First Front-for- UNESCO listing was vital to protect the area from oil and ment of Guaviare, Colombia. mer FARC dissidents who refuse to disarm. Montenegro mineral prospectors. It is the home to some 70,000 pic- — AFP photos Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says that doesn’t stop archeologists returning to Guaviare, tograms but just as importantly to the Chiribiquete emer- shows the document through which the stares at cave art before announcing the insisting they are “benefitting from the peace process” ald hummingbird, seen as the only endemic species in the Chiribiquete National Park -named UNESCO’s expansion by 1.5 million hectares of the that ended the decades-long guerrilla war. The remaining Colombian Amazon, and the jaguar, the big cat only found World Heritage site on the eve- is expanded Chiribiquete National Park -named UNESCO’s dissidents, when they come across explorers, impose terri- in the Americas that is threatened by the loss of its habitat by 1.5 million hectares. World Heritage site. torial limits-but seem unopposed to the study of cultural due to deforestation. — AFP relics that remain little-known in the country.

Bieber engaged to Baldwin

op singer Justin Bieber became and Baldwin, 21, did not immediately respond romantic status of the Canadian-born pop engaged to model Hailey Baldwin over to requests for comments. Bieber’s parents singer, one of the world’s biggest-selling the weekend, according to US media put up social media posts that helped spark musical acts, is of acute interest to his fans. Preports on Sunday. The couple dated in speculation about the pair. Bieber dated singer and actress Selena 2016 but had broken up. Last month, they A tweet posted by Baldwin’s father, actor Gomez off and on for years. — Reuters appeared together publicly, leading to specu- Stephen Baldwin, also seemed to allude to lation from fans that they had rekindled their the engagement, saying: “Always pray 4 romance, CNN reported. The pair got Gods will !! He is moving in the hearts of engaged on Saturday during a trip to the JB&HB,” according to CNN. The post is no Bahamas, E! News said. Agents for Bieber, 24, longer on Baldwin’s Twitter account. The 20 Established 1961 Tuesday, July 10 , 2018 Lifestyle Features

China chilli fest gets off to scorching start

n annual chilli pepper festival kicked off yes- terday in central China’s spice-loving Hunan province with a chilli-eating contest in which the winner set a blistering pace by downing a gut-bustingA 50 peppers in just over a minute. Local boy Tang Shuaihui took home a 3-gramme 24-karat gold coin for winning the competition, which is put on by a local theme park in the county of Ningxiang and is now in its second year. With doctors on hand just in case, ten contestants each held plates heaped with 50 Tabasco chilli peppers, racing to be the first to finish off the red- hot fruits. Tang cleared his plate in just 68 seconds in a contest held in nearly sweltering temperatures and as competi- tors sat in a shallow pool filled with water and three tons of floating chillies. “He finished them at an amazing speed, barely after the emcee had finished speaking,” said Sun Minying, an employee at the theme park, called the Tanhe Ancient City. The Tabasco pepper has a rank of 30,000- 50,000 on the Scoville Heat Scale that measures the piquancy of chillies, which puts it somewhere between a jalapeno and a habanero. The peppers bobbing in the pool, however, were of a far weaker variety, partly to avoid irritating the contest- ants’ skin. Smiling contestants wearing shorts and T- shirts-some armed with small bottles of water-waded into a vast pool of bright red peppers before attempting to clear their plates of chillies. One man floated on his back in the pool of chillies, chomping happily on the fiery fruits. Hunan cuisine is marked by its spicy pep- pers and richly coloured dishes and is considered among China’s eight great food traditions along with Sichuan, Cantonese and other cuisines. The festival lasts until the end of August, with a fresh chilli-eating contest held daily. — AFP This photo shows contestants taking part in a chilli pepper eating competition in Ningxiang in China’s central Hunan province.

This photo shows contestants taking part in a chilli pepper eating competition in A contestant taking part in a chilli pepper-eating competition. A contestant taking part in a chilli pepper-eating competition. Ningxiang in China’s central Hunan province. — AFP photos

Raising the standard: Women outdo men at India’s official flag maker

hen top Indian officials salute the national flag anywhere in the world, women in a vil- Wlage at the other end of the country from New Delhi swell with pride. This is because Tulasigeri is home to India’s only official flag-making company-and because the local men have proved them- selves not up to the job. “The men were not as patient as the women and got the measurements wrong,” groans Annapurna Koti, a supervisor at the Karnataka Cotton Village Enterprise (KKGSS). “They had to unstitch the cloth and re-do the time consuming process,” she told AFP. “They left after the fourth day and never returned.” Around 400 people work for the state-owned company in the southern state An employee of Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh stitch- of Karnataka, 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the ing together an Indian national flag. capital, most of them women. The production takes place at two sites: in Tulasigeri where the raw products are processed and in Bengeri around two hours away where the finished products are made. The female employees perform all the intricate parts of the process such as spinning the cotton and weaving In this photo Nirmala S Ilkal (left) hangs the screen printed central strip of the Indian national flag at the Khadi the thread into cloth on foot-powered looms. Last year, Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh production line at the Indian National Flag Production Centre in Bengeri in the southern they produced around 60,000 Indian tricolours of saf- state of Karnataka. — AFP photos fron, white and green against a blue wheel. Their flags hang at all official events and government buildings, at “The piece is rejected if there is even the slightest goes far and wide goes some way to compensating for Indian embassies across the world, as well as at schools, error,” Nirmala S Ilakal, who has worked in the printing this. “We can’t go outside to different places but the flags village halls and on official cars. The guidelines in the department for 15 years, told AFP. Most workers, espe- we make go all over the world and I feel proud to see national flag code of India and from the Bureau of Indian cially the women-who also manage their households- everyone saluting them,” she said. — AFP Standards are strict, covering everything from the exact have rarely travelled outside their local districts. But Koti, shades to the stitching size. the supervisor, says that knowing that their handiwork

Nirmala S Ilkal (left) prepares to screen print the central strip of the Indian national flag.

Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh ironing an Indian An employee of Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh checking Indian national flags. This photo shows an employee of Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangh weaving cotton national flag. yarn to be later used to make the Indian national flag. Established 1961 21 Lifestyle Music & Movies Tuesday, July 10 , 2018

‘Melodies of Istanbul’ orchestra perform during a rehearsal ahead of the 46th edition of Istanbul Music Festival at the Grand Bazaar, exceptionally open on a Sunday, during an interview with AFP in Istanbul.

Turkish traditional musician and conductor Hakan Gungor performs dur- “Melodies of Istanbul” orchestra perform during a rehearsal ahead of the 46th edition of Istanbul Music Festival. — AFP photos ing a rehearsal ahead of the 46th edition of Istanbul Music Festival at the Grand Bazaar. Festival takes music deep into Istanbul’s centuries-old heritage

t’s an early summer evening at Istanbul’s Grand ‘Connections with identity’ Bazaar, the maze-like warren of alleyways crammed The Istanbul Music Festival, which focuses on classi- with shops that has been the city’s trading hub for cal music but includes high quality traditional music and Iover half a millennium. But this time, there are no jazz, has taken concerts to venues like the Neve Shalom traders’ voices beckoning to travellers to come and Synagogue, the St Anthony Roman Catholic Church and haggle over the price of a carpet. Nor is the air filled even the platform of Sirkeci Train Station, the legendary with the pungent whiff of oriental spices being offered terminus of the Orient Express. The use of the venues, to passers-by. As the evening light streams through the and the music played inside them, is a celebration of upper arch windows, it is music that resonates through multicultural heritage in a city where the presence of the bazaar; oriental wind instruments like the Turkish Jews, Armenians and Greeks, as well as other minorities ney and Armenian duduk, the lute-like oud and the alongside the majority Muslim population, is a key part Balkan accordion. of its urban identity. Their populations were greatly For the first time in its history as an epicenter of trade diminished by 20th century tragedies such as the and commerce in Istanbul, the bazaar is being used for a deportations and massacres of Armenians under the concert in the prestigious annual summer Istanbul Music Ottoman Empire from 1915 seen by Armenians, but not Festival run by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Turkey, as a genocide-and the mob rioting directed at Arts (IKSV) — the city’s premier musical event since its the Greek minority in 1955. creation in 1973. Today, these buildings are a symbol of the proud pres- ence that Turkey’s minorities maintain in the former ‘Grand’ acoustics Constantinople, once the capital of the Roman, Byzantine Kudsi Erguner, a celebrated It’s a constant source of frustration to music lovers in and then Ottoman empires. “Istanbul has been the capital Turkish traditional musi- Istanbul that the Turkish megapolis lacks a world-class, city of three empires and home to three major religions. that dates back to the 6th century and where audiences Ferran Savall plays guitar cian of ney poses for a pic- purpose-built music venue, especially for classical and They all left their landmarks in the city,” director of the can enjoy classical music with pin sharp acoustics marred during a rehearsal ahead of ture during a rehearsal traditional music. But the festival uses the city’s multicul- Istanbul Music Festival and deputy director general of only by the occasional swooping pigeon. the 46th edition of Istanbul ahead of the 46th edition of tural and multi-confessional heritage to make up for what IKSV, Yesim Gurer Oymak, told AFP. “A festival should At the concert inside the Grand Bazaar, its historic Music Festival at the Grand Istanbul Music Festival. it lacks in modern infrastructure, staging concerts in also underline the historical heritage of the city where it walls echoed with a celebration of Istanbul’s cultural Bazaar. churches, synagogues, historic universities and now the takes place and make connections with its cultural identi- heritage, bringing together songs of Armenian, Ladino, Grand Bazaar. “It is a very intelligent way to use this kind ty,” she added. Jewish as well as Turkish origin, led by traditional musi- of historical space for concerts and bring in people for cian Hakan Gungor. “This is the first time we perform a reasons other than their original function,” said Kudsi ‘Tolerance and harmony’ concert in the Grand Bazaar. It is a very important place Erguner, a celebrated Turkish traditional musician and one This year saw a concert held for the first time in the with very authentic shops and our music is also very of the great living exponents of the ney. Neve Shalom Synagogue, a key place of worship for authentic,” said Cag Ercag, one of Turkey’s top classical “Usually, people come here to buy things,” he added, Istanbul’s Jewish community, which was hit twice by cellists. Oymak said there were still locations in Istanbul before dazzling the audience with his command of the deadly attacks-first in a 1986 gun attack and then a 2003 where she dreamt of holding concerts, in particular a long, flute-like instrument. Despite the venue not being bombing blamed on Islamist militants. Istanbul may not concert of “tolerance and harmony” at the historic built for the purpose, he praised the acoustics of the have an ultra-modern concert hall like Paris or Hamburg Sultanahmet Square-which is flanked by the Hagia Grand Bazaar, known in Turkish as the Kapalicarsi, but some of the finest acoustics in the city are to be found Sophia and Blue Mosque-fusing elements of Western meaning Covered Market. “The space is curved, there is in historic buildings which also double as concert venues. and Eastern music. — AFP a nice resonance and a very nice differentiation of Possibly the finest venue for an orchestra in the city is the sound,” he added. Hagia Eirene a former Byzantine church, now a museum-

action for good including community health workers Mick Jagger quips about who conduct HIV tests or who instruct mothers on Beyonce leads child nutrition as well as teachers and South Africans who recycle plastics. Polish courts overhaul S Africa anti-poverty Mandela as inspiration at Warsaw concert Evans said that Mandela offered a model for the festival for Mandela Global Citizen movement through his magnanimous he Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger took a swipe at the efforts at racial reconciliation and democracy as well as Polish government’s shake-up of the judiciary dur- eyonce and Jay-Z will lead an A-list lineup to mark through his focus on tackling poverty and global health. Ting a concert in Warsaw, adding his voice to a cho- 100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth in a Beyonce previously performed in South Africa in 2003 rus of critics who say the changes harm democracy. The BJohannesburg festival by the Global Citizen move- at a concert hosted by Mandela to raise awareness on new laws force all judges aged 65 or over - including the ment to eradicate poverty. The December 2 event, which HIV and AIDS. Two years later Mandela delivered a head of Poland’s Supreme Court, Malgorzata Gersdorf - will be internationally broadcast, will celebrate the late In this file photo Beyonce (left) and Jay-Z perform during landmark speech in London’s Trafalgar Square urging to retire. They are part of a wide-ranging overhaul that anti-apartheid icon and draw a number of leaders in an a Get Out the Vote (GOTV) performance in support of concerted efforts to “make poverty history.” But Evans the ruling conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) says attempt to throw a spotlight on fledging efforts to eradi- Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the said that the world was falling behind on the UN is needed to rid Poland of its lingering communist legacy. cate the world’s worst poverty, Global Citizen Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. — AFP Sustainable Development Goals which include ending “I am too old to be a judge,” Jagger, 74, said in Polish on announced yesterday. hunger and ensuring educational opportunities to all Sunday to the audience gathered at Warsaw’s national Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z will headline the has since branched out overseas with seminars and children, regardless of gender, by 2030. soccer stadium. “But I am young enough to sing.” music at the FNB Stadium alongside several other stars: music in India, Germany and elsewhere. While Britain, Germany and Nordic countries are The European Union, human rights groups, interna- Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, English singer-song- Hugh Evans, the founder and CEO of the movement, meeting the UN-backed goal of devoting 0.7 percent of tional bodies and Polish opposition parties have all writer Ed Sheeran, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, hit said he expected the Johannesburg festival to be the gross domestic product to international aid, other major criticized the changes, saying they undermine the pop producer Pharrell Williams and R&B chart-topper biggest Global Citizen festival ever in terms of reach, countries are lagging behind. independence of the courts and boost the influence of Usher. The festival will also feature some of the conti- symbolism and lineup. “On every way that we measure In the United States, President Donald Trump has politicians. Poland overthrew communism in 1989, nent’s most popular musicians including South African outcomes-the number of citizens engaged, the number called for slashing foreign assistance by one-third, breaking away from the Soviet system imposed after hip-hop producer Cassper Nyovest and Nigerian artists of policy outcomes that are achieved, the number of although Congress has largely resisted his “America World War Two, before the Berlin Wall fell several Wizkid, D’banj and Femi Kuti, who is the son of Afrobeat lives that are affected as a result of those policy out- First” push on aid. “The truth is the world is not on track months later. —Reuters legend Fela Kuti. comes-we believe it has the potential to be the most sig- nificant campaign we’ve ever been part of,” Evans told to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals unless Global Citizen said it hoped that the run-up to the there is greater political will,” Evans said. Global Citizen festival would raise commitments of $1 billion to help the AFP. Unlike traditional benefit concerts, Global Citizen distributes tickets for free to supporters who pledge to said that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as world’s poorest, with half of the amount aimed at women well as the leaders of Norway and Ghana plan to attend and girls. Global Citizen has held festivals since 2012 in take actions such as writing their governments to sup- port international development assistance. the December 2 festival in honor of Mandela, who was New York’s Central Park on the sidelines of the annual born on July 18, 1918. — AFP UN General Assembly to rally support, especially among For the Johannesburg edition, Global Citizen will young people, in the fight against poverty. The group also hand out tickets to people who are taking direct Mick Jagger 22 Established 1961 Tuesday, July 10 , 2018 Lifestyle Features

File photo provided by Sherwin-Williams shows a room with File photo provided by Sherwin-Williams shows a room with the Sherwin-Williams color File photo provided by Sherwin-Williams shows a room with the Sherwin-Williams color the Sherwin-Williams color Rare Gray SW 6199 on the wall. Functional Gray SW 7024 on the wall. March Wind SW 7668 on the wall. — AP photos Gray: A ‘sneaky color’ is red-hot for painting interiors

hen it comes to painting rooms, gray is red-hot. say. For a real “smack-in-the-middle gray,” Wadden sug- Gray trim Benjamin Moore carries over 150 shades of gests her company’s Repose Gray. “For walls surrounding While undertones are hard to spot in a paint chip, they Wgray, and Sherwin-Williams says that of their pink tile in a bathroom, I’d go with Repose Gray, which become more obvious on a larger surface like a poster top 50 colors for interiors, 30 are grays. “The goes great with pink and creates a neutral background,” board placed prominently in the room you are planning to trend toward gray started in Scandinavia, became big in the she says. Amazing Gray has a greener undertone, while paint, Magno adds. Some of Benjamin Moore’s more pop- US around six years ago, and is still on the rise,” says Sue Passive is cooler with more blue. “We typically try to steer ular grays are Gray Owl, Balboa Mist, Coventry Gray, Wadden, director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams. clients away from purple undertones. Usually, we stick to Stonington Gray, Revere Pewter and Thunder, she says. Andrea Magno of Benjamin Moore says, “Gray is not going true warms and true cools, and the middle ground, often Revere Pewter has a gray cast “but it’s warm and very liv- anywhere, and is still growing in popularity. It updates things referred to as French grays. They are pretty true grays,” able,” she says. “For cabinetry, it’s Kendall Charcoal.” instantly, and it’s evolving over time. And we’re seeing more says Cate Dunning, who, with Lathem Gordon, runs the What about trims? Although grays are generally used with gray cabinetry and more trim in gray now.” Atlanta-based GordonDunning Interior Design. lighter grays, whites and off-whites, the latest trend is Just 15 years ago, she says, “if you told someone you In addition to undertones, there’s a big difference toward trim in the same or even a darker shade of gray. were going to paint your room gray, they would groan and between cool and warm grays, with the former better suit- “We are loving doing everything in one shade of gray,” say, ‘How depressing.’ Before about 2010, it was all about ed to modern interiors and the latter often better for tradi- says Gordon. “It looks great, especially paired with light warm Tuscan colors. Since then, it’s really about cool mod- tional homes with warmer-colored furnishings, according linen drapery with a little sheen to it. We are also seeing ern grays, and not just for paint colors. Stone, marble, tile to Dunning. Too cool of a gray in extreme sunlight, like more interest in silvery grays.” Laurie Pressman, vice and wood have also gone a lot cooler.” But picking the that in Florida, can sometimes look chalky, Wadden warns. president of the Pantone Color Institute, also sees gray correct shade of gray can be tricky. “It’s crucial to pay “My best advice is to select your three favorite grays, with gray trim as a trend. “White still feels safer to some attention to the undertones, and also how the light reacts paint a poster board with each one, and look at them in people, but it’s easy to overlook how harsh white can feel. to it,” Magno says. “Gray is a very sneaky color.” your home over a weekend, tallying up which one you like Give gray a chance,” she says. “And if you’re nervous best at various times of the day and night. If you plunge in starting out, I’d recommend going with a shade with blue Purple undertones before doing that, you may regret it,” says Dunning. “You undertones.”— AP Grays have undertones of blue, purple or green, and might love a picture you saw in a magazine, but it’s impor- File photo provided by Sherwin-Williams shows a room you’ll want to make sure the undertones are compatible tant to remember that the very same shade of gray might with the Benjamin Moore color Kendall Charcoal HC-166 with surrounding tile, furnishings and fabrics, designers look entirely different in your own home,” says Gordon. on the wall.

such works as “Fences.” Ellis, who’s also Wilson’s nephew, said the organization will match the $50,000 grant from $1.1m awarded the trust and use it to create a series of interpretive exhibits and interactive techniques that “tell the story of August Wilson and the community that served as the inspiration for his plays.” to preserve “That’s why it means so much to get this grant, to keep moving forward with this project,” he said. “We’re here in August Wilson’s hometown and we want the world to know his story.” Leggs said the fund was created in “the African-American aftermath of Charlottesville last summer where heritage, culture and public spaces collided” as a way to “tell the whole history of our nation and to foster understanding, historic sites healing and reconciliation.” Photo provided by Abbe Fenimore shows the delicate Photo provided by Abbe Fenimore shows how sofa pillows, leaves and flowers of potted flowering plants which cre- as seen in this outdoor seating area designed by Texas- rants totaling $1.1 million will help support ates a perfect balance with the architectural molding and based interior designer Abbe Fenimore, bring a touch of important African-American heritage sites a dramatic black front door. indoor comfort to a deck or patio. including the homes of jazz musician John Coltrane and playwright August Wilson, a VirginiaG location central to the slave trade and civil rights locations in Birmingham, a preservation group Front porches and entries announced Friday. The money from the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is part of an effort by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve and promote African-American historic places. Brent Leggs, who directs the fund, says African- that say ‘welcome’ American historic places have traditionally been under- valued and underfunded. “Through the action fund we nterior designer Joan Craig sees many clients who Consider the style of your home and the vibe of your have the opportunity to raise the visibility and the full give the decorating of their living room or kitchen a neighborhood, says Fenimore. One client of hers, an artist, contributions of African-Americans to our nation. We lot of thought. Yet while “people have become much added artificial flamingos to the lawn around her front have the opportunity to highlight stories and places of more attuned to developing personality inside a door. It wouldn’t work in every neighborhood, Fenimore activism achievement and community, to rewrite history house,”I she says, “the outside becomes something that says, but at this house the effect was “jazzy and classy in a and tell a new story about a black America,” he said. He often can be much more generic.” And even if you give fun way, without being too kitschy.” says the group and outside advisers narrowed down the your backyard patio or deck some decorating attention, 830 applicants from 42 states to 16 awardees. The grants the front entrance often remains an afterthought. “The Include seating are given in four categories: capacity building; project front of your home is the first thing your guests will see,” Even a small front porch may have room for a little planning; capital; and programming and interpretation. says Edyta Czajkowska, founder of the Chicago-based bench, and these designers say it’s worth adding seating. The trust plans to raise a total of $25 million over five design firm Edyta & Co., “so creating a beautifully crafted, Tiny as your space may be, Craig says, “think of it as an years to preserve and highlight African-American histori- welcoming atmosphere is important.” In this season of outdoor room.” Fenimore likes porch swings, which don’t cal contributions. The recipients constitute a range of outdoor entertaining, we’ve asked Craig, Czajkowska and have to take up much space and are welcoming. A simple sites and needs across America. Some like Shockoe Dallas-based interior designer Abbe Fenimore for advice canvas seat cushion matched with indoor/outdoor pillows Bottom in Richmond, Virginia, are connected with the on creating the most welcoming front entry areas. can create a perfect space for reading or having coffee in slave trade while others, like the John and Alice Coltrane the morning, she says. Outdoor seating offers not just a Home, in Huntington, New York, are connected with This file photo taken Oct 31, 2013 shows a person walking Step back spot to relax, Czajkowska says, but can double as a place African-American artistic contributions. past the Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Va. It’s hard to assess your front-door area when standing to rest your bag while searching for keys. It may even be Historic Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, right in front of it. A home’s entrance area begins where worth investing in an expanded porch area to make space Alabama, is part of a consortium of civil rights sites in the In Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, a “Unite the the visitor can first see it, says Craig, so stand at the road for seating, Fenimore says. She remodeled her own front city that received a grant. Martha Bouyer of Bethel Right” rally drew hundreds of white nationalists to the and consider your home from that distance. That may porch to create a sitting area. Baptist says the church, home to famous civil rights college town, where officials planned to remove a statue inspire you to embrace larger, more dramatic items. “Pump activist pastor Fred Shuttlesworth, will use the money for of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. After vicious brawl- up the scale of lanterns on either side of the door,” Craig Be bold with color a historic structures report - a detailed accounting of the ing broke out between white nationalists and counter- says, or go for dramatic containers for planting. Or stay A beautiful, bright color can make an otherwise simple building which can guide future preservation efforts. “I’ve demonstrators, a driver ran his car into a crowd of coun- with simple planters, but put dramatic plants in them: front door area look special. When you pass homes with been trying for years to get this done,” Bouyer said of the terdemonstrators, killing one and injuring many. He cur- “Even if you have a small container,” Craig says, “it can brightly colored front doors, “you drive by and think, ‘Oh grant. Paul A. Ellis Jr is executive director of the August rently faces federal hate crime charges. — AP have an incredible climbing rose coming out of it.” She my gosh, that’s really pretty,’” Fenimore says, and it “gives Wilson House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which pays also suggests Boston ivy or climbing ivy. you the warm fuzzies.” Dark front doors painted black or homage to the African-American playwright who wrote Czajkowska recommends hydrangeas, which bloom for charcoal have also become popular and work well on months and add color and texture to the front of a house. some houses. “Personally, I don’t care for dark-colored Climbing roses also add drama and romance, she says, doors unless it speaks to the rest of your home’s architec- “and if your entry allows for it, adding a spot where they ture and design aesthetic,” says Czajkowska. “However, I can climb and envelope your entry can add major impact.” do think your door should be impactful, whether that means painting it a bold color or letting the beautiful craftsmanship and hardware shine.”

Accessories “Beautifully crafted house numbers,” says Czajkowska, “add a ton of character, while highlighting and playing off of the other architectural details on your home.” Ditto for outdoor lighting: “Selecting good outdoor lighting can make or break the ambiance of your home,” she says. “Gas lanterns add an instant charm and set a cozy vibe, but if you don’t want to go with gas, make sure to choose warm lighting that creates a soft glow.” Craig and Fenimore Photo provided by Abbe Fenimore shows a bold blue colored agree: Sweating the details can pay off handsomely. This Nov 11, 2004 file photo, the Mountain View This Dec 24, 1933 file photo shows the restored historic door set against crisp white which creates a cheerful atmos- “Whether you have a little space or a lot,” Fenimore says, Officers’ Club, built in 1942, is shown, at Ft Huachuca, Dillaway-Thomas house, a military headquarterss during phere in this front entry area designed by Abbe Fenimore, “be creative with even the smallest things.” — AP Ariz. — AP photos the Siege of Boston and where George Washington held founder of Studio Ten 25 in Dallas, Texas. conferences with his office. ClassifiedsTuesday, July 10, 2018

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Alexandria 17:50 KAC 784 Jeddah 04:30 ETD 995 Abu Dhabi/Bahrain 17:45 QTR 1077 Doha 05:15 KAC 331 Trivandrum 17:55 JZR 609 Hyderabad 04:30 QTR 1080 Doha 18:10 KAC 303 Mumbai 05:35 KAC 283 Dhaka 18:00 FDB 069 Dubai 05:05 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 THY 1465 Istanbul 06:00 KAC 343 Chennai 18:00 THY 1414 TZX 05:05 WAN 874 Istanbul 18:25 FDB 070 Dubai 06:00 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 MSR 620 Cairo 18:30 THY 771 Istanbul 06:30 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 THY 770 Istanbul 05:15 WAN 966 Tbilisi 18:30 KAC 1544 Cairo 05:20 RJA 640 Amman 19:00 JZR 1542 Cairo 06:40 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 JZR 603 Mumbai 05:25 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:05 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 JZR 608 Hyderabad 18:25 KAC 332 Trivandrum 05:40 UAE 875 Dubai 19:05 RJA 643 Amman 07:00 JZR 240 Amman 18:30 JZR 561 Sohag 05:55 KAC 744 Dammam 19:10 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 18:30 KAC 362 Colombo 06:00 FDB 063 Dubai 19:10 WAN 133 Doha 07:20 JZR 538 Cairo 18:35 BAW 157 London 06:10 ABY 123 Sharjah 19:20 KAC 167 Paris 07:20 JZR 650 Lahore 18:35 WAN 338 Alexandria 06:25 KAC 156 Istanbul 19:25 RBG 550 Alexandria 07:30 QTR 1081 Doha 19:20 KAC 284 Dhaka 06:25 NIA 0161 Cairo 19:30 KAC 413 Bangkok 07:40 WAN 135 Doha 19:25 KAC 204 Lahore 06:30 KAC 776 Riyadh 19:35 KAC 171 Frankfurt 07:50 MSR 621 Cairo 19:30 THY 6376 Istanbul 06:30 JAI 216 Delhi 19:35 KAC 501 Beirut 08:00 ETD 9894 Hanoi 19:45 KAC 678 Dubai 06:45 KAC 674 Dubai 19:40 JZR 238 Amman 08:00 GFA 218 Bahrain 19:50 RBG 559 Alexandria 06:50 RBG 555 Alexandria 19:40 JZR 778 Jeddah 08:00 FDB 064 Dubai 19:50 KAC 302 Mumbai 07:00 FDB 057 Dubai 19:50 BAW 156 London 08:20 RJA 641 Amman 20:00 JZR 605 Ahmedabad 07:05 KAC 178 Vienna 19:55 KAC 165 Rome 08:25 ABY 124 Sharjah 20:00 JZR 143 Doha 07:20 KAC 616 Bahrain 20:00 KAC 177 Vienna 08:30 RBG 556 Alexandria 20:20 JZR 529 Asyut 07:30 DLH 624 Frankfurt 20:05 THY 6376 Dubai/Istanbul 08:35 NIA 0162 Cairo 20:30 KAC 122 AGP 07:35 OMA 647 Muscat 20:05 FDB 054 Dubai 08:35 FDB 058 Dubai 20:30 WAN 342 Sohag 07:35 KAC 620 Doha 20:15 KAC 613 Bahrain 09:00 JZR 602 Mumbai 20:30 KAC 358 Kochi 07:40 JZR 563 Sohag 20:15 KAC 117 New York 09:05 UAE 876 Dubai 20:35 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:05 JAI 215 Delhi 20:35 KAC 384 Delhi 08:05 KAC 166 Rome 20:25 KAC 671 Dubai 09:15 KAC 153 Ataturk 20:45 UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 GEL 616 Baku 20:30 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:40 DLH 624 Dammam 20:50 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 08:55 QTR 1088 Doha 20:40 KAC 561 Amman 09:40 KAC 357 Kochi 21:00 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:00 KAC 172 Frankfurt 20:45 KAC 741 Dammam 09:45 OMA 648 Muscat 21:05 QTR 1070 Doha 09:30 KLM 445 Amsterdam 21:00 JZR 534 Cairo 09:45 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 IRA 675 Lar 09:40 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:15 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 KAC 301 Mumbai 21:35 SVA 512 Riyadh 10:00 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:15 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:55 QTR 1089 Doha 21:50 SYR 341 Damascus 10:00 KAC 168 Paris 21:20 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:00 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 WAN 312 Asyut 10:05 THY 764 Istanbul 21:30 KAC 101 London 10:00 KAC 205 Islamabad 21:55 SAW7 03 Damascus 10:30 KAC 564 Amman 21:50 KAC 515 Tehran 10:00 GEL 613 Dubai 22:00 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:50 KAC 541 Cairo 10:00 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:05 JZR 531 Asyut 10:40 AZG 565 Baku 22:00 KAC 617 Doha 10:10 KLM 445 Bahrain 22:10 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 ICV 675 Luxembourg 22:05 WAN 873 Istanbul 10:15 JZR 1540 Cairo 22:10 QTR 1074 Doha 11:00 QTR 1082 Doha 22:05 KAC 155 Istanbul 10:25 KAC 543 Cairo 22:15 SAW 701 Damascus 11:00 WAN 884 Sarajevo 22:05 QTR 1071 Doha 10:40 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 JZR 541 Cairo 11:05 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 THY 1403 AYT 22:25 WAN 134 Doha 11:10 KAC 786 Jeddah 22:15 IRA 674 Lar 10:40 KAC 383 Delhi 22:25 JZR 165 Dubai 11:45 AIC 987 Chennai/Hyderabad 22:25 SYR 342 Damascus 11:00 UAE 860 Dubai 22:35 KAC 614 Bahrain 12:20 BBC 043 Dhaka 22:30 SVA 513 Riyadh 11:00 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:50 MSC 411 Asyut 12:30 PIA 239 Sialkot 22:35 SAW 704 Damascus 11:30 KAC 783 Jeddah 22:50 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 JZR 185 Dubai 22:50 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 THY 766 Istanbul 12:45 JAI 574 Mumbai 23:00 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 KAC 795 Madinah 23:00 KAC 742 Dammam 12:50 WAN 136 Doha 23:10 VIZ 101 Baghdad 12:00 KAC 411 Bangkok 23:15 JZR 239 13:00 MSR 2614 Cairo 23:30 SAW 702 Damascus 12:00 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:05 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 JZR 1543 Cairo 13:05 JZR 241 Amman 23:40 QTR 1075 Doha 12:10 WAN 337 Alexandria 23:40 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:10 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 JZR 560 Sohag 23:45 24 Established 1961 News Tuesday, July 10, 2018

MULTAN: Shroud-wearing activists of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party - some with mock nooses around their necks, shout slogans as they take part in a protest after a sentencing decision against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Pakistan’s former PM was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by a corruption court in Islamabad, dealing a serious blow to his party’s troubled campaign ahead of July 25 elections. — AFP

lows and the prospect of heavy rains flooding the area 8 rescued from completely, authorities decided they had to move quickly, and take the group out through the water-filled faced off across their disputed frontier ever since. Abiy tunnels. Dozens of foreign divers and other experts also said he would honor all the terms of a peace deal, ‘State of war’ Thai cave, but 5 from around the world were brought in to help the res- suggesting he might be ready to settle the border row, particularly over the contested border town of Badme. cue effort, working alongside Thai Navy SEALs. over, Ethiopia, Both sides tweeted summaries of the agreement remain trapped Rescue operations chief Narongsak Osottanakorn signed yesterday and repeated the reference to honor- described Sunday’s initial rescue bid as “D-Day” when ing the boundary decision. (1) State of war has come to MAE SAI: Elite divers hauled four more young foot- it was launched, and there were fears that any one of Eritrea declare an end; (2) The 2 nations will forge close political, eco- ballers out of a flooded Thai cave yesterday, authorities many potential pitfalls could prove deadly. Among nomic, social, cultural & security cooperation; (3)Trade, said, bringing to eight the number saved in a stunning these were that none of the boys had scuba diving ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia and Eritrea declared their economic & diplomatic ties will resume; (4)The bound- rescue mission but still leaving five others experience, and that they could easily panic while “state of war” over yesterday and agreed to open ary decision will be implemented; (5) Both nations will trapped.”Hooyah,” the Thai Navy SEALs, who have embassies, develop ports and resume flights, concrete swimming underwater in darkness. The death of a for- work on regional peace,” read the Ethiopian version. played a crucial role in the against-the-odds operation, mer Thai Navy SEAL diver who ran out of oxygen in signs of a stunning rapprochement that has swept away The “State of war that existed between the two coun- said in a Facebook post as they announced that a total two decades of hostility in a matter of weeks. The the cave on Friday underscored the danger of the jour- tries has come to an end,” Eritrea’s information minister, of eight members of the “Wild Boars” football team had announcement promised to end of one of Africa’s most ney even for professionals. Yemane Gebremeskel, wrote on Twitter. been rescued on Sunday and yesterday. intractable military stand-offs, a conflict that has desta- He said the deal included a commitment to open But after the first four emerged late on Sunday after- bilized the region and seen both governments funnel Thais have been fixated on the crisis, hoping des- noon, hopes began to rise of a fairytale ending to the embassies in Addis Ababa and Asmara and a plan to perately for the safe return of the 12 boys and their large parts of their budgets into security and soldiers. ordeal. Narongsak on Sunday described their journey resume flights between the two capitals. He published a 25-year-old football coach, after they ventured into “The people of our region are joined in common photo of both men sitting at a table with their flags out, escorted by elite divers, as “smooth”. Crucially, the Tham Luang cave complex after practice and purpose,” Ethiopia’s new prime minister Abiy Ahmed behind them. Ethiopia’s state broadcaster said the two round-the-clock pumping to ease some of the flooding became trapped by rising waters more than a fortnight said, according to a tweet from his chief of staff, after men had “agreed to participate in the development of had paid off. “The water level is still at a satisfactory signing a pact on resuming ties with Eritrean President ago. The extraction of the four yesterday followed a ports” - potentially a huge economic boost for both level and we have enough teams to complete the mis- Isaias Afwerki. Abiy flew to neighboring Eritrea a day similar pattern to the previous day, with the young- countries, particularly landlocked Ethiopia which has one sion,” Narongsak said yesterday. earlier and embraced Isaias on the airport runway. of Africa’s fastest growing economies. The deal would sters emerging in quick succession just before night- But although the eight were rescued, there were Thousands of Eritreans came onto the streets to cheer also include a resumption of phone connections, fall after navigating a treacherous escape route of them and the two men danced side by side to traditional Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said. Ethiopia’s dollar-denomi- more than four kilometers. concerns they may have contracted an illness while in music from both countries at a dinner that evening. Abiy nated bonds rose to their highest in 10-weeks yesterday. The saga has dominated global headlines, with the the cave. Narongsak said after the first four boys were came to office in April and announced reforms that have The shake-up by Abiy, a polyglot former soldier from team spending nine days unaccounted for inside the rescued that they would be quarantined “for a while turned politics on its head in his nation of 100 million. the Oromo ethnic group, Ethiopia’s largest, has won cave, before British divers found the emaciated and because we are concerned about infections”. And rain With the 41-year-old former intelligence officer at the plaudits from Asmara to Washington and drawn com- disheveled group huddling on a muddy bank above the could still re-emerge as a threat for the remaining five, helm, the ruling coalition has ended a state of emer- parisons to the 1980s ‘perestroika’ reforms of Soviet flooding. Authorities then struggled to determine the particularly if there are complications that could delay gency, released political prisoners and announced plans leader Mikhail Gorbachev. However, it has also attracted best way to save the “Wild Boars”, with the group the extraction further. Weather forecasters warned to partially open up the economy to foreign investors. In opposition from hardliners in the Tigrayan People’s stuck on a shelf above the floodwaters in pitch dark- heavy rain could hit the area through the week. his boldest move, Abiy offered last month to make peace Liberation Front (TPLF), the ethnic Tigrayan party that Authorities have repeatedly said the rain could re-flood with Eritrea, 20 years after the neighbors started a bor- has dominated the ruling EPRDF coalition - and by ness. Among the ideas were drilling an escape route der war that killed an estimated 80,000 people. Full- association the country and economy - for nearly three through the mountain, or leaving them for months until crucial parts of the cave complex that have been blown fighting ended in 2000, but their troops have decades. — Reuters the monsoon season ended and the flooding subsided. drained and make the escape route much harder or But with oxygen levels inside dropping to dangerous even impossible to navigate. — AFP

means available to help”, vowing that there would be a in the Kuwaiti political life. Former opposition MP Obaid Turkey train comprehensive investigation into the “tragic accident”, Groups call for Al-Wasmi said he believes that the new sentences are the presidency said. Turkey’s audiovisual authority specifically targeting former MPs Barrak and Muslim, RTUK later said the government had issued a tempo- and advised them not to return to the country now. disaster kills... rary ban on broadcasting images from the scene. This urgent law on... Head of the anti-corruption society Meshaal Al- was lifted yesterday morning. Turkish authorities under Suwait called on those who were sentenced to jail to Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 Erdogan have over the last years sought to modernize meet with HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Turkey’s once ramshackle rail network, building several Sabah and said he believes he will pardon them. Suwait Television pictures showed several train carriages for general amnesty to pardon the opposition high speed inter-city lines. however warned the opposition figures from the danger sprawled on their sides, and shocked injured passengers activists. Opposition MP Abdulwahab Al-Babtain said Turkish passengers have in general preferred taking of “setting up an opposition abroad” calling the step being taken away on stretchers as rescue workers on Twitter that the issue of storming the Assembly has planes or buses for inter-city travel, but this has been totally unwise. The Popular Action Movement said in a picked through the wreckage. The train derailed outside not ended, adding that “it has not started even”. He changing with the new high-speed lines. The train statement that the majority of the Kuwaiti people was the village of Sarilar in the Corlu district of Tekirdag. stressed on the need to issue new legislation for general involved in the accident appeared to be one of the shocked at the rulings that sent honest people who President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his con- amnesty and said the membership of the two convicted slower passenger trains travelling on a single track line. fought against corruption to jail while corrupt elements dolences over those who lost their lives in the accident MPs should not be revoked. He called for popular sup- Turkey’s rail network has been hit by several fatal acci- remain free enjoying strength. that he said has “deeply upset the whole nation”. The port to achieve those goals. dents in recent years. In January 2008, nine people It said its legal office will study the court ruling thor- accident, one of Turkey’s worst train disasters of recent Babtain said that a series of meetings will be held in were killed when a train derailed in the Kutahya region oughly and take the necessary decisions outlining its years, threatens to cast a shadow over a lavish ceremo- the next few days and urged all to live up to their south of Istanbul due to faulty tracks. And in Turkey’s options. The Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) ny scheduled in Ankara later to mark the inauguration responsibility because the situation is bad when the worst recent rail disaster, 41 people were killed and 80 also called for pardoning those convicted in the case. In of Erdogan for a new presidential mandate and the honest people are sent to jail while the corrupt remain injured in July 2004 when a high-speed train derailed in the meantime, pro-government MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl transition to a new system of government. free. The liberal Kuwait Democratic Forum called for Erdogan said all state institutions were “using every the northwestern province of Sakarya. — AFP said he was very pleased, like many Kuwaitis, at the rul- issuing a general amnesty law and to open a new page ings which sent opposition figures to jail.

stand at 4.61 against the dollar at 1350 GMT. Erdogan sworn in... Erdogan has described high interest rates as “the foreign - as part of a bid to diversify the economy of mother and father of all evil”, and said in May he would Saudi Arabia the world’s top oil exporter away from crude. Reforms Continued from Page 1 expect to wield greater economic control after the aim to lift total tourism spending to $46.6 billion in election. “We will take our country much further by 2020 from $27.9 billion in 2015. Saudi Arabia is home solving structural problems of our economy,” he said on bid to protect... to more than 10 million foreign workers and family Inan Demir, a senior economist at Nomura Saturday, referring to high interest rates, inflation and members, and grants more than 6 million special visas International. The lira, which is down some 16 percent the current account deficit. Inflation surged last month Continued from Page 1 a year for foreigners to attend the annual Hajj and oth- so far this year and has been battered by concern above 15 percent, its highest level in more than a er Muslim pilgrimages. But it does not offer regular about Erdogan’s drive for lower interest rates, firmed to decade, despite interest rate hikes of 500 basis points pre-Islamic Arab civilization that also built Petra in tourist visas. its highest level since mid-June before falling back to by the central bank since April. — Reuters neighboring Jordan. Plans to admit tourists have been discussed for years It is now the centre of a multi-billion dollar tourism but have not come to fruition due to sluggish bureau- project the authorities are developing with French sup- cracy and concern over conservative sentiment. Prince active participation in Beijing’s “International Import port. “I believe you cannot understand Islam as a great Sultan said last year he hoped the kingdom would start Kuwait-China joint Expo,” with both nations agreeing that cooperation in religion if you are dismissing completely what happened issuing visas in 2018, but told Reuters that they still the financial sector is key to boosting bilateral trade before Islam,” Prince Sultan said. “That’s why we need approval from “the higher authorities in govern- and investment. The two nations also agreed to work focused on hundreds of pre-Islamic sites, pre-history- ment”, without elaborating or setting a new timeframe. statement reveals... closely together in fields running the gamut from cul- because this is a story that cannot be understood with- Asked if the kingdom would relax social restrictions Continued from Page 1 ture and education to healthcare and tourism, in addi- out being looked at in its own holistic and complete to allow tourists to drink alcohol and wear bikinis, Prince tion to the fight against terror, hinting that a plan to sense.” He said up to 150 important sites had been Sultan said: “Ninety-nine percent of the things you say get development projects in Kuwait off the ground, introduce visa free travel between Kuwait and Beijing intentionally destroyed or lost to urban development today are allowed in Islam and can be managed as we namely its “Silk City” urban enterprise. They revealed could be in the works. Other plans include establishing before the government adopted its new policy of pro- speak, but there are some things that will not be accept- that a joint economic and trade committee has been a free trade zone between China and the Gulf Arab tecting pre-Islamic monuments. SCTH is dispersing soft ed in Saudi Arabia. “The Islamic world is all looking at set up with the purpose of easing bilateral trade and states, which serves the best interests of both regions, loans to municipalities to develop heritage locations and Makkah every day, five times a day, but also thinking investment, which will prove instrumental in improving as the two countries appreciated one another’s contri- preparing another 10 sites for UNESCO recognition. about Saudi Arabia,” said Prince Sultan. “Some people economic ties. butions towards keeping peace and security in the Saudi Arabia hopes reviving such sites will bolster would accept things in their own countries but would not With that in mind, China has commended Kuwait’s region intact. — KUNA national identity while attracting tourists - local and accept it happening in Saudi Arabia.” — Reuters 25 Sports Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Former Barca coach Enrique tasked with reviving Spain Enrique’s appointment as coach for the next two years

MADRID: Former Barcelona coach Luis Enrique was Andres Iniesta, who has retired from international football. appointed Spain’s new coach yesterday after previous incumbent Julen Lopetegui was sacked on the eve of the RESTORING CONFIDENCE World Cup in what turned out to be a disappointing cam- The new manager faces the same two-pronged brief that paign. “Luis Enrique’s appointment as coach for the next Lopetegui was tasked with two years ago: to restore confi- two years was approved unanimously,” Luis Rubiales, presi- dence and get fresh blood from the younger generation. Of dent of the Spanish football federation, told reporters. The the starting XI against Russia, only Marco Asensio will be 48-year-old faces a similar challenge to the one that he had under 30 when the next World Cup comes around. Gerard when he took over at Barcelona in 2014. Pique, Sergio Ramos, David Silva, Diego Costa and Sergio A team with a history of success, a talented squad and a Busquets will all be 33 or older. The survivors from the triple distinctive style of playing, had just failed to win a trophy triumph of Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 for the first time in six years. With Spain, Enrique must will either be gone or nearing retirement, which paves the revive a side that won three consecutive major tournaments way for an evolution of personnel and maybe style. between 2008 and 2012 but are deflated after three failures, Enrique played for both the warring powers of Spanish the latest their World Cup loss to hosts Russia-ranked 70th club football. A bustling forward or midfielder, he made 157 in the world-on penalties in the last 16. appearances for Real Madrid over five seasons scoring 15 Before that, Spain were humiliated at the hands of the goals and then played 207 games, scoring 73 times, for Netherlands in 2014 and beaten by Italy at Euro 2016 — Barcelona over eight seasons. He also made 62 appearances their winning streak but a distant memory. Enrique will be for Spain between 1991 and 2002, scoring 12 goals. taking over from Lopetegui, who was fired by Rubiales After retiring in 2004, Enrique was groomed as a coach when the coach announced he had signed to take over at by Barcelona and led the club’s B team to promotion to the Real Madrid. Spanish second division and then took them to a third-place Spain’s then sporting director Fernando Hierro stepped finish. His first head coaching job was at Roma in 2011 but in hastily to replace him and led the team to the last 16, after a mediocre season he returned to Spain and led Celta before stepping down after the tournament. Changing the Vigo to ninth, an improvement of eight places, and master- coach two days before Spain’s opening game probably did minded a 2-0 home victory over Real Madrid that ensured not benefit the side’s chances. Atletico Madrid won the title. That summer he joined With Hierro in place, there were positive signs against Barcelona for a glorious three-year reign. His first season Portugal, when Cristiano Ronaldo’s free-kick overshadowed started shakily while he searched for a settled lineup but BARCELONA: In this file photo taken on May 21, 2017 Barcelona’s coach Luis Enrique holds a ball during an assured Spain performance in a thrilling 3-3 draw. But ended in a treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and the the Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs SD Eibar at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on May defensive errors and tactical rigidity soon came to the fore Champions League, beating Juventus in the final. Barcelona 21, 2017. The Spanish Football Federation named yesterday former Barcelona coach Luis Enrique as as poor displays followed against Iran, Morocco and Russia. then won the World Club Cup and at the end of the 2015-16 Spain’s new coach. — AFP Enrique will also be taking over a team shorn of captain season added another Spanish double.—AFP

ered from a career-threatening knee injury suffered last politician and a former professional shooter who won Modi lauds Indian year as her average score of 14.150 edged out silver in the 2004 Olympics, also praised the champion Indonesia’s Rifda Irfanaluthfi (13.400). gymnast. “#DipaKarmakar is the stuff champions are “More than the gold, what was important for me was made of! After battling an injury for the past 2 yrs, she gymnast for first to perform at the optimum level. I am happy I could do makes a heroic comeback by clinching her first in the Wilshere feels that considering the fact at the beginning of the year, I Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Turkey! Many gold in world event was hobbling back to fitness,” Karmakar was quoted as Congratulations to her for making proud!,” Rathore saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper. wrote on Twitter. ‘special bond’ “Getting back into top gear makes me believe that Karmakar though is still some distance away from my knee has healed completely and I should now be the dangerous “Produnova Vault” that got her bronze in with new club NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the able to go all out at the Asian Games,” she added. The the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. tributes yesterday for woman gymnast Dipa Karmakar Asian Games take place in Indonesia from August 18 to Named after Russian gymnast Yelena Produnova, the who bagged India’s first ever gold medal in a global September 2. Modi took to Twitter to congratulate the “Vault of Death” as it is nicknamed was first introduced West Ham gymnastic event in Turkey. Karmakar, who participated Indian athlete who missed the Commonwealth Games in in 1999, but is so dangerous some want it banned. Australia this year due to her injury. “India is proud of It involves a handspring double-front somersault, in her first international competition since narrowly LONDON: England midfielder Jack Wilshere said it missing an Olympic medal in 2016, won the women’s @DipaKarmakar!... This win is a prime example of her and has one of the highest degrees of difficulty rating a felt “special” to be joining West Ham on a free trans- vault at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge tenacity and never-say-die attitude,” said Modi. seven, but only a handful of gymnasts have attempted it fer yesterday as it is the club he and his family sup- Cup in Mersin on Sunday. The 24-year-old had recov- Sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, an Indian in competition. —AFP ported. The 26-year-old-whose lack of form towards the end of the season with Arsenal led to his being omitted from the World Cup squad-signed a three year contract with the Hammers. Wilshere-scorer of 14 goals in his 197 appear- Pivac to coach ances for the Gunners and who won two FA Cup winners medals in 2014 and 2015 — said it was well known the strong emotional ties he had with Wales after West Ham. “It feels good, it feels special,” said Wilshere on the West Ham website. “Many people know that I’ve Gatland era had a special bond with this club growing up. “People will have seen the picture of me in a West Ham shirt LONDON: Wayne Pivac will coach Wales when and I’ve got good memories of my childhood sup- fellow New Zealander Warren Gatland’s 12 year porting West Ham, watching them at Upton Park. reign comes to an end following the 2019 Rugby “It feels good and of course my family and a few World Cup, the Wales Rugby Union announced of my friends are West Ham fans so everyone’s buzzing.” Wilshere-whose contract ran out at the end yesterday. Pivac’s successful tenure at Welsh of June — decided to look for a new club when new region Scarlets-last season he guided them to their Gunners manager Unai Emery told him he would not first European Cup semi-final in a decade-had Kuwait jet ski team with Kuwait’s Ambassador in Brussels Jasem Al Budaiwi and other Kuwaiti be a first choice next season. placed him as favourite to fill the vacancy. diplomats. Emery’s predecessor Arsene Wenger had recom- Pivac, who also coached Scarlets to a thumping mended that the club offer Wilshere a new contract victory over Irish powerhouses Munster to land the after a series of impressive performances last season. 2017 Celtic League title, saw off two fellow New efforts to provide all sorts of services and facilities to Wilshere’s career has been hobbled by injuries and he Zealanders-two-time Super Rugby winning coach Kuwaiti team wins 4 various Kuwaiti delegations that visit Belgium, political, was willing to take a pay cut to stay at a club he had Dave Rennie, who is presently in charge of economic cultural, sports. We are here to help them to been with for 17 years but Wenger’s departure left his Glasgow Warriors, and Scott Robinson.”The cur- ease their stay here,” Al-Budaiwi told KUNA. fate in Emery’s hands. rent Scarlets boss will take over from Warren medals at Belgium’s “We are keen on promoting Kuwait’s relations with Wilshere-who won the last of his 34 England caps Gatland, who is scheduled to step down after the Belgium in different fields. Sports is a sector where cul- in the humiliating Euro 2016 2-1 defeat to Iceland- 2019 Rugby World Cup when he will have served European Jet Ski tures and the youth can meet and exchange views and said he did not have to think twice when he learned of more than 12 years at the helm,” read the WRU ideas in a very civilized and peaceful manner,” he said. West Ham’s interest in securing his services adding statement posted on their website. On his part, Jet skier and team member that he is a great admirer of manager Manuel Martyn Phillips, chief executive of the WRU, said championships Abdurrahman Al-Umar said that he won a gold medal in Pellegrini. that there should be no complaints after a rigorous the pro-am runabout limited class. “I think it was a number of things,” he said. “The selection process which took two years to com- BRUSSELS: The Kuwaiti national Jet Ski team won one “It was really a tough competition. It is the first time manager being one and the way he wants to play and plete. “We have secured the best man for the job gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the Euro Jet- that I participated in this class. I am really happy that I where he sees me playing.” Mario Husillos, director of football at West Ham, said he and Pellegrini had made and we have done so rigorously and decisively to tribe Jetski Championship held in Belgium from July 4- won,” he said. On his part, teammate Salem Al-Mutawa the collective benefit of all involved in Welsh rug- said that he won the silver medal in the pro-am limited Wilshere’s signing a priority once they knew he 8. Kuwait’s Ambassador to Belgium, the EU, NATO and would be available. by,” said Phillips. category and a bronze medal in pro-am stock category. Luxembourg, Jasem Al-Budaiwi, yesterday welcomed “Manuel and I identified him as a target as soon as “Both Wayne and Warren and their coaching the team to the Kuwait embassy and congratulated Mohammad Ibrahim Burabia won the silver medal in the teams, our international players, supporters and we joined the club and we are delighted to have suc- them on their win. He noted that the Kuwaiti team had pro-GB category, which he said, “is the biggest and ceeded in securing Jack’s signature above a number everyone at the Scarlets now have clarity and there an outstanding performance at the championship that hardest category in the championships.” of other teams. “On the biggest stage, he has shown is no underestimating the positive benefit to be was organized by the Belgian Jet Ski Federation near A number of 31 countries from around the world, that he has game-changing abilities, as well as having gained from having the time to plan properly for the town of Froidchapelle in southwestern Belgium. including some Gulf countries, with 299 racers took the creativity and intelligence to make a real differ- the future.—AFP “The embassy welcomed this team in line with its part in the event. — KUNA ence to our squad.”—AFP 26 Sports Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Diamondbacks lose 16-inning marathon to San Diego Padres

New York Mets lose 25 of their last 33 games

PHOENIX: Wil Myers, who tied a Padres record with match of a three-game series. Toronto’s Tyler Clippard (4- three homers Saturday night, homered off Arizona catcher 3) hit Greg Bird with a pitch to open the 10th. Tyler Wade Jeff Mathis with two outs in the top of the 16th inning ran for Bird and was sacrificed to second by Austin Sunday to give San Diego a 4-3 win over the Romine. Gardner singled left to score Wade. Chad Green Diamondbacks at Phoenix. Mathis, who caught the first 15 (5-1) earned the win, and David Robertson picked up his innings, was called upon to pitch after the Diamondbacks second save. Kendrys Morales hit a solo homer for the ran out of pitchers. Mathis was Arizona’s 10th pitcher, a Blue Jays. It was the 200th of his career, making him the parade that started with Zack Greinke. The Diamondbacks fifth Cuban-born player ever to reach that plateau. used all seven members of their bullpen plus their Friday starter, Zack Godley, who pitched the 15th. Mathis retired ANGELS 4, DODGERS 3 the first two hitters he faced in the 16th before Myers Shohei Ohtani’s pinch-hit home run leading off the sev- drove a full-count fastball into the seats in right-center. enth inning snapped a tie and lifted the Los Angeles Angels Brad Hand (2-4), the ninth pitcher deployed by the Padres, to a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Anaheim, Calif. got the win to give San Diego a split of the four-game The Angels won the series, taking two of three. The two series. Hand pitched the final two innings, stranding the teams will square off again at Dodger Stadium next week- tying run at third in the 16th. end. Angels starter Andrew Heaney (5-6) threw seven innings of three-run ball. He struck out 10, matching a sea- RAYS 9, METS 0 son high. Hansel Robles pitched a scoreless eighth, and Nathan Eovaldi carried a perfect game into the seventh Justin Anderson tossed a scoreless ninth for his fourth save. inning and combined with Andrew Kittredge on a two-hit shutout as Tampa Bay won at New York. The Rays won the A’S 6, INDIANS 0 final two games of the three-game series and have won 11 of Stephen Piscotty and Jed Lowrie hit home runs for the their last 15. The Mets have lost 25 of their last 33 games and second consecutive game, and Brett Anderson came off haven’t won a series since May 18-20, a span of 14 series. the disabled list to go five-plus scoreless innings as Brandon Nimmo laced a clean single over second base on an Oakland earned a victory at Cleveland. The A’s won for the 0-1 count to open the seventh inning and end the perfect- 10th time in their past 12 games and took a series against game bid. Eovaldi (3-3) was pulled after the seventh. He gave the Indians for the second consecutive week. The A’s won up one hit and no walks while striking out nine. two of three games at Oakland last weekend before doing it again in Cleveland by winning Saturday and Sunday. RANGERS 3, TIGERS 0 Anderson (1-2) gave up just three hits with three strikeouts PHOENIX: Carlos Asuaje #20 of the San Diego Padres attempts to turn a double play as Paul Goldschmidt Jurickson Profar smacked a first-inning homer, and four and a pair of walks. Oakland’s bullpen allowed just two hits #44 of the Arizona Diamondbacks slides into second base during the fifth inning at Chase Field on Sunday pitchers combined on a shutout as Texas salvaged a split over the final four innings as the A’s recorded their sixth in Phoenix, Arizona. —AFP of a four-game series at Detroit. Rangers designated hitter shutout of the season. Shin-Soo Choo extended his on-base streak to 47 games with a ninth-inning infield single. He broke Julio Franco’s ASTROS 2, WHITE SOX 1 in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Chicago past visiting rolled to a win at Washington, avoiding a four-game 1993 club record with the hit. Texas starter Austin Bibens- Jose Altuve slugged a home run, Marwin Gonzalez deliv- Cincinnati. The Cubs won for the eighth time in nine games weekend sweep. All five of Realmuto’s hits were sin- Dirkx (2-2) lasted 5 1/3 innings and limited Detroit to three ered a perfect squeeze bunt, and host Houston completed a despite not getting a hit in the 10th. Reds first baseman gles. In fact, the first 20 of Miami’s 22 hits were sin- singles and a walk while striking out five. Reliever Jose sweep of its season series with Chicago. The Astros moved Joey Votto committed a crucial error in the inning. gles, as the team did not get an extra-base hit until Leclerc also recorded five strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings. Jake to a season-high 30 games over .500 by mustering just Cincinnati’s Adam Duvall prompted extra innings when he the ninth. Martin Prado helped by going 4-for-6 with Diekman tossed one inning, and Keone Kela notched his enough offense against Lucas Giolito, who gave up two runs hit a game-tying homer off Brandon Morrow in the ninth. one RBI as six Marlins posted at least two hits. Miami 22nd save by getting the last three outs. in a season-high 7 1/3 innings. Dallas Keuchel (6-8) worked Morrow blew his second save chance of the year and finished 8-for-20 with runners in scoring position and seven innings, allowing one run on six hits. Hector Rondon allowed his second homer in the past two seasons. still stranded 17. RED SOX 7, ROYALS 4 tossed a perfect ninth for his seventh save. Rick Porcello struck out nine over seven innings of three- PIRATES 4, PHILLIES 1 TWINS 10, ORIOLES 1 run ball, Xander Bogaerts, Mitch Moreland and Eduardo BREWERS 10, BRAVES 3 Nick Kingham pitched six strong innings and drove in Brian Dozier homered, doubled and drove in three Nunez each had two RBIs, and Boston capped a three- Jesus Aguilar hit two home runs, and Hernan Perez two runs as Pittsburgh broke a five-game losing streak runs, and Mitch Garver and Eduardo Escobar each hit game sweep at Kansas City. Steve Pearce added an RBI for capped a five-run inning with a three-run homer to lift with a win over visiting Philadelphia. Starling Marte had two-run home runs as Minnesota completed its first four- the Red Sox, who have won six consecutive games. Porcello host Milwaukee past Atlanta. In the decisive third-inning two hits, and Josh Harrison and Josh Bell each drove in a game home sweep of Baltimore. Dozier, Robbie (11-3) allowed nine hits and walked one. Jorge Bonifacio had rally, the Brewers got an RBI single from Christian Yelich run for the Pirates. Nick Williams hit a solo homer for Grossman and Max Kepler each had two hits for two RBIs, and Adalberto Mondesi and Whit Merrifield (5- and a sacrifice fly from Travis Shaw before Perez blasted Philadelphia, which had won six straight. Kingham (3-4), Minnesota, which broke the game open with an eight-run for-5) each drove in another for Kansas City, which matched his sixth homer to center field. Aguilar went deep in the making his eighth big league start, gave up Williams’ sixth inning that featured a double and a home run by its longest losing streak this year at nine games. It’s the third seventh inning, and Eric Thames and Aguilar homered in homer for his only run allowed. That was among four hits Dozier. Jake Odorizzi (4-6) picked up his first victory time the Royals have lost nine in a row this season. the eighth. Milwaukee’s Junior Guerra (6-5) allowed only he gave up while striking out five and walking one. He had since a 7-1 win at St. Louis on May 8 by pitching six one run in six innings and won his third consecutive start. been 0-4 in five starts since winning his first two. shutout innings. Chris Davis hit his ninth home run of the YANKEES 2, BLUE JAYS 1 (10 INNINGS) season, and Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop each Brett Gardner hit the go-ahead RBI single in the top of CUBS 6, REDS 5 (10 INNINGS) MARLINS 10, NATIONALS 2 had two hits for the Orioles, who lost their sixth straight the 10th inning as New York won at Toronto in the rubber David Bote drew the game-winning walk with one out J.T. Realmuto went 5-for-6 with three RBIs as Miami game and fell for the 13th time in 14 games.— Reuters

Introducing the Hamilton limited new AC Milan the damage, but 2018/19 home kit

Ferrari are the UMA football brings you the new AC MILAN 2018/19 Home kit. The first PUMA kit for AC PMILAN plays to the Club’s long history and real winners tradition. The unmistakable red and black stripes that repre- sent the fire in the hearts of the team and the fear they SILVERSTONE: Lewis Hamilton’s superb fight back instill in their opposition are retained in a clean and from last to second in Sunday’s British Grand Prix classic execution. cannot mask the fact that Ferrari landed a telling blow A vintage inspired button-up collar, as seen on the on Mercedes and their Formula One champion. club’s kits from the early part of the 20th Century adds This was a race that, on paper, had Hamilton’s to this classic and clean feel, whilst the legendary name written all over it and should have sent the ‘Diavolo Rossonero’ (The Red & Black Devil) appears Briton back to the top of the standings. Instead, the Club, fuelling a burning desire to succeed. best players, such as Romelu Lukaku, Antoine Mercedes driver slipped eight points behind on the back of the neck, a nod to the famous quote by club founder Herbert Kilpin: “We’re going to be a team To view the AC Milan home kit launch film: Griezmann, Olivier Giroud, Sergio Aguero, Marco Reus, Sebastian Vettel, with the real possibility that his https://youtu.be/m-Z_YnB2vM0 Julian Weigl, Adam Lallana, Cesc Fabregas, Mario German rival will be leading into the August break, of devils. We’ll be red like the flames that will animate AC Milan are part of an impressive roster of PUMA Balotelli, Hector Bellerin, Petr Cech, Gianluigi Buffon, with all the bragging rights that entails. our souls and black like the fear our opponents will Second place, after a first lap collision and spin, feel” To accompany the home kit, PUMA Football cre- Football clubs including Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal Nacho Monreal, Allan Saint-Maximin and Marco was great damage limitation and a fine drive by ated a social campaign under the title ‘A NEW FC, Olympique de Marseille, CD Guadalajara, Borussia Arnautovio. Hamilton. But Mercedes have been letting too many MILAN’. It is inspired by the youthful exuberance and Monchengladbach, and National teams such as Italy, The AC Milan home kit is now available at Orient bankable points slip through their fingers. creativeness of the city, and the passion of the fans that Switzerland, Uruguay, Senegal and Serbia. PUMA¥s Sports, Soccer Scene at Avenue Mall, Lilly whites, The The fact that Hamilton is only eight points adrift is reflected in a new era of youth and energy within the football portfolio also includes some of the world¥s Boot Room and on NAMSHI. after 10 races is remarkable considering that Mercedes have only won three times so far in 2018. Races have been lost through mechanical misfortune, combined at the Pyeongchang Games have earned her strategy blunders, racing incidents or the simple fact Skiing a model for two ESPY nominations - for Best Female Athlete and that rivals have come up with a better car for a par- Best US Female Olympian - and she was pleased those ticular circuit. performances can help keep her sport in the public eye. Mercedes have won every championship since the equity, says top “Ski racing doesn’t receive a ton of attention outside of start of the V6 turbo hybrid era in 2014, but their grip the Olympic cycle in the US so to be able to keep that has been prised open this season. After 10 races in earner Shiffrin ball rolling through the ESPYs is super cool,” she said 2017, Mercedes had won six. In 2016, 2015 and 2014 of the awards, which are voted for by fans ahead of a the tallies were respectively nine, eight and nine wins July 18 ceremony in Los Angeles. at the same stage. LOS ANGELES: The world’s best overall women’s ski “It’s good for me and my brand and that’s all great No wonder, then, that Vettel was so elated on Sunday afternoon at a circuit that had seen Hamilton racer Mikaela Shiffrin, who for the second successive but to be honest, it’s cooler because it means people win for the previous four years and Mercedes for the year was the highest paid athlete in the sport, said are watching the sport and I get to share my passion last five. The German is picking up crucial points, like Alpine skiing can serve as a model for equal pay. with more people. “So let’s give it a little more time in a winning electoral candidate collects votes in mar- The 23-year-old American, who again earned more the spotlight.” ginal seats or states, in places that would previously than the men’s top athlete Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, Shiffrin was quick to praise compatriot Lindsey have been considered solidly Mercedes. said she is proud to be part of a sport that recognizes Vonn as a trailblazer in the sport who paved the way for “Qui a casa loro (here in their home),” he the achievements of women as equal to those of men. Shiffrin’s success. With 82 World Cup victories, the 33- exclaimed over the radio after the chequered flag as “Gender equality and equal pay in the workplace are year-old Vonn could surpass Ingemar Stenmark’s Ferrari hailed their ‘lion’. “We are leaving with the hot topics right now and ski racing is one of the most record of 86 World Cup victories this season, a feat British flag to hang in Maranello,” he added. Vettel equal professions out there,” Shiffrin, who took home once thought unimaginable. Mikaela Shiffrin also triumphed in Canada, a race Hamilton had won 702,774 Swiss francs (USD $710,734) in prize money, “Lindsey put ski racing on the map in the US,” said for the previous three years and six times in total, told Reuters on Sunday. Shiffrin, whose 43 World Cup wins already has her while Mercedes’ hopes of a fifth successive Austrian “To have the opportunity as a girl in ski racing to halfway to the record she may one day hold. “Definitely could be seen as a lot of pressure for Shiffrin but she Grand Prix win ended with mechanical failures to win as much or more prize money as her male counter- she’s the biggest name in the sport and because she said it’s an opportunity she cherishes. “There’s some both cars. Sunday’s victory was Vettel’s fourth of the parts is a testament to the sport. “Of course it’s a really came before me and had success, it’s given me an little girl out there who wants to be a ski racer and campaign, one more than Hamilton, and another in cool thing for me but it’s also goes to show how far opportunity to make ski racing a career. might have a shot to be really, really good and they are Germany next week would equal in half a season what female ski racing has come that people want to watch it “I like to think that I’m carrying the torch in some only going to have that possibility because Lindsey Ferrari managed in all of 2017 — which was already and find it exciting.” sense.” Taking the mantel from Vonn, who has said she and I came before them and there’s a torch to carry,” the team’s best since 2010.—Reuters Shiffrin’s gold medal in giant slalom and silver in will retire before the next Winter Olympics in Beijing, she said. — Reuters 27 Sports Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Croatian midfield threat poses dilemma for manager Southgate Southgate’s system is built to probe for weaknesses

REPINO: Manager Gareth Southgate has largely stuck to which they were favourites against Colombia and Sweden, his guns in terms of England’s tactical approach at this England now face a high-quality, highly tactical opponent tournament but the challenge of a World Cup semi-final and Southgate must decide if his trusted formation is really against Croatia in Moscow tomorrow poses him a tricky suited for such a task. dilemma. Croatia have arguably the strongest central mid- Another matter of concern for England will be the wide field pairing of the tournament in Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic areas, where Kieran Trippier has been outstanding in his and Real Madrid playmaker Luka Modric, while England attacking wing back role on the right and Ashley Young have been playing with just one orthodox central defensive has done an effective job on the left. midfielder, Jordan Henderson. Croatia have attacking quality out wide in Ivan Perisic Southgate’s system is built to probe for weaknesses via on the left and Ante Rebic on the opposite flank, both of a trio of attacking players operating behind and around whom will give England’s full backs plenty of defensive striker Harry Kane, with all three expected to contribute to work to do. Both Perisic and Rebic can cut inside to sup- the defensive work when the team does not have posses- port Mandzukic from inside left and inside right roles, sion. That means Jesse Lingard, Dele Alli and Raheem meaning even more strain on Henderson if he is left unac- Sterling- none of whom are noted for the defensive side of companied. If Southgate were to bring in Dier, it will be a their game- must put in the hard graft of closing down very difficult decision to decide which of his attacking trio space and harrying their opponents. he should sacrifice. Jesse Lingard has been excellent and is So far it has worked pretty well. Taking on both massive surely a certain starter, leaving the issue as a straight responsibility and a huge workload, Henderson has been choice between Dele Alli, who scored in the 2-0 win over excellent and the attacking trio have helped him enough to Sweden but is carrying a knock and was otherwise quiet, ensure he has not been swamped. But with Rakitic and and Raheem Sterling. Modric operating centrally and Andrej Kramaric inclined Sterling caused Sweden plenty of problems, stretching to drop off behind lone striker Mario Mandzukic, the dan- them with his movement on Saturday, but missed a glori- ger of Croatia dominating the central areas is a very real ous chance and the fact he has not scored for England one for England. since October 2015 is a major concern for the most The obvious option for Southgate would be to advanced of the trio. Southgate is loyal to his players and strengthen that area by bringing in Eric Dier to help would be reluctant to leave out the Manchester City for- Henderson and shore up the middle of the park. That ward. Nor will he be keen to disrupt a formation which has would mean sacrificing one of the attacking midfield trio, carried his team to the last four. however, which risks upsetting the balance of the forma- But Croatia are, unlike Colombia and Sweden, a team tion and reducing England’s effectiveness with the ball. that can dominate possession for long stretches as they MOSCOW: Croatia’s team players take part in a training session of Croatia’s national football team at the The impression so far is that Southgate trusts his sys- seek to exploit defensive gaps. Plenty then for both Luzhniki training field, in Moscow, yesterday ahead of their Russia 2018 semi-final football match tem and his players, and does not want to let the opposi- Southgate and his opposite number Zlatko Dalic to ponder against England.— AFP tion dictate his approach. But after two knockout games in ahead of their meeting in Moscow. — Reuters

‘Winners’ Fellaini, Chadli keep African After Russia’s interest alive glorious World Cup run, fans ask: MOSCOW: The World Cup semi-finals may be an all- European affair but Belgium’s unlikely heroes Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli have ensured that ‘Where was Putin?’ at least one part of North Africa has retained a strong interest in the tournament. MOSCOW: As Russia’s World Cup dream ended with The midfield duo, who both have dual Moroccan- defeat to Croatia, some soccer fans noted the Belgian nationality, kept Belgium alive with their goals absence from the stadium of President Vladimir Putin, off the bench in the extraordinary round of 16 come- who attended only one match in Russia’s best World back against Japan and were handed starts in the 2-1 Cup run since the Soviet collapse in 1991. win over Brazil. In the Kazan quarter-final, Fellaini Putin was at Russia’s opening game against Saudi rewarded coach Roberto Martinez with 90 minutes of Arabia but skipped the following four - despite the hassling, harrying and sometimes hacking that played national side, the tournament’s lowest-ranking, defy- havoc with the flow of Brazil’s vaunted midfield. ing expectations and reaching the quarter-finals. Born in Etterbeek to Moroccan parents, Fellaini is an “Where has the president got to?” asked Nezygar, established member of Belgium’s “golden generation” a popular news channel on messaging service despite criticism of his performances at Manchester Telegram. “Tell Putin our guys would have won if he’d United. While his call-up to the World Cup squad was come to the game!” fan Pavel Gondarev wrote on to be expected, Chadli would have been a shock inclu- social media to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, sion in the squad even if he had not missed most of the who attended the shootout defeat. MOSCOW: (L to R) Belgium’s forward Michy Batshuayi, Belgium’s midfielder Marouane Fellaini, Belgium’s Online news site Znak.com wrote that Russians on season for West Bromwich Albion because of injury. forward Eden Hazard and Belgium’s midfielder Thorgan Hazard joke during a training session at the social media are “tying themselves up in knots trying The versatile 28-year-old, who played a friendly for Guchkovo Stadium in Dedovsk, outside Moscow, yesterday, on the eve of their Russia 2018 World Cup to guess where Vladimir Putin might have got to”. Morocco in 2010 before committing to Belgium, ran semi-final football match against France. — AFP Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters on himself into the ground at left wing back against Brazil Monday Putin had only ever been scheduled to before making way for the better-known Thomas attend the opening and closing games of the tourna- Vermaelen seven minutes from time. esting technically and tactically. “They are two players Batshuayi all having at least one Congolese parent, ment. He was minimising attendance because matches That Belgium held off a late Brazilian charge to set who are winners, they are fighters, they are survivors. I while Mousa Dembele’s father is from Mali. “happen when he is at the height of his working day”. up tomorrow’s last four meeting with France in St think for me they are an example for any young player Adnan Januzaj, meanwhile, is the son of Kosovar- “He doesn’t play soccer himself, but naturally Petersburg was another vindication of Martinez’s faith who wants to play the game. And any young player who Albanian migrants and Axel Witsel’s father has roots in like the overwhelming majority of Russians he is a in the duo. “We are extremely proud of Nacer and wants to face adversity in life.” the French Caribbean island of Martinique. “We are fan. Of course he isn’t obsessive-because he can’t Marouane,” the Spaniard said before the Kazan Arena Fellaini and Chadli are not the only players in the very, very proud of the diversity we have in the squad,” permit himself this-but he likes interesting foot- clash. “Their performances have been incredible. Not squad with African heritage, of course, with Romelu Martinez added. “I feel that’s probably the biggest ball,” Peskov said. just on the football level, where they’ve been very inter- Lukaku, Vincent Kompany, Dedryck Boyata and Michy strength that we have as a football team.” — Reuters While Putin sat out the Russia-Croatia quarter- final, his Croatian counterpart, Kolinda Grabar- Kitarovic, was in the stadium, wearing the red and white of the Croatian flag. French President peloton, whizzing past fans at over 40km an hour. ting perfect execution,” he said. “The worrying comes Emmanuel Macron will fly in for the semi-final Froome faces Other than a couple of fans holding up signs such as afterwards,” he added. between France and Belgium, which Putin has no “Froome go home” on Saturday and Sunday, the festive Another team highly fancied yesterday is the powerful plans to attend. Atlantic coast jaunt went well for Froome until 6km from BMC, whose leader, like Froome and Mitchelton Scott’s Competing theories in Moscow swirled as to why public ‘trial’ on home when he was forced off the road, escaping unhurt Adam Yates, trails yellow jersey Peter Sagan by 1min Putin appeared to have stayed away. Putin, a black but losing around a minute to some key rivals. 09sec due to the mayhem at Saturday’s finish. Mitchelton belt in judo, is an avid ice hockey fan and The Bell, a But there was some ugly cheering at the Fontenay finish Scott also have healthy dose of good strong rollers while Russian media outlet, cited a high-ranking official as Tour third stage line where a giant screen was broadcasting the images live. Spanish outfit Movistar are expected to hold their own. saying the reason for Putin’s absence was a simple Sky are among a clutch of favourites to win Monday’s But the Belgian side Quick Step could stun them all and lack of interest in soccer. stage, where they will hit around 50km/h over the slightly reclaim the yellow jersey for Fernando Gaviria, winner of One Moscow-based political analyst speculated CHOLET: The roadside spectators who booed Chris rolling course but will be easily identified. Saturday’s opener. The Colombian is second overall to the real explanation was the wish not to be associat- Froome at the Tour de France presentation and those who A broadly smiling champion seemed pained on hearing Sagan who brushed off his chances. ed with a Russian defeat, the prospect of which cheered at the stage 1 finish line when he fell will have the of the incident and preferred to talk about the race itself “We’ll try our best for the team, it’ll be hard but you loomed larger as the side faced higher-calibre oppo- perfect opportunity to target the champion yesterday’s on Sunday. “The people have been great so far,” Froome never know in cycling,” said the yellow jersey wearer on nents in the knockout stages. team time-trial. said at the start line. “This isn’t the first time I’ve been a his chances of holding on to it. —AFP “Vladimir Putin likes to be associated with victo- A leaked dope test signalling too much salbutamol last minute down or had to dig in, it’s just racing, that’s what ries and triumphs, but doesn’t like to be associated September-but which anti-doping authorities WADA dis- we’re here for,” he said at the starting line. Froome’s loyal with defeats and losses. He’s always had this trait and missed-has made Froome a target as he and Team Sky in lieutenant, tough Welsh all-rounder Geraint Thomas, it has grown with time,” political analyst Valery their white team shirts progress along the 21-day course. brushed off the issue of the cheering at his captain’s tum- Solovey said. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Froome’s charm offensive to win the backing of the French ble. “Chris is okay, he was relieved not to be hurt,” he said attended Russia’s two elimination matches-its win public with an explanatory editorial in the daily Le Monde when asked if Froome was affected by the fans’ reaction. over Spain, which prompted wild partying in the cap- newspaper has had some effect but yesterday it will be put Team boss Dave Brailsford was also avoiding thinking Today’s Matches (All local timings) ital, and the quarter-final loss to Croatia. to its severest test to date. The eight Sky riders will race about fans and looking to the race. “There is no doubt Peskov said Putin had watched the games remote- the 35.5 kilometres (22 miles) of yesterday’s team time-tri- about it, there will be time gained and lost tomorrow,” he ly. Following the loss, Putin invited the Russian play- al alone, as each group embarks at two minute intervals. said. “This is one stage where you have to push to the limit France 21:00 Belgium ers and coach to discuss the World Cup with him and Over the first two stages Froome and Sky have passed more than ever, but if you misgauge your effort you pay called them heroes, Peskov said. — Reuters largely under the radar, hidden by the blur of a speeding for it massively. “You have to focus, we are aiming at get- Established 1961 Sport

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Former Barca coach Enrique Skiing a model for equity, ‘Winners’ Fellaini, Chadli 25tasked with reviving Spain 26 says top earner Shiffrin 27 keep African interest alive

Federer leaves rival chasing shadows Nishikori outlasts Gulbis to reach first quarter-final

LONDON: Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns to France’s Adrian Mannarino in their men’s singles fourth round match on the seventh day of the 2018 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, yesterday. —AFP

LONDON: Over the past week none of Roger Federer’s not needed an hour and 45 minutes to get back into the Mannarino to make more of a match of it. The first set Frenchman, Gael Monfils, or South African eighth seed opponents needed to play on a court with a retractable locker room. horror-show and an apparent groin injury did not stop Kevin Anderson. roof as Wimbledon has been roasting in 30 degrees Did he feel sorry for Mannarino? “Not really. I’m telling the world number 26 from becoming the first man to Meanwhile, Kei Nishikori overcame elbow trouble Celsius temperatures. What they would probably have myself why didn’t I break the first game of the second,” a earn break points against Federer at the All England in the opening set to win a marathon match 4-6 7-6(5) preferred is to play on a Centre Court with a retractable grinning Federer said as he stood three wins away from Club this year. 7-6(10) 6-1 against a limping Ernests Gulbis and reach grass surface - one that can open up and swallow them lifting the men’s trophy for a record ninth time. “I was also Converting any of them, however, was mission impossi- his first Wimbledon quarter-final at the tenth attempt whole and spare them from receiving any further punish- surprised it was that fast, that first set, especially 16 min- ble as Federer saved all four to take his streak of winning yesterday. ment from the most elegant executioner in tennis. utes. That was too fast. Shouldn’t really happen but thank- successive service games at Wimbledon to 81, dating back Latvian qualifier Gulbis, a former world number 10 also Just too bad that option was not available to Adrian fully they do for me. I probably won’t have another 6-0 set to last year’s semi-finals. Federer has also won 32 consecu- looking for his first quarter-final at Wimbledon, gave as Mannarino on Monday as he was tortured and tormented this week, so I’ll enjoy this one.” tive sets at the grasscourt major, dating back to his semi- good as he got in a ding-dong battle over three sets during a jaw-dropping opening set when he won only one Perhaps blinded by the male fan who sat in the corner final defeat in 2016. before hurting his knee in the third-set tiebreak. point on his own serve. decked in gold lame to resemble the pineapple-topped Even the top seed was surprised at how easily every- Japanese former world number four Nishikori, seeded Mercifully the set flashed by in 16 breathtaking minutes Challenge Cup, the 36-year-old Swiss fluffed his lines thing appears to be falling into place as he chases a 21st 24th, was troubled by his right elbow during the first set as Federer whizzed into the quarter-finals with a 6-0 7-5 despite being 0-40 up on Mannarino’s serve in that first Grand Slam title. “After all these years, it is surprising to be which he lost after being broken in the fifth game. 6-4 win. Had the Swiss not squandered four break points game of the second. the No. 1 seed, in the top two rankings at 36. I didn’t think Gulbis, who won the ace count 18-7, beat Nishikori with in the opening game of the second set, which lasted almost That reprieve, followed by further break point let- that was ever going to happen, to be honest,” Federer said a chip at the net to give himself two set points and took as long as the entire opener, Federer would probably have offs in the Frenchman’s next two service games, allowed after setting up a last eight meeting with another it on the first.—Reuters

“It will be bizarre to have him up against us,” be their inexperienced defence. Belgium’s France eye said France striker Olivier Giroud. “He is a living Thomas Meunier will miss the game after legend of French football. “He has given so much picking up a second yellow card but France to the France team and we have got a lot of will be buoyed by the return of defensive mid- WCup final but respect for what he has done. But we’re not fielder Blaise Matuidi, after sitting out a sus- thinking about it too much, we’re going to be pension of his own. focused on the pitch and our game.” For the fifth time in World Cup history, the Belgium have A slick Belgium side boasting the talents of semi-finals will be an all-European affair. On Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard and Romelu each of those occasions the tournament has Henry factor Lukaku are the only team to have won all their been hosted in Europe. In the other last-four matches in Russia and are the top scorers, with clash on Wednesday, England take on Croatia in 14 goals. Confidence is sky-high after they oust- Moscow. ed Neymar’s Brazil in the quarter-finals but they England boss Gareth Southgate has told his SAINT PETERSBURG: World Cup favourites will come up against formidable opponents in players they can be bigger heroes even than the France are targeting the final in Russia two France as they try to reach a first ever World generation of 1966, which featured Bobby decades after their 1998 triumph with one of Cup final. Moore and Bobby Charlton. “I’ve met quite a their greatest players, Thierry Henry, plotting Didier Deschamps’ side, with Antoine few of those players and we know exactly how their downfall from the dugout of opponents Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe up front, strug- they’re held and perhaps, in the modern era, that Belgium. gled for goals in their group matches but have would be even crazier,” Southgate told British The European neighbours meet in today’s now hit their stride, dominating Uruguay after newspapers. first semi-final in Saint Petersburg for the right beating Argentina. France will start the semi- “(With) social media and everything else, to play England or Croatia in Sunday’s show- final in Saint Petersburg as favourites, with an the global thing is so much bigger.” England is piece in Moscow. Former Arsenal and impressive mix of youth and experience allied to gripped by World Cup fever. Nearly 20 mil- SAINT PETERSBURG: France’s forward Antoine Griezmann (R) controls the Barcelona forward Henry, who was part of the tournament nous after they reached the Euro lion viewers tuned in for the win over Sweden ball next to France’s forward Thomas Lemar (L) during a training session of squad that won the World Cup on home soil 20 2016 final. and social media is awash with videos of France’s national football team at the Saint Petersburg Stadium, in Saint years ago, is now alongside Belgium coach With Hugo Lloris impressing in goal and a excited fans watching on big screens in bars Petersburg, yesterday, on the eve of their Russia 2018 World Cup semi-final Roberto Martinez and eyeing the chinks in solid midfield of Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante, and parks, fanatically celebrating every football match against Belgium.— AFP France’s armour. the one potential weakness for France could England goal.—AFP